All Blog Entries

From This thread Baimun's PRS + Piezo custom build Blog

Originally Posted by baimun

Okay, I've never done a blog before, so bear with me if I don't do this right the first time.

The origins of this project go back to my obsession with the Rory Gallagher strat... it was raw, relic'd and felt like your favorite pair of broken in blue jeans, holes in the knees and all. Most PRS guitars have fancy tops, smooth shiny finishes and are the furthest thing you can get from a well worn strat like that.

...

It is funny when you are choosing gear to buy or use to play because what works for you, will not work for another. The one nice benefit of playing at the blues jams that I attend is that the amp backline is there. You never know what you are going to play through and until you get there, the popourri is a clusterf*ck. On this forum we have had all types of discussions regarding recommended amps and what we recommend. I am so glad that I have been able to part of this group because had I not, I ...

Originally Posted by Tiltsta

Capacitors can do a lot of different jobs; including storing large amount of electricity, moderating voltages (electrolytics), or filtering signals. The capacitors in guitars are filtering capacitors, or, more commonly 'filter caps'. All of these types of capacitors 'do' the same thing, basically separate two electrical conductor poles with a dielectric fluid or material that allows current to pass through with varying degrees of dampening. Of course, the type of cap and materials can be made such

...

Everybody loves to get stuff for free, especially music. We all hate paying for overpriced albums and then paying five times the amount to see those artists live. Start looking for sources other than iTunes to find music, and you'll be surprised at how much free music is actually out there. Here are some tips to get you started.

Tip 1) Many, many bands now give away some, or all, of their music for free these days in exchange for information. This is especially true for artists ...

In this era many technological innovations, such as radio, television, and the gramophone have had wide ranging effects on the world of classical guitar music and the musical world in general.

Previous musical eras featured major composers who also worked as recitalists, often confining their repertoires to their own compositions. Concert tours were a means of promoting their own sheet music publications. In classical guitar history a growing trend in more recent decades has ...