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Guitar Tone Part 4 - The Bridge 21 May 2008 | 11:14 am
The type of bridge you use determines how the strings' vibrations transfer into the body. Usually, choice of bridge has more to do with comfort and musical style than it does with tone, but there are ...
Guitar Tone Part 3 - The Body 21 May 2008 | 11:12 am
The material and mass distribution of a guitar's body drastically shape its tone. In this section I reference the fundamental and harmonic frequencies. The former is the perceived pitch that is heard ...
Guitar Tone Part 2 - The Neck 21 May 2008 | 11:08 am
The neck obviously must be made of a very hard material to withstand the pull of the strings and to remain stiff instead of vibrating with the strings. The neck can't be too stiff, however, or else it...
Guitar Tone Part 1 - Strings 21 May 2008 | 11:05 am
Many are confused about what makes a particular electric guitar sound the way it does. There are many construction methods and supplies involved in building an electric guitar and although you can rec...
Music and Metaphor 2 Mar 2008 | 06:28 pm
The goal of this article is to investigate the way we describe music. I wrote this not long after reading Music and Memory by Bob Snyder. I was also lucky enough to take the class he teaches based on ...
Presonus Firepod and Ubuntu Studio 28 Feb 2008 | 05:26 am
The Presonus Firepod is a popular and inexpensive firewire audio interface. That's great, but what I really care about is that it works perfectly with Ubuntu Studio. Drivers are always an issue with P...
Recording in Ubuntu Linux (aka Free and Open Source Digital Audio Workstation) 14 Feb 2008 | 06:19 pm
Free and Open Source Software costs zero dollars, so it can't be that great...right? WRONG! All of the programs I mention in this article are of the same or higher caliber as many proprietary products...
