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Concord LTD by Emerson Custom

Sweetwater has teamed with our friends at Emerson Custom to create a limited-edition Concord buffer pedal in a very cool matte black finish. When do you need a buffer? Most pedalboards can benefit from a super-clean, high-headroom buffer at the beginning of the chain and, if the

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How Many Watts of Bass Amp Do I Need?

Bass amplifiers, even more than guitar amps, have crazy variations in wattage. Just a quick search of Sweetwater.com turns up 20W bass amps, 2,000W bass amps, and everything in between! But do you really need a 2,000W amp? The answer depends on your use. In general, bass a

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Got the Backline Blues?

Some performers don’t mind playing gigs in which all the acts are expected to share the same backline. Others get twitchy if they can’t use their own beloved, trusted gear, and are forced to rely on supplied speakers and amps. With backline, you’re at the mercy of promoter- or v

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How to Quiet a Noisy Guitar

If you’re playing guitar around gear with transformers or other gear that emits an electro-magnetic field (EMF), it can interfere with electric guitar pickups. That interference usually takes the form of the dread 60-cycle hum or electrical interference noise. It’s particularly

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Should I Upgrade the Pots and Wiring in My Guitar?

In most cases, the stock electronics in an electric guitar or bass function just fine. When should you consider upgrading? 1. If there’s a problem — scratchy pots, loss of high frequencies when turning down, volume or tone taper that isn’t smooth, and so on — then an upgra

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Mesa/Boogie Signal Management Pedals

Mesa/Boogie has released four new pedals aimed at helping guitars players optimize their tone and manage difficult signal situations. First up, we have the Stowaway, a compact input buffer for pedalboards. The Stowaway 100% discrete Class A circuitry for clean and efficien

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To Rack or Not to Rack

The ’80s may have been the heyday of the “rack of doom”-style guitar rig, with huge, refrigerator-sized equipment racks filled with all sorts of processors. This resulted in something of a backlash against monster rack rigs in the following years. But the rackmount guitar rig is

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Isolated versus Non-Isolated Pedal Power Supplies

Non-isolated power supplies for guitar pedals are basically one power source that a number of different pedals can draw from, often in “daisy-chain” fashion. In most cases, this works fine. However, more pedals pulling power from the same source increases the capacitive load on

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When Should I Change My Guitar or Bass Strings?

Some players change their strings on a regular schedule whether they need to or not, just to be sure their strings never go bad. Other people don’t really think about their strings, and keep them on their instrument far past their useful life. There are no rules, since the answe

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Crank It Up, Turn Down the Bass Control

When you’re playing your guitar parts by yourself at lower volumes, you’ll probably want to turn your bass knob on your amp up to give your guitar full-bodied sound. However, when you’re playing loud, especially in a band situation, the low end of your signal will be a lot more

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