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What To Expect From A Guitar Building School

Posted in Guitar Signal | May 26th, 2010

There are quite a number of students who want to go off and start a career in guitar building. This type of trade requires that you get the right kind of training that will set you apart from the mediocre guitar makers and builders. It is only with the right kind of education and training that you are able to understand the fundamentals of the trade.

In a reliable and accredited Guitar School the guitar building program is usually designed suit and to serve the complete novice to the seasoned repairman. As a student you will get to learn the secrets of the buzz-free refret and fretdress. But even if you do not know how to restring and tune a guitar that is where we start.

Other things that you get to learn include the details of construction and repair needed in guitar building as well as discussion of you guitar designs, introduction to acoustic and electric guitar parts terminology, discussion of available guitar hardware, drawing a design to scale. You will also have an introduction to proper restringing and tuning, professional guitar setup, diagnosis of common and complex guitar problems.

All these and more will give you a proper … Read more

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Guitar Effects – Chorus

Posted in General Music, Guitar Signal, Music, Two Guitars | March 12th, 2010
This is one you probably already intuitively know!  You’re likely familiar with the vocal term “chorus” — as in “many voices singing at once”.  A guitar “chorus” pedal does the same thing — it makes your guitar sound like two or more guitars playing in unison at the same time.What makes chorus work is that it really does try to act like two or more players playing at the same time.  In real life, two people playing the exact same thing will never be completely synchronized.  They’ll start each note at a slightly different time, perhaps pitch the notes slightly differently, hold them differently, etc.  They’ll be really close — but it won’t be exact.  This slight “offness” is what makes a chorus sound different from a single voice — the slight variances in the signals make the sound richer and fuller.A guitar chorus pedal works by splitting the guitar signal into two pieces … and then delaying one of those pieces a fractional amount.  The delay is very slight — too much would yield a reverb effect — but it’s enough to shift the wave form of one signal path so that it no longer exactly matches the original … Read more

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