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How Matt Heafy Writes Game Music with Fishman TriplePlay
Years before he would prove his guitar and vocal prowess as a founding member of the heavy metal band Trivium, Matt Heafy’s fiery passion for music was kindled by a love for video games. Now, Heafy is again forging new ground in composing music for video games, and proving that you can create moving scores with just your guitar in hand.

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September 25, 2024
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Expand Your Creativity with Acoustic Effects Pedals
With just a few effects pedals optimized for acoustic guitar you can enhance your guitar tone, explore new creative potentials while songwriting, and greatly expand your recording capabilities. And while electric guitar effects pedals are prized for their ability to radically re-shape your core sound.

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April 12, 2024
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Understanding Compressors & How to Use Them
Compression can sometimes be like a dirty little secret guarded by a clandestine spy agency. But the cloak-and-dagger isn’t about compression itself. The act of manipulating an audio signal’s dynamic range is hardly a potentially world-shattering operation that requires James Bond, the Black Widow, or Jason Bourne to keep its mysteries under wraps.

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December 1, 2023
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Why Preamps Matter
Do you need a preamp for your acoustic guitar? No. You don’t. Any decent acoustic-electric or pickup-equipped acoustic can be plugged directly into an amplifier, studio mixer, or live-soundboard and deliver a good tone. However, if you don’t explore the enhanced sonic capabilities of a first-rate preamp, you are likely cheating yourself—and your guitar—out of a whole new level of transcendent tone.

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November 1, 2023
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5 Tools to Ensure Amazing Acoustic Gigs & Recording Sessions
Every musician knows you could walk into a park or cafe with just your acoustic guitar and make some lovely sounds. That’s the beauty of an acoustic—it’s tremendously portable, and it can deliver the basic tonal goods without any further enhancements such as amplification, stompboxes, and so on. But, hold on, is going au naturel truly the best way to attract loyal listeners?

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October 1, 2023
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How to Choose an Electric Guitar Pickup
One of the glories of the electric guitar is that it can be constantly refined, modified, enhanced, and otherwise bent to the creative will of the player. You can repaint it or strip it of color entirely. Try different bridges, nuts, and tuning knobs. Add or remove tremolo bars. Basically, you can transform the guitar version of a beaten-down old sedan into a fire-breathing hot rod.

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September 1, 2023
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How to Buy an Acoustic Guitar Pickup
Acoustic guitars are intimate and transportable. You can use an acoustic to write songs and practice in the solitude of your home, or cart it to beaches, parks, hiking trails, and other locales to play in the great outdoors. Wherever you choose to sit down with your guitar, you know how beautiful and inspiring it sounds, because you’re a team. You hug your guitar against your chest to feel its resonance, and you can hear the shimmer of every string as you pick it, pluck it, or strum it.

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July 1, 2023
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How to Buy an Acoustic Guitar Amplifier
Back in the 1960s, playing an acoustic guitar with a rock band or in a loud and boisterous cafe was often an exercise in frustration and aggravation. A soundperson would typically position a mic in front of your acoustic, and you were left to fight it out with all of the environmental and band noises swirling around you. It wasn’t ideal. For a peek at what it was like back then, check out the YouTube video of The Band performing “The Weight” at Woodstock in 1969.

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June 1, 2023
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How to Buy an Electric Guitar
You are on a journey of joy. Buying your first electric guitar can be a crazy-fun circus of education, excitement, and wonder. Initially, you may be overwhelmed by the sheer number of options available, but this is a very good thing, because it means there are so many ways to get exactly what you want. Even better, it’s near impossible for you make a “mistake,” as selecting the right electric guitar is all about you.

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May 1, 2023
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How to Buy an Acoustic Guitar
Acoustic guitars are arguably the ultimate songwriting partners of all time. Quite literally, entire galaxies of classic and current songs began with a few tentative strums on an acoustic. The acoustic guitar can also be a beacon of cultural change—from its use by the socially active folk artists of the 1940s and beyond, to hippie troubadours in the ’60s, to the MTV Unplugged era of the ’90s, and in the hands of Billie Eilish and her brother Finneas crafting popular masterworks in his bedroom studio…..

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April 1, 2023
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Guitar Interactive Review: Greg Koch Gristle-Tone P90
Guitar Interactive's Nick Jennison Reviews the Fishman Fluence Signature Series Greg Koch Gristle-Tone™ P90 Pickups In his review of our Fluence Signature Series Greg Koch Gristle-Tone™ P90 Pickups, Nick Jennison says “I could wax lyrical about these pickups all day, but I’ll leave you with this thought; I put these pickups in my McCarty Soapbar for this review, and I have absolutely no intention of taking them out.

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October 19, 2022
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Premier Guitar Review: Fishman Fluence Greg Koch Gristle-Tone P90
Fishman Fluence Greg Koch Gristle-Tone P90 Watch Premier Guitar’s Gear Spotlight with Greg! premierguitar · Clip #1 (Fishman Fluence Greg Koch Gristle-Tone P-90 Review) Dave Hunter wrote: “Pickup companies often look backwards for inspiration. But Fishman redrew the blueprint for electric guitar pickups when it introduced the Fluence series in the early 2010s.

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September 22, 2022
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