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Hey, that's cool, I've quite a few Hal Leonard books I bought back in the day! Were pretty cool but the Metallica S & M book was very much a bridge too far for me! :) I can see why you'd need to keep things nice and quiet, I've been in and out of love with noise gates over the years...might...

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Not to cast aspersions on this, but it's tough to find a guitar shop with sound-proofed booths over here. I'll have a tough time finding a quiet music store tomorrow, it being a Saturday, but I have 4 T-Style guitars here; 2 x US Teles, 1 x Mexi and on Fret King replica. I've no problem trying...

Just Google 'guitar hum' or 'guitar buzz' - you'll find all sorts of players discussing how certain guitars have buzzed under certain conditions or in certain venues. Single coils, for instance, will always hum to a greater or lesser degree, which may explain why Fender never really took off...

LOL lik good wun Bryne! Seriously though, that's a bit of a retarded thing to say. A guitar isn't a piece of surgical equipment, it's a hunk of wood and metal. Single coil guitars can make fucked up noises. C'est la vie. Go play a US Tele and tell me if it buzzes when you take your hand soff...

Not sure how 'normal' that is on a Tele. I've never found it to be such a significant problem as to warrant remedying, and again, don't really see it as an anomaly. Normal according to Jason Lollar too who I'd consider to be very much in the know. Maybe I'll try to run a ground to a pot over...

Probably not what you wanna hear, but all my Teles buzz this way. Always have. Never gave it a huge amount of thought, as any research i've done into it suggests it's normal Tele noise. Congrats on the guitar btw - Teles are amazing.

Rode NT1A or SE2200A. Cool present btw. Edit: Damn too late. Oh well, good work, good choice!

One from the archives here but I was wondering what the A-rated self noise spec on a Naiant MSH2 is/was? :D

Takamines are really nice guitars in my experience, though they tend to favour stage work due to their nice on-board electronics. My buddy bought a G series about 10 years back and it was the first acoustic I'd seen with a built-in tuner. Very cool! I read an interview with someone - I don't...

The 000 15 is an incredible guitar, very balanced in terms of the tonal range and projects well strummed or picked. Really great for recording too.

I'd try a 000 15. Lovely picked or strummed.

I read on a Lollar FAQ that you should ground the back of a pickguard by attaching a wire to a control pot or or the back of the bridge plate. Presume this is only for foil-shieled pickguards? Sorry, bit of a stupid question!

Joe Bonamassa - Blues Deluxe - YouTube I get that at first, he's 'violining' with the volume pot. But how does he do it at around 0:26? His attack is totally gone but it doesn't seem as if he's adjusting anything. Is he still moving the pot with his pinky?

Well, the ones who suggest a thru-body guitar gives more sustain.

Gibson players are such liars! :)

Pigtronix Philosopher's Tone.

I think I understand your line of thinking here OP. When I first got a guitar with RW/RP pickups, I was surprised with how much hum-cancelling they achieved. That's pretty much where the similarities end though. Also, I think it's safe to say that the vast majority of one humbucker guitars...

Cool! I bought a Tele because I was going through a huge Springsteen phase at the time. I hadn't really thought about bite and twang, I use mine mostly in the neck position for Robert Smith style rhythm. I can't speak highly enough of BKP though, if I had the time and money I'd put them in all...

If only it were that simple, eh? I have to say, I really love these pups. The only word that springs to mind when describing them is 'lush', but there's definitely a woody, Strat-like snap to the neck. I have a pair of BKP country boys which are somewhat bland by comparison.