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 07-17-2008  Martin's Two 15" Body Guitars Explained
 07-09-2008  Jack Up Your Metal Guitar Sound with a Sub-octave Generator
 06-03-2008  Adding Richness to a Rhythm Guitar Track
 05-22-2008  Stripping Off a Guitar's Neck Finish
 05-20-2008  Quick Tonal Changes in Guitar Rig 3
 05-06-2008  Maple Neck Colors on Fender Guitars
 05-01-2008  Mic Placement When Recording a Guitar Amp
 04-18-2008  Measuring Your Electric Guitar's Neck Relief
 04-16-2008  Cautions When Using the Octaver Feature in Guitar Rig 3
 04-15-2008  Removing Tight Knobs on an Electric Guitar
 03-28-2008  Using Built-In Mac Audio with NI Guitar Rig
 03-12-2008  Living in Guitar Rig's Stereo World
 01-24-2008  Enhancing your guitar tone with a compressor
 01-10-2008  Flying with Your Guitar
 01-09-2008  A Quick Fix for Minor Tarnishing on a Guitar
 12-28-2007  Building Your Own Custom Rack in Guitar Rig 3
 12-27-2007  Choosing the Correct "Tapedeck" in Guitar Rig 3
 11-13-2007  Clearing the Haze from Your Guitar's Body
 11-08-2007  The Right Way to Transport a Guitar Amp (To and From a Gig)
 11-06-2007  Guitar Rig 3's "Virtual Vibrato Tailpiece"
 11-05-2007  Recalibrating the Rig Kontrol in Guitar Rig 3
 11-02-2007  Overdriving the "Twang Reverb" Model in Guitar Rig 3
 10-25-2007  String Changing Intervals for Electric Guitars
 10-17-2007  You Have To Do What with a Hollowbody Guitar?
 10-16-2007  Open & Alternate Guitar Tunings
 09-26-2007  Will Cheap Guitar Cables Affect Your Sound?
 08-30-2007  Fatten Up Your Guitar Sound
 08-28-2007  Long-term Storage of a Guitar
 08-22-2007  Roundwound Strings on Your Bass Guitar?
 08-07-2007  Restringing Bigsby-equipped Guitars Using a Capo
 06-29-2007  Noisy Guitars and Basses (and a Possible Fix)
 06-13-2007  Make your guitar sound HUGE
 05-30-2007  Adding Glossy Overtones to an Electric Guitar Recording
 05-11-2007  Cleaning Your Guitar's Fingerboard
 05-10-2007  Obtaining a "Carnet" for Your Guitar When Traveling
 05-08-2007  Changing Strings on a Bigsby-equipped Guitar
 05-01-2007  Will a Rusty Transformer Hurt Your Guitar Tone?
 04-27-2007  Is Your Guitar Amp Transformer Ready to Retire?
 04-17-2007  Storing Guitars Safely
 04-10-2007  When to Change Your Guitar Strings
 03-27-2007  Air Travel with Your Guitar
 03-08-2007  Keeping the "Rocking Bar" Bridge in Place on Gretsch Guitars
 02-23-2007  Homestyle Emergency Guitar Repairs: Nut
 02-22-2007  Solving Guitar Setup Woes at Home, Part 2
 02-21-2007  Solving Guitar Setup Woes at Home, Part 1
 02-15-2007  The Right Way to Tune Your Guitar
 01-15-2007  Backward Guitar Recording the Easy Way
 12-29-2006  Easier String Bends on an Acoustic Guitar
 11-14-2006  Restoring Your Guitar's "Lost Treble"
 10-20-2006  Brightening Up Guitar Strings (When in a Bind)
 10-17-2006  Creating a Spacious Rhythm Guitar Track
 08-21-2006  Using Guitar Rig 2 to Learn Songs, Difficult Riffs, and Sub-bass Parts
 08-16-2006  Emergency Cosmetic Fixes for Guitars and Basses
 07-14-2006  Getting Your Guitar Heard in a Club
 05-30-2006  Finding the Sweet Spot when Recording Electric Guitar
 05-23-2006  Humidity and Your Acoustic Guitar
 04-24-2006  Types of Guitar Strings
 04-20-2006  Quickie Guide to DAW Mixing Random Riddle: How do you double-track a guitar with two unique performances in one take?
 04-10-2006  How to bring drums forward in a guitar, bass, and drum submix by using the Sony Oxford Transient Modulator. (Part 5)
 04-04-2006  How to single out drums in a guitar, bass, and drum submix for clarity.
 02-28-2006  A Quick and Easy Reverb Chamber for Electric Guitars
 12-15-2005  Time-aligning Miked and DI Bass Guitar Tracks in a DAW
 11-22-2005  Caring for the Finish of your Gibson (or any) Guitar
 11-04-2005  Enhancing bass guitar and kick drum sounds in Pro Tools
 11-01-2005  Guitar Gremlins: High Humidity
 10-31-2005  Guitar Gremlins: Low Humidity
 09-01-2005  Controlling Guitar Rig in Logic
 08-22-2005  Optimizing the Range of an Archtop Guitar
 08-10-2005  How to get a good clean recorded guitar sound in a DAW.
 06-23-2005  Customizing Guitar Effects on the BR-1600CD
 03-28-2005  How to use Oxygen 8 to control Guitar Rig
 02-16-2005  Series: How to get the best recorded acoustic guitar sound. Part 3: Using More Than One Mic
 02-07-2005  How to get the best recorded acoustic guitar sound. Part 2: Selecting the mic.
 02-01-2005  Speaker cables, guitar cables and impedances.
 01-31-2005  To change out guitar amp tubes or not.
 01-14-2005  Impedance, guitar amps and more!
 01-12-2005  Class A vs. Class AB guitar amps.
 12-01-2004  Ableton Live For Guitarists: Using the "Simpler" Sampler (Part 4)
 11-30-2004  Ableton Live For Guitarists: Adding Ryhthm Parts (Part 3)
 11-26-2004  Ableton Live For Guitarists: Bass Line (Part 2)
 11-24-2004  Creative Possibilities For Guitarists Using Ableton Live (Part 1)
 09-20-2004  5 Easy Steps To Set Up Your Guitar For Optimal Playing
 08-23-2004  Electric Guitar Neck Joints Compared
 08-03-2004  Using the TD-100 and TLA-50 together for a great guitar or bass channel.
 07-13-2004  Barry's Guide to Recording Guitars - Making a Room Sound Bigger
 07-09-2004  Barry's Guide to Recording Guitars - Using Hallways for a Big Stereo Sound
 06-28-2004  "Clean" Guitar Distortion
 06-17-2004  Barry's Guide to Recording Guitars: Capturing the Sound of a Guitar Amp, Part II
 06-16-2004  Barry's Guide to Recording Guitars: Capturing the Sound of a Guitar Amp
 05-28-2004  Barry's Guide to Recording Guitars - Equalization and Panning
 05-26-2004  Barry’s Guide to Recording Guitars: Effects
 05-25-2004  Getting a 'Big End of the World' guitar sound with Plug-ins.
 05-21-2004  Barry's Guide to Recording Guitars - Electronic Doubling!
 05-18-2004  Barry's Guide to Recording Guitars: Should You Print Reverb or Delay?
 05-14-2004  Barry's Guide to Recording Guitars: Intonation problems.
 05-06-2004  Barry's Guide to Recording Guitars - Volume 2, Getting A Good Sound: Guitar and Effects Setup
 05-05-2004  Getting that "chiming" or "jangly" rhythm guitar sound out of your guitar.
 05-03-2004  Barry's Guitar Recording Techniques: Not all guitars sound the same!
 04-21-2004  Guitar effects for the keyboard player.
 04-03-2004  Barry's Guitar Recording Techniques: Not all guitars sound the same!
 03-16-2004  inSync DYK: Martin Guitars, Rosewood and a bit of history.
 01-30-2004  Getting your bass guitar and kick drum to lock using phase!
 12-04-2003  Jim Miller's Guitar Q&A: How a guitar's sound chamber effects the sound of the guitar.
 11-21-2003  Jim Miller Guitar Questions Answered: Strat vs. Tele
 11-13-2003  Sheilding in older guitar amps.
 11-05-2003  Jim Miller's Guitar Question of the Month: Guitar Pickups
 08-12-2003  The effect of woods and finishes on the sound of guitars.
 08-11-2003  Why are so many different tubes used in guitar amps?
 08-07-2003  David Stewart's Guide To Specs: Guitar amp watts & ohms.
 08-01-2003  Guitar Care - Stand damage.
 06-30-2003  More Guitar Miking Technique
 01-28-2003  "What can I do to prevent tarnish on the hardware of my guitar?"
 01-03-2003  Ribbon mics on guitar amps
 12-30-2002  Using the Pod with a guitar amp
 07-16-2002  22 versus 24 fret guitars.
 07-01-2002  Dealing with that guitar that's too loud, but can't be heard...
 05-10-2002  More info on getting your guitar signal to a distant amp.
 04-23-2002  Running your guitar signal long distances.
 02-12-2002  Humidity and your acoustic guitar.
 10-24-2001  Using stomp boxes in effects loops.
 07-16-2001  What's the point of a humbucking guitar pickup?
 06-08-2001  How to transport valuable guitar equipment.
 05-01-2001  MIDI Guitars - What's the deal, anyway?
 04-25-2001  Interesting guitar recording technique.
 04-10-2001  Clearing up the Roland "MIDI" guitar / synth / modeling confusion.
 03-05-2001  Guitar Amp Care - use of the Standby Switch.
 02-07-2001  Will a wireless get rid of hum in your bass or guitar?
 05-25-2000  Is there a difference between guitar cables and other types of cable?
 12-13-1999  Those pesky guitar "voltone" controls
 11-24-1999  Guitar and Microphone buzz problems
 08-04-1999  More on acoustic guitar feedback
 07-12-1999  Tuning 12-string guitars
 07-08-1999  Acoustic guitar feedback problems
 11-06-1998  Preventing Acoustic Guitar Feedback
 06-05-1998  More On Guitar Synth Tracking
 05-07-1998  Guitar To MIDI Tracking
 05-06-1998  Locking Tremolos And Keeping Guitars In Tune
 03-26-1998  "What is the difference between a Single Coil and Humbucker style guitar pickup?"
 03-18-1998  Guitar Hum, Grounding, and Safety
 03-02-1998  More On Getting Rid of Guitar Hum
 02-18-1998  Guitars! Is There A Way To Remove Their Hum??
 01-29-1998  How To Fix Your "Crackling" Guitar
 01-19-1998  More On Taking Care Of Guitar Fingerboards
 01-14-1998  More On Oiling Your Guitar (A Possible Fire Hazzard)
 01-07-1998  Oiling Your Guitar Fretboard...
 09-19-1997  Send In Your Acoustic Guitar Miking Suggestions
 07-31-1997  More On Running Guitar Effects
 

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