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Small Mods with a Big Impact

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There are a myriad of things that you can do to improve the sound and tone of you guitar. Most of them you can do yourself with the right tools and a little instruction. Included in this article is a little information about some of the tweaks that you can use to find your personal sound and tone.

Here is a list of a few tweaks with a short description about how they can improve your tone and some links to further information and instruction about how to use them on your guitar.

01Adjust the Action: This will improve the playability of your guitar and could also fix buzzing or string noise problems you may be experiencing. See our article Adjusting/Setting the Action.

02Replace the Tuners: Adding Locking Tuners to your guitar can help your guitar to stay in tune better while improving the sustain. To learn how to replace the tuners checkout our article Replacing/Upgrading Tuners.

03Change Your pickups: Installing new pickups will give your guitar an drastically different sound. To learn more about how this affects your tone look at our article Pickups & Tone.

Last Updated ( Saturday, 28 March 2009 08:47 )  

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