![]() ![]() ![]() What happens when you turn it on? The pedal electronically acts on the signal and does its thing to your tone, be it modifying frequencies, amplifying, or whatever it’s supposed to do to produce its sound. This may be blasphemy to some of you, but let us explain-true bypass, by definition, simply means that the signal from your guitar passes through the pedal unaltered when the pedal’s effect is turned off (bypassed).Ĭonsider this: let’s assume that you have only one pedal, a true bypass pedal, in your rig. It’s often touted that using only true bypass pedals will give you better tone, but that’s very often not the case. Related Video: Buffers, Cables, Capacitance, and more… 3. If your rig is bigger and your cables are longer, the tone loss is going to be even worse. So, what’s happening here? You’re losing lots of tone as a result of the very long length of cable between your guitar and amp. So, in the real world, you’re easily using 40 to 50 feet of cable in total (if not more), and we’re not even counting the cables between your pedals, which could add several more feet depending on how elaborate your rig is. How long is the cord from your guitar to the pedalboard? It’s probably at least 15-20 feet, just so you have room to move around. Since you can easily hear tone loss at 18.5 feet, you’re already in trouble, and you aren’t even plugged into your pedalboard yet! In reality, you’re probably using a 20- to 25-foot cable here, so that you have some room to spare. If your pedalboard is only ten feet from the amp, that’s already a minimum of 15 feet of cable. Think about it-if you’re using a typical half-stack, for example, it’s about four or five feet just from the amp’s input to the ground. So, in all likelihood, your electric guitar probably has a high-impedance output. Passive pickup systems with high-impedance outputs are by far the norm in the electric guitar world, and make up the vast majority of instruments out there. If your guitar has active pickups, which means that it has battery-powered preamp onboard, then your guitar most likely has a low-impedance output that is not as susceptible to tone degradation with long cable lengths. How do you know if your electric guitar has a high-impedance output? If it’s equipped with passive pickups (ones that don’t require an onboard battery to run), then it will have a high-impedance output. The design and quality of the cable influences this tonal change as well (sometimes even at shorter lengths than 18.5 feet), which is why there’s a lot of voodoo out there about different types of guitar cables. And the longer the cable, the more the tone is affected in a negative way. It’s commonly accepted that at about 18.5 feet you can both clearly hear and easily measure the sound changes in an electric guitar’s tone-typically a loss of highs-caused by running a high-impedance signal over that cable length. With a high-impedance guitar output, the more distance there is between your guitar and your amp, the more your tone will be affected by the resistance in the cable connecting the two together. Impedance is a measure of electronic resistance: the longer the signal path, the more resistance there is in it. This simple fact probably affects tone more than just about anything else. Nearly All Electric Guitars are High-Impedance Devices… Now, I’m using a pretty broad brush here, and including Strat-a-likes (I have a Warmoth, as well as an ’82 ‘The Strat’), as well as some shredsticks too, which wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for Leo and his design team.GC-1 GK-Ready Stratocaster 1. This article is about the top five things I love about a Strat. With all the custom finishes available today, we have to give our thanks where it all began. ![]() It is hard to imagine what they must have looked like on the walls of a late 1950s music store. While they were still available in natural and sunburst, he later added those colors we now call ’50s colors’ like Shoreline Gold, Seafoam Green, Shell Pink, and Daphne Blue. He tapped into the Southern California hot rod culture for his color palette and refined his ‘easy to assemble with a versatile sound’ design in the Strat. Leo Fender heard the music of the 1950s changing. I mean, just think: when it came out, natural finishes were all the rage, and other than its cousin the Telecaster, electric guitars contained their acoustic roots in the shapes, colors, and sounds. The Fender Stratocaster is a pretty unique instrument.
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