Stringjoy Guitar Blog

Today, we take a closer look at true temperament frets, what they do, and why you might consider using them.

Coil splitting promises to give you all the tone you expect from a humbucker, but with the ability to switch to a single coil sound as well.

We talk about fret material—nickel silver vs stainless steel—and what advantages and disadvantages come with each, as well as what role different types of strings can play when it comes to your frets.

Effects loops can be incredibly useful tools when you understand what they are, how they work, and how to use them with your amp and pedals. 

There are few things more fun as a guitarist than buying new pedals and seeing what they can do. If you have gear acquisition syndrome like me and most other …

You’d think as technology has progressed, guitarists would leave the old ways behind and be happy with our modern electronic marvels. But, as many musicians will attest, there’s something irreplaceably …

Regardless of how many albums you sell or how much money you make, sometimes the perfect instrument for your needs is an off-the-shelf, inexpensive model. In fact, many modern-day touring …

Whether they ceased production due to financial ruin or a lack of popularity at the time, several beautifully weird guitars and guitar brands have re-emerged in the past decade. Let’s take a look.

There’s no shortage of types of acoustic guitar pickups available to today’s guitarist—piezo, contact, vibrational, microphonic, soundhole and more.

Welcome to Solid Stomps, a collaboration with our friends at Nashville’s Eastside Music Supply where we look at pedals that we think are—well—solid. First up is the venerable Warped Vinyl …

We love chorus. There, we said it. But where exactly you put your chorus pedal in your signal chain can make a BIG difference in how your guitar sounds. So …

What if you only had $600 to spend on a whole electric guitar rig? We asked ourselves that very question and picked our ideal $600 guitar rig from our existing …

I got an email the other day asking me what my #1 favorite guitar pedal was—if I could only pick one. It got me thinking, so I thought I’d talk about why for me personally, it’s got to be the smallsound/bigsound Mini overdrive

It’s the oldest saying in the book: Tone is all in your fingers! But is it really? We tackle the age-old question, and talk about how your gear and your fingers both have a dynamic role in creating your tone.