What guitar strings are good to get the Malcolm Young tone on my SG?

March 1, 2010 by admin · 9 Comments
Filed under: Rock and Pop 
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JOZ asked:


I know that Malcolm uses Gibson Heavy Guage Strings, but i couldn’t find any at my local guitar center. I tried Ernie Ball Beefy Slinky’s and those sounded bad and the action was really high. What are good heavy guage guitar strings that have low action and a really good low AC/DC Malcolm Young tone?

What do the values of capacitors in a guitar do?

February 16, 2010 by admin · 2 Comments
Filed under: Engineering 
guitar
Matty 2 Tears asked:


Hi! so recently ive started taking apart some of my old guitars to try to learn about the inner workings of guitars. I am totally new to this stuff. but I noticed that my strat and sg have .022 uf and .033 uf capacitors, respectively. What do these values do to the sound of the guitar? What about higher or lower values, what do those sound like? and what is the general range used?

What is the best guitar to get for me?

February 6, 2009 by admin · 2 Comments
Filed under: Performing Arts 
guitar
bojangles asked:


I’ve been messing around with a guitar and learning tabs for about 2 years, but never really actually learned how to play. Now I want my first serious guitar. I kinda want a guitar that I could take to shows and stuff once I get good enough.

I would want it to sound like Dance Gavin Dance, Taking Back Sunday on Tell All Your Friends, and From First to Last.

I’ve been looking at a Epiphone SG or LP.