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The Award-Session GearTalk Page

The stuff no one tells you about!

A collection of plain talking guides, written by a qualified electronics technician with fifty years experience in the entertainment business, for musicians interested in their equipment.

Learn the truth about the basic electronic and electro-mechanical parts which will help you make informed decisions about component up-grades and the equipment you buy in the future. Further, these articles set out to dispel some of the fables and ‘musicians folklore’ surrounding many aspects of musical instruments and electronics.

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Guitar Related Publications

• Turn a Strat into a Jazzmaster! - Stewart finally loses the plot?

• Foil Caps In Guitar Tone Controls Can Cause RF Problems

• Curing Bigsby B7 Tuning Problems

• Curing The Epiphone WildKat's Dull Tone   How to brighten up its tone... a lot!!

• Make P90 Pickups Sound Brighter   Give them a more 'rock-a-billy' tonality!

• What Makes Electric Guitars Sound Different To Each Other?    New... interesting insight

• Stop new strings from detuning!    A MUST read... this is brilliantly simple!

• Why old guitars can sound dull when played through an amplifier

• Importance of Pickup Placement On Electric Guitars   A brief insight

Amps & Cables Related Publications

• Tube & Solid State Amps - What's The Difference - Why have they sounded different?

• Sessionette vs BluesBaby - An often asked question!

• Why Does My Amp Sound Fatter When Played At High Volume Levels? - Understand the 'Psycho-acoustic tricks of human hearing' and how it affects our perceptions of audio!

• Rockette:30 - An Amp With A Twist! - An undervalued 1980s Session amp with some rather special charms.

• Using BluesBaby with Modellers - Give your modellers a tone like it was being played through a valve/tube amplifier!

• Sessionette hums, has no output or distorts badly - Updated June 2017

• Amp Signal Fades Away And Comes Back - Simple fault fix. New May 2022

• Sessionette, Rockette & Duette channel switching - Fixes for 'break-through' signal problems

• How Microphones Affect Recorded Guitar Sounds - January 2018 - Why trying to exactly copy your favourite guitar tones may be impossible!

• Understanding Small Guitar Combo Volume/Headroom - Why too much bass on your guitar tone will make your small amp seem lacking in power.

• Maximise Clean Headroom From Your Amp - Maximise your amp's clean tone performance with some simple tricks. Revised: 2nd November 2018

• How Amp Circuit Topology Affects Tone - Where the EQ controls are situated in your amps circuitry can seriously influence your guitar sound! Learn more here!

• Speaker 'Resonance' Affects Your Amps Tone - Speakers are NOT all the same... learn why!

• Attenuators - Two Types Explained

• Open Or Closed Back Cabinets? - The untold facts about guitar speaker cabinets.

• What's Inside A ClearTone Cable's Plug? - Discover why Neutrik Jack plugs are so robust!

• Correct Ways To Connect Effects To Guitar Amps

Session & Award-Session History

• History Pages

• FAQ: Has Eric Clapton Ever Used A Session Transistor Amp?

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