EXTENSION CHORDS
Guitar players are constantly in search of elusive sounds, sounds that they have either heard on record, or at a concert, or just in their own unique imagination. This endless search for a musical identity, a unique “trademark” sound, has led guitarists off in search of the Holy Grail, and there appears to be no end to the chase.
IN SEARCH OF THE ULTIMATE PICKUP
EXTENSION CHORDS
Allen Hester
Guitar players are constantly in search of elusive sounds, sounds that they have either heard on record, or at a concert, or just in their own unique imagination. This endless search for a musical identity, a unique “trademark” sound, has led guitarists off in search of the Holy Grail, and there appears to be no end to the chase. Unfortunately, in the process, many good instruments have been butchered by enthusiastic but unskilled do-it-yourselfers, and it is probably safe to say that very few people have found their “ultimate” sound.
Of all of the myths and legends surrounding guitars, no other area is more widely misunderstood than the ares of pickups. Guitar players, designers and manufacturers have been in an ongoing debate for decades over how to build the “best” pickup, and which pickups sound best, when in fact, there is no ultimate pickup and no pickup sounds “best” all the time.