Your Cable Is a Tone Control
Guitar cable capacitance moves your pickup's resonant peak more than most pedals do. How it works, why pedalboard chains compound it, and what a buffer actually fixes.
Tech pages · Pickups
The Bench, Written Down
Long-form write-ups of real repair and design work — measured, not guessed. Every article stands on its own; most come with the math and the schematic.
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Pickup Coils in Parallel: Why Not?
Why humbuckers wired in parallel stay hum-cancelling and sound brighter than a coil split — and the two real reasons the industry never adopted the wiring.
The Pickup Equation: Resistance, Inductance, and Capacitance Demystified
Why DC resistance doesn't equal pickup output, what inductance and capacitance actually do to your tone, and the resonance equation that connects all three.
