Christmas Gift Part 4

Have you ever hated winding the tuning pegs of your guitar and hope that things could go smoother and faster? Have you ever hoped to have brought your cutter out to cut the extra ends of the string? Planet Waves designed a string cutter and tuning peg winder together as a tool. It's cheap, convenient and very useful to a guitarist. Consider one of these niffty gadgets as a Christmas gift for your guitarist friend.

Noisy Cables?

Today, I plug in Benihanahime for a short practice and I noticed that there is this irritating hissing noise coming out of my amplifier after turning the gain knob to full (I usually play with full gain). Knowing for a fact that my amp is grounded with all my electronic parts in my guitar well wired, there is no way that it can be noisy. After going through a series of checks, I narrowed down the problem to the cable.

We often try to get the minimum best in our quest for our tone but due to my laziness, I just plugged in the nearest cable to me, which was the planet waves classic series cable. After changing the cables (to Canares cables with Neutrick plugs), the hissing immediately disappears.

Sometimes, the smallest things might be the weakest link to the destruction of your tone.