Solo Music Gear Coupon

Why is this important to your amplifier?   Well, if the entire signal path through the amplifier is set up to function at a particular impedance, then everyone and every part is happy and can function efficiently.   If your amplifier says that it wants an 8-ohm load (usually on the back of the amp where the speakers plugin) and you are using an 8-ohm speaker (cab) or a 4 ohm….you will be fine.  Your amplifier will not function 100% as it should if your speaker (cab) is rated at 4 ohms, but you won’t run the risk of damaging your equipment (unless you run it a wide-open for hours).  If for whatever reason you can’t match the speaker to the output, then go for the nearest impedance to the speaker on the higher side.   For example on a 4-ohm output, it is completely safe to use an 8-ohm individual speaker or cabinet, or on an 8-ohm output, it is equally safe to use a 16-ohm individual speaker or cabinet.  Never use an individual speaker or cabinet of a lower impedance than what the output

There is a lot of information out there on guitar building guitars these days…so much in fact, that it becomes difficult to wade through the websites, YouTube videos, Instructional pages, and books.  That doesn’t even cover what your friends and comrades are saying down at the store you hang at.   How do you decipher all this information and come up with a plan to build your first guitar?   Many years ago when I got back into guitar service and building, there were a handful of books on the market, of which only a few were considered bibles of building. Unless you enrolled in an expensive (and rare) luthier course somewhere, you were pretty much stuck with those few books….if you could even find them.  No internet, no Google and no YouTube. I know I am sounding pretty ancient right now, but nevertheless, that’s pretty much the way it was. My first project was a 60’s Giannini classical guitar that came to me in three pieces (neck was broken in half and off the guitar). Having cut my

Here at Solo Guitars, we have probably the best selection of aftermarket guitar parts in the country.   It has taken us some time to get to this point….endless negotiations, last-minute deals, product reviews and research….there is literally a puddle of sweat under our desks at any given time.  Ok, that might be exaggerating a bit, but the question regularly comes up.  Why is there such a big market for aftermarket parts? Obviously when you buy a guitar at a store, or a kit from Solo Guitars, it comes with all the hardware in place to make the guitar playable and/or give it the ability to be amplified.  It’s been that way since the 50’s when Fender and Gibson made the electric guitar available in mass numbers to the public.  So like anything else in the world, the hardware on a guitar is susceptible to failure or breakage.  This is the first and most obvious reason for having replacement parts.  Whether a part on your guitar stops working the way it should, or in some cases when these

I have the least number of guitars now than I have had in the last 30 years.  And yet, my wife still looks at me with that “you know, you can get professional help for this”, with a tilted head when she looks at the guitar wall, or the 4 amplifiers, and myriad of pedals in the guitar room.   “Why, do you need all this stuff?” That my friends is the holy grail of all questions when it comes to us guitar collecting musician types …. whether we are professional, semi-pro or just weekend warriors.  I have my Tele (that I love) which I built for myself, my 58 LP which was built for me by a dear friend, 2 Strats (a Fender and a parts-caster) which will soon be replaced when I get time to finish building my custom strat, and 3 Hofner guitars (2 Verithins and a Jazzica) because I worked with Hofner for many, many years.  And I haven’t played an electric gig in forever.  Then there are the acoustics…. So why do we continue to add instruments to our collections whether we need them or not?  I ha