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BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO TONE

01 EXPERIMENT WITH DIFFERENT STRINGS

he material your strings are made of fundamentally affects your guitar tone. Of course, electric guitars require metal strings in order for the magnetic pickups to work, however, string manufacturers offer a range of alloys, each with different tonal properties. Plain steel and nickel-wound steel are most common for unwound/wound strings respectively. Rotosound’s Ultramags are a ‘highly magnetic’

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