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Deep Water: Add Some Color to Your Sound With This Fake 12-String Technique

Posted 03/29/2013 at 6:39am | by Dave Wronski

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When you're recording, you can use all kinds of exotic instruments for embellishing sections of a song. But you probably would like to be able to recreate your recorded performance live. It would be cool to be playing something on a six-string and have certain notes of the melody jump out with a 12-string sound and attack.

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The Buzz Stop Might Just Give Your Fender Jaguar a Buzz Cut

Posted 01/18/2013 at 6:38pm | by Damian Fanelli

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The Fender Jaguar, a very chill-astic, 22-fret guitar, looks and sounds awesome and has a massive cult following. But despite the all hugs 'n' kisses, players have to admit the Jaguar doesn’t exactly have the sustain of a Strat, and — from personal experience — it sometimes has a touch of string buzz, no?

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Deep Water: The Down-Tuning Advantages of a Fender Jaguar Bridge System

Posted 05/22/2012 at 11:14am | by Dave Wronski

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With a properly set-up Jazzmaster/Jaguar-style bridge system, you can down-tune from standard tuning, and the guitar will still be in tune, and, as a bonus, you can still use the tremolo bar, though only go down in pitch when down-tuned. This also can allow you to keep playing if you break a string in the middle of a song.

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Fender Introduces 50th Anniversary Jaguar Guitar

Posted 01/12/2012 at 11:32am | by Guitar World Staff

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Deep Water: Surf Survivor

Posted 06/10/2011 at 4:56pm | by Dave Wronski

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OK, you're facing down a couple of hundred die-hard underground music fanatics. People who live to go to shows in club venues, because that's where the real action can be found.

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Deep Water: How to Get the Classic Surf Guitar Sound

Posted 06/01/2011 at 2:07pm | by Dave Wronski

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The movie Pulp Fiction seemed to help elevate the surf guitar music from under a pile of seaweed to a spot on the party-song playlists of hipsters around the world.

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