Picking Up Your Pickups For Your Squier Guitar

  Author : Gabriel Rose     After modding your guitar neck, the next thing you can upgrade that will affect tone the most are your pickups. There are hundreds of different pickups you can buy,  and they each have their slight differences. There are a couple of main types of pickups that exist though. Before I get into the specifics of how the different styles of pickup sound, I want to go over how pickups actually work.  Magnets : How Do They Work?     I don't need a scientist to explain it to me. But really, it's quite simple. A guitar pickup is a series of magnets surrounded by extremely fine copper...

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Squier Affinity Strat With GFS Pickups

Here's a guy playing his modified Squier Affinity Strat with GFS pickups. As you can see, great clean sound with great tone. To see more, check out OneLoveJK's YouTube channel. ...

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Choosing the Wood For Your Squier Frankenstrat

     Let's face it, alot of Squier stratocasters and telecasters can sound pretty great out of the box, but eventually you either want to upgrade to a more expensive Fender, or other guitar. But what if you just can't bear to part with the Squier you learned to play on? There is an answer, and it's called modding. It's usually a simple job to buy higher end parts and put them on your old guitar. I'm going to go through the different parts that you can replace, and review the most expensive hardware you can buy. I've split this up into four parts, and will post the next sections up as I finish them. Getting Wood : Choosing Your...

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