The PAF Pickup Scam Nobody Warns You About — Paid, Waiting, Never Delivered ThroBak Guitar Lounge Podcast Upgrade your guitar with ThroBak Pickups 👉 https://www.throbak.com What if the biggest danger in the vintage-style pickup world isn’t fake tone… but never getting your pickups at all? In this episode of the ThroBak Guitar Lounge Podcast, Jon Gundry and Matthew Quail expose one of the most damaging and least discussed problems in the boutique pickup world: P.A.F. reproduction pickup sca...

ThroBak 2026 Gear Preview – New Pickups, Tone Innovations & What’s Next Start 2026 the right way with an inside look at new ThroBak guitar gear for 2026. In this episode of the ThroBak Guitar Lounge Podcast, Jon Gundry and Matthew Quail reveal upcoming pickup designs, wiring innovations, and tone-focused developments currently in the works at ThroBak Electronics. The show opens with a call to the ThroBak community: What new pickups or gear do YOU want to see from ThroBak in 2026? Drop y...

ThroBak Guitar Lounge 2025 Year in Guitar, our final podcast episode of the year. Join Jon Gundry and Matthew Quail as they look back on the biggest moments, surprises, wins, and disappointments in the guitar world throughout 2025 — with plenty of real-world tone talk along the way. 📬 Viewer Mail The show kicks off with questions from the ThroBak community. Jon dives into: • Internal start wires and construction details in current production Gibson and Heritage pickups • How modern g...

Why Heritage Guitars Are Giving Gibson a Run for Their Money Is Heritage the best value in USA-made guitars today? Upgrade your guitar with ThroBak Pickups 👉 https://www.throbak.com/ Are Heritage Guitars really giving Gibson a run for their money? In Episode 032 of the ThroBak Guitar Lounge Podcast, Jon Gundry and Matthew Quail put modern USA-made guitars to the test with a live A/B comparison between a Heritage H-150 Custom Core and a Gibson Custom Shop 1950s Les Paul Reissue. If you’re wo...

Restoring a Vintage Gibson ES-335 - Reclaiming the Tone & Mojo Upgrade your guitar with ThroBak Pickups 👉 https://www.throbak.com/ Is owning a vintage Gibson ES-335 out of reach? In this episode of the ThroBak Guitar Lounge Podcast #031, Jon Gundry and Matthew Quail show how a player-grade vintage electric guitar can be carefully restored to reclaim its original tone, feel, and mojo—with patience, knowledge, and the right parts. 📬 The ThroBak Mailbox The show kicks off with unfiltered ...

Right Guitar or Right Pickups? How to Spend Your Money Smartly! Upgrade your guitar with ThroBak Pickups: https://www.throbak.com/ Is your bad guitar tone caused by the wrong guitar or the wrong pickups? In ThroBak Guitar Lounge Podcast Episode 030, Jon Gundry and Matthew Quail break down one of the most common questions players ask: Should you buy the right guitar, or buy the right pickups? 📬 Viewer Mail & Vintage Gear Deep Dive The episode kicks off with Jon answering viewer question...

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Will Tariffs & Modelers Destroy USA-Made Boutique Guitar Pedals? 🎸🇺🇸 Upgrade your tone with ThroBak Pickups ➜ https://www.throbak.com/ Are rising U.S. import tariffs, skyrocketing component costs, and the explosive growth of digital modelers putting the American boutique guitar pedal industry at risk? In this episode of the ThroBak Guitar Lounge Podcast, Jon Gundry and Matthew Quail break down whether U.S. pedal builders can survive — or if the future of guitar effects is heading oversea...

Hand Wound vs Machine Wound Telecaster Pickups THE ULTIMATE Tone Test Upgrade your guitar with ThroBak Pickups: https://www.throbak.com/ Hand wound vs machine wound Telecaster pickups, which has the best tone? Find out in today's ThroBak Guitar Lounge podcast when Jon Gundry and Matthew Quail do a live pickup tone test with two Telecasters. What are the benefits of hand wound pickups and machine wound pickups and does one win the day. Tell us your favorite choice in the comments. Jon and Ma...

Upgrade your guitar with ThroBak Pickups. https://www.throbak.com/ ThroBak P.A.F. Repro Showdown: Alnico 4 vs Alnico 2 Tone Battle! Do you ever find yourself asking how different Alnico magnets affect the tone of a P.A.F. pickup? In this video hear an A/B comparison of ThroBak USA cast long A4 magnets vs ThroBak USA cast "Dry" long A2 magnets in ThroBak's new low output '57 SteelHead MXV P.A.F. reproduction pickups. Hear these pickups being compared in two Gibson Les Paul Goldtops and decide ...

Upgrade your guitar with ThroBak Pickups. https://www.throbak.com/ Guitar Face: Secret Weapon or Useless Grimace? In today's Guitargument and Cool Down Jon Gundry and Matthew Quail of ThroBak Electronics argue whether the guitar face is an essential part of a professional guitar player's repertoire or if is just a phony side show meant to deceive the audience into thinking the performance is harder than it is? The podcast starts with questions from the ThroBak Mailbox about magnet choices f...

Upgrade your guitar with ThroBak Pickups. https://www.throbak.com/ Fender vs Gibson: The Guitar Class War Nobody Talks About! Is a Fender the guitar of the working man? Is a Gibson the guitar of the elite? Find out in episode 24 of the ThroBak Guitar Lounge Podcast. In today's Guitargument and Cool Down Jon Gundry and Matthew Quail of ThroBak Electronics take sides in the age old battle of Fender vs Gibson electric guitars. Can the conflict between the working man's guitar and and the guitar...

Upgrade your guitar with ThroBak Pickups. https://www.throbak.com/ Mass-Produced Mayhem! -- Are Cheap Guitars The Fast Food of Tone? Is the availability of new, cheap, high quality guitars creating a glut of guitars that the industry can't handle without some guitar makers going out of business? In today's Guitargument and Cool Down Jon Gundry and Matthew Quail of ThroBak Electronics argue whether or not there are just too many guitars on the market. What are the implications for the guitar ...

Upgrade your guitar with ThroBak Pickups. https://www.throbak.com/ Guitar Center is a making a comeback?! Find out more during the ThroBak Guitar Lounge Podcast Guitargument. In today's Guitargument and Cool Down Jon Gundry and Matthew Quail of ThroBak Electronics argue whether or not Guitar Center is staging a comeback that is resulting in higher store traffic, a larger selection of used gear, higher prices for used gear and a storewide effort to acquire and sell used guitars. The podcast ...

Upgrade your guitar with ThroBak Pickups. https://www.throbak.com/ Chinese vs American Telecaster Magnets -- Can YOU Hear the Difference? Get ready for the ONLY Chinese vs USA guitar pickup magnet comparison on youtube! Watch episode 021 of the ThroBak Guitar Lounge Podcast! In today's Guitargument and Cool Down Jon Gundry and Matthew Quail of ThroBak Electronics argue the virtues of USA Made vs Chinese Made guitar pickup Alnico Magnets. In the Cool Down they compare identically wound Teleca...

Upgrade your guitar with ThroBak Pickups. https://www.throbak.com/ The #1 Mistake That's Ruining Your Guitar Tone: Playing Too Hard! This important topic will be debated in the Guitargument of episode #020 of the ThroBak Guitar Lounge Podcast. Are you guilty of picking too hard and fretting strings with too much force? Would more nuanced playing improve your tone? Jon Gundry and Matthew Quail get to the bottom of what really matters when it comes to guitar tone in the Guitargument and ...

Upgrade your guitar with ThroBak Pickups. https://www.throbak.com/ Is AI going to takeover my Blues band in 3 years? Will AI takeover your band? This and other important questions are answered in episode #019 of the ThroBak Guitar Lounge. Jon Gundry and Matthew Quail debate what coming AI developments will mean when it come to how we play guitar and with whom. They anticipate interactive Ai agent musicians that will be active, real time participants in music creation performance and improvis...

Upgrade your guitar with ThroBak Pickups. https://www.throbak.com/ STOP Wasting Time on Guitar Intonation and Focus on TONE! Are guitar players paying too much attention to intonation? Find out today in the ThroBak Guitar Lounge Guitargument! Jon Gundry and Matthew Quail debate whether or not accurate guitar intonation matters for playability and tone. In the Guitargument Cool Down Jon and Matthew play guitars that are identical in every way except one guitar is well intonated and one is poor...

Upgrade your guitar with ThroBak Pickups. https://www.throbak.com/ Noiseless vs Single-Coil Pickups - Which Has Better Tone? Find out today in the ThroBak Podcast Guitargument! Jon Gundry and Matthew Quail debate whether the classic single coil Fender Stratocaster pickup is superior or lacking when put up against the Fender noiseless pickup alternatives. First Jon and Matthew read from the ThroBak Mailbox to clarify how to identify a real ThroBak pickup if shopping for used. Then on to the ...

Upgrade your guitar with ThroBak Pickups. https://www.throbak.com/ Tube amp gain vs. pedal gain! Find which tone is best for you with a side by side comparison in today's ThroBak Guitar Lounge Podcast 015. In the Guitargument Matthew Quail and Jon Gundry determine once and for all whether pedal gain is the perfect choice for most players or if the revered vintage Fender Deluxe Reverb has a distortion tone unmatched by a pedal into a clean guitar amp. Jon Gundry plays his 1967 Gibson ES-335 wi...