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/ Twang Telecaster Pickups vs Fat Telecaster Pickups. Which tone is best for you? Listen to Jon Gundry and Matthew Quail compare Telecaster guitars with Fat ThroBak Broadcaster-A3 Classic pickups and Twangy ThroBak T-54 MXV pickups in the Cool Down of this episode's Guitargument. First Jon and Matthew demonstrate the tonal difference between 42AWG magnet wire and 43AWG magnet wire in a Telecaster and Broadcaster and Nocaster st...

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...

Upgrade your guitar with ThroBak Pickups. https://www.throbak.com/ High output P-90's vs low output P-90's, which is better? In episode 014 Jon Gundry and Matthew Quail debate whether a hot P-90 electric guitar pickup or a low output P-90 pickup is best in a P90 pickups comparison. In the Guitargument viewers see and hear the hotter ThroBak Special - SB P90 pickups in a Jack Briggs Apollo guitar and a ThroBak P90-DE 7.8k bridge pickup in a Gibson Les Paul Junior. Watch the live side by side p...

Upgrade your guitar with ThroBak Pickups. https://www.throbak.com/ Do your guitar heroes trash their guitars? Is there a double standard when when it comes to customizing a guitar when you are a celebrity or an average guitar player? Watch Jon Gundry and Matthew Quail debate this in the guitargument in episode 013 of the ThroBak Guitar Lounge Podcast. Hear ThroBak ESG-102B Custom MXV pickups in a Collings I-35LC through a 1979 Fender Deluxe Reverb and a Nobels ODR-1 pedal. This version of th...

Upgrade your guitar with ThroBak Pickups. https://www.throbak.com/ Sit down with ThroBak's master P.A.F. pickup winder Paul Hudson and hear him reveal the inside secret details of P.A.F. pickup winding through a series 20 questions asked by Jon Gundry. All in the ThroBak Guitar Lounge Podcast Episode 012. The show starts with an introduction of ThroBak's perpetual employee of the month, Paul Hudson. Paul talks about his 15 plus years of experience working at ThroBak Electronics and becoming ...

Upgrade your guitar with ThroBak Pickups. https://www.throbak.com/ Can the quest for perfect guitar tone create fallout that affects your relationships? Is the pursuit of all things guitar a pointless waste of time? Jon Gundry and Matthew Quail deal with these hard questions in ThroBak Guitar Lounge Podcast Episode 011. Hear ThroBak SLE-101 MXV pickups in a 1989 Gibson ES-335 through a 1979 Fender Deluxe Reverb and a Nobels ODR-1 pedal. ThroBak SLE-101 MXV guitar pickups are the world standa...

Upgrade your guitar with ThroBak Pickups. https://www.throbak.com/ Are vintage guitars and amps better than new guitars and amps? Find out in today's Guitargument! All ahead in episode 010 of the ThroBak Guitar Lounge Podcast. See and hear a vintage 1964 Gibson Sg through a 1979 Fender Deluxe Reverb and a vintage 1964 Epiphone Newport Deluxe bass and decide for yourself if vintage guitars and amps are better. In ThroBak news we reveal the largest unboxing in guitar history, a vintage ...

Upgrade your guitar with ThroBak Pickups. https://www.throbak.com/ Is it impossible to reproduce the 1959 Vintage P.A.F. guitar pickup today in 2025? Did Collings just improve the Telecaster with the new Collings 71 guitar? Find out in episode 009 of the ThroBak Guitar Lounge Podcast. See and hear the new Collings 71 guitar with factory upgrade ThroBak Nocaster A3 Classic pickups, before the Guitargument. In the tools and tips segment Matthew shows how to manage your guitar picks and Jon Gu...