ThroBak Guitar Lounge

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 be...

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 pati...

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? 📬 Vi...

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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 dow...

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 mach...

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 Ste...

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 performanc...

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 Fe...

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 arg...

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 gea...

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...

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 Quai...

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...

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...

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...

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 di...

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 diffe...

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 Apoll...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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 Guita...

Upgrade your guitar with ThroBak Pickups. https://www.throbak.com/ Can you have too many guitar effect pedals? Jon Gundry and Matthew Quail discuss if too many guitar pedals can ultimately ruin your tone and distract from advancing your guitar skills in this episode 008 of the ThroBak Guitar Lounge Podcast. Jon shows his first edition Matchless Hot Box as an example of the pitfalls of relying on a...