Porter Pickups Tone-Cast

Guitar Gear Biases: Where do They Come From and What Are Yours?

What are your gear biases? Do you check out gear with pre-concevied notions about it, or pre-formed opinions? Marco and Brian Navigate this topic.

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More About Our Overdrive Plus Humbucker with Sounds!

Marco and Brian dive into the overdrive plus humbucker. The tones and why we called it that!

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https://www.porterpickups.com/products/overdrive-plus-humbucker-bridge

What Guitar Gear are We Currently Wanting?

Brian and Marco discuss some of the guitar gear on their radar.

 

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What's on Your Gear Watchlist and Why?

Why do you watch gear online? Is there a purpose to it? is it random? Share your thoughts on our youtube video page:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNciWM1scBU&feature=youtu.be 

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Sean Pierce Johnson: Youtube Guitar Content Creation and Inspiration

Sean Joins the show to talk all things Youtube content creation, never giving up and staying inspired in the things you do. We were encouraged by this conversation and we hope you will be as well!

 

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Hank from Rattlesnake Cables

Hank from Rattlesnake cables joins the show to talk about the guitar cable business, what makes a good cable and everything 2020 NAMM to owning a gear company in the state of Montana. 

 

Check out their website here: https://www.rattlesnakecables.com/

 

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Nashville Guitarist and Tech Eddie Heinzelman

Guitarist and Tech Eddie Heinzelman joins the Tone-Cast to talk about life in Nashville as a guitarists and why he opened a guitar repair shop during covid. We talk about challenges as a hired guitarist, what his favorite gear is as well as a unique way he runs his rig with a mix of digital and analog amps. 

 

Check out eddies website here: https://www.eddieheinzelman.com/ 

One Louder Guitar Service: https://www.facebook.com/OneLouderGuitarService/ 

 

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Mike From Delaney Guitars on 20 Years in The Guitar Business

Mike from Delaney Guitars joins the Tone-Cast to talk everything guitar making! We touch on how he got his start, endorsements and the early days of navigating cow pies to get to his first shop. We also celebrate him hitting the 20 year mark as a business!

 

Check out their website here: https://www.delaneyguitars.com/ 

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Getting Back to Your Business Roots and Navigating Challenges

One of the things we've focused on mostly over this last year is getting back to the roots of what we do as a business. We focused soley on "What we do, WHY we do it" and removing things that didn't fit within that vision. Has it been easy? NO! but it's been important to us and ultimately to our customers. How have you navigated these challenging times as a small business? Email us! 

 

Brian shares his heart behind this episode and some new shop updates!

 

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Michael Blakemore on Making It In Nashville as a Guitarist and the Porter Artist Program

Michael Blakemore joins the show to talk a wide variety of topics! We discuss how he got his first break in Nashville, the time he had to borrow the bass players pants, space ship pedalboard and the Porter Artist Program. We wanted to know how his gear changed from the early days and what he's using now and can't live without! 

 

Michael heads up the Porter Pickups Artist program that is coming soon! 

 

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