Knowledge available at GITEC - structured in themes
Info on the Instrument itself
Origins of the Sound: String Vibration
The Heart of the (electric side of the) Matter: pickups and controls
- SPECIAL ARTICLE by Helmut Lemme: Low-Impedance Pickups
- SPECIAL ARTICLE by Helmuth Lemme: Active Guitar Electronics
- SPECIAL ARTICLE by Helmuth Lemme: How to minimize noise and hum – NO MORE INTERFERENCE
- SPECIAL ARTICLE by Helmuth Lemme: Measuring Pickups
- SPECIAL ARTICLE by Helmuth Lemme: Wiring double-neck guitars
- SPECIAL ARTICLE: Alnico-magnets for guitar-pickups
- SPECIAL ARTICLE: Q-factors, DC-resistances, impedances - qualifiers for the sound of pickups
- SPECIAL ARTICLES: The Fender "Wide Range" Humbucking Pickup, some of its clones, and the "old competition"
Essential Support for the String - and some Misconceptions: neck, bridge, body, frets, etc.
- A bridge too far? – Analysis of special bridge constructions in PotEG
- Body and ... Misconceptions: what PotEG has to say about the influence of the guitar body on the (electric) sound
- So, what's the deal here? - PotEG looks into the factors that are important to the sound
- SUSTAIN! – What PotEG has to say about absorption of the vibration
- What PotEG has to say about Neck and Frets of the Guitar
- What PotEG has to say about the Guitar Bridge
Processing between Guitar and Amp
What PotEG has to say about that first shaping of the guitar signal
It might get loud …
Gotta Move some Air: Guitar Loudspeakers in detail
Loud 'n' Proud: the Guitar Amplifier & all you ever wanted to know about it
- Bottles of Joy? - PotEG on Tube Data
- Nothing at all happens without it: what PotEG has to say about the Power Supply
- Shaping up the signal: PotEG on preamp, tone-control, and driver stages
- SPECIAL ARTICLE by Helmuth Lemme: Potential trouble with passive components
- SPECIAL ARTICLES: Fender Bassman, Fender Solid-State Twin Reverb & a Modular Tube Amp
- What PotEG has to say about the Operational Behavior of Amps
- What's in a Name: PotEG has something to say about Well-Known Amps
- Where the Muscle resides: what PotEG has to say about the power stage and the output transformer
For safe arrival of that great sound
Sources of knowledge … and more
Going deep … into the nitty-gritty
- Tonal Systems, our Hearing, and how to investigate it All - and some associated Quirks: PotEG on Psychoacoustics
- The Invisible Stuff – what PotEG has to say about Magnets and the Magnetic Field
- Vibration and Waves
- Visualize what's going on: a Collection of Animations
- Instrumentation and Metrology
- The Piezo-Effect: Equations of State
- Q-factors, DC-resistances, impedances - some theory and some practical approaches to measurements