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Bryan Sim, Ph.D

Bryan Sim, Ph.D

I work on Product at Owler Inc.

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Guitars

A Squier HM Bass

  • April 10, 2019April 10, 2019

A couple of months back, I tried playing a fretless bass, and really wanted one of my own. After hunting around on Reverb for a bit, I found this gem. In the late 80’s, Fender…

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Playing a Fender Custom Shop Strat

  • February 25, 2019January 15, 2020

Earlier this month, I was back home on vacation and got to play some of my dad’s guitars. I recorded this on a (if I remember correctly) 59′ replica Fender Custom Shop Stratocaster. In the…

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Yellow

  • November 17, 2018January 15, 2020

This was my first “real” guitar. We all have that friend who borrows something and then breaks it or doesn’t return it. Well, I was that friend, but to my dad, because this guitar looks…

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Five (+1) Guitars, One Solo

  • November 10, 2018January 15, 2020

I recorded all the guitars with volume and tone pots set to 10, and switched to position #2 (middle+bridge; except the St. Vincent which was neck+middle+bridge, because it has its own switching).I used Reaper with…

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Hello Kitty Squier

Hello Kitty

  • October 28, 2018January 15, 2020

A few weeks ago, I found this at my local Guitar Center for $50. I also saw a small, pink Vox amp that was sold on the same day; it looked like a small child had…

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A Pointy Bass

  • October 14, 2018

Earlier today, I bought this Jackson JS2 bass guitar. My first stringed instrument was actually a Yamaha bass that I played for a few months before switching to guitar, and sticking with that for the…

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Ghostwalk

  • October 7, 2018January 15, 2020

I recently got a new set of guitar pickups from The Creamery, which is a one-man hand-wound operation in the UK. They’re slightly higher output than typical Startocaster pickups, and comparable to the output from…

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A Player’s Player’s Stratocaster

  • September 22, 2018October 4, 2018

Most guitarists are pretty habitual – we might have different guitars, but they tend to be the same “kind” of guitar. I’m a Stratocaster “person” – while I might “want” all sort of guitars, the…

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A Fender Firebird

  • August 16, 2018January 16, 2020

Of all the mythical creatures I don’t believe in, the phoenix is my favorite. Throughout my life, I’ve learned and grown the most following abject failure (usually after I’d said to myself “I got this,…

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A 1987 Japanese-made Squier Stratocaster

  • August 10, 2018January 16, 2020

The electric guitar was invented in 1931 by George Beauchamp. Since then, thousands of iterations have appeared, with my favorite being the rocket-shaped Stratocaster. Produced by Fender since 1954, the Stratocaster has an illustrious history:…

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