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Switched on Pop - Can This Be Your First Investment?
This week on Switched On Pop, we look at how the rubber bridge has become one of the most sought after guitar sounds in recent years. Listen to find out how these old guitars are bringing a new sound to popular music. Can you identify these guitar sounds? That's a humbucker pickup on a shredder guitar through a crunchy amp. It's a jazz style guitar with flat wound strings that deaden the sound. You've heard it on records from Phoebe Bridgers, Taylor Swift and Olivia Rodrigo.
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