Ask Zac

Zac Childs is a music insider and historian. He is the host of the acclaimed Truetone Lounge interview series and contributed to Vintage Guitar Magazine for 15 years via his Ask Zac column, and numerous featured articles, product reviews, and cover stories. On his ASK ZAC channel, Zac takes a look at players and gear and also answers guitar-related questions in ways that were never possible via print. 

Recent Episodes
  • Which Pickups Should I Put in My Telecaster?
    Jun 9, 2025 – 19:14
  • Reviving My 1981 Martin HD-28 with New Frets, Waverly Tuners, K&K Pickup & More!
    Jun 9, 2025 – 17:15
  • Meet Nashville Guitar Great: Matthew Lee
    Jun 9, 2025 – 27:50
  • Personalized by Fender: 1969 Telecasters with Factory Neck Inlays!
    Jun 9, 2025 – 18:08
  • Behind the Scenes of Brad Paisley’s ‘Lost Paisley’ Telecaster
    Jun 9, 2025 – 16:16
  • A Tele-Guy Discovers The PRS DGT SE
    Apr 15, 2025 – 21:31
  • A Look At Mike Campbell's Heartbreaker Memoir & His Incredible Musical Legacy
    Apr 10, 2025 – 20:41
  • Joe Fick of Kelley's Heroes & The Don Kelley Band
    Apr 1, 2025 – 01:12:31
  • Why Leo Fender Never Acknowledged The Influence of Paul Bigsby
    Mar 28, 2025 – 25:26
  • My Favorite Backup Amp - The 1985 Peavey Studio Pro 40
    Mar 11, 2025 – 13:10
  • The Modified Broadcaster/Telecaster Blend Control & 2 YT Channels I love
    Mar 4, 2025 – 16:10
  • Baxendale Harmony Conversion Guitars
    Feb 17, 2025 – 21:23
  • Meet Nashville Tele Slinger - Gabe Tonon
    Feb 11, 2025 – 19:32
  • The Fender Broadcaster Story
    Feb 4, 2025 – 31:01
  • A Glaser Strat With A B-Bender?
    Jan 21, 2025 – 22:22
  • Flat-Wound, Pure Nickel, and Ground-Wound Strings on my Telecaster
    Jan 14, 2025 – 25:30
  • A Real Road Worn 1952 Telecaster
    Jan 7, 2025 – 20:14
  • The Tim Lerch Interview
    Dec 24, 2024 – 01:01:05
  • The Resurrection of my 1970 Buck Owens "American" Guitar
    Dec 17, 2024 – 18:57
  • Vintage Solid State? Lab Series Amps
    Dec 10, 2024 – 29:47
  • Tone Snob Confessions With Barry O'Neal of Xact Tone Solutions
    Nov 26, 2024 – 50:05
  • Luther Dickinson Interview
    Nov 19, 2024 – 01:17:27
  • A Look at the "Champ Killer" 1954 Wide-Panel Fender Princeton Amp
    Nov 5, 2024 – 18:04
  • The Last Glaser Bender Guitar
    Oct 29, 2024 – 45:54
  • Playing The American Music Awards
    Oct 15, 2024 – 24:42
  • Stuie & Sonny French of The French Family Band
    Oct 8, 2024 – 01:15:59
  • Ricky Skaggs Highways & Heartaches And The Glaser Mandocaster
    Oct 2, 2024 – 24:33
  • The Best Speaker For Your Deluxe Reverb
    Sep 24, 2024 – 27:13
  • That Famed EVM-12L Sound
    Sep 10, 2024 – 27:00
  • Hardtail Stratocaster: The Lowdown
    Aug 27, 2024 – 17:24
  • The Vince Gill Interview
    Aug 20, 2024 – 01:30:29
  • Celebrating the Don Kelley Band
    Aug 13, 2024 – 20:34
  • Fender's Marvelous Mandocaster - The Vintage Fender Electric Mandolin
    Aug 6, 2024 – 24:22
  • The Birth of Light-Gauge Strings
    Jul 23, 2024 – 25:38
  • The Most Underrated Electric Guitar String Gauge - 9.5-44
    Jul 16, 2024 – 18:42
  • The Story of Cling Foil & the Blue Flower Telecaster
    Jul 2, 2024 – 22:08
  • The Impact of The Blues Brothers Movie
    Jun 25, 2024 – 26:46
  • Delbert McClinton "Live From Austin" Influential Albums
    Jun 11, 2024 – 21:57
  • How The Telecaster Came To Nashville
    Jun 4, 2024 – 24:30
  • Tele Pickup Height with JD Simo and Dan Strain
    Jun 1, 2024 – 26:38
  • Iconic Riffs by Forgotten R&B Guitar Greats
    May 31, 2024 – 22:06
  • Tele Tone Tricks
    May 31, 2024 – 15:32
  • A Conversation With Joe Glaser & Steve Wariner
    Apr 9, 2024 – 01:42:30
  • Baffled? How To Baffle Your Amp & Not get Fired
    Apr 1, 2024 – 21:28
  • Albert Lee Talks Emmylou Harris & Her Luxury Liner Album
    Mar 26, 2024 – 17:07
  • 1950 Broadcaster VS 1953 Telecaster - A Comparison by Nacho Banos
    Mar 19, 2024 – 21:17
  • The Story Of The 1970s Buck Owens American Guitar by Harmony
    Feb 20, 2024 – 27:18
  • A Telecaster Fanatic Looks at the PRS NF-53
    Feb 13, 2024 – 18:27
  • Leo Fender and the Birth of the G&L Broadcaster/ASAT
    Jan 29, 2024 – 34:46
  • Top Loader Telecaster History & Comparison with String-Thru
    Jan 16, 2024 – 24:19
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