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Sounded better before you put in your shitty, overpriced pickups.

I know guns are a legal right, so to those that partake, enjoy it. But you are a guitar tone podcast, so why not put things behind you that support your brand? Cool vintage pickups? That old winding machine? Guitars? Amps? What if Josh Scott had a rack of guns behind him? Would be off-brand. Anyway, I still enjoy your content. Happy Father's Day!

What’s the best pickups to put in my Gibson to sound like a PRS said nobody … strange no one talks about wooden pickup covers, just say’n

Brian mays where cheap pickups

I know I’m 6 years late here but my question is why do many or most humbuckers have only 1 adjustable “screw” coil.

Agree bought one !

It seems to be a good thing ,that I'm watching at 4 am it seems to be a smooth watch for me lol

Really excited about the Cerakote run, sent you an email Dylan and sorry I couldn’t stay for the live, had a thing I needed to do but always on the rewatch, thanks for sharing your evening

I would love to hear what you think about Revstar Standard and Pacifica Standard Plus.

Hi Dylan, Watching from Australia. I missed the live part of the live feed (just) but I watched the show anyway. I appreciate you had technical difficulties, but I have to say I was disappointed in the show overall. I watched it because of the title expecting some talk about the measurements of pickups and why they make a difference, how changing them affects other measurements and how does that affect tone over all. In reality you only mentioned anything about tone twice and apart from setting your switch up at 15 and 47 to get the best results it was very superficial. I do get that it was a live chat opportunity and you were expecting questions from the audience that just didn't come but I think that was more because you concentrated on your technical issues and didn't really set the tone of the broadcast. Can I suggest next time that you have a brief intro about the topic including a few key points like resistance, impedance and reactance; what they are and what they do to tone. Then have a few leading questions to help get the conversation started like - "I can change the resistance by just putting more turns on the pickup but it will affect..... with my tone." You need to have some seed material you can slip in to stimulate the audience responses. I found you spent a lot of time just waiting for a comment from the chat and not even really talking about anything, let alone the advertised topic of pickup measurements. I like the show. Please don't take this as criticism. I am just trying to give you some constructive feedback for next time. Cheers Andrew

Hipshot bridge: $92 Hipshot tuners: $92 Switchcraft toggle: $32 3 CTS 500k pots: $14 Dillon p90’s x2: $220 Bone nut: $15-20 Total for hardware: $455 So $845 for an American made open pour, maple set neck, rosewood fret board, set fretts…. I mean not bad but really that special… especially for something that honestly doesn’t really stand out… idk just doesn’t really do it for me tbh

I have to disagree with you on this one. Years ago I bought a product called “Prime Vibe” and tested it on my then brand new Martin D-41 and noticed that after 100 hours of treatment the guitar sounded sweeter and more rounded. The principal on mine is much the same but this one is a tiny amplifier with two special speakers. You play music through it and the sound will go through the guitar wood but with different frequencies all the time corresponding with the music you play. This will soften the guitar over a range of frequencies. It is like the story I heard about this guy that inherited a cheap guitar from his uncle. His uncle had been an active member of the Salvation Army and had used the same guitar all these years. The guitar was bad if he tried to play some sofisticated jazz cords but was extremely good on the typical Salvation Army cords like D,G,A,E and C. I read that Eddie Van Halen used to break in new guitars by placing them right in front of the speakers during concerts. At the time I bought my device I remember Korg had a thing with a similar approach as yours have. I recorded the sound of the guitar before and after the treatment and was convinced there was a difference. I also noticed that the guitar became loader after the treatment by 5 decibel. The treatment should work on other instruments made out of wood as well.

Paul Reed Smith needs to stop saying "pickups are microphones". He knows that they're not. Whether he's trying to make a simplistic point badly, or to deliberately mislead (eg to pretend that pickups "hear" the body wood vibrating), is unclear.

Btw, that's Surf Green not Seafoam Green.

I wonder if you could use the EMG with the Fishman preamp and vice versa if that would do anything

Thanks 🙏 Dylan very interesting. Do you have a schematic of that particular wiring? Thanks

Agree with you on the ccomfort level of the relicking. I have about ten guitars from the Road Worn series and love each one of them for that reason.

maybe someone can help me. I just bought this guitar and I plugged it in and the hum was really bad and if I touch any of the metal parts(bridge, tuning pegs, strings) it gets significantly louder and it's pretty much unplayable as is. any idea whats wrong?

No one does this

Im not being rude but why would someone want a cup with your name on it? Sounds stupid

good to see you so happy

This is basically Buddhism for Dummies: Guitarist Edition

I am selling my PRS, I can’t support this ego maniac!

I think the basic idea of "tone wood matters" is true but I think why it matters is personal preference,you hit the nail on the head I think Paul is in the camp that his preferences matter more than others, he comes across saying his preferences should be everyone's because he knows the most,,, plus he's also first and foremost a salesman so he pushes what's going to make him the most money Years ago I went to a namm show with the store where I taught guitar, when we met him first thing out of his mouth was how many we were ordering, the store wasn't ordering anything and he immediately turned and walked away , the store might have been interested if he had just had a conversation with us but he was only interested in the stores who said his guitars were the best guitars ever and had already placed their orders lol

Really appreciate all the work you do putting out these learning videos .. I finally got a good enough deal on the right kinda guitar that I'll be starting my life as a hobby guitar tech mod upgrade guy .. Still not even close to winding my own pickups (need to do some 'easier' projects first, for a bit) .. But all the things you've shown on your channel have really helped shape my understanding of what's going on in my guitars and what things can be done to hot rod them

I haven't tested Snark for accuracy but as to durability it's a piece of crap. I've had 2 of them, both of which fell apart without hard usage (home use only and I'm gentle with equipment). After the 2nd one broke (and yes it was the ball joint part both times!), I wrote the company and no one wrote back. Wrote again: same. I'm done with them. I am very happy with TC Electronics which I don't see listed here. The TC has an accelerometer so it knows which way is up and it's very accurate. It also can test the frequency of all the strings simultaneously which I have sometimes found isn't perfect. But I've never had a TC tuner break on me andI like the display.

I looked online for that Breedlove. Damn. It’s so expensive you might as well get a Martin D 18, 28, or HD models.

I think that’s the cat’s tail, not the paw… Either way, hilarious! 😂

Lace Sensors use small magnets instead a pole piece, and in middle of bobbins have some layers of shielding

I like the guitars hanging on the wall with no tone wood ,, how about resonator’s tone wood?

Well said 🤘

Hi Dylan. I enjoy your videos, so thank you for making them. I thought i would chip in with my experience here, specifically shielding of the electronics compartment. Not to disproof you at all, because i think that you are correct in what you are saying, just to share my personal experience. I have this Tokai strat that i really love playing, but i found myself using other guitars more because the buzz/hum from the guitar annoyed me. I have a godin session, which i had installed Mojotone quiet coil pickups in, and the thing was dead quiet. So i thought i would put the quiet coils in my Tokai and all would be good. So i swapped the pickups and to my surprise the Tokai was still quite noisy when i did not touch the strings. The only thing that was different on the two guitars was the shielding. The Tokai was shielded in the pickup routing and on the pickguard. Because i ran out of cobber tape, the electronics compartment did not get shielded. The Godin Session was shielded all over also in the electronics compartment. I thought to myself i had to try shielding the electronics compartment of the Tokai to see if this would change anything, and sure enough it made the Tokai i dead quiet aswell. I do agree with you that shielding the electronics compartment can lead to some issues, but if you look at the components and your space in the compartment,you can tell where you might run into trouble. I just put some vinyl electrical tape in the two areas i saw as potential issues. This is just my experience, shielding the electronics compartment did make a pretty big difference in my Tokai.

Eeeew Those nails

Interesting post 🤔 I am a huge fan off Gretsch guitars but !!! Im not overly fond of tremelo systems so all my Gretsch guitars have their bigsbys taken off, stored away and i just have the Gretsch cut tailpieces on them a, they look fantastic IMO and b, when you pop a string on stage the guutar still stayes in tune unlike a trem that goes out off tune, fyi i never change the pick ups either as Gretsch pick-ups are unique and have their own special soud, i have found that everyone off my gretschs just have their own voice so no, they keep their uniqueness and if I want something different I just play my Gibson or fender but thats not very often as Gretsch for me are in their own special place regardless of were the instrument is made

This is an interesting video I know I'm a year late to the party. I was thinking of conducting my own experiment using four of my own guitars, all of which have different voicings. I haven't seen any comparison videos shooting out the voicings of pickups from manufacturers like Fishman, EMG, fender, etc. I'm running into a scenario personally with my schecter Keith Merrow 7 string mkIII. I like the guitar for higher gain tones, but I really find that it doesn't sound great in most clean or edge of breakup tones. I really have to work with the EQ and the volume level of the guitar itself to get anything acceptable.... In comparison I could plug in any other guitar I have on my rack and be far happier with those sounds. I'm wondering if there would be any benefit in changing the Fishman fluence open core classic, and installing something passive instead.

Dude i been on a carbonated water kick lately too. You fuck with athletic NA beer at all? That shits my jams

Thanks for the tip on the trem screws bro !! Never even thought about that one!! Hope you’re loving that McCready !!! If you havnt watched the PJ “single video theory” thing they did during Yield , you should!! Love the videos my dude !! Next time I get some extra flow I need some of your famous P90s! Have a great summer!! 😎🫡

Good for you some people just want to argue and rant. Let them go unanswered

You're right about polishing those frets...people should spend more time polishing their frets than worrying about PIO caps. I discovered fret polishing after seeing your Lizard Spit video and am a firm believer now.

Hum. Then why do I get different feeling pots as they are the same brand but order from different suppliers. Some feel like cheap crap. Some feel good with a little resistance rolling forward and backward. Same brand but definitely different.

Imagine being so fragile you can't follow a guitar channel because there's a thing on the wall you don't like 😂

Hey Dylan, I got a question , I bought a Pedal Pawn Texas Twang pedal, it sounds great except there is a high pitched rotation squeal! I’ve changed guitar cords, power cords, different 9v cords and can’t eliminate it. It’s definitely the pedal cause it does it with every guitar . Any thoughts?

Where you pick on the sting, closer to the bridge versus closer to the neck has an effect on the tone, ponticello versus dulce.

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I buy guitars that i like to play.. cost illreavelant.. i have some that are cheap.. some that are very expensive. But they are all players for me

Taking such a strong stance against discussing politics makes me feel like you saw the episode of 60 Cycle Hum yesterday lol

Who can route a left hand tremolo for a right hand strat? Seems hard to order. Love your work bro

The only company chasing that “PRS sound” is Harley Benton … PRS guitars are the sound of muzak, just something playing in the background

I think I’d use something less abrasive than a nut file. It sounds nasty. I think I’d try a piece of 320 emery cloth. That way it will not only deburr, but polish the saddle. Leaving no scuffs, thus allowing the string to slide more easily.