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This is why I bother with this whole channel ❤️

No suggestion anyone should mess with a vintage original but this is a 400 dollar guitar bought with the intention of upgrading it's a completely different situation.

Stock is 500 full-size. I stuck with 500 because I knew that the Porter pickups would be a little louder & more present, & more brightness wasn’t something I necessarily needed from this guitar. The 500 gives me plenty of usable range. Plus, I think it has a smoother taper than the 1mg, which I tend to prefer, because I am constantly adjusting my tone knobs.

@@jasonbrucemusic thank you very much! No problem to put full size pots trough the F holes? Did you kept original tuners?

@@wilfridleroy-prost7986 I went in through the pickup cavity actually, since it’s a fully hollow guitar. But as you see in the video, I did misjudge the diameter of the actual holes for the pots. So plan accordingly.

@@wilfridleroy-prost7986 original tuners work just fine. No complaints.

Honestly, the stock wideranges weren’t bad at all! I just wanted a specific thing out of this guitar, & Porters delivered! Real loud & crisp. The Starcaster rips now, & even with the upgrades, still a very affordable guitar.

@@jasonbrucemusic good to know!

I put a pair of th Fender CuNiFe in mine as well. The stock pickups were actually really nice but I wanted the classics in mine. Glad I did. I may out the Squiers in something else now.

CV starcaster owner, they are normal shaft!

@@franklinsthewurst Thanks so much! I'm actually upgrading my Affinity with some Phat Cat P90s and wanted to upgrade the whole wiring.

@@ShaunGcq glad to help :)

Hey man! It's been a minute, but I'm fairly sure for this video I was running direct in & using the Line 6 Helix Native plugin for everything. As far as amps, I typically find myself using an AC30, a Matchless, or a Fender Vibrolux model, depending on what the guitar & song needs.

@@jasonbrucemusic awesome thanks

I do get paid. I know there is some disagreement on this, & I fully understand the logic behind most arguments against paying musicians. But from my perspective, musical & technical craft that ministers to a spiritual community are things worth investing in, because offering this service costs time, energy, resources, & highly specific skills that not everyone has, more so than many other equally essential & honorable contributions to church service. Every church's situation is different, but if the budget is capable, I believe it to be the ethical thing to do.

Surprisingly not! The risers on the middle & back rows making hitting the footswitches very clean. I've yet to kick a knob out of place.

@@jasonbrucemusic ah, you can't see the risers from the overhead angle but I figured there must be something I'm missing. I got the big d'addario xpnd board, and put the 2nd row with the pedal edges flush with the top, and the bottom row with the bottom edge of the pedals flush with the very bottom, and that gives me a good 2 or 3 inches of empty space in between the top and bottom rows of pedals....enough that someone like me who's new to pedalboards won't sasquatch all over the bottom row guys, trying to hit the top ones.

Hahaha you’re welcome. I can’t pull them off very convincingly anyway. Not really, because drives & amps have a naturally low-end roll off regardless. The primary consequence of increased low end from the guitar is the way drive & distortion break up a little differently. But I hadn’t really noticed on this guitar, I would guess that pickups were designed to be slighter thinner-sounding to compensate, maybe? Plus, I’m always thinking like a producer/arranger, so when the bass comes in to fill in the low end, I typically move a higher voicing, regardless of the guitar, so it evens out in the end. The difference to FOH sound is minimal. Unless it’s an arrangement built intentionally around that low voicing on the guitar (like the intro track), my motto is treat the low B string like salt & pepper; apply it tastefully. Too much becomes obnoxious.

Hey dude, that’s sounds fun! I’m in North Carolina, but we can definitely work something out. Shoot me an email jasonbrucemusic@gmail.com

Not necessarily! In my recent video, you can see I've already swapped out a couple of pedals. Making changes to board is pretty easy, presuming the new pedal is roughly the same dimensions as the old pedal, & a lot of pedals are the standard 4.5x2.5. The key is when I make my patch cables, I make sure they have a little extra length to cover for when jacks on a different spot on the pedal. Perhaps occasionally I'll need to resolder a new patch cable, but that's 5 maybe 10 minutes of work. Because I'm pretty much settled in what I want as far as the big picture signal path & architecture of the board, any pedal I swap out for will be filling a similar role on the board, so I'm not having to reinvent the wheel every time. If I ever truly have to start over with this board, it will be because I'm making a fundamental change to the layout or signal path, like incorporating a switcher or a different amp sim, not just switching a couple things.

Mateus Asato would like a word with you

@@Xeldryn Indeed. He IS a bedroom player since his content is instagram based.

I can understand that logic, & I have certainly thought about incorporating a switcher. I even have one sitting on my shelf not getting used! But in designing it, I decided that for what I need & how I'm using the board, a switcher would actually complicate my workflow more than it would simplify it. Although, the Selah Quartz in the top left corner does a lot of midi control for me, so most of my drive sounds & almost all of my time-based effects have presets programmed that I'm triggering with it. But the reason I refer to this a "pro" board because it's thoroughly thought out & meticulously built to be very reliable & to travel extremely well, much like how a professional rig builder would put it together. So it has more to do with the assembly quality of the board than it's actual contents. & to be honest, this board literally has never left the house unless I was getting paid to bring it with me, so I guess that makes it pretty "pro".

That’s actually a bit complicated. I suppose the answer is both? The “just” feels somewhat unnecessary. Playing music is what I do for a living, so it is technically my job, so I must approach it that way. I’ll be candid; my relationship with church has evolved over the years (I was even a pastor before) & will continue to, but I do still love Jesus greatly, & I still find value in what church is/does, even if there is much worthy criticism of it.

@Jason Bruce Thanks for the honest answer. As a devout atheist who grew up in a pretty close minded, small town, religious community and saw the worst of that kind situation its hard not to be biased. Though if anything I do respect the basic values of Jesus if only most Christians did too. I started playing guitar in an art punk band during the height of midwest hardcore, much of it Christian Hardcore and that was also a rough ride all its own. After a decade selling out, building a career and then walking away I've gone back to my passion for music and am relearning guitar and slogging my way through Justin guitar course trying to fill in all my huge blank spots from being self taught and faking my way through in my youth. Anyways wanted to say great guitar tone and cool rig. Dig your playing! Good luck with the channel!

Yeah, the midi implementation on the Jackson Audio pedals is so well thought out. Omillion Audio does a great video on controlling them with an RJM switcher.

Hey Matt, great to hear from you, man!

It is true that my baritone is a slight bit noisier than my other guitars, but noise is to be expected from single coil pickups. You can mitigate noise a number of ways, like making sure your rig is getting clean grounded power, or even how far from your pedalboard or amp the guitar is. At certain point, electronic interference is unavoidable, but that’s kind of part of game of playing electric guitar, unless you’re interested in noiseless pickups or using a noise gate, which have their place. Truth is some pickups just handle ground hum better than others & there are a myriad of factors that go into that. I like to swap pickups on my guitars from time to time, so I’ll likely swap out some other P90s or maybe some PAFs at some point, which I assume will be a little less noisy.

Really? I've heard conflicting accounts. But that would totally make sense. He was playing a Bass VI in one video I saw of him singing the song.

45lb, so I only lost a couple pounds, but the smaller size & wheels have made it infinitely easier to travel with.