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@@harveycogswell5278 I did and it was stunning! I traded it away last year. I'm ultimately not a jazzmaster or Jaguar guy. But it looked awesome

@@emilrolof good eye! I couldn't figure out what that was

@@mtjguitars Shared knowledge is the best kind of knowledge. 😊

Ah I'm sorry, I have never tried a T75 in anything. At the moment I only have a Kemper (no speakers other than my studio monitors) and a Fender ToneMaster Deluxe Reverb so I don't mess with speakers too much anymore (although I love swapping them.)

@@dantedobson3103 I didn't buy them, but they were from GFS so they probably were not more than $30 a piece. And yes, they definitely cancel out the hum.

@@mtjguitars Thanks man! This definitely helps out a lot. What's the specific name of these humbuckers? Trying to look them up now on the GFS website so I can purchase them.

That is a Dunlop Echoplex. Sustain at 11 o'clock,. delay at 11 o'clock, volume at 10 o'clock. Just a hint of delay without much decay.

I would compare QP tone to p90s. A bit fatter but also more mid-rangey and higher output than most single coils

@@mtjguitars okay thanks, did it lose most of the twang ? I feel like my ears are deceiving me though

@@CLA82529 yeah my last comment was the nice version. I think they rob the tele of what makes a tele great. However, I can't play country licks to really get the twang out of a tele anyway. I'm sure a better player could get the sound they want out of quarter pounder pickups. This particular guitar never really had great tele tone, which is why I ended up swapping the pickups. This video is an excerpt from a shootout that I did where this was the cheap guitar I was comparing everything else to

@@mtjguitars thanks for confirming! I have the same MIM standard although it's from 2013 and even though I couldn't play country licks, I like having a bit of the twang. Would you say a SD Vintage Stack set retains that Tele tone?

@@CLA82529 I can't speak to those, although the most Pleasant experience I've had lately was messing around with tone hatch pickups. I just did a strat comparison with replacements from tone hatch. The strat sets cost $89 and totally blew me away. I am going to do a tele shootout next! I'm hoping to get my hands on a set of the grinnin chicken pickups from Tone hatch

@@h1strat I could not agree more! The problem is that there are some really nice companies making cheaper pickups that get the job done and then there are the really boutique companies that charge a lot more money. Seymour Duncan is kind of the middle tier price and I think people either want to spend less or spend way more. However, when I was in high school, Seymour Duncan and DiMarzio were the super nice option. It is a good problem to have as a guitarist when there is just so much competition

@@JoelCamins from what I can tell the Duncans are a generic 50s era. The fender equivalent might be custom shop fat 50s but Duncan isn't really an imitator brand. They don't make their own version of fender things, they have always made their own sound (same with DiMarzio and the other big brands.) I particularly like that tone hatch is making a fender pickup that fender doesn't make anymore. I suspect he could sell those Spoonful sets for $300 and it would still be a steal compared to the used market.

@@jasoncohoon just the speaker replacement. As far as I know. It all looked pretty stock on the inside

The first two pickups are essentially straight horizontally. You could flip the pickup upside down if that is what you're suggesting, but this experiment was just to see how much difference the pole piece location is based on the upside bridge position. I did not reorient the pickups, that is a different experiment.

Yes turn them upsidedown then the meant for bottom strings will play on the meant for top string magnets. They are staggered . Maybe no difference in sound . But to be accurate the angle of the bridge pickup has to be recut to the 6th string magnet being closer to the bridge ( if you want the true effect and position)

@@rockanthems That is an interesting point. Of course, Hendrix was always picking his guitars apart so he may have flipped them back the the conventional way at some point. Either way, the key for Hendrix tone is pushing the amp HARD and getting nice fuzz. I doubt these subtleties amount to much compared to the wall of sound that he produced. My real hope with the experiment was to see if I could get the bridge pickup sounding a little fatter.

Nice sounds good …I can tell the difference. I tried to flip my neck and middle pickups upside down but the routing on the body will not allow for it . Great video

@@philchapman1463 that is a good point. Vintage 30 does not always sound the best in the room to me, but I tend to always like it best in the recording or in a mix

No doubt, Jimi is Jimi and arguably this wasn't even an intentional choice for him at first. Although he was always dissecting his guitar and pickups looking for a new way to innovate. I still think strat bridge pickups are basically unuseable for me and I hate having a humbucker there. Luckily I don't use bridge pickups much. If I'm going to play the bridge position, I'll be grabbing my tele.

College Hill Presbyterian? I used to be pastor there!

@@MikeTJorgensen I was on the worship team for a few months. Ben Mello is my name

@@GrandCaravel oh hey Ben, I totally remember you! I didn't recognize the profile picture haha.

@@GrandCaravel oh hey Ben, I totally remember you! I didn't recognize the profile picture haha.

@@MikeTJorgensen lol, my profile pic is a screenshot from a movie. I mainly use this account for watching guitar gear demos, so the algorithm recommended me your channel of all things!

If I liked the direction this was headed then I would push it to 1 meg but I liked the 250k better

Yeah I know, I am particularly attached to that blue color because that was the color of my first guitar. But it looked awful with those huge chips of paint out of it

It actually ended up as a grey guitar czcams.com/users/liveyHVtKv3AH3c?feature=shared

I don't think I said that Gibson or Heritage were a rip off. I don't have that Firefly or the Heritage anymore, my les paul is a keeper. I have some regrets about getting rid of that Heritage but I don't even play my les paul so having two of them is crazy.

⁠@@mtjguitars I never meant you, I was responding to some of the comments in general. A few people were saying that Gibson and Heritage were not worth the coin.

They are incredible amps, they sound so good and they are so undervalued. Especially if you find one that looks kind of rough like this one does. I think I got this for $250 or something crazy

@@mtjguitars wow, score! i love Gibsons and i think with a minor upgrade the otherwise underwhelming reverb could be enhanced too. enjoy your amp! :)

Ha! I pulled a riff from 90s rock that I think uses a phaser. Beyond that I can only think of Eddie Van Halen putting one on a distorted guitar for soloing. The older music with phasers sounds more subtle to me which made me want a blend knob on this or perhaps you have to double track the recorder with a dry signal as well?

The spring reverb is not tube driven.

That was the case in the video I sent to Mythos when I complained about the noise. They asked me what 9volt adaptor I was using and I told them and they suggested very expensive ones instead. I tried four different power supplies, different outlets, different times of day, etc. That treble circuit was always picking up radio stations.

@@mtjguitars They should list that as a feature and just add a "radio intensity" knob

@@JoelCamins boost, overdrive, delay, and AM/FM radio! They seriously emailed me back and forth several times debating power supplies.

@@mtjguitars If the power supply needs to be that specific, they either need to include it or re-engineer the pedal

I hear the difference

Not saying it's not a good thing, but does the blond sound a bit more muffled? Like not as "sparkly" ? I am getting ready to get either the blackface or the blond in the next few days, still struggling on which

Oooh good idea, I just set my calendar reminder. Perhaps a six month and 12 month comparison?

@@mtjguitars Give them tone time to age

Yep I figured that out before I be even posted the video but at the time I was too lazy to reshoot and it still gets lots of views so I'm fine leaving my ignorance out there for all to see 😆

I agree with you 100% I used the Twin as my default amp for about six months and kept cranking the master volume to like 7 or 8 just so I could get some dirt on it. In my experience with recording fender amps, they need to have a little bit of hair on them before they come through to a mic. Most guitar mics don't pickup a rumbly low-end so all your left with is the usual guitar frequencies. That said, plenty of country guys play a clean twin and cut through the mix although I suspect they're packing compression on the front end which probably helps quite a bit.

@@mtjguitars learned a ton thank you man. So far the super or deluxe reverb seem to be the best choice for me. My best to ya!

@@Worklikeyoushouldbe If you play at home or record then the deluxe is the dream. If you gig in a place where they would mic your amp and keep your on-stage volume low, then the deluxe is incredible. I turn the amp towards myself and use it as a monitor while having them use the line-out which is much better quality than them dropping an SM57 in front of the speaker. The final talking point for the deluxe is that it is so small and light. It's hard to gig with a Prius, but that amp fits perfectly in the back seat or hatch back haha

@@mtjguitars hahaha great info man. Which one do you think would give me a closer sound to SRV and Gary Moore? The super or the deluxe? I play a strat and a Les Paul and the super demos I've heard sound more fit for SRV and the deluxe for G. Moore. What I gotta do buy both? 🤣

@@Worklikeyoushouldbe That is tough, I think with the right pedals you could get both sounds out of either amp with a TS808 in front. When I want SRV I use the clean/crunchy side of a Marshall like he did in his 4140. But he also played a vibroverb, super, and twin...not to mention his fumble. I get pretty great SRV tones out of the deluxe when I add the Duellist pedal into it.

How does it take OD pedals at higher volume? I hear that it isn't as good as a tube amp with OD stuff.

@@DrRussPhd I haven’t found that to be the case. But I think certain OD’s are built to play better with certain (tube) amps. Like the mythos chupa pedal doesn’t sound great with Fender amps imo. All that being said, if a tube Twin amp is the amp you use, you’ll be pleasantly surprised that the TM does it just as well. Actually, it does it better if you play gigs in various places.