Why do Guitar Players get so ENRAGED about this?
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- Guitar players are VERY PROUD of thier purchases, and don't take very kindly to no frequency response graphs or a/b recordings! It's all about the FEEL in the ROOM. Damn your newfangled science!
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Better idea: Focus on writing a good song instead of gear!!
Nah its all in the strings bro you need pricey strings
Try different modes or scales that guarantees a change in sound and tone. Costs nothing
@@Brandon-bh1lvsound not tone
There’s literally a tone knob on the guitar bro lmfao I have a 15 w amp that has so many tones you really jus don’t know how to setup equipment
No, that takes effort.
I love you handling your mistakes... self-ironic and yet honest. To make mistakes is human... To stand to the mistakes you made and take responsibilty should be human and self-evident as well... unfortunately it isn't. Hence the world is going down the shitter...
I never made musical progress for decades until i disowned metal, packed away all my gear , and switched to nylon and acoustic strings, and started over to learn the right way.
Its been ten years, and now I can actually play musical melodic sounding music and apply it to any stringed intsrument
Same. Once I stopped being a Metallica-obsessed caveman and learning songs beyond Metallica’s discography, I got better and playing became more fulfilling.
And if you played country for decades and then switched to playing metal and starting making progress you have said county was the reason you didn’t progress lol
@@tommilitello198 it's more about I find it easier to learn and recognize intervals with clean tonality and pitch. The distortion adds unnecessary noise and static when learning, and recognizing chords etc. Nylon string forces one to focus on melody, technique, time, etc. and less time spent messing around with gear.
Same here. I have a classical guitar that I bought 30 years ago. Sopped playing for some years and sold most of my gear. Played in bands, but never hit the ceiling with my playing. Back to basics, swollowed some camels, and threw my ego out the window. Now I feel Im better than ever. If you can shred with nylon strings, you can shred on any guitar.
@@PcBguitarLibrary, great point. I’ve been a pianist/ keyboardist for about 50 years, so I know my way around the Theory Wheel a little bit. Trouble was that when I started teaching myself guitar about 10 years ago, I started with electric. I swear, more of my time was spent noodling with tone-tweaking than with actual muscle memory exercises. Big mistake on my part, so I can definitely relate.
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I know you like Geddy Lee so have you seen his series on Paramount+, he talks to Les Claypool, Robert Trujillo, Melissa Auf der Maur and Krist Novoselic.
Cool. I'll have to check that one out. Thanks.
Trick or Treat. 1986. Soundtrack by Fastway, "Fast" Eddie Clark's band after he left Motörhead, with former UFO bassist Pete Way, and singer Dave King (who went on to Flogging Molly). Cameos from Ozzy and Gene Simmons. Bloody hell Glenn you're making me feel old as I saw that film opening weekend in Edmonton when I was in grade eleven
I couple of years ago I changed out the pickups in my Epiphone Les Paul from the stock ones to the Zak Wylde EMGs. I did make a video recording. The tone was exactly the same. The only difference was the crazy amount of sustain the EMGs have over the stock pickups. I don't regret changing them because the amount of sustain was worth it. I would never change pickups thinking it would affect the sound, but the stock pickups in that thing were pretty crappy.
Love the show! Thanks for all you do and Fuck you! 🤘
7:33 They also had a rule at Motown that no amps were allowed in the studio. All the guitars went direct into the mixer. Louie Shelton talks about that on a video I saw.
Is that the Vertex FX guy's channel?
@@Fl4ppers Might be. Don’t remember.
It would make sense for those that want a clean tone unless something is broken. A broken mixing desk created the fuzz sound when it was used on a bass for a country song. Then the fuzz bass tone on country songs became a fad. Jimmy Page also plugged directly into the mixing desk.
@@orlock20 Grady Martin. Those of you that don’t know the name, it’s time to learn it.
@@orlock20 Page also liked two 1176's stacked to create his distortion.
I've been watching your videos, as a guitarist, I knew very little about the recording process. You've leveled up my sound by 10 fold, it's still not good but that's just my musicianship. love your delivery!
Thanks for all of your work and dedication to the education of all of us. I love my guitars and I have learned so much from you. I am now going to go get some new pickups and tone wood. Ha! Love your channel you hairy bastard.
watch all your shows for a few years just subscribed today! 🙃
I read both The Dirt and Heroin Diaries post-rehab and The Heroin Diaries definitely helped in early sobriety for a little perspective. Great recommendations as always!
Ive only recently discovered Glenn's YT channel. Where has he been all my life?! What excellent information this is. 👏 im subscribed for life! 🎉
Ty!
I am a beginner and i am learning a LOT from your channel. I love that you tell us what we don't need (like an expensive tube amp or new pickups) It makes it a lot easier to just practice and not try to spend my way into sounding better. I have an omen 6, line 6 spider iv 15, and i just got a mooer ge150 pedal (overkill for my ability but it is something i can grow into) because either i suck at setting up my amp (likely) or it cant make the sound i like (unlikely, but sounding decent makes practicing a lot more fun). Super happy with the pedal because i can get the sound i like and it is nice having ability to add drums. Im not buying anything else other than strings for the forseeable future
U are more then right Glenn about speakers , just changed my on DSP Nux Mighty 50 x and put Celestion G12-65 8 ohm in it and resaults are awsom for nice old tresh tone. Love it ...thx for info about that!! Best regards from Croatia!!!
Hi Glenn,
I got good results by replacing the speakers. I have a small Laney amp head and a Marshall DSL20 combo. I used the Laney with a 1X12 cabinet equipped with an Eminence Legend speaker. The Marshall comes with a Celestion Seventy speaker from the factory.
I swapped out the two speakers and it benefited both amplifiers. The Laney with Celestion Seventy, and the Marshall with Eminence Legend.🤘
That movie is called Trick or Treat! Ozzy plays a priest in it and Gene Simmons is a radio dj as well. I have it on DVD and have 2 copies of the soundtrack, which is by Fastway, on cd (one of which is still sealed)!
0:10 Anecdote alert: I've actually been that guy who changed pickups and ended up putting the stock ones back in. I wanted something more "modern" than my PRS CE24 pickups and I got the Seymour Duncan Pegasus/Sentient set. They were fine and definitely had more of a "bite" in the 500-700 Hz range, especially when you turned up the gain. However, I really missed how good the PRS pickups sounded clean so I ended up swapping the CE24 pickups back in and now have the SD pickups in an old project guitar that I hadn't fully put together at the time.
Glennnn!!!!! As a mental health counselor (my paid gig) I appreciate your insight into people being off put when presented with evidence that offends or threatens the validity of a strongly held personal belief. You hit the nail on the head!!!! Thanks - We watch for the music and audio advice but sprinkled in is lots of real world life advice.
Glenn,
I have numerous different tube amps and done some rolling preamp tubes a few times and noticed a little difference in tone and aggression but not anything that really slaps me in the face… power tubes virtually no discernible difference except my JCM2000 and then only when playing it plexi style with gain down and master dimed…I put a quad of NOS Mullards in and the power amp distortion seems to be a little bit smoother and the break up a little earlier.
Speakers I recently upgraded a 212 Marshall replaced the Seventy 80’s with greenbacks… Phenomenal difference!
Couple of days ago, I took an old B-52 412 cab it is one of the old-school ones made of actual Baltic birch and is heavy as hell took the stock speakers out put Creambacks on one side and a set of Lynchbacks I managed to find on the other side… Put a two input jack in the back, and each set of speakers has its own independent input Jack. Now it’s a dual 212 “412” so to speak… Yes, gives me more options to plug heads into, and yes, very much an improvement over the stock speakers that were in there.
Glenn, I’ve been a subscriber of yours since 2014 and I’d love to get some of your audio files, multitracks would be amazing. (and you could challenge people with them) Also, a while ago you were talking about making some mastering videos, I would absolutely love that. Thank you for your work
Hi Glenn, great episode, as always! I wanna dip my toes and start into home-recording, but don't know shit about recording software...any sugestion, maybe a little comparison between some options, Mac or PC, etc.? Thanks!
Glannnnnn! Thank you for featuring my comment and correcting that it was a Legator. I'm glad that you saw that my question was some helpful for the show in some way.
Trick or treat is a great cult horror movie. I had to sail the seas to find a copy on bluray... Fastway did the theme song for the movie. Keep rocking!
I have a copy on DVD, and still have my cassette tape copy of the soundtrack after all these years.
Amazing movie and soundtrack 🤘🏻🤘🏻
Back in the day (when I was a teenager), one of our tv stations used to run it once in a while on sunday afternoons, I was always stuck to the screen, I was amaze at the whole atmosphere, the aesthetics, and the music... You ended uo with that I-am-metal,-I-am-evil feeling 🤣🤣🤣
Hey Glenn! I've enjoyed learning about these myths music industry spreads to sell you gear, and how a speaker is what really influences the guitar tone you get. I'm a bass player, and have no idea if the same concept applies to bass guitars. For example, it sounds like Dingwall, Hofner, Wal and Rickenbacker, to mention a couple of examples, have unique sounds related to the components and material they are built with and the pick up placement. Just by plugin them you seem to get a pretty distinctive tone. Have I been listening with my eyes, or is it a complete different phenomenon going on? Thanks for you videos man! Greetings from Chile
"Trick Or Treat"! Great Fastway soundtrack!
I totally agree. I am a songwriter first musician second and recording engineer reluctantly . With the environment today and home Studios I'm just learning as I go
At 5:10 did I just hear you say that changing tubes make a difference. It's funny that you let that slip by in editing. Lol
Hi Glen, thanks for the continued honesty, evidence- based approach, debunking of unnecessary expenditure etc etc.
I play clean sound electric guitar and I swear I can hear more bass in one particular brand of output tube. It's Brimar - I mention it only to head off the thought that I might be falling into the trap of comparing two labels which actually came off the same modern production line.
I don't hear any real difference between preamp tubes however
Here's my question... When you say tubes don't shape tone, is that because you're dealing with high gain sounds with a lot of square wave content?
NB I don't like metal but I'm not knocking it cos I can see there's a high skill level among the best players, including the guys you show sometimes.
Best wishes from the UK!
Glen is right guys, just practice! effects are tools, practice clean, and play live and with other people as much as possible.
Crazy how much you hate line 6 amps. I've made mine sound like my old Randall 100. That amp is versatile, but not for everyone. Love your reviews & input. Everyone's ear is different. That is what makes your videos so different, you give your perspective. Keep doing what you do!
It's a fun experiment to try to be aware of what bias I'm having if I'm making a gear change. I recently swapped out a single coil bridge Tex Mex pickup in my Strat for a Seymour Duncan JB Jr and made sure to do recordings of both before and after through the same gear/sound playing the same parts. The JB was louder (not a surprise) and I know I could get the same thing increasing gain or volume. However, what I did notice was that my playing seemed more "spirited" with the new pickup playing the same riffs. Maybe that's the placebo of excitement of new gear but I do think changing from a single coil to a humbucker-esque pickup in a Strat with the other two pickups being single coils does make some kind of a difference (hence, why do metal players almost never use a bridge single coil for chugs?) and gives a little more tonal variety at the flick of a switch. For me for only $100 and learning some soldering, it was a worthy test :).
I’ve been playing mostly budget instruments for 20 years. Mim fenders were once derided as cheap garbage next to the Mia stuff. So throw that in there as well. I’ve always heard little to no difference. I thought maybe my ears weren’t special enough to hear those pure and amazing differences. The whole time I was gigging people were happy with how I sounded and asked me to keep coming back. I’ve played gigs with folks playing expensive horns, guitars, and other instruments of all types. At no point did anyone give two craps about the brand of instrument I was playing. Play the music right first then worry about your special tone.
I think people get so caught up in the "tone wood" and upgraded pick ups thing bc guitar is so cool and so hard to learn, and you should be very proud of yourself for learning how to do it, and you get these people that are just learning and its a way to show you know more. It's a weird gate keeper thing that people do. I remember I had a $300 schecter with active pick up but weren't EMGs so I though they sucked. I ended up selling the guitar for a "better" one, and it didn't sound or feel as good. Such a dumb thing I was influenced by, I regret it so much. Love the videos. Thanks for keeping it real. 👊🤘
Jeff Beck would go to Beth Hart concerts and it wasn't so he could learn her guitar tone.
I did change out the pickups on my Solar, and am very happy with the results, but there were 2 issues I was having that were very specific and both have been resolved.
1) The low E string would get hung up on the lip of the uncovered pickup. Might be my playing style, might be the 9's I put on the guitar...not sure, but it was a pain when it happened live (and playing hard live almost always caused the issue to happen at least once per show)
2) Maybe because of issue #1, one of the pickups started to have issues. It was a subtle issue with a 'bad' high overtone coming from the E string. I was not sure if the pickup was even the issue or not, but because of issue #1, I thought I would change to covered pickups. The guy that did the work for me tested the bridge pickup and did find an issue with that pickup, and now the bad overtone issue is fixed as well.
I have heard no one else complain about the string getting hung like I was having issues with, so I don't want to trash Solar in any way, they make awesome guitars. In my case I had good reason to swap out the pickups and got the verifiable results that were intended (no more hangups, and the weird overtone is gone), but I agree that changing out the pickups for tone alone is not a good investment under most circumstances.
See you on 70K in 2025!
It's a fairly common issue if you have super low action. Steve Vai puts tape on the bottom of his pickups to avoid the string getting stuck underneath.
Sounds like the pup should have been tightened down and wasnt. Even with low action there should be more clearance on the string. And yeah, if the string kept snagging then it could well have damaged the windings.
I changed mine on my Strat bc they had static coming from them. New pickups, no static.
I’ve seen it happen to Ola in video’s several times lol
@@maxwellblakely7952 TBH I had terrible microphonics from an old squier in the 90s. Took mine out and resin potted them. Worked great unti a few years ago. Replaced with Bare Knuckles because they looked cool, LOL!
Never owned a reamper before but I went out and bought the Signal Art Reamp box after being educated on why they are so useful, by you. I was a Gibson person forever and after watching your LTD Arrow video I tried an ESP. Ended up buying that, another one with a different config (floyd rose) then sold 3 Gibsons. Speakers are king, this is absolutely true. Proof is in the pudding with you Glenn and I hope I see you again sometime at NAMM.
Liking the new format.
Cheers Glen!
Hey Glenn! Big fan of your videos! I had a question about the 6505 1x12 amp. Should I swap the included speaker or should I buy a seperate cabinet?
Funny, you did do the A/B tests on the new pickups in that video. They sound very similar, like someone turned the treble knob from 6 to 7 and that's the only difference between them.
Thanks for letting The Eagle Has Landed play for the opening instead of preview clips.
Manfred Zöllners book is awesome. Would love to see you discussing with him.
Its kind of crazy. I work at a music retailer and I had a customer order a set of really nice pickups. They were DOA so our tech put in some cheap ones from like amazon or something he had laying around. We let the guy know and he was obviously upset about the pickups (I would be too. They were 200 bucks. But he didn't buy them from us. He got them from Mojo Tone I think he said). Funny part is, he liked the pickups our tech put in. He asked me what they were and I told him. His opinion suddenly shifted from "Oh these sound amazing" to "Oh... I don't think I like them".
Insane that people can't use their ears instead of the pricetag.
I tried to do an experiment using an eq before the amp (mainly to try to replicate the TC preamp used by Meshuggah in the kemper), and yes sonically not a big difference in general eq, but it helped to make it clearer and the notes I played were clean and also the way everything reacted. Maybe those who really want to replace the pick ups can use an eq before the amp and thus get the sound they want instead of blindly buying a pick up without knowing how it sounds.
Glenn entering his pretty boy glam phase with all that weight he dropped. looking great dude!
I dove into audio formats and compression algorithms back when Ogg Vorbis was new, and the only way I could hear a difference was when very different compression settings were used in lossy compression algorithms. Even though you might see some difference in the spectrum, it was not enough to pass an A/B test.
What did matter? Speakers. I stopped wasting time with tweaking formats and bought good speakers and headphones.
Glen!!! Would love to see a deep dive on mics/ mic positions. Khole did ribbon mics on guitar and it gave me a lot of ideas. It can thicken up your sound when you blend it with a 57. I am curious to see what you find.
Maybe then people will finally see the speaker and mic make a huge difference. I love the ML Mega green pack if anyone is looking for something sick as fuck and is not a V30.
Hi glen ! hope you are doing good :) I wanna ask you, what's your opinion on putting different sort of speakers into a 4 12 like, 2 pairs or 4 different speakers.....would it be a good idea , I mean have you ever tried ?
Thanks for breaking all the myths about pickups. My absolute favorite guitar to play is my Fender Strat. It’s just perfect the way the fretboard feels and I do my best playing on it. I use to put it to the side anytime I wanted to play metal. After your videos proved that the pickups don’t make that big a difference I got curious. It’s a classic SSS Strat but I decided to try it anyway. Lo and behold, even a single coil could get me into that metal sound! I recorded the sound and sent it to friends, with a second recording of the same riff on a humbucker… they couldn’t tell much of a difference and actually preferred the sound of my fender single coil over the fishman fluence modern humbucker. Mind blown. I will say that my fender noiseless single coil works great, idk about other noisier single coils.
Bill Steer has recorded with a P90 for decades.
Carcass baby !!
I actually know a few people who swapped pickups and didn't like it, and put the old ones back in... but they were using really dark, tubby amps, like a Dual Rectifier, Orange Thunderverb, JCM2000, and the newer pickups were probably lower output, or had too much low end information, and they weren't using a boost. The older, original version of Blackouts had the same issue as the boost feature on Laney Ironheart amps, super hot but too much low end info, and if you're not using another boost or overdrive pedal, it makes it sound bloated in the low end. Of course, the second you use an overdrive or boost pedal with an attenuated low end or EQ, all of that goes out the window, as Glenn here has shown, time and time again. The second you add gain on the amp, the changes of pickups are greatly reduced, minimized, or if they're not super hot they're even completely cancelled out, and an overdrive, boost, or EQ pedal between the guitar and the amp just erases the differences. If you change pickups, it should be for clean tones, noise, or because you're not using any pedals on the way in.
I did change the EMG 81s in my LTD M1000 to EMG 56 & 77s. It really was a huge difference. I always think about how much of a difference it made...even a year and a half later. Granted, I upped the voltage from 9 volts to 18.
How do you feel about pickup changes for a bass vs guitar? I changed an Ibanez GWB-35 (budget Gary Willis bass) from the Ibanez branded pickup and pre to a real Bartollini pickup and preamp. Really changed the tone of the bass for the better. Not sure if it was the pickup or the pre that did it though.
I bought a squier P bass in the early 2000s, had so little output that I bought a new one and changed it out. 90% of bass is recorded clean and then compressed in the studio, so you hear the difference better until its mixed.
Bass is usually distorted less, so more of the pickup differences survive to the mix. Like on guitar, different constructions will make the most difference, such as stacked coil (my preference) vs side by side coil vs dual rail J sized humbuckers.
Certainly different EQ curves will sound distinct.
What's up man? As someone who's played guitar since my early teens in the early 90s, it's surprising that most guitarists don't know how much different speakers change your tone. I changed out the speakers on my Ampeg 4x12 cab years ago it it made a BIG difference. Maybe it helps that I've been into hi-fi home audio about as long. I'm NOT an audiophile though - They're usually snooty rich bleeps who drink the marketing flavoraid.
glen do you think its necessary to have your instrument speaker cab flat on top to put the amp on ????? Always?
Glen How The Frick Do You Make Your IR's So Clear? the Frick IR's are so good thank you for them
Would swapping pickups be worth it if the stock ones you have are just that bad? I feel like any pickup change would be for the best for me.
Can you do a video on reamp boxes? I need to learn about this piece of equipment
Just did a video on Tweed amps and I agree 100%.... speakers are the biggest difference!
Best part of Trick or Treat - Ozzy being a preacher on TV.
The thing that has mystified me for literal decades, and still does, is how we all come up with stories of how Jimmy Page invented delay, Link Wray poking holes in the speakers for buzz, cats putting the cab in the freakin shower with a 57 in the corner, micing the back of a speaker, whatever. And what we take from it is "I have to do exactly that!!1!" rather than "Huh, looks like "the greats" just kinda made it up as they went, maybe we should try different stuff and see what happens!"
I bought a 73 SG Special in 93. when I got it home I didn't like the pickups. They were mini-humbuckers and sounded weedy. I stuck a Seymourized Mini at the bridge and it sounded the same.
I DID THAT!
On my ibanez S series, I decided to swap out my bridge pickup with a high output pickup and it's higher output but I don't like the sound nearly as much. Ended up going back to the original.
No the sound isn't changed as much as a different pedal or speaker... But it's very noticeable when you're playing especially on high pitches and pinch harmonics.
3:10 you change your valves out when they fail. Glenn’s already proven that.
Sadly my H&K Grand Meister Deluxe 40 has valve issues. It sent back to Thomann from here in NZ. Turns out that the valves/tubes are Chinese made as shipped and only have a 6 month warranty vs the amps 3 year warranty.
Being on Government benefits due to cv19 nearly killing me late 2022 meant I couldn’t afford replacing them but found a local NZ retailer on TradeMe (NZs eBay equivalent if) who let me pay it off. I have 4 EL84s coming next week after I make my final installment payment on Wednesday night.
Chur !!
Edit: Thomann were awesome to deal with during this process by the way. Their support staff are stellar.
Stop chasing sound, start writing good songs and focus on your skills. Changing pickups or speakers won't make you a better musician. You can write and play great music with cheap or expensive gear. Play whatever makes you feel good and don't become a dogmatic preacher. Music is passion. For f*k sake! Happy Easter Glenn!
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The change to fishmen was a good move, sure they may not make much of a difference with gain but they are more reliable. Less variations and splitting is cool. Besides if pickups are bad you have to change them
I wanted to optimise my workhorse and thought comparison videos seemed to show a fair difference between stock DiMarzio Fusion Edge 7s and bare knuckle ragnaroks, felt confident it was worth it. Got them fitted and compared to recordings on my DAW, for me the small difference didn't really warrant the price and is easily emulated. older ibanez stock dimarzios are actually awful in comparison to the fusions and I thought I'd experience a similar improvement from fusions to bare knuckle, but i think in most cases the money will be best spent on other gear
GLEEEEEN!! We have heard pretty clearly that humbuckers and single coils sound sound different and humbuckers all sound similar. But my emgs seem to sound very different to my humbuckers. And they tend to use rails not poles as far as I understand. So my question is do all actives also sound similar in the mix and do they sound similar or different to humbuckers? I'd love to see you test this.
Glenn, there's a hole in your test. You're replacing great pickups with great pickups. I agree, your tests sound the same and sound great.
1. Buy a Mr. Scary guitar from China, and the humbucker is about 3mm thick - Total Wimp Crap.
2. Buy a EVH white with black stripes, distortion sounds amazing. But switch to a clean sound, and it's actually distorted. There's so much throughput, you have to roll off the volume to make it truly clean. I love that Eddie guy.
Although you're right, speakers make a difference, so do pickups. But, the majority of my guitars sound the same when I play through the ADA MP-1.
These guitars sound different -
1. The crappy China clone I bought (mentioned above)
2. $600 LTD George Lynch guitars, pickups are weak
3. My second and last Aria Pro II guitar, sounds bassy, you can hear the difference when I switch guitars in the solo.
Recently, I played a Strat with SSS using bare knuckle cobras. It has them wired to the American professional ii push / push. I never ACTUALLY wanted to have a strong urge to replace pickups with mine and it will definitely happen. Thats all I got. Definitely try them out, I agree with a lot of the humbucker to humbucker but bare knuckle did it VERY well to make a Strat with a SSS push push an EVERY style and playing guitar. Hope all is well, love seeing your channel grow and grow!
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I've changed pickups on a guitar once in my life. It was on a Strat and I did like it. Not because the sound was so much better but because the new ones were the kind that don't hum. Was it worth it? Not really.
I have actually bought new pickups that sounded worse than the old pickups. I bought a set of emg 57/66 pickups that would start to sound really muddy when adding gain. I wound up selling them and using the emg 81/60 set that I already had. I’m not sure if I just had a faulty set or what but lesson learned I guess.😂
The biggest and best change in my tone is when we recorded our last full length and the engineer wanted to try my Matamp through a cab with Black Shadows instead of V30’s. It’s like my amp came alive. I immediately swapped out the V30’s. I’ve never gotten more compliments on my tone. When asked what changed when told most didn’t believe me and thought I was just trying to keep it secret.
FWIW, V30s didn't match my Matamp either. People seem to assume they'd work well together (maybe because Orange amps are often paired with V30s, and early Oranges were built by Matamp?) but I prefer creambacks for that particular amp. You never know until you try!
Which black shadows, celestion or EV?
@@concretebadger I use a mix of creambacks and V30’s with my Rockerverb and that combo sounds really good.
@@jasondorsey7110 Celestions. Our Mesa rep sent them to me. So much better for my Matamp.
I play a dual rec into a mesa combo that has a single black shadow and i absolutely love the sound. Wouldnt ever go near a V30 again.
Have you done any videos on od pedals or tone shaping videos ?
I wonder if you do anything where viewers can send in their mixes for help. Just recently started to try and record and have learned allot from the chanel.
“Foundation” kicks ass. Lee Pace brings his A game on that series.
When Glen mentions speaker tone I always want to say "and the recording mic!" I was amazed by how big a difference the mic option makes on my GT1000Core. Of course, that's a simulator but it seems to agree with the results in Glen's content too
3:52 in fact, the impact of YT compression in HD mode is negligible. But then, tone snobs will cling to any issue that would seem to prove them right.
CZcams compression is also negligible when the recording is done with gain maxed out, lol.
Movie name: (I swear I didn't look it up) Trick Or Treat! Gene Simmons is in it and plays a Rock Radio Dj. I think Fastway did some music for it? If that's the case, Fast Eddie Clarke of Motorhead was in them (or managed them... my memory is a little sketchy)
Glen, I love playing other bands' music, but I often find myself coming up with my own riffs. Unfortunately, I forget what I played immediately. How can I record notes so I can print it out to replay until its muscle memory. Like,especially in tab form!!¡!!
What about wood and sustain? Or the 3 point bridge vs. One screwed into the body?
Trick or Treat....awesome soundtrack by Fastway!
Oh and you HAVE TO go to Hitsville USA!
Glenn!!! Hi. How much diferent are studio rack compressors than compressor pedals? say, having them connected as inserts on a channel in mixing board?
Very. You'll need to shift the signal from line level to instrument level and back.
I put Mighty Mite pickups in a guitar once and they really sounded terrible! They were installed correctly, they were just really low output. I think that's the only difference in overall tone in a Humbucker. High output vs low output. I'd like to see a test on that.
How about testing the difference between a Lollar Novel 90 and a Humbucker? Might be fun?
Actually I’d say there are four types, single coil, humbucker, high output and low output. It does make a huge difference to how you play, things can be tweaked in recording sound yes, but how well or how cleanly you play I find the later two matter a lot.
maybe dumb question, but is there is a point at using diferent eq pedals and using the eq from the amp and the eq from the guitar/bass etc at the same time? Great show man, saludos from mexico!
Yes and no. EQ relies on the Q (slope) of the bands of frequencies effected. If you have a 3 band EQ on a pedal it might not quite tally up with a 3 band on an amp as they might tune in different frequencies and might have different Q to them (eg one might have 12db/octave, the other 6 or 24). There may also be differences in the amount of gain available per knob (eg the Metal Zone has insane levels of gain on its EQ).
EQ before distortion doesn't affect harmonics.
Bass player here. Im curious about split coil pickups and if there really is or isnt a difference vs traditional single coils or humbuckers. Obviously split coils are more common basses, but G&L makes the Comanche which is a strat style body with three split coils. Is there much if any difference?
They are different constructions, so some difference could be expected. A strat style single has magnets in the coil, while half a PAF has magnets below the coil. A split PAF is like a cross between a P90 and a strat single in that sense.
There's basically only a few completely original amp circuits
-there's the German voiced amps, which generally are just an American voiced preamp and a British voiced power amp or vice versa
-There's basically three different British voiced sounds/circuits, the Vox/Hiwatt, the Orange/Laney, and then there's Marshall which has bright (JVM, JCM) and dark (Plexi) subdivisions
-There's Fender, which was modified to make Rivera and Soldano, and then those were modified from there to make the majority of Peavey and Mesa circuits.
So, I realise that pickups won't change the sound a whole lot; however, I'm still wondering if it would be worth switching my single coil pickups to humbuckers still when it comes to wanting a more metal tone? (lol I typed this just before it actually gets answered in the video)
Noise sucks. Get hum-cancelling singles.
Was it the movie Trick or Treat? I love that movie \m/
Glenn, OK I get all the things your talking about. It's just I'm wanting to run a 57 at center cone and a ribbon at the edge( hoping it'll be a little darker). Then you say, " mic phase". Is it always a 1×3 rule or can I run 2 different speakers. And, which one should be 3 away? A real answer from you or anyone is way appreciated.
Draig
I personally like the 57 1-2 inches off center to reduce the harshness. Give it a try and move it around a little bit. Not an expert on phasing but generally you can flip the phase of 1 channel and that usually resolves the issue.
OK, so 57 on cone, 3" and for the darker tone 906 1" on edge?
If changing the pickups won't make much of a difference what can I do to get a brighter sound out of my jackson dinky with Emg Hz's? The bridge pickup sounds darker than the neck pickup on my other guitars. Already messed with raising/lowering the pup height and tried different string gauges. Cranking up the treble on the amp sort of helps but isnt really getting me there either.
Changing out a faulty pickup is perfectly acceptable. Sounds like it might be the case.
Surprisingly first for once. Keep them up
Tonewood matters when:
- you walk into the practice room of your home to get your pants out of the closet, and you strum all of your guitars as you leave the room. Some are brighter than others when not plugged in. Plugged into my stuff that makes sound....not so much at all.
Thanks for the awakening Glenn.
Love the videos and FU!!!
Thx for mentioning demanufacture at 8:08
LOL I did throw a jazz and jb in my first guitar, and the stock ibanez infinity pickups were better.
Pickups don't make much of a difference at the end of the day, other than voicings. That is just changing the resonance peak, which an eq pedal can easily do. (AND it's controllable)
Pickups are fun, but don't do too much.
Do you actually need active pickups a lot of players say it’s a must for metal but feel like you can get just as good of sounds from passive pickups thoughts?
If you want an extra gain stage it doesn't really matter where the preamp is. It can be in the pickup / control cavity, or in a pedal.
Hey, Glenn, where can we find the song from the intro/outro of ur vids?
I’ve been in the business since I was 15. My godfather was Duke Ellington. My father was a tennis sax player named, Skip Williams. Shake rattling & roll , and Rock around the clock, is my old man on sax (Bill Haley).The reason why I mentioned this is because, I’ve been on over 30 tours . And those are the tours that I played on . I used to go out with my father in the summer when I was very young !!! Every time we’ve gotten a different sound is because, one my guitar players use a different cabinet. A lot of times when a band is on tour, there is a back line, and they will not let you use your own cabinets. Trust me when I tell you. In Europe at a festival, you plug into what they have!! Even if you’re within the top 4 headlining bands!! The most they will let you
get away with is , plugging in to your own head!! And the cats that set up these festivals, are not trying to move a goddamn thing!!
If you’re lucky enough to tour the festivals in Europe , you might have a selection!! Guitar cabinets have fucked with my set too many times!! Obviously, five minutes into the set your ears will settle. If you’re professional/ know how to adapt in a live situation . I’m just telling you my experiences. Btw,
I sing for a band called Maximum Penalty , played drums in a band called Nausea.
Here’s the fucked up thing, most of you will never leave your bedrooms. I don’t mean to sound like a dick!! I’ve been very fortunate to see the world with my talent. I broke my back, making a living from Music!! It was barely a living.
Listen to what Glen’s telling you , he has no reason to bullshit you, and I’m telling you firsthand that he’s correct!!
Please, investigate my comments should you have any doubts
Big up, Glen !!
Love the show brother!!cheers from NYC/LES.
It’s a nice neighborhood now, but when I grew up there, it was a shit hole!!!!😂
Jim ( JMP)
🤘🏼
I changed my stock schecter omen 7 pickups to the emg active equivalent. You know what it did. Made my guitar clip way easier. From what i see the increase is in the attack more so than the frequency.maybe the bottom end changed some. Im not saying it made it sound better. It honestly added an extra step with the battery changes.