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  • čas přidán 23. 04. 2012
  • Jim Root of Slipknot and Stone Sour offers a detailed look at his signature Stratocaster. Learn why he's fired up about this guitar!
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  • @alexmoore5332
    @alexmoore5332 Před 5 lety +375

    Imagine being a big slipknot fan working in a guitar store and Jim root walks in and buys his own guitar off you.

    • @ukbasedhomeland
      @ukbasedhomeland Před 4 lety +1

      😂😂😂

    • @nimitz1739
      @nimitz1739 Před 4 lety +3

      Alex Moore Too bad it was probably somebody who didn’t even know him. Being that he’s most known for wearing a mask.

    • @clintwilson6380
      @clintwilson6380 Před 3 lety

      Everything you wrote is cool except for the part of being a big slipknot fan.

    • @laa0fa502
      @laa0fa502 Před 3 lety +7

      @@clintwilson6380 God forbid someone is a fan of a band you don't like

    • @mmg198643
      @mmg198643 Před 10 měsíci

      Yes!

  • @NicolasCageisGod
    @NicolasCageisGod Před 8 lety +248

    If anyone was wondering, he said 'you know' 9 times in only two minutes

    • @mollysodaa
      @mollysodaa Před 7 lety +3

      Meddie Diablo I'm glad you counted my friend

    • @jonhattanrai
      @jonhattanrai Před 6 lety +4

      just so you know

    • @Nov95
      @Nov95 Před 5 lety

      My parents say “you know” so much

    • @maffooo2040
      @maffooo2040 Před 3 lety +9

      That's a "you know" every 13.3 seconds on average

    • @nckhed
      @nckhed Před 3 lety +1

      It's still much easier on the ears than hearing "like" every other word. 😂😂☠️

  • @Cthulhu162
    @Cthulhu162 Před 8 lety +263

    it's a you know stratocaster

  • @proque1q2w
    @proque1q2w Před 11 lety +90

    Imagine being the guy in the store:
    -- "Can I help you?"
    "Yeah, I take the Jim Root Signature strat."
    -- "Your credit card, sir." ... "Jim Root?!?"
    "Hell, yeah!"

  • @harryemmott8597
    @harryemmott8597 Před 8 lety +97

    That isn't Jim Root, that's a Fender rep who is being voiced over by Jim Root.

  • @CrazyCow500
    @CrazyCow500 Před 8 lety +81

    wanna talk about humble. This dude went a payed for one of his own signature series guitars

  • @xmsparker
    @xmsparker Před 12 lety +25

    His strat is so sick, I've always wanted a strat like Jim's. I'll get one one day.

    • @rijad_maglic
      @rijad_maglic Před 2 lety +3

      damn dude did u get it?

    • @zackysykes
      @zackysykes Před rokem +2

      Its been 11 years since you've commented this. I hope you got it by now man!

    • @xmsparker
      @xmsparker Před rokem +3

      @@zackysykes still haven’t got it but the time will come one day still! Thank you for caring

  • @harryz567
    @harryz567 Před 8 lety +483

    he doesn't look right without the beard

  • @InjuryDealer
    @InjuryDealer Před 3 lety +8

    Just bought it....definitely a TONE monster

  • @elpablosky6300
    @elpablosky6300 Před rokem +3

    His admiration for Ritchie Blackmore, Malmsteen and more iconic stratocaster guitar players this call RESPECT and I love that because this not a another arrogant guitar player is a great person and talented guitar player.
    He had the Tele , Stratocaster and the Jaguar he basically give another personality to this vintage iconic guitars from Fender .

  • @reidgowan2670
    @reidgowan2670 Před 7 lety +53

    So THAT'S what his face looks like.

    • @vinnysouza2016
      @vinnysouza2016 Před 7 lety +7

      Go watch Corey Taylor and Jim Root rare interview...the guy beside Corey is Jim(youger of course)

  • @thaghost3260
    @thaghost3260 Před 7 lety +41

    Alwis alwis alwis loved strats

  • @kravvall4869
    @kravvall4869 Před 4 lety +10

    "Excuse me Sir, are you Jim Root? How can I help?"
    "Yeah, you know, I'm here to buy the Jim Root Strat. Is 3 million dollars okay?"

  • @ultimatemetalguitartones
    @ultimatemetalguitartones Před 3 lety +1

    Just bought this beauty!

  • @Lukeplanespotting
    @Lukeplanespotting Před 12 lety

    Gotta love Jim!!

  • @God_D_Nika
    @God_D_Nika Před 8 lety +3

    mannn that guitar is awesome

  • @TheDemarius
    @TheDemarius Před 11 lety

    it looks amazing

  • @gman1280
    @gman1280 Před 12 lety

    What i mean by this is that i've noticed that the pickups, scale length, bridge construction, fret material, string brand and gauge all have a bigger effect on tone than any of the woods used because they directly alter the way the string vibrates and for how long. That said you cannot deny that when an electric has it's strings completely muted, is plugged into an amp, and you simply knock the body with your hand you hear different tones from different body woods and body shapes

  • @Trackstar987
    @Trackstar987 Před 12 lety +5

    You're right in that the wood has no effect on the pickups, but it affects how the string vibrates, which then translates in to the pickup. For example, a string hooked up to metal poles secured in concrete will sound different and resonate differently than a string hooked up between two pieces of semi flexible plastic, even if the tension is the same.

    • @taunokekkonen5733
      @taunokekkonen5733 Před 2 lety +3

      I'm leaning towards calling all wood discussion snobbery. Yes if you play a clean sound and have nothing in between your guitar and amp...maybe you'll hear a difference. Live playing via a wireless and a signal chain through speakers..? Nah. In studio, playing via Axe Fx and a long signal chain? Nope.

  • @PANICBLADE
    @PANICBLADE Před 12 lety

    right on bro. keep doing what youre doing.

  • @taraskovaliv
    @taraskovaliv Před 11 lety

    This is really a very beautiful and very special machine. I totally want one (-:

  • @TheINVADER147
    @TheINVADER147 Před 12 lety

    its sooooo beautiful

  • @snakeeyes7763
    @snakeeyes7763 Před 6 lety

    Whoop! Brighton 🤟🤟🤟

  • @elliotdeware87
    @elliotdeware87 Před 12 lety

    I've been to the guitar shop Jim bought this at ah that's awesome!

  • @PANICBLADE
    @PANICBLADE Před 12 lety

    ive always just assumed it was how the string vibrates because of the material. nevertheless i think we are missing something here. you and i agree on most everything except for one little issue. the significance of the body wood. and even there we both agree that its there for a reason. you are the only person who has been able to respond to what i have to say without just saying WRONG or insulting me. for that and our similar views you have my respect and kudos. excellent work.

  • @jonturner777
    @jonturner777 Před 12 lety

    I was there when he bought that strat! :D

  • @GRiMFACE1973
    @GRiMFACE1973 Před 2 lety

    Dude. There was one on stage on AGT Extreme last night. 🤘🏼💀

  • @Andrino15
    @Andrino15 Před 10 lety +4

    one of the metal father J.:R with his killer weapon

  • @tjon901
    @tjon901 Před 12 lety +2

    Fender should make more guitars with compound radiuses.

  • @lpgamer2
    @lpgamer2 Před 11 lety

    i was kinda wonderin about that, i was thinkin of gettin a strat with the floyd rose and puttin in a dimarzio into the bridge, but that would essentially turn it into an ibanez, so 70s reissueit is, but do the humbuckers affect the strat sound much though?

  • @DiedrichKnickerbocker1783

    Fan of the satin/flat black with ebony fretboard. But am not a big fan of EMGs. Love high gain pickups through VOX AC30 or a Marshall JCM800 though.

    • @bitronicc1887
      @bitronicc1887 Před 4 lety +1

      Love EMGs...to each their own, Seymour's and Dimarzios are awesome as well

  • @thenerdlabofficial
    @thenerdlabofficial Před 12 lety

    I have the white Jim Root Tele and I just bought the white Jim Root Strat like two minutes ago haha and I will be having a friend of mine who is a luthier route out and install black dots on the fingerboard for me.

  • @gman1280
    @gman1280 Před 12 lety

    Hmm, as a guitarist owning several guitars of the same shape, but with different body woods, (mahog, lots of basswood ones, and alder), I've never thought hard about what mostly affects the tone of a solid body electric and have taken it as a given that body wood has a radical effect on tone. I also did the physics until the very end of secondary school. I believe you are mostly correct. Anything that affects the strings and their amplification will have a dominant effect on tone.

  • @ahmadfarisrosli7597
    @ahmadfarisrosli7597 Před 4 lety +2

    I wish there’s a Squier version of this, like the Tele

  • @__Ben777__
    @__Ben777__ Před 2 lety

    This with a top notch floating trem like a vega would be ideal for me,
    I have the JR tele which I love but would love a trem model too

  • @DP91
    @DP91 Před 11 lety

    most beautiful stratocaster ever!

  • @zappafile
    @zappafile Před 12 lety

    Exactly my thoughts.

  • @SixStringHarmonies
    @SixStringHarmonies Před 12 lety

    The scale and string tension are primary factors to the tone. The original, lengthy discussion was regarding the belief of some that the body material of an electric guitar is the primary element of it's amplified tone. It is a misnomer which manufacturers have borrowed from the world of acoustic guitars, violins, pianos, etc., where body material is the primary factor in tone.

  • @downwiththeswineflu
    @downwiththeswineflu Před 11 lety

    Currently holding this guitar.

  • @enz0_66garciagonzalez5

    Ejem estoy puramente encantado con el modelo esta y la telecaster y la les paul negra son mis modelos favoritos son tres guitarras hermosas

  • @eduardacarvalhogomes
    @eduardacarvalhogomes Před 12 lety

    gente coisa lindaaaaaa

  • @BlueNotes5998
    @BlueNotes5998 Před 12 lety

    i was there when he brought that guitar in Brighton lol

  • @TheGoldDragon100
    @TheGoldDragon100 Před 8 lety

    Wanted to see him jam on it in this video!

    • @Symbiote-Man
      @Symbiote-Man Před 7 lety

      So, you wanted jim to jam...HUH?
      O.K. I'll let myself out.

  • @tltltl_17
    @tltltl_17 Před 12 lety

    does it have locking tuners? it looks awesome :D

  • @houseofboo
    @houseofboo Před 8 lety +13

    his voice reminds me of microsoft sam

  • @9unslin9er
    @9unslin9er Před 4 lety +2

    "Oh yeah mate, this is a killer guitar. Jim Root Strat. Have you shopped with us before? What's your phone number, I'll look you up in the system."

  • @Stephen_Lafferty
    @Stephen_Lafferty Před 12 lety

    It's nice to know that Brighton, England can help Slipknot and Stonesour, even with the exchange rate between the dollar and sterling being what it is!

  • @Meh-im1qs
    @Meh-im1qs Před 9 lety

    Beautiful guitar. If only it was in my local guitar center so i could try it before i buy.

  • @baezrivera4848
    @baezrivera4848 Před 6 lety +2

    How could this video end without him playing :(

  • @spicyMcHAGGIS9green
    @spicyMcHAGGIS9green Před 12 lety

    Or we could just say, when trying out guitars, "HEY! I like the way this one sounds and feels. I think I'll buy it."

  • @PANICBLADE
    @PANICBLADE Před 12 lety

    i didnt see the captions explaining since i saw it on my iphone first. as i made evident before with metalmeister i know my way around the electronics of a guitar

  • @thepanman8
    @thepanman8 Před 10 lety

    I love this frickin guitar man. It's hard to really hear the quality of it through a CZcams vid, but you know if it's tuned to slipknot "b"? And Jim root is playing it, the distortion must be insane

    • @SawyerSmoak
      @SawyerSmoak Před 10 lety +2

      These guitars rule. Played them in Guitar Center over and over. Just overpriced for what it is.

    • @willvaughn6.395
      @willvaughn6.395 Před 8 lety

      +Sawyer Smoak overpriced ? It's a custom fender. I play this guitar and earnie balls music man and for the price I get more out of this strat. Good guitars made in the states or Japan cost a lot that's how it is

  • @PANICBLADE
    @PANICBLADE Před 12 lety

    ive heard the difference in true bypass by the way. especially when youre running through 7 peadls with them and 7 without them. its black and white. also i have a video below that shows the tonal differences of identical guitars with ash and alder. look up FGN Ash vs Alder. i can hear a pretty decent difference in this vid. which is saying something because these woods sound similar (supposedly) only exchanging mids for bass.

  • @alfredoiorio77
    @alfredoiorio77 Před 12 lety +1

    Born some 60 years ago and with few mods it sounds and looks like a modern guitar, only a genius could have created such a masterpiece!

  • @manvaix
    @manvaix Před 12 lety

    finally someone who explained how wood affects the sound of the electric guitar! :-)

  • @SixStringHarmonies
    @SixStringHarmonies Před 12 lety

    Some labs have even done tests to see if listeners can differentiate between a tube or solid state amplified audio signal. The results always turn out the same. They test 30 or so people, 29 can't reliably choose, and 1 guy with great ears gets it right every time. Thus, keeping the debates alive. The gear companies that make millions off of all of us work very hard to propel this thinking forward.

  • @bandicoot5412
    @bandicoot5412 Před 5 lety

    The great Jim Root

  • @mckay91095
    @mckay91095 Před 12 lety

    Yes that is true, but what I meant is the EMG pickup's pickups only pickup the strings vibration, they don't pick up the sustain throught the body of the guitar. While Passive pickups pick up a lot of sustain and vibration from the strings AND the body.

  • @sEaNoYeAh
    @sEaNoYeAh Před 12 lety

    An acoustically resonant object has more than one resonance frequency, especially at harmonics of the strongest resonance. It will easily vibrate at those frequencies, and vibrate less strongly at other frequencies. It will "pick out" its resonance frequency from a complex excitation, such as an impulse or a wideband noise excitation. In effect, it is filtering out all frequencies other than its resonance. I've measured this in a lab, with 15 different woods, and 10 other materials.

  • @ChristopherBlake596
    @ChristopherBlake596 Před 12 lety

    Same problem with the tele. That volume nob is in the same place where I can't do fast down-picking. My hand always hits it.

  • @jonturner777
    @jonturner777 Před 12 lety

    GAK in Brighton, England ;)

  • @AdamDallas
    @AdamDallas Před 12 lety

    Carl has his own signature with LSL guitars, check it out!

  • @nimitz1739
    @nimitz1739 Před 3 lety +1

    I have owned all three of his signatures model, and I have to say the Strat is the best.

  • @PANICBLADE
    @PANICBLADE Před 11 lety +1

    so revolutionary. a standard metal guitar in the shape of a strat!

  • @LouSassles
    @LouSassles Před 12 lety

    Then play it a little lower or towards the point where you are playing almost or over the neck pickup. I have a strat and the volume doesn't bother me when I down-pick. And wait how do you hit the volume if you are down picking? Doesn't your hand stay over the bridge pickup?

  • @PANICBLADE
    @PANICBLADE Před 12 lety

    ive heard pretty decent differences on more than one occasion, only difference being body wood. predictable ones too, not just contrast. both electronics and materials matter.

  • @101hazz101
    @101hazz101 Před 12 lety

    i get my guitars from that shop in Brighton

  • @Orieus
    @Orieus Před 8 lety

    play it jim!!!

  • @Kid0fThePast
    @Kid0fThePast Před 12 lety

    They do! Check out the modern players and classic players, the classic player 60s strat has a 12'' radius like this

  • @xMrWalkwayx
    @xMrWalkwayx Před 11 lety

    I'm waiting for them to come out with a Squire version, like the Telecaster.

  • @LtdTaurus
    @LtdTaurus Před 11 lety

    Just the fender stratocaster I was waiting for, only I like the thinner headstock of fender better then this one(but it is no going to withhold me from buying this guitar). Prefect for when i have my ESP Eclipse 1-CTM VBK.

  • @otherrandomhero
    @otherrandomhero Před 12 lety

    I don't know if you've ever actually played a guitar, but the entire guitar vibrates quite a bit when you pluck a string. Different vibration frequencies are brought out and dampened by different woods depending on density and porousness. These vibrations go back into the strings and are picked up by the pickups. If you disagree with this theory, think about how different a guitar sounds with new strings compared to old ones. The different from wood isn't huge, but it's definitely significant.

  • @glennvalenza5424
    @glennvalenza5424 Před 7 lety +9

    lol 2 year differnce makes him look so much better with his jazz master

  • @SixStringHarmonies
    @SixStringHarmonies Před 12 lety

    You're a good egg! That was fun. So many stupid people here it's refreshing to find a know-it-all like me! ;) We really wrote a damn book here. Cheers!

  • @cjquinn74
    @cjquinn74 Před 12 lety

    cool

  • @SixStringHarmonies
    @SixStringHarmonies Před 12 lety

    ....I think most the guys I've worked with would tell you they thought Maple tops and veneers actually drain sustain from the guitar. The biggest reason an LP can go on for what is seemingly an eternity ;) is it's 13 degree headstock angle which combines with the fixed bridge to equate to a guitar design that sings. The strings have nothing to do but vibrate. S-style guitars with lower head angles use string trees to try and achieve this effect. The trees, however, hinder tuning stability.

  • @SixStringHarmonies
    @SixStringHarmonies Před 12 lety

    with a hard wood like Pine. But all those Broadcasters and Nocasters are Pine guitars. They defined several genres. There are gobs of builders who make completely bodyless guitars like MiniStar, for instance, on the low end of the budget. To some insane designs from Teuffel and other mad scientists. The better equipped they are, the better they sound. They have all the sustain and resonance as any other handmade. The fact that there is no body material does not factor to the sound in the amp.

  • @PANICBLADE
    @PANICBLADE Před 12 lety

    well yeah a guitar like that would still function and have a good core tonality, it would just be missing . i remember when he used pine, they still make some with it, it seems interesting. a body will never make anything TOO anything. people cared what woods, george fullerton was there monitering the creation of his instruments they got off pine realy quick because it wasnt strong enough and would dent and break easily because of how soft it was. it actually sounds really warm and nice.

  • @sazio89
    @sazio89 Před 11 lety

    Love this guitar's body,just wish it had a different shaped headdstock in black.

  • @DEVOSPHINX
    @DEVOSPHINX Před 12 lety

    They do have reference dots on the top though mate...

  • @MolsonEx1903
    @MolsonEx1903 Před 8 lety

    anyone know where i can purchase all the black hardware on this guitar? I need the tuners bridge nut and even the output plug

    • @benncantwell9260
      @benncantwell9260 Před 8 lety

      +MolsonEx1903 Look on Amazon

    • @MolsonEx1903
      @MolsonEx1903 Před 8 lety

      +Benn Cantwell I did and it's not on amazon.ca

    • @benncantwell9260
      @benncantwell9260 Před 8 lety

      I found a bunch of black strat hardware on amazon, you just have to know where to look.

  • @sEaNoYeAh
    @sEaNoYeAh Před 12 lety

    The vibrating string causes vibrations in whatever it is fixed to. Put a guitar down, strum it and feel the body -it's vibrating. Wood affects the tone of a note by absorbing some frequencies, causing them to quickly decay; and reinforcing others, causing them to become more prominent and encouraging vibrations of that frequency in the string -which is then in turn picked up by the pickup.

  • @maskedDuke79
    @maskedDuke79 Před 7 lety

    does anyone know if the strat as the same paint issues as the tele ? (i know jim root wanted the paint to wear off faster)

    • @justinbora2591
      @justinbora2591 Před 7 lety

      nameless ghoul: Yes. All Jim root models have a nitrocellulose lacquer finish which will show wear considerably quicker than a standard gloss finish

    • @maskedDuke79
      @maskedDuke79 Před 7 lety

      well that´s a turn off for me :/. was planning on buying either the fender strat or the tele.

  • @woolgum
    @woolgum Před 6 lety +1

    What tuning and string gauge does the guitar come with?

  • @drivin69
    @drivin69 Před 12 lety

    hmmm i like messen around with my squire strat.. i can not imagine a metal sound comeing from it.. even though i like messen around with sounds.. i have in the pass fooled around with a tuffer blue's mabey with a little edge.. could be a cool sound i think mabey make some heads turn..

  • @daokine
    @daokine Před 11 lety

    of course they can! Volume pot is the key

  • @vintage76543210
    @vintage76543210 Před 12 lety

    HE BOUGHT THE BLACK FENDER AT GAK IN BRIGHTON :)

  • @dj0ntis
    @dj0ntis Před 11 lety

    he's so good, i was just saying he doesn't look like he's in a metal band. as in, i would have never guessed haha.

  • @user-ue4bn4ey5c
    @user-ue4bn4ey5c Před 7 lety

    Guitar This is one of them. Sound is powerful Black like me to be myself

  • @PANICBLADE
    @PANICBLADE Před 12 lety

    im not saying wood or construction, and hardware doesnt matter it totally does. but the pickups are overall the biggest influence over the sound of an amplified solid body guitar instrument. you dont have to be rich to change the pickups you just have to be passionate about your tone enough to pay the money.

  • @PANICBLADE
    @PANICBLADE Před 12 lety

    yeah you got it right on.

  • @KhranosMusic
    @KhranosMusic Před 11 lety

    No one else can see, how brutal fenders are but me.

  • @mateo767
    @mateo767 Před 11 lety

    It's kinda weird that Jim Root looks like he would be in a band my dad listened to as a kid.

  • @PANICBLADE
    @PANICBLADE Před 12 lety

    Finally? have you ever looked for an answer before? im not trying to be a jerk, i agree with this guy but i didnt think it was much of a secret. you get a thumbs up as a show of my good faith.

  • @joniiboy
    @joniiboy Před 12 lety

    if you want a set of EMGs that actually changed a bit with what guitar you have it in, you need a passive set, like the hetfield set, the actives sound the same no matter what :P

    • @nckhed
      @nckhed Před 3 lety

      The Het Set is a blend of active and passive and still require a battery. 😂

  • @roswellfag
    @roswellfag Před 3 lety

    me engana q eu gosto

  • @sketchwish5982
    @sketchwish5982 Před 11 lety

    i feel that the size of his hand and length of his fingers gives him a major advantage to soloing..

  • @NickGuitarMalfara13
    @NickGuitarMalfara13 Před 11 lety

    hopefully

  • @winston67
    @winston67 Před 10 lety

    I picked up a used one in mint condition USA model, for $649 at Guitar Center.

  • @aguitarist2246
    @aguitarist2246 Před 6 lety

    This is good video quality for a 2012 video.