Stop shilling CHEAP guitars!
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- All I should recommend are the super-expensive Made in the USA guitars because.... reasons!
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"Yeah, @#$% YOU, NEIL." That made my day. Stay insane and screamy, Glenn!
13:46
“Stay punchy, yet warm” should become your go-to goodbye phrase. I lol'd so hard my neighbors called 911, they thought I was trapped under something heavy and couldn't get away.
The name of my new SKA band... Punchy Yet Warm. Thanks 👍 lol
I agree it's a good shirt idea. Separate note though.What kind of people hear their neighbors do anything and think calling the cops is a good idea? That's how that airman just recently died... and it was in the same area as the cop that shot up the cop car when an acorn fell on the car.
Good mindset for dealing with nosey neighbours too
Punchy yet warm is how my underwear felt after I laughed that hard
@@WardGuitarCabinets same😉
Everyone should know that the most important part of shaping your tone is the pickguard.
Different materials and thickness can really change up the high and low end of your sound.
bruh
Pau Reed Smith is that you????
Also the age and color of the pick guard. There’s something magical about the sound of a 59 Gibson Les Paul cream pick guard !!!!!!
Nut material matters far more. Once you try fossilized ivory you don't go back. Piano lows like you've never heard before.
@@gilbertspader7974 Especially the color is important, but what is even more important is what the guy who pressed the button to cut it out had for lunch. Makes a huge difference!
After years of amateur guitaring I've finally accepted that there's after you get past the relatively small number of objective requirements for a guitar (stays in tune, intonation is right, frets leveled, electronics actually work, that sort of thing) and the rest is entirely whatever special sauce that makes you want to pick the thing up and play it every chance you get.
Some people get that out of a $5k Gibson, but it's important to know that maybe, just maybe, you can get it from a $297 Harley Benton.
I play a $350 Cort bass on streams, and almost every new viewer gives me a compliment for the tone, then asks how the hell did I make it sound so good. My secret sauce is fresh strings and good IRs. It’s that simple. If your instrument is at least half decent, you’re good to go.
When I was about 13-14, I saw a video on CZcams comparing an expensive guitars on bad amps and cabs, with a cheap $200 dollar guitar with good amps and cabs. That old video showed a while ago the amp is the most important part of a rig. Because no matter how he EQ’d it, the expensive guitar just did nothing to improve the bad amp and cabs tone. I can’t comprehend why anyone would think the guitar or pickups are more important when the amp is the reason you get sound in the first place.
That's why I own a couple nice amps (with nice speakers), and lots of Squier Classic Vibe, Epiphone, and other cheap-o guitars haha. All I care about with an electric guitar is -- does it feel good in my hands? (that's what she said) And does it look nice? I like having guitars with different pickup configurations and bridge/trem styles, as well as having a few strung for alternate tunings. But regardless, I'd rather have 10 guitars in the $250-500 range than 1 guitar in the $2500-5000 range. I own one expensive guitar (American Jazz Bass), and only because I got a killer deal on it haha. I'd rather spend my money on fun stuff like pedals and recording gear than expensive guitars. I'm the same way with my drums -- I have a couple nice kits, but nothing super high-end because it's just not worth it. I can make an $800 drumset sound 99% as good as a $4,000 drumset with new heads and proper tuning for the room and style of music. I'm not trying to chase diminishing returns buying expensive crap that makes no discernable difference in the quality of my playing or sound.
Screw you. Just because "when I was 13-14 years old I saw a youtube video" makes me realize how old I am. Other than that, yea, you're pretty much spot on.
In my early days of playing guitar I tried all kinds of different pedals, cables, pickups, etc trying to improve my crappy sound. Then I saved up and bought my first "real" amp (a 5150 II) and it solved 100% of my tone problems.
You would usually buy more expensive guitars for the reliability (tuning, wood warping, tremolo bridge stability), build quality (even frets, good pots and soldering, level neck for low action) and feel (mostly personal, but has something to do with neck finishing, consistent neck shape and thickness, etc.).
Cheap guitars can be really bad at some of those points, even if they are playable after a setup and a lot of them cant shake the "cheap feeling". Quality expensive guitars really do feel expensive and perfectly playable out of the box. And i mean real quality expensive guitars, not Gibson.
If you can afford it and especially if it's your working tool, you tend to want the expensive guitar. Same thing if you order the guitar online and can't try it out- cheap ones are lottery, you only get a perfect one if you're lucky.
I had a couple of Harley Bentons and they really are hit or miss - you basically roll a dice every time you order one and most (even the good ones) have annoying build errors. Similar thing with below-CV Squiers - i currently have a dud Anniversary Telecaster ordered from Thomann, the neck is borderline tragic (frets are not level, neck angle is off because of the heel joint and the nut cavity is of uneven depth, which i found out while fitting in a Tusq replacement). Had the cheapest Sterling by Musicman bass, had to return the first one because the neck was warped in 3D and the replacement one had warped pickguard and shoddy soldering.
Never ever happened with for example PRS SE (had half a dozen of them, all next to perfect), therefor a bigger price tag then the competition. Ibanez guitars also tend to be quality even in low budget territory (if you want a reliable floyd guitar for example, you can't go wrong with even the low budget models in the S series; had three, all great). Price is not all just the name...
You end up with less headache, more playing that way. Trust me, i owned over 50 guitars, mostly low to mid budget. I'm writing from experience.
That's great, but cheap guitars lack the feel and playability of high end fiddles
I got a comment removed off of Fishman's CZcams page because they were advertising the new "signature" pickup for whats-his-face from Slipknot. I said "I've noticed every active pickup gets the exact same descriptions thrown at them. I also didn't see any reponse graphs to justify the money being spent." Not 30 seconds later I get a notification saying it was removed for "harassment" claims. I'm just tired of companies (and musicians for that matter) thinking they can just say shit and not show anything. Last time I checked, a buisness isn't a church.
lol I saw Phil McKnight’s video on them.
People are out of their damn minds if they think they could reliably tell them from emg’s in a blind test- especially with all that heavy distortion
I don't agree with your comment being removed, but they have the right to say whatever they want... and charge whatever they want. It's a free market economy. Show your displeasure by not buying their product.
They don't actually have the right to say whatever they want, there are truth in advertising laws @@castleanthrax1833
It's sad because Mick Thomson was such an influence of mine when I was a teenager. He was the reason I picked up the guitar.
Hearing him talk about tone wood and how his pick ups were worked on and all those buzz words that is usually used to describe pick ups, is kind of sad.
I have his signature Ibanez model with Blackouts and an Epiphone Les Paul and the only difference I perceive is just a higher output from Mick's Ibanez.
Anywho, it's such a shame Mick subscribes to that train of thought.
@@redevil200 funny how Hendrix bought off the shelf Strats, Clapton did similar etc etc and today they have expensive signature models for everyone lol
When I was stationed in England in 1984 I saw the Young Ones on TV and it blew my mind !!!!! Bad News when Viv asks OK who’s playing Bass as a Bass player I pissed myself laughing 😆.
I LOVE The Young Ones! That was may favorite show for years!
oh there's a thought: get the DIY guitar sets from Thomann and build them.....see what happens!
I did that for a bass player because they didn't want to spend money (i know...shocker! ) and it turned out OK
That line about guitarists being best at playing with and pleasing small things got me good. I was brushing my teeth at the time and now I have a mess.
Presumably he discovered that because a lot of bands booking his studio don't have any money
Don't brush and play with it at the same time.
Can't wait for episode 1 of "Screaming into the void with Glenn"
Your information is always helpful and useful. Thanks for helping me start to record better guitar tones that fit in the mix.
Ade Edminson played the guy in charge of the nano fibre project that wasn't happy when what's her name shut down the project when she saw the countdown. Bad News is amazing and I do hope you've seen the Young Ones and Bottom too!
"I do hope you've seen the Young Ones and Bottom too!"
^^^^^^^ This.
Young Ones and Bottom were awesome.
"Edmondson" is Ade's real last name btw.✌️
Excuse me for the typo.
@@alexandermunro8135 Oh hey, no harm done....make typos all day, no biggie . I'm a believer that at least his name should be correct. Hope I didn't seem too "word police".
Cheers.✌️
Oy! His name is Vivian OR Eddie, mind you! 😋
SMG viewers comments is what we know. The title doesn't need to change. The format is as simple as the title and that's why it works. You only need the IQ of someone who plays with their instrument to interact.
Gleeenn!!! Piss poor Indonesian here. Been subscribing for years and thanks for all these information you gave. Game changer stuff. Just want to confirm that the "cheap guitars" a lot of guitar players moaned about are made here in the same factory as PRS, Epiphone, Solar, Strandberg, LTD, Ibanez, you name it. Been there myself. Same workers, equipment, QC, etc. So yeah.
You guys make all the cool, kick ass guitars, go work at the factory!
I've owned 3 different guitars from 3 different brands all made in indonesia (ibanez premium S, sterling cutlass ct50 HSS, and a schecter i forgot) and all were really good guitars with great fit and finish. Maybe I just got lucky, but that's still a testament to the craftsmanship of the folks making them. May you get the guitar of your dreams someday! 🤘
I think Glen should host a head cutting contest where we put a few guys that enjoy their HB's against some guys that wouldn't touch anything less than an American Gibson
I bet the HB team will turn out much better at playing guitar than Gibson fanboy snobs.
Jack Butler's gonna like you...
Hi Glen, Great channel, Thanks for your knowledge. what do you think about speakers resistance 8 vs 16 ohms?, in my humble opinion, 8 ohms sound more open and 16 more tight... what do you think about it?. best regards
The correct word for tone would be timbre. That's what guitarists are concerned with. When different people play their hands and fingers change the articulation, which can slightly change the timbre but never past the fixed limits of the gear being used. That variable stays constant.
Last time I tried talking about timbre, people thought I was cutting down a tree.
@@mandolinic yeah, it’s indeed that bad. Can confirm.
@mandolinic you were mispronouncing it then
Also people aren't looking for a "good tone." Metallica doesn't change its tone when playing its good songs and its bad songs.
Great editing in this episode. Great pacing and comic timing. Stay punchy, yet warm!
Hey Glenn. Hope ya had a good trip. Love your content. I'm in Eastern Canada. Question .... Who, in your opinion makes the best bang for the buck Canadian built guitars?
Hey Glen love your content !
Your thoughts on the Eminence DV 77 speaker
Gleeeeen! NEVER stop championing cheap guitars. If it wasn't for cheap guitars i would never have gotten to play as a kid, and i would not have a guitar collection today!
Glen. Great show, always a great listen.
i cant believe you are personally holding me and my amazing guitar playing back.
The title is fine and these are the episodes I want to watch on Friday morning!
@Glenn So, I have searched high and low and can't find a Gotoh model of the HB dbl cut anywhere, not even used. So I reached out to HB, and they said it was a limited run, and they aren't planning another run of those. Would you say the DC-580 would be comparable to the DC-DLX Gotoh? I mean, would you love it as much as you love the DLX Gotoh version? Or, would it be worth buying? I suppose I could always do some upgrades over time. Or should I not bother?
Cheap hardware is very far from Gotoh hardware in terms of quality. I don't think even Glen can deny it. You could actually feel it.
I'm with you on the confusion over Warmoth. I got sent to them a while back for 'cheap, custom option guitar'.
Nearly $2k later (and that's BEFORE shipping was added!!) I'm sat there thinking "HOW THE BALLS IS THIS CHEAP?!?" They don't even offer an Ibanez style AANJ cut. Very much NOT a cheap option!!
You did something wrong. Or picked expensive oprions.
Bro just added all the options in the list 😂😂
Black limba body with a maple laminate top, double humbucker routing, no bridge routing, no battery body, transparent purple finish. Walnut neck with a pair ferro fingerboard, 6100 fret wire, wizard profile, black TUSQ nut. In terms of the woods, that's about $300, I know that because I've currently got limba body blanks, figured redwood tops, two goncalo alves neck blanks and two pairs ferro fingerboards in storage whilst I save up to get it all made into a pair of guitars. All of it cost me about £500 or $630, so roughly $315 per guitar. So given it's all CNC'd, where's the extra $1,700 coming from?!
2k is absolutely cheap for a CUSTOM GUITAR. Try going to a major brand and getting a custom built guitar for 2k. Not gonna happen.
@@coolhandlucas4148 I don't consider it cheap, and it isn't a guitar, it's a neck and body.
International shipping, as best I can find, would add on about $200. Add on import duties and taxes, and it's hit $2,700. I estimate another $800 for hardware, fitting and setup, so $3,500.
By comparison, a well respected luthier in my country sell fully custom guitars for the equivalent of $1,800, nearly half the cost.
So no, it's not even close to cheap!
3:18 is the coldest thing I've ever heard Glen say
Ask Canada about their history of mass murder at Tribal Schools. “How Thousands of Indigenous Children Vanished in Canada
The discovery of the remains of hundreds of children at the sites of defunct schools in British Columbia and southern Saskatchewan has rekindled discussion of a sinister time in Canada’s history.”
@@YxYzYx A sinister time? Wouldn't that emply that Canada is no longer sinister?
@@No1karez The snow's speaking maple syrup
@@mrjtfang2 WTF is that supposed to mean? I don't speak Canadian lol
@@No1karez it happens in Canada too. Just search “Canada school shooting” and you’ll see
heyy glen, can you do a video on comparing a cheap drumkit to expensive one? keep up the great work man!
"I understand that you're angry, it's because you're disappointed in yourself because you can't play the guitar properly!"
-Colin Grigson
Nice episode Glenn. What are your thoughts on using speaker isolation boxes versus recording straight off a 212 or 412 cab? Rivera makes an iso cab that sounds like they came up with a way to get enough airflow in their iso cab to make not sound like there is a pillow over the speaker. Love your content and would more so like your opinion. Rock on Glenn!!!! And btw, thanks for the reference to Dynamount, bought two and love the ease of use and not having to get up a thousand times to adjust one of the mic's just to get up again, more time at the desk this way and no need to re-lite the bong!
Thank You for all your Advice, I am curretly saving for a New cab, Looking at the Harley Benton 2x12 Unloaded. I am also looking for a couple of speakers to go into it. I have 2 vintage 30s one of which i am using in my 1x12 cab currently. Would you suggest looking at Used speakers (looking to start with a Celestion green back and one of the Vintage 30s fo now).
Hey Glenn, I'm looking for a decent recording/gig amp like you brought up in your video on the 6505 combo. However, since the video came out, prices for the 6505 have increased, so I was wondering if it was worth it to get a 5150 Iconic Series, or if I should just use plugins on my laptop.
you are so awesome dude, you manage to teach me about my least favorite parts of mixing while making me laugh.
keep going man, love your content
I love the tone comparisons and how Im gonna save thousands in the future, but I just wanna ask if a soldano type amp (soldano, mesa boogie,5150 etc.) will sound the same as a marshall type or even as a clean fender type amp with the same speakers
Do hotter pickups not change anything ie, PAF to emg or dimarzio distortion ect ect? Also does hollowbody guitar not change tone at all? Serious questions cheers for replies
Does studio analog gear have a sonic advantage over mixing with plugins only? In a sound treated room listening through good reference monitors and high resolution files in sure it does. But bounced to 44.1 16 bit listening on consumer speakers will it make a difference?
You might need to place a tag on the screen reminding viewers that this is a metal recording show. Tonal differences between pickups when using high gain in a mix is minimal.
What do you think of tax mex pick ups on All Express keeping in mind these are not fender Tec mex pick ups they are a different make in white are they any good.Thank you for your show.
Inquiring again about if Spectre Digtal's Prism has been abandoned or not. It's hands down the best IR Loader I've ever used and would love to know about any future content updates. And thank you Glenn for the years of helful information and great content.
Can you do a fearless gear review on the jackson js32 v with the floyd rose
Glenn try to catch most of your videos, but sometimes stuff slips by me so if you already answered this question, maybe reference a video and I'll check it out. But for the house I've got a Marshall DSL 20. I mean I'm enjoying it, but everybody talks about how the speaker sucks and put a greenback in it and all these other things...what do you think about that? Any better? Not talking about doing any majorly recording here but you know a hell of a lot more than me about it. I just thought I'd get your opinion if you have one. Thanks!
Hey Glen,
I've been a long-time viewer of the channel and recently got back in to recording with my band. As we explore the information available out there for tracking instruments/vocals, I've come across a question that I'm not sure you've answered in detail or had a detailed video about (If you have, my apologies, you have many videos up right now). Do you have any specific recommendation/cautions/considerations when it comes to patch cables specifically for recording? These can be the cables going from instrument to DI/Rig, cables for player's pedalboards, etc. My basic understanding is that not every cable is made equally and quality can shift from brand to even length of the cable.
Glen, desert island recording scenario. What amps, cabs, mic’s and speakers are you taking with you? Especially interested in the speakers.
Glenn have you watched any vids about the Rick Toone tremelo system? It’s a drop in replacement for trems on Strats.
Im hoping to get one eventually for my HSS 2020 Squier affinity Strat. Great bargain guitar that. I originally bought it as project guitar but it’s so damn good all i did was put new Slinkys on it
Bloody love Bad News.
Love that t-shirt dude.
I saw em at that monsters of Rock gig. That was my first festival lol.
Keep up the great work man. We all need to hear about good quality cheap guitars as well as the fancy shmancy ones. Being in New Zealand, brands like Gibson and Fender are really expensive and we have limited alternative brands to choose from. Even brands the USA call cheap are expensive here (try about 3 x the price). MORE YELLING!!
We are in a golden age of inexpensive guitars.
Hey Glenn. Where can I find the video you did with the music video director, that directed the Alice In Chains music video?
Seymour Duncan has a preamp for guitar pickups, might be worth a test if it can act as a good way to reject sound on passive pickups?
I have only ever changed pickups when they had a microphonic problems, that's on guitar and bass. Also the only thing I find that actually changes the way the guitar sounds is some foam under the strings past the nut as it stops the ringing after you mute. Maybe some foam in the springs in the back too. Then again it's not the actual tone but the quality of the sound.
Glenn, if I were you, I wouldn't change the title of the show after over 450 episodes, wouldn't really make sense to me. That said, I've been a subscriber for years and what you have in mind is probably attracting new audience. Stay punchy yet warm my friend
Glenn I have a tiny CZcams channel that consists of me performing my original music . I use real amps and mic’d cabs .
When I have finished the mix and mastered it to the best of my ability , it sounds loud big and thick through the monitors but as soon as it’s uploaded to CZcams it tends to loose body and volume. Is this an integrated Lufs problem ? everything I have seen they say render it at -14 Lufs where am I going wrong?
Make your mix as loud as possible without compromising sound quality.
-14 is too low you should at least be reaching -9,-10. You should also be using lossless files like a wav.
@@Durkhead
Thanks man , I do upload it as a wav file . The next vid I upload I’ll bring it up to -9
Glenn, I got problems. I'm using a headrush mx5 for live shows, and it keeps sounding really thin during sound check, and I can't figure out why. Any advice to remedy this?
Awesome find with the Bad News CD!
I want that version. I saw the other CD version on a record fair last week, but that CD is filled with all the "funny skits" between, and I just wanna hear the fucking songs.
(the skits are great, but please, gimme a song tracklist!!!)
3:24 . That was brutal!
Recently heard some engineers talking about Atmos mixing and Apple music requiring it for their platform, have you ever worked with Atmos mixing or seen it used in metal recordings?
Spectre Control Room. Cause you sort through feedback. Alternatively, Spectre Ego Compressor, Challenge Fader, or Spectre Spotlight could be good. I think incorporating studio elements in the name and theme could lead to some interesting visual effects and formatting options as well. Love the show!
I have a question/doubt; I have a Yamaha pacifica from late 90's loaded with dimarzio soapbars and an ibanez xiphos 7 st loaded with dimarzio Dactivators, both sound kinda the same except for the low end (without playing the 7th string). Same tuning, same strings same amp same everything but I can notice a slight difference in the sound. Could this be due to the output of the pickups or anything else?. PD I have an Ibanez 6 strings with the ibanez INF pickups and there are no difference at all compared to the yamaha.
See you onboard again Glen!
Hey Glenn what's the best app on mobile to get rid of your stuttering voice in videos I am definitely prone to stuttering my words and I wanna work on getting rid of stuttering words in my video editing on mobile
Hey Glenn ! would love to see a video with some mic models and speaker models for bass guitars that you recommend ... Hail from India !!!
I need a good recording starter package. Any advice? Guitar into my pc.
I remember the days when I watched your videos from the start to the very end. It was enteraining. With less editing circus too. These were good times.
I appreciate being told about "cheap" guitars. My kids have kind of moved on form guitar, so this isn't quite as relevant for me anymore. I still like seeing what companies are willing to put out for what price point. In regards to pick-ups, I'm going to be starting a Stratocaster rebuild due to the internals being patched together with crimp connectors and bad pots. If I have time, I may be doing a lot of non-scientific tests: Do pots make a difference? Pickups, switches, even the shielding job I'm planning. I'll be spending a LOT of time with a soldering iron, that's for sure.
Glenn is always I love your videos. I do have a request however can you review some bass. Guitars. We all know your feelings about us, we could really use some advice on quality basses at affordable prices. I'm sure you've done one or two before but it'd be nice to see some more. And yes I am a bassist I do have a job and I work for a union.
Hey Glenn, I suggested USA customs as an option but it looks like they have closed shop. The guys at USA customs were employees that had left warmth to start their own guitar company after friction at Warmoth. I believe some of those guys now run best guitar parts. I have no experience with them but might be worth checking out.
Hey Glenn, I absolutely love your videos. Even if you're talking about something I'm never going to do, I find your content very intersting and well delivered in an entertaining way (I see that guy complaining about your screaming, keep it up I say).
I'm a bedroom bandit at best, as in the only place I play my guitars is at home, and maybe at Christmas when the family puts the pressure on and I've drunk enough Christmas cheer to do so.
I've been dabbling in recording at home over the last 5 or so years for a few reasons. It makes me play better and I'm just testing myself to see if I can produce something that at least sounds like it might be real. I'm doing all the things like recording at least 2, often 4, takes for each guitar part, etc.
I see a lot of your videos talking about speakers, mics and mic position, and so on. My situation is this: I have a handful of very cheap guitars all strung differently for different tuning but the jewel in my financially unjustified setup is my Kemper profiler and a bunch of tones I've either bought or gotten from the Kemper rig community.
I was just wondering if you'd be interested in doing a video on how to get the best out of a Kemper when recording? I'd love to hear your opinions on that.
Can you do a video on what makes a good speaker-good?
Hey Glenn how about an affordable iron bird body or explorer body? Maybe with 7 string options and floyd rose?
GLEN!!!!! please make an instructional video how to clean up guitar recordings (especially on lead guitar) to sound pro on a basic set up like Focusrite and a basic DAW even like GarageBand. thanks and Farkyou love the channel always staying tuned for each episode
3:25 ohohwahhahahah holymotherofallthatismetal, thats the best burn ive seen in ages!
This man is the scotty kilmer of guitars.
If you have any tips or tricks for getting great vocal recordings that you haven't already covered, I'd love to see a video on that.
Hey Glenn, have you seen the Chappers blindfold pick-up test that Andertons recently put out? I get where you're coming from with smart money going on the speakers, but I'd love to know your thoughts on the Chap-meister and his magic ears, and whether it sways your outlook even a tiny bit. Greetings from Nottingham. Paul
Let’s see Chappers do it with a recording, not in the room. THAT would be impressive.
Some of his answers were based in the guitar he was playing. For example the Ibanez was easy to identify, and everybody knows those come with Dimarzios.
Have you watched Surgar on Apple TV or Fallout on Amazon prinme? Pretty interesting shows. Anyway, I hope you had a great trip. Keep up the great work!!
Punchy yet warm 👊 sounds like a description of me.
Hey Glen,
I work with a Guitarist who uses a 20 watt Amp and a 1x8 Cab fitted with a Celestion Eight 15 Speaker. We have been watching your channel for a while, and I would love to know how to Mic the bloody thing properly.
Cheers,
Dice.
Bad News was so much better than Spinal Tap in my opinion. Hilarious but then I'm British and Rik Mayal (RIP) and Ade Edmondson are legends! "Vim is the Andrew Ridgley of heavy metal!!" :)
Also, when I quit touring, I sold my Les Paul as I was playing a £90 Fender Squire 51 all the time and became my number 1 guitar!
Greetings from some crazy ex-pat living in Japan!
Just to let you know, Bad News was a major part of my upbringing.
They were hilarious!
I agree, Bad News is so much more fun than Spinal Tap.
And I like Spinal Tap. But I fucking LOVE Bad News!!!
It's way more savage and degenerate fun!
I could've sworn on one of Jim lil's videos he mentioned the pickup location relative to the bridge would change the sound. I'm mainly talking about the neck pickup changing sound since bridge pickup location doesn't really change much. My understanding is the physical vibration range of the string is largest in the center between the bridge and nut, and smallest at each end. Meaning the closer the neck pickup is to that midpoint, the more the sound should change. A pickup is outputting the voltage induction from the string vibrations inside the magnetic field, so you'd think more vibe would sound different than less vibe. Or maybe it just going to make a louder/stronger signal therefore seeming different to perception from Fletcher-Munson effects. Maybe this is worth checking into? You could create a setup like a lap steel, but with a pickup in a slide mount to see if there are changes in sound across the scale length.
How about a GFS guitar build? They have some cool stuff. I've used a lot of things from them, and it's pretty good stuff.
Hey Glenn, looking at cheap guitars, how about a kit guitar from Solo Guitars in Toronto?
Just got a Harley Benton SC-1000 Progressive line, swapped out the bridge for a Tune-o-matic and switched the tuners out for locking ones and my god, this is legit the best guitar I have ever played or owned!
Dropped a Mojo Tone British Vintage into my Laney Cub 12 combo, and what a difference! More of everything, including weight. Couldn't believe how light and weedy the Laney HH speaker felt next to the dead weight of the Mojo Tone. £70 on ebay. Best money I've spent in a while. Also, following on from your Bad News CD news, did you ever receive the large cardboard promo i sent you? Had it since I worked for Virgin Records in the '80s and thought you'd appreciate it more than my wife does. Cheers, mate.
That intro reminds me of those smg viewer messages, I miss those lol
Hey Glenn, can get get a graph on 10:32 what that measurement actually is?
I wonder is there parts of sound that can't be measured ? For example maybe 2 pickups or speakers measure the same at 2k but one of them actually sounds more harsh or smooth then the other measuring the same?
Loved your response to the guy from the Dominican Republic. It's the same here in Trinidad
Think I speak for all of us when I say thanks for keeping us enthused. You’re a good man, Glenn. ❤
Man, I tested 2 great cheap guitars that blew my mind, you have to try them, both Enya Guitars, Nova Go Sonic and NEXG SE.
Hey Glenn! Not USA-made, but you can get some pretty affordable parts from Guitarfetish and probably build the whole guitar for $500-700. Also, do you have an opinion on the upcoming Tonex One? Looks like a great low-cost entry that could be the best of both worlds, with a digital amp profiler that leaves plenty of room on the board for your favorite pedals.
I think I bought the last "Guitar Magazine" when I was 16 and that WAS IN THE YEAR 2000!! No one needs them anymore, thanks to evidence based guys like Glenn... So thanks dude, Best regards from "Bernth Land" Austria
??Question for Glenn?? A few years back I had a really great sounding Ibanez Prestige RG. I picked up another Ibanez RG which was a cheap version of the same style guitar. The cheap guitar sounded horrible. So, for a test, I took all of the electronics, including pickups out of the Prestige model and installed them in the cheap guitar. You want to know how it sounded? It sounded basically the same. It still sounded horrible. So, here, I agree with you that the pickups don't do much of a difference. This is mainly because both were of the same style. So, the question??? What made the cheap guitar sound horrible? The only difference would be the nut and bridge. The guitars were identical otherwise: same identical shape and specs: same body wood, same neck wood and fret board wood. Can you explain this?
Wish I could find one of those Harley Bentons in Pelham Blue, they seem to be out everywhere
I'd love to see you compare a Vola Oz against some high priced USA guitars. I haven't played a Vola but they're made in Japan and cost a third the price of USA guitars with similar specs.
Please have a look at EART and Grote guitars with stainless frets. The most important, hardest to fix part of a guitar is the neck, and you can buy EART and Grote guitars with stainless frets (that will probably never need a fret job) for less than buying just the neck from Warmoth. I have an EART tele with a roasted maple neck I'm really impressed with, but want to change the bridge pickup only because it's not loud enough to match the neck pickup, and am looking to get a Grote LP style which is so cheap (around $200 with stainless frets) that if the neck is any good, that's a great basis for putting in a coil-split set of humbuckers and getting all the tones I have any idea how to use...
I was thinking about that GW article and the Sheds pickups bringing his les paul to life. Chances are, he replaced the strings when he swapped pickups. Well yeah, hell yeah putting fresh strings on will bring his les paul to life! I'm with you on this Glenn, there was probably nothing wrong with the stock pickups, maybe replace your strings more frequently when it starts sounding a little dull. Thanks Glenn, because of you and your channel I approach my sound and playing in a much more methodical way and I haven't replaced a stock pickup since I started watching your channel and Holy crap the tones I get are fantastic!
I have a buddy that has those magical ears he can hear the differences in tone wood and pickups and love his guitar lingo dude you got to try these pickups they are so warm and creamy and smooth but yet punchy and so dynamic Glenn love the show still want you to do a video USA ESP versus Gibson
As a guitar player of 50 years in my experience Glenn is what every guitar player needs in the studio. An engineer that tells you exactly what he thinks instead of blowing smoke up your ass and taking your money. And lets face it ladies and gentlemen sometimes we guitar players need someone to get in our face and yell "That sounds like fucking shit!" Instead of "Awesome dude, here's the bill."
Question: can you look into the quality of different pickups? A humbucker is a humbucker, but which ones are worth buying because they won't crap out?
Id guess an L90 due to zero moving/adjustable parts and epoxy potting. It's a block of solid resin with wires coming out. PAFs have more failure points, so I'd avoid them if durability is the goal.
@@sparella right on, thanks!
Not much of a metalhead, but Mr Glenn's attitude on G, Boeing, unions & etc I just luv....
Have a nice weekend and thanks for the video
You’re welcome! Have a great weekend, too!