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I am proud of Dave ! I think it was difficult for him to say that. I'm always looking for the good part like Dave. It would be nice to sometime just say this guitar is no fun because it's so badly made and you know I'll just move on to the next guitar . And that's what Dave does. I'm just saying I'm proud of him for nicely saying sometimes it's okay to say this guitar is not okay and I'm not going to play it and he does it in a nice way because he's DAVE!❤
I would rather the guitar reviewer be blunt as to how the guitar is. I get frustrated with reviewers because they won't tell us if a guitar has weaknesses, especially with the pickups. If a guitar has cheap or microphonic pickups, problems with fret leveling, bridge looseness, cheap pots, etc..., tell us. We need to know before we buy not after. Return shipping is costly and a player might be stuck with a poorly made guitar. There's too much sell, sell, sell on some channels. Tell us everything.
On my 1966 S&H Greenstamps electric guitar, the action was like a freeway overpass, and the strings were made for towing heavy equipment. But love was in the air. Keeping your reviews so positive is a great policy! Godspeed.
You know, Fender back in the day were about getting the product out of the door. There were bad ones and good ones in the end - the ones that have survived are the really good ones. There must be quite a few ‘meh’ pre CBS strats around now, but no one talks about them.
Exactly! Just as there are some terrific 70s strats. Mine is a perfect example. It's a '75. I've had it since I was 18 (I'm soon to turn 52), and it's the best strat I've ever laid my hands on. I've also encountered a 1960 or 1961 example, a slab board (everybody's favourite, it seems...) that was... not bad, but very(!) unremarkable. Just... mmeh... yeah, allright, if you know what I mean. Each individual guitar must be gauged by puttting it to the test, irrespective of provenance of manufacture years and what-have-you. And, by the individual player. Dave is absolutely right in this regard, and I'm glad that he voices that point, because it's an important, and undercommunicated, one.
It's the same with most things. There are some original 1960's Minis and VW Beetles and the like out there that still run great. But the shitters have been scrapped or parted out a long time ago.
There are some really good models like Toronado which is discontinued and not widely known. I think Jaguar, Jazzmaster and Mustangs are all discontinued at one point if not for the grunge players who discovered them.
Try to buy one of those "meh" strats today. Even the worst of them will sell for a kings ransom! So much for 2nd rate Fenders of the late 60's and 70's.
@@dez1989 The late sixties ones go for absolutely over-the-top money these days. But the later three-bolt ones, like mine, aren't cheap either. I paid what equates to about 300 Pounds for mine in 1990. They go for about ten times that now. If it's a pristine one, it's even more. It's the same with Norlin- era Les Paul's too. They used to be cheap back in the day, but now... Flippin' Nora! It's crazy to think about, really. Seventies Marshall rigs could be had for a song too...
I’m grateful to see that true talent and hard work still pays off. Keep up the great work. Thank you for sharing your time, passion, and talent with the world!
I had the miss fortune of building a partscaster strat that I'm ashamed of the neck never sat right the bridge is permanently floating and the action was impossibly high
I bought my first electric guitar in 1967, I knew nothing about what to look for in a guitar then. I bought it from a shop in North Street, Romford. It was a Rossetti/Egmond double cutaway Lucky 7 - the same as Paul McCartneys - although I didn't know that at the time. It was really bad, the action was so high I could only play on the fist five frets and then my fingers got sore. The neck was bent like a banana but I didn't realize at the time. When I found out about truss rods, I discovered this guitar didn't have one. It looked cheap and nasty with its moulded all in one pickups and scratch plate/control plate. It cost me a lot of money, £20, saved from my paper round. I don't remember what happened to it but no doubt it would be worth a lot today! The next one I bought was a Watkins Rapier, much better although nowhere as good as todays cheap guitars. By 1969 I had a Burns Split sound Jazz much like your SSJ, a superb guitar, bought second hand privately for £40. This had the split Tri-sonics with an impedance matching transformer.
I have a coranado 2 reissue. It has filtertron style humbuckers. It's a great guitar in looks finish playability and sound. All the problems with the original fixed.
Eh up, marra, hope all's well with you. I saw 'Old Hat' on calendar news last night, all flooded out!! I hope some of the damaged gear can be rescued. Water damage can be a strange one, sometimes things dry out without incident, and sometimes just a little bit of moisture can be devastating. As you're the king of guitars how about 'The once and future Dave' on his never ending quest to find 'Excalibur'. Rock on!
Ooooh David Simpson... How did I miss Your content on that JTM45 in the corner..? Got mine last year, a proper genuine 'roadworn' for a bit of a bargain.. I'll have to rifle through your back catalogue.. Matron.
I actually like the sound (I’m sorry). Not that distorted sound, but that nice “ding ding” like Jimmy Reed. “Bright Light, Big City”, “…Aw Shucks, Hush Your Mouth” Of course, if it’s a battle to play that thing it’s another story, but the sound, to my ears, is not so bad…
I agree, for not liking the guitar, he made it sound pretty darn good. It was a really good "small town smokey blues bar" sound. You don't expect it to sound like a '59 Les Paul, so it's fine that it doesn't. I'm surprised to find out it was the worst guitar ever. The struggle of playing it was felt in the music, and made it sound authentic.
worst guitar I ever played, a mosrite that the man owned it was actually one of the Venture‘s guitars. This man worked for the air lines and he could fly anywhere free, He flew to a government auction, this guitar was advertised as being property of one of the Venture’s band members at one time, included all the documentation and newspaper clippings of the auction advertising. . He was a guitar junkie, but he could not play a note. He just liked to line his game room walls with Guitars… I was selling a snowmobile trailer that he wanted and he came over to my home and saw that I had a bunch of guitars. We closed the deal on the trailer and he told me he would be back tomorrow to pick up the trailer with his truck. When he came back, he brought That guitar that belong to the band from the 60s, the Venture’s. He brought the newspaper ad advertising a government auction where they were auctioning off items, including this guitar from some type of a auction that takes peoples property because of drug deals. All of the documentation with the guitar, and it’s history were included… I did not know he was bringing this guitar. He just brought it to show it off. He was so proud of it. I asked him if I could play it plugged in. He said of course… The strings were about 10 mm above the frets right at the neck joint. The guitar just was never set up apparently since the 60s.. The reason the man brought the guitar is because I showed him my 1959 fender jazz master that I owned since 1964. I bought it when I was 14 years old from a pawnshop for $175 including the original case… that man told me that the ventures only appeared on album covers and some concerts playing Mosrites… He knew the history of the Venture’s, and told me that the Venture’s recordings were all done in studio with fender Jazzmasters.. I had heard that before. but that man was a little disappointing when I told him that his guitar was unplayable in its current state of set up.. he didn’t care because he told me he couldn’t play a note. The most important thing was just owning it.
Dave, I remember your video on the Marshall code, unfortunately I watched it after I had bought one. You was absolutely right and confirmed my opinion of the Marshall code, I hated the thing after 5 mins of owning it!
Hi Dave. I'm a intermediate guitar player. At 68. I must subscribe to around 30 guitar players. And enjoy all. But you have something special. Glad I subscribed. Wish I would have found you a long time ago. 👍
The worst one I ever got to play was a Gibson Les Paul standard and I was utterly shocked. Later I’ve played a Les Paul Studio that was just brilliant. That was a life lesson.
This is like watching Kermit first and then switching over to his younger nephew Robin at the end. Sent with the most positive vibes. Meant to be a compliment!
Would you consider doing a video on your time at OldHat, when you t, how you got the job and what it was like ? Im sure me and many others would love to watch it !
Trying lately a S. California Bass (used 1.200 €) I am with you - many Pro bass players love it and I fantasized about exchange my 2nd Bass to swap it - I instantly put away: Neck had not the feeling of my Cort + my Schecter & it had the tendency for neck diving. I think - buying a guitar without touching isn't the real thing. Lately I tried two Fender Am. JBass - one with maple - the maple one had no sound. Btw., I tried a 5-String Sandberg which was awesome perfect (light and good balanced), but a 5-string.
Dave, do you know we love you all. You’re such a cool dude. I would like to shake your hand one day and thank you for all the work you’ve put into your channel:)
I played a Chinese Squier Strat for years and absolutely adored it, it was my main guitar for a long time (albeit with new pickups) but it played really well for what I did at the time. I bought a Fender player series Strat a couple of years ago and it was... Eh. Just not something I loved playing. Traded it in for a Vintera Mustang and never looked back, I absolutely adore that guitar.
What a lovely guy you are Dave. Having your own opinions and allowing others the same privilege is such a rare and beautiful thing these days. Just so you know I bought an EastCoast gold top LP copy based on your recommendation and my word, it's better than even you said it was so thank you buddy 👍👍👍
I wouldn't feel too bad about the Code video. You were honest about the struggle you had getting a good tone for lead playing yet you still managed to get a good sound. I'm sure you encouraged some people to buy the amp. I personally benefitted from not feeling so bad about struggling with it myself. Nor did I feel so bad about dropping it into Cash Converters a few days after, having struggled with it for about 6 months.I share the same opinion as yourself- it's not that Marshall made a bad amp - they didn't- it's just not for me! Glad to see the Marshall Master Lead combo is still going. My very first amp!
I love my marshall code 25 amp, once you set it up to your phone its so easy to adjust. The jcm 800 heaven preset sound is awesome. So like you said Dave just because its not your cup of tea others might love it 🤘 Love the retro review and a bit of maiden too 😀
If Hollywood ever do a fake biopic about a fictional blues player in the 1940s - that guitar at the end would be the perfect vehicle for it in the early scenes when he is playing a guitar he got from a pawnbrokers. 😁
Stephen Stills did a song that had the lyric "If you can't be with the one you love...Love the one you're with" I'd like a 1959 Fender Telecaster but I love my 80s MIJ Tele If I had nought else I'd love that Coronado too
Thing I like about your reviews is you don't automatically say it's good just because it's expensive... some people equate expensive with good and so they say it's good just because it's expensive
Dave, can’t thank you enough for introducing me to the Marshall Jackhammer. Love your gear reviews. Don’t listen to the keyboard warriors. You’re a legend 👌🎸
Ha, interesting! I helped an acquaintance sell one of the 12-string Wildwood Coronado's from '67/'68 not too long ago. He loved it, much preferring it to his Rick 12, and was only selling it out of neccessity. Just shows how much models can vary I suppose.
Dave is honest in that it is about the tone, the sounds. Price is irrelevant in that context. I am happy the Marshall Origin 5C tube combo is hated by most as they are cheap as chips second hand now. With a pair of mismatch sized Jensen speakers that fit easily in there the tone is warm and thick, not the thin and cold tone you get with the stock speaker. The difference is very noticeable especially with heavy distortion. The amp also became very sensitive, in a good way, to tone and volume adjustments with the Jensens - a lot more range to choose from. That is why I have another one of those combos waiting to get a different pair of Jensens to make the "fender tweed" tone as some have described it. As I have two of these amps now, I have made a real time comparison of them, one with Jensens (C8R and C6V), the other with the stock speaker so I know the tone difference is very real and not based on shaky memory. The second one will get a Jensen MOD10-70 and a MOD5-30 - on paper their sensitivity graphs complement each other as they are not competing for the same frequencies. Cheap and generally unappreciated gear can still be really good if you dare to experiment against the advice from the consensus.
Used to own this old left handed '93 Korean? Squire Strat. I swear it was cursed. Found it in a pawn shop in Oklahoma. Previous owner had replaced the Squire logo with a Fender logo, and lit the body on fire to make it look antique. It looked really cool, but it never really played well. There was always something wrong with it. No matter how many times i had the wiring fixed, it never worked properly. You'd connect a loose wire in the correct place, it would fix one pickup, but break another. Disconnect the wire and it reverts back. Could never just have everything working. I had a lot of bad luck back then. I finally had enough and sold it, because I also needed money and didn't want to get nothing out of getting rid of it. Right after, my luck turned around and things started getting better. In theory, I would say there's no such thing as luck and curses aren't real. In practice, I don't know how else to describe it. Sometimes I feel bad for selling it to the store employee who bought it. His boss didn't want to buy it, but he asked him if he could still buy it anyway because it looked interesting. I'm pretty sure he bought it himself and took it home. I feel guilty sometimes, and wonder if he's ok. Or maybe he was able to fix it and that was it, who knows. If it ever pops up on CZcams, I'm going to freak out. Maybe it got thrown in a river or buried in a desert somewhere, like Jumanji.
Worst guitar I've ever played was probably my first: a 1970s (I think; got it second hand in 1981) No Brand classical, made in Korea before they made good guitars in Korea, which I got as a teenager because school would only give me guitar lessons if I had a classical. Put it this way: the £50 Ibanez acoustic, which was my first step in playing again after a 30 year hiatus (and my current cheapish Guild is a far better acoustic than the Ibanez), is an enormous improvement over it. Keep being positive, Dave . . .
Haha, I really like how young you look without beard. It's lovely haha 😄❤ About the guitar, I don't think the sound itself is bad, while listening through phone speakers at least (this is coming from someone who really likes the sound of his HB TE-20). But yeah, I can kind of see and hear by your playing, that you're struggling a bit 😅 Oh yeah btw, talking about my very cheap Harley Benton (~US$100) and digging for something good or useful (or even unique) in any piece of gear, do you have any really cheap guitars that you really like for whatever reason and use occationally or even a lot for certain purposes? 😊
My worst guitar is my Vintage V100Black which is actually great to play but back breakingly heavy. Even sitting down it's weight is problematic and standing up with a wide strap I can manage ten minutes at most until shoulder pain sets in. At an age where I try to avoid pain it is relegated to a dark corner . A great shame.
In 1980, I got to play a 1954 Goldtop that was absolutely unplayed, but had just had the hang tags cut off and then literally slid under a bed for 26 years. It was perfectly set up and played like butter. I remember that it was January of 1981, I had $821.00 of the thousand dollars saved up and went by to check on it, someone from Japan had come and taken it away to a better home. 😿 Later that same year I played an Antigua Burst Coronado that I remember to this day as one of the worst things that I have ever wrapped my fingers around, very badly set up. Was that a feature of that design? 🤔
Great video. Just got a behringer OD300, based on a boss OS3. Never seen a distortion/overdrive pedal with the range this pedal has. Does every pedal you can think of. Maybe a tad darker in tone but I’ve got tube screamer, ds1 and ds2 tones. metal zone. Even a rat too.
Talking about your disappointment at the Entwhistle Strat . I went to an acoustic guitar convention in Halifax in 2014 . I played a custom Martin dred , Brazillian Rosewood and Adriondack Spruce top , looked incredible , played absolutely horrible , and you could drive a bus under the strings and it sounded dreadful . It really put me off Martins for years as they were my dream acoustic . Ive played some since that were far better , but that one was a mega disappointment.
A bad 80's Mexican strat made me avoid them for the past 30 years. The positive is the joy I have discovered in my 60's classic vibe has healed the damage and then some :)
The worst I have owned was a Gibson Non Reverse Firebird studio 2011. You’d need the hand span equal to that of the wingspan of an albatross just to get round the baseball bat neck. Push pull P100 (i think) ‘upgrade’ to the P90 were flat and compressed. Note to self, try before you buy and do not make impulse internet purchases after a few whiskies.
I had a Marshall Lead 12 I let go off...... sounded so good, I had to get another! I had a Marshall Code - those cabinets were so boomy and tough to work with. Sometimes you are saving people from pain, that's why the opinion is of value. Back to the Marshall - The Lead 12 is the smaller version of the lead 100 and it absolutely rips! Insanely loud. One of my fav solid state amps ever.
When I review a product (usually knives or knife sharpeners) if it is absolute garbage I won't make the video. If it is usable product, I give the good, great, bad and ugly things about the product that I feel it has. But that is only my opinion based on my experience and preferences, it isn't coming down from on-high, or from the mountain top or whatever.
Perhaps it would be better to just say this isn't for me, maybe not for you, but you might like it. The only one who can decide if it works for you, is you. To each their own. I have a alder body 97 Squire standard strat, I bought it brand new and even though it was somewhat rough, and had the cheap hardware, it still played well off the shelf. It was stolen at one point before I started to upgrade things, fortunately, and I found it years later for $50. I recognized the serial number, it was one that was a really easy one to remember, and I took it home and found the sales receipt when I first bought it, confirming the serial was it. Nothing was changed on it, still stock as I bought it new. Now Everything on it has been upgraded, and I put a lot of time into the frets and setup. Now it stays in tune as much as you could hope for in a strat, and it plays and sounds really good too. People have picked it up since I rebuilt it, and they don't want to put it down; I must have done something right! It wasn't a expensive guitar, but it plays about as good as my more expensive strats. Just because it is cheap, doesn't mean it is rubbish.
I love my white Strat , it's my lifer and it's now 25 years old . I love the fact that Dave's favourite is also a white Fender Strat . I also love Marshall and Orange amps and bought a couple from Dave's reviews on them .
@@TheSavagederek I'm just a bit older than you, by 47 years, I have 5 strats but none of them white but have always wanted one, due to Hendrix playing one back in the day. As a teen I had a poster on my bedroom wall of Hendrix throwing his white strat into a Marshall amp. Wish I still had it.
@@jltrem I'm 50 in a few months . I've owned the Strat 25 years. I've had a few including a really nice 50s Classic Player the designed by Fender custom shop jobs . Dennis Galushka with the upgraded pots , switch and pickups , with the Ping locking tuners etc... I loved the soft V neck and Maple board , what I wasn't keen on was the glossy neck and board . It felt sticky to me , so I ended up moving it on to a friend , then bought it back , and then sold it again . I've had a few MIM Strats and a couple of Teles , and a couple of Squiers including an arctic white Silver Series that I had for years , before I could eventually afford the real thing .
1964 Strat was pre-CBS. However, the Coronado was post CBS. Kinda makes sense according to Fender buffs then. Post CBS had "iffy" quality control. Kinda like early 80's American cars. Some lemons got thru.
At first I thought relics were stupid. then one of my friends made me make one. Ever since then I been glad, they need to be played to get that vibe in them! I would never refinish any old vintage guitars for this reason alone.
Roger Rossmelie had something to do with that guitar after Rickenbacker fired him he went to Leo and said why do you keep putting your decal on Harmony"s so they worked out a thing for Fender to make their own acoustics. The Kingman the Newport all with aircraft grade aluminum bar through the body. Was it a Gibson? No but you could sit on the beach and strum Surfer Girl forever without your guitar turning into a soggy potato When the electric part come around I kind of think Rodger and Leo came to a head on what' should be? Carved maple like his previous success or Leo plywood. Leo won was selling loads of solid body electrics
That's it, it's the best guitar ever. It has a "really cool F on the tail piece!" 🤣 Great video Dave. I'm only a year deep on my YT journey. I'm sure I'm going to come across some bad pieces of gear too. There are just some real duds out there, but also some real gems too. :)
I still Miss my 2012 mim standard strat i sold when funds were low…to me its the bar all other guitars fall short of (so far in my crappy playing existence) …many considered a standard subpar in the stratocaster line.i actually got it as a stepping stone till i could get a 2 point trem american deluxe or similar…so i had no real expectations,just temporary till the american was in my reach….which i did get the deluxe a year later .and it went to GC well before my last guitar (the mim Strat )when money issues hit,so i totally agree ones crap is anothers best ever.
Collectors are indeed the curse of vintage instruments as they are valued as investment assets and not as musical instruments. Try to find a an original Stradivari in mint condition. Ask a virtuoso violinist if they would allow you to strip and refinish his/her instrument to 'make it look better'. That's the problem with reacting to market values based on 'condition'. We all do it unfortunately, every day, with everything from anthills to zebra crossings and everything and everyone in between. Unfortunate but sadly true.
I played one of those Fender Coronados...a vintage one. Pretty horrid guitar to play but quirky. Wouldn't be my first choice that's for sure. The worst guitar I've played was an Epiphone 335...I'm sure there are good ones though.
Dude I got an Epiphone 335 in a trade and it was the worst POS Ive ever owned. Thankfully I was able to sell it quick and unleash the curse on someone else.😂
btw the NIRVANA song you mean is PAPER CUTS ?? was from BLEACH album, my fav song in that album for having a very sort of Doom Sludge Metal tone about it love it, same goes for Endless nameless and IF You Must or Big long Now etc oh yeah Something in the way...
For me, toss up between a Rogue, some First Acts (we call them First Crack), or some cheapie Bullets. However, I have found good ones amongst even those. We are talking extremely crappy action and scratchy frets that felt like sandpaper. Still think they must make those ones so that GC employees can take them out back and bust them into pieces =) Just like we use to do to old flourescent bulbs!?
That's rough. Always loved the look of semi-hollows because of Alex Lifeson and other '70s hard rock players, but they definitely have their own kind of niche. Getting a "tight" low-end just does not happen. hahaha
Dave, do you write about music for The Guardian? Maybe just a coincidence, saw an article on their site about live music today written by a Dave Simpson. And yeah, everyone has their own tastes. I'm not a strat guy, don't own one. Tele's and LP Special for me.
I truly have played some awful guitars. The worst one was a made in USA Kay from the fifties that had not been looked after, but the owner of it got it to sound fabulous - old kleenex box pickup covers over what appeared to be some sort of P90 deivative. But totally unplayable.
Interesting to hear. I have a '67 Coronado II and it's a beautiful guitar. The sound definitely isn't for everyone - not a lot of sustain with the thin fully hollow body - but in the right context its great. Plays amazingly well, same C shaped necks as strats of the era. Sounds like you got a really bad one!
I've only ever really made one CZcams video that was negative, and that was the Marshall MG30, it didn't work for me, but I gave it to a friend, and they liked it.
I truly love your attitude! Typical people focus on the negative and "sadly" truly enjoy tearing people and equipment down. It really gets old. For example, I got a Marshall Mode 4 amp about 2 years ago. People tear that apart, saying that they can't get a good sound out of it. Personally, I love it. I've heard people on CZcams dial that amp in. I have 2 other Marshall heads. Those are all tube Marshall's. That Mode Four sounds as good as my JCM 2000. If I listened to other people, I never would have tried that amp out. I would have lost out on a great sounding amp at a great price. As with anything in life, you need to try things out for yourself. Don't listen to other people. You may end up not liking it. So what. Sell it and get something else. However, you can at least say that you tried it for yourself. Maybe you'll love it, and it becomes an integral part of your sound.
I understand as I once got thirteen guitars laying around. But for me things has gone in opposite as today I will admit to my self and as very quickly holey mo this is one bad guitar! There are a lot of bad ones but the worst one that was an high end Epiphone Lp pro burst bla bla that I also plekted to no good, a going against mess it was. One day I grabbed it and I swinged it in to pieces, the best stunt ever worth every penny spent.
I think it's good that you're positive. It can so easily just be about hate watching with gear, and that's not really helpful to anyone. And honestly, it's all about technique first, gear second. Which is the one thing no one wants to hear 😆 "Wait, I have to be good at the instrument to make it sound good, and it's not just technical limitations of the gear I have?", and the answer is yes.
I liked the sound on some pick ups...seems like it needed more guitar output rather than amp volume.....the blues sounded good and the rock riff, think it's a guitar you play slow, like old school blues. I reckon slide would work.
I've always felt that you are very open about your tastes. If you give an honest review, I can decide if it's for me because I know what you like. But yes, it doesn't really help anybody to do a negative review if there's nothing good to say. I mean the Coronado does look cool.
Some people love to slate things to make it seem like they’re really discerning. Things are either amazing (and usually expensive) or total crap (and usually cheap). Or they’ll have a few brands they love to hate and will dump on anything they make regardless of facts. Like the people who say Gibson make “total crap” or Blackstar are “junk”. Like you, I think a not great guitar is better than no guitar and half an hour with a screwdriver and an allen key or socket will make most guitars playable. Sometimes you get a complete dog but there’s no guarantee that it will be a cheapo. Could be a vintage or high end guitar.
The necks on those old Coronados are Strat necks with a slightly modded head stock. Get a '66 with dots and your laughing!. Dave you still got it to sound good anyway!.
work at Guitar Center, you will play a new worst guitar every week.
Agree, visit my local GC store regularly, however, there are a few pleasant gems amongst the plethora of not so greats!
@@kcsvantasticvoyages9729in my experience go buy it if it plays well, because you're literally finding a gem in the desert hahah
It's a testament to how nice a guy you are , that you reject negativity. I'd love to be like that . Keep being you Dave , just brilliant .
You can. It’s all a choice
I am proud of Dave !
I think it was difficult for him to say that. I'm always looking for the good part like Dave.
It would be nice to sometime just say this guitar is no fun because it's so badly made and you know I'll just move on to the next guitar .
And that's what Dave does.
I'm just saying I'm proud of him for nicely saying sometimes it's okay to say this guitar is not okay and I'm not going to play it and he does it in a nice way because he's
DAVE!❤
And you are right!
It's a choice! ❤ I think sometimes people forget that 🎸👍
I would rather the guitar reviewer be blunt as to how the guitar is. I get frustrated with reviewers because they won't tell us if a guitar has weaknesses, especially with the pickups. If a guitar has cheap or microphonic pickups, problems with fret leveling, bridge looseness, cheap pots, etc..., tell us. We need to know before we buy not after. Return shipping is costly and a player might be stuck with a poorly made guitar. There's too much sell, sell, sell on some channels. Tell us everything.
On my 1966 S&H Greenstamps electric guitar, the action was like a freeway overpass, and the strings were made for
towing heavy equipment. But love was in the air. Keeping your reviews so positive is a great policy! Godspeed.
You know, Fender back in the day were about getting the product out of the door. There were bad ones and good ones in the end - the ones that have survived are the really good ones. There must be quite a few ‘meh’ pre CBS strats around now, but no one talks about them.
Exactly! Just as there are some terrific 70s strats. Mine is a perfect example. It's a '75. I've had it since I was 18 (I'm soon to turn 52), and it's the best strat I've ever laid my hands on. I've also encountered a 1960 or 1961 example, a slab board (everybody's favourite, it seems...) that was... not bad, but very(!) unremarkable. Just... mmeh... yeah, allright, if you know what I mean.
Each individual guitar must be gauged by puttting it to the test, irrespective of provenance of manufacture years and what-have-you. And, by the individual player. Dave is absolutely right in this regard, and I'm glad that he voices that point, because it's an important, and undercommunicated, one.
It's the same with most things. There are some original 1960's Minis and VW Beetles and the like out there that still run great. But the shitters have been scrapped or parted out a long time ago.
There are some really good models like Toronado which is discontinued and not widely known.
I think Jaguar, Jazzmaster and Mustangs are all discontinued at one point if not for the grunge players who discovered them.
Try to buy one of those "meh" strats today. Even the worst of them will sell for a kings ransom! So much for 2nd rate Fenders of the late 60's and 70's.
@@dez1989 The late sixties ones go for absolutely over-the-top money these days. But the later three-bolt ones, like mine, aren't cheap either. I paid what equates to about 300 Pounds for mine in 1990. They go for about ten times that now. If it's a pristine one, it's even more.
It's the same with Norlin- era Les Paul's too. They used to be cheap back in the day, but now... Flippin' Nora!
It's crazy to think about, really. Seventies Marshall rigs could be had for a song too...
A valiant effort young Dave of the Tube
25:15 was cool though. Song is "Paper cuts" from Bleach.
I think he was thinking of Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle off In Utero - in the first verse there’s some sweet feedback
@@redfrozenseven true. I know the bit you mean
I’m grateful to see that true talent and hard work still pays off. Keep up the great work. Thank you for sharing your time, passion, and talent with the world!
I had the miss fortune of building a partscaster strat that I'm ashamed of the neck never sat right the bridge is permanently floating and the action was impossibly high
Love your vids mate 🙏
Fantastic Dave, what someone sees as terrible someone else can write a symphony from. Keep rocking my friend
Love the Umbrella Corp. hoodie you got on Dave! RE2 Remake is one of my favorite games in recent memory
Surprised. I was ready to bet the house that it was going to be a Rickenbacker.
Very interesting and honest video, keep up the good work Dave 👍
That Alien analogy was great! 😂😂
I bought my first electric guitar in 1967, I knew nothing about what to look for in a guitar then. I bought it from a shop in North Street, Romford. It was a Rossetti/Egmond double cutaway Lucky 7 - the same as Paul McCartneys - although I didn't know that at the time. It was really bad, the action was so high I could only play on the fist five frets and then my fingers got sore. The neck was bent like a banana but I didn't realize at the time. When I found out about truss rods, I discovered this guitar didn't have one. It looked cheap and nasty with its moulded all in one pickups and scratch plate/control plate. It cost me a lot of money, £20, saved from my paper round. I don't remember what happened to it but no doubt it would be worth a lot today! The next one I bought was a Watkins Rapier, much better although nowhere as good as todays cheap guitars. By 1969 I had a Burns Split sound Jazz much like your SSJ, a superb guitar, bought second hand privately for £40. This had the split Tri-sonics with an impedance matching transformer.
I have a coranado 2 reissue. It has filtertron style humbuckers. It's a great guitar in looks finish playability and sound. All the problems with the original fixed.
Eh up, marra, hope all's well with you. I saw 'Old Hat' on calendar news last night, all flooded out!! I hope some of the damaged gear can be rescued. Water damage can be a strange one, sometimes things dry out without incident, and sometimes just a little bit of moisture can be devastating. As you're the king of guitars how about 'The once and future Dave' on his never ending quest to find 'Excalibur'. Rock on!
I wanted the reissue that had a center block. The singer of the Dandy Warhols plays a 60's Coronado.
Ooooh David Simpson... How did I miss Your content on that JTM45 in the corner..?
Got mine last year, a proper genuine 'roadworn' for a bit of a bargain..
I'll have to rifle through your back catalogue..
Matron.
I actually like the sound (I’m sorry). Not that distorted sound, but that nice “ding ding” like Jimmy Reed. “Bright Light, Big City”, “…Aw Shucks, Hush Your Mouth”
Of course, if it’s a battle to play that thing it’s another story, but the sound, to my ears, is not so bad…
I agree, for not liking the guitar, he made it sound pretty darn good. It was a really good "small town smokey blues bar" sound. You don't expect it to sound like a '59 Les Paul, so it's fine that it doesn't. I'm surprised to find out it was the worst guitar ever.
The struggle of playing it was felt in the music, and made it sound authentic.
worst guitar I ever played, a mosrite that the man owned it was actually one of the Venture‘s guitars. This man worked for the air lines and he could fly anywhere free, He flew to a government auction, this guitar was advertised as being property of one of the Venture’s band members at one time, included all the documentation and newspaper clippings of the auction advertising. . He was a guitar junkie, but he could not play a note. He just liked to line his game room walls with Guitars…
I was selling a snowmobile trailer that he wanted and he came over to my home and saw that I had a bunch of guitars. We closed the deal on the trailer and he told me he would be back tomorrow to pick up the trailer with his truck. When he came back, he brought That guitar that belong to the band from the 60s, the Venture’s. He brought the newspaper ad advertising a government auction where they were auctioning off items, including this guitar from some type of a auction that takes peoples property because of drug deals. All of the documentation with the guitar, and it’s history were included…
I did not know he was bringing this guitar. He just brought it to show it off. He was so proud of it. I asked him if I could play it plugged in. He said of course… The strings were about 10 mm above the frets right at the neck joint. The guitar just was never set up apparently since the 60s..
The reason the man brought the guitar is because I showed him my 1959 fender jazz master that I owned since 1964. I bought it when I was 14 years old from a pawnshop for $175 including the original case… that man told me that the ventures only appeared on album covers and some concerts playing Mosrites… He knew the history of the Venture’s, and told me that the Venture’s recordings were all done in studio with fender Jazzmasters.. I had heard that before.
but that man was a little disappointing when I told him that his guitar was unplayable in its current state of set up.. he didn’t care because he told me he couldn’t play a note. The most important thing was just owning it.
What is a fantastic video this one have a wonderful weekend Dave also what is your favorite guitar ❤❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊😊😊
The worst guitar that I ever played was a 1952 Fender Telecaster, it was for sale at £2000 at the time. Wonder what that is worth these days?
Dave, I remember your video on the Marshall code, unfortunately I watched it after I had bought one. You was absolutely right and confirmed my opinion of the Marshall code, I hated the thing after 5 mins of owning it!
They're not very well built, so it's really easy to break the code.... if ya.... see....what I did? Yeah? Yeah, you love it.
You obviously never played the Teisco electric and the no-name acoustic I had in High School. Appallingly bad instruments.
I’ve played lots of teiscos. Great guitars if you set them up right. :)
A friend has some good ones that he loves. Mine was not only bad, it actually smelled bad....
Hi Dave. I'm a intermediate guitar player. At 68. I must subscribe to around 30 guitar players. And enjoy all. But you have something special. Glad I subscribed. Wish I would have found you a long time ago. 👍
The worst one I ever got to play was a Gibson Les Paul standard and I was utterly shocked. Later I’ve played a Les Paul Studio that was just brilliant. That was a life lesson.
This is like watching Kermit first and then switching over to his younger nephew Robin at the end. Sent with the most positive vibes. Meant to be a compliment!
I’ll take it. :)
I always really enjoy your videos, mate. I think you’re awesome. 🤙🏽
Would you consider doing a video on your time at OldHat, when you t, how you got the job and what it was like ? Im sure me and many others would love to watch it !
Maybe more vlogs with Cici and your adventures :) - would love maybe a Q/A video monthly ? Suggestions or course haha
You have now earned a new title. You shall now be known as "Sir Master Dave"
Trying lately a S. California Bass (used 1.200 €) I am with you - many Pro bass players love it and I fantasized about exchange my 2nd Bass to swap it - I instantly put away: Neck had not the feeling of my Cort + my Schecter & it had the tendency for neck diving. I think - buying a guitar without touching isn't the real thing. Lately I tried two Fender Am. JBass - one with maple - the maple one had no sound. Btw., I tried a 5-String Sandberg which was awesome perfect (light and good balanced), but a 5-string.
Isn't this around the time you did your Solid state vs Tube amp comparison video? looks familiar :D
Yeps
Dave, do you know we love you all. You’re such a cool dude. I would like to shake your hand one day and thank you for all the work you’ve put into your channel:)
I played a Chinese Squier Strat for years and absolutely adored it, it was my main guitar for a long time (albeit with new pickups) but it played really well for what I did at the time.
I bought a Fender player series Strat a couple of years ago and it was... Eh.
Just not something I loved playing.
Traded it in for a Vintera Mustang and never looked back, I absolutely adore that guitar.
What a lovely guy you are Dave.
Having your own opinions and allowing others the same privilege is such a rare and beautiful thing these days.
Just so you know I bought an EastCoast gold top LP copy based on your recommendation and my word, it's better than even you said it was so thank you buddy 👍👍👍
I wouldn't feel too bad about the Code video. You were honest about the struggle you had getting a good tone for lead playing yet you still managed to get a good sound. I'm sure you encouraged some people to buy the amp. I personally benefitted from not feeling so bad about struggling with it myself. Nor did I feel so bad about dropping it into Cash Converters a few days after, having struggled with it for about 6 months.I share the same opinion as yourself- it's not that Marshall made a bad amp - they didn't- it's just not for me! Glad to see the Marshall Master Lead combo is still going. My very first amp!
I love my marshall code 25 amp, once you set it up to your phone its so easy to adjust. The jcm 800 heaven preset sound is awesome. So like you said Dave just because its not your cup of tea others might love it 🤘 Love the retro review and a bit of maiden too 😀
If Hollywood ever do a fake biopic about a fictional blues player in the 1940s - that guitar at the end would be the perfect vehicle for it in the early scenes when he is playing a guitar he got from a pawnbrokers. 😁
Stephen Stills did a song that had the lyric
"If you can't be with the one you love...Love the one you're with"
I'd like a 1959 Fender Telecaster but I love my 80s MIJ Tele
If I had nought else I'd love that Coronado too
Thing I like about your reviews is you don't automatically say it's good just because it's expensive... some people equate expensive with good and so they say it's good just because it's expensive
Dave, can’t thank you enough for introducing me to the Marshall Jackhammer. Love your gear reviews. Don’t listen to the keyboard warriors. You’re a legend 👌🎸
Ha, interesting! I helped an acquaintance sell one of the 12-string Wildwood Coronado's from '67/'68 not too long ago. He loved it, much preferring it to his Rick 12, and was only selling it out of neccessity. Just shows how much models can vary I suppose.
Dave is honest in that it is about the tone, the sounds. Price is irrelevant in that context.
I am happy the Marshall Origin 5C tube combo is hated by most as they are cheap as chips second hand now.
With a pair of mismatch sized Jensen speakers that fit easily in there the tone is warm and thick, not the thin and cold tone you get with the stock speaker. The difference is very noticeable especially with heavy distortion. The amp also became very sensitive, in a good way, to tone and volume adjustments with the Jensens - a lot more range to choose from.
That is why I have another one of those combos waiting to get a different pair of Jensens to make the "fender tweed" tone as some have described it.
As I have two of these amps now, I have made a real time comparison of them, one with Jensens (C8R and C6V), the other with the stock speaker so I know the tone difference is very real and not based on shaky memory. The second one will get a Jensen MOD10-70 and a MOD5-30 - on paper their sensitivity graphs complement each other as they are not competing for the same frequencies.
Cheap and generally unappreciated gear can still be really good if you dare to experiment against the advice from the consensus.
Used to own this old left handed '93 Korean? Squire Strat. I swear it was cursed. Found it in a pawn shop in Oklahoma. Previous owner had replaced the Squire logo with a Fender logo, and lit the body on fire to make it look antique. It looked really cool, but it never really played well. There was always something wrong with it. No matter how many times i had the wiring fixed, it never worked properly. You'd connect a loose wire in the correct place, it would fix one pickup, but break another. Disconnect the wire and it reverts back. Could never just have everything working. I had a lot of bad luck back then. I finally had enough and sold it, because I also needed money and didn't want to get nothing out of getting rid of it. Right after, my luck turned around and things started getting better. In theory, I would say there's no such thing as luck and curses aren't real. In practice, I don't know how else to describe it. Sometimes I feel bad for selling it to the store employee who bought it. His boss didn't want to buy it, but he asked him if he could still buy it anyway because it looked interesting. I'm pretty sure he bought it himself and took it home. I feel guilty sometimes, and wonder if he's ok. Or maybe he was able to fix it and that was it, who knows. If it ever pops up on CZcams, I'm going to freak out. Maybe it got thrown in a river or buried in a desert somewhere, like Jumanji.
Nice video!!
Worst guitar I've ever played was probably my first: a 1970s (I think; got it second hand in 1981) No Brand classical, made in Korea before they made good guitars in Korea, which I got as a teenager because school would only give me guitar lessons if I had a classical. Put it this way: the £50 Ibanez acoustic, which was my first step in playing again after a 30 year hiatus (and my current cheapish Guild is a far better acoustic than the Ibanez), is an enormous improvement over it.
Keep being positive, Dave . . .
Haha, I really like how young you look without beard. It's lovely haha 😄❤
About the guitar, I don't think the sound itself is bad, while listening through phone speakers at least (this is coming from someone who really likes the sound of his HB TE-20). But yeah, I can kind of see and hear by your playing, that you're struggling a bit 😅
Oh yeah btw, talking about my very cheap Harley Benton (~US$100) and digging for something good or useful (or even unique) in any piece of gear, do you have any really cheap guitars that you really like for whatever reason and use occationally or even a lot for certain purposes? 😊
I totally agree with you, positive vibes only! And as you said it may be someone's dream and who am I to destroy that 🤷🏻♂️ Positive Vibes Only !!
wonderful video
My worst guitar is my Vintage V100Black which is actually great to play but back breakingly heavy. Even sitting down it's weight is problematic and standing up with a wide strap I can manage ten minutes at most until shoulder pain sets in. At an age where I try to avoid pain it is relegated to a dark corner . A great shame.
How strange, my v100black is one of the lightest guitars I've had, lighter than most of my strats
In 1980, I got to play a 1954 Goldtop that was absolutely unplayed, but had just had the hang tags cut off and then literally slid under a bed for 26 years. It was perfectly set up and played like butter. I remember that it was January of 1981, I had $821.00 of the thousand dollars saved up and went by to check on it, someone from Japan had come and taken it away to a better home. 😿
Later that same year I played an Antigua Burst Coronado that I remember to this day as one of the worst things that I have ever wrapped my fingers around, very badly set up. Was that a feature of that design? 🤔
Soft drinks on the Marshal head.😅👌
!0 years on CZcams deserves some recognition- well done Dave
Great video. Just got a behringer OD300, based on a boss OS3. Never seen a distortion/overdrive pedal with the range this pedal has. Does every pedal you can think of. Maybe a tad darker in tone but I’ve got tube screamer, ds1 and ds2 tones. metal zone. Even a rat too.
I love the Aliens reference
Talking about your disappointment at the Entwhistle Strat . I went to an acoustic guitar convention in Halifax in 2014 . I played a custom Martin dred , Brazillian Rosewood and Adriondack Spruce top , looked incredible , played absolutely horrible , and you could drive a bus under the strings and it sounded dreadful . It really put me off Martins for years as they were my dream acoustic . Ive played some since that were far better , but that one was a mega disappointment.
Sorry for another comment , but Love young Dave playing some Maiden . Up the Irons 🤘
There is a guitar in my local guitar shop that is diabolical. Its like it been made out of a bed with a bandsaw and no sanding.
A bad 80's Mexican strat made me avoid them for the past 30 years. The positive is the joy I have discovered in my 60's classic vibe has healed the damage and then some :)
The worst I have owned was a Gibson Non Reverse Firebird studio 2011. You’d need the hand span equal to that of the wingspan of an albatross just to get round the baseball bat neck. Push pull P100 (i think) ‘upgrade’ to the P90 were flat and compressed.
Note to self, try before you buy and do not make impulse internet purchases after a few whiskies.
Love the resident evil shirt
I had a Marshall Lead 12 I let go off...... sounded so good, I had to get another! I had a Marshall Code - those cabinets were so boomy and tough to work with. Sometimes you are saving people from pain, that's why the opinion is of value. Back to the Marshall - The Lead 12 is the smaller version of the lead 100 and it absolutely rips! Insanely loud. One of my fav solid state amps ever.
When I review a product (usually knives or knife sharpeners) if it is absolute garbage I won't make the video. If it is usable product, I give the good, great, bad and ugly things about the product that I feel it has. But that is only my opinion based on my experience and preferences, it isn't coming down from on-high, or from the mountain top or whatever.
Perhaps it would be better to just say this isn't for me, maybe not for you, but you might like it. The only one who can decide if it works for you, is you. To each their own. I have a alder body 97 Squire standard strat, I bought it brand new and even though it was somewhat rough, and had the cheap hardware, it still played well off the shelf. It was stolen at one point before I started to upgrade things, fortunately, and I found it years later for $50. I recognized the serial number, it was one that was a really easy one to remember, and I took it home and found the sales receipt when I first bought it, confirming the serial was it. Nothing was changed on it, still stock as I bought it new. Now Everything on it has been upgraded, and I put a lot of time into the frets and setup. Now it stays in tune as much as you could hope for in a strat, and it plays and sounds really good too. People have picked it up since I rebuilt it, and they don't want to put it down; I must have done something right! It wasn't a expensive guitar, but it plays about as good as my more expensive strats. Just because it is cheap, doesn't mean it is rubbish.
That '64 strat was how I discovered Master Dave. I was searching CZcams for vids of '64's and I came upon his Old Hat vid. So happy I did.
I love my white Strat , it's my lifer and it's now 25 years old . I love the fact that Dave's favourite is also a white Fender Strat . I also love Marshall and Orange amps and bought a couple from Dave's reviews on them .
@@TheSavagederek I'm just a bit older than you, by 47 years, I have 5 strats but none of them white but have always wanted one, due to Hendrix playing one back in the day. As a teen I had a poster on my bedroom wall of Hendrix throwing his white strat into a Marshall amp. Wish I still had it.
@@jltrem I'm 50 in a few months . I've owned the Strat 25 years. I've had a few including a really nice 50s Classic Player the designed by Fender custom shop jobs . Dennis Galushka with the upgraded pots , switch and pickups , with the Ping locking tuners etc... I loved the soft V neck and Maple board , what I wasn't keen on was the glossy neck and board . It felt sticky to me , so I ended up moving it on to a friend , then bought it back , and then sold it again . I've had a few MIM Strats and a couple of Teles , and a couple of Squiers including an arctic white Silver Series that I had for years , before I could eventually afford the real thing .
The worst guitar I've ever played was a PRS SE Mark Tremonti. The guitar had the worst fret job ever done from a new guitar. I soon got my money back.
good on u. love more than the video the words...love ur philosophy
One man’s trash is another man’s treasure as they say
1964 Strat was pre-CBS. However, the Coronado was post CBS. Kinda makes sense according to Fender buffs then. Post CBS had "iffy" quality control. Kinda like early 80's American cars. Some lemons got thru.
At first I thought relics were stupid. then one of my friends made me make one. Ever since then I been glad, they need to be played to get that vibe in them! I would never refinish any old vintage guitars for this reason alone.
Roger Rossmelie had something to do with that guitar after Rickenbacker fired him he went to Leo and said why do you keep putting your decal on Harmony"s so they worked out a thing for Fender to make their own acoustics. The Kingman the Newport all with aircraft grade aluminum bar through the body. Was it a Gibson? No but you could sit on the beach and strum Surfer Girl forever without your guitar turning into a soggy potato When the electric part come around I kind of think Rodger and Leo came to a head on what' should be? Carved maple like his previous success or Leo plywood. Leo won was selling loads of solid body electrics
Keep your guitar love going Mr S it’s how you are don’t change for anyone or anything guitar is your passion!🙂
That's it, it's the best guitar ever. It has a "really cool F on the tail piece!" 🤣 Great video Dave. I'm only a year deep on my YT journey. I'm sure I'm going to come across some bad pieces of gear too. There are just some real duds out there, but also some real gems too. :)
I still Miss my 2012 mim standard strat i sold when funds were low…to me its the bar all other guitars fall short of (so far in my crappy playing existence) …many considered a standard subpar in the stratocaster line.i actually got it as a stepping stone till i could get a 2 point trem american deluxe or similar…so i had no real expectations,just temporary till the american was in my reach….which i did get the deluxe a year later .and it went to GC well before my last guitar (the mim Strat )when money issues hit,so i totally agree ones crap is anothers best ever.
I missed if you mention name of the video of the worst guitars ,or if you put it up or not ? Cause now i want to see this “bad guitar” in your hands
Oops , i see its coming up in this ..🤷🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️
And that coranado (or whatever its called🤪)in your hamds sounded quite nice to me lol
Collectors are indeed the curse of vintage instruments as they are valued as investment assets and not as musical instruments. Try to find a an original Stradivari in mint condition. Ask a virtuoso violinist if they would allow you to strip and refinish his/her instrument to 'make it look better'. That's the problem with reacting to market values based on 'condition'. We all do it unfortunately, every day, with everything from anthills to zebra crossings and everything and everyone in between. Unfortunate but sadly true.
I played one of those Fender Coronados...a vintage one. Pretty horrid guitar to play but quirky. Wouldn't be my first choice that's for sure. The worst guitar I've played was an Epiphone 335...I'm sure there are good ones though.
Dude I got an Epiphone 335 in a trade and it was the worst POS Ive ever owned. Thankfully I was able to sell it quick and unleash the curse on someone else.😂
btw the NIRVANA song you mean is PAPER CUTS ??
was from BLEACH album, my fav song in that album for having a very sort of Doom Sludge Metal tone about it
love it, same goes for Endless nameless and IF You Must or Big long Now etc
oh yeah Something in the way...
You still made it sound good. The selector switch was louder than the guitar though. Good health.
For me, toss up between a Rogue, some First Acts (we call them First Crack), or some cheapie Bullets. However, I have found good ones amongst even those. We are talking extremely crappy action and scratchy frets that felt like sandpaper. Still think they must make those ones so that GC employees can take them out back and bust them into pieces =)
Just like we use to do to old flourescent bulbs!?
That's rough. Always loved the look of semi-hollows because of Alex Lifeson and other '70s hard rock players, but they definitely have their own kind of niche. Getting a "tight" low-end just does not happen. hahaha
Dave, do you write about music for The Guardian? Maybe just a coincidence, saw an article on their site about live music today written by a Dave Simpson. And yeah, everyone has their own tastes. I'm not a strat guy, don't own one. Tele's and LP Special for me.
I don’t no.
@@thedavesimpsonI'd take that question as an insult 😂 the guardian!? ❤
The worst guitar I ever played was because I was the guitarist who didn’t practice enough and accepted close enough was good enough.
I truly have played some awful guitars. The worst one was a made in USA Kay from the fifties that had not been looked after, but the owner of it got it to sound fabulous - old kleenex box pickup covers over what appeared to be some sort of P90 deivative. But totally unplayable.
C'mon, it's gotta be in there somewhere, c'moooon, it's rare, it's gotta have it in there somewhere....
A Coronado !!! hahaha. Fender should have never tried to compete with the 335.
Good video Dave. I actually rather like the sound of the Coronado, plus I thought you played it well.
Hey Dave😎👍
Have you tried a Yamaha v.2 Revstar RSS02T yet...?
😎✌👍❤🖖
Not yet.
That moment when I watched my self express genuine shock that you weren't just born with a full beard!
I liked the bluesy bit at the start , you did not look like you enjoyed it too much
Interesting to hear. I have a '67 Coronado II and it's a beautiful guitar. The sound definitely isn't for everyone - not a lot of sustain with the thin fully hollow body - but in the right context its great. Plays amazingly well, same C shaped necks as strats of the era. Sounds like you got a really bad one!
I've only ever really made one CZcams video that was negative, and that was the Marshall MG30, it didn't work for me, but I gave it to a friend, and they liked it.
I truly love your attitude! Typical people focus on the negative and "sadly" truly enjoy tearing people and equipment down. It really gets old. For example, I got a Marshall Mode 4 amp about 2 years ago. People tear that apart, saying that they can't get a good sound out of it. Personally, I love it. I've heard people on CZcams dial that amp in. I have 2 other Marshall heads. Those are all tube Marshall's. That Mode Four sounds as good as my JCM 2000. If I listened to other people, I never would have tried that amp out. I would have lost out on a great sounding amp at a great price. As with anything in life, you need to try things out for yourself. Don't listen to other people. You may end up not liking it. So what. Sell it and get something else. However, you can at least say that you tried it for yourself. Maybe you'll love it, and it becomes an integral part of your sound.
I understand as I once got thirteen guitars laying around. But for me things has gone in opposite as today I will admit to my self and as very quickly holey mo this is one bad guitar! There are a lot of bad ones but the worst one that was an high end Epiphone Lp pro burst bla bla that I also plekted to no good, a going against mess it was. One day I grabbed it and I swinged it in to pieces, the best stunt ever worth every penny spent.
I think it's good that you're positive. It can so easily just be about hate watching with gear, and that's not really helpful to anyone. And honestly, it's all about technique first, gear second. Which is the one thing no one wants to hear 😆 "Wait, I have to be good at the instrument to make it sound good, and it's not just technical limitations of the gear I have?", and the answer is yes.
I liked the sound on some pick ups...seems like it needed more guitar output rather than amp volume.....the blues sounded good and the rock riff, think it's a guitar you play slow, like old school blues. I reckon slide would work.
I've always felt that you are very open about your tastes. If you give an honest review, I can decide if it's for me because I know what you like. But yes, it doesn't really help anybody to do a negative review if there's nothing good to say. I mean the Coronado does look cool.
That Coronado was probably played by MUDDY Waters. Very muddy.......
Some people love to slate things to make it seem like they’re really discerning. Things are either amazing (and usually expensive) or total crap (and usually cheap). Or they’ll have a few brands they love to hate and will dump on anything they make regardless of facts. Like the people who say Gibson make “total crap” or Blackstar are “junk”.
Like you, I think a not great guitar is better than no guitar and half an hour with a screwdriver and an allen key or socket will make most guitars playable. Sometimes you get a complete dog but there’s no guarantee that it will be a cheapo. Could be a vintage or high end guitar.
The necks on those old Coronados are Strat necks with a slightly modded head stock.
Get a '66 with dots and your laughing!.
Dave you still got it to sound good anyway!.