I Was Wrong About Headless Guitars
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- čas přidán 17. 04. 2023
- I've always hated headless guitars... until now!
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it doesn't matter what guitar Pete plays he always sounds killer
Thanks! This is a killer guitar too, so pleased I tried a headless again :)
@@peteplaysmusic yeah i also wanna get one but they are so expensive
Yeah... Because it's the amp he ues...
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This song is pure guitarist's heaven. So many details for guitarists, especially metalists. Sick bro!
Thanks! :)
I've played a Steinberger GM4T (S-body with transposing trem system) for over 30 years so it's just another day for me. Glad you found one you liked.
The problem with endurneck is there is no thump support, it is hard for barre chord or some sitution
Yeah, getting a Strandberg in hand changes a lot of minds about headless guitars.
I've heard that same story about the neck profile so many times too. People expect to hate it, then love it lol.
It's so strange at first but the more you play the more it feels natural :)
@@peteplaysmusic Yeah, just wish I could afford one lol.
Clearly designed for modern Metal! So ergonomic and Light ! The inner chamber seems to give a special resonance for Strandberg guitars. I would like to have one some day! Best Regards from Chile Pete!
Thanks for watching! :)
I like headless guitars. I have a Steinberger Spirit five string bass that is awesome. Changing strings is a breeze, no more cutting strings. Also the way the tuners on the bridge are designed, tuning feels more accurate. it's also much lighter than other basses I've owned.
Just practiced for 3 or so hours with my Prog 7 before this video showed up
Glad you enjoyed that Boden
I really didn't expect to like it this much, but I love it! :)
Absolutely love it, I own a *Strandberg 7string with TT frets myself, its absolutely amazing
True Temperament frets are scary, I’ve never tried them haha :)
@@peteplaysmusic give it a go, you never know (you know) 😇🤪👍🏻
I hope you get the chance to try the Ibanez QX527. I'd love to see what sounds you get out of it compared to the other reviews 🤘
awesome track! love your solos Pete :)
Thanks! :)
I recently got a Strandberg Fusion NX and it's so much fun to play.
They are very fun :)
Lovely leads!
Dude, that sounded excellent! You're right about the Fishman Moderns sounding big. What did you think of the neck? I've heard some people love it and some people hate it.
Thanks! It takes a couple of weeks to get used to the neck profile but you do get used to it :)
Another convert, eh? :)
Boden+ NX 8 True Temperament over here, purple burst. Absolutely beautiful and terrific to play!
i've always loved that shape! one day i will save my way to one of these things.
sounded great here :)
Thanks! The new RESQ Boden is surprisingly cheap so they're getting more and more affordable :)
*i used to consider headless guitars ugly. but now i stil think they ugly*
I've got a Legator Ghost 7. I use it for practicing at work. Headless guitars work great as travel guitars as they're way lighter and more compact. I wouldn't have one as my main guitar though.
Yeah, I’ve been travelling with this a little bit too. It’s so good because it’s so small and light, very well designed :)
Last time I tried headless guitar was about 10 years ago. Loved it for the same reasons , there was one flaw I noticed though. During solos when full bending was easier to detone the string than normal guitars
Sorry for my lousy English , I hope you got the meaning.
Helios from Greece.
I didn't know about headless guitars until I saw them being the most commonly used kind of guitar in Cyberpunk 2077, I really love the look, and the ergonomics seems stellar, I really want one.
They are very cool! I still need to play that game too, Ive heard good things :)
Very nice tone. What amp or modeler are you using ??
Thanks! This is using Neural DSP Archetype Nolly :)
That song is sick af. Listened to it on Spotify after 🤘
Beautiful guitar. I've never played a headless before. Looks kinda funky. I'm a bit clumsy though, and have banged a few headstocks in my years playing. This could be a good idea for me 🤣🤣
Haha, me too. No headstock, no problem though! :)
most of time I forgot the guitar to pay attention at play, awesome.
Got a Boden Prog 6 NX 4 months ago and I don't want to play any of my other guitars anymore. They're considered "very old tech" by me now and I can't stand the weight and the size and not having stainless steel frets and have smaller radius fretboards...
The Boden Prog NX changed the way I view guitars. It's very life-changing, not even joking.
Love my berg!
this sounds like a sylosis song especially the solo freaking sick
Hey duder. Get a Troy Grady Magnet and post some videos so we can see your picking. I think it would be very cool.
Great track mate but I thought you’d stick with me on the headless guitars are wrong vote haha. Maybe it’s time I tried another one!!
smooooooth solo 👍
Wait till you try a Mayones Hydra or an Ibanez QX527… superb guitars, especially the Ibanez for the price as not everyone has 5 grand to toss at a Hydra. I like them even better than Strandberg
My headless guitar is an Ormsby Goliath 7-String. I though similar about headless guitars, but after I played the Ormsby I was totally convinced about the advantages of headless guitars.
I had the same learning curve with fanned-fret instruments.
Haha yep, it looks like this is a familiar story among guitar players. Everyone hates them until they try them :)
My first multiscale instrument was a Harley Benton. Now there are two Ibanez 7-String, one Ibanez 8-String guitars, one Ibanez 5-String bass as fanned fret instruments as well as the headless 7-String multiscale Ormsby.
My collection grew from traditional to unconventional really fast. 😂
Haha, let’s see if mine does the same :)
I am sure more modern guitar types will find a way in your collection. Ormsby has by far the best fan for me as the neutral is the 9th, the same is on the Ibanez SRMS 805 bass.
The Ibanez guitars have the 12th as neutral fret which needs more to get used to.
The Strandberg have a really light fret, which needed no adaption at all for me.
By the way, thanks for your great work, amazing content and staying close to your community.
I bought a headless Kiesel Zeus bass about a year and a half ago, it changed my life
how is the bottom end sound of a headless, does it have not as big of bottom end distortion sound compared to full sized guitar
I love free guitars too...don't we all. Would you have actually bought it? Or are you going to send payment for it since you like it so much? I doubt it...
LOVE that Lamb of God vibe!
Funny I thought death right off the bat. Can’t go wrong either way though
Do they make a 8, 9, 10 > 15 string model, so when you are not jamming you can surf with it.
I want a headless 8 string in the future, they looking fucking epic 🤟
I dumped my ESP Viper for a Strandberg Boden. It's crazy how great the Strandberg feels in comparison.
Headless guitars are great I have four including a Strandberg.
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Coming soon: guitarless head.
Haha, it's just a broken off headstock :)
I played a headless guitar recently. It was the most comfortable thing I've ever played.
Big Trivium vibes with the song
You should consider trashing those pickups because Glenn said they are worthless.
Headless guitars are probably the only type of guitar that are really practical I get fretless but tbh unless you're really precise they'd suck live and I used to play in middle school orchestra and it was a bass and still was a struggle to sound in tune and of course it was middle school, but my point still stands unless youre a statue live fretless guitar for a hype guitarist wont be the best, headless though would help with the weight idk anyone that use a headless guitar but Ik Vman of slipknot uses a headless bass
That's a sweet guitar!
Guitar sounds great, looks bloody terrible. Still not a headless fan, but I respect the change in opinion.
Swee' wo' uh! Never heard of them! :D
Haha! That is the proper pronunciation in the lingo around my neck of the woods :)
But where are the dive bombs? Looks great, sounds greater :D
It does have a trem bar so it can definitely do them, I just don’t used it that much :)
Where is the reveal binding like on the website? looks like they may have switched to a maple veneer like they use on the burl tops? No effin way im paying $2400 for any guitar with a friggin veneer, no effin way lol, slap a solid coat of paint on it or something but dont insult me with veneers at that price range.
Headless guitar? Immediately, Sarah Longfield!
Is it only me finding it as the intended pun with the song's title consisting of DEATH and Schuldiner-ish music?
What scale gives you a twisted sound like that main riff?
The song is largely based in E Harmonic Minor (I think) but that riff is a nod to Chuck Schuldiner of Death who used 9th chords (basically a powerchord with another powerchord on top except it starts from the 5th, not the root) :)
@@peteplaysmusic thanks Pete!
Well, they still look kinda funny, but can't argue with how it sounds, so if it plays nicely...
One day… ill have the money for a strandberg
Mate of mine was one of those insanely annoying peoiple who could hear something once then play it back to you near perfect, he played a headless guitar back in the early 90s and absolutely raved about it.
Man, I haven't heard this riff in so long
5 or 6 years, I think haha. I always liked this song so I thought I'd use it for this :)
Half a decade! Time flies, man
Uff my word the track is fucking amazing!
Thanks! :)
It won't let me like the video, my like is here.
Thanks for watching! :)
I absolutely love how headless guitars look, so modern and fleshed out.
Headless guitars are either great or terrible. The make or break is the bridge hardware.
Because so few companies make headless bridges, you have to go with what there is.
I have 2 Ormsby Goliaths. Love the shape and design. Hate the Hipshot multiscale bridge.
It's an arse to restring, doesn't feel nice to tune or to play on.
I find Kiesel's Hipshot headless bridge quite comfortable, maybe it's just a different design that isn't such the pain you're describing on your Ormsby. I don't like or dislike the tuning knobs, as long as they keep my guitar in tune, I don't really mind much.
great guitar
but how do i hang it on my wall next to all my other guitars?
Haha, they actually sell a stand modification so you can hang it along with a normal guitar :)
I use a normal guitar hanger
Of course you didn’t hate it when you didn’t pay for it😂
Welcome good sir….to the club ala no heads. Strandbergs make your hands go 😁haha
ONE OF US ONE OF US
HAHAHAHAHA! Best comment ever :)
Headless guitars are so underrated
Head is important ...🙂😉( like ick )
I'm big on aesthetics, so headless guitars still look weird to me. I cannot speak for the comfort or quality, as I have basically zero experience with that. So, what I'm wondering is: did this one impress you enough to consider adding it to your main lineup?
I'm a big on aesthetics and headless guitars look so awesome to me :)
Even if they were less comfortable, I'd definitely have one over old-school guitars.
I bet you can play ukulele or maybe a toy guitar and still sounds amazing
I have been wanting to try out one of those new Ibanez Ukes, maybe I should haha :)
They look cool, but I've always wondered how do people tune them 😅 (not a musician, btw)
I'm sure they are great in any way, BUT: I absolutely hate the look! My favourite headstock design is the Ibanez RG one (not inverted) and I want my guitars to look like that! Yes, it's only about looks, but looks are important. Only ugly people say otherwise. :D
Very Death/Chuck Schuldiner-influenced playing you showed off.
I do not like this thing and I was wrong.
I play only headless guitars from 2011, I think it's just more obvious that a guitar should be like this 😅
That tone actually kinda blew me away a bit
Thanks! It's the Modern voicing on the pickups and I'm using Neural DSP Archetype Nolly for the tones :)
Tbf if I got sent a brand new Boden 7 with fluence pickups for free I’d like headless guitars too.
It’s about time you put down those Harley Benton dulahan things. They’re trash. Whoever designed them is out of their mind.
Na, you were not wrong. They (headless) just improved :)
Headless guitars are like a lambo sports car. Sure it may have some nice properties, but let's be real here. Usability is secondary, it's a fashion statement. Most think it looks horrible, but many are really into it. The overwhelming majority that needs to justify their purchasses in some way, however, will just spend their money elsewhere.
Honestly, the way I use mine is entirely for comfort and travelablity. It’s the perfect guitar to travel with and the case is equally well designed for this. In that sense it’s more like a compact car :)
@@peteplaysmusic I may be mistaken then. But I'd personally rather travel slightly less comfortable than being seen with one. In that case, maybe they're like my crocs. Convenient at times, but they disappear if people I don't know that well come over. Of course there are those that use them every day and everywhere. Luckily, I don't need to play in hotel rooms, tour busses etc and if I needed to, I'd buy an even smaller guitar like a Hoefner for super cheap or just use my Squier or smth
But does it DJENT?!
Oh it absolutely djents! :)
you werent wrong about them, you just hadnt played "yours" yet. :-)
Perhaps you're right :)
Chuck Schuldiner .. tribute
Decapitated guitar is metal, confirmed
I wish I could afford these 😂
The new RESQ model is more affordable, I think? It's nice to see them introducing some cheaper models :)
U like it now that its free
Play some stoner doom!
This song really gives me Death vibes. Good job, my Firend in Metal!!! Cheers from Poland! 🍺🍺🤘🤘🤘🤘
I mean.. it's not any headless guitar. It's a .strandberg*
I was the opposite. I loved headless guitars until I owned one 😅
I'm still not paying that much for a guitar with no head stock just because it's trendy.
omg first
Haha! Technically, I was first ;)
@@peteplaysmusic Well played, Nice that you are still using your own head ;)
Sounds killer, still a bit ugly though
Thanks! I'm really digging the look now, the more you play it the better it gets :)
I wonder if this will prompt some self reflection and possibly allow you to be more open minded about innovation in gear moving forwards.
Haha just kidding guitarists are fuckin cavemen lmao
Strandberg is not headlees guitar, Kiesel is.
I'm working on developing a body-less guitar with a HUGE headstock. So far no takers but I'm holding out hope.😉