Here come the Excuses.
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- čas přidán 16. 11. 2023
- I just did a round of blind tests between some very expensive guitars by Fender, Gibson, PRS, and a dirt cheap Harley Benton. The reveal was two days ago, and some people are rather upset. Buckle your seatbelts, this one's going to be BUMPY! Get YOUR music online and out to the world: Go to www.distrokid.com/vip/spectre to get 7% off your first year!
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I'm in the other group, been subbed for a while now. 👍
🤔...well you think bass players are idiots and pickups really don't matter significantly.....so....'sorry boss'. No can do.
I've been subbed since this was SMG with the pew pew logo 😂 I've watched all your guitar and pickup shootout videos, and you always do a great job giving us a good example of what the guitar sounds like recorded, but what about your opinions on what various guitar players might experience while actually playing? Between myself and a few buddies, we have around a dozen guitars, and when we jam, I find that in the room, guitars seem to sound unique and distinct, but when recorded, that nuance disappears!! What gives!? What is your opinion on this phenomenon? Are my 38 year old ears just fooling me? Are my eyes fooling me? Thanks, Glen, from Victoria BC 🇨🇦
Got another one here 😁
Now. Since so much doesnt affect tone, how about sustain? Is that to just an idea us guitarist have? I have a theory that more dense wood improves sustain
I'll sub IF YOU STOP SCREAMING!
I only use the best solder for my pots. Makes all the difference.
Silver solder only. Because….tone.
@@TheAxe4Everagreed. I do tend to like gemstones like sapphires in it for peak tonal increase.
I use silver solder to stop werewolves from jacking with my gear!
@@PooNinjaindeed. A happy bonus.
What soldering Iron did you use?
Im a 67 year old non-metal guitar player. And I love your show. I learn a lot from you. Thank you deeply appreciated
I absolutely love how when someone comes in legitimately asking a question, Glenn breaks it down for them and explains it to them, but when someone comes in guns blazing like "You're an idiot, I'm smart. Explain the reason for your idiocy." Glenn puts them in their place. Matching the energy of the comment makes him more trustworthy in my opinion.
Actually, most of what he does is choose the most irrational people and the ones who happen to be wrong in order to buttress his own position and make HIMSELF look smart.
@@ReinhartSchneider Think we found someone who couldn't guess the guitars correctly.
As a guitar player of 30 plus years, trust me when I say Glen is a treasure. I got lied to about tone most of my time playing guitar growing up. I went down the rabbit hole of, tubes, guitars, pedals, pickups, and amps. Thousands of dollars latter, you find only disappointment. Keep up the great work Glen!
And to the young know it all's, listen and learn. Or lose all your money. Your choice.
I grew up in the time when DiMarzio replacement pickups were the big thing (mid 70s and upwards). Nearly no guitar was accepted as decent that hadn't undergo a DiMarzio swap. In these days that really did make a difference in some cases when the original pickups had weak output signal levels. But you could have also achieved an improvement by adding a gain stage to your pedal chain. Nowadays the playing field is much more leveled - even my "unswapped" cheap Sire or Ibanez guitars with the original pickups could rival the big brands.
My guitar teacher was like you, he has thousand upon thousands in gear, and i have less than 500 bucks in total, guess who can dial a better tone?
"I got lied to" - those were your choices, made with your ears. Accept the responsibility if you chose unwisely. I doubt anyone was telling you that the gear matters more than your playing ability. If they did, it was mighty dumb of you to believe it.
Glen is a guy on the internet that knows a good deal about what he does know. He's not a savior for guitarists. He's a CZcams Carny. If you take what he says as gospel, you're just falling into the opposite side of the same trap. Trust yourself ahead of anyone that has an agenda - good or bad.
@@kelvinklauck "Better" tone? The one with the better ear. Who can dial in the tone YOU prefer? I'm guessing it's you. As it should be.
Pro tip: There is no universal "better" tone. It's a signature. Different people prefer different sounds in different circumstances.
Try the Marshall code 50 it has every effect you want AND...AND...you get every Marshall head and cab ever made.
Hey Glenn. I used to be a guitar snob but finally saw the error of my ways when I played my first Harley Benton guitar. I've collected over 20 of them and regularly gig with them on stage. I even sold my gibson les paul custom. The only reason I've changed pickups is because of feedback issues. Just give me a Guitar that plays well, doesn't feedback, and stays in tune!
Exactly! Bad pickups will feed back. That's about all there is to it.
@@SpectreSoundStudiosand, with some wax you can make the feedback go away. Specially with metal covered pickups, if any metal surface is loose, it's gonna be very microphonic. Some wax (even candle wax) will make it disappear.
Absolutely agreed. I got myself the Harley Benton Fusion-T HH HT this year and I love it. It's crazy how well made it is, and that for 300 Euros. Mind, I did get the left handed version, which brings me to another great thing about Harley Benton: They don't shy away from putting out lots of left handed guitar models.
You know what's also an absolute fucking monster? Glen, who doesn't disappoint over the years \m/
Thanks, Waldoo!
Glen is not perfect, but he is by far the best.
@@SpectreSoundStudios Why you delete my comment,Glenn?
@@SpectreSoundStudiosyou'll be the goat , if you do comparison with bass stuff ;)
These last few episodes have really made me feel better about my approach to buying guitars. I never plug them in at the store. If it FEELS good to play, that's all that matters to me. I can get the tones I'm looking for by taking the time to dial them in.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who does that.
Thanks for shouting out Jim Lill!! The two of you are doing really good work helping people put money where it counts!
Worst mistake I ever made - playing a drinking game where I drink a shot every time Glenn says ‘that’s for sure!’. Got so plastered I thought I could tell the difference between those four guitars and that the pick-up fairies had blessed me with golden ears…
Don’t trust the pick fairy’s their sponsored by EMG.
It's only dangerous when you get so drunk you can smell the pick ups
Would be fun to see the worst tubes, strings, pickups, versus the best, all in one shootout. Especially since none of them seem to make a difference on their own.
Hey Glenn, old man here who's only been playing guitar for 4 years. I have no plans to record my music, and yet I never miss your show. You've saved me a ton of money already. Thanks much.
You should give recording a shot! It's a lot more fun than you'd think, never say never! :)
I think the problem with the PRS is that when you let it sit too close to the Harley Benton, the HB wood leeched some of the tone out of the PRS wood... 😏
The secret is to have Paul Reed himself clapping some pieces of wood in front of the mic
@@joseislanio8910PRS toan comes from PRS' himself. His spunk stained hands by touching his "wood" and touching guitar wood thereafter, surely adds to the toan, something you can't possibly recreate with a copy gueetar😂😂
I’m pretty happy I found your channel. Most CZcamsrs try to get you to buy expensive guitars and gear. There’s only a select few like you that I’ve found who really tell it like it is and make the effort to prove it and reinforce it.
It’s so refreshing to hear someone talk about the importance of speakers. If I could spend all the money on amps I’ve spent and spend it on speaks now, I’d do it in a heartbeat!
The fun thing with the whole HSS strat vs LP's thing is that the whole point with putting humbuckers in strats in the first place was to make them sound like Les Pauls. So of course they will sound similar.
I've been blown away with the entertaining and candidly honest information. Really wonderful format. Plus an amazing SMG logo! Keep kicking ass! SUBSCRIBED
If you aren’t making excuses are you even a musician?
Best question ever! May I use that?
Of course. I am glad to contribute something useful
I’m reminded of the Jake Blue’s monologue of excuses to Carrie Fisher 😂 true musician
Man guitar Pickups sound so similar, cant figure out why nobody did a test like this before. Where Pickups do make a difference though are basses were one bass can sound wildly different from another. Continue doing great Glenn.
Depends on the pickups. Go from a low wind Lollar Imperial to an EMG 81 and tell me they sound similar lol. I will agree with you that alot of really popular metal guitar pickups don't offer as much difference as people pretend in forums, there's definitely a big difference between alot of pickups. I play in a metal band and use mostly Les Pauls. The difference between their burstbucker and 498T pickup are very noticeably different.
@@WalkerbjjHow can you be sure it's not the electronics?
@@Walkerbjjbut now you’re comparing a vintage-style passive pickup to a high output active pickup, which of course there will be a perceivable difference, mostly in volume since the EMG has a hotter signal. If you run them through a Fender amp, the EMG will break up more easily with less volume than the Lollar, but if you’re running them through, say, an SLO-100 or a Mesa Dual Rectifier, both hi-gain amps, your volume and gain knobs might be able to close the gap a little more.
Blind tests are the stuff of nightmares for sound equipment manufacturers.
@@devDarkest my drummer works at a Music Store and has a studio in the back. We’ve done lots of pickup swaps and sound checks in various guitars of mine. I think when it comes to recording, cabs have made the biggest difference for me. Then heads. Then pickups. But there’s a big difference between some pickups and little to none I’ve noticed with many others.
Can't wait for next week's Glenn-umentatry on speakers ! You're essay form videos are some of my favourites !
Thanks for making your videos! Even though I'm not a metal guy I still learn a ton from your videos and get a laugh as a bonus. It's been a few years watching you now and I'm still learning new things every week. Keep doing what you're doing!
Thanks Glenn. This channel inspired me to dream big and make my own cabinets a few years back. I have since started trying to make guitars. It's been quite a ride and I have messed up more than not, but this is just a part of the journey. Thanks for the wealth of knowledge Dude. My next build is gonna be a blue sg type
Bro please make an anti-gibson: SG with 25.5 inch scale, 24 fret bolt on neck with a reverse inline headstock. Gibson collectors will die on sight, probably turn into a goop on the floor just thinking about it.
Challenge Accepted @@rahulmenon4357
The pickup comparison videos totally changed my perception of guitar value. Even IF the microphone *somehow* was the key difference and colored the sound (or something), that would merely show that the microphone is more important than the pickup - not that the pickup matters in some way.
🎯🎯 Bullseye!
The order that I’ve ascertained from these videos is speaker>mic placement>mic>the hodgepodge of everything else.
Love the videos you've been putting out. Even as a bassist lol. Its been helpful to watch your videos as I get into producing stuff and just to learn things in general. Have a great one!
been a subscriber for like 7 years but i just hit the notification bell can't wait for the upcoming vids dude your doing gods work out here.
Oooh PLEASE do cheap vs expensive pickups tests. That'd be awesome.
Agreed!
I’ve been waiting for SO LONG for that speaker video . I’m definitely excited for that one
haven't watched in a few years - channel is still awesome, can confirm
One guitar I was surprised by when I got it was this $270 Jackson Rhoads V with this nice natural wood finish. Works great for when I’m in a Black Sabbath/ Ozzy Obourne mood, and I def think it’s worth checking out.
(I’ll be the first to admit that it manages to get dinged and dented very easily, but that just might be from how much I’ve been using it)
Gold hardware? My brother has one and its decent. It just needs some good tuners.
No,it’s from not paying attention and banging it on shit,improper use lmao
@@tommilitello198 it's a natural oiled finish with very little to protect it.
Musicians have to be creative and inventive to create new music.
They translate this talent to facts too.
The Main tenant I have used most of my life is to spend just enough to get a well made product. Buy something cheaply made and it breaks, Spend to much and you are buying details that you really don't need.
Spend money wisely is always good advice.
Okay, so I would like to make one distinction.
Gain is output voltage divided by input voltage. So if your guitar puts out a signal with a peak of 2 volts and your amplifier puts out a signal to the speaker at 30 volts, that is 30/2 so a gain of 15.
Headroom is how much gain you can add before the signal starts clipping (in a digital amp) or rounding (like a tube amp naturally does)
The preamp section in guitar amps is designed to distort, whereas the preamp section on mixing consoles is designed to get many decibels of gain without distortion.
(This is all very simplified as I am trying to write a comment, not a book on audio electrical engineering)
Great video's Glenn. Love the myth-busting!!
Glenn is the best! Thank you so much for everything you are doing, mythbuster sensei :D
absolutely love your videos! thanks for your no BS approach!
As always, great video and great points made.
Damn Glenn, I’ve learned so much by watching your channel and my tone has never been better. I won’t say that my rig is cheap (it wasn’t) but I can say thanks to you I haven’t wasted a penny!
Thank you Glenn for never steering us wrong!
As much as I love vintage 30's for metal. I've grown quite a liking to creambacks. Can't wait for a shoot-out style video based around speakers!! Keep up the awesome work, Glenn!
HEY GLENN!!! I just wanted to say that your videos has changed my perspective on sound and tone. I was that guy who thought that pickups and amp heads was the solution to tone until I started to watch your videos. No wonder when I swapped out the sheffield speaker with a V30 in my 6505+ combo amp, I noticed a massive tone shift. The other thing is when you do these blind sound tests with expensive and cheap guitars, I seriously couldn't tell the difference on which guitar was being played. When I took a mental note of which ones I thought was it, I was totally wrong lol. Fucking love your videos and keep doing what you're doing!! Love you dude!!
subscribed.love your honesty.i picked up the westcreeks and harley bentons after watching you.Solid guitars and i have a few.
Can NOt WAIT to see the Aeroguitar review!!
Glenn your right it’s the speaker!!!! I got a mono price stage right 1x12 with a v30 I haven’t had this much fun playing guitar in a long time. Thank you for all the good info you share.
I should have watched longer hive mind lol
I've always used my ears and not my eyes. As s producer myself, I started my audio engineering path by studying how to use my ears. I am so thankful for your shootout videos. You're finding the truth, and that's the most important thing. Keep it up man!
Thanks Glenn!! Rock on friend
Ok, I lost it at the "oh, oh-oh ooooh" blip. rofl kudos on that edit.
Another fun Glenn video THAT'S FOR SURE
Can’t wait to hear the greenback HB cab results and your opinion.
Like I stated in the shootout video, pure coincidence that I picked one guitar correctly. Your channel has been instrumental (no pun intended) in helping me define my sound. Thanks for sharing.🤘🏻
I use the Mojo Tone Greenbacks in my cab and I love them, cool to hear HB is doing a GreenBack cab
I bought the HB 412 V30 GB after watching your video. Couldn’t be happier. Thanks Glenn!
Glen….. I just love your character and channel. Fukin rock dude. 🤘 Good shit
I loved your blind test. I would agree with you that you can very rarely hear any difference, and even if you can it doesn't mean the more expensive one is actually better. However (absolute truth) I got them all right. Subscribed.
Gotta love the bloopers at the end haha, Great video Glenn, cheers!! the message is simple.... you don't need to waste money guys! come on! that was supposed to be a good thing!
So I have been a big fan of yours for a very long time I'm talking years and I appreciate everything that you do for us people that don't know you're giving us the knowledge that you are giving us but I can honestly say I have been doing a lot of guitar rebuilding and cabinet rebuilding and just a whole bunch of stuff like. I am a drummer but I love guitars and I can't seem to stop buying them I think I'm up to 14 or more but I just redid a crate cabinet with crate speakers that were the cheapest ones I could find and I heard a lot of people nasty about them and wanted to know what they could replace, now when I got those three out of four we're so bent that the voice calls and the one that did not have a messed up voice call ended up being a little messed up somewhere else but that was easy to fix, me being me I was able to rebend everything back to where there was no voice call issue and I put them in this cabinet and you would not believe the way live, as far as making them up I do not really have the capability of doing that at this moment I do have Mike's and I do have a lot of stuff I just don't have the room but I digressI think there's a lot to learn out there and thank you Glenn for taking your time to help us with this, I don't know about anyone else but I am so appreciated of everything you do for this metal community and for everyone in general.
Thank you Glen.
Great video as always.
Great content as usual man.
I'm about due for string changes in a couple guitars, so hurry up with that video Glenn!
I’m so hyped for the video about non V30 metal speakers 🤘🏽
Just subscribed, been watching for a minute so figured I'd help you get the count up.
That’s very much appreciated. Welcome aboard!
Hey Glen! I've been using a Crate 4 12 cab loaded with celestion G12 50s since the early 90s and It makes any amp sound great. Just goes to show that you don't need to use vintage 30s to get great sound, but it definately is the speaker that makes the sound. Keep up the useful content!
Another solid one, Dude…keep ‘em comin. That Gold Play button is gonna look rad in the background.
Also, those pics Goran sent of you with my new Vicious were hilarious…
Cheers 🍻🤘🏻
thanks a lot, glen. after these videos, my takeaway is: the most important thing about the guitar is playability, tuning stability, etc.
pickups of a variety(in this case humbuckers) don't really sound distinct from another at high gain settings. also, different types of strings will change how the string interacts with the same pickup, creating some tonal differences. tube amplification will round out the waveform peaks and especially flatten frequencies between 2 and 4khz, thus additionally coloring tone. pickup differences at high gain are so minimal it's almost impossible to tell which is which. pickup differences at clean settings are clearer to hear, but still almost impossible to pinpoint to a certain guitar or type of pickup. all these differences can be negated by using an eq. this is true for when going through the same testbench set of amp/cab/(mic). the most distinct tonal shift will occur when changing the loudspeaker in your cab, as the sound is ultimately created here and governed by the loudspeakers properties. whereas changing pickups amounts to maybe as much as dialing in your eq a little different.
Glen! i wanna say thank you for the IR's you made last year for xmas! i got back to playing guitar and using amp sims (amplitube 5) and the cabs sounded like shit. downloaded your IR's and WTF!!!!??? so good! thanks man!
Just to butter you up a little bit I do love your videos and your common sense no BS approach to everything. You’re awesome Glen!
(Is my nose too brown?)
Glennn !!!!!! You hit the nail every time!
Whoever edited your video and snipped the New Kids on the Block at that moment is a genius.
As a beginning guitar player, thank you for your videos!
Nickel and Steel strings sound slightly different in cleans (but you can always EQ that difference), although that choice is more about comfort and durability than tone, nickel strings are softer on the fingers, will wear down the frets slower but they tarnish, steel strings won't tarnish but are harder on the fingers and will wear down the frets faster.
Thanks to your testing, when looking for a guitar, the physical features are #1. Knob position, scale length, kneck profile, bridge type, locking tuners, etc. Couldn't care less about pickups or "tonewood". Thanks a ton.
Glenn.. I can't stress this enough. Thank you so much for what you do man. I love that you know how to handle the haters and morons. This stuff is extremely important in this age of endless marketing and misinformation. Seriously thank you and cheers.
I appreciate that very much!
Nice episode. Greetings from Montreal!
that lower right pic on the intro, that stern point, always creeps me out lol. well done!
Embrace the neodymium speakers, Glenn. The bass players have for a long time >_> it's the one thing we did right XD
Just yesterday I went to see a friend I hadn't seen in a while. He's making electric guitars, some good, some not that good, all of them experimental. But the one that surprised me the most was a guitar he cobbled together from a cheap stratocaster ripoff (so cheap that it actually is made from 2x4s or something) with a Chinese made neck that he ordered from Amazon or something like that. The whole guitar was around $80 and he treats it like shit because he can. When he told me about it my inner snob guitarist made me think it would sound like shit. Then I plugged it in.
My gosh, it's amazing, not a bad sound at fucking all, great playability, smooth all the way, no noise whatsoever. Made me open my eyes again and really realize that my prejudices are just so damn wrong.
I was reminded once again that the tone is really not in the wood, shape or even the fingers.
Keep on the good work, Glenn!!
PS: I can show you some of his guitars, really DIYs, but kind of amazing to tell you the truth
I've suspected for years that the tonal shift people claim to hear when upgrading electronics in their guitar is due more to the fact that lower quality pots are typically replaced in a guitar when pickups are swapped. All electrical components will have a tolerance rating that could vary significantly. For example it is common for pots to have a tolerance of ±20%. That could mean a 500k pot actually being anywhere between 400k-600k. A 200k potential variance will cause a drastic difference even between individual guitars of the exact same model with the same spec pots on the tone circuit since it is just a crude low-pass filter. Here's an idea for a video; do a side by side demo of multiple units of the exact same model guitar. You could also use a single guitar and swap the tone pot out multiple times while graphing the output from the guitar to show the differences in frequency response and how it correlates to the tolerance variations.
I've heard of people walking into a guitar store to try all the TS-9s in the store and walk out with one if they found one with the tone they we after..
Loving the work you are doing Sir. I've been saying similar things about guitars for a while. When you're playing live, everything is so noisy, absolutely no one in the audience would remotely notice the difference between one guitar to the next. I always say to people "Buy a guitar that looks so awesome, you'll want to pick it up". If it looks good and it's set up well, then it's perfect.
Really enjoying you proving what I have always suspected.
Firefly started selling in Canada on Amazon again. Best thing is if it’s not what you want you get Amazon returns. Return process isn’t as easy for buying directly from them.
Thanks for a great video as always. Be safe and skilful. Pinge
I'm not a metal fan but I've subscribed for the honesty and interesting topics. Keep it up.
what people don’t understand is gain clips off any subtle sympathetic harmonics, which is where the “tone” is once you get to a square wave a square wave is the square wave is a square wave. It’s just that simple.
A bass player who would blow your mind introduced me to Monell’s. Its one of my all time favorites. He plays with some guy with 2 first names, who had cancer but has gotten better and is touring some again. He would have been a cowboy.
Nice video - and I love the debunking of the popular myths. Also, not long ago I was trying to decide between my PRS SE Custom and Gibson LP for a solo so I recorded them into my DAW and upon playback I was horrified to hear how similar they sounded! I realized then that so much of what I "thought" was different is actually nearly identical to a guitar player (myself) and surely identical to a non-guitar player in the context of a mix!
I’m actually really looking forward to that video about different guitar Speakers, my birthday recently passed and If I’m really ballsy I might get a 212 cabinet, much to the chagrin of my family. I’ve been considering 440 Live Cabinets as they have more speaker varieties than what Harley Benton has.
Damn I hope your not sick.its rollin into sagi , different feelins right now.
My weekend is going to be spent hanging lights, getting new tires, changing some brakes, and playing guitar.
So, I guess you could say things are getting pretty serious.
Always enjoy your videos Glenn!
I know it isn't really your genre, but could you do a similar test for singlecoil guitars? The difference between a Jazzmaster, Tele, Jaguar, Strat etc? It's also important to strum some chords in there imo.
Great stuff Glen ❤
The Harley Benton was my favorite in the clean tone shoot out so I'm a total believer.
V30s have a sound and it is a useful one but you can also get most of the benefits of a V30 through other means as well. A lot of speakers provide a similar response. You can use different microphones on other speakers to get many of the benefits of the V30 while maintaining what makes those other speakers good.
The bloopers at the end are entirely too relatable
Cool to see Jim Lill get a shout out on the channel. Guy has great videos!
It's really cool to see the differences in these series. I wish somebody would go as detailed into the bass guitar side of this as well. Yes, many channels show the differences in direct sound when changing pickups, but not when it comes to sitting in a mix. The engineer POV would be great, same with going over some types. Lot of metal heads say 'active soapbars for metal or burst', or 'musicman only'. Wonder how that'd be from your POV. (for convenience sake, let's assume the bass player CAN play their part). And definitely bring in Element Bass!
Have changed some pickups myself on basses to have a more rounded sound (eliminated big volume differences beyond the expected neck vs bridge between pickup combinations with it).
I liked the dive into explaining how an amplifier colors and distorts the tone and how an ideal "straight cable amplifier" doesn't exist. One thing about amps that most people don't understand is that they don't actually amplify! Really, they don't. What they do is make a louder copy of the incoming signal. This is why power supply filtering is so important. The copy is "sculpted" from the power available in the power supply, so if it is noisy, the copy will be noisy too. If the supply temporarily runs out of power then the copy will be more imperfect than usual, resulting in clipping and sag.
Hey Glenn long time subscriber and I've learned a lot from you over the years. You do a great service for broke musicians and save money for those who aren't broke.I noticed you toned down the yelling lately and makes it much less anxiety imducing to listen to.😂 Great job
I really love Stringjoy strings on my PJ bass. I also put them on my guitar. Great stuff! Small company out of Nashville.
The only thing I really care on a guitar (if the build quality is ok) is the neck shape, that's the most important thing on the instrument, it makes it a dream for you to play it or a f... nightmare. Neck shape, radius, scale length, that's like 90% of my check list.
Im the kind of guy that likes hanging around in guitar stores with friends that work there. Talking about gear, try out new stuff and oh boy did i hear treats from the people walking in and out of there. From tonewood to pickups and tube discussions i heard everything. The face they make when i ask them about speakers are absolutely priceless. Its like an episode of your questions because its basicly what i see there. But sometimes some teenagers come in with the illusion more money = better. Showing the difference and sending them to you is a great. Im not an expert but i learned so much here.
Thank you and fuck you glenn!
Greetings from switzerland ✌️
Some cool tone come from guys who play through smaller Fender and Matchless and control their tone with onboard volume and tone controls taking it from clean and clear to dark and distorted without touching a pedal or a switch - Russel Broom was a master when he toured with Jann Arden in early 2000s
You’ve struck a nerve Glenn. Your pickup results and points are rustling some jimmies in the guitar CZcams world. Seeing you pop up in a lot of the guitar livestreams. It’s amazing the degree people say you said stuff you’ve never said. Also they counter your results with anecdotes not data. Just wild. Keep up the great work!!
It’s amazing when people get angry about things I’ve never said!
"A LES PAUL sounds different from a STRAT, Right?"
It's correct, yes. Even with humbuckers.
It does sound different, every guitar in the demo sounded different.
Hell, even 2 Les Pauls from the same series will sound different.
If you like science and guitars jump to ResearchGate and look it up. Plenty of experiments and tests (yes, even including tone wood!?!?).
Guitar is a complex system. Tone is in everything and (almost) everything adds up to the overall tone, no matter how minuscule.
Claiming that it's in the pickups (or wood) is just plain wrong, not because internet people say so, but because it's proven to be wrong.
We should have Glenn blindest 4 sets of stings (same guitar) , himself as a subject, to see if he can make them apart.
That would be a pointless fucking test but it would generate clicks.