My First Guitar/ Guitar Rig
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- čas přidán 25. 06. 2021
- A blast from the past (at least for me)
Today I play my beginner guitar rig. A Washburn x series, digitech RP50 and a Washburn practice amp. It's not bad...
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0:44 Only the real ones remember drooling over the guitars in the Argos catalogue back in the day 😂😂😂😂
They don’t even make the Argos catalog anymore😢 Kids today will never know
Is getting somewhere before finding out if it's in stock even a thing now? It's how I DIDN'T end up with a Yamaha Pacifica 112 sadly.
HAHA YES
I used to do the same with the Sears XMas catalog. I really wanted the one with the built in fx.
@@KDH I don't think in my country we had Argos, we had different catalogues back in the 90'. But I think they never offered guitars, just clothes and some toys for the most part... Can't say for sure though since I wasn't interested back then (I believed I was incapable of anything music related, sadly).
But I sure remember going through them and wanting the toys. :))
Your dad not giving up and taking you to another place to get that guitar is heart warming
LOL dad was probably thinking i'm not doing this again we will get a guitar today!
At 6:44 dad realized he was wrong ... 😳
@@rejeancomeau77 I read this comment just as that noise happened 😂
@@Dreyno 🤣
My first guitar was an American Vintage 57 Strat, but I was 42 and gainfully employed.
LOL. We all have to start somewhere!
Lucky you hahaha
Ah, being a child and looking through the guitars in the laminated book of dreams in Argos. Such memories.
omg i have the same guitar! i love it so much! :D
Your dad is a good guy, I love hearing these kind of stories.
My stepdad bought me my first electric, he knew how bad I wanted one and surprised me with it for Christmas, it was a knock-off called CC Clark with an H s s setup, and a floating trem. Then the next year he surprised me with a USA Kramer with a Floyd rose, used, from our local guitar store. Dads are the best.
Let's not forget the RP50's chromatic tuner. Helping our young selves actually play in tune for those first fumbling years!
Enjoyed your story.
I had a similar experience to you as a young 'un. In the guitar shop window I fell in love with a 2nd hand stat copy. I put a deposit on it, and with help from my part time cleaning job after school, finally saved enough dosh. On that special day when I handed my money over the counter to the cool guy wearing mirror shades and (yes...flairs) I was trembling with excitement. Then the guy smiled and said " just had this one come in, it's the same price".
So there it was...an Eros Les Paul in such a bright sunburst it positively glowed...now MINE.
Years later when I bought a Strat, I just couldn't bond with it. The nut seemed too narrow and I was forever catching the upper vol knob with my pinky nuckle thus turning myself down or off mid-flow. I didn't keep it long. Like you, I started with an accidental alternative that turned out a blessing. Cheers and happy Xmas.
Totally heart warning, so nice to see someone without the "everything I do is obviously perfect and wonderful" attitude... great musicianship will ALWAYS speak for itself, humility and honesty is rarer in CZcams videos these days.... subbed!
School of rock was the best place for a musical inspiration. That movie gives a kind of honest look at people that want to make it but "don't" and as a little kid, seeing that made me go "that's still how I want to spend my life. Still worth it."
3.5 out of 5 Beards.
Did anyone actually ask you to rate this?🙄 I see why people unsubscribe to your channel. Ha ha ha!
Not a bad score
Should be 4 out of 5 Beards. You played a gig with it...that takes balls! Big ones! Mad respect to original rig. Thank you for your killer channel. Keep it coming!
My first guitar was garbage and weighed a fucking tonne. I swear, it was a chunk of concrete with a green paint job on top of it and played like a club-footed baby..
😂
@One-Eye you're one of the 6 people who have seen Valhalla Rising.
Sounds interesting
As I'm left handed, getting a guitar locally in Ireland back in the day was a nightmare. I had to travel to Belfast, over 100 miles on the bus! My first setup was an ibanez with Floyd rose, a Marshall MG15 practice amp, and a zoom 505 multi effects pedal. I had to carry all that crap to the bus station, then walk home with it. I was wrecked lol. Then when I went to play it I realised I'd forgotten to buy cables.....
Wonderful story on how you started on the guitar, and we are very grateful for your channel.
Awe! Damn. Memories. Looks a LOT like my first rig too. I had a zoom pedal, a Vox 10 watt practice amp, and an 80’s “Vantage” super strat with a reverse headstock. I loved that thing! I played hundreds of gigs with that guitar. I put SO many stickers on it 😆! Eventually got myself a Marshall and started recording using the output on the back. Went straight into my laptop back when you could buy one cord/adapter, and plugged straight into GarageBand. I didn’t use any recording interface, but I made it work. I would tune my guitar down to get bass tones. Every now and then, I’d tune my classical down and use the laptop mic for my bass tones. CZcams wasn’t really a thing. So I was flying blind. But loving every minute of it. I have so many 20 year old recordings that I would love to re-record. Or maybe release for fun. I was 10-11 years old so it’s all very strange to listen to now. Haha! Take care! Thanks for the awesome content as always. And rock on 🤘🏼
This is such nostalgia, I have a cheap Washburn 7 string and it’s so damn fun to play ! Thanks Dad, been nourishing my music love for hears
I just had a 40 year old flashback to my early gear watching this , thanks for a trip down memory lane!
I Really enjoyed this. Great video as always! I was reunited with my first guitar after many years about a month or so ago and the nostalgia was huge. Its really cool to look back and think, If it wasnt for this instrument specifically, I wouldnt be doing what Im doing now! Young me would have loved to have a had a fancy effects pedal like that Digitech at the time though!
I was so hoping you’d play “Living on a Prayer” with the talkbox sim!
love this video, made me reminisce, great work and thank you
That's a nostalgic video. I owned the same Washburn X + amp bundle. I was thoroughly impressed with the guitar, which, in terms of quality and sturdiness was equal with much more expensive brands like Ibanez rg270 or Yamaha Rgx 121. Yay for Washburn for making our early years a pleasant experience.
Man, loved your story. Made me think about my first rig as well. Behringer Beginner's Pack. Good days!
Always interesting and entertaining to hear how people get started playing.
I can't believe how good you made that rp50 sound, because I had one in my early guitar days, and hated it even then
That’s funny I had the Digitech RP100. I swear almost every teenage guitar player back then started out with one of those. It sounded bad to me even back then, but I didn’t care. I was too busy living out my inner rock star phantasies in my bedroom pretending I was all my guitar hero’s. Love your content!
This was SO me in the 70s, and luckily somehow cheap stuff ended up working out (sometimes). Great video.
Also, when I first watched School of Rock, I was really into rap like Eminem and 50 Cent. I distincly remember after watching that movie that it was 110% clear that I wanted to rock n roll my ass off. The rest is history! That movie probably inspired an entire generation of rockers. Looking back on it, Mr. S was helping these kids learn rock n roll, but he was also helping these kids embrace themselves and help them express themselves through music. Helped Tamika accept her weight, helped Lawrence realize that he was cool af for playing the keys, all that stuff with Zack, and it told the story of the starving artist who just wants to ROCK. That movie is a timeless gem. You should do a video on that!
I'd love to see KDH do a video about School of Rock, and you're analysis of the film is spot on.
Lawrence is good at piano, he will be rrrocking in my show!
Great starter kit you had there! I remember trying out a friends RP50 with the vowel sounding filters.
My 1st guitar was a 2nd hand Hohner copy headless guitar with H-H config, two pickup toggle switches
Fender Frontman 25R
Borrowed Zoom 1010
Count your blessings you started playing in the early 2000s, i started in 1988(ish). My starter pack was a Kramer "licensed" Beretta, 20W Peavy single channel solid state amp. The amp was just a practice amp without a dedicated overdrive channel. The result is that without clipping diodes, turning the gain up just results in it getting a little thicker, then woolier, THEN it starts clipping. However the clipping from solid state that isn't designed to clip sounds horrendous.
As for the guitar, i would have loved if it had been basswood. I would have been happy with plywood. Instead it was some kind of pressed particle board.
The Beretta only had a single volume control, and after a while the "wood" would start to disintegrate and the whole pot would spin around, pulling the wires off the lead. On the upside, i was forced to learn to solder to keep repairing it which lead me to becoming a luthier and later an amp tech.
I was able to make a cloud with a silver lining from what was originally a pair of underwear with a skid mark.
Those guitars are pretty solid. My friend also got this Washburn as his first guitar. I changed his pickups and he still plays it at home.
Aww man, this brought back memories. All of my first gear was given to me by family members. My first rig was my brother's old Squier strat with Select pickups (they were like a crappier version of EMGs) and I'm left handed so I glued the nut on upside down and reversed the strings (didn't know what action or intonation was). My amp was this terrible "bottle of bees" yoke called Prime and the only decent part was a Boss GT-6 that my brother (again) gave me. But hey, it worked and inspired me. I still have all of it except for the GT-6 and I refurbished the Squier years later when I learned about guitar maintenance/modding as a thank you to my brother. Simpler times.
My first setup was with a B.C Rich platinum series warlock with a six inch practice and a rp55.I’ve kept the warlock and obtained a Washburn rb-2002 hammerhead,Shecter c7 deluxe and a Austin strat knockoff.I switched the rp55 out for a Line 6 Pod HD300 which I love.And I have also switched out the practice amp for a Line 6 4x12 with Celestion 30s
I bought this exact guitar for my girlfriend for her first electric but I've been playing it a lot lately (since my electric broke) and really liking it. I honestly think it's better quality than a $500 dollar Ibanez I bought and got rid of.
I also really like that talkbox effect. If someone reproduced it in a standalone unit and called it the Vomit Box I would probably pick up two of them.
It's so cool that you still have those picks.
thanks, a blessing in disguise!
I'm lucky to still have my first bass - a Kramer Striker 422s. By all means not a cool or nice Kramer, especially by ~2001 standards, but it holds up surprisingly well. I turned it into my BEAD (etc) guitar with the bigger four strings from a 5-string set (and filed nut slot, altered setup, etc). The neck feels kinda chunky (I'm used to my jazz bass) and the string spacing is... well, I'll say it is best suited for what I use it for. Looks the part, too!
I'm quite glad I was able to get it instead of the bottom-barrel beginner bass. Served me well for a long time and now it's properly back in the arsenal.
It really doesn’t sound too bad. That’s super awesome that ‘school of rock’ was your into to guitar.
Yeah bro you make that starter gear sound incredibly underrated when youre playing with it!
Very cool. I bought a Digitech ElementXP a few years ago that I use as a PC guitar interface, for playing and for direct recording. Excellent sounds, and it has an expression pedal. Other than that, it's similar to the RP50. One of my first guitars was a Washburn. I wish I still had it. In many ways, it was superior to anything I've played since. It was a cheap Les Paul/PRS style with a bolt-on neck, but it was very solid basswood and maple, and the pickups had excellent character in the tone.
First amp and guitar was a Squier starter pack(strat with 23' scale length and just 1 volume and 1 tone knob, and a 10w frontman amp).
That was 2 and a half years ago and now i have a mexican tele and a 50w boss katana mk2.
I really enjoyed this KDH!! I think I’m gonna watch the Chappers exspose’ for old times sake. Cheers.
Yep. That vid made me rethink my watching. Unsubbed the Chap-hole. Always kinda thought he was self inflated but Man. What a dick.
My first guitar was a black LTD EC-300 that I got for Christmas back in 2002. Still have it to this day, and not only for nostalgia reasons - The fret ends and fretboard are still among the nicest I’ve ever played! Overall a suprisingly good guitar to this day. Its 20th anniversary is next year, so I’m planning to treat it with some new pickups and tuners 🥰
the talkbox effect is actually badass wtf
My first guitar was actually surprisingly similar. It was a tanglewood rock 3, which was very similar to the Washburn apart from having the cheap pot metal tuners you’d expect and it was HHH instead of HSS.
First amp was a Roland cube 15, great amp tbh. Wish I still had it for practicing because I loved it.
We all have had our various starting points. This was cool to see.
I had this exact guitar too! Purchased for my 12th birthday and my first "real" guitar until i finally destroyed it when I was 23. It served me super well and played nicely despite treating it like garbage for over a decade.
I had a Jackson Performer, an RP-100, and a Crate G-60. It took Christmas, my birthday, and a summer job at a gas station and I was rock n’ rollin’. Ha ha. This video was a fun nostalgia trip. Cheers!
Your old lad is a good man! Got a Yamaha EG112 in Argos some many years back
My first (and current) guitar rig is a sun/tobacco burst Squier Affinity Strat going into a Line6 Spider Classic 15. Currently no pedals, but that'll probably change soon cause I want an overdrive/distortion pedal to make it easier to go from clean to distortion
I know my rig is far from the best, probably more so on the amp side, but the amp and guitar combo (at least to me) sounds pretty good. Especially for getting that strat tone,
That’s similar to what I started with. I played through a Cort Guitar / neck through body maple baritone. Sounded amazing with a pyramid 25 watt speaker that sounded like hell blew up and a piano power speaker. I used a bass tube screamer pedal which didn’t improve anything. I still have the guitar. Those were the days. Nothing but the hope to get a better crunch.
My first guitar was a blue Fender Music Master II from the 50s or 60s or something. I've never figured out it's pedigree. My dad's friend gave it to me when I was 11. At age 12 or 13 I got a 92 sunburst fender strat for helping build and brick an addition with my dad. I'm looking at it right now, it looks like how I feel at age 41...
The good old DigiTech pedal, that same one was my first as well in like 2006. Through my ibanez 15 watt amp and guitar I got in a kit for Christmas that year
That’s a dope guitar honestly
My pop is 74. He is the reason I play guitar. He never got into effects. I gifted him a zoom similar to that with the drums and that’s kinda why I got it for him. I wanted him to not have to tweak… just use presets and then have a beat to play to. It served his purposes.
I'm always amazed by people who still have stuff from their childhood.
I don't have anything from more than a few years ago... probably.
My first guitar was a Washburn rocker series (very similar to yours but with a pointed headstock) and a crate amp with built in effects, about a year later I got a zoom 505 pedal multi effects pedal.
I have the same guitar but metalic red, its awesome, and I used the same pedal years ago. cool gear and the gods of metal didnt want you to pick up a bad guitar. and respects to dad for being a supportive father.
my first guitar was a gibson SG crimson some of the knobs were missing but it was a good guitar, after that I bought a flying V , I think it was Samick, then I bought an ibanez strat from a pawn shop in usa, and I had a japanese guitar that had a great body,pickups,bridge but bad neck, so I went to sam-ash and asked them to install the ibanez neck on the japanese guitar body, they adjusted it and playing it was smooth af. and sounded awesome.
then I sold it and bought a gibson les paul black beauty, and and digitech RP-6.
then sold them and quit guitar for some years but I am back with a similar washburn.
that's it... my life story although no one asked 😀
My first guitar was the same! I actually still use that amp, I never got around to buying a new one sadly, but its served me well over the years. And my first pedal was also digitech! although it was the rp70.
Ahhh yes the RP50 with the Delay Lama preset, loved that shit.
Thanks for that demo I was told there were crap, snobs. Good to know about the drum machine.
I recently bought what I consider to be my first guitar. I play left handed but I hate strat shapes. So I wanted a quality Les Paul style like slash had in guitar hero. Took all my summer money from my job but I got myself a Left Handed Greco EG-900 from 1976 with a refinish and modifications. I call her Natasha!
Still have my first guitar. 94 Gibson Les Paul Studio. The amp was a solid state 212 fender front man combo. I was fortunate enough to grow up in a family where a lot of people played music so I got a decent guitar for a first.
Still got one of those Digitech's sitting in the back of the cupboard - Inspired me to go drag it out for a 'memory lane' journey.... Cheers.
I currently have the holy grail of beginner guitar rig which is ibanez gio and blackstar amp but that being said I am using bias fx and the tones it offers are really good and I also like the neck of my guitar. Forgot to mention I have been playing the same guitar for 6 years now. Keep it up champs \m/
Those Washburn X-20's were a very underrated guitar. It was my first guitar as well and I regret selling it. My learning rig was a black Washburn x-20 and a Crate GFX-15. No peddles I just kept the Crates' onboard effects knob on the chorus+reverb and just went with it. My son uses that amp now to learn, wish I had kept the guitar for him too.
This was awesome
I started out on a Squire Bullet Strat, found in a church basement, in sun-faded "Baltic Blue", which I proceeded to put through a mid-80's Peavey KB300. Yeah.
I wonder what I’d think of my first rig today. It was a similar setup but probably more akin to the Volcano. I think the guitar amp and chord were like 100 bucks from Sears in like 96 or 97.
About a year and a half after I got it I found a Mexican strat for 150 bucks at a pawn shop. I gave away the Sears guitar after playing the strat and realizing how a decent guitar should feel and play. That strat is still probably what I play the most and I think it’s the least I’ve paid for a guitar that I still have
I no longer have my beginner rig, but it was a Korean squire strat, Peavey Stereo Chorus 2x10 and Boss ME-30 multieffects processor.
Same sort of story here. Squire strat which was a good one thankfully but can't remenber the little amp. Then later I got a Zoom doodah similar to the one you got. Not the greatest tools to use but as a novice they were like gold!
My first guitar was a Cort Effector, and Explorer with onboard effects.
My first guitar rig was a second-hand BC Rich Warlock Bronze Series and a Roland CUBE-10GX. TBH the warlock plays/sounds OK (I ripped the neck pickup out and replaced the bridge with a spare epiphone pickup), and the cube is a solid enough amp for what it is.
My first was an Encore strat copy with a Kustom 10w amp. I was 10 and I think my parents thought I'd never stick at it so they just gave me the Ernie Ball teach yourself book, no lessons besides little things my older friends showed me. I stuck at it and when I was 16 they bought me an Epiphone Les Paul which is still my favourite guitar. I'm 38 now and despite owning a real Gibson Les Paul, that Epiphone is still the guitar I play the most.
Man that’s awesome dude. I feel like my life went the opposite path, lol I got a cheap strat copy and awful amp that I stole from my brother when a friend invited me to his house for a jam when I was 15. Still have the guitar but I never got better until years later when I was able to buy myself better gear.
My nearly identical X is sat right here, mine just has the fender style trem bridge with cast blocks and a maple headstock. It has been slightly customsed over the years because I always felt it looked a little plain standard (shame I can't post pictures) and has some more expensive friends now but it was my first electric and still my only solid body. I preferred it to the Full-on Fat Strat a friend crazily lent me when he went on holiday way back when. He said the Washburn played well too. It must be 15 years old now and has stood up well to being bashed about by a beginner but now is due to go back to the shop it was bought from for some fret work and a new nut. The fact I’m getting it sorted out says a lot for what was a £120 guitar. Hopefully if I leave it in plain view the boy will pick up.
You and I are a lot alike. School of Rock and Guitar Hero was the catalyst for my guitar curiosity.
I started out with a Washburn I got used for $200 and also had/still have the RP80.
Lately I've been running the drum machine of my RP-155 at band practices, because our drummer has been unstable. It actually works. It's tricky to both play and push for breaks but I manage! Tempos are tricky to get right because they are labeled 0-100 and not by bpm. But we have been soldiering on like this to keep moving until another solution is in place. The RP-155 is a seriously handy tool. FWIW
My first rig was a Samick SG, plugged into a Zoom 505ii into a Laney Hardcore Max 30 watt amp. Good times.
I had a zoom 505 back in the day and I bought the zoom FP01 expression pedal for it separately, which could be used plugged into it for volume, wah, whammy and variable harmonizer. One thing my 505 didn't have that your digitech does is the drum machine. I had a separate metronome at a later stage but that drum machine could have improved my timing in the early days.
Mine was a 3/4 size Stagg that I got for my birthday from a yard sale for £50 in 2005.
The amp was a peavey backstage 10w that my dad surprised me with to go with it.
Obviously over the years I got more and more stuff and much better stuff so it sat unused.
Ended up giving it all to my cousin for his birthday so that he could get started learning too as he was taking lessons at school but didn’t have a guitar of his own.
Great idea for a video! I'd love to do one of my own!
I love your playing, you have a great feel. This channel is going places. Companies are going to throw gear (and bags of money) at you to demo and no matter how shit it is when you play for the review it will sound like the most amazing new product. We will all go out and buy it and it will always sound like garbage and we will eventually question if we should keep playing guitar at all. You will be rich, we will be broke, surrounded by junk, depressed and just wait in silence for death.
that rp 50 shaped my childhood... no lie! it was also my first! and btw the effect you have on at 7:30, when ran through a microphone is creepy as hell! lol
Very cool man, at 14 I saved up all summer cutting yards and got a (MiM white fender strat for 399$)
A little marshall 8 inch speaker amp and one of those effects pedals you have but I think it was a (mxr 100 for 100 dollars) or something like that.But hey it worked and was pretty killer...ive been playing 20 years now🤘😜👍Thanks Kdh for the great content.
After loosing my guitars in a house fire many years ago, a friend gave me a blue X series so i would have something to play. Today its heavily modded and a solid piece of my current collection. Its a great guirar and i love mine!
Impressive you still have this stuff. I used to have RP100, more programmable version of the same I guess. I remember "twin", "dual rectirifer" and something called "johnson hi gain" being pretty cool sounding models, plus there were cab sims so it was basically POD on the cheap. Galaxy of improvement over stuff broke guitarists in the 80 suffered I guess.
I vaguely remember as a kid I wanted one of them X Series Washburns, however I had to put up with a Yamaha erg 121! 😂
My first electric guitar was also a Wasburn. It was the Lyon LP style one in red. I still have it but need a new bridge cause I stripped the screws for the saddles.
School of rock got me started too!
I started with a black double cutaway Encore. I loved it. Still use it today if I need a tuning that my other guitars floyd bridge can't do.
I had one of those, les paul junior replica, was bought 1987 ish. Gloss black..brilliant little guitar, was hacked bashed chopped and changed and was still reliable
People give Digitech and Zoom shit for their little multi fx boxes, but honestly name me a single piece of gear more inspiring for a beginner than a black box with 50 different presets that are meant to sound like Guns n Roses
I can see Zoom becoming the dominant player in the ir/amp sim market. They need to release something to compete with Line6's HX series.
I got a zoom 505ii for my birthday when I started playing guitar and it served me very well for years. It also makes sense for a beginner because you get a tuner, distortion, overdrive, phaser, chorus, delay, amp models and if you added an expression pedal, a wah, all in the one box.
They're very versatile and help get you started.
A looper?
Damn that tremolo is super surprisingly stout and seemingly well designed.
My first guitar was a £60 black Encore, single humbucker from Argos circa 1993. Played that through a headphone amp, then a second hand 15w Squier or Fender amp. It never had a setup, never had pedals but I could get all the sounds I wanted
Oh god...the rp55
The bag of bees
* i eat my words, god some of those presents just bring up alot of great memories..I wish it was fun like it was back when I didn't care about tone and using recording vsts
I have a similar story. I was going to get one of those crappy starter packs but my dad took me to a Sears-like department store in Mexico where they had two guitars I really liked: a grey Explorer-type (can't even remember the brand) and an Epiphone LP100 in Vintage Sunburst, which reminded me of the one Slash used in the November Rain video. I was a huge Metallica and Guns n Roses fan so both models got my attention immediatly, but I ended up picking the Epiphone because the Explorer didn't have a toggle switch tip for some reason and I wasn't patient enough to wait for it to be sent to the store (it would've taken like a week). For an amp, I started with a small practice amp from a guitar my dad used to have.
I gotta admit I did kinda quit playing the guitar for a while because I couldn't play Canon Rock within my first 2 minutes of playing (to this day I still can't), but I eventually picked it up again and haven't put it down since. I don't get to make a living from it, but I gig and have made a lot of friends along the way thanks to it. Couldn't have picked a better hobby.
My first guitar was almost a Cherry Red Gibson SG Junior. It was between that and an Epiphone SG Standard. I decided to go with the Epiphone and just turn it into a Junior.
Awesome guitar rig
Yes! I can relate to that "School of rock" story. I wonder how many people bought an instrument after seing that movie.
My first amp was an epiphone 1x8 that my dad got me at a pawn shop for 15 dollars 15 yers ago and after trying out the helix and multiple processor i'm much much happier with pedals a preamp and my old practice amp and an amp into ableton.