I do not understand the bends part. I just got a Strandberg Boden Essential. it has a VERY flat 20 inch fingerboard radius and I find it quite hard to bend on it. I find the grip to be a lot better on my guitars with more curved fingerboards. I am gonna try thinner strings now and see what happens. Cant go too thin though because I do want to tune it down sometimes. The Strandberg has got a 25.5 inch scale so slightly longer than the LTD Truckster I was used to. So the usual 10s I play feel pretty stiff anyway. I have ordered 9-46 now.

Finally someone showed the actual explanation of the radius thing with pictures! Thank dude!

They are all great? No, Guitar Rig is objectively bad.

Great cover! I have many questions))) Could you please explain how to get that Paramore tone in layman's terms for beginners? Should I use some plugins in a DAW? I never used a DAW. Do you switch between effects while performing a song? Do you use a multi-effects processor? Or do you plug your guitar directly into an audio interface? Do you record audio first and only then shoot video? Or do you record everything at once? How does it work? Explain pleease)

Thanks, nice and thorough explanation.

I saw the crush 40 bass guy would only use his thumb.

A Shawn Lane Vigier guitar has a flat radius 🤓

Yngwie malmsteen plays 21 frets and a 9.5 radius with super jumbo frets and he bends the life out of the thing , Shreds beyond belief Etc . I don’t need to say anymore .

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I build all my guitars with a 10-17 compound radius. Some say it's too extreme but if I don't tell them what the radius is they usually just say "holy shit that's awesome." 🤷

Andy Latimer, David Gilmour, Jimi Hendrix, Steve Rothery, Eric Clapton, SRV, Richie Blackmore, et al never had a problem bending the hell out of their guitars with 7.25" radii. The idea that you need a flat radius for bending is a huge myth.

Great video and well thought out content.

The best advice i can give after playing guitar for 20 years i am 26 years old and professional bassist. Is try out diffrent type of guitars or basses and if u find something that feels damn good for u then check the specs so u know what u love instead of buying something that u think u might like

This guy sounds like an idiot already

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12" radius is the best overall. Gibson nailed it out of the box. 7.25" not for me. Compound 12-16" seems to be. the best overall.

Bro, la mejor explicación del mundo sobre el tema, gracias...

no intro????????? :c

The flatter the radius the better for slide. For rhythm and lead I use a 9.5" radius. My guitars are setup to play like butter lead or rhythm no matter what radius they are.

Anytime I start worrying about it I think of guys like Hendix, Gilmour or Blackmore who play incredible solos and great rhythms with their old 7.25 radius strats because that's what was available to them. 9/10 times it's better to focus on improving your playing than improving your gear, and that also makes the 1/10 time you do need to buy new gear way more rewarding and fun.

Hypothetically a radiused neck allows for more bending because a string travels more distance on a curved fret rather than dead straight one. Also there is subjective preference of convenience of playing. Then a radiused fingerboard became traditional on electric/acoustic with metal strings and that's why we have it. But whether it really matters or not is debatable.

I have carpal tunnel syndrome and arthritis so when I try to play a radius that’s 9 1/2 to 7 1/2 my left hand goes numb. NUMB! A 10 or more radius doesn’t do this nearly as much. It’s sometimes about comfort and that is everything for me.

My peavey Wolfgang has a very flat radius and I'm not crazy about it... my favorite is my old warmoth neck with the 10 - 16 compound radius

For me the only thing that radius affects is barre chords. But even there, if action and string tension are low enough then radius ultimately doesn't matter. Related to that is scale length, a well set up LP at under 25in can be more comfortable for everything than an over 25in strat.

Oh simply put .... I never liked flat fingerboards like on Spanish guitars, they are also way too wide - Why ? ??? I have an old Gibson and the fingerboard is slightly under 42 mm - it's the one that suits my playing best - a couple of my new ones Tele-style, are 42 mm... and very nice. have Guild Starfire, and the fingerboard is 43 mm, but the neck profile is a bit thicker, so there are things I cannot play ... But I love the sound so much .... so there are guitars I'd never use - played a Martin some years ago and it simply did not work for me ... Instead I bought a Crafter - and it felt right from the start for my stage work ... Had it for 20 years now ...

the entire soundtrack has some HEAVILY underrated bass guitar.

radius 12 for me is the best you can.still have.comfortable bar chords and you can shred that is why other fender are being customized in to 12 inch radius

7.5 way more control and easier to bend. U bend the b string u are bending up and over. The flat knecks u are lifting against all the tension.

Evan, help! I'm only days away from sending my "1951" Telecaster off for a refret and re-radius (from small vintage frets and 7.25" to medium-jumbo's and 10") because i cant get the action low enough. Am I wrong? Can a great luthier give me that low action on 7.25? Maybe just a re-fret perhaps to achieve this? Hope to hear from you, if not - thanks for the video.

Even with a “good setup” a curved radius will fret out unless you have uncomfortably high action. Some players like higher action (John Mayer), but most don’t. My favorite radius is 12”. Compound radius’ suck. Why would I want to adjust my left hand technique and pitch bending intonation muscle memory depending on where I am on the neck? Stupid.

Is the 10-16 the one widely used in the 80’s?

Thanks for the great simplified explanation on neck radius. I'm an acoustic player shopping for an electric for some fun and for learning to be a lead player. I'll check my Martins, Gibson, Taylors and my Guild for neck radius again, they do vary a little bit. Thinking I''ll go for a 9.5" radius as a happy medium and to avoid fret out. I like my action on my acoustics to be just a tad higher, so If I do the same on an electric it may not be and issue (I don't like very low actions). Thanks again. Off topic: I've been upgrading my acoustic collection one by one to bone nuts and saddles and find it makes a huge difference. It makes an already great guitar into an incredible one.

got a 12-16" compound but I would be lying if I said I wouldnt love to try a 7.25 radius neck just to see what the other end of the spectrum feels like.

When you spoke about going between Fender & Gibson i was sure you where going... PRS!

I think that the whole fingerboard radius thing is blown WAY out of proportion, and the internet forums are like giant echo chambers of misinformation. The reality is that the actual difference between a 7.25 vs 9.5, 10, 12 inch radius is really just a fraction of a inch. A fretboard is only around 2 inches from one side to the other. If you're bending a string, typically you'd maybe bend it a step and a half at the most which would probably cover around half the fretboard across. So you're basically talking about bending the string about 1 inch. The reality is that that the difference in the crown of a 7.25 vs 12 radius at 1" is something extremely small, maybe 1/100th of an inch. So a vintage Fender guitar in reality only needs to have it's action raised minutely higher than a Gibson. But then people who have no idea what they are talking about saying I can't play a guitar with a 7.25" radius because the action needs to too high, although they may have never even actually ever played on (or one that was setup well). Then all of a sudden you have a bunch of people listening to his reasoning and than blindly believing his statements. I have Fenders, Gibsons, and Jacksons that range in fingerboard radius from 7.25" to 16". I setup all my guitars as well as they can be. Granted the Jackson does have the lowest action, but the Fender's have a damn low action that's nothing to scoff at and easily holds its own against the other guitars.

I have been playing guitar for over 35 years and I really never thought about the radius of the guitars until many guitarists talked about it to be honest. I’m not bashing what people believe in but I’m more of a player who doesn’t think about it at all. I have different guitars for different styles and sounds. If you spend enough time on a guitar it doesn’t matter to me about radius I just play it. The strange part about it all is that my #1 is a Gibson CS Les Paul R8 and I don’t have large hands. It is a fat neck. So it’s what works best for you. My thinnest neck is on my Gibson ‘61 SG and I have no issues with that at all. The only thing a fatter neck does for me is that I have more of a fat feel and you get more meat out of it. My Fender Custom Strat is a fat neck as well and I love it. It all boils down to preference and there is no wrong or right. There is no best. The best guitar is the one you are playing for that mood. As long as we keep Rockin’ is all that matters.

More important than radius is neck shape and thickness. Those Fender American Standard necks are thin, just too thin--as if Fender has been pandering to shredders for 25 years.

For acoustic (non-classic) players, this is nonsense. A flat jet-runway radius on a wide fretboard is OK for those gifted with big, long, strong fingers that can barre anything. For those of us with smaller, weaker hands/fingers the curve provides a great advantage in leverage.

I personally cannot stand radius above 16. It hurt my hand when playing. I don't know if this was part of the myth or not, but I don't care. It's me that has to play the instrument and im not gonna play a fingerboard with a radius above 16 because HURR DURR RADIUS IS JUST A MYTH HURR DURR. It truly feels unnatural to play such a straight radius fingerboard to my hands. For me and my hands radius between 12 and 16 are perfect, with the high preference towards the 12 as it's more curved and stresses my hands less.

With the start of arthritis in my fretting hand I’m now playing nearly all bar chords - and my strat is a god-send for me; the barre chords just flow. Because I also love playing my Walden dreadnought which has a flatter radius, I’ve had to switch to ball-end classicals - and it plays almost as nice as the strat - and has a lovely tone! All I need to do now is try and fit a Fishman pickup system to it, as obviously a magnetic pickup is no damned use!

I don't have terrible large hands and for years imagined that I needed a small neck and lower radius...then I got a guitar with a big chunky neck and a 12" radius. At first it felt very uncomfortable and I was disappointed. I decided to just force myself to play it as much as possible. Within 2 days I had adjusted and began to love the feel. Sometimes you just have to step outside of what you are used to.

Ummm, actually I use screwdrivers to bang in nails all the time 😅 6:44

not much use for gigging musicians who don't play guitar - eg drummers, sax players, trumpeters etc

Im sure most guitar manufacturers use that standard floyd nut for a floyd rose guitar, as it comes in 10” radius. I heard theres various different floyd nuts thats are set in different radius but i haven’t been able to find them

thank you, finally someone made sense to my brain

I like a flat neck no matter what I’m playing I’m more accurate all around it’s just how I play.

you CAN GET A LOWER ACTION ON A BASS WITH A 20'' RADIUS THAN A 10''...THAT'S THE FACT JACK !

Awesome slapping! The tone really brings out the details too, nice work!

Tapping part is a cool addition bro. Kind of reminds me of a Chuck Schuldiner lick

My old gig bag was a old Star Wars suitcase