Great man. I’ll see you at 5. I just picked up my new Epiphone Les Paul custom antique ivory with black back. It’s so sexy. Just a beauty to look at and it plays like a dream. Sound powerful. It’s all I need.

Oripure alnico 2 pickups are even better than the epiphone. Poor man's pearly gates.

my t239 acoustic bass is pretty sweet but he's right about mitchell actions a lil hard to play.

I know that starting out on an electric guitar is easier, but is there a reason why you didn't talk about acoustic guitars? I actually prefer to strum and pick with my fingers rather than using a pick. Anyway, your presented a lot of good information for the beginner. I appreciate your knowledge and experience on guitar. 👍👍👍

FYI, on the OEM Klein leads you can pop off the grey caps if you want longer probes. I don’t test hi voltage so I keep mine off.

Thank you

Ii took A shawbucker out of my Fender Elite strat and held on to it for a few years and the other day I took it to a guitar tech to install in a HSS Korean Squier Strat. He put in new pots and installed the Shawbucker in the bridge and it’s only coming out at half volume than the single coils. He has no clue what to do. Can you help? He’s been in the guitar repair business 30 years. Can’t understand why he doesn’t know what to do.

I've got an Epiphone Les Paul standard and I put a Dimarzio Super distortion in the bridge and a paf pro in the neck. I also upgraded all the pots, caps and wiring as well as a switchcraft toggle and jack. Whadda difference.

Great Video,

Wasn’t it already set up from the factory?

Crazy...I was going to put Pearly Gates in my new Epi Les Paul Black Back but honestly, after this video I will not. I have the Pearly Gates PU right here but it's funny because I was just telling my buddy how good they sound. Maybe because we think Epiphone and the "cheap" stigma, that these Epiphone ProBuckers would be less but no....not this time. I've bought two Epiphones in the last six months and my 61 Les Paul SG has Burst Buckets in it and they both sound equally great. Good video and good job Epiphone. I feel they are getting closer to Gibson every year.

Considering Pearly Gates pickups are more than twice as expensive for a set of two, I think I am impressed and completely satisfied with the ProBuckers.

Thumbs up for Tampa. I’m from NPR. Been gone too long.

My favorite neck is the channel bound Fender neck. It’s expensive, but plays incredibly well. I got one for a Telecaster.

I lowered the action as low as it would go on my Squier, but only achieved about 70 on high E, and about 85 on low E. And it threw the intonation out of whack. I adjusted as best I could, but never achieved true intonation on all the strings. Did I miss something? Overall, playability is better, but wondering if I can do any better? This is a $350 HSS strat that I bought a few years ago. They don’t make it any more.

Cool thank you👍

The yellow guitar had the tex-mex and the black guitar had the texas specials. The tex mex sounded more compressed and very even. The texas special sounded more open, had a wider dynamic range and things were more expressive and uneven.

I was in the Facebook and I just bought one so checking reviews out after like unsmart me always does but I like your style bro sick vids

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I'm Russian and I want to know what the "big grayish Russian cap" mean. What kind of? And sorry for my english. Thank you.

Great video but why should I use a capo when measuring the guitar action?

Thanks for the video! But I have a question... how is the latency? I mean... I want to use it to record some (homemade) tracks, but I would like to listen in real time while practicing the track with post processing. greetings !

I bought one at a great price, had robo tuner, which sucked, I replaced with Grocers, now I love the playability, sound, lightweight. I use a volume pedal, shuts any buzzing up

Very helpful - Thank you!

Hii, what type of cds do you use? I have a CD player that is from 2005 and I was wondering what kind of CD's the record companies use for their albums and if a blank one can be burned? Thanks!

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Any one know if the ones they sell on ebay are fake or the real deal?

Guitar coming without a truss rod ? I don't think APX600 is coming without a truss rod. No guitar often comes without it...

great project!

can you put a link to the formats please??

I picked up one of these from Best Buy (when they had random selection of instruments) years ago on clearance clearance for $190 (canadian!), apparently it was there for ages, clearly nobody knew what it was worth. Sadly I'm a lefty so I sold it, happily for a nice profit, still gave the buyer a good deal though.

this was a dropin pickguard for post-2023 Squier Affinity

Good and informative video. If I can add a suggestion for musicians that don't normally work with meters? You might mention using the continuity function to check for opens and shorts in the cable. ie. Measure tip to sleeve for shorts and lack of continuity from tip-tip and sleeve-sleeve (or ring in a TRS). Keith

I've done the same thing you did and I had a hard time getting that wire to stay I do not like the wire setup on the saddles

I am mostly through putting mine together, and have really enjoyed the experience. A few details on my kit: the slipstick was missing (used chapstick); the holes in the pickup cavities were not pre drilled; the bridge mounting holes (4) were not pre drilled; there were 6, not 7 mounting screws for the tuning machines; the strap button holes were not pre drilled. I made my way around these issues, and am very satisfied.

My child has wanted a yamaha guitar 🎸

i want to make my own blu-rays soon, should i burn the disc first or print the art on the disc? i'm worried that doing one over the other first might ruin the contents of the blu-ray

Pearly Gates I think were little better as in little richer and more full.

Great playing. Are those better than Alnico pro humbuckers? Do you think these are an upgrade to the Alnico? Thank you.

I meed help My 5th string has a very slight fret buzz starting from the 7th fret. I adjusted the axtion and it's gone but the string is just higher than the rest.

They are ok, for the home guitarrist and even semi-pro is very good guitar.

Just because your "friend" wants one for decorative purposes doesn't mean that's what happens with most of them. And for me, An Asian made guitar that's not made in a factory owned by the company's name that's on the headstock, is a fake too. But people buy them because of what it says on the headstock, thus why many people don't want Epiphone.

I recently bought my first Chibson, knowingly, from another YT creator, and it came with after-market Seymour Duncan Seth Lover pickups. They sound great. This guitar is so wildly colored, there is no real question as to whether it is a real Gibson, LOL.

To be honest, the way to impress someone with a guitar, is not the logo, but to play it well. And I agree with you about Epiphone guitars, although we should clarify that there are both good and not so great Epiphone Les Pauls. I have Four genuine Gibson Les Pauls (different models), a genuine Gibson Melody Maker, and two 'Chibsons' (one is a fake Melody Maker and the other is a fake Les Paul), plus I have two Epiphone Les Pauls, one being a 2003 Studio and the other being one of those more recent cheap E1 Les Pauls with a bolt-on neck, single coils, and which they've subsequently marketed as a Melody Maker. Now of those two Epiphones, the E1 is pretty much what you'd expect, being a cheap beginners guitar, but the 2003 Les Paul Studio is a really fantastic guitar; better in fact that most of my Gibson Les Pauls actually. With regard to Chibsons, the fact that I'm decent at making and modding guitars meant that I was prepared for some horror stories when buying a couple of them purely out of curiosity, because I figured I'd be able to sort them out and didn't care about messing with them in terms of taking drills and saws to them should that prove necessary (and indeed it did). Of the two Chibsons I have, the Les Paul is actually a pretty well-built guitar, although it took me swapping out the pickups, changing the bridge, nut tuners and electrics and adding a Bigsby (since I didn't really care about drilling holes into a cheap knock off) to make it into something you'd want to play. After all that work, it looks alright and plays well, but it wouldn't fool anyone who really knew Gibsons for more than a few seconds if they had a good look at it. The 'Chibson' Melody Maker looked very little like a genuine Melody Maker when it showed up (it was months before it actually did show up and to be honest it wasn't exactly dirt cheap either and one of the control knobs was cracked when it arrived too!). It required significant reshaping of the headstock to make that correctly shaped for a MM, since it had a Les Paul-style headstock which is of course incorrect for a Melody Maker (the Gibson logo on it wasn't put on straight either, which gives you an idea of how thrown together those things are). Fortunately for me, since I do have a genuine Gibson Melody Maker, it was easy to know what to do to correct its shape. Work I did to it included filling the peg holes in the headstock because I reshaped it to look like it should do, drilling out new peg holes, facing it with a veneer to cover all that surgery, installing new tuners since the ones it came with were garbage. I had to make quite a few other tweaks to it to get it to look alright including to the scratchplate (adding the Melody Maker text) and adjusting the pick up installation. To be fair, it does now play okay and does look sort of half decent. But... If we hypothetically say that all the work I put into the above two Chibsons to get them looking and playing alright was charged at a modest ten quid an hour - good luck finding someone competent to do it for that rate of pay - and we also include the cost of parts, there is no doubt that those two Chibsons would have ended up costing more than just buying two of the real things, and as sorted out as they now are, they're still fakes. So... If all of the above doesn't tell people everything they need to know about why you should avoid Chibsons, and instead just buy a legit guitar (a decent Korean-made Epiphone Les Paul from around 2000 or so would be my recommendation if someone really must have a Les Paul but doesn't have a lot of cash) and not worry about what logo is on the end of it, then I don't know what will.

I thought the "saddle adjustment" with a strobe tuner was the intonation? comeback good buddy.

Thank you. Nice music and art! Blessings and peace to you and your family.

I thought Gibson Les Pauls had mother of pearl inlays. Does anyone know if this is the case?

Interesting topic, thank you! Never understood the need to buy knock-offs to impress somebody. Maybe they should just start producing full-scale "guitar models" from plastic, so that people could hang them on walls (if all they need are decorations). Maybe those models could even be officially licensed by Gibson, but cost like 50 bucks.

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I have just ordered the MG10XUF for live use. I currently share a Behringer Flow 8 for both live and studio. The unit is quite advanced with scene memory and stuff. It could also connect to an iPad/iPhone for more controls. However, I couldn't make quick adjustments without having to navigate menus etc. Not recommended live when you want to concentrate on the performance.. So in a nutshell, the Flow 8 remains in my studio and the Yamaha board will be reserved for live use. Let's hear it for good old analogue and knobs !! Peter.