I love the hi fi character of the Blaze! it really helps clean tones if you ask me :)

I have same exact issue with tuning stability on my Strandberg S7T strandberg told me it’s normal 😢

I am a Strandberg user and although I can easily say without a doubt that this is the best guitar I've owned, I never figured out what makes them so expensive.

Isn’t it really something you can get around by just changing string gauges on the individual strings? I mean; if it’s all about tension, you could match the gauge to your likings. Or what? Let’s say you have a baritone guitar and the light strings become too tight; why don’t you just put on a thinner string and tune it to the same note?

Great video Rob! I have to believe you are correct - those $2000 or $3000 IEMs are a serious markup. It you think about tooth whitening trays - you can get a set of those molded to your teeth that you do at home for $100. They could easily do the same for an ear where you warm up the molding material with warm water and let it sit in your ear until it cools. I would imagine that the two biggest concerns with IEMs are sound quality and comfort/fit. Sounds like these nailed the sound quality point, but are a bit lacking on the comfort/fit. I have always had a problem even with just the silicone tips on Bluetooth headphones - the bigger tips are slightly too big and the medium tips are too small and fall out. Custom molded fit is attractive to me, but not at an exorbitant cost. Maybe this is a reasonable compromise! Happy Thanksgiving!

great review!. I have this guitar now, and it's great!. If you have an allen wrench whit an L shape, just put the longer side to the truss rod and you don't need to take the string tree off. It's also easier to place and turn the truss rod that way. Regards my friend

This is helpful for a newbie like me! Production suggestion, however: you have a habit of speaking up, and then you go into 'mumble mode'. Then back to speaking up (usually at the beginning of sentences) and then 'mumble mode' again towards the end of sentences. It makes it challenging to understand you!

For the bar tightness issue: - On the Ibanez Edge bridges I'd strong recommend getting a Red Bishop Magik Arm (there's a specific one that fits both the Ibanez Edge and Lo Pro Edge trems). It's a drop in replacement for the stock Ibanez arm and arm holder in the bridge. I have it on two Lo Pro Edge trems and I love it. One extra nice thing, you can get both a Floyd shaped arm or an Ibanez shaped arm (similar, but different enough to matter). I like my bar tight so that it stays where you put it, and the Red Bishop arm works great for that. Can't comment on durability since I've only had it for a month, but I messed with those stupid bushing for years and grew to hate them. - For a Floyd Rose bridge you have two choices to fix the arm. You can get a the Red Bishop Magik Arm for the Floyd Rose trem (different part number than the Ibanez Edge replacement Magik Arm), or Floyd makes a replacement arm and arm holder that uses a small set screw on the side of the collar to tighten the arm. I have one of those on a Floyd 1500 bridge as well it works as well as the Red Bishop arm, though again I've only had it a month so I can't comment on durability. I also can't comment how much you will have to mess with the set screw to maintain the tightness level you want, and difficult to change during a gig.

wrong perceptions about a great-low-budget guitar.

I have had the total opposite experience as you with these guitars. Sterling guitars are a very good brand! I have played hundreds of shows on mine!

I love how detailed this video is! It provides so much valuable insight into the monitoring system.

What’s the latency time?

Your music is awesome! Appreciate the strandberg essay

thank you so much!

I don't like your vibe, but I guess - live and let live. Thanks for the rundown! A very useful video.

Hey man, cool video! But since you haven't dive into the menu, I wanna knows if it has a focus/pan function to split 1 stereo channel into 2 mono ones?

I have a 2010 model in see thru blue that I got new for half price, I live in the UK and had it shipped from Canada. The dollar to pound rate was really good then and I got a steal. It is still my go to guitar for playing. It is the hard tail and not the floyd rose model but it stays in tune really well, even if I haven't picked it up for a couple of weeks it likely will still be bang in tune which I find amazing.

WRONG. My 8 string Strandberg has Neck Dive. Excellent review!

I find Sterling's are hit and miss. My Mariposa is one of the greatest guitars I have. My Albert Lee needed a lot of modification to get to an acceptable point. Keyword being acceptable. The neck is way too thin. But I insist on using them because a) the 4x2 headstock really makes them more compact and i love to strum on the headstock. b) they have the only trem sustem you could use without a whammy bar. I have to agree however with the affirmation that sterling guitars could be better. Even my mariposa needed a couple mods to make it great. Saddles had burrs, pots were complete crap, pickups are amazing but I really had to dial them in. The only stock items on my Albert Lee are literally the neck and body, and the neck leaves a lot to be desired. That being said, at this point I don't see myself buying more sterling guitars. I basically gig them cause they're completely modified the way I need them to be. I'm literally at the point where I walk into a guitar store and am not satisfied with anything available.

Would you get one of these over a LTD MH-1000 Baritone? I am used to mahogany bodies, maple necks, rosewood/ ebony boards. Would this guitar be somewhat close to that style of tone? I like passives and EMG preferably for actives. Not a huge fishman fan.

are u reallly giving a mic ? you made a great video and personally after watching your video i would go for the bm88

I haven’t had a single problem with my M3 Pro. Buttt the previous two MacBook Pros I bought prior to this one both went back within a couple days. One back in 2015 (lost hours and hours worth of music) and one in 2022 (keyboard didn’t work out the box). This the first time I bought a MacBook Pro with no issues. This MacBook has exceeded my expectations. I have lived your pain!

Thank you!!!!!

SO helpful, thank you!!

In over 40 years of playing, I have upgraded spending hundreds but eventually sold every foreign made budget guitar I’ve bought, While some were better than others, there always a shortcoming somewhere like poor pick ups, materials and cheapo hardware, no case etc. My own personal experience is that it was just not worth the money or my time unless I had the spare parts already. Buy original or if on a budget, just wait and a get a deal on a used original.

I have 3 currently, a Blackjack FR-S, a Hellraiser 8, and a Hellcat VI. They all play great. That Hellcat has become my go-to bass for my surf rock band (although it djent's like a fucking monster). All of them under $1k new when I bought them (all three were bought well before the world ended...). I really dig how they'll put out just like a super strat or a hot-rod telecaster, great looking instrument, but with upgraded hardware, cool pickups, and usually something special in the wiring. All 3 of mine are Korean made- buddy of mine has an American custom shop PT he bought on the cheap off Facebook. That thing is a fucking skull crusher- super hot pickups, great hardware, and zomg what a looker.... He scored it for $1k, and I jelly.

Hey! Great video. Finding honest reviews is really valuable so thanks so much for the video I'm planning to get a 7 string guitar but I will probably check out Schecter's options

I can’t see the sense of paying for guitars and having to spend a bunch of money just to get them not playable.I can’t tolerate tuning problems.

I think this brand is a scam brand? I ordered nearly a month ago - tracking number provided shows no tracking, and i can get no response from customer support. Not a good sign.... Not sure if you can confirm if they are a legit company or not - for your channel it can be good to know if you are promoting a scam brand, or if they are not a scam - then they are not a good company. All products from all companies can be delayed / go missing / have an issue. A real company one can get customer support quickly. Shite / scam companies all you get is silence. Movespeed is the latter. I would not buy from a company that has all resources in marketing, and an annual budget of $1 for customer support

Great video! I understand you’re not considering this now, but after your initial investment, I believe you’ll be pleasantly surprised by how affordable Apple devices become due to their resale value. I wouldn’t worry too much about memory swapping. This was a MAJOR concern with the M1 8gb units and several entities tested the issue and concluded “Apple uses high-quality NAND and advanced wear-leveling algorithms to prolong SSD health”, and SoCs generally manage memory swapping more intelligently, minimizing unnecessary writes. Real-world data from M1 and M2 users shows SSD health often remains high even after regular swapping,

I owned multiple six string Strandbergs including the Plini but ended up selling them because they felt very puny on me. I kept the 7 string Prog version which feels much more substantial.

I would tell some people to just get a separate eq for one of the channels. Might help them till they figure it out.

RE: desktop era being dead, the M4 Pro Mac Mini is literally going to usher in the new desktop era.

interesting on the issues with DP, Motu/DP was Mac only for many, many years, maybe up until DP9 iirc. You'd think it would work without issues.

Very helpful review. Thank You.

For the seventeenth million time, it's not RAM. It's more like whopping big but incredibly fast cache. You get 8GB because it's really hard to make chips that work at that speed, which is why you can now get 16GB default, the M4 chips have higher yield. Why did Apple do this? Well, Intel didn't push, and now they are in receivership, the government is going to give the company to someone else to run, maybe Qualcomm or ARM.

You're definitely right about the ram, with apple now offering free ram upgrades to 16GB for all macs

I switched back to Mac with the M series came out, never an issue at all recording, stability, performance etc... Very glad to hear you got pretty much everything resolved. I have the same laptop (my sons have 4 more abet M1/M2 models and my wife has an M3 Air). I'm using Logic, Ableton (from time to time) with a Scarlett and sometimes interface with my Helix but nothing really older or obscure though. There were definitely issues with some software and older hardware released prior to the new ARM chips. Hah... I had a Studio and an M1 Pro Macbook... traded them both in on my M3 and just plug it in when I need to record and I don't have to worry about trying to transfer files. I do have an external TB4 enclosure I store most music on though. Again, very glad you got most things resolved!

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I’ve been using Ernie cobalt 10-48 for d standard or drop d. M-steel 10-52 for lower tuning. M-steel can make a stray sound twangy though

Hey man. Good to hear you got most of the issues done √ It is a nice Laptop for sure. I still have the weird slowness with any external hard drive connected to the Mac ? Really strange and i'm not quite sure of my Mac is faulty. It's really hard to brig it in to the fixer, you want your Mac home to use and not on a Repair place. Sadly i can't just send it back because it's over the 30 days so i can only go in and get it fixed or at least looked at on Apples charge. But glad it worked out for ya. And yes OWC has great stuff. I had the same as you but with Firewire 800 in the older days. I would love to have one of OWC's new Thunderbolt enclosures

In your flame Ibanez, did you upgrade any other parts beside the block( like springs/claw etc...) ?

Good vid, but watched at 1.75 speed

I thought they used pao ferro on the ec-256

Great review, I own it for many years and completely agree with your comments: high versatility but limited practicality. Definitely the JP2C is the most practical. This 25W head has a fantastic crunch mode, it'd be so nice to access it via footswitch. I mean, why not a programmable footswitch like the Marshall JVM?

Now we got Apple inteligence and 24GB vram cards...

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Im planning on buying the ecoboost 2016 now because of the review ima check the other years

unwatchable video with that shite noise.. when are you gonna learn that shite noise does not add anything to the videos, specialy when you thing you know it does.