Super Fu**en fantastic video. I made a short video telling people why their vintage guitar doesn't sound like the original artists. It's not the guitar, it's the strings. Keep making great videos like this. Thank you.

What type of strings are you using?

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I tried two guitars with laurel fretboards, and they are just not smooth enough to justify the price. For that price, it should be rosewood.

After fuc$%ng with Rics for decades, the best sound IMO is with vintage toasters & modded wiring. I'm not a big fan of the stock ~330K pots, or the "vintage" wiring with the 0.0047uf cap on the treble pickup. It you run vintage toasters with a 1Meg volume pot on the bridge & ~500K on the neck, it brightens things up over a good frequency range & gives more output amplitude, which sounds better to my ears. If you run your Ric with fuzz, linear pots can give a better range of cleanup when rolling off your volume.

I get the feeling this guy likes vox a lot

leave the pickguard!

the C64 for me.

Amazing video. Thanks

It is surprising to note that 11 is already the lightest. I can't play that gauge at all.

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I hate to be the guy but I would love that bass strings video lol, need Paul’s tone asap

I like the video I like the format but I’d like to hear the guitar itself

Well I’m shot something that was made in China is really shit everything made in China is shit or stolen. Truth

Bellissimo video Paul!

Kudos! A very worthy video. Paul McCartney was asked what type of bass strings he preferred and was quoted that he wanted some "shiny" ones. Guitar string brands, gauges and even guitar cables were often overlooked when it came to an artist's sound. Scotty Moore once quoted that there were no such thing as light gauge strings back in the day. You just dealt with what the factories put on their instruments.

Slightly related: Hendrix had some VERY interesting string gauges on his guitars. It's an interesting subject. His low E was a .36

George would trade the 2 bottom strings on some guitars with the more easily bendable banjo strings Clapton gave him, starting in late '64. Great video

Both sound great, yr playing is great too

P-90 for sure!

The EQ could be set up to where the SG sounds better! But in this test at these settings the Casino clearly has it!

6:46 looks like it was shot on orthochromatic film: it can't see the color red, making it look like black

4:28 ah, so they were made of monel?

John only changing strings when they broke is so real

Wow! True historian. Well done!

What about the fact that George painted his country gentleman black?

The SG is quieter and seems compressed. The Casino is the winner.

I have a Defiant which probably has a better tonal range than the UL710 I traded a number of years ago.

I just noticed looking at John's Ric325 now that Ron DeMarino after he stripped all the black paint off of it put all the philips head screws back in the pickups and Bigsby,

The slide is the better question. You can't slide your fingers over the frets and get a slide sound on any of those guitars. I have often thought that certain song parts almost seemed dubbed by studio musicians after the recording and weren't performed by any of the Beatles. That's one example, the lead on Till There Was You is another. Yes, George played those live, but when live it didn't sound close to the studio version, less polished, not more, which, over time should have gotten smoother from repeatedly playing.

they definitely used round-wounds

Good Job on these songs

Love 💕 The Beatles- Started piano 1962 Guitar in 1964 - Gibson Electric 1966- Could play some Beatles in 8th Grade just found out. The guys were jealous!

I just came up with a good idea on the Philips head screw on John's Bigsby. Instead of trying to change it over just get a Dremel tool and make an X on the bolt head that is already on there.

Fantastic video! Ty!

I remember the red wrap on my Framus cheap archtop my dad bought me in Germany. After moving back to the US in '67, the fuzzy strings were still around for awhile. Black Diamond was king after that.

Did you think acetone remove the sunburst painting on a Epiphone Casino? Greats videos to, thanks! Peace

Fantastic!

Is the distortion from the amp or a separate pedal

Really nice demonstration! You have to have much respect for JL playing all those awkward chord fingerings on those songs. I don't know what amp settings were used to get these cutting and bright tones, but it sounds very authentic. This guitar is a must for anyone playing in a tribute band.

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Ngl I preferred the sound of the SG, sounds more saturated and fatter. Also think it had a better contrast with the gretsch.

How much the tele, sweet collection of vox amps. It's nice to see someone remembering preserving the Beatles history 🎸🎶🎸🎶

Ceramic is the real deal. I next preferred the Tusq overall - close to original, yet good sounding. The Reissue is OK, but I preferred the Tusq. Bone comes in last on my scorecard. Sometimes it was close, but overall not the right sound - good, but not what you are looking for. I had one of those ceramic saddles on a Gibson LG-0 model. So long ago, I cannot say how it sounded, but it is a small body, more like a concert size than a dreadnought size - all mahogany body, top and all. Played more like a truck with medium gauge strings than a car with lighter strings. I would have set it up very differently today. Still, that ceramic saddle was a big feature in how it looked and sounded. Just saying. Nice vid, but you did not indicate your take in an obvious way ... interesting finish. Thanks. JR

The Beatles played those casinos through a bright fender amp. Really unlistenable.

Don't forget Paul's Rosetti Solid 7 that he had in Hamburg in 1960 and one day the three Beatles and Pete Best with probably a few beers in them, decided on smashing the guitar by jumping up and down on it! lol

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Where’d you get those shirts???