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» 3:55 What Are We Looking At Today?
» 5:00 Introducing the American-Made Jackson Soloist
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» 6:10 A Bit About Compound Radius Guitars
» 7:07 Talking Early Guitars & Influences!
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[@ccaputa]

So nice to hear Rabea and Pete jamming together again. Magic.

[@DavidHunterChunkyRiffs]

I always have a smile on my face watching you two play together. Awesome work as always 🤘

[@Darota529]

What a treat to have these two and their effortless chemistry demo new bits from my fave guitar brand. Cheers, guys!

[@keithzibrat5721]

I really enjoy watching these two. Pete is indeed the Looper king,and I really loved the sound like series with. Rabea. Looks like they had fun doing this one. Thanks guys!

[@balfaboy]

You guys always make me smile, never fails every vid. Thank you. My bank is thankful you are not located in my country or I would live there. Great jams guys!

[@daro9582]

I just love these kinds of 80s Superstrats, keep up the cool vids

[@darkwish210]

Liked the video immediately just based off the duo intro but I stayed for the rest of the review. You guys are a great duo and I appreciate the honesty you give to us. Cheers!

[@Thekastiq]

These two guys are golden. Might be the best duo on youtube

[@shaunk413]

Very good to see these two back together.

[@michaelharrington9966]

Love it, you two are bloody brilliant and hilarious together.

[@danmaynez9664]

Locking tuners are for easy string changes when you have a locking nut with a trem. On a regular hardtail it for running stability & fast re-stringing. Great feature to have on any guitar

[@insearchoftone9602]

True story, I would totally rock locking tuners on my floyd guitars just for that little extra time savings on string changes.

[@jonsick445]

I actually replaced the locking tuners on my two E-II guitars with standard Grovers. The locking tuners weren't quicker in reality, looked far too bulky and it was annoying that if you accidentally overtighten just a smidge when locking up, it would slice the string in two which may or may not mean it's totally useless. And to be honest, locking nut, no tuning stability issues full stop. I'm really not a fan of locking tuners on anything.

[@danmaynez9664]

@@jonsick445 wtf, what models do you have? I have an Eii MII & an EII Horizon with gotohs, 2 ltds with locking ltd tuners as well and I've never had any issues with any locking tuners. Maybe it's your strings? I use 11-49 NYXL and that's never been an issue regardless of the tightness

[@sbeqstion]

@@jonsick445 L

[@insearchoftone9602]

@@jonsick445 duuuuuude..... if you are cutting strings you aren't over tightening just a smidge......

[@winstonschwarz1636]

Get this man on more. He has a relaxing way about him.

[@GRBAquatics]

Very Cool to see Rabea and Pete back playing together, So Awesome, Thankyou.

[@jackturtle131]

I can be listening to you two for hours guys. Love it.

[@GomesGomes-cs1yd]

But if they are telling you this guitar is worth it´s price than they are LYING to YOU.

[@shannonhooker623]

I have basically have 2 Jackson's ... one is an 89 Charvel and the other is a 2022 Jackson JS-32 King V. I love both of them.

[@scottdalrymple1716]

My question is why $2500 for a guitar with the cheapest version of the Floyd Rose? Some of the cheaper Jacksons come with the Awesome German made Floyd.

[@JimDewdGuitars]

Congrats on the plug in Rabea! Great video guys!

[@randallparker8477]

It's been a minute! Rabbea and Pete! Jackson was/is one the sounds of the 80's. GREAT INTRO!!!

[@jams3maddij]

You two together, one two punch guitar prowless. Come on. Got every genre covered. You'd crush it. Man.

[@idealmethod]

I've never really paid any attention to Jackson guitars until recently when I bought a JS22, and I'm seriously impressed with how well it plays and sounds. yesterday I bought a JS32 floyd rose purple new. I found my brand!

[@jasonluther3567]

Duuuuude I'm brand new to guitar. Been learning for a month. Bought a donner as my first and only thing stopping me from smashing it is its my first guitar. I bought a js32 and oh holy hell. I love it. The jackson my new baby. It's been Hella fun to learn on. I know it's capable of so much more than learning.

[@spacejockey4746]

@@jasonluther3567hella 😂

[@SirPotato72]

It's fascinating to me how guitarists often jump to the components of a guitar that have the *least* impact on sound as an explanation for why it sounds a certain way (ex. type of wood, bolt-on vs set neck vs neck through). Not saying these things can't impact tone at all but the most obvious explanation for why the two single coils in parallel don't sound like a strat is that these are not strat pickups. Simple as that. Even pickup height has a drastic impact on tone but that's another thing that's often overlooked, probably because it's more fun to theorize about which branches of a maple tree produce the best tone or whatever.

[@vladimirpoutine7522]

Even the amount of solder(resistance) used can make two of the same models sound drastically different. Wood, not so much.

[@mwbrada]

You typed a lot of words, just to be wrong lol. That's dedication.

[@SirPotato72]

@@mwbrada the fact that you think think that was a lot of words is probably telling of your intellect.

[@mwbrada]

@@SirPotato72it was a lot of words wasted for sure. Wood = Tone. Solved it for you.

[@mwbrada]

@@SirPotato72 you emphasized *least* which was actually the *most* lol...

[@ronniechun-akana6433]

Outstanding to see both you guys. Fun Fun Fun.

[@Merjia]

I've never really paid any attention to Jackson guitars until recently when I bought a JS11 for ny nephew's first guitar, and I'm seriously impressed with how well it plays and sounds.

[@Feverdream7777]

my $400 X Dinky plays better than both my ESP M-1 Custom and Prestige RG Ibanez... it's both amazing and maddening.

[@mikeg6666]

I had the JS22 and the RRJS32T offset flying V. They're good guitars but for me the neck was too thin , I ended up selling them. But they do make quality guitars , I'm more of an Ibanez , Schecter guy...

[@mikeg6666]

@@Feverdream7777 Really? That's interesting , I love my RG!! Too each his own!✌️🤘

[@diegoleiva7242]

I owned a KV4 back in the day and a few years ago I bought a Kelly JS32. I sold both, but I loved them !

[@JamieSlays]

I love the white one way more than I thought I would

[@NordicMeatShield]

I have 4 Jackson guitars, they all play really well and sound amazing, even the one's with Jackson's own high output pickups, never felt the need to change them

[@JacksonGuitarsPlayer03]

Jackson’s own high outputs are very cheap but yeah they don’t sound too bad. They are higher pitched and can be noisy. They are great for 80s rock basically. You need a correct amp for em. I just go with the best. If you really want to sound incredible obviously They are pretty damn good for being cheap and Jackson’s own pickups

[@NordicMeatShield]

@@JacksonGuitarsPlayer03 100% ...i think the amp and effects are the most important thing and the jackson's sound amazing on mine (Peavy 5150 head)

[@JacksonGuitarsPlayer03]

@@NordicMeatShield to make that guitar sound good with those pickups yes definitely. You get any other higher quality pickups like Seymours or Dimarzios they sound great period

[@NordicMeatShield]

@@JacksonGuitarsPlayer03 well again even with after market pups it depends on the amp you are using them with and the sound you are looking for, higher priced pickups on a crappy amp are going to sound crap. i have EMG 81/85's ..duncan ivaders, duncan nazgul's, blackouts etc, this is what i find from my 35 years playing experience anyway, i most play death and heavier metal on 7 and 6 strings

[@JacksonGuitarsPlayer03]

@@NordicMeatShield From mine, some crappy amps sound alright with higher quality instruments. Mainly no not really. Having a nice amp is a must anyways why even buy a crappy amp unless you are a beginner. You want to sound good you go up

[@troyspencer712]

Anyone skipping that Intro through the timestamp notification should be shown the door. Good seeing u2 together again.

[@richgleadall3884]

one the best intros i have ever heard gents outstanding....

[@Steve_ATL]

That may of been my favorite intro to an Andertons video.

[@SuperFurry100]

The intro to this was amazing!!!!

[@MarbsMusic]

I'm excited about the guitars, I had a USA Dinky in 88 but very relieved that Pete had his pants on for the video!

[@lance134679]

I can thank Jackson (and Kramer, Charvel, etc.) for being so popular that no one wanted Les Pauls anymore and I picked up mine really cheap.

[@Alex-jb6ti]

@@channtastic with how good epiphones are getting + the fact that they're more structurally sound due to them having a 14 degree angle, which improves tuning stability as well, Youre probably better off just buying one of those and replacing the pickups if you REALLY need to change them both even tho theyre pretty good on their own, for a fraction of a gibson les paul standard. The headstock difference isnt a deterrent in my opinion because when you play a guitar you dont stare at the headstock all day lmao

[@jackarmistead5353]

You can have em.

[@lance134679]

@@jackarmistead5353 It's such a smooth-playing guitar and stays in tune really well, even with the Les Trem I put on it, so I'll definitely never sell it, though I haven't played any new ones. Maybe they're not as good. Mine's a '79.

[@alexanderwheeler4827]

You can have ya gibson crap. All I wana do is shred.

[@coolboy-qc4eb]

can you support this statement with facts? les pauls are still number 8 and 9 of the best selling electric guitar in 2021. fender dominates the list but jackson guitars are nowhere near the list. not even on the map..

[@carlmcgregor2707]

Woo Hoo.... my two favourite Internet guitarist back together again... Joys!!!

[@MantisTobagganGaming1]

LOL that little blues lick at the end was so good. my big toe popped up on that one

[@jasonluther3567]

Fellas that was seriously sick. First time seeing you guys play.

[@trevorreniger5670]

Love my quilted Purple Burst Pro Soloist SL2Q. Nice and light at just under 7lb, neck thru, Duncan Distortions, it's just a beaut of a metalhead guitar.

[@Masterfighterx]

Thing about the sound of the guitars, I believe it's the Flat Strat pickups, they are meant to be beefier with slinkier strings. Get some Antiquity singles in there and I bet it's heavenly sounding.

[@ProDangles]

The white is my favorite so far. Would love to see a color option with a maple neck!

[@sergejkrynycky728]

I CAN'T HELP BUT SAY THIS! I've been watching Andertons videos for almost a decade now and it's ALL because of the bright, outgoing personalities. Weather it was Chappers, Captain, Bea or Pete. These guys bring FUN. And you can see that they are having fun. Joss had that too. Now.. I do respect the new additions to the team too. But videos with them just often feel kinda awkward. Mostly it's Captain that does the talking, there is no room for joking around, being relaxed.. Maybe I'm wrong. Idk. But anyway. ALL the respect to everyone working on these videos. I'm still gonna watch.

[@rachelnewyorktruth2564]

great playing. Cheers to the crazy pink sweatshirt, green guitar color combo. The 80's would approve.

[@clod33]

The song at the intro made me remember Summer song from Satriani

[@KruszO]

Dunno what they consider is reasonable but £2.5k is pretty eye watering for any guitar... could get a decent kiesel for that or a charvel or schecter custom shop

[@blikketty77]

Man, I just love that playing together makes Pete play a little more aggressively and makes Rabea play a little less "modern metal". What a fun jam.

[@1973larryrichardson]

Yay!!!!! One of my favorite faces and hairdos ever finally back on Anderton’s TV.

[@benmurphy7654]

Faster string changes with the locking tuners. They might not help with tuning, but it's still a nice thing to have. Those SSL-6 pickups are higher output strat pickups that people usually use in the bridge of a strat or in the neck and middle with a humbucker in the bridge.

[@Nils_Martin]

Love the green one 🤙🏼

[@uniknot]

Loved this!

[@barry3045]

The thumbnail 😂 Rabea’s face when he saw the price tag

[@JacksonAxe]

Prices have gone bananas on guitars. I got my 2 USA Soloists, used, for $1400 and $2000 between 2013 and 2016. They were about $8000 CND tax included to buy new at that time. Today, it'd cost over $13,000 Canadian to buy them new.

[@outdoorsanimalsandmusic3014]

Lol when Jackson announced no more production USA models it skyrocketed the price of the USA’s. My 3 RR1’s went from 3k insurance value to 6k! Double

[@music7arts]

I know right. These guys are good players but like I mentioned above for 2500 dollars sounds to me the sustain on these new guitars suck, plus the guitars look cheap, no binding etc. Made in California with a painted on serial number. WOW, I am so unimpressed. I won't be parting with my 2016 USA ever. And I was wondering the price increase as to why my guitar doubled in price, I guess I know why now.

[@outdoorsanimalsandmusic3014]

@@music7arts do not get rid of that. In 25 years it will be worth 20 grand or more.

[@outdoorsanimalsandmusic3014]

@@music7arts I meant the 2016 USA

[@outdoorsanimalsandmusic3014]

@@music7arts I have three RR1’s from 98 to 2001. One has a Mike Learn gold leaf pinstripe on a black body (Mike learn was one of the high up custom painters for jackson until he left a bit ago) and I have a black trans flamed maple and then I just have a plain black one. The plain black one came from a dude who was in a band called putrid pile and whoever his guitar tech was set that thing up so good it’s the best thing guitar I’ve ever played and I probably played 1000 guitars

[@davroshalfbeard8368]

Love these 80s shred monster videos

[@rfpeace]

Click stools for both of you, that was super groovin slop! Cheers boy:)

[@jonbradbury3843]

So good to see Rabea back on ATV ❤️

[@michaelirons5662]

here we go the boys are back in the heavy grove again, kin awesome.

[@michaelirons5662]

many thanks.

[@garyhicks789]

This was great, cheers :)

[@Drummuz]

the "use the timestamps below to skip ahead" when the guys start feeling it, scratch me a litle bit 😅 p.s: Rabea your pluging is so much inspiring !!!

[@mikaerik]

24 fret guitars have neck pickups closer to middle pup which is one reason they don't sound like strats, also these most likely have hotter pickups as well, which takes away that bell like stratty tone.

[@Relayer6a]

Yes. There isn't anything remotely similar in the construction of a Strat and the Soloist, mechanically, electrically, or geometry wise. I find it disturbing that these guys don't realize that. 🤨

[@jzhu623]

@@Relayer6a Really? I can think of at least 3 things: solid body, scale length, single coils. "Not remotely similar" would be a ukelele with a piezo. A super-strat is still closer to a strat than a Les Paul. The "single coils" on those ones are probably stacks though. With true singles a soloist sounds closer to a strat than most other guitar types, even if it's not a dead ringer.

[@Relayer6a]

@@jzhu623 You do realize there are a lot more than 3 parameters to a guitar design?

[@jzhu623]

@@Relayer6a Obviously, but you do realize you claimed "there isn't _anything_ remotely similar"? Those are three of the most significant parameters anyway. Other than bolt-on super-strats, and maybe the jazzmaster, what other guitar archetype is closer to a strat than a soloist?

[@kendall6030]

Love it when Pete and Rabea show up together! When's that album coming?!!!

[@crystaloffrost]

You could buy Usa Jackson’s apart from the custom shop before too, they were called ‘Usa select series’. I have bought my Usa soloist SL2HT in 2009.

[@jamiehaigh1707]

The into was glorious!

[@jeremieboudreau201]

Gorgeous guitars right there ! Makes me want to get one

[@terrybanks5063]

thats the point, every video is a sales pitch! and it worked!

[@jeremieboudreau201]

@@terrybanks5063 Yeah, not gonna get one though haha

[@shaunixtvxx7278]

Best duo ever!!

[@jerryvc86]

Love this Andertons jam

[@heat76rocker]

Good to see Rabea back in the music room 🙂

[@ereimul1444]

welcome baaaaack Beaaa!!!!!!

[@someonesusingmyname]

I'm pretty excited about these, but I gotta say, the big ol headstock looks pretty naked without a truss rod cover.

[@racheladkins6060]

If you’re a Gen Xer and listened to metal in the 80s as a teen, Jackson guitars were a huge part of the scene.

[@spacejockey4746]

No shit.

[@sergeyv4908]

But your heroes played Hurricanes, Arias, and also Kramers, Hamers, ESPs Ibanezes or BC.RICHes. ))))

[@littleguitarontheprairie4843]

Yoy can tell they missed each other, they had so much fun together, good old Anderton vibes...

[@robertparker3580]

great playing!!!!!!!!

[@Lunch_Box_74_]

Fantastic guitar playing, to end the video.

[@cobhc182]

Nice! Hope to see Rhoads and Dinkys in this series.

[@portuguesebeer5069]

Awesome. Cheers from Portugal 🤘🍺🇵🇹

[@benlogan430]

Looks like my old Kramer Pacer with almost the same headstock as well! Except my Kramer is plywood construction.

[@MrNastyguitar]

HES Back!

[@soloist80]

I had the Charvel DK24 Pro Mod with those "Flat Strat" pickups and I noticed the same thing Pete and Rabea did when they were describing positions 4 and 5. They sounded much like the ones in my Charvel.

[@kevinthornton4495]

Yeah! thats right,Jeff Beck had an orange one with a cool white pick gard cut in the shape like the old P or Esquire bass style that he used on the Flash album and on some live stuff ,it was killer!

[@carlmeiner]

Kind of like Jackson version of Fenders 'Performer Series' - I like it.

[@davidconnelly]

That was great. I have to say, Rabea's hands are giant!

[@dylanmcgarry1221]

Hearing Rabbea shred a super strat 80's style puts a smile on my face any day I still hate having a floyd rose, so I'll stick to abusing my beloved Schectercaster C1 with 2 emgs and a hardtail

[@iwillnevergetone5]

11:07 friends, locking tuners are for quicker string changes/avoiding the winds. not an overlap with the locking nut which is of course for tuning stability

[@outdoorsanimalsandmusic3014]

I would rather have no locking tuners and the money spent on a better Floyd. They have a 1500 series Floyd on them!

[@trevorreniger5670]

That intro backing riff has a nice Satriani vibe. Bea and Pete needed some Phaser and a massive Reverb. 🤣

[@ronchorivera]

Kick ass shoes there Rab!

[@EugenCretu]

2 of my favorite players! Moar Rabea & Pete please.

[@Mezziah777]

Finally! Jackson's introduced some affordable american guitars. Hope these fly off the shelves, so they get the courage to produce some more models.

[@ianmcsorley2580]

Affordable to who? Who tf has 2k just sitting around casually? 😭

[@rtomas47]

@@ianmcsorley2580 2k for USA made guitar is pretty decent. Im poor, but I know that saving up for good guitar is worth it..

[@24FretsGuitar]

Jackson guitars make some of the best Super Strats. I like bolt on necks myself though. I like the blue and the green.

[@JamesDorsett11]

Good to see rabea back again!

[@-plexico-]

Great intro!

[@rodreyes8436]

Pete and Rabea, that’s the team right there. Rabea on the outro was really nice…

[@duanestiles4821]

Grover Jackson come up with the compound radius and was super great at hot rodding all different ways of modding guitars

[@joshvcrawford]

They finally fixed the volume knob placement. I've bought/sold numerous USA Soloists and could never get around the knob placement on the USA models.

[@XViTNg]

Will they start doing a Jackson Dinky America well ? One of my fav guitars 😊

[@obiwonton369]

My Jackson USA made super strat I've owned sine 1989 still shreds today. Its school bus yellow 2 single coil and a duncan bridge pu thats spits fire.

[@1b2m]

A locking nut is for staying in tune once the string is in tune. A locking tuner is for getting into tune quickly. If you have to change strings on a Floyd Rose guitar, every couple of seconds of hassle you can save are a blessing.

[@CL_Audio_Tuning]

Jackson bringing back the 80's huh?!

[@leightnite3056]

Good Lord, that closing Pete solo!

[@TybudX]

I got some real old school G3 vibes from that intro!

[@jknoah2048]

Great jam.

[@ziggybongwater7915]

really want a soloist with a hard tail but it turns out they only made a few of them in like 2004-2005 with emg as standard. those were nice guitars.

[@tonictonetomrockstar1931]

locking tuners with a locking nut helps if you break a string for a quick change!

[@OfficialKevinFox]

Jackson didn’t exist before Randy. The Jackson guitar Randy created with them was the Concord, and that guitar started the brand and was the first guitar to have the Jackson Logo. He had them make him that guitar AFTER Karl Sandoval build him his Polka Dot V, and right before they went on the road for the Diary Of A Madman tour. Just to clarify

[@hoptard]

exactly....

[@antv4408]

I know who you are really referring to, however, I am making the choice to believe that you are referring to Randy Jackson, American idol judge. Gonna be a no from me, dawg.

[@scottdunn2178]

These noobs don't have a clue...

[@jeremydunn5012]

No

[@doctoribanez]

I have a Washburn from the time of those with a wonderbar. I never really got into Floyd guitars because I was always bad at it and never used them