G&L Fallout | Tribute Series | review demo

[@rooster551000]

A guitar review that i can actually use! I like the way that he covers most of the things that a player is going to wonder about. Clean/ dirty tones, balance usefull sounds and playability.

[@ecovandblackie]

That's quite possibly the best guitar review I've ever seen. I'm buying one! And I'll be upgrading the components based on your recommendations. Thanks so much, JJ!

[@hcsk8]

Honestly I love your videos due to huge amount of informations and historical aspects... Great job! Keep on making videos and enjoy playing music

[@SuperParve]

I agree!

[@davidwantsahug]

I like that you are honest about the switches and knobs.

[@taterlysaladman9377]

These guitars are amazing sound and ease of playing. Great quality. I liked it so much I bought two more G&L's, an Ascari and a Fiorano. All three are fun to play and sound amazing. I am embarrassed how little I paid for them, compared to my other guitars.

[@frankswildyear]

Very good demo, you showed a lot of what the guitar can do,thank you!

I think I watched this video at least four times before I finally found a Fallout at the right price point (not that it's an expensive model, but hey). Things I did just now to it are: 1.- Changed the string tree for a TusQ one. Second string was binding and it caused tuning problems. I chose to play a gig without it and there were no problems, but I respected the original design and installed a better one. 2.- Changed the tone pot for a quality push-push one. I'm not a fan of push-pulls and mine was also flimsy. 3.- Installed a full neck 0.5º wooden shim. In my example I simply could not adjust the strings nearly low enough. When I reached the lowest adjustment position for 1st and 6th, the strings were still 1mm too high. Now I'm still at the lowest setting, but the height is just right, so it works for me as it is. The guitar had a piece of sandpaper as shim, so I also gained sustain by resting the neck fully in the pocket. It's an awesome sounding guitar, lightweight, well made and good looking. What else is there to wish? :D

[@DunsfoldDave]

Minor thing but the Leo Fender timeline just a little wrong. He started Musicman after CBS bought Fender, and then went on to form G&L after he sold Musicman. He worked at G&L right up to his death.

[@regularnimnule9715]

I bought mine on the strength of your review JJ. Excellent info. Re-did the wiring and added a killswitch - done! Great little guitar.

[@cliffwhite2812]

What an intelligent thoughtful and insightful guitar review! Thank you.

[@jaspertouch9335]

Great review! I just bought a black one today. I appreciate you showing the different styles of play with the guitar. Thanks!

[@glyndwr15]

Elizabeth Stokes from The Beths also plays one of these.

[@mysticsailor9]

fyi your chronology is incorrect... musicman came before G&L..musicman in 1971 and G&L in 1979

[@qsdff]

Lot's of detailed informations in this review, good job. At 4'45 minutes, the magical "Money for nothing" sound! ;)

[@rensagalirte]

your channel is addictive, greetings from Costa Rica

[@JJoftheT]

Renato Sáenz Gee, thank you! 🙏🏻

[@brandonpoole1670]

Nice review! Got my heart set on one of these guitars.

[@SonicBluMustang]

Great video! I have had a black tribute fallout for the last few months and love it! It's made me want to start saving for a U.S. Made Fallout!

[@comparedtowhat2638]

Good review, thanks. One small point of history, Fender helped develop Music Man. After giving the original owners considerable financing, Leo became president of the company. G & L happed in 1979. So not the other way around with regard to which came first. I have been looking for an electric guitar that I don’t have to mess with and that has a broad tonal range. The Fallout just may be it. Thanks.

[@notebender4]

Nice! Thanks for this man and the honesty about the switches... I just bought one of these today and I am awaiting the delivery, I am quite excited, to say the least... I've always been driven toward strat type or T type guitars, as I think HB's can be a bit too muddy (and LP's are just too cumbersome) but I was looking for more and I think this is getting more toward the tones I'd like to have available... The split between HB and P90 when tapped (squeaky clean) sounded really good... I really dig the offset styling too...

[@JJoftheT]

Walt Bonczek Thanks, how are you liking your Fallout?

[@notebender4]

@@JJoftheT It was actually quite worrisome at first to be honest because I bought it with the understanding that it was a floor model so I assumed it had already been somewhat set up. Well, it wasn't at all. It must've been brand new which is a bonus in the long run. The action was as low as possible and the truss rod was fully tightened, so much so that I almost couldn't get it to open. Eventually, it did and once the neck relaxed a bit and I was able to set the intonation and get rid of the fret buzz, adjust action etc it turns out to be a great guitar. Mine came with 10's so I have yet to put 9's on it to be completely comfortable which I will do on Monday, also I had to sand the neck, the gloss finish is way too 'tacky' feel wise, for my preference. I do that to most of my guitars because it seems lower end guitars always come with a high gloss finish neck and I hate it...No fret sprout at all, which frankly, surprised me...The switch between pickups acts up as you stated about them being suspect, but it's only happened a few times and I do plan on changing them but for 360$ I can't complain...I do love the locking bridge system, I think that's brilliant...It plays and sounds great and that's what matters so...I have a black one with a maroon Pearloid pickguard and maple neck that makes for a great color combination to the eye...Definitely a good guitar for the lower spectrum cost

[@marioriquelme1651]

Me encanto el vídeo. muy buen trabajo!. en mi próximo viaje a US iré por ella

[@Lalairu]

Thank you for this review. I have a G&L s-500 and I really love it, but I still feel the need of some humbucker sound. I was about to put a humbucker on the bridge, but I like these guitars. They look nice and sound really good. I might change the pickups though. Sorry my English sucks a bit.

[@spaghettibolooooo]

Thanks for the video! Nice playing and a great guitar! :)

[@christianstephan2506]

best guitar demoing on youtube,please more demos.

[@Moggele2310]

thx for this review. I bought my Fallout last saturday :-)

[@Moggele2310]

***** great quality for a price less then 400€. i love my sonic blue one :-)

[@grungebob]

Great Review, I need to add this to my list of possible new guitars.

[@billkuhels7225]

LOVE my Fallout.

[@bowyer10]

ordered one from a dealer on ebay. Fingers crossed! This looks like a very cool guitar. Not enough info on the web about it, but i guess that's fair as it's such a new release.

[@rooguitar]

Great review, G&L are great, keep it up!

[@todddowning5820]

Thanks for the very informative review

[@tdunster2011]

Great review and playing. I might give one of these a try.

[@bobbyberetta4206]

Also it looks like (at least to me) that Fender took the Upper half (neck&headstock) of the Merle Travis Bigsby while Gibson took the body shape for its Les Paul.

[@sleether4049]

You make the best review vids!!

[@Ace76Frehley]

When you said 3 body shapes I was mainly thinking of Singlecut, Doublecut, and Offset. That fallout sounds great though

[@mikijons]

It's like a better mustang, awesome shape.

[@alexmason6191]

Exactly, a better Mustang

[@CaffeineInjected]

great review!

[@Indobiker61]

I got this guitar and i love it...its very versitail. Can do any sort of music from soft to rock. The toggle switch is not that good and will be replaced in the near future.

[@angusorvid8840]

Definitely my kind of guitar. A slightly retro look, very Americana, and NO TREM! I hate trems! Stop tail, hardtail, and in this case, topmount hardtail hybrid give you superior tone and sustain. I love G&Ls, always have. I'm getting one!

[@mikestandifer1549]

I hate trems to. Never cared for them whatsoever. Wasn’t impressed back in the mid to late 80s when they were all the rage.

[@357jazzman]

Thanks for the great review. Please let me know on the neck profile, feel and the Rhett size of the frets. Thank you.

[@SamaZnajeshXto]

Great review! I am thinking about buying this guitar for some time now. Also a question: is this guitar really well-balanced or rather neck-heavy? I like to move a lot on stage and hate when my guitars tend to neck-dive. That's the reason why I had to sell my lovely Gibson DC jr and SG, and had to settle down with a strat

[@alanmiller2250]

Ok I'm sorry I don't have a guitar quite that good. That thing is nice

[@slipps_mwb9478]

What’s the technique at 7:19 to get that bluesy slide? Is it finger picking two strings and sliding them both? Or one open and sliding the other?

[@LateNightProductionsYT]

you probably mean "double-stop"? Although I usually think of double stop being on, say the high E string and the G string rather than two strings right next to each other. Check out the guitar solo by Eddie Hazel in Red Hot Mama (Funkadelic) for some more of that sound.

[@WhiteNacho]

At 6:48 something wigged him out.

[@stbreal]

Actually Jeff Beck didn't modify his esquire with humbuckers. Seymour Duncan made the tele and traded it for his old esquire.

[@drawjamesdraw]

Hey! Very very late question, but I have the exact same guitar and want to upgrade the pots and switch like you suggest. I'm quite clueless about this side of things, so wondered if you could tell me what kind of parts you used? It's such a cool guitar but those bits are pretty weak!

[@ripley4726]

sounds great.. hows the 60 cycle hum if any... what you coil tap it, does the hum return or not. Thanks

[@cooperlavallee]

Definitely don't need a humbucker for rock music. John Frusciante played that strat.

[@MrYaksosk]

Any idea on what the resistance ohms is with the humbucker? It sounds pretty high gain. Sounds kind of difficult to get a nice clean tone. But then if you changed it for a cleaner sounding HB it might not balance well with the P90.

[@Luzuuu]

It is modeled after the Seymour Duncan JB, so you can expect similar resistance values and tones.

[@DanielleEmberley]

I have one of these on it's way to me now without a case. Anyone figure out what case or gig bag (approx $50) would be a good fit? The case finder tables at the sites I usually go to for cases do not include G&L.

[@troythompson1621]

Dude, coil tap and split are 2 completely different things, as jazzmaster and P90 pickups. I love this guitar and I appreciate the video. It's just hard to believe someone that doesn't fact check himself.

[@bce5150]

***** How does the neck feel? I know it's "medium C" which sounds nice to me. Is it wide? Ibanez/Jackson type necks feel too wide for me, Gibson feels too fat, most strats are okay but I want a 12" radius like this....

[@waltersach6679]

But with a naple neck it would look better for me. :P

[@TheDude4077]

Walter Sach There is a maple neck version!

[@waltersach6679]

Really? O.o

[@bigmaz4002]

Wtf who ever wants a maple neck

[@taterlysaladman9377]

+Motherboy XXX I used to say the same thing. Get one of those Fender 52 AVRI blonde blackshields and play it, really grows on you for the single coil sounds. Now I like maple and rosewood necks.

[@bigmaz4002]

Taterly Saladman I actually really love lacquered maple fretboard. They look fantastic.

[@nilsfg0]

This might be a stupid question, but does the tone knob only control the tone of the humbucker, or does it also control the tone of the P90?

[@nilsfg0]

+JJ Tanis Well that was a quick answer! Bedankt!

[@dgmisal1979]

Gives me wood...

[@strat115]

Hi there and thanks for a great review - just got my tribute fallout today - the clear orange over swamp ash special edition from Full Compass. I also noticed the selector switch is quite wobbly, so I will replace it as well. As you mentioned you will replace yours - can you point me to the one you would recommend? If I can order one that I know fits I only have to open the guitar once ... Thanks!

[@MrJoshDoty]

I am thinking about one of these orange ones. How do you like it?

[@strat115]

Joshua Doty Hi Joshua, I do like it a lot. Since you are looking to buy, here a few observations. Finish and feel are very nice. There is a tiny spot when looking sideways at the neck joint where the finish did not make it quite around the edge and underneath the neck and the wood shows, but you'd need a magnifying glass to see it. Otherwise the finish is flawless, and the wood matching is done so well it took me quite some time to realise its a three piece wood body. I found a few nuts were not tightened very well on tuners, input jack, potis, but that only took 5 min to address, and, once tightened, feels very solid. The pickups sound very good both separate and together, as you can hear in this video. I did replace the bridge pickup with a SD TB-4, just because I wanted the setup of an american made Fallout, but there is nothing wrong with the pickup it comes with. A note on string spacing - the Fallout has a string spacing a tiny bit narrower at the nut then a current American Fender Strat for example, but then has wider, FR trem style spacing at the bridge (hence the SD TB-4, not the SH-4), which leads to a wider string spacing towards the upper part of the neck. I actually find myself quite liking this setup, and the difference is not so large to be a likely problem in any case. The potis seem fine, the volume pot makes a little mechanical noise when turning, but does not scratch sound-wise. The selector switch does not seem very solid, but works fine for the moment. I expect I will end up replacing the potis and switch somewhere down the line, but for now they work just fine. I played the guitar at a gig last week, and it really sounds great, punchy, but sweet when needed. For me its a definite keeper.

[@MrJoshDoty]

Thanks for the information. Tightening Loose nuts and bolts I can handle, would consider that user maintenance.

[@MrJoshDoty]

Just ordered one. I'll let you know when I get it and have had a chance to give it a good test.

[@strat115]

Joshua Doty Yes let me know how you like it - hopefully as much as I like mine!

[@alexgochman6654]

Is good for classic rock or better to buy legacy or asat clasic?

[@dawoud8013]

I think that is a F...ing pickup config ! You need a Legacy if you don't have a Strat, but you need the Fallout too ^^ Edit : and a Les Paul like too ^^

[@N_A_Lund]

Man if they only made these in a dual-90 config

[@thebopsquallies15]

I liked the video, but you simply cannot say that all guitars are based off of teles, strats, or les pauls.

[@khanhbui739]

What about the Ibanez shape?

[@mikec6733]

That looks as though it might have neck dive. Does anyone out there know?

[@Jake24378]

Does it have neck dive? Neck heavy or balanced?

[@simongummer4515]

what is the neck like at the nut is it narrow ...

[@270gaston]

Friend urgently need to know if this guitar is heavy, I had a back problem and was banned heavy lifting and find several light guitars, I had my hands on a SG, if you are very light, but my budget I can not afford both, so I need to know how much you weigh, would appreciate it if you tell me

[@jeffoberg772]

Every review I’ve seen of these guitars talks about how light they are. In general they have a poplar body, which is a fairly light hardwood.

[@valekrrnz2226]

Hello! Would you reccomend this axe for Grunge/indie type music? Thx a lot!!!

[@martywhite1084]

By Ou I’d recommend not playing either style on any guitar. Peace to you.🙏🏿

[@gsly6081]

@@martywhite1084 What?

[@rubenfernandez8785]

Do you still have it? I’m looking for one like this. Pm me if you have it

[@scottsmith1607]

so other than replacing 20% of the guitar I love it. #eyeroll

[@madiomega901]

Does this have any neck dive cause the body looks small

[@fillmorejives2284]

I doubt it. it's mahogany. I have an ibanez s series and is really thin, yet perfectly (I mean perfectly, as in balanced on the cutaway)

[@phosphormannscotty9616]

can i use it for grunge?

[@thenug3489]

+Phosphormann Scotty you can use almost any guitar for grunge.

[@ShivamSharma-zd8lw]

+NIGNUG sooo true lmao

[@bonitabromeliads]

you're redding out your levels. over modulation, poorly recorded.