Gifts Guitarists Wish You Wouldn’t Buy (2025)

[@preston_4824]

my bass player got me some nice strings for a sort of christmas gift, I was very happy

[@todieforponchos533]

Fair enough, but please try out the Behringer SF300 Super Fuzz. It's a beast!

[@MasterV667]

Having 10+ guitars and basses, guitar strings and cables are actually the things I ask for, if someone wants to buy me guitar related gift. I have helix floor and I sold all my pedals, every guitar alread has straplock and i have spare straplock buttons for every new instrument so many of the good guitar christmas gifts I already have. However having so many guitars and even playing on 3 regularly and having the rest in cases restringing every month can become a little expensive (I use 3 different gauges for different guitars). :)

[@AlexGichevMusic]

Good point

[@martyshwaartz971]

Who wouldn't want strings? As long as they know the brand and gauge it's useful, they don't expire, and it saves money on the guitar players end. Most guitars have a string winder already anyways..

[@LupeFN]

Agreed. if you even need a string winder you probably have multiple guitars, those that could use the strings

[@Kirovr66isgetting_goodatmath]

As soon as he said “condoms” I REGRETTED SEDING THIS TO MY MOM😭😭😭

[@Guitars_n_shi]

Dude all I want for Christmas is strings. I have a house that doesn’t have any ventilation so my strings rust super easy. All I ask for is 10 gauge strings and most the time I end up with 10 slinky strings and I couldn’t be happier

[@MookieMaroni]

Maybe you should ask Santa for a window.

[@tiredcitizenz1925]

I won't lie the behringer eq pedal and the tm300 are nice pedals. The tm300 is a sansamp knock off but it's super nice in my opinion.

[@AlexGichevMusic]

Yeah, soundwise I've got no issue with them, it's just that in my experience they break, and I didn't even gig them. But soundwise, as you say, they're great, maybe you you put them in another enclosure, they would last longer. Thanks for writing!

[@No1Nowhere91]

If you guys aren’t in Europe and can’t get Harley Benton pedals, get some donner pedals - they’re about if not lower than the Harley Benton pedals.

[@AlexGichevMusic]

Also something that somebody brought up in the comments, a lot of the Harley Benton pedals are rebranded Joyo pedals, so you can just get those if you're not in Europe. Thanks for the suggestion!

[@MarlonEdwards86]

Im broke so any of these is amazing

[@Anonymouspersoniguess]

XD i litterally asked for a berhinger and a few sets of 10-52s for christmas, and i dont regret it, just dont slam on the berhingers and youre good. if you treat them well they last ages

[@N4thF4]

and its like 20$ so if it breaks down lets go

[@caelminogue6537]

I agree with the Behringer pedal thing, except the SF300.

[@hervet]

And thats how "i" came up with the idea to get an interface for free 😁 Was aiming for a Schecter C1 Platinum but wife told me that for the noise i make, anything will do. Tried to explain to her that the noise would sound better with a good guitar but.... Great vid as always ( btw im 41 and would totaly wear the flaming skull les paul playing tshirt...would make the noise better too)

[@AlexGichevMusic]

Ahahahah,”the noise would be better” had me laughing out loud. Rock on dude, hope you enjoy you interface! As a guitarist who grew up with one, I can’t really imagine not owning at least some sort of way to plug my guitar into my computer. Thanks for the nice words! Tbh, I generated the cheesy t shirt pic AI and, it came out looking way less cheesy than what I was imagining. But it got the point across, so I just left it there

[@connorpayne2671]

I honestly ask for strings every year and I tell everyone the specific type 😅

[@ozspierer4732]

dude your videos are great plus nice refrencin samurai guitarist

[@AlexGichevMusic]

Thanks!!!

[@TEENAYY1590]

I would love More Behringer pedals, I already own 4 lmao

[@GraveyardLurker]

Im a beginner, I want all of them🗣️

[@i_dont_want_a_handle]

Some TC Electronic pedals are actually pretty bad, I've had quite an experience with Viscous Vibe - first of all it can't handle effects loop input level, it distorts quite heavily, it also isn't immediately turned off even when you have the dip switch set to do that (it's a known issue) and last but not least, its barrel jack broke after I reconnected it like 5 times

[@AlexGichevMusic]

Huh, maybe some of them are crap. I got a MojoMojo and a ditto looper and they've been great to me so far. I also really wanna get a Sentry gate. But maybe not all of them are that great. Thanks for writing!

[@mjtejero]

A string is goood, just not the slinky omes 😂 daddrio's xs is great

[@supershaw09]

I use slinky and I love them

[@nathancl2k]

I have SO many string winders!

[@AlexGichevMusic]

Send me some, I got just one and it's one of the cheap plastic ones 😀

[@jcout25]

@AlexGichevMusic That's because you're cheap. Buy a good one with the money you make from this video.

[@AlexGichevMusic]

@@jcout25 The fact that you think I make money from these videos is one of the biggest compliment I've received this year 😂 But seriously, yeah, I gotta buy one of those multitools myself

[@1nfius948]

Send me one, Idk why I have one

[@dekjet]

Harley Benton pedals are nothing special. For the most part they're rebrands of JOYO pedals and some other manfucaturers (maybe some are Caline? IDK). Find those if you don't want to order from overseas.

[@AlexGichevMusic]

Yes, a big part of their regular series is just rebranded Joyo stuff, didn't think about that. Goof point. Thanks for writing!

[@TheDantheman12121]

wtf is going on? are youtubers using ai to make themselves look better or something? i seen it a few times now where the person looks weird af

[@wojargameplays9616]

they are making these creepy oversaturated thumbnail faces because they get more clicks for some reason

[@AlexGichevMusic]

Yea, if you mean the thumbnail we oversaturate. overcontrast and oversharpen the image, so it stands out more. Making a dumb eye-catching face helps as well. As far as the video goes, there's nothing going going on there.