Guitarist Logic.

[@Ran-tan-tan]

GLEEENNNN! Tubes matter to the guitar sound. If they work, you get sound, if they don't you don't get sound. Thanks to coming to my TED talk.

[@specialkonacid6574]

best ted talk ever o7

[@HabAnagarek]

Hero of the day

[@ChaptermasterPedroKantor-kv5yw]

🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@SilentNightBodomNight]

Reading the first sentence sent me spiraling in rage lol.

[@GotGearMate]

Yeah you're TED Nugent Talk 😁

[@damienalvarez2957]

Tubevangelist and pickup priest are terms I’m gonna start using now.

[@fajaradi1223]

How should we address tonewood activist?

[@Eireman_on_Twitch]

Easy: Wizard of the wood.

[@SpiritualPyschosis27]

Tonewoodologists

[@AdamDelVecchioA-Bomb]

@@Eireman_on_TwitchNice! Wood Wizards!

[@acidpancakes420]

@@Eireman_on_Twitchwizard of the wood sounds to cool lol 😂

[@erichartwell6792]

So true no one gives a fuck what you use as long as it sounds good

[@dogbiscuits752]

There are people that do, however their opinions honestly don’t matter, since they just wanna tear you down.

[@JohnnyMegabyteCanada]

I got many great sounding Marshall amp compliments at gigs, when I was using a Zoom G5 into a Tech 21 Power Engine 60. Also, I learned to use less gain Live.

[@FG-vp6id]

Except those 40 year old analog worshippers, but you take away the visuals they can not tell its an ampsim, they just dont like change...

[@Ouvii]

You are right, but the monkey brain makes it so that what you see makes things sound better or worse based on visual cues (the same thing happens with how food tastes) So in a way, people do care about how it looks.

[@alexsartandmusic]

@@FG-vp6id the funniest part is that their hearing is probably just degraded enough to make differentiation between the real deal and the emulation almost impossible. At that point, their grip around the analog teddy bear is just a sentimental thing. Wasn't the whole point, from the beginning, to just sound good? I BET the analog purists can't even dial in an actually good tone to save their lives!

[@frankguitarwells]

Just a comment to help your algorithm! Wishing your beloved a speedy recovery!

[@ItsVictoriaG]

Okay, but I want you to know that it was because of you I figured out my rig sounded like a blanket was thrown over my amp because of the speaker. Not the guitar, not the pedals, not the pickups. It was the speaker. And after I replaced it I said, “Glenn Fricker was right all along!” I replaced the Cannabis Rex with a Tone Tubby 4040 and I couldn’t be happier. It’s clear! Sparkly! I see WHY people like Cannabis Rex speakers in a Princeton to mitigate any ice pick tones. I had it for 2 years and very suddenly I couldn’t stand it.

[@chitstain89]

I still remember one of the few shows I played with a small time cover band, I used my HX Stomp direct into the board. Had an older gentleman come up and ask “hey man, what are you playing through, a Marshall stack??” People cannot tell, even when it was visibly obvious I had no stack behind me lol Getting over my own tube snobbery in favor of convenient tools that still get great tone was the best thing to happen to me as a guitar player.

[@chuckcassidymusic]

Having just lived in Italy for three years and playing in a few bands, I dealt with guitarist logic more than a few times. I always got smug smirks when I walked into a club or rehearsal with my Indonesian-made SUB bass by Sterling, $300 10 years ago in the USA. It's the most comfortable, best playing and sounding bass I've ever owned. Had everything adjusted, replaced a part or two, but it fits me like an old shoe, and I'll never sell it. Unfortunately, my Italian was never good enough to explain to them how they're stupid and more interested in vanity than reality.

[@thecollective1584]

More people talking about $4000 amps. The last band I was in, the guitar player had the Marshall MG100 solid state amp and we played not only bar gigs but shows in front of multiple thousands. Not a single musician talked shit about his sound and no one in the audience knew any better

[@PitterPatter-xj1in]

Duuuuuude the MG is such a good pedalboard platform…i kinda miss mine but at the same time, downsizing was definitely the move now that i dont gig

[@Grouuumpf]

Bought a 1x12 combo one, completely overpriced in a small shop (but it's Marshall it's normal that it's expensive, but it's good go ahead" said an uncle) Sounded like utter shit in my opinion, sold it not even a year later for a bugera 333 and 4x12 Kustom. Never made a wisest choice. The friend who bought it from me and ended up in my band was very happy with it though, and it sounded OK for his style

[@Metaldad87]

I use a crate head, marshall cab, and boss gt6, have gotten compliments on my tone more than once

[@Durkhead]

Static x used that amp

[@orlock20]

The clean stuff on Hysteria by Def Leppard was done with a practice amp one can strap to their pants belt. That model of amp was used on other '80s songs as well.

[@cabe5792]

one of the funniest tropes in the 'guitar community' is calling 50w 12inch combo amps that can blow off the windows in your home 'practice amps' because... they dont have tubes I guess? I have a boss katana 50 and Its so unbelievably loud, I've gigged it and the volume never goes over like 2 or 3, and rehearsing I always keep it at the 0.5w mode and it still sounds louder than the drummer. Yet a lot of these amp reviewers are like 'oh yeah its a nice little thing to practice in your bedroom' and they seem surprised people arent buying 100w tube heads and 4x12s anymore, completely dethached from reality.

[@blakeanderson7906]

Love the show Glenn! I have only been playing for a few years now and i feel like i have learned quite a bit from your show. Rock on!

[@Hakasemusic]

The tone is mostly in the knobs. They usually even tell you what frequencies they effect. You may not be able to get a super specific tone from your gear, but as far as changing the tone, nothing does more than that knob that says "tone"

[@christopherstorrier5560]

Using just a tone pot is a bit simplistic bud....hundreds of variables to take into account,cables, console, speakers, amp, microphone, guitar or bass, strings, picks even...Glenn is living in the '80's hence Judas Priest & all that so much high gain ,a tone pot would make no difference at such high gain, all pickups sound the same on ultra high gain...'Ace of Spades' (Motorhead) was recorded with Fast Eddie's standard Stratocaster....

[@Hakasemusic]

Yeah, i was being a bit reductive, and i definitely agree choice of instrument (guitar vs bass) definitely makes the biggest tone difference. But, to say tone knob makes no difference at high gain...idk... maybe try it? I'm talking about actually rotating the knob, btw, i never tested different capacitor values or 250k, vs 500k or anything like that. I'm just saying going from full open to 3 makes my guitar sound darker for free!

[@christopherstorrier5560]

@@Hakasemusic .it would darken the tone down for sure but Glenn's amount of gain stages would negate which type or make of pickup...in bands that don't go crazy with gain & volume the pickups would get back their individual tonal sound & a tone pot would make a big difference then...👍

[@eamonahern7495]

Welcome back Glenn. I've only watched a few Coffees With Ola in full, Rick Beato, John Petrucci, Zakk Wylde and maybe just snippets of one or two others, but now you're in the club of the ones I've watched in full.

[@Akuma813]

Definitely looking forward to your Eminence speaker review. Years ago got a Vader cabinet loaded with them and haven't looked back.

[@chrishall5176]

I have been using various Wminence loaded cabinets for 2 decades now and I'll probably never change that. Though I do have one cabinet with mojotone speakers that sounds great too

[@hardluckjaymusic7799]

I purchased a peavey 2x12 cabinet from a pawn shop for a 100 bucks and put two Mick Thompson eminence speakers in there. I love them. They sound great!

[@Mr.Goldbar]

I believe the Soldano user in that one comment invested in the Soldano more so for convenience rather than trying to somehow save money on pedals. It's much more convenient to have the amp get it all tight and right vs having to add a pedal in the front in order to make it sound like your vision, plus if there's channel switching involved it's also more convenient to just switch the channel vs switching the channel + turning on and off the overdrive for respective channels. Spending 4K on this might not be the best idea, but I'd not judge someone if they have this preference for the way they work with their gear and find some gear not as desirable for their workflow.

[@infinidominion]

It actually was Attack of Blithering Idiots week, I always miss stuff 😂

[@MetalNeverDieswithMarkA]

Glenn!!! Thanks for shout out on the Ola channel when you had coffee with him. That’s really cool. And yes don’t cup your mic😂

[@SpectreSoundStudios]

Thanks, Mark!

[@rcameron4091]

I really like the wide variety of discussion and opinions on your channel . Always something to learn from others experiences . We are all trying to get the best sounds out of the equipment we have available . One thing I find intriguing in digging deep into classic albums is the overall sounds on some are mediocre , but the Quality of the songs are so powerful it overshadows the sub- par recordings . Enjoyed the vid CAMCURSE

[@iainriley8819]

Yea ! I'm an old tape monkey 4" and 2" just getting back into running a live PA and jeez desks have evolved, we had 4 knobs and a fader and bar meter across the top. Dig your work brother 👏👏💯

[@davidbaron8892]

I used to mic my cab with a 57 and a 121, and do everything real and old-school. I can't do that anymore in an NYC apartment. I have only one real cab in my apartment. It sounds great, but it will only ever create one, same sound. Using that cab, to get any tonal variation, I had to change the guitar, the amp, or both. And for some of us, having loads of cabs around and swapping speakers is both impractical, and expensive. I've now gone to using a CapX which comes with some good cab sims, and I bought some even better aftermarket cab sims. With the virtual (software) cabs and mics, you CAN have as many of them as you want. Because they all sound different, you can vary your tones at the cab/speaker/mic level -- which is what Glenn's been preaching. And he's right about hearing pretty dramatic differences. I could only explore this avenue virtually, and I'm glad I did. I can highly recommend both the Friedman and George Lynch cab packs. They sound awesome.

[@Bloor005]

I've the same problem. I have a helix but I'm sick of headphones 😥

[@502deth]

i will admit, im not a regular viewer. i havent watched an episode in a few weeks and this one came up in my recommended videos. im so happy to see that at least one person is still calling out the bullshit audio-fools out there. youre doing gods work. dont ever stop.

[@myopicautisticmetal9035]

YT recommended to me a video titled "The Truth about Glenn Fricker" needless to say I didn't bother watching it.

[@travisspaulding2222]

It's funny because the video was complimentary.

[@myopicautisticmetal9035]

@@travisspaulding2222 I may watch it later, but I already know Glenn is Canadian.

[@travisspaulding2222]

@@myopicautisticmetal9035 Haha, I have a different perspective of the Canadian people.

[@anthonyvieni4894]

Thanks for your help with gearing up and although I am not far enough in my musical journey to even begin to record myself it’s still cool to see how and how to do so as effectively and efficiently for not a lot of money… Again thanks again

[@RPSchonherr]

I've watched a couple of Collins videos on hand winding pickups. Good stuff.

[@v4ld3r5]

Hi Gleen! On the topic of pickups swapping, I recently discovered a trick I wanted to share: use a multiband compressor just after the guitar. I picked up the 3-band compressor that comes in the Helix, I just wanted to quickly bring up some brightness and attack while tightening the lows and overall boosting the signal a bit. Actually I got pretty impressed with the results! Greetings from Spain

[@ChaptermasterPedroKantor-kv5yw]

YEAH! I made it on the show!

[@remarkablehairdo3110]

I was lucky to get a rude awakening very early so my gear snobbery got nipped in the bud. After being a complete dweeb obsessing over every detail of guitars and amps i went out to see a local band and they sounded AMAZING. I went up and talked to the guitar player to ask him about his gear and i was like so what is that guitar?! What are the pickups?! And he looks at it for a sec and goes "uhh its a jackson . I think theyre hum buckers?". It was that moment that i realized not giving a fuck about that nonsense and just playing your guitar is a way better idea if you want to sound good.

[@nihilgeist666]

Thanks Glenn, good show!

[@dylanpaterson7612]

Just had there Boss IR-2 arrive and I am absolutely blown away, with some 3rd party Its it rips! No more carrying heavy amps around. It would be cool to see you review these types of amp sims on your show, a shoot out of the pedal amps would be awesome

[@GotGearMate]

I've been doing it all my own way for 30ish years. Just ordered a custom speaker cabinet to go with a couple of small 20w amps. Got a selection of mics nobody else uses, a selection of pres nobody else uses. Back in the day I use to record through a Valvestate when everyone was bad mouthing them, yet they thought my recordings were from a big studio and 4x12 with all valve amp. I was even using the Bad Monkey before JHS made it popular, laughed my arse off when I sold that on prior to their episode on it. I often tell people - challenge yourself to make things work in the context of a mix, using kit you're not entirely sold on. It will teach you a few things.

[@KrowdesAlexander]

Bloody priceless, Glenn. ROFL Exquisite opening, too. Honestly, I can only describe what you share with each video as *words of wisdom* (even if, perhaps, spoken with the volume and excitement of a raving lunatic. LOL).

[@DoorsInTheLabyrinth]

cartoon theme songs are one of my favorite things ever, so hanging on for that contest! and for tv, well, I liked Get A Life, but that was REM's "Stand" so seems sort of like cheating. OH! Just had a really good idea for a theme that WAS instrumental, but there IS a vocal version of it. Nevermind, game is back on!

[@infinidominion]

Hyped for that theme contest, have a contender idea. .. We still never heard if there was a winner for Ola's blue Revv, that amp looked awesome too

[@garethbarlow5278]

Re hand wired pickups the “Dylan Talks Tone” channel is excellent. Dylan is a custom pickup winder who is more than happy to share the details of the work. He also makes the best P90’s on the planet IMHO. They have an articulation I can actually hear and they’re metal af.

[@MichaelMoore-nx5ue]

Hello Glenn, I just ran into you at KK’s priest in Wyandotte Michigan. Thank you so much. You are so kind.

[@PooNinja]

13:40 wait hes a leprechaun and a scientist???? So he IS an alchemist ! I knew those tricky imps had secrets to their gold!

[@thomaskenish3593]

One of the best tones I've ever gotten (and I've used marshals, Randall's and oranges quite a bit) has been a light overdrive of your choice into a boss metal zone into a Carvin Mach 100 pedal board amp powering a 180 watt Avatar 2x12. All together you'll spend about 600 bucks on one of the lightest rigs you'll ever use aside from a floor modeler and it sounds amazing.

[@Summer92694]

Gurren lagan is a bad ass anime glen! Hell yeah my man you're the shit

[@EclecticSoundBox]

Thank you so much for answeringmy question, Glenn! This really made my day and I really appreciate it. I forgot to also mention another camera which is the Canon M50 Mark 1 and 2, although I'm pretty sure you would tell me the same thing. Either way, thanks again!

[@SBanas]

The only time changing tubes improved my sound is when I've decided to replace the poor quality marshall 12ax7 to JJ 12ax7S which reduced the amount of background hiss. It didn't remove it completely, but it was an improvement nonetheless. And no, I haven't recovered it, so it might have been a placebo 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@pedrogiavani2330]

@11:30 you just dropped the names of the two speakers I pit in a home brew 2X12 cabinet. I love them! I feed them with a PRS MT15 and two overdrives (one, the other, or both depending on what I am playing) Mostly blues with dirt, but they work great clean. Much better than the speaker in my Fender Blues Jr. 3 as I also use that amp into the cab. Try them. You may like them, or not.

[@grassmover13]

GLEEEEEEEEN! Combined a Eminence DV-77 and a Celestion G12 EVH by replacing the V30s in a Harley Benton 212 cab. It is a modern metal monster now. Definitely recommend the combination, to do something different than the V30's.

[@GotGearMate]

That EVH speaker is well cool.

[@handlehasbeenedited]

Hey Glen. Been watching your KZbin videos for a while but I just finally made a KZbin account so I'm definitely having fun commenting. I currently have a line 6 240HC, FBV3 floorboard and an EPI LesPaul. My dream set up using brands I grew up playing with. I like how you talk about not following the crowd when it comes to buying only from what they tell you to buy. I'm not touring but if I was, I'd probably use this exact set up but add some NeoCreambacks, great recommendation on speakers by the way. Thanks for your content, Aye! Keep them coming!

[@oddrage1706]

Harrison Mixbus32c is the one other DAW I use other than Reaper. It's built on the open source Ardour DAW (for Linux and Mac) and it straight up feels and sounds like working on an analogue console. Now that they've merged with SSL, we'll see if they go the subscription model route...

[@dogdays7120]

Just ordered a pair of Mojo tone BV-30H's off your recommendation. I have a 2-12 cabinet with a pair of BV-25M's (which I picked up based on your suggestion as well). Recently grabbed another 2-12 cabinet and will be loading the pair of BV-30H's into that. Looking forward to the wall sound! Thanks for the great resource your channel provides Glenn.

[@jphel2713]

I haven't been in a studio to record in decades. The last time I was, there weren't IRs, digital effects, or the myriad of tools available to producers that there are today to obtain as close to a perfect sound as is possible. We went in with our rigs, effects, and tried to get as accurate a representation on tape of what we sounded like live as we could. My question to you, given that you have said many times that live sound isn't your thing, is do you find yourself ever losing sight of a band's ability to reproduce what sound you get them in your studio in a live setting? And thank you for what you do on this channel, you are very entertaining and informative!

[@invujerry]

@17:33 I found a couple of my dad’s old Nikon lenses in my shed years ago and they’re the best lenses I’ve used.

[@brianpayne5773]

Thanks for inspiring me to try something different. I play multiple random genres. And with rock I wanted something different something so I ended up moving to a bugera v22. I feel like I am doing something that sounds good and different. Couldn’t be happier doing something different.

[@jessehutchings]

2:49 Why would you want your 5150 to sound like a rectifier? 😂 LOL

[@BAND-MAID-USA]

Finally. He admits he admits he’s a PRETEND scientist.

[@Zachary-dr1mu]

Hey Glenn! Forgive the ignorant guitarist question, I just don’t know if you have a video on this, and if you do I couldn’t find it. How does one set up a DI box and reamp box? I just got my first reamp box a few months ago (that cheap Radial thing), and I’ve been struggling to get good results with it. I’m running into the cheap, passive Radial DI box, that’s sending the thru signal to an Axe-FX III, and both the signal from the Axe-FX and the DI output of the DI box are going into a Focusrite Scarlett 18i20. I’ve tried a bunch of different things (testing different DI input levels, adjusting the input gain of the Axe-FX, different cables, different cable layouts) and I don’t know what I’m doing wrong with it, but the DI signal seems to be weaker than what got sent into the Axe-FX no matter what I do.

[@msi1985]

Glenn I could really use your help trying to figure out a solution for modeling and playing live at the same time. Some background information and some gear that I'm working with for context: in the home studio I have a focusrite 2i2, a quad cortex, an evh 5150 stealth and an Evh 2x12 cabinet, for monitoring solutions I have Adam audio 7s and for FRFR cabinets I have a pair of Fender Tone Master pro 1000w cabs. Some of my favorite tones that I have developed using the neural DSP plugins or the bogren digital plugins, they just don't seem to transfer well once I try to use them in a live setting. They seem to fit into mixes well, but when I've tried to put the output to my FRFR cabinets the tones just don't sound the same no matter how much I tweak the EQ. I've tried taking captures or plugins that are available on the quad cortex and then running a power amp into my physical guitar cabinet and that hasn't seen to Garner the same sound either... So for now what I'm ending up doing is using my quad-core and FRFR monitors for most of my live playing solutions but once in a while especially with seven string guitars that are detuned I just end up bringing the actual guitar amp and cabinet because it seems to give me the best sound that I'm looking for... Which is a very tight bottom end that has note definition in articulation that doesn't fall off or start to sound soggy / woofy. My initial conclusion after all of this testing is that the cabinets that I'm using from fender simply cannot keep up with the frequencies that I'm requesting, hence the sort of washed out woofy sound I'm hearing (I would really love to provide you with an example of this I can try my best to make this but I only have an sm7 and sm-8 microphone but I'm willing to do it if you're willing to lend a hand) At this point in time I've pretty much given up on trying to figure out how I can make something be the all-in-one solution... Is there actually an all-in-one solution or am I kind of kidding myself that that exists?

[@drfrankenstein9378]

Moen violent metal pedal - Defender 5HMOD - Home made cab with a eminence Texas heat whole rig - without guitar is about $500au best tone I have ever had - plenty loud The speaker is the most expensive part of that rig Listen to this man, he knows of what he speaks

[@burford2008]

Hey Glenn, 2 things for you. 1. I would love to see an Eminence Wizard on the channel whenever you do get some of their speakers. I had one in an open back 1x12 with a Kustom Defender 5w head and people were often blown away by how good it sounded for stoner/doom tones. 2. I'd love to hear your thoughts on the Shure SM7B for a guitar/bass cab mic or on drums.

[@JVovk2002]

I was trying to save someone a lot of money by telling him to just get a 5150 with either an EQ pedal in the effects loop or a different speaker, instead of a Dual Rectifier for the scooped mids sound. He still kept saying how he wanted a Mesa, even after all the different recommendations.

[@eriklamelakillingspree7690]

I have an Eminence Swamp Thang and a Governor pairing in my 5150 Sig combo. Amazing speakers, really gives a thick and cutting tone.

[@Lycanthropy54or]

I wanna see this two inch tape!!! Please. Let’s see quarter inch tape soon please

[@papasmamas1]

Hey Glenn, you should check the reissue of the Gibson Victory, it looks a pretty solid model. Although preffer the original headstock and dont dig the pickguard.

[@krustdogg131]

Glenn! I watched a youtube video of a guy explaining how to get a great bass tone. He split it into 3 tracks, one clean, one with a saturation and one with a guitar amp overdrive. I commented ' you could just use ELEMENT BASS and get that tone much easier

[@P-47M_1_RE]

The Fender Super 60 is an amazing amp in the (350-450$ USD) price range. Also just because it’s fender doesn’t mean it can’t do high gain. It’s one of the red knob amps made by Paul Rivera when her worked for fender in the late 80s/early 90s. I can get almost a no more tears sound if I add a chorus pedal to it. It’s an insane amp for the money and it’s sounds amazing!!! It can do anything from fender cleans to high gain metal and it has a reverb, fx loop and a line out as well. It comes with a fender blue label (again late 80s/early 90s) that speaker is made by EMINENCE too !!!!! It’s an awesome speaker, so awesome that I got my dad to get one and replace the black shadow speaker in his mesa mk 3 with the blue label one!!!! ( he loves the speaker btw and I have been using the information form your videos to turn him away from the tube/tone wood sniffing because I have had him do blind test and made him go “huh, yeah I guess you’re right” to a lot of things you have tested) I would love to see a video on the super 60 because it can do metal and it has a tone that’s different than a 5150 with v30s, I know crazy!!! I would also love to see a video on the speaker at least too. You can find the blue labels I’m talking about for about 50$ pretty easily. Well worth the money. And I can give a link or whatever to the amp and speaker if you want me too. I love the show Glen and I look forward the episode!!!

[@gabrieltodd3430]

Semi-related to music: The Amory Wars, by Claudio Sanchez of Coheed and Cambria. They just started the final storyline of the No World for Tomorrow comics. Check them out!

[@mrgoodyt1781]

if you want a muddy tone don't change the preamp tubes, just use celestion classic lead 80's. they have so much bass and roled off trebble

[@orlock20]

Mud that was defined by me is heavy mid tone so Mid 10, Bass 1, Treble 1 and tone knob on the guitar 1.

[@jaredscott367]

using my ToneX , into a clean amp with vintage 30's. it's all I need. rocking industrial since 2000

[@hadleymanmusic]

Well no Monday mix. Damn Glen it's 51° in NW Louisiana. 2 weeks ago 98° highs

[@TheMixClub]

I picked up your multitracks Savage Grooves pack years ago. and for Dwightpower88 they even have all the session files and it was killer Live drums. The Roswell Delphos mic sounds great on guitars also. Great Work Glenn and 🖕Off from IL.. LOL!! Be Safe Man

[@jakobole]

In synth-world, just mention that the 12 voice Behringer Deepmind 12 sounds awesome for very little money, and get the same reactions.

[@RicA1-dl6jy]

Hay glen, would your speaker theory work in a open hall? It would be nice to see a sound test recording different cabs in a large environment. Could you also custom your speaker to lose the bad frequencies in your room? Example, if low ends are effecting your mix, using a ? Would be more appropriate. 😂 ✌️

[@Bloor005]

Hang some thick memory foam mattress covers, duvets and pillows up in the room. That'll tame the room. Customising speakers is a science. Its also expensive if there are mistakes.

[@mybrotherjames8579]

Glenn, or anyone in this community, I have a 1970’s acoustic 4x12 bass cab. It’s big. The og speakers start to break up at low power. Like my, modded, guild thunder bass is too much, the ampeg v6 is way too much. I love the sound of a good 412 bass setup. I’m using a 4003 and my brother is using a geddy jazz. What speakers should I get!?

[@Halfaloaf599]

Great contest theme!!!

[@korydeleon8236]

GLEN! New thing to try, I keep seeing about aluminum guitar necks and how they change the tone of the guitar. The more I think about it the more the neck/fretboard material changing the tone makes zero sense but there are those people who refuse to change their thoughts on the matter.

[@that_jason_black]

Honest Question. Something I've ALWAYS thought about. Do you think the atmosphere (w&w/o) the presence of bodies and AirCon have an affect on the overall quality of the sound in studio and/or concert hall? Reasoning: Molecular (Air) propagation when sound checking when there aren't bodies to deflect sound and temp of the air. Am I over thinking this? Also, Hey Glenn.

[@southernpanda33]

I just got a PRS MT-15 and I don’t know why I even thought those big tube amps were needed. I ran it into my 2x12 cab with Celestion G12H Anniversary EVH speakers and my Peavey Vypyr loaded with a DV-77. I love the differences in sound but the eminence speaker is better

[@respectfulremastersbymetal8336]

Dude, you should cover the stuff in the Ugritone going out of business sale. It's all METAL as FRAK and stupid cheap.

[@AntmanFelix]

I was talking with a buddy about speakers and he told me about Scumbacks and swears by them. Would love to see you fire them up too

[@markgalvezkorff9854]

You rock Sir!❤❤❤

[@Dragonfyre137]

Hey Glenn, for bands on a tight budget what is the better investment in your book? New speakers or microphones? I get that the largest portion of the sound comes from the speaker so having a quality speaker is fundamental. However, when recording the mics are the last element in your signal chain, and they can be used for different instruments as well when you're willing to experiment (e.g. using guitar mics for bass or drums as well). Cordially fuck you from Germany!

[@snap-off5383]

Good luck to you dudes participating in the tv songs competition.

[@Elias_a95]

Hi! serious question, so pickups don't make difference in tone, but do pickups play role in sustain ?

[@Bloor005]

To a degree. The magnet can act as a brake on the vibration of the string if its far too strong and/or close to each other... but very VERY slightly. This effect is used in bigger scale in exercise bikes to create resistance btw. Stronger magnets initially make the sound louder to a point... this is why you dont get 30-40k pickups. I would imagine it'd be less than a db in sound one amplified.

[@natrixxvision6997]

3:53 Leo Fender got it right on the first try,…using Paul Bigsby’s headstock design.

[@JakeStrange66]

2 inch tape??!!! I recorded on tape until Jan of this year. Still don't use a DAW though. I'm having trouble - a ton of trouble - tracking a good bass guitar recording (even when I finally tried a few DAWs.) I definitely need some help & haven't found any yet. I didn't have that problem when I recorded on tape. 🤷

[@jamesc8563]

Would love to see a video about older Peavey Classic 30s-absolutely killer little combo amp if you replace the crappy stock speaker with something better, built like a friggin’ tank, and you can easily find used ones in good working condition for $300 or less. I’m more of a blues and classic rock guy than a metal player, but I’ve learned a lot-and saved a lot of money-from following this channel. Specifics might differ from genre to genre, but the general advice and way of looking at things is widely applicable.

[@angelohypolito4955]

Glen, what is your indications for good bass guitar speakers? Do you applie the same mic technics on guitars and basses? thanks, I love your show.

[@EconID]

I am so stoked for Glenn to upgrade to a larger studio 🤘I won't be disappointed if you don't, though!

[@1loveMusic2003]

Ya I've been using the 20watt Valveking head for years and I love it.

[@theelmagoo]

A content idea for you regarding pickups and their effects on the overall guitar sound for metal. I think it would be really interesting to test the potential a guitar pickup has to drastically alter the tone of the guitar. Would you be able to partner with a big pickup brand like Seymour Duncan or Bare Knuckle to do this as an experiment? Have them make a few experimental pickups using whatever techniques they have in an attempt to push the tone as far as possible in various ways to see how extreme of a tone shift a pickup could accomplish? It also would be nice to see how the different manufacturing techniques alter the output. I think this could be an eye opener for the potential of what a pickup can do as the only thing we consumers have to go off of are what products they put onto the market, and it may be that pickup makers don't fully explore the space for fear of a lack of demand?

[@SilentNightBodomNight]

Glenn can we do more speaker videos? I wanna hear other speakers and see if anything else you havent tried sounds good.

[@michaelj.anderson1116]

Glen, could you do a video for absolute beginners explaining different camera lenses? Like how to choose them and why and just explain lenses in general. I literally know nothing about this kind of thing. I have zero experience with actual cameras and any type of lens.

[@rodramirez5208]

Gleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen!!! I used to work for an online retailer and the one speaker brand that was definitely flying off the shelves was Eminence. The Swamp thang, Texas heat, Cannabis Rex, ManoWar, Wizard, and the Ragin Cajun were some of our most popular speakers. Always made me wonder why people were buying speakers instead of pickups wound by mystical unicorn farts.

[@Thrashmetal89]

You should surely make a video about the blackstar HT-5, it’s a great little inexpensive tube amp

[@zunk4435]

"yes, you CAN turn the EQ on a Dual Rectifier! Maybe try turning the mids up sometime!" me looking at my dual rectifier with my mids dimed

[@ZagatoZee]

I shoot photos and video mostly for live productions. 32 bit float recorders (Zoom F3 for eg) have saved my butt more times than I can count, due to wildly varying levels as part of the live shows. Does 32 bit float have a functional purpose in the studio or do the differenet environments of the studio vs a live show (where you probably have no control over the mix or final outputs) make it functionally irrelevant in a studio? TL:DR - is there a reson to use 32 bit float in a studio, or should you "just get it right" at other settings?

[@almostliterally593]

Whats the best 350 watt 10” bass speaker for METAL?

[@GingerDude-o3h]

Eminence dv77’s mixed with v30s sound awesome full round sound with the bite of the v30 amazing tones and I have them in a 4x12 crate cab

[@nikolas_navarro]

GLEEEEEEEEENN! Any thoughts on low-wattage vs high-wattage speakers? I personally love how Greenbacks and V30s complement each other. PS: missing some WGS speakers on the show

[@allendean9807]

to the comment that you don’t need amps and cabs anymore, thanks to sims and IR’s; This is true… you don’t need amps and cabs anymore to record. I will say this, though- i recorded my first solo EP and released it last year. On three of the tracks out of four, i used sims. But on one tracks, which was an older song i went back and remixed, it was recorded using a Carvin Valvemaster 100, a 1990’s Marshall 1960B cab, a Skreddy pedals overdrive/fuzz pedal, and a 57. That guitar tone was great. And it worked with that song perfectly. But it WAS a little thin. So 3 years after the original recording, i went in and retracked a take using a neural DSP plugin direct, and tucked it right up the middle, underneath the L/R real amp tracks. Using both made a HUGE guitar tone. I’d argue using all of the tools you can gives you the versatility to make great recordings! Never just focus on one thing versus another thing being superior. Enjoy the music YOU do, the mixes YOU make, and the JOY it brings YOU. Btw’s, the track is called “Make it Right”, if you’d like to listen to it, and tell me i suck at mixing and playing. I’m cool with that. You can find me as Allen Dean on all streaming platforms

[@Blakes_guitar]

I always love these episodes 😁

[@doktabob328]

I’m totally on-board with ‘speaker as signal processor’. What I would really appreciate is more about ‘enclosure as signal processor’. I’ve built at least a half dozen very different styles of enclosures over the last few years, and they affect the sound of the driver as much as the driver affects the sound of the amp. Standard boxes, transmission line, arrays of small drivers, various kinds of damping and frequency peak mitigation, and also a variety of DML ‘exciter’ panels of different fabrication. FYI - panels are a whole other sonic world, and extraordinarily good at mitigating problematic signal reflections in a sound space. I would like to see some dissection of the enclosures which you have found exceptional. I’d tell you to fug off, but the algorithm is named Karen. ✌ 👽 🎸

[@murrayguitarpickups9545]

To the Ticklethealgorythm guy who was interested in winding pickups, im happy to share some info.

[@dfsmusic3463]

Hi Glen, This is Dave from the Philippines. I have a home studio and a small room where I both record and sleep. Unfortunately, I can’t place any cabs in the room due to the limited space, and I don’t want my mic to pick up any noise. What can I do to ensure that no unwanted noise interferes with my recording sessions? Additionally, can you recommend the best way to achieve really good sound, especially for bass and electric guitar, without spending a lot of money? Or could I use a plugin to enhance the sound for the bass and guitar? As I mentioned, I only have a small room to work with. By the way, I always watch your content and find it very helpful and informative. Don’t let anyone discourage you with their nonsensical comments-keep up the good work!

[@cadenruda4159]

Hey Glenn! I’m sure it’s a semi self explanatory but is there any reason to not double track bass. (aside from the fact that you’re lucky to get one usable track before running out of crayons to snack on) is it a matter of it just doesn’t matter because one track fills it out enough. Thanks, and much love from Kentucky.

[@mrscary11586]

Jim Lill (does tonewood matter / bodiless guitar video) has a great video on what actually effects amp tone. Really eye opening in how similar so many are.

[@orlock20]

It's the song. A hit song always has great tone regardless of the tone.