How to Get Every Sound With a Gibson SG | Thomann

[@yrmthr]

I've gone thru a weird journey with the SG. When I was young, I loved them. Owned a few Gibsons, they came and went, then for some reason, I really started disliking them. I had a Standard that had neck/tuning issues and turned me off for a while. Then recently, they've become a favorite again. Picked up a new Gibson Special earlier this year and it's one of the best axes I've played

[@iamstan_rimp]

Just got an Epi SG and instantly loved it lol! I play a lot of R&B, and Gospel/Worship. I would go Fender or PRS but I’m shocked I never gave them a chance until now. Lol! In the genres I play I don’t typically see SGs being played. Definitely a versatile guitar.

[@bananabana6630]

I didn't buy an SG because of AC DC or anyone else. I bought it because of the way it felt in my hands and the tones I can pull out of it. So much used gear everywhere because people buy things for all the wrong reasons . My SG speaks to me every time I pick it up to play it . Gibson's get a bad rap I struck gold when I bought mine and it's staying with me forever. Can't put it down.

[@DurzoBlint178]

Last time I was this early, I became a father

[@ThomannsGuitarsBasses]

🤣👏 //Kris

[@Cystemx]

Last time I was this late , I was pregnant

[@frantisca]

Love the SG. Very underrated guitar. Light, powerful, can do everything ! Plus the fastest neck around !

[@marquisdecarabas1312]

When i think about an SG i dont think about Angus Young...i think about people like Robbie Krieger, Tony Iommi, Santana, ore Sam Anrew from Big Brother and the Holding Company (Janis Joplin)🙂

[@warren4110]

Have you found Shinji Wajima from Ningen Isu yet?

[@ericwarrington6650]

Sweet man! You guys nailed this completely..the cleans in an SG are so underrated...the harmonics of that midrange has a bite a lp just doesn't have...there's a bloom that's sometimes buried if not cared for w your amp and eq settings...I love my SG standard and my lp .. different animals for sure. Great work guys🤘😜🎸🎶🎄

[@ThomannsGuitarsBasses]

Thanks Eric! Yeah, SGs deserve all the love and appreciation a guitar can get. So so good! Cheers //Kris

[@willster7272]

the guy on the right is not into this he looks bored and not interested

[@simoneboschin]

No ..: he’s simply French 🇫🇷😅. I have many French friends and their typical attitude 😅

[@Regulateur]

The French people are naturally depressive.

[@Gevin555]

It was used in Blues first. Sister Rosetta Tharp played one in 64'

[@spokes28]

We want you to know exactly how this guitar sounds, so we will run it through 16 different pedals, and then process it with this computer program and we will expand it and compress it and flip it over and mic it up. Then you will know exactly how the guitar sounds. (Tongue in cheek).

[@stanislavmigra]

Guill, you know I love you for your bluesy soulfull playing. But damn, all the times, you play metal, it gives me goosebumps all over my body. PS: Not enough Tony Iommi references on SG video. Like Angus, Dereck, thats all nice. But Iommi, metal, cmon ;)

[@ThomannsGuitarsBasses]

Aw yeah man, G is awesome! :) Honestly, we didn't dare going there talking about and playing Iommi because it's the hardest thing to nail. Haha! So before we butcher his tone and riffs, we prefer sticking our heads into sand and act like we are ostriches. 😆 //Kris

[@Lowtech14]

Here’s the deal. The SG is lighter than most any other guitar model, and Les Expensive than its more notorious stablemate. Which is why it sells more units than the Les Paul.

[@VintageRadius]

Relative to a Les Paul both SG pickups are positioned closer to the bridge. That changes everything from output and EQ to harmonics. Totally different thing IMO. That’s why you have both.

[@LfunkeyA]

you mean thats why the SG is better.

[@VintageRadius]

@@LfunkeyA the SG definitely has some major advantages over a LP. And underrated for sure. But same can be said the other way around too.

[@liys540]

Tony iommi !!!!

[@Aint1S]

Go ahead and do a Gibson Firebird as a telecaster alternative! 😁

[@ThomannsGuitarsBasses]

Uhhh now that sounds like a plan! 🤩 //Kris

[@christoguichard4311]

Im a huge SG fan... And nothing to do with Angus. I just think they sound great.

[@necromania2001]

Please, take a look to Judith Hill in Rockpalast 2022: singing and playing a Gibson SG: Funk, Blues and Rock✊🏼

[@Eliseo_M_P]

Please do "How to Get Every Sound With a Harley Benton."

[@davidmbas]

Plieae do a firebird!!!! nobody would ever do this and Firebirds with mini hbs are awesome

[@Dzamora612]

I love the SG for everything you mentioned, super versatile, lightweight and comfortable and the looks fit everything from blues to metal like Sir Toni Iomni

[@andydinesguitar]

Excellent job by Guillaume fooling the ralgorhythm with that version of B**k in B***k!😝🤣

[@ThomannsGuitarsBasses]

G wins the internet today, haha! //Kris

[@garyssimo]

Playing a cherished 56 Strat since 94. wore out the frets AGAIN Always loved Angus tone so.....on a test whim. I buy a used Epiphone SG with nice gig bag for $125 Now for past 6 months the Strat sits in the closet! I Love this tiny light Maylasian made cheapie. You should hear it thru a 64 Fender Vibroverb with the orihinal 15" JBL! WOW shorter scale trips me up a bit but its easier for short fingered guys like me.

[@sid35gb]

The Doors, Hendrix, Santana, Toni Iommi, Clapton to name a few.

[@davedavem]

I have no idea why I don't have an SG... Great video guys! It always gets the Angus thing, but yeah, it does it all.

[@TheTwangKings]

Let's not forget Beatles, Zappa, Holdsworth, Page, Soft Machine. It's NOT a metal guitar. It was designed a couple of decades before metal.

[@NickCormierMusic]

Just one decade, if you assume Black Sabbath to be the "birth" of metal. 1961 - first SG, then 1970 - first BS album

[@TheTwangKings]

@@NickCormierMusic That's true, but I meant "real" metal beginning with Iron Maiden in the early 80s.

[@stephenwade2069]

I still have my 1974 SG standard and still love playing it although over the years I'm a converted Strat guy.Great video guys as always.

[@sch2412]

yup.. it was a mistake watching videos of a guitar i don't yet own, shortly before christmas..

[@ThomannsGuitarsBasses]

Tell me about it, haha! It's even worse if you get to play and fall in love with the guitar you don't own yet shortly before Christmas. 😆 Cheers //Kris

[@Oilid]

Vs and Randys while sitting next! :)

[@GiveUpTheGhost2.0]

What is the song he plays with the side ?? Is it just improv because it’s so damn good

[@pierresaucourt5894]

It's really a legendary guitar, but there is this stupid neck dive... I didn't keep mine because of this.

[@Gubgubgoober]

Gibson has a real problem with that 😂 it’s such an easy fix too. The thunderbird sucks because of it too

[@derBjoern171]

Not all 😁 my Gibson Standart 2017 is perfect

[@electrolytics]

You know how you fix neck dive? You just hold the neck up with your left hand while you're playing.

[@Gayden9090]

Fixed that by putting a bigsby b7 on mine

[@stanislavmigra]

Never had neckdive issue with any SG

[@gringopines3476]

WICKED COOL VIDEO, SG'S DON'T GET ENOUGH PLAY, VERY UNDERRATED. MY ABSOLUTE FAVERATE GUITAR. GREAT SOUND, LOOKS, AND ABILITY TO PERFORM JUST ABOUT EVERY STYLE IN THE BOOK. I WAS FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO GET MY GRANDSON A " CAPITAN " KIRK DOUGLAS SIGNATURE SG LAST YEAR/WITH A MESA BOOGIE MARK V 35. KILLER SOUND. STAY COOL GUYS...PEACE...

[@friendsmakingmusic1751]

My first guitar was a 1970 SG Junior with only a neck pup from the factory. Got it in 76. Still have it and still play it but I pulled the frets because I only play slide. NOTHING like it!

[@andreyvanakoff9412]

How to Get Every Sound with Gibson SG? Use model with P90;) No extra pedals, processors, gold jacked cables etc. Just Gibson SG. On P90. Vintage, Modern, blues, rock, progressive metal, it's all there. Even design matches all genres.

[@PooNinja]

Signature guitar that Les didn’t like. So many people love those double cuts

[@ThomannsGuitarsBasses]

Yeah man, it had a hard start with Les really not liking it. But hey, look at it now, being one of the most iconic designs in history. 💛 //Kris

[@Regulateur]

i hwas hoping for a jazzy tones... I love clean sound on SG

[@nikkowalew3170]

Definitely, I wanna see you play Jazz on V’s. … I jazz on a SG myself…. When not on the big hollows… or if not v’s the the good ol’ firebirds

[@moskitoh2651]

There are people showing that a guitar sounds equal even without body... and those guys talk about the extraordinary mids of the SG... can't stop laughing!

[@chrisb3976]

The Tele and SG are the most versatile guitars ever made.

[@christoscholevas]

Can't beat the feel of an SG! It's like holding a woman!

[@markbass354]

very nice guitar and it sounds great Merry Christmas guys

[@ThomannsGuitarsBasses]

Thanks, same to you Mark! 🎄//Kris

[@GraniteSoundtrack]

Made me miss my SG. Maybe one day I'll have another one.

[@gustavocatharino1342]

Same here

[@xxdr34m5xx_4]

P90s? 🥺

[@Somuntioalt]

How to get every sound with a filtertron?

[@ThomannsGuitarsBasses]

Yes! Good old Gretsch with Filtertrons coming up for sure! 🙌 //Kris

[@Somuntioalt]

@@ThomannsGuitarsBasses I’m expectantly excited!😄😄😄

[@frankdardano3182]

Just bought one three years ago,the standard.my ninth one. I am over 70. In the seventies they were always getting stolen.In my life i have owned every fender except the jazz master.had three strats.I prefer a flat fretboard that Gibson seems to have.l really like all guitars.They are like guns, a dfferent tool for a different sound.I saw your pedals. Do you have a guitar tech? It looks like a rocket contol at nasa.how many batteries do you need? My god, if I needed that much junk to play, I would never started playing. Im like bloomfield,just plug the damn thing in and l can get any sound you can get with your control board.I have a les paul custom a 1981 which l traded a 345 gibson stereo. I prefer the sg in every way! I started guitar when l was ten. Got my first electric a stat when l was 12.. l will play till l check out.

[@darwinsaye]

Refreshing. I hate how many demos use clichéd stereotypical music for certain guitars or amps just because they are associated with this or that celebrity. Trying to find demos for Rickenbackers that play anything other than Beatles songs, or for SGs that play anything but Angus riffs is annoying, as are the people in the comments who get outraged if you do *not* play the clichéd stuff.

[@calvinberkenbile8414]

Awesome Tenacious D nod 13:33

[@BlueberryStinkFinger62]

I get every tone with my 2021 epiphone modern figured Sgs I don't need a Gibson to achieve that or do I want a Gibson

[@warren4110]

I bought a Tokai SG a couple of years ago. I’m having weekly lessons and my teacher is very much taking me down the jazz route. He is constantly amazed at the tones that come from the SG. I’m very happy with her!!

[@Grungebob_Squaredance]

I have owned a few SG guitars, 2 from the early 70s and one from 2010. The 70s SGs had really weak necks, I much preferred the newer guitar for quality and reliability.

[@Tonetwisters]

I am blessed to own a custom shop 1964 VOS Standard, and it is one fabulous guitar.

[@megaflyinbrian]

All I need is my Gibson SG and Marshall Half stack . Gets the job done

[@simonrass2961]

Hey Guys, would be so cool, in you would do this Series for the most iconic basses, too!

[@alohotranks]

Can someone please tell me what's the song played at 13:30?

[@scottstaggs5546]

The Metal By Tenacious D

[@geraldhills41]

If I didn't own an SG I would have to get one !

[@abiegreyvenstein5427]

So it’s not the guitar but the effects pedals that gives you the sound?

[@ThomannsGuitarsBasses]

It's the combination. Of course you need certain amps or pedals to get a specific sound but those are "just" the seasoning on top of the guitar's tone. The way I see it, is by doing it right, you can distort or modulate the original tone without covering the original tone up completely. The only 2 cases where the guitar doesn't matter that much anymore is when you're using heavy modulation effects or when using a lot of distortion (or fuzz). We went for a few pedals instead of using multiple amps to get the sounds which is just a matter of taste - and cost too of course, pedals are much more affordable than a handful of amps for different styles. Cheers //Kris

[@henrikhollander2154]

I want to see jazz on an Explorer!

[@tvao1]

im sorry but your litle exemple im turning to a sample for my techno song thanks

[@jojojojojojojojojojojojob]

61 gibson is just something else

[@doyleholloway1818]

i have a Gibson SG short neck bass guitar and i really like it

[@ThomannsGuitarsBasses]

Uhh those are really cool! //Kris

[@szymonszymanski3]

13:03 Don’t stop G 😂

[@ThomannsGuitarsBasses]

He's saying that he would stop but he wouldn't. Don't worry 🤣 //Kris

[@tomusic8887]

In the music stores jazzy funk is the regarded the highest form of art and metal the lowest. It's OK and fine 🙂 funny it is still like that after 30 yrs...love the SG.

[@ThomannsGuitarsBasses]

It was the same thing in music college only fusion-jazz vs metal. 🤷‍♂️ I don't think this will ever change. Just to clarify things, we are not laughing at metal, it's just that we can't take ourselves too seriously when playing it, because we don't consider ourselves being very good at it. :) Cheers //Kris

[@Filipekors]

SG ❤

[@royeaston6067]

How you gunna have a Vibrola then shake the guitar instead 😂

[@jeffreyeagen4896]

SG!!!

[@compucorder64]

Got a Guild Polara Deluxe recently. It's quickly become one of my favourite guitars - slightly edging out my 335. Especially, like you said, with vintage Marshall JTM. And does sound good with most pedals ... or even no pedals at all. Much like the Marshall JTM. With both the JTM and Polara, I think the Boss BD-2W is my favourite pedal, because it just pushed more amp like gain. Plumes is nice in that middle boost mode too, for similar reasons. Maybe MXR Timmy and Hot Tubes can sound a little muddy on higher gains, but that's just the nature of humbuckers. 335 is even more so. It sounds extremely thick and heavy with a Muff and/or Turbo RAT for those Sunn O))) like tones too - a thick midrange wall capped with crackling electricity.

[@DarraghC]

Love it guys. Still have my 2000 sg61hclc1, wouldn't trade it for the world. All the guitar i need.

[@ThomannsGuitarsBasses]

🙌 //Kris

[@KanariasLibre7]

I love the Harley Benton DC-60 Junior Polaris White, Its the most beautiful guitar.

[@mawe3267]

When i think about a SG i think about Angus, but its @seananguswatson ❤

[@Allann882]

Guys what acoustic guitar is left behind you?