TOP 5 Cool Things @ NAMM 2024

[@S-T-E-V-E]

5:37 Guy in the back really likes polishing his Neck! 😂

[@Dave062YT]

yeah he's really going for it ha ha

[@donbishop6994]

If you enjoy your job, it isn't work. It's a hobby that makes you money. 😎

[@darklight4815]

he's a neck polisher

[@Dave062YT]

@@darklight4815 And it does him good like it bloody well should lol

[@darklight4815]

right on!@@Dave062YT

[@adiohead]

7:51 love the awkward hand shake with Thomas from Blu Guitar

[@tito.tarantula]

Wow, those Bad Cat fuzz pedals are pretty awesome. Thx for the heads up on those, I will surely keep my eye out for their release.

[@kaekayyy2554]

7:51 that disaster of a high five behind ☠

[@An2oine]

That was as bad as a girl waving at a guy behind you.

[@75YBA]

You and Glenn are legends. Glad you two got home safe!

[@StillScooterTrash]

Good video man. A level on a bridge is only useful if the guitar itself is sitting perfectly level. That heritage was well fluffed before you got ahold of it. LOL

[@jamesosterberg2510]

I was impressed by the sound you got by testing the new "GBG 120 - Zuta Amp" at the Zuta booth !! It sounded glorious !! Next to that, I've checked the test video of that new "GBG 120" by Euge Valorvita at Zuta's Studio. 1h20 of Euge and Baskim Zuta talking about and testing that amp. And to me, it looks like the perfect amp !! It sounds incredible !!

[@Oilid]

Your NAMM coverage was the quickest, very pro and best for modern guitar players. Thank you. PS: your playing is great!

[@eliasmsv3156]

@@thegoat11111as in he covered a lot of innovative designs and modern specd stuff

[@commemorative]

​@@thegoat11111Guitar players from the 1930s can't watch KBH's coverage unfortunately

[@peachmelba1000]

Just a note on multiscale instruments: A guitar's fretboard can be calculated and laid out in such a way that no special bridge hardware is needed. Put simply, when designing a multiscale fretboard, a choice can be made on the fret number position of the sole parallel (non slanted) fret on the guitar. Most multiscale guitars have their parallel fret at position 9 or 12, 12 being most often chosen. In those instances, special bridge hardware is needed. The trick to using standard bridge hardware on a multiscale instrument lies in choosing a hypothetical number for the instrument's parallel fret. Typically, the number used is 1000, as in fret position 1000 (you see why it's a hypothetical number). This creates a situation where the fret fan gets flatter and flatter as the hypothetical fret positions get spaced increasing close to one another, literally in the most minute fractions of inches. The creates an ever more parallel fan within the end point of the average overall scaled length such the bridge does not need to anything special. The fan will look and feel slightly different but ergonomically, the benefit of multiscale remains intact.

[@S-T-E-V-E]

Your coverage was great by the way! You should aim to go again! 👌

[@zappasmoustache23]

Was pleased to see cream guitars in your list. They were definitely the stand out for me from watching your coverage. Great content as always. Thankyou.

[@spearchuckerbear2817]

I really enjoyed seeing your personality come out in your NAM coverage. I have only seen your previous dramatic industry videos.

[@elspanoo]

That guitar swinging around on its wallmount was the most tense i've ever felt haha

[@christopherlewis1847]

That had me nervous as well. Thank goodness for that gentleman's lightning reflexes. Don't know anything about his guitars, but respect for preventing damage.

[@Dave062YT]

Doctor I keep getting flash- backs to NAMM Lol Love it ,p.s,hope we'll get the same coverage of Birmingham too ,was going but lost my job so I'll be relying on you and a couple of my other fave youtubers .Cheers .

[@kirabarsmith9353]

Really enjoyed your coverage, KDH. My favorite part is getting to see who the geniuses are behind these inspiring products.

[@adamstrachn]

Appreciate your coverage of NAMM this year. Marconilab and Cream Guitars are amazing. Definitely want to pick one of each up some day.

[@TarnishedViking.]

Love, the innovation Aristides has! Next, will be Evertune in all your stringed instruments. That BadCat fuzz, sounds BadAzz! Thanks for the toure!

[@martyshwaartz971]

@blurry.magnetsyeah cause having perfect tuning definitely hurts the instrument.

[@TarnishedViking.]

Don't get me wrong, I do love my Floyd Rose FRTX01000 FRX Top Mount Trem! 🤪

[@drconflict629]

@blurry.magnets What does that nonsense even mean?

[@michaelking4501]

The wife is not stoked on how good this top 5 is. You did a great job covering the show this year. Good to see these innovations.

[@kellybrincks]

I still love how Mr. BLUG was also impressed by the sound and your playing

[@RichardsGuitarshop]

As someone who has been in the industry for 28 years and love my world in terms of the people who I work with both in my team and my close relationships with my suppliers - I find the industry at large enormously depressing. I went to the NAMM show this year and a tale of two halves - well I should say 90% / 10%. 10% was wonderful and 90% was just sad and depressing. The truth is most of what people are buying is sad and depressing and what most people buy INTO is sad and depressing. Ironic but its the truth I perceive / view. Keep doing the good work. You will never be as popular as you should be - because I believe you are truthful - and without an agenda beyond what is seen on the screen. Thats never the most popular formula but its one you will be proud of.

[@mhoppy6639]

@blurry.magnetsme too. Is it branding, corporate interests, cheap far east labour or … fascinated to know more. I’ve followed KDH almost from day one and he’s disarmingly honest and very willing to admit when he errs. That quality is like rocking horse sh1t on social media.

[@RichardsGuitarshop]

@@mhoppy6639 KDH unique position is built from not having to please anyone or be worried about how that anyone will smear his name or could shoulder him when it comes to buying more products - because he isnt buying and selling products! He kind of reminds me of me when I started in the industry and wanted to share my feelings and observations - but soon realised that in the position I was once in - that would mean alienating pretty much most of my suppliers - which I suppose I slowly did anyway!! . Like you say - honesty, integrity and total sincerity in any business is obviously going to be hard to find - and I suppose its only because my industry happens to be the guitar industry that I believe it must be the worst - but when I talk to anyone in business they see the very same politics, marketing, conditioning in their markets too. More often that not in every industry you have products or TRUTH THEY want you to know - and the truth that you would be much better off knowing! I call this "inconvenient truth" (I think that phrase got coined by al gor or however you pronounce his name - when he did the film on climate change). Inconvenient truth is brushed under the carpet 95% of the time in exchange for pure snake oil. So yep... rock on KDH.

[@xdoctorblindx]

You did a great job of saying a lot but communicating very little. What exactly is the problem? Or is this just a cry for help and what you really need is Prozak to address all the sadness and depression you're experiencing.

[@RichardsGuitarshop]

I often find when people speak so aggressively they are normally reflecting their own personal issues rather than it being anything personal toward me. I presume that is the case or you just have a shockingly poor mechanism for judging peoples motives for communication.

[@martyshwaartz971]

Once you’re in music (or anything gear probably) long enough you realize the majority is the same repacked bs over and over.

[@bonnyguitar]

Just a little spelling correction, it's MarconiLab and not MacroniLab, if anyone wanted to look for this builder!

[@petegaslondon]

Is it Wireless ? Sorry ;) PS 'Coilless Pickups' like WTF?

[@Robert-w7p1b]

Nice catch very well done.

[@wilhelmtheconquerer6214]

It's cool to see another musicians take on innovation in the guitar industry. Personally I prefer mid-80's shredder specs (thin but not TO thin necks, 24 jumbo frets, fretboard radius at 10" to 14", hot passive bridge humbuckers, Floyd Rose systems, neck-thru construction, etc.), in other words, the stuff that was cutting edge 40 years ago. That said I love the small quality of life stuff that's been coming out in more recent years, like locking tuners the EVH D-tuna, stainless steel frets, lume inlays, the Hipshot Xtender and stuff like that. Headless instruments, Evertune bridges and fanned frets isn't for me though, but to each their own.

[@__aythami]

Have you ever thought of showing your guitar collection? Im pretty curious

[@nicholaspossinger7993]

I used to have the same outlook towards fuzz early on. If it wasn't heavy distortion or drive I didn't touch it lol. Until I played a good fuzz pedal, then it changed everything. From pickup preferences and amp choices all the way down to how I even played guitar. And now that there are so many unbelievably talented pedal builders out here it was easy to find great examples of other vintage fuzz circuits and they're interpretations or re-imagining of those circuits. And it can be tricky too being not all fuzz sounds great out of just any setup you know some sound better with single coils or humbuckers, some sound better into a clean amp while others sound better into an amp that's starting to break up. It's all trial and error and most of all personal preference. None of it actually matters, there are no "rules" just suggestions. But when you find the right fuzz for you it can be magic!

[@KarlSheridan]

Jayus, that Bad Cat fuzz sounded great

[@christopherlewis1847]

Love a good fuzz. I am partial to my Coloursound pedals, but love the 3 layer octave. It would add some serious dimension to the sound!

[@duhopie838]

Im not much of a pedal guy, but im finding myself look for any news on that Bad Cat at least once a week. I need this thing to come to market.

[@justsomedude5727]

There seems to be way too many custom/boutique builders, which I get if you're a smaller company it's actually easier to build handmade ones than factory builds. I'd really like to see more builders brands fill the 400-1000$ range of good guitars, but not insanely expensive, which is why I think S by Solar was a great move

[@RichardsGuitarshop]

Hi there -- The latest Vintage guitars - Proshop and Revo series are all incredible. Sounds exactly what you are looking for

[@NedJeffery]

That Badcat fuzz at low gain sounded incredible! 7:27

[@An2oine]

You made the best NAMM this year.

[@frankwhite2072]

That fuzz pedal is rocknroll.

[@ALTheGuitarViking]

That was a great video! Thanks!

[@rafter_man]

I must say I really do love your playing style

[@BudgetGuitarShow]

Will you be at the Birmingham Guitar Show on the Sunday? Would love to get you on the channel , as you are one of my fave trusted youtube guitar guys

[@riddik6792]

Great NAMM coverage, thank you! .. did you bump into Rick Toone?

[@kookoogearkook]

What a save !

[@tor7492]

Excllent vid man and your new fan Thomas Blug seems to like the new fuzz , which sounded amazing, and I usually hate them myself but this one mmmmmmm how much mmmmmmm shit mmmmmm maybe.

[@Lauri_K]

I'm going to buy that fuzz pedal if it sounds like that! Really good!

[@dvaoa2910]

When is that fuzz available? Sounds great!

[@PeterMoore350]

That Bad Cat pedal sounded pretty cool. I like their new amp head too. That Zuta amp is one to watch too i think. Hey what guitar were you playing when you played the Zuta ? Cheers from NZ 😎🎸🤘

[@NinjaRunningWild]

5:40 Guy back there is stroking that guitar like it’s his knob.

[@nicholaspossinger7993]

Def sounds mk3/mk4 ish with a dash of muff. But that cleanup is impressive for that amount of gain!

[@hittinskinz24]

Were there any awkward meets with any of the audits like Andetons?

[@rtaylor1105]

That macroni? Is absolutely sick. Love your content..because youre always brutally honest lol..which isnt always easy or popular. We need more of that...kudos to you👍

[@Flaver459]

Thats it i'm buying that bad cat FUZZ!!

[@joeysnowynoey]

I love fuzz pedals and damn I love that bad cat one! I’ll have to check it out! Might have to mkae my pedal board! Especially with the music I like playing now. Idc about “good” tone I just want to get nasty. 😂

[@evilpicklebluesband]

Those ego look and sound awsome I would like to see them with stainless fret wires.

[@-jk-2580]

Love when Thomas Blug shows up 😀

[@paullee5449]

A true Ninja indeed

[@OakCityGamers]

5:42 guy in background cleaning guitar neck. 6:10 ok the neck is clean. I kinda wanted to see this guy in the back of every shot. Polishing his neck

[@NinjaRunningWild]

He was practicing for when he got back to his hotel room.

[@nicholaspossinger7993]

Did you see my dude Mike of seeker electric effects new line at the hiwatt booth? They're incredible!

[@IndyRockStar]

if you can find one you should try the Vemuram Shanks 4K. (Not the 3K). Specifically, the Shanks 4K. I hate fuzz, and the Vemuram is awesome.

[@NinjaRunningWild]

KDH can you cover the back & forth between Marty Friedman & Guitar World? Seems like Ola is concerned on possible litigation & burning his advertising bridges in covering it & has since removed it. You usually don’t shy away from covering controversial topics, as minuscule as this is, so it seems within your wheelhouse to cover.

[@HarlanHarvey76]

I've heard quite a few complain about the trade site being open to the public. What did you think? Did it diminish the experience? I think I could have given some lesser known artists some exposure as well as brands. My thought is that it should be open to the public on the last day or maybe the last 2 days but not for the entirety 🤷

[@rasalapatuski78]

I like the sound of 1x12. I will buy a jensen C12k 12inches speaker.

[@philipm4585]

ok first of all its pronounced Arse Tiddies but also good god now i cant even less justify not getting an Aristides

[@braaijmakers]

Did you check the Lichtlaerm amp?

[@lichtlaermaudio]

Nah - we met outside for a second but it was shortly before I left and didn't want to push any of our stuff in those few secs :) But now seeing the video it should've ticked a bunch of boxes here :)

[@jamesonpace726]

That was the catch of the show....

[@flapjack413]

It's become really trendy for people to shit on NAMM lately. Refreshing to hear a more positive take on it. Enjoyed your videos from NAMM, hope you continue to attend.

[@Phatzo1000]

That fuzz is a winner. I also hated fuzz until I heard that

[@ThrushCZX]

The reason no one has ever put a bubble level on a bridge is it’s pointless since you can’t be sure the surface you have the guitar on is perfectly level, and the vast majority of people, when setting up a guitar, use a neck support that tilts the body anyway. Gimmick that serves no purpose

[@martyshwaartz971]

Aristides are one of those few companies that actually seem to give a crap, it’s refreshing.

[@Nibblerr]

Skervesen is offering a multiscale evertune too!

[@wolfsguitarden740]

5:41 that guitar is getting ...assaulted at this point😂.. Edit: after posting this I looked at the comments..guess we all saw that guitar getting a reach around 😂

[@S-T-E-V-E]

It's not Macroni Lab it's Marconi Lab! They don't make Pasta! 😂👍

[@Aloha_Snackbar_Everybody]

I was impressed by the new gear at the 2024 NAMM. And I thought you put together excellent videos to highlight the experience KDH! Well done! 🫵🏻👍🏻⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[@shredding51]

Zuta amp is a techs worst nightmare to work on lol

[@kaekayyy2554]

i really wish aristides would do a non fan fret headless

[@Steve.Cutler]

How did you miss Geezer Butler???

[@PurposefulPorpoise]

Macroni XDXDXD

[@darklight4815]

all the guitar innovations are mostly fads....a basic les paul or strat form factor will never be replaced

[@lawsy182]

was going to like the vid but the like counter was at 666 - how could I ruin that :)

[@The.Known.Universe]

I was starting to think I was the only one who generally really doesn't like fuzz

[@psychedelic-guitar-art]

[@mikeglazier5993]

At 5:49 that guy just vanishes

[@ltgray2780]

The bridge level will only be accurate if the guitar is sitting on a perfectly level surface.

[@Rex-golf_player810]

Thats not too much of an issue though (unless you have like a gibson-ish headstock angle)

[@rontron418]

wheres Glens 5 cool things from NAMM?lol

[@ethanhitchcock5431]

Oi chumly what brand of shampoo do you use !?...You have such pwitty ha-oo ! Yeah paying attention to Tosin Abasi has kept me interested in the latest innovations in guitars ...veddy cool -veddy cool !

[@shorerocks]

I agree, 5 great picks. Zuta sounded... fat. In a good way.

[@adiohead]

Someone should invent a never tune, a bit like a Gibson but all the strings instead of just the G.

[@petegaslondon]

I think Sonic Youth did that ;)

[@quickwashtheraccoon7601]

You have beautiful hair. You are a handsome boy

[@simonpark843]

That bad Cat Fuzz sounded really good...and I'm not really a fan of fuzz.

[@GibusGang]

zutanari

[@DownEastSaw]

Evertune….robot….just jokes that will never matter. Guitar hasn’t developed to be a perfect instrument. We bend, we distort, we do everything to NOT let it be perfect. You want perfectly in tune? Play the piano. What a laugh! Thanks KDH.

[@mudjumper]

I’d recommend you read up some more on what an evertune does, but something tells me you’ll keep ignorantly shitting on anything that wasn’t invented in the 50s anyway

[@petegaslondon]

Yes you can still bend - and even us dumbass BASS players doing like picking the thing up when its WAY off tune... You want nevertune? Play a Gibson ;)

[@Bob-of-Zoid]

Are you sure Volvo invented the seatbelt? I thought it was Mercedes, as well as with anti-locking breaks and a few other things.

[@Skrubenz]

The modern 3 point seatbelt was invented by a Swedish engineer for Volvo.

[@Bob-of-Zoid]

@@Skrubenz So not the seatbelt, only a different version? Well there you go, now look up the seatbelt, as in the first one.

[@Skrubenz]

@@Bob-of-Zoid No one said the first seatbelt, KDH specifically said the 3 point seatbelt and so did I.

[@Bob-of-Zoid]

@@Skrubenz Sort of: He said "modern seatbelt as we know it", so I guess it's more likely the 3 point.

[@Skrubenz]

@@Bob-of-Zoid Right, that's definitely the 3 point seatbelt that's on every car nowadays except for 4 point ones on racing cars. Before that they would just go around your waist like a normal belt and weren't anywhere near as safe.

[@keithburnett-i7f]

So, evertune were so busy with developing new stuff that they didn’t have time to develop...new stuff...a multi scale bridge for a customer, Aristides, who took on the project on the proviso that evertune, didn’t have to do any of the work themselves. How is this an evertune product? I realise that there will be all sorts of copyright complications here but....Are the guys at aristides dumb?

[@paulterl4563]

Sorry buddy "macroni macroni macroni". But I really believe is M A R C O N I. Tell after me: Mar co ni. As in Marconi. Like the inventor. Get it?

[@petegaslondon]

Is it a Wireless Guitar? ;)

[@juvedoo99]

Shut it

[@TheDeedeeFiles]

Like 666 lol😊

[@Bob-of-Zoid]

Those Marconi Lab guitars are over the top and jam packed with snake oil! Although a good general rule to have a Floyd Rose type tremolo leveled, it is not an absolute requirement, and only makes a difference in how much forward and back pull one gets, which is a matter of preference, and the crap about how all that stuff improves tone is nonsense, and expensive for no other reason than that believers in such nonsense will have bragging rights over other fools who can't afford a $10,000+ guitar. It's like saying a Rolex is superior because the gold makes it better, when other metals weigh less, and are stronger... or the diamonds in the face help it keep time better because "Crystal energy"! Don't drink the Koolaid! Ever ask yourself why people/companies that make such claims never show any scientific data after bragging about having "Engineered it scientifically", let alone know something all of science hasn't figured out over a century ago and uses it as an excuse to be secretive about it!? Any good physicist who understands mechanical wave theory can debunk it just on paper with some math! Remember when after decades of Gibson claiming it's the Mahogany/Maple combination and what not that made it's tone, and that changing anything would ruin the sound, and then when they finally got enough people saying they won't buy one because they are so heavy, broke down and started chambering some and spread lies that it was "Computer engineered for tone" as if a computer was an absolute necessity (It isn't) to design it, and yet the chambering was clearly and obviously removed following it's body contour only leaving enough so it didn't easily break, just like all other chambered guitars? What about their "Tone polish" that didn't "soak into the wood ruining the tone like all other polishes", while also not giving up on nitrocellulose finishes that never cure, cause all kinds of problems and have way less protection against moisture than polyurethane, and sold it as a superior finish for not changing the tone, as if all the ones that have been stripped and oil finished, or refinished in whatever poly or acrylic sound way different? It's only superior for them as it's way easier to work with than poly. Please don't drink the Koolaid!

[@petegaslondon]

I totes hear you but .. i WOULD like to know how they make 'coilless pickups'???

[@Bob-of-Zoid]

@@petegaslondon Not sure, but as with piezoelectric pickups that work via the string pressure changes on a crystal substrait between two metal plates, there are other ways to pickup vibrations. In this case not mechanical pressure, so maybe like a contact microphone, which I am not sure of exactly how they work, but have used them before recording a band in a club. I taped to large wood beams because they seamed to vibrate well. Along with the other microphones it really helped fill in some blanks and made for a better final mix. I'm sure sooner or later someone will either say what exactly they are and how they work, or someone take one apart and reveal the secret, which probably isn't one, only that they kept it one!😜 I do wonder what they sound like. Maybe one day one will come in my shop and I'll find out. The Lace sensors, Alumitones, Kinnman and many others are just based on sort of the opposite of a normal pickup in that they are current, rather than voltage generators (both of course produce both just in different relative quantities): Instead of having magnetic poles surrounded by over 7000 windings of thin wire, they have one very thick wire in just one or two turns, often just cut out of a thick metal plate like the Alumitones, with magnets attached to it, and somewhere surrounding it there's a little coil with even thinner wire going around the big one, and only a very small portion of it connected to the circuit. The inductance is nearly the same, and they are a pickup/transformer combo that eliminates RF interference at audible frequencies.

[@petegaslondon]

As an amp builder type, I'm aware of those, @@Bob-of-Zoid ;) .. But like COILLESS?? Unless its one of those Ultra Low Z things feeding a current node, like you say .. A SINGLE turn (or a HALF turn) isn't quite a 'coil' I guess ;)

[@Bob-of-Zoid]

@@petegaslondon It is indeed a coil as for function. Electricity although explained in layman terms is electrons going through a wire, they do no more than get excited and and bounce around, creating the energy potential (Volts), but it's the subatomic fields surrounding the wires and paths where the current (Induction) is, and it travels at the speed of light because it is a form of light in the electromagnetic spectrum, not electrons, but photons. So it is probably a piezoelectric thing just in a different form than an under saddle guitar pickup, needing way less pressure, just vibrations, and they have been making different kinds with different materials many man made and purpose made in the last few decades. All it has to do is give off an electrical signal, even a very week one, and preamps can do the rest. If you ever heard of materials that are impregnated with electro-reactive substances that can expand and contract by adding voltage, and depending on it's polarity, developed for muscular control of prosthetics... they can do the same in reverse, so if vibrated the material will emit a signal accordingly. Many are experimenting with that sort of thing because of the many uses, guitars are just one of them, pretty low on the list as for importance when you consider the medical and other scientific uses.

[@petegaslondon]

All highly exotic, @@Bob-of-Zoid but if you step back and remember its for a Metal Guitar, I think anything vibration sensing, like piezo may be rather too prone to feedback Also the so-called 'Coilless' pickup appears to have pole pieces JUST like a regular guy So I'd say a metal ribbon and a real low impedance, off the top of my head DO tell, if you ever get to see one!?

[@JoshBrown18]

Namm was a bust. Innovation is over.

[@dr.shivago2404]

They literally showed an adjustable multi scale Evertune pre-installed at the beginning

[@NinjaRunningWild]

@@dr.shivago2404Pretty predictable evolution. Incremental improvement, not really innovative.

[@juvedoo99]

@@NinjaRunningWildimprovements are inherently innovative. You just want to complain for the sake of it

[@quickwashtheraccoon7601]

I wish volvo had not share the patent.

[@petegaslondon]

Oh look, a J G Ballard fan! "Warm .. leatherette.. join .. The Car Crash Set.."

[@ReeWebster]

Took one of them ugly guitars and made it uglier. But spirit level! Yeh an ugly one 😂