Even the PROS are not immune to this CRAP!

[@SpectreSoundStudios]

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[@shanewalton8888]

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[@1sostatic]

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[@adriankurt1872]

Didn't even knew I wasn't subscribed yet 🤪 Here have a new subscriber after idk 2 years of watching your content 🤣 Greets from good 'ol germany 😋

[@kaszaniarz]

I hate youtube beggars, unsuscribed

[@maxwellblakely7952]

Ive always to see a blind test between a real Gibson ‘50s burst vs a Gibson standard vs a Chinese Epiphone standard. I wonder how many of us could tell the difference between a $400k guitar and a $650?

[@jrhoadsHTI]

Oh, Aeroband sent you a guitar? They either just made the dumbest move they could have, or they're confident in the changes that EytschPi42 said they made. He did also say they were lucky they didn't send one to you because of how brutal you'd be. Either way, I'm looking forward to that. "We're going to have a hanging... or a wedding... either way, we're going to have a lot of fun."

[@tommydeamon7657]

Hell,s yes a blast

[@thomasladders7481]

Never heard of them. Harley Benton got a spotlight, it would be cool to do other cheap or bottom end name brand guitars.

[@CaseyBDook]

​@thomasladders7481 The aeroband "guitar" isn't a guitar. It's a really expensive and unplayable game controller. It was marketed to beginners, but it was 600 bucks last I saw and can't be played by a guitar player effectively. Nobody needs this. There are plenty of reasonable guitars and amps available for a lot less. It's definitely going to be a must watch episode if he tests this flaming turd.

[@daveleblanc3558]

Oh man looking forward to that!

[@mitchellturnbull3988]

Bruh. There are a TON of channels who did one of these “reviews”, and I can’t freaking WAIT for glen to do his 🤣🤣🤣

[@sturmi9tails]

Well, on my ibanez swapping stock pickups for black winters made actual difference, especially when down tuning it's got noticeably more controlled and articulated low notes and in some way more pleasantly distorting highs. And cleans got much better, someone probably would say they are only subtle differences but I think my expectations were more realistic to begin with, haven't regretted even once.

[@fatmetalguy6873]

I have the blackened winters, and I think there's a huge difference between those and say my stock Harley Bentons - with that said though --the SDBW are in a Jackson, and the HBs are in an (obviously) HB. I can't make a (fair) comparison unless they're in the same guitar/amp/etc. You're absolutely right though, there's a far bigger difference when I'm in D Standard vs Standard.

[@ChadwickRider]

I added a set of Black Winters to my Eart W2 Headless and it's amazing when compared to the PAF's it came with... great choice.

[@DiamondLifer]

I swap pickups around a lot in my 30’ baritones. Makes a big difference for me sound wise.

[@watersnortmoment3734]

Now put a mic to the speaker and don’t move it. And then record both pickups, the difference is going to be VERY miniscule.

[@ChadwickRider]

@@watersnortmoment3734 I don't disagree when it comes to tracking, because that adds many different layers (mic, interface, etc) ... but I swapped mine for live audio, and there is a definite improvement. But that makes since because I'm swapping a set of PAF pickups for high output humbuckers.

[@brandonthompson8413]

On the topic of gain at the pickups vs gain at the amp. It depends on the amp. Vintage high output pickups were made when the highest gain amps the highest gain amps you could get were a plexi or a JCM 800 effectively acting as a boost. With modern high gain amps it really doesn't matter. Hotter pickups tend to be a slight bit muddier, but if you have low output pickups a decent boost pedal will give you the same DB boost but with the benefits of adding a buffer or eq to the signal chain. There is no wrong way to do it. Just what works best for you, your ears, and budget.

[@NihilNovi]

I have given my Godin LP a massive upgrade last year, Seapped stock pick ups with Black Winter, threw out all the electronics for a custom wiring harness, shielded the entire inside with copper tape, changed the solid bridge to a one with adjustable intonation and for good measure added a string butler to protect the nut. Ever since that baby sounds absolutely amazing. The upgrade really changed the sound to the better. Paired half a year later with a small REVV amp and an ENGL cab to really bring out the shine. A beautiful black metal beast.

[@bassplayer137]

I’ve had my Ibanez SA260 FM for almost 18 years now, and it still plays like a dream. And the price nowadays is around the €400 mark, so I would qualify this for affordable, well playing guitars

[@software533]

Bought this guitar two years ago, it plays perfectly, no flaws whatsoever. However the setup it came with was non-existent basically, the strings were loose, the bridge floated way too high when tuned, and i had to turn the truss rod like twice in the first 5 months.

[@valuedcustomer5022]

"A MINOR ERROR" took everything you said out of context... Get him.

[@kalebthornsberry870]

A full Kramer video would be phenomenal! I have a Baretta Special I got for $179, I cut out the capacitor on the volume pot to make it work properly, put a new set of tuners and a new nut, and it's one of my go-to guitars. They might have a bit of a "dated" look, but it's a great husk, even at an entry level price

[@rompofotters]

I did the same thing. Replaced the pickup, and blocked the trem, too. Now it's my favourite guitar. Just takes a bit of work. They're the perfect project guitar, or for someone that wants to learn that stuff. Team purple.

[@MaximusAdonicus]

@icankillbugs Oh, so u lied to them to get the guitar cheap AF? Zero morals... You would have probably gotten it for a fair price regardless 🙄 $100CAD is 68 euros, which is an absolutely ridiculous price for ANY guitar, let alone 80's Kramer 😫 They got scammed!

[@MaximusAdonicus]

​@icankillbugs Well, some people actually have morals and some are scum... 🤷‍♂ I would have personally paid twice the money out of courtesy! I don't know the owners of ur pawn shop or any pawn shop, but I do know I do not rip people off even if someone else does.

[@neighbourhoodmusician]

I think that between you and Jim Lill, it's been quite freeing to step back and really look at what affects my tone. I'm mainly a live local cover-band player and cost, size and use case is my priority. If you know that what really matters when it comes to creating good tone, then you can achieve exactly what you want for the money you have and focus on whether the gear you buy actually fulfills the practical benefits of your actual use case.

[@aavavertu229]

For anyone wondering, it's speakers < cabinet < amp < pedals < guitar < pickups < cables. Order slightly depends on amount of gain and playing skill.

[@brentstewart59]

Absolutely agree with this. These guys are taking out the bullshit

[@neighbourhoodmusician]

@@aavavertu229 Sort of. For live music with a real cab, I would say it's (in order of significance for tone): number of speakers in cabinet, size of speakers, specific speakers, post distortion EQ, pre-distortion EQ, preamp, power amp, pickups, guitar.

[@neighbourhoodmusician]

@@brentstewart59 I've gone from lugging around crazy heavy and expensive tube amps to an entirely pedal-based power amp and preamp solution where I can plug into a cab or just go direct. My tone is as good or better than ever and I can get all my gig gear into the venue in one trip.

[@aavavertu229]

@@neighbourhoodmusician Yes, if we get this deep things get somewhat complicated as elements in the chain begin to have a cross influence. Whether or not multiple speakers are used, the single most defining tonal factor is the speaker itself. If we are talking about a guitar tone captured with a mic, the cabinet and number of speakers of course become less relevant or almost completely negligible.

[@jseaux]

There was a video of Jim Root years ago saying he doesn’t like maple fretboards, because he says they are too bright. Then he launched a new guitar with Charvel with a maple fretboard. He then came back later and says maple wasn’t as bright as he remembered.

[@YURI-OFFICIAL]

The Harley Benton R-446 was my first guitar that i got and for only £120, it's mazing for both metal and rock, and came in superb quality, and plays really well, even a 5 way pickup select and also just looks really nice (I got the plum pink one). Really good recommendation for an entry level guitar for aspiring metal/rock guitar players at a cheap price.

[@MaximusAdonicus]

Facts. I got the red one. Though I have a buzzing issue with the strings, but haven't had the time to dwelve into it... :/

[@YURI-OFFICIAL]

@MaximusAdonicus I know there was a very small issue with my nut not being filed down quite enough as its a stronger material as the usual, but I didn't find it to really be an issue. You could take it into any guitar shop and get it done pretty cheap and quick probably if it's the same issue as it probably is

[@MaximusAdonicus]

@@YURI-OFFICIAL Hard to tell. I hope it's just an adjust on the truss-rod... I hope I don't have to take it to a doc, there's only 1 guitar shop in this city and the guy over there is a dick who charges a ton of money!

[@tyjuarez]

I got a used Ibanez cheapo strat-style (pre-GiO) for $99 at a pawn shop. I swapped out the bridge, leveled the frets, put on some new strings, did my own setup etc. Most guitars can sound and feel pretty decent with some decent TLC.

[@TitaniusAnglesmith]

I bought the Black Winter too, only one so only about 150€, and it actually made a huge difference to the sound of my Ibanez. Turns out the stock pickup wasnt wired correctly 😂 Oh well, nownI have some soldering experience.

[@robmcd]

I was confused. I got a $200 Monterey 7 string 20 years ago and put a Blaze Custom in the bridge and changed the guitar sound drastically. 99% improvement

[@Petterstrojka]

I have a single black winter in my heavily modded ancient washburn mg40 and it honestly sounds exactly like the muddy evil mess i was after. Also, high output = more nice noise on a tiny single tube amp. I get almost the same output as active pickups, but less higs and clarity. More noise. All good for my application. But it woulsmd probably have been achievable with the original pickups and a simple boost. Also, i use transistor distortion that employs the transistors i reverse for more noise.

[@darksu6947]

​@@PetterstrojkaThat's a lot of noise 😮 I like noise!

[@clmdeprav]

4:00 about wax-potting & saving money : it's actually not that complicated to wax-pot your pickups yourself rather than buying new pickups. I had to do it for my Squier CV Jag's pups because it was squeeling like crazy everytime I'd push the gain, and it did the trick just fine. No more squeeling and pickups became way less microphonics and didn't notice any shift in tone. Just gotta be careful with the temperature, wax/paraffin melts around 60° (celsius) and you need to control the heat so it doesn't go above 70-75°, you don't want it to boil but just become fluid and translucent. If you heat it too much it can be a nasty mess to clean up and it could ignite on its own so "bain-marie" is the way to go.

[@jcrbama]

ESP LTD EC-256 Falls just under the $500 mark. I have a couple of pricey guitars (over $3,000) and about 50% of the time I pick up the LTD. I swapped the tuners out for some locking ones and it plays like a dream and is solid as a rock. I think they ship them with locking tuners these days, but mine doesn't have them. Even the stock pickups are damn nice and they have coil splitting as well, very versatile.

[@zwerko]

Did you say you're getting that toy guitar monstrosity for a review? I thought they've halted sending or selling them to anyone in fear of someone tearing them a new one... It will be glorious, can't wait!

[@GCKelloch]

A very ambitious Nashville musician did a very thorough comparison of guitar cab sizes, materials and speakers per cab, and the only significant recorded difference was the cab size affected bass response. Recording a 4x12 with one mic on one speaker will mainly just have some increased bass coming off-axis from the other speakers, and 4x12 IR's also tend to have a cancelation at ~700Hz. You want a 4x12'' mic'd sound from a 1x12". Put it in a bigger closed cab, or just increase the bass with an eq and maybe reduce ~700Hz.

[@Turboy65]

I select those guitars and pickups that actually work for me. And yes, pickup choice can make a substantial difference. For a long time I was pretty happy to have a JB humbucker in the bridge of more than one of my guitars. In recent years I started to really hear its quacky, midrangey nature and it started to bother me. Eventually I pulled the JB out of one of my most played guitars and put in a regular Duncan 59 Bridge. Quack gone. I do like this better. I have another guitar that still has a JB in it, and both guitars with JBs did sound very much alike even to my ear. Now they clearly sound different even with a lot of overdrive, as one still has the JB and the other now has a 59 instead. Yes, pickup choice can materially alter your tone. NOT saying that EVERY pickup that's a different brand and model will have its own readily identifable distinctive sound or that it'll sound way different from others. I'm saying that SOME have a very clearly different tone than certain other models.

[@PrinceWesterburg]

1. Strat** vs. Les Paul - Play them not plugged in, there's your tone source, they sound different. 2. Strat** vs. Les Paul with humbuckers - If you replace the pickup springs with rubber tune, damp the headstock and all the other 'metal' tweaks then its just a body shape difference, you could be playing a Gibson 335 filled with plumber's foam and it'd sound the same! 3. Pickups - Oh no, they make absolutely no difference whatsoever, which is why there is only one standard pickup - All hail Chairman Mao! Honestly, if you think pickups make no difference then you're playing guitar out of ego and not for music - give up, go play video games. **Strat - If you're playing a standard Les paul then compare it to a strat that has 50s or 60s single coils and it *must* have vintage folded metal saddles as thats a big part of the sound, string trees, pickup springs, no damping. A real strat, not some 80's style modernised piece of garbage with solid saddles, roller nut, 'Fender Lace Sensors' and all the stuff SRV & Jimi wouldn't have kmown. The vintage strat certainly isn't a modern metal guitar, but then where are the 8 string Gibsons? Wow have they missed a market!

[@Jager_sog9]

Coming from ESPs and Fenders, I was just amazed by the Squier Contemporary series, specially the Telecaster. First time I saw one in a store, I was amazed by how it looked and ended up trying it and just fell in love with the feel and the tone. It has a Humbucker omn the neck and a HotRail type on the bridge, adn it really feels like a 800+ bucks guitar for under 400! And the roasted maple neck is just gorgeous! I even lent it to a cousin who only plays American Fenders and he told me that finishes were top notch and that he would have believed me if I told him it was a Fender!

[@Frank_Kreepy]

According to Rick beato's interview, Yngwee run's a really clean single coil with an indecent radioactive level of gain at the amp. I guess the gain staging topic would deserve a deep dive at some point Glenn.

[@rmzzz76]

Keep up the good work. The guitar gear industry is so vile and even pro musicians easily influenced. I remember when EVH released the 5150 Overdrive pedal. I tried one and realizied quickly it barely gets in the ballpark of the real thing. Pete Thorn did a video on it where he praised it for its accuracy. Someone who's "made it" as a known player has incredible influence, with or without a KZbin channel. Even if they don't always get $$$ kickbacks, they are highly incentivized to say positive things about products when they have relationships with vendors. We live in an time when, with less than $1k of gear any pro player could buy what they need to get on stage and perform at professional level. It's all about the hobbyist and armature chase for the magic sword and giant egos that assume they have the talent part down and just need better gear. Target demo for gear vendors is mid-life hobbyist with money. Taylor Guitars, Gibson, Fender, etc.. that's the group they are marketing to.

[@ironblast5]

I bought two of them and used them with ir's live in place of hauling my jvm210 head and 1960 cab out it definitely did the trick even if it wasnt accurate to a real evh 5150 amp it sounded pretty spot on to the marshall in my use case

[@ironblast5]

Even better still the bogren amp knob evh did too so we use that for scratch tracks and rehearsals now the tube amps just get used for reamping on final products

[@Aaron-zh4kj]

Important to note, those weren’t designed to replace a 5150 head. I’ll say, with those amp in a box pedals, the power section and speaker of your amp you’re driving them into are quite important. I’ve never really been impressed by any amp in a box pedals, but I’ve heard some people make them sound fairly useable here and there. Personally, I’d rather have a pristine, perfect sounding overdriven one trick pony amp that cleans up well with the guitar’s volume that can generally cover most bases (like a Friedman or some other variant of a hot rodded Marshall). I’m doing exactly that digitally at the moment. Even with it being digital (Line 6 HX Stomp), while digital historically usually doesn’t do the roll off volume thing well, I think it sounds even better than what I was able to get out of the 5150, v30 2x12, and full 4cm pedalboard rig I used to gig with (with all the hassles and imperfection of things like the speaker choice I had to make for budget and the wild card of changing mic placement and how temperamental amps are)

[@intenzityd3181]

Guitarists earn such little money that they are foolish to not be gear shills on youtube.

[@chasinglatitudes1424]

I agree with a lot Glenn said. I love my Strandberg guitar the most because of how comfortable it is to play. I do believe they are massively over priced but though. I just ordered a GOC to obtain almost the same concept but at a much lower price. Real funny thing is I know go back and listen to songs I’ve recorded and cannot tell which guitar I used when recording the song.

[@theliesisire7485]

I've even used different guitars on the same song (to correct parts etc). No one can tell.

[@rompofotters]

I bought a Kramer Baretta Special a while back. The stock pickup seemed way too hot for me no matter how much I lowered it. So, I changed it out for a Duncan Distortion. The sound of the guitar through my amp didn't change much, but the output was much more even, and in control. Feels much more satisfying to play to me. Was it worth the price? Probably not, but I'm happy with the result.

[@twobarsfourstars]

Had the same experience with that guitar not liking the stock pup and upgrading it to one I researched before buying and now I’m enjoying it like a lifer guitar (still cost under 400 with upgrades). I don’t think it’s wrong that it sounds and feels a little yet meaningful amount better, it’s just wrong if you assume it will always sound better or sounds wrong without upgrades inherently or spend the 150-500 on new pups when you really should have bought a speaker or an equalizer pedal. Sometimes that 5% makes the difference, but that’s far less likely than the way the marketing and board discussions have been for a long, long time. Look what they did to Glenn!!! Lol

[@adamlayng4423]

I got one in White, badass guitar for cheap. I left the pickup, it sounds great to me, but I changed the tuners to locking tuners, changed the nut to a brass one, and replaced the saddles to copper. It's now suitable for gigging. parts were 110$CAD.

[@Sunke89]

Hey great videos, since I`ve started watching your content my guitar tone has improved drastically and I don't even play with high gain, thanks for all this usefull information.

[@dougworden4248]

I love how your videos backup what I have been telling other guitar players for years that the SPEAKER is the most important part for tone and sound. I personally still love my Eminence Lynch super v12 speaker.

[@216trixie]

Fun story. I am a 62-year-old professional musician and music teacher. I am tired now of playing on stages that are so quiet we could talk to each other and hear each other over the instruments. I miss the days of moving a lot of air with big amplifiers on stage, so I have started a new band. It is coming along nicely I am buying 100 w 412 stack to play in this band and move some air. Fuck the sound man we're going to move air off the stage just like the old days. Best project I've ever been a part of. Oh yeah now I can turn around my guitar will feedback when I face the amplifier.

[@chaptermasterpedrokantor1623]

Good luck getting gigs with that attitude! You piss off the sound guy and the venue, you better well be bringing in a full house of audience or you'll get blacklisted.

[@216trixie]

@@chaptermasterpedrokantor1623 I was waiting for this comment. Like I said I'm professional. The fuck the sound man is a joke. I will have a sound man. In fact I already have one. And a dancer in a cage on the stage. And I'm setting up the show at a venue. With lighting LED panel and what not. The sound man is going to work with our stage volume like the old days. A big buzz is already building up around this band.

[@chaptermasterpedrokantor1623]

@@216trixie Good luck then and my condolences to the poor sod who has to do your sound. I've worked enough FOH and festivals to know that the soundguys that come with the band easily make the most mistakes. They may know the band but they don't know the gear they have to work with.

[@216trixie]

@@chaptermasterpedrokantor1623 I'll try one more time. I'm professional. My soundman is among the best in the area. He runs sound on most of my quiet stages. I play small gigs parties festivals you name it. This is a different gig. It's going to be loud and we're going to love it. Just imagine, before all these modelers and quiet stages, back in the way olden days of the '80s and '70s and even the '90s, there was stage volume!

[@216trixie]

@@chaptermasterpedrokantor1623 also, before quiet stages, audiences used to crowd up to the stage to be close to the band and enjoy the volume that they enjoyed. You could hear the amps. You could feel the bass amp pushing the air. Now, you need to stand back 20 ft to get a good sound. Get up close to the stage and you're going to hear crap.

[@noahfaber8265]

6:38 I feel like this is something an EQ pedal could immediately be useful for. If I’m looking to get different sounds or different outputs, an EQ pedal will accomplish everything and anything AND MORE than a pickup swap will. High output pickups definitely feel more at home for me, but just boosting the signal going into the amp by using an EQ does the job just fine.

[@ctothekaye7989]

EQ's and/or boosts can do pretty much everything. However, when you play in a band and you switch guitars mid set, it can make sense to have pickups with similar output in all those guitars so you don't have to change any settings. When you're going directly into your interface for recording, the output is pretty much eliminated as a factor, because you can always adjust the gain on the preamp.

[@noahfaber8265]

@@ctothekaye7989 I’m a psycho who has multiple EQ pedals for that exact purpose 😂

[@ctothekaye7989]

You should make a video on changing volume/tone pots. A lot of times people consider swapping PU's when going from a 250k to a 500k is a far cheaper and more effective way to fix a dark sounding guitar.

[@jeanjeanjean2541]

changing pots only affect tone when turning down the knob or does it also have an impact if we keep the knobs at 10 ?

[@jralanmorgan]

​@@jeanjeanjean2541It has an effect on 10. Simply put the higher value pot lets more higher frequencies through.

[@ctothekaye7989]

​@@jeanjeanjean2541 actually it does. Some humbucker guitars come with 250k pots and switching those to 500k almost always sounds better. The higher the value, the more treble will pass.

[@ctothekaye7989]

I don't understand why it works on volume pots when turned all the way up, though. On tone pots it makes more sense, because the higher the resistance, the bigger the share of the signal that gets taken away through the capacitor.

[@Billiamwoods]

This has been something that's really been on my mind. It's one of those things that nobody seems to be interested in testing even though there's a solid scientific basis for how it would affect your sound. It's not like tonewood where it's vibes and contradictory opinions, there's like a clear 1:1 correlation, but I've never heard it tested.

[@NilsLikesTrains]

Thanks Glenn! Love the show. I'm a 48-year old dad, a bureaucrat to boot, that plays guitar for my own enjoyment and recreation. I really like the LTD EC-10. It's about 250 €, has a nice heavy (as in weight) feel and I thinks it looks good! (in a sort of "where ever did my youth go" kind of way...) I plug it into a Scarlett 2i2 and the noise level is really nothing to bitch about. Let me tell you - this guitar will for sure last for many years before I'm "better" than the guitar as a player. Thanks for the show! It's awesome!

[@kcpolog]

Hi Glenn, I really like that you're one of the very few music youtubers that tells us to NOT buy unnecessary gear. I am not immune to the marketing tricks that companies like to play on us, but I was fortunate enough to see through the pickup marketing bullshit quite early in my 'career'. Out of curiosity I bought this Korean hot rails pickup for the equivalent of like 20 USD. Aside from the poor soldering from the factory this pickup is amazing. On the recordings I can't tell the difference between it and my LP studio. If I have a chance, I'll always go to the cheaper pickup first. If it works - awesome, if it doesn't - there are always other options.

[@dshredmusic]

6:47 It's about the same thing as adding something like a tube screamer before your amp input so you can drive it harder and create a different texture. Not necessarily a different tone. Mitigate certain frequencies and saturate others at a different stage. Slightly different flavors. That's kind of it.

[@madmonkey7411]

I personally love the my Jackson JS32s. Especially my Rhoads but I know that they can be a hit or miss sometimes. However I would love to see you try one

[@ricksanchezito8972]

I got a JS32 Rhoads that is a beast!

[@aceruiz8151]

I wanna get one

[@KyleSevenoaks]

I literally just played two entirely different guitars with different brands of pickups on my stream and no one could believe just how identical they sounded through the same amp.

[@SpectreSoundStudios]

It’s almost like distortion distorts the signal of a guitar or something weird like that….

[@WIMPY86]

Morning SMG buddies!

[@SpectreSoundStudios]

Good morning, Wimpy!

[@Dave-Rough-Diamond-Dunn]

G'day!

[@sgt.grinch3299]

Greetings

[@DigitalChemistryBand]

Hello from Seattle

[@BlueMoonFuzz]

Sup

[@damonshanabarger2604]

Dear mister, much loved and revered tonal guru of saints sent to us by the guitar Gods of heaven; I completely agree with you concerning guitar pickups. Although I must say that as a poor person, I have been blessed with a couple of unusual guitar pickups that bear reckoning with. Supposedly, there were a few telecaster, (PAF pickups, I think) that have individual magnetic pole pieces instead of bar magnets underneath. These were touted as a favorite with Keith Richard. It had been said that there were only a small number of these ever produced. How I ever came by a couple in the Mexican Tele I purchased, I will never know. Lest I digress, I completely understand where you are coming from. But, I must say, I had spent a great deal of time adjusting equalization to compensate for the tonal shift in this pickup. More on this subject later.

[@damonshanabarger2604]

I had to urinate rather badly. The other pickup I have is a rare find. It is a Schaller humbucker. Although I haven't noticed any tonal shift, it does seem to have a certain clarity of string separation and volume uniformity between strings. I don't know for sure because this may have been on account of the particular speakers within my combo amp. A lot of people seem to believe that there is a difference in clarity between strings on pickups with pole pieces as opposed to rails. Although with the exception of the before mentioned Keith Richard pickup, do you think you could shed some light on actual string separation as opposed to tonal shifts?

[@shanewalton8888]

I'd skip the Kramer. They have been crap ever since Gibson bought them out. Seriously, what can you expect from Sue Authentic. They have the reverse Midas touch. Everything they buy turns to crap. Case in point, Kramer, Steinberger, and Epiphony.

[@ithemba]

well Kramer isn't what it was back 40 years ago concerning high end guitars - but Kramer actually does very good guitars in the budget to mid level. The 200 bucks baretta special is a very solid shreddy guitar out of the box. I'd say Kramer is by far the best bang-for-buck Gibson has to offer.

[@shanewalton8888]

@@ithemba Nah. Wishful thinking. Ibanez and Schecter put Kramer to shame. A Kramer is like a toy compared to a Schecter.

[@adrianmedeiros8431]

7:25 I have two guitars. One with passive pickups and one with EMGs. Here's the main difference between the two of them for my experience as a gigging musician I have a harder time making the passive one sound good distorted, but I can do it I have a harder time getting clean tones from the EMG one, but it's possible. Now, playing live this difference is important because it's a less controlled environment.

[@beefnacos6258]

Ah but pickups don't matter

[@adrianmedeiros8431]

@@beefnacos6258 again, both situations are entirely fixable with EQ and neither of them sound as different from each other as any of them sound different played through different cabinets. It's a difference in output, not a difference in tone.

[@sparella]

​@@beefnacos6258It's a pickupA+preamp to pickupB comparison. Preamps sometimes matter.

[@calavera7581]

Greetings from Ukraine! I don't usually working on metal tracks, but some of your advices are still legit for rock or even electronic music. Keep energy high and thanks for your enlightenment work!

[@the_Morbo]

Regarding bands not using cabinets at shows anymore. If you pause at 10:38 you can see the spotlights illuminating cabinets behind the blacked out screen behind them.

[@j.r.warren5794]

I want to be able to hear a 5% difference in tone. That's just amazing. I bet that guy could even score 100% on a blind test for pickups. If he saw the pickups first that is...

[@jphormiga]

I'm very curious about the Harley Benton Guitar Max Fusion signature. is it any good?

[@fallencrow1936]

A couple of things I learned building some pickups: 1) for my tests what Glenn says about the relation of the output of the pickup and gain stage of the amp is correct 2) The type of pickups (single coil vs humbucker vs p90 etc), the size of the bobbin, magnets and diameter of the copper wire your using do change the sound of the pickup, but all the other bullshit like material (look at the prices of plain enamel wire ahah) of the wire, in my experience doesn't. 3) Inductance is the most important quality of a pickup, it can be controlled with how much metal is present in the pickup. Measuring and testing the Inductance with a LCR meter at specific frequencies is the only way i found to have an IDEA on how the pickup will sound, an higher value will make the pickup sound louder and darker. 4) Advertised DC Resistance is bullshit. It will change a lot with the ambient temperature and it will be only useful to get an IDEA of the output of the pickup. I could build 2 humbuckers with the same Resistance but with dramatically different sound because the inductance is different. 5) Magnets do actually make a difference. The stronger the magnet the more output and more string pull. Alnico magnets have also more iron in them, making the Inductance raise and consequently darker. Most of the advertised things are bullshit. And the most important thing is having a pickup not too bright or not too dark. If i had to choose i would say that a brighter pickup is better than a darker one though because most of the guitars have a (passive) tone knob.

[@SpectreSoundStudios]

You forgot the part where putting even a tiny amount of gain on the signal completely negates the tone of a pickup :)

[@TiagoCostaMusic]

GLENN!!! I play in a Heavy Metal band and recently the other guitarist and myself wanted to introduce some very needed change to our live shows, so each of us purchased a Jackson King V JS32. Both cost around 300€ and play very well. For cheaper guitars, they do have a couple of short comings such as the joint of the neck and body being a larger block like a Strat, instead of those smooth and more ergonomic ones that allow you for an easier access of the upper frets. The other issue would be the balance that's just a tad off but nothing like a cheap 90's BC Rich Warlock! No one attending our shows has ever complained about our sound. We both have more expensive guitars but these are just really cool guitars. Plus we're newer guitarists in a band that was founded in 1979, and we use multi-fx units and in-ear monitoring instead of amps, to the surprise of stage managers and other bands. Our gig set up (including festivals) got shortened to 10 minutes. If you can sound good and make the job easier for yourself and for the people handling the sound and stage, you owe this to yourself!

[@Mars_Fortune_Music]

I have a "Grote" copy of a Gibson es I ❤ it.

[@theblockyrocker9060]

I would highly recommend @JimLill channel for his tests of guitars, amps and cabinets. He did the clean/country version of everything Glenn did here. Regarding the pickup output comment at 6:45. That actually does make a big difference but is the same as having a clean boost pedal. Your amp's and pedal's input all have parts that operate at specific ranges, caps, resistors, diodes etc. Pushing those to certain limits can positively or negatively affect your amp. For example, most vintage fuzzes can't handle the gain of active pups. OR running a zvex super hard pedal dimed WILL damage your amp.

[@Lieutenant_Dude]

If you enjoy testing differences in pickup sound and construction, buying cheap non brand name versions may be something to look into. I bought Artec pickups one time to put a higher quality component in an alibaba strat knock off I bought. I thought it sounded much nicer. And they were 30 dollars for a set of 3.

[@mouldypretzel]

I have a white Chinese Telecaster and yes it does give me great metal tones. The setup was fine, I chose it before I knew where it came from because it did what I wanted it to do. I changed the pickups on it and surprise surprise, no notable difference

[@angeldelvax7219]

About the tone difference in pickups: people seem to think they ONLY pick up vibrations, and technically have no reason to change the sound at all. Pickups are coils. The number of windings and the metals used in the pickup change the inductance of the coil. Thickness of the wire used and number of windings change the impedance, and thickness of the wire and thickness of the insulation used change the capacitance. Those three values define how a signal is filtered, so 'technically' how a pickup is made DOES change how it sounds. The thing is, to get to a proper output voltage, and to get an impedance in the range you need for the amp, you're pretty much limited in what you can change, and the difference in sound will likely not be audible by anyone. Just the imperfections in the wiring used from pickup to volume pot alone can make just as much of a difference, if not more. And you never hear anyone about that XD Just find a guitar that feels good, so you like to play it a LOT, make sure it's shielded to prevent hum, and you're set. Glenn explained perfectly what really makes a difference, so focus on that ;)

[@theoryofmine7473]

I am going to have a great weekend, thanks

[@Spladoinkal]

As a non-guitar player that came to this channel to learn how to RECORD guitar, I've decided to pull the trigger on the Gotoh once I'm able and take some guitar lessons. I'm not looking to be a rockstar on guitar, just to be able to write the music in my head. Thanks for the suggestion!

[@andrewmize823]

No two guitars sound EXACTLY the same, even if they're the same make and model. You could build two identical Strats with wood from the exact same trees, and there would still be subtle variations in the sound. By the same token, a Strat with a maple fretboard and a Strat with a rosewood fretboard are both going to sound like Strats in the general sense. I've never been able to discern enough of a difference to make me prefer one over the other sonically, so I've generally chosen rosewood for aesthetic purposes--but I've happily made exceptions for maple boards that had a particularly good feel.

[@MaximusAdonicus]

In theory. In reality 100% of people will NOT hear ANY difference in 2 guitars that are made the same! Unless, ofc one has some issue that gives it a drastic tonal difference. 'Cos even with different guitars using different pickups we are only getting 10% difference, as shown by Glenn!

[@JohnGeldreich]

I bought a Slick SL54T from GuitarFetish in the Indigo Ash finish and it quickly became my favorite guitar. It goes for $239 USD and I was able to upgrade the tuners, the nut, and bridge saddles without going over $500. One of my favorite features is that fingerprints never show up on the open pore ash finish. You should try one out.

[@Dethfield]

In answer to the question about high output pickups... yes to a degree it is different from just increasing the gain at the amplifier, kind of like how a guitar's tone knob does something different from just turning the treble knob on an amp, using an OD pedal into an already distorting amp is different from just turning the gain up on the pedal itself. Another big advantage of a REALLY high output pickup like the Dimarzio X2N is the fact that the individual coils are quite powerful, which means the pickup is split it actually sounds fairly good and pretty close to a true single coil pickup. No guarantee the upgrade going to be worth the $150 bucks though. It is still a pickup after all, not a pedal, amp or speaker.

[@adrianmedeiros8431]

2:09 I actually own the Kramer Nite V he's referring to and I absolutely love it, specially how the neck feels in my hands. Also, mostly stays in tune

[@PegeCovers]

LMAO that Aeroband video is gonna be glorious. It's gonna be like an early christmas present. Bless you Glenn.

[@_gosoka]

As far as affirdable guitars go, I heard good things about Slick guitars. They are lookers for sure (at least on pictures) but it'd be cool to see you have your way with one.

[@The.Adam.D]

Might I suggest an Ibanez RGA42FM.. I have the Dragon eye burst. $399 retail. After swapping the nut and slapping a hipshot bridge on it, it’s my main go-to

[@narglefargle]

YOU GOT AN AEROBAND?! Oh, fuck... I'll get the popcorn!

[@damillionmalania]

I think it's generally hard to shop for instruments because the setup will change my perception of the quality completely. It's hard enough to guess the potential of the instrument in the music store, let alone if you decide to buy online.

[@andyhamm6389]

You mentioned that everyone is going direct with guitars these days, which is great from my pov as a live sound tech. In ear monitors is another investment that can make a band's live act so much better, especially i you are striving for a tighter sound. You get undelayed sound no matter where you are on the stage (like monitoring with headphones while recording) and less sound pollution in the FOH mix. Can you maybe do an episode of prepping for a live show and demonstrate what loud guitar and bass amps bleeding into a full set of drum and vocal mics spread out in distance like they would be on a stage, EQ'd for their individual intent?

[@chaptermasterpedrokantor1623]

I don't think that is Glenn's forte. He is a studio engineer. And I think he's said that live mixing is not his thing. I have done live FOH and monitor mixing and the loud a$$hole guitar player with his amp dialed up to 11, a rule Number 2 jumping around on stage inconsistently hitting his bass strings, drummers that think playing loud makes them better and the singer needing to have his ears bleed from hearing himself on the monitors are easily the biggest things that complicate a live mix. I never had a problem with the guitars intruding in the drum mics, but an a$$hole guitarist with a big loud amp, there was just nothing you could do with that, and me and my colleagues just turned the guitars down out of the FOH mix. Enthusiastic bass players tend to hit the bass strings very mixed. The notes could come in either much louder then originally gained in or softer, depending on how well they were practicing their pogo skills at the same time. Which was why we would often compress the sh1t out of a bass player to get a more even result. Very loud drums force the whole band to play louder as well. And like with the a-hole guitar player, past a certain point you can't compensate for it any on the FOH and you just turn the drum mics off. With singers the problems come from the monitor mix and they are the ones most at risk guitar and bass amp bleed. What makes a good monitor mix hard is always the struggle between turning up the monitors so the artists can hear them and trying to cut out the frequencies that most cause feedback. Which are often the ones you still need to be heard. Singers demand a lot of volume on their monitors, which often causes their mics to feedback. Which becomes worse with bad mic handling techniques, like cupping the mic and holding it too close to the monitors. I was always glad to have a singer use inears or have a guitar player go direct. Eliminating the singer from the center monitors always removed like 90% of mic feedback problems. The rest of the band usually always wants to hear the singer too on their monitors, but never as much as the singer themselves. And having the guitar player go direct also makes your life so much easier. For a while there were, and maybe still are, a lot of soundguys who don't know how to handle guitar or bass going direct, but it's 2023. I reckon by now even the old dinosaurs have caught on.

[@SlyRyFry]

The Ibanez GIO GRG121SP is a great budget guitar (around $300), the blue metal chameleon finish looks even better in person. Not the biggest fan of the medium sized frets and the pickups/electronics could use an upgrade, but they're amazing mod platforms. Just wish they'd offer the green yellow chameleon finish that only shows up on the EU version of the Ibanez site at some point

[@STORMBREAKER_250]

Glenn, I am so glad you've made these videos, because now my bandmates can't complain about my BC Rich guitars anymore!

[@rollerdragon]

3:00 as far as under 500 bucks for a guitar, Meridan, Iyv, must be neck through with a transparent finish.. must see the neck thru... always a great value if you dig hard enough.. old Vantage vp-900 or above, or late 70's aria pro II are good .. but we can spend even more and go for Ibanez Musician ... and if you don't mind re-dressing fret work, rewiring faulty factory work, you can't go wrong with Gibson..

[@neilford7338]

I do love your pragmatism Glen, it's all about results with you - brilliant.

[@dipperstowing954]

As someone who’s been playing guitar for only a few years, I never thought to look into modding any of my guitars or getting any better gear like amps or cables. Almost all info I’ve gotten on different gear has come from you and one other person, and I’ve kept it all in mind! Also, I don’t know if you’ve already done this, but maybe you could test a couple Fender/Gibson guitars against Squier/Epiphone guitars to show the differences and similarities between them? Others have done this, but you go into much more detail about tone, price, and other equipment and how they effect sound. Anyway, great video and keep up the good work!

[@jackbootshamangaming4541]

IDK Glenn, I normally agree on pickups, but I can still hear a big difference coming from Schecter's duncan designed AHB-1s to my fishman fluence, I can even hear the difference in between the modes, while in high gain.

[@bmannned]

Glenn, if you're not playing with the EQ in the latest clean test, can you explain why in your previous clean tests with humbuckers, there were quite substantial differences between pickups? (they are your words). I uploaded the difference between a Bare Knuckle Mule & a Slash Burstbucker, again big difference? You're saying some pickups can't have more bass response now? Is that clean. If so, that's 100% false. My only two videos are seeing my results, clean and dirty. They suggest you're incorrect on this. Again, same with your previous tests.

[@kennyjohnson336]

I love the feel and look of an ebony board. Never heard a difference from my rosewood Les Pauls. Just love the feel under my fingers much better.

[@boogie3718]

2:51 Could basses count in as well? Budget basses have been real awesome lately. A friend of mine replaced his jazz pickups with PJ's on his Harley Benton JB-62 SB, sanded the neck a lil and man, one of the best PJ basses I've ever tried. It beat and American Fender jazz in a heartbeat. I think in total the bass + the work costed him like 200€ or so. You can also find brand new Ibanez SR300's and used SR500's for under 500€, those sound amazing and stay in tune well.

[@notarealperson87]

11:05 - i saw Megadeth and Slayer live a few years before Jeff Hanneman passed, and Megadeth was all in-ears and modeling. they sounded great and kicked ass but the stage was really weird looking, it was entirely empty except for a few hanging vinyl prints! looked really nice to walk around onstage though.

[@ImnotgoingSideways]

Low output vs high output pickups: high output makes more sense for high gain. The more you turn up the gain in a system, the more noise can be picked up through cables, pedals and any other gap in shielding. Maximize the source signal so the gain stage(s) pull less noise along the way.

[@paulmccourt6185]

I've got to say own a couple of single cut guitars with similar specs for playing live, most have rosewood and one has ebony boards, the reason I gravitate towards the rosewood is because I'm a rhythm player and the looder grain feels more anchored for playing chords! Keep up the great work Glenn

[@wrench7665]

First, thanks for the great content Glen. The speaker argument was a complete eye opener for me personally. Pickups, I've kinda known this for a while but the examples you've shown sealed it. HOWEVER, as a semi-pro luthier for the past 20-ish years, I can add one tiny detail about pickups from personal experience: Yes, "tonal shifts" on high gain are mostly BS esp in a mix, but there is one damn pickup that now features on almost all my and my clients' guitars: Fluence. Why? It is the ONLY pickup I have come across that forced me to almost relearn guitar because of how unforgiving it is at showing your faults. Must be the PCB coiling because holy crap you can't hide any of your flaws (particularly sweep picking) if you're playing on fluences. Not tone, and I hate to say it, but individual note clarity.

[@opentls]

I bought a Ibanez RGRT421for 495 euros recently and I'm absolutely loving it. Plays so nicely, looks so good. The only thing I regret is that I didn't ditch my Gibson 5 years earlier. I put some locking tuners on, and I'm probably gonna replace the nut. But it survived its first gig without a problem, and the tuning stability was amazing.

[@myronmosley2167]

I don’t know why this is but I will say I bought a base model Ibanez RG8 that came with the proprietary Ibanez passive pickups and it was very muddy no matter what I did in front of the amp or with the amp. I then put EMG808X’s in it and that solved most of the issues I was having. Eventually I put a set of Tosin Abasi signature Fishman Fluence pickups in it and that clean up the tone significantly. It’s a night and day difference in note clarity.

[@patrickfuchs6936]

I am sure you reviewed them, and they were brought to your attention a million times...BUT why not once more. I play a Gretsch Streamliner Semi Hollow Body, Double Cut Jr. Model (2016/17)... and it just blasts the sh**´s outta my amp, a fender champ 40. I only play home alone for now, really fun rig with endless options... Seriously, great guitar, gave me instant motivation, to play more, get a deeper understanding of theory, and to at least try to dial in my amp, properly. I learned more licks and songs on that guitar in the past 5 years then I ever did on my cheapo´s for 25 years.

[@evanator2003]

I have a $189 Epiphone Sg vintage cherry, satin finish, brand new from reverb and Brother. I swaped out the bridge pickup and the MF rivals any car-priced gibson.

[@DJClassicAuto]

I have, since the 60s, gone through a number of guitars and put a staggering variety of pickups in them. My first good guitar was a '64 Gibson Melody maker D with those, I think that they were called, PU380 single coils that I bought for $50 in a pawn shop. But, having gone through those and everything from DiMarzio to Seymore Duncan and everything in between, I am forced to quote Bertrand Russell on his meeting with Lenin in 1920. " I was less impressed by him than I expected to be." I have now scaled back to one guitar, a 93 American Standard strat that I bought when it was brand new, still completely stock in every respect, and that suits my needs just fine.

[@pradyumnamukunda9222]

@2:31 Don't even bother with the Kramer V's, they are impossible to play sitting down cause they put the input jack right where you would place the guitar on your legs

[@rocinblues]

Thanks VG video. Next up checking out your bass software. Cheers!!

[@adam5744]

Problem with the kramer v is the location of the input jack don't know what they were thinking

[@natrixxvision6997]

4:18 Wait a minute. My 7 string has un-waxed pickups. I love em. Most of the time, when I notice feedback from humbuckers it’s because the volume is WAY too loud. So how about turn the hell down and learn to use the RIGHT amount of gain and actually sound good.

[@bulkvanderhuge9006]

I think it's worth paying the extra money to buy a left-handed amp. Running a right handed guitar into a left-handed amp gives a sweet tone you can't get otherwise. One of the keys to micing the amp is to run the mic into the aux input on the amp.

[@bracket12]

I bought a cheap 7string schecter guitar and changed the bridge pickup to 7stringed Paf, didn't do it for the sound change, but when i record direct into my daw via my soundcard, the lower output makes finding the correct gain level easier and a nice sideeffect is that electric noise from monitors and pc is reduced quite a bit:) Love the show Glen!!! and please, can we get more mixing tutorials, make a new series on maybe drum mixing? Maybe difference when mixing toontrack (or similar) or live sets? thanks yet again. (btw sorry English isn't my main language so sorry for any errors:P)

[@AHCHUUU]

Yamaha rgx480:24 frets,Floyd rose.around $200 used.Epiphone SG standard,Epiphone Les Paul special.Both around $200 used.Im lucky enough to have all three.My goto would be metal.

[@timointrouble]

Just rewatching and commenting to help Glenn a bit

[@rutger4131]

I took the speakers (Celestion Gold + Celestion V30) out of a very expensive guitar cabinet. Sold the cabinet for €300 and bought a 2nd hand empty Harley Benton 2x12 for €90 to put the speakers in. Sounds killer!

[@jacksonhoward3743]

On great value guitars - my most reliable guitar is my 'old' Jackson Js23 HSS Dinky from about 2013 or so with the natural finish. The stock single coils are great, but I did put in a Duncan Full Shred as the output of it blends better than the stock humbucker did. (although it sounds great in the other guitar I put it in) I bring it to every gig. It is always rock solid in tune, the maple neck never seems to move, it's plays wonderfully with no sharp frets thanks to The binding, and the HSS pickups mean it can work for whatever style I need

[@o.phillips2522]

In regards to pickup output and gain staging: bumping up the amp's gain control WILL make the preamp react differently to increasing the gain going in to the amplifier, but that difference is not objectively better or worse. Its just different. I've messed around with this using my Victory Kraken and an MXR Line Driver (a clean boost), and I've noticed that the more I goose the input level, the more the distortion gets "crunchy" or "sputtery." Turning up the amp's gain control gives me a "woolier," more compressed sound. This may be specific to my amp, but I've done the A/B tests at home with a reamp box. That being said, in a full mix with double tracked guitars its not a big enough difference for me to worry about, so I just go with what feels best under the fingers.

[@steveclark9934]

Super interested to see the upcoming video about the metal recording mic.

[@PeterQuill-rh3lm]

Hey Glenn I just bought the Jackson JS32 King V with the Floyd rose and man that guitar is stellar. Like no it’s no pro series V or Dean Vengeance but it’s pretty similar to epiphone V and for $430 bucks it’s a steal of an axe that’s plays fast and looks badass. You guys should totally check it out!!

[@jimhart4158]

My initial thought to high-output pickups and their effectiveness would be to improve signal to noise ratio through the signal chain. However, this might not actually be helpful, for a number of reasons. Firstly, the consideration is what type of noise is appearing on the signal - is it the inherent thermal and shot noise of the electronics, or the environmental noise? Thermal and shot noise are inherent to electronic components, and typically manifests its self as "hiss" in the amplifier's output. Environmental noise is the electromagnetic interference from the environment, typically as hum, buzz, or even radio station demodulation. A high output pickup would increase the signal relative to the thermal and shot noise of the electronics, but would also correspondingly increase the environmental noise, due to having more windings. Another factor here is that guitar equipment is often terribly designed from a noise perspective. Tube amplifiers themselves use a progressive distortion method where the signal is amplified to just slightly distorted, attenuated, and then amplified to distortion again to get progressively more distorted over the stages. This prevents issues with high slew rates causing "farting" in the sound that happens when trying to get too much distortion out of one stage, but is terrible from a noise standpoint, as every attenuation in the chain reduces the SNR. This effect might eat any noise advantage a high-output pickup might give. Guitar equipment is also often just designed wrong about noise, even when not using tubes, especially "traditional" designed. Thermal noise is generated in resistors and active elements (tubes, transistors, ICs), and is directly proportional to the value of the resistors or effective resistances of the active element. In tube amplifiers, resistor values have to be kept high due to the nature of tubes, making tube equipment often inherently more noisy than solid-state equipment. But for many guitar effects pedals, the designers opted to keep the same high-value resistances, especially in older "traditional" designs. These are significantly more noisy than they need to be and can add huge amounts of hiss to your signal. Also, resistor type matters. Many people swear by carbon composition resistors as sounding the best, but they are the noisiest type of resistor because they also have contact noise, in addition to thermal and shot noise. Modern metal film or metal oxide resistors are a much better choice - and I can pretty reliably say without doing an A/B recording test that the type of resistor used won't matter to your tone. Then there is the use of outdated "traditional" op-amps in a huge number of distortion pedals that are, bluntly, hot garbage compared to modern op-amps, but continue to be used out of tradition alone. I have more, but this comment is getting long and tedious, and doing nothing but confirming that I am, in fact, a massive nerd. So I will cut it off there.

[@LRRPFco52]

At 11:00, it reminds me of when I first saw Chimaira in 2001. They didn't have any cabinets on stage, but their sound was so massive and clear. They blew Slayer off the stage, which was the only reason why I was there (to see Slayer). I talked with their sound guy afterwards and asked him what they were doing, and he said they just went through their amp heads direct into the PA to then EQ out the mix for a full, balanced sound. I later saw them open for Fear Factory and Slipknot, and they blew them both off the stage as well at House of Blues in Myrtle Beach. It was a great concert mainly because of Chimaira. Threy made me look at gear set-up differently after that. Subscribed

[@rutger4131]

6:56 I used to have a Mesa Studio Preamp, basically a IIC+ preamp. Plugging a strat style guitar into it would get you very close to Nirvana (Nevermind was recorded with the Studio Pre I believe). Regular medium humbuckers got you a nice crunch tone but it took some EMGs to get the Master of Puppets type of sounds (without an additional boost in front). So pickup output can definitely be a 'tone' shaper, if you consider gain as part of the tone. It was a really fun preamp to experiment with, learned a lot from it.

[@Halfaloaf599]

Looking forward to the minivan repair video!!!!!

[@mdfkrz79]

I can never get singularity to sound right, I just end up going back to the Amplemetal ray lol

[@deltawhiskey1398]

I've been playing for almost 20 years...a few things that I have discovered are...there is no substitute for practice....most cheap guitars suck although you can find a diamond in the rough sometimes...most expensive guitars aren't worth it...median priced guitars are great with a few upgrades...tone woods on electric guitars don't matter...there isn't much to be gained swapping pickups unless you are going from low output to a high output and vice versa...I settled on Dimarzio Super Distortions years ago because driven they sound great, you want to clean them up use the volume knob on your guitar....amp speakers do more for your tone than swapping pickups....a comfortable neck on a guitar is underrated...tube amps sound great...but aren't necessary live or when recording...you don't need 25 pedals on your board to sound good...oh and did I mention practicing?...there a reason that a accomplished guitarist can take a POS Walmart guitar and make it sound great...its more in the hands and less about the equipment.

[@thefinalpie]

I think your pickup video worked cuz some guy is selling his set of SD Black Winters for less than a third of the price on Kijiji. Needed a set of high output pickups anyway for a project so thanks for the sweet deal Glenn.

[@malusso]

Cort Evl was absolutley amazing!! I don't know how are they doing nowadays since mine has like 15 years at this point. I had that guitar without any calibration for like 8 years and it was in a very good shape