There's no CRYING in Baseball!

[@musicsurfandrats]

Invite Keith and have him play for the test

[@stug5041]

Great idea but how do you get him to Windsor lol

[@zwink623]

Nyan cat of guitar videos episode 3!

[@potestoniko]

That's exactly what I was thinking! A Great Collab that would be

[@mrcoatsworth429]

Conflict of interest. Keith has a deal with SD that I'm sure he doesn't wanna lose. Doing this test with Glenn probably wouldn't sit well with SD, who want people to believe that their pickups sound better than others. Therefore, Keith would probably not agree to this.

[@archersomers]

CONQUERING DYSTOPIA RIFFAGE 🤘

[@eugenestrunk]

In his video, Keith Merrow explicitly states he only changed pickups and left the rest of signal chain unchanged across all takes. Second, from Glen videos we know that different pickups can vary in their output levels. Third, nonlinear processing such as distortion is very sensitive to input levels. So we can explain such big difference in tone by varying amp and pedal input levels. To make a proper comparison, the guitar performances should be reamped, and then normalised to the same LUFS level (as per ITU-R BS.1770), and then fed back to the processing chain to get the final mixes. It’s like with those early experiments for determining how high can humans perceive frequencies, where speakers used for tests produced intermodulation distortion that created harmonics down in the audible range. As soon as this technical issue was fixed, no super hearing ability were detected :)

[@mohitrahaman]

"that Keith Merrow Pickup Video" is really unique because that sickas Pillars of Recreation riff is out of this world. Man those chugs haunt me.

[@mw_guitars]

Re: Boss Katana I've stopped recording with the USB out since moving to a focusrite 2i2, but I still use my first gen Katana 50 for practice all the time, and a Katana 100 for gigs. Takes my Boss ME-90 multi-fx unit super well, sounds great on its own and mic'd up through the PA. We've run it for gigs at university with upwards of 10 different guitarists switching in and out, wildly different tones, a multitude of pedals - it handles it all like a champ and I've never had any reliability issues using my 50 since ~2017. Love the show, kind regards from Scotland - Michael

[@Durkhead]

Do you use the air function? I think it makes the distortion sound better when i have the air function on the di

[@mw_guitars]

@@Durkhead I've started to yeah, but I haven't A/B tested it yet against not having it

[@WIMPY86]

Katana ROCKS. Easily the best investment we made!

[@juanmacaceres2702]

You like tube amps because of the tone I like them because they keep me warm when I play guitar in winter. We are NOT the same

[@michaelangeloh.5383]

You do kinda sound like an angry Tom Hanks. - Can you just yell "There's a snake in my boot!" or "YOU - ARE - A - TOY!" next video?...

[@RaccAttacc01]

YOU! ARE! A! BASSIIIIST!!

[@lisdexik5484]

@@RaccAttacc01 God if I could get a shirt with Woody screaming that at a stoned Buzz Lightyear...

[@RichLunaMusic]

I've always thought Penn Jillette when he had long flowing locks.

[@TheREALJosephTurner]

The quick answer to "What's wrong with Wham?" made me spit my drink all over the place.

[@skerryperry3]

I wasn't on board with the Tom Hanks thing until " There's no crying in baseball!" Now I can't overlook it. 😂 Now I wanna hear Woody yell, "Tonewood is a f*ckin myth!!!"

[@sirfunkydangle4702]

Now that it's been said. I can't help but notice that Glenn and Tom Hanks hasn't been seen together in the same place. Makes you wonder.

[@CarlosKTCosta]

I love pedals and have quite a few of them but live I use a QC and that’s it. No issues with patch cables, no pedal knobs getting messed up and f’ing up your tone, etc.

[@rachelfey]

Building those bass traps ain't dirt cheap anymore, unfortunately. I built 6 bass traps using your method, andt hey work great! Worth every penny. But LORD have materials ever increased since you made that video. The room sounds so good I can hear how broke I am lmao

[@travisspaulding2222]

The reason there are very limited pickup tests is because of the extreme amount of work it takes to actually do. It has to be the same guitar, not different shapes, not different strings (A double locking tremolo helps here because you can remove the bridge without removing the strings). Most people won't put in the work. That guitar you used was really nifty, but it's tough for most people because they've never used that brand of pickups.

[@Dragonfyre137]

That's a valid point. But if PU manufacturers make bold claims about the tonal qualities of pickups, they should spend some time and ressources to provide evidence (e.g. frequency response graphs and AB comparisons) to back it up.

[@travisspaulding2222]

@@Dragonfyre137 DiMarzio kind of does that by putting a number value on their pickups for bass, low mids, high mids, treble, and output. That's probably as good as it's going to get because of the dangers of a lawsuit. They can put all the frequency graphs in the world on their site, but what happens when someone uses a Greenback at home when the pickup manufacturer used a V30, so they sue for false advertisement because their mids are lacking. The truth is, there are so many variables in a signal chain, it is almost impossible to isolate the pickup and say, this is the difference because once you swap the another component, it affects the final product. That's just the guitar tone. When you record, you are introducing an entire new signal chain that processes the sound from the original signal chain, so how much of that tone gets homogenized being processed through a digital signal?

[@BOATIE141]

@@travisspaulding2222but then how does a company like Graphtech have Freq. Response graphs for their NUTS? And pickup manufacturers can’t do a simple test

[@travisspaulding2222]

@@BOATIE141 You would have to ask them. Just because one company might put themselves out there, it doesn't mean all will. Especially since Graph tech is a Canadian company where I'm pretty sure they are not as lawsuit happy as in the United States. Also, consider suing someone over a $15 nut will unlikely be as lucrative as a group of people (because class action would likely be the way to go to sue a pickup company) suing a pickup company where putting a new set of pickups on one guitar is about $300, so if people are suing because they switched pickups on multiple guitars, one person could have thousands invested in pickups. In other words, suing Graph Tech, the money just isn't there.

[@dabanjo]

If it made that much of a difference it would be evident without exacting precise science to even discern a minute difference. The way these are marketed the tone shift should be apparent immediately.

[@msmoniz]

I second you love for Catherine North Studio. Being a life long Hamilton resident and having seen the odd live gig there, it's a super cool place, an old small church converted to a super cool recording studio and sometimes live event space, just north of downtown in a residential neighborhood. The studio was co-founded by the late great Dan Achen who was also the co-founder and guitar player in 90's CanRock band Junkhouse, who died way too young 14 years ago from a undiagnosed heart condition while playing in his usual beer hockey league. Just suddenly dropped on the ice. There was a fear the studio might have ceased without his direction, but thankfully it's continued on.

[@fridtjofvigen1053]

Do a video of you recording and producing Ola Englund, that would be popular with the crowd I would assume.

[@baruchdor]

I came to write "an article" as a reply to Glenn😅, but it seems to me that simply this would be a good solution, mainly because i think ola believes in the difference between the pickups and can get a lot out of them technically🙏 so if ola will try them blindfolded I and many will treat the results in a different way

[@kearyscanlon]

Surely if you replicated the Keith Merrow test nobody would accuse you of doing anything but science. Surely... 🤣

[@ScottyWiard]

As a PodGo user, I love to see the love. I even have mine set up to do channel switching with MIDI so when I’m playing live I don’t have to tap dance at all.

[@Tigermaster1986]

5:00 You can always buy a cheap NUX MG-300. People gig live with this, and it costs ~100 euros new. I have one, it is great for what I need.

[@XxBigguy3xX]

I would love to see more bass guitar reviews.

[@Pesso86]

Hey Glenn, we are recording our first album and we decided to do everything “real”. Micking drums, micking cabinets, the whole thing. With just a few attempts, I got the best sounding guitars I was ever able to make. And the gear I used is not very expensive: an harley benton 2x12, a shure sm57, a fathead and a phase align plugin. Never got such a great sound with IRs. I still love them, but now I am convinced that micking cabs is way better, if you have the space for it. What do you think?

[@arnolddealiii4259]

Hey Glenn, long time viewer! I am not a metal player but I love hearing your perspective on gear reviews. Anyway I use a Boss Katana 100 combo in my dad rock cover band. We practice twice a week and I use a Tascam Model 12 to capture our practice sounds. Anyway the Katana in live use for the dive bars I play in locally is perfect. I really utilize the channel switching to go from rhythm to lead stuff. I was that fool that was making $50 but bringing a Barbie dream house pedal board worth $1000’s of dollars! I finally wised up and realized for the most part I’m just background noise to someone’s night out and instead of wasting money on pedals, and guitars I should probably just work on learning my parts and not fucking up! Thanks for the endless entertainment and practical knowledge you’ve been sharing over the last decade!

[@getawayperformance]

Thank you for the motivation glenn. not giving up.

[@Erreip54]

I am really looking forward to that pickup swap test!

[@worldaswar3784]

Remember putting mic'ed guitar and bass amps into closets covered with thick blankets so they would not pick up the noises from the environment to have as clean signal as possible. what a times. And now we have tons of plugins which became so good that i don't even think of buying a physical amp anymore. what a time to be a musician

[@earwormcovers522]

i play with a boss katana 100 MKII and i’m not really tech savvy so i haven’t changed any of the software that came with the amp since i got it and the only complaints i can say after about 4 years of ownership is that the distorted channels can be really noisy, the volume difference between the clean and distorted channels can differ wildly and i personally don’t like that the audio cuts out when i’m recording directly out of the amp into my interface but i just plug it into some monitors and the problem is solved. Overall it’s a super solid(state) amp with a plethora of built-in sounds that takes pedals great, which only adds to the already diverse array of tones you can get out of it stock. i love this amp and it’s never let me down at gigs or at home 7.8/10 would highly recommend :3

[@coltmartin5481]

I just use a 50 watt Boss Katana. It does work still, though I've thought about changing the speaker on it to try a different sound. Keep up the good work Glen!

[@IcedForce]

Just to say, there's a lot more hits if you search for DB-25 to dual RJ-45 adapter and not "DB-25 to Cat 5e" or "quad-twisted pair to something as stupid". The Cat 5e is the cable, DB-25 and RJ-45 are the connectors. The wiring system of the DB-25 is AES59. So, what you want is DB-25 male connector, PCB that has AES59 to dual RJ-45 wiring and couple RJ-45 female connectors. For those who want to follow at home, AES59 has 8 balanced channels so what you want is to get the AES59 diagram close-by and wire each hot-cold-pair into the RJ-45 pairs (each pair has it's own color and the wires are colored solid and striped, the only thing to remember is that in the standard internet cable the 1st pair nests within 3rd pair so the pin out is 2-2-3-1-1-3-4-4). You can wire all the shields together and attach them to the RJ-45 shield, but if you want to be fancy-pantsy you could use 3 RJ-45's and also wire the shields of the AES59, but that's probably too fancy and they are more or less connected to the ground at some point, so just ground them or put them into the twisted-pair shield (connect them together and attach to the shielded RJ-45 housing). Pretty straight forward and easy training project to anyone wanting to try out PCB designing, just connect A's to B's and try to be efficient with the wiring. Wait couple weeks for your connectors and PCB's to get to you and get your soldering training too.

[@russellhltn1396]

Suggestion on the pickup test: Get two guitars with the same pickup. Get them to match (same strings, etc). Compare. Then swap the pickups on one of them. Keep the other guitar as a reference. Compare again.

[@AmadChima]

Getting Katana 100 head was the best investment I’ve made - use it for live shows with a 1x12 cab (vintage tones) as well as recording via the USB port at the back for my metal ideas - sounds great! Also on top of that Boss Tone Exchange has soooo many users presets uploaded - there’s no shortages of tones you can download

[@VARVIS_]

hey GLENN in addition to a book and a movie, I would love for you to share with us one of your favourite albums too

[@wormburner3370]

Still rocking the Katana MK1 head and matching cab. Rehearsal and gigs. It's never been out of order for a single moment. Had to repair the Peavey and the Marshall twice each in that same time period so I'm just sticking to solid state from now on. The tone difference is not worth the headache to me anymore.

[@dalejacksonmo]

im 55 years old only been playing guitar for about 4 years with amps n cabs..i want to learn how to use audio interface and daw and record and add drums and bass... at the best price and quality...hard to trust some reviews...i think your the most honest...for beginners...a show with this info would be awesome

[@stevedallas6122]

His POD Go recommendation, It's my studio rig, live rig, traveling rig. Haven't came close to tapping 25% of it's capabilities. Really well designed piece of gear.

[@DigitalChemistryBand]

It's my main monkey buisness... Glenn's recommendation and shootout in a mix sold me... I'm old school digital from the Zoom 9000, J Station, Kidney Pod, Chameleon (insane how good it was... and it did 30 years of covers - too old to repair) Rack Pod Pro, LiveXT, HD500... now the Podgo... add 250 wts and the right IR, and it's everything I need to create.

[@serjfomichev]

Great piece of gear indeed. I have it for my studio work as well as an on-stage rig for jams and music parties I (used to) organise, but for personal/solo gigs with my band i prefer Zoom MS60B, solely because it is much smaller and I don't use a lot of FXes, just distortion for better blending into the mix and pitchshifter for being too lazy to retune my upright bass when I need to play some modern metal songs

[@davelanciani-dimaensionx]

Even the POD Express works well and sounds great for home recording.

[@RandysRides]

I never hear you or any commenter mentioning ZOOM effects pedals. I have the 505II, and will never get rid of it. What's your take on them ??

[@allendean9807]

Extinction level Event has changed my music from night to day. Two years ago, i was mixing songs, and getting middling to poor reviews on Glenn’s show. So i never released my music. I felt really self conscious about it. Vocals were there, guitars, bass, all fine. But the drums, Superior Drummer 3, just didn’t ‘feel’ right for my genre. Then i got ELE. And within two months, i released my first solo EP. That program gave me the confidence to show my solo music off to the world. It made mixing a breeze. The drums are basically mix ready. The whole kit is mix and match, and I’ve created my own kit, so my stuff has a common sound. If you have to program drums, or if you play an electronic kit, i cannot suggest this set of drum sounds any more. Thanks to Spectre Digital for creating a BANGER of a drum program!!

[@JakeVanDanger]

I can't post pics on here, but I have built sound panels twice. A batch of 8 costs between 250-300 all in. That's great value and effective treatment. There are many KZbin videos showing you how-to.

[@AmericanMe]

Are we really bringing up an AWESOME old video of Keith's. 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@natrixxvision6997]

I remember a few weeks ago I saw my friend with his band. He was playing through a Katana with one of those Boss ME-80 boards. I think it was the best he's ever sounded. It's time to sell the tube amps, especially if you use a lot of pedals.

[@jethroviloria18]

If you want to easily swap pickup without soldering everytime, use wire connectors like what EMG use on their pickups install it before on every pickup you want to test.

[@jordanpeacock8774]

Currently reading Good Omens and LOVING it so far. Hopefully this will give me some inspiration for more songwriting.

[@TannithVQ]

I've been playing through a Boss Katana Mk 1 for 6 or 7 years now and it's been pretty solid. Its never let me down on stage or off. The onboard effects are fine, but it still takes pedals well. It's not spectacular at anything, but it's solid and it's reliable. For playing small gigs it's plenty loud. It also wont break you back when you pick it up.

[@CanadianTractor]

I use a katana MKII 100 W combo as a power amp for my Tonex One modeling pedal. It is a great setup for me and didn't break the bank (I got the Katana used so my setup is about $500). I really didn't like the katana tone models and could never get the tone I was looking for out if the katana (even after trying lots of downloaded models from boss tone studio and the most current firmware). The tonex had a model for a single rectifier out of box that sounds badass with no modification. I was so impressed that I paid for the metal amp package in tonex and really like those as well. Hope you had a great trip across the pond! Swamper in Norfolk County, ON

[@scottskinner6602]

I have just purchased the gen 3 Katana Head it is an awesome peace of gear. Our guitarist manages to find almost any tone he is looking for and I am a big fan of the new pushed setting that was added to the latest version. We also have been using the first generation Katana 50 and it has no problem keeping in our jam space. I run the new head through an old Marshall avt valve state 2 12 cab with G12 100 avt speakers by Celestion they sound fantastic. I would like to see the Boss Katana products get a little more street credit since they are a really great value for the money... It seem that when you promote this kind of gear your opinion carries a lot of weight in this industry. Keep up the good work..

[@jonathanwapner6262]

Great episode. This is what the series should really be about every week.

[@jojoplaysmusic]

Now I can't unsee Glenn as Tom Hanks

[@RaiynStorm]

The Katanas are great, but I upgraded to the Boss Nextone Special from a MK1 50w. There are a ton of patches available both through Boss and 3rd party that make it sound how ever you want. I'd like to hear your thoughts.

[@joshanddamion]

Glen I think your my spirit animal. I appreciate all the hard work you do.

[@NeZversSounds]

2:47 - I think that's called a peer review.

[@aslin81]

Hello Glenn, I was wondering if there was a difference between tracking clean in a booth where sound is controlled vs recording in a room with a live amp. Obvious controls would be what the guitarist hears so his playing doesn't change much. Would the live amp be captured by the guitar and change the sound?

[@mathurincoupal-jette6939]

Question about ELE: I just bought an electric drum kit so that my drummer can record his parts in my home studio. My issue is with the Hi-Hat, the model I have is a Roland VH-11 which is meant to be mounted on a real Hi-Hat stand, and I don't know how to map it in ELE, which has like 5 different banks of samples for when the hi-hat is open. For now I just chose one and went with it but it'd be cool to be able to use all the sounds

[@BrianSteedman]

Hey Glenn. Had a question about recording equipment. I've had windows machines that have given me nothing but issues with every daw I've ever used. So I wanna go to the dark side... And buy a Mac. I use a 50 inch 4k TV as a monitor. An 18i20 for my interface. Logitech mouse and keyboard. My question is, will an m2 chip Mac mini be enough of a machine to record multi tracks with ELE drums, element bass, a synth track or two and some guitar tracks? How much RAM should I get? I'm not dropping 5 grand on a Mac studio. What are your thoughts?

[@eamonahern7495]

Suggestion: try to get Keith on the show when you do the test. Edit: you know what the music in the element bass promo reminds me a little bit of? The guitar solos section of Hear n' Aid, Stars.

[@DJBuglip]

WOW. That connector is awesome.

[@christofdonat2702]

NAM: I'm currently trying to get it running on a Raspberry Pi 5 together with other Linux FX plugins, like e.g. the Guitarix stuff. I couldn't find any prebuild packages for the Raspi, so I'll have to try and compile it myself. If it works out, I'll have a complete capture/modeller solution with the Raspi, a Zoom U-24 interface (any class compliant with a high-Z instrument input will do, of course), and a MIDI foot-controller all in all for less than 350 bucks including a case for the Raspi, and cables. OK, I don't calculate the time I put in, because it's mostly a fun tinkering project, that might prove useful, if I succeed.

[@eddiekalista3222]

I’ve always maintained that pickups add color to the guitar sound.

[@milkbby50]

keith merrow showed the seymour duncan liberator in the beginning of the video which is seymour duncans "solderless system". its a potentiometer that lets you screw in the pickup cables instead of soldering them. but the guitar he used was also one where the pickups are direct mounted so i'm guessing some of the difference comes from the pickup height? unless he made sure its all the same height as well. either way i'd love a keith merrow experiment video from you, cuz i personally think the a/b comparison videos are entertaining lol

[@cizmar1972]

From my experience changing pickups and amps and cabs in a live band environment, you definitely hear a difference from all of them. Even pickup swaps make a difference. I swap between Seymour Duncan Invaders and Black Winters, and the out of box tone is quite different. I will say, though, that I can easily EQ my rig to get the same tone or very close, no matter what combination I use. I use multiple EQs in different parts of my signal chain, and it gives me tons of flexibility with different gear. How much more can you EQ just about any amp or pickup to sound the same, in the studio...

[@filipmjankowski]

I got my 6505+ 112 combo after seeing Behemoth play live (they use 6505 120w heads) and I got it for 270 euros (and I even got a lift back home from the guy I bought it from). I converted it into a head and I love it! There are some amazing deals that pop up every now and then but you got to be patient for them.

[@sebd8849]

You should try NAM (Neural Amp Modeler) for example in Tonocracy - it's a plugin with reverb/delays etc. and it also supports NAM files. It's easier option to get full rig than standalone NAM.

[@BlazonStone]

The new Neural NAM Player from Dimehead seems absolutely insanely good! :D World record hardware latency at only 0.5ms and of course the worlds currently most accurate amp capture software. I had a Kemper, loved it, great stuff, but they really gotta develop a Kemper 2.0 to compete with the Nam Player for capturing accuracy. There was always something slightly off with Kemper profiles (often missing information in the low-mids no matter how many times I repeated the profiling process) NAM Player doesnt have much FX built in tho, currently limited to reverbs and delays.... But I am sure most metal players can be 100% fine with the current features. Not sure how the hardware works, maybe a software update allows for some rudamentary fx like chorus, flanger etc some day. Would be cool if you could review that beast!

[@LukeWSLC]

Can't say for certain but I would bet that he just used a liberator solderless pot with the set screws. To swap pups on a guitar with one of those installed you just use a small flathead and swap the lead wires on the terminal. He would have had to still detune/retune or swap the strings entirely but it would have been a bit simpler than a full install.

[@joshspunkrockgarden9914]

GLENN!! Here's something I'd love to see an instructional video on, which migh tie in with the NAM video you're planning to shoot. When recording guitar in the box instead of with a microphone on a live amp, how do you get the "wall of feedback" sound that a lot of doom bands use for certain sections of their songs? I'm thinking some of Windhand's stuff where one guitar might play an intro while the other guitar and bass are just feeding back and it sounds massive. My idea (which I haven't had a chance to test) is to use the Axe I/O One to run the signal out to my Seymour Duncan Powerstage and into a small cabinet that's loud enough to get the desired feedback without bothering the neighbors too much, but I'd love to learn that there's a better way.

[@yourpowell]

Hi Glenn! Looking to get my first guitar cab and a Mesa Dual Rectifier. I’ve watched your Harley Benton 2x12 videos and was wondering what your thoughts are on Celestion Creambacks with high gain amps vs the v30s and Greenbacks you’ve done videos on. Love the channel and have learned a lot!

[@Deckie1969]

Hey Gleeennn! Long time listener and occasional caller. I have a question about running a project/home studio like you have done. How do you do things like getting paid, contracts, insurance, sharing files, paying taxes, etc.

[@TheMasterOfTheFrets]

If Tom Hanks yelled all the time and joined a metal band.

[@serjfomichev]

Speaking of ELE. Is there a chance we once see it as a standalone plugin, like Elements:Bass, not just a library for Kontakt? (Because multitrack routing in kontakt is awfully terrible and inconvenient to work with and at this point, though I own ELE (purchased, not torrent edition XD) and like how it sounds, I mostly use Addictive Drums due to it being less tiring to set up) And one thing about Singularity (earlier i confused it with Elements:Bass due to being as smart as a bassist) - it would be a very nice touch to add the possibility of selecting the string on which certain note is playing, not just auto-selection. Thank you and your team for this products, by the way. They were the first ones that I obtained legally (except for the Reaper and GP) and they inspired me to move from the torrent store edition software to truly licensed one.

[@heavychonkerssteviek8691]

I’m crimping on terminal connectors to my pickups and a length of wire running from the pickup selector with the corresponding terminal end to make my pickups quick disconnect. If it works, we’ve been had by Big Solder into believing we have to solder them on.

[@mattnelson8325]

Actually, that did sound like Tom Hanks. What tone wood did you use?? I use a Katana MkII 100w head and Waza 2x cabinet for everything. I love it and tolerate you.

[@nickalderman5943]

for the SD pickup testing, use their liberator solderless pots to make it easier.

[@hailhydrazine4938]

I strongly suspect that there might be some issues with the strings if you do a traditional pickup swap, do you keep the strings on and have them degrade over a few tension-release cycles or do you put on new strings and introduce a new variable?

[@vorpalblades]

Once they're stretched, they're fine.

[@GuyFi46]

I would LOVE to see a pickup test like that!

[@fumedrummer]

Are you aware of any differential data (or have a personal preference) for brand/type of acoustic drum heads? Remo? Evans? Aquarian? is one type better on a kick drum as opposed to a snare or tom?

[@KaldDodeGitarist]

4:49 if you don't already have one, you can get a 10+ year old laptop for dirt cheap, upgrade the ram as high as it can go, and get an ssd for it, and run windows 10 on it. I did all that for under $250usd, and got helix native and reaper so I can play anywhere. And you can also get gig performer to run your amp sim without a daw. The upside to doing it on a laptop, instead of buying a modeling unit, is you can record any ideas you come up with on the fly, and you can also use the laptop for anything else a laptop can do.

[@robinstahlbaum9813]

for those who are not subscribed, please subscribe. This guy does a lot of work and deserves 1 million subscribers

[@dfjklashfklrda-sw5tn]

Hi Glen, my experience has been that pickups differences tend to come out a bit more with different techniques/playing styles. Stuff like open chords don't really show the differences so much. I wonder if that is something you could account for when testing? I tend to hear the difference most when doing chuggy palm mutes, stuff like the main riff in Master of Puppets. If the pickup's attack isn't to my taste and I'm playing heavily, I can really hear it and sometimes have to start EQing DIs to get rid of it.

[@EsteemedRepresentative]

OMG you actually do a GREAT Tom Hanks impression! 🤣

[@dismalcreekmusic5314]

The new Jackson JS22-7 Rhodes V is one worth checking out. About $250 USD and is one of my favorite guitars. I'm past the "honeymoon" phase and it's still one of my favorites.

[@seancooper779]

I've got an Atomic Amplifire and it's awesome. You can buy them used for around £200 ($250). If it's good enough for Satchel to use as his live rig it's good enough for me to use at home.

[@theelmagoo]

A big plus 1 for replicating the KM pickup video!! Question for when you get around to it, will you be using the same pickups he did as well? My hunch about your previous test using the guitar with the swappable pickup system is that that company might not be putting a lot of effort into differentiating their pickup offerings? At least when compared to a company like Seymour Duncan and the history / experience they have with pickups? Happy to be proven wrong when you do your version of the experiment :)

[@fateunleashed9680]

Nah. Think of a primitive water filter with big rocks on one end, with smaller rocks, pebbles, gravel and sand at the other end. Changing any of the smaller rocks won't affect the quality of the filtered water that comes out from the sand end. Any particles that would be changed would still get filtered out before it comes out the sand end. The same happens with sound being filtered all the way to the the speaker. Giving Keith the max respect to his demo, but there was too many variables for him to control and that's not on him. My speculation for Keith's tests that there were one or a mix of: slightly different pickup heights, possible string changes, not gain/level matching, or small changes in the electrical signal integrity during re-soldering each pickup. Again speculating and not entirely Keith's fault at that time. Now there are other pickups that don't require soldering and would allow him to do a similar test as Glenn did. That's what makes Glenn's test with the modular pickups better. His focus is entirely on one and only one variable changing! That was their chance to shine solo and demonstrate their contribution to tone. Glenn could also try to use regular guitars and swap around solder-less pickups like EMG's, Fishmans, etc. to see if there is other evidence to back up his other test.

[@dexterj5615]

Yeah i just got rid of an extra wah pedal because there was something wrong with the ground and it made my entire rig noisy AF. The forensic "whats making that sound" dance 😂

[@phatcataudio5958]

Hey Glen! I use an Aston Microphones Origin + a Sennheiser e906 to capture guitars for live shows and some recording and the pair sounds phenomenal 😁

[@Dethfield]

So I actually went and watched that video by Keith Merrow. There does seem to be some difference between pickups, but I am left with the same conclusion as before - the pickups dont make enough of a difference to justify the few hundred bucks to spend on them. The differences between pickups also seemed to be small enough that some good EQing would probably negate the differences as well.

[@Xavasius]

Honestly I can't really tell much difference during your pickup tests but was able to pick out JB during Keith's test while only listening to the video (that's my golden ears moment lol). Maybe it has something to do with how you mix your stuff, how much gain is added etc?

[@BarnyardTheSilverback]

I'm thankful to have found your channel when I did, as I've turned from wanting special pickups to wanting to try more speakers. Any chance we could see a 2x12 pairing of a Celestion G12T-75 and its Type-A counterpart? Been thinking of a getting a Type-A for a while but I'm curious how it would sound it that configuration before I spend the money on it. Keep it up Glenn!

[@SalAvenueNJ]

Here's a crazy question, how do you mic someone playing drums on buckets ? I bought a couple of plastic buckets in an attempt to get away from the sound of the drum machine. Does anyone have any experience recording that kind of thing ?

[@cuetangclan]

I wouldn’t even bother with the POD GO. If you’re not out playing every night you could just get one of the Nux MG series. Crap ton of IRs, amps and effects. You don’t have to spend a lot to get massive tones.

[@temorinkaari]

I have a suggestion on what you can test - pinch harmonics. Everyone knows how to do pinch harmonics, but there aren't any videos about how different amps/amp settings affect pinch harmonics. And i don't mean gain, i mean bass, mid, treble. Do pinch harmonics always sound the same? If not, what settings affect the pinch harmonics in which way?

[@NabPunk]

Hello Glenn! I was wondering what you think of finger-drumming on midi pads instead of buying a whole E-Kit for recording drums. Could it be possible, or am I better off buying an Alesis Nitro-Max?

[@thatfatguy4508]

Hey glen, I'm not sure if it is exactly what you would be looking for, but you can get stems for every Metallica song that is in any guitar hero game that has drum compatibility, if you download songs for clone hero that are ripped from the original games the files will have each instrument as separate .ogg files

[@OrganicGreens]

Sometimes it can be hard getting a pickup mounted in exactly the same place. This has a huge impact on AB testing. Less of and impact the more gain and distortion you use tho. Just some Food for thought

[@williamfletcher5760]

What is the difference between the two bass plugins and why are they not merged into one plug in

[@EyesOpen369]

Glenn a great guitar for under $500.00 would definitely be the Ibanez gio GRGR131DX . Such a gem of a guitar. 16" radius. 24fret. It does THE METAL THING WELL! even get some nice blues rock tones off the pick up voicings.

[@Ryan_Thompson_Guitarist]

Hey Glenn, Is there much of a difference sound-wise between recording an actual bass vs just recording guitar and pitching the DI track down an octave?

[@SpectreSoundStudios]

Hmm. That’s actually a great question!

[@cIappo896]

Katana 50 MkII for about a year I think. Being able to control it via software on my PC is pretty damn cool. Sounds great - enough for me to be done with buying amps, actually.

[@zapiexa4947]

Re: Boss Katana I've bought Katana 50 mk. 2 in Febuary and to playing my own songs in my garage or bedroom it's perfect. I spend some time to get really nice tone and I think it would be also loud enough to play rehearseals with drums or concerts in small bars. I tried to use Katana for recording without internal cab sim with additional IRs in chain and it sounded like shit. And I definetly didn't make a mistake with double IR's, I heard that recorded signal is harsh, just like when I recorded using distortion pedal in interface input. I think I will have to put much more time and efford to make it sound good. I think I would be great if you record a tutorial how to get good tone from raw Katana's signal with using some IRs and later EQ etc.

[@jnbovee]

I called out BS in that video. My comment is still there.

[@Chad-KD9VXO]

As far as Katanas go they’re great amps. But, if you don’t mind a sim Otto Audio II II Amp is AWESOME. It has a free trial and is very affordable. One of my most satisfying purchases.

[@deepburrito]

Tom Hanks? its that thing you do,Glenn

[@suliastudios1133]

I had the kali audio LP8 and they really disappointed me. In the end I exchanging them for a set of the Focal Twin Evo dual 6.5 and these things rock. Yes the Focal monitors cost more but I personally think they are worth every penny. Thank you so much Sweetwater for working with me and letting me test out the monitors and exchange them no questions asked. I wouldn't recommend the kali monitors. I think you will be disappointed. They are hyped up entirely too much in my humble opinion.

[@stevesorrell9835]

Help!! What is the model of 2-in-1 Lewitt mic, that you used for mic'ing guitar speakers? I'm ready to move on from the 57.

[@krlozkmach5575]

Greetings Gleeen!!! I’m a guitar player that it’s using tonex and L6 HXeffects for studio and live…. From your engineering perspective……. You have some suggestions to take in mind between both situations to make the engineer and myself an easy and pleasant work?…. Thanks and Saludos from México!!!