the mad ginger "For what it is" These are well built instruments with good hardware built in a high-income country. so yeah, these are more affordable then I thought when I checked out the prices. My main and my backup were more expensive. . . so yeah, affordable it is. Besides that, I have a 40 hour/week job so I can buy a nice gear if I want.
@ Robert Molina - You still have to worry about diminishing returns. Some players have a technique and a tone that works better on specific gear. Hand them a more expensive guitar and it might not sound better for them. Even if it's like-for-like, where the basics are intact, such as the same style of pickups, same radius neck, and similar tonewoods.
That's only provided that the crappy gear is setup properly. I don't care how good you are if an instrument has bad fretwork or a bad setup you can easily sound like shit no matter what.
GormyGorm I am not trying to offend you, but maybe his definition of broke is different from yours. Like maybe his broke is less than 1000 dollars in his pocket and yours is less than 5 dollars
Using a fret wrap above the nut recently...and I’m in love. It really did improve the tone. I don’t get as man problems from the bridge because I mute on either side of it but the nut harmonics drive me nuts when playing high gain. Oh and dudes making fun of the Kiesel while saying he is broke...literally anyone on here who has paid for a guitar of any price cannot claim poverty if you are anything less than a professional musician. Guitars are a luxury purchase that none of us make a luxury. We all stretch our paycheck to get the guitar(s) we really want. So yeah, he might have an expensive guitar, but it doesn’t necessarily make him made of money...also, he does a review show, it very well could be a loaner. Stop bitching and go practice your scales and arpeggios ya bastards haha
GREAT video. Every point is something it can take years for a player to learn or discover. I recently realized #10 on my own: if I had been practising just half the time I've spent researching, purchasing, or returning gear over even the last year I'd be a MUCH better player. You'll help more players than you realise with this list, and I'm sure they'll pass it on, too. Thank you!
I've been playing for over 40 years. From what I've read, seen, and heard up until I saw this video was that string vibration transfers to the body of the guitar...which leads me to ask why one would want to kill string vibration to the body with foam rubber? You're then just counting on pickups for sound.Be careful raising pickups, as well. The magnets can interfere with string vibration. Better to have a weaker sound and turn the amp up, than to raise the pickups too high.
The vibration is transferred at the bridge and at the nut, the strings vibrating behind the nut and after the bridge is excess vibration that doesn't serve any purpose and just creates noise.
Don't believe everything you see and read on the internet LOL! If guitars needed foam installed after the nut they would have had such from the beginning.
#9 is ridiculously important. Not just the palm of your right/left hand; your fingering technique as well. The index finger plays a big role in silencing the open strings especially when soloing. The more you pay attention to all of that when you practice, the better.
Also something to take into consideration is picking, wasn't sure if you would want to get into it, but it makes a HUGE difference, the angle, the Grip...
T Brad Yeah, I agree. But, technically speaking, a wah should always go before anything else because a distortion/overdrive, etc, will compress the signal and you won't get the full range of effect from your wah (the signal would already be clipped before entering the wah.) If you know how to set up your pedals you can achieve pretty much any sound you want and still have your wah first in line.
+justadbeer yeah, I began putting it at the end of the chain because it just sounded "right" to my ears. Honestly I don't think it really matters as long as you achieve the sound your going for
I have a weird tip I never see anyone use or talk about.. Not tone related but its very helpful. I found by putting peanut oil on the G string nut, so the string slides smooth can help tremendously with people having issues with that string going out of tune a lot.. It sounds weird but basically what happens is sometimes that string will stick in a worn out nut so there is less tension on it from the tuning post, as you play it will go out of tune because its semi stuck and loosens up as you use that string.. Tune the G string a bit low, oil that particular area using a q-tip dipped in a small amount of cooking oil (preferably not olive oil or other dark oils, try lighter colors such as peanut or vegetable).. then tune the string up to pitch, maybe a touch higher.. This works wonders.. I was literally ready to throw this guitar out the window because of the tuning issue.. Works great now. The other thing I noticed was I put a small amount of peanut oil on my finger tips and lubed up the strings.. I found my playing was quite a bit faster.. slides were incredibly easy.. The strings will last longer as well because the oil will reduce corrosion. I happen to use those poly coated strings for the very reason but I still lubed them up and couldn't believe what a difference it made in my playing speed.. I also heard him mention grime on the fingerboard and that it was from fingers? It is actually the tung or teak oil they used to treat the fingerboard or whatever form of oil based sealer they used.. Thats all it is, to keep the wood somewhat moist. When you press the steel string to the wood, it literally, over time, pushes out that oil which hardens as a grime.. So don't think its dead skin or anything gross.. Its just dried wood oil.. or the particular woods natural oils seeping out as you make contact.. I personally think it shows how well used the guitar is.. but that is just me.. I've seen a guitar tech get grossed out by it.. but whatever, not everyone knows what it is I guess..
Oh yes. One of the first techniques for electric that made me sound better was string muting. I like to practice without an amp sometimes and I like using dynamics too. Nice video dude.
You always hear great guitarist say that the sound comes from the hand, I agree! Two people can play the same piece of music with the same amp settings and it will sound different.
not a whole lot.. Glenn Fricker actually made a video about this, u should check it out. there's some very minor differences in the sound, but it's barely noticeable.
Really good advice, I just have a suggestion that if you do raise the string height (action) you will have to re-check your intonation, also generally speaking heavier gauge strings will always sound better, if you have big strong hands 10-46 will sound much better and stay in tune better, if you have small to normal sized hands like most of us then stick with the 8's or 9's that come standard on most new guitars, again, if you change the gauge of your strings or even the brand you must re-check your action and intonation and you may even need to have the truss rod adjusted, don't screw with the truss rod unless you know exactly what you are doing.Thanks for a great video.
If you have a Washburn Wonderbar tremolo, you can take a small hair tie and wrap it around the big rollers that sit behind the smaller saddle rollers and cut out a ton of ring. It's basically the same as using the foam method on a strat/floyd. If you have a Kahler you can take a small thin piece of foam and put it under the strings just behind the saddle rollers and accomplish more of the same. Its nice to have a thick sustaining tone that is free of any ringing noise pollution.
I don't know if this is ideal or not, but I haven't noticed any long term effects, so I'll share: I use Pledge to clean my guitar every time I change my strings. Wipe off any dust first, then rub it down w/ Pledge. Keeps the finish shiny and almost like you waxed it like a car, and also keeps the fretboard clean and glowing like new (even better than new, imo). Again: not sure if this is ideal or if it would adversely affect your tone, but it is what I have done for over a decade with no noticeable issues.
Lots of people say to put foam above the nut and below the bridge, but where the hell do you get those handily sized pieces of foam? I've never seen foam like that in my life!
+Mooferoo Great question actually, I cut mine out of some packing foam that came with a preamp I bought. I get a lot of stuff like that, and sometimes I forget where it comes from. You can use lots of different kinds of stuff though, doesn't have to be foam.
i used to use the foam that comes with EMG pickups or any other kind of packaging foam. Also. depending on the country you live in, find a rubber/foam store (australia has a place called Clarck Rubber) so there's plenty of options to find some.
For such small amounts of money, i don't know why guitar builders don't automatically put on nut~mufflers on the headstock? Vigier do it... it's a small strip of soft plastic stuff which you wouldn't even notice until you look closely. One tip this guy didn't mention was putting a paper towel in your trem~system cavity to stop ringing, obviously it has to have a cover for that to work! ;~) postscript↓↓ Also clean the wound strings by smacking them slacked off loads →giving them a good twang....this should dislodge any microscopic dirty sweat stuff in between the winding.. it works really really well for bass players!
Gear Gods Glad it tickled your funny bone! ..don't tell anyone but i also have sneaky little mufflers I occasionally use on the other side of the nut/zero-fret under the strings for a couple of weird things I do on guitar [my sneaky nut muff] , and also another slightly bigger muff to go under the strings between the bridge and bridge pick-up [my sneaky bigger muff] On a tangential note, many , many years ago I bought an Electrolux stomp box called Big-Muff second hand. {They still make them , even the big ones!} Anyway it hadn't worked for years and a colleague of my significant other fixed it for me.... he tells that from its registration number it's a rare one! It's going to look odd next to my digital effects thing with its hundreds of patches, and , taking into account inflation , that big muff probably cost more at the end of the 60s than my new digital stuff!l So muffs all round, on guitar and on the floor! ;~) England
Great tips. I was aware of most of them already, but I think I'm going to really try out the foam! I've seen other people do similar, but foam seems like a really good and cheap solution. And #10, that's a rule to live by. Good job.
BikiniPUNCAKE that's not really djent tbh. I see Djent palm mutes as playing a note and muting it quickly, that's what I heard most of the Djent bands do
Using an acoustic guitar as an example - the top is the sound board you know, with the hole. It's not quite the same with solids, but solids only sound good with loads of effects, clean they sound like a scaffold plank strung with baling wire. The only excuse for using a solid is to reduce feedback if you are playing ridiculously loud but hey Ted Nugent manages with a Byrdland on stage. Effects tend to blanket out all the subtle nuances of finger on string, vibrato, bending, pulling etc. Isolating the pickup means mounting it so that vibrations of the top or the body(solids) are not transferred to the pickup. I used.two different arrangements of leaf springs to double de-couple the pickup. The coil spring that is commonly used for mounting the pickup does not isolate it in any way, it is just for height adjustment. When the pickups are successfully isolated the guitar also becomes almost immune to feedback. I live in England and if you want to visit to see what I am talking about leave an email address so we can arrange it.
Make sure you've got the right gear for the room you're playing. I always try to find out what the room is "tuned to". Every room has its own tuning so get set up and play some notes and chords fret by fret and let each one ring out. You'll find the key that the room is tuned to. If it's a good guitar key (E, A, D) you'll know the room that you'll get a great ring and sustain. Your notes and chords won't die on you. Let loose on your solos.
MAKE SURE TO SET neck relief before intonation or any thing else. Most of the time almost all adjustments will go back to the proper setting after setting the neck"probally back to where it was set before shipping or sitting. most action is set a little high from factory- however, but just a thought
adding one thing to the pickup height .. also the closer you get the less sustain you get because of the magnetic sting pull.. .. just to tell you that closer is not always better..(yeah.. it can effect the frequency distribution as well.. because its removing bottom end more quickly)
Can everyone stop commenting about the dudes fucking guitar and watch the damn video? Jesus Christ, I'm looking for more tips in the comment section and all I see is: "Broke like I am," says the man holding a Kiesel guitar."
Milo Bazan ... I don't think low-end Kiesel are that expensive if you live in the USA, they are for us Brits... import duty, taxes and stuff can make guitars from outside of the European Union very expensive..... we are going to be f*cked when we finally leave! That referendum was such folly and will cost everyone a lot in their pocket. It's going make some things harder to get, more bureaucracy, somethings are gonna easily cost 20% more. Currently tons of stuff we import all ready is starting to cost more cos the value of sterling is down... and if any of the big financial companies start to leave London....nightmare. Didn't mean to rant ! just was going to comment on Kiesel only, their factory and building videos are great Cheers John , near Winchester, England ;~)
Am I the only one who hates the sound of fresh strings? In my opinion they only sound good on cleans. I like the sound of strings that have been played for like 10 hours minimum
okay first of all, for you mo-rons who are complaining that he implied he was broke while holding a super expensive guitar - I just checked and there are several models for around a grand. For someone who plays as much as he undoubtedly plays, a grand is not like he's mr. money bags. some of the same people complaining about that wouldn't think twice about dropping $150 on a pair of shoes. A guitar will last you a lifetime. Also, this was an awesome video. I've been playing for decades and (all the way back when I had a PRS that I bought used for $1000 and I was crazy broke - took me at least a year minimum to pay off my credit card balance for that purchase). the foam trick alone was worth watching this for. thanks dude!
I tend to put my noise gate after my tuner and before any overdrives or distortion on my main rig. I'm mostly trying to quiet the guitars I use. I prefer quieting the guitar over quieting Tube Hiss. Another trick I've used lately is adding an additional noise gate in the FX Loop. I've had great results with using a hard style gate(isp decimator/mxr smart gate) in front and using a soft style gate(EHX silencer) in the fx loop. This setup has given me a noise free guitar and zero amp hiss with very little, if any, tone problems. If any of your noisy effects pedals are going into the front of the amp, you can use a TC Electronics Sentry or ISP Decimator G string to loop all of those pedals through killing any added hiss you may hear. Both of those pedals track the guitar signal really well. I would not use EHX's Silencer for this purpose as it doesn't track well in my opinion.
I'm referring to string noise and the like. I've been playing for years and I've never heard a silent guitar. I've seen that exact way used by many other players as well.
tip 11: dust is your guitar's enemy. take about one hour every month or year to take apart your axe and clean the pups, the cavities, get rid of the dust. check the connections, the cabling. i've been putting it off on my main axe of 11 years. next week, while doing a pickup swap, i'm going to check every solder, clean its clock, really. oh, and change the jack. wear and tear. the difference is more punch, better connection, less fizz, pops, and other grindy sounds, better response in general. all it takes is canned air like you'd use for a computer.
I'll have to try out the foam idea. And yeah, pickup adjustment is one of the things most neglected. People even have them set up and don't adjust the pickups. Height and pole balancing (where available) makes so much difference!
There's a retainer clip on tune O matic bridge. Sometimes it rattles. Just remove it. I install longer wood screws on hardtail bridge...It helped alot. Sometime the neck pockets on bolt on arnt clean or flush. Overspray from the finish..Depending what mood the lady screwing in the neck is for that day.lol..Inspec the neck pocket.... Sometime the neck joint screws are stripped. i used six screws.lol
Low action is good for medium and lighter playing, for hard playing higher action is better. If the guitar hurts a lot to play even if you have strong fingers than your action is too high, if there is buzzing than it's probably too low or your neck is not adjusted right. Some guitars do not maintain good sound if they are not meant for hard playing at all and someone plays super hard on them. I usually use medium or light picking, no matter that pick I use.
after 15 years of chasing the holy grail of tone I finally found it. TUBES. i got a Jet City 22h all tube high gain head. instant satisfaction. you can't make it sound bad. Tubes opened up a whole new reality. you want to sound pro and have that tone that you never could get with Solid State of digital Modular amps. TUBES is your answer. anyone that has a good high gain tube amp knows what i mean. some digital mod amps come close but, there is just nothing like real tubes for live sound.
kingmezs23 the feel is entirely based on the player, and as a Djent guy I feel like Dimebag's tone is almost the exact opposite of what I consider good
Getting intonation right and the nuts slots cut deep enough and correctly solves a lot of tuning and tone problems. Usually, a setup guy is the fellow to show you how he does it; it's simple but you need to be shown how. A great guitar into a mediocre amp is not as good as a decent guitar into a darn good amp. Solid state amps nowadays can be nearly as good as high dollar tube amps for a lot less money. Also, get a pick that suits your playing style... I have a fairly light touch and play with nails (from classical study) so I get a medium pick (.70 mm thick). Fender and D'Addario branded picks will be reliable and in various thicknesses.
Good guide, and I agree, you gotta practice. Started a month ago, have Squier Bullet Strat and can't really complain about the sound. If you wanna do recording, then you might work on upgrading your guitar sound. But since you are gonna record at home first in many cases, you can't really expect very good sound quality anyways, so unless you need high quality recording with actual proffessional studio sound, you might aswell record with cheap guitar and lower quality sound. That's atleast what I'm gonna do. Unless I'm really trying to master the record, I don't need to have the best possible sound my uquipment can offer
I found from my fellow guitar players switching out pick ups pedals amps ect. to some how compensate for there crappy playing. for Christ sake stop going online, stop tinkering, and just practice.
Cap't Jack actually crappy pups do give you muddy garage/basement artist tone....although skills are critical( as in new Seymour's aren't going to teach you to play stairway to heaven), still though good pups even in an eBay guitar are needed if your serious about recording/ live performance.
Been playing 30 years, tremolo Springs has never caused a problem for me or anyone else I know. I've needed them and I left them unmuted there's really no difference
The truth is that the art of getting à good sound includes turning of your distortion so that we can actually hear you playing through your fingers As long as your sound is overly compressed and masked by distortion, theres à limit to how far you can develop your personal sound away from the generic
While in studio recording an album, the sound engineer made me try to put my chorus after my delay, so the chorus is on every repetition too. It sounded way more synthetic but I happened to like that on some particular solos.
A good and easy way to set intonation correctly is to individually pick the 12th fret harmonics and adjust each string so that the node is directly over the 12th fret.
if you don't have fret buzz ( I mean really fret buzz, the string PHYSICALLY touches the fret while you hit the string whether you can hear it or not, not just you actually have fret buzz, but the pick up and amp don't "catch" it) raising action won't make a difference, just make sure your pick ups sit at correct height.
How to fuck your guitar up for free video ... Buy a guitar that has been setup ...then butcher that setup by adjusting the pickups with out any knowledge of setting up a guitar ....DONT DO IT ....just wait a month save $120 and let your guitar shop set the guitar for you ..WHY because there gonna have more experience in doing so than a bed room guitar player who try coz they seen it on the interwebs Its not that this video is wrong its just that if you dont know what your doing then your gonna make the guitar worse than when you got the thing ....however if you know what your doing then that is fine ..But i then have to ask why are you watching this video ..
I almost think you're trolling man. Your comment would be good advice back when the internet wasn't even invented yet. But since then, your comment is RETARDED. Out of all the things in this video, you brought up the simplest fucking adjustment: pickup height! Why would you bring that one up when talking about paying for a setup? If you seriously pay anyone to adjust your pickups or tell you how high they should be, you're a sucker who deserves to be taken advantage of. It is pretty damn easy to learn ALL of the stuff in this video just by researching through Google and RUclips. There are very specific instructions for everything
I was thinking the same thing. Why not complain about the intonation set-up (if nothing at all)? Setting up intonation is still something I would prefer someone else to do. Pick-up height? That's a single google step away and maybe a couple of days, if not hours, to figure out how it affects tone.
Why waste the money? Just learn to do it yourself and spend a couple bucks on the tools... You are gonna probably fuck it up at first. It will take a bunch of hours but then you learn your guitar inside and out and find out exactly how you like it setup, there are tutorial vids to guide you but overall you will find it exactly how you like it not how some other guy says it great and you might believe without trying yourself and later finding out nope there was something i like even better now that was missing
You have to make your guitar worse than when you got it to learn what you did wrong and what the opposite is to make it better though, and i watched this video just to see if there were any little tips i didn't know because theres an infinite amount of information to learn and just like everything else some information gets outdated and you always gotta look for the next best thing
I like to give my strings a quick wipe with wd-40 to keep them from crusting out. It will probably helps a little bit since new strings are always stretching out. Plus you can save a little bit of money.
If all you play is ringing open chords you probably wouldn't need it, but if you're playing riffs with a lot of muting when the main string stops the rest keeps ringing and is very audible.
Pros usually deaden that part of the guitar while recording, especially for fast solos and tapping parts, because it definitely makes a difference to the sound. A popular way of doing it is using a hair tie, but I've even heard of people using a sock wrapped around the top of the neck/headstock. It's the same principle, but a much more convenient and less obvious way of doing it. Pretty damn good idea IMO.
Helps with recording of solos and blah blah...yet Randy rhoads didn't need it, or Eddie Van Halen, modern day player John pettruci, get a good to tube amp, guitar with good pups, and some playing skills that's all you need....these millennials I swear...
D H yes, but the majority of guitar players aren't those people. No you don't need to do it, but when you play with lots of gain and really hard picking, it helps in a studio context. The guitar is under a microscope, when it comes to playing live, there's so much going on that the noise is not audible. Don't compare the majority of guitarists to god-like guitar players, because we and you aren't.
If you're recording a song, and the highest fret used in the song, is for example, the seventh fret, then set the intonation for that fret, not the twelfth, and the part of the fretboard you are actually using will have better intonation. Nobody will ever know you diid it, most likely, but you'll still feel like a badass
I play with a half broken chord, a crappy amp that is missing some parts, and a tele that has its neck sometimes loose. People say I am an amazing guitarist (I am 15) and they say I am able to create the same tone and creativity that Hendrix created in his playing style. I think the only reason I am able to do that is because I went through the same shit that he had been through in his child hood, like losing a parent and this made me have so much emotion into me guitar playing that it can't be topped by someone who is a good guitarist and plays everything perfectly.
To add to number 6: Wash and dry your hands before you play. This isn't just going to keep more gunk off your strings/fretboard, but the moisture will also soften up your fingertips and make for a smoother playing experience.
He was dead on with Pickup height. Readjusted the pickups on a entry level LTD and they are pretty astonishing but my 100 watt blackstar all tube amp makes about anything astonishing haha.
Oh yeah ! Beginner here... By co-incidence I took a notion and raised action earlier.. Actually I loosened truss rod.. The neck is a little twisted towards the tuners E6. Straight on E1 side but a little dip up to fret 3 on E6 side so had an annoying buzz on 6E.. Gone now : )
Weather you realize it or not your video is a life saver! Was just about to buy new pickups until I saw this vid. Adjusted the height BAM! totally new sound. Also tried the foam it was effective thanks for saving me time and money!
Pretty good tips. Interesting the foam at the headstock and tremelo springs on a Strat. 110% to" ... no gear will make you sound good if you don't practice."
another thing i'd like to hear becoming knowledge out is that if you do NOT have your pick-ups butted up against the neck you get a better scream on your harmonics. I suggest a pinky's width.
All pretty obvious tips for most guitarists. For the foam thing, I use my ex girlfriend's hair scrunchies as string dampeners (I've even seen pros using these). For the palm muting strings you aren't playing, your noise gate should do that for you when properly set, that it's purpose (along with accomplishing more various functions). A good EQ (and how to set it for various genres of music) should have been covered. I use a Boss GE 7 graphic equalizer pedal (yeah, I'd prefer a Boss GE 24 rack mount graphic equalizer, but I spend more on good quality amps, guitars, and pickups and use pedals I often find in pawnshops). Both graphic EQs (pedals and racks), parametric EQs on your amps, and on board active parametric EQs (if your guitar has it, like on the old B.C Rich neck thru guitars you see in old pictures of Slayer, for example. The kind with 20,000,000 knobs and toggles, Les Paul type headstocks with the fancy R, you've seen them, and they have on board parametric EQs, active pre amps, power boosters, etc...). Another good thing (when you want a heavy tone) is those weights that clip on your headstock. Adds more to it's mass and creates a heavier, thicker tone. Pickups should have been covered also. Good pickups do a world of good.
I know not everyone (including myself especially) will know everything when it come to good , clean , and practical guitar playing BUT even If you are at the normal brain capacity of your age your still not gonna know these little things that ultimately will mean a lot , I know I didn’t but after watching this video I realize I know squat and how stupid I am because I feel like common sense should have kicked in and I should have figured this all out way before I discovered this gem of a video lol after all iv only been playing a mean guitar for 30 years wtw thanks so much ... GOD BLESS !!!
So many people hating because he said “if you’re broke like I am” and ‘he’s holding a Kiesel’. I can relate. It’s called putting your passion before petty things like getting high and going out all the time. 🤷🏻♂️ Stay inside and practice, kids.
One of the best ways to practice palm muting imo is to learn Paganini's Variation #9 of Caprice #24. Once mastered, palm muting for any other application becomes a breeze.
i keep on telling my band members that they should eq their guitars in relation to other instruments but no one seems to care.they all assume boosting their volume up will solve their problems n to make it even worse they boost their gain so high that i can barely hear what notes they are playing.
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>broke like i am
>holding a Kiesel
>every comment
>on this page
>is the same thing
Gear Gods >be you
>try to greentext
>fail epicly
thats kinda what happens when you talk stupid
Yea. Holding a kiesel lol.
Also he has a guitar signed by Michelangelo Batio i believe.
"Maybe you're broke like I am"
Says the man with a kiesel.
Maybe that's why he IS broke. :D
lmao exactly what I was thinking
From what I saw, those Kiesel are quite affordable for what they are.
+Behemothokun 1,000+? Affordable? What kind of Barbie princess mansion do you live in?
the mad ginger "For what it is"
These are well built instruments with good hardware built in a high-income country. so yeah, these are more affordable then I thought when I checked out the prices. My main and my backup were more expensive. . . so yeah, affordable it is. Besides that, I have a 40 hour/week job so I can buy a nice gear if I want.
#10 is most important. pro players can sound awesome and like themselves on crappy gear because they're freaking good players
but good players still always sound better on better gear
+Robert Molina No shit
@ Robert Molina - You still have to worry about diminishing returns. Some players have a technique and a tone that works better on specific gear. Hand them a more expensive guitar and it might not sound better for them. Even if it's like-for-like, where the basics are intact, such as the same style of pickups, same radius neck, and similar tonewoods.
That's only provided that the crappy gear is setup properly. I don't care how good you are if an instrument has bad fretwork or a bad setup you can easily sound like shit no matter what.
Yes, the setup is important. And I can't imagine any good player suffering a bad setup. Either they do it themselves or they get it done for them.
"Maybe you're broke like I am"
You are playing a fucking Kiesel... I shop for guitars on craigslist.
GormyGorm I am not trying to offend you, but maybe his definition of broke is different from yours. Like maybe his broke is less than 1000 dollars in his pocket and yours is less than 5 dollars
Jeff Burger lol 5 bucks
Man, I sure wish I had $5...
LOL
Look, I'm no homosexual, but five dollars is five dollars.
Using a fret wrap above the nut recently...and I’m in love. It really did improve the tone. I don’t get as man problems from the bridge because I mute on either side of it but the nut harmonics drive me nuts when playing high gain.
Oh and dudes making fun of the Kiesel while saying he is broke...literally anyone on here who has paid for a guitar of any price cannot claim poverty if you are anything less than a professional musician. Guitars are a luxury purchase that none of us make a luxury. We all stretch our paycheck to get the guitar(s) we really want.
So yeah, he might have an expensive guitar, but it doesn’t necessarily make him made of money...also, he does a review show, it very well could be a loaner.
Stop bitching and go practice your scales and arpeggios ya bastards haha
Foam behind the Floyd springs. You, sir, should receive the Nobel Tone Prize for that tip. My man
Andy Wilson helps so much its ridiculous
we get it. he's holding a Kiesel. shut it.
Bro, do you see what he's holding?
98% of the comments " >"Broke like I am." >Kiesel Guitar "
2% random other shit.
AYYYYYE
Hi im totalitarian right, im the voice of the people if the people are white.
Cmon your get it😏
In addition to #6 and #8, WASH YOUR DAMN HANDS BEFORE YOU PICKUP YOUR GUITAR!!!!!!!!!!
+linoleum1979 Preach it, brother!
indeed... no playing while eating nachos
+Keegan ew lol
Best guitar advice ever.
Your playing it wrong
Being broke after buying a Kiesel makes total sense guys, calm down!
GREAT video. Every point is something it can take years for a player to learn or discover. I recently realized #10 on my own: if I had been practising just half the time I've spent researching, purchasing, or returning gear over even the last year I'd be a MUCH better player. You'll help more players than you realise with this list, and I'm sure they'll pass it on, too. Thank you!
1:55 : That was the most brutal and epic foam setup i ever witnessed in my life ;-) !
Very good tips ! Thanks Trey
I've been playing for over 40 years. From what I've read, seen, and heard up until I saw this video was that string vibration transfers to the body of the guitar...which leads me to ask why one would want to kill string vibration to the body with foam rubber? You're then just counting on pickups for sound.Be careful raising pickups, as well. The magnets can interfere with string vibration. Better to have a weaker sound and turn the amp up, than to raise the pickups too high.
The vibration is transferred at the bridge and at the nut, the strings vibrating behind the nut and after the bridge is excess vibration that doesn't serve any purpose and just creates noise.
Don't believe everything you see and read on the internet LOL! If guitars needed foam installed after the nut they would have had such from the beginning.
+Martin Martin They dont need foam its just something he does to cancel out excess noise
+Kai Wilson I've never had that problem myself.
rklewis2 me neither to be honest
#9 is ridiculously important. Not just the palm of your right/left hand; your fingering technique as well. The index finger plays a big role in silencing the open strings especially when soloing. The more you pay attention to all of that when you practice, the better.
Also something to take into consideration is picking, wasn't sure if you would want to get into it, but it makes a HUGE difference, the angle, the Grip...
saying "maybe you are broke like i am" while holding a Kiesel just isn't quite legit
lol
+Dave Wu all of my money is tied up in gear
+Gear Gods then ur not broke
A Kiesel really isn't *that* much, depending on which one you get.
He's broke because he bought that guitar
lol
Holding a Kiesel Guitar " Maybe you're broke like " I AM " "...
Having expensive shot doesn't mean you're not broke!
maybe he's broke because he bought a kiesel ;)
+Uncle Buck just like you then
Uncle Buck, its better to be thought stupid than to open your mouth and remove all doubt!!!!
Lmfao! Right? Maybe that was the whole point, though.
Wait what? Wah after distortion and gate? Did I done it wrong in my entire life?
+Bence Vörös same here
+Bence Vörös Exactly! WAH first. Wah always first!
+Derek Jones Nothing's set in stone. Just do what you think sounds best.
Sigmar Jónasson I know. I was being sarcastic. Personally, I just don't like the sound of the wah when its placed in the order he recommends.
+Derek Jones yeah, I keep my wahs first in the chain too, just after the tuner
Wait what, shouldn't a wah "generally" be put BEFORE od and/or distortion?
Yeah... I think he got that backwards. Generally a wah is first in the chain, but I've seen guys put an overdrive on both sides for diff sounds,
***** Yeah i've done that too, I just wanted to be sure...
It depends on the tone you're going for, it sounds good either way but generally you'll get a wider sweep if you put it at the end of the chain
T Brad Yeah, I agree. But, technically speaking, a wah should always go before anything else because a distortion/overdrive, etc, will compress the signal and you won't get the full range of effect from your wah (the signal would already be clipped before entering the wah.) If you know how to set up your pedals you can achieve pretty much any sound you want and still have your wah first in line.
+justadbeer yeah, I began putting it at the end of the chain because it just sounded "right" to my ears. Honestly I don't think it really matters as long as you achieve the sound your going for
#1 Get a quality tuner and or tuner pedal.
+JamCave Studio Those are excellent things to have, but also cost money
+Gear Gods Then how do you expect people to do #4 and set their intonation?
+Keith McKissick stop picking holes 😂😂😂
you can set your intonation for free...
***** Oh, shit. This is gonna be good. Please enlighten me.
I have a weird tip I never see anyone use or talk about.. Not tone related but its very helpful.
I found by putting peanut oil on the G string nut, so the string slides smooth can help tremendously with people having issues with that string going out of tune a lot.. It sounds weird but basically what happens is sometimes that string will stick in a worn out nut so there is less tension on it from the tuning post, as you play it will go out of tune because its semi stuck and loosens up as you use that string.. Tune the G string a bit low, oil that particular area using a q-tip dipped in a small amount of cooking oil (preferably not olive oil or other dark oils, try lighter colors such as peanut or vegetable).. then tune the string up to pitch, maybe a touch higher.. This works wonders.. I was literally ready to throw this guitar out the window because of the tuning issue.. Works great now.
The other thing I noticed was I put a small amount of peanut oil on my finger tips and lubed up the strings.. I found my playing was quite a bit faster.. slides were incredibly easy.. The strings will last longer as well because the oil will reduce corrosion. I happen to use those poly coated strings for the very reason but I still lubed them up and couldn't believe what a difference it made in my playing speed..
I also heard him mention grime on the fingerboard and that it was from fingers? It is actually the tung or teak oil they used to treat the fingerboard or whatever form of oil based sealer they used.. Thats all it is, to keep the wood somewhat moist. When you press the steel string to the wood, it literally, over time, pushes out that oil which hardens as a grime.. So don't think its dead skin or anything gross.. Its just dried wood oil.. or the particular woods natural oils seeping out as you make contact.. I personally think it shows how well used the guitar is.. but that is just me.. I've seen a guitar tech get grossed out by it.. but whatever, not everyone knows what it is I guess..
Oh yes. One of the first techniques for electric that made me sound better was string muting. I like to practice without an amp sometimes and I like using dynamics too. Nice video dude.
haha ur probablay broke from buyin a kisel lol
He should have got a First Act
My Strat ran straight to my 50wt tube head with no pedals gets the God tone....Its in between that & the hands...
Factor X ;)
Having a wet dream, bass player?
You always hear great guitarist say that the sound comes from the hand, I agree! Two people can play the same piece of music with the same amp settings and it will sound different.
not a whole lot.. Glenn Fricker actually made a video about this, u should check it out.
there's some very minor differences in the sound, but it's barely noticeable.
Ever play clean though?
Really good advice, I just have a suggestion that if you do raise the string height (action) you will have to re-check your intonation, also generally speaking heavier gauge strings will always sound better, if you have big strong hands 10-46 will sound much better and stay in tune better, if you have small to normal sized hands like most of us then stick with the 8's or 9's that come standard on most new guitars, again, if you change the gauge of your strings or even the brand you must re-check your action and intonation and you may even need to have the truss rod adjusted, don't screw with the truss rod unless you know exactly what you are doing.Thanks for a great video.
If you have a Washburn Wonderbar tremolo, you can take a small hair tie and wrap it around the big rollers that sit behind the smaller saddle rollers and cut out a ton of ring. It's basically the same as using the foam method on a strat/floyd.
If you have a Kahler you can take a small thin piece of foam and put it under the strings just behind the saddle rollers and accomplish more of the same.
Its nice to have a thick sustaining tone that is free of any ringing noise pollution.
awesome video! but i'd always put the wah before the drive
>Maybe you're broke like I am
>Kiesel guitar
This fucker.
Ben Kuyt he probably ate Kraft Dinner for months
Ben Kuyt
>green text on youtube
Ben Kuyt He's broke because he has that guitar 😂😂
Chris Pouliot Kraft Mac n Cheese is the shit fam, I wouldnt mind eating that for months
GormyGorm
The joke was that being that broke buying a Kiesel would leave you eat cheap and poor meals for months
I don't know if this is ideal or not, but I haven't noticed any long term effects, so I'll share: I use Pledge to clean my guitar every time I change my strings. Wipe off any dust first, then rub it down w/ Pledge. Keeps the finish shiny and almost like you waxed it like a car, and also keeps the fretboard clean and glowing like new (even better than new, imo). Again: not sure if this is ideal or if it would adversely affect your tone, but it is what I have done for over a decade with no noticeable issues.
Muting excess springs , string and adjusting the pickup actualy improved the sound a lot than I expected . HUGE THUMBS UP !
Lots of people say to put foam above the nut and below the bridge, but where the hell do you get those handily sized pieces of foam? I've never seen foam like that in my life!
+Mooferoo Great question actually, I cut mine out of some packing foam that came with a preamp I bought. I get a lot of stuff like that, and sometimes I forget where it comes from. You can use lots of different kinds of stuff though, doesn't have to be foam.
+Petar Bogdanov +1
i used to use the foam that comes with EMG pickups or any other kind of packaging foam.
Also. depending on the country you live in, find a rubber/foam store (australia has a place called Clarck Rubber) so there's plenty of options to find some.
If you get one of those power cables for a pedal it will come in that but just a small piexe
Sponge
For such small amounts of money, i don't know why guitar builders don't automatically put on nut~mufflers on the headstock? Vigier do it... it's a small strip of soft plastic stuff which you wouldn't even notice until you look closely.
One tip this guy didn't mention was putting a paper towel in your trem~system cavity to stop ringing, obviously it has to have a cover for that to work!
;~) postscript↓↓
Also clean the wound strings by smacking them slacked off loads →giving them a good twang....this should dislodge any microscopic dirty sweat stuff in between the winding.. it works really really well for bass players!
hahahahaha fucking NUT MUFFLERS?!?!? that's a hilarious name, I'm using that from now on hahaha
Gear Gods
Glad it tickled your funny bone!
..don't tell anyone but i also have sneaky little mufflers I occasionally use on the other side of the nut/zero-fret under the strings for a couple of weird things I do on guitar [my sneaky nut muff] , and also another slightly bigger muff to go under the strings between the bridge and bridge pick-up [my sneaky bigger muff]
On a tangential note, many , many years ago I bought an Electrolux stomp box called Big-Muff second hand. {They still make them , even the big ones!}
Anyway it hadn't worked for years and a colleague of my significant other fixed it for me.... he tells that from its registration number it's a rare one! It's going to look odd next to my digital effects thing with its hundreds of patches, and , taking into account inflation , that big muff probably cost more at the end of the 60s than my new digital stuff!l
So muffs all round, on guitar and on the floor!
;~) England
Really good advice! Especially the last one, very honest straight and with a lot of sense. thank you so very much!
Great tips. I was aware of most of them already, but I think I'm going to really try out the foam! I've seen other people do similar, but foam seems like a really good and cheap solution. And #10, that's a rule to live by. Good job.
what kind of fret wire is gold on that guitar, weird camera effect?
It's called Evo Gold fretwire
+Lil Jesus google
You know you wanted to say Djent instead of chuggy chords.
+BikiniPUNCAKE I was actually mostly thinking if Hetfield when I said that, but yeah that too haha
BikiniPUNCAKE that's not really djent tbh. I see Djent palm mutes as playing a note and muting it quickly, that's what I heard most of the Djent bands do
Using an acoustic guitar as an example - the top is the sound board you know, with the hole. It's not quite the same with solids, but solids only sound good with loads of effects, clean they sound like a scaffold plank strung with baling wire. The only excuse for using a solid is to reduce feedback if you are playing ridiculously loud but hey Ted Nugent manages with a Byrdland on stage. Effects tend to blanket out all the subtle nuances of finger on string, vibrato, bending, pulling etc. Isolating the pickup means mounting it so that vibrations of the top or the body(solids) are not transferred to the pickup. I used.two different arrangements of leaf springs to double de-couple the pickup. The coil spring that is commonly used for mounting the pickup does not isolate it in any way, it is just for height adjustment. When the pickups are successfully isolated the guitar also becomes almost immune to feedback. I live in England and if you want to visit to see what I am talking about leave an email address so we can arrange it.
Make sure you've got the right gear for the room you're playing. I always try to find out what the room is "tuned to". Every room has its own tuning so get set up and play some notes and chords fret by fret and let each one ring out. You'll find the key that the room is tuned to. If it's a good guitar key (E, A, D) you'll know the room that you'll get a great ring and sustain. Your notes and chords won't die on you. Let loose on your solos.
Is that some kind of Rockman preamp being used for Black Dog? Because it sound really thin.... me no likey...
"Maybe you are broke like me"
*holds a kiesel guitar*
kkkkkkkk
I assume it was buying the Kiesel that made him broke.
MagnificentFiend prob'ly
"If you play well, none of this sh*t matters." That might be the best advice I have ever heard for a guitar player.
To tip #5, in general WAH, Phaser, Pitchshift come before OD/Distortion, you don't want those after unless your looking for a special sound.
Good advices but that Black Dog playing at the end made me cringe. Sounded like the wrong tone lol. #11 Good Ear Training!
Where did you get that shirt?
MAKE SURE TO SET neck relief before intonation or any thing else. Most of the time almost all adjustments will go back to the proper setting after setting the neck"probally back to where it was set before shipping or sitting.
most action is set a little high from factory- however, but just a thought
adding one thing to the pickup height .. also the closer you get the less sustain you get because of the magnetic sting pull.. .. just to tell you that closer is not always better..(yeah.. it can effect the frequency distribution as well.. because its removing bottom end more quickly)
Can everyone stop commenting about the dudes fucking guitar and watch the damn video? Jesus Christ, I'm looking for more tips in the comment section and all I see is:
"Broke like I am," says the man holding a Kiesel guitar."
same here, I find it quite obvious he's broke because he spend all his life savings on the kiesel
This here is the RUclips comments section. We don't take kindly to folks to don't take kindly....or something.
Not all heroes wear capes.
Milo Bazan word man geez people are stupid
Milo Bazan ...
I don't think low-end Kiesel are that expensive if you live in the USA, they are for us Brits... import duty, taxes and stuff can make guitars from outside of the European Union very expensive..... we are going to be f*cked when we finally leave! That referendum was such folly and will cost everyone a lot in their pocket. It's going make some things harder to get, more bureaucracy, somethings are gonna easily cost 20% more. Currently tons of stuff we import all ready is starting to cost more cos the value of sterling is down... and if any of the big financial companies start to leave London....nightmare.
Didn't mean to rant ! just was going to comment on Kiesel only, their factory and building videos are great
Cheers John , near Winchester, England
;~)
Am I the only one who hates the sound of fresh strings? In my opinion they only sound good on cleans.
I like the sound of strings that have been played for like 10 hours minimum
okay first of all, for you mo-rons who are complaining that he implied he was broke while holding a super expensive guitar - I just checked and there are several models for around a grand. For someone who plays as much as he undoubtedly plays, a grand is not like he's mr. money bags. some of the same people complaining about that wouldn't think twice about dropping $150 on a pair of shoes. A guitar will last you a lifetime. Also, this was an awesome video. I've been playing for decades and (all the way back when I had a PRS that I bought used for $1000 and I was crazy broke - took me at least a year minimum to pay off my credit card balance for that purchase). the foam trick alone was worth watching this for. thanks dude!
I tend to put my noise gate after my tuner and before any overdrives or distortion on my main rig. I'm mostly trying to quiet the guitars I use. I prefer quieting the guitar over quieting Tube Hiss.
Another trick I've used lately is adding an additional noise gate in the FX Loop.
I've had great results with using a hard style gate(isp decimator/mxr smart gate) in front and using a soft style gate(EHX silencer) in the fx loop.
This setup has given me a noise free guitar and zero amp hiss with very little, if any, tone problems.
If any of your noisy effects pedals are going into the front of the amp, you can use a TC Electronics Sentry or ISP Decimator G string to loop all of those pedals through killing any added hiss you may hear. Both of those pedals track the guitar signal really well. I would not use EHX's Silencer for this purpose as it doesn't track well in my opinion.
you might want to buy some shielding paint for in the inside of your guitar cavity. your guitar shouldnt be making much noise at all.
I'm referring to string noise and the like. I've been playing for years and I've never heard a silent guitar. I've seen that exact way used by many other players as well.
tip 11: dust is your guitar's enemy. take about one hour every month or year to take apart your axe and clean the pups, the cavities, get rid of the dust. check the connections, the cabling. i've been putting it off on my main axe of 11 years. next week, while doing a pickup swap, i'm going to check every solder, clean its clock, really. oh, and change the jack. wear and tear. the difference is more punch, better connection, less fizz, pops, and other grindy sounds, better response in general. all it takes is canned air like you'd use for a computer.
OMG!!! All of that and he butchers a Zep tune with crazy terribly squeaky baby choking on dog chew toy tone???
I'll have to try out the foam idea. And yeah, pickup adjustment is one of the things most neglected. People even have them set up and don't adjust the pickups. Height and pole balancing (where available) makes so much difference!
There's a retainer clip on tune O matic bridge. Sometimes it rattles. Just remove it.
I install longer wood screws on hardtail bridge...It helped alot.
Sometime the neck pockets on bolt on arnt clean or flush.
Overspray from the finish..Depending what mood the lady screwing in the neck is
for that day.lol..Inspec the neck pocket....
Sometime the neck joint screws are stripped. i used six screws.lol
"Maybe, youre broke like I am." Holding a Kiesel Guitar.
Kiesel is cheap compared to other customs
duh hes broke from buying it
+Uncle Buck according to what?
+Paul Hopkins yea i guess deviations of only a couple thousandths of an inch is too sloppy lol
+Paul Hopkins yea its like guns. thats why luthiers are having a harder time nowadays
"Maybe you're broke like I am..."--> Plays a Kiesel
Low action is good for medium and lighter playing, for hard playing higher action is better. If the guitar hurts a lot to play even if you have strong fingers than your action is too high, if there is buzzing than it's probably too low or your neck is not adjusted right. Some guitars do not maintain good sound if they are not meant for hard playing at all and someone plays super hard on them. I usually use medium or light picking, no matter that pick I use.
after 15 years of chasing the holy grail of tone I finally found it. TUBES. i got a Jet City 22h all tube high gain head. instant satisfaction. you can't make it sound bad. Tubes opened up a whole new reality. you want to sound pro and have that tone that you never could get with Solid State of digital Modular amps. TUBES is your answer. anyone that has a good high gain tube amp knows what i mean. some digital mod amps come close but, there is just nothing like real tubes for live sound.
for #7 example Dime Bag Darrel - his tone sounds shit not played loud or without a bass
your not right, his tone is super pluchy and full of feel. let's hear your tone metal god?
+kingmezs23 listen to it without any bass or gain
kingmezs23 the feel is entirely based on the player, and as a Djent guy I feel like Dimebag's tone is almost the exact opposite of what I consider good
"I am broke" probably for paying that kiesel :P
nah kiezels have insanely good pricing
Right. $1000+ for a low-end model = insanely good pricing. Uh huh.
+John Crafton low end? All guitars are the same quality, it's the outrageous tops that make the difference
Yes. Low end of their price scale, not low end regarding quality. I suppose I should've qualified my original statement.
Getting intonation right and the nuts slots cut deep enough and correctly solves a lot of tuning and tone problems. Usually, a setup guy is the fellow to show you how he does it; it's simple but you need to be shown how. A great guitar into a mediocre amp is not as good as a decent guitar into a darn good amp. Solid state amps nowadays can be nearly as good as high dollar tube amps for a lot less money. Also, get a pick that suits your playing style... I have a fairly light touch and play with nails (from classical study) so I get a medium pick (.70 mm thick). Fender and D'Addario branded picks will be reliable and in various thicknesses.
Good guide, and I agree, you gotta practice. Started a month ago, have Squier Bullet Strat and can't really complain about the sound. If you wanna do recording, then you might work on upgrading your guitar sound. But since you are gonna record at home first in many cases, you can't really expect very good sound quality anyways, so unless you need high quality recording with actual proffessional studio sound, you might aswell record with cheap guitar and lower quality sound. That's atleast what I'm gonna do. Unless I'm really trying to master the record, I don't need to have the best possible sound my uquipment can offer
I found from my fellow guitar players switching out pick ups pedals amps ect.
to some how compensate for there crappy playing.
for Christ sake stop going online, stop tinkering, and just practice.
Cap't Jack actually crappy pups do give you muddy garage/basement artist tone....although skills are critical( as in new Seymour's aren't going to teach you to play stairway to heaven), still though good pups even in an eBay guitar are needed if your serious about recording/ live performance.
You own a kiesel, how can you possibly be broke
Precisely what I thought when he said that lol
Good video though
He's broke after buying it
The foam behind the nut has been my favorite mod since watching this video. Its really nice. Thanks again for that.
Been playing 30 years, tremolo Springs has never caused a problem for me or anyone else I know. I've needed them and I left them unmuted there's really no difference
The truth is that the art of getting à good sound includes turning of your distortion so that we can actually hear you playing through your fingers
As long as your sound is overly compressed and masked by distortion, theres à limit to how far you can develop your personal sound away from the generic
Broke like I am says the man holding a kiesel guitar
Maybe the kiesel is the reason he's broke
Lol
ikr? lol
While in studio recording an album, the sound engineer made me try to put my chorus after my delay, so the chorus is on every repetition too. It sounded way more synthetic but I happened to like that on some particular solos.
A good and easy way to set intonation correctly is to individually pick the 12th fret harmonics and adjust each string so that the node is directly over the 12th fret.
raise the strings u say? how about no😒
see tip 10
if you don't have fret buzz ( I mean really fret buzz, the string PHYSICALLY touches the fret while you hit the string whether you can hear it or not, not just you actually have fret buzz, but the pick up and amp don't "catch" it) raising action won't make a difference, just make sure your pick ups sit at correct height.
How to fuck your guitar up for free video ...
Buy a guitar that has been setup ...then butcher that setup by adjusting the pickups with out any knowledge of setting up a guitar ....DONT DO IT ....just wait a month save $120 and let your guitar shop set the guitar for you ..WHY because there gonna have more experience in doing so than a bed room guitar player who try coz they seen it on the interwebs
Its not that this video is wrong its just that if you dont know what your doing then your gonna make the guitar worse than when you got the thing ....however if you know what your doing then that is fine ..But i then have to ask why are you watching this video ..
You can only get better through practice.
I almost think you're trolling man. Your comment would be good advice back when the internet wasn't even invented yet. But since then, your comment is RETARDED. Out of all the things in this video, you brought up the simplest fucking adjustment: pickup height! Why would you bring that one up when talking about paying for a setup? If you seriously pay anyone to adjust your pickups or tell you how high they should be, you're a sucker who deserves to be taken advantage of. It is pretty damn easy to learn ALL of the stuff in this video just by researching through Google and RUclips. There are very specific instructions for everything
I was thinking the same thing. Why not complain about the intonation set-up (if nothing at all)? Setting up intonation is still something I would prefer someone else to do. Pick-up height? That's a single google step away and maybe a couple of days, if not hours, to figure out how it affects tone.
Why waste the money? Just learn to do it yourself and spend a couple bucks on the tools... You are gonna probably fuck it up at first. It will take a bunch of hours but then you learn your guitar inside and out and find out exactly how you like it setup, there are tutorial vids to guide you but overall you will find it exactly how you like it not how some other guy says it great and you might believe without trying yourself and later finding out nope there was something i like even better now that was missing
You have to make your guitar worse than when you got it to learn what you did wrong and what the opposite is to make it better though, and i watched this video just to see if there were any little tips i didn't know because theres an infinite amount of information to learn and just like everything else some information gets outdated and you always gotta look for the next best thing
Another thing to consider with pedal order is where your buffers are... sometimes you want buffered bypass and sometimes you don't.
I like to give my strings a quick wipe with wd-40 to keep them from crusting out. It will probably helps a little bit since new strings are always stretching out. Plus you can save a little bit of money.
What sort of moron would stuff foam behind the nut? That's ridiculous!
If all you play is ringing open chords you probably wouldn't need it, but if you're playing riffs with a lot of muting when the main string stops the rest keeps ringing and is very audible.
Pros usually deaden that part of the guitar while recording, especially for fast solos and tapping parts, because it definitely makes a difference to the sound. A popular way of doing it is using a hair tie, but I've even heard of people using a sock wrapped around the top of the neck/headstock. It's the same principle, but a much more convenient and less obvious way of doing it. Pretty damn good idea IMO.
Helps with recording of solos and blah blah...yet Randy rhoads didn't need it, or Eddie Van Halen, modern day player John pettruci, get a good to tube amp, guitar with good pups, and some playing skills that's all you need....these millennials I swear...
D H yes, but the majority of guitar players aren't those people. No you don't need to do it, but when you play with lots of gain and really hard picking, it helps in a studio context. The guitar is under a microscope, when it comes to playing live, there's so much going on that the noise is not audible. Don't compare the majority of guitarists to god-like guitar players, because we and you aren't.
you have now become my favorite channel, how do you sleep at night? that came off creepy after reading it LOL
If you're recording a song, and the highest fret used in the song, is for example, the seventh fret, then set the intonation for that fret, not the twelfth, and the part of the fretboard you are actually using will have better intonation. Nobody will ever know you diid it, most likely, but you'll still feel like a badass
I play with a half broken chord, a crappy amp that is missing some parts, and a tele that has its neck sometimes loose. People say I am an amazing guitarist (I am 15) and they say I am able to create the same tone and creativity that Hendrix created in his playing style. I think the only reason I am able to do that is because I went through the same shit that he had been through in his child hood, like losing a parent and this made me have so much emotion into me guitar playing that it can't be topped by someone who is a good guitarist and plays everything perfectly.
I've played forclose to 40 years this info is priceless . now I can adjust my gibson SG for free thanx alot!
To add to number 6: Wash and dry your hands before you play. This isn't just going to keep more gunk off your strings/fretboard, but the moisture will also soften up your fingertips and make for a smoother playing experience.
Total score on the foam under the strings thank you....changed my tone....well done.
i love how straight up this dude is. none of that sugar coating bs
He was dead on with Pickup height. Readjusted the pickups on a entry level LTD and they are pretty astonishing but my 100 watt blackstar all tube amp makes about anything astonishing haha.
Oh yeah ! Beginner here... By co-incidence I took a notion and raised action earlier.. Actually I loosened truss rod.. The neck is a little twisted towards the tuners E6. Straight on E1 side but a little dip up to fret 3 on E6 side so had an annoying buzz on 6E.. Gone now : )
thank you very much. #2, #3 and #4 were like a bucket of water into my face!
I will try it.
Weather you realize it or not your video is a life saver! Was just about to buy new pickups until I saw this vid. Adjusted the height BAM! totally new sound. Also tried the foam it was effective thanks for saving me time and money!
Pretty good tips. Interesting the foam at the headstock and tremelo springs on a Strat. 110% to" ... no gear will make you sound good if you don't practice."
another thing i'd like to hear becoming knowledge out is that if you do NOT have your pick-ups butted up against the neck you get a better scream on your harmonics. I suggest a pinky's width.
I have no idea if you're right about any of this, but I am absolutely fascinated by the concepts and will give them a try and find out. Cool video.
All pretty obvious tips for most guitarists. For the foam thing, I use my ex girlfriend's hair scrunchies as string dampeners (I've even seen pros using these). For the palm muting strings you aren't playing, your noise gate should do that for you when properly set, that it's purpose (along with accomplishing more various functions). A good EQ (and how to set it for various genres of music) should have been covered. I use a Boss GE 7 graphic equalizer pedal (yeah, I'd prefer a Boss GE 24 rack mount graphic equalizer, but I spend more on good quality amps, guitars, and pickups and use pedals I often find in pawnshops). Both graphic EQs (pedals and racks), parametric EQs on your amps, and on board active parametric EQs (if your guitar has it, like on the old B.C Rich neck thru guitars you see in old pictures of Slayer, for example. The kind with 20,000,000 knobs and toggles, Les Paul type headstocks with the fancy R, you've seen them, and they have on board parametric EQs, active pre amps, power boosters, etc...). Another good thing (when you want a heavy tone) is those weights that clip on your headstock. Adds more to it's mass and creates a heavier, thicker tone. Pickups should have been covered also. Good pickups do a world of good.
Pickups and EQs aren't free, this is about free ways to improve your tone
Very very helpful about the bridge and the foam info. Thanks it saved my guitar
Last advise, the best!!!!!
Mike Campbell says he never cleans his fretboard. Food for thought.
I know not everyone (including myself especially) will know everything when it come to good , clean , and practical guitar playing BUT even If you are at the normal brain capacity of your age your still not gonna know these little things that ultimately will mean a lot , I know I didn’t but after watching this video I realize I know squat and how stupid I am because I feel like common sense should have kicked in and I should have figured this all out way before I discovered this gem of a video lol after all iv only been playing a mean guitar for 30 years wtw thanks so much ... GOD BLESS !!!
i made string height higher and now my i though cheap shit sound so nice
thank you so f**ing much
So many people hating because he said “if you’re broke like I am” and ‘he’s holding a Kiesel’. I can relate. It’s called putting your passion before petty things like getting high and going out all the time. 🤷🏻♂️ Stay inside and practice, kids.
One of the best ways to practice palm muting imo is to learn Paganini's Variation #9 of Caprice #24. Once mastered, palm muting for any other application becomes a breeze.
Wise words at the end. I think when people think they aren't good they just resort to buying more gear thinking it will make them sound better.
i keep on telling my band members that they should eq their guitars in relation to other instruments but no one seems to care.they all assume boosting their volume up will solve their problems n to make it even worse they boost their gain so high that i can barely hear what notes they are playing.
Bassist?
***** Usually bandmates listen least to the bassist.
***** Was in a band, left now. In the search of thrash metal lovers to form another one.