...I'm not stuck in quarantine I work in a hospital. In Canada where it's... not quite the same. Statistically I'd say I'm not the only one watching who works at a hospital in Canada. So there! XD Now you know what some of us are doing. :)
The aluminium guitar neck is an old invention. I own an Ovation Matrix from ca. early 1970’s with a solid aluminium neck but with a rosewood fretboard. It also has extraordinary sound, as all Ovations do.
The funniest thing is he's vehemently a "tonewood" person and attempts to joke about people who think otherwise. I guess it's hard for him to justify flashing his cash on youtube if he doesn't get to talk about how great the wood sounds
My dad's electronic guitar is a cheap Swedish version of a Walmart guitar purchase. Sounded like shit out of the box. Also certain frets where to high. He filed the frets in question to order and put new pickups on it. Great sound now.
mostly, yeah. But everything can contribute to the sound. it's little differences that all comes down to preference. I prefer a warmer, vintage vibe so I modify my guitars to suit that.
Exactly - As it's done in the video, we have no idea if the sound of the guitar was changed at all. I initially thought it sounded quite bright but was that really due to the new neck? Without an A/B - preferably with the visual turned off or moved away from the necks for a moment so we are not influenced by what we see - I can't say the neck had any affect on the sound. It does look quite cool!
Don't worry about that. Keeping it in tune as the temperature shifts one degree will get you ripe for the funny farm long before the fingerprints will do.
It's about rocking it. If you care about fingerprints and cigarette dust and dents and so on, you're a 50s housewife with OCD, not a rocker... Heck, most of the greats played hella burnt, bruised, dented guitars...
I dont think the point of it is that its ment to sound recognisably different? I think the biggest change there is how it FEELS different, it probably feels great
You're not crazy. The high end could just as (or more) easily be accounted for by the amplifier settings or the capacitor on the tone pot. Neck material makes such a negligible difference in tone, it's easily covered by the electronics.
@@DavidHite this is simply a false statement regarding tone wood. comments on the electronics is true. Check out a pbass or jbass comparison. Same model with maple fingerboard vs. rosewood. You will find if you put the two through a spectrum analyzer at matched volume, there is actually a few DB's of a difference in certain frequency areas. So objectively, it in fact does make more than a negligible difference if you dont feel like compensating with your equalizer in a surgical way all the time
@@chrismusicx sure, you can see the difference with a spectrum analyzer and even hear the difference with your ears. But it's not a radical difference. It's easier (not to mention cheaper) to tweak a knob on your amplifier or guitar, or even change the position of your picking hand than to change instruments. Granted, much of that goes out the door with acoustic instruments, but even with that, the position of your hands likely makes a much more significant and noticeable difference than the neck material.
I don’t know, for me it actually sounds quite weak, like the sound just wants to die constantly and he has to do something to keep it going. I mean the sound itself is pretty normal, but it’s as if it had no body and no sustain.
Best guitar I ever heard was a Jackson with 2 Seymour Duncans and one B.B. King pickup. All three on sounded fantastic. Everybody always wanted to play that cheap guitar over the expensive ones.
As a lightly rounded musician keeping it as a hobby and having a career as an automotive technician and avid drag racer, I've found it easier to keep it simple rather then go over the top. And it definitely seems to work in both aspects of my life 😂 Currently kicking around the idea of building a strat. Just keeping the body of it, thinking a relic style.
I have one. Most aluminium necks are much much smaller than wooden ones, mine is about 0.6" at the first fret. They feel very solid to play, I cant describe in more detail than that, but wooden necks feel like toys now, they also don't get sticky or anything if you sweat.
@@whatatool Yeah all modern aluminium necks have steel frets, no need to re fret them, it can be done but no luthier will touch them. They are fretted like any other instrument, fret wire pressed into a slot.
ive played one before. they're smooth and feel amazing. the only downside is the weight and the fact that the neck is a little bit cold when you first pick it up
@@bryangluce I dont know if it's the same guy but the first video recommendation I got with this video was about glass guitars and the channel is called Morningstar glass guitars.
Eric Hopkins Yeah it sounds “CRAZY” to me as someone who has played many different guitars. It’s pretty cool. Also I bet the difference is more audible in real life versus through this video.
Exactly , todays guitars are made way different than back in the day . you were lucky to have a volume and treble dial on an electric guitar and at least 2 different pedals to make it sing ! I love the way he plays and makes his guitars magic !
My first brand name guitar was an Ovation Matrix, it had an aluminum neck. By and large, the neck contributes little to the sound, imo, the Matrix's body projects differently than a wide body; back to the neck, the frets cratered out in @2-2/2 years and there was a 6 month backlog in getting a replacement.
@@mikelord9860 Yeah, for me it was an Ovation Applause, also aluminum neck. It was my first decent guitar. Played it for a couple of years, then sold it. Later I realized that the biggest down side is that frets cast right into the neck can't ever be replaced.
@@danielflintknapping The problem is the expectation given for something that didn't happen, if your boyfriend tells you you're getting head tonight after work you'll be bummed when he says he's too tired. I've never heard an aluminum neck, so if he says it sounds crazy, i'm expecting to hear something not quite like anything I've ever heard. He could easily title it, SOLID ALUMINUM NECK!!! I'd watch for that alone without the expectation of some crazy sound.
Fingers get stuck to the neck, like a tongue to a flagpole? "Alright, everybody. This is a new song I just wrote. It's called, 'Just the G Chord.' Hope you like it."
Fun fact: the reason people in the US say Aluminum instead of Aluminium is because of a misspelling when shipping aluminium to the US for the first time, the guy labelling it accidentally forgot to write the second I, so when it arrived in the US, they read it as Aluminum and thought that was how you were meant to say it, and it has carried over to the present day
alluminium is softer then the steal strings so u gonne get some scratches! alluminium it self can not corrode wich is pritty awesome, but it can get less shine do to a self hardenig process over a long time.
Tyler: "If you are not signing for the event, I dont know what you are doing" Event price: $100 Me: a college student in a 3rd world country: haha fany jok...
Very interesting sound.. not a complete sound difference but better than what I thought with a metal buzz sound I was expecting.. I've watched this video before and had to do it again as I love mash up sounds. Nice job my friend.
Alu neck player here. Aluminium necks are much more wide range, they are balanced at the top and the bottom end, wood sounds quite muffled in comparison, lots of low end woof but no clarity up top
@@adammaher6962 Yeah that ain't true. I've actually tested this myself. I took a strat with a rosewood fretboard and swapped the neck for a gloss maple fretboard, while keeping all the pickups and everything else the same, and the maple fretboard sounded noticably brighter.
I think people are missing the point. It LOOKS fucking epic and it saves chopping down trees. I don't think it's meant to sound anything less than an electric guitar.
I’ve had a number of the squier affinity strats over the years and that neck definitely gave it a more tinny sound than a standard wood neck. People saying otherwise simply haven’t played affinity strats or they just don’t possess the skills required to hear the difference
@@xx3astmanxx287 I just don't know man... I mean, the video's title is quite misleading as the guy also replaced the pickups (enhancing the sounding possibilities of the guitar) so it kinda ruins it for me, but for my untrained ear is quite difficult to really tell any difference. That being said, I reckon you trained ear is one rare blessing that we people should have to improve (if possible), so props to you, my friend.
I had a silver pick with gold and some emerald inside, my mom found it after a public concert. Some *sshole stole it. I hope he gets cursed by some ancient ghost.
It could have been interresting to hear the sound of the guitar before the neck switch, as compared to after the change. Sort of beeing an A/B comparison of certain licks/riffs...
And, make that comparison with the same strings, and using NO effects on the amplifier. That way, we could REALLY hear the difference between the original neck, and the aluminum neck.
@@vincentrobinette1507 I build once all aluminum guitar made of aluminum profiles glued together with a silicon. as a profile was a kind of flat square tube it really had an interesting sound of metallic resonance. it was nor electric, just fret-less acoustic. Another one was iron neck bass guitar i made with a friend. The neck was made from triangle steel profile, and the body was made from epoxy heavy toilet seat cut in two halves. the sound was great and had a steel resonance i haven't heard in any bass guitar. actually it was too heavy to carry around...
And a lot has to do with left- and right-hand technique. I told my granddaughter that it's better to spend your money on a good amp. A good amp will make even a less-expensive guitar sound good. I like my original '59 tweed Deluxe, personally. It makes even a Harley Benton sound great.
I own a few guitars with aluminum replacement necks & they dont sound too different than a neck made of wood. The main difference is that the aluminum necks have more of a piano like quality to the sustain and can have a bit of harsh high end if the guitar has single coils. I actually found my aluminum neck strat (with texas specials) had a warmer tone overall compared to my all rosewood neck strat (also has texas specials).
I mean it depends on what level you are at player guitar. When i first started i couldn't even hear the difference between humbuckers and single coils. Yet there are guitarists like Eric Johnson who can hear the difference between a battery powered fuzz pedal and a dc powered.
Such a bright and powerful tone. It goes to show that the neck influences 2/3rd of the overall tone simply because it's longer than the body , twice as long in fact
@@joepalladino4323 Yeah, it has some higher, tinny sounds than your typical Maple neck (unsurprisingly) but unless the video explicitly mentioned that the neck was some obscure material, I wouldn't have really picked up on it enough to comment.
@@Sparrow-Music The echo does sounds good though or it's just me having a set of really good speakers. sadly the drive feels really odd, as if it's distorting in a bad way.
The sound is one thing you won't hear a big difference it's the feel... aluminum feels faster or more direct or acurate than wood especially in the higher frequencies and attack. Its as if aluminum reacts faster and more consistently to vibration. Concert grade tuning forks are made of aluminum because the acoustic properties of the metal are well known. The necks can also get crazy thin like.60 inch thin on full aluminum guitars see "Electrical Guitar Company". There are lots of folks making necks and full guitars its a thing, check out Aluminati, Alef, Robot Graves, Obscura, Nude TTides Developing Nations ... Guitars they all make cool stuff I like Baguley which I think is fabulous as well is one of my favorites!
@@mjstamos there's a small company in Massachusetts called Toneacane Guitars that makes guitars out of copper pipe. It's naturally a very resonant material, and the copper pipe is so strong that the neck never shifts - so once the guitar is strung and set up it never needs to be set up again. They're pretty cool.
James Zelazny jr Gibson’s headstock have had this notorious problem for decades. I’ve heard it’s in the physics of the guitar, and also that it’s supposedly gotten better in recent years.
I bet it was super slimy sanitizer. The stuff dumb businesses provide which makes it difficult to even handle things in the store, let alone an expensive aluminum neck. Tyler wasn't going to make his hands slimy for the rest of the afternoon. I would recommend having your own wipes or sanitizer if you're going to try a guitar.
@@jaewhite2462 Easy there mate, don't go calling people stupid if you yourself can't spell and don't know your facts. 'Aluminium' is pronounced like that - because it's spelled differently to 'Aluminum'. Pay attention, and get off your short horse.
@@Cyanide1205 No, we Americans would still pronounce it uh-loo-min-nee-uhm, with accents on the "loo" and the "nee" with that spelling. What puzzles Americans is the "Alu" part, which we all spell the same; we see that as "uh-loo" not "al-you" and don't understand why the rest of the world doesn't see that too.
Manrico Corazzi and in the pedals and cables. In this case i meant 90% of the tone from the guitar, not the setup, but yes. Its true. Always go for 200% tone
It IS unique. It is however committed to a peculiar sound and action profile. While not a virtuoso, I am 67 and have played since early teens and recognize that I myself, would need some time to get what it could really offer me as a player. That being said, i would love that time to get to know it 👍🏼
I really appreciate videos where people actually get to the point without wasting time. For 7 minutes dude is talking and walking and visiting guitar shop just to play for 2 minutes.
So yeah pickups determine sound on an electric guitar, not the neck or body, which is why you can make an electric guitar any shape, and out of any material that can support the strings. How about an acoustic guitar made out of aluminum instead?
what about the natural nodes and antinodes of a material or shape? it also effects the overall tone... even hardware being over torqued have an effect on the tone
You can get aluminium (or whatever metal it is) bodies dobros, but with wooden necks, but I am sure someone has made an all aluminium body and neck dobro.
@@FrankRizzo2002 the effects that it has isn't nearly as pronounced as many think. Yes rosewood and ebony will sound very slightly different. But at this point just play what you think sounds, plays, and looks the best. Because most the time people actually think there's a difference when it's just their mind tricking them
I have strats with rosewood and maple fretboards and others with bodies made from alder and ash and they all sound noticeably different, hence the material makes just as much difference as the pickups.
yo, you are the second guy i witness to say "should have did". isnt it actually "should have done" ? im not a native english speaker and interested in this phenomenon. pls help me understand :-*
I am probably the worst guitarist considering I’ve owned a guitar since I was 14yrs old (I’m now 55yrs). But I did start taking lessons when I was maybe 16-17yrs old and I remember my teacher (Mr Bodhingle) had an all aluminium guitar. Fretboard and body the whole thing (it sounded awesome).
Not a player I take it? There's a pretty clear distinction in sound. Obviously it sounds like a guitar, it **is** a guitar, the only way you're bypassing that is with effects, but this has a unique sound where guitars are concerned.
@@fleekwoodmac3705 Alright fair enough, "crazy" is a pretty big overstatement, but a lot of musicians speak in hyperbole over even subtle difference in sound. I only assumed that you didn't play because I figured you heard no difference at all, which most people who don't play wouldn't.
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First
Buy a fan fret (multiscale) neck and then scallop the frets
If you're not down with the squire neck, I'll take it
Call me stupid, but does an aluminum neck really make a difference? I mean the pickups are the ones making the sound right? I am really confused.
...I'm not stuck in quarantine I work in a hospital. In Canada where it's... not quite the same. Statistically I'd say I'm not the only one watching who works at a hospital in Canada.
So there! XD Now you know what some of us are doing. :)
Wow thats crazy it sounds just like a guitar
God damn. It really sounds like guitar...
Is someone gonna get woodshed?
Wooshed
exactly
Waiting to r/woooosh someone...
Literally builds a metal guitar - does not play metal. I am so disappointed right now.
Check out the Melvins, Torche, Made Out of Babies... plenty of bands use aluminum neck guitars and basses.
So disappointed he didn't play surfing with the alien
Wow 🤣you win
He is not skilled enough to play metal. He only knows one thing, click baiting
Was not a metal guitar. It was a metal neck
“Will definitely be seen in more videos!”
*never seen again*
Omg yes! Not even in the background or anything!
probably woke up the next morning and it had bent from gravity
4 months later... 🤔
7 months later... 😢
Update, never seen again
If you really pay attention to it, you can hear that it sounds like a guitar. Mindblowing.
I would've liked your comment, but it's at 69 likes, and in the right mind, I can't ruin that perfect harmony
do you guys know what song is playing when he's changing out the neck?
Gee how about that.
7:15 he finally starts playing
My hero
We love you
Hero we deserve.
Thank
Thx
damn everyone’s guitar center is huge and mine is like a closet compared to theirs 😹
Mine is moving to a town a few miles further but those people are in their 70's soooo that will take over a year for a small closet to move
I live in Australia and we don’t even have guitar centres
@@charliemills7259 How 'central' do you mean?
Guitar Center is the devil, avoid at all cost.
Charlie Mills only guitar millenniums
Next: These strings are 100% wood and they sound EXCELLENT
CRAZY*
Heh heh heh huh...he said...
🤣🤣🤣
@@michaela.c.2097 uuuh dammit beevith...
@ u disgusting, bud
The aluminium guitar neck is an old invention. I own an Ovation Matrix from ca. early 1970’s with a solid aluminium neck but with a rosewood fretboard. It also has extraordinary sound, as all Ovations do.
Man I can't believe you didn't do a before and after sound test so we can compare the difference
he didn't cause there would be no difference
@@veryverydemocraticpeoplesr2992that face with the name democratic 👌👌
@@phantom-rider lol. the official name of north korea is DPRK or Democratic People's Republic of Korea. That's the joke he made
Exactly what I was thinking
@@veryverydemocraticpeoplesr2992 well he did change the pickups so it would sound different t
It’s almost as if most of the sound of an electric guitar comes from the pickups
Yep,...99.99999%
The funniest thing is he's vehemently a "tonewood" person and attempts to joke about people who think otherwise.
I guess it's hard for him to justify flashing his cash on youtube if he doesn't get to talk about how great the wood sounds
My dad's electronic guitar is a cheap Swedish version of a Walmart guitar purchase.
Sounded like shit out of the box. Also certain frets where to high.
He filed the frets in question to order and put new pickups on it. Great sound now.
mostly, yeah. But everything can contribute to the sound. it's little differences that all comes down to preference.
I prefer a warmer, vintage vibe so I modify my guitars to suit that.
9% pickups. 90% amp and other post cord effects. 1% body and neck.
1. Play this before swapping necks.
2. Play after swapping necks.
3. Turn off all the effects while testing.
3/5 episode. GL
Yes thank you
Exactly - As it's done in the video, we have no idea if the sound of the guitar was changed at all. I initially thought it sounded quite bright but was that really due to the new neck? Without an A/B - preferably with the visual turned off or moved away from the necks for a moment so we are not influenced by what we see - I can't say the neck had any affect on the sound. It does look quite cool!
^^^
you don't know how its sounds??? Differences !!! Jajajajajaja let me guess, You're TAB GUY"??!!!!
Agreed i dont hear any difference between neck materials at all
The real question I hoped was answered is : how does it FEEL?
The fingerprints that neck would accumulate every single time the guitar is played would drive me absolutely bonkers.
It’s the first thing you notice!
Yea if I got anything like this it would HAVE to have a satin or flat finish. Or I'd lose it.
Don't worry about that. Keeping it in tune as the temperature shifts one degree will get you ripe for the funny farm long before the fingerprints will do.
Brushed finish is win, polished seems like a mistake on that otherwise uniquely beautiful neck!
It's about rocking it. If you care about fingerprints and cigarette dust and dents and so on, you're a 50s housewife with OCD, not a rocker... Heck, most of the greats played hella burnt, bruised, dented guitars...
Now that's called metal music.
nice
The tone is pretty *_bright_*
Wah wah waaaah
See what I did there😂
@@mnkeeper0611 kirk hammet ?
@@mk_rexx it took me 18 minutes to get the joke and it was also funny 🤣🤣
That's cool, he totally got that Strat to sound like a Strat!
Yeah it doesn't sound any different to me personally.
Sounds a little different but i would say it’s more from the sustain then actual metal, aluminum would probably have an interesting density
but F truss rods :P
I dont think the point of it is that its ment to sound recognisably different? I think the biggest change there is how it FEELS different, it probably feels great
@@carlosfernandez3565don't need it. It doesn't bend haha
I am with the others on this... Sounds pretty "normal". I ABSOLUTELY love the look of the finished project though. Seriously love the unique beauty
The employees in that store are so chill, wish people were that chill where I'm at.
W H Y A R E Y O U E V E R Y W H E R E
My local guitar center has like 2 nice people, the rest couldn't care less.
Oh you again
lmao ur everywhere like stickmaster500 and justin y
Probably they’re chilled because they know him
That thing is smoother than my marriage.
Austyn Roderick self depreciation joke.
Its okay dude.
F
That's rough bro
Smoother then my grandpa's ass
@@theworldsokayestmichigande851 Not having wrinkles helps
Is it just me or does it not actually sound that crazy? Sounds like a normal Strat with maybe a bit more high end or jangliness.
You're not crazy. The high end could just as (or more) easily be accounted for by the amplifier settings or the capacitor on the tone pot. Neck material makes such a negligible difference in tone, it's easily covered by the electronics.
@@DavidHite this is simply a false statement regarding tone wood. comments on the electronics is true. Check out a pbass or jbass comparison. Same model with maple fingerboard vs. rosewood. You will find if you put the two through a spectrum analyzer at matched volume, there is actually a few DB's of a difference in certain frequency areas. So objectively, it in fact does make more than a negligible difference if you dont feel like compensating with your equalizer in a surgical way all the time
@@chrismusicx sure, you can see the difference with a spectrum analyzer and even hear the difference with your ears. But it's not a radical difference. It's easier (not to mention cheaper) to tweak a knob on your amplifier or guitar, or even change the position of your picking hand than to change instruments. Granted, much of that goes out the door with acoustic instruments, but even with that, the position of your hands likely makes a much more significant and noticeable difference than the neck material.
@@chrismusicx And how do you know that the difference in those comparisons is the tonewood, and not the other components of the guitar?
I don’t know, for me it actually sounds quite weak, like the sound just wants to die constantly and he has to do something to keep it going. I mean the sound itself is pretty normal, but it’s as if it had no body and no sustain.
Man i am in love with that guitar, incredibly stylish. That sky blue with alu looks epic. Great job...
“I got busted for touching the guitar” 😂😂😂
“But I’m gunna buy it”
Any other year, that guitar would cost six figures.
I bet you could touch string packages all day long and nobody would say a word.
He was gonna finger it later either way
At least you didn't play Stairway on it...
Rumor has it this guy is still carrying a squirt of hand sanitizer in his hand
he doesnt know how the stuff works xD
Well it does say hand not hands sanitiser.🙂
I’m dyin😂
I thought I was the only one...
disobeying the arrows
why did he use the hand sanitizer and then just hold it in his hand awkwardly for like 45 seconds lmaoooo
To throw it away
I was thinking the same thing lol
probably was thinking about giving a 45 second quarantine or something
And then he really got covid-19
Because you touch yourself
Best guitar I ever heard was a Jackson with 2 Seymour Duncans and one B.B. King pickup. All three on sounded fantastic. Everybody always wanted to play that cheap guitar over the expensive ones.
Which Jackson model?
As a lightly rounded musician keeping it as a hobby and having a career as an automotive technician and avid drag racer, I've found it easier to keep it simple rather then go over the top. And it definitely seems to work in both aspects of my life 😂 Currently kicking around the idea of building a strat. Just keeping the body of it, thinking a relic style.
Could've done a before and after with the original neck.
Agreed, but I think it has less woody clunk to it and I like woody clunk...
so I give it 2*...
It's a Squier dude, if you've heard one cheap squier strat you've heard them all.
@@sorrenblitz805 do you watch the video?he changing the pickup dammit
@@drpastormartinosempa8930 none of my guitars have ever made clunky sounds. are you sure it's the wood?
@@davidtomkins4242 Oh?.... Don't worry... One day you'll get better! ; ^ D
Wish you talked a bit about how the neck actually feels to play. Sounds great though.
I have one. Most aluminium necks are much much smaller than wooden ones, mine is about 0.6" at the first fret. They feel very solid to play, I cant describe in more detail than that, but wooden necks feel like toys now, they also don't get sticky or anything if you sweat.
Are the frets steel though? I would think aluminum frets would not be good. He stated it was all aluminum.
@@whatatool Yeah all modern aluminium necks have steel frets, no need to re fret them, it can be done but no luthier will touch them. They are fretted like any other instrument, fret wire pressed into a slot.
ive played one before. they're smooth and feel amazing. the only downside is the weight and the fact that the neck is a little bit cold when you first pick it up
@@BoyHobbies If nobody will refret them then that seems pointless. You'll just have to end up buying a whole new aluminium neck every few years.
There's a guy in England who makes glass necks. Glass guitars too.
The one British guy that isn’t a lazy git
Any of his guitar craftsmanship viewable online? Possibly RUclips?
What about glass strings?
He should do that next
@@bryangluce I dont know if it's the same guy but the first video recommendation I got with this video was about glass guitars and the channel is called Morningstar glass guitars.
Im a machinist in germany and my company produces these guitar necks for baguley!
Im a guitarist as well so its always fun to hold them
Hey, so in case anyone is cares, the name of the song that plays while he's assembling the guitar is "The Forgotten Memories" by Luella Green
I guess I like classical music now
Thank you!!
bruhh thanks
Let's go I was looking for it in the description anyways thx brother
thanks
'I'm only interested in the body'. Men, they're all the same.
Lmao
But The head is part of the body.
omh20,
The Joke ------>
You
I don't know about you, but I'm all about the neck.
Only because WE KNOW BETTER !
Title: SOUNDS CRAZY
Guitar: Sounds totally normal
I agree.
Doesn’t sound normal to me. It has a different tone than a normal guitar.
@@psych336 would you call that crazy? I'd call having a slightly different tone normal
Eric Hopkins Yeah it sounds “CRAZY” to me as someone who has played many different guitars. It’s pretty cool. Also I bet the difference is more audible in real life versus through this video.
@@psych336 sorry. Didn't realize you have played many different guitars
The 1980’s would have liked this tone.
real
Why is there only 38 likes on a verified comment?
@@floridaman1644 I’m wondering that myself
Exactly , todays guitars are made way different than back in the day . you were lucky to have a volume and treble dial on an electric guitar and at least 2 different pedals to make it sing ! I love the way he plays and makes his guitars magic !
Would be interesting to see what an aluminium neck would sound like on an acoustic guitar 🤔👌
Probably make it to weighty on the neck side but I am also super curious as to how it would affect its sound.
My first brand name guitar was an Ovation Matrix, it had an aluminum neck. By and large, the neck contributes little to the sound, imo, the Matrix's body projects differently than a wide body; back to the neck, the frets cratered out in @2-2/2 years and there was a 6 month backlog in getting a replacement.
I think it would only be interesting to see what it would sound like on an acoustic.
@@mikelord9860 Yeah, for me it was an Ovation Applause, also aluminum neck. It was my first decent guitar. Played it for a couple of years, then sold it. Later I realized that the biggest down side is that frets cast right into the neck can't ever be replaced.
Now that's something
Darrell Braun: Glass neck
Tyler: Aluminium neck
Just watched the Braun video last night the stars have aligned
It's now time for a concrete neck
B.E.Guitar with a gold truss rod
natenate concrete and gold foo fighters
Obsidian Neck
Tyler: *puts hand sanitizer in one hand* *proceeds to hold it and not do anything with it* lol
Gotta at least go through the motions. There's a deadly pandemic afoot, after all.
He did accomplish contaminating his thumb on the plunger. So you gotta give him some credit.
0:10 thanks for acknowledging us Tyler
Me: See's him apply hand sanitizer
also me: staring at his hand the whole time and not do anything with it
Yeah. He just... carried it in his hand??
He probably got the sanitizer and then remembered "Oh crap, I'm holding the neck in my other hand."
@@fishysquidman5689 i woulda just held it with my arm but yeah im also prone to being stupid like this
It looked to me like he didn't actually push the top to make it dispense. No hand sanitizer to be accounted for
that was me lol
"SOUNDS CRAZY"
The only crazy thing about this vid was the clickbait man. That thing sounds pretty damn normal.
i cant believe i watched this whole thing. should've read the comments
@@visionofdisorder 10 minutes of free content, you poor guy...
@@danielflintknapping staring at the wall is also free. this was a handjob with no climax
@@danielflintknapping The problem is the expectation given for something that didn't happen, if your boyfriend tells you you're getting head tonight after work you'll be bummed when he says he's too tired. I've never heard an aluminum neck, so if he says it sounds crazy, i'm expecting to hear something not quite like anything I've ever heard. He could easily title it, SOLID ALUMINUM NECK!!! I'd watch for that alone without the expectation of some crazy sound.
@werewolvesbyday yeah, I just scrubbed through the vid to find the part where he played and can’t believe there’s like 7 minutes of bullshit before
imagine playing this thing in cold winter.
Fingers get stuck to the neck, like a tongue to a flagpole?
"Alright, everybody. This is a new song I just wrote. It's called, 'Just the G Chord.' Hope you like it."
@@Huntington12345678 hahahaha thats funny
Hell no. Live in the summer heat
I played a Burns Flight bass guitar years ago. It had a metal neck. Yeah that was painfully cold.
Screw that. Leave it in a car in Phoenix for a few hours in a July afternoon. Then play!
Fun fact: the reason people in the US say Aluminum instead of Aluminium is because of a misspelling when shipping aluminium to the US for the first time, the guy labelling it accidentally forgot to write the second I, so when it arrived in the US, they read it as Aluminum and thought that was how you were meant to say it, and it has carried over to the present day
americans actually invented aluminum, the europeans receiving it were just too uneducated to read the label properly.
imagine how many fingerprints and nasty stuff would get all over that polished metal finish
I think of the aluminum exposure honestly. Stuff is nasty and id worry about whatever clear coat wearing off over time
alluminium is softer then the steal strings so u gonne get some scratches!
alluminium it self can not corrode wich is pritty awesome, but it can get less shine do to a self hardenig process over a long time.
@@thedude7726 what aluminium exposure lmao as if aluminium is extremely toxic
@@hmcredfed1836 aluminum does. Its a white powder. It does not rust but it 100% oxides
@@jetaddict420 look it up bro. Shits toxic
Tyler:
"If you are not signing for the event, I dont know what you are doing"
Event price: $100
Me: a college student in a 3rd world country: haha fany jok...
Where are you from?
Yeah all latino américa
Totally relatable living in Iran. I can barely buy a Guitar.
Its the price of my guitar actually
We all here to cry together about our shitty economy and our horrible exchange rate. Tercer mundo unido! jaja
Tyler only sanitizes his right hand so that his picking stays clean but his legato is filthy.
Well said
lmaooo 😂
Very interesting sound.. not a complete sound difference but better than what I thought with a metal buzz sound I was expecting.. I've watched this video before and had to do it again as I love mash up sounds. Nice job my friend.
Him: sign up now”
Me: *sees price* “oh well” *leaves page*
I am also learning the to cmnt pussy funny and get likes and cmnt reply ☻
Roshan Subba what
@@Jacob-on2sb he is speaking the language of gods
Hey, you might win a free guitar tho...
That’s where self teaching yourself from a book comes in
music is win: *buys metal neck*
also music is win: *doesnt play metal*
@Weinpeen Ceejey
Respecc
He did? 🤔
@@Funwithcoolbros he did not play metal
Weinpeen Ceejey Lol it was just a bad joke
@@Funwithcoolbros ight lol
That is literally the perfect guitar to play Pink Floyd’s “Breathe” on.
Or "hey you"
😄I was thinking about Primus for The Desaturating Seven😆
Man, stop being that basic
Well Gilmour played a Travis Bean with an aluminum neck on that album so there you go.
@@heybruhchill Your advice is appreciated and duly noted, 'chill 420'.
Watching this 3 yrs later with all we know now about Covid blows your mind
Definitely would’ve wanted to hear the wood neck with those new pickups to see the difference.
Alu neck player here. Aluminium necks are much more wide range, they are balanced at the top and the bottom end, wood sounds quite muffled in comparison, lots of low end woof but no clarity up top
It would sound the same, providing the frets are made from the same material...
They would sound the exact same, fretboard material changes absolutely nothing as far as tone goes, it just feels different
@@adammaher6962 Yeah that ain't true. I've actually tested this myself. I took a strat with a rosewood fretboard and swapped the neck for a gloss maple fretboard, while keeping all the pickups and everything else the same, and the maple fretboard sounded noticably brighter.
Bombaclat 1
Nope, they won‘t😊
And the neck is entirely made out of aluminium😉 not just the fretboard... big difference😊
MiW: Today we’re building a Silver Surfer Guitar.
Satriani: Sees his Batsignal.
Satchsignal is more appropiate i think.
Wahwahwah
And that's how to upgrade a guitar from 170$ to 1000$
Yes by this expencive Neck 😂
Lmao
I think people are missing the point. It LOOKS fucking epic and it saves chopping down trees. I don't think it's meant to sound anything less than an electric guitar.
Steps off the arrows...random guy: stop! You have committed a crime against skyrim and her people! What say you in your defense?
Let me guess, somebody stole your sweet roll!
Hey, i know u
I once took an arrow to the knee
No lolligaging
Steppin' of the arrows breaking a law, nah, just some jackass that put blue tape down, for absolutely nothing.
It still sounds like a regular electric guitar to me.
same
It sounds like a Gibson SG.
What?
I’ve had a number of the squier affinity strats over the years and that neck definitely gave it a more tinny sound than a standard wood neck. People saying otherwise simply haven’t played affinity strats or they just don’t possess the skills required to hear the difference
@@xx3astmanxx287 I just don't know man... I mean, the video's title is quite misleading as the guy also replaced the pickups (enhancing the sounding possibilities of the guitar) so it kinda ruins it for me, but for my untrained ear is quite difficult to really tell any difference. That being said, I reckon you trained ear is one rare blessing that we people should have to improve (if possible), so props to you, my friend.
kinda wish you did a control with the wooden neck so we can hear the difference
Nah because that would ruin his tonewood ideas
A word that i haven't heard anybody use to describe the sound yet..
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Crispy
7:19 is where he actually starts playing the thing so you can hear it.
*thanks*
thank you
Thanks I hate all of that intro bullshit
Nobody gets to the fucking point anymore. These youtubers are unashamed to waste your time
thanks
"Where's the truss rod?"
*The neck is the truss rod*
Just try and put it in the sun. 😂
HAHAHAHAHAHA
Didn't see you put any lemon oil on the neck. That aluminium is soooo going to dry out!!
4:00
Ok, now that you said the words "Silver Surfer" you have to make a Surfing with the Alien cover with this guitar
*_Man, no question that is one of the most badass Guitar Necks I've ever seen. Even Prince would have been in Envy of it._*
Should’ve gotten a silver pick guard as well
Just what I thought too, why leave that cheapo plastic one on?
I was thinkin more, silver chrome EVERYTHING!
lace Alumitones w
chrome pickguard would make it look super cool.
I had a silver pick with gold and some emerald inside, my mom found it after a public concert. Some *sshole stole it.
I hope he gets cursed by some ancient ghost.
7:19 for who don't wanna waste their time...
Thanks 😊
Yup.... don't notice any difference im the tone🤷🏻♂️
@@renhey9979 ya welcome
@@35i_Hearse_Driver yay
I can tell it’s around there just by the ad placement 😂
It could have been interresting to hear the sound of the guitar before the neck switch, as compared to after the change. Sort of beeing an A/B comparison of certain licks/riffs...
And, make that comparison with the same strings, and using NO effects on the amplifier. That way, we could REALLY hear the difference between the original neck, and the aluminum neck.
@@vincentrobinette1507 I build once all aluminum guitar made of aluminum profiles glued together with a silicon. as a profile was a kind of flat square tube it really had an interesting sound of metallic resonance. it was nor electric, just fret-less acoustic. Another one was iron neck bass guitar i made with a friend. The neck was made from triangle steel profile, and the body was made from epoxy heavy toilet seat cut in two halves. the sound was great and had a steel resonance i haven't heard in any bass guitar. actually it was too heavy to carry around...
Vincent Robinette probably so little difference he had to use effects😂
I was thinking the same thing. Just sounded like a normal guitar to me. The tone could vary a lot depending on good setup
I agree comparisons always help
I always here everyone say we’re stuck in quarantine. I’m so glad I live in Florida where we never shut down.
No way to judge this. You needed to do a before after tone test so one could hear the timbre differences. 90% of the guitar sound is the pickups.
Same. Or at least do the neck, then the pickups.
@joseph felice
Agreed! I love his channel but he definitely screwed up this video.
And a lot has to do with left- and right-hand technique. I told my granddaughter that it's better to spend your money on a good amp. A good amp will make even a less-expensive guitar sound good. I like my original '59 tweed Deluxe, personally. It makes even a Harley Benton sound great.
Yup..... would go with a much better pickup setup with the rig.
I own a few guitars with aluminum replacement necks & they dont sound too different than a neck made of wood. The main difference is that the aluminum necks have more of a piano like quality to the sustain and can have a bit of harsh high end if the guitar has single coils. I actually found my aluminum neck strat (with texas specials) had a warmer tone overall compared to my all rosewood neck strat (also has texas specials).
The coolest squier award goes to...
Little exaggerated on the click bait here buddy. It sounds just a little different than a wood neck.
He’s gotta pay for his chipotle some how.
It sounds way different do research before commenting
I mean it depends on what level you are at player guitar. When i first started i couldn't even hear the difference between humbuckers and single coils. Yet there are guitarists like Eric Johnson who can hear the difference between a battery powered fuzz pedal and a dc powered.
Don't call him buddy, buddy.
@@peterhopqk Buddy
Such a bright and powerful tone. It goes to show that the neck influences 2/3rd of the overall tone simply because it's longer than the body , twice as long in fact
7:36 whenever this chord is played, Steve Vai's vibes automatically warms every guitarist soul.
Fmaj7#11 baby!!
I get some ocarina of Time vibes there
Also Don't Get 2 Close 2 My Fantasy by Ween.
"SOUNDS CRAZY"
*Me who's been playing guitar for 13 years now* : Wouldn't have even been able to tell the difference.
oof.
Thought the same thing. Cool looking neck for sure, but pretty much sounds like a Strat, doesn't it?
@@joepalladino4323 Yeah, it has some higher, tinny sounds than your typical Maple neck (unsurprisingly) but unless the video explicitly mentioned that the neck was some obscure material, I wouldn't have really picked up on it enough to comment.
@@Sparrow-Music The echo does sounds good though or it's just me having a set of really good speakers. sadly the drive feels really odd, as if it's distorting in a bad way.
The sound is one thing you won't hear a big difference it's the feel... aluminum feels faster or more direct or acurate than wood especially in the higher frequencies and attack. Its as if aluminum reacts faster and more consistently to vibration. Concert grade tuning forks are made of aluminum because the acoustic properties of the metal are well known. The necks can also get crazy thin like.60 inch thin on full aluminum guitars see "Electrical Guitar Company". There are lots of folks making necks and full guitars its a thing, check out Aluminati, Alef, Robot Graves, Obscura, Nude TTides Developing Nations ... Guitars they all make cool stuff I like Baguley which I think is fabulous as well is one of my favorites!
@@mjstamos there's a small company in Massachusetts called Toneacane Guitars that makes guitars out of copper pipe. It's naturally a very resonant material, and the copper pipe is so strong that the neck never shifts - so once the guitar is strung and set up it never needs to be set up again. They're pretty cool.
This is what Gibson needs. Maybe their headstocks will stop breaking off
If you are breaking head stocks off...something else is wrong ! Maybe a lumber jack is a better hobby for you :)
James Zelazny jr Gibson’s headstock have had this notorious problem for decades. I’ve heard it’s in the physics of the guitar, and also that it’s supposedly gotten better in recent years.
Personally only one of my two gibsons got a broken headstock. Just buy 2 and youll be fine
Hugh tube implying one can simply afford 2 Gibsons
@@m.m.3303 😂
The piano song at 4:53 it's easy to learn but I want the rest of it what's the name of it
does anybody know the name of the song
Am I the only one fixated on the fact that he didn’t like rub the hand sanitizer in? Just put it in his hand 😂😂
I literally have been scrolling through the whole comment section to find at least one commenter who pointed it out. You're the first lmao
@@maximord531 not the first, but one of the few.
lol yeah
I bet it was super slimy sanitizer. The stuff dumb businesses provide which makes it difficult to even handle things in the store, let alone an expensive aluminum neck.
Tyler wasn't going to make his hands slimy for the rest of the afternoon.
I would recommend having your own wipes or sanitizer if you're going to try a guitar.
@Diogenes 。 Maybe, just maybe, some of us JUST MIGHT have an autoimmune disorder.
No one truly understands.. “Just Some Guy without a Mustache”
o shit, he's here too?
@@evraimsimon *y.e.s.*
@@evraimsimon Yeahea Boii
He keeps calling it a Silver Surfer guitar and he doesn't play Satriani's Surfing with the Alien???
Same reason that image is not used on the cover of Satriani's 2nd album anymore.
That's the wanker thing to do
I'm thinking Satch is gonna want an aluminum guitar, now....
It’s almost a criminal offense
It has such a clear fret!
It's not just the Australians that say "Aluminium", it's everyone but the Americans.
But the thing is that pernunciation doesn't match the spelling. Also america isn't a country. Keep looking smart there buddy
@@jaewhite2462 It does match when you spell Aluminium correctly
@@jaewhite2462 Easy there mate, don't go calling people stupid if you yourself can't spell and don't know your facts. 'Aluminium' is pronounced like that - because it's spelled differently to 'Aluminum'. Pay attention, and get off your short horse.
@@Cyanide1205 No, we Americans would still pronounce it uh-loo-min-nee-uhm, with accents on the "loo" and the "nee" with that spelling. What puzzles Americans is the "Alu" part, which we all spell the same; we see that as "uh-loo" not "al-you" and don't understand why the rest of the world doesn't see that too.
yocraigst it’s got nothing to do w that look up the reason there is a difference in pronunciation
this video should be called "This Guitar Neck is 100% Aluminum and it SOUNDS EXACTLY THE SAME But you don't have to adjust the truss rod ever"
Ground rule: pickups makes up for 90% of the tone
the other 90% is in the amp
Manrico Corazzi and in the pedals and cables. In this case i meant 90% of the tone from the guitar, not the setup, but yes. Its true. Always go for 200% tone
Yeah, but if the source of the sound is garbage, those 90% is gonna sound garbage too.
I only use 11% of my tone after consulting with Nigel Tufnel.
Gavin Alavi yup
It IS unique. It is however committed to a peculiar sound and action profile. While not a virtuoso, I am 67 and have played since early teens and recognize that I myself, would need some time to get what it could really offer me as a player. That being said, i would love that time to get to know it 👍🏼
Honestly, I kinda hear some difference compared to a regular elec guitar but I think there's nothing "CRAZY" about how it sounds.
That's just because he changed the pickups.
There’s no difference
I mean the riff at 7:18 sounds especially great on this neck but otherwise there isn’t too much special sound-wise
Im more curious about how does it feel
@@gezi0752 their is a difference, yes
Me, an acoustic only guitar player, thinking he'd just unscrew and screw neck.
Tyler: E L E C T R O N I C S
When I first saw it I was all "oh God, the fingerprints"😂
I really appreciate videos where people actually get to the point without wasting time. For 7 minutes dude is talking and walking and visiting guitar shop just to play for 2 minutes.
Looks like something Joe satriani would have played.
You didn’t even play metal. On a *LITERAL* metal guitar. Sad noises
Aluminium is a light metal - you'd need a lead neck instead.
I have a music channel
Would really love it if you check out some of my Videos
Good luck to you too
Musical Vibes no
Heck out the Melvin's for some fuzzy gainy metal riffs on an aluminium guitar
Musical Vibes no
Looks like something Joe Satriani would play while surfing with the alien
Aaaah that tapping part omg my fingers and brain melted the first time I heard it
He definitely should have bought an Ibanez and splurged for a JS model! LOL
Just imagine Satch Boogie...
Fr right
So he would be surfing with himself?
What is the song called that you use when youre building the guitar at 5:33 ?
Can we have a moment of silence for everyone whos guitar costs less than the one casually bought in this video
That would be me 😟
@@thefuzzman The neck alone is almost $900.00. Plus the Squire around $150.00. Just a little over a K.
My dad has a $20 guitar or something
@@larrykinnard I figured the neck wasn't cheap. I was only referring to the guitar he bought being more expensive than the one I bought.
@@larrykinnard And don't forget about the pickups he replaced.
So yeah pickups determine sound on an electric guitar, not the neck or body, which is why you can make an electric guitar any shape, and out of any material that can support the strings. How about an acoustic guitar made out of aluminum instead?
what about the natural nodes and antinodes of a material or shape? it also effects the overall tone... even hardware being over torqued have an effect on the tone
You can get aluminium (or whatever metal it is) bodies dobros, but with wooden necks, but I am sure someone has made an all aluminium body and neck dobro.
@@FrankRizzo2002 the effects that it has isn't nearly as pronounced as many think. Yes rosewood and ebony will sound very slightly different. But at this point just play what you think sounds, plays, and looks the best. Because most the time people actually think there's a difference when it's just their mind tricking them
I have strats with rosewood and maple fretboards and others with bodies made from alder and ash and they all sound noticeably different, hence the material makes just as much difference as the pickups.
No, material maters… a lot… like a lot…
You managed to make the guitar sound like a guitar. Good work man! 🤘🏻
Damn that guitar not only sounds fantastic it also looks freakishly cool! Imagine that neck under stage lights!
From fretless to literally just a fret.
The playing starts at 7:18. Perhaps he should have did an a/b comparison between the original and new neck so we could hear the difference.
The trick is there is no difference.
@@dankelpuff8381 - Exactly.
That and all the effects should be taken off
yo, you are the second guy i witness to say "should have did". isnt it actually "should have done" ? im not a native english speaker and interested in this phenomenon. pls help me understand :-*
@@marellius2868 You are correct. "done" is the correct term. That one slipped by me.
Anyone going to mention that in the beginning he puts hand sanitizer in his hand but doesn't rub it in he just keeps it in his hand.
His other hand was full
Well this guy's definitely a cop
maybe because he is like me and gives zero fucks about sanitizer and masks. Obey your leader!!!
ROSCOE P no one thinks you’re cool because you don’t care about public immunity
yoursonordaughter - go read the new CDC report lol, you all got fooled! Runnnn corona virrrrussssss
A cool project no matter what, but now that you've had it for a while does the neck get all scratched up from playing or is it holding up well?
5:22 I found the work highlights to be super-satisfying and calming. Great editing, soundtrack, etc!
I concur.
Can u please tell me what he did at 6:58..? After he cut the extra strings ? Thanx in advance
Yon Slash he’s winding the strings using a pegwinder (maybe Ernie Ball’s Powerpeg?)
Whats the song used? Waltzy
I am probably the worst guitarist considering I’ve owned a guitar since I was 14yrs old (I’m now 55yrs). But I did start taking lessons when I was maybe 16-17yrs old and I remember my teacher (Mr Bodhingle) had an all aluminium guitar. Fretboard and body the whole thing (it sounded awesome).
That’s so cool
Lol what?
@@theodddrawer3051 that first sentence got lost in the rest of your paragraph lmao
He was one of the first HEAVY METAL GUITAR GODS! 😁
This does not sound crazy. It sounds like a guitar. Fake news.
Not fake news. It's called clickbait. But I agree
Not a player I take it? There's a pretty clear distinction in sound. Obviously it sounds like a guitar, it **is** a guitar, the only way you're bypassing that is with effects, but this has a unique sound where guitars are concerned.
@@corruptedstudiosentertainm3455 I mean I heard the audio. I've been playing guitar for a long time. "Crazy sound" is not applicable.
Fake news.
@@fleekwoodmac3705 Alright fair enough, "crazy" is a pretty big overstatement, but a lot of musicians speak in hyperbole over even subtle difference in sound. I only assumed that you didn't play because I figured you heard no difference at all, which most people who don't play wouldn't.
Corrupted Studios Entertainment im a very casual player but even I can tell that it’s not really anything to make a video about