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I bought the HALO Core as it launched on the RKFX website. It launched at 0900, my shipping ticket was timed at 0906. The 300 units did sell out in 4 hours.
If anything is plugged into the mains power it's extremely hard to isolate it from 60 cycle hum. The best way is to make sure your device has isolated inputs but, even then, hum can occur. There are a lot of variables involved.
Great seeing Electronic Audio Experiments on here. They make some of the best dirt pedals around. This is something really different for them. I'm a big fan of the lastgasp misty cave so this has me intrigued. Top stuff as always.
Watching this one right after getting the Gibson newsletter announcing a new Slash signature (resembling his early days clone) for around 3K, more "Gibsony" pricing.
Seems to me that Gibson made dbl creams first. Since they had lots of black bobbins and some white, all hidden at first by covers, it makes sense that most were black, some were zebra, and a few were white-white. Just completely random mixes, 20 years before Dee-Mar-Zee-oh (only zz sounds ts, like pizza).
Jeff Beck was a Fender player, anyways. You can get a custom shop Jeff Beck Signature Strat, the guitar he played for decades before his death, for less than half the price of the Les Paul, and the non-custom signature for a quarter of the price. Rest in peace, Jeff.
Jeff Beck played whatever he wanted. He was a Tele guy, then a Les Paul guy and went to Strats exclusively in the 80's but to say, "He was a Fender player" and leave it at that, is asinine. If you don't want the guitar, don't buy it. Nobody is compelling you and certainly Gibson marketing an expensive guitar doesn't affect your life in the least.
I'd say "going to strats exclusively" for 40 of your 78 years (probably 40/60 of your professional career) is pretty much a definition of "a Fender player". Yes, he played other stuff decades ago, but it's scraping the barrel to issue a JB signature LP. Greenie has out of phase, Frehly/Frampton have triple pups - at least they somehow differ from regular production. There's nothing particularly distinctive or unique about this reissue compared to regular production. It whiffs of memorabilia cash grab. Yes, you're right, it's our personal choice whether to buy it, just as its also our personal choice to disdain the motives behind it. Those views don't affect your life in the least either.
Hedge funds and corporations that use similar practices, are destroying America's economy and reputation, if you don't start talking about republican politicians, but those two types go hand in hand. Trump recently advertised he would give executive order requests to any company that donates $1B to his campaign. If he gets elected again I am seriously thinking about moving to another country. I am a disabled war veteran who fought to "protect and spread democracy", while "fighting terrorism". I will never forgive myself for being such a fool.
I imagine the one non-isolated output is connected to the mains ground, while the others are not. I can't think of why that would be desirable, but I can believe there's a reason.
I am really hoping this breaks the barrier with double cream pickups in the us. It’s not a problem for British and Asian pickups but sometimes it’s hard to get them over here in the us.
Eh, just get the Tributes or lower-end ones and give them some love. My Tribute V is one of the best playing and most resonant guitars I've ever owned.
I read an article that stated that Gibson have filed to cancel the "double cream" and "PAF" trademarks. If they can't have it they want to make sure noone else can.
Basically Jeff Beck played a stock 50’s Les Paul, so Gibson made a stock Les Paul and called it the “Jeff Beck signature edition” and charges 10x what Beck paid for his.
You can't really defend the price tag of the Jeff Beck LP, but it makes some sense. A Custom Shop R9 is about $6800, and a M2M R9 with a one-piece body is about $9700. When you factor in the artist/estate tax and the fact that there are only 130 of them, it almost looks like a steal lol.
if I was heading up a brand like keeley, I would do a limited run of a pedal specifically to target scalpers , once it had all sold out and they were all on reverb, I would then release the rest of the stock for £50 less than the original run. I absolutely hate scalpers
As a former employee of the G, would it shock you if I said the could sell EVERY guitar they make, all the USA stuff and all the custom shop stuff without changing a thing, for $1,000.00 US and still make millions of dollars a month. Fact y'all. It's crazy I know, but it's true. Granted it would only net them 2 million a month globally rather than 7-10 million but still..
I think Gibson needs to make the move of making standard high quality guitars in the east(Indonesia, Korea etc.) That way people can get the basic standards for around $1,500 that are equipped with all the higher end components. Manufacturing in the US cannot compete with Asia
The Halo already sold out before anyone really knew about it. It was a limited run, so it’s already long gone. Damn shame, as it seems like a cool pedal.
Gibson making an expensive signature guitar isn't about making or selling that guitar. It's about getting free advertising because people and RUclipsrs will talk about it. That means "Gibson" stays in people's minds when they think about guitars.
Gibson took Dimarzio to court about the patten on the double cream pick ups because Gibson was making them in the 50s it good news for pick up makers ! I guess they won the lawsuit
Gibson sued DiMarzio recently to cancel the "double cream" patent because the look has become generic in those 45+ years. While the case is in a sort of limbo, Gibson is going ahead and marketing double "classic white" pickups and argues that the color is not exactly the same. In fact, the DiMarzio "double cream" is darker than a typical aged white butyrate bobbin from the late 50's. Gibson argued that the color is not the same and DiMarzio has no legal rights to sue manufacturers for "similar" but the the SAME color double-white bobbins. So Gibson is basically saying "Come at me bro" and time will tell if DiMarzio has the horses and $$$ to counter.
Any self-respecting musician vs. Investment banker, dentist, or plastic surgeon will opt for an Eastman single-cut, solid body over another "signature" Gibson Les Paul (yawn)...
Once they sold all those 10,000 dollar Adam Jones LP Customs on pre order they got no shame. Can’t believe they haven’t had a go at making an Iron Cross with or without Papa Het , I’d imagine they could sell a few of those for 20k probably. I’m sorry 10k for a guitar I’d be out if I could afford it. You could get a very nice Japanese Les Paul and a decent used car for 10k and maybe have enough change left over to put half a tank of gas in your “new” used car.
Gibson has sued Dimarzio over double cream trademark and PAF name use, to lift the trademarks. Now, it releases a guitar with double cream pickups? Seems like they're checking how far Dimarzio can go? Larry Dimarzio in an old interview said that a patent (or a trademark) doesn't mean a thing if you don't have a lawyer and the will to defend it. We'll see...
oh gawd Andy 1:15 let's see. An overpriced POS Gibson who's headstock angle means it will easily snap in shipping or if you look at it the wrongs way ? Want a decent single cut ? Buy a Solar GC1.6 and be done with it, if budget limited ? then a 2.6. Me ? Go my prostate cancer biopsy coming up on July 9th, so everything is on hold. I'll be fine - i beat CV19, i'll beat this too. cheers from NZ.
$10,000 for a new Gibson Les Paul just seems obscene to me. Even if you assume a 50% mark up, does it really really cost Gibson $5,000 in parts and labor to produce one guitar? I find that hard to believe. I feel like Jeff Beck would have found a guitar like this that almost none of his fans could afford to buy to be a super cringe cash grab.
10k for a guitar ... yeah!!!! Another unicorn guitar nobody cares about and can afford. This makes me so sad ... the company making my favorite guitar, the SG, is nothing but a shadow of itself ...
They put those peely asmr bits of clear protective plastic on the pickups. They just need to use black film on one side. (I really shouldn't give Gibson ideas, but I doubt they read Andy's comments section.)
A Les Paul guitar back in 1959 cost about 450 dollars with case , which would be about 4600 dollars in today,s money. Just put a name player on a re issue guitar and charge double that ,or even more in some cases. Especially if they are sporting a pair of super distortion hum buckers . Fools and their money as the saying goes.
Andy, I like your channel a lot. And watch regularly, .but you have 126k subs...you could probably buy any guitar that's $10k or more or maybe Lee could hook you up with a nice discount.
I totally agree on the Jeff Beck signature (and basically all of their signature LP's). The Gibson brand just isn't there for us players anymore. It's great if you're a rocking plastic surgeon from Beverly Hills. I'll stick to the alternatives. Oh, and I've got a HB powersupply under my Pedaltrain. I like them.
Its just a Gibson.. with a nice set of pickups... no better than if you put nice pickups on a normal Gibson yourself... TEHNN GRRAaaannd... Yeah Right!
Gibson....Fender YAWN! Over priced and not an ounce of true innovation anywhere with their Guitars. I wouldn't buy one tbh even if I could afford to. Love Vintage Guitars and G&L Guitars at least they offer value for money and some innovation especially the Vintage Revo Series. I especially like the new Revo electric acoustic guitar they have brought out. Looks awesome and sounds amazing and the lower side of £400..ticks all the right boxes for me. I think Vintage will one day be a major player in the guitar world with Gibson or Fender especially in the UK. Luv them.👍
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Jeff's Les Paul will always be the Oxblood for me. Honestly, he'll always be a Strat guy and in my opinion, THE Strat guy.
Totally strat
Does anyone else sing along to “Andy’s clip of the week”? Thanks for a great show Andy!
I bought the HALO Core as it launched on the RKFX website. It launched at 0900, my shipping ticket was timed at 0906. The 300 units did sell out in 4 hours.
Your show is always amazing. Love the comedy and levity that goes along with it, as well. Thank you!
If anything is plugged into the mains power it's extremely hard to isolate it from 60 cycle hum. The best way is to make sure your device has isolated inputs but, even then, hum can occur. There are a lot of variables involved.
I love ya Andy! I always look forward to the Week In Gear, and well, any video you put out. I really dig the humour!
Great seeing Electronic Audio Experiments on here. They make some of the best dirt pedals around. This is something really different for them. I'm a big fan of the lastgasp misty cave so this has me intrigued. Top stuff as always.
Thanks Andy, I watched a demo on that new pedal and still wasn’t sure what it was. Your explanation was fantastic.
Thank you for making these videos. They're very informative. Your presentation and humor injection make them superior.
This made my day. Thank you too
Watching this one right after getting the Gibson newsletter announcing a new Slash signature (resembling his early days clone) for around 3K, more "Gibsony" pricing.
YOU KNOW WHAT TIME OF WEEK IT IS 🎉🎉🎉
I'm looking forward to the JHS Hard Drive full review. That pedal seems interesting.
Great show this week. My sentiments exactly re Gibsome mo’ money 💰 My fav is the power supply
The Prismatic Wall is SICK!
As you (& l ) are Hendrix aficionados, that Prismatic Wall will make Crosstown Traffic a breeze
I just bought an Eastcoast G35 and it's bloody beautiful and well-made and plays ever so sweet.... Just saying lol.
In general, If it plugs straight into the mains, it's actually isolated.. If it has a wall wart, it's not..
Seems to me that Gibson made dbl creams first. Since they had lots of black bobbins and some white, all hidden at first by covers, it makes sense that most were black, some were zebra, and a few were white-white. Just completely random mixes, 20 years before Dee-Mar-Zee-oh (only zz sounds ts, like pizza).
Strange that the Hard Drive is a 90's thing when it appears to have an Osborne or Kaypro computer on it, very much 80's tech.
Oh it's that time of the week again!!! 🤘🔥
Yeah, time flies doesn’t it?
Jeff Beck was a Fender player, anyways. You can get a custom shop Jeff Beck Signature Strat, the guitar he played for decades before his death, for less than half the price of the Les Paul, and the non-custom signature for a quarter of the price. Rest in peace, Jeff.
Jeff Beck played whatever he wanted. He was a Tele guy, then a Les Paul guy and went to Strats exclusively in the 80's but to say, "He was a Fender player" and leave it at that, is asinine. If you don't want the guitar, don't buy it. Nobody is compelling you and certainly Gibson marketing an expensive guitar doesn't affect your life in the least.
I'd say "going to strats exclusively" for 40 of your 78 years (probably 40/60 of your professional career) is pretty much a definition of "a Fender player".
Yes, he played other stuff decades ago, but it's scraping the barrel to issue a JB signature LP. Greenie has out of phase, Frehly/Frampton have triple pups - at least they somehow differ from regular production. There's nothing particularly distinctive or unique about this reissue compared to regular production. It whiffs of memorabilia cash grab. Yes, you're right, it's our personal choice whether to buy it, just as its also our personal choice to disdain the motives behind it. Those views don't affect your life in the least either.
Nice HB power brick
... speaking of infinite holes Gibson seems to thinks it can put one of these holes into our purses
Come for the gear news, stay for the physical comedy at the very end.
Hahahahaha, not even I knew that was going to happen
The best intro ever
Thank Victor for that one!
Gibson , the new Bradford Exchange of guitars
Hedge funds and corporations that use similar practices, are destroying America's economy and reputation, if you don't start talking about republican politicians, but those two types go hand in hand. Trump recently advertised he would give executive order requests to any company that donates $1B to his campaign. If he gets elected again I am seriously thinking about moving to another country.
I am a disabled war veteran who fought to "protect and spread democracy", while "fighting terrorism".
I will never forgive myself for being such a fool.
I imagine the one non-isolated output is connected to the mains ground, while the others are not. I can't think of why that would be desirable, but I can believe there's a reason.
That psu wont work with the QC as it needs 12V and not 9V. So even if it outputs 3A the voltages wont match...
The Prismatic Wall seems amazing! Unfortunately, UK dealers are showing it at £419 (not £315).
I am really hoping this breaks the barrier with double cream pickups in the us. It’s not a problem for British and Asian pickups but sometimes it’s hard to get them over here in the us.
I think it’s a silly trademark too
@@TheGuitarGeek It's not really a trade mark, it's a description of what Di Marzio are selling, a humbucker with two cream coloured bobbin cases.
I have three of the pro modular power supplies each with 5 outputs. They are excellent.
Good to know!
I was expecting some talk about Source Audio Artifakt? But I guess there's always a next week?
It should be the Blow By Blow Les Paul at the very least. What a crock!
They did that one about 25 years ago. Saw one on Reverb for obscene money.
It’s starting to get so bad that epiphone is the only guitar made for playing and Gibson are made for wall hanging
Sorry, BUT Fender is Jeff Beck NOT gibson ‼️ His playing elevated when Beck went Fender and without a pick ‼️
Gibson no longer makes guitars, they make collectibles. Pretty sad.
Eh, just get the Tributes or lower-end ones and give them some love. My Tribute V is one of the best playing and most resonant guitars I've ever owned.
Gibson is marketing it is Epiphone where they make the money.
"just get the Tributes"
They've stopped making Tributes, and also upped the price of Studios.
💯
You’re absolutely right!!!!!😂😂
that Lovalet behind you is SO pretty!
Sounds great too!
@@TheGuitarGeek yeah, I've seen your videos and it does indeed!
The geek in gear!
I read an article that stated that Gibson have filed to cancel the "double cream" and "PAF" trademarks. If they can't have it they want to make sure noone else can.
A classic Gibson move...
Non-isolated on the power supply means it is grounded to the mains power.
I’m waiting for the Keeley Andy Ferris signature pedal
Basically Jeff Beck played a stock 50’s Les Paul, so Gibson made a stock Les Paul and called it the “Jeff Beck signature edition” and charges 10x what Beck paid for his.
Gibson = Investment brokers !
I'm pretty sure there was a ruling against Dimarizo saying they can't patent the color.
That Harley Benton Power supply looks like a copy of the Fender LVL Engine 12.
OK, sir, how do I send you merch? I don't give a flying V should be on a t-shirt lol!!!
You can't really defend the price tag of the Jeff Beck LP, but it makes some sense. A Custom Shop R9 is about $6800, and a M2M R9 with a one-piece body is about $9700. When you factor in the artist/estate tax and the fact that there are only 130 of them, it almost looks like a steal lol.
M2M? Made to measure?
if I was heading up a brand like keeley, I would do a limited run of a pedal specifically to target scalpers , once it had all sold out and they were all on reverb, I would then release the rest of the stock for £50 less than the original run. I absolutely hate scalpers
How do you use a power plant likw the harley benton one i dont get how any of that worked
Works*
Gibson already sells double cream humbuckers
For the price of one Gibson I prefer a Gretsch G5421, Sire S3 hss and Fender 180 resonator.
I might have change for a cable and stand 😅
You can throw in a pretty nice amp as well at about $1200 of change 😂
You could certainly buy a much less expensive les paul, even an epiphonw and just install some dimarzios.
I don't give a flying v 🤣🤣
As a former employee of the G, would it shock you if I said the could sell EVERY guitar they make, all the USA stuff and all the custom shop stuff without changing a thing, for $1,000.00 US and still make millions of dollars a month. Fact y'all. It's crazy I know, but it's true. Granted it would only net them 2 million a month globally rather than 7-10 million but still..
Also if Gibson sold these for 5k flippers would snap them up and flip them for this price. So it's just life now days.
I think Gibson needs to make the move of making standard high quality guitars in the east(Indonesia, Korea etc.) That way people can get the basic standards for around $1,500 that are equipped with all the higher end components. Manufacturing in the US cannot compete with Asia
The Halo already sold out before anyone really knew about it. It was a limited run, so it’s already long gone. Damn shame, as it seems like a cool pedal.
Gibson making an expensive signature guitar isn't about making or selling that guitar.
It's about getting free advertising because people and RUclipsrs will talk about it.
That means "Gibson" stays in people's minds when they think about guitars.
I’m gonna ignore Gibson and focus on that resonance thingamajig pedal 🤓
You're commenting on Gibson not Jeff Beck. Gibson is 😂 Jeff Beck is 😎
Gibson took Dimarzio to court about the patten on the double cream pick ups because Gibson was making them in the 50s it good news for pick up makers ! I guess they won the lawsuit
Gibson necrophagia Les Paul
Need a jett beck
Gibson sued DiMarzio recently to cancel the "double cream" patent because the look has become generic in those 45+ years. While the case is in a sort of limbo, Gibson is going ahead and marketing double "classic white" pickups and argues that the color is not exactly the same. In fact, the DiMarzio "double cream" is darker than a typical aged white butyrate bobbin from the late 50's. Gibson argued that the color is not the same and DiMarzio has no legal rights to sue manufacturers for "similar" but the the SAME color double-white bobbins. So Gibson is basically saying "Come at me bro" and time will tell if DiMarzio has the horses and $$$ to counter.
Any self-respecting musician vs. Investment banker, dentist, or plastic surgeon will opt for an Eastman single-cut, solid body over another "signature" Gibson Les Paul (yawn)...
What's respect got to do with guitar brands?
It can if you throw it hard enough. 6:27
Once they sold all those 10,000 dollar Adam Jones LP Customs on pre order they got no shame. Can’t believe they haven’t had a go at making an Iron Cross with or without Papa Het , I’d imagine they could sell a few of those for 20k probably. I’m sorry 10k for a guitar I’d be out if I could afford it. You could get a very nice Japanese Les Paul and a decent used car for 10k and maybe have enough change left over to put half a tank of gas in your “new” used car.
Gibson has sued Dimarzio over double cream trademark and PAF name use, to lift the trademarks. Now, it releases a guitar with double cream pickups? Seems like they're checking how far Dimarzio can go? Larry Dimarzio in an old interview said that a patent (or a trademark) doesn't mean a thing if you don't have a lawyer and the will to defend it. We'll see...
I thought Beck was known as a Strat player
If I'm not mistaken Jeff Beck gave this guitar to Jimmy Page when he joined the yard birds
You are. It was a tele.
If you look at KKR's portfolio its pretty easy to tell if its just a cash grab.
The new Andy Ferris album, "Sexy In The Mouth," will be debuting this week on your mom's radio.
I love my Gibson guitars. But I can't justify the cost anymore. I'm in the market for a new ES-335, but Gibson priced themselves out of reach for me.
Hello Helo! 😉 🤖
oh gawd Andy 1:15 let's see. An overpriced POS Gibson who's headstock angle means it will easily snap in shipping or if you look at it the wrongs way ?
Want a decent single cut ? Buy a Solar GC1.6 and be done with it, if budget limited ? then a 2.6.
Me ? Go my prostate cancer biopsy coming up on July 9th, so everything is on hold.
I'll be fine - i beat CV19, i'll beat this too.
cheers from NZ.
$10,000 for a new Gibson Les Paul just seems obscene to me. Even if you assume a 50% mark up, does it really really cost Gibson $5,000 in parts and labor to produce one guitar? I find that hard to believe. I feel like Jeff Beck would have found a guitar like this that almost none of his fans could afford to buy to be a super cringe cash grab.
doom and wolf 3D :)
Oh yes!!!
10k for a guitar ... yeah!!!! Another unicorn guitar nobody cares about and can afford. This makes me so sad ... the company making my favorite guitar, the SG, is nothing but a shadow of itself ...
Dimarzio licensed a bloody colour? lmao
I was the 666th thumbs up, quite Metal.
Very metal! 🤘
Just cover the pickups in a metal cover that people can remove when they get the guitar home, just like people did in the past.
Nice idea but I think that’s asking a bit much of most people
Maybe. However, I find the whole thing ridiculous. The dirty white colour in the natural colour of plastic.
They put those peely asmr bits of clear protective plastic on the pickups. They just need to use black film on one side.
(I really shouldn't give Gibson ideas, but I doubt they read Andy's comments section.)
Only 10000$?? I will buy two then 😂
Aren't the Dimarzio ones more of a beige colour...Yuk!
A Les Paul guitar back in 1959 cost about 450 dollars with case , which would be about 4600 dollars in today,s money. Just put a name player on a re issue guitar and charge double that ,or even more in some cases. Especially if they are sporting a pair of super distortion hum buckers . Fools and their money as the saying goes.
All this with no telepromter....wow
Andy, I like your channel a lot. And watch regularly, .but you have 126k subs...you could probably buy any guitar that's $10k or more or maybe Lee could hook you up with a nice discount.
Looks like every other Les Paul
£10k though? Hilarious
Gibson can s…. Nvm this is a family channel😅
10k for a guitar. Wow. Why?
Because greed
They think someone will pay
I'll say this in RUclips language: forget Gibson and forget KKR. That brand is dead and I just don't care.
I totally agree on the Jeff Beck signature (and basically all of their signature LP's). The Gibson brand just isn't there for us players anymore. It's great if you're a rocking plastic surgeon from Beverly Hills. I'll stick to the alternatives.
Oh, and I've got a HB powersupply under my Pedaltrain. I like them.
Why do you assume guitar players cannot afford guitars?
What stats do you have?
None.
LOL, 10k for a guitar. But of course.
Verrückt
Is there nothing they wont do? They wont make a good guitar for a reasonable price
Its just a Gibson.. with a nice set of pickups... no better than if you put nice pickups on a normal Gibson yourself... TEHNN GRRAaaannd... Yeah Right!
Gibson....Fender YAWN!
Over priced and not an ounce of true innovation anywhere with their Guitars.
I wouldn't buy one tbh even if I could afford to.
Love Vintage Guitars and G&L Guitars at least they offer value for money and some innovation especially the Vintage Revo Series. I especially like the new Revo electric acoustic guitar they have brought out. Looks awesome and sounds amazing and the lower side of £400..ticks all the right boxes for me.
I think Vintage will one day be a major player in the guitar world with Gibson or Fender especially in the UK. Luv them.👍
I want that Hard Drive.
Cream isnt White.
And classic white isn’t white either, it’s cream
1 x ostracized?
jeff beck played strats gibson are so sad in doing this just a joke rip jeff