Glen I am willing to bet you'd probably never see this, but I have an idea for you. Take an actual blind person. Put them in a room and show them mixes with different tubes. Then different guitars with different pickups. And finally different speakers. Ask them when and where they hear the differences and see if they match up or not with what the results actually are. I'm blind. Have been playing for 17 years. And trust me the amount of variables that people think exist when they can see quickly start to go away when they can not. I had perfect vision when I started playing. I'm almost completely blind now. I have to use my ears for practically everything. and I'm telling you all right now Glen's more on the ball on this stuff than any of you are realizing. I'd love to take part in something like this if it was ever possible. Keep going and doing what you are doing man it is awesome. Oh and before anyone asks like I know people eventually will look up the terms screen readers and voice over. That is how I use my computer and phone to do things like this. Blind does not mean helpless in 2024
Can RUclips comments be read with braille keyboards, too? Or does only the voice over work? I’ve also been wondering how blind-accessible most DAWs are. Voiceover can read out the dB numbers of the faders to you, I guess, but the only way to have tactile feedback would be to use an actual mixing desk with tangible faders. For guitar, did you put the numbers in braille on the upper or lower edge of the guitar neck? I assume that‘s what I would do, to make sure I’d quickly find the right fret without looking. (In case you’re wondering, yes, I work in a facility for visually impaired people. 😉)
So to answer these one by one. I would imagine a braille keyboard would work just fine for RUclips comments. As far as I’m aware it works just fine. I used to have one, but mainly used it for inputting math braille back when I was in college a few years back. Never thought about it for that use. The only time I really even use braille these days is on my phone with a feature that allows me to type in braille which is way faster than standard typing. For the DAW thing that is tough. I think it depends on the user’s ability to learn and adapt. ProTools is a F**KING nightmare! There’s so much happening and honestly it is one of the most frustrating ecosystems I’ve ever had the misfortune to try to learn. Its a joke plane and simple for access. It can be done. Sure no doubt about that. But it is a serious learning curve. The only reason I figured it out is I’m a pretty advanced user who knew both the ins and outs of my screen reader and knows music technology to a decent level. I’ve heard Audasity is OK on a Windows based system, but not tried it on a MAC based system. Personally I use Logic Pro for everything. I have it streamlined exactly how I want it. I’d say 98% of it is user friendly for the blind and the things that are not are things that are annoying, but not deal breakers to say the least. It reads me all the info I need in real time for each track. I have also designed a few templates I use depending on what I’m doing so I can get up and going and start working as soon as I sit down. Plug in my gear and go. I understand some people’s hesitation on templates and presets, but I want something I know will work. Something I know will work every time. And something I can work on immediately to make sure I get ideas in place as quickly and affectively as possible. I’ve used Logic Pro since 2018 and have not looked back. Done everything from tracks for singers I’ve worked with to my own project work to live sound and entertainment more recently. I do own a mixing board. It is analog. But I don’t really use it at all. I tend to try to keep all of my mixing and mastering as internal in Logic as I possibly can. It gives me more control of where things are and how they are happening so I can figure out problems easier. Again I know that is not very traditional. But it is what I’ve found works for me. I basically just need a connection between my Helix and the computer. And my guitars. And I’m in business. I can lay down midi instrument and drum tracks as holding tracks. And send them out to people who play those parts to be replaced with real instruments. So it makes my life that much easier. As for the guitar? Nah. You’d think the tactile marks would help. I’ve even considered it when I’m playing slide guitar since that is an extra level of difficult. But honestly nope. I’ve had to get very good at what I do through muscle memory entirely. I actually learned how to play guitar originally purely by ear and never even looked at my fretboard when I could for the most part. So by the time my vision started to go in my early 20s I was already pretty well equipped to deal with the situation. It makes it really interesting working with guitar instructors because they have had to basically reteach me guitar from a different perspective. I had to learn much more from muscle memory once I started doing professional lessons because telling me to look at the board was basically out the window by then. My current instructor (And yes I still take lessons 17 years later because you are never too good to keep learning) is arguably one of if not the best hired guy in the world today. He’s had to completely reinvent how he’s teaching me things like 8 finger tapping because it is such a visual exercise. We have to break things down to their individual components so I can get used to the step by step feel of the motion in my hands and wrists. Then build up step by step so I can get used to the motions rather than using fret markers to tell me where I am at any given time. It goes against practically everything he knows as a guitar player. but the coolest part is it is making him even better which I didn’t think was possible at his level. Because he’s learning this the same way I am and it is forcing him to think differently about how he plays. I know he did a recent solo with the group he’s on tour with in South America right now with his eyes completely closed to get a feel for it. There’s nothing to bring you as much pride and joy in yourself as getting a text from a guy who’s been a guitarist in some major label bands that just says “how in the hell do you play like this it is incredible?” I’ll never forget that question as long as I live. Sorry this got way long. I’m willing to take a guess and say if you are based in the US you work in a Lighthouse for the Blind facility? Or possibly a school for the blind. Those are the only places that would come to mind for something like that. Its funny. I’ve always known my vision would go. Ever since I was a kid. I even went to a school for the blind for a bit. Yet I have never really felt connected to that community. I tend to kind of avoid it for the most part. I think that has helped me a ton because its made me learn to think outside the box. I tend to take things more as a “how do I do something my way” rather than “you can’t do them”. Sadly my experience around the visually impaired community is certainly colored by my own experiences with people in it. I… Just could not quite click with most of them. Probably because even to this day a lot of my interests are quite visual in nature. I mean even the field I run a consulting business in (The healthcare industry) is not exactly a traditional place for someone like me. But it is something I’m interested in. Anyway hope this answers a few things.
"It's not Right vs Left, it never has been. It's rich people vs everybody else." Never expected to hear such a profound thing on a RUclips comments review on a Guitar Recording Channel, but it happened. I salute you my man!
That is just Marxist rhetoric. The individualistic nature of the right is diametrically opposed to the collectivist Rich vs. Poor class conflict that is espoused by Socialists/Marxists/Communists. Glenn by his very nature is a Capitalist. He may say these things but is still charging $250 for a pedal/effect. However, I agree that Glenn should do this because I am a Capitalist too. He sets the price for which his service/commodity is worth on the market, and he should have the right to do so. The huge glaring problem is Glenn is the rich compared to us common people. He is the "Bourgeois" /Rich to us. Apart from his outstanding tests and his incredible work, I don't think it is a good idea to listen to this rhetoric because it does not logically lead into Glenn being a part of the common people. I think he is doing an outstanding job-sharing information with us and helping us get to where he is. But, in the end, the Marxist viewpoint from which his views come from hold that he is diametrically opposed to us because of his position of power/wealth.
@@L0rd0fTh3N3rdz There is no need to bring his attitudes about a particular religion into this. I think it was a simple, and quite accurate assertion, that is all. We can learn from each other without completely agreeing about everything.
imagine wine snobs vs people who love cheese snob guitar players are like wine people (especially PRS & Gibson fanboys) while the cheese people will say "hhhmmm that's quite pungent i love rotten egg flavour" when they eat some exotic blue cheese. they're the bass players.
7:46 as an American i have to disagree, i spend my money on much more than just burgers and guns, i also buy weed and I’m paying off my thousands of dollars medical debt from 5 years ago when i sprained my ankle and needed tylenol
@@YxYzYx what im saying is when someone gets hurt, its not necessarily their fault. Someone could get run over and never be able to pay back the medical bills just because "its not the taxpayers fault" Im not saying it is their fault, but people should help each other rather than stay inside their own bubble for the rest of eternity
Why is it that whenever someone says “gO rEaD aN eCoN bOoK” or “tAKE aN EcOn ClASS”, they are the ones in the conversation with the least knowledge of economics…
They think they've checkmated you, because these idiots are under the presumption that the book will agree with them and prove the person they are arguing with completely wrong. They also have never read an econ book, so it's all just arrogant assumptions that they are right.
I just hit 11 years at Chrysler. I hired in right after FCA took over, and have been here thru the transition to Stellantis. Glen is spot on with his words about it all has worked. The sale of the brand from company to company is 100% so others can make more money. It does not benefit the workers in any way.
Eddie believed in everything that this guy says is nonsense. He built that guitar from Charvel parts, put in countless hours of work to keep those guitars perfect, modified his pickups, believed in using humbuckers vs single coils, modified his marshal amps, used different tubes, boiled his strings, wax potted his pickups, and built his own recording studio so that he’d have complete control over his sound. Eddie was a genius. This guy is a retired Chrysler employee playing in his basement.
I watched the Rhett Shull one and initially thought I could hear a slight difference between the rosewood and maple. Then I tried closing my eyes for a bit and I couldn't tell shit for the rest of the vid.
it's the playing. No humans can replicate their playing back to back. I don't care if you're the best guitar player. It's impossible. Why do we do two takes when we double track a guitar? It's for the differences on our playing. You can't do copy-paste the same track, it'll sound bad.
Hey Glenn, just wanted to say that you’ve been a huge inspiration for me. Just left my automotive line job to start my own business. Been watching you for the last couple years and hearing you talk about corporate/managerial BS ruining the lives of their workers gave me the reality check I needed. In less than a decade, I’ve had two surgeries related to the job. Thankfully, my *glorious* (heavy sarcasm) country & state have decided that cumulative trauma is not the fault of the employer, so there was no compensation; only short-term disability. Now I have hardware screwed into my spine and a couple nasty scars without even the common courtesy of a reacharound. I’ll never work for someone else again, and you’re partially responsible for that. Of course, now I’m responsible for my success/failure, but having the courage to walk away all started with you telling us about your life. Didn’t make it twenty-seven years, but I think that’s a good thing. While I didn’t start a music business, I still look forward to your videos to help keep my metal spirit alive. Thank you, Glenn. Stay strong on the sea of haters; they’ll drag you under the first chance they get 🤘
It's a very flawed video. There are several things that jumped out at me immediately. First of all, he is obviously very biased. He even said so before he even played any of the necks. When he plays the maple neck, it seems like he picks harder, perhaps unwittingly, basically confirming his own bias that maple fretboards are supposed to sound "snappy". Then he also mentions that, even though the necks were set up by the store for that guitar, he had to do adjustments because there was a lot of fret buzz. He did not mention or document anywhere by how much it was adjusted and if the string heights were the same for every neck. String height is pretty important, and the strings slapping against the fretboard may again be interpreted as the "snappy" character. If he had to adjust the string height, that also may have changed the distance from the pickups, making it louder or quieter going into the amp. And that might cause the amp to react slightly differently, with more or less compression. And then there is the fact that he did not do a blind test. When he listened back to the results, he knew which was which, and you can't judge anything reliably based on that. These are some of the reason why Jim Lill's videos are so much better than any of the other stuff that's out there so far. He puts in the time and effort that's required to produce actual results that you can draw conclusions from. Plus, he documented his process very well. I'm not saying Rhett was trying to be misleading deliberately, but he just did not put in the time that would have been needed. The conslusions of his experiment (if you can call it that) just feed into people's preconceptions. Oh and on another note, I don't understand where the notion comes from that maple sounds bright and "snappy". I suspect it's purely based on the visual appearance of the wood? Because in theory, maple is a less stiff material than rosewood and would probably dampen the sound more. I'm not a physicist, but I'd expect rosewood to dampen the vibration of the string less. (Not that that would translate to what comes out of the speaker.)
i guess there needs to be that robot arm thing that one of Glenn's more profound critics (must be the "physics of electric guitar" guy himself) had been ranting and raving for quite a while.
@@mrcoatsworth429very true. Did he also mention if he was using the same pickups on each guitar? I suspect they were not likely the same exact set of pickups. But regardless, your points stand. Also, did he use a brand new pick on each guitar take? Because a worn pick will also change the attack and how snappy the strings might sound. And was all the other wood the same except for the fretboards? And were materials like tuners and bridges identical? I enjoyed watching the video, but there were some problems with ensuring his hypothesis was properly tested to remove as many biases and issues as possible. He did not claim it to be a scientific test, but that’s the only way to know for sure.
@@MashaT22 He changed the necks on the one guitar. So yes, they were the exact same pickups and I think strings as well. I also think he made sure that the tuners on the three different necks were the exact same models. So it's not like he put no thought into it at all.
@@mrcoatsworth429 the test was also done using a loose rhythm pattern which is highly unreliable, as it depends on the feeling of the player at the time. I'd rather hear static open chords to get a full spectrum of the sound
Lol Msn messenger and the chat rooms.👍 When I lived in New Orleans that's how I met a few cool friends in "Chat New Orleans" I think they started a pay wall and MSN went belly up.
I have seen Glen educate one musician at a time on the value of a reamp box and I will truly never tire of his frustration and bravado in doing so. Keep fighting the good fight, sir!
I used to play clean a lot and while tonewood makes a bigger difference in clean tones than it does under high gain tones (or any clipped gain flr that matter), it doesn't make enough of a difference to affect how a listener will perceive the performance. It's just an argument musicians make to pretend they know more than the next musician.
I ordered one of the Benton guitars. When it showed up I was very unhappy with it.. It was no better than firewood. Upon closer inspection I realized that what I was looking at was our actual fire wood delivery. For some reason I confused it with a guitar. My bad.
"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that." - George Carlin (Then apply it to the average musician and it gets REALLY bad 😂)
What was really wrong with Rhett Schull's video is that he just listened to the sound while playing. He should have made recordings with all 3 necks, had someone re-name the files, and listened back a week later when he didn't know which was which. "People listen with their eyes". Now where have I heard that? ;-)
5:54 - Jesus was a real person. yes, his "miracles" are fictional but the man was real. his existence was well documented by romans who judged an executed him. 14:19 - ahhhh. those guys mentioning precision and tolerances speaking of basically a carpentry product. modern electric guitar doesn't contain a single part with a "tolerance" other than "it fits"
Here’s the thing about Harley Benton - it’s a QC lottery and this is unfortunately true for most budget import guitars. I have purchased five of their guitars so far, three of which had to be exchanged at least once to get playable instrument, one had some major cosmetic issues and Thomann have issued a partial refund as the guitar was playable-ish after complete setup. Only one had no major issues other than a messed up grounding. The pickups were always solid for the price. I still think that they are great value; however, I would personally not recommend ordering them outside of Europe as most likely you will have to exchange it due to the QC issues. Some people just get lucky and get good copies. I have also purchased two Jackson’s from their budget JS series and they had even worse QC issues, one of them had to be exchanged and it took Jackson over a month to send a replacement since it was coming from abroad, in other instance they have issued 40% partial refund.
My friend had to exchange four of the same US built Gibson Explorer. Has nothing to do with Harley Benson. The guy he dealt with at Gibson just laughed at him and said people just pay for the name only.......
You're not wrong, but it sounds like you've had much worse luck than most. I just bought two. One of them has a stiff tuning peg and the pickup selector switch is loose and rattles a bit. Still very playable and nothing I can't fix. I figured I'd be upgrading to locking tuners anyway and I'm actually bonding with that guitar more than I even expected. The other... there's nothing functionally wrong with it at all, but "Ocean Flame" stopped being blue and became green at some point, which has me annoyed/disappointed. Is it dumb to be caught up on the color? Yes, it is. Plays well. Sounds good. But I feel like I'm making due with a mistake and it's a pebble in my boot at the moment.
@@Nachtmahr616 They have a US store up on Reverb and that'd be better for returns, but it's a more limited selection and the prices are better through the Thomann site, particularly if you split the shipping costs between multiple guitars.
I always appreciate and am grateful for your input and contributions to the industry, Thanks. @3:21 A HB SG with tesla pickups? Link please. I've been all over both the HB & Thomann sites and I find nothing that matches.
Hey Glenn ! Joe here from Scarlett XIII as well as a solo and session player. I get compliments on tones and mixes frequently and fellow guitarist freak out when I show them the gear I use for tracking. The track 'Dying Inside' was done on a Chinese guitar called Bad Cat ( no affiliation with the amp company ) I used a Les Paul and Strat style called and Unicorn ( LP ) and a Polaris ( strat ) I had an endorsement but they have since gone out of business in the US. Anyway, they play and sound amazing, just as good or better that my Gibson's and Fender's and they are totally stock. They came stainless steel frets and priced under $400 USD. Thanks for showing that it's not the name on the headstock that matters. CHEERS !
I always love it when I ask someone, "How F***ing stupid can you possibly be?".... and they take as a personal challenge... "You want stupid? I'll show you f***ing stupid...Here, hold my beer!" lol
It is feasible to get an EQ match and playing it live by just exporting a sweep and turn it into an IR, it's something I've done hundred of times from other records that I often put out there for everyone to get, it's always fun to blend album tones from various albums.
I think that it would be an interesting experiment to hand multiple guitar players who are blindfolded different guitars and see if they can determine which is which simply by feel and sound
With distortion, that is a way to compress the signal almost, you just cut the low and high freq register so those little nuances on the sound, that are present on clean comparatives, just disappear very quick.
Melda's match EQ can create an IR file that will make the difference between a reference speaker and the target speaker. Then you can stick it in a zero latency IR loader
Yes, MAutoEqualizer or MAutoDynamicEQ can be used to achieve the same tonal balance. I've had good results by matching the general tonal balance and then recreating one or two most prominent resonances and notches. I think I might have done that in some of the MGuitarArchitect bass presets, actually...
Harley Benton have indeed had some problems with microphonic pickups. KDH has a video on it with a guitar with their filtertron-style pickups. HB were kinda evasive about the problem and claimed it was just 60-cycle hum but it definitely wasn't. You could hear the guitar rubbing against his hands and shirt through the amp.
I love my Gibsons, but I also love that you're sharing more affordable options with folks. The more people who can get into playing and making music, the better in my book.
It's annoying that people have to take a side and judge a person who owns Gibsons, PRS, or Fender. It's pretty sad, really. Glenn kind of encourages it, but he knows better.
Finally got to try a HB, felt about equal to an Epiphone. At half the price not bad, good modding platform but on their own there’s still lots to be desired.
Glenn! Hello from Philadelphia! The guitar community are so lucky to have a guy like you who tells it like it is. A lot of great points made in this one. Cheers!
2:30 nah i get great amarok (not without issue cause bridge saddle on g string was way to high and destroyed nut but hey i can replace it for less than 10 euro so not a big deal)
Love your work, Glenn! You really hit the nail on the head with, “it’s not the workers, it’s rich people versus everyone else.” Yep. I do own a Custom Shop Gibson Les Paul. Great guitar and I worked my ass off to get it not being particularly well off. Your channel has me rethinking things, and I’ve explored many reasonably priced inexpensive (not cheap!) guitars, and have found you to be absolutely right on. So many kick ass, inexpensive guitars, and I appreciate the service you’re doing for myself and others. Cheers and ope!
Would you experiment with guitars made out of something other than wood to see if you can get a different tone or sound? I’m no expert but I’ve learned a lot from watching your channel and have a morbid curiosity
I actually managed to get a Harley Benton DC Gotoh, it was a B stock, last one. The problems - had some scratches (not actually a problem), the nut could have been slotted better (fixed in a minute). I've had it for 7 months now, it's sitting next to a 2005 ESP eclipse, it's amazing just how much they managed to pack into that price. I had pickups that cost more than than HB, and this HB is a better value for money.
I’ve only played one of their electrics, and my only complaint is there wasn’t enough info as to what the finish was. I thought it was gonna be sand blasted or at very least grain dyed, but it was like a synthetic veneer or hydrodip type fake grain top. Other than that singular cosmetic ‘issue’, it’s a super solid guitar, I just need to break it out more, I’m debating brining it to a blues jam sometime soon. The monophonic comment, while potentially accurate to the product they received, is simply not true for all of their products. The shop I work at often carries one of their acoustics in both the electric and pickupless options, and they’re some of the best budget guitars I’ve played. I also own a u bass from them and it’s pretty fun, tho I will say I prefer the much smaller ones from Kala
My band (not sure if we're still a band, scheduling conflicts have killed our practice time) spent an afternoon recording a song last December. We had to start it playing live after the guitarist couldn't track to a click. After that, everything gelled where I only needed to do a couple takes on each half of the song. Good luck finding that song though as the guitarist and vocalist have it and they won't send it out on streaming until we record a couple more songs! I don't see it seeing the light of day and it pisses me off. It's really having me just consider doing my own solo projects. I just need to clean up my music room before I am able to do so.
I bought an HB and have had it for months now. I gave it a good setup and changed out the strings and slight truss rod adjustment and it plays great. Dude your channel is cool, informative, Thank you
I'll never own a PRS. I think my next guitar will be an Enya. Inexpensive carbon something or other with a speaker and effects on board. I want to see Glenn do a review on it. I haven't seen anyone in the metal space review it yet.
@kaoe145 I am not willing to spend PRS kind of dollars when I can get a comparable guitar for less than half. That unhinged video he posted about tone wood just sealed the deal.
Get a used Yamaha , Epiphone, or Squier and change the pickups. I got a few trash guitars, for well under $100, changed the frets and pickups, shims in the neck pocket, and they sound amazing and feel great.
6:40 I really Loved how you getting to your Point! 7:43 And this Last sentence is the Most important, but alot of mindless people dont understand that there are workers and people who own and dont have to Work. There are No classes. Thank you for saying this! 🎉
Trying to help us guitar players save money is like trying to get underwriters to read. In all seriousness Glenn has helped me save metric tons of cash; his demonstrations have surprised me by his results, often unexpected, which has helped me to make better decisions on how to buy gear. On another note I’ve been trying to refine my skills with recording my band live off the floor. We’ve gotten interesting results and now we want to record our live shows. I’ve been taking most of the rhythm roll on our originals, and have used some of Glenn’s techniques to mic’ing up different guitar speakers and trying different mic/speakers and have found some tones I really enjoy. I take notes so that I can re-create it. Have also thought about learning how to capture impulses, but might get into that later on. The speaker in my amp is from Eminence but it’s hard to tell the model since it’s proprietary to my Jet City amp. Anyway, listen to Glenn! He’ll help you save money!
Good call on Harley Benton. Bought mine last summer and was super impressed. Had to do a small setup but it was playable out of the box and only a little over a half step out of tune after shipping halfway across the world.
In reply to the Harley Benton comment, I bought the cheapest Harley Benton Tele available for £81 and used it on the recording of one of my singles that earned me a Distinction grade in my Songwriting Masters degree (the highest grade) with my tutor calling the song a "6pm at Glastonbury sing along anthem." Granted, that is more about the song than the tone but the cheap Tele is used on the clean guitar, left distorted rhythm, and guitar solo of the finished track for the world to hear. I didn't re-record it after with a "better" guitar, that is the guitar that is used on the track. The right rhythm is a Korean Schecter S-1, so not some super high end guitar, it cost about £600-ish new I believe. The Tele is also one of my most-played guitars and I own over a dozen including Gibsons
Glenn, I'm really curious to hear what you can do with only a stock install of reaper, no extra plugins or equipment like hardware compressors and stuff. Bonus points if you can do DI only, but honestly what I'd love to hear most is a comparision between DI only stock reaper, recorded stock reaper, and DI only and fully recorded using all the hardware and software you have available, if you can find the time to do all that. Would be really interesting to see how much an expert can do without their software and hardware equipment and how much they can do with it.
Dude totally right about MySpace. It was amazing for music because everyone was on it. The music platforms not so much. Hell I used MySpace to book a 20 band battle of the bands and probably only spent a couple hours messaging bands I thought fit the bill
Fantastic...after everything youve said about tonewood ,speakers,pickups etc and agreeing its down to minor adjustments on the pedals and amp as far as gain,and eq for the sound /tone i want thank you Sir Glen purty simple and maybe a little time consuming...
I bought a Harley Benton JA baritone last year. It's not flawless. Lots of fret sprout a couple weeks after getting here which I can file pretty easily but I have rough hands and it doesn't bother me. The setup was trash but again, it was shipped overseas and it's to be expected when you ship wood over the ocean. There was a fair bit of superglue or drops of neck finish that ran onto the fretboard that doesn't affect the playability but will get scraped off someday. One screw on the bridge P90 is installed at a wicked angle which makes it bind against the other screw and the pickguard and wouldn't raise level until I redrilled it straight. The knobs came apart until I added a drop of superglue. There's no shielding but I can just move my backlit keyboard an extra foot away and it doesn't hum anymore. Is it flawless? No. Is it playable? Very. Would I still recommend if you understand basic use of tools and don't mind a couple hours of work for a great deal on a solid instrument? 100%. I'd much rather buy budget instruments and use the extra money on tools I'll have forever to be able to make them flawless myself than spend a fucktonne on a guitar that's great out of the box then spend even more at a tech when it sill needs to be set up twice a year or god forbid, repaired.
Got a Harley Benton SC550 II yesterday, other than 1 loose tuner screw the guitar was perfect, came with with a near perfect setup only needing minor adjustments and not one single blemish on it. Excellent guitar and would have been happy paying double the price that I did for it. This is my only experience with these guitars so obviously things may be different for others but I couldn’t be happier with the purchase
I got the gotoh sg and its awesome. Pickups are microphonic but if you dont get to near to the speaker you can deal with it. The bad think is that they are not available in thomann any more. They are removed from their page completely. Only the sc is available as a b stock.
I am a manager getting ready to retire and Glenn is right. This is how big business works. If you are an employee that doesn't give 110% and stand on your head every single second you are on the clock then you are lazy and a beater. But if you are a CEO that lays off 10,000 employees three days before Christmas in order to facilitate Corporate bonus's that makes you a smart business man. Here is a rule to live by in the corporate world. Work like everyone is out to screw you, because they are.
Heeeyyy mate- spot on with the left/right thing! We are all just people and perhaps we should all look after each other because those at the ‘top’ rarely look after us.
Glen, you've got some great taste. I still keep going back and listening to Kyuss and QOTSA. They're as interesting as anything else I've heard in the last 20 years.
And for the people who love deathcore, Suicide Silence album The Clensing is live off the floor, together and everything is micd, nothing is blended or replaced. Every album after is also micd.
I wish more people could just relax and let someone tell you what they’re doing with equipment and signal editing. I trust your experience way more than keyboard commandos. I know nothing compared to your background. Keep giving out easy to understand real wold information. Thanks for the time and effort invested
I love my Gibsons, Fenders, LTDs and the PRS I own. The makes me pick up the guitar and play and that’s what’s really important for me at the end of the day.
I would just like to mention that I have an acoustic HB and I’m pretty happy with it. I’d say it does an amazing job, especially considering the money, plus it looks great! Couldn’t be happier with my purchase.
As a guitarist, I can’t count how many times I heard from other guitarists complaining about a guitar like “it’s a piece of shit”, “it sounds so bad” and everything. I noticed to biases: First, if you don’t tell the price, it changes mind a lot. And after it is appreciated, knowing that it’s cheaper than expected even improve to opinion on the instrument. Then, and it took me so much time to realize that, but a well treated instrument sounds so good. This means we have to tune the guitar, adjust the intonation, the truss road, the pickups height, and clean it, and suddenly, it sounds great. It’s a shame that some very expensive guitars are not setup properly, but thinking it’s a bad instrument just because of that make you a bad guitarist. I don’t know how you could demonstrate that without being accused of cheating, but I’m pretty sure more than 90% of us guitarist would prefer a perfectly adjusted cheap guitar than a badly adjusted expensive guitar. I think you demonstrated enough that the tone is in the cab 😂
I love these videos. I am guessing some of these people are intentionally saying stupid stuff just to make the show, trolling essentially. I may be wrong but in the end the stupid comments make for great content. Rock on Glenn!
HOW DARE YOU SAY KROM IS A MYTH?!! My God laughs at you from the mountain! Seriously, I am Christian. And, miracles aside, Glenn, there is a huge amount of evidence that Jesus lived. The Romans were huge record-keepers. The only thing in doubt is his divinity.
Jesus Christ is not a fictional character. There is as much historical evidence of his life as there is for George Washington or Aristotle. He died for our sins. Yours and mine. And He is the way to eternal life. You may scoff at this or make fun of me for my beliefs, but I really want to see you in heaven. As Penn Jillette even said, if someone has the knowledge of how to achieve eternal life, how much must you hate that person to not share that knowledge? Praying for you, Glenn. BTW, thank you for introducing me to Harley Benton. I love my SC450. And the 2x12 with Celestion Vintage 30s.
Glenn, if studio monitors produce a flat sound, which is what the actual band sounds like, should our car speakers have studio monitors too? I wanna hear Metallica sound as close as possible to how they are in the recording studio, Mesa Boogie and all. From Mr. Meza himself.
Studio monitors can add character as well. That’s why major studios have multiple monitors. We actually would use 3 or 4 different monitors with different sound curves to ensure we weren’t going to sound bad on somebodies low end speakers at home.
Glad I stumbled onto this video. As an ex-Gibson employee, I won't touch any of their gear made there in Memphis. Not that there's instruments made during that time that people didn't try their best to make great, but as you stated, it was quantity over quality... and I saw it all first hand. Also their pay to the workers and the conditions we were subjected to were absolutely terrible. I moved from there to Oregon to work at Breedlove, which by comparison was a millions times better. Or so I thought. Truth be told, I'd still be there if not for more of the same, i.e. shoddy business practices/ethics. However a QC issue happened about 6 to 8 months into it, and a labor cut across the board soon followed. I may be fuzzy on some details as this was 10 years ago, but if I remember correctly, it was just a name in a hat layoff scenario, adding up to about 50% across the board, which is insane as I was a part of the new hire crew to double their staff as well as their output. So people with seniority as well as new hires and in-betweens all fell on their sword for them, but the person(s) who inevitably made the snafu retained their job(s)... which was ridiculous, if you ask me, or perhaps even anyone that stopped working for whatever reason. The consensus for both companies echoes your statement that poor management and greed always pushes consumers, players, and fans aways but the novelty, branding, and market oversaturation, will always manage to keep these companies above water and in business, so long as they have the will to be. That being said, both companies still carry on and I no longer build guitars anymore, I just play, and adamantly boycott both companies to this day and will till my last. TL;DR: Capitalism fucking sucks and guitars have no business costing in upwards of 3k and yeah, you can all bitch till you're blue in the face, but there's absolutely no monetary justification for it with the exception of compensation for competition, and overall inflation. All products of the capitalist hellscape we're forced to endure. Thankfully though there's still lawyers and doctors that are brand collectors and buy this shit up in droves to drive the prices up just to hang them on their walls so that aspiring musicians can't afford a "quality" instrument without going into debt or losing a limb to do so...
I like making impulse responses from learing EQs. The Melda Productions one even puts out its own IRs. But it's also fine to just import a pulse into your DAW and running it throught your signal chain.
Completely unrelated, but I have nowhere else really to mention it and I'm excited. Got an entire week off of work, and I'm going out of town with my drums, guitars, bass and all my damn recording equipment. I've been planning this since last year. Going to work on a new album. It's no studio by any stretch, but a large garage in the middle of nowhere, which is still better than my apartment. Can't wait to use my amps and real drums again!
I totally agree that many great recordings are basically the band 'live' in the studio. My old band always did it that way, and when we went into the studio, you can bet our last bottom dollar that we had our shit together (knew the songs, used and were happy with our gear), because WE were paying for the studio time...with our last bottom dollars! We recorded a 10 song 'album' in two days, because of that mentality. As a musician, studio time is so much fun when the band is READY!
In relation to the first comment featured in the video, I remember years ago I watched videos on RUclips where a guy with a second hand looking Fender Telecaster did covers of Marty Friedman solos. There was even one where he needed at least 22 frets and somehow still did an amazing rendition on a guitar that had 21 frets.
7:00 Yes. This happens to factory workers all the time. Not long ago, a whole town was decimated because one of those assholes bought out Cabella's and merged it into Bass Pro Shops. A similar thing happened to one of the big mail order pet supply companies. Shareholders and mergers are constantly causing problems for people who just wanted to be able to make a living off of a job, a regular ass job and nothing more.
Hi Glenn! I'd love to her your comments about Vsti guitars. I'm not a guitarist but a keyboardist and as a metal songwriter I once needed to work with guitar players to record my stuff and it didn't go so well. I had much better results with Vstis, especially because they complain much less and they've never tried to pretend they are also bass Vstis, if you get me... Also, Vstis don't usually complain about the mix, saying that it should have "more guitar" as the bass is showing too much or "the keys should be always on the background... this is metal, not Pink Floyd". I've been working with NI Session Guitarist Electric Sunburst Deluxe plus a couple of amp sims and I've just released my first album. I'm pretty satisfied with the results, although some guitar players keep saying the guitars s*ck, even if they've never recorded anything better...
Glenn, what's your opinion on EVM 12L speakers? I've been diggin for Steve Harris bass tone and came across that he used these speakers. And I've been thinking how would they sound in a full high gain territory. I've found some samples here and there but i'm just curious what you could do with them as i really enjoy your method of testing. Yes, i know, they're expensive as F
Adrian and Dave have played them, too! I think on Live After Death, possibly also Powerslave. Zakk Wylde has his signature version of that speaker. So check out his stuff for some high gain.
GLEEEEEEEEEN! What are your thought on Jackson guitars? I think they're still great metal machines, but I wonder if their quality is still as high as it was back in the day.
Glenn! About that EQ change to make microphones sounds like other microphones, Andertons recently released a video with Universal Audio and they've just done something really similar (but works with their own new special microphones not a blanket works with all)
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Glen I am willing to bet you'd probably never see this, but I have an idea for you. Take an actual blind person. Put them in a room and show them mixes with different tubes. Then different guitars with different pickups. And finally different speakers. Ask them when and where they hear the differences and see if they match up or not with what the results actually are. I'm blind. Have been playing for 17 years. And trust me the amount of variables that people think exist when they can see quickly start to go away when they can not. I had perfect vision when I started playing. I'm almost completely blind now. I have to use my ears for practically everything. and I'm telling you all right now Glen's more on the ball on this stuff than any of you are realizing. I'd love to take part in something like this if it was ever possible. Keep going and doing what you are doing man it is awesome. Oh and before anyone asks like I know people eventually will look up the terms screen readers and voice over. That is how I use my computer and phone to do things like this. Blind does not mean helpless in 2024
This comment needs to go up!
Nah this is bullshit /s
Bumping this comment up. Well said, mate!
Can RUclips comments be read with braille keyboards, too? Or does only the voice over work? I’ve also been wondering how blind-accessible most DAWs are. Voiceover can read out the dB numbers of the faders to you, I guess, but the only way to have tactile feedback would be to use an actual mixing desk with tangible faders.
For guitar, did you put the numbers in braille on the upper or lower edge of the guitar neck? I assume that‘s what I would do, to make sure I’d quickly find the right fret without looking.
(In case you’re wondering, yes, I work in a facility for visually impaired people. 😉)
So to answer these one by one. I would imagine a braille keyboard would work just fine for RUclips comments. As far as I’m aware it works just fine. I used to have one, but mainly used it for inputting math braille back when I was in college a few years back. Never thought about it for that use. The only time I really even use braille these days is on my phone with a feature that allows me to type in braille which is way faster than standard typing.
For the DAW thing that is tough. I think it depends on the user’s ability to learn and adapt. ProTools is a F**KING nightmare! There’s so much happening and honestly it is one of the most frustrating ecosystems I’ve ever had the misfortune to try to learn. Its a joke plane and simple for access. It can be done. Sure no doubt about that. But it is a serious learning curve. The only reason I figured it out is I’m a pretty advanced user who knew both the ins and outs of my screen reader and knows music technology to a decent level. I’ve heard Audasity is OK on a Windows based system, but not tried it on a MAC based system. Personally I use Logic Pro for everything. I have it streamlined exactly how I want it. I’d say 98% of it is user friendly for the blind and the things that are not are things that are annoying, but not deal breakers to say the least. It reads me all the info I need in real time for each track. I have also designed a few templates I use depending on what I’m doing so I can get up and going and start working as soon as I sit down. Plug in my gear and go. I understand some people’s hesitation on templates and presets, but I want something I know will work. Something I know will work every time. And something I can work on immediately to make sure I get ideas in place as quickly and affectively as possible. I’ve used Logic Pro since 2018 and have not looked back. Done everything from tracks for singers I’ve worked with to my own project work to live sound and entertainment more recently. I do own a mixing board. It is analog. But I don’t really use it at all. I tend to try to keep all of my mixing and mastering as internal in Logic as I possibly can. It gives me more control of where things are and how they are happening so I can figure out problems easier. Again I know that is not very traditional. But it is what I’ve found works for me. I basically just need a connection between my Helix and the computer. And my guitars. And I’m in business. I can lay down midi instrument and drum tracks as holding tracks. And send them out to people who play those parts to be replaced with real instruments. So it makes my life that much easier.
As for the guitar? Nah. You’d think the tactile marks would help. I’ve even considered it when I’m playing slide guitar since that is an extra level of difficult. But honestly nope. I’ve had to get very good at what I do through muscle memory entirely. I actually learned how to play guitar originally purely by ear and never even looked at my fretboard when I could for the most part. So by the time my vision started to go in my early 20s I was already pretty well equipped to deal with the situation. It makes it really interesting working with guitar instructors because they have had to basically reteach me guitar from a different perspective. I had to learn much more from muscle memory once I started doing professional lessons because telling me to look at the board was basically out the window by then. My current instructor (And yes I still take lessons 17 years later because you are never too good to keep learning) is arguably one of if not the best hired guy in the world today. He’s had to completely reinvent how he’s teaching me things like 8 finger tapping because it is such a visual exercise. We have to break things down to their individual components so I can get used to the step by step feel of the motion in my hands and wrists. Then build up step by step so I can get used to the motions rather than using fret markers to tell me where I am at any given time. It goes against practically everything he knows as a guitar player. but the coolest part is it is making him even better which I didn’t think was possible at his level. Because he’s learning this the same way I am and it is forcing him to think differently about how he plays. I know he did a recent solo with the group he’s on tour with in South America right now with his eyes completely closed to get a feel for it. There’s nothing to bring you as much pride and joy in yourself as getting a text from a guy who’s been a guitarist in some major label bands that just says “how in the hell do you play like this it is incredible?” I’ll never forget that question as long as I live.
Sorry this got way long. I’m willing to take a guess and say if you are based in the US you work in a Lighthouse for the Blind facility? Or possibly a school for the blind. Those are the only places that would come to mind for something like that. Its funny. I’ve always known my vision would go. Ever since I was a kid. I even went to a school for the blind for a bit. Yet I have never really felt connected to that community. I tend to kind of avoid it for the most part. I think that has helped me a ton because its made me learn to think outside the box. I tend to take things more as a “how do I do something my way” rather than “you can’t do them”. Sadly my experience around the visually impaired community is certainly colored by my own experiences with people in it. I… Just could not quite click with most of them. Probably because even to this day a lot of my interests are quite visual in nature. I mean even the field I run a consulting business in (The healthcare industry) is not exactly a traditional place for someone like me. But it is something I’m interested in. Anyway hope this answers a few things.
"It's not Right vs Left, it never has been. It's rich people vs everybody else."
Never expected to hear such a profound thing on a RUclips comments review on a Guitar Recording Channel, but it happened.
I salute you my man!
he says that and then craps on Christians constantly so clearly there is SOMETHING else.
@@L0rd0fTh3N3rdz What does that have to do with it?
That is just Marxist rhetoric. The individualistic nature of the right is diametrically opposed to the collectivist Rich vs. Poor class conflict that is espoused by Socialists/Marxists/Communists. Glenn by his very nature is a Capitalist. He may say these things but is still charging $250 for a pedal/effect. However, I agree that Glenn should do this because I am a Capitalist too. He sets the price for which his service/commodity is worth on the market, and he should have the right to do so. The huge glaring problem is Glenn is the rich compared to us common people. He is the "Bourgeois" /Rich to us. Apart from his outstanding tests and his incredible work, I don't think it is a good idea to listen to this rhetoric because it does not logically lead into Glenn being a part of the common people. I think he is doing an outstanding job-sharing information with us and helping us get to where he is. But, in the end, the Marxist viewpoint from which his views come from hold that he is diametrically opposed to us because of his position of power/wealth.
@@solaresat Why are those the only two schools of thought in your world. Please climb out of the holes you have dug for yourself.
@@L0rd0fTh3N3rdz There is no need to bring his attitudes about a particular religion into this. I think it was a simple, and quite accurate assertion, that is all. We can learn from each other without completely agreeing about everything.
Glenn: try this gear out, it slaps and is way cheaper
Guitarists: Angery honest man is hurting the feelings of my empty wallet
Is that what you think? People who own Gibsons have an empty wallet?
😅😅😅😅🤣🤣👍
@@travisspaulding2222 in that case it's not the wallet that's necessarily empty..
@@yajrobot Lol, so now we're doing blanket statements about people's character? Maybe take a look in the mirror.
@@travisspaulding2222 LMAO another Gibson owner detected.
“That’s all I have for you today. Now, ffffffffuck off!”
Dude, I saved a clip of that and send it to like 10 of my friends
Thanks for the idea!!! Haha
@@Guilhermetmfranco guaranteed laughs for you and the boys
_Masterful Signoff_
Guys watch the new video of Rhett Shull he compared different necks and if they affect the tone. The difference is really surprising. Anyone seen it?
@EbonyPope yeah that video is a very suspicious.
I missed when Glenn talked shit at Bass players. WHY DO GUITAR PLAYERS TAKE EVERYTHING FROM US!!
Because Guitar Players keep running their mouths while us Bass Players are too dumb to think lmao
@@longview3k69 That's the accuratest statement ever
imagine wine snobs vs people who love cheese
snob guitar players are like wine people (especially PRS & Gibson fanboys) while the cheese people will say "hhhmmm that's quite pungent i love rotten egg flavour" when they eat some exotic blue cheese. they're the bass players.
7:46 as an American i have to disagree, i spend my money on much more than just burgers and guns, i also buy weed and I’m paying off my thousands of dollars medical debt from 5 years ago when i sprained my ankle and needed tylenol
"Tylenol"
@@YxYzYx yeah right, it was totally his fault for getting run over
@@naattxxnaattxx7055 lol it was just a joke but i don’t think he can actually comprehend that concept
hell yeah weed is expensive. top shelf anyhow.🤷🏻♂️
@@YxYzYx what im saying is when someone gets hurt, its not necessarily their fault. Someone could get run over and never be able to pay back the medical bills just because "its not the taxpayers fault"
Im not saying it is their fault, but people should help each other rather than stay inside their own bubble for the rest of eternity
Why is it that whenever someone says “gO rEaD aN eCoN bOoK” or “tAKE aN EcOn ClASS”, they are the ones in the conversation with the least knowledge of economics…
What does Y equal?
@@AmericanNationalist852do you want the income or output equation?
They think they've checkmated you, because these idiots are under the presumption that the book will agree with them and prove the person they are arguing with completely wrong. They also have never read an econ book, so it's all just arrogant assumptions that they are right.
"Well there's this little thing called SUPPLY and DEMAND and that means-"
*toilet noises*
Yep, ah, the Intertubes. They have truly done wonders for human civilization.
i swear being a musician is like a bragging contest!,
people judge you heavily
on the gear you use more than the skill you have!
I just hit 11 years at Chrysler. I hired in right after FCA took over, and have been here thru the transition to Stellantis. Glen is spot on with his words about it all has worked. The sale of the brand from company to company is 100% so others can make more money. It does not benefit the workers in any way.
'Stellantis'
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There is no more vivid example of how the management is overpaid.
You might make Glen's "Butthurt Chrysler worker of the week" segment with this comment!
Whenever the world pisses me off to much I just watch a few hours of George Carlin and I start to feel sane again. That and Sabbath
Jesus the man was real historically speaking. There are enough accounts to prove that regardless of your faith 5:53
I truly appreciate your honesty. You state the obvious that everyone else runs from.
Every guitarsnob: You have to empty your bank account and buy expensive gear to "git guuud".
Eddie Van Halen: Hold my beer and Frankenstrat.
Eddie believed in everything that this guy says is nonsense. He built that guitar from Charvel parts, put in countless hours of work to keep those guitars perfect, modified his pickups, believed in using humbuckers vs single coils, modified his marshal amps, used different tubes, boiled his strings, wax potted his pickups, and built his own recording studio so that he’d have complete control over his sound. Eddie was a genius. This guy is a retired Chrysler employee playing in his basement.
The video on tone woods and PRS on play and trade guitar is still up.
Yes. RUclips has been spamming for me to watch it for the past few days.
I watched the Rhett Shull one and initially thought I could hear a slight difference between the rosewood and maple. Then I tried closing my eyes for a bit and I couldn't tell shit for the rest of the vid.
Well I could definitely hear a difference when he picked harder. Lmao
Oh I had to restrain myself from writing a fekkin essay on the comments to his video. Used to like him but he defo appears to be becoming a gear snob.
@@Vincegpz500 So now you don't like him? lol
it's the playing. No humans can replicate their playing back to back. I don't care if you're the best guitar player. It's impossible. Why do we do two takes when we double track a guitar? It's for the differences on our playing. You can't do copy-paste the same track, it'll sound bad.
@@Vincegpz500 He became a boring guy!
Hey Glenn, just wanted to say that you’ve been a huge inspiration for me. Just left my automotive line job to start my own business. Been watching you for the last couple years and hearing you talk about corporate/managerial BS ruining the lives of their workers gave me the reality check I needed. In less than a decade, I’ve had two surgeries related to the job. Thankfully, my *glorious* (heavy sarcasm) country & state have decided that cumulative trauma is not the fault of the employer, so there was no compensation; only short-term disability. Now I have hardware screwed into my spine and a couple nasty scars without even the common courtesy of a reacharound. I’ll never work for someone else again, and you’re partially responsible for that. Of course, now I’m responsible for my success/failure, but having the courage to walk away all started with you telling us about your life. Didn’t make it twenty-seven years, but I think that’s a good thing. While I didn’t start a music business, I still look forward to your videos to help keep my metal spirit alive. Thank you, Glenn. Stay strong on the sea of haters; they’ll drag you under the first chance they get 🤘
Interested to see Glenn break down Rhett Shull's guitar neck tonewood video. Tonewood is still bullshit to me, but curious to see how this is analyzed
It's a very flawed video. There are several things that jumped out at me immediately.
First of all, he is obviously very biased. He even said so before he even played any of the necks. When he plays the maple neck, it seems like he picks harder, perhaps unwittingly, basically confirming his own bias that maple fretboards are supposed to sound "snappy". Then he also mentions that, even though the necks were set up by the store for that guitar, he had to do adjustments because there was a lot of fret buzz. He did not mention or document anywhere by how much it was adjusted and if the string heights were the same for every neck. String height is pretty important, and the strings slapping against the fretboard may again be interpreted as the "snappy" character. If he had to adjust the string height, that also may have changed the distance from the pickups, making it louder or quieter going into the amp. And that might cause the amp to react slightly differently, with more or less compression. And then there is the fact that he did not do a blind test. When he listened back to the results, he knew which was which, and you can't judge anything reliably based on that.
These are some of the reason why Jim Lill's videos are so much better than any of the other stuff that's out there so far. He puts in the time and effort that's required to produce actual results that you can draw conclusions from. Plus, he documented his process very well. I'm not saying Rhett was trying to be misleading deliberately, but he just did not put in the time that would have been needed. The conslusions of his experiment (if you can call it that) just feed into people's preconceptions.
Oh and on another note, I don't understand where the notion comes from that maple sounds bright and "snappy". I suspect it's purely based on the visual appearance of the wood? Because in theory, maple is a less stiff material than rosewood and would probably dampen the sound more. I'm not a physicist, but I'd expect rosewood to dampen the vibration of the string less. (Not that that would translate to what comes out of the speaker.)
i guess there needs to be that robot arm thing that one of Glenn's more profound critics (must be the "physics of electric guitar" guy himself) had been ranting and raving for quite a while.
@@mrcoatsworth429very true. Did he also mention if he was using the same pickups on each guitar? I suspect they were not likely the same exact set of pickups. But regardless, your points stand.
Also, did he use a brand new pick on each guitar take? Because a worn pick will also change the attack and how snappy the strings might sound.
And was all the other wood the same except for the fretboards? And were materials like tuners and bridges identical?
I enjoyed watching the video, but there were some problems with ensuring his hypothesis was properly tested to remove as many biases and issues as possible. He did not claim it to be a scientific test, but that’s the only way to know for sure.
@@MashaT22 He changed the necks on the one guitar. So yes, they were the exact same pickups and I think strings as well. I also think he made sure that the tuners on the three different necks were the exact same models. So it's not like he put no thought into it at all.
@@mrcoatsworth429 the test was also done using a loose rhythm pattern which is highly unreliable, as it depends on the feeling of the player at the time. I'd rather hear static open chords to get a full spectrum of the sound
I too miss Myspace and Bebo. Anyone remember MSN Messenger? Also good honesty about the politics, religion and corporate greed.
MySpace was comfy AF
MSN messenger was alright. AIM (aol instant messenger) was where the action was though
Lol Msn messenger and the chat rooms.👍 When I lived in New Orleans that's how I met a few cool friends in "Chat New Orleans" I think they started a pay wall and MSN went belly up.
ASL? Haha
@@thesandman775 AOL, MSN, and YIM.
I have seen Glen educate one musician at a time on the value of a reamp box and I will truly never tire of his frustration and bravado in doing so. Keep fighting the good fight, sir!
I used to play clean a lot and while tonewood makes a bigger difference in clean tones than it does under high gain tones (or any clipped gain flr that matter), it doesn't make enough of a difference to affect how a listener will perceive the performance. It's just an argument musicians make to pretend they know more than the next musician.
tone isn’t in the wood it’s in the balls
@@tre107 tone is stored in the balls
I ordered one of the Benton guitars. When it showed up I was very unhappy with it.. It was no better than firewood. Upon closer inspection I realized that what I was looking at was our actual fire wood delivery. For some reason I confused it with a guitar.
My bad.
I assume you swapped the pickups out?
happens all the time no worries mate lol
If your firewood looks like guitars, I will take a referral. That lumberjack takes pride in his work...
"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that." - George Carlin
(Then apply it to the average musician and it gets REALLY bad 😂)
Scary shit.
Mathematically, that is not strictly correct.
@@mrcoatsworth429 it is a fucking joke. Lighten up francis
@@mrcoatsworth429When the mean, median, and mode are all the same, as with normalized IQ scores, then it is, no?
@@sparella true. Carlin doesn't mention a normalized test, though.
What was really wrong with Rhett Schull's video is that he just listened to the sound while playing. He should have made recordings with all 3 necks, had someone re-name the files, and listened back a week later when he didn't know which was which. "People listen with their eyes". Now where have I heard that? ;-)
5:54 - Jesus was a real person. yes, his "miracles" are fictional but the man was real. his existence was well documented by romans who judged an executed him.
14:19 - ahhhh. those guys mentioning precision and tolerances speaking of basically a carpentry product. modern electric guitar doesn't contain a single part with a "tolerance" other than "it fits"
Pink noise to truly see tube's nuances 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 can't make this shit up.
Here’s the thing about Harley Benton - it’s a QC lottery and this is unfortunately true for most budget import guitars. I have purchased five of their guitars so far, three of which had to be exchanged at least once to get playable instrument, one had some major cosmetic issues and Thomann have issued a partial refund as the guitar was playable-ish after complete setup. Only one had no major issues other than a messed up grounding. The pickups were always solid for the price. I still think that they are great value; however, I would personally not recommend ordering them outside of Europe as most likely you will have to exchange it due to the QC issues. Some people just get lucky and get good copies. I have also purchased two Jackson’s from their budget JS series and they had even worse QC issues, one of them had to be exchanged and it took Jackson over a month to send a replacement since it was coming from abroad, in other instance they have issued 40% partial refund.
My friend had to exchange four of the same US built Gibson Explorer. Has nothing to do with Harley Benson. The guy he dealt with at Gibson just laughed at him and said people just pay for the name only.......
You're not wrong, but it sounds like you've had much worse luck than most. I just bought two. One of them has a stiff tuning peg and the pickup selector switch is loose and rattles a bit. Still very playable and nothing I can't fix. I figured I'd be upgrading to locking tuners anyway and I'm actually bonding with that guitar more than I even expected. The other... there's nothing functionally wrong with it at all, but "Ocean Flame" stopped being blue and became green at some point, which has me annoyed/disappointed. Is it dumb to be caught up on the color? Yes, it is. Plays well. Sounds good. But I feel like I'm making due with a mistake and it's a pebble in my boot at the moment.
Didn't Thomann open a factory or subsidiary for you US guys to shorten shipping distance, time, and risk of shipping damage
@@Nachtmahr616 They have a US store up on Reverb and that'd be better for returns, but it's a more limited selection and the prices are better through the Thomann site, particularly if you split the shipping costs between multiple guitars.
I always appreciate and am grateful for your input and contributions to the industry, Thanks. @3:21 A HB SG with tesla pickups? Link please. I've been all over both the HB & Thomann sites and I find nothing that matches.
Hey Glenn ! Joe here from Scarlett XIII as well as a solo and session player. I get compliments on tones and mixes frequently and fellow guitarist freak out when I show them the gear I use for tracking. The track 'Dying Inside' was done on a Chinese guitar called Bad Cat ( no affiliation with the amp company ) I used a Les Paul and Strat style called and Unicorn ( LP ) and a Polaris ( strat ) I had an endorsement but they have since gone out of business in the US. Anyway, they play and sound amazing, just as good or better that my Gibson's and Fender's and they are totally stock. They came stainless steel frets and priced under $400 USD. Thanks for showing that it's not the name on the headstock that matters. CHEERS !
As long as you don’t use the self drive/autopilot on the Tesla pickups.
You kidding? Statistics shows they outplay great guitarists 98% of the time!
I always love it when I ask someone, "How F***ing stupid can you possibly be?".... and they take as a personal challenge... "You want stupid? I'll show you f***ing stupid...Here, hold my beer!" lol
Glenn, you need to take it to the next level. Review a Chibson
It is feasible to get an EQ match and playing it live by just exporting a sweep and turn it into an IR, it's something I've done hundred of times from other records that I often put out there for everyone to get, it's always fun to blend album tones from various albums.
For the guy asking to change the eq to make his mic sounds like another he can take a look to Lava by Acustica Audio. It’s a cool plugin for that
I think that it would be an interesting experiment to hand multiple guitar players who are blindfolded different guitars and see if they can determine which is which simply by feel and sound
Anderton's does those videos all the time, and they can almost always tell what's what.
Wrong channel. No one hears "feel" in a mix, so it doesn't matter in the studio.
With distortion, that is a way to compress the signal almost, you just cut the low and high freq register so those little nuances on the sound, that are present on clean comparatives, just disappear very quick.
Melda's match EQ can create an IR file that will make the difference between a reference speaker and the target speaker. Then you can stick it in a zero latency IR loader
Yes, MAutoEqualizer or MAutoDynamicEQ can be used to achieve the same tonal balance. I've had good results by matching the general tonal balance and then recreating one or two most prominent resonances and notches. I think I might have done that in some of the MGuitarArchitect bass presets, actually...
Where did you work when you were with Chrysler/FCA, Brampton or Windsor?
Windsor assembly
About that "matching EQ" stuff... Isn't it possible to turn that specific EQ curve into an impulse response?
Harley Benton have indeed had some problems with microphonic pickups. KDH has a video on it with a guitar with their filtertron-style pickups. HB were kinda evasive about the problem and claimed it was just 60-cycle hum but it definitely wasn't. You could hear the guitar rubbing against his hands and shirt through the amp.
Trying not to sound stupid but what is pink noise and what's it used for Glenn?
I love my Gibsons, but I also love that you're sharing more affordable options with folks. The more people who can get into playing and making music, the better in my book.
It's annoying that people have to take a side and judge a person who owns Gibsons, PRS, or Fender. It's pretty sad, really. Glenn kind of encourages it, but he knows better.
Finally got to try a HB, felt about equal to an Epiphone. At half the price not bad, good modding platform but on their own there’s still lots to be desired.
Glenn! Hello from Philadelphia! The guitar community are so lucky to have a guy like you who tells it like it is. A lot of great points made in this one. Cheers!
2:30 nah i get great amarok (not without issue cause bridge saddle on g string was way to high and destroyed nut but hey i can replace it for less than 10 euro so not a big deal)
Love your work, Glenn! You really hit the nail on the head with, “it’s not the workers, it’s rich people versus everyone else.” Yep. I do own a Custom Shop Gibson Les Paul. Great guitar and I worked my ass off to get it not being particularly well off. Your channel has me rethinking things, and I’ve explored many reasonably priced inexpensive (not cheap!) guitars, and have found you to be absolutely right on. So many kick ass, inexpensive guitars, and I appreciate the service you’re doing for myself and others. Cheers and ope!
Would you experiment with guitars made out of something other than wood to see if you can get a different tone or sound? I’m no expert but I’ve learned a lot from watching your channel and have a morbid curiosity
I actually managed to get a Harley Benton DC Gotoh, it was a B stock, last one.
The problems - had some scratches (not actually a problem), the nut could have been slotted better (fixed in a minute).
I've had it for 7 months now, it's sitting next to a 2005 ESP eclipse, it's amazing just how much they managed to pack into that price.
I had pickups that cost more than than HB, and this HB is a better value for money.
I’ve only played one of their electrics, and my only complaint is there wasn’t enough info as to what the finish was. I thought it was gonna be sand blasted or at very least grain dyed, but it was like a synthetic veneer or hydrodip type fake grain top. Other than that singular cosmetic ‘issue’, it’s a super solid guitar, I just need to break it out more, I’m debating brining it to a blues jam sometime soon. The monophonic comment, while potentially accurate to the product they received, is simply not true for all of their products. The shop I work at often carries one of their acoustics in both the electric and pickupless options, and they’re some of the best budget guitars I’ve played. I also own a u bass from them and it’s pretty fun, tho I will say I prefer the much smaller ones from Kala
09:53 - what guitar is that Schecter? the "Aaron Marshall AM-7"?
My band (not sure if we're still a band, scheduling conflicts have killed our practice time) spent an afternoon recording a song last December. We had to start it playing live after the guitarist couldn't track to a click. After that, everything gelled where I only needed to do a couple takes on each half of the song. Good luck finding that song though as the guitarist and vocalist have it and they won't send it out on streaming until we record a couple more songs! I don't see it seeing the light of day and it pisses me off. It's really having me just consider doing my own solo projects. I just need to clean up my music room before I am able to do so.
I bought an HB and have had it for months now. I gave it a good setup and changed out the strings and slight truss rod adjustment and it plays great. Dude your channel is cool, informative, Thank you
I'll never own a PRS. I think my next guitar will be an Enya. Inexpensive carbon something or other with a speaker and effects on board.
I want to see Glenn do a review on it. I haven't seen anyone in the metal space review it yet.
I have a prs custom 24, I think it’s a good guitar for the price.
@kaoe145 I am not willing to spend PRS kind of dollars when I can get a comparable guitar for less than half. That unhinged video he posted about tone wood just sealed the deal.
Get a used Yamaha , Epiphone, or Squier and change the pickups. I got a few trash guitars, for well under $100, changed the frets and pickups, shims in the neck pocket, and they sound amazing and feel great.
@rustystove8410 if all you want is a quality guitar, that may be the single best way to get one.
6:40 I really Loved how you getting to your Point! 7:43 And this Last sentence is the Most important, but alot of mindless people dont understand that there are workers and people who own and dont have to Work. There are No classes. Thank you for saying this! 🎉
Tried making a MySpace. Won't let you upload pictures for some reason
Trying to help us guitar players save money is like trying to get underwriters to read. In all seriousness Glenn has helped me save metric tons of cash; his demonstrations have surprised me by his results, often unexpected, which has helped me to make better decisions on how to buy gear. On another note I’ve been trying to refine my skills with recording my band live off the floor. We’ve gotten interesting results and now we want to record our live shows. I’ve been taking most of the rhythm roll on our originals, and have used some of Glenn’s techniques to mic’ing up different guitar speakers and trying different mic/speakers and have found some tones I really enjoy. I take notes so that I can re-create it. Have also thought about learning how to capture impulses, but might get into that later on. The speaker in my amp is from Eminence but it’s hard to tell the model since it’s proprietary to my Jet City amp. Anyway, listen to Glenn! He’ll help you save money!
Good call on Harley Benton. Bought mine last summer and was super impressed. Had to do a small setup but it was playable out of the box and only a little over a half step out of tune after shipping halfway across the world.
In reply to the Harley Benton comment, I bought the cheapest Harley Benton Tele available for £81 and used it on the recording of one of my singles that earned me a Distinction grade in my Songwriting Masters degree (the highest grade) with my tutor calling the song a "6pm at Glastonbury sing along anthem." Granted, that is more about the song than the tone but the cheap Tele is used on the clean guitar, left distorted rhythm, and guitar solo of the finished track for the world to hear. I didn't re-record it after with a "better" guitar, that is the guitar that is used on the track. The right rhythm is a Korean Schecter S-1, so not some super high end guitar, it cost about £600-ish new I believe.
The Tele is also one of my most-played guitars and I own over a dozen including Gibsons
My Harley Bentons aren't microphonic
Mine isn't and it's fucking awesome
@@wideyxyz2271 got a gotoh strat and a Tele, the bridge pickup in the Tele is fantastic, neck is meh
My Amarok sounds fucking awesome! It's still my favorite guitar.
That's awful. A QC failure if ever I heard one. Return it and get a squealer. After all, that's what you paid those not very much bucks for......
@@Vincegpz500 i paid £150 for the gotoh, the tuners and the bridge is worth about that
Glenn, I'm really curious to hear what you can do with only a stock install of reaper, no extra plugins or equipment like hardware compressors and stuff.
Bonus points if you can do DI only, but honestly what I'd love to hear most is a comparision between DI only stock reaper, recorded stock reaper, and DI only and fully recorded using all the hardware and software you have available, if you can find the time to do all that.
Would be really interesting to see how much an expert can do without their software and hardware equipment and how much they can do with it.
Dude totally right about MySpace. It was amazing for music because everyone was on it. The music platforms not so much. Hell I used MySpace to book a 20 band battle of the bands and probably only spent a couple hours messaging bands I thought fit the bill
Fantastic...after everything youve said about tonewood ,speakers,pickups etc and agreeing its down to minor adjustments on the pedals and amp as far as gain,and eq for the sound /tone i want thank you Sir Glen purty simple and maybe a little time consuming...
I bought a Harley Benton JA baritone last year. It's not flawless. Lots of fret sprout a couple weeks after getting here which I can file pretty easily but I have rough hands and it doesn't bother me. The setup was trash but again, it was shipped overseas and it's to be expected when you ship wood over the ocean. There was a fair bit of superglue or drops of neck finish that ran onto the fretboard that doesn't affect the playability but will get scraped off someday. One screw on the bridge P90 is installed at a wicked angle which makes it bind against the other screw and the pickguard and wouldn't raise level until I redrilled it straight. The knobs came apart until I added a drop of superglue. There's no shielding but I can just move my backlit keyboard an extra foot away and it doesn't hum anymore. Is it flawless? No. Is it playable? Very. Would I still recommend if you understand basic use of tools and don't mind a couple hours of work for a great deal on a solid instrument? 100%. I'd much rather buy budget instruments and use the extra money on tools I'll have forever to be able to make them flawless myself than spend a fucktonne on a guitar that's great out of the box then spend even more at a tech when it sill needs to be set up twice a year or god forbid, repaired.
Got a Harley Benton SC550 II yesterday, other than 1 loose tuner screw the guitar was perfect, came with with a near perfect setup only needing minor adjustments and not one single blemish on it. Excellent guitar and would have been happy paying double the price that I did for it. This is my only experience with these guitars so obviously things may be different for others but I couldn’t be happier with the purchase
Hanging with you for a day would be hillarious! Keep being you! We need more of this in the world!
I got the gotoh sg and its awesome. Pickups are microphonic but if you dont get to near to the speaker you can deal with it. The bad think is that they are not available in thomann any more. They are removed from their page completely. Only the sc is available as a b stock.
I am a manager getting ready to retire and Glenn is right. This is how big business works. If you are an employee that doesn't give 110% and stand on your head every single second you are on the clock then you are lazy and a beater. But if you are a CEO that lays off 10,000 employees three days before Christmas in order to facilitate Corporate bonus's that makes you a smart business man. Here is a rule to live by in the corporate world. Work like everyone is out to screw you, because they are.
And even if you do give 110%, you will still be told to do one, as soon as you have an opinion that differs from theirs.
Heeeyyy mate- spot on with the left/right thing! We are all just people and perhaps we should all look after each other because those at the ‘top’ rarely look after us.
"It's not right vs left. It's rich people vs the masses. It always has been."
Exactly right. I wish more people understood this point.
actually, it's J..................................... vs.................................
and who exactly are these rich people
@@itsgoldmate8859 ohh I think you nose who it is.... 🤫
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9:09 Alternate video title: Senior Citizen Rants About Irrelevant Social Media
Glen, you've got some great taste. I still keep going back and listening to Kyuss and QOTSA. They're as interesting as anything else I've heard in the last 20 years.
And for the people who love deathcore, Suicide Silence album The Clensing is live off the floor, together and everything is micd, nothing is blended or replaced.
Every album after is also micd.
Cool to hear that you like the stoner-metal stuff. That huge fuzz tone is definitely where it's at for me.
Rhett Shull is providing the raw unedited wave files so you can look at them in a spectral analyzer.
I wish more people could just relax and let someone tell you what they’re doing with equipment and signal editing. I trust your experience way more than keyboard commandos. I know nothing compared to your background. Keep giving out easy to understand real wold information. Thanks for the time and effort invested
I love my Gibsons, Fenders, LTDs and the PRS I own. The makes me pick up the guitar and play and that’s what’s really important for me at the end of the day.
"It's almost like distortion destroys the signal or something weird like that..." my favorite quote, keep fighting the good fight man!
I would just like to mention that I have an acoustic HB and I’m pretty happy with it. I’d say it does an amazing job, especially considering the money, plus it looks great! Couldn’t be happier with my purchase.
As a guitarist, I can’t count how many times I heard from other guitarists complaining about a guitar like “it’s a piece of shit”, “it sounds so bad” and everything. I noticed to biases:
First, if you don’t tell the price, it changes mind a lot. And after it is appreciated, knowing that it’s cheaper than expected even improve to opinion on the instrument.
Then, and it took me so much time to realize that, but a well treated instrument sounds so good. This means we have to tune the guitar, adjust the intonation, the truss road, the pickups height, and clean it, and suddenly, it sounds great. It’s a shame that some very expensive guitars are not setup properly, but thinking it’s a bad instrument just because of that make you a bad guitarist.
I don’t know how you could demonstrate that without being accused of cheating, but I’m pretty sure more than 90% of us guitarist would prefer a perfectly adjusted cheap guitar than a badly adjusted expensive guitar. I think you demonstrated enough that the tone is in the cab 😂
DUDE! More videos like this please. Also, you might tell people "Bless your heart" as well LOL.
Awesome shirt!!! One of my favorite Kyuss albums!
Hi, i have a question:
Which are better, amp or plugins?
I love these videos. I am guessing some of these people are intentionally saying stupid stuff just to make the show, trolling essentially. I may be wrong but in the end the stupid comments make for great content. Rock on Glenn!
HOW DARE YOU SAY KROM IS A MYTH?!! My God laughs at you from the mountain!
Seriously, I am Christian. And, miracles aside, Glenn, there is a huge amount of evidence that Jesus lived. The Romans were huge record-keepers. The only thing in doubt is his divinity.
Jesus Christ is not a fictional character. There is as much historical evidence of his life as there is for George Washington or Aristotle. He died for our sins. Yours and mine. And He is the way to eternal life. You may scoff at this or make fun of me for my beliefs, but I really want to see you in heaven. As Penn Jillette even said, if someone has the knowledge of how to achieve eternal life, how much must you hate that person to not share that knowledge? Praying for you, Glenn. BTW, thank you for introducing me to Harley Benton. I love my SC450. And the 2x12 with Celestion Vintage 30s.
jesus was a real person but the idea that many have of him is fictional
Harry potter's school years are related in more detail than any of those characters mentioned...
@@koalatea9960 I'm praying for you, too.
@@theskullkid421 and I'm praying for you, as well.
@@TacMedTV i will pray for you as well my friend
the fusion iii is amazing, that thick neck with the floyd rose... cured my hand pain anyway
Someday I'm gonna record drums in your studio. You forking rock dude.
Glenn, if studio monitors produce a flat sound, which is what the actual band sounds like, should our car speakers have studio monitors too? I wanna hear Metallica sound as close as possible to how they are in the recording studio, Mesa Boogie and all. From Mr. Meza himself.
Studio monitors can add character as well. That’s why major studios have multiple monitors. We actually would use 3 or 4 different monitors with different sound curves to ensure we weren’t going to sound bad on somebodies low end speakers at home.
Glad I stumbled onto this video. As an ex-Gibson employee, I won't touch any of their gear made there in Memphis. Not that there's instruments made during that time that people didn't try their best to make great, but as you stated, it was quantity over quality... and I saw it all first hand. Also their pay to the workers and the conditions we were subjected to were absolutely terrible. I moved from there to Oregon to work at Breedlove, which by comparison was a millions times better. Or so I thought. Truth be told, I'd still be there if not for more of the same, i.e. shoddy business practices/ethics. However a QC issue happened about 6 to 8 months into it, and a labor cut across the board soon followed. I may be fuzzy on some details as this was 10 years ago, but if I remember correctly, it was just a name in a hat layoff scenario, adding up to about 50% across the board, which is insane as I was a part of the new hire crew to double their staff as well as their output. So people with seniority as well as new hires and in-betweens all fell on their sword for them, but the person(s) who inevitably made the snafu retained their job(s)... which was ridiculous, if you ask me, or perhaps even anyone that stopped working for whatever reason. The consensus for both companies echoes your statement that poor management and greed always pushes consumers, players, and fans aways but the novelty, branding, and market oversaturation, will always manage to keep these companies above water and in business, so long as they have the will to be. That being said, both companies still carry on and I no longer build guitars anymore, I just play, and adamantly boycott both companies to this day and will till my last. TL;DR: Capitalism fucking sucks and guitars have no business costing in upwards of 3k and yeah, you can all bitch till you're blue in the face, but there's absolutely no monetary justification for it with the exception of compensation for competition, and overall inflation. All products of the capitalist hellscape we're forced to endure. Thankfully though there's still lawyers and doctors that are brand collectors and buy this shit up in droves to drive the prices up just to hang them on their walls so that aspiring musicians can't afford a "quality" instrument without going into debt or losing a limb to do so...
I like making impulse responses from learing EQs. The Melda Productions one even puts out its own IRs. But it's also fine to just import a pulse into your DAW and running it throught your signal chain.
Completely unrelated, but I have nowhere else really to mention it and I'm excited.
Got an entire week off of work, and I'm going out of town with my drums, guitars, bass and all my damn recording equipment.
I've been planning this since last year. Going to work on a new album.
It's no studio by any stretch, but a large garage in the middle of nowhere, which is still better than my apartment. Can't wait to use my amps and real drums again!
I totally agree that many great recordings are basically the band 'live' in the studio. My old band always did it that way, and when we went into the studio, you can bet our last bottom dollar that we had our shit together (knew the songs, used and were happy with our gear), because WE were paying for the studio time...with our last bottom dollars! We recorded a 10 song 'album' in two days, because of that mentality. As a musician, studio time is so much fun when the band is READY!
In relation to the first comment featured in the video, I remember years ago I watched videos on RUclips where a guy with a second hand looking Fender Telecaster did covers of Marty Friedman solos. There was even one where he needed at least 22 frets and somehow still did an amazing rendition on a guitar that had 21 frets.
bought a cort kx507ms recently and im in love with it, such an amazingly setup guitar with great specs
Hey Glenn, planning on getting an EX-84 with EMGs after seeing all of the videos on it from the past few months, hoping it’ll be as good as it seems!
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Love the Energy so much I Had to Sub !!!
7:00 Yes. This happens to factory workers all the time. Not long ago, a whole town was decimated because one of those assholes bought out Cabella's and merged it into Bass Pro Shops. A similar thing happened to one of the big mail order pet supply companies. Shareholders and mergers are constantly causing problems for people who just wanted to be able to make a living off of a job, a regular ass job and nothing more.
Hi Glenn! I'd love to her your comments about Vsti guitars. I'm not a guitarist but a keyboardist and as a metal songwriter I once needed to work with guitar players to record my stuff and it didn't go so well. I had much better results with Vstis, especially because they complain much less and they've never tried to pretend they are also bass Vstis, if you get me... Also, Vstis don't usually complain about the mix, saying that it should have "more guitar" as the bass is showing too much or "the keys should be always on the background... this is metal, not Pink Floyd". I've been working with NI Session Guitarist Electric Sunburst Deluxe plus a couple of amp sims and I've just released my first album. I'm pretty satisfied with the results, although some guitar players keep saying the guitars s*ck, even if they've never recorded anything better...
Hey Glenn does a re-amp box do the same as a looper pedal? Do I really need to buy one if I have a looper?
interesting. i never thought about that. i have the big ditto looper. 🍻
Glenn, what's your opinion on EVM 12L speakers? I've been diggin for Steve Harris bass tone and came across that he used these speakers. And I've been thinking how would they sound in a full high gain territory. I've found some samples here and there but i'm just curious what you could do with them as i really enjoy your method of testing. Yes, i know, they're expensive as F
Adrian and Dave have played them, too! I think on Live After Death, possibly also Powerslave.
Zakk Wylde has his signature version of that speaker. So check out his stuff for some high gain.
GLEEEEEEEEEN! What are your thought on Jackson guitars? I think they're still great metal machines, but I wonder if their quality is still as high as it was back in the day.
Glenn! About that EQ change to make microphones sounds like other microphones, Andertons recently released a video with Universal Audio and they've just done something really similar (but works with their own new special microphones not a blanket works with all)