Bad Brad's fingers danced on the Gibson SG, coaxing forth a sonic tapestry of raw emotion....loved ..loved this vibie tasty huge chunk of ear candy...its a dandy brother..and thars the dog-gone-truth
New SG Standards are on sale here, but I want the 61 with the Burstbuckers. SG are really rare on used market here, I was lucky to find the mint 24 fret Special a few years ago. It's narrow dual rail Gibson minis position nicely under strings.
Yeah I think you would like 61 better. I do prefer the way it sounds. Hard to believe they are so rare up in Canada they are deeply discounted down here.
Sounds and plays just like my 2001 sg400 second hand epiphone I paid 75 bux for badly neglected. But not the fat neck and grocers factory. I got lucky. Brought it back nice. Blows people's minds how great it plays and sounds and my only stock guitar. Factory large pots and oddly very good stock pickups..
love your high level intro with lots of rock jazzy lead in it....i would wonder hearing you playing 5-6 Les Pauls and SGs on that same music piece and what the impact might be...👍🤘
Hey Brad I think your right on about the SG. I recently was looking to buy one and was in a shop in CO. They had an 61 Reissue for 13-1400. They also had what was labeled an SG Standard for 975. However the Standard was mislabeled. It was a 61 reissue. For my hand size the thinner neck feels better. So i scooped it right up. Plays and sounds like a dream with those better pickups. Nice and light ....
That depends on what you like. To me the Standard feels better especially if you like a thick neck but I like the pickups and sound of the 61 I would say try both and pick the one that speaks to you....
Hey Brad, you make any guitar sound, at worst, really good, and at best great. I find the recipe for great with the new SG Standard is: Throw the classic 57/57+ pickups in that. It will sound like a million bucks, if you do. I have a like SG std, and those pickups give it a real musically expressive voice. If it weren't for the neck dive, it'd be my favorite guitar to play all the time. Instead, I play my LP with Custombuckers.
Go on the used market and get them between 900 and 1200. I just paid a grand for a “mint” one from a mom n pop on reverb that was still in the original box. The market is crashing boys BUY NOW if you can! Oh and yes the Gibson is still miles ahead of the epiphone. Buy the Gibson used and cheap fellas!
headstock repairs are also a bargain if the repair was done well and the break was clean. Way to get a deal if that doesn't bother you. Me, a player first, collector second, will always appreciate the discount there.
@@geoffreycarter3981 the only thing that bugs me about the headstock repairs is the “done right” part. I’ve bought one or two of those and I didn’t want to just look at them but I wanted to know who did the work. In most towns there are only a few pros who do that kind of work and if the name I get isn’t on that list I’m not buying. In general though you can get really smoking deals that way.
I own a 61 reissue which I love...I prefer the small pickguard rather than the large batwing one. On your model, I never realized the issue with the string angle over the pickup....what if you raise the polepieces closer to the string?
@@badbrad Yeah I went to GC today and looked at a large pickguard SG like yours up close and yes the gap from the strings to the polepieces is quite wide. I guess the solution would be to tilt the pickup from under if that's possible.
I just bought a Ibanez RG550 Genesis recently and am really digging it a lot, and for under 1K for a Japanese made guitar it's a hell of a deal. I got the neon yellow, it's a guitar Ive wanted since I was 20 years old. About the Gibson, try the Burstbuckers or the 57 Classics for your SG, I think you will dig it
Too steep of a neck angle on that SG for me. That alone would be a deal breaker. I've returned a few LP's that had steep neck angles. I like to have my stop tailpiece flush with the deck and the bridge lower to the deck. When the neck is set at too steep of an angle you get the situation you have with that guitar with the tailpiece and bridge height.
Agree the pickup thing is a design flaw to me to. There are ways to fix it with foam under the pickup to even it out parallel with the strings. But it takes some time to get it right. But it can be done ,s shouldn't have to ,Gibson should have fixed that years ago.. But I like you enjoy the SG and yes a hybrid one with pickup rings and the standard neck would be great..
Hey Brad! Interesting comment about the SG. Although I’ve always been a Gibson fan, and personally owned a 91 LP Studio Lite and a 2000’s DC LP special p90, I would never buy many amazing sounding SG’s or 335’s because of the neck heel strap button location, and how it hangs. I say all that to say, I don’t have a lot of experience with that model in this video, but as far as the pickup tilt, one thing that might work is raising the polepieces on that pickup to compensate for the slant since they are on the side of the pickup that’s slanted away from the strings. In theory, I think it would get the magnetic field close enough to what a “level” pickup would achieve.
I was sold on the 61 until I tried it side by side with the Standard... I was blown away by how much fatter and better mid ranged the Standard sounded.. The 61 sounded weaker and thinner to me... The 490R 490T pickups sound amazing throughout the whole range and can deliver classic and hard rock easily.... Its really a personal thing when it comes to pickups...
Tasty Licks man! I personally like the ES-335 BUT the one with the orange drop caps and the 57 Classics. That particular guitar can do it all. Being a gigging musician its hard to scale down your rig but we all want to do it. Finding an amp that would allow me to scale down my pedal board was a huge challenge. But yeah the 335 can do country, jazz, alternative, funk, rock, blues, and even some metal. I think the SG can do all those but maybe jazz, its just that the 335 has that extra special sauce on it, most artists can't tell the difference but it IS there for those that can hear it. Even 335 copies, although one or two are close, cant get that secret Gibson 335 sauce right, I believe its the Nitro finish.
I agree with all your points. I play a really good 335 copy as the #1. Number 2 is an SG DIY kit w. set neck. It's as good as any Gibson SG (4-5 ?) I've ever played. (pickups aside, but they're not bad, tone-wise recordable) My thoughts are, the SG takes top honors in the category of stable tuning on damp foggy stages. 😃
@@slowfinger2 YES lol I remember my first 335....my band mates were like damn that think cost that much and wont stay in tune for one song?? I replaced the tuners with some Gibson metal button Grover locking tuners and still had the problem, it gave me fits for a while til I figured out where the issue was coming from. I replaced the saddles with some Graphtech saddles and POOF all the tuning issues were gone. I felt like an idiot for replacing the tuners when they were fine lol. Gibson should really send them out with the Graphtech saddles imho. But at least I figured it out ha Rock on bro!
Waited over 20 years to find my perfect SG. I got a new Standard. Fat neck. Came with 61 Burstbuckers, uncovered. Locking Grovers with keystones. Hard shell case. NO neck dive. The Piece De Resistance, finished in Pelham Blue. Added a pearloid guard. Think I’m going to add a pickup ring to the bridge to fix the pickup angle.
@@badbrad Almost forgot. I enlarged the pickguard bridge post holes so the guard can come off without having to remove the bridge posts and reset the bridge height. Aaand, I swapped in an ABR 1.
Hey man have you ever heard of a Gibson Les Paul Signature Gold Top? It was made briefly in the 70's and was a blend between a 335 and a les paul, and had a weird kind of Varitone circuit. The guy from Level 42 played one. I had one for a short time, Les Paul designed it. check out the pics of one, its a weird guitar.
Yeah the Epiphone, no matter what bells, whistles and bs they put in it still has dead low end budget humbuckers in them that just sound dead. They’re toys compared to the real deal.
I have had a few. That was the model that Les Paul refused to sanction. But here is a fact. Brad will make anything sound good. Even a Gold Foil Kent!!! Or a Silvertone with a Guitar Case Amp. I found the SG fatiguing with a long gig. My favorites were/are the Les Paul Models and Telecasters. Hate Strats!!! For some reason I really enjoyed Les Paul Specials with P90s. I have a custom LP Special now with GFS PAFs. For some reason that is what I pick up all the time. I only pull out the Les Paul Customs every now and then. And yes I have a Strat. Blahhh!!! For a Fender I use a Nashville B-Bender Telecaster!!! Regardless: Brad is a PRO !!!! And has mastered the most difficult thing to do with a guitar. Which is "Tune It!!!!" Walsh carved that in stone!!!!
I forgot to take my Gibson SG standard off the top bunk inside the Sleeper in my truck and I hit the brakes and it fell off onto the floor it survived inside the gig bag it comes in.. scared me found nothing wrong with it
Gotta pay closer attention to pickups bro. The 490 series are Gibson's Ceramic high-output humbuckers (although SG's have a cooler bridge pickup than the LP's get I've heard), similar to what you'd find in Guitars aimed at Metal guys. They were meant for more modern, highly saturated high-gain Rock tones, so you're not gonna get PAF tones out of them! It would be like trying to coax classic muscle car performance and handling out of a new Lamborghini, it just ain't happening! \m/
Bad Brad's fingers danced on the Gibson SG, coaxing forth a sonic tapestry of raw emotion....loved ..loved this vibie tasty huge chunk of ear candy...its a dandy brother..and thars the dog-gone-truth
Thanks brother!
Excellent playing execution melody, wow!
Thank you so much!!!
Nice jam on the neck heavy batman beast.
HA HA thank you!
Hi Brad...I'm captivated by the SG's raw power and versatility. Its thin body offers unmatched comfort make it a joy to let er rip...!@!#!!
Yes indeed....
The only Gibson I would even consider. Great playing Brad!
Thank you!!!
Getting a great sound coming through great even on my phone
Wow that is great to hear! Thank you!
Great playing on whatever guitar. It's called dedication. Mine is a 74 with mini humbuckers.
True!
New SG Standards are on sale here, but I want the 61 with the Burstbuckers. SG are really rare on used market here, I was lucky to find the mint 24 fret Special a few years ago. It's narrow dual rail Gibson minis position nicely under strings.
Yeah I think you would like 61 better. I do prefer the way it sounds. Hard to believe they are so rare up in Canada they are deeply discounted down here.
Great video Brad! Agree, the SG is a great deal used
Thanks Scott!
Great content Brad👍👍👍
Thanks 👍 Thanks SM much appreciated!
You can screw the pole pcs out on the bridge pickup to get them closure to the strings.
Great tip!
Sounds and plays just like my 2001 sg400 second hand epiphone I paid 75 bux for badly neglected. But not the fat neck and grocers factory. I got lucky.
Brought it back nice. Blows people's minds how great it plays and sounds and my only stock guitar. Factory large pots and oddly very good stock pickups..
That is awesome!
Badbrad, you are truly one bad ass guitar player! I love your playing dude!
Billy thank you!!!
love your high level intro with lots of rock jazzy lead in it....i would wonder hearing you playing 5-6 Les Pauls and SGs on that same music piece and what the impact might be...👍🤘
Thank you. They both reside in similar tone camps but the SG is different....
Man, the sg sound is punchy a smooth perfect amount gain
It is a cool sounding guitar!
Hey Brad I think your right on about the SG. I recently was looking to buy one and was in a shop in CO. They had an 61 Reissue for 13-1400. They also had what was labeled an SG Standard for 975. However the Standard was mislabeled. It was a 61 reissue. For my hand size the thinner neck feels better. So i scooped it right up. Plays and sounds like a dream with those better pickups. Nice and light ....
I do love the 61....
Is it worth spending the extra money and getting a 61 standard or supreme? Or is the standard good enough.
That depends on what you like. To me the Standard feels better especially if you like a thick neck but I like the pickups and sound of the 61 I would say try both and pick the one that speaks to you....
Good Morning Brad! Bought a Theodore instead of SG . SG's can really scream! Hope you've doing well in your new home 🙀😸💜💙🤍❤. Nice Shades!
Man the Theodore is an interesting Bird...I like em.
Hey Brad, you make any guitar sound, at worst, really good, and at best great. I find the recipe for great with the new SG Standard is:
Throw the classic 57/57+ pickups in that. It will sound like a million bucks, if you do. I have a like SG std, and those pickups
give it a real musically expressive voice. If it weren't for the neck dive, it'd be my favorite guitar to play all the time. Instead, I play my LP with Custombuckers.
Yeah I have heard those pickups are best for an SG......
Awesome!
Go on the used market and get them between 900 and 1200. I just paid a grand for a “mint” one from a mom n pop on reverb that was still in the original box. The market is crashing boys BUY NOW if you can! Oh and yes the Gibson is still miles ahead of the epiphone. Buy the Gibson used and cheap fellas!
Man I agree 100 percent!
headstock repairs are also a bargain if the repair was done well and the break was clean. Way to get a deal if that doesn't bother you. Me, a player first, collector second, will always appreciate the discount there.
@@geoffreycarter3981 If the repair is done right it can be more secure than it was prior to the break...
@@geoffreycarter3981 the only thing that bugs me about the headstock repairs is the “done right” part. I’ve bought one or two of those and I didn’t want to just look at them but I wanted to know who did the work. In most towns there are only a few pros who do that kind of work and if the name I get isn’t on that list I’m not buying. In general though you can get really smoking deals that way.
I picked up a used mint Gibson SG Tribute someone upgraded the pickups and cover on for $700. I love it!
Awesome!!!
I own a 61 reissue which I love...I prefer the small pickguard rather than the large batwing one. On your model, I never realized the issue with the string angle over the pickup....what if you raise the polepieces closer to the string?
That won’t really fix it.
@@badbrad Yeah I went to GC today and looked at a large pickguard SG like yours up close and yes the gap from the strings to the polepieces is quite wide. I guess the solution would be to tilt the pickup from under if that's possible.
@@sonnywolfblues yeah foam under the pickup....
I just bought a Ibanez RG550 Genesis recently and am really digging it a lot, and for under 1K for a Japanese made guitar it's a hell of a deal. I got the neon yellow, it's a guitar Ive wanted since I was 20 years old.
About the Gibson, try the Burstbuckers or the 57 Classics for your SG, I think you will dig it
Great Guitars!
@@Murphy_R9 I think so, I'm really diggin mine so far. Charvel is putting out some good guitars now too.
@@BillyBlaze7 Love CHARVEL! I have two a 2008 USA San dimas and a 2009 So cal also USA made.
Love the RG's and Charvel's. Burstbuckers are awesome!
Too steep of a neck angle on that SG for me. That alone would be a deal breaker. I've returned a few LP's that had steep neck angles. I like to have my stop tailpiece flush with the deck and the bridge lower to the deck. When the neck is set at too steep of an angle you get the situation you have with that guitar with the tailpiece and bridge height.
I hear ya!
@@badbrad Just my preference. A neck angle like that doesn't bother some people.
Yeah it's not for everyone I understand.
Agree the pickup thing is a design flaw to me to.
There are ways to fix it with foam under the pickup to even it out parallel with the strings. But it takes some time to get it right.
But it can be done ,s shouldn't have to ,Gibson should have fixed that years ago..
But I like you enjoy the SG and yes a hybrid one with pickup rings and the standard neck would be great..
Man if I had a signature SG some changes would be made lol.
Hey Brad! Interesting comment about the SG. Although I’ve always been a Gibson fan, and personally owned a 91 LP Studio Lite and a 2000’s DC LP special p90, I would never buy many amazing sounding SG’s or 335’s because of the neck heel strap button location, and how it hangs.
I say all that to say, I don’t have a lot of experience with that model in this video, but as far as the pickup tilt, one thing that might work is raising the polepieces on that pickup to compensate for the slant since they are on the side of the pickup that’s slanted away from the strings. In theory, I think it would get the magnetic field close enough to what a “level” pickup would achieve.
Great idea on the pickup thing. I'm not crazy about the location of the strap button either but I can make it work.
I was sold on the 61 until I tried it side by side with the Standard... I was blown away by how much fatter and better mid ranged the Standard sounded.. The 61 sounded weaker and thinner to me... The 490R 490T pickups sound amazing throughout the whole range and can deliver classic and hard rock easily.... Its really a personal thing when it comes to pickups...
It is indeed
Tasty Licks man!
I personally like the ES-335 BUT the one with the orange drop caps and the 57 Classics.
That particular guitar can do it all. Being a gigging musician its hard to scale down your rig but we all want to do it. Finding an amp that would allow me to scale down my pedal board was a huge challenge. But yeah the 335 can do country, jazz, alternative, funk, rock, blues, and even some metal. I think the SG can do all those but maybe jazz, its just that the 335 has that extra special sauce on it, most artists can't tell the difference but it IS there for those that can hear it. Even 335 copies, although one or two are close, cant get that secret Gibson 335 sauce right, I believe its the Nitro finish.
Loved my 335 when I had it but wouldn't fit in my gig bag so never played it live.
I agree with all your points. I play a really good 335 copy as the #1. Number 2 is an SG DIY kit w. set neck. It's as good as any Gibson SG (4-5 ?) I've ever played. (pickups aside, but they're not bad, tone-wise recordable)
My thoughts are, the SG takes top honors in the category of stable tuning on damp foggy stages. 😃
@@slowfinger2 YES lol I remember my first 335....my band mates were like damn that think cost that much and wont stay in tune for one song??
I replaced the tuners with some Gibson metal button Grover locking tuners and still had the problem, it gave me fits for a while til I figured out where the issue was coming from. I replaced the saddles with some Graphtech saddles and POOF all the tuning issues were gone. I felt like an idiot for replacing the tuners when they were fine lol. Gibson should really send them out with the Graphtech saddles imho. But at least I figured it out ha
Rock on bro!
@@slowfinger2 I agree!
Waited over 20 years to find my perfect SG. I got a new Standard. Fat neck. Came with 61 Burstbuckers, uncovered. Locking Grovers with keystones. Hard shell case. NO neck dive. The Piece De Resistance, finished in Pelham Blue. Added a pearloid guard. Think I’m going to add a pickup ring to the bridge to fix the pickup angle.
Wow that does sounds like a good one..
@@badbrad
Almost forgot. I enlarged the pickguard bridge post holes so the guard can come off without having to remove the bridge posts and reset the bridge height. Aaand, I swapped in an ABR 1.
@@clockwork914 Niiiice!
Hey, Angus Young can't be wrong, correct? 😜 SG's are badass and reasonable price wise.
Yes indeed!
Hey man have you ever heard of a Gibson Les Paul Signature Gold Top?
It was made briefly in the 70's and was a blend between a 335 and a les paul, and had a weird kind of Varitone circuit. The guy from Level 42 played one. I had one for a short time, Les Paul designed it. check out the pics of one, its a weird guitar.
Yeah I have seen that ...strange looking bird.
A lot of people will say just get the Epiphone but I disagree. The Gibson is legions overall better!
Absolutely!
Yeah the Epiphone, no matter what bells, whistles and bs they put in it still has dead low end budget humbuckers in them that just sound dead. They’re toys compared to the real deal.
Love this show...!!! barn burner....!!...
@@DocJJohnson Doc in the house!
I have had a few. That was the model that Les Paul refused to sanction. But here is a fact. Brad will make anything sound good. Even a Gold Foil Kent!!!
Or a Silvertone with a Guitar Case Amp. I found the SG fatiguing with a long gig. My favorites were/are the Les Paul Models and Telecasters. Hate Strats!!!
For some reason I really enjoyed Les Paul Specials with P90s. I have a custom LP Special now with GFS PAFs. For some reason that is what I pick up
all the time. I only pull out the Les Paul Customs every now and then. And yes I have a Strat. Blahhh!!! For a Fender I use a Nashville B-Bender Telecaster!!!
Regardless: Brad is a PRO !!!! And has mastered the most difficult thing to do with a guitar. Which is "Tune It!!!!" Walsh carved that in stone!!!!
Man thanks so much. I do love me a Les Paul Custom! That's the one guitar I still want.
I forgot to take my Gibson SG standard off the top bunk inside the Sleeper in my truck and I hit the brakes and it fell off onto the floor it survived inside the gig bag it comes in.. scared me found nothing wrong with it
That is good news
Gotta pay closer attention to pickups bro. The 490 series are Gibson's Ceramic high-output humbuckers (although SG's have a cooler bridge pickup than the LP's get I've heard), similar to what you'd find in Guitars aimed at Metal guys. They were meant for more modern, highly saturated high-gain Rock tones, so you're not gonna get PAF tones out of them! It would be like trying to coax classic muscle car performance and handling out of a new Lamborghini, it just ain't happening! \m/
Ya I hear ya. It's cool you're paying attention to those details.
You know its good when you make Guitar Face...😫
Ha ha yes!!!
You missed on all pickups Standard 498T-490R and 61 57 Classic - 57classic +. My 2001 also has an ABR bridge.
61 now comes with Burst buckers and this standard has 490R and 490T........
I don’t know why, but I personally really can’t stand an SG.
I hear ya, to each his own.
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Bought epiphone 3yrs ago nice guitar flame top gold hardware coil tap, on sale and had 50$ credit amazing ax for 390$
Those are great guitars.
As a drummer, I dont need an SG but I wanna fiddle with this nice slim design Gibson.
I think you would dig it if ya had one.