Will a Traditional Guitar Player Like Tim Henson's Signature Guitar? - NEW Ibanez Tree Of Death
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So many people missing the point of this guitar. It’s a niche guitar meant to be a nylon/classical that has playing similarities to an electric. I have mine and it’s hard for me to put it down, I love it!
It is Andertons though......
Agreed, just because it's a nylon doesn't mean it's a classical!
I couldn’t disagree more.
What a stupid guitar.
You're missing the point too... It will sell because Polyphia, and that's it. Whether it's good or bad doesn't matter (yeah it's bad, but who cares...)
@@HeadbangoO Lmfao so ignorant
Ben, you are such an inspiration to my playing! Thank you, this is a great video and you excel as always! I didn't even know I wanted an electric nylon until watching this video!😃
That's a really reasonable price. It might tempt electric players to try it and have an acoustic number in their rock set!
Wonder if it would have tempted Paco De Lucia ?
£37 Cheaper @Thomann
It doesnt just tempt. its sold out everywhere with some stores even having the next batch of pre orders also sold out
@@stringrip
No, he liked actual good guitars.
Not this buzzy mess.
@@powbobs hater detected
Beautiful playing on the outro! Bravo!
Thanks. Ibanez has made a number of nylon electro guitars. I have a GA35TCEDVS which has a body leaning a bit more toward traditional. Still a moderately thin body, but with a resonant top and a normal sound hole. Very nice piece and fun to play.
Channeled through a Bose T4S for a bit of "piezo correction" it's great. W/o the correction it's a bit thin and honky like most nylon piezo's, but once corrected, you can get deep into Willie Nelson style walk-ups and other fun things 😊
You'all might want to try this one into some tone correction pedals or a T4S, maybe even a Kemper. That would be a fun session and demo 😁
So nice to hear something other than Polyphia songs played on this. Got mine coming on Monday without any preorder wait so I'm chuffed.
Sold out everywhere in europe ffs
@Tygo you never know one may show up somewhere unexpectedly. I just kept checking all the time then found one suddenly available at one store.
@@Doc.Marten123 How you finding it? I am looking at trying to get one
@The Fourth Write Djentleman it's not too bad. Certainly doesn't have a great tone unplugged, but I guess that's not what it's for. If you're after a classical guitar sound it's nowhere near as warm sounding. But plugged in, it's pretty decent, the neck feels comfortable and smooth, the pickup system is good.
Great playing and review!
I want to hear more of it with the bass control dimed - from the few seconds we heard, it had some really interesting resonance, almost like a reverb. I might be tempted, if only Ibanez made a left-handed one. 😐
I really want one. I know Tim said on a livestream before they went touring that he was going to push Ibanez for more left-handed models, especially his silver TOD10. Hoping the nylon one is coming soon.
Henson has said he'd love to release a left handed nylon!
Exactly. So pissed that left handed players get treated with spare handedness man.
Same, I'd buy this too
You're in luck. They literally just announced a left handed version 😂
if you cover it in bright green felt and some shag it becomes a Jim Henson signature guitar
waka waka!
Lmao
Good price on those. Tim is smart for keeping it reasonable for a signature guitar. I absolutely love Ibanez acoustics. Might have to snatch one of these up.
Well nylons ar typically not as expensive the other guitars anyways unless you're getting a higher end classical one. Hit as for the other Ibanez nylons they aren't going be as expensive as most of their electrics anyways regardless of it being an artist model.
Tim most likely had no input on cost. This is purely a business deal with very tight margins and very strategically placed. It's all a numbers game in the product world.
Holy buckets I didnt realize how much the tone knobs did to this guitar it sounds crazy
Wow, that pickup sounds great.
Love mine. I have a gibson semi-hollow electric, fender strat, Martin full body acoustic, and this guitar. Makes apartment playing fantastic. Really lightweight, I take it everywhere. The nylon strings make practicing chord shapes and fretting more articulate across all guitar types as you get less clarity by playing blues or classic rock style. As a jimmy page and David gilmour inspired player, this guitar brought out some articulation problems in my finger picking and fretting. Glorious instrument for the price, wish it had a case. My most played practice guitar. I love polyphia so that was a perk.
how is playability vs steel string acoustic? i have tendonitis and want something that takes way less force to play than my steel strings.
@@JonasCraftUltimate I think one thing to consider is that while fretting is less physically demanding, it is way more finicky. By that I mean, you have to more precisely articulate chords. Nylon strings will buzz or mute much more easily than metal strings. If I was you, I would consider lighter gauges or an electric guitar (semi hollow or hollow). Because most guitar songs have bends, and nylon strings don’t bend well. To be candid, I actually sold the Tim Henson guitar to make room for my dream Les Paul. Nothing wrong with the guitar, I just got a great deal on a Gibson Les Paul and the Tim Henson guitar had decent resale still. So made room.
@@zaccarter3801 thanks for saving me $750! Will maybe try it out If I see it in a store but def not ordering it now without trying it, will go get .8s for electric
@@JonasCraftUltimate what’s your play style? I can make some decent recommendations in the same ballpark. If you are kind of in to anything and want something versatile, an epiphone ES-335 is a great instrument that sounds good acoustically and amazing with an amp. WARNING, any purchase of an epiphone will make you dream about the Gibson version. I used to be an “anti-Gibson” guy but then I grew up and Gibson, as a whole, got better (avoid 2013-2018 years, is a good rule of thumb).
Tried it the other day, felt nice and sounded great..takes about 4 months to get one from the store where I live xP
Everyone is saying the guitar sounds bad but i absolutely love how it sounds! Its got that dope quak-ness to it. Its so unique!!!
Yep agree , i think it has a verh nice sound to it , its just different from a traditional acoustic and people maybe say it sound bad becuse its different
I thought it sounded good as well, and it's really not at all expensive for a signature guitar. I see this as a nylon guitar for electric players who want "unplugged" tones on stage or for beginners (who like Polyphia) ... it's obviously not for classical guitarists. If I didn't already have a nylon string electroacoustic I think I'd be sorely tempted.
So you like the sound of horrible fret buzz.
To each their own I guess.
@@powbobsIt's common, flamenco guitars have intentional fret buzz and this does too.
@@yeetyfreety6938
I have flamenco guitars.
Good flamenco guitars only buzz when you really dig in to intentionally produce that specific tonality.
This piece of crap however is just badly made.
Definitely much more for the "rock band with a nylon part of a song" as opposed to a band that is more classical/nylon focused. Playability is for sure more of the focus than the traditional sound
Yeah, it sounds crap.
@@powbobs I'd honestly blame that on the presenters processing of the guitar signal.
@@MrKylederp
It sounds terrible in every review.
Marcin's style is more of a classical guitar style and he uses this guitar alot
I can only describe it as sounding really plastic compared to my takemine
Hey was there any compression put on the guitar track in post on this video? Thanks
ben do u mind doing a direct comparison to the cordoba stage?
He describes things really well
I guess the question is: what potential does this guitar have in the hands of a Tim Henson fan..? I am too old to answer that but I hope some kid does.
If I were a Tim Henson fan, I would probably go for his electric with the pickups that give me a nylon sound to have more versatility. Saying that, I'm always happy that someone like Tim wants to try something new and Ibanez are good enough to accommodate him and have enough faith in him to put it out there.
Hopefully we will hear something new in the future from someone wielding this thing and we'll all eat our hats!
There’s loads of polyphia clones playing electric nylons these days and it sounds very good. I think, like a usual electric guitar, what comes after the guitar is much more important.
Huge Polyphia fan here - I have this guitar and I LOVE playing it. It’s just fun as all hell to play, and I love the tone it has. It’s not meant to be an acoustic - there are thousands of options for that already - this is niche, and I love it for what it is. Super high quality for the price too!
It's a niche guitar but good for noodling and practice. If it gets you to pick it up and play it's a good guitar imo.
@@gohamm8629
Tone?
Dead and buzzy is not good tone.
That sounds good.. A demo only with this guitar please 🥺 🥺 🥺
Where the sound hole?
I actually like how the pickups sound, it's quite unique but that also means it's super niche, and this style of elec/accoustic is already a hard sell on top of the nylon, and I woulds simply NEVER use one of these flat bodies as a straight accoustic which cuts the theoretical usefulness in half for me. Doesn't sound bad at all, but definitely needs the right player AND the right kind of music to be useful.
I was overwhelmingly surprised by the sound and feel of the guitar, playing Flamenco, and Rumba stylings works well on this guitar. It is very versatile, and stands up well to my others, Godin, Rick Turner, Yamaha (silent), and my Kiesel. Definitely fun to play, and the equipped Fishman is super nice. I've been trying to purchase this for a while and the guitars have been back ordered, but while in Boston this past weekend, went to The GC, and miraculously they had one in stock. Got the Labor Day sale price + Berklee School of Music discount....yes!!! Well even it it wasn't on sale, the price is forgiving, and won't put one in the poorhouse. Definitely a well made instrument by Ibanez!! KUDOS!
Not sure if there was a review with the non TOD model on the left of they're the same besides the pickup. I tried that one unplugged.
Love the way you demonstrate with that ending piece of music. Can tell it was somewhat derived from the playing god.
This one is a really good deal but I’ll get the cordoba stage for me soon 🙌🏻
I played the Córdoba stage and I thought it was fantastic but i took a chance and bought the TOD10n figuring I could return it if I didn’t like it. I prefer the TOD. It sounds just as good if not better (to me) and it feels way better.
... now if that was being played through massive PA with full range speakers it would transform the sound , maybe a bit of Strymon reverb / cloudburst etc and you have a sound that will make you money , wedding breakfasts , sit down dinner music , background tunes etc sadly not the best demo , sound wise , playing was great as usual 👍
I just learned that a "wedding breakfast" is something that exists. Thanks!
Nah, I've seen a lot of pro musicians using acoustic-electric nylon strings and that's more or less how they sound plugged in.
My exact set up lol , this guitar and my cloudburst and it’s insanely good sounding
@@danny.chulo.
LOL, no.
The flamenco scales sounds great
Mine sounds great and I play through a boss as well
How does it go fingerstyle?
Great playing, but the tone of the guitar doesn't sound great sadly, it just doesn't have the resonance that you would expect from a good nylon string.
Yamaha guitalele and a silent guitar lovechild. Wish it had more bass acoustically but alas it is more an electric guitar. The look is amazing and the end result unique
Would be good to hear it in the hands of a classical player with decent right hand technique
As with most A/E guitars they need to ditch the piezo pickup and put some transducers on the soundboard. This might work well with an impulse response pedal of a decent nylon string.
Only been playing three years; one of my main hates is piezo pickups, it bothers me that they are the industry standard when transducers sound, in general, so much more natural.
Had a talman acoustic in my arsenal for some chord stuff in my band. Hated the piezo Sound.
IRs might have saved the guitar but that Kind of technology was years away at that point in time.
what’s the name of the lick in the intro?
Sounds like elastic bands. But DI acoustics often do. There's no resonance from the wood.
I'd imagine it sounds better when you run it through Tim Henson's NeuralDSP plugin which has an acoustic sim. I personally find these (and the Fender acoustasonics) a bit puzzling because they're just about useless as actual acoustic guitars... but given how incredibly popular the Fenders are, there must be a real market for them.
For some I imagine it's a sweet compromise, but for me, if I want an acoustic, I want its sound to be intrinsic to the guitar itself and not dependent on DSP.
Yeah this is definitely not a guitar where you go to play a show unplugged with it or just a mic over the acoustic hole 😅
you love a good gibson dont you
@@omgdisfunny4852 I prefer Martins. 😂
@@mrpositronia Except when the binding falls off.
maybe with some crazy pedal effect,it will show what it could do
Yes, anything to cover the actual sound of the guitar itself.
Cool! I like it.
Be a nice gift for your favorite picker. 🥰🎸
Please do a video of tod10n vs cordoba stage
Poor Ben was struggling at the end to find a selling point for this guitar.
I don’t think he liked it
@@alexanderdeadmansche
It’s crap.
How does it compare to the godin multiac though
The Godun actually sounds good.
I'd love to try Late Autumn by Jackie Cheung on this
I think the body should be deeper imo. You'd get a much better sound and resonance. Nice looking guitar, and I have always liked fishman pickups.
Not really looking for resonance when going electro-acoustic. Look at similar Godin guitars, for example. Not my style of guitars, but they have their niche.
Well, it was an Ibanez/Tim Henson design venture. If you're familiar with Polyphia (the band Tim is in) you know that their music is highly processed and produced. Tim is as much a sound engineer as he is a guitar player. He designed this with his unique playing styles and purposes in mind. He can use post processing to make it sound as thick as he wants it to. His music and sound are increasingly popular and Ibanez isn't going to pass up the opportunity to sell his fans a signature model even if it is a one trick pony without the aid of high end processing/recording equipment. It's a cool looking guitar in my opinion. Personally, I'd buy it based on appearances alone, but I like the wider nut and the nylon string sound also.
Kema Baliardo plays a similar style of guitar by Cordoba. Check out his playing of Moorea on youtube.
i would like to see a fret less version of this
Hmmm, that sweet sound of something that cost sixty quid from Argos
What is the other guitar referenced in the vid?
The previous Ibanez nylon? It’s an Ibanez SC500N it was a strat body style of this from the 90s-early 00s.
For me personally I always wanted that one, being left handed and all. It’d be easier for me to switch it over to left handed. But I hear they have a left handed model of the TOD10N now and the non signature model as well so…
Sounds like it's being amplified through an overloaded 1" transistor radio speaker
Encased in an empty coffee can.
Polyphia are highly technical but after a while it sounds really monochrome, one shade of grey
A great sounding guitar. Very nicely played too.
It sounded horrible, what video were you watching?
@@channtastic Anything that produces a sound has potential if you're going to completely alter it in production.
What a player!
Does this mean I will get mine that I ordered from Anderton's in January? Its been delayed twice and not due until 9th June!
This feels like an attempt to make it sound underwhelming so Andertons can start selling a few Cordobas 😂 People keep asking for this guitar despite being sold out. I'd probably get the Cordoba on reputation alone, but oddly enough, every other review made the TOD10N sound very good! I like Ben but with what they have in that room, he could have set up his sound much better.
Now hate me
Cordoba has an internal mike I think it helps a lot
To be honest, I don't think they're sold out. One it could be a marketing ploy to promote want. That's marketing 1.01
But I suspect, having spent 20yrs in retail, that they recalled them and are fixing whatever the problem with bridges was. I'd bet when they reappear, they will be less problematic. That's basic manufacturing.
So far I keep hearing everyone playing a sort of progressive flamenco style on this model .. and always with a thumb pick. I’d love to hear other genres, not even remotely classical on it. I love a thumb pick on an acoustic, but can we ditch the thumb pick on this one?
4:22 damn I'd wish you make a tutorial on that one.
Can't believe they called it Todd
There have been many many guitars by many companies doing the same exact thing. Nylon strings on a guitar that feels like an electric with piezo pick up what I would like to see is a guitar that actually sounds like an acoustic nylon. I don’t get the hype.
Fittingly, „Tod“ also means „death“ in German.
Hey at least it didn't come to pieces while he was playing it - several people who've bought the black one have had the bridge simply come off when they restring it.
I think there are a few more guitars Ibanez should reissue at least some form of - I have a 7 string Ibanez acoustic that is an amazing player and has a gigantic voice; I posted it on reddit and people were drooling just because such a thing has existed.
Sounds just like a Godin Acousticaster nylon string. I heard much complaints about the bad intonation of the Ibanez nylon string though. That would be a deal breaker for me.
Back in June I ordered two of these from two separate companies just to maximize my chances of getting points quickly as possible. I just got the second one in and I’m planning to sell it to a friend who wanted one the first one that came in had perfect intonation right out of the box. The second had a minor issue that took me about 11 seconds to rectify. Don’t let those intonation issues scare you off. They’re usually just a matter of set up (atleast the ones being delivered now) my bigger issues were the small cosmetic problems than mine came with. But these are all things I can live with.
@@Physticuffs How do you correct intonation on that fixed bridge? I don't think it's possible....
@@barendtromp it’s absolutely possible. It just depends on what is causing the issue. In my case it was a very simple fix.
@@Physticuffs But how is it possible with a fixed bridge? Can you tell me what you did exactly? thanks
@@barendtromp sure. There are a bunch of things that can cause the intonation to be off. It’s not necessarily the nut being in the wrong place. In my case, the internation was noticeably off, but it wasn’t catastrophic. So I checked out the nut and realized that the G and e strings looked a little high in the nut, so I loosen the strings and ran a file along the nut slot to cut it properly. Tuned it back up, and the intonation was perfect. Or at least very close to perfect to the point where I can’t even tell any more. Also, I’ve heard some people say that if nylon strings, I’ve been overtightened at any point it can over stretch the string which will cause intonation issues. I haven’t experienced that one myself but it’s something you could look at if you’re having internation issues. Always start with the easiest thing first.
I have that guitar and play it through my Rammstein pedal (Tech 21 Paul Landers Fly Rig) in the Wasser settings with delay on. It sounds great.
It also feels great.
Sounds bad to me, but I'm no nlyon string player. Ben is still great.
Functional wise, seems great! Sound wise, not too impressed.
That dawg, won't hunt...
I think the controls for the pickup isn't in the best place on the guitar and to my ears it didn't sound great but I guess you really need to be in the room to decide that
Almost pulled the trigger on the non-signature one but is just sounds kinda dead and dull to me. I’ve heard one clip in a lo-fi context where it’s unique sound fits great but for anything else it just sounds choked imo. I’m sure it plays great, clearly looks great and the price is ok for the non signature one.
Was going to say nice playing but seems like the wrong crowd lol 😂
Seems I’ve wondered into the tim Henson hate club.
Don't think anyone's hating on Tim Henson; it's just the guitar sounds horrible.
It’s just a dead and buzzy guitar.
Pretty awesome guitar!
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wonder how this stacks up to the similarly priced/style cordoba stage guitar
I'd rather get Godin Multiac or even Yamaha silent guitar
Alvarez made one back in the day too
Does it feel as dead in the hands as it sounds through my speakers?
I prefer the Cordoba Stage guitar
Ben's right hand has Dracula's finger nails 😂
That opening lick sounded a little liek Stanley Jordan.. what was it?
Who's to even say that sounds bad. A sound is a sound. THAT specific sound might inspire someone to write the next hallelujah for all we know.
People seem to forget that music, and sound perception are largely subjective. Distortion was an unintended and originally unwelcome side effect of driving valve amps too hard. Hell, look at the stick Dylan took for going electric. To the right people this guitar will be amazing.
No keep playing! That was groovy af!
5:35 He is already kinda playing god xD
Is that Walnut (Canadian Rosewood) on the bridge?
Sounds like a tin can.
I love it
So many fing haters goddam
Always love your acoustic guitar playing...but this Tree of Death guitar, makes me feel bad for the tree that had to die, to make it.
Getting turned into a beautiful instrument which is going to live on for decades to come. Thats not too bad is it?
@@snowjix in the right hands maybe. This kind of guitar has already been around for decades already though hasn’t it?
All guitars are dead trees
@@basilandrigsby Probably
@@bedboy9787 indeed. Unless they’re oil cans or ice cream tubs. 😉
Coffee House open mic kit. Nobody will mistake it for Willie Nelson’s Trigger or Feliciano’s Guitarra Luthier.
I really doubt that Trigger sounds particularly good unamplified. It's more air than guitar. I'd rather have an intact soundboard, personally. 🤣
@@Vykk_Draygo
Trigger sounds surprisingly good unplugged.
This thing, not at all.
dumb question probably but what's the name of the very spanish-y sounding riff you played at around 4:33?
Look up the Ace combat Zero songs, it sounds almost identical to his riff on some of the tracks. Zero, Near the Border, Testimony all sound like it. Otherwise it's just pure jamming and it's a cosmic coincidence
interesting, not at all the type of soundtrack I'd have expected for this game!@@daxtr5
Has that run poorly through a PA sound that I don’t like. Wish it wasn’t so.
I hate the timbre of nylon strings with piezos so much I will never get over it.
A lot of guitar players don't like new things. This is a new thing. The guitar needs to progress forward.
Its a tin can
There have been lots of dead sounding and buzzy guitars before.
Apparently attaching a popular guitarist’s name to one makes it not just another crap sounding guitar.
The power of marketing.
Tim wrote a song with millions of views and streams on that crap sounding guitar. Maybe you guys just need to become better musicians?
@@powbobsgo listen to polyphias new album where it’s used. It doesn’t sound like that
@@MyPPSad
Do you know why?
I like the idea. I just don't like the piezo sound.
A good price but it's not something I would like to own. In my very humble opinion it came across as a bit of a jack of all trades, master of none.
You sound beautiful !
So you can connect and play this guitar into electric guitar amps no problem?
Everytime I hear the uk proces I wince, Canadian you add about 300 to that price. "Affordable" gear here is about 1k average 😅
There is a trade off with electric nylon guitars...too many nuances to get into here, but if you process the sound, these guitars will sound incredible. The best analogy would be to say that the difference between a real saxophone and a plastic saxophone is like a real classical guitar is to an electric classical nylon guitar. In both examples, both instruments are two completely different animals. So you decide how you want to handle the trade off.
Ben is a great guitar player, and I enjoy his videos. With that said, this guitar may be the worst sounding guitar I’ve ever heard demoed. I mean, wow … this is a sound people WANT?
Yep, pretty dreadful. Is strung with elastic bands?
Trouble is, this guy is a wizard. He could make a cardboard guitar sound sweet.
More like your playing is shit?
This is a hollow body electric guitar that happens to have nylon strings. It doesn’t have to sound like anything unplugged (what does your Casino sound like unplugged?) and isn’t supposed to sound acoustic when it’s plugged in. It’s not an Acoustisonic, which everyone seems to think it’s trying to be.
My Casino sounds a hundred times better than this unplugged.
Someone put this In Willie Nelson’s hands quickly. I want to know how he makes a guitar like this sounds.
I bet he sounds like himself!!
That's a great idea, but I don't think you could pry Trigger out of his hands!
Nelson's family and luthier made an exact copy of Trigger for Nelson as a backup guitar in case Trigger eventually falls apart. They put it into his hands, told him to give it a try. He looked at it, put it down and said that he will keep playing for as long as Trigger is still playing. And never touched the copy again.
So the chances of Nelson playing this are exactly zero, even if he thought it was an interesting instrument.
@@Laerei That's a great story! Thanks for sharing!
A useful test would have been without picks ... purely finger-picked. I rarely play a classical guitar with pickups; produces a nasally sound rather than the fuller sound I prefer.
I doesn't have a neck tattoo, no deal.
I think they call it "math rock" these days