RANT - WHAT MAKES A GUITAR "GOOD"?

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Комментарии • 178

  • @user-StevenLyleStyle
    @user-StevenLyleStyle 19 дней назад +30

    A good guitar makes you smile when you see it. A great guitar makes you pick it up when you see it.

    • @joesatchton212
      @joesatchton212 17 дней назад

      That's about the wisest thing I've read on youtube this month. Bravo.

  • @matthouston8411
    @matthouston8411 18 дней назад +15

    PRS says a great guitar sustains for 45 seconds, good for 30, bad for 15 seconds. So I timed mine yesterday... Thankfully I have a little tinnitus so all my guitars can sustain for days! lol

    • @TomMacalisang
      @TomMacalisang 18 дней назад

      i have tinnitus too. my guitar sounds like it's plugged to a ring modulator pedal 😂

  • @imacmadman22
    @imacmadman22 18 дней назад +5

    I couldn't agree more, I've made my biggest improvements on my cheap guitars because I enjoyed playing them. No one ever asks about what brushes or paints Michelangelo used to paint the Sistine Chapel, we just admire his masterpiece. Why can't we think that way about guitars?

  • @StevenHess
    @StevenHess 18 дней назад +6

    A good guitar is a guitar that makes you want to play it. Price doesn't matter. Body style doesn't matter. When you pick it up you instantly want to play it. That's a good guitar.

    • @Kevin-mx1vi
      @Kevin-mx1vi 17 дней назад

      The bass I always reach for first is the cheapest one I have - a £230 Squier Affinity PJ bass. It just feels _right_ and it makes me smile. 😊

  • @yaire8648
    @yaire8648 19 дней назад +18

    Sunday morning sermons from vicar Henning 😀

  • @streetlegal008
    @streetlegal008 19 дней назад +12

    This is absolutely right and it is great to hear it said by someone who makes his living out of marketing promotions. One good note of caution for everyone interested in new guitars coming on the market is - don't buy that one because next week you will see another one that you like and the week after that another. So maybe put off your purchase for six months or a year until you are absolutely sure that the guitar that you keep coming back to is the guitar that you want - and by that time you can pick it up second hand!

  • @katzensprung7449
    @katzensprung7449 19 дней назад +6

    I really like these kind of "philosophical" videos, thank you Henning!!

  • @tonywissler5758
    @tonywissler5758 19 дней назад +14

    Reminds me of another classic piece of advice: “if it sounds good, it is”

  • @SAagreedSA
    @SAagreedSA 17 дней назад +1

    Love your perspective. I've worked as a reviewer myself, you articulate it all thoughtfully and well. The things we love already, are GOOD, making music with things is really what makes them good not the price tag or the cachet or whatever. We invest ourselves in our music in so many ways!

  • @Pantechnology1
    @Pantechnology1 18 дней назад +2

    Love this channel! Entertaining and informative! You are the man!

  • @SeanAllocca
    @SeanAllocca 19 дней назад +7

    Love the rants even when they are not rants.

  • @latheofheaven1017
    @latheofheaven1017 19 дней назад +2

    Bravo, Henning. You like to come across as a bit zany and crazy, but you are actually the most honest, sensible and thoughtful guitar RUclipsr I know of. (And I only watch the good ones!)

  • @rowbags3017
    @rowbags3017 19 дней назад +6

    I'm a firm believer that every guitar has its uses. I played a "T-style" (i.e. not a Fender) at a rehearsal a couple of days ago, and it didn't work at all for what we wanted - its sound was too light and delicate for our trio. But I won't get rid of it, because I can imagine that same sound working absolutely perfectly for a rhythm part in a recording. It was still a huge relief to get home and play my beloved Tonefox Elcaster though! 😉😎

  • @mark.guitar
    @mark.guitar 18 дней назад +3

    D'accord. I used a £50 junker Squier strat as my main guitar in the early nineties. I bought it for a pupil and ended up giving them my "cheapo". A Squier precision was my main bass. These are now stored carefully and brought out every few months. I trained as a luthier and now almost all of my main instruments are handbuilt by me for me. They each do the job I built them for. Those cheapos back in the day did all of the jobs!

  • @basiltiffani8850
    @basiltiffani8850 18 дней назад +2

    These rants are my favorites.

  • @user-abcxyz-xr2eg
    @user-abcxyz-xr2eg 19 дней назад +2

    I do care only about playability, so the neck is most important to me. I've 3 LPs: a G tribute, a Spear and a HB SC 450 plus. Their necks and playability are very similar and I like them all. Sound is a separate issue (amp, pedals, etc.) which is not so important to me in my bedroom. I admit being happy about also having a "real" strat, a F usa. G and F I got for very little money, used, some time ago. Now prices are crazy. I'm not willing to spend more than 500 bucks for a guitar - I am a bedroom-rocker after all, remember! Grüße aus Österreich!

  • @KennethRrvik
    @KennethRrvik 19 дней назад +2

    Spot on, all of it. The guitars you reach for, and the ones that relax you, or pump you up, whatever emotion is appropriate - are good ones.
    In particular - reviews must be read as "this is someone elses opinion" - valid, but *not necessarily right for you*.
    This goes for a lot of other stuff too...

  • @raytorvalds3699
    @raytorvalds3699 17 дней назад +1

    Beautifully said, Henning.
    That guitar for me is a 500 euro guitar. It just makes me want to play it and it inspires me. I knew it with the first chord.
    And yes, I have (had) much more expensive guitars too.

  • @riffmondo9733
    @riffmondo9733 14 дней назад +1

    This is an interesting question.
    I have several “higher end” guitars as well as older less known models and “low end” big names.
    When writing I have an old Yamaha classical and a 1983 Japanese Squire.
    I think it is because I have had these two the longest of all.
    30 years or so.
    They feel natural and because they are not a huge investment but are great playing instruments they became my “bangers”
    Guitars you throw in the back seat going to a friends to jam or a party.
    Maybe this comes into play.
    At this point I will never get rid of them.

  • @oldmanshreds
    @oldmanshreds 18 дней назад +2

    Finding "the right one" is sometimes very tedious. The guitar that makes you forget you have a guitar and you just... play. I got some negative responses when revealing I cut a chunk of wood of a guitar to make it more playable for me.

  • @gearViewmirror
    @gearViewmirror 19 дней назад +7

    Pfarrer Pauly mit der Mittagsmesse😁 Schön gesagt!, Henning! Grüße aus der Schweiz🎸🤘🏼🎸👊🏼

  • @jorgesilva5004
    @jorgesilva5004 18 дней назад +1

    I could’ agree more. Love the honesty and clarity of the message. Thanks

  • @wlkalong
    @wlkalong 18 дней назад +3

    I would say a good guitar is any guitar which has a good comfortable neck that you like and a body/appearance that makes you want to play it. Everything else can be changed out for a reasonable price. Pots, jack, pickups, new tuners, etc. You can even get used parts to drive your costs down further. You can take a $100 beat up used guitar, add another $150 in parts and get a great, relic inspired, gig-able guitar that will sound like something that costs a lot more and has its own unique personality. Something you will never see anyone else playing. Anything shines when you add a little love to it.

  • @felipegomabrockmann2740
    @felipegomabrockmann2740 18 дней назад +1

    many thanks for this video Hennig, it made me feel better. Trying to get out of GAS since a while

  • @JoeFic9997
    @JoeFic9997 8 дней назад

    Nice video thoughts H, and thanks for sharing your good practical perspectives on what makes a good guitar!
    For several decades I only had one guitar and that’s what I played… it was a great guitar!

  • @TomMacalisang
    @TomMacalisang 18 дней назад +2

    a good guitar is something that makes you smile when you play it

  • @hannuhanhi183
    @hannuhanhi183 19 дней назад +2

    Wondered quite some time what do you get with a 6000€ guitar vs. 600€ guitar ?.
    1. Better sound ?
    2. Better playability ?
    3. Ego boost ?
    4. Respect ?
    5. Rare wood ?
    6. Empty bank account ?
    7. Alot of debt ?
    8. All of above ?
    or something else, what ?

  • @fraenkiboii
    @fraenkiboii 19 дней назад +1

    The guitar center story about the blue peavy is endlessly cool! made my day! I love encounters like these!

  • @daka4711
    @daka4711 16 дней назад

    Hi Henning, thanks for this great not-so-ranty video.
    Great thoughts, great words. I own some not that bad equipment. But I started playing guitar about a year ago. My equipment is okay. But my playing is shitty. It is slowly getting better. But it makes me happy, no matter how bad I'm playing. 😉

  • @jancabri8291
    @jancabri8291 18 дней назад

    So true, Henning: the good guitar is the one you want to play on and on and on and on. And it's not my '63 Stratocaster or '85 Les Paul! It's my ...

  • @joutynathan4168
    @joutynathan4168 16 дней назад

    I really like to play jazz / soul with my solar guitar, i like how it plays and how it sounds. (But i get your point)

  • @MashaT22
    @MashaT22 18 дней назад +1

    Thanks for sharing this! Make effing music is right! 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

  • @paultaylor2968
    @paultaylor2968 19 дней назад +1

    I really enjoy these chewing the fat with Henning vids. Thanks pal

  • @BlazonStone
    @BlazonStone 15 дней назад

    1. Stays in tune and has a stable neck in different temparatures etc
    2. Has a setup that works for your personal preference
    3. The electronics works
    Thats about it I think.
    I love EVERTUNE by the way, for the first point mainly because it kind of makes the temperature issue go away

  • @steverobinson7040
    @steverobinson7040 18 дней назад

    I bought the 25th anniversary JA hb because of your review it is amazing I play it more than my les Paul , Strat , tele and Charvel so it’s the cheapest and best. Thank you .

  • @landonbailey
    @landonbailey 19 дней назад +1

    I love guitars

  • @alexugur
    @alexugur 18 дней назад

    So true. My fiddle was given to me as a rescue project. Not very valuable, but nicely antiqued, it belonged to the donor's mother and she just wanted it played. Over the years, repairs were costly, but I just love the sound and how it feels. A similar story for the bow. And when debilitating osteoarthritis struck my shoulders, I could no longer play my hand built jumbo guitar by Chris Cross (St Albans). So I thought to see if I could re-learn with a smallish bodied Crafter, cedar top with ply back and sides, for €200,-. With ultra light strings, this acoustic is rich in harmonics, but also has huge projection and is now my main workhorse for accompanying Irish trad music. I even prefer it over a friend's Taylor. And for messing around at home, I dug out an old Kawai Aquarius that I bought in the mid 1980's. It was the cheapest electric guitar in the shop (at the time, Fender was just introducing cheaper Japanese built Squiers at more than twice the price). I didn't really get on with electric guitars, so it languished in the back of a cupboard. Now, forty years later, I took an interest. It plays very easily and has great resonance when not plugged in. But the pickups were super dull. I pushed myself to DIY and fit DiMarzio pickups and now that guitar has a gorgeous and quite unique sound with great clarity. I bought an ultra cheap valve amp, replaced the valves with Russian ones and went for a Celestion heavy magnet Creamback. Even though it only gets played at home, I prefer the old Kawai by far over my far more expensive Chinese PRS hollowbody for noodling and just creating a sweet sound.

  • @igorstavtsev5962
    @igorstavtsev5962 18 дней назад

    Well, cheers to that!
    Yes, it is important to feel that your guitar suits you, you enjoy it in whatever sense.
    However, there’s always a better guitar, I am sorry, yes, better is a thing.
    Better setup, better pickup configuration for you, better components, better woods, better finish in terms of style/preference.
    Maybe, it is more expensive, maybe not.
    Plus, self-discovery, your taste might change, your playing style might change. It’s a process.

  • @melihkaleciklioglu
    @melihkaleciklioglu 17 дней назад

    my first ever guitar was a horrible ALDI sg copy, taped electronics, drop a. objectively speaking the worst, but I learned how to do basic songwriting and arrangements on it. then I got a Harley benton 8 string, only 150,- but I learned so much on that, again regarding songwriting etc, it felt like a million bucks to me.
    my main guitar today is a 400,- squire deluxe tele. feels comfortable, plays great and I can go shovel snow with it and it still works afterwards.
    most importantly: I always want to pick that thing up and beat the hell out of it and create something.
    Sure a guitar with certain specs would be nice to have, but a custom shop guitar for 10k is worth nothing if it doesn't make me want to play.

  • @rinkydinky-ob9pe
    @rinkydinky-ob9pe 19 дней назад

    my 1st guitar was an Egmund acoustic western style from the 60s/ 70s that my brother got me from a chap for christmas , i loved it , now i know its not a d18 or a j45 but it set me on the path to loving music , really its about influence . , love the show henning

  • @analogblues9606
    @analogblues9606 18 дней назад

    I’ve been playing for 60 out of my 69 years on earth. I totally agree with you and love your channel! Keep up the great work!!!!😊

  • @djmouglie
    @djmouglie 18 дней назад

    I just have one electric guitar now. G&l tribute jazzmaster style guitar. It plays well and sounds just the way I like a guitar to sound. I realized I'm a guy with multiple hobbies and job and such so I don't have time for more then this. The rest would be wall decoration.

  • @mannymejia7972
    @mannymejia7972 18 дней назад

    Completely agree, I have a couple of high end 4k+ PRSes and a few squires and other guitars in between , I buy guitars that feel and sound good and stay in tune, regardless of name on the headstock or what country they came from.

  • @stimpsonjcat26
    @stimpsonjcat26 18 дней назад +1

    Bought a brand new rogue SX bass (under 200$) to leave at our bands practice space because I wanted to leave it there instead of hauling my gear back and forth. This way I didn't have to worry about my expensive gear getting stolen as there were a lot of other bands in the building renting out practice rooms. I had quite a few people asking me what I was using because they liked the sound. It was funny explaining to them that I was using such cheap gear.
    You don't need expensive gear to sound good.

  • @lukesteverything627
    @lukesteverything627 18 дней назад

    I know you work hard and I love watching it. Stay strong, the trolls are just sad people.

  • @janbrenner9488
    @janbrenner9488 13 дней назад

    Great, this is so right! Jack White once played the shit out of a piece of fence-wire and a pickup nailed on a piece of wood in the documentary "It might get loud" and comments: " Who says you need to buy a guitar?"

  • @robertdonosobuchner3129
    @robertdonosobuchner3129 18 дней назад

    I bought a Baby Z in fire red from Dean Guitars in a second hand guitar store. It was only 150€, with a new guitar strap and new strings... I cleaned the guitar, made some adjustments and with the new strings it was sounding very good. This guitar just makes me happy. I have some expensive guitars at home, but this little Baby Z is now part of my guitar family and it has it own character and value. It will stay because I like it very much. I use it for blues and rock and it sounds really good. I'm still looking for other guitars, 7 string, 8 string guitars, baritones...if there is one guitar that let me smile, than it will be on my guitar wish list and there are some that are really not expensive.

  • @michaelhuntley353
    @michaelhuntley353 18 дней назад

    Resonance, fit, proper set up.

  • @timothyallen3161
    @timothyallen3161 18 дней назад

    One of my favorite bases to play is knock-off p bass I got for $150. This bass inspired me to continue playing and it's still in my collection today.

  • @davidf8749
    @davidf8749 18 дней назад

    The best guitar is the one you reach for and play. A great setup does go a long way. Anything else can be fixed with better tuners/pickups etc. If you have a brand name guitar, then you may forgive some aspects but there will always be a conflict.
    Emotional attachment is another thing if you have built/adapted something. I bet Brian May is emotionally attached to his guitar (I've heard from other players that it is quite difficult to play) but he has invested time/effort/money into it and it's a personal thing.
    The music industry is geared to wanting you to buy the latest/greatest thing but what you have might be just fine. I had a "Top Twenty" strat copy when I started. I believe these are similar/same as Teisco, and are almost boutique these days (wish I'd kept it :) ).

  • @ghfdt368
    @ghfdt368 19 дней назад

    This is a great question and discussion to have that I think has a simple answer but many many layers of explanation and Le nuance. For me personally its any guitar that makes me want to play practice and make music. It doesn't matter to me what's on the headstock and while of course the price and quality does matter but i'm happy with something that when I see just sitting there I want to make music with it and play it no matter if it cost 200 bucks or 2000 bucks ive had guitars iv'e paid both those prices for and loved. I think sometimes players can fall into the trap of wanting to own something just to own it because its fancy, or expensive or desirable and new, Not because they like it, they just like the thought of owning it. I've done my best to not fall into that mindset because for me, there is nothing more sad than buying a guitar and it never being played or touched especially if its a guitar worth thousands of bucks.

  • @karlobluesman
    @karlobluesman 18 дней назад

    The feel and playability of the neck.

  • @wendelllaffin240
    @wendelllaffin240 18 дней назад

    its wonderful to have our own perception of what good is. We can all maybe just let go of the concept that our definition of good is actually absolute. it's very far from it and not a subject worth arguing over as its as personal to each of us just like our fingerprints are.

  • @SonicDriveStudio
    @SonicDriveStudio 18 дней назад

    Good video with some good points, as always mate!

  • @norbertsmallegange6331
    @norbertsmallegange6331 19 дней назад

    My first GOOD guitar was a 1988 Ibanez 540R-SK, but only became good after a lot of mods...
    Built in an onboard preamp, 2 or 3 mods of pickups, filing off the sharp edges of the frets, polishing them,, locking the trem, adjusting the neck, the works stable tuning, sooo nice , and then i started playing in a bigband, needed a semi acoustic, bought a ibanez AS400,
    Also super super nice
    Nice woolly sound in neckpos.
    And for solos the bridge-pu would rock!
    Both are gone. Now i have a mahogany S470
    Great kit

  • @zloboslav_
    @zloboslav_ 18 дней назад

    I have one of the earlier Harley Benton teles which has very heavy body and a very strange neck: it's quite thick, but with very flat radius and small frets - an unusual uncommon neck, but very comfy. I played it a lot for a few years. I do love my RG550 the most currently. :)

  • @GabrielNacu
    @GabrielNacu 15 дней назад

    The best guitar is the one you actually make music with!
    Words to live by ;)

  • @Scooby743
    @Scooby743 18 дней назад

    Great "Neck", string thru body, and well-balanced

  • @ESP77769
    @ESP77769 18 дней назад

    There are some "magic guitars" out there. The ones you pick up and play, and you instantly bond with, it just feels and plays right. Those are the kind of guitars that no matter what the brand/price/looks are. Of course there are different guitars for different styles, too. What feels the best, sounds the best, most versatile, most fun to play is the winner.

  • @DanielBobke
    @DanielBobke 18 дней назад

    There is a lot of cork-sniffing in the guitar gear world...anyone who watches RUclips or participates in gear forums online sees it every day. Henning makes a great point here..."good" is in the hands of the player and in the musical output. I remember reading not long ago that Mike Rutherford from Genesis often plays Squier guitars in the studio and on stage. All this while dentists everywhere are only one or two root canals away from the next 1950s Les Paul they are going to hang on their wall. These are tools for making music at the most basic level - if they do that well they are great guitars.

  • @myturningpoint
    @myturningpoint 18 дней назад

    I've been saying this for years now I've matured and have the benefit of hindsight over a wasted youth:
    Use what you have, with the time you have and the skills you currently possess and just create.
    Creativity is a journey, not a destination.
    People who spend more time complaining about gear (outside of professional reviewers etc) than actually playing/making music are either insecure and compensating for a lack of creativity or are elitist gatekeepers (who are also probably insecure and compensating for something)

  • @Traumglanz
    @Traumglanz 18 дней назад

    The best guitar is the one that is always ready to be played, because that is the one that makes you play more.
    For me that's some dirt cheap Harley Benton R-446 or something like that. It used to be blue, but now it's a bit dented and painted by my little daughter... and that's fine because it just stands in the living room in a guitar stand, my daughter loves to play with it sometimes and daddy can grab it whenever to play.
    And actually it even feels now good to play.... took a few years and some Uncle Ben's Nut Sauce... but now it's even rock solid tuning stable. Great neck also. Tons of other flaws, but who cares, it's cheap, it did grow on me and I don't have to worry about it. Love that guitar.

  • @johnplaystheguitar123
    @johnplaystheguitar123 18 дней назад

    I only really care about the neck and the fretwork. As long as other things like tuners and pickups etc are working. Unfortunately it you want really high end fretwork you need an expensive guitar in most cases. Instead of this I just learned how to level crown and dress frets myself so I could turn any guitar I have into a "good" guitar.

  • @Burbund
    @Burbund 18 дней назад

    5 minutes in and i already agree, i once bought 500 dollar ibanez and it was terrible... because the setup was awful and strings were too thick for the moving bridge; string change and diy setup after it's currently a guitar i'll probably never sell
    Edit: oh yeah and the pickups (two humbuckers) were wired out of phase, idk if on purpose or on accident as those aftermarket pickups have reverse polarity in the neck compared to stock ones

  • @amirhe6
    @amirhe6 18 дней назад

    Great video.... Love the sundays rants❤

  • @tonedowne
    @tonedowne 18 дней назад

    For me there are ideas and vibe guitars, and then there are performance guitars. I don’t have enough money to be able to afford a guitar that can give both.
    I have a PRS se DGT which is my NO1 by a long shot. I play better on it, the intonation is perfect and the pickups are pretty much my ideal humbucker sound.
    But I have never written anything on it. What I do wrote on is a Cort 335 copy and a Mexican Tele. The Tele is a pig to play but rings like a bell. So bad things sound terrible and good things really stand out. Which is great for the creative process. And the Cort had that semi acoustic resonance that lets me strip chords back to their essential notes and write melodies without noodling them away into nothing.
    But when it comes time to record and/or perform those parts, the PRS comes out and it all becomes more in tune, more in time and more fluid.

  • @BigMikeGuitar
    @BigMikeGuitar 18 дней назад

    All the guitars I’m serious about are Flying V’s, because the instruments unimpeded access to the highest frets is the only design that properly accommodates the classical hand position I use. Good guitar? For me, the number one consideration - is it a Flying V. Next consideration is - does it feature the mechanical attributes I have developed a preference for? Specifically: ergonomic neck-through construction; premium truss-rod; symmetrical V body; 24 jumbo frets (preferably stainless steel); wide flat compound radius fretboard; primo fret-work; ebony fretboard (I prefer marker inlays, side dots are nice); premium Floyd Rose tremolo, hot pick-ups; clean easy access controls (kill switch is fun); high E string not set too close to the fretboard edge. Other considerations - is it reasonably aesthetic, and is it reasonably priced for a premium instrument. Final note is - I don’t need too many of these highly specialized tools. I can use a fixed and tremolo bridge version of sex, seven, and eight string iterations. Over the years, I have acquired a couple extra of the six-string variety. Developing the understanding and utility preference for these highly specific design requirements, including achieving the high-gain sound I prefer, has been integral to my development as a player. Cheers~

  • @ReStee-n1f
    @ReStee-n1f 17 дней назад

    ur right !

  • @letstalksong
    @letstalksong 13 дней назад

    Hate to say I told you so, it’s all about “doesn’t hurt my fingers”. Also best choice criterion for swimsuits, wives, fruit, knives (you’re holding them wrong if they do), lawyers etc

  • @Mr986Willis
    @Mr986Willis 18 дней назад

    I hope my guitars inspire their owners to pick them up and play them. If my creations bring pleasure to their owners then i have done my job well and i am happy.

  • @DreidMusicalX
    @DreidMusicalX 19 дней назад

    I have some guitars I have had 25 years and love them. I went and bought a $350.00US Kramer Striker, stuck some better tuning keys on it GHOTO and holy crap! I actually like it better than most of my expensive guitars. I was going to change it pickups and very quickly changed my mind on that and kept the Kramer HSS stock pickups that sound just kick ass! Not sure if it was a fluke. But I set the guitar up,, its frets were perfectly done and this guitar just shreds. 39 years, I never needed a 5k guitar to sound good. Would it be nice to have? Surely, but is it worth it? Being that I can build guitars pretty well. I would build one before spending 5k.

  • @michaeldelaney5971
    @michaeldelaney5971 19 дней назад +2

    Spot on here. My guitarist prefers his Harley Benton to his Gibson because it stays in tune better, weighs a lot less and is more comfortable. The sound for our style is similar too.

  • @joergfuchs8130
    @joergfuchs8130 18 дней назад

    The Instrumen has you to instpiring you!
    If you like the Sound and its feel good to play then it is the Guitar for the Player
    You are so right 👌

  • @dasutzt1980
    @dasutzt1980 18 дней назад

    I like it when I can communicate with the instrument, when it has a character I can interact with. Most of my guitars were cheap, second hand or pulled out of the dumpster. Interestingly, the guitars inspiring me the least are PRS, they're like nice, well-dressed people, taking being unoffensive for a lifestyle.

  • @Doomchild2XL
    @Doomchild2XL 17 дней назад

    My favorite strat is in its bones still a Marathon strat from Roadstar. 😁 Prost!

  • @vaughnwebbermusic
    @vaughnwebbermusic 18 дней назад

    I started with a similar guitar

  • @tymanngruter1808
    @tymanngruter1808 18 дней назад

    Iff it nothing likes a christmas tree with strings! 🤤

  • @amirigra7515
    @amirigra7515 19 дней назад +1

    Come quick, a new "Henning Spitting Truth" video just dropped

  • @mrfivethirteen8919
    @mrfivethirteen8919 19 дней назад +1

    The guitar presented in PRS shape is highly likely no PRS. Point 1: PRS does not install Sperzl tuners, their own (Gotoh made) Phase II (closed back) and Phase III (open back) are pretty much the average. part for their Core line. Point 2: The birds appear typical, but the whole layout even does not fit to their 35th Anniversary batch.
    Point 3: Most obvious indicator for a fraud. The vibrato system. PRS is famous for their 6 screws vintage vibrato. This particular guitar does have a two point vintage system. VERY uncommon for a real PRS.
    If it sounds and plays, it's a different cup of tea.
    Thanks for your thoughts, indeed.

  • @Mikesosa75
    @Mikesosa75 18 дней назад

    Thanks for this I needed

  • @stevekirkby6570
    @stevekirkby6570 19 дней назад

    Talking of Peavey, I think they are well under-rated. I have a Rotor EXP and it has a place in the stable, along with my PRS and Fenders. Very nice fingetboardand fretwork, licenced FR trem. If I tinkered with anything it would bethe PU's, but not surewhat would better the stock ones. So, I guess it does what it says on the tin. As an aside, the Exploer shape looks 'uncomfortabe' but is actually very nice sat in the lap. It gets brought out when I need the FR or when I want a heavier sound. Nice. It cost very very little, so priceis not *always* an indicator of quality.

  •  18 дней назад

    amen

  • @SlimeyGuitarStrings
    @SlimeyGuitarStrings 18 дней назад

    I think it's really funny that people watch guitar channels on youtube and start to think there is this criteria you need to have a great guitar, but the criteria is actually really simple. 1. Do you lose yourself and lose track of time when playing it? 2. Is it comfortable? Some guitars are great, but you realize over time that the neck profile makes your hand hurt, the weight makes your back hurt, or whatever else just do not work for you and I think that's important too. It's why more people should go play guitars in person, you will never be able to tell either of those things through a computer screen, and I say this as someone who has bought too many guitars. All of the best guitars I own were guitars I played in person before I bought them.

  • @johnwebb2562
    @johnwebb2562 18 дней назад

    Hi Henning , the neck on that white guitar you have in your video looks twisted north bound.

  • @warrioroflight2781
    @warrioroflight2781 19 дней назад

    Love you too Henning ❤

  • @nedim_guitar
    @nedim_guitar 15 дней назад

    The guitar I have ever owned was an FGN J-Standard Odyssey JOS-2-CLG in charcoal. I couldn't connect with it, and I also didn't like how the pickups sounded. They were great, Seymour Duncan, modern sounding pickups, very glassy too, but I was looking for the more classic sound, but I didn't want a Fender. I wanted something more versatile, but as it turns out, I don't use humbuckers. Single coil pickups are my thing, and my preferred guitar is an SSS Strat. I sold the FGN, but I sometimes with I stil had it, because I'm a different player now than I was two years ago. Who knows, maybe it would have been better suited for me now, though it is an HSS, but it has coil split.
    On the other hand, my first electric guitar, that I bought in 2002 or 2003, was this shitty beginner's guitar, probably chinese, very likely with and MDF body, and it's called Reno Guitar Technology, or simply Reno. I did some setup and mods on it a couple of years ago after I got it back, after being separated from it some seven years... I actually enjoy playing it now, despite the annoying things, such as fret buzz, but the tuning (D#-G-A#-F-G-D, or lately F-A-D) has given me a lot of inspiration, and has resulted in a song and a lot of ideas.
    I have owned around 30 electric guitars total (8 or 9 at the same time), and I really picked up my buying and selling in 2021 and 2022. I have settled and right now I own six guitars (Reno, PRS SE, Yamaha Revstar, Jet JT-350, Jet JS-300 and my most expensive, Shijie STE), and every guitar is tuned differently. I will likely buy another SSS Strat, maybe a Fender, but more likely something better but more affordable.
    The important thing is to make music!

  • @TheOligoclonalBand
    @TheOligoclonalBand 18 дней назад

    Guitars are strange. I go through phases. There were years I didn't really like to play some guitars and suddenly I'm in love with them and can't get enough of them. Not that I dislike these guitars, but there are times when I wouldn't pick them if I wanted to buy a new guitar.

  • @myopicautisticmetal9035
    @myopicautisticmetal9035 19 дней назад

    I used to have a plack Beavy Ratriot er Black Peavy Patriot, it had a built in amp in the case, I miss that guitar.

  • @DosHemperor
    @DosHemperor 18 дней назад

    The problem with tradition is that it turns into furniture and it's expensive. Let ME! explain. More expensive guitars ( and I've only had one 3k LP in my life, but it sat in the corner because I was afraid to play it ) I played my other guitar more because the dings gave it character and I wanted to avoid giving my 3k LP any dings... So, my Gibson les Paul sat in the corner, and I loved to look at it / it was cool looking; furniture, so I took it back.... As far as what guitar to get and keep in my experience, is an affordable guitar that you're not afraid to beat up. Hi Yaw!

  • @Deichwerkstatt
    @Deichwerkstatt 18 дней назад

    Sehr schönes Thema! Die „PRS“ wäre mehr als leicht zu reparieren… Ich mache das häufig und habe früher sogar einige diese Instrumente an Anfänger verschenkt. Wer eine schlecht bespielbare Gitarre als Anfänger bekommt hört vielleicht deswegen wieder auf…

  • @BeesWaxMinder
    @BeesWaxMinder 19 дней назад

    Looking forward to this one…

  • @reedl2353
    @reedl2353 18 дней назад

    Did I hear you say that you gave the Sully to someone else?!
    Sully is an acquaintance, and he is a wonderful guy in addition to being a great luthier. That pink guitar was one of the prettiest things he's ever built. I was very happy to see it getting some love on a popular channel.

    • @EytschPi42
      @EytschPi42  18 дней назад

      no no nooooo... that one is mine and it is here to stay... one of the best guitars I EVER owned!

    • @reedl2353
      @reedl2353 18 дней назад

      @@EytschPi42 I'm so glad to hear it! I had a chance to check that guitar out when Sully was at the Dallas Guitar Show. I don't have that much money to spend on a guitar, but if I did, that is the guitar that I would have bought. When I saw it on your channel I went, "Oh, it's like Sully made it just for HP!"

  • @GCKelloch
    @GCKelloch 18 дней назад

    I keep seeing fret end sharpness as being part of what makes a bad guitar. Well, doesn't that depend on the temp and humidity of the place the frets were filed compared to the temp and humidity of where the guitar was tested by the person demoing it? It would make sense if all guitar builder would let FB wood dry out and then sit in a cool environment for a few days b4 filing fret ends, but that is not practical in many cases.

  • @Smart-Alex
    @Smart-Alex 18 дней назад

    The name on the headstock of course. 😂

  • @hirudo881
    @hirudo881 16 дней назад

    I love my electric guitar, visually and how it plays. But it sounds like shit and i dont know why. Most likely my fault but i dont know how to fix it.
    Its just a muddy, undefined low-end heavy mess, especially with distortion. No way to make out chords.
    I tried adjusting the pickup height, put new supposedly neutral sounding strings on it... no luck.
    Am i supposed to just fix the input signal with an EQ before doing anything else, or what? I also thought about taking it to a local music store to test it out on different amps. Just to check if its the guitar itself or my setup. Since i dont have a lot of space, im using a NUX NGS-6 now but also have a Zoom G1 Four. I could also try it on the PC, but id rather get away from it.
    Any idea?

  • @cechichan
    @cechichan 19 дней назад

    Guitar to me is about having fun playing it. If someone is lucky to find a guitar that is fun to them, thats the goal to me !!

  • @DMSProduktions
    @DMSProduktions 18 дней назад +1

    STOP drinking Starchucks mate!
    Rock on! \m/

  • @shorerocks
    @shorerocks 18 дней назад

    To answer your question: Me playing it 🤣🤣🎶🎶

  • @jamecke3216
    @jamecke3216 19 дней назад

    Tolles Video vielen Dank.

  • @PooNinja
    @PooNinja 18 дней назад

    6:57 no the Jem is mine not the predator. But I’ll keep an eye out for one.

    • @PooNinja
      @PooNinja 18 дней назад

      13:15 so we should blame this guitar? Ok fellas round up the posse and lets go get em!!!

    • @PooNinja
      @PooNinja 18 дней назад +1

      Dogs playing the Whos mouth is bigger game. Its like politics only with dogs, lots of mashing and bashing of violent teeth and nothing comes but more showmanship. Vote dog ☑️