Why this Guitar will DEMOLISH American Builders!
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- America, what the hell happened? You used to make great affordable guitars. Now they're showpieces for collectors. Here's a guitar for the REST OF US. Proudly sponsored by Mojotone! www.mojotone.com/. Get the BV30H, the Watchtower, or the new British Neo today!
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Glenn: "i swear, next time i use a clean tone, im playing baby shark!"
Me: .....clocks ticking glenn
He must do it!
doo doo do doo do doo
Glenn, you MUST follow through to maintain your YT integrity. lol.
it's an excuse to learn some James Taylor to punish them with
Find us some cheap baritones. They’re almost non existent.
Harley benton have one
Harley Benton amarok
Subzero makes some. Not sure about quality.
I think Harley Benton do a few, as well as sub zero, Squier do a baritone tele and the bass vi too if that’s your flavour
And the ones already available are slowly becoming not cheap.
Glen: *strumming chords*
Me: "AND I TRY! OH MY GOD DO I TRY!"
AND I SAY
Me knows sweet picking econmy picking tremolo picking weird scales
also me what's a d chord again?
$399? I'd destroy America for a Klondike bar!
Please do. I'll give you all the crispy chocolate/vanilla ice cream you want :D
I would undo all of creation for a snickers ice cream bar!
@@PooNinja You are the BEST :D
I quit drinking after I passed out after 10 shots during the live stream. It was fun. ..
Glenn is responsible for many a liver giving up the ghost.
In Germany we call 10 shots "vorglühen"
Light weight!
@@mithrilheld653 In Germany you have 20ml shots. That's the smallest on the planet. In most places in they US 10 shots will be over half the bottle, or all the bottle if you lose count after half the bottle. I'm from Australia and we're somewhere in between at 30ml shots.
@@Chris_the_Muso yeah im from germany… We indeed have 20ml shots normally but most shot cups can be filled up to 40 for a double shot which is what most people do at a house party… With 10 shots it adds up to more than half the bottle… And in case you didnt realise it wasd a joke about how german drinking game is generally seen as strong around the world
We're truly in a golden age of inexpensive guitars. If you learn how to do a full setup (including fret work) you can end up with a guitar that's as nice as the expensive guitars for under $200.
Agreed completely. I bought a set of luthier tools from Amazon and a few crappy guitars for $40 at the pawn shops to practice on. Used RUclips to learn what to do. One of the best decisions I've made in music.
No, you really can't....
idk about 200$, but I am canadian (dollar ain't worth shit). but we are definitely seeing some great guitars for great prices. I think Leo Fender would faint at the quality coming out of south east asia.
@@vincentrandles8105 You can, but what these people aren't telling you is that at $200-300, you might have to keep returning them until the shop gives you a good one.
Honestly, on a budget I would just spend around $500-600 (especially used) and bypass the guitar gacha altogether.
My Edwards Les Paul Custom isn't that much "inferior" to my Suhr or Anderson and I got it for $500 used. New, it would be around $800 ish. I've played a few other ones and while they're a bit different in feel, they're all playable and very well made to begin with.
@@dannyk1790I bought 3 guitars between $200-$350 recently and haven’t returned a single one. Any problems they had were easily fixable. The only time I’d send it back to the factory is if I spend over $1000 and it’s not in absolute perfect playing condition on arrival. Guitars at the $200 price point are worlds better than they used to be.
Can you make a review of a budget Jackson, maybe the budget V-series of Jackson to compare it with other V-guitars.
Yes, i”d love to!
I used to have a Jackson JS32 Kelley model around 10 years ago that I got for $200 and it was an awesome guitar in terms of tone and playability from what I remember.
Oh man yes, I’ve been eyeing those budget 7 strings for a while and I know that it’s not gonna be the best thing ever, but just being pretty good works for me
Those JS32 King V and RR models are pretty good for the money. A few years ago they were about $300 now they went up in price a bit. If you know your way around a setup and some tools they're awesome, I think the necks alone are worth the price.
My guy ranting early in the morning.
Well, this is how I wanna start my day.
This is how I end my day.
Thanks to you both!
This is my day
LOL that's what glenn should change his Stage Name to.
"Guy Ranting"
😂😂😂😂😂‼️
No link for the guitar😢
Found it on the Zzounds,
Not that model, but my eternal gratitude to a brand that manufactures a line of left-handed guitars! 🤘!🤘!!!!
Rondomusic specialises in lefty instruments and have for years now. I've bought from them snce 2007. As a lefty, it's important to find a good guitar for the cash. Lefties usually have to suffer.
let me save the viewers of this "thing" in the video some valueble time from their lives:
if you are not interested in hearing 1000 times about
1. how bad us guitars are and how superior mass produced veneered indonesian/chinese chunks with tin hardware and mediocre-sounding pickups are
or
2. how much the speaker is important and everything else is just a distraction and how ideally we should all just slap a pickup on a metal plank with frets and cable that directly to a speaker cause everything else is meaningless
then leave this channel and go look for some actual quality helpful content. there's still some out there. just not here. this is just drama and controversy based clickbait with no quality or value.
you're welcome
What’s going on?
I said hey yeah yeah
HE SAID HEY!
Whats going on?
Gibson and Fender can suck it. I've moved on to Schecter, Yamaha, Sire, LTD, and Reverend. And you know what, I still love my America, just not our corporations, our greed, or our politicians. We seriously have some great people and some amazing neighbors though.
Glenn’s hatred for American guitars goes back further than his hairline.
Cope
@@robbirose7032 Can dish it but cant take it I guess
If I was his age and had that hairline I think I'd be happy haha as baldness runs in my family I know I don't got long left !
He doesn't hate Mexican guitars and Mexico is in America
He has a valid point, there isn't a 10x difference in quality. Even if it makes 2x better if it costs 10x as much you're getting 1/5th the value
That's called mathematics
That thing where all the practice and warmup goes out the window when you hit record, that’s what happens to most of us when we sit down in a studio.
CLEARLY you need some $1k pickups and some Mullard Tubes. I mean...really...🤣🤣🤣🤣 For a point of reference, my farts smell like slightly chilled Chardonnay.
😂😂😂😂😂👍
You mean Mulligan tubes?🤔
Why can't America build a reasonably priced guitar? The real answer: Henry Kissinger.
What is your hourly wage? That should answer the question.
@@jasonbone5121that's one of the most ignorant statements you could've made in this instance champ
Finally someone gets it.
@@getshwiftygaming447 Hey, I didn't go to high school. Don't hate me because I'm stupid 😄😄😄
It’s Henry Killinger, you silly billy.
"just tryin' to get up that great big hill" lol just fantastic. Great stuff Glen, Z, and Spectre family. Much love and Rock on 🤘🔥🧡🔥🤘. Also that "beginner" guitar sounds and looks pretty damn good. Thanks for the review.
Once again, please show some sub-$500 Canadian made guitars.
Is that a thing?
Well there's Dingwall. Oh know they are ridiculously priced too. Even they're overseas model
I bought a brand new fender player HSS strat a few weeks ago looking for something to use for teaching my students. Came with a huge gash in the paint and it has trouble staying in tune. I’m looking for other options from overseas fabs like shechter now.
Maybe if you tried to open an american guitar manufacturing company, and pay all of your skilled labor a better than "living'" wage, you might understand why they cost what they do. But just stay in you bubble and blame evil corporations. It is convenient propaganda.
Talks about Gibson taking advantage of crappy labour laws while promoting guitars made in countries with even crappier labour laws…
glenn works as a state sponsored as a propogandist im beginning to assume. while i agree with the greed thing, and manufacturing improvements, etc. the adamant nature of yourr smear campaign against the western economy that's already in decline cant help but come off as suspicious given the climate. p.s. howcome u never show love to legit canadian/north american companies like godin?
Adjusted for inflation, American guitars are roughly the same price as they were in 1950. If only wages had kept the same pace of growth. A $2,000 entry-level guitar would seem cheap if the minimum wage was $40/Hr. I might even get off disability for that wage.
There’s a lot more to economics than wages and prices then and now LMFAO
@@tommilitello198 What does that have to do with the price of tea in China? GTFO
I still play my Schecter Omen I bought 18 years ago, today..
Bought one second hand a couple of years ago and is great (I'm not, but the guitar is). Very very similar to the one in the vid.
I’ve had my hellraiser for about 15 years and still love to play it.
Love the show, love the reviews, only gripe, put the signal chain on the screen when doing the demo, maybe throw in some different tones so we can see it across multiple amp/speaker sets.
I got a black cherry Omen 6 fr extreme ! A few months ago, Big bang for low bucks 👍
Their is a builder on reverb named J. Perez. Builds guitars right out of his house and turns out very good guitars to me. I bought one a year ago and love it. Made in American, but best of all, it's a local builder. Everything I have seen for sale has been under 1k. Mine was 700 bucks. The neck feels good, and the fret work was outstanding.
Why would an american guitar company want to destroy America? 🤔
If you sped it up slightly, you could change the 4 Non Blondes to Sublime's "Badfish", which might help in unsticking the former earworm.
Keep up the great work, Glenn!
adjusting for inflation, Strats and Lesters are cheaper now than they were back in the day: they were never 'affordable' guitars.
In any case, time to get a new joke, the old "this cheap guitar is going to DESTROY America is pretty old.
Besides, if the most important part of the tonez is speaker. play that cheap guitar through a cheap knockoff speaker.
...or save $1000 on the guitar, pay $100 per speaker to upgrade the speakers, and pocket the difference?
You're not making the point you think you are.
But at least back then you got a guitar you could count on not sucking. Now you're paying for the premium experience and you aren't even getting the premium experience.
You know, this is perfectly in line with what I actually see folks playing locally.
The ones who've been at it for a long time have their genuinely nice vintage Martin/Fender USA/Gibson stuff, but the younger crowds are mostly on newer Schecters, Epiphones, Squires, and MIM Fenders (the mustang shape is really popular in my neck of the woods). The ones who don't play those usually have a weird little boutique instrument or some kinda beautiful frankensteined nightmare.
It's a shame, really. As kids, my buddies and I used to want flame-top Les Pauls and tricked-out strats. These days, we just want instruments that stand up to being played.
Anyway, good review! I'll keep the Demon 6 in mind the next time a buddy wants to get something for their kid and keep this unit in mind if they need something a bit cheaper that isn't an HB with a setup.
Hey Glenn, love the channel. It's a great resource for education and reviews . Just started playing again about a year and a half ago after 20 years away and loving it. A couple of months back I got an Edwards Alexi pink sawtooth from Japan and its just silly good. Service was excellent too (Kurosawa Music). Just wondering what you think about these Japanese market brands? Keep up the good work and the good humor!
fuck fender gibson. dean and bc rich or any other brand. id rather buy a dhgate chibson.🍻
Only if the truss rod will work.
Pricy Schecter guitars also deserve attention. Bought one with sustainiac, amazing stuff. IMHO much better then pricy Harley Benton guitar
I had the Synyster Gates custom S with the sustainiac , killer guitar but I didn't like the roll off fretboard. But I still have 3 Schecters right now , they're all excellent. Had the Demon and Omen Extreme also , now I have the Damien , CI + and the C6 Deluxe....
I own a Hellraiser 7, and EX-7 Apocalypse, and recently bought a Special Edition EX-6. The Hellraiser and Ex-6 have the Sustainiac pickup. Love em! ❤️
Schecter is absolutely my favorite guitar company. They have spected out guitars for under $1000 & they're metal as Hell.🤘
Thank you for convincing me. My Mom gave me an acoustic sgr for my 13th birthday. AMAZING SOUND 👌 bends are insane for beinng an acoustic. Someone gave me an acoustic and the difference between the two is amazing. Been trying to decide which electric guitar to get and i was really debating a squire but this seems so much better and 399 isnt too much more for something I know is gonna have the range to play the disturbed and tool I want. Too bad guitar cases are so expensive though. Gig bags arent worth a fuck
I got a deal on a Schecter E-1 built at World Music in Korea that is mahogany and ebony... and lefty and its incredible....i didnt even want short scale but its now my main player 😂 wanted a lefty Explorer for almost 20 years and Schecter came through
Me and my roommate and I got a couple of shectors, and we got a 7-string and an eighth string, and they sounded freaking amazing . On top of that, my roommate got me into Shecter guitars..
What a beautiful clean demo. That’s exactly what’s going on.
Uhm. Gibson actually DID drop enormous checks in people’s pockets back in 2021 I believe. (I’m a former employee) unfortunately it was based on tenure, I was a year 1 employee, I got $800. My coworker was a 45 year employee and received in excess of $10,000. Just a heads up in reference to the joke at the beginning! 😂
nice , i had surgery today and a good ole shouty video by glenn is sure to cheeer me up
I have a used Schecter Hellraiser. Best one I've ever owned, although I have never owned anything more than 800 quids.
Next “clean tone” song should be Stars by Hum
I couldn't help but start singing. 🤣
"25 years and my life is still, trying to get up that great big hill of hope... for a destination!"
I have that exact model but sunburst! Was a perfect cheap reliable replacement for my off brand strat thats not even worth 10 dollars anymore. It stays in tune very well and plays really nice! Perfect build quality.
I was really excited to buy a Schecter guitar, but when I went to the store and tried out every model, the necks just felt off in my hands. It wasn't a deal-breaker, but it was enough to make me question my decision. So I went to another store and bought a new Jackson instead. The Jackson felt much better in my hands, so I was willing to spend the time and money to make it play and sound better. After all, for me, it's all about how a guitar feels in my hands. If I like the neck, I'm willing to spend the time and money to make it play and sound better.
I dont get why more experienced players shouldnt buy more expensive guitars like ESP. Or american made. I get it when its new beginners. But whit players that have played some years. Like. Why not?
Judging from recordings and reviews I've found online, the Greyhound is more my speed, for Mojotone. That said, I definitely like the new BV60N and BV60H more than I like a Vintage 30 or Creamback/Creamback Neo, from what I have heard so far. I still like my cheapo Seismic Audio Quake 12 just fine, and for non V30 speakers I find Eminence Guit-Fiddle, Swamp Thang, Tonker, etc, or just a plain old G12H-100's or their newer counterpart the G12K-100 do the trick, so I'll probably be sticking to Seismic, the Eminence usual suspects, or the G12H-100/G12K-100, especially for 2x12's and oversized 1x12's, tbh. For 4x12's, if I don't go with the Seismic, the BV60N would be a great option for live use to not kill my back!
Hey Glenn, checkout the Godin Session HT"Pro". They have multiple Session models but the "HT Pro" is setup for heavy rock/metal. The regular HT(non pro) doesn't have Seymour Duncan pickups FYI
You can likely rent one from Long and McQuade for $30 lol 😆
Made in canada comes loaded with seymour duncan pickups (59, lace golds) for $1000 USD or $1350 CDN. Fit and finish is premium IMO(PRS quality)
I recently bought a Black Spirit 200W head and a Harley Benton v30 2x12 cab with a Harley Benton SC-550 plus with the EMG's in it. For less the $1500 bucks I got the best metal tone I've ever gotten. Even better than my 6505 1992 original half stack and ESP. Seriously Glenn check out the SC-550 Plus guitar from Harley Benton. For $345 bucks your getting everything you need, hell even locking tuners and Zebra EMG fat 55's.
Ah right. Mojotones.
I've been interested in the BV25m, but currently I'm already loving my Celestion EVH + Greenback in X-Pattern 4x12.
I know you like the EVHs, but have you tried blending them with GBs? I love the mix a lot. You get the aggression of the Reissue Greenbacks and the smoothness of the EVH/Heritage GBs
ok you hit on somithing big . Knob placement. leo fender was wrong gibson with the whole **dir dir dir d'ahhummmm i think we need 4 knobs to controll 2 pickups we are stupid and dont know how to wire master vol and tone pots ohhh by the way pickup selector in france***** seriously volume swells are not worth the guitar being uncomfortable the other 99.9 % of the time.
This world sucks Why is A.I doing art and not mowing my lawn so I can concentrate on this urgently pressing knob placement dilemma...... Arooooooooo....
I feel like we haven't even entered the stone age when it comes to knob placement. Not really hard though ..... hand strums here.......DONT PUT ANY FUCKING KNOBS THERE!!!
Glenn for president 2024 harley benton vp
$1,300 US is expensive?
Meh.
My most expensive guitar is a Gibson and was $1,600 US, NOS.
I'm not a fan of super Strats; I like the shorter Gibson scale and fatter neck. The Schecter Tele is sort of cool, but it's a $1,000 guitar in Canada.
It won't destroy anything. Blessed attempt at sensationalizing something so romantically. If you actually play and riff... nothing on RUclips has much relevance. They need it, Blue Ribbons and Trophy's, Likes and things. Salesmen. Carpet Baggers. Nothing on this channel even compares to Jelly Roll Morten Era anything. But it tries to be THE thing. I'd rather listen to Ghetto box blues. Love Ya Glen.
Where are the Canadian made guitars ? Next question .. why does the whole world want to live in America ? Glenn himself worked for 25 years at $0.60 to $0.80 on the US Dollar at an America car plant that moved production to Canada why ? cheap labor. There's no way to pump out a guitars cheaper than $2000 and pay yourself if you live in America. That being said, Schecter's Korea factory RULES and I have 3 axes from them. I used to own a Shecter USA custom ... same quality.
Hey Glen, it would actually be ILLEGAL for any publicly traded company to give its employees that kind of bonus because of the Dodge vs Ford case that determined those companies must be operated for maximum profit for the shareholders. Ford wanted to pay his employees more. . . Dodge wanted to start a new car company on their Ford stock. . . Dodge won.
What about cleans like Sanitarium or Drain Of Incarnation? Not just strumming chords. Also, I got a guitar with a Floyd Rose for €360 from Thomann. That Schecter doesn't have a Floyd. I like that it has a 3-way toggle because I'm not a fan of the other type of selector. My hands are small enough that it wouldn't get in the way there.
PS I love passive pickups because you don't have any extra electronics or any batteries to worry about. That'd be ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ from me.
Guitarist seem to very closed minded when it comes to brand loyalty. I LOVE JACKSON GUITARS! They are definately my favourite, but that is out of nostalgia. I own a charvel so-cal style 2, an ibanez baritone 7 string, and a Schecter C-7 sls elite. All not American made. All great guitars! Having worked at FCA assembly in windsor I understand that manufacturers in a general sense aim for zero defects but they do happen. No guitar will be perfect and it's not realistic to think every single guitar rolls out of the factory perfect. Guitarist seem to be a miserable bunch and can always find something to complain about. "It's not me, it's the gear." 😂
So are the comparatively high manufacturing costs in the US also "greed"? The fact is that manufacturing here has been borderline unsustainable for decades, and doesn't just apply to musical instruments. Our economy generally isn't built for manufacturing outside of luxury and niche items - including US-made guitars. Commodity (e.g. Steel) and legacy (e.g. Auto) industries only still exist here at all because they're artificially propped up by government protections, sanctions, and tariffs.
I love that there are affordable options - I play nothing but Mexican Fenders and Epiphones, but to blame US guitar prices solely on "greed" is being disingenuous. Are you telling me that the owners of the Schecter brand aren't swimming in cash right now? Should they give up their yachts to knock another $50 off of MSRP?
I bought a Jackson s22 dinky for 280 Canadian bucks. (After yen exchange rate, I live in Japan) and man. It just says “Jackson” on the headstock and is an wicked guitar for the money. I had a bunch of Gibson’s and some fenders in the past but I’m just hanging on to my one modded 2014 melody maker now (still my fav guitar) and sold the rest. Been looking for more reasonable alternatives for the last few years. I’ll be looking at Schecter also. Thanks Glen!
I don't disagree with your point, Glenn. BUT... it's not 1:1. Schecter guitars don't feel good to play TO ME. And actually getting a Solar or Harley Benton in my hands is really challenging. Meanwhile, Fenders, Gibsons, Squires, and Epiphones are easy to find and actually see how they feel. I guess the extra cost is a bit of a tax on the element of getting it in my hands? I dunno. Maybe I'm way off, but that's how I feel.
Love your channel, man!
Heard enough of your pro union socialist BS. American cars built where by your definition "better labor laws" exist are hot garbage while Nissan, VW, and Toyotas built in southern US states with "shitty labor laws" have happy employees and top tier quality. We know you're a UAW schill from your time on the assembly line. That aside, love your show and big fan of import Schecters...Hellraiser Extreme and PT Fastback IIB in my stable. Good on you for presenting more Schecter reviews 😂
The pickups on this guitar seriously SUCK!!!! As far as the $399.00 keep in mind the person overseas building this guitar most likely makes $1.00 a week compared to what people here in the U.S. make!!!!
Speaking of Schecter.
While the low-end and mid-range ones are great, EXTREMELY good for the money, I find that they've lost the plot with the MIJ California ones.
Like aside from being a carved top, what makes it more expensive than an Ibanez Prestige, made in the same country, in a factory that's not inferior?
Can you do a comparison between this guitar, some lower end Harley Bentons (I’m looking at the R-446), and a higher end Harley Benton like the Amarok-6? The Amarok-6 has EMG pickups and may account for the extra cost, and if there’s one thing I’ve learned here it’s that pickups don’t matter very much for your tone. Im looking to get a new hardtail 6 string soon, and if a R-446 sounds and feels as good as the more expensive instruments it would be a shame to pass it up.
If this was a car review, the reviewer would take a steering wheel and do "Vroom, Vroom".
Wood, frets, neck dive, noise while switching, hum, neckangle, fretboard radius, neck feel, laquer feel, pickup output, muddy, fret buzz, switching layout, veneer or print, fret size, resonance, nut width, tuners, etc, etc?
From what I can tell this is a lousy guitar without any tonal quality.
I have a Schecter Hellraiser C-1 and it KICKS ASS! Bought it from about $700 around six years ago. Great guitar! Been wanting to get me a Solar to support the great Ola Englund, so that is in the works... only problem there are so many awesome models from Solar which to pick?!!
Hell yes! When I decided to start seriously learning guitar, I picked up a Diamond C-6 instead of dropping serious money on a Gibson or Fender for my first guitar (despite the advice of my "real guitarist" friends), and never looked back. It felt great, played... okay (though that says more about my lack of ability at the time than the guitar itself), and I couldn't pass up the price.
Since then, Schecter has become my preferred guitar maker, short of going out and getting a custom built.
Love the channel. Thanks for the great content and info, and fuck you, Glenn.
4 non blondes on this channel? HERESY!
Hey Glen, try out a new Firefly guitar, I think you’ll be impressed on ball end stainless frets, locking tuners ,Canadian roasted neck and more for $169.91 US!
I my fifth semi hollow strat style ebony with gold hardware and I think it’s a Bigsby tremelo. The burst sold out the first day!
I would argue that MIA guitars were NEVER at a "reasonable" price.
Even vintage Fenders, supposed to be a working man's guitar, cost more than new MIA performers today when they were sold, once adjusteed for inflation.
Of course, we also earn less compared to back then and other necessities weren't as comparatively expensive, but still.
Ya, Guitars i bought 6 years ago for $650 now start at $1000 easy. Seems $1000 is the starting point for so many good Guitars now. I've definitely stopped buying them like i used to. I'd love to check out one of those Solar Black V,s
I disagree on the switch. Maybe having a little recessed area like the Demon would help some for your style of plaything. I love 3 way toggles in that exact location and can hardly ever find them for 7 strings with evertune bridges at a decent price generally speaking. I play with the guitar on my right leg and I play right handed with the neck horizontal. Plus I plant my pinky a lot, so being able to flick the switch at that spot is why I like it. Great review as usual though. I love my LTD-MH1001, and the the 2 gripes I have with it #2 is the blade.
My #1 gripe is that I can't stand inline head stocks not being made with enough room to adjust the tuners when the bulbous ends line up. It's enough room for a tool and no more, which isn't practical for fine tuning. That's personally why I like 3x3 or 4x3 type head stocks, so when fine tuning my fingers can grip and not bump any other pegs, or having to grab them like my fingers are tongs.
I didn't know Harmony were still making guitars. I remember their electric guitars from the 80's as being completely unplayable, horrible sounding junk. There was only one model back then. The H-802.
Thinking to myself “this has to be the worst sound I’ve heard outta SMG”, 7 minutes in realized I had a podcast EQ preset on my speaker (I’m a bass player). Had to rewatch the whole thing 🤣🤣
Sounds great now!
Greed is a part of it. So is government. There are no sub $500 guitars made in any first world country. Labor laws, minimum wage, environmental laws, etc make it impossible. You praise Schecter while bitching about American companies, then toss the box on the table that states they are a Los Angeles California based company. You praise Harley Benton, a German based company. Yet they both build their guitars in Indonesia. Weird, they can make a cheaper guitar in places where labor and human life is cheap, labor laws are more lax, coal is used for most energy generation, and then bitch about the greed of companies who actually build in first world countries.
So which is better? Buying from a greedy American company that exploits it's workers in the first world? Or buying from an American or German company that off shores its manufacturing to a country that kills, imprisons and tortures peaceful protesters. I'm not saying either is great. But perhaps you need to infuse a little perspective. Just a thought.
I was just looking at 7 strings and comparing Schecter with Ibanez, Jackson, etc. I was pretty blown away by some of the features for the price. The closest comparison Jackson I could find cost $300 more and didn’t have stainless steel frets. I feel like schecter is really going hard to get past the monster energy stigma.
Enya's carbon fiber guitar came out 2 months ago @$349. Price jumped to $399 after 1 month. Now it's $429...word is getting around on this. it's not inflation.
Hey Glen. I think it would be really cool for you to compare a top of the line Gibson Les Paul to an LTD EC-1000 series guitar. Basically take a $5k+ Gibson and see if the ~$1k LTD beats it.
Yes Hennings, and no, I don’t know if it’s spelled rite or that’s his name. He’s the crazy bald dude from Germany, he goes balls deep in his reviews.
How about letting us know if your drop tunning, are you just going through the amp n it’s miced up? I suck bad at guitar and have been noodling for over 40 year’s so, don’t give me sheite about my grammar cuz I fkn hated that class n I’m old as dirt at 62!
YEah dude, bought a schecter omen IV extreme made in indonesia with active "emg"s which plays and sounds as good as any of the USA Fenders and G&Ls I used to own, for a fraction of the price. gigged it for a few years and it still looks pristine, apart from a bit of buckle rash
I obviosly refuse to practice, but it looks cool
While I agree that brands like Schecter and others that focus on great build quality at lower price points do a great job delivering value, the belief that they are going to "demolish American builders" is just not true. Fender and Gibson are in a totally different space - they are selling a lifestyle brand, nostalgia/history, and the Made in America stamp. They generally sell to a different customer. Gibson and Fender own 64% of the guitar market - there is no way that Schecter or any other small brand is going to "demolish" them. I am a Schecter AND a Fender fan and they really don't compete with each other.
Baby shark? I think Leo Morachiollli metal covered that one pretty well (guy is amazing). I think just to annoy anyone, come up with a cover to the J G Wentworth jingle (christ, it kills me just to say that.....)
I’ve owned several Shecter guitars and they always always hold up and play amazingly well! Just wish the resale value would do the same. I dropped $1000 on an Apocalypse years ago and barely got $500 for it on trade but that was because Guitar Center is a bunch of Natzi’s lol
Hey! What's goin' on?
I love your channel!
Why not consider Yamaha? 212, 612, standard plus and now the professional Pacifica models? The 612 is absolutely affordable
Schecter is an American company. Like the other American companies they make lines of guitars built in Indonesia, Korea and China in pretty much all the same factories. Fender and Gibson deserve all the grief you give them but I feel like you are just stuck on this "America/capitalism" sucks kick. Why not call up Kiesel guitars and have custom guitar made for the cheapest you can and review that?
I know Schecter builds their imported lines in the Cortek Indonesian factory, but I'd have to say they're on the lower end of the QC food chain. If I was ever interested in one, I'd most likely spend close to double that amount. The bolt on necks with those cheesy screw ferals under the head of the screw. Are a piss poor design, that offers little to no neck stability. That Ray kid with a RUclips channel, got one from Sweetwater I believe it was. And the guitar was completely separated at the neck joint! Junk. Kramer makes better guitars in China.
The only American made guitar I own is a late 80s Peavey Tracer....and the Kahler Spyder tremolo on that thing completely fell apart 8 years ago, so it is still unplayable. It was a mediocre guitar while it lasted anyway
More people like vintage guitars like the Harmony than modern sleek guitars like the Schecter. I'm a modern guy myself, but the way you diss stuff you don't personally like as if it's objectively bad is a bit childish. Not everyone is a metal head, Glenn, and music that isn't metal is also good, Glenn.
I have a request, I'd love to get your take on the Squire Contemporary Telecaster. I got one of them and it feels really good to play and the sound coming out of the thing is heavenly. If you told me this was some $2000 guitar I'd believe you, but it's less than $500. I want to run around telling everybody that they need to try this thing. I'm gonna satisfy myself by telling you. Thanks.
Jesus Christ dude, it's not "greed" that guitars can't be made in America for cheap. You sound like Elizabeth Warren. Just stop until you've read some economics books. Stay in your lane.
Yeah, but does Schecter have an easy to snap off headstock? Ha! Didn't think so.
Call me right barkin' mad, but isn't Reverend a usa manufacturer with full u.s. production? 🤔 You absolutely can get a double agent for roughly 1000 bucks and it'll leave most Gibsons to the dust.
Honestly, I have that Schecter, and even though I've been going to my local guitar store every couple of days, I haven't found a neck I like better. Got mine used with an orange amp for waaay too cheap.
Oh! Also, Henning did a review of this guitar... It was the first one I watched when I was looking at it!
I’ve been playing a schecter hellraiser 6 string for about 15 years.. it was maybe $600-$700 when I bought it I think? I love that thing.
You got to at least be honest when comparing asian made instruments with US made. Besides japanese stuff, most of these asian made guitars are made by Cor-tek, and Cor-tek has been involved with scandals about treating their worker really bad, and i mean it, there are reports of things that, if any american company did, they would be sued to hell. You just got to understand that those asian guitars are not cheap for no reason at all, the workforce behind those factories is terrebly exploited. Besides, gibsons and fenders are about the same they have always been, both in quality and price. What happens is that inflation makes everything more expensive, blame your stupid government for printing money like crazy and spending all of it on useless crap. Anyways, gibsons have always been rather hit or miss, you hear those old stories of rockstars playing lots of guitars until they find the "magical" one for a reason, they are made in a traditional way, which adds human error to quite a few steps of production. Don't like it ? Epiphone or other cheap brand is always there for you, as they are all mass produced in a heavily mechanized factory. Anyways, I'm not telling people to boycott asian guitars (my guitars are all Indonesian made and i really like them, specially my ibanez rg), but be aware that comparing a western manufacturer or even japanese (which ought to respect some working condition laws) with an indonesian or chinese one is not a fair comparison.
Schecter are the best anymore. I’ve even bought a $3k PRS just to immediately return it for a 7 string Hellraiser for $1400 and it made the PRS feel like a Walmart guitar
Glen, you’re always shitting on Gibson and frankly for good reason. The quality vs price is insane. What are your genuine thoughts on Epiphone? Same issues Chinese price tag or does the cost difference make it worth it?thanks and fuck you very much.
Damnnn! I'm watching the Cowboys From Hell improvement in real time. I've improved quite a bit since I mentioned I was struggling with it. Ironically I haven't played it at all lol I've just been practicing technique and music theory since then