I think the reason the Enhancer seemingly isn't doing anything is because you have the mix knob set to nearly 0 (which is no effect). If you want to actually hear it working, you have to turn it all the way to the left or all the way to the right.
Yup, I actually had an EH-2 at one point that I used on my bass rig, and loved the effect it gave me, but you have to turn the mix most of the way up or down to hear what it's really doing. It's kind of like the opposite of a compressor; when your signal crosses the threshold, it boosts it instead of squashing it. So it basically exaggerates the dynamics of your playing, making your hard-hit notes really jump out.
Gold *plated* strings aren't necessarily always for a sound difference either. There are people (such as myself) who have a nickel allergy. So things like coated or gold plated strings are very useful for that!
Just throwing this out there, but since the EH-2 mix knob is set to "no effect" when it is at noon there is a slight possibility that the reason you aren't noticing any difference between on and off is because you've set the mix to zero. So ... it literally isn't doing anything.
As a metal finisher for the last 40 years I would be safe in saying the guitar strings are either 24kt gold plated or coated with a process called Physical Vapor Deposition. (PVD for short). Best thing about the strings is they won’t corrode.
@@Louzahsol That is true but, gold and nickel (a major alloying metal in stainless steel), are far enough apart on the galvanic chart that it would create a galvanic cell and cause the iron in the stainless steel to corrode. I speak from experience.
When you use the Boss Enhancer pedal, there are 2 things to be aware of. First, the closer to 0 on the mix knob you are, the less you will hear of the effect. Second, the effect is much more noticeable when placed after a distortion pedal. When you are not using a distortion pedal and the mix is set between 12 & 1, there is hardly a discernible difference in tone.
The palmelo is cool, I'd definitely get that installed on my bigsby. My go to guitar is a strat with a floating trem, my favourite way to play it is to rest my palm on the bridge for adding little bits of vibrato so the palmelo would be great for getting my sg back into regular play.
I have tried the Optima gold strings, I didn’t really like them, it’s little bit bright but the real problem for me is that it kills that strat neck pickup sound, it doesn’t have that hollow sound, it’s like a humbucker neck pickup tone, full and less expressive (I do like humbucker tones but not on my strat). And even if you clean your strings each time after you play them they will lost their gold in about a month, and my e string broke after 2 months which is something that never happened to me in 3.5 years. Cheers.
You people change your stings by the month??? I have to change after every gig or two. Depends on if I break or if I forget to wipe them down after a sweaty set. But two gigs and they’re pretty much toast. Wish they would last a month though!!
The best strings I’ve played and still play are the D’addario EPN120 pure nickel strings, they last me between 6-8 months. And try to wipe your strings with the PRS guitar cleaner spray, it cleans off every oil you leave on the strings, wiping them with a dry cloth just spread the oil, plus it keeps the fretboard clean
I use Optima Gold on all my guitars - mainly sparked by my 'main' electric being a Brian May Red Special copy, and Optima do Brian's "custom" gauge (in gold, obviously). They are expensive (unless you can find a cheap supplier), but I don't change my strings that often, and one of the main advantages of them is that they last longer than nickel, bronze or copper so I don't have to. Sound fantastic too.
I have been away from my guitar and music altogether for a long while. Felt it when he asked to tell does it really sound good with an enhancer or without it. I felt that my ears have gone numb to music, i understood its time to get back in shape, and start shredding again. Thanks for the motivation Tyler, I'll figure out how to make use of my guitar and music skills in my life and personal success, probably professional too.
You're definitely all missing something with the Enhancer pedal. I owned one years ago, and discovered that whacked up with a strong distortion pedal it'll give you an sound identical to Nirvana on full "cymbal crashing wig out mode". And personally I think it's a sound unique to Nirvana. They had two distortion levels. Loud and super Nirvana loud, and the Enhancer may well have been their secret. Try it. You'll be pleasantly surprised.
EH2 Enhancer afaik was the poor-man-stompbox-attempt of surfing the Aphex Aural Exciter (the costly rack mounted legend of the studios at the time) hype on a product. In reality, on the engineering side, they have different working principles, tho. The exciter adds a mid dip and some distortion to a sidechained signal to blend in, while the EH2 works more like a sidechained dynamic hi-pass filter (the softer the signal, the less filtered signal is added to the DI), while the "mix" knob controls not only the amount, but if the processed signal is in phase or out of phase (hence inv-nor on the label) with the input, so, if you blend in phase the harder you attack the strings, the "warmer" the output, if you set the mix to the inverted side, the harder you hit, the brighter the peaks get, and with the knob at the center (as in the video) the signal passes through buffered, but none of the processed signal is added (It kinda goes from -100% to +100%, so, 0% at noon).
At this point you probably figured it out, but, just for completeness sake: Sens controls the envelope filter sensitivity (the" input level detected" to "mixed in processed signal" ratio) and Freq changes the low pass filter frequency.
The boss enhancer lets you emulate the effects that different tonewoods have on the sound of your guitar. As it was obvious that the demo guitar had a maple body, after you switched the pedal on, it sounded like a guitar with a mahogany body.
The Enhancer pedal seems to be a combination High Pass Filter and Compressor combined. I noticed that it subtly tightened up the low end whilst adding more brightness to the highs. I would figure that the EQ knob would set the Q for the shelf, and the sensitivity knob adjusts the threshold for the compressor. The ratio is fixed. Also the Mix knob blends the dry and affected signals. So it acts in parallel.Would need to see the parameters being adjusted to see if I'm truly correct.
The Boss Enhancer is one of several such pedals that came out in the '80s as compact versions of what had become commonplace in studios in rackmount form as the Aphex Aural Exciter. This device was regularly used to add more presence to acoustic instruments and could make acoustic guitar strings sound newer than new. The basic premise is that a steep highpass filter is used to partition off the top end of the signal, and is boosted significantly, and mixed back in with the dry unprocessed signal. But here's the thing: unless the original signal source has top end, and the amp, control settings, and speaker *permit* that top end to be heard, the EH-2, or indeed ANY similar device, will do absolutely nothing that you can hear. So, if you go to try it out in the store, using a Strat in one of the "quack" switch settings, and play through an amp with bright 10" speakers and the brite switch on, you might be impressed. If you plug your Les Paul with overwound pickups into it, and play through a 4x12 stack, chances are pretty good you'll end up asking "Is this thing on? I see the LED is lit, but I can't hear a difference." The Frequency control has to be set such that enough of whatever relevant top end is dialed in (i.e., kept/partitioned off) can be boosted enough to be audible in the mix. If the Freq control is set too high, you're asking the circuit to boost something that isn't even there. That means you can dime the Mix control and *still* not hear any difference. BY my calculations the lowest frequency content the pedal can be asked to include for boosting is around 4.4khz. The highest rolloff point is around 10.6khz, which few, if any, solid-body guitars will *ever* produce in audible amounts. I imagine the instructions for the pedal indicate as much, but to use it properly, you set the Mix and Sense controls to 5:00, and roll the Frequency control back to 7:00. Now you slowly bring the Freq control up to just below where it seems like the effect begins to disappear. Now slowly lower the sensitivity control (the drive/gain of the top end) so that it starts to sound a little sweeter or not as ornery, and adjust the Mix to taste.
I was literally gonna say how Radiohead-esque the otamatone sounds, until you mentioned it in the video. It sounds more like Kid A era Radiohead than in rainbows though. It sounds specifically like the ondes martenot used on “The National Anthem”.
Tyler, your playing so fucking cool. The solo with those gold strings was soooon sick, love the weird ass chromatic shit and the wicked bends (of course with all those badass harmonics) so damn creative
He has changed of late. He used to be smart but it seems to be going down the click bait route. Shame I loved his music theory side of things. But folk need to make a living.
Tried the EH-2 as someone suggested it as a tool to compensate for signal loss of highs going through many pedals. I felt that it might have a place in some setups but for me it just added a very synthetic sound in the upper-mid to high range. When I set the effect lower it seemed to be adding more noise than effect and everything still seemed more natural with it off. In the end my solution was to simplify my pedal board.
Ok, the gold strings thing. I know I’m mainly an Ernie ball guy and that’s what goes on pretty much every single one of my guitars: everything from 6 strings in E standard to my 8 string I’m F standard. The reason I mention is is because my absolute favorite set of strings for my 7 string Ormsby shark is the Optima Gold 11-58 set. In half step down it has the slinky feel of 9’s but the size and tension of 11’s. The biggest downside to these string is that (from what I can tell) you can’t buy individual strings and the gauges they have on offer can be a little “unique” at times (the gauges for the 7 string 11’s set are 11,14,18,30,38,50,58) and for someone who regularly plays extended range guitars it can be a little annoying BUT I think for 6 strings they are probably some of the best strings on the market. I know that I will be using them on the baritone guitars I’m having built and I can’t wait. I’m curious to see what others think about the strings when the whole video comes out!
The manual for the EH-2 has some pretty specific settings to try. Keeping everything at noon won't do much of anything. I definitely notice after I've been playing for a couple of hours a difference when turning it off. Almost like a blanket was put over the amp.
The Maxima Optima strings are around $25 a set but they can literally last for a year or more (several years depending on how often and how hard you play) since they don't tarnish or corrode. It would be nice if they offered singles.
@Isa Zahid doesn't Grohls model follow the Trini Lopez model? Diamond cut outs and firebird headstock.. Plus Dave's was a solid Pelham Blue color.. Tylers has the woodgrain showing through.. I could be mistaken
@Isa Zahid no problem buddy. I love learning too and I love the blueberry burst fade on the Gibsons too. My all time favorite finish. They make a 339 that's blueberry burst too.. In fact I think they do a Les Paul In Blueberry burst too
I didn't like any of those pedals and gadgets, and I couldn't hear any difference with the gold strings, but those gold strings might have been inspiring you quite a bit because the tune you played on them is ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC!!! That needs a separate video + Bandcamp link. Awesome composition and playing. I need some of those gold strings, to put them on my trumpet. Hopefully they would work...
EH-2 Basically adds high end. You have the mix neutral so you won't hear anything. It is also much more prominent in the effects loop I use one for a treble boost on my Rockerverb for cutting through.
Wow! That was really cool! The enhancer though… I guess it COULD make a difference if it’s the only pedal turned on, and MAXED out…maybe? Also-where did that beat come from at the end of the oddity 5 part of the video? Was that once you made or part of an app maybe? Sounded really interesting!
6:44 legend has it these knobs aren’t connected and there is just a thinner low quality guitar cable inside there to demolish the idea of expensive guitar cabling
The Enhancer sounds different when on, because it’s a Boss pedal, there’s input and output buffers in there… or as most true-bypass fans would say, “it’s tone suck!”
Goooooolduh strings in thar hills..i tell yah Goolduh...ya there is sum wild oddities out thar in gi'tar land...sum fun, sum waste o' mun'eh ..but allz seem ta enc'orage playin... witch all'wayz a gud thang.. gime'key er not.... your content always inspires me to create Tyler, and that my friend is priceless ... i always really enjoy your "wtf" videos always worth a watch and you always hit the nail..which is inspiration thanks and cheers mate
Ah yes the Brain May Optima Gold Strings, yeah they are crazy different in sound, I wouldn't consider them an oddity as much as being overpriced here in the US compared to what you can get them for in the UK. Had them on a tele-partscaster , Used the MIM Deluxe body in Candy Red with the neck, and built my own version of a Nashville, I modified the Deluxe neck and refretted it with Gold wire and got some Dimarzio pickups in Gold(Twang king in the neck, and Chopper T), added a lipstick Gold tube in the mid and wired it with 2 separate volumes(1 push pull to reverse phase depending on what I wanted it in phase with the neck or bridge) and 1 tone pot.
Tyler, have you heard of the fairfield circuitry shallow water pedal? it's undescribable, makes your guitar sound like a bunch of ambient melodies, it would make a fine addition to your collection
The enhancer does make a difference, but less so on anything with overdrive. Think of it like a "Presence" knob (which is basically a 6 K boost) but not quite. Also, the dials need to set higher.
Yeah that palm-ello is genius in my opinion. Even though that isn’t my style whatsoever, the reasons I’ve never really like trem bars are pretty much solved by that thing. I’ve seen something similar but even smaller for a Floyd, thought it was genius as well
The *ENHANCER* : If you can’t hear the difference, it’s operating at peak performance. Best scam pedal ever invented. Someone I know had said it was created as a joke and it got out of hand.
@@upstairscandy0764 Nah… you don’t. I have good friends over at Boss… that pedal was never designed to do anything. It was a joke pedal that somehow got released. Someone actually lost their job over it. It does absolutely nothing… at all.
Hey idk when your doing another song requests video but if you do can you try out:silent screamer by Tatsuro yamashita,It shocked me how good the intro sounds
Re: The Palm O Low. I am a leftie and got in touch with the nice folks at Palm O Low and asked if they make a lefty version. The answer was “no, but we do have this..” This being a longer wider tremolo arm for Bigsby that will allow me to play my Gretsch with my hand always above the trem arm. Problem solved.
Tyler, with a few minor adjustments, I think your technique could improve immensely. You keep your right hand WAY too tense. You have your hand wedged into a kind of odd V shape. It seems to lock you into position playing. When you change, you almost stop and reset. You’re good once you get settled in, but you have NO true freedom. It’s sad … because you seem to have enough musicality to allow to get through this handicap. Think what you could do if you learned to free yourself up. I offer the following to you and any of your students that care to give it a try. Relax your arm and extend it straight. I realize that everyone’s anatomy is a little different, so adjust as necessary - pick angle, holding, etc. Let you’re three fingers just relax with a kind of open hand. Bend at the elbow at about 90 degrees to start and then go more or less depending on your own anatomy. Using this relaxed method will allow you to easily mute with your palm without locking you down. Ok … so how do we master and develop our new technique? Do the following exercises, and I promise you’ll be leaping and bounding with the freedom of a violinist in no time. You should start seeing results immediately. First play all exercises with all down strokes. Then play everything with all upstrokes (slower than normal). The goal is control. Speed will come on its own. Next, play everything with alternate picking, always starting with an upstroke. Then reverse and and alternate pick beginning each phrase with a downstroke - regardless if the beat is weak or strong. The whole purpose is to free up your picking to where you can play anything. Another thing to do is to use hammers and pulls … but with deliberation. You plan ahead which notes you won’t pick and then change it up. You should develop (at least) four volume levels with these exercises. On your hammers and pulls, work on accenting your picked notes and playing the others at your lowest volume level. In conclusion: with these exercises - you get technique. You get dynamics. You get phrasing. You get FREEDOM. You can do these on anything you play, from “Mary had a little lamb” to “Cliffs of Dover.” Please try this and let me know your results or if you have any questions. I’m a professionally trained educator. I’m 62 years old and have been playing since I was a young boy. I had a heart attack a couple months back (trying to wrap things up, but don’t tell my wife 🌝)and I’ve been confined to a wheelchair for forty years. My back was broken when I was 22. It never impeded my guitar playing, but I’m sure my wheelchair didn’t seem that cool on stage. I did it anyway, though 🎅😃. Anyway guys, if I can be of any help I’d love to talk to you. Jim
Enhancer was an attempt to do what a BBE sonic maximizer does; BBE came out with the sonic stomp pedal. I have one, and I love it.and my boss metalcore are my 2 favorite pedals. I'd like a Klon, they were made in MA and I grew up there but I don't have 8k for new truck parts nevermind a pedal.
I reckon the Enhancer pedal has no electronics inside, it just connects the input and output leads together. If you tell someone it enhances their tone they will hear the enhancement and believe it! It's a cross between 'The Emperor's New Clothes', and a placebo!😂
The Hard Rock Cafe did and maybe still do use gold guitar strings on their displayed guitar collection because they resist corrosion longer than other guitar strings.
Liked the video, but the mix being set to basically zero on the enhancer was probably the cause for not hearing a difference, but I’ve never been it before. Would’ve loved to hear some more single note lines and more of a bowing motion for the Picasso, but from what I’ve seen it’s way better working between the strings with the bow going in the soundhole on an acoustic. Great video
I'm officially turning into my dad. I winced when I saw you using needle nose pliers to remove the hex nut on your trem. (Use what ya got. I'm not judging. It was more self reflection than anything)
I went to a guitar center and they had a vintage guitar with a strange looking tremolo bar and I looked closer and it was a spoon! It was amazing and it felt good when I used it
damn you are nailing it, the last videos are so creative and entertaining to watch, really cool ideas man. love it :) i would like a video about ernie ball musicman guitars because i am highly interested in getting one but dont know which there are and i know you got some
I think the idea behind the gold strings isn't about tone so much as the fact that gold doesn't oxidize. Theoretically, they won't get old, and the only time they'll need replacing is if the break. However, gold is very soft, and it is possible that over time the string could become stretched out, or even flattened where they meet the frets. Keep them on as an experiment, see how long it takes before the sounds quality fails, or the structural integrity. Do a science.
I think the reason the Enhancer seemingly isn't doing anything is because you have the mix knob set to nearly 0 (which is no effect). If you want to actually hear it working, you have to turn it all the way to the left or all the way to the right.
Correct
Yup, I actually had an EH-2 at one point that I used on my bass rig, and loved the effect it gave me, but you have to turn the mix most of the way up or down to hear what it's really doing. It's kind of like the opposite of a compressor; when your signal crosses the threshold, it boosts it instead of squashing it. So it basically exaggerates the dynamics of your playing, making your hard-hit notes really jump out.
@@bigchiefbc I never thought of using it on a bass board
@@DV8shredder It's great when you're playing a line with some mellower lines and some hard stabs. It really makes them into a punch in the gut.
Does it work like an exciter?
Gold *plated* strings aren't necessarily always for a sound difference either. There are people (such as myself) who have a nickel allergy. So things like coated or gold plated strings are very useful for that!
Brian May uses them
Just throwing this out there, but since the EH-2 mix knob is set to "no effect" when it is at noon there is a slight possibility that the reason you aren't noticing any difference between on and off is because you've set the mix to zero. So ... it literally isn't doing anything.
Precisely
As a metal finisher for the last 40 years I would be safe in saying the guitar strings are either 24kt gold plated or coated with a process called Physical Vapor Deposition. (PVD for short). Best thing about the strings is they won’t corrode.
They are plated I believe and they basically sound great for a much longer time.
@@420Gold hopefully they aren’t gold plating on stainless steel strings. They would corrode in a heartbeat.
@@timhamlett5042 gold is so inert that it doesnt react with anything. Ferrous or nonferrous
@@Louzahsol That is true but, gold and nickel (a major alloying metal in stainless steel), are far enough apart on the galvanic chart that it would create a galvanic cell and cause the iron in the stainless steel to corrode. I speak from experience.
the guitar bow might probably work better on an acoustic where u can “bow” a single string in and out of the soundhole
Sammy G did this exact thing on his channel. 👍
Julio Revueltas built a guitar/violin you can hear in his video Chiapaz
In and out the soundhole sounds extremely filthy. 😂😂
@@jamesclerk815 maybe it was written to suggest so ;)
That sounds dirty.
I had an American strat with gold strings once, crazy good tone!
WHERE DID YOU GET THEM?
That Habit pedal thing sounded amazing. So much potential in its randomness
When you use the Boss Enhancer pedal, there are 2 things to be aware of. First, the closer to 0 on the mix knob you are, the less you will hear of the effect. Second, the effect is much more noticeable when placed after a distortion pedal.
When you are not using a distortion pedal and the mix is set between 12 & 1, there is hardly a discernible difference in tone.
The palmelo is cool, I'd definitely get that installed on my bigsby. My go to guitar is a strat with a floating trem, my favourite way to play it is to rest my palm on the bridge for adding little bits of vibrato so the palmelo would be great for getting my sg back into regular play.
I have tried the Optima gold strings, I didn’t really like them, it’s little bit bright but the real problem for me is that it kills that strat neck pickup sound, it doesn’t have that hollow sound, it’s like a humbucker neck pickup tone, full and less expressive (I do like humbucker tones but not on my strat).
And even if you clean your strings each time after you play them they will lost their gold in about a month, and my e string broke after 2 months which is something that never happened to me in 3.5 years.
Cheers.
i break my e strings every month. I can't figure out why they wear out so fast
You people change your stings by the month??? I have to change after every gig or two. Depends on if I break or if I forget to wipe them down after a sweaty set. But two gigs and they’re pretty much toast. Wish they would last a month though!!
@@Mehcrafty the thing is I'm a bedroom player and I mostly break my high e when I do a full step bend, not even one and a half
@Agustín Díaz • hace 2 años check for sharp edges at the point where it breaks
The best strings I’ve played and still play are the D’addario EPN120 pure nickel strings, they last me between 6-8 months. And try to wipe your strings with the PRS guitar cleaner spray, it cleans off every oil you leave on the strings, wiping them with a dry cloth just spread the oil, plus it keeps the fretboard clean
I use Optima Gold on all my guitars - mainly sparked by my 'main' electric being a Brian May Red Special copy, and Optima do Brian's "custom" gauge (in gold, obviously). They are expensive (unless you can find a cheap supplier), but I don't change my strings that often, and one of the main advantages of them is that they last longer than nickel, bronze or copper so I don't have to. Sound fantastic too.
Tyler, the amount of replayability on that last nearly 2 minute guitar shred swing blues elevator Jam is just wow. Killer vibes man 🎸
I have been away from my guitar and music altogether for a long while. Felt it when he asked to tell does it really sound good with an enhancer or without it. I felt that my ears have gone numb to music, i understood its time to get back in shape, and start shredding again.
Thanks for the motivation Tyler, I'll figure out how to make use of my guitar and music skills in my life and personal success, probably professional too.
Holy shit dude the editing and shots in this one are super well done
I love these kinds of videos. I once got a 4" metal guitar pick. It was terrible. LOL I wish I could find it.
😂😂😂😂😂😂it's probably under the 🛋!!!!
the second reply to my message is a scam. ALERT!!!
The guitar tone on oddity 3 is the best I’ve ever seen on this channel
That habit pedal sounded like something John Frusciante would use. Sounded like Smile From the Streets You Hold.
You're definitely all missing something with the Enhancer pedal. I owned one years ago, and discovered that whacked up with a strong distortion pedal it'll give you an sound identical to Nirvana on full "cymbal crashing wig out mode". And personally I think it's a sound unique to Nirvana. They had two distortion levels. Loud and super Nirvana loud, and the Enhancer may well have been their secret. Try it. You'll be pleasantly surprised.
I love the editing of the intro and the whole video vibe haha
I guess the main advantage of gold strings isn't their sound, rather how long they will last
EH2 Enhancer afaik was the poor-man-stompbox-attempt of surfing the Aphex Aural Exciter (the costly rack mounted legend of the studios at the time) hype on a product. In reality, on the engineering side, they have different working principles, tho. The exciter adds a mid dip and some distortion to a sidechained signal to blend in, while the EH2 works more like a sidechained dynamic hi-pass filter (the softer the signal, the less filtered signal is added to the DI), while the "mix" knob controls not only the amount, but if the processed signal is in phase or out of phase (hence inv-nor on the label) with the input, so, if you blend in phase the harder you attack the strings, the "warmer" the output, if you set the mix to the inverted side, the harder you hit, the brighter the peaks get, and with the knob at the center (as in the video) the signal passes through buffered, but none of the processed signal is added (It kinda goes from -100% to +100%, so, 0% at noon).
At this point you probably figured it out, but, just for completeness sake: Sens controls the envelope filter sensitivity (the" input level detected" to "mixed in processed signal" ratio) and Freq changes the low pass filter frequency.
I'm only a beginner at the electric guitar, but your videos inspire me greatly to keep training. Rock on 🤘
Taking lessons or learning by videos and stuff ?
I guess you could say the guitar with gold strings sounds... richer.
boom
Ba dum tish!
We were just talking about gold strings on Crimson Guitars luthier questions and answers yesterday and here you are. Look forward to that video.
The boss enhancer lets you emulate the effects that different tonewoods have on the sound of your guitar. As it was obvious that the demo guitar had a maple body, after you switched the pedal on, it sounded like a guitar with a mahogany body.
The Enhancer pedal seems to be a combination High Pass Filter and Compressor combined. I noticed that it subtly tightened up the low end whilst adding more brightness to the highs. I would figure that the EQ knob would set the Q for the shelf, and the sensitivity knob adjusts the threshold for the compressor. The ratio is fixed. Also the Mix knob blends the dry and affected signals. So it acts in parallel.Would need to see the parameters being adjusted to see if I'm truly correct.
I hear a slight brightness with the enhancer on the higher tones, but verrrry modest boost! Verrrrry modest is it just me?
Congratulations 🎉
you won❤❤
Use the above name to acknowledge your prize…
The Boss Enhancer is one of several such pedals that came out in the '80s as compact versions of what had become commonplace in studios in rackmount form as the Aphex Aural Exciter. This device was regularly used to add more presence to acoustic instruments and could make acoustic guitar strings sound newer than new. The basic premise is that a steep highpass filter is used to partition off the top end of the signal, and is boosted significantly, and mixed back in with the dry unprocessed signal.
But here's the thing: unless the original signal source has top end, and the amp, control settings, and speaker *permit* that top end to be heard, the EH-2, or indeed ANY similar device, will do absolutely nothing that you can hear. So, if you go to try it out in the store, using a Strat in one of the "quack" switch settings, and play through an amp with bright 10" speakers and the brite switch on, you might be impressed. If you plug your Les Paul with overwound pickups into it, and play through a 4x12 stack, chances are pretty good you'll end up asking "Is this thing on? I see the LED is lit, but I can't hear a difference."
The Frequency control has to be set such that enough of whatever relevant top end is dialed in (i.e., kept/partitioned off) can be boosted enough to be audible in the mix. If the Freq control is set too high, you're asking the circuit to boost something that isn't even there. That means you can dime the Mix control and *still* not hear any difference. BY my calculations the lowest frequency content the pedal can be asked to include for boosting is around 4.4khz. The highest rolloff point is around 10.6khz, which few, if any, solid-body guitars will *ever* produce in audible amounts.
I imagine the instructions for the pedal indicate as much, but to use it properly, you set the Mix and Sense controls to 5:00, and roll the Frequency control back to 7:00. Now you slowly bring the Freq control up to just below where it seems like the effect begins to disappear. Now slowly lower the sensitivity control (the drive/gain of the top end) so that it starts to sound a little sweeter or not as ornery, and adjust the Mix to taste.
I was literally gonna say how Radiohead-esque the otamatone sounds, until you mentioned it in the video. It sounds more like Kid A era Radiohead than in rainbows though. It sounds specifically like the ondes martenot used on “The National Anthem”.
Could I suggest a vid where you collect all your “bow” like gadgets and then have an accomplished violin player on to coach you on efficient bow use.
Tyler, your playing so fucking cool. The solo with those gold strings was soooon sick, love the weird ass chromatic shit and the wicked bends (of course with all those badass harmonics) so damn creative
The habit is intimidating as hell,and I'm working up the nerve to take on this little yellow monster...
Honestly for me, the "Best" thing in this video is that super sweet Hendrix art work on your wall.
I feel like Tyler is going through his emo stage 🤣
He has changed of late. He used to be smart but it seems to be going down the click bait route. Shame I loved his music theory side of things. But folk need to make a living.
i think he looked to much dad videos after his fight 😂😂😂
Haha yeah I agree
Fight?
@@jasmith85 I think he has changed since he altered his hairstyle. Can't put my finger on it exactly but he IS different!?
Tried the EH-2 as someone suggested it as a tool to compensate for signal loss of highs going through many pedals. I felt that it might have a place in some setups but for me it just added a very synthetic sound in the upper-mid to high range. When I set the effect lower it seemed to be adding more noise than effect and everything still seemed more natural with it off. In the end my solution was to simplify my pedal board.
Ok, the gold strings thing. I know I’m mainly an Ernie ball guy and that’s what goes on pretty much every single one of my guitars: everything from 6 strings in E standard to my 8 string I’m F standard. The reason I mention is is because my absolute favorite set of strings for my 7 string Ormsby shark is the Optima Gold 11-58 set. In half step down it has the slinky feel of 9’s but the size and tension of 11’s. The biggest downside to these string is that (from what I can tell) you can’t buy individual strings and the gauges they have on offer can be a little “unique” at times (the gauges for the 7 string 11’s set are 11,14,18,30,38,50,58) and for someone who regularly plays extended range guitars it can be a little annoying BUT I think for 6 strings they are probably some of the best strings on the market. I know that I will be using them on the baritone guitars I’m having built and I can’t wait. I’m curious to see what others think about the strings when the whole video comes out!
The manual for the EH-2 has some pretty specific settings to try. Keeping everything at noon won't do much of anything. I definitely notice after I've been playing for a couple of hours a difference when turning it off. Almost like a blanket was put over the amp.
@Music is Win I love how you combine John mayer, Joe satriani, Eddie Van Halen and a hint of Steve Vai when testing the gold strings haha. Well done.
A pedal that does whatever it wants. Genius.
The Maxima Optima strings are around $25 a set but they can literally last for a year or more (several years depending on how often and how hard you play) since they don't tarnish or corrode. It would be nice if they offered singles.
That 335 is beautiful. I love the blueberry burst finish and the 335's.. A match made in heaven!
@Isa Zahid Tyler's is a Dave Grohl model?
@Isa Zahid doesn't Grohls model follow the Trini Lopez model? Diamond cut outs and firebird headstock.. Plus Dave's was a solid Pelham Blue color.. Tylers has the woodgrain showing through.. I could be mistaken
@Isa Zahid no problem buddy. I love learning too and I love the blueberry burst fade on the Gibsons too. My all time favorite finish. They make a 339 that's blueberry burst too.. In fact I think they do a Les Paul In Blueberry burst too
Just checked..lol they have a Paul.. A ES -137 and an SG with Blueberry Burst
@Isa Zahid no doubt!
stepped up the editing and It really paid off, been a fan for a while and I like the direction your going!
I didn't like any of those pedals and gadgets, and I couldn't hear any difference with the gold strings, but those gold strings might have been inspiring you quite a bit because the tune you played on them is ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC!!! That needs a separate video + Bandcamp link. Awesome composition and playing.
I need some of those gold strings, to put them on my trumpet. Hopefully they would work...
I think I remember from a Premier Guitar Rig Rundown with Queen that Brian May uses those Optima Gold strings
The best guitar teacher and youtuber in the fuc*ing worldddd! 🤟
Dude… I LOVE the jimi art you have on your wall, just gotta say it
Love that Jam at the end dude
can we talk about production of this video? good stuff tyler
That strat used with the guitar bow is gorgeous
EH-2 Basically adds high end. You have the mix neutral so you won't hear anything. It is also much more prominent in the effects loop I use one for a treble boost on my Rockerverb for cutting through.
7:35 missed opportunity for a Jerry Garcia joke
Wow! That was really cool! The enhancer though… I guess it COULD make a difference if it’s the only pedal turned on, and MAXED out…maybe?
Also-where did that beat come from at the end of the oddity 5 part of the video? Was that once you made or part of an app maybe? Sounded really interesting!
That guitar looks GORGEOUS with the gold strings
6:44 legend has it these knobs aren’t connected and there is just a thinner low quality guitar cable inside there to demolish the idea of expensive guitar cabling
For just a moment I heard the house band guitar from Slingblade when you played the Palmlow!!! Genius yet Epic!!!
That jam at the end with the gold strings is sick 😫 👌 👏
The Enhancer sounds different when on, because it’s a Boss pedal, there’s input and output buffers in there… or as most true-bypass fans would say, “it’s tone suck!”
The riff at 2:18 absolutely slaps
Goooooolduh strings in thar hills..i tell yah Goolduh...ya there is sum wild oddities out thar in gi'tar land...sum fun, sum waste o' mun'eh ..but allz seem ta enc'orage playin... witch all'wayz a gud thang.. gime'key er not.... your content always inspires me to create Tyler, and that my friend is priceless ... i always really enjoy your "wtf" videos always worth a watch and you always hit the nail..which is inspiration thanks and cheers mate
So am i just dumb or is the palmello just a whammy bar that fits your palm better?
Cool video! I am going to be modeling my studio vibe after yours for sure! Lol
That tone at 8:17 is killer! Reminds me of Stach!
Ah yes the Brain May Optima Gold Strings, yeah they are crazy different in sound, I wouldn't consider them an oddity as much as being overpriced here in the US compared to what you can get them for in the UK. Had them on a tele-partscaster , Used the MIM Deluxe body in Candy Red with the neck, and built my own version of a Nashville, I modified the Deluxe neck and refretted it with Gold wire and got some Dimarzio pickups in Gold(Twang king in the neck, and Chopper T), added a lipstick Gold tube in the mid and wired it with 2 separate volumes(1 push pull to reverse phase depending on what I wanted it in phase with the neck or bridge) and 1 tone pot.
Tyler, have you heard of the fairfield circuitry shallow water pedal? it's undescribable, makes your guitar sound like a bunch of ambient melodies, it would make a fine addition to your collection
The thing he played with the Palmolo sounded like a Depeche Mode deep cut
1:06 all I need, great song from in rainbows
The enhancer does make a difference, but less so on anything with overdrive. Think of it like a "Presence" knob (which is basically a 6 K boost) but not quite. Also, the dials need to set higher.
Yeah that palm-ello is genius in my opinion. Even though that isn’t my style whatsoever, the reasons I’ve never really like trem bars are pretty much solved by that thing. I’ve seen something similar but even smaller for a Floyd, thought it was genius as well
Tyler, those are all cool toys and your playing is amazing. I saw you were wearing a Boston Red Sox shirt, I told my wife he’s one of us. 🤘🙌🏻
The *ENHANCER* : If you can’t hear the difference, it’s operating at peak performance. Best scam pedal ever invented. Someone I know had said it was created as a joke and it got out of hand.
I hear the difference
@@upstairscandy0764 Nah… you don’t. I have good friends over at Boss… that pedal was never designed to do anything. It was a joke pedal that somehow got released. Someone actually lost their job over it. It does absolutely nothing… at all.
@@BangBangBeefyMacNCheesy dont remid me about firing that twerp about this peddle. I need to keep up our image
@@BangBangBeefyMacNCheesy
Who lost his job over it and how?
Please tell me he had to commit harakiri.
@@BangBangBeefyMacNCheesy wrong
Hey idk when your doing another song requests video but if you do can you try out:silent screamer by Tatsuro yamashita,It shocked me how good the intro sounds
Loved the intro, just sayin', and loved the gold strings went perfectly with the pickguard and fretboard on the guitar.
6:42 dayummmm dat pedull really enhances
That last bit starting at 8:18 gave me Santana vibes😎☀️
Who makes the gold guitar strings??? I’ve had anodized red black an green all rubbed off in like 2 days
Brian May from Queen used those gold strings earlier, and propably still now on his red special guitar.
The edition in this video is superb!
Re: The Palm O Low. I am a leftie and got in touch with the nice folks at Palm O Low and asked if they make a lefty version. The answer was “no, but we do have this..” This being a longer wider tremolo arm for Bigsby that will allow me to play my Gretsch with my hand always above the trem arm. Problem solved.
EARLY!....could you do a review of some weirdest pedals!? im looking forward to it!
Tyler, with a few minor adjustments, I think your technique could improve immensely. You keep your right hand WAY too tense. You have your hand wedged into a kind of odd V shape. It seems to lock you into position playing. When you change, you almost stop and reset. You’re good once you get settled in, but you have NO true freedom. It’s sad … because you seem to have enough musicality to allow to get through this handicap. Think what you could do if you learned to free yourself up. I offer the following to you and any of your students that care to give it a try. Relax your arm and extend it straight. I realize that everyone’s anatomy is a little different, so adjust as necessary - pick angle, holding, etc. Let you’re three fingers just relax with a kind of open hand. Bend at the elbow at about 90 degrees to start and then go more or less depending on your own anatomy. Using this relaxed method will allow you to easily mute with your palm without locking you down. Ok … so how do we master and develop our new technique? Do the following exercises, and I promise you’ll be leaping and bounding with the freedom of a violinist in no time. You should start seeing results immediately. First play all exercises with all down strokes. Then play everything with all upstrokes (slower than normal). The goal is control. Speed will come on its own. Next, play everything with alternate picking, always starting with an upstroke. Then reverse and and alternate pick beginning each phrase with a downstroke - regardless if the beat is weak or strong. The whole purpose is to free up your picking to where you can play anything. Another thing to do is to use hammers and pulls … but with deliberation. You plan ahead which notes you won’t pick and then change it up. You should develop (at least) four volume levels with these exercises. On your hammers and pulls, work on accenting your picked notes and playing the others at your lowest volume level. In conclusion: with these exercises - you get technique. You get dynamics. You get phrasing. You get FREEDOM. You can do these on anything you play, from “Mary had a little lamb” to “Cliffs of Dover.” Please try this and let me know your results or if you have any questions. I’m a professionally trained educator. I’m 62 years old and have been playing since I was a young boy. I had a heart attack a couple months back (trying to wrap things up, but don’t tell my wife 🌝)and I’ve been confined to a wheelchair for forty years. My back was broken when I was 22. It never impeded my guitar playing, but I’m sure my wheelchair didn’t seem that cool on stage. I did it anyway, though 🎅😃. Anyway guys, if I can be of any help I’d love to talk to you. Jim
Enhancer was an attempt to do what a BBE sonic maximizer does; BBE came out with the sonic stomp pedal. I have one, and I love it.and my boss metalcore are my 2 favorite pedals. I'd like a Klon, they were made in MA and I grew up there but I don't have 8k for new truck parts nevermind a pedal.
I reckon the Enhancer pedal has no electronics inside, it just connects the input and output leads together. If you tell someone it enhances their tone they will hear the enhancement and believe it! It's a cross between 'The Emperor's New Clothes', and a placebo!😂
i feel like the enhancer just makes your tone a lot calmer
It sounds like an envelope editor honestly
The Hard Rock Cafe did and maybe still do use gold guitar strings on their displayed guitar collection because they resist corrosion longer than other guitar strings.
Hi Tyler. Great show as always! Those gold stings give you instant Jeff Beck tone with klon I am guessing. Thanks.
thanks for the vid, my dude. be safe, have fun and i'll see you in the next one.
That Hendrix art in the intro is really cool.
Liked the video, but the mix being set to basically zero on the enhancer was probably the cause for not hearing a difference, but I’ve never been it before.
Would’ve loved to hear some more single note lines and more of a bowing motion for the Picasso, but from what I’ve seen it’s way better working between the strings with the bow going in the soundhole on an acoustic.
Great video
I'm officially turning into my dad. I winced when I saw you using needle nose pliers to remove the hex nut on your trem. (Use what ya got. I'm not judging. It was more self reflection than anything)
A guitar bow and a guitar pick!? No way! That's as crazy as putting guitar picks on a mic stand!
And those gold strings may just be amazing as well. I’d love to try them as soon as they make an 8 string .Strandberg* set haha
And guess what strings are on my Les Paul Custom? Optima Golds! A gift from an ex. Still stays strong, two years since I put them on!
Great narrating, groovy mixolydian stuff
I went to a guitar center and they had a vintage guitar with a strange looking tremolo bar and I looked closer and it was a spoon! It was amazing and it felt good when I used it
I have a bow for my spacey sounds, but that bow pick was seriously inspiring. Might have to get one
damn you are nailing it, the last videos are so creative and entertaining to watch, really cool ideas man. love it :) i would like a video about ernie ball musicman guitars because i am highly interested in getting one but dont know which there are and i know you got some
I think the idea behind the gold strings isn't about tone so much as the fact that gold doesn't oxidize. Theoretically, they won't get old, and the only time they'll need replacing is if the break.
However, gold is very soft, and it is possible that over time the string could become stretched out, or even flattened where they meet the frets. Keep them on as an experiment, see how long it takes before the sounds quality fails, or the structural integrity. Do a science.
RUclips should pay its content creators more monies.
Make your own web site charge fee.
Great idea for a video. Really enjoyed this one.
o_O
o_o
0_e
•_•
O_o