Me when I first started playing guitar as a teenager "Aw jeez, I can't wait to get out there and talk with other guitarists about what guitarists, tones and guitars I like and make friends." Me now at the age of 36 "Most guitar players are over opinionated assholes that I avoid at all costs." I really relate with the guy who said about not having many guitar player friends.
I like hanging out with other guitar players. Gear talk can be fun. But I've also recognized to learn the tell tales that you are dealing with a connoisseur of fine tone tonewoods, expensive pickups, and boutique amps and pedals. So if I judge the person to be like a Jehova's Witness or Social Justice Warrior in their beliefs in that matter I tend to keep my conversations in a more light manner. Nothing a true believer hates more then being challenged on their beliefs. Also, guitar players tend to make for the worst audience. You can always spot the guitar player at a gig in a crowd. Arms crossed across his chest, looking frowning and judging, thinking he could do a better job and in fact should be the one on stage instead.
Well excuse you, Mr. Glenn Fricker! I am not low enough to do my audio in my gArAgE sTuDiO. I, as the higher being, do it all right in the comfort of my bedroom!
@@brandonthompson8413 That’s amazing. I thought you could just rip components out and absolutely nothing would change. Next you’re gonna tell me playing with the knobs in front will change the sound as well.
@@DizzyDez613 Well sometimes, depends on the circuit and design of the amp. My amp doesn't have knobs on the front they are in back on the top kind of.
i am sure you know about this, but i want to share a great lesson life taught me : If you make someone jealous to the point of anger, it's because there is something to be very jealous about, and the best way to deal with this is to celebrate that you have found one more thing that is valuable about you and your contribution to the world, which is pretty neat. Thank you Glenn ! David
So..quick précis. When buying a guitar for heavy metal don't worry what pickups are in it, as long as they are quiet. Don't worry what wood it's made out of, it makes no difference. Make sure it plays nice, stays in tune and it looks cool. Job done! Excellent show as always Glenn, thanks for sharing.
On Led Zeppelin I, Jimmy Page used a Supro amp with a Sola Sound Tonebender mk2 fuzz pedal that he used primarily as a booster of sorts. Additionally, the ambient sound was gotten through having additional mics placed further back from the amp and using the room's natural reverb to add enhancement.
Another thing that was done back those days was to record a playback of one or more tracks in large rooms/locations and then add those recorded tracks into the mix. Hence the names for types of reverb. Ever seen how real plate reverbs in an elevator shaft are done? 😄
As the saying goes "It's the musician not the instrument." Good musicians can make a cheap/bad instruments sound good. In most cases, good equipment makes the task easier. No amount of gear is going to help a bad musician. Even though I'm a keyboard player I enjoy you show. Your show is for all musician not just metal players. Keep up the good work.
i always said it's better for people to learn music on cheap ass instruments. it makes them way better players when they do get soemthing that is good. because they do every thing in their power to make that cheap insrument sound better and those kind of techniques really carry over to better gear making taht gear sound even better as well. this stems from a simple fact some one once told me . ALL electric guitars suffer from the same basic issues , just the cheap ones don't try to hide those issues because they are cutting cost instead (fret chew, fret buzz , static buzz aka hum ect. ect.).
To an extent... yes however, I've heard practice amps that sound downright abysmal and I've played guitars that feel like literal plywood and its MUCH more difficult to play a more complicated song on it than on a better rig. No but seriously, there's this 20 year old Fender practice amp that my school's had and it sounds like actual garbage. When I first played it I was genuinely under the impression that the speaker was broken until I realized there was nothing wrong with it.
Good insight. It's also important to point out you don't need massive amounts of recording equipment. to make a a good recording. Boston's first album was recorded in Tom Scholz's basement on a 12 track tape machine
I agree. I have also played on some crappy amps. I also bought a hideous keyboard in the early '90s. It was awful. Learned my lesson on that one. I have a Crate amp from the late '70s early '80s that is showing it's age. Had to retire it. Someday I might disassemble it or take it to a repair shop in attempt salvage it and use it as a spare. There's always that person who needs an amp during jam sessions. Still use a Peavy KB100 from the 1980s and a Behringer K450 FX when I don't want to lug the KB100 around.
@@DenverStarkey I go against this way of thinking. Spending just a bit more for a better instrument will make a begginner spend more time with an instrument and make for an enjoyable time at the begginning...ive had shit guitar for begginning and it only took me a few years to actually make myself to not quit this time.
Man you have saved me so much money. I almost bought super expensive pickups to make my guitar sound better but thanks to you I didn’t have to! Keep up the good work!!
About to fly to Europe for a series of gigs (first time gigging internationally!!)... the tears and salt of these angry guitar players is the perfect fuel ahead of the flight. Cheers from a gloomy Toronto airport, Glenn :D
I'm so thankful for your channel because the end goal is to clearly help people. And all I do is beat on the drums like a neanderthal. Crazy how much push back your channel receives over this simple principle.
Glennn!!! I crashed my bands van in Hollywood this past summer. We now have a shirt with the totaled van that says “we let the bassist drive” I think the shirt would look great on you man! We’re called split persona. Check out the shirt maybe our music!
Up until the 1970s, after babies were born they'd be slapped on their bottom to help clear their airways. When a baby cried after being born it meant they were healthy and ready to be handed to the mother. This was a long accepted practice until a gentleman named Frederick Leboyer wrote a book that suggested that the practice was traumatic to a newborn infant. As such the tradition of slapping a babies bottom after birth was dropped. To this day however the only thing more whiney than a baby just being born before the 1970s are some of the people in this comment section.
Lots of "Chefs" will EPICALLY FAIL blind taste tests too...which is precisely why such tests exist. Most guitarists can't tell if their guitar is even in tune, much less its "tonal nuances due to wood". The Truth hurts.
New VC episode means; the weeekend can come! Seriously, watching your videos has become such an important part of my life lately. A Glen sig guitar would truly be amazing. Much fun travelling and stay safe. Cheers
People equate “This is why I believe you’re incorrect” with “You’re stupid” and it’s so backward. EVERYONE is wrong about something they believe strongly and ANYONE can get duped. It’s human. It’s okay to be wrong! Soooo if you disagree with these videos, politely comment why, or move along like a grown-ass person😂
I have watched the video a few times about the pick-up tests. Mainly cause it does proves the point of the guitar pick snake oil theory. So i put 11 of my guitars to the test. They're loaded with Fishmans (modern fluence and carpenter signature), Seymour Duncans (Jb and black outs), MOJO tone , EMG , Roswell, HBZ, Tesla (stock loaded Harley benton) stock loaded ibanez pick ups and also Rockfeild. So I recorded everything direct , wrote down with channel was what guitar waited a about 3 days and listened back to each track dirty and clean... and oit of the 11 I got 3 right.. the hbz and the 2 that have fishmans.. The only reason I could pick those 3 out from all the others was due to volume. The tone difference was too small to really pick out. I really hope others try this test out for yourself. I'm sure the results may vary, but it was fun. Great video, Glenn. I'm looking forward to the next test !!
Thanks for responding to my comment Glen! That was awesome. I may have just saved my friend from buying new pick ups. We were jamming and he said he wanted to get some EMG pick ups like mine. I was like, lets do a recording test first. We put our guitars through the same rig and recorded the same riff back to back. To his surprise they sounded almost identical besides a slight change in gain. He was blown away and thanked me for saving him time and money! your knowledge is spreading mayne!!!!
Coil tap is supposed to be a lower output because it’s tapped windings, like having a high output pickup that you can switch to vintage output. Coil split separates one coil by turning the other off, making a humbucker sound like a single coil. At least in theory. I have never heard a tonal shift with either option, any difference is due to lower output pushing less gain into the amp. I learned early on was this: use the proper pickup TYPE to the sound you want. Also note, you can roll the volume back to get vintage tones from a high output pickup. I typically set my volume to 8 and tone to 6 or 7, then dial my amp to the sound I want. I got that tip from Colin at CSGuitars and it really does work.
Glenn!!!! I definitely think creating a cabinet that has a quick release backplate for hot swapable speaker changes would be absolutely amazing. If you constructed it with the build quality of some of the more popular cabinets using similar materials, you would pose a SERIOUS threat to the competition!
Actually man, as like, the light spectrum is a frequency band man, you've like, got to pick just the right one out of the rainbow man, because like, if you get the wrong color the like frequencies will clash with the frequencies you play man.
I'm not quite sure why so many people do not seem to get the science of near field micing, which is what a pickup is basically doing. A piece of wood does not effect this
Thanks again for all you do Glenn. I’ve learnt more in the past two weeks watching your videos about the little tricks and odds and ends than I have in the past 20 years of playing. Because of you I’ve progressed a Shit pile and seemingly making huge leaps daily it seems…..keep on keeping on brother.
About the Butthurt of the Week comment, if you are envisioning laughing at black eyes and jaws wired shut over guitar wood and pickups, you might want to step back from music for a bit and address some more personal things because that's not required to make music. That was probably the best handling of a comment like that I've seen yet. Also not all of us are in garage studios. I for one am in a bedroom studio. Spare bedrooms, for when the garage is basically storage.
*_"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."_* -Isaac Asimov (But of course, Asimov was a dimwit compared to a Lord of Toneweood with Magic Tone-Producing Hands.)
Hot-swappable speakers? No! The cab would need an auto-switching dummy load to maintain the impedance during swapping, or you might risk damaging your amp (depends on how robust the output transformer is and whether your increasing or decreasing the load during the swap). Quick-swappable speakers? Yes, make it easy to pull them out and put them into the cab, with nice quick-connect plugs/sockets on the wiring.
Two things here: 1. Have you tried contacting James Hetfield himself? 2. Most of Jimmy Page's sound came from using MK II and MK III Tone Benders. As for his amps: He didn't only use Marshall Plexis. He also used Hiwatt, Rickenbacker, Supro, Vox, and Orange amps. He stopped using Hiwatts live and switched to Marshalls because it was difficult to find places to service Hiwatts when he was on touring in America; whereas, Marshall had authorized service centers everywhere.
As far As Zeppelin 1, Page said the amplifier he used was a Supro…which he later regretted revealing, as when his main one died, he couldn’t find another Supro to save his life! 😂
a hot-swappable speaker cabinet would be amazing. here's what I'm thinking a 4x12 with a Channel selector non soldered speaker connectors, plus bolt stud and wingnut mounting hardware (like a car tire) instead of wood screws for the speaker to cabinet mounting for tool less hot-swapping. any thoughts?
Turns out being broke while being (a gullible) twenty something ended up being an advantage! I had to make do with what I had. Eventually (in my thirties now) these test videos came out and suddenly I ended up thinking, ""Whale Oil Beef Hooked, what a relief!"
Glenn, the fact you let “John” down that gently proves why I come back each week. You could’ve easily had the algorithm take care of posts like those (who’s to say you didn’t?) but you also gave him some constructive criticism to think about. Maybe his mom needs to take away all his Monster so he’d stop punching holes in the drywall…
Denial is a dangerous thing unfortunately. People who have been dreaming in a dogma all their lives can easily panic when they get shaken out of their sleep
I'm a broke college student who doesn't have a ton of money and your videos have helped me feel like I can actually lay down some bangers without being a millionaire. As someone who had to take over a year off of recording because of a shitty living situation, you learn to work with what you have and use your brain and ears to make good songs, not your wallet (i do play a Gibson SG though, it was a gift and is my baby. after a string butler and some locking tuners it's a beast)
@@DoktrDub it works great for keeping the A, D, G, and B strings in tune, but it doesn't actually do anything for the E strings so if you're having problems there I'd look at other methods. Some nut lube every string change is enough to compensate for those two strings in my case, and my G string wouldn't stay in tune at all before the Butler and now I can hammer on it for a while before it goes out
Dude, Glenn!! The diet and exercise regimen that you put into place a few years back is REALLY paying off man. Looking great, keep up all the hard work.
What would be interesting is if you have top level engineers listen to a guitar shootout. Not so much as to see if they can name the guitar, but rather what aspects they pick out when they hear cheap and expensive guitars. I think that would be a great lesson.
The bassist in my band just came up with a genius way to save himself money. When it was time for us to pay the engineer for mixing & mastering our album, he quit the band. Brilliant!
GLEEENNN!, I'm on a flight to Malta in a few months and I'll be bringing my bass guitar with me and I need to know how to protect my bass guitar from those careless ground handlers (and Ryanair themselves) who are usually dumber than bass players themselves!. A video on how to safely pack your instrument before flying please
I’ve watched a lot of people debating religious fanatics (especially creationists). The similarities between the religious fanatics and guitar puritans is staggering. “Oh, you have scientific evidence to support you? We’ll that doesn’t matter, I’ll keep believing what I _want_ to believe!”.
Recording in a garage? I wish! We record in a 6'x8' closet. We get positive comments all the time about the sound of the recording. The only gear we have that cost more than $1k are the instruments and computer, and most of it is far cheaper than that. Glenn is my hero.
I have a lot of respect for all the free knowledge and gear that you share with the music community. I do agree that the speakers contribute to 80% or more of a guitar sound. Tubes just provide power, they either work or don’t work, a guitars wood and construction type only do very little for the sound and pickups(with exceptions to true single coils vs Humbucker)only change output mostly, besides some being a little more compressed than others. Even different amps do very little for the overall sound, especially when most people eq them to their liking. The eq on amps only slightly sculpt the sound, as they are not full frequency ranging as other eq’s. The mic type/placement can change the sound a good deal. All this I’ve learned from playing guitars and recording them for 25 years. So I do agree with you but I think it’s worth mentioning that pickups can be more or less a mod for someone who wants a different look and/or slightly different output. Thanks for all you do, keep putting out videos and I’ll keep watching them. I’ve got my mind set on the ELE drums at the moment, I will be purchasing them soon!!!!
18:26 for hot swappable speakers, you can put hard wires on the end and imitate the way an electric stove coil plugs in, definitely a prototype idea but when I finally get a work shed again I’ll probably give this a shot…
All that was missing from the trifecta was the “Ima be a big star one day Yo Ima doing you a favour “. You could have discovered the next vanilla ice polka rapper 🤹♂️ and extreme juggler Glenn
If you do a signature cab, I really think it ought to have doors in the back you can use to tune the bass response to suit speakers with different resonant frequencies and get the frequency response you want. Worth experimenting with. It's also worth comparing that to what you can do with a flat cab response and EQ.
“Garage studio.” What?! Pretty much anyone can turn a corner of their bedroom into a better studio than what was used to record the most iconic albums of all time thanks to modern technology. I swear, some people are just hellbent on being consumers.
I gotta share this one too, dinosaur Jr fans were all shocked last year when J Mascis told everybody that his signature Jazzmaster-Big Muff-Marshall stack sound was pretty much never what was actually on any of his recordings. I think he said Out There was an SG junior through one of the smaller fenders.
Of course people are threatening violence. People hate it when someone makes them realize they are a bunch of paste eating morons. They would rather kill the messenger than improve themselves and learn something. Keep fighting the good fight Glen. Not everyone is a clueless idiot, and we recognize and appreciate the effort.
1 out of 1500 is in the realm of Type I error. I would have thought a few more people would have gotten the guesses right by chance alone. Full disclosure: You totally stumped and educated my bass playing behind.
Giordano Bruno was just saying too. It doesn’t really depend on time we are living, people gonna be the same. If they could, they would set people on fire again….
An easy swap speaker cab would actually be pretty easy to do. You just need some alignment pins for the screw holes and some twist locks (like want are used on truck bed covers or travel boxes).
Well, what about them rattling around, and if not right away, then over time? Not saying there aren't ways, but I cannot imagine the would come cheep if anyone ever makes them. The mark up on simple and basic hardware is quite high, add a bit of engineering and it could ad a whopping $100 to every cabinet made with it, and with gear snobs out there, the mark up can be even higher the second they show any interest!
@@spencermcelrea9311 I didn't think you were thinking of manufacturing them, but you made the suggestion and said it would be easy, and it may sound that way until you consider everything involved, and good engineering is not trying things until you find something work, but designing it to be sure to work, before you build a prototype, or even a "prove principle model" before a prototype.
Hello from Australia, re pickups, a few years ago i did my own experiment with a few second hand dimarzio's i got off ebay, i had my beloved old ibanez ex, i had already changed the stock bridge pick up for an ibanez V8 by then, but next i tested a PAF Pro, a Breed, and then a D-Sonic (bar to the bridge) hunting for a good death metal bridge pick up. I recorded my self playing (attempting to play) rythm parts from lashed to the slave stick by Nile in Drop A tuning. I eventually settled on the D-Sonic. But through that whole process the biggest shift i saw was between old and new strings.
In my imagination... Pull the screen off the front of the cabinet, slide the speaker up and out of slot type mounting brackets, pull it out of the cab, with ample cable, pull the car stereo type connectors off the tabs on the back of the speaker, attach them to the new speaker, feed the cable back into the cab as you line the speaker up with the hole, slide it down into the mounting brackets, and clip the screen back on. It's really only the brackets that need working out, it might involve some type of 'wings' to clip on to the speakers, or maybe, the slots in the brackets are wide enough for the rim of the speaker to slide into. These would have to be foam or rubber lined I'd guess, I'm thinking that the automotive industry might be already using a suitable bracket.
The Butthurt of the Week reminded me of a situation working at a really shitty startup. There were signs that some employees were getting bullied, and they would pass it on to the next guy. However, when the got to me, I turned out and would say "What the hell was that about? What a dumbass" and eventually they stopped doing it to me. And yes, it often was something really stupid. "Well... that guy was"... and I would then go "holy shit. He really IS a dumbass!"
I’ve had the idea for years, never had the time to actually put it to business! If you were to have a tension rod that holds a head to a base drum, then have a thread system that’s on the plywood/MDF to tighten the speaker down. I’m not really a guitar player, I’m a producer and dummer. When I had my pro studio, before home, recording killed my business !! 😜changing, Speakers was a pain in the ass!! Cheers , from N.Y.C/ L.E.S Jim
Things guitarist need to get over: 1. Mythical tone wood. In electrics is does not matter. The pickups sense the change in the magnetic field that metal strings create. That is it. 2. Tubes amplify and depending on saturation, will affect the output.. it won't change the tone. 3. Learning music theory and sight reading standard notation. TAB is fine, but its not the whole picture. Theory will improve your playing by leaps and bounds. 99.99999% of people are not and never will be a EVH, a Glen Campbell, a Tommy Shaw. 4. Always seek more instruction. Just because you can play doesn't mean your learning is done. Even the great Randy Rhoades would find a teacher wherever he was and learn more. The more you know the bigger the canvas you can paint on. 5. Tone is not and never will be in the hands. Style and articulation are in the hands. EVH could play a guitar and still "sound" like EVH.... Sound? We use the word "sound" too broad here. It will seem to be EVH because of his style, rhythm, technique. You brain knows his articulation and fills in using your imagination. If EVH was to play my Tele-Pro it would just sound like EVH playing a Tele-Pro. It wouldn't sound like EVH playing his FrankenStrat. 6. Ego
I'm trying to imagine the set of circumstances that would make someone pathetic enough to threaten violence over a guitar tone RUclips video. What a silly little nerd (who is almost certainly reading this 👋😊)
I really enjoy your videos and how you break it down to what really matters. Sometimes a cheap guitar sounds good by accident and you would probably agree that the most important thing is playability and some guitars are just more comfortable to play due to their weight balance and being set up correctly
Glenn... wow love your show. hey I'm a 63 year old guitarist, producer (I use that term LIghtly) been playing since I was 13 I only caveat this to give you an idea of what you are dealing with here. Your clips are awesome, Now I am not a heavy metal fan to begin with, but I respect and enjoy some of the music. thank you for speaking the truth to power, I must be one of those weird (thinking Guitaris) because I tend to listen before I make a judgment, your videos on gear are 2nd to none you have helped me tremendously in wading through the BS that is out there, Please continue to enlighten us, by the way the production I like to emulate is more on the 70's through the 90's sound like Gabriel and Sound Garden etc... ya I know eclectic right) can you give me any suggestions of producers doing what you (in tutorials) are in the these Jandras? oh and Screw you Glenn ya Bastard.
I must thank you Glen. Until I watched your vids on pick ups I was a sadly deluded pick up head myself. I had been saving up for some awesome top of the line pick ups for my Ibanez. Instead of wasting the money on pick ups I went out and got a brand new Jackson JS42 for $560.00 Canadian. Thanks again Glen.
1:00 yep Glenn saved me a bunch of money as well! I was in the music store today for an XLR, and the salesman sold a guy one hell of a Fender American custom shop with the legendary words, "these pickups are like The Beatles sound and this like this the Clapton sound... huh and so Glenns 'The Eagle Has Landed' intro went through my mind. He might as well could've did the same thing on a entry level guitar on that Fender combo cab. Anyways... Oh, yes I released my first Elektro music album today, thanks to Glenn advising DistroKid. Unplugged and Metal releases later this year. Huge progress! Get your business in your own hands. So yeah, watching this channel saved me a lot of struggle and money... Eyes and ears open folks, this guy knows what he is talking about 👉
"since watching this channel I have.... almost completely stopped caring about dialing my amp and pedal" Oh boy.... would love to hear the sick tones he's getting
YES!!! PLEASE make a video on a budget 500 setup! I'm curious about outboard gear in my future, and the 500 series of gear seems tailor-made to my situation with limited space and budget. Thanks for all your hard work!
I was thinking about gettin' Suhr Doug Aldrich pickups for my LP. You just made me change my mind and made me save some money that I can spend on things that are very useful if you wanna actually play the guitar: strings
When I got into building guitars I was astounded by the amount of snake oil in that market (Vintage paper in oil capacitors? Give me a break.) I found that I got the best mileage out of weight reduction, ergonomics, and proper setup. My first prototype was made out of birch plywood with a $30 Dragonfire humbucker and it kicks exactly the same amount of ass as my main guitar which is made of figured walnut and has a hand wound 3+3 hum canceling single coil.
To the Jimmy Page/Tele comment. Page played a Tele in the Yardbirds and on Zeppelin 1 (also in the Stairway to Heaven solo) Jeff Beck gave Jimmy that Telecaster. Joe Walsh gave him his first Les Paul (a 59). Jimmy made the switch specifically to use Humbuckers. People gotta remember that back then, you basically had Fender or Gibson. That's why they were so widely played. There wasn't much else besides a Danelectro or a Hagstrom.
It's hard not to like this dude. Even his adverts make sense. Good on ya, Glen. Rock on, lad. While my own personal proclivities lean towards the electronic and industrial, I've worked in this industry from everything from a roadie, to moonlighting as the front for a black metal band because I looked good in skinny leather pants. I wish I could still fit in those pants, so that's changed, but good hardware advice has not. Not often you get it either.
Pretty sure Hetfield and Hammett both used 75t Celestions back in the day. I remember reading an old interview with Kirk around the Black Album era and he said he had used them and was surprised in the difference in overall loudness from his cab. I may be wrong. It's been 30 years.
I really don't see what Glenn would get out of lying to us. If he was trying to tell us that a maple fretboard is important for tone or that one brand of pickups pleases one god more than another, I'd be infinitely more concerned about ulterior motives. But I guess fuck him for trying to be on our side.
Just an hypothesis, maybe some of your haters leave those comments because you will put them in a video. Maybe just maybe if you stopped showing them in a video some of those haters would stop "commenting". Great channel none the less.
OMG the vendors in this industry are ruthless, thank God I m in photography and this never happens here! that reminds me I gotta check that new sony/nikon/canon/leica release it will make my camera obsolete from what i 've heard.
You don't just save people money, you teach them how to make the best with what they've got and that's even more valuable.
Like that brown lipstick.
@@morbidmanmusic Grow up.
@Morbid Man Music < Keep your fetishes to yourself.
Very true, always enjoy that about this channel
True!
Me when I first started playing guitar as a teenager "Aw jeez, I can't wait to get out there and talk with other guitarists about what guitarists, tones and guitars I like and make friends." Me now at the age of 36 "Most guitar players are over opinionated assholes that I avoid at all costs." I really relate with the guy who said about not having many guitar player friends.
So, you likely have few friends, wearing that brown lipstick...
@@morbidmanmusic judging by your comments on the other videos sounds like you're quite butt hurt by the tests. If Glen hurt you I'm sorry 🥺
You are sooo right on this one! Let me tell you the feeling does not change.
@@mech14Nine Exactly. My closest friends are mostly non musicians. And those that are definitely are less upright people
I like hanging out with other guitar players. Gear talk can be fun. But I've also recognized to learn the tell tales that you are dealing with a connoisseur of fine tone tonewoods, expensive pickups, and boutique amps and pedals. So if I judge the person to be like a Jehova's Witness or Social Justice Warrior in their beliefs in that matter I tend to keep my conversations in a more light manner. Nothing a true believer hates more then being challenged on their beliefs. Also, guitar players tend to make for the worst audience. You can always spot the guitar player at a gig in a crowd. Arms crossed across his chest, looking frowning and judging, thinking he could do a better job and in fact should be the one on stage instead.
Well excuse you, Mr. Glenn Fricker! I am not low enough to do my audio in my gArAgE sTuDiO. I, as the higher being, do it all right in the comfort of my bedroom!
🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣
That's nothing. I do all my recording in my theoretical studio that's built directly into my head. 😄
@@courier11sec I prefer to just play live, in my head, in front of Moscow Metallica crowds.
@@courier11sec That's how you stay truly underground. You can't become popular if the songs only exist in your head.
YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG!
“Tubes are not equalizers” would make an awesome tshirt, Glenn.
They are when they fail, and all output is equal to 0.
@@brandonthompson8413 Wait… are you telling me that when tubes die, it’ll effect the sound coming out of the speaker? 😱
@@DizzyDez613 If silence is the effect you desire.
@@brandonthompson8413 That’s amazing. I thought you could just rip components out and absolutely nothing would change.
Next you’re gonna tell me playing with the knobs in front will change the sound as well.
@@DizzyDez613 Well sometimes, depends on the circuit and design of the amp. My amp doesn't have knobs on the front they are in back on the top kind of.
i am sure you know about this, but i want to share a great lesson life taught me :
If you make someone jealous to the point of anger, it's because there is something to be very jealous about, and the best way to deal with this is to celebrate that you have found one more thing that is valuable about you and your contribution to the world, which is pretty neat.
Thank you Glenn !
David
So..quick précis. When buying a guitar for heavy metal don't worry what pickups are in it, as long as they are quiet. Don't worry what wood it's made out of, it makes no difference. Make sure it plays nice, stays in tune and it looks cool. Job done! Excellent show as always Glenn, thanks for sharing.
Wood makes no difference in tone. The wrong wood can make a huge difference in the weight of the guitar, for good or for bad.
On Led Zeppelin I, Jimmy Page used a Supro amp with a Sola Sound Tonebender mk2 fuzz pedal that he used primarily as a booster of sorts. Additionally, the ambient sound was gotten through having additional mics placed further back from the amp and using the room's natural reverb to add enhancement.
Another thing that was done back those days was to record a playback of one or more tracks in large rooms/locations and then add those recorded tracks into the mix.
Hence the names for types of reverb.
Ever seen how real plate reverbs in an elevator shaft are done? 😄
As the saying goes "It's the musician not the instrument." Good musicians can make a cheap/bad instruments sound good. In most cases, good equipment makes the task easier. No amount of gear is going to help a bad musician. Even though I'm a keyboard player I enjoy you show. Your show is for all musician not just metal players. Keep up the good work.
i always said it's better for people to learn music on cheap ass instruments. it makes them way better players when they do get soemthing that is good. because they do every thing in their power to make that cheap insrument sound better and those kind of techniques really carry over to better gear making taht gear sound even better as well. this stems from a simple fact some one once told me . ALL electric guitars suffer from the same basic issues , just the cheap ones don't try to hide those issues because they are cutting cost instead (fret chew, fret buzz , static buzz aka hum ect. ect.).
To an extent... yes however, I've heard practice amps that sound downright abysmal and I've played guitars that feel like literal plywood and its MUCH more difficult to play a more complicated song on it than on a better rig.
No but seriously, there's this 20 year old Fender practice amp that my school's had and it sounds like actual garbage. When I first played it I was genuinely under the impression that the speaker was broken until I realized there was nothing wrong with it.
Good insight. It's also important to point out you don't need massive amounts of recording equipment. to make a a good recording. Boston's first album was recorded in Tom Scholz's basement on a 12 track tape machine
I agree. I have also played on some crappy amps. I also bought a hideous keyboard in the early '90s. It was awful. Learned my lesson on that one. I have a Crate amp from the late '70s early '80s that is showing it's age. Had to retire it. Someday I might disassemble it or take it to a repair shop in attempt salvage it and use it as a spare. There's always that person who needs an amp during jam sessions. Still use a Peavy KB100 from the 1980s and a Behringer K450 FX when I don't want to lug the KB100 around.
@@DenverStarkey I go against this way of thinking. Spending just a bit more for a better instrument will make a begginner spend more time with an instrument and make for an enjoyable time at the begginning...ive had shit guitar for begginning and it only took me a few years to actually make myself to not quit this time.
Man you have saved me so much money. I almost bought super expensive pickups to make my guitar sound better but thanks to you I didn’t have to! Keep up the good work!!
About to fly to Europe for a series of gigs (first time gigging internationally!!)... the tears and salt of these angry guitar players is the perfect fuel ahead of the flight. Cheers from a gloomy Toronto airport, Glenn :D
Just in plane crashes off coast of Canada....j/k....I hope!
There are plenty of bruised egos out there. Keep up the sterling work Glenn.... and FU, from the UK!
I'm so thankful for your channel because the end goal is to clearly help people. And all I do is beat on the drums like a neanderthal. Crazy how much push back your channel receives over this simple principle.
Glennn!!! I crashed my bands van in Hollywood this past summer. We now have a shirt with the totaled van that says “we let the bassist drive” I think the shirt would look great on you man! We’re called split persona. Check out the shirt maybe our music!
Up until the 1970s, after babies were born they'd be slapped on their bottom to help clear their airways. When a baby cried after being born it meant they were healthy and ready to be handed to the mother. This was a long accepted practice until a gentleman named Frederick Leboyer wrote a book that suggested that the practice was traumatic to a newborn infant. As such the tradition of slapping a babies bottom after birth was dropped. To this day however the only thing more whiney than a baby just being born before the 1970s are some of the people in this comment section.
Lots of "Chefs" will EPICALLY FAIL blind taste tests too...which is precisely why such tests exist. Most guitarists can't tell if their guitar is even in tune, much less its "tonal nuances due to wood". The Truth hurts.
New VC episode means; the weeekend can come!
Seriously, watching your videos has become such an important part of my life lately.
A Glen sig guitar would truly be amazing.
Much fun travelling and stay safe. Cheers
People equate “This is why I believe you’re incorrect” with “You’re stupid” and it’s so backward. EVERYONE is wrong about something they believe strongly and ANYONE can get duped. It’s human. It’s okay to be wrong! Soooo if you disagree with these videos, politely comment why, or move along like a grown-ass person😂
I really love the way you own the naysayers with science and logic. Keep up the great work, sir!
"When The Shaman Calls Down The Lightning" That's a good one.
I have watched the video a few times about the pick-up tests. Mainly cause it does proves the point of the guitar pick snake oil theory. So i put 11 of my guitars to the test. They're loaded with Fishmans (modern fluence and carpenter signature), Seymour Duncans (Jb and black outs), MOJO tone , EMG , Roswell, HBZ, Tesla (stock loaded Harley benton) stock loaded ibanez pick ups and also Rockfeild. So I recorded everything direct , wrote down with channel was what guitar waited a about 3 days and listened back to each track dirty and clean... and oit of the 11 I got 3 right.. the hbz and the 2 that have fishmans.. The only reason I could pick those 3 out from all the others was due to volume. The tone difference was too small to really pick out. I really hope others try this test out for yourself. I'm sure the results may vary, but it was fun. Great video, Glenn. I'm looking forward to the next test !!
I'll do that... I just need 8 more guitars XD
@MarukagePlays use what you have I think you will be amazed with the results regardless of how many guitars your have.
Thanks for responding to my comment Glen! That was awesome.
I may have just saved my friend from buying new pick ups.
We were jamming and he said he wanted to get some EMG pick ups like mine.
I was like, lets do a recording test first.
We put our guitars through the same rig and recorded the same riff back to back.
To his surprise they sounded almost identical besides a slight change in gain.
He was blown away and thanked me for saving him time and money!
your knowledge is spreading mayne!!!!
Glenn, you are a much more kind and patient fellow than I'd be after getting some of the comments you have.
Coil tap is supposed to be a lower output because it’s tapped windings, like having a high output pickup that you can switch to vintage output. Coil split separates one coil by turning the other off, making a humbucker sound like a single coil. At least in theory. I have never heard a tonal shift with either option, any difference is due to lower output pushing less gain into the amp. I learned early on was this: use the proper pickup TYPE to the sound you want. Also note, you can roll the volume back to get vintage tones from a high output pickup. I typically set my volume to 8 and tone to 6 or 7, then dial my amp to the sound I want. I got that tip from Colin at CSGuitars and it really does work.
Glenn!!!! I definitely think creating a cabinet that has a quick release backplate for hot swapable speaker changes would be absolutely amazing. If you constructed it with the build quality of some of the more popular cabinets using similar materials, you would pose a SERIOUS threat to the competition!
"It’s Easier To Fool People Than To Convince Them That They’ve Been Fooled." Mark Twain
LOL dude at 10:29 is apparently a "Math Scientist." XD
"Hey what do you do for a living?"
"I'm a math scientist..."
"....You mean a mathematician?"
Met you at NAMM last year and you were extremely nice. Hope to see you again this year! Cheers dude
All this talk about tonewood..... WHAT ABOUT TONE PAINT?!
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I love it!
@@trumpanzee My red guitar sounds COMPLETELY different than my blue guitar. IT'S IN THE PAINT!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Actually man, as like, the light spectrum is a frequency band man, you've like, got to pick just the right one out of the rainbow man, because like, if you get the wrong color the like frequencies will clash with the frequencies you play man.
@@connerstines1578 as long as that rainbow leads to the Dark Side of the Moon, I'm in, man.
bro i firmly believe the tone comes from the SOUL itself 😂😂😂
I'm not quite sure why so many people do not seem to get the science of near field micing, which is what a pickup is basically doing. A piece of wood does not effect this
"the comment section looks like Cartage" well that fucking killed me, good one!
Recorded yesterday, and doing it again today... Reaper/x32/Eminence Texas Heat/57/U87/Podgo running Rev Red... OH MY GOD IS IT GOOD!!!
Thanks again for all you do Glenn. I’ve learnt more in the past two weeks watching your videos about the little tricks and odds and ends than I have in the past 20 years of playing. Because of you I’ve progressed a Shit pile and seemingly making huge leaps daily it seems…..keep on keeping on brother.
About the Butthurt of the Week comment, if you are envisioning laughing at black eyes and jaws wired shut over guitar wood and pickups, you might want to step back from music for a bit and address some more personal things because that's not required to make music. That was probably the best handling of a comment like that I've seen yet. Also not all of us are in garage studios. I for one am in a bedroom studio. Spare bedrooms, for when the garage is basically storage.
Richard Dawkins, Chris Hitchens, Degrassi... choose truth over lies, and you WILL BE HAPPIER.
Lol, Glenn looks either slightly blazed or slightly sloshed here! 😆
*_"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."_* -Isaac Asimov
(But of course, Asimov was a dimwit compared to a Lord of Toneweood with Magic Tone-Producing Hands.)
Hot-swappable speakers? No! The cab would need an auto-switching dummy load to maintain the impedance during swapping, or you might risk damaging your amp (depends on how robust the output transformer is and whether your increasing or decreasing the load during the swap). Quick-swappable speakers? Yes, make it easy to pull them out and put them into the cab, with nice quick-connect plugs/sockets on the wiring.
Two things here:
1. Have you tried contacting James Hetfield himself?
2. Most of Jimmy Page's sound came from using MK II and MK III Tone Benders. As for his amps: He didn't only use Marshall Plexis. He also used Hiwatt, Rickenbacker, Supro, Vox, and Orange amps. He stopped using Hiwatts live and switched to Marshalls because it was difficult to find places to service Hiwatts when he was on touring in America; whereas, Marshall had authorized service centers everywhere.
Q: What did the fish say when it ran into the wall?
A: Dam!
As far As Zeppelin 1, Page said the amplifier he used was a Supro…which he later regretted revealing, as when his main one died, he couldn’t find another Supro to save his life! 😂
a hot-swappable speaker cabinet would be amazing. here's what I'm thinking a 4x12 with a Channel selector non soldered speaker connectors, plus bolt stud and wingnut mounting hardware (like a car tire) instead of wood screws for the speaker to cabinet mounting for tool less hot-swapping. any thoughts?
Turns out being broke while being (a gullible) twenty something ended up being an advantage! I had to make do with what I had. Eventually (in my thirties now) these test videos came out and suddenly I ended up thinking, ""Whale Oil Beef Hooked, what a relief!"
Glenn, the fact you let “John” down that gently proves why I come back each week.
You could’ve easily had the algorithm take care of posts like those (who’s to say you didn’t?) but you also gave him some constructive criticism to think about.
Maybe his mom needs to take away all his Monster so he’d stop punching holes in the drywall…
Denial is a dangerous thing unfortunately. People who have been dreaming in a dogma all their lives can easily panic when they get shaken out of their sleep
I'm a broke college student who doesn't have a ton of money and your videos have helped me feel like I can actually lay down some bangers without being a millionaire.
As someone who had to take over a year off of recording because of a shitty living situation, you learn to work with what you have and use your brain and ears to make good songs, not your wallet
(i do play a Gibson SG though, it was a gift and is my baby. after a string butler and some locking tuners it's a beast)
I have a Gibson sg, Have you noticed any difference with the string butler? Is it worth getting?
@@DoktrDub it works great for keeping the A, D, G, and B strings in tune, but it doesn't actually do anything for the E strings so if you're having problems there I'd look at other methods. Some nut lube every string change is enough to compensate for those two strings in my case, and my G string wouldn't stay in tune at all before the Butler and now I can hammer on it for a while before it goes out
Dude, Glenn!! The diet and exercise regimen that you put into place a few years back is REALLY paying off man. Looking great, keep up all the hard work.
What would be interesting is if you have top level engineers listen to a guitar shootout. Not so much as to see if they can name the guitar, but rather what aspects they pick out when they hear cheap and expensive guitars. I think that would be a great lesson.
"Oh, no, Glenn presents an argument I don't like, better threaten violence!"
The bassist in my band just came up with a genius way to save himself money. When it was time for us to pay the engineer for mixing & mastering our album, he quit the band. Brilliant!
Thanks for your honesty and opinions regardless of other people's butt hurt. Carry on. Peace!
GLEEENNN!, I'm on a flight to Malta in a few months and I'll be bringing my bass guitar with me and I need to know how to protect my bass guitar from those careless ground handlers (and Ryanair themselves) who are usually dumber than bass players themselves!.
A video on how to safely pack your instrument before flying please
Remember Glenn: It is easier to fool most people than to convince them they have been fooled. Look at almost anything in life and you will see this.
I’ve watched a lot of people debating religious fanatics (especially creationists). The similarities between the religious fanatics and guitar puritans is staggering. “Oh, you have scientific evidence to support you? We’ll that doesn’t matter, I’ll keep believing what I _want_ to believe!”.
Recording in a garage? I wish! We record in a 6'x8' closet. We get positive comments all the time about the sound of the recording. The only gear we have that cost more than $1k are the instruments and computer, and most of it is far cheaper than that. Glenn is my hero.
I have a lot of respect for all the free knowledge and gear that you share with the music community. I do agree that the speakers contribute to 80% or more of a guitar sound. Tubes just provide power, they either work or don’t work, a guitars wood and construction type only do very little for the sound and pickups(with exceptions to true single coils vs Humbucker)only change output mostly, besides some being a little more compressed than others. Even different amps do very little for the overall sound, especially when most people eq them to their liking. The eq on amps only slightly sculpt the sound, as they are not full frequency ranging as other eq’s. The mic type/placement can change the sound a good deal. All this I’ve learned from playing guitars and recording them for 25 years. So I do agree with you but I think it’s worth mentioning that pickups can be more or less a mod for someone who wants a different look and/or slightly different output. Thanks for all you do, keep putting out videos and I’ll keep watching them. I’ve got my mind set on the ELE drums at the moment, I will be purchasing them soon!!!!
Plot twist:
John Asbury paints guitars at Gibson!
Slaughtering sacred cows can be dangerous work!
The best part about not keeping up with most of my old muso friends is I can now claim to be the best musician I know and actually mean it lol
18:26 for hot swappable speakers, you can put hard wires on the end and imitate the way an electric stove coil plugs in, definitely a prototype idea but when I finally get a work shed again I’ll probably give this a shot…
All that was missing from the trifecta was the “Ima be a big star one day Yo Ima doing you a favour “.
You could have discovered the next vanilla ice polka rapper 🤹♂️ and extreme juggler Glenn
If you do a signature cab, I really think it ought to have doors in the back you can use to tune the bass response to suit speakers with different resonant frequencies and get the frequency response you want. Worth experimenting with. It's also worth comparing that to what you can do with a flat cab response and EQ.
“Garage studio.” What?! Pretty much anyone can turn a corner of their bedroom into a better studio than what was used to record the most iconic albums of all time thanks to modern technology. I swear, some people are just hellbent on being consumers.
I gotta share this one too, dinosaur Jr fans were all shocked last year when J Mascis told everybody that his signature Jazzmaster-Big Muff-Marshall stack sound was pretty much never what was actually on any of his recordings.
I think he said Out There was an SG junior through one of the smaller fenders.
Love your videos. When the Z monster starts to pull me under into the dark embrace of sleep while I’m at work, your videos give me life again.
I bought a 6505+ two days ago just from your $325 video. ITS FUCKING AWESOME. KEEP IT UP MAN. YOU AND OLA ARE THE ONLY ONES I WATCH
Of course people are threatening violence. People hate it when someone makes them realize they are a bunch of paste eating morons. They would rather kill the messenger than improve themselves and learn something. Keep fighting the good fight Glen. Not everyone is a clueless idiot, and we recognize and appreciate the effort.
1 out of 1500 is in the realm of Type I error. I would have thought a few more people would have gotten the guesses right by chance alone. Full disclosure: You totally stumped and educated my bass playing behind.
Giordano Bruno was just saying too. It doesn’t really depend on time we are living, people gonna be the same. If they could, they would set people on fire again….
Speaking of Carcass, I absolutely love the guitar tone on Edge of Darkness from their Wake Up and Smell the Carcass album.
For someone your age to just find out, the importance of the speaker tells me you have been under a rock for a long time
An easy swap speaker cab would actually be pretty easy to do. You just need some alignment pins for the screw holes and some twist locks (like want are used on truck bed covers or travel boxes).
Well, what about them rattling around, and if not right away, then over time? Not saying there aren't ways, but I cannot imagine the would come cheep if anyone ever makes them. The mark up on simple and basic hardware is quite high, add a bit of engineering and it could ad a whopping $100 to every cabinet made with it, and with gear snobs out there, the mark up can be even higher the second they show any interest!
@@Bob-of-Zoid foam or rubber tape.
Also, I was just throwing it out as a simple DIY but, if you think I should be manufacturing them, ok?
@@spencermcelrea9311 I didn't think you were thinking of manufacturing them, but you made the suggestion and said it would be easy, and it may sound that way until you consider everything involved, and good engineering is not trying things until you find something work, but designing it to be sure to work, before you build a prototype, or even a "prove principle model" before a prototype.
"Try to ignore the $4500 Soldano over my shoulder, my frugal friends!"
where's the blind guitar cable test?
Hello from Australia, re pickups, a few years ago i did my own experiment with a few second hand dimarzio's i got off ebay, i had my beloved old ibanez ex, i had already changed the stock bridge pick up for an ibanez V8 by then, but next i tested a PAF Pro, a Breed, and then a D-Sonic (bar to the bridge) hunting for a good death metal bridge pick up. I recorded my self playing (attempting to play) rythm parts from lashed to the slave stick by Nile in Drop A tuning. I eventually settled on the D-Sonic. But through that whole process the biggest shift i saw was between old and new strings.
In my imagination...
Pull the screen off the front of the cabinet, slide the speaker up and out of slot type mounting brackets, pull it out of the cab, with ample cable, pull the car stereo type connectors off the tabs on the back of the speaker, attach them to the new speaker, feed the cable back into the cab as you line the speaker up with the hole, slide it down into the mounting brackets, and clip the screen back on.
It's really only the brackets that need working out, it might involve some type of 'wings' to clip on to the speakers, or maybe, the slots in the brackets are wide enough for the rim of the speaker to slide into. These would have to be foam or rubber lined I'd guess, I'm thinking that the automotive industry might be already using a suitable bracket.
The Butthurt of the Week reminded me of a situation working at a really shitty startup. There were signs that some employees were getting bullied, and they would pass it on to the next guy.
However, when the got to me, I turned out and would say "What the hell was that about? What a dumbass" and eventually they stopped doing it to me. And yes, it often was something really stupid. "Well... that guy was"... and I would then go "holy shit. He really IS a dumbass!"
I’ve had the idea for years, never had the time to actually put it to business!
If you were to have a tension rod that holds a head to a base drum, then have a thread system that’s on the plywood/MDF to tighten the speaker down. I’m not really a guitar player, I’m a producer and dummer. When I had my pro studio, before home, recording killed my business !! 😜changing, Speakers was a pain in the ass!!
Cheers , from N.Y.C/ L.E.S
Jim
Things guitarist need to get over:
1. Mythical tone wood. In electrics is does not matter. The pickups sense the change in the magnetic field that metal strings create. That is it.
2. Tubes amplify and depending on saturation, will affect the output.. it won't change the tone.
3. Learning music theory and sight reading standard notation. TAB is fine, but its not the whole picture. Theory will improve your playing by leaps and bounds. 99.99999% of people are not and never will be a EVH, a Glen Campbell, a Tommy Shaw.
4. Always seek more instruction. Just because you can play doesn't mean your learning is done. Even the great Randy Rhoades would find a teacher wherever he was and learn more. The more you know the bigger the canvas you can paint on.
5. Tone is not and never will be in the hands. Style and articulation are in the hands. EVH could play a guitar and still "sound" like EVH.... Sound? We use the word "sound" too broad here. It will seem to be EVH because of his style, rhythm, technique. You brain knows his articulation and fills in using your imagination. If EVH was to play my Tele-Pro it would just sound like EVH playing a Tele-Pro. It wouldn't sound like EVH playing his FrankenStrat.
6. Ego
Glenn is not the villian, he is merely a misunderstood hero
I'm trying to imagine the set of circumstances that would make someone pathetic enough to threaten violence over a guitar tone RUclips video.
What a silly little nerd (who is almost certainly reading this 👋😊)
I really enjoy your videos and how you break it down to what really matters. Sometimes a cheap guitar sounds good by accident and you would probably agree that the most important thing is playability and some guitars are just more comfortable to play due to their weight balance and being set up correctly
Glenn... wow love your show. hey I'm a 63 year old guitarist, producer (I use that term LIghtly) been playing since I was 13 I only caveat this to give you an idea of what you are dealing with here. Your clips are awesome, Now I am not a heavy metal fan to begin with, but I respect and enjoy some of the music. thank you for speaking the truth to power, I must be one of those weird (thinking Guitaris) because I tend to listen before I make a judgment, your videos on gear are 2nd to none you have helped me tremendously in wading through the BS that is out there, Please continue to enlighten us, by the way the production I like to emulate is more on the 70's through the 90's sound like Gabriel and Sound Garden etc... ya I know eclectic right) can you give me any suggestions of producers doing what you (in tutorials) are in the these Jandras? oh and Screw you Glenn ya Bastard.
"Zeppelin Sound" - as far as I know, Page played a Tele into a cranked baby Supro combo in the studio for the first album. Not a Plexi.
I must thank you Glen. Until I watched your vids on pick ups I was a sadly deluded pick up head myself. I had been saving up for some awesome top of the line pick ups for my Ibanez. Instead of wasting the money on pick ups I went out and got a brand new Jackson JS42 for $560.00 Canadian. Thanks again Glen.
I live for the Butthurt of the Week comments.
1:00 yep Glenn saved me a bunch of money as well! I was in the music store today for an XLR, and the salesman sold a guy one hell of a Fender American custom shop with the legendary words, "these pickups are like The Beatles sound and this like this the Clapton sound... huh and so Glenns 'The Eagle Has Landed' intro went through my mind. He might as well could've did the same thing on a entry level guitar on that Fender combo cab. Anyways... Oh, yes I released my first Elektro music album today, thanks to Glenn advising DistroKid. Unplugged and Metal releases later this year. Huge progress! Get your business in your own hands. So yeah, watching this channel saved me a lot of struggle and money... Eyes and ears open folks, this guy knows what he is talking about 👉
"since watching this channel I have.... almost completely stopped caring about dialing my amp and pedal" Oh boy.... would love to hear the sick tones he's getting
YES!!! PLEASE make a video on a budget 500 setup! I'm curious about outboard gear in my future, and the 500 series of gear seems tailor-made to my situation with limited space and budget. Thanks for all your hard work!
I have no idea now what's making my guitars sound different from each other. 🤣🤣🤣
I was thinking about gettin' Suhr Doug Aldrich pickups for my LP. You just made me change my mind and made me save some money that I can spend on things that are very useful if you wanna actually play the guitar: strings
"Gonna beat you up!"
Jeez, have they made a Gibson Karen?
When I got into building guitars I was astounded by the amount of snake oil in that market (Vintage paper in oil capacitors? Give me a break.) I found that I got the best mileage out of weight reduction, ergonomics, and proper setup. My first prototype was made out of birch plywood with a $30 Dragonfire humbucker and it kicks exactly the same amount of ass as my main guitar which is made of figured walnut and has a hand wound 3+3 hum canceling single coil.
To the Jimmy Page/Tele comment. Page played a Tele in the Yardbirds and on Zeppelin 1 (also in the Stairway to Heaven solo) Jeff Beck gave Jimmy that Telecaster. Joe Walsh gave him his first Les Paul (a 59). Jimmy made the switch specifically to use Humbuckers. People gotta remember that back then, you basically had Fender or Gibson. That's why they were so widely played. There wasn't much else besides a Danelectro or a Hagstrom.
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It's hard not to like this dude. Even his adverts make sense. Good on ya, Glen. Rock on, lad. While my own personal proclivities lean towards the electronic and industrial, I've worked in this industry from everything from a roadie, to moonlighting as the front for a black metal band because I looked good in skinny leather pants. I wish I could still fit in those pants, so that's changed, but good hardware advice has not. Not often you get it either.
Pretty sure Hetfield and Hammett both used 75t Celestions back in the day. I remember reading an old interview with Kirk around the Black Album era and he said he had used them and was surprised in the difference in overall loudness from his cab. I may be wrong. It's been 30 years.
I really don't see what Glenn would get out of lying to us. If he was trying to tell us that a maple fretboard is important for tone or that one brand of pickups pleases one god more than another, I'd be infinitely more concerned about ulterior motives. But I guess fuck him for trying to be on our side.
Hetfield may have been using Randall cabs with Jaguar speakers. Just a thought.
Just an hypothesis, maybe some of your haters leave those comments because you will put them in a video. Maybe just maybe if you stopped showing them in a video some of those haters would stop "commenting". Great channel none the less.
OMG the vendors in this industry are ruthless, thank God I m in photography and this never happens here! that reminds me I gotta check that new sony/nikon/canon/leica release it will make my camera obsolete from what i 've heard.