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Not a gadget, but I'm using a push/push pot to switch between 50s and 60s tone wiring... Not extreme but nice to have.
Vegatrem VT2 Tele bridge.
Similar function is the Bigsby palm pedals. I had a pair on my '61 Gibson 30 years ago. Raises pitch on G & B strings to simulate pedal steel guitar.
I bought Certano Benders for my lapsteel. Similar idea. They also have them available for regular guitars as well. But it does require drilling into the body.
Maybe Virtual Jeff Pro, or other whammy bar alternatives
I remember seeing Rob Scallon’s b bender guitar and always thought how cool it’ll be on a few more strings. Sounds super great but does seem to take a while to get over the learning curve
IIRC was it Bob from I like to make stuff who built this guitar for Rob. An intriguing project.
@@Craftlngo He also made Rob Scallon's shovel guitar
That’s why it’s fun! Doesn’t have to be easy)
I thought the same when i saw Robs video. Although I am very bad at using trem arms, it would be nice to just mess around with it. And it seems that this doesnt cut into the body like a b bender does.
Was how to butcher a guitar video.
The potential for midwest emo riffs with this thing is insane
yuck
@@duderinoificationwhat do you mean yuck?
@@PineMountainMusician midwest emo is just nasty. one of those genres where i just immediately want to yank the power cord to make it stop
@@duderinoification I don’t think so, the guitars are always really uniquely written because of the strange tunings
@@PineMountainMusician unique tunings exist in every genre. midwest emo is just wankery with suburban tantruming, super idiosyncratic and mostly completely unoriginal.
Now combine it with a chordinero for the ultimate test of finding something that's probably never been done before
And I thought my Steinberger Synapse Transcale had a clever solution with the built-in capo.
"Gradually, I drifted off to sleep, pranging ducks on the wing and getting off spectacular hip shots." - Adult Ralphie, A Christmas Story (1983.)
"OK Black Bart, now you get yours"
Drink. More. B benders?
fra-gee-lay
You'll shoot your eye out!
@@ultrakool Must be Italien…
Your versatility as a player continues to baffle my mind dude. The compositions you throw together to just review a piece of gear are great. The effort does not go unnoticed.
He is quite an amazing musician.
He never ceases to amaze and impress with his guitar skills.
-AND- He makes it look effortless and easy peasy!
Indeed!
I am by no means a country fan, but I am a fan of Telecasters, and this seems like a really interesting product. It would be fun to see how something like this could be incorporated into something like punk rock or ska-punk, though surf seems like an obvious fit.
Is ska still around?
feel like this would also work really well with with something like midwest emo
It’s really cool with synth guitar
Page is all over the B bends on the out door album. He uses it very modestly on a few other albums. It's a very prominent sound and part of the melody in All of My Love
Classic country is some of the best guitar work though. When I was learning, country was the furthest thing from my mind. I was learning Led Zeppelin, Rush, Sabbath, Cream, etc but living in the southern states, if you want to gig regularly and make good tips you gotta play some country. It made me a way better guitarist, gave me a new found love for a genre I neglected, and made me sound more like Jimmy Page than learning the Zeppelin songs did. 🤘😂 Considering he had lots of folk/country influence
Being able to jump into a drop tuning with a flip of a lever sounds so convenient lol
It's not hard to just tune down a step but it's still cool that a concept like this exists.
If you want just that then hipshot also do just a version for dropping the E string. It replaces the tuner instead of going at the bridge.
@@daveycroc82
I have that on 2 of my telecasters along with drop banjo tuners on the high E and A strings and strap pull benders on the B and G strings.
I never ever was a country fan, but after picking up guitar, I have a deep appreciation for lots of it.
There are some seriously world class guitar players in country music!
Some of the very best come out of the country and bluegrass genre.
I’ve never understood how a guitar player couldn’t listen to and appreciate all guitar. I love the country players. In the 90s when the rock guitar solo died even Shania Twain kept a lead guitar.
Cringe
@@kcb5336 ...because mastering the craft means you encounter things you do and don't like.
Chet Atkins is one of the best guitar players of all time and very underrated
First time I ever heard of the b bender was a Jack White interview and I've wanted one badly since, but would likely never use it, so... I'll probably order one soon
Lol, this is the way
It's crazy how quick you get up to speed with new things,even the microtonal guitar you make it seem like you've been using these things forever
Its kinda his job.
@@captaintony1227 how does that go against what he said? It his job; still crazy
@@captaintony1227 still impressive though
@@Home-u6g exactly. He's really well rounded.
Marty Stuart is the master of the b-bender. He actually plays the original Parsons b-bender as his main axe and bends in just about every song. Check out his videos with the Fabulous Superlatives for a master class.
I was waiting for that. The famous B Bender.
Neverheardofher
I saw Marty at the Ryman with the Byrds amazing
Will Ray of Hellecasters fame is pretty good too!
Yep Marty is one of my guitar heros! His Clarence guitar is very cool! I’m surprised at how much he uses it still even with so many advances in bender systems and bender technology. Although it should be noted he has and uses many other guitars as well, but him playing Clarence is pretty iconic.
that's pretty cool. I think all the other junk gimmicks out there probably prevented you from discovering it sooner
It took me long enough to get good at changing my tone and volume in the middle of playing... This thing is amazing
I don't play much anymore but if I start up again, that's exactly why I'll get an electric with only one tone and one volume😀
@@FC-cz6zd Younger me would've appreciated that. My first guitar has two of each 😂
Amazed at just how naturally you adopted it in a seamlessly musical way. I’m not into country at all but this all sounded real neat.
Appreciating the seamless transition at 3:10
lmao it was so seamless I didn’t even notice it
Impeccable transition👌
You are gifted with a video camera skills and guitar
Was there any?
Hipshot makes such awesome stuff. I love their extender keys. I have them in nearly all of my Basses.
I added a Hipshot to my Jazz bass a long time ago- It's great having a low D. Then when I started playing a 5-string, of course I tried the Hipshot on the low B to take it down to an A. It's awesome and frightens guitarists!
Even their non-trick tuners are a game changer, had a good bass with the giant heavy open back tuners (with the four installation screws), so much neck dive. Hipshot Ultralites solved that issue, though I probably should fill all those holes from the old tuners.
@@ianthomson9363 I’ve played around with a similar set up. Threw one on the g string just for the hell of it cause I had a lefty I couldn’t use otherwise. I always wanted the Michael Manring set up with them in all 4 strings of a 4 string but when I bought it I was not aware this requires a much larger than average headstock.
@@joermnyc for sure. Their bridges are also amazing. The open string hook for the bridge makes changing strings so much quicker and simpler than threading the string through a closed hole.
I'm in the industry and have had dealings with Hipshot. It's worth knowing that alongside making excellent products, they're really great people. Always helpful, even though you know they're rushed off their feet.
A friend of mine in high school her dad play guitar for Chaka Khan and he had a guitar that was like this with multiple bender bars one bar bent multiple strings at the same time while another would only bend one. Very interesting. I was literally just thinking about this today and your video popped up crazy.
I remember seeing Jack White give a run down of his B bender guitar and he uses a hipshot on it for quickly switching to Drop D (and also for adding a G bender I think)
This. I just left a comment saying the same thing before I saw yours. Idk if it was released at the same time but I saw that video when he released “fear of the dawn”
yes, Jack's
"Three-Wheel-Motion Low Rider Telecaster" :D totally crazy guitar
This is one of the coolest guitar gadgets I've ever seen. It's a shame that even the cheap model is NEARLY FOUR HUNDRED DOLLARS
This is pretty much the same thing that Michael Manring uses on his Bass. His mechanical parts are way more sophisticated, and since he plays fretless, it really completes the unique sound. What you're doing with it sounds pretty cool though.
came here to say the same! it’s not quite the same but almost - check out Make Weird Music’s more recent interview with him, he really breaks down how it works
What a gorgeous guitar on its own.
Now you just need a duesenberg fairytale lap steel to kick it up a notch.
As a rock guitarist, that makes me wanna play some good old 70s-90s country
I'd love to hear how it sounds trying to use it with Distortion or Crunch to try and find some new techniques! Could be a game changer! Or sound terrible lol!
I like odd stuff like that, but this bender seems to have too much going on. But, I'll probably end up with one eventually.
One of the best guitars I've ever played was a B bender tele, but this seems like a whole new level.
Clearly you didn’t have enough Byrds/Burritos in your record collection. (Or, “All of My Love” isn’t your favorite Zeppelin song-but, really, who could blame you for that?)
There isn't a bad song on the out door album. One of zeps best imo.
I've been a hipshot user for about 5 years now. It completely changes how you play guitar. I have one on a strat and one on a Telecaster. fantastic product
Do you need anything special to install this on a strat? I had a look on the hipshot web page and could only see ‘telemarketing’ ;)
@@RufusWhite the trick is to get a strat bridgewith a low shelf behind the saddles, and then tall bent metal saddles. I use a Guitar fetish bridge, worked out perfectly
There are also some very nice people on ebay and reverb who make hipshot saddles that have screws with holes drilled through them that I am looking into getting.
just make sure you keep the strat blocked, obviously, I made a video on mine, you can kind of see what all I did
If it works on a tele I see know reason why it wouldn’t work on a Les Paul or a gretsch or even a strat..
I've thought this for a while, because you seem like the kind of guy to enjoy a country guitarist (and originally a banjo player) in a hard rock/prog metal kind of environment, but with this video I hear too much of their sound to deny it, but you should listen to Mastodon, particularly their more modern work. They're a prog band from Georgia and their lead guitarist is heavily inspired by country and blues and they also happen to be my favorite band on the planet. Three of their four members are vocalists with unique timbres to their voices, and I'm never disappointed with their quality. They even use lapsteel in their EP Cold Dark Place and I'd think you'd enjoy it Mr. Sammy G. Bit of a long shot, but I figured I'd try.
Yeah I'm sure Sammy has listened to Mastodon.
My playing is very simple, so I was failing to see much of a practical use for this, until you said slide. Then 🤯
Sounds amazing, looks awful
Yes. It is more a studio device than a live performance device. You don't want to be seen with this. Definite babe repellent.
Trogly's guitar show channel showed us you're getting a reverse firebird with 3 p90s. Really looking forward to seeing that one!
I've never heard of this either, though I've never played that style of guitar. I am really impressed by it's efficient and effective design. This sounds like some gimmicky idea that would never actually function properly, but man that sounds awesome. Totally agree, I would switch that hip lever with another one by the hand.
The low D doesn't seem necessary though (might be cool to half step it for some harmonic minor and modal stuff) For many years I would only play in drop D because at first that's the kind of stuff I started playing, but once I evolved into more full chord shapes and expanded my tastes, I simply learned how to play the vast majority of chords you can play in standard with a different hand shape. I always asserted that I could play virtually anything someone else could play in standard while I was in D (except needing a low e drone) and I was right the vast majority of the time. I can't recall the songs but I do remember there were a couple of times I had to tune up to e but for the most part, I prefer to just have that low D available and play - and still do to this day (over 20 years later lol.)
“I’m doing foo fighters because their drummer died” okay bud, not because you had a lot of respect for the dude before he passed or anything. Your just gonna try and cover his shit because he died. Maybe you shouldn’t cover peoples songs because someone died. I get doing it if they where a big inspiration, maybe donating proceeds to charity or something. But this just wasn’t it.
I think I'd be happy with just the lever for the b-bender, to be honest.
I think they have one for just the B
There’s also palm benders by Certano, Pete shortly, and dusenberg.
Oh, yeah, a friend of mine uses a hipshot b-bender on his Tele, as well as a little switch that loosens the low E to throw the guitar into drop D. He's a killer musician across multiple instruments, and very tasteful. I highly recommend checking out Chris Stafford.
I'm watching this video now. Very Cool! Waiting to see if this device eliminates the possibility of using a tremolo bar...on the same guitar.
"How did it take me so long to discover this?"
That is really a good question. How can you listen country as a guitarplayer to and never wondered about this effect?
BTW: Even as a metalhead you have heard it in Unforgiven 2 by Metallica
did they use this kind of systems in the song really? 😮
unforgiven 2 features a traditional tele with a b-bender built in. this device requires no such routing, instead having a pretty straight-forward installation process. a traditional b-bender doesn't have a g-bender or drop d lever either. this essentially succeeds the original invention in every way, offering so much more for less effort.
Its more often heard from a lap steel guitar which has pedals similar to this device. I think the most distance the Telecaster country shredders will usually take this is just the B bender. The G is also pretty damn useful as a lot of country intersects minor and major thirds in the same time, like the vocal playing minor and the guitars playing major.
I've known about B Benders for years, but an attachable one that had a drop D and G bender was something I somehow managed to completely miss...plus it's just a good title ;-)
@@rayk9598 oh, I see, thx! been revisiting the unforgiven 2 recently so it’s a fun piece of new information to take into consideration for appreciation from a slightly different angle.
Hipshot used to make a bridge called the trilogy, that had switches similar to the one on the low E, but for all 6 stings, and each string had three settings. I saw a guitarist in a bar band once doing sort of roots-rock Micheal Manring-ish stuff with tons of pitch shifting on the fly.
Look up Certano benders located in France. Also available on Reverb. I have one on my budget lap steel, but he also makes a version for Tele's. Easier to use than the Hipshot, but that Hipshot design is pretty smokin.
So you have a drop D lever. And you think it isn't the selling point of the item.
Sir, allow me to introduce you to a genre known to some of the commonfolk as "the heavy metals".
🤭 looks like you're getting ready to toss the guitar across the room.
Watch Will Ray on how to use the Hipshot B Bender.
Nah dude. You can do all this with your fingers. This is what you buy after you stop practicing. lol
Check out the Certano Benders, A similar product, and from what i can tell, a better one. People use it for lap steel, but works on regular guitars too!
You say the e-d switch doesn’t sell it but switching from standard to drop d would be a selling point for some I would think.
I use to play a Hipshot Will Ray B G sistem for years on my telly but i have to say that Certano B G bender on my strat is easier and much confortable to play. Check it out!
I did this by accidentally breaking my guitar 20 years ago. Always wanted to develop a product but am not crafty enough. I'm going to buy one asap!
That's an ol piece of country guitar tech.🤠 Sweet 💚👍
You try the Hipshot and I will try a game changer bigsby pedal.🤔🎶
Bruh, a Duesenberg Multibender or a Certano gets the same effect without three different actions, that thing is a mess.
I could see this being used in some wild mathrock
You use that thang real good (…well).
I saw someone say it's like midwestern country emo, that is such a perfect description 😂
I just have a single bend hipshot palm lever b bender on my tele which I love ( country licks are new to me as I only joined my Texan frieds band two years ago - such fun!) You can also now get a palm lever tail piece for a les Paul too - so I got one of those too - both work well and are reversible mods ( handy if I ever want to sell either guitar as the market for such niche mods must be tiny) love your work etc..👍🎸🇬🇧😀
Comments from a pedal steel player: I added a (different) lever-based B-Bender to my Tele - now I can't put the guitar in a case... a significant drawback that often goes unmentioned. With Parsons' design, of course that's not a problem, although pulling the guitar down to activate via the guitar strap is also awkward. Also, as you mentioned, the Hipshot's side motion is also super awkward. Sounds great though and you came up with some nice stuff to play.
Jack White used to play a tele with that mod too.
He had a regular B-bender and then used the hipshot for the G-bender an drop D.
Duesenberg has had a similar device for years. It is a bit different, but with I think better engineering and the option to bend multiple strings at once.
Someone give this thing to some math rock and Midwest Emo guys
Looking at this, I'm imagining a mod where you attach a bicycle brake cable to it going down to a foot pedal (like on a piano), rather than using the hip lever. Seems like that might be a good bit less awkward to use.
(For that matter, you could probably hook it to a model-airplane servo that's actuated electronically, which would give you something a lot more flexible to connect to the foot pedal.)
Its usually hooked to a strap peg, but that requires hollowing some routing of wood
And country people still make fun of trem systems, meanwhile this is what they come up with... :)
I went with the Rolling Bender on my Strat/Tele hybrid because it let me keep the trem system. I only have a B Bender but still helpful to get pedal steel sounds!
That has to be a nightmare for tuning stability
But imagine this combined with a Floyd and metal soloing
At some point you'd be best off making six little bridges with six little whammy bars.
I used to do this with the Roland VG8. It was like having a Whammy Pedal for each string separately. The only problem was (apart from all the foot pedal activity) that if your amp wasn't up loud enough then you could hear the acoustic string pitch along with the shifted amplified sound. I'd love to see a mechatronix version of this like the robot tuning machine heads.
𝗧𝗲𝘅𝘁 𝗺𝗲 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗺👆👆
𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗼𝗻 𝗮 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗲 🎁
It’s always fun to find gadgets that can widen your horizon and boost your creativity
Something I'm assuming would work as well is harmonic bending, another thing this system would enable that would be nearly impossible without it. Cool product.
Guitar envy. Not just the Hip Shot gadget. It's the seafoam Tele with the seafoam headstock. With a cream pearloid 70's scratch plate and an F Hole...well I'd just melt. Tele-ing myself "they're just things. Do not google Sweetwater. Christmas is for the child."
Sammy G out here doing a NAMM-style demo of a product that shows it off in a way most people will never be able to lol
Kudos to the groovy sounds though
Hey Samurai guitarist I have a strange guitar for you, it's the Cort Manson MBM-1 guitar with built in Midi controller used by muse guitarist Matt Bellamy which I think would be a really cool strange guitar that doesn't get enough love for just how cool it is. Really hope you check it out
sounds dope af
This looks like something Jeff Beck would have an absolute field day going wild with
He doesn't need this he does it without this contraption.
This is actually amazing. Thank you for showing us this! 🤔 Now, we need to send one to Sugizo of Luna Sea.
I built one years ago from spare parts. Had some decent fun with that cheap strat before I sold it in a move.
I have one of those on a Tele- I just drilled holes in the bridge behind the saddles like a top loader- works great for the dough
Never seen this one but I have seen the Certano benders for lap steel, which could be mounted to an electric guitar.
juggling or guitar?
It’s cool how it’s not invasive on the actual body of the instrument. In other words ya didn’t need to drill any holes or anything. It’s like a B-bender + or something. Love it!
4:02 not at all my grandpappy was a Nazi in World War II. Mostly marching music not a fun guy to visit on the weekends.
the bottom flip seems like a great way for allowing drop tuning riffs as well as regular tuning riffs and chords to be incorporated in a single song. Honestly I would love to see something that is just that switch and no need for the rest :D especially if it could also somehow work with Evertune, and especially once the tremolo version of Evertune gets released...
Great video, man. If you’re looking for an alternative to the palm lever b bender check out the “B Blender”. I have one on my Nash tele, and it’s basically a B5 bigsby arm that lets you pull the arm sideways for a B Bender while still letting you push it down/up for regular bigsby functionality!
Matching headstocks really go well with rosewood/colored fretboards
What makes it fun is listening to players to see how they use benders, and to realize how they do it so seamlessly. I saw an interview with Brad Paisley, and he talked about how it allowed transitional notes and phrases you couldn’t comfortably pull off just with your left hand. You have explained this further for me. Thanks!!😎
That’s great if you don’t mind having a Rube Goldberg device strapped to your guitar.
That last jam was sexy as hell! Give it a month, I bet you'll have it mastered, and will play us something really mind blowing!
So Kinda like the Parsons B Bender from the 70s but on steroids and not needing to hack up the guitar.
Think anything Lindsay Buckingham fingerpicking and you'll love that D on the E string.
I've learned to play most of those songs up a tone with a capo on the second fret pressing all strings but E, but that'd be better.
@samuraiguitarist the hip bar for the B string I think would bother me, it would be pretty cool if this thing had two palm bars. You mentioned some people modifying these for this. Do you have a link for any info about this? It would be much appreciated.
It's very very cool but if you are a serious country band you HAVE to get a pedal steel player. But if you are on the artistic cheap or just cheap, this is the ticket. NICE>
If it wasn't so expensive, I'd totally get one of these and ditch everything but the drop D lever. That'd be infinitely convenient, considering half of my favorite songs are in drop D.
Looks like the head gear my orthodontist made me wear for ten long years, but at a fraction of the pain!
I got a certano g and b bender. It’s really good. Want to get the parsons version though in the future. Hip shots seem really awkward to me.
I caught my nephew watching Stevie T lol i took his phone, blocked Stevie T and subbed him to the real Steve....samurai guitarist
RETROFUTRO crunchy Candian Moutain folk Country Ehhh more YES
"Ordinary guitar" (fender ultra luxe)... lol. Guitar looks great. Great playing. I'll pass on the device though. :)
Just picked me up telecaster ultra texas tea. Absolutely love it!
the movement you have to make to make the b bend is ridiculous... the two prongg and b bend is more practical.. i dont know.. 🙂
Sounds like farm emo,
Which is basically what country music is.
Intro kinda reminds me of Rimworld.
wtf 🥱🥱😴😴
This is used on a Tele because it won't work on a Strat or LP... curved tops and curved backend preclude it.
I play without a strap by flipping the lever around so that it’s closer to your torso. Then you only need to move the neck slightly.