Guild S-200 T-Bird Demo by R.J. Ronquillo
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- Опубликовано: 5 сен 2024
- Nashville-based guitarist R.J. Ronquillo demos the Guild S-200 T-Bird.
Guild is pleased to announce the highly anticipated reintroduction of one of its most iconic, uniquely recognizable guitars: the S-200 T-Bird. This reissue is a replica of the original versions produced between 1964 and 1968, featuring an asymmetrical all mahogany body sure to catch the eye of the guitarist looking to blaze his or her own trail. However, this guitar’s appeal isn’t just about its looks - its unique controls create the widest array of tones offered on any Guild instrument, drawing on its dual Guild LB-1 Little Bucker pickups to achieve almost every conceivable color on the palette.
The T-Bird features a vintage C shape set mahogany neck and bound rosewood fingerboard with pearloid block inlays. Other period-correct details include open gear vintage tuning machines, and famed asymmetrical headstock adorned with Guild’s logo and mother-of-pearl Thunderbird icon. The S-200 T-Bird is available in Antique Burst or Black, and includes Guild’s deluxe padded gig bag.
--- Click these links to hear different styles! --
0:01 - 1:12 - Demo 1
1:13 - 2:35 - Demo 2
2:36 - 3:13 - Demo 3
3:14 - 4:10- Demo 4
4:11 - 4:59 Demo 5
5:00 - 7:38 Demo 6
--- CREDITS ---
Player: R.J. Ronquillo
Guitar: S-200 T-Bird
Recording Setup: Morgan RCA35 amp, Palmer PGA 04 Load Box, UAD Apollo interface, Logic Pro X
Pedals: Earthquaker Devices, Tone Reaper, JHS Double Barrel Overdrive, Fulltone Supa-Trem, Fender Reverb unit
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R.J.'s Facebook: / officialrjro. .
Twitter: / guildguitars
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Ya gotta love how he tries about 700 different settings on this guitar and makes every one sound killer.
Hands down best demo on RUclips. This guy could sell a plastic guitar with his technique.
Well he's selling a really great guitar in this video
One of these days, my nutz will drop, and I will be (maybe) half as cool as this dude. MONSTER BLUES JAM!
Perfect sound for AC/DC
R.J. is THE burner!!! He's sooo great!! His playing - I LOVE IT!!!
Some of these comments are quite interesting and a bit confusing. I've had my s-200 for about 6 weeks and I'm very happy with it. The fit, fretwork and sunburst finish are surprisingly good for an instrument in this price range, and the tonal variety is impressive. I've got dozens of instruments ranging from Squier Telecasters to Reverends to PRSs to Gibsons to Custom Shop Fenders and Martins and, although I wouldn't go so far as to say it's the best overall instrument I own, it does have some sounds all its own and its playability is also very impressive. You could easily do a classic rock, blues, roots or pop gig with this guitar. I guess some people look for a familiar body shape or judge an instrument by the name on the headstock.
And of course, you also have to take into account the amp you're plugging into.
RJ one of my favourite musicians on you tube a real star !
I have one of these guitars in black...If you play and want lots of different sounds but just one guitar, they can't be beat...Great sound, the neck is just a little wide, but made for playing like this...I'm selling a bunch of my other guitars now... This replaced them all.
I always loved the guitar but here the player steals the show. Dude, I lovewhat you did with WHO KNOWS! I'm sure Jimi would approve.
I've had one of these for ~6 weeks now and love it. Light weight, well balanced, plays & sounds terrific. The switch & knob setup is for sure taken from the Fender Jaguar. (The white switch is a bass cut, not a coil tap, though tonally the effect is similar.) If you intend to use the vibrato be sure to stretch out your strings, lube the nut slots and make sure none of the bridge saddle slots are "grabby." If neceesary have a luthier smooth the slots if you're uncomfortable doing it yourself. (This applies to any guitar with a vibrato and a TOM bridge.) Overall a fine guitar at any price and IMO great value for money.
Er, that's "necessary" of course. ;)
Thanks for your comment. Guilds are great. I already have a starfire 4 st. I'm having GAS for a second one. : Guild M 75 or Guild S 200!
you mention the Guild T-Bird is light weight - I am pondering a purchase, but no more heavy solid bodies for me - what is the approximate weight ? thanks
@@backauf My T-bird is around 7.25lbs. Dunno if current production is in the same range, though.
@@45zapatero Absolutely love my M-75! Incredible guitar for the money.
I was thinking of buying one of these.. after watching this video.. it has now become my sole target guitar to buy.. what a sound.. killer player :)
my favorite youtube guitarist
Now this is a real guitar demo. Thank you.
My favorite youtube guitarist
You have poor taste . . .
@@drftsnvk stfu
Thank you so much R.J. for another glorious demo, I will get this beauty in a couple of days and now feel like a kid before christmas!
Working from home is great but some days I get nothing done because it's always, "Just one more RJ video!" This guy can outplay most big names easily.
Most Beautiful, Badass Thing ever; Sounds Phenomenal, too...I want!
Muddy waters had one of these guitars onda cover of the electric mud album.
You make Muddy proud.
You get a full functionality guitar demo with this gent. And yes, keep the slide on your pinky finger so you can three finger chord! 👍👍👍
You always make them sound awesome RJ. Personal preference though is its Fugly!
Great 😎👏👏👏
Just bought one. Can't wait to play it. Great demo as always 👍👍👍
Congratulations. And first impressions ? Is this a heavy guitar ? Does the body shape allow the guitar to be played eadily when seated ?
surprisingly it's light and the body is ergonomic.IMHO. :)
Faaantastic played and great different sounds!!!
And He will love the start theme!!!
And the sliding Groove is so great!!!
Just an incredible guitar player. Have seen you on many videos playing Guild guitars. The only Guild I own is this identical guitar. It is a great guitar played by an incredible guitarist. I normally play a Gretsch 6120 and White Falcon, but I love the Guild Thunderbird as my solid body guitar.
Beautiful guitar.
I am about to buy my third of these guitars. I love my black one and my cherry ST. But I gotta have a tobacco burst too.
Whhhooouuuwwww!!!
Faaantastic played and a great sound!!!
🎉nice for the blues
I own the Dearmond version (korea) of this baby , under Guild Liscenced dearmond usa pickups , great guitar!
Righteous tones!
Man wow, u r awesome !
Very cool guitar. I don’t think I’ve ever played a guild I didn’t like.
Great playing all around, great video
This guitar is beautiful like...a pelican
Huge chops man!
Thanks for your all your videos, can you make one moore with the Guild S-200 T-Bird without PEDALS? Thanks a lot Mr R.J. Ronquillo.
Tasty stuff!
Guy sure knows his way around a guitar.
Cool guitar and no cooler player than RJ. Thanks!
"They Don't Know", from Band of Gypsys? (first song?) Gorgeous axe!
who knows ! Jimi Hendrix, Randy Hansen, John Paul Bourelly etc...Kind regards from Berlin 👋
Is the T Bird guitars made in USA or not? Can you post up this info? Thanks
No. Only Guild acoustic guitars are made in USA. The T-bird is probably made in Korea.
Hey all,
To those that have played this guitar and are familiar with older USA built Guild's and Korean and Chinese Dearmond's - which does it resemble more?
To me, it looks like the Korean built Dearmond's as far as quality. Just wondering what people think.
I would really want one if there is a single-coil version since it's kinda giving me this Fender Jaguar vibe
There is not really a single coil version but one of the switches acts as a coil tap I think.
See comment below : not a coil tap but a bass cut. But it makes the guitar sound more "single coil-isch"
P 90 stop tail
You're just one pickguard swap away from sticking Jaguar pickups in it, which frankly is giving me ideas...
Baddest cat in town
If they play blues that heavy in Nashville, I gotta move there.
Oh you’ll love it there
Sure nuff n yes I do
Who Knows? RJ!
Sounds awsome for Garage rock as well
Awesome playing, man! Also a very nice 🎸.
Could you comment on the reputed tuning instability?
Would be much appreciated.
Thx
i only use my vibrato section with my palm for better tuning, hagstrom vibratos are not much for tuning, pretty good guitar for the price,look for a used oneat about 500. i think ill keep mine since americanmakers are so greedy
This guy smokes!
That bird may be ugly, but it sure can fly in RJ's hands, and she sounds so sweet...!
This one? Or an ESP Ltd ec-1000 ? What do you think
Rubén Cameron esp
what are you using in demo 4?
what is that very first riff?
What kind of slide is that?
it´s a cold condon
Scenes cut after whammy use....That means it does not stay in tune. Naughty.
Anyone know what pedal/ effect he uses starting at 1:10?
fuzz/distortion
Kim Cornell try plimsoul?
If the gear list in the video description is correct, it should be an Earthquaker Devices Tone Reaper, which is a Tonebender-style fuzz. That being said I can hear a bit of octave effect on there. Maybe I'm losing my mind?
I rate this guitar very high because it didn't take R.J. very long to hit his 'Stink Face'...
Hi, made in ? china? korea?
Korea
I want one... Does it have a kick stand on the back side...???
Thomas De Lello Alas, no. They removed it because the stand never had much success. Broken headstocks everywhere. It was a cool concept, though.
Shape has nothing to do with tone, maybe ur just tone def.
You don't seriously believe that do you? Find a luthier who will agree with that statement? Do you honestly think that all the guitar shapes that have been created were strictly done so from an aesthetic perspective, and not sonically engineered?
Sorry, Chris; but David's right. Different body-shapes ~do~ have another design consideration, though (besides 'sonic' and 'aesthetic' that you mentioned). That is 'ergonomic' ie some guitars will conform to your posture seated or standing better than others, weigh less/more, balance on a strap, etc.
It's sad that you (and many others) have been led to believe that there's such a thing as 'tone-wood' for electric guitars, though. String resonance through wood (of various weights and densities) is NOT what one hears from a solid-body guitar, unless you're not even plugged in. Wood-resonance, while audible/feel-able to the player, does NOT go through pickups/pots/caps/cable to your amp, or out the speaker. Simply put, when you damp a vibrating string (so the ~wooden guitar body~ is still resonating but you've muted the string), you hear NOTHING through your signal-chain>amp. Any wood-resonance you can still feel with your hands is NOT coming out your amp, or in any way affecting your guitar's plugged-in ~sustain~ or ~timbre~.
In the case of 'acoustic guitars', on the other hand, the ~entire~ sound produced comes from 'wood resonance', and with an un-amplified acoustic there IS a timbre/sustain signature to different woods used. That's why you can tell whether an acoustic has a maple, cedar, birch, etc top by listening to it's Voice. With electric guitars, the variety of timbre/sustain is strictly decided by the pickups, bridge-mass, electrical resistance, and your amp's tone stack. That's why alder, ash, even plywood make perfectly-fine guitar bodies. Manufacturers are well aware of the public's ignorance on this topic, though, and foster the incorrect belief among the public that, for example, "9lb of mahogany (or maple, or walnut lol) makes an electric guitar have 'sweet, amazing sustain', or 'authentic tone'...". That's SOLELY to make you ~want~ to pay more for certain woods, under a FALSE pretense. If you want to give your guitar 'more sustain', or brighter response, you can do this by installing a heavier/denser bridge, replacing your plastic/bone nut with a graphite or brass one, trying a different value of capacitor on your tone pot, swapping out your pickups for those with a different resistance.....These things DO affect electric guitar tone; body-wood does NOT.
" Wood-resonance does NOT go through pickups/pots/caps/cable to your amp," => well actually, yes it does. First because guitar strings don't hang on a vacuum, they are coupled to the guitar's body and neck, and so are influenced by how the body and neck vibrates. This is physics 101, and has been empirically AND scientifically demonstrated.
Then, while guitar pickups are primarily magnetic devices, they are still made of moving parts and mechanical movements (like air pressure...) will translate in the coil moving around the magnet, hence acting as a typical dynamic microphone. Wax-potting prevents part of this effect but seldom totally eliminate it and there are quite a few pickups that you can actually sing in. Some pickups are actually totally sealed in epoxy or such and most players find those pickups "cold" and "sterile", while vintage pickups which were barely if at all waxpotted are praised for their "open", "airy" tone and the way they pick more of the unplugged guitar tone, where heavily potted and epoxy sealed pickups are known for imposing a lot of their own character, sounding very similar on whatever guitar.
Now I'm not saying material (wood or whatever) choice as the same impact on an solidbody electric as it does on an acoustic - it doesn't obviously - but it still can make a very audible difference. Swapping necks on a bolt-on neck guitar can make this very obvious, actually to the point where the neck alone can make or kill a strat or tele (been here, done that), as well as swapping pickups (same pickups on different guitars).
every time rj uses the trem on a video the scene cuts.....aka way out of tune
I got one of these on Friday, it arrived with wobbly pots and wouldn't stay in tune. I was actually willing to over look this as I figured it could be sorted with a decent set up. Then today I went to play it and the bridge pick-up had ceased working.
It feels super flaky and delicate and I don't feel I can rely on it to gig with so it's getting sent back tomorrow. Very disappointing. Super shoddy craftsmanship. Won't be buying Guild again.
Thats what happens when you buy a cheap chinese/korean copy. Had you invested in a real Guild, you wouldnt have to send it back. You wouldnt buy a house made from paper mache and expect it to withstand a winter storm, so what makes you think guitars that are basically cheap and nasty copies are any different?...... Unless its sole purpose is aesthetic pleasure. Thats all they are good for. Its the old adage "You get what you pay for"
@@alteredbeast67 Sorry I tend to disagree. I have several korean guild guitars and they never failed on me. They are certainly not rubbish but very fine instruments. I never buy a guitar online though. I always buy from a local guitar shop that I trust more than 100 %.
@@alteredbeast67 you're way too ignorant to be making RUclips comments. Expensive guitars don't always sound better than cheaper "copies". Stop spreading stupidity.
S 200 sounds great, looks not so much.
This guy ain’t a bad player 😂
That guitar is mental (an kind of ugly too - a la 70's vegas cocaine space cowboy) but it sure sounds right for the slide blues stuff he plays at the end.
this is the first guild guitar i ever heard of . not into it.
Nekropolis Ov Disgraced why..they great
im just not into its tone or how it lost tuning easily after he used the whammy just a little bit
You're into shred guitars made for teenagers and death metal bullshit. We get it, move along and let real players enjoy a quality guitar and player.
@@michaelbell75 *quality*
*falls out of tune*