Troy, I just want to say I've referred all of my shred students to your videos, and you've absolutely changed the way I think about picking. Thank you, I have much respect for your teaching and playing abilities!
hey troy can you please crack the code of japanese chord progression, i hear universal to all japanese music they have the same chord progression formula. marty friedman has briefly mentioned this
Nice work Troy and thank you, I never would have thought that with the shielding as you had it, that a few of the CF bulbs would still give you a buzz like that. That's good to know. I like the tuners also. Sorry about the nut, been there, slung that. 😎
+Buddy Martin Yeah they're only a few inches away from the headstock, just out of view of the lens. It's a perfect storm! But if we should be getting better noise reduction results than this with humbuckers and shielding, then we're all ears.
+Rench Guitar Werks, LLC Awesome Mike! Thanks for all the details. Indeed, CFLs were the best lower heat/wattage option at the time we lit the studio, because light quality in consumer LED bulbs at the time was terrible. But we just ordered a batch of the new high-CRI Cree LEDs to test out. We're cautiously optimistic. Another viewer in the comments mentions Zexcoil pickups. Hadn't heard of those but demos look impressive. If the hum really cancels that would be rather exciting.
+Troy Grady The Zexcoils suppress noise really well. So do Kinmans and DiMarzio Area and Virtual Vintage pickups The quietest pickups I have and have ever had are a set of D. Allen JohnnyBlades. They were a Johnny Hiland signature set of Strat single coil sized blade humbuckers. Sound great too. A fat Strat tone.
Another awesome video - thanks again Troy! Great playing as always but the voice of that guitar really comes through. Beastly tone! I've had a Lil' '59 in a Strat for many years now and I like how they sit with Fender tones.
Awsome tutorial! I really like the music for this as well! The verses sound very 1980's electronic, while the chorus reminds me very much of a track that was in The Mirror's Edge. I can't wait to see more!
The most quiet single coils I've used are the DiMarzio Area 61 and 68 pickups. They're basically humbuckers but sound completely like vintage single coils but with no noise.
Hey Troy, LOVE your Cracking the Code series, not just for the mind blowing reveal of how it is done, but the imagery and nostalgia (for me too) of growing up on Long Island at exactly that time at exactly that age. Too Cool. Anyway, curious if you had ever tried Kinman Pickups? As far as I have heard they are pretty much spot on fender single coil tone with less noise than stacked or side by side humbuckers in single coil slots. His website has well-recorded examples of the same guitar with his pickups in comparsion to say, Fender SCNs. They are expensive but they sound fantastic. Also, have you ever tried Joe Barden pickups? They don't sound like single coils but have their own really beautiful and quiet tone.
I now use a Dremel (at slow speed) with a proper size sanding bit to widen the machine head holes. It also allows me to keep the front of the hole original size for the ferrules to fit. Gotta have a steady hand. Great vid Troy. Your gat sounds most excellent now. Shielding is imperative. P.S. Love the cracking the code series. Classic. 😂 Mirrored my own life in many retro ways. I still have the same YJM instructional video. Worth $10 on eBay? No bids.
+Janine Louvel I installed an EMG once in the past, but honestly I have a really low tolerance for replacing batteries, changing strings with tools, and so on. That's pretty much why I gave up on tremolos.
Great improvement .... Have you retubed ur Cornford Hellcat or are those the stock tubes? Can you discuss further if any changes have been made in that head killer tone!
try putting a 56pf (or higher, you may want to play with it a bit) capacitor in on your tone pot. (soldered in parallel with your tone capacitor) this may help with stray capacitance which may help reduce the noise further. I call it stray capacitance (thats what we called it in college) others use a term called parasitic capacitance which has to do with the windings. A capacitor is basically two plates that are spaced a part and requires a certain amount of electrons to fill from one side to pass to the other windings act in a similar manner where just like the plates they too pass electrons which can cause some resonance. you can't help lights with ballasts they definitely cause havoc on single coils. I always wired my pickups in parallel for the cleanest output. but on classic pickups, there's nothing much you can do with exception of trying the above. the shielding looked great BTW.
+digitechicnal Thanks for the details. I do think the single coils sounded great for vintagey leads, but the plan was always to go humbucker for the higher-output bass riffing that we tend to use in our stuff. The actual bucking of hum is of course a plus. Will the capacitor mod still work, and where specifically does each leg get connected to?
+Troy Grady Vintage Hardware is always nice but always comes with a cost (ie noise). Like when I built my first tube amp, It took a bit to get used to the noise that is associated with tube amps but the tone is amazing. With pickups I used to wire my guitars bridge to switch between series and parallel to go hotter during lead playing, however I found myself not switching it all that much and dropping a bit more gain during leads. The other issue with series wiring is that the pickup is more like an antenna and even with good shielding can still have annoyances. Is there foil wrap around the inside of the single coil pickup? That could help too. It does almost resemble a 60hz hum, so a quick calculation based on 250K Pot would be a 5nf Cap (2nf if its 500k) that would cut off anything starting at just above 120hz. Further thought, you could add a Single RC in parallel with your tone Pot. The RC would be a resistor and capacitor in series (--/\/250k\/\---|5nf|--). You would add the rc circuit at the point where it comes out of the selector switch to the ground. Dont know if it will format correctly but: (selector switch) | | Tone/vol | | RC | | ____Ground____ You may want to google "Band Stop Filters" as well as you could calculate the frequency range that you suspect is causing the noise (or find it using an Oscilloscope on the output of the guitar) lots of good and useful information on filter circuits. Your a brilliant individual and I think you will get it sorted out. BTW, Thanks for all your guitar vids It's made a huge difference on my playing, I am intending on purchasing Antigravity (because I still need improvement (if you want to laugh and visit my video page)) The Canadian dollar is not doing very well so that doesn't help hahaha. It is in my list of purchases now that I am almost recovered from the Christmas bills. Ken
Wow.. what an improvement and upgrade with great new tuners as well, those older cheap Fenders can really rock to, even heavy riffing.. thinking about getting one of those, but i need 22 frets so i gotta get another neck to fit in the body, and make it kinda like a project guitar with different types of parts.. Is this the original neck on your guitar ? Any suggestions about a 22 fret Fender neck that could be suitable for a Duo Sonic ? Great videos btw.. i remembering watching your Cracking the code on VHS back in 2000 or 2001, i was thinking: wow.. i wanna be that good one day.. hahaha
Interesting video. A 22.5" scale! That is tiny, but it still sounded really good. Do you know why the low E kept slipping out of the nut? Heavier string gauge needed?
+ForViewingOnly I think the nut is just old and worn and needs a replacement. It wasn't happening before the tuners, but I think the holes on the Auto-Trims are a tad higher so the string isn't pulling down over the nut. A string tree could maybe fix it, but there's also a dead fret on the 1st string so we may be in for a nut job / refret anyway!
+Troy Grady If the frets are not grooved badly, you might just need a fret level/crown/polish. If you replace, I'd suggest stainless steel to last longer next time.
+Soussherpa Robert T. Baumer Never seen the need for an LSR because you can never go back to the original style. Ive had it happen on bone nuts where the outside edge breaks away and the string can fall away. bone can be a little brittle and the density isn't uniform. Graphtech, brass or a new bone nut would be needed. Sometimes the nut slot isn't deep enough (Van Halen did this to reduce friction) but on such a vintage guitar I wouldn't see how that would be true.
You need to do a video just on your guitars. We've seen the Washburns over the years, and now the Fenders and Gibsons. I (for one) would like to hear how you moved from guitar to guitar.
severalpaperclips I think he had a few like that, but I could be wrong. He must have installed a headless tremolo system (Steinberger or similar). They're actually VERY stable.
+transtremm I don't think you do! Fender still sells Telecasters with this type of bridge so they must find the tradeoff acceptable. Honestly, the instrument fails to intonate uniformly for chords even on guitars with individual saddles, so we're pretty much doomed either way until squiggly frets become the norm.
+Troy Grady That's actually one of several cool things about Antares' recent Autotune for Guitar products: the pitch correction means you can play chords anywhere on the neck with perfect intonation. A downside is that you have to use a hexaphonic pickup (it can be made to work with either piezo or magnetic). But like Line 6, they have pretty cool pickup modeling available. Big price tag though, and won't hold much appeal for purists. Plus, in your case, seeing you use that type of tech would encourage trolls to make accusations of smoke and mirrors.
+severalpaperclips That's probably too much gear for me! Considering I can't be bothered to grab wire cutters to change strings any more. I'm all for the continual evolution of the tech though. When they finally get some type of synth guitar that looks and plays like the real thing, but records and edits like a midi instrument, I can see checking out of analog altogether.
+Troy Grady Yeah, today's DSP solutions won't be everyone's cup of tea, but I'm still impressed at the capabilities and bang-for-the-buck we can get in guitar electronics now.
shielding is a must, especially with single coils. it eliminates a ton of noise. 60 cycle hum, rf noise and almost all noise is gone. if you play gigs and they use fluorescent lighting, you get a ton of noise you dont want.
would have been nice to see the difference before and after shielding with the same pickups! the hum buckers should get rid of the hum on their own no? I wonder if the shielding actually helps pick up the noise, its almost like a big antenna! a good earth path should be enough. Shame you couldn't find tuners that fitted the original holes, looks like that reamer took out some nice chunks of the headstock.
+severalpaperclips so he doesn't get struck by lightening?😉 You don't see many factory guitars with that kind of cavity shielding, I was just musing that it'd be nice to hear what all that tape does in isolation, independent of the pickup change.
+david stupple FYI, most modern factory guitars do have cavity shielding, but it's done with a special conductive paint instead of tape, because paint is less labor-intensive to apply. It's also common for pickguards or control cavity covers to have shielding on the underside. Fair enough to wonder what the guitar would sound like with shielding and the original pickups, I'm just saying the science behind shielding is well established.
+severalpaperclips this is very interesting but nothing I wasn't familiar with before. Still noises though isn't it? Even with all the copper! I'm not sure we can really say it works if this is the result. I have built a couple of vintage style guitars with period correct shielding (ie none) and they don't seem to have any such issues (yet). The nickel casings on paf style pickups was intended to reduce hum but was eschewed by many very famous recording artists without a problem. This is strange to me is all I'm saying.
i recently bought that shielding and im not too sure how to install it? why were you soldering the ends together instead of just sticking them together?
Probably because his copper tape is not conductive, and you need to solder the pieces together to ensure conductivity, if you don't do that, it won't work. You have to make sure you use conductive copper tape, and if not, you'll have to solder the pieces together like Troy.
You should try a set of Zexcoil pickups. I installed a set on one of my strats few months ago and they have totally eliminated any noise no matter were I am playing or if I crank up the gain. They also sound amazing.
+Troy Grady Yes Anthony from Texas blues alley uses them (he has a signature set) the " in the blues" guy Shane uses them, Robert Renman an few other RUclips guys (I spend a lot of time on you tube lol) use them to prevent noise when doing there videos. I am not a professional just bedroom and friends but I have some nice boutique pickups that sound better but the zexcoil said make zero noise and sound great. They are not cheap but I highly recommend them for noise free playing.
+Александр Кропанев I've heard that shielding old single coils like these can kill them because the output is already so low. But it's sort of a moot point because we prefer humbucker sound for most of our stuff anyway, which is riffy and high gain. I do think the single coils sound great for vibey leads though.
Baking soda and super glue will fix that nut if you dont want to change it .You can also file a bone nut and use the dust/shavings and super glue as filler..
6:28 Aliens in the future are going to wonder why mankind started solemnly measuring electrical hum in the 1950s using elaborate, ornamental antennae. Too formalised, impractical and long-drawn-out to be straightforward measurements by technicians, these rituals obviously held a deep cultural significance, but what exactly?
Aside from using a dedicated isolation transformer for your setup just make sure if your using a dimmer in the studio that it's not on the same circuit you are plugged into also a noise gate may help as well tc sells one that is sweepable I believe
What's the point of the auto-trim tuners? if it's only to snip off the excess string then it's kind of a mere novelty. If it makes wrapping the string around the post unecessary than it's cool :)
+אביאל פרץ Correct, they have the same benefit as other locking tuners -- very little string wind around the nut. Pretty much as soon as the end snips off, you're up to pitch. The trim function is the icing on the cake. String changes with no zero tools, in seconds. Praise the lord.
+Troy Grady - You always use "we" and "us" when you're talking about your content. I'd love to see a video where we can meet some of the other people working on this amazing channel. And, yes, I loved the track too and would love to download it.
Well you're in luck because if you check out the "Cracking the Code Behind the Scenes" playlist on our channel you can watch tutorials by both Brendan and Adam on our animation process. It's a team effort!
I wonder if that's a 22.5 scale musicmaster. These guitars are the biggest sleepers ever. They are beyond light and comfortable. I shred on mine and the comfort makes me play better. People have a stupid bias over it being a "student model" and being smaller. So what why is that a bad thing ? Again I play alot better on my musicmaster and I'm way more comfortable. The strings are much more floppy and bends are easier as well you can bend alot higher. There's people who say they don't stay in tune. Not true they just need heavier guages strings. Usually 11s. But the short scale makes 11s feel like 10s. Plus the thicker strings give you a fatter sound. So you get the best of both worlds heavier string sound with the response of light strings. These guitars go under the radar big time. You can buy a pre cbs musicmaster modified for a grand but with the amazing pre cbs parts and sound. I have a beat up 1956 Fender Musicmaster that sounds and plays like a 1950s strat. People have no idea what they are missing. Amazing vintage quality/tone that super affordable. Plus a super light easy to play version on an old strat. Many of the old ones were already modified with a Humbucker and already get a great tone at a cheap price due to the mods. Try one of these out. You get the feel and tone of a pre cbs in a small lightweight ultra comfy shape. I play alot faster, bend better, and now do crazy stretches I couldn't do before getting a different style than I ever got before. Some people might hate them with big hands etc... BUT... Certainly not everyone. Some like me thought they weren't real guitars and never looked at them until I tried one by accident and fell in love. Also the old Gibson melody makers I absolutely love. Same deal late 50s Gibson quality for around a grand. It was so light and easy to play I was in heaven with it. Get a modded beat up one and hot rod it and you'll have a super awesome axe. Both Fender and Gibson student models have brazilian Slabboard necks. I truely think if more people played them public opinion of them would quickly change. Bias has kept these guitars one of the best secrets and sleepers ever
+guitarguy935 I was just going to reply that none of this was my doing. The guitar arrived pretty beat up, with a number of old/dirty chips and filled holes which you can see. But I'm noticing now that one of the chips on the front does indeed look new. Well I'll be. I have no recollection of this happening. For the record, all the reamer cuts were sharp and precise, and the tuners are snug and solid. Must have happened when I removed the white tuners. That's annoying!
+Troy Grady definitely but through working on guitars you pick up experience and things like that tend not happen less frequently the more you get into modding and building guitars
Troy, I just want to say I've referred all of my shred students to your videos, and you've absolutely changed the way I think about picking. Thank you, I have much respect for your teaching and playing abilities!
Beautiful playing Troy, sounds amazing, and much quieter with the shielding
I really was so engrossed with playing I really did not notice what the video is about until late into it.! And that little 59 sings...and roars!
That was a classic drop tuning move at the end. I haven't seen one of those in a while.
I have my first charvel model 3a in boxes, and as usual, you inspired me to action. you're one of the greats Troy. Nice work
Cool video! Love the tone Troy and the playing is great as always.
+Derryl Gabel Thanks Derryl!
Brilliantly edited video. Its great to see such a great player be great at tech work too!
+eugenelgrong Thanks Eugene!
hey troy can you please crack the code of japanese chord progression, i hear universal to all japanese music they have the same chord progression formula. marty friedman has briefly mentioned this
It was nice listening to you just improvising rather than a lesson.
Nice work Troy and thank you, I never would have thought that with the shielding as you had it, that a few of the CF bulbs would still give you a buzz like that. That's good to know. I like the tuners also. Sorry about the nut, been there, slung that. 😎
+Buddy Martin Yeah they're only a few inches away from the headstock, just out of view of the lens. It's a perfect storm! But if we should be getting better noise reduction results than this with humbuckers and shielding, then we're all ears.
+Troy Grady If you haven't already, you might want to try a test with the lights off to check for the existence of other gremlins.
+Rench Guitar Werks, LLC Awesome Mike! Thanks for all the details. Indeed, CFLs were the best lower heat/wattage option at the time we lit the studio, because light quality in consumer LED bulbs at the time was terrible. But we just ordered a batch of the new high-CRI Cree LEDs to test out. We're cautiously optimistic.
Another viewer in the comments mentions Zexcoil pickups. Hadn't heard of those but demos look impressive. If the hum really cancels that would be rather exciting.
+Troy Grady The Zexcoils suppress noise really well. So do Kinmans and DiMarzio Area and Virtual Vintage pickups
The quietest pickups I have and have ever had are a set of D. Allen JohnnyBlades. They were a Johnny Hiland signature set of Strat single coil sized blade humbuckers. Sound great too. A fat Strat tone.
+bluesboynate Sadly he doesn't make them anymore.
Another awesome video - thanks again Troy! Great playing as always but the voice of that guitar really comes through. Beastly tone! I've had a Lil' '59 in a Strat for many years now and I like how they sit with Fender tones.
Awsome tutorial! I really like the music for this as well! The verses sound very 1980's electronic, while the chorus reminds me very much of a track that was in The Mirror's Edge. I can't wait to see more!
The most quiet single coils I've used are the DiMarzio Area 61 and 68 pickups. They're basically humbuckers but sound completely like vintage single coils but with no noise.
These broken chordal arpeggio runs brings tears to the eye! Absolutely original and amazing! Thanks Troy for making my day!
Hey Troy, LOVE your Cracking the Code series, not just for the mind blowing reveal of how it is done, but the imagery and nostalgia (for me too) of growing up on Long Island at exactly that time at exactly that age. Too Cool. Anyway, curious if you had ever tried Kinman Pickups? As far as I have heard they are pretty much spot on fender single coil tone with less noise than stacked or side by side humbuckers in single coil slots. His website has well-recorded examples of the same guitar with his pickups in comparsion to say, Fender SCNs. They are expensive but they sound fantastic. Also, have you ever tried Joe Barden pickups? They don't sound like single coils but have their own really beautiful and quiet tone.
Sweet been meaning to do this for ages!
I now use a Dremel (at slow speed) with a proper size sanding bit to widen the machine head holes. It also allows me to keep the front of the hole original size for the ferrules to fit. Gotta have a steady hand. Great vid Troy. Your gat sounds most excellent now. Shielding is imperative. P.S. Love the cracking the code series. Classic. 😂 Mirrored my own life in many retro ways. I still have the same YJM instructional video. Worth $10 on eBay? No bids.
+JCF Vintage Thanks man!
thx i always desired to see how it works with shielding , thx very much bless
I really like those Auto Trim Tuners.
+iLan Frid They're addictive. Here's to a tool-free future.
+Troy Grady in many more ways than one.
Sweet sound. You gotta come out with an instrumental album.
Hmm. Thoughts on active pickups such as the emg 57/66 set?
Dead quiet and more of the "authentic" tone if you will.
+Janine Louvel I installed an EMG once in the past, but honestly I have a really low tolerance for replacing batteries, changing strings with tools, and so on. That's pretty much why I gave up on tremolos.
***** Yeah trems stink lol
Great improvement .... Have you retubed ur Cornford Hellcat or are those the stock tubes? Can you discuss further if any changes have been made in that head killer tone!
Educational as well as fun to watch. I dun dig it. Note the special grammar.
try putting a 56pf (or higher, you may want to play with it a bit) capacitor in on your tone pot. (soldered in parallel with your tone capacitor)
this may help with stray capacitance which may help reduce the noise further.
I call it stray capacitance (thats what we called it in college) others use a term called parasitic capacitance
which has to do with the windings.
A capacitor is basically two plates that are spaced a part and requires a certain amount of electrons to fill from one side to pass to the other
windings act in a similar manner where just like the plates they too pass electrons which can cause some resonance.
you can't help lights with ballasts they definitely cause havoc on single coils.
I always wired my pickups in parallel for the cleanest output.
but on classic pickups, there's nothing much you can do with exception of trying the above.
the shielding looked great BTW.
+digitechicnal Thanks for the details. I do think the single coils sounded great for vintagey leads, but the plan was always to go humbucker for the higher-output bass riffing that we tend to use in our stuff. The actual bucking of hum is of course a plus. Will the capacitor mod still work, and where specifically does each leg get connected to?
+Troy Grady Vintage Hardware is always nice but always comes with a cost (ie noise). Like when I built my first tube amp, It took a bit to get used to the noise that is associated with tube amps but the tone is amazing.
With pickups I used to wire my guitars bridge to switch between series and parallel to go hotter during lead playing, however I found myself not switching it all that much and dropping a bit more gain during leads. The other issue with series wiring is that the pickup is more like an antenna and even with good shielding can still have annoyances.
Is there foil wrap around the inside of the single coil pickup? That could help too.
It does almost resemble a 60hz hum, so a quick calculation based on 250K Pot would be a 5nf Cap (2nf if its 500k) that would cut off anything starting at just above 120hz.
Further thought, you could add a Single RC in parallel with your tone Pot.
The RC would be a resistor and capacitor in series (--/\/250k\/\---|5nf|--).
You would add the rc circuit at the point where it comes out of the selector switch to the ground.
Dont know if it will format correctly but:
(selector switch)
| |
Tone/vol |
| RC
| |
____Ground____
You may want to google "Band Stop Filters" as well as you could calculate the frequency range that you suspect is causing the noise (or find it using an Oscilloscope on the output of the guitar) lots of good and useful information on filter circuits.
Your a brilliant individual and I think you will get it sorted out.
BTW, Thanks for all your guitar vids It's made a huge difference on my playing, I am intending on purchasing Antigravity (because I still need improvement (if you want to laugh and visit my video page))
The Canadian dollar is not doing very well so that doesn't help hahaha. It is in my list of purchases now that I am almost recovered from the Christmas bills.
Ken
Wow.. what an improvement and upgrade with great new tuners as well, those older cheap Fenders can really rock to, even heavy riffing.. thinking about getting one of those, but i need 22 frets so i gotta get another neck to fit in the body, and make it kinda like a project guitar with different types of parts.. Is this the original neck on your guitar ? Any suggestions about a 22 fret Fender neck that could be suitable for a Duo Sonic ? Great videos btw.. i remembering watching your Cracking the code on VHS back in 2000 or 2001, i was thinking: wow.. i wanna be that good one day.. hahaha
+HearGear I didn't realise.. those Duo Sonic/Musicmaster is available with 22 frets to.. :D
Interesting video. A 22.5" scale! That is tiny, but it still sounded really good. Do you know why the low E kept slipping out of the nut? Heavier string gauge needed?
+ForViewingOnly I think the nut is just old and worn and needs a replacement. It wasn't happening before the tuners, but I think the holes on the Auto-Trims are a tad higher so the string isn't pulling down over the nut. A string tree could maybe fix it, but there's also a dead fret on the 1st string so we may be in for a nut job / refret anyway!
+Troy Grady If the frets are not grooved badly, you might just need a fret level/crown/polish. If you replace, I'd suggest stainless steel to last longer next time.
I love that guitar!!!!!!!
Is the reamer from a regular hardware/woodworking supplier, or is it a fancy one from a luthier supply outfit?
Indeed it's the Stew Mac luthie'sr reamer - the large one.
Would an LSR roller nut solve the nut problems you're having? I have one on my strat plus and never had a string come off.
+Soussherpa Robert T. Baumer Never seen the need for an LSR because you can never go back to the original style. Ive had it happen on bone nuts where the outside edge breaks away and the string can fall away. bone can be a little brittle and the density isn't uniform. Graphtech, brass or a new bone nut would be needed. Sometimes the nut slot isn't deep enough (Van Halen did this to reduce friction) but on such a vintage guitar I wouldn't see how that would be true.
great work !!
You need to do a video just on your guitars. We've seen the Washburns over the years, and now the Fenders and Gibsons. I (for one) would like to hear how you moved from guitar to guitar.
+GDK Opinionator Wasn't there something funky going on with the headstock and nut of his Washburn?
severalpaperclips I think he had a few like that, but I could be wrong. He must have installed a headless tremolo system (Steinberger or similar). They're actually VERY stable.
Tony, your playing and tone are excellent, but how do you get proper intonation when the D and G strings share a single saddle?
+transtremm I don't think you do! Fender still sells Telecasters with this type of bridge so they must find the tradeoff acceptable. Honestly, the instrument fails to intonate uniformly for chords even on guitars with individual saddles, so we're pretty much doomed either way until squiggly frets become the norm.
+Troy Grady That's actually one of several cool things about Antares' recent Autotune for Guitar products: the pitch correction means you can play chords anywhere on the neck with perfect intonation. A downside is that you have to use a hexaphonic pickup (it can be made to work with either piezo or magnetic). But like Line 6, they have pretty cool pickup modeling available. Big price tag though, and won't hold much appeal for purists. Plus, in your case, seeing you use that type of tech would encourage trolls to make accusations of smoke and mirrors.
+severalpaperclips That's probably too much gear for me! Considering I can't be bothered to grab wire cutters to change strings any more. I'm all for the continual evolution of the tech though. When they finally get some type of synth guitar that looks and plays like the real thing, but records and edits like a midi instrument, I can see checking out of analog altogether.
+Troy Grady Yeah, today's DSP solutions won't be everyone's cup of tea, but I'm still impressed at the capabilities and bang-for-the-buck we can get in guitar electronics now.
what does shielding the body do to the guitar?
+Sitha Puth It will help to prevent certain types of noise from getting into the circuit. RF buzz or light noise.
Kley De Jong
thanks!!
shielding is a must, especially with single coils. it eliminates a ton of noise. 60 cycle hum, rf noise and almost all noise is gone. if you play gigs and they use fluorescent lighting, you get a ton of noise you dont want.
thank you for this info... this will be my next project A++++
+Mister Knight Owl does a noise gate help with that?
would have been nice to see the difference before and after shielding with the same pickups! the hum buckers should get rid of the hum on their own no? I wonder if the shielding actually helps pick up the noise, its almost like a big antenna! a good earth path should be enough. Shame you couldn't find tuners that fitted the original holes, looks like that reamer took out some nice chunks of the headstock.
+david stupple Do a google search for "Faraday cage", that's the role the shielding fulfills.
+severalpaperclips so he doesn't get struck by lightening?😉
You don't see many factory guitars with that kind of cavity shielding, I was just musing that it'd be nice to hear what all that tape does in isolation, independent of the pickup change.
+david stupple FYI, most modern factory guitars do have cavity shielding, but it's done with a special conductive paint instead of tape, because paint is less labor-intensive to apply. It's also common for pickguards or control cavity covers to have shielding on the underside. Fair enough to wonder what the guitar would sound like with shielding and the original pickups, I'm just saying the science behind shielding is well established.
+severalpaperclips this is very interesting but nothing I wasn't familiar with before. Still noises though isn't it? Even with all the copper! I'm not sure we can really say it works if this is the result. I have built a couple of vintage style guitars with period correct shielding (ie none) and they don't seem to have any such issues (yet). The nickel casings on paf style pickups was intended to reduce hum but was eschewed by many very famous recording artists without a problem. This is strange to me is all I'm saying.
i recently bought that shielding and im not too sure how to install it? why were you soldering the ends together instead of just sticking them together?
Probably because his copper tape is not conductive, and you need to solder the pieces together to ensure conductivity, if you don't do that, it won't work. You have to make sure you use conductive copper tape, and if not, you'll have to solder the pieces together like Troy.
I had a similar copper shielding done on my Strat but I took it away since it made the guitar sound duller. YMMV thought.
how much time did it takr you to play this fast?
With that guitar now you totally look like David Byrne!
You should try a set of Zexcoil pickups. I installed a set on one of my strats few months ago and they have totally eliminated any noise no matter were I am playing or if I crank up the gain. They also sound amazing.
+spotmfd Really! Actually noiseless, even with dimmers and fluorescents around?
+Troy Grady Yes Anthony from Texas blues alley uses them (he has a signature set) the " in the blues" guy Shane uses them, Robert Renman an few other RUclips guys (I spend a lot of time on you tube lol) use them to prevent noise when doing there videos. I am not a professional just bedroom and friends but I have some nice boutique pickups that sound better but the zexcoil said make zero noise and sound great. They are not cheap but I highly recommend them for noise free playing.
+spotmfd Ordered. If they work, we'll post a clip about them!
Troy, how about to shield the single coils?
+Александр Кропанев I've heard that shielding old single coils like these can kill them because the output is already so low. But it's sort of a moot point because we prefer humbucker sound for most of our stuff anyway, which is riffy and high gain. I do think the single coils sound great for vibey leads though.
Baking soda and super glue will fix that nut if you dont want to change it .You can also file a bone nut and use the dust/shavings and super glue as filler..
Awesome ! the riff from 10:50 til the end plz make lesson and tab of that !! :) M
6:28 Aliens in the future are going to wonder why mankind started solemnly measuring electrical hum in the 1950s using elaborate, ornamental antennae. Too formalised, impractical and long-drawn-out to be straightforward measurements by technicians, these rituals obviously held a deep cultural significance, but what exactly?
you may want to try installing a lo pass filter capacitor resistor pair
Aside from using a dedicated isolation transformer for your setup just make sure if your using a dimmer in the studio that it's not on the same circuit you are plugged into also a noise gate may help as well tc sells one that is sweepable I believe
By all means I'm no pro. The tone is amazing and soloing is great, serious mad props. But he finish on guitar and that background noise..
What's the point of the auto-trim tuners? if it's only to snip off the excess string then it's kind of a mere novelty. If it makes wrapping the string around the post unecessary than it's cool :)
+אביאל פרץ Correct, they have the same benefit as other locking tuners -- very little string wind around the nut. Pretty much as soon as the end snips off, you're up to pitch. The trim function is the icing on the cake. String changes with no zero tools, in seconds. Praise the lord.
Praise Guthrie Godvan :P
Can you make any videos of jimi hendrix?
anybody knows the name of the song in the video?...thanks
+rokorok40 The montage section? That's just soundtrack we wrote.
+Troy Grady Could i Download it somewhere?..that song si great :)
+Troy Grady - You always use "we" and "us" when you're talking about your content. I'd love to see a video where we can meet some of the other people working on this amazing channel. And, yes, I loved the track too and would love to download it.
Well you're in luck because if you check out the "Cracking the Code Behind the Scenes" playlist on our channel you can watch tutorials by both Brendan and Adam on our animation process. It's a team effort!
Let me build you a decent guitar sir, happy to keep the shorter scale length if you like. You pay the shipping and I'll do the rest.
I wonder if that's a 22.5 scale musicmaster. These guitars are the biggest sleepers ever. They are beyond light and comfortable. I shred on mine and the comfort makes me play better. People have a stupid bias over it being a "student model" and being smaller. So what why is that a bad thing ? Again I play alot better on my musicmaster and I'm way more comfortable. The strings are much more floppy and bends are easier as well you can bend alot higher. There's people who say they don't stay in tune. Not true they just need heavier guages strings. Usually 11s. But the short scale makes 11s feel like 10s. Plus the thicker strings give you a fatter sound. So you get the best of both worlds heavier string sound with the response of light strings. These guitars go under the radar big time. You can buy a pre cbs musicmaster modified for a grand but with the amazing pre cbs parts and sound. I have a beat up 1956 Fender Musicmaster that sounds and plays like a 1950s strat. People have no idea what they are missing. Amazing vintage quality/tone that super affordable. Plus a super light easy to play version on an old strat. Many of the old ones were already modified with a Humbucker and already get a great tone at a cheap price due to the mods. Try one of these out. You get the feel and tone of a pre cbs in a small lightweight ultra comfy shape. I play alot faster, bend better, and now do crazy stretches I couldn't do before getting a different style than I ever got before. Some people might hate them with big hands etc... BUT... Certainly not everyone. Some like me thought they weren't real guitars and never looked at them until I tried one by accident and fell in love. Also the old Gibson melody makers I absolutely love. Same deal late 50s Gibson quality for around a grand. It was so light and easy to play I was in heaven with it. Get a modded beat up one and hot rod it and you'll have a super awesome axe. Both Fender and Gibson student models have brazilian Slabboard necks. I truely think if more people played them public opinion of them would quickly change. Bias has kept these guitars one of the best secrets and sleepers ever
It is - 22.5" is the primary scale length you'll see in most of our videos, unless it's the Les Paul.
won't lie cringed a little when I saw the headstock wood chips but hey it's more character
+guitarguy935 I was just going to reply that none of this was my doing. The guitar arrived pretty beat up, with a number of old/dirty chips and filled holes which you can see. But I'm noticing now that one of the chips on the front does indeed look new. Well I'll be. I have no recollection of this happening. For the record, all the reamer cuts were sharp and precise, and the tuners are snug and solid. Must have happened when I removed the white tuners. That's annoying!
+Troy Grady definitely but through working on guitars you pick up experience and things like that tend not happen less frequently the more you get into modding and building guitars
Your rig is buzzing bad
Why the dumb techno music for a guitar video?
+Nick Yelovich Hey i love it! and i also love the D sounding after the E string gets out! :D