Wait till people realize that they're degaussing their pickups with a neodymium magnet... Or potentially flipping the polarity of only certain pole pieces....
T_T I had the Jellyfish Pick as a kid. I had no idea it was that notorious. I also had that crappy green plastic skull with horns pick they showed next to the XPick.
@@amsumanravih People won't realise. The kind of people who would realise, are the kind of people who would never find themselves browsing Kickstarter.
I know this is not related to the video but as a larger person (trying to shrink myself back down), I saw your shirt and wanted one. But I was afraid that like many others you would stop at size 2XL. I was pleasantly surprised that you do go up to 4XL at least. Thank you. Big fan, in more ways than one.
Spring 1976-ish. I see an ad in Guitar Player magazine for a device that will let you play your amp cranked, but at bedroom levels. It’s a yellow box with one big knob, sold by Marino Labs for $50.00. For weeks I kept looking at that ad trying to decide if I wanted to spend fifty bucks for it. The ad gave no hint as to how the device worked. I finally decided 'What-the-heck....may as well buy it.' A week later I receive what's nothing more than a rheostat in a box, and that thing got HOT!!!!! (You connected it between the head and cabinet.) I had to keep it on my open windowsill whenever I used it. It wasn’t long before I gave it away, and that dude told me he used it until all of the insulation melted off of the wires, and finally, all of the yellow paint melted away. I’ll see you in hell, Marino Labs!!!!!!
i'll keep my cut up cdrom drive shell mild steel pick. couldn't find my bag of dunlops, so i broke out the dremel and hacked up the top cover of an old cdrom drive. worked a treat. newer ones are probably too thin, though. might try making a few more out of the stainless steel plate i have in the garage.
I saw an add of Facebook for a different guitar pick that made similar claims. If memory serves me correct this one was going for like $120. I replied that I would stick with my bag of 72 Tortex picks that I paid like $5 bucks for! A bunch of people liked my comment so the guy responded that $5 for 72 Tortex picks was overpriced. You just can’t make this shit up.
In what is probably the weirdest email I've ever gotten, the xpick team contacted me because I used to run one of the biggest italian youtube channels about physics, asking me to prove the science behind the product in a livestream with them. I swear I cannot make this shit up. but hey, the silver lining is that I found this channel
I also got suckered into buying the x-pick last Christmas. I tried for AGES to get it to do something cool, messed around with pickup height etc. I left a comment on one of their vids and the company also gave me the "just keep trying!" spiel. Waste of money.
that ad for the xpick obviously has sounds of strings actually being physically touched. the whole thing just screams Fucking magnets! How do they work?
But it got toobs, Man! As far as X-Pick is concerned, technically they were honest. We did see the impossible. However, I am intrigued by the guitar with half block inlays and half dot inlays in the fretboard. That was something.
@samuraiguitarist Thanks so much for covering Stupid Robot Fighting. I've retired from uploading videos, but it's always neat to see spikes. Do you want me to send you the El Minion Head guitar so you can find people who can't shred to shred on it? I suppose I'll let people that can shred have a go too. But it won't be as cool.
@@FenderBender5150It's an Italian accent actually, i can recognize since it's my native language. I checked the creators page on Kickstarter and he's indeed italian. The Russian accent is quite different.
This is awesome dude, thank you so much for covering the XPick! (: HOLY CRAP! Thank you for the shoutout man, you didn't have to do that, I really appreciate it! EDIT: Sorry for the confusion, I am NOT associated with XPick, I am the one who originally reviewed it and XPick attacked me over it :p
That stupid robot fighting league kickstarter bit in this video just felt like a fever dream, such a sudden and straight to the point delivery, it's like you woke up in the middle of the subject to your deskmate telling you to read sumthin from the book
This is exactly what I thought, although there are already modifications available to make a guitar sound like a sitar. In order to make a guitar sound like a banjo, you're either going to need some clever post-processing, or replace your guitar's body with a drum; which would then just make it a banjo.
About the X-pick, the moment someone talks about "the misterious forces of magnetism" is the moment to close the video and dismiss anything they're saying.
I actually use a guitar-jo often. You can get a really strange sympathetic, almost sitar sound when used on an acoustic. It's very fiddly to set up but a lot of fun to play around with
Honestly, if it were marketed not as a “turn your guitar into a banjo” but just as a fun tone alteration tool, useful for creating a more unique sound. They could have even demo different effects and distortion etc.
It's also definitely just feedback anyways. I'm pretty sure that video clip isn't actually doctored, but rather XPick is just lying about what the noise is.
Maybe because before even using it it's called an Xpick but doesn't even look like an X HAHA... so immediately i just think... "what else did they lie about" turns out... everything was a lie! HAHA
Stupid robot fighting guitar is beautifully. It's not trying to innovate a solution to a non-issue, it's not taking advantage of beginners. It's purely an idea born of comedic genius intended to make people happy. Absolutely love it
I bought the X Pick when it was first launched way back during the pandemic. It took them almost a year to deliver, and then, same results you had. I found a couple cool tricks with it, but nothing worth that kind of money. I can get the same good effects from a SlideWinder Ring, and those are so much easier to use.
Great vid. Thanks for exposing the x pick for the snake 🐍 oil that it is! I financially contributed to their campaign and was essentially gaslighted by their support staff into thinking it was something I was doing wrong as opposed to owning up to the product being misrepresented. I was told I needed more compression, more distortion, to wave the pick faster.. I practiced it for hours until I kind of got it happening until it caught on the strings, stuck to the pickups momentarily before dropping and breaking into 10 different shards on the floor. I contacted the company and they claimed that of course it was fragile and I should have known it was. They offered a discount on buying more… I said, no thanks The effects I could produce were awkward and not much more pronounced than using a metallic or chirpy pick. Stick with an expression pedal or using multi fx instead of wasting time with this. Thanks Sammy G
I only recently got mine, so I'm still in the "raising my pickups until they almost touch the strings, and working out which guitar has the strongest pickups because I can't get it to work" stage. Really, the "strumming from 20cm" away should have been a red flag, because how would something with such a strong influence be able to focus on an individual string?
@@doyourownresearch7297 How does the magnetic field created by an eBow and other sustainers cause a string to vibrate? I've no idea, I'm a musician, not a scientist.
You should mix the design principles of the Jellyfish pick with the X Pick. The advertising writes itself "The jellyfish now with the power of magnetism".
The Stupid Robot Fighting reminds me of of this thing I used to see at festivals and block parties as a kid. Some guys made life size Rock'em Sock'em Robots out of pipes and junk. They would rent them out just like a Dunk Tank and other carnival games. It was so cool. I remember the sound of all that pipe and metal clanging around was so loud though
Yeah, the A/B test was like, "That's obviously a banjo" and "That sounds like a Danelectro electric sitar." While obviously not the intended effect (it doesn't sound like a banjo at all), it still sounded cool as hell!.
Most of the iconic and recognizable banjo sound actually comes from the picking style and the much higher note from the top string. That's not something you can fake easily in post processing or with gadgets.
I think you could get more banjo-ish sound using guitarjo. I think if you pick closer to bridge it will make sound a bit sharper, like, less lows and sharper attack... And maybe play around with the position of the thing.
I'm in my 60s. Learning the chords is hard. Changing chords is harder. Being able to do that with a song for me is impossible. But I know for a fact, 2 hours a day practicing chord changes and finger exercises will get me to where I want to be musically. Guitar playing is a sport. Want to play with a friendly band/team? Then train like you want to. Thanks for showing us that if it looks like junk, it is.
10 minutes a day is enough. Great if you have 2 hours a day, but learning chords and changes will just come with time. There are some uncommon chords that are harder, but I play 200 songs with just all the 'regular' Major, Minor a few barre chords. If you played every day for a year you would be pretty good.
@@gatergates8813 it really is lol Although the bottom string starting half way through the neck? That throws me off so hard lol I think I'm gonna play notes, but I dont haha
I've used IR models of acoustics pretty successfully with electric guitars for recording, and I've used software acoustic Sims that work quite well. It's not exactly right, but you can clean it up with EQ and get close enough that it's ok, in a mix.
I "fixed" RS 2014 Remastered so it's CDLC friendly and any ASIO connection works so zero lag and no stupid Realtone cable but a full blown audio interface (Axe I/O) it's so much better. You make your own songs and then practice them in RS 2014. The way RS 2014 should have been made in the first place.
@@ReasonableAssumption I do use the CDLC repository at customsforge. I think I am up to about 1500 songs now added. I have a really old M-Audio Fasttrack interface, but could never find a way to get it to work. Maybe I need to get a new one.
I've been playing for 25+ years, and I love Rocksmith as a practice tool and a way to learn new songs. Still probably best to start with a good teacher so you don't learn any bad habits (that was my biggest mistake), but as a fun way to improve and gain knowledge, it's awesome! I just wish they had a built-in pitch shifter so you don't have to constantly tweak your tuning to play stuff that isn't in A=440 (like Dream On, Rock & Roll Hoochie Koo, You Really Got Me), since it's a pain in the ass to micro-tune your guitar (not *so* bad for the Eb standard or Drop D stuff).
X-pick is literally just for people who think magnets are magical. The E-bow claim is especially funny to me, since, you know, the real deal uses batteries to power an electromagnet, which turns on and off/alternates periodically, translates into vibration as that changing field tugs on the string periodically, and SOLID MAGNETS DON'T DO THAT BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT MAGIC. At least some of the strumming is sort of believable since it could theoretically tug on the strings, and without understanding the math of magnetic fields one could fall for that, but their demo is so blatantly and obviously fake it's absurd.
DON'T EVER F*CK AROUND WITH MAGNETS AROUND YOUR PICKUPS, PEOPLE. You WILL damage the pickup. How much would still be to be heard, but, simply put, damage will occur. Don't. Do. It.
That's a bold move keeping the audio with the weird intonation on the first attack of the xpick from 20 cm away in an official demonstration video... You don't even touch your strings and you're already out of tune!
How can people actually belive that this x-pick could work as shown in the marketing video? And even if we assumed, that it would've any measurable effect on the strings...what would you use it for? In an actually gig or recording environment, I mean? What would any of these gimmicks be good for on stage or in the studio? The old saying is right: there's a sucker born every minute.
The GuitarJo I could see being used outside of its intended purpose. The Treyner... well, you pretty much hit the nail on the head there. The premise behind the Stupid Robot Fighting Guitar sounds fun 😀 The Amonito... had it somehow been backed successfully and put into production, I could see it tanking very quickly. For one, as you implied, guitarists are notoriously backwards when it comes to gear. Then we already have the Line 6es, Fractal Audios, Kempers etc; unless the Amonito was loaded with features like these are, or was truly groundbreaking, it would've only been steamrolled by the competition (if you could even call it that). And then there's the tube gimmick... because of course 🙄 "X-Pick - No magic, just post production bullshit!" would've been a much more fitting slogan.
Thank you so much for covering the x-pick. I was considering buying that snake oil but I was suspicious of the lack of reviews and demos by anyone but the maker. Thanks for saving me some cash!
Hi Sammy. Thanks for the great videos. I am completely with you about that BS magnetic pick. But just for the sake of accuracy from the view of an electrical engineer: the sound path does affect the magnetic field. If you are using a passive guitar (which almost all electric are), you have one single circuit between the pickup and the first preamp (either in an effect device or your amp). Even changing your guitar cable can affect your sound, same is with the impedance of the amps input. But of course what they write is still stupid and wrong ;) best regards from Germany! Dirk
I think back to Keith Richards using the fuzz effect to emulate a saxophone and how that really kicked off a whole guitar thing. I think the banjo thing will be used by someone not trying to be a banjo, but they will get some cool sound that the creators never thought about.
The thing is, people have already been doing the "banjo" thing in guitars for decades already. Normally it involves people putting say a sock wrapped around the neck on the fretboard, or maybe a rubber band. To sort of automatically palm mute the strings. I think it's supposed to make van Halen style double hand tapping sound better and cleaner. I think I've heard that bass players do the same thing cos it makes it sound like a double bass, but I'm not a bass player so someone will have to correct me on that if I'm wrong. This guitar-Jo is a better and more consistent solution than wrapping a sock or rubber band around the neck, to be fair. I'm interested in buying one for the reason you say, not because I want it to sound like a banjo, but because it would be fun to experiment with and create new sounds with. I just wonder if it's easy to turn on and off quickly so that you can turn it on mid song for a section and then take it back off and go back to normal guitar sounds. And also, can be be used on acoustic guitars? I feel like it'd sound way more like a banjo on an acoustic anyway, but either way it'd be fun to be able to mess around with it on them too and not just on electric guitars.
@@duffman18 The fret wraps are for deadening open strings so they don't ring out while you're playing higher up the neck and you don't have to worry about muting as much.
I'd like to offer a different opinion. I bought the XPick, and I love it. My playing has never been so smooth and effortless. And the effects you can get are not limited to just the ones shown on their promo videos. For instance: If you hold it diagonally, between your thumb and pinky, and then rotate it counter-clockwise whilst moving your picking hand up and down (roughly in a 1 to 7 clock position on the Y-axis), while simultaneously performing a few semicircles which increase in size over several seconds, you'll get a sound that is not unlike a cat purring. Oh, and you need to have a mouth full of some viscous liquid. Doesn't really matter which. I chose mayonnaise. I've been Wowing crowds with this new trick for months now, and even got a standing ovation at the end of one show at a halfway house for recently paroled former inmates with learning disabilities. My act is also very popular every Mashed Potato Monday at a local nursing home. They love the cat sounds I am able to emulate. All in all, one of the greatest guitar purchases I have ever made. And of course, when not being used to delight my appreciative audiences it's holding invoices on the refrigerator. What a cool bonus! Can YOUR pick do that? At the next show I am thinking about switching from mayo to a honey-mustard dressing. I wonder how it will affect the sound. Buy this wonderful pick now!
@@doyourownresearch7297 The only thing "well done" here is this bowel-shakingly amazing pick! I honestly don't know how I got along without it for the nearly 7 months I've been a seasoned and respected professional guitar performance art specialist. Run, don't walk, and purchase this soul enhancing tool. It's a steal even at 3.5x the current price! And for all of you who are curious as to the wonderous and ethereal sounds I'm able to produce, my next show will be Tuesday the 31st of October, 2023, at the EastPointe Psychiatric Hospital in Daphne Alabama. My stage name is William Weanis Jr. There will be refreshments and a Q&A after the show.
FYI. You're on one of their videos. It's says you have mastered Xpick tactics. No sure what that means. Even mentions your name. It shows you playing with one. I.E. Endorsing their little magnet thing. It's the one that says Xpick History and Tutorial No. 1. Happy Suing!
2k to 3.5k for that shitty amp/multifx unit? That's literally the price of a Kemper at the lowest, or an AxeFX3 with the Advanced DSP Module at the highest.
I think the biggest problem with the X-pick wasn’t even mentioned, that being why the fuck would I even want to play my guitar from 20cm away???! I already know how to fuckin play it, why would I re-learn everything just to do it from farther away
It's amazing how the X-pick just "Knows" which string you're picking, considering how the video shows the player essentially "Air Strumming" ALL the strings. /s
It's pretty much criminal to an extent what the XPick is doing. Well, the people that represent it that is. Robbery just doesn't cut it here, for an over priced product that does nothing that it claims to do. Then the way its advertised though, blatantly doctoring it and faking the whole thing, then the types of feedback they give. Look around on the web, this video still doesn't show the extent of how terrible the staff are. Treating you, the consumer as if you are the problem. Totally horrible people, a blatant scam and a pretty horrendous price point all round. I swear I hope NOBODY buys this even for a review video.
That banjo gimmick reminds me of a guitar my dad's old best friend has, it's an electric that has this clear acrylic plate that comes up and just barely touches the bottom of the strings, makes it sound like a sitar. It's crazy awesome.
The Amonito has gone for the old nautilus shell shape. They possibly have _Fibonacci sequence_ in their spiel somwhere (each number is the sum of the two previous numbers). What affect the shape would have at these dimensions I've no idea.
The audio on the X-Pick ads are not "doctored". They're straight-up lying. In addition, assuming it is a strong magnet, it can damage your pickups. Magnets that are significantly stronger than the magnets in your pickups can demagnetize the pickup magnets.
You know how bad you gotta fuck up for samurai jack to say your gadget is worse than the jelly fish pick😭 Edit: yes i accidentally said samurai jack instead of guitarist, no im not changing it
It was obvious that xpick is bullshit from the first video. If he would strum with magnetic force like that, then he would sound all of the strings, but he strums only one.
That device to learn to play is so much more bs and work than just buying a copy of Rocksmith and learning through a game that can also take you through a little more advanced lessons.
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XPick has done the impossible-beat the Jellyfish Pick in the realm of worst guitar gadgets
Jellyfish Pick was just a crappy gadget. XPick is just a plain scam.
I prefer the Xpick to the Jellyfish pick, because I could use it as a fridge magnet. What a scam!
Wait till people realize that they're degaussing their pickups with a neodymium magnet... Or potentially flipping the polarity of only certain pole pieces....
T_T I had the Jellyfish Pick as a kid. I had no idea it was that notorious. I also had that crappy green plastic skull with horns pick they showed next to the XPick.
@@amsumanravih People won't realise. The kind of people who would realise, are the kind of people who would never find themselves browsing Kickstarter.
I know this is not related to the video but as a larger person (trying to shrink myself back down), I saw your shirt and wanted one. But I was afraid that like many others you would stop at size 2XL. I was pleasantly surprised that you do go up to 4XL at least. Thank you. Big fan, in more ways than one.
Spring 1976-ish. I see an ad in Guitar Player magazine for a device that will let you play your amp cranked, but at bedroom levels.
It’s a yellow box with one big knob, sold by Marino Labs for $50.00.
For weeks I kept looking at that ad trying to decide if I wanted to spend fifty bucks for it. The ad gave no hint as to how the device worked.
I finally decided 'What-the-heck....may as well buy it.'
A week later I receive what's nothing more than a rheostat in a box, and that thing got HOT!!!!!
(You connected it between the head and cabinet.)
I had to keep it on my open windowsill whenever I used it. It wasn’t long before I gave it away, and that dude told me he used it until all of the insulation melted off of the wires, and finally, all of the yellow paint melted away.
I’ll see you in hell, Marino Labs!!!!!!
As a Kiwi, I've never been as proud as I am right now. Don't discard your trash.. Robot fight today people!!!
“Trash”? Rubbish. Consider your kiwi-card revoked
@@ambiention I felt I had to translate so people knew what I meant lol
But yes, Rubbish LOL
Love you
Just careful of the robots becoming sentient
i'll keep my cut up cdrom drive shell mild steel pick. couldn't find my bag of dunlops, so i broke out the dremel and hacked up the top cover of an old cdrom drive. worked a treat. newer ones are probably too thin, though.
might try making a few more out of the stainless steel plate i have in the garage.
also "fell 105 thousand dollars short of its 107 thousand dollar goal"
Yeah, that sums up what people thought of it pretty succinctly.
I saw an add of Facebook for a different guitar pick that made similar claims. If memory serves me correct this one was going for like $120. I replied that I would stick with my bag of 72 Tortex picks that I paid like $5 bucks for! A bunch of people liked my comment so the guy responded that $5 for 72 Tortex picks was overpriced. You just can’t make this shit up.
Boy that magnetic pick seems like it’s going to fuck up the magnet in your pickups
"You're never gonna be able to play the guitar with nails like that"? See a Dolly Parton video and you'll change your mind
How much did that pick cost? Was it
(14:30) *$53,* or
(15:30) *$81?*
The Xpick looks like its just a neodymium magnet in the shape of a guitar pick. Do you think more magnetic strings would have a better effect?
In what is probably the weirdest email I've ever gotten, the xpick team contacted me because I used to run one of the biggest italian youtube channels about physics, asking me to prove the science behind the product in a livestream with them. I swear I cannot make this shit up.
but hey, the silver lining is that I found this channel
I also got suckered into buying the x-pick last Christmas. I tried for AGES to get it to do something cool, messed around with pickup height etc. I left a comment on one of their vids and the company also gave me the "just keep trying!" spiel. Waste of money.
that ad for the xpick obviously has sounds of strings actually being physically touched. the whole thing just screams Fucking magnets! How do they work?
But it got toobs, Man! As far as X-Pick is concerned, technically they were honest. We did see the impossible. However, I am intrigued by the guitar with half block inlays and half dot inlays in the fretboard. That was something.
@samuraiguitarist Thanks so much for covering Stupid Robot Fighting. I've retired from uploading videos, but it's always neat to see spikes. Do you want me to send you the El Minion Head guitar so you can find people who can't shred to shred on it? I suppose I'll let people that can shred have a go too. But it won't be as cool.
This must happen! 🤣🤣
@@Addict2FX No word back yet. Must... apply...... pressure......
I want to see this 🤣
Omg Sammy gotta do this
He can get the non-musician musician group to do it!! SHOP DAWGS! AWOOOOOO!!!
I should kickstart a new jellyfish pick
NO you monster
Call it the Man O War. It's a Jellyfish pick but even longer.
@@aronglasser and worse
Somehow
dont you dare.
Take my money! 😂
i remember seeing the x-pick on kickstarter and thinking it was pure snake oil, good on you for exposing their bullshit
I think the Russian Mobster accent was a big red flag...pardon the pun.
@@FenderBender5150It's an Italian accent actually, i can recognize since it's my native language. I checked the creators page on Kickstarter and he's indeed italian. The Russian accent is quite different.
This is awesome dude, thank you so much for covering the XPick! (: HOLY CRAP! Thank you for the shoutout man, you didn't have to do that, I really appreciate it! EDIT: Sorry for the confusion, I am NOT associated with XPick, I am the one who originally reviewed it and XPick attacked me over it :p
Sammy G is a good person. Hope you get some new viewers because of this.
@@CaptainTedStryker Thank you very much! I seriously appreciate it (:
Why would you appreciate the shout out when the pick didn't work lmao
@@pnut3844ableany publicity is good
Lol, I thought you were the inventor until he mentioned you 😅
My main takeaway from this video is that the Stupid Robot Fighting League is an actual thing that exists.
That stupid robot fighting league kickstarter bit in this video just felt like a fever dream, such a sudden and straight to the point delivery, it's like you woke up in the middle of the subject to your deskmate telling you to read sumthin from the book
Welcome to New Zealand, brother.
And I want in on it
@@W3R3W00F You can start your own chapter then.
@@mal2ksc Love you.
@@shankrl1 Truth
The Guitar-Jo actually sounded more like a sitar than a banjo to me.
" From the makers of the Sitar-Jo !" Now your fake banjo can sound like a fake sitar !
Yup, they should have changed their marketing instead of doubling down on the banjo angle.
@@creamwobbly hey british person who commented under my comment on a mary spender short telling me to do the 'goosed' face on thumbnails!
This is exactly what I thought, although there are already modifications available to make a guitar sound like a sitar.
In order to make a guitar sound like a banjo, you're either going to need some clever post-processing, or replace your guitar's body with a drum; which would then just make it a banjo.
Exactly! There's this weird resonance that's wayyyy more sitar-like.
imagine selling a fridge magnet as a pick for 50 dollars and if people complain you just say: "Skill issue, try again."
You will go far, my son.
@@jaex9617 sadly i didnt come up with this genius plan and its probably already patented
Get good
So, all those real cool effects can be done with a neodyme magnet. Maybe put one on a ring? I think that would work.
It literally is how the games Fifa and War Thunder work since years. Both make enough money, maybe a dev got bored and does homeoffice now.
I really like how you exposed that X-pick. Good job Samurai.
Good to know
Not gonna lie that stupid robot fighting league sounds right up my alley. I genuinely loved that.
Love you
While the Guitarjo doesn't sound like a banjo, it's enough in the ballpark that I can see the utility of it
Yeah. I think with some eq and effects of could get pretty close. Especially on the higher strings
it'd be a pain to get any tone consistently though.
I think the thing that's wrong is it sounds like a palm-muted version of a banjo. The highs just aren't bright like you'd want for clean banjo tones.
@@girhen add an EQ to it then!
@@DaP84 EQs aren't good at adding in what isn't there, just tailoring what is there.
About the X-pick, the moment someone talks about "the misterious forces of magnetism" is the moment to close the video and dismiss anything they're saying.
XPick isn't a "bad" guitar product, it's a flat out scam. Snake-oil is dead on the money. Unfortunately, they prey ignorance, the worst kind of scam.
and there are still people in the comments trying to find out if it actually works
I actually use a guitar-jo often. You can get a really strange sympathetic, almost sitar sound when used on an acoustic. It's very fiddly to set up but a lot of fun to play around with
Honestly, if it were marketed not as a “turn your guitar into a banjo” but just as a fun tone alteration tool, useful for creating a more unique sound.
They could have even demo different effects and distortion etc.
toot
That infinite sustain claim of the fridge magnet pick is basically a free energy claim...
Electroboom would be annoyed by that pick as well
Yeah, and then he'd make a pick that electrocutes you randomly when you're playing the guitar.
@@SkinnyBlackout Mains direct to the strings!
@@dunxy forbidden guitar lol
It's also definitely just feedback anyways. I'm pretty sure that video clip isn't actually doctored, but rather XPick is just lying about what the noise is.
Haha yeah, a groundbreaking perpetual motion device 😁
The Guitarjo is just a non-destructive version of the Buzz Bridge used on the Danelectro Sitars. Sounds like it too.
Good catch
Why did my bullshit-o-meter alarmed in the 1st seconds of this pick?
Maybe because before even using it it's called an Xpick but doesn't even look like an X HAHA... so immediately i just think... "what else did they lie about" turns out... everything was a lie! HAHA
Perhaps because the intro to the video was literally him trashing on it?
The fact that the jellyfish pick has been dethroned is incredibly surprising
Stupid robot fighting guitar is beautifully. It's not trying to innovate a solution to a non-issue, it's not taking advantage of beginners. It's purely an idea born of comedic genius intended to make people happy. Absolutely love it
"If you want banjo sounds, you're gonna have to play a banjo"
*laughs in midi guitar pickup while making my guitar sound like a trumpet*
469 GREAT SOUNDS!
Classic Roland guitar ad.
If people want to hear a trumpet, do you think they’re gonna go to a trumpet player, or your bootleg midi trumpet?
I paid only $999 for the pick of destiny and have never looked back. After 15 years of practice I'm now learning my third chord.
I should kickstart an invisible pick
imagine if xpick used sammy's quote and just put "this product wins my award..." -sammyG 2023
Dont get them ideas!
I bought the X Pick when it was first launched way back during the pandemic. It took them almost a year to deliver, and then, same results you had. I found a couple cool tricks with it, but nothing worth that kind of money. I can get the same good effects from a SlideWinder Ring, and those are so much easier to use.
Do you need specific pickups or whatever that covering is for it to work?
No, pickups are made of magnets themselves. The covering is mostly decorative.
@@CFChristianno, it doesnt work. its just a scam and theres no way for it to ever work as advertised
I can tell this video will be great already. Best guitar channel on yt.
As a New Zealander of course we made stupid robot fighting.
Love you
You need some time on the Treyner to get the XPick to sound great.
The X Pick company sent them to me too. They do nothing but the founder emailed me something about pickup height, happy to share it. I was bummed.
how would anyone think it does anything anyway
Great vid. Thanks for exposing the x pick for the snake 🐍 oil that it is!
I financially contributed to their campaign and was essentially gaslighted by their support staff into thinking it was something I was doing wrong as opposed to owning up to the product being misrepresented.
I was told I needed more compression, more distortion, to wave the pick faster.. I practiced it for hours until I kind of got it happening until it caught on the strings, stuck to the pickups momentarily before dropping and breaking into 10 different shards on the floor. I contacted the company and they claimed that of course it was fragile and I should have known it was. They offered a discount on buying more… I said, no thanks
The effects I could produce were awkward and not much more pronounced than using a metallic or chirpy pick. Stick with an expression pedal or using multi fx instead of wasting time with this. Thanks Sammy G
I only recently got mine, so I'm still in the "raising my pickups until they almost touch the strings, and working out which guitar has the strongest pickups because I can't get it to work" stage.
Really, the "strumming from 20cm" away should have been a red flag, because how would something with such a strong influence be able to focus on an individual string?
@@doyourownresearch7297 How does the magnetic field created by an eBow and other sustainers cause a string to vibrate?
I've no idea, I'm a musician, not a scientist.
You should mix the design principles of the Jellyfish pick with the X Pick. The advertising writes itself "The jellyfish now with the power of magnetism".
X-Pick is amazing, all you need is neodymium guitar strings 🤣
and even then it wouldnt do anything
The Stupid Robot Fighting reminds me of of this thing I used to see at festivals and block parties as a kid. Some guys made life size Rock'em Sock'em Robots out of pipes and junk. They would rent them out just like a Dunk Tank and other carnival games. It was so cool. I remember the sound of all that pipe and metal clanging around was so loud though
The guitarjo sounds a lot more like a Sitar, which is actually pretty cool, and possibly worth it, if you like that sound!
Yeah, the A/B test was like, "That's obviously a banjo" and "That sounds like a Danelectro electric sitar." While obviously not the intended effect (it doesn't sound like a banjo at all), it still sounded cool as hell!.
Most of the iconic and recognizable banjo sound actually comes from the picking style and the much higher note from the top string. That's not something you can fake easily in post processing or with gadgets.
Someone: We are gonna revolutionize guitar picks!
SammyG: Oh shi-, here we go again...
I think you could get more banjo-ish sound using guitarjo. I think if you pick closer to bridge it will make sound a bit sharper, like, less lows and sharper attack... And maybe play around with the position of the thing.
I'm in my 60s. Learning the chords is hard. Changing chords is harder. Being able to do that with a song for me is impossible.
But I know for a fact, 2 hours a day practicing chord changes and finger exercises will get me to where I want to be musically.
Guitar playing is a sport. Want to play with a friendly band/team? Then train like you want to.
Thanks for showing us that if it looks like junk, it is.
10 minutes a day is enough. Great if you have 2 hours a day, but learning chords and changes will just come with time. There are some uncommon chords that are harder, but I play 200 songs with just all the 'regular' Major, Minor a few barre chords.
If you played every day for a year you would be pretty good.
as a customer service worker, chargeback claims make my blood boil. But here... here I hope you did just that opened a dispute for that pick charge...
Haha, that magnet performed just the way I thought it would. Luckily, else my brain wouldn't be able to explain that. Great video!
I never knew an electric guitar player that said they wished they had a banjo.
Pete Townshend enters
Jerry Garcia started out on a banjo
I want a banjo.. lol
@@xamislimelight8965 they're really fun, hard to feel sad while playing a banjo
@@gatergates8813 it really is lol
Although the bottom string starting half way through the neck? That throws me off so hard lol I think I'm gonna play notes, but I dont haha
He found something that he seems to hate more than the jellyfish pick.
The guitarjo sounds like a crappy sitar to me. Its not bad
The guitarjo sounds more like a sampled sitar than a banjo.
3:59 Painting by numbers? That's a new one for me
Don't tell Sammy G about the computer graphics demo scene ;)
X pick would be a pretty good trolling device if it actually work
The banjo thing lands in the ‘Acoustic Simulator’ category of… ‘It works in a band for poor guitarists’
I've used IR models of acoustics pretty successfully with electric guitars for recording, and I've used software acoustic Sims that work quite well. It's not exactly right, but you can clean it up with EQ and get close enough that it's ok, in a mix.
9:35 "Multi effect guitar and bass pick"... Sammy G gonna gave some Jellyfish pick PTSD flashbacks...
I love that your guitar/sitar is in the background when you're playing the guitarjo because...it sounds more like a fake sitar than a fake banjo.
I've made the most progress in my guitar playing using Rocksmith. I like that I can sightread the tab and play along to the music track.
I "fixed" RS 2014 Remastered so it's CDLC friendly and any ASIO connection works so zero lag and no stupid Realtone cable but a full blown audio interface (Axe I/O) it's so much better. You make your own songs and then practice them in RS 2014. The way RS 2014 should have been made in the first place.
@@ReasonableAssumption I do use the CDLC repository at customsforge. I think I am up to about 1500 songs now added. I have a really old M-Audio Fasttrack interface, but could never find a way to get it to work. Maybe I need to get a new one.
I've been playing for 25+ years, and I love Rocksmith as a practice tool and a way to learn new songs. Still probably best to start with a good teacher so you don't learn any bad habits (that was my biggest mistake), but as a fun way to improve and gain knowledge, it's awesome! I just wish they had a built-in pitch shifter so you don't have to constantly tweak your tuning to play stuff that isn't in A=440 (like Dream On, Rock & Roll Hoochie Koo, You Really Got Me), since it's a pain in the ass to micro-tune your guitar (not *so* bad for the Eb standard or Drop D stuff).
X-pick is literally just for people who think magnets are magical. The E-bow claim is especially funny to me, since, you know, the real deal uses batteries to power an electromagnet, which turns on and off/alternates periodically, translates into vibration as that changing field tugs on the string periodically, and SOLID MAGNETS DON'T DO THAT BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT MAGIC.
At least some of the strumming is sort of believable since it could theoretically tug on the strings, and without understanding the math of magnetic fields one could fall for that, but their demo is so blatantly and obviously fake it's absurd.
DON'T EVER F*CK AROUND WITH MAGNETS AROUND YOUR PICKUPS, PEOPLE.
You WILL damage the pickup. How much would still be to be heard, but, simply put, damage will occur. Don't. Do. It.
That's a bold move keeping the audio with the weird intonation on the first attack of the xpick from 20 cm away in an official demonstration video... You don't even touch your strings and you're already out of tune!
How can people actually belive that this x-pick could work as shown in the marketing video?
And even if we assumed, that it would've any measurable effect on the strings...what would you use it for?
In an actually gig or recording environment, I mean?
What would any of these gimmicks be good for on stage or in the studio?
The old saying is right: there's a sucker born every minute.
The GuitarJo I could see being used outside of its intended purpose. The Treyner... well, you pretty much hit the nail on the head there. The premise behind the Stupid Robot Fighting Guitar sounds fun 😀
The Amonito... had it somehow been backed successfully and put into production, I could see it tanking very quickly. For one, as you implied, guitarists are notoriously backwards when it comes to gear. Then we already have the Line 6es, Fractal Audios, Kempers etc; unless the Amonito was loaded with features like these are, or was truly groundbreaking, it would've only been steamrolled by the competition (if you could even call it that). And then there's the tube gimmick... because of course 🙄
"X-Pick - No magic, just post production bullshit!" would've been a much more fitting slogan.
Thank you so much for covering the x-pick. I was considering buying that snake oil but I was suspicious of the lack of reviews and demos by anyone but the maker. Thanks for saving me some cash!
Oh yay... A magical pick that works solely on what everybody lacks.
Actual magic.
Hoping to see the comeback of the Jellyfish pick.
That banjo accessory seems like a really good substitute for a Danelectro sitar.
Hi Sammy. Thanks for the great videos. I am completely with you about that BS magnetic pick. But just for the sake of accuracy from the view of an electrical engineer: the sound path does affect the magnetic field. If you are using a passive guitar (which almost all electric are), you have one single circuit between the pickup and the first preamp (either in an effect device or your amp). Even changing your guitar cable can affect your sound, same is with the impedance of the amps input. But of course what they write is still stupid and wrong ;) best regards from Germany! Dirk
I think back to Keith Richards using the fuzz effect to emulate a saxophone and how that really kicked off a whole guitar thing. I think the banjo thing will be used by someone not trying to be a banjo, but they will get some cool sound that the creators never thought about.
The thing is, people have already been doing the "banjo" thing in guitars for decades already. Normally it involves people putting say a sock wrapped around the neck on the fretboard, or maybe a rubber band. To sort of automatically palm mute the strings. I think it's supposed to make van Halen style double hand tapping sound better and cleaner. I think I've heard that bass players do the same thing cos it makes it sound like a double bass, but I'm not a bass player so someone will have to correct me on that if I'm wrong.
This guitar-Jo is a better and more consistent solution than wrapping a sock or rubber band around the neck, to be fair. I'm interested in buying one for the reason you say, not because I want it to sound like a banjo, but because it would be fun to experiment with and create new sounds with. I just wonder if it's easy to turn on and off quickly so that you can turn it on mid song for a section and then take it back off and go back to normal guitar sounds. And also, can be be used on acoustic guitars? I feel like it'd sound way more like a banjo on an acoustic anyway, but either way it'd be fun to be able to mess around with it on them too and not just on electric guitars.
@@duffman18 The fret wraps are for deadening open strings so they don't ring out while you're playing higher up the neck and you don't have to worry about muting as much.
If the X Pick actually worked it would be the coolest thing ever.
thats the basis of a lot of scams
I need to kickstart an octopick,it's eight picks in one!😆😆😆
You'll have to compete with my decapick... it's TEN picks in one.... 😅
One strum of the guitar in bed and ready to quit? Get the Treyner! 😂
You forgot to charge up your XPick with wishful-thinking energy (see page 13 of the user manual).
Stupid robot fighting>anything we have in the USA
The Stupid Robot did what it really meant: get the public to know abou SRF.
Love you. BTW, I'm literally typing in, "Love you," to anyone that mentioned SRFL. Not even copying and pasting cause I'm a sucker for punishment.
@@StupidRobotFightingLeague congrats on the game. Looks fun. All the success
It actually does sound somewhat like a banjo.
0:56 just get a banjitar because its just a banjo but with 6 strings
I'd like to offer a different opinion. I bought the XPick, and I love it. My playing has never been so smooth and effortless. And the effects you can get are not limited to just the ones shown on their promo videos. For instance: If you hold it diagonally, between your thumb and pinky, and then rotate it counter-clockwise whilst moving your picking hand up and down (roughly in a 1 to 7 clock position on the Y-axis), while simultaneously performing a few semicircles which increase in size over several seconds, you'll get a sound that is not unlike a cat purring. Oh, and you need to have a mouth full of some viscous liquid. Doesn't really matter which. I chose mayonnaise. I've been Wowing crowds with this new trick for months now, and even got a standing ovation at the end of one show at a halfway house for recently paroled former inmates with learning disabilities. My act is also very popular every Mashed Potato Monday at a local nursing home. They love the cat sounds I am able to emulate. All in all, one of the greatest guitar purchases I have ever made. And of course, when not being used to delight my appreciative audiences it's holding invoices on the refrigerator. What a cool bonus! Can YOUR pick do that? At the next show I am thinking about switching from mayo to a honey-mustard dressing. I wonder how it will affect the sound. Buy this wonderful pick now!
Sounds epic! Do you finish with mayo/honey-mustard/etc drool, like Gene Simmons and his honey based blood drooling? 😁
🤣
@@doyourownresearch7297 The only thing "well done" here is this bowel-shakingly amazing pick! I honestly don't know how I got along without it for the nearly 7 months I've been a seasoned and respected professional guitar performance art specialist. Run, don't walk, and purchase this soul enhancing tool. It's a steal even at 3.5x the current price!
And for all of you who are curious as to the wonderous and ethereal sounds I'm able to produce, my next show will be Tuesday the 31st of October, 2023, at the EastPointe Psychiatric Hospital in Daphne Alabama. My stage name is William Weanis Jr.
There will be refreshments and a Q&A after the show.
I'm hurt that he deleted his comment.
Where is the love????
FYI. You're on one of their videos. It's says you have mastered Xpick tactics. No sure what that means. Even mentions your name. It shows you playing with one. I.E. Endorsing their little magnet thing. It's the one that says
Xpick History and Tutorial No. 1.
Happy Suing!
I've watched you for years now. The pick gadget is indeed the biggest hunk of blue ice to ever exist. They should be ashamed of themselves! Rock on.
2k to 3.5k for that shitty amp/multifx unit? That's literally the price of a Kemper at the lowest, or an AxeFX3 with the Advanced DSP Module at the highest.
As soon as I saw them play a chord from a distance, I knew we were in for world-class bullshit.
I think the biggest problem with the X-pick wasn’t even mentioned, that being why the fuck would I even want to play my guitar from 20cm away???! I already know how to fuckin play it, why would I re-learn everything just to do it from farther away
It's amazing how the X-pick just "Knows" which string you're picking, considering how the video shows the player essentially "Air Strumming" ALL the strings. /s
It's pretty much criminal to an extent what the XPick is doing. Well, the people that represent it that is. Robbery just doesn't cut it here, for an over priced product that does nothing that it claims to do. Then the way its advertised though, blatantly doctoring it and faking the whole thing, then the types of feedback they give. Look around on the web, this video still doesn't show the extent of how terrible the staff are. Treating you, the consumer as if you are the problem. Totally horrible people, a blatant scam and a pretty horrendous price point all round. I swear I hope NOBODY buys this even for a review video.
That banjo gimmick reminds me of a guitar my dad's old best friend has, it's an electric that has this clear acrylic plate that comes up and just barely touches the bottom of the strings, makes it sound like a sitar. It's crazy awesome.
Weren't those called Buzz Bridges or something?
@@347Jimmy yeah, I know that Modena made them, as well as Danelectro. I'd love to get one for myself... One day.
The Amonito has gone for the old nautilus shell shape. They possibly have _Fibonacci sequence_ in their spiel somwhere (each number is the sum of the two previous numbers). What affect the shape would have at these dimensions I've no idea.
The audio on the X-Pick ads are not "doctored". They're straight-up lying.
In addition, assuming it is a strong magnet, it can damage your pickups. Magnets that are significantly stronger than the magnets in your pickups can demagnetize the pickup magnets.
So what if you can play your guitar from 5" away - did I ever need that? And besides, it sounds like complete arse! LMAO
You know how bad you gotta fuck up for samurai jack to say your gadget is worse than the jelly fish pick😭
Edit: yes i accidentally said samurai jack instead of guitarist, no im not changing it
"You'll never play guitar with nails like that" umm...Dolly Parton would beg to differ 😂
It was obvious that xpick is bullshit from the first video. If he would strum with magnetic force like that, then he would sound all of the strings, but he strums only one.
That device to learn to play is so much more bs and work than just buying a copy of Rocksmith and learning through a game that can also take you through a little more advanced lessons.
Even if the XPick did everything exactly as it says it does in the video...why? It would still be stupid and pointless even if it functioned.