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Maaaaan, that is great !!!! It never occurred to me and I have one of these things lying around for like 10 years.

This made me run down the internet rabbit hole, and I guess Sustainiac did something very similar called the Sustain-Man. Basically it had a small power amp on the body and the speaker on the headstock. So I played around with a cheap amp plug I had laying around and a cable splitter to hook up to both the amp and amp plug and it worked like a dream. A cheap maybe $60 tops sustainiac and I’m really digging it.

What about a cheap headphone amp to just drive the speaker? Use a Y cable to split the signal from the guitar, that way you don’t need the second cable to the output of the amp.

This guy getting geeked kinda gets me geeked.

I have wanted to do this very thing for several years! Sounds great! Thank you for showing the demo!

Nice gizmo and he's right but you could also touch and hold the head stock of the guitar to the amp or speaker cabinet when you strike a note you want to sustain when you are looking for a long sustained note... and that note will sustain and possibly feed back.. no cables, no gimmicks.. And you can stop when out pull the head stock off (no longer touching the amp or cabinet) I also wonder if that gizmo has an option to shut off the unit for times when you don't want the guitar to vibrate. Sustain or feedback..that would be a nice option and maybe increased volume for it to amplify the guitar so you could practice without an practice amp. And just use the gizmo.

Something about the drums sounds so painfully off😭

awesommme ! How can you connect it besdie your regular jack cable ...? :O

So I'm guessing I could just take an exciter off the back of an old speaker to do this? (the world is full of old speakers)

Thank you so much for posting these I can’t wait to see Ryan next time he has a show

Hohner.

Have you thought any more about producing these? I want one!

Your son is a goat🐐

Any chance you can add tab for this? I have a madobird that needs to play this.

Now I want to put strings and frets on a table 😂 Genius invention!

Amazing! No way I'm spending on a "real" sustainiac now.

I am so absolutely proud of my kid.

I think this works better mounted to the headstock than the body, at least when not playing on the higher frets, because there's less mass to move. Also fewer unexpected body resonances that might kill particular frequencies. Also with a normal guitar setup you'd get stronger feedback by simply touching the speaker cab with the headstock or neck.

Blues Jr. is the path to a better cab and amp. Had a version 3 for over a decade. It was a grab and go amp for jams. Crank it, and roll the guitar volume for cleans, kick the pedal 'fat switch' for leads. Does OK, if the drummer/brass ain't too loud. Next, quite fine playing and phrasing, sir. You do the amp quite a bit of justice. Low volume playing is far better with it than my 65 Deluxe, or 59 RI Bassman. It gets the tones you're looking for quite well. Yet, it always got drown out for those tones, in jam scenarios for me. A 212 Orange and a 50watt 1987 always got the job done better for Angus, and my Bassman was far better for SRV than the Blues Jr. But, for your volumes, phenomenal tone, fine sir. The Blues Jr. is a great home amp, but a poor gigging amp.

These amps sound 100% better if the master volume is removed.

Very Nice, wish I could do that. You know what they say , Practise once a week and sound pretty %$#@'in , well you know where I'm goin' with this !?!

I don't get the hate around these amps. For the price, its hard to get a better all around tube amp that is loud enough to gig with and quiet enough to play at home. Mine has a Greenback in it stock, so it does have a sort of low gain plexi vibe. I have other amps I like more, but its still a good amp for the price, especially used.

You should push the amp with a tube screamer. No gain from the pedal. Just a suggestion. You have Stevie’s licks but lack the fire that the tube screamer gives. I use a tube screamer mini and it works great

I always sound a million times better when no one is in house. 😂

Wow. Sounds great!

Maybe I misread, but looks like you have your master at like 3? That thing is not cooking at 3 my man. You’re getting preamp gain. I was wondering why I was hearing so much string attack. But cool amp nonetheless! Rock on!

THANK YOU!!! 1,000% agree with the room mic, we want to hear what you hear! Great video!

I FORGOT TO MENTION THAT STEVIE ALSO USED FENDER BLACKFACE SUPER REVERBS TOO. AND ON OCCASION HE WOULD SPLIT HIS CLEAN SOUNDS WITH EITHER OF THOSE FENDERS AND FOR DISTORTIONS USE A TUBE SCREAMER. THERE IS REPORTS OF HIM USING VARIOUS MARSHALS FOR HIS DISTORTION SOUNDS BUT IF YOU SEE ALL OF HIS LIVE CONCERT FOOTAGE? YOU WILL NEVER SEE ANY MARSHALS! EVER! HE GOT HIS DISTORTION SOUNDS WITH A FENDER TWIN AND A TUBE SCREAMER. BUT VERY RARELY USED DISTORTION SOUNDS.

: / NOPE! STEVIE RAY VAUGHN USED TWO FENDER TWIN REVERBS! NOT THE BLUES JR. TOTALLY DIFFERENT VOICED AMPS. FENDERS DO HAVE "THAT FENDER CLEAN" BUT NOT ALL THE FENDER AMPS HAVE THE SAME FENDER CLEANS! WHEN TRYING TO CAPTURE SOMEONES SPECIFIC TONES OR SOUND? ITS BEST TO USE THE EXACT GEAR THEY USED! DUHHHHHHHH.... YOURE WELCOME! ( AND ANGUS? NEVER USED ANY FENDERS! HE WAS A MARSHALL 59 SUPER LEAD GUY ( PLEXI ) BUT USED A JTM 45 MORE OFTEN THAN THE OTHER )

Don't let your wife buy you anymore tee shirts

Fantastic video ! Thank you for sharing !

Those were real popular in the 70's. You could get them real cheap at a second-hand music store used!

This guy is a smokin guitar player!!

tone deaf isn't just a rapper's name

Beast of an amp. Nice ! 😁👍

Your fire insurance just went up

This is actually eiectric guitar reinvented! I thought how would it be a speaker without a membrane and iron iron or magnet disk inside the guitars body. It might filter high frequencies and work in silence. Think will only guitar body vibrations and feedback will born after filtration of woods itself...

When jamming live I used to occasionally press the head of my bass into the frame of the cabinet to get huge sustain & almost keyboard sub-lows. Cool concept 🤘🏼

Actually Thomann is the company in Germany, not Harley Benton. Harley Benton is a brand name. their guitars are now made in Indonesia.

Is it possible to make it simpler to use (not necessarily to build) by creating a splitter of the signal internally in the guitar, so the output goes to the amp as normal, but in the space where electronics is hidden in the guitar add an extra battery powered circuit that will send a signal to the exciter speaker, with everything being effectively hidden inside the guitar?

So you made a DIY sustainiac?

Which exciter speaker did you go with? They seem to be a bit hard to find in Europe so I can't easily buy-to-try

YES!!! Yes, yes, yes! I've planned and dreamt of doing this since 'Tech Ingredients' did "World's Best Speaker" video five years ago, but typical for me I made everything so intricate and complicated that I couldn't face actually doing it or the possibility that it wouldn't work. The way you've done it is so neat and brilliant!

I think I figured out a design for us all. Option 1. Add a tiny digital amp and battery pack into the guitar. Guitar output splits to the tiny amp, and your normal amp. Option 2. Replace guitar output jack with TRRS. Wire it normally, but add the sustainer speaker inputs to the extra contacts. Make a custom cable to take (guitar output) to (amp input) as normal, while ALSO sending (amp output) to (sustainer input), in one cable. Make a pedalboard enclosure for the other end of said cable, with TS jacks, to split/combine (guitar output) and (amp output) to their respective destinations. The theory is to build the exact same thing, but condense it all into ONE CABLE baby. Clear as mud, but feel free to ask questions. It's simpler than it sounds!

i love your vibe, thank you and i’m definitely gonna be doing this- thinking of using a mooer micro 30w amp, it’s a little micro pedal that i can hopefully attach to the guitar as well.

I tried this but I always got only certain frequencies to vibrate and go into sustain. It didn't work with the other tone pitches.

Boss Kidder !

Coming from the reddit post this was a lot of help thanks a lot!

This strap blew them all away you know what I meant to say

this is amazing