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Wicked Fester
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The home of G.A.S. (Gear Acquisition Syndrome) guitar, amp and gear reviews & repairs
Squier Paranormal Stratosonic
A look at my new special edition of Squier’s Paranormal Series Stratosonic
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Do You Need an Expensive Guitar?
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I wonder if an expensive guitar is a need or a luxury. I think it’s a luxury, and one we should all enjoy, but I wish to provoke thought and conversation
Gibson Les Paul Tribute Discontinued!
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Gibson Les Paul Tribute is no more! Break out your wallets frugal Gibson fans. The cost of playing “Authentic “ just went up! Specs found here: archive.gibson.jp/electric-guitars/3361
Fender guitar? Amazon guitar? Build a parts caster?
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If you don’t want a cheap Amazon guitar, you don’t have to spring for a Fender. There are alternatives
Leo Jaymz kit guitar summary and demo
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A little sample and final thoughts on the Leo Jaymz telecaster electric guitar kit
Orange Crush 12 practice amp or bargain amp on Amazon? I don’t know. You tell me.
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I try to see what an Orange Crush 12 amp can sound like. Check out the Scar My Guitar review of the Amazon amp here. th-cam.com/video/5dyGyHqXa2Y/w-d-xo.htmlsi=_JQaaFEXhsi_cCBa
My Leo Jaymz Tele kit build
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I build my Leo Jaymz Telecaster kit guitar complete with modifications and upgrades. My honest opinion of the quality of this kit.
Preparation for the guitar kit build and a tour of my dungeon workshop
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I plan to tackle a kit guitar with the modest woodworking tools that I already possess.
Parts guitar? Kit guitar? Thoughts and impressions.
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My parts guitar demo and future kit build. The parts guitar totals approximately $450 in parts. It most definitely is better than my Fender Player Strat that is nearly twice that cost.
Backing tracks to play live (semi live)
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Backing tracks to play live (semi live)
The 24th of May …. Happy Birthday Albert Bouchard! This Ain’t the Summer of Love Cover
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Cover in a day of BÖC’s This Ain’t the Summer of Love
Kramer Standard Pro
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A guitar of Music Yo days gone by. A rare gem of a guitar that can be had for a song …… if you can find one.
Scar My Guitar should check this guitar out!
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Kramer Baretta Special from when they were $189! NOT the same as a Kramer Focus. This is truly a good guitar.
Just What I Needed (cover)
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When I was just learning guitar a band used to practice near my house. I remember them playing the beginning to this over and over. Guess it stuck.
White Rabbit (Cover song found on a hard drive)
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White Rabbit (Cover song found on a hard drive)
Northern New York to Florida on the interstate- a guide
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Northern New York to Florida on the interstate- a guide
Band Dynamics- Playing Music With Others
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Band Dynamics- Playing Music With Others
Piece of Crap Guitar to the Max Fix up Part 3
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Piece of Crap Guitar to the Max Fix up Part 3
Piece of Crap Guitar to the Max Fix Up Part 2
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Piece of Crap Guitar to the Max Fix Up Part 2
Piece of Crap Guitar to the Max! Can I Make It Rock? Part 1
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Piece of Crap Guitar to the Max! Can I Make It Rock? Part 1
Boomers Believe In Tone Wood And Other Dogma (part 1)
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Boomers Believe In Tone Wood And Other Dogma (part 1)
KRAMER STRIKER Modifications and my opinion / review of it
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KRAMER STRIKER Modifications and my opinion / review of it
You Like Vampires (Blue Coupe cover of a John Elwood Cook song)
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You Like Vampires (Blue Coupe cover of a John Elwood Cook song)
BÖC cover Godzilla (Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery)
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BÖC cover Godzilla (Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery)
Absolutely right about the posts under string tension.
I bought a 2016 Tribute in Honey Burst.Liked it so much I bought a 2016 Tribute GoldTop.Both have mahogany necks.Bought both from Sweetwater.Great people ,including John who’s been my go to rep there for 10 years.Binding,we don’t need no stinking binding!!!
@@edharmicar6227 Guitars are great, Sweetwater is great!
I just picked up a mint 2016 studio 60's tribute honey burst satin for just under 1k so glad I did... I'm never (yes I'm saying never) going to pay any more than that. The P90's on these sound F**kn AMAZING. I didn't want to admit it but it could be the best sounding out of all my guitars even my beloved Humbucker guitars ... did I say it had AMAZING P90's (STOCK!!!) 😉
@@redpillpusher They are great guitars!
Does this hum only happen with some of them? Mine doesn't seem to have this issue.
@@ShidavTheVedmak yes. I think they caught it and fixed the problem. I would say a majority of the people on here are commenting that there’s is fine.
@@WickedFesterBand Do you figure they used a new special paint to fix the issue? I can't imagine what else other than having some sort of hidden ground wire.
@@ShidavTheVedmak the finish on mine is non-conductive. Every other instrument I own with black hardware the hardware is electronically conductive. I’m not sure what the process is if it’s some kind of electroplating or what, but obviously my telecaster didn’t get that treatment. lol
@@WickedFesterBand gotcha; I'll keep an eye out. I'm grabbing another in the Pearl colour because I heard they may be discontinuing this model and aside from the price shooting up they play well and look great.
I love it. Great review, well done showing all the features. Your guitar is more than 2 pieces. LOL, j/s look closer. It's a beautiful guitar!!! Bravo. It really is a beautiful blue.💯💯
@@phatmanoflove Thanks …. But I still only see one seam in the body. th-cam.com/users/postUgkxg14_dw4oFzZcew-dwd-RuO0kOOBu6r-e?si=T7YDKmXil4H8RkCB
In June of this year , had the opportunity to pick up a 2023 LP Tribute, in the same Honey Burst Satin finish for $850.00. The seller was asking &1000.00 , without the hard shell case or Gig Bag. He actually brought the guitar over to me, once we realized during our conversation that he lived only about 5 miles down the road. This LP was in Like New Condition, and I really liked the Satin Finish on it. As I proceeded to take a quick look at the Control Pots , he then told me that he had done some modifications to this guitar. ( ? ) The stock Gibson PC Board Pots had been replaced with a set of Bourns 500 K Pots, and the 490 R & T pickups, were swapped out for a set of Seymore Duncan Antiquity Retrospect Humbuckers . I plugged this LP into one of my Fender amps & and I was really impressed what I was hearing and the feel of this LP. I am not a Gibson Purist by any means, more of a Fender Telecaster & Rickenbacker 360 player for a long time. I wanted to get a Gibson LP at a decent price ( Not shelling out $2500.00 + ) and I had been looking at the Tributes /Studios for a while, so I knew the Specs in as far as the Pickups and the PC Board Pots. I offered the seller $800.00 since he did modify the guitar, and we agreed at the $850.00 in the end. I have been playing this LP a lot lately & I am glad that I had the chance to pick it up for the price I did , even with the modifications.
@@GaryAllard-l1y Great! Gotta love that mods, even awesome upgrades can make a guitar cheaper. I got a Jackson Rhoads neck through at GC for $350. It was like $750 new. Modifications? A Seymour Duncan at the bridge (shipped with Duncan Design) and a CTS pot and Mallory capacitor. Score! lol
I got a 2017 tribute and I have a 2022. Had some major issues with Gibson over the last 20 or 30 years. But those are all different terrible stories. But I know what I'm getting at I saw Joe Walsh using one live. And it was a tribute it had the truss rod cover. Joe Walsh could afford Any Gibson he would want. The 2022 tribute had a terrible hum. The factory which I won't mention said oh that's a characteristics of guitars they all have their own personality. They're full of crap and I build and repair tube amps. So I decided to get to the bottom of it after a whole lot of troubleshooting and all kinds of crap because of their PCB boards I found the problem the Gibson branded potentiometers are faulty. So save yourself a whole lot of time troubleshooting because they will meter okay but they're not okay. If my posting here has a bunch of illiteracy excuse it because I'm talking to my cell phone.
Also if you do have that problem replace potentiometers with CTS ones with the brass post and nut.
@@uppencider Those are my go to replacement pots.
Bought mine today for $800.00 off the shelf
@@jimroadhouse4872 Awesome!
You shouldn't worry about tone woods just buy a bunch of pedals... the more distortion pedals the better.
Nice BOC riff!
@@sbrave Thank you!
Why do Americans ALWAYS forget to mention the unit of currency? TH-cam is GLOBAL not America only!
@@mueslimuncher1950 So sorry. I’ll keep that in mind in the future.
I love the cheaper Gibson stuff. I think the honeyburst model you have looks awesome. Congrats! Maybe one day I'll grab one to go with my studio. Cheers
@@BenBreard Thanks for watching!
hey dude, do you recommend this amp for classic thrash metal tones? like old school metallica, megadeth? thank you :)
@@cmd7054 Maybe not ideal but I think it would work. I’m more a classic rock guy so it suits me well.
Harbor Freight sells super long drill bits that work perfectly for drilling the spring claw screw holes. They’re about 18” long, if I recall.
@@reddsshaker3477 I got one a little while after making this. Thanks though! I think we got it to make a ground wire hole for a bridge.
Great video. Here's a tip. It's more important to center the bridge to the neck, not the pickups. Install the neck, loosely string it and position the bridge so the strings don't overhang the fretboard left or right, then mark your screw holes.
You are spot on. At last a good review
Damn you play clean, great video!
@@jakeeheredia Thank you!
I am seeing this a month later, but do pray your wife is better. Thanks for the video.
@@TedTalksGuitars Mending ever so slowly. Thank you!
@@WickedFesterBand - Glad to hear a good report.
You can get them for 400 all day at GC, 360 on sale
Mine is 2 piece with one chunk about 2/3. Fairly chunky weight.
@@chrisghiardi117 I’m sure they use whatever works. Not sure what mine weights but seems not too light, not too heavy so I’m guessing 7 lbs something.
The 2017 tributes sound the best. I have an 18 gold top. They weren’t weight relieved. Mine weighs 8 1/2 pounds. I heard the 17s were 9 holed relief weighted. 18s weren’t and the rest from 19 to 24 are weight relieved.I’m in the process of putting in burstbuckers and thinking about putting a coat of lacquer on it.
Fender generally under winds their pickups so that they come across with that characteristic Fender clean tone. In fact, I remember reading an article where the interviewer asked a Fender product manager why Fender’s humbuckers all sounded so clean no matter the design. His response was that Fender will never make a very high-output pickup because that is not the signature Fender sound. You can think of that what you will and I’m not sure if he was authorized to make such a definitive statement, or the policy may have changed since then, but it’s true that most Fender humbuckers and soapbars aren’t particularly high output according to specs and are quite clean compared to what Gibson offers. But of course your mileage may vary.
@@randrothify I suspected this. I have a loaded pickguard with 2 noiseless and a Shawbucker 1. The Shawbucker sounds a lot like the noiseless singles. It has good balance.
Rock and Roll Hoochie Koo!
Nice color was looking at this series of squiers
Out of the box my Stratosonic Epiphone marked bridge wobble was terrible to the point I wondered if they used the wrong size posts. The tilt was so far the low E and A were buzzing against the intonation bar giving a weird dead buzz instead of a clear note. I almost sent it back but tried shimming the bridge with thin washers to get rid of the buzz. It worked now clear notes and it stays in tune. Glad I kept mine for the great tones and its different than a "normal" guitar.
@@prescotian1500 Kind of makes you wonder if the Epiphone stamp wasn’t the only mistake and if it was supposed to have a different bridge altogether? Just double checked mine. No tilt, just had that little bit of wiggle in the threads. Glad you made yours work!
@WickedFesterBand Im glad i kept it. Now I can't imagine my collection without it. It's very versatile and gives my back a break from my Les Paul's.
Man I love that blue🤙
Knowing what is important and what isn’t. Priceless. You may be surprised what a bone nut you file yourself (even pre-slotted) to low action might do for clarity. No bridge or saddle problems - you are right. Rock on with that P90 sound.
that's an interesting wiring system, I like it! and I'm only 3 years ahead of you! :)
@@RandySchartiger We are just youngsters!
You may have just gotten lucky with the 2 piece body. The picture shows a 3 piece.
@@danrunnoft6642 That is definitely cool then!
Huh, Im late to the party, too! Thanks for the review. 🎸
@@allenmahan9393 Thanks for watching!
I bought one of these as soon as the blue version came out. It looked awesome and sounded great, especially for a $400 guitar. I liked the layout, the switching options and the concept of a Gibson-style guitar with the comfort and scale of a Strat. I didn't like the finicky bridge and I absolutely hated the glossy neck. I don't know why Squier insists on slathering thick gloss when they have wonderful neck finishes available, like on the 40th anniversary series. Anyway, I wound up with a Sterling Albert Lee with P90s and really like it, though I would have kept this one and replaced the bridge if it wasn't for the neck finish. It's a great guitar for someone who wants something a little different than the usual Fender-style offerings.
@@TheDinosaur82 Thanks for watching! I like a satin neck as well but I have several (over 40) guitars so variety is nice. lol I have a couple Sterlings. They are nice guitars.
I had a guy last few years with one of these ...he kept asking me to trade him my classic Vibe 60s 3 tone sunbusrt. Mine is a 2015 China with upgraded player series loaded pickguard. Pups. He hit me up 3 times. Each time i am so close. Now i may re consider. Lol. I just know this CV is special. I got it from someone that knew about how to set up and add subtle upgrades in feel. The idea of the alder body and rosewood with rolled edges just does it for me. I just like the maple and 2 point trem. Plus ive heard these deluxe are just as good but more rare.
That thing is so bad ass I had one and I love it. Schecter kicks ass!!! Mine had EMG active pickups in it.
Very nice. Did you happen to get the nut width on this?
@@Emrys345_Guitar I don’t have calipers at the moment, but best I can tell with the ruler on my string action gauge it is 43mm
@@WickedFesterBand awesome, I appreciate it!
Wow , first very sorry to hear of the wifes troubles. I hope all fares well soon. The tele sounds great and you sure do not have to break bank to get some music played these days!!! I built a Guitar Kit World kit and cant believe its a player. Hss strat. Mine is Ash and heavy as ash is full thickness with bound maple veneer. I enjoy it. It stays in tune too. Only thing is probably new bridge and maybe loaded guard soon. Possibly tuners but it all works as is. Lol.
@@robertclarkguitar That’s great! Wife is mending but it’s gonna be a long road.
@@WickedFesterBand 🙏
Wow! this guitar room is sweet. Cheers.
Saw a cover band in Las Vegas called Alter ego, they played classic rock to early 2000s rock, both guitarists were playing Les Paul Tributes. These les Paul tributes sound amazing, I purchased a 2020 Tobacco burst and always smile at how well they play and get that nice and gritty ZZ Top tone with ease. The 490r is a great pickup that just has a very jazzy clean tone, the 490t sounded good after some height adjustment on the pickup and pole pieces.
@@DavidValdezBigWaveDave Great guitars for sure.
Fender is better, if that helps. Or any other guitar brand, whose line not made in China or Indonesia is affordable.
I’ve reviewed some $62 guitar on my channel that play like $500 guitars, $300 modded with $300 that feel like $2000 guitars and owned expensive guitars previously that feel about the same as what I spent on it. If a guitar feels good you’re going to sound good(not saying I do 😂), but if it feels bad you are not going to sounds good at all.
@@SearchingForTone Yup!
Bet youre very happy to have one! Ill get a real Gibson LP ... _SOMEDAY!_ 🎸 You have some _killer_ LPs!
@@bighardbooks770 Thank you!
Grandpa can rock n roll. Lol
I had a Gibson LP Tribute back in 2012. My parents saved to buy me it after a cancer op I had as a kid. They paid less than £700 new. It came PLEK’d from the factory. It means so much to me. It’s had its knocks but what a guitar. I put in 2 Lollar P90s and made it 50s style wiring. Incredible playing and sounding.
@@locky828 That is awesome!
Haven’t watched yet but whether the answer is yes or no will dictate whether I play this video for my wife lol.
@@pringlw 😂
I want a tobacco burst Gibson Les Paul for the smell, the look and the heritage. I have an Epiphone Modern Les Paul that I love, but still want that Gibson! Do I need it? no. But I still want it.
@@NovacomNZ Absolutely nothing wrong with that either. They are nice.
Real glad I got one
Awesome sounding Les Paul. My experience tells me that the guitar doesn't know if it is expensive or a cheapo. And i found out that many times a cheap/less expensive guitar can be made out of really good wood and be very nicely put together when you find that combo you have a winner. I have several different electric LP style guitars that ring unplugged almost like a cheaper acoustic one. I love that.
@@chucklee347 It does make the sound it’s supposed to doesn’t it. 😎
I have a 2022 Tribute. Absolutely love it. Super well made. Paid $1160 for it new and would do it again.
@@benpower3679 I love mine!
J'ai aussi une LP Tribute 2022, manche érable et weith relief, elle sonne terrible et a un sustain incroyable ❤
well nope, but I sure wouldn't play my old Sears Roebuck Cort Explorer knockoff I had at 12 over the USA Charvel or Suhr I have now LOL.... If you can , reward itself but it's not a necessity. I got a made of plywood beater japanese guitar with good hardware that sounds just fine lol..
@@themetalghost I have many price points and love them all! My first guitars from the 70’s would have been beyond help I’m afraid. We are living in the golden age of affordable guitars.
Yup I got my studio in 2016 my standard in 2016 and my standard hp in 2016…I’m never selling them! Eventually Gibsons aren’t gonna be affordable to anyone except lawyers and collectors sad to so because I’m not a fender guy…born and raised in LA California but never been a fender guy
@@knockoutguitarist087 I can afford a higher end version, I just won’t pay it. I kinda draw the line around $1,000. They are beautiful guitars and they sound and play fantastic. I’ve considered getting a Standard many times. Just can’t do it. lol