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Phones don’t exactly have the best microphones but I guess you’re not smart enough to understand that. Feel free to see the pinned comment and hear isolated guitar. 🙄

Literally everyone that performed at NAMM had backing tracks. Jason Richardson played to a full ATR backing track, sans vocals. You’re just a jealous fool. Feel free to follow the link on the pinned comment to hear a version where Charles’ guitar was isolated.

yep sounds like every other "modern" shredder.

Lmao keep it coming, you losers are hilarious

yeah when I say modern shredder, I meant Corey Feldman and Machine Gun Kelly

...DURR LIVE VERSION NOT SOUND LIKE RECORDING AND VIDEO CUZ EDIT DURRRRR

@@xmwest6814wait, so when I pull up a song on Spotify, it’s not the band actually playing live as I’m listening?? What a sham! (Sarcasm, obv) 😂😂😂

@@kane_eightee Yes, and every time you press back and restart a song, the band just kicks up again on the fly. Cloning facilities the world over are working to make the millionth iteration of Metallica just to meet demand... :D

nice strawman responses lil bros, you know the op is right.

Do you ever watch a video from a band and sit there like “oh, they’re not actually playing that!”…? Bc I hate to be the bearer of bad news but that is how music videos are made. The song is playing on speakers, and they pretend to play it. Everyone needs to stfu that Charles can’t play what he writes or that it’s sped up. HE FUCKING WROTE IT FFS. Btw, here’s camera-only audio of the solo in this clip I recorded from four feet away. th-cam.com/users/shortsemjOAS2jrBA?si=22y_Jk55cTje7YKH

@kane_eightee lol bro chill, I don't say he can't play his own music or his videos are sped up. I'm just saying that the difference between this live performance and marked as "playthrough" or "camera sound" videos is very noticeable, and it's not about sound quality... And yes, I do ever watch some band's videos, even live ones, and they were not played it. Lucas Mann, for example. If you think it's ok, well, idk...

@@andreo_vajimausing Lucas Mann as the example…CLASSIC.

​​@@kane_eightee chill man, it's ok

"He makes his studio tracks and playthroughs sound as good as possible" Damn, I have to give it to you guys, you sure are creative when it comes to new ways of spinning up salt to sling at others. Better luck next time, haji.

It should be available soon.

No need to warm up if it’s always warm! 😅

@@kane_eightee Exactly. We are always making sure our hand are warm but no one ever stops to ask guitar if it's warm

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how did you arrive to that conclusion? i wouldnt say im a hater, i respect him for performing these difficult songs live, but i will call bs for what it is.

@@maaaaaap as I’ve said before, feel free to reference the pinned comment which has backing tracks muted so you can stfu

@ that does not argue against anything i said. Some of the live performances were sloppy, other were good, some had backing tracks over them so it was harder to hear the live guitar. i'm sure most people who criticize him play guitar themselves. I've played over 15 years, if i see bs i call it bs. He has uploaded a "raw" take before to prove that he is real that had a backing track that was louder than his guitar. Lucas Mann is also a liar and he is even worse. Respect charles for playing live though. If you still cannot comprehend what i say, i cant help you. i have never seen people calling him out for being a bad guitarist, only about lying about the editing.

Glad I was able to make it!

Go listen to Metallica

He really is, and there are so many people who aren't good with it so good on you man haha

it doesn't say Charles's first live performance it says Berried Alive's first live performance.

@@Nosferdamus lol ok little man boy either way this style gizmo shit is played out

@ does your dad know you're on the internet saying dumb shit like this?

the sloppy playing is just more proof he's legit. I'd rather him play sloppily along with the solo than mime playing a solo and then make a 40 minute video giving every explanation you can think of to say it's real guitar playing only to then say "but actually what you hear in the video isn't my guitar playing" well then why did you just spend 30 minutes trying to convince me it was, Lucas Mann? It can't be the sound from your monitor with no stage noise AND ALSO include string noise, from a sound design perspective that makes no plausible sense [because stage noise includes string noise].

If you look up Legator Guitars instagram, they have a post with his feed isolated, minus a small bit of the backing tracks still audible. The audio in my clips is the full mix that was put out via the tower speakers, and captured by the built-in mic on my phone. Right at the start of their video, I’m the guy that sits down in the front row. To give you an idea of just how close I was and how unobstructed my view was.

Why would he do that?? lol he's there to play as Berried Alive. Also feels disrespectful to the band's bass player to just remove her parts. Do you go to watch bands to just listen to the guitarist play alone without the rest of the members? A good chunk of BA stuff is electronic drums and synths so the only remaining thing would be having his wife there too but this was a NAMM booth for the guitar and her bass is a different brand. Also I don't see how less honest him playing his songs on TH-cam is to this, you don't tell bands to not post their album studio recordings on official music videos do you? The backing tracks here do have the main lead removed anyway so don't understand what the issue is, the backing track just features the additional harmonies at certain points. You can tell because he messes up some parts and you can't hear another guitar behind the mess up.

@ he uploaded only his feed so people who try to say he isn't really playing have no ammunition. he's been having clout chasers say his shit's sped up or edited his entire career pretty much. I'm pretty sure the bassist and drummer weren't playing with him and their parts are still in the backing track, that's just one reason why he would isolate his audio like that.

A lot of people seem to be making excuses on his behalf. To prove his authenticity all he needs to do is play just his part without any backing tracks and use the camera audio.

Notice how it's markedly less tight than this video (Zomberry)? Yeah... That's what everyone's concerned with for years, and it's a good thing. Everyone knows that Charles is a very skilled guitar player just like everyone knows that Lucas Mann is also an objectively skilled guitarist. The problem is that they artificially inflate their skill with editing and miming in their videos (and in Lucas' case ROS live shows too) which creates an unrealistic standard for everyone that's watching. The problem is that these dudes CAN play their shit, but they choose to be dishonest about their ability. They're not the robots they want you to think they are. This video (Zomberry) STILL has an inaudible level of live guitar in it, which is a problem. This is NAMM, where you can see hundreds of artist demos that don't share this problem on a daily basis. The video you posted in this comment seems to be real. There's string noise, there's no robot-level tightness... I'm inclined to believe its real, but notice how its a much less technical song. This is the same thing Ichika Nito did a few years ago where he played only his easy, dreamy, chill stuff at NAMM and didn't rip anyone's face off with technique like he does in most of his videos. If you do the equivalent of cry wolf with your guitar playing for years, people are allowed to treat you with suspicion when you try to repair your public image. Caswell is among the least responsible in this fakery situation because Berried Alive has always been a studio project. There has never been a faked live show where he tries to pull the wool over anyone's eyes. With these NAMM performances, that has changed and it will be important to analyze them to understand the validity of what the people in the audience heard. My opinion is that we heard more backing track than anything else here. Charles is obviously skilled and I'd genuinely love to hear him plug straight into an amp with no mics/laptops/headphones/tracks and just rip some riffs. Surely he could do that, right? Some cellphone audio with no DAW running in the background would have been nice here.

@@RX120Dthey’ve posted plenty of raw camera audio clips on all their platforms. As far as backing tracks are concerned, go take a look at Jason Richardson’s NAMM performance at the Ernie Ball stage. He was literally playing to a full ATR track, sans vocals.

@@RX120D "The problem is that they artificially inflate their skill with editing and miming in their videos" bro EVERY popular band does this. What are you even talking about? Unless it says LIVE PLAYTHROUGH you have nothing to complain about. Charles is as legit as anyone else.

​@@RX120D I initially thought the guitar should be a bit louder in the mix too. However you can clearly hear some mistakes here and there. E.g.: 0:09 (and another moment in the Pearanoid video). There is some reasonable truth to argument of the the backing track thing, but on the other hand, it also depends on the camera and microphone setup (angles relative to the amp, etc) that captured the footage. All around, to me his performance at NAMM seems quite honest enough to me.