I noticed older guitar players (I’m 41, so guys in their 50s and 60s or older) will tell you, “there is nothing like picking up a $5000 signature model. It lets you channel the guitarist who played them which affects your playing.” Pretty much the guitarist version of astrology.
As a 55yr old guitar player I've always thought signature models were at best trinkets for collectors and at worst money grabs by guitar companies and the artists that sell their name to them. And the ultimate "poser move" would be playing a signature model on stage. So I don't know what old guys you're hanging out with.
@briansmith1760 at 58, I've owned a few epiphones and always ended up giving them away. Junk. I know the difference between a high end gibson and an epiphone by how they feel. That's important to me anyway.
About being overwhelmed by options. Having limitations is great for productivity simply because you spend less time choosing. What I’ve learned is the creator is you, not your gear. Don’t be afraid to have favourites that you use all the time, it will rarely diminish your work. However don’t be afraid to experiment with something new to push yourself. The fear of missing out is mostly driven by advertising, your music doesn’t need the mysterious shiny thing people are all talking about. 100% few people will notice or care when they listen to your finished product. The most important thing to remember is the music people won’t hear is the music you fail to put out. So trust yourself and enjoy your favourites and try something new every now and then.
My experience with Focusrite was surprisingly stunning. I bought a 18i20 and ran out of mic inputs. I then bought a Behringer 8 channel preamp (Focusrite was out of stock at Sweetwater) with the hope of chaining them together. We couldn't get it to work. I called Behringer and went on hold for a half hour. We gave up on that and called Focusrite. The phone rang 3 times and a human answered. Turns out my issue was assigning the Behringer as the master and the 18i20 as the slave. Took ten minutes to solve the problem. Focusrite support is awesome.
Started learning guitar a decade ago as part of my Mid-Life Crisis. I experimented with a few 'fancy' guitars early on but quickly realised that all I needed was a handful of classics. Settled on a solidbody (Tele), a Hollowbody (Casino coupe) and a campfire 'beater' (parlour acoustic). Plus a Bad Monkey OD, Rat for distortion, and more recently a very versatile and worthwhile FZ-1w fuzz. A tidy little 'old' Zoom Multistomp provides a more than adequate choice of modulation flavours and my simple Vox Pathfinder 15r doesn't drown me in amp options. When I caught myself GASsing for more and more gear I decided This Is Enough! I make the most of the gear I've got, which offers about as good if not better equivalents to what most of my guitar heroes recorded with. I should think now that it would be today's young aspiring/professional trailblazers who are splitting hairs over the nuances of which boutique gear best suits their micromanaged production values. However it often seems to me they're using new gear to recreate old sounds... what am I missing?
i play a 7 string ibanez gio through an amp simulator, my rig cost me less than $200 and i am perfectly content with it. all that money ive wasted for 30 years on gear, it really is a great time to be alive
Not to be flippant or whatnot, but could you generate your own IR's and sell them at an impulse-buy price? I do not fail to recognize that would be a lot of work. I'm just spitballing ways to invalidate subscriptions. Edit for grammar.
On the subscription thing, I would like to add if the provider is always coming up with new things like updates, additional IR , i. e. Some improvement over the time then getting a subscription is worth it Because paying for something which remains static does not amount to much and should be considered in the category of a license
Fun fact: yesterday french youtuber NeoGeoFanatic uploaded a video about swapping a great SD TB4 humbucker with a 10$ Temu pickup in the exact same guitar, and play it through the exact same gear/settings. Surprise surprise, the 10$ Temu pickup did pretty well.
I'll say it basically forever, boutique pickups are the absolute biggest rip off in guitar gear. If you like the options for aesthetics they offer like special covers or engravings or whatever, cool, do you. But man, especially for metal, where the amps and modellers you're going to play through have an excessive amount of gain on tap, and you're putting a tube screamer type pedal in front of it, and just all that saturation going on, the pickups are never going to matter very much especially when almost any difference you can find between two pickups can be dialed in with an EQ. But don't tell the bare knuckle fanatics that. they'll claim that they can hear the difference in scatter winding between two identical pickups.
My favorite are instruments that I build or customize myself. I’ve had an awesome time building my own drums and customizing guitars and nothing beats when someone asks what brand my snare is after a gig and I get to put on that smug grin and tell them that I built it!
Agreed, most of the specs I want on a guitar aren’t available in one model. Example: I had/have wrist issues and find 7.25” radius much easier to play over long intervals. Additionally, my parent’s basement where I used to play has fluorescent lights and they gave me a healthy appreciation for noiseless single coils. The hum was obnoxious without them. Last I checked, Fender doesn’t make any model off-the-shelf with 7.25” and noiseless for Teles or Strats. I also prefer a toggle for series pickup wiring in a Tele and prefer the modern US(maybe Mexico now too)wiring where the bottom tone pot can tame the bridge pickup in a Strat. These aren’t crazy specs imo but they just don’t come off-the-shelf in those combos. P.S. Anyone else having wrist issues I recommend a vertical mouse, a carpalrx brace(I didn’t buy the electric thing just the brace and wear at night) and make sure your thumb is behind you ring and middle finger as much as possible on the neck, not off in some random angle.
For the guy who asked about Latency - check ur sample rate usually goes from 44100Hz to 192.000Hz and then check your buffer settings usually runs from 8 to 2048 samples. so start out with 44100Hz and a sample rate of 64 samples and check results then increase both until you start to get latency or find what's acceptable to you. 2. Make sure your processor is now maxing out due to back ground programs eating CPU and RAM - this will slow everything down I run through a crap PC but it has lots of RAM, using a cheap Behringer UMC204HD as interface and run plugins via stand alone or Cakewalk DAW @ 44100Hz with128 sample rate and have a latency of between 2 and 3.5 ms which is nothing and it sounds great full and rich. 3. Check the plugin settings to see if they are running at full tit - u can drop the quality level and it will not sound much different if u are just messing about 4 make sure usb cable from interface to PC is at least USB standard 2.0 and is going into a high speed port on the computer - if the usb input on PC has a little blue line that u can see then thats a 3.0 high speed input and ur in business.
I was checking the comments before posting a comment pointing all this out, great comment! I too run a UMC204HD through a crappy computer with maxed out Ram (32 Gb). Something I do after the iLock plugins are verified online (I gotta change that) is turn the WiFi off on the computer so nothing can go online and update or look for updates while I'm mixing (looking at you AVAST!!!). It also minimises distractions.
You’re not at fault for the price of the amps going up. That’s people just seeing your videos and getting dollar signs in their eyes (ohhh, if it’s just as good as a plexi/6505, then people are going to want it and I can squeeze some extra dollars out of it) then their shit just doesn’t sell, resulting in that price eventually dropping. You’re right, it’s just a game of patience. Also, just asking for a deal. Most of the time, people are willing to negotiate, knowing good and goddamn well that no one is going to pay what they’re asking. I.e a $400 asking price usually means “I’ll take $300”
After watching these videos for several years, I’ve come to the conclusion that too much gain makes everything sound the same, and that I prefer something between “edge of breakup” and over the top distortion. Something that reacts to my heavy picking by adding gain, and can clean up when I pick lighter. I’ve also discovered I choose a guitar to use based on feel and resonance, not necessarily sound. Electronics can be swapped easily, But neck feel and body resonance can’t be. I’m sure the recorded sound isn’t affected by a dead piece of wood, but my desire to play the dead guitar isn’t there. I had a chance to pick up a nice Player P Bass for pretty cheap, but, even after set up, it just didn’t resonate through me. I DESPERATELY wanted to love the bass, but I just didn’t. Love the videos!! I’ve learned a lot about sound and my preferences! (Edit: Also, don’t you think the Soldano vs Valveking video should more accurately be titled “How to get a Soldano to sound like a Valveking” if it’s essentially dialing the best the Valveking can be and finding the setting that matches on the Soldano 😂
Multi band compressors... Took me ages to figure out the benefit and how to use them. The best thing I did to figure it out? A lot of listening with my eyes closed. Listen for frequencies poking out at the end of a phrase. Distorted or over driven guitars are great. Listen for something poking out that catches your attention. Then start reducing the threshold and watch the compressor trigger. Then pull the gain down a couple of dB and play with the threshold until it stops poking out. Then start doing extremes just to hear it acting on the signal. Listening. Your DAW dynamic comp will be a great tool to start with. It's about listening first to help the understanding, then make the tweaks until you hear it trigger. Only then look at the plugin to start to see what the meters are doing. Ears are key with a multi band comp. Then you can do powefull things like side chaining from a vocal to pull frequencies down to keep vocals more clear. Favourite trick when there's dense guitars with vocals but then passages with just guitars. Pulls a few dB out the guitar mid range then thickens back up when no vocal. Reduces the need for eq and volume automation
Trying to buy specific used gear is a little hard. Its best to have a list of things you would take and to wait for one of them to be a good price. If you have your heart set on a specific thing in the used market, you either gotta be patient, or pay a little more then you want.
My guitar teacher told me years ago, there is a difference between an artist who plays guitar and a guitarist.... To an artist, a guitar, amp, pedals are the tools of the trade, to a guitarist, a guitar, amp, and pedals are a fashion statement.... And I realized that to be true when once, a guitarist came up to me and asked what chorus pedal I was using, it was a hot pink Peavey dual clock chorus, he said... "Wow, that sounds great, it's ugly though, I could never use that"
Glennnnnnnn! I’m a 54 year old guitar player who’s played since 8th grade. I have wasted so much money on tubes, pickups, and even tried Gold Strings ugh. I am new to recording and am using Reaper and Studio 1. I use the stock plug ins inS1 and Free plug ins in Reaper. I use a very minimal approach to plugins. I spend more time eq ing the guitar and bass for recording so feel I don’t need many plugins. Others say I need to use them more, and use expensive ones too. Am I doing something wrong? My mixes aren’t perfect but I’m new. They sound ok in the car, and I’m having fun learning from your videos. KEEP SAVING US MONEY. Chad
Hey Glenn, I held the viewpoint that humbuckers largely aren't that different until I played a PRS SE Paul's guitar. I plugged in to my 6505+ and it could not handle any distortion without feeding back like crazy. It simply couldn't handle it. Had some very nice warm clean tones. Unplugged it was unusually resonant for an electric guitar, but I got my money back after one day because the thing just could not handle distortion at all. Maybe it was just a dud. Given that you make videos about pickups, this could be a great guitar for you to test to see if you run into the same problem that I did. You're a guy who tests stuff, this could make for an interesting experiment.
Hey Glenn, this remids me of how i got my Bass Maniac bass in a thrift store. There was one in a place i visit once a week and went for 450 CHF (710 CAD). I wanted it but i did not wanted it that bad. So I'd check every week if the price dropped. Owners noticed, price went down to 350 CHF. Not great, not terrible. Brand was not know so not many people knew what they are looking at. 2 weeks later it dropped to 250 CHF (around 400 CAD). I bought it. Best part? the owner said he noticed me looking at it and if next time i want to negotiate the price, he is open to it because he noticed i may know a bit. The bass is beautiful and very good to play as well. Pretty much my 2 guitars (BC RIch Mockingbird and Dean Strat) as well as basses (ESP Tom Arraya signature and Bass Maniac) were absolute bargains. The Mockingbird has cost me 550 CAD (or 400 USD) because the owner... didn't like the way it sits for him... Btw each instrument runs on dfifferent strings and setup. Floyd rose, locked bridge for guitars. And flat wound and round wound for basses to get that nice versatility of use.
Speaking about how the price of some used gear went through the roof in recent years: I have a Roland SH-3A monophonic analogue synth from 1978. I'm not a trained keyboard player but I taught myself how to play them enough to get by. It was just "laying around" the rehearsal room, so around 10 years ago I searched the internet trying to find videos of people playing it so that I could learn a few things about oscillators, filters and how to create sounds to put it to use in my band. In that search there were a few used ones on sale, all in the $300 to $400 USD range. Fast forward to now: I recently had a problem with a stuck portamento effect just two weeks before a concert, which turned out to be just a dirty portamento knob, but while I was "in there" I gave it a thorough check only to find that it's still in mint condition. Just out of curiosity, I went online to see if there were still any used ones on sale and how much were they selling for these days. My jaw dropped when I saw that there are people asking between $1,700 and $3,000 USD for them!!! 😲
I bought a West Creek CERBERUS V off Amazon for my birthday. One of the best V's i've ever owned. Rounded fret ends, great weight. Tuning machines are a lower quality?, but nothing a decent set of locking tuners can't fix. Prime day deal of $371 Canadian after shipping/Taxes. LOVE this thing.
YOUR NAME!!! Dude, you just became my hero. One of my all-time favourite movies. A friend of mine who saw the movie st the cinema said everyone in the movie theatre were crying at the end. I was not surprised.
I agree big time with Glenn about being patient. I wanted a Stingray 4H Special for quite some time. I saved up for one and then found someone selling a 2024 model for $1625 shipped....essentially saved a grand due to someone else trying to move excess gear quickly.
Glen! One thing that got me thinking. With everyone saying a Shure SM57 and SM58 is the same microphone just different shell. Wouldnt it make sense to do a test if it's actually true? Null test, frequency graphs?
I made out like a bandit when the BC Rich market was low. Deluxe Warlock for $200 Mint cond, Mockingbird Tempered $235, King V with a Kahler, 350. All have great pickups and stay in tune well. I only upgraded the volume and tone controls. All these guitars are now worth double or more than I paid. It took me almost a year to find the Mock I wanted but it worked out. Patience Daniel San.
I learned the hard way years ago about letting a guitar acclimate. We showed up at a gig in Quebec City, after driving from Ottawa in the dead of winter, with all our gear in a 5-ton. We unloaded the truck, and I immediately opened my case. I heard a loud “snaaap”, and watched as the nitro finish on the body cracked wildly. Didn’t affect playability, but I learned to not open a case for at least an hour if it was coming from being cold into a warm building. Cracked rosewood fingerboards are more a product of not maintaining them, like oiling them occasionally (once a year or every six months).
I bought a 2014 stock Epiphone Les Paul Standard and there's just nothing bad I can say about it. Growing up with lower budget guitars always being unsatisfied with playability and sound, now I'm very pleased. Is there something common I should know about that product? I often "tested" epiphone les paul standards in shops and from what I can tell there's some kind of consistency between all models I tested from 2001 until now. Maybe it's just they're not total crap but if you're just a few bucks apart from grabbing one, save a bit more and go for it. The tuning won't crap out, you get the pronounced attack that you like from your favourite songs, the palm mutes come with that set-neck little-extra-"woom!" and pinch-harmonics are way more easy to achieve. (even when I test it with old amp sims that I remember to be crappy sounding I get a way more usable tone.) Big time experience. I guess, that is what makes some piece of equipment special to me. The engineer's point of view of course demands some level of objectivity. :D
Thanks for mentioning your DAW of choice. I think I'm going to buy a laptop soon which i will mainly use for music production and Reaper will be the first program that i give a shot. As an absolute beginner with DAWs the simplicity of the UI is my biggest concern
Tell us more about your favorite Impulse complexions, Glenn! reason Glenn broke the HB V was because he was using it for a gag and the neck snapped. Glenn has consiberly a shoot day, tell us more about your consiberly.
Samson stuff is ok, but as far as wooden racks are concerned I bought a Thon 14u Oak finish rack with wheels (sold separately) it's now 170$ at Thomann, I believe it's particle board with veneer but it looks great in person, there is "some assembly required" as they say (e.g. wholes for the rack rails where not predrilled as I recall, so measure twice as they say). Not sure about shipping to US/Canada but I got mine from Germany to Serbia in one piece ok, so point is maybe there is no need to break the bank to have that "wood" look, also you could have them built probably for not a lot of money since standard rack rails (nuts, bolts etc) can be bought and built in any piece of furniture, just need to keep to the standard width, depth etc.
My guitar is a 40-year-old parts caster built for me by Chandler Guitars to my specs. Yeah, it's special! My amp is a 1973 Marshall Treble and Bass (reissued as 2160x?) and that's pretty damn special. I am definitely special; I been told so! The three of us together are a special combo
The best most honest music gear and advice channel! I trust SpectreSoundStudios b/c of the brutal honesty. If Glen changes his mind he's honest about it. Also fantastically entertaining.
I'm one of those that grew up with a hefty desire to play guitar, and everything that goes with it. But also grew up not having money. It was a big deal to save up a bit to get some used knock off of everything. So like most like that, I had to get creative and learn how to make a 200-300 guitar play and sound ok, or at least better than when I got it. If you do some digging, you can find guitars on the cheap that play well, or just need a little tlc and then will. After that saving up for a little upgrade part or two isn't that hard. I still, even though I can afford a bit more, Just won't spend big $ on something because of a name, or even more, because some artists name is on it. JMHO.
Ok Glenn, I’m in the process of working on room treatment. Technically, my room is really dead, because I just put in the insulation and am going to be doing fabric over it. My question is, what’s your opinion on putting your monitors on your desk. My mackies came with little isolation foam blocks but I am still learning what to listen for. I can get a pretty decent mix, but I have reach a plato and am wanting to learn more. What are your thoughts? Thanks and fuck you from a Nashville punk rocker! -Sean
Specifically about the concept of being patient, Glenn is 100 percent spot on. Seriously folks, after a great piece of gear that is kind of expensive? Put aside the money you would have spent on it, and if you live in a big enough city, the thing you want WILL pop up for a cheap price. I've never paid even close to half the cost of retail for any piece of used gear I've ever owned. Just. Be. Patient.
I have American made strats and Gibson flying v's. I've played Mexican strats and they are killer. Played Epiphone v's and they're great. To get a great sound and tone it's all about your speakers
Glenn, I was curious; have you ever done a review on the 6505 piranha lunchbox head? I’ve always been curious about that one and would love to see you review it!
The prices do go up on those great deals, but every time it happens, it's only temporary. Opportunists exist everywhere. But in the case of music gear, people know how much something is truly worth, and the opportunists eventually give up and bring their prices back down. It happened briefly with the windsor, and it happened VERY briefly with the 6505 combo. I attempted to get in on both and they both jumped in price after your videos came out lol. (To clarify, it's not just you. It has happened to sleeper gear Fluff, Kyle Bull, and Taylor Danley have covered, too)
Hey Glenn, If tonewood is a lie and pickups don't really Matter, what qualities do you look for in a guitar? Cheers from Germany, u helped me get started with the whole production thingy, keep up the good Work🤘😎🤘
Thanks for the answer regarding why your new product is subscription based, totally understand the reasoning (I'm a video game developer as my main job, so trying to find the right balance of fairness vs. getting paid for the product you worked really hard on is always tricky). Also... I can now say I've made it as I've had a comment appear on your Viewers Comments episode!!!! 🤪
Hey Glen, could you not essentially simulate different speakers using an EQ in the FX loop? I understand it's probably not possible to get it exactly the same but I'm guessing you could get quite close in the context of a mix? Thanks.
i use a bunch of old ibanez rg's (i like the edge tremolo)...it took me far too long to figure out that the important part was practicing not the guitar...as long as the guitar stays in tune and plays decent you should be able to make music with it
I spent a month looking for a Robb Flynn guitar and bam found it for 800 in mint condition unsigned with the case. It was my goal to find one. And the day it popped up I jumped on it.
Glenn, could you do a video on taking care of your gear? Specifically tube amps because i got the amp i wanted a year or 2 ago and as a drummer i dont use it often. I used it maybe 5 times and a tube went bad. I'm assuming the cause is the rapid, extreme change of humidity (Living in Michigan, on the northern side of lower peninsula). Is humidifier and dehumidifier my best options? Maybe you already have advice in a video and i havent seen it yet or have forgotten
I've got Focusrite interfaces. I've optimized my PC settings, updated the drivers, and anything else I have come across to fix latency. I still find it impossible to use guitar sims as the latency makes them unplayable.
Shit, you don’t even need to search every day. Just set up a saved search for the gear and whatever max price you’re willing to pay and whenever something shows up, it’ll send you an email
Yeah, I get emailed immediately or at least daily by a few different online buying sites and Pawn Broker sites whenever something matches one of my search's' criteria. With some searches, that's a simple as something being listed in the "Musical Instruments" category, but others are way more specific, it'll have to be exactly what I'm looking for. I spend too much online, but it's always interesting going through a stack of search results.
GLENNN!!!! How viable would it be to use 3 guitar mics (two on the cab-DONN Landee technique) And 1 mic on a Hollowbody electric guitar. I think it would be cool if was mixed appropriately.
I haven't seen that Samson rack, but it looks a lot like the data racks I see at work. If the Samson isn't quite right, and you are looking for something more affordable than the wood furniture racks, look up racks used for computer and network equipment. They are still 19 inch racks. I have a 12U that mounted to my wall that was ~$70US. One caveat, however, you might have to deal with cage nuts for the screws, which can be frustrating when you first encounter them, but they aren't bad once you figure them out.
I updated my Scarlett Focusright firmware on my PC not long ago and I realized something changed where if there is no active audio playing on my computer for a long while.. eventually when I do want to hear sound (e.g. I click play on this youtube video) no sound comes out as if the PC is on mute! Then to "wake" it up I have to move the volume around up & down a little and THEN the sound starts working again lol. Guess I'll wait for the next update and hopefully it fixes it.
Hey Glenn, as someone who plays multiple instruments on a 2 channel interface is there a way I don't have to change input levels everytime I change instruments? Should I buy a mixer with motorized faders with enough inputs so my input levels stay consistent or is there a plugin? Much love from Texas. Right now I'm taking pictures of where my knobs are and I feel this could be easier.
I got a BC Rich ASM Pro on eBay for £225. Best guitar I've ever played and I've had Jackson SL1s and other much more expensive guitars. It was a Saturday night and I'd just got in from the pub when I bid on the BC Rich. Not all drunk eBay excursions are bad! 😆
To be fair to butthurt guy, it really depends on where you live. If you search reverb for a 6505, in my country, you can find 1 mini Head, 20w for 400€, from there, the same mini Head, goes to 500/600/700€. And this is before shipping. If you don't want a mini Head, you pay, the cheapest option is a 120w head, for 1000€.
Do you know of a guitar speaker that shaves off the highs some? The newer blues jrs have this extended high end ice picky sound that the usa ones didn’t have, even after the fromel mods its still piercing.
I remember you recommended a Lewitt mic for guitar a few times didn't remember which type (I think the DTP 640 REX). 1. Am I correct? 2. It would be cool to have some of your gear recommendations bundled together on some page.
Hey, Glenn, I love your videos. I'm looking to do some home recording, but I can't afford fancy plugins. Is there any good free drum plugins that you can recommend? Thank you, bye!
Gleeeeeeeeenn!!!! Based on your great recommendations, I've invested in absorbers, bass traps and decent Genelec monitors. Thanks man, it helps! While recording and mixing in my "studio" (bedroom), I find that my biggest issue at the moment is noise from the Lenovo (Windows) computer fans. I've tried long cables, but had a problem with chopping audio using the interface with a 4 meter long USB 2.0 cable extender. How do professional studios solve the problem with computer fan noise, and how can I best achieve computer silence in my "studio"? If a new computer is the solution, how do I know which computer is the most silent!
When it comes to mixing speakers in a vertical 2X12, would you recommend the more bass heavy speaker in the top or bottom section, or does it even matter? I'm looking at getting an empty Harley Benton Vertical 2X12 and loading it with an Eminence Swamp Thang along with an Eminence DV-77 Mick Thompson speaker to run either an EVH Iconic 5150 EL34 or Revv G20 head through.
Hey Glenn. First off i’ve loved your channel since i started playing guitar for a little under 10 years. I’ve been wondering, what would be better for a metal setup between a 2x10 and a 1x12 set up? I’m tempted to swap out the single speaker in my combo Bugera V22 (sick pedal platform) for dual 10s but i havent found any other place that goes into as much detail as your channel has been doing for a good chunk of time. Thank you and fuck you to the moon Glenn. 🤘🏽
Hey, Glenn, quick question here. I've been looking for a means to mix&match different IRs, but can't seem to figure out how to do it. Even my internet searches are inconsistent with answers. Am I just an idiot or is there actually no way to do it with IRs? (I'm betting it's me just being an idiot, I am a guitar player after all)
i dont mind palm mutes. like, if it damps the string, it damps the string and i dont care how it does it: palm or fingers. but i do dig where you were coming from in that other vid where you knew bassists were amateurs the moment you saw them doing palm mutes. if im struggling with a song cos it's new and complex and i haven't practised damping in a while, then yeah i'll hit palm mute and it does tend to turn like 1/8th notes into 1/16th notes. now stop hating on bassists. mother says i have a great deal of potential.
I mean Fender Jazz basses, and many others, had dampers built in at the bridge, either foam under the bridge or foam on a cover over the bridge so that you could get a "palm muted" sound while playing fingerstyle over the neck pickup. More relevant for musical styles other than metal but all techniques are valid if they give the player what they want. Glenn is very much a clank guy when it comes to bass tones. Personal preference.
@@fallenshallrise mm yeah palm muting can be a thing, if it's staccato you want. does tend to militate against the song if it needs legato. but palm muting and a fairly driving pick can be distinctive. of course it's entirely intuitive, its main virtue. i have to agree with glenn when he says its a sign of no bass chops. i sometimes kinda revert to it if the band is firing up, we're in the pocket and i want to concentrate on the groove rather than get all precious about damping
I'm curious, is it possible to set frequency cutoffs in IRs? As an example say I'm recording bass is it possible to set it up so everything below 500 goes to a 15 and everything above that going to 12s or 10s.
Greetings! I'm having trouble export my projects in reaper to my sound engineer. we're both relatively fres in the game and have little to no understanding of the Reaper program. I've tried searching the web for simple explanations on how to export projects, but have only found explanatons that are to advanced for my peanut brain.
i have a galien krueguer 700rb mark II for arround 12 years, it's price had triplified since then... but still not enough to grant me a quad cortex... i wonder if i should sell it and get a tonex(+DI-box) or something like that...
4:30 This reminds me I recently encountered a mind boggling issue when I installed my new Alienware gaming desktop and a PreSonus 1810c... The Control Center for the PC (that moderates overclocking, RGB and whatnot) was actually creating conflicts with the fact there was a dedicated piece of hardware for audio and it was causing all kinds of crackles, noises and volume dips... It was atrocious... Spent 2 entire days looking for a solution until I found some guy on a forum that also was combining Alienware with PreSonus and told me to uninstall the Alienware Command Center... Never did I ever touch that crappy piece of software.
The best way to deal with option paralysis is to self police. Decide what your goals are before you even pick up the guitar. If I want to practice scales, or develop a new technique, I go with one of my typical tones I already have saved, most likely a lead preset. If I am jamming along to our set just to keep my chops up, then I go with my presets appropriate for the songs. If I'm looking to create new sounds, then I do deep dives into my plugins and IRs. Knowing what I want to accomplish keeps me from tinkering with plugins and IRs because it gives me direction. If I pick up a guitar for the sake of picking up my guitar, I usually end up messing with tones, lol.
I noticed older guitar players (I’m 41, so guys in their 50s and 60s or older) will tell you, “there is nothing like picking up a $5000 signature model. It lets you channel the guitarist who played them which affects your playing.” Pretty much the guitarist version of astrology.
Nostalgia can be a beautiful thing 😊 but....
As a 55yr old guitar player I've always thought signature models were at best trinkets for collectors and at worst money grabs by guitar companies and the artists that sell their name to them. And the ultimate "poser move" would be playing a signature model on stage. So I don't know what old guys you're hanging out with.
I'm 52. When I go to guitar shops, I find myself picking up epiphone and other budget guitars. I don't even bother with the high $ guitars lol
I'm 46 years old and never once heard anyone say that ever, lol.
@briansmith1760 at 58, I've owned a few epiphones and always ended up giving them away. Junk. I know the difference between a high end gibson and an epiphone by how they feel. That's important to me anyway.
Silly glen guitar tone is in the empty empty wallet 😂😂😂
It builds resonance!
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@@dorkwithsometork I think you just jinxed it.
@@mikaelnyblomnot if I edit it
Precisely
About being overwhelmed by options. Having limitations is great for productivity simply because you spend less time choosing. What I’ve learned is the creator is you, not your gear. Don’t be afraid to have favourites that you use all the time, it will rarely diminish your work. However don’t be afraid to experiment with something new to push yourself. The fear of missing out is mostly driven by advertising, your music doesn’t need the mysterious shiny thing people are all talking about. 100% few people will notice or care when they listen to your finished product. The most important thing to remember is the music people won’t hear is the music you fail to put out. So trust yourself and enjoy your favourites and try something new every now and then.
My experience with Focusrite was surprisingly stunning. I bought a 18i20 and ran out of mic inputs. I then bought a Behringer 8 channel preamp (Focusrite was out of stock at Sweetwater) with the hope of chaining them together. We couldn't get it to work. I called Behringer and went on hold for a half hour. We gave up on that and called Focusrite. The phone rang 3 times and a human answered. Turns out my issue was assigning the Behringer as the master and the 18i20 as the slave. Took ten minutes to solve the problem. Focusrite support is awesome.
Started learning guitar a decade ago as part of my Mid-Life Crisis. I experimented with a few 'fancy' guitars early on but quickly realised that all I needed was a handful of classics. Settled on a solidbody (Tele), a Hollowbody (Casino coupe) and a campfire 'beater' (parlour acoustic). Plus a Bad Monkey OD, Rat for distortion, and more recently a very versatile and worthwhile FZ-1w fuzz. A tidy little 'old' Zoom Multistomp provides a more than adequate choice of modulation flavours and my simple Vox Pathfinder 15r doesn't drown me in amp options.
When I caught myself GASsing for more and more gear I decided This Is Enough!
I make the most of the gear I've got, which offers about as good if not better equivalents to what most of my guitar heroes recorded with.
I should think now that it would be today's young aspiring/professional trailblazers who are splitting hairs over the nuances of which boutique gear best suits their micromanaged production values. However it often seems to me they're using new gear to recreate old sounds... what am I missing?
Your comment reeks of SRV And REO speedwagon tones
Your Name inspired me to write a song years ago. Very good movie.
i play a 7 string ibanez gio through an amp simulator, my rig cost me less than $200 and i am perfectly content with it. all that money ive wasted for 30 years on gear, it really is a great time to be alive
Glenn, happy for your success, both as an ex-Canadian, and as a fan of honesty.
Safe travels my friend. Thank you for your continued honest reviews and content.
Not to be flippant or whatnot, but could you generate your own IR's and sell them at an impulse-buy price? I do not fail to recognize that would be a lot of work. I'm just spitballing ways to invalidate subscriptions.
Edit for grammar.
On the subscription thing, I would like to add if the provider is always coming up with new things like updates, additional IR , i. e. Some improvement over the time then getting a subscription is worth it
Because paying for something which remains static does not amount to much and should be considered in the category of a license
Fun fact: yesterday french youtuber NeoGeoFanatic uploaded a video about swapping a great SD TB4 humbucker with a 10$ Temu pickup in the exact same guitar, and play it through the exact same gear/settings. Surprise surprise, the 10$ Temu pickup did pretty well.
I'll say it basically forever, boutique pickups are the absolute biggest rip off in guitar gear. If you like the options for aesthetics they offer like special covers or engravings or whatever, cool, do you. But man, especially for metal, where the amps and modellers you're going to play through have an excessive amount of gain on tap, and you're putting a tube screamer type pedal in front of it, and just all that saturation going on, the pickups are never going to matter very much especially when almost any difference you can find between two pickups can be dialed in with an EQ. But don't tell the bare knuckle fanatics that. they'll claim that they can hear the difference in scatter winding between two identical pickups.
The only issue the temu pickup might have is the waxing, which would make it microphonic if done improperly. No pickup is worth more than like $100.
My favorite are instruments that I build or customize myself. I’ve had an awesome time building my own drums and customizing guitars and nothing beats when someone asks what brand my snare is after a gig and I get to put on that smug grin and tell them that I built it!
Agreed, most of the specs I want on a guitar aren’t available in one model.
Example: I had/have wrist issues and find 7.25” radius much easier to play over long intervals. Additionally, my parent’s basement where I used to play has fluorescent lights and they gave me a healthy appreciation for noiseless single coils. The hum was obnoxious without them. Last I checked, Fender doesn’t make any model off-the-shelf with 7.25” and noiseless for Teles or Strats.
I also prefer a toggle for series pickup wiring in a Tele and prefer the modern US(maybe Mexico now too)wiring where the bottom tone pot can tame the bridge pickup in a Strat.
These aren’t crazy specs imo but they just don’t come off-the-shelf in those combos.
P.S. Anyone else having wrist issues I recommend a vertical mouse, a carpalrx brace(I didn’t buy the electric thing just the brace and wear at night) and make sure your thumb is behind you ring and middle finger as much as possible on the neck, not off in some random angle.
For the guy who asked about Latency - check ur sample rate usually goes from 44100Hz to 192.000Hz and then check your buffer settings usually runs from 8 to 2048 samples. so start out with 44100Hz and a sample rate of 64 samples and check results then increase both until you start to get latency or find what's acceptable to you.
2. Make sure your processor is now maxing out due to back ground programs eating CPU and RAM - this will slow everything down
I run through a crap PC but it has lots of RAM, using a cheap Behringer UMC204HD as interface and run plugins via stand alone or Cakewalk DAW @ 44100Hz with128 sample rate and have a latency of between 2 and 3.5 ms which is nothing and it sounds great full and rich.
3. Check the plugin settings to see if they are running at full tit - u can drop the quality level and it will not sound much different if u are just messing about
4 make sure usb cable from interface to PC is at least USB standard 2.0 and is going into a high speed port on the computer - if the usb input on PC has a little blue line that u can see then thats a 3.0 high speed input and ur in business.
I was checking the comments before posting a comment pointing all this out, great comment! I too run a UMC204HD through a crappy computer with maxed out Ram (32 Gb). Something I do after the iLock plugins are verified online (I gotta change that) is turn the WiFi off on the computer so nothing can go online and update or look for updates while I'm mixing (looking at you AVAST!!!). It also minimises distractions.
@@Dave-Rough-Diamond-Dunn top tip man thanks
You’re not at fault for the price of the amps going up. That’s people just seeing your videos and getting dollar signs in their eyes (ohhh, if it’s just as good as a plexi/6505, then people are going to want it and I can squeeze some extra dollars out of it) then their shit just doesn’t sell, resulting in that price eventually dropping. You’re right, it’s just a game of patience. Also, just asking for a deal. Most of the time, people are willing to negotiate, knowing good and goddamn well that no one is going to pay what they’re asking. I.e a $400 asking price usually means “I’ll take $300”
I never cease to be amazed at how people will try nothing and be pissed when it doesn't fix anything. smh
After watching these videos for several years, I’ve come to the conclusion that too much gain makes everything sound the same, and that I prefer something between “edge of breakup” and over the top distortion. Something that reacts to my heavy picking by adding gain, and can clean up when I pick lighter.
I’ve also discovered I choose a guitar to use based on feel and resonance, not necessarily sound. Electronics can be swapped easily, But neck feel and body resonance can’t be. I’m sure the recorded sound isn’t affected by a dead piece of wood, but my desire to play the dead guitar isn’t there. I had a chance to pick up a nice Player P Bass for pretty cheap, but, even after set up, it just didn’t resonate through me. I DESPERATELY wanted to love the bass, but I just didn’t.
Love the videos!! I’ve learned a lot about sound and my preferences!
(Edit: Also, don’t you think the Soldano vs Valveking video should more accurately be titled “How to get a Soldano to sound like a Valveking” if it’s essentially dialing the best the Valveking can be and finding the setting that matches on the Soldano 😂
Multi band compressors... Took me ages to figure out the benefit and how to use them. The best thing I did to figure it out? A lot of listening with my eyes closed. Listen for frequencies poking out at the end of a phrase. Distorted or over driven guitars are great. Listen for something poking out that catches your attention. Then start reducing the threshold and watch the compressor trigger. Then pull the gain down a couple of dB and play with the threshold until it stops poking out. Then start doing extremes just to hear it acting on the signal. Listening. Your DAW dynamic comp will be a great tool to start with. It's about listening first to help the understanding, then make the tweaks until you hear it trigger. Only then look at the plugin to start to see what the meters are doing. Ears are key with a multi band comp. Then you can do powefull things like side chaining from a vocal to pull frequencies down to keep vocals more clear. Favourite trick when there's dense guitars with vocals but then passages with just guitars. Pulls a few dB out the guitar mid range then thickens back up when no vocal.
Reduces the need for eq and volume automation
Trying to buy specific used gear is a little hard. Its best to have a list of things you would take and to wait for one of them to be a good price. If you have your heart set on a specific thing in the used market, you either gotta be patient, or pay a little more then you want.
My guitar teacher told me years ago, there is a difference between an artist who plays guitar and a guitarist.... To an artist, a guitar, amp, pedals are the tools of the trade, to a guitarist, a guitar, amp, and pedals are a fashion statement.... And I realized that to be true when once, a guitarist came up to me and asked what chorus pedal I was using, it was a hot pink Peavey dual clock chorus, he said... "Wow, that sounds great, it's ugly though, I could never use that"
Glennnnnnnn! I’m a 54 year old guitar player who’s played since 8th grade. I have wasted so much money on tubes, pickups, and even tried Gold Strings ugh. I am new to recording and am using Reaper and Studio 1. I use the stock plug ins inS1 and Free plug ins in Reaper. I use a very minimal approach to plugins. I spend more time eq ing the guitar and bass for recording so feel I don’t need many plugins. Others say I need to use them more, and use expensive ones too. Am I doing something wrong? My mixes aren’t perfect but I’m new. They sound ok in the car, and I’m having fun learning from your videos. KEEP SAVING US MONEY. Chad
Your Name is a beautiful movie. Has a really great soundtrack too.
Hey Glenn, I held the viewpoint that humbuckers largely aren't that different until I played a PRS SE Paul's guitar. I plugged in to my 6505+ and it could not handle any distortion without feeding back like crazy. It simply couldn't handle it. Had some very nice warm clean tones. Unplugged it was unusually resonant for an electric guitar, but I got my money back after one day because the thing just could not handle distortion at all. Maybe it was just a dud. Given that you make videos about pickups, this could be a great guitar for you to test to see if you run into the same problem that I did. You're a guy who tests stuff, this could make for an interesting experiment.
Leave it to TH-cam to interrupt your ad with another ad--that dream within a dream! Lol
Hey Glenn, this remids me of how i got my Bass Maniac bass in a thrift store. There was one in a place i visit once a week and went for 450 CHF (710 CAD). I wanted it but i did not wanted it that bad. So I'd check every week if the price dropped. Owners noticed, price went down to 350 CHF. Not great, not terrible. Brand was not know so not many people knew what they are looking at. 2 weeks later it dropped to 250 CHF (around 400 CAD). I bought it.
Best part? the owner said he noticed me looking at it and if next time i want to negotiate the price, he is open to it because he noticed i may know a bit.
The bass is beautiful and very good to play as well.
Pretty much my 2 guitars (BC RIch Mockingbird and Dean Strat) as well as basses (ESP Tom Arraya signature and Bass Maniac) were absolute bargains. The Mockingbird has cost me 550 CAD (or 400 USD) because the owner... didn't like the way it sits for him... Btw each instrument runs on dfifferent strings and setup. Floyd rose, locked bridge for guitars. And flat wound and round wound for basses to get that nice versatility of use.
Speaking about how the price of some used gear went through the roof in recent years: I have a Roland SH-3A monophonic analogue synth from 1978. I'm not a trained keyboard player but I taught myself how to play them enough to get by. It was just "laying around" the rehearsal room, so around 10 years ago I searched the internet trying to find videos of people playing it so that I could learn a few things about oscillators, filters and how to create sounds to put it to use in my band. In that search there were a few used ones on sale, all in the $300 to $400 USD range.
Fast forward to now: I recently had a problem with a stuck portamento effect just two weeks before a concert, which turned out to be just a dirty portamento knob, but while I was "in there" I gave it a thorough check only to find that it's still in mint condition. Just out of curiosity, I went online to see if there were still any used ones on sale and how much were they selling for these days. My jaw dropped when I saw that there are people asking between $1,700 and $3,000 USD for them!!! 😲
I bought a West Creek CERBERUS V off Amazon for my birthday. One of the best V's i've ever owned. Rounded fret ends, great weight. Tuning machines are a lower quality?, but nothing a decent set of locking tuners can't fix. Prime day deal of $371 Canadian after shipping/Taxes. LOVE this thing.
Your vocal dialogue sound is the best I’ve heard on TH-cam, what’s the chain? Neve I’m assuming. Has a warmth
I wasn't mad about the smashing of the HB V, I was just genuinely curious about the reason. Love your channel. Cheers.
It’s all good!
YOUR NAME!!! Dude, you just became my hero. One of my all-time favourite movies. A friend of mine who saw the movie st the cinema said everyone in the movie theatre were crying at the end. I was not surprised.
I agree big time with Glenn about being patient. I wanted a Stingray 4H Special for quite some time. I saved up for one and then found someone selling a 2024 model for $1625 shipped....essentially saved a grand due to someone else trying to move excess gear quickly.
Glen!
One thing that got me thinking. With everyone saying a Shure SM57 and SM58 is the same microphone just different shell.
Wouldnt it make sense to do a test if it's actually true? Null test, frequency graphs?
Good idea. I never knew they were the same with different shells but they sure do have completely different sounds. A frequency graph would be cool.
Good idea. I never knew that they were the same but in different shells but they sure do sound completely different. A frequency graph would be cool.
If you aren't subscribed, please this guy needs a million subscribers
I made out like a bandit when the BC Rich market was low. Deluxe Warlock for $200 Mint cond, Mockingbird Tempered $235, King V with a Kahler, 350. All have great pickups and stay in tune well. I only upgraded the volume and tone controls. All these guitars are now worth double or more than I paid. It took me almost a year to find the Mock I wanted but it worked out. Patience Daniel San.
I wonder if the cracked fretboard people are the ones that don't let the guitar acclimate for long enough before opening it
I've never let a guitar "acclimate" and have never had an issue. Mostly nitro.
I learned the hard way years ago about letting a guitar acclimate. We showed up at a gig in Quebec City, after driving from Ottawa in the dead of winter, with all our gear in a 5-ton. We unloaded the truck, and I immediately opened my case. I heard a loud “snaaap”, and watched as the nitro finish on the body cracked wildly. Didn’t affect playability, but I learned to not open a case for at least an hour if it was coming from being cold into a warm building.
Cracked rosewood fingerboards are more a product of not maintaining them, like oiling them occasionally (once a year or every six months).
Your Name is sooo good! Glad to hear it getting recommended.
I bought a 2014 stock Epiphone Les Paul Standard and there's just nothing bad I can say about it. Growing up with lower budget guitars always being unsatisfied with playability and sound, now I'm very pleased. Is there something common I should know about that product? I often "tested" epiphone les paul standards in shops and from what I can tell there's some kind of consistency between all models I tested from 2001 until now. Maybe it's just they're not total crap but if you're just a few bucks apart from grabbing one, save a bit more and go for it. The tuning won't crap out, you get the pronounced attack that you like from your favourite songs, the palm mutes come with that set-neck little-extra-"woom!" and pinch-harmonics are way more easy to achieve. (even when I test it with old amp sims that I remember to be crappy sounding I get a way more usable tone.)
Big time experience. I guess, that is what makes some piece of equipment special to me.
The engineer's point of view of course demands some level of objectivity. :D
Thanks for mentioning your DAW of choice. I think I'm going to buy a laptop soon which i will mainly use for music production and Reaper will be the first program that i give a shot. As an absolute beginner with DAWs the simplicity of the UI is my biggest concern
Tell us more about your favorite Impulse complexions, Glenn! reason Glenn broke the HB V was because he was using it for a gag and the neck snapped. Glenn has consiberly a shoot day, tell us more about your consiberly.
Samson stuff is ok, but as far as wooden racks are concerned I bought a Thon 14u Oak finish rack with wheels (sold separately) it's now 170$ at Thomann, I believe it's particle board with veneer but it looks great in person, there is "some assembly required" as they say (e.g. wholes for the rack rails where not predrilled as I recall, so measure twice as they say).
Not sure about shipping to US/Canada but I got mine from Germany to Serbia in one piece ok, so point is maybe there is no need to break the bank to have that "wood" look, also you could have them built probably for not a lot of money since standard rack rails (nuts, bolts etc) can be bought and built in any piece of furniture, just need to keep to the standard width, depth etc.
My guitar is a 40-year-old parts caster built for me by Chandler Guitars to my specs. Yeah, it's special! My amp is a 1973 Marshall Treble and Bass (reissued as 2160x?) and that's pretty damn special. I am definitely special; I been told so! The three of us together are a special combo
The best most honest music gear and advice channel! I trust SpectreSoundStudios b/c of the brutal honesty. If Glen changes his mind he's honest about it. Also fantastically entertaining.
I'm one of those that grew up with a hefty desire to play guitar, and everything that goes with it. But also grew up not having money. It was a big deal to save up a bit to get some used knock off of everything. So like most like that, I had to get creative and learn how to make a 200-300 guitar play and sound ok, or at least better than when I got it. If you do some digging, you can find guitars on the cheap that play well, or just need a little tlc and then will. After that saving up for a little upgrade part or two isn't that hard. I still, even though I can afford a bit more, Just won't spend big $ on something because of a name, or even more, because some artists name is on it. JMHO.
Are you going to drop in on Johann Segeborn in Sweden? He's got an amazing collection of marshall stuff and other vintage gear.
I sold all of my pedals, then got a volume pedal and a Nobels OD1 and Now I spend all of my time on learning to play better. Much less stress.
Ok Glenn, I’m in the process of working on room treatment. Technically, my room is really dead, because I just put in the insulation and am going to be doing fabric over it. My question is, what’s your opinion on putting your monitors on your desk. My mackies came with little isolation foam blocks but I am still learning what to listen for. I can get a pretty decent mix, but I have reach a plato and am wanting to learn more. What are your thoughts?
Thanks and fuck you from a Nashville punk rocker!
-Sean
Travis Charest's art on Weapons of the Metabaron is the greatest comic art of all time. Damn shame he only did half the story.
Specifically about the concept of being patient, Glenn is 100 percent spot on. Seriously folks, after a great piece of gear that is kind of expensive? Put aside the money you would have spent on it, and if you live in a big enough city, the thing you want WILL pop up for a cheap price. I've never paid even close to half the cost of retail for any piece of used gear I've ever owned. Just. Be. Patient.
I have American made strats and Gibson flying v's. I've played Mexican strats and they are killer. Played Epiphone v's and they're great. To get a great sound and tone it's all about your speakers
Glenn, do you use ELE and Element Bass for all your records now?
Glenn, I was curious; have you ever done a review on the 6505 piranha lunchbox head? I’ve always been curious about that one and would love to see you review it!
My brother and I were talking about rewatching "Your Name" together with my family earlier today!!
Love Manchester. Have fun. Don't suppose you're heading to Malmö, but I'll keep an eye out just in case.
My man! Your custom Flying V sounds literally perfect!
Samson racks alter your guitar tone in a bad way. Always go with racks made from Brazilian Rosewood or Black Walnut. Experts agree.
The prices do go up on those great deals, but every time it happens, it's only temporary. Opportunists exist everywhere. But in the case of music gear, people know how much something is truly worth, and the opportunists eventually give up and bring their prices back down. It happened briefly with the windsor, and it happened VERY briefly with the 6505 combo. I attempted to get in on both and they both jumped in price after your videos came out lol. (To clarify, it's not just you. It has happened to sleeper gear Fluff, Kyle Bull, and Taylor Danley have covered, too)
Hey Glenn,
If tonewood is a lie and pickups don't really Matter, what qualities do you look for in a guitar?
Cheers from Germany, u helped me get started with the whole production thingy, keep up the good Work🤘😎🤘
Thanks for the answer regarding why your new product is subscription based, totally understand the reasoning (I'm a video game developer as my main job, so trying to find the right balance of fairness vs. getting paid for the product you worked really hard on is always tricky). Also... I can now say I've made it as I've had a comment appear on your Viewers Comments episode!!!! 🤪
Hey Glen, could you not essentially simulate different speakers using an EQ in the FX loop? I understand it's probably not possible to get it exactly the same but I'm guessing you could get quite close in the context of a mix? Thanks.
i use a bunch of old ibanez rg's (i like the edge tremolo)...it took me far too long to figure out that the important part was practicing not the guitar...as long as the guitar stays in tune and plays decent you should be able to make music with it
I spent a month looking for a Robb Flynn guitar and bam found it for 800 in mint condition unsigned with the case. It was my goal to find one. And the day it popped up I jumped on it.
Glenn, could you do a video on taking care of your gear? Specifically tube amps because i got the amp i wanted a year or 2 ago and as a drummer i dont use it often. I used it maybe 5 times and a tube went bad. I'm assuming the cause is the rapid, extreme change of humidity (Living in Michigan, on the northern side of lower peninsula). Is humidifier and dehumidifier my best options? Maybe you already have advice in a video and i havent seen it yet or have forgotten
I've got Focusrite interfaces. I've optimized my PC settings, updated the drivers, and anything else I have come across to fix latency. I still find it impossible to use guitar sims as the latency makes them unplayable.
Shit, you don’t even need to search every day. Just set up a saved search for the gear and whatever max price you’re willing to pay and whenever something shows up, it’ll send you an email
Yeah, I get emailed immediately or at least daily by a few different online buying sites and Pawn Broker sites whenever something matches one of my search's' criteria. With some searches, that's a simple as something being listed in the "Musical Instruments" category, but others are way more specific, it'll have to be exactly what I'm looking for. I spend too much online, but it's always interesting going through a stack of search results.
Greetings Glenn! Hope your trip to Europe goes as planned!
GLENNN!!!! How viable would it be to use 3 guitar mics (two on the cab-DONN Landee technique) And 1 mic on a Hollowbody electric guitar. I think it would be cool if was mixed appropriately.
I haven't seen that Samson rack, but it looks a lot like the data racks I see at work. If the Samson isn't quite right, and you are looking for something more affordable than the wood furniture racks, look up racks used for computer and network equipment. They are still 19 inch racks. I have a 12U that mounted to my wall that was ~$70US. One caveat, however, you might have to deal with cage nuts for the screws, which can be frustrating when you first encounter them, but they aren't bad once you figure them out.
Hi Glenn. What's your opinion for recording with effect pedals? Can you suggest a few things about dos and don'ts when recording with pedals?
I updated my Scarlett Focusright firmware on my PC not long ago and I realized something changed where if there is no active audio playing on my computer for a long while.. eventually when I do want to hear sound (e.g. I click play on this youtube video) no sound comes out as if the PC is on mute! Then to "wake" it up I have to move the volume around up & down a little and THEN the sound starts working again lol. Guess I'll wait for the next update and hopefully it fixes it.
Hey Glenn, as someone who plays multiple instruments on a 2 channel interface is there a way I don't have to change input levels everytime I change instruments?
Should I buy a mixer with motorized faders with enough inputs so my input levels stay consistent or is there a plugin?
Much love from Texas.
Right now I'm taking pictures of where my knobs are and I feel this could be easier.
I got a BC Rich ASM Pro on eBay for £225. Best guitar I've ever played and I've had Jackson SL1s and other much more expensive guitars. It was a Saturday night and I'd just got in from the pub when I bid on the BC Rich. Not all drunk eBay excursions are bad! 😆
"Your Name" is fire
To be fair to butthurt guy, it really depends on where you live. If you search reverb for a 6505, in my country, you can find 1 mini Head, 20w for 400€, from there, the same mini Head, goes to 500/600/700€. And this is before shipping. If you don't want a mini Head, you pay, the cheapest option is a 120w head, for 1000€.
Do you know of a guitar speaker that shaves off the highs some? The newer blues jrs have this extended high end ice picky sound that the usa ones didn’t have, even after the fromel mods its still piercing.
I remember you recommended a Lewitt mic for guitar a few times didn't remember which type (I think the DTP 640 REX). 1. Am I correct? 2. It would be cool to have some of your gear recommendations bundled together on some page.
Love the ‘Your Name’ name drop.
Great anime.
Hey, Glenn, I love your videos. I'm looking to do some home recording, but I can't afford fancy plugins. Is there any good free drum plugins that you can recommend? Thank you, bye!
The guitarist doesn't find the guitar, the guitar finds the guitarist.
Only expensive made in de USA guitars do that! Not those cheap ones made in China!
@@RoderikvanReekum Utter bloody nonsense. Price, place of manufacture and everything else means absolutely fuck all.
Well, sometimes it finds a guitarist with a cheap a s s father
@@billbob4856 But again cheap or expensive doesn't equal quality. It has little bearing on the matter, which is the point.
@@crunchyfrog555
I know, it was a Transformers (Bernie Mac) reference lol
Gleeeeeeeeenn!!!! Based on your great recommendations, I've invested in absorbers, bass traps and decent Genelec monitors. Thanks man, it helps!
While recording and mixing in my "studio" (bedroom), I find that my biggest issue at the moment is noise from the Lenovo (Windows) computer fans. I've tried long cables, but had a problem with chopping audio using the interface with a 4 meter long USB 2.0 cable extender.
How do professional studios solve the problem with computer fan noise, and how can I best achieve computer silence in my "studio"?
If a new computer is the solution, how do I know which computer is the most silent!
Shout out to Glenn for liking Your Name. One of my favorite movies! I saw it in theaters and cried.
When it comes to mixing speakers in a vertical 2X12, would you recommend the more bass heavy speaker in the top or bottom section, or does it even matter? I'm looking at getting an empty Harley Benton Vertical 2X12 and loading it with an Eminence Swamp Thang along with an Eminence DV-77 Mick Thompson speaker to run either an EVH Iconic 5150 EL34 or Revv G20 head through.
Hey Glenn.
First off i’ve loved your channel since i started playing guitar for a little under 10 years.
I’ve been wondering, what would be better for a metal setup between a 2x10 and a 1x12 set up? I’m tempted to swap out the single speaker in my combo Bugera V22 (sick pedal platform) for dual 10s but i havent found any other place that goes into as much detail as your channel has been doing for a good chunk of time.
Thank you and fuck you to the moon Glenn. 🤘🏽
Hi glen, how do we submit music for the mix reviews? Thanks so much. Hope to support you!
Hey, Glenn, quick question here. I've been looking for a means to mix&match different IRs, but can't seem to figure out how to do it. Even my internet searches are inconsistent with answers. Am I just an idiot or is there actually no way to do it with IRs? (I'm betting it's me just being an idiot, I am a guitar player after all)
i dont mind palm mutes. like, if it damps the string, it damps the string and i dont care how it does it: palm or fingers. but i do dig where you were coming from in that other vid where you knew bassists were amateurs the moment you saw them doing palm mutes. if im struggling with a song cos it's new and complex and i haven't practised damping in a while, then yeah i'll hit palm mute and it does tend to turn like 1/8th notes into 1/16th notes. now stop hating on bassists. mother says i have a great deal of potential.
I mean Fender Jazz basses, and many others, had dampers built in at the bridge, either foam under the bridge or foam on a cover over the bridge so that you could get a "palm muted" sound while playing fingerstyle over the neck pickup. More relevant for musical styles other than metal but all techniques are valid if they give the player what they want. Glenn is very much a clank guy when it comes to bass tones. Personal preference.
@@fallenshallrise mm yeah palm muting can be a thing, if it's staccato you want. does tend to militate against the song if it needs legato. but palm muting and a fairly driving pick can be distinctive. of course it's entirely intuitive, its main virtue. i have to agree with glenn when he says its a sign of no bass chops. i sometimes kinda revert to it if the band is firing up, we're in the pocket and i want to concentrate on the groove rather than get all precious about damping
So I have a question, are the Harley benton combo Amps worth a shit ? I know you like the cabs.
HELP FOR FOCUSRITE guy: check the buffer size. i forgot, it should biggest or smallest number, but definitely that thing fixes latency
Try to find an Orange Oriverb while you are at the show in Germany. EL34 power section 2x12 loaded with Creambacks.
enjoy my home city of Madchester Glenn
I'm curious, is it possible to set frequency cutoffs in IRs? As an example say I'm recording bass is it possible to set it up so everything below 500 goes to a 15 and everything above that going to 12s or 10s.
Greetings! I'm having trouble export my projects in reaper to my sound engineer. we're both relatively fres in the game and have little to no understanding of the Reaper program. I've tried searching the web for simple explanations on how to export projects, but have only found explanatons that are to advanced for my peanut brain.
The only thing standing between me and success is effort.
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God, Your Name was an incredible film.
You have to visit afflecks palace when you're in Manchester if you can find the time, tonne of shit I think you'd like in there 🤘
i have a galien krueguer 700rb mark II for arround 12 years, it's price had triplified since then... but still not enough to grant me a quad cortex... i wonder if i should sell it and get a tonex(+DI-box) or something like that...
There is no info whatsoever about that IR thingy on Spectre Digital web site. Is it geo locked?
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This reminds me I recently encountered a mind boggling issue when I installed my new Alienware gaming desktop and a PreSonus 1810c... The Control Center for the PC (that moderates overclocking, RGB and whatnot) was actually creating conflicts with the fact there was a dedicated piece of hardware for audio and it was causing all kinds of crackles, noises and volume dips... It was atrocious...
Spent 2 entire days looking for a solution until I found some guy on a forum that also was combining Alienware with PreSonus and told me to uninstall the Alienware Command Center... Never did I ever touch that crappy piece of software.
Every time I have used a stereo expander, the correlation is wrong. Why is that?
The best way to deal with option paralysis is to self police. Decide what your goals are before you even pick up the guitar. If I want to practice scales, or develop a new technique, I go with one of my typical tones I already have saved, most likely a lead preset. If I am jamming along to our set just to keep my chops up, then I go with my presets appropriate for the songs. If I'm looking to create new sounds, then I do deep dives into my plugins and IRs. Knowing what I want to accomplish keeps me from tinkering with plugins and IRs because it gives me direction. If I pick up a guitar for the sake of picking up my guitar, I usually end up messing with tones, lol.
Could you do a video on the Celestion 70/80? Maybe comparing it to a v30? All the videos on yt aren't that great.