HOLY CRAP@ That was ME who asked about the Orange Micro Terror and Dark vs the Vox MV50!!! I cant believe you acknowledged my comment. MY entire life has just been validated. Love your show Phil thank you so much for answering that!!! WOW youve made my day!!!
Hey Phillip, love your channel. Great share of your information on guitars and gear. Believe it or not I have an old Crate XT120R solid state amp that is able to cut through the mix and can hang with any 50 Watt tube head you can throw at it. I was amazed to find this out when a friend of mine put his 45 watt Marshall tube amp against my Crate solid state 120 watt 212 amp. And I didn't have to crank the volume past seven! Who would have thought! Hey, keep up the great work with your channel. I'm a die-hard subscriber!
The merits of a PCB tube amp is that the sound will be uniform across nearly every amp coming off the line. When tube amps were in the past hand wired with turret boards amps could sound somewhat different, sometimes because of variances in some components and sometimes because of the quality of the soldering and assembly. Obviously there was a reason why some amps (and guitars) were exceptional. Just an opinion.
The SE Custom 24 has the Korean 85/15 "S" pickups, whereas the CE 24 has full fat American 85/15 pickups. Just clarifying that it's not apples to apples.
Another vote for the SX series! I've been tempted to get a Harley Benton and upgrade it - even though I own two PRS (McCarty Soapbar and Studio), the idea of a cheap beater is super appealing.
Josh Collins - Chicken picks give a tone completely opposite from PrimeTone picks. Where the PrimeTones seem to accentuate the attack, the ChickenPicks seem to muffle it. They are extremely thick, but the bevel is so pronounced, the pick actually slides off the string, making it much easier to play than you would think for such a thick pick. They seem to be suited best for jazz, based on tone. Shipping takes quite a while. I believe I waited 3 weeks for mine. I bought a pair and passed on the sample pack. I bought them a year ago and have no desire for more. I seem to gravitate between Ultex and Tortex.
I could sit and listen to you for hours, what's wrong with me? Keep up the great work and keep giving us the biggest bang for the buck recommendations.
Hi, just bought 1st Gibson 2016 Les Paul Standard 2016 T.. Impressive guitar! But prefer for my PRS Ce24.. Which I played live 1st Tim last weekend through my blues Jnr it was initially a bit bright, but after a bit of eq on the amp' the Pickups are actually great!.. Very Impressed!..
RE: SX guitars. Rondo was a small store in Union NJ when I was growing up. Then GC opened up a few miles down the highway then it was the beginning of the end. They do online only now. SX are cool but definitely review Agile too. Both from Rondo.
Phil I vote YES to the SX guitars. I had one of their vintage style Tele's and it was an amazing value for the price and they sell replacement necks for their guitars for $39, can't beat it.
For some reason you talking in the background is perfect for me to study and write essays. So thank you for that hahah. Love the channel. Any suggestions for an electric guitar/amp for someone who plays (acoustic) indie folk/emo punk but also would enjoy playing things with higher gain?
eq in the loop works magic. can manipulate any frequency. kill the harshness. give u more bass and resonance. bring volume lever down and crank the amp to smoke the preamp tubes. absolute most important pedal for me. never knew what i was missing. anyone ever compared boss eq to MXR?
I don't know if you got a chance to see Titan guitars by Kauer Guitars at NAMM, but I'd love to hear what you think about them. They offer one body shape, and then allow you to choose from some set colors, your choice of mastery bridge, Tele bridge cut just past the saddles, gotoh 6 saddle bridge, and bigsby options. From there you can order what ever configuration of 2-3 pickups you want! Coil splits, kill switches, and cocked wah switches are all options. HERE IS THE SELLING POINT FOR ME! All the electronics are attached to a pickguard and are only attached to the body via one disconnect able ground wire, allowing you to switch your own personal pickguard and pickup configurations very quickly. American made. Small shop of passionate people. Affordable! The kind of guitar that would make me stop buying guitars and save money by just buying new pickup configurations. I can ramble all day but perhaps you should just go see for yourself!
Ampeg still make a line of tube bass amps, and Mesa Boogie makes the Prodigy. Oh, and that amp probably consumes less electricity than a 100watt lightbulb.
Regarding the SX guitars, I think it ought to be 2 basses and 2 guitars. It would be nice to see that review, although I don't think they are imported into the U.K. :-) Much love from England.
hey phil, from the uk , just bought a fender amerian standard strat (burst is beautiful ) for a good price £ 980 new .but it's got quite a bit of buzzing and for some reason just doesn't feel as solid as my 1989 japanese fender strat ,also picked up a chapman ml1 for basically pennies from thomann and it's pretty good probably got a good price due to the new range coming out ,not sure about the whole moving to Indonesia from korea thing for the affordable range ,feels like a they are just going to be charging a whole lot more for the good korean ones now, I already have a couple of ml2's and love them so the move to Indonesia seems like a jip.
12 string electric. For me, without a doubt, RICKENBACKER. If you can afford one. They just have THE tone. So easy to play. I have played one for some time (since the late 60's), and just love it. Depends also on what type of music you play, but unbeatable for classic rock, or whatever.
He Phil. YES! Please do a review on the sx guitars especially a Liquid model with maple neck. Im just too damn poor to afford a Mexican strat even and theres been a few recent videos saying the quality of these have really gone up,even the setups right out of the box are good supposedly. But Id love to hear your opinion before I buy.
Hey Phill I really dig your tube videos I am a new subscriber I was wondering maybe I missed it have you ever checked out the prestige guitar line from Vancouver Canada thanks man this is the moon stone down in Stuart Florida peace
I would love to see the Pro Jr. Make an appearance in one of these shootouts, especially in a blues setting, something with solos at least. I know mine is gigable with incredible tone, but different drummers different players different strokes folks.
what do you think about the Traynor amp. I'm a bass that is trying to learn guitar. I bought the 40 watt combo for a really good price . never head you mention them, I heard a guy play the blues on one I thought it was great. tubes are great
I'm a bit late to the conversation, but I have to say it is well worth buying even five or six SX guitars, acoustic and electric. I bought a little $79 acoustic and was astonished at the quality build and finish! The pickup is some cheapy crap that is unbalanced favoring the bass, but over-all it plays great and looks awesome. A bandmate has a candy apple red tele with a cheap trem on it, but I play that thing every saturday, and for 100 bucks I can hardly believe it. What witchery is this mad-hat Rondo music up to? OH! the acoustic had a very unpleasant SMELL to it that lasted a couple months...Lord knows what that was from.
A 45Watt Fender Bassbreaker eats up 350Watt. So more than a TV, less than a Micro. (Just looked it up on Fender.com) Overall way less than a fridge/freezer. Solid state should eat less. I think some amps attenuates (space heater!), while others turn off a tube or similar (Victory does this). That said I don't know if neither does diddly squat for the transformer, etc, so we might be looking at 350 continuously. Either way, it's not insignificant, but it's nowhere near doubling unless you've got nothing but lights and TV at home.
In my experience, if the drummer has a professional drum set and he bangs the Skins hard. You're not going to hear yourself unless you have a hundred watt Half Stack. My brother and I were in a metal band and had many members come and go. They all thought their 30 watt combo amps were fine, until they played with us. They couldn't hear what they were playing. Until they had hundred watt half stack.
Hey Philip! What mini head would you recommend for metal? I currently use guitar rig 5 pro but I want to move into actual amps here in the near future and since I'm not in a band and just bedroom player the 6505+ will most likely be too much amp for me. I would love to hear your opinion and if you have these amps in store I'm local and can come check them out!
Hey Phil, what do you think about the Guitar Fetish bodies? I'm about to undertake a tele rebuild because of some damage that one of my tele's took, it's basically a total rebuild, new neck and body, I'm going to salvage all the hardware, but I don't want to spend a whole lot of money. I'm looking at getting a true fender (Mexican) replacement neck because of the aesthetics and I've heard the quality of other aftermarket necks are suspect, but I'm looking at the GFS bodies for price. Any thoughts?
TIFA... If you see this... It doesn't look like Guitar Center ships any Gibson products period to Egypt... If you go to Guitar Center and find International shipping www.guitarcenter.com/search?Ns=r&Ntt=international+shipping ... Then go shopping it will list the brands that are available to Egypt. Gibson, unfortunately, does not ship new, or used. Sorry!
I know that guitar center doesn't ship 2 Egypt. my cousins live in nj and I visit them often. next time I visit im planning on getting a les paul standard from guitar center cause I dont like buying guitars from where I live. thanks for the info though. you should visit Egypt :-)
That's great! Good luck on your hunt for one... In the meantime, you can look at used Gibsons on Reverb, eBay, etc., at least that will give you some idea of the pricing. They do ship to Egypt, but only certain brands... When you put your country in on the page noted above, and you search for electric guitars, they show all the brands available to ship to Egypt. Gibson just doesn't happen to be one. It would be great to visit... Don't have that kind of money though. Best of luck!
+vechap yeah I looked at a lot of used Gibson but all I can find are ones above 1000 bucks and I have a 500 $ budget so I think im gonna have 2 stick with Epiphone right now
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HOLY CRAP@ That was ME who asked about the Orange Micro Terror and Dark vs the Vox MV50!!! I cant believe you acknowledged my comment. MY entire life has just been validated. Love your show Phil thank you so much for answering that!!! WOW youve made my day!!!
This is such a great series, learned a lot from this and it is very relateable when budgets is the topic.
Keep on rockin PmC!
Also, who do you think the Geddy Lee Jazz Basses need more attention when it comes to truss rod adjustment and setup intervalls?
Great watch ! Although I think it's a shame the burgera v22 don't get the love it deserves stunning tube amp for the price
Hey Phil, they mentioned you on Guitar Player magazine page 53 March 2017 issue. How awesome is that man.
thank you for the heads up. Went and got one. It is pretty cool.
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Hey Phillip, love your channel. Great share of your information on guitars and gear. Believe it or not I have an old Crate XT120R solid state amp that is able to cut through the mix and can hang with any 50 Watt tube head you can throw at it. I was amazed to find this out when a friend of mine put his 45 watt Marshall tube amp against my Crate solid state 120 watt 212 amp. And I didn't have to crank the volume past seven! Who would have thought! Hey, keep up the great work with your channel. I'm a die-hard subscriber!
20 or so live podcasts left to watch!! Philimon gotta watch em all. Become a guitar/bass equipment GOD 😊
Have trouble getting off work this early, bbbbbbbbbbutt will try again next week. Nice job, great questions.
been eyeing up a Gretsch pro jet. in silver of course...
The merits of a PCB tube amp is that the sound will be uniform across nearly every amp coming off the line. When tube amps were in the past hand wired with turret boards amps could sound somewhat different, sometimes because of variances in some components and sometimes because of the quality of the soldering and assembly. Obviously there was a reason why some amps (and guitars) were exceptional. Just an opinion.
The SE Custom 24 has the Korean 85/15 "S" pickups, whereas the CE 24 has full fat American 85/15 pickups. Just clarifying that it's not apples to apples.
Another vote for the SX series! I've been tempted to get a Harley Benton and upgrade it - even though I own two PRS (McCarty Soapbar and Studio), the idea of a cheap beater is super appealing.
Josh Collins - Chicken picks give a tone completely opposite from PrimeTone picks. Where the PrimeTones seem to accentuate the attack, the ChickenPicks seem to muffle it. They are extremely thick, but the bevel is so pronounced, the pick actually slides off the string, making it much easier to play than you would think for such a thick pick. They seem to be suited best for jazz, based on tone. Shipping takes quite a while. I believe I waited 3 weeks for mine. I bought a pair and passed on the sample pack. I bought them a year ago and have no desire for more. I seem to gravitate between Ultex and Tortex.
Just wanted to say hi from England and thanks for the T shirt 👍
Thanks for answering the Pedalboard top three...
I could sit and listen to you for hours, what's wrong with me? Keep up the great work and keep giving us the biggest bang for the buck recommendations.
Hi, just bought 1st Gibson 2016 Les Paul Standard 2016 T.. Impressive guitar! But prefer for my PRS Ce24.. Which I played live 1st Tim last weekend through my blues Jnr it was initially a bit bright, but after a bit of eq on the amp' the Pickups are actually great!.. Very Impressed!..
hi phil. i love the chickn picks,. thay have a great tone with less pick noise
re: sub-$1000 multi-effects unit - BOSS GT-100 There was literally nothing I could dream up that I couldn't do with the GT-100.
RE: SX guitars.
Rondo was a small store in Union NJ when I was growing up. Then GC opened up a few miles down the highway then it was the beginning of the end. They do online only now. SX are cool but definitely review Agile too. Both from Rondo.
Phil I vote YES to the SX guitars. I had one of their vintage style Tele's and it was an amazing value for the price and they sell replacement necks for their guitars for $39, can't beat it.
love the gear talk..great channel. ..im a die hard boggie player..mark ii c.my favorite.but wondering what s up with .the red,blue,and purple.stripes
For some reason you talking in the background is perfect for me to study and write essays. So thank you for that hahah. Love the channel. Any suggestions for an electric guitar/amp for someone who plays (acoustic) indie folk/emo punk but also would enjoy playing things with higher gain?
You should try Tom Anderson pick-ups. And build your own pedal boards. Cheers
Phillip - put a set of Pete Thorn Suhrs in my LesPaul. Awesome. Seem to work very well with the ZenDrive pedal...for what it's worth.
eq in the loop works magic. can manipulate any frequency. kill the harshness. give u more bass and resonance. bring volume lever down and crank the amp to smoke the preamp tubes. absolute most important pedal for me. never knew what i was missing. anyone ever compared boss eq to MXR?
I don't know if you got a chance to see Titan guitars by Kauer Guitars at NAMM, but I'd love to hear what you think about them. They offer one body shape, and then allow you to choose from some set colors, your choice of mastery bridge, Tele bridge cut just past the saddles, gotoh 6 saddle bridge, and bigsby options. From there you can order what ever configuration of 2-3 pickups you want! Coil splits, kill switches, and cocked wah switches are all options. HERE IS THE SELLING POINT FOR ME! All the electronics are attached to a pickguard and are only attached to the body via one disconnect able ground wire, allowing you to switch your own personal pickguard and pickup configurations very quickly. American made. Small shop of passionate people. Affordable! The kind of guitar that would make me stop buying guitars and save money by just buying new pickup configurations. I can ramble all day but perhaps you should just go see for yourself!
Ampeg still make a line of tube bass amps, and Mesa Boogie makes the Prodigy. Oh, and that amp probably consumes less electricity than a 100watt lightbulb.
Among many guitars slash recorded appetite ( and if I'm not mistaken Welcome to the Jungle) on a strat
Regarding the SX guitars, I think it ought to be 2 basses and 2 guitars. It would be nice to see that review, although I don't think they are imported into the U.K. :-) Much love from England.
hey phil, from the uk , just bought a fender amerian standard strat (burst is beautiful ) for a good price £ 980 new .but it's got quite a bit of buzzing and for some reason just doesn't feel as solid as my 1989 japanese fender strat ,also picked up a chapman ml1 for basically pennies from thomann and it's pretty good probably got a good price due to the new range coming out ,not sure about the whole moving to Indonesia from korea thing for the affordable range ,feels like a they are just going to be charging a whole lot more for the good korean ones now, I already have a couple of ml2's and love them so the move to Indonesia seems like a jip.
Great video!
Hell yeah buy soe Rondo SX guitars! PLEASE get an HH pickup Tele and a Le
s Paul!!!
Hi! You mentioned the mexican Fenders again :)
Have you tried the 50s RoadWorn? :) Thanks ;)
Hey Phil Glad to be here _I have a 92 sunburst Strat and I have a problem,I have a short in my Bridge pup how do I fix it??
12 string electric. For me, without a doubt, RICKENBACKER. If you can afford one. They just have THE tone. So easy to play. I have played one for some time (since the late 60's), and just love it. Depends also on what type of music you play, but unbeatable for classic rock, or whatever.
I'd like to see a video that compares the BluGuitar Amp 1 to the Matrix VB 800 to a Quilter Mach 2. Just a thought.
Review the SX. Also what do ya think of Kelso?. Looks like a father and son company
please review the sx line of guitar and basses. been thinking of picking up the jazz style 6 string bass since it's so cheap.
He Phil. YES! Please do a review on the sx guitars especially a Liquid model with maple neck.
Im just too damn poor to afford a Mexican strat even and theres been a few recent videos saying the quality of these have really gone up,even the setups right out of the box are good supposedly. But Id love to hear your opinion before I buy.
Hey Phill I really dig your tube videos I am a new subscriber I was wondering maybe I missed it have you ever checked out the prestige guitar line from Vancouver Canada thanks man this is the moon stone down in Stuart Florida peace
Phil, is there such a thing as finding your perfect guitar neck and if so, what make great criteria?
I've been looking at the SX guitars by Rondo so would like to see you review one.
I would love to see the Pro Jr. Make an appearance in one of these shootouts, especially in a blues setting, something with solos at least. I know mine is gigable with incredible tone, but different drummers different players different strokes folks.
P.S. pro jr and blues jr are two totally different animals..
what do you think about the Traynor amp. I'm a bass that is trying to learn guitar. I bought the 40 watt combo for a really good price . never head you mention them, I heard a guy play the blues on one I thought it was great. tubes are great
I'm a bit late to the conversation, but I have to say it is well worth buying even five or six SX guitars, acoustic and electric. I bought a little $79 acoustic and was astonished at the quality build and finish! The pickup is some cheapy crap that is unbalanced favoring the bass, but over-all it plays great and looks awesome. A bandmate has a candy apple red tele with a cheap trem on it, but I play that thing every saturday, and for 100 bucks I can hardly believe it. What witchery is this mad-hat Rondo music up to?
OH! the acoustic had a very unpleasant SMELL to it that lasted a couple months...Lord knows what that was from.
A 45Watt Fender Bassbreaker eats up 350Watt. So more than a TV, less than a Micro. (Just looked it up on Fender.com) Overall way less than a fridge/freezer. Solid state should eat less.
I think some amps attenuates (space heater!), while others turn off a tube or similar (Victory does this). That said I don't know if neither does diddly squat for the transformer, etc, so we might be looking at 350 continuously.
Either way, it's not insignificant, but it's nowhere near doubling unless you've got nothing but lights and TV at home.
In my experience, if the drummer has a professional drum set and he bangs the Skins hard. You're not going to hear yourself unless you have a hundred watt Half Stack. My brother and I were in a metal band and had many members come and go. They all thought their 30 watt combo amps were fine, until they played with us. They couldn't hear what they were playing. Until they had hundred watt half stack.
What is the best amp (combo or amp+speaker) for clean tones and what is for lead tone according to Phillip McKnight?
Yea sx. Overall ridiculously cheap and good guitars that play well. Do the review!
hi Phil canada here
it was worth it 😊
Hey Philip! What mini head would you recommend for metal? I currently use guitar rig 5 pro but I want to move into actual amps here in the near future and since I'm not in a band and just bedroom player the 6505+ will most likely be too much amp for me. I would love to hear your opinion and if you have these amps in store I'm local and can come check them out!
Hey Phil, what do you think about the Guitar Fetish bodies? I'm about to undertake a tele rebuild because of some damage that one of my tele's took, it's basically a total rebuild, new neck and body, I'm going to salvage all the hardware, but I don't want to spend a whole lot of money. I'm looking at getting a true fender (Mexican) replacement neck because of the aesthetics and I've heard the quality of other aftermarket necks are suspect, but I'm looking at the GFS bodies for price. Any thoughts?
Have you heard of iron gear pick ups if you have let me know what you think about them ? Thanks
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PRS SE Standard 245 or Epiphone Les Paul Standard Plustop Pro?
Please do reviews on the Agile guitars from Rondo
They're good
Do you remember Quilter amps??? Whats your thoughts on them???
I reviewed one. I liked it. I want to try one with reverb now.
yes sx please
Some chickens can fly. The ones we breed for food and eggs cant but some of the more primitive breeds like a Sumatra will roost in trees.
I just have a quick question. Does anyone know which hipshot locking tuners go on a G&L legacy USA?
Phill how are the old style Prs ce24 compared to the new ones. Is 1100 a good price for one? Thanks
old CEs are far superior instruments
why don't Gibson or Epi make the Junior every year?
SX-yes do it!!!!!
TIFA... If you see this... It doesn't look like Guitar Center ships any Gibson products period to Egypt... If you go to Guitar Center and find International shipping www.guitarcenter.com/search?Ns=r&Ntt=international+shipping ... Then go shopping it will list the brands that are available to Egypt. Gibson, unfortunately, does not ship new, or used. Sorry!
I know that guitar center doesn't ship 2 Egypt. my cousins live in nj and I visit them often. next time I visit im planning on getting a les paul standard from guitar center cause I dont like buying guitars from where I live. thanks for the info though. you should visit Egypt :-)
That's great! Good luck on your hunt for one... In the meantime, you can look at used Gibsons on Reverb, eBay, etc., at least that will give you some idea of the pricing. They do ship to Egypt, but only certain brands... When you put your country in on the page noted above, and you search for electric guitars, they show all the brands available to ship to Egypt. Gibson just doesn't happen to be one. It would be great to visit... Don't have that kind of money though. Best of luck!
+vechap yeah I looked at a lot of used Gibson but all I can find are ones above 1000 bucks and I have a 500 $ budget so I think im gonna have 2 stick with Epiphone right now
Really, one guy... Dislikes... How? ???
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Peavey is actually the devil
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Reliced guitars suck