Highlighted question 47:50 Bands With Bad Tone, But Good Songs? 56:19 Walmart selling Name Brand guitars and gear? Question Index 0:00 Some of the patterns that make the show happen. 2:10 Gibson Les Paul or PRS Custom 24? 4:40 Do you think Marshall will have cabs for Origin amps? 6:00 EMG picks ups and A1 steak sauce. 7:30 The guitar that got away!!!! 9:19 What Fender 1x12 or 2x12 sounds like a bigger Blues Jr? th-cam.com/video/Q7jnrQwLPm0/w-d-xo.html 11:41 Why I Left MGC knowyourgear.net/video-of-the-week 18:16 Do I miss my guitar line and or store? 21:14 Shirt of the month? Hollow-body and new logo shirt teespring.com/stores/know-your-gear-shop-2 22:49 Are you going to keep your PRS MT15? 25:09 Thoughts on Fender V mod pick ups? 26:40 Im going to G&L and my thoughts about it. 32:51 What mods are on my Jazz bass? 34:00 I will be doing repairs to the public starting next month 38:37 Speaker ohms www.colomar.com/Shavano/4x12wiring.html 39:50 Best HH guitar for the money? 41:15 Gear you should know knowyourgear.net/gear-you-should-know 43:29 What is your favorite auto wah pedal? th-cam.com/video/ErAfb46WtYg/w-d-xo.html 45:52 PRS and Gibson BMW vs Truck? 47:50 Bands With Bad Tone, But Good Songs? 52:35 Ikea Benches for amp display 54:37 #KYG40,200,40 update 55:47 Loose weight playing your Les Paul 56:19 Walmart selling Name Brand guitars and gear? 59:49 Show and tell mail bag 1:07:45 Artist personalty vs their work? 1:08:45 Our shout out page. Check it out knowyourgear.net/shout-outs-1 1:12:00 NEW CEO of Gibson
Phil, truly enjoy your content and like the direction of the channel and website. Yes, review the Strymon, please. You’ve pointed out pet peeves of yours numerous times, and I’m going to point out one of mine. When EMG pickups are referred to in a broad and inaccurate way, using the term, “EMG’s” but ignoring the widely varied range of pickups they produce, but only speaking in terms of the historically significant, and decent sounding, but commonplace, 81/85 set. The EMG RetroActive pickups asked about are an entire line of pickups geared towards classic rock, and not the metal bite of the 81. I think, based on your expressed opinions and preferences, you would really enjoy exploring the range of retroactive EMG’s. They also offer many signature pickups and pickup sets, that differ significantly from each other and from the 81/85 or 81/89 sets. Even better, they offer many splittable humbuckers, single coils, and my personal preference, the “X” series pickups which I love for guitar and bass. Nothing against the iconic 81, it’s the pickup used on 14 of the top 20 metal albums of all time, but EMG is so much more than just the 81. Sorry to sound like I work for them, I just have used so many of their pickups, enjoyed them, and been happy with them playing many different styles of music.
i dont mean to be so off topic but does anyone know of a tool to log back into an Instagram account? I stupidly forgot my login password. I love any help you can offer me
@Juelz Zander I really appreciate your reply. I found the site thru google and I'm in the hacking process now. Looks like it's gonna take a while so I will get back to you later with my results.
Store hours are grueling and retail is one of the hardest things to do profitably in the world. Did a Store for 12 years and that was enough for me. 6 in the morning till 9:00 at night plus Saturdays.
To Phil & all the guys helping in the background-thank you for valuing and protecting the community, and helping those just starting out in youtube. Y’all are all good people. We appreciate your hard work.
Great show Phil. Love the continuity, and flow of the show lately. Having some things planned out removes the awkward pauses etc. Thanks for the excellent work on what must be a difficult task.
Watching replay, great show as always Phill, looking forward to the G & L, experience, thank you, and Thank You for your Time, much Appreciated, Cheers
Thanks for this vid Phil, liked it way more than last 3. I watch always but I gotta you when you’re hitting homers. Your communication skills are getting better, more interpersonal skills to bring us in your funky world and let us be sonic voyeurs. Tell us more on setup of shelves and setups for our home setups. Interior decorating for the studio guitarist, cable mgmt, etc love ya buddy
I've seen so many people raving over certain artists' tones when, in fact, they just liked the song writing and the performance in question. So, yes, I think you got it spot on, Phil!
From Leo: Good show, it looked like you were relaxed and having a good time. I have found G&L guitars to be very good, and I have Fenders to compare with. The tribute line from Indonesia is like the better LTD guitars, very well made and detailed. The ASAT, the Strat style Legacy and Ascari models are all keepers. They are guitars I have felt no need to modify.
i got a G&L ASAT Classic, its a 97-98 model. I love it! Its great! It has a smaller width of the neck then my other guitars. It sounds amazing through my twin reverb!
I had the same experience with "Bad tone, Good songs". Early Metallica immediately popped into my head. Still, I wore out a lot of Metallica cassette tapes back in the day. Epic songs...
I got HipShot Sk1 (knurled/industrial) tuner buttons on my Fender locking tuners. Amazingly, they still work with my Roadie Bass Automatic tuner. EDIT: Neither the black nor the nickel (only two I tried) versions fit out of the box on Fender's poles/pegs. I had to spend 5 to 10 odd minutes on each button with some needle files. Their holes were just slightly too small and tight.
If you search for guitar gear on Walmart, scroll down, and it'll show the true seller. Walmart just shows the search results and item (kinda like a store on Amazon or even eBay) while it is actually sold and shipped by musical brands such as "Music123" among others.
That's really odd. I used to be a big Sperzel fan also but over the past year I have changed my opinion. I'm totally off Sperzel now Good to see you Happy and Healthy. One of the biggest things you do right with your guitar repair is your check list when you take it in. Did the same thing in my business... Filled it out and left it each and every time I saw a client. I took measurements, made comments. and had it all in writing for each call I made... It was invaluable. Congrats on the weight. I'm loosing that battle right now.
My American G&L ASAT is the best Tele I’ve ever played and owned! I also find their quality is also better than the majority of comparable Fenders out there that are around the same and higher priced.
Man my live stream cut out the other day and I know them are Hufschmid picks. Look at his guitars, his electronic cavities are a work of art, so clean looking
Phil, loved your take on the MT15! Have been on the fence about pullin the trigger on a Archon. Just cant justify the expense. And along comes the MT15. May just be the solution I need thru my Mesa 2x12 cab w Vintage 30s.
Request for details from G&L regarding the MFD design and specifically the split z pickups, I read somewhere that those were one of Leo's last electric guitar inventions.G&L bridges seem very interesting and look like they would be very comfortable under the picking palm. Their bass lineup looks incredible too, I'm having a similar option paralysis that you described.
Dime's tone is pretty controversial. I can be a bit of a cork sniffer, but despite the cheap solid state heads, I think his tone is tight, unique and great.
A major problem with sending a guitar away for setups is that the temperature and humidity can change too much and potentially throw the setup out of whack causing it to need a setup again.
Strymon Big Sky review would be awsome! I am also interested in Source Audio products, I just picked up the LA Lady drive, its very nice and intuitive.
My main guitar is a g and l s500 tribute. I love it. But is really heavy. Also I actually really want humbuckers so my next guitar will be the fallout which has a really cool pick up design.
When you buy online at Walmart it says it ships by another company like Music 123, Sweet Water etc. You pay Walmart price and your items get sent to either your local Walmart to pick up at the store or delivered to your home. Walmart is just competing with Amazon Walmart does not become a dealer sell gear in-store.
Yeah I got one of the newer zoom multi pedals and it came from a music company in new york. Well it was a sound and entertainment place that also sold instruments
I'm the guitar player that translates to a cook who is like, I'm gonna throw in these bananas with this trout and some habanero peppers, no I mean ghost peppers. BAM.
Hi Phil !! I have a Question and Statement in a way lol ! Im 55 and Live in East Texas 30 miles East of Downtown Houston not as close as it sounds . I buy my Guitars Online the Majority of the time because the nearest Guitar Center is 25 to 30 miles away . In my 35 yrs of being a Guitarist I never really needed to learn how to finish or polish frets or take out and replace a PUP . In the last few yrs do to TH-cam and great Channels like you and Wills easy , The Guitarologist and so on . The problem is Guitar Center is far away and charge a flat fee of $50 dollars to do a set up I have taught myself to do these things but sometimes there are several things I may need done and dont have the experience or tools to do them as well as not being secure in my abilities . There are no Luthier's anywhere near me . I have searched and there are other Counties near me who have no access to a place to do Luthier work on their Guitars . I have considered opening my own shop but cannot get a line of credit to get started or a partner as I'm sure I would be swamped with people needing setups ect. Do you have any Ideas of how to lure Guitar selling and repair stores to my town . Its a Gold mine for someone with the skills and tools to do so ! Sorry this came out more of a rant then a Q&A but its really frustrating !! Like stated I could do most of the work on my own Guitars but just buying a Quality set of tools would cost more then the part or repair its self . Its a dying skill yet more people are playing then ever but lack the ability to do a Neck adjustment the 1st thing I taught myself ..
The issue I have with some Zeppelin recordings or records is Page's tone; and not even on some songs - but on others. For a while I could not listen to Presence and Physical Graffitie (spelling?). On Presence - for a precursor (more than actual- imho) metal band - Page's tone is very tinny. It works somehow on some songs and others it hurts. Physical is where that tone seemed to start but (Ten Years Gone which works for the most part), he uses a lot of phasing (both tinny and fuzzy) and so forth type distortion on that album as well . I can't tell sometimes where it's Page's tone begins and just how it was recorded ends. All I know is that when the recordings is were remastered these hard to describe- ables - were not helped any. As much as Page was around a studio when he was younger, stereo gear not withstanding - I don't know - that sound would get to me. I liked Page's tone much better when he used a Tele. A nicer humbucker sound comes through on Houses of the Holy (Bring it on Home). When he went to that tinny tone... I don't know. I like the songs but the tone I can only hear from time to time. ( My fav on Presence was - For Your Life, most hated- Royal Orleans which is a great song, but a more Straty tone? would have been better). Thanks for commenting on this because I always had a hard time expressing this up until now. NO knock on Page as a guitarist so please don't hate me, but of the british / American core 4 at the time : Hendrix, Clapton, Beck and then Page in that order... for me... and then there is everyone else ( and I love many others - Peter Green, Santana, Buddy Guy.. blues kings dudes and so on.. just so you know where I stand on that issue re style and playing, tone and what I like - not necessarily who is best). Lastly, I am admittedly a product of my generation as far as musical taste is concerned.
I’m new to electric guitars. And I was wondering if it’s a good idea to buy used pickups? Like from eBay or other online sites. If it’s ok do you have some tips for getting a good deal and not getting screwed.
About the Walmart thing, retailers are cross leveraging each others platforms to reach the partner retailer's customer base. This is the reason Sears' Kenmore brand is sold on Amazon. The eBay item you bought that was shipped from amazon was an individual trying to make a quick buck. The bestbuy incident could have been a third party seller using their platform but who fulfilled your order via Amazon
Phil, I completely agree with your comment regarding Metallica's guitar sound. I would say the production of the early stuff was weak. However, when Bob Rock took over production duties, it completely transformed their sound.... Just incredible, everything kicked ads
Great songs but "bad" tone? Dimebag Darrell. Dude broke every single gear snob rule you could possibly ever think of to break, did all the standard guitar store tricks at major concerts, drank more booze than Lemmy and rocked every damn face that his ever graced. Rest in Peace.
For a modern "punk" band(depending what you view as punk) Red City Radio's lead singer played a Orange Dual Dark. People who didn't even play guitar noticed how bad it sounded
Alejandro Escovedo said "If you thought we sounded good, you weren't listening." All that I can actually remember was how well Jennifer Miro did the singing nekkid thing.
Some of these may not fit one's definition of "old Punk," but Tom Verlaine, Greg Sage, Tim Kerr, Joe Baiza, Robert Quine, Greg Ginn, Tom Flynn, Steve Jones, Thurston Moore & Lee Renaldo, Billy Zoom, Johnny Thunders, Kid Congo Powers, Roland Howard, Mike Morasky, Ward Dotson, Larissa Strickland, Paul Leary, Keith Levene, Steve Albini, Guy Kyser, and Jeffrey Lee Pierce (on the later albums especially) are some guitarists whose tone and style were right on for their respective bands and music. Whether or not they had good tone, I don't know. I never thought it bad, but then I never really thought much about tone at all until a couple years ago....
Hey Phil, happy subscriber here. I built a parts castor with a warmoth compound radius neck with an American special body and highly regarded hardware. I had it setup nice but still a bit of buzz so I sent it to a very well renown tech in my area to have my frets leveled and crowned to reduce this and hoped for the best. I got it back and the action was higher and the buzz was more prominent. I don’t know what to do as an amateur who sets up guitars for friends and such I expected a better playing guitar but that’s not what I received. After spending an extra $200 for all that I’m at a loss. It still buzzes and maybe worse. What is your suggestion to get my Strat on point. My guitar was in line behind Grammy nominated guitar players and once complete I was back at square one with the same issues if not worse. Love what you do and any reply would be much appreciated. Best AB
Know it's an old post, but the Metallica, yep, knew that was coming. Reminded me immediately of Kirk Hammett's description of their diet in the early days. So those albums were steak and lobster songs with "bologna on hand" tone...they couldn't even afford bread!
Phil, I don’t necessarily agree with your hypothesis that we love the song, then the guitar player, then seek out the gear to recreate it, but only as far as the loving the guitar player part. I have always liked the early VanHalen tones, like some of the guitar music, but have zero interest in Edward himself, or any music he’s made since 1983 and before. I love plenty of tones found in Death metal, but never listen to the music, and couldn’t identify a guitarist if they were on stage with a nametag, but I may occasionally try to find out the gear. As for great music with lousy guitar tone, and this will not be popular, but I have always liked the beatles, but so many of their songs have a terrible guitar tone that somehow fits perfectly in the song. 1970’s era Judas Priest had uninspiring guitar tone, to say the least, and even for the time it was awful.
That really makes me mad when I buy from one supplier and it comes to me from someone else. If that was not prearranged with me and it happens I will no longer buy from that supplier.
Hi Phil! Love your videos, watch all of them. I am from Brazil and we don't have access to all of the gears you show, because of price and availability, not everything arrive at the country. One suggestion for the Gear You should know is the Brazilian company GNI for pedals. nigmusic.com.br/gni/ (in US they sell by the name GNI). Somebody once asked you about the GNI AS-1, but you didn't know them. What I think it would be fun is to find out how a gear we can get our hands on stands up to all this great stuff you already have tried and showed. I believe international viewers would love you to try gears we can access and be compared to the references on the market. Cheers from Brazil.
Interesting that Gibson would ask the former C.E.O. not to talk crap about Gibson. He has no room to talk smack about Memphis or Bozeman and anything he would say about Gibson U.S.A. would essentially be cutting his own throat.
Wal-Mart's selling brand names but their not really from Wal-Mart their like 3rd party actual music shops or The equivalent, but your paying through Wal-Mart's website
Slash Firebird! looking really good these days go Epiphone/Gibson! yeah . thumbs up, baby! oh one more thing . U ROCK, baby! ha . ha . from fan michael t wyman LA CA USA jam night guitarist and fellow TH-camr yeah . I looked for ya a bit . at . NAMM but whooa .. .it was HUGE this year . 2020 keep it Rocking baby
randy rhoads always sounded like he was playing through one of those shitty little practice amps that come in a starter pack with the first act walmart guitar. pantera too, but it worked for their music
What goes on here?...Randy Rhoads has a especially monsterous one, both tonally and sonically? Randy Rhoads set the paramount high water mark on the guitar hero pinnacle! Outside of DimeBag no one in metal ever fused it all together, really no one ever sounded better than Randy Rhoads? and then DimeBag never got as gritty as Randy does or did on the Children of the Grave live version from the Ozzy & Randy Tribute Album?...Some peoples kids?...LoL...8P
Rhoads amp settings were bass 2 mid 4 to 6 and highs 7 to 9. The gain wasn't as high as you would think. Mainly he used volume to dirty up his tone just like Eddie.
Randy Rhoads tone on the first two Ozzy albums influenced a generation of hard rock and metal guitarists, and songwriters. His live tone was spectacular, and ahead of his time. His talent was immense and undeniable, and growing up in a musical family allowed him to develop a range of skills that was extremely rare for the time. He combined classical, jazz, bebop, and rock and helped expand what a guitar player could create. While most of his contemporaries did great stuff while mostly using pentatonic patterns and staying in the root note key, he used a variety of scales and was a pioneer at using modes, transposing modes, and utilizing a tonal center that shifted. EVH was great, but he couldn’t do any of those things, and wouldn’t understand the theory behind it, anyways, as he’s the ultimate “feel” player. Randy Rhoads also wrote songs using keys like F# minor, and B, when the vast majority of guitar players wrote in open keys E min or A min. It’s one facet of his writing that Ozzy was blown away by. He actually did use a cheap little amp often, and that cheap little amp, with him playing through it, amazed the guy who’d been more than a decade with the man who is more responsible for the guitar tones that defined the massive and varied genre that is metal. Randy Rhoads also used chord voicings that were not commonly utilized in rock and metal for 30 years after his tragic and far too early demise. As for Dime, to say he had “a” lead tone is just uninformed. Dime in the studio would use any number of pedals, at many different settings, sometimes randomly combining and experimenting with the tape rolling. Live, he might use tones close to the recording, and sometimes he would use lead tones he discovered by accident while partying the night before. A true free spirit and creative genius.
I think the recording technology was up to snuff, it was just the production techniques of the time. No telling what was done in post. All I seem to recall reading was that his amp was mic'd with some SM57s. I know the tone on Diary was much improved over Blizzard. That being said, it's possible his tracks were reamped and re-mic'd, which was a common practice in the days of Marshall stacks. I never was a huge fan of the way Blizzard of Ozz sounded sonically. It's so good musically I forgive it, but it's always sounded like a demo with great playing. Even the Tribute album has some issues, but the guitar sounds quite impressive. Though it's hard to judge with live albums, because nearly every band tweaks their live recordings. One problem I have is just how much reverb Diary has on it. Then Blizzard sounds so dry and muffled. It's too bad you couldn't get the MFSL people on it. Oh well, we're just lucky we can get the albums as they were recorded again.
This is the Ikea Bench. I had to get one. Thanks for the inspiration Phil! m.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/ART/40241451/ Molger Bench was $39.95 at my store.
Talking about Metallica’s tone, my buddy has a Kirk Hammett signature Randall half stack and it sounds like complete garbage! It’s so “loose” sounding and fuzzy.
Half the metallica albums and some of the Megadeth albums have the worst tones omg but so great anyway, System of down is another band with crappy tone but theyre still awesome
Geddy Lee's bass tone is not to my taste, though I love Rush songs. Jimmy Page's Danelectro is awfully weak sounding. And his In-Though-The Out-Door sound is horrible.
F Walmart, they're the reason you can't afford a decent guitar. The Walton family owns close to half the wealth in the US. That's your money, they stole it, whether legally or not it's pure corruption!
Fender stopped being Fender when Leo sold the company to CBS. The man who designed them went in another direction so do you want a true Fender designed by Leo go G&L
Here is some heresy: the tones on Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs are awful. That album is incredible, but people act like the guitar tones are something to emulate. The tones are what happens when everyone is too high to give a crap.
Phillip, re Gibson, Just bought online a new old stock 2015 Les Paul CM from Sam Ash for $459.99. I have a 2015 Gibson LP Jr and find the CM amazing. It has a carved maple top and concave mahogany body which is slightly thicker than an SG and weighs about 7 lbs. The neck is standard-width with sanded, buffed and oiled fingerboard. The pickup is a 61 Zebra with mismatched coils for a PAF tone. The CM is imo so much better than a LP Jr. They bought out Gibson's remaining stock and are selling them online. Here is the link for which they have limited qtys..... www.samash.com/gibson-usa-les-paul-cm-2015-electric-guitar-glpcm15se-p
46:28 flame top Les Paul - I agree completely. PRS may not be the first, but flame tops are their dna/reputation. Les Pauls, to me anyway, are burst or simple color tops. A flame top Les Paul looks like it wants to be a PRS. that sounds wrong on so many levels. I love and own both guitars and respect & appreciate their tonal/aesthetic differences.
Highlighted question
47:50 Bands With Bad Tone, But Good Songs?
56:19 Walmart selling Name Brand guitars and gear?
Question Index
0:00 Some of the patterns that make the show happen.
2:10 Gibson Les Paul or PRS Custom 24?
4:40 Do you think Marshall will have cabs for Origin amps?
6:00 EMG picks ups and A1 steak sauce.
7:30 The guitar that got away!!!!
9:19 What Fender 1x12 or 2x12 sounds like a bigger Blues Jr?
th-cam.com/video/Q7jnrQwLPm0/w-d-xo.html
11:41 Why I Left MGC
knowyourgear.net/video-of-the-week
18:16 Do I miss my guitar line and or store?
21:14 Shirt of the month? Hollow-body and new logo shirt
teespring.com/stores/know-your-gear-shop-2
22:49 Are you going to keep your PRS MT15?
25:09 Thoughts on Fender V mod pick ups?
26:40 Im going to G&L and my thoughts about it.
32:51 What mods are on my Jazz bass?
34:00 I will be doing repairs to the public starting next month
38:37 Speaker ohms
www.colomar.com/Shavano/4x12wiring.html
39:50 Best HH guitar for the money?
41:15 Gear you should know
knowyourgear.net/gear-you-should-know
43:29 What is your favorite auto wah pedal?
th-cam.com/video/ErAfb46WtYg/w-d-xo.html
45:52 PRS and Gibson BMW vs Truck?
47:50 Bands With Bad Tone, But Good Songs?
52:35 Ikea Benches for amp display
54:37 #KYG40,200,40 update
55:47 Loose weight playing your Les Paul
56:19 Walmart selling Name Brand guitars and gear?
59:49 Show and tell mail bag
1:07:45 Artist personalty vs their work?
1:08:45 Our shout out page. Check it out
knowyourgear.net/shout-outs-1
1:12:00 NEW CEO of Gibson
I'm sure you'll like those G&Ls. Just have to find the one you prefer
Phil, truly enjoy your content and like the direction of the channel and website.
Yes, review the Strymon, please.
You’ve pointed out pet peeves of yours numerous times, and I’m going to point out one of mine.
When EMG pickups are referred to in a broad and inaccurate way, using the term, “EMG’s” but ignoring the widely varied range of pickups they produce, but only speaking in terms of the historically significant, and decent sounding, but commonplace, 81/85 set.
The EMG RetroActive pickups asked about are an entire line of pickups geared towards classic rock, and not the metal bite of the 81. I think, based on your expressed opinions and preferences, you would really enjoy exploring the range of retroactive EMG’s.
They also offer many signature pickups and pickup sets, that differ significantly from each other and from the 81/85 or 81/89 sets.
Even better, they offer many splittable humbuckers, single coils, and my personal preference, the “X” series pickups which I love for guitar and bass.
Nothing against the iconic 81, it’s the pickup used on 14 of the top 20 metal albums of all time, but EMG is so much more than just the 81.
Sorry to sound like I work for them, I just have used so many of their pickups, enjoyed them, and been happy with them playing many different styles of music.
i dont mean to be so off topic but does anyone know of a tool to log back into an Instagram account?
I stupidly forgot my login password. I love any help you can offer me
@Eric Brendan instablaster :)
@Juelz Zander I really appreciate your reply. I found the site thru google and I'm in the hacking process now.
Looks like it's gonna take a while so I will get back to you later with my results.
Store hours are grueling and retail is one of the hardest things to do profitably in the world. Did a Store for 12 years and that was enough for me. 6 in the morning till 9:00 at night plus Saturdays.
To Phil & all the guys helping in the background-thank you for valuing and protecting the community, and helping those just starting out in youtube. Y’all are all good people. We appreciate your hard work.
Brilliant banter, Phillip ! Best live Q&A, yet. Like hanging with a bro . You set the 'vibe' bar up, a coupla notches.
Great show Phil. Love the continuity, and flow of the show lately. Having some things planned out removes the awkward pauses etc. Thanks for the excellent work on what must be a difficult task.
great comment to Phil M. I agree . 100%
I love the chef/guitarist theory. Totally on point.
Watching replay, great show as always Phill, looking forward to the G & L, experience, thank you, and Thank You for your Time, much Appreciated, Cheers
Thanks for the weekly content. Carry on!!
Thanks for this vid Phil, liked it way more than last 3. I watch always but I gotta you when you’re hitting homers. Your communication skills are getting better, more interpersonal skills to bring us in your funky world and let us be sonic voyeurs. Tell us more on setup of shelves and setups for our home setups. Interior decorating for the studio guitarist, cable mgmt, etc love ya buddy
I've seen so many people raving over certain artists' tones when, in fact, they just liked the song writing and the performance in question. So, yes, I think you got it spot on, Phil!
I wish I could’ve caught the show today! Always love watching on fridays
Fun show as always! Thanks Phil!
From Leo: Good show, it looked like you were relaxed and having a good time. I have found G&L guitars to be very good, and I have Fenders to compare with. The tribute line from Indonesia is like the better LTD guitars, very well made and detailed. The ASAT, the Strat style Legacy and Ascari models are all keepers. They are guitars I have felt no need to modify.
i got a G&L ASAT Classic, its a 97-98 model. I love it! Its great! It has a smaller width of the neck then my other guitars. It sounds amazing through my twin reverb!
I also did a gear review on my channel if you want to check it out phil. Its one of my first videos! but just a simple to hear some sounds.
I had the same experience with "Bad tone, Good songs". Early Metallica immediately popped into my head. Still, I wore out a lot of Metallica cassette tapes back in the day. Epic songs...
Great video Phil. And you're looking great man. Keep it up.
I bought two Maestro by Gibson SG's for my brother and my nephew via Walmart. Other than fret sprout, they were decent.
I got HipShot Sk1 (knurled/industrial) tuner buttons on my Fender locking tuners. Amazingly, they still work with my Roadie Bass Automatic tuner.
EDIT: Neither the black nor the nickel (only two I tried) versions fit out of the box on Fender's poles/pegs. I had to spend 5 to 10 odd minutes on each button with some needle files. Their holes were just slightly too small and tight.
If you search for guitar gear on Walmart, scroll down, and it'll show the true seller. Walmart just shows the search results and item (kinda like a store on Amazon or even eBay) while it is actually sold and shipped by musical brands such as "Music123" among others.
Kill em all had that thin guitar tone, but on the ride the lightning those guitars were just fabulous. Cheers.
That's really odd. I used to be a big Sperzel fan also but over the past year I have changed my opinion. I'm totally off Sperzel now Good to see you Happy and Healthy. One of the biggest things you do right with your guitar repair is your check list when you take it in. Did the same thing in my business... Filled it out and left it each and every time I saw a client. I took measurements, made comments. and had it all in writing for each call I made... It was invaluable.
Congrats on the weight. I'm loosing that battle right now.
My American G&L ASAT is the best Tele I’ve ever played and owned! I also find their quality is also better than the majority of comparable Fenders out there that are around the same and higher priced.
Thank you for the gear repair videos there so helpful
Man my live stream cut out the other day and I know them are Hufschmid picks. Look at his guitars, his electronic cavities are a work of art, so clean looking
Phil, loved your take on the MT15! Have been on the fence about pullin the trigger on a Archon. Just cant justify the expense. And along comes the MT15. May just be the solution I need thru my Mesa 2x12 cab w Vintage 30s.
I was late to the show - as always, sorry... but thanks so much for the shout Phillip!
Request for details from G&L regarding the MFD design and specifically the split z pickups, I read somewhere that those were one of Leo's last electric guitar inventions.G&L bridges seem very interesting and look like they would be very comfortable under the picking palm. Their bass lineup looks incredible too, I'm having a similar option paralysis that you described.
Dime's tone is pretty controversial. I can be a bit of a cork sniffer, but despite the cheap solid state heads, I think his tone is tight, unique and great.
A major problem with sending a guitar away for setups is that the temperature and humidity can change too much and potentially throw the setup out of whack causing it to need a setup again.
New tech tips already recorded from now until Jan? YASSSS!
Subscribed because I thought you looked like John Ritter... Stayed because of the wealth of knowledge!
Tech Tips!!!!! You Rock Sir!
Twisted Sister, Wanna Rock Tone, so bad. We (80s), loved it. Randy Was harsh too.
Strymon Big Sky review would be awsome!
I am also interested in Source Audio products, I just picked up the LA Lady drive, its very nice and intuitive.
My main guitar is a g and l s500 tribute. I love it. But is really heavy. Also I actually really want humbuckers so my next guitar will be the fallout which has a really cool pick up design.
When you buy online at Walmart it says it ships by another company like Music 123, Sweet Water etc.
You pay Walmart price and your items get sent to either your local Walmart to pick up at the store or delivered to your home.
Walmart is just competing with Amazon Walmart does not become a dealer sell gear in-store.
Exactly. In the product, it actually says, fulfilled by xyz company.
Yeah I got one of the newer zoom multi pedals and it came from a music company in new york. Well it was a sound and entertainment place that also sold instruments
I'm the guitar player that translates to a cook who is like, I'm gonna throw in these bananas with this trout and some habanero peppers, no I mean ghost peppers. BAM.
Hi Phil !! I have a Question and Statement in a way lol ! Im 55 and Live in East Texas 30 miles East of Downtown Houston not as close as it sounds . I buy my Guitars Online the Majority of the time because the nearest Guitar Center is 25 to 30 miles away . In my 35 yrs of being a Guitarist I never really needed to learn how to finish or polish frets or take out and replace a PUP . In the last few yrs do to TH-cam and great Channels like you and Wills easy , The Guitarologist and so on . The problem is Guitar Center is far away and charge a flat fee of $50 dollars to do a set up I have taught myself to do these things but sometimes there are several things I may need done and dont have the experience or tools to do them as well as not being secure in my abilities . There are no Luthier's anywhere near me . I have searched and there are other Counties near me who have no access to a place to do Luthier work on their Guitars . I have considered opening my own shop but cannot get a line of credit to get started or a partner as I'm sure I would be swamped with people needing setups ect. Do you have any Ideas of how to lure Guitar selling and repair stores to my town . Its a Gold mine for someone with the skills and tools to do so ! Sorry this came out more of a rant then a Q&A but its really frustrating !! Like stated I could do most of the work on my own Guitars but just buying a Quality set of tools would cost more then the part or repair its self . Its a dying skill yet more people are playing then ever but lack the ability to do a Neck adjustment the 1st thing I taught myself ..
The issue I have with some Zeppelin recordings or records is Page's tone; and not even on some songs - but on others. For a while I could not listen to Presence and Physical Graffitie (spelling?). On Presence - for a precursor (more than actual- imho) metal band - Page's tone is very tinny. It works somehow on some songs and others it hurts. Physical is where that tone seemed to start but (Ten Years Gone which works for the most part), he uses a lot of phasing (both tinny and fuzzy) and so forth type distortion on that album as well . I can't tell sometimes where it's Page's tone begins and just how it was recorded ends. All I know is that when the recordings is were remastered these hard to describe- ables - were not helped any. As much as Page was around a studio when he was younger, stereo gear not withstanding - I don't know - that sound would get to me. I liked Page's tone much better when he used a Tele. A nicer humbucker sound comes through on Houses of the Holy (Bring it on Home). When he went to that tinny tone... I don't know. I like the songs but the tone I can only hear from time to time. ( My fav on Presence was - For Your Life, most hated- Royal Orleans which is a great song, but a more Straty tone? would have been better). Thanks for commenting on this because I always had a hard time expressing this up until now. NO knock on Page as a guitarist so please don't hate me, but of the british / American core 4 at the time : Hendrix, Clapton, Beck and then Page in that order... for me... and then there is everyone else ( and I love many others - Peter Green, Santana, Buddy Guy.. blues kings dudes and so on.. just so you know where I stand on that issue re style and playing, tone and what I like - not necessarily who is best). Lastly, I am admittedly a product of my generation as far as musical taste is concerned.
I’m new to electric guitars. And I was wondering if it’s a good idea to buy used pickups? Like from eBay or other online sites. If it’s ok do you have some tips for getting a good deal and not getting screwed.
About the Walmart thing, retailers are cross leveraging each others platforms to reach the partner retailer's customer base. This is the reason Sears' Kenmore brand is sold on Amazon. The eBay item you bought that was shipped from amazon was an individual trying to make a quick buck. The bestbuy incident could have been a third party seller using their platform but who fulfilled your order via Amazon
Phil, I completely agree with your comment regarding Metallica's guitar sound. I would say the production of the early stuff was weak. However, when Bob Rock took over production duties, it completely transformed their sound.... Just incredible, everything kicked ads
Hey Phil, what are your amp stands? I think you said Ikea, but I can't find them on their website.
Great songs but "bad" tone? Dimebag Darrell. Dude broke every single gear snob rule you could possibly ever think of to break, did all the standard guitar store tricks at major concerts, drank more booze than Lemmy and rocked every damn face that his ever graced. Rest in Peace.
Tele HH Squire... I never had a Hh liked more. Never outta tune and just a solid guitar
Peavey made 4ohm 4x12 cabs.
Old punk albums had terrible, terrible tone. But I love classic punk.
For a modern "punk" band(depending what you view as punk)
Red City Radio's lead singer played a Orange Dual Dark. People who didn't even play guitar noticed how bad it sounded
Yeah but those militant, snare-snap drumbeats were really cool.
Alejandro Escovedo said "If you thought we sounded good, you weren't listening." All that I can actually remember was how well Jennifer Miro did the singing nekkid thing.
Some but not all. One terrible tone was most of Minor Threat’s discography, not so much salad days or out of step.
Some of these may not fit one's definition of "old Punk," but Tom Verlaine, Greg Sage, Tim Kerr, Joe Baiza, Robert Quine, Greg Ginn, Tom Flynn, Steve Jones, Thurston Moore & Lee Renaldo, Billy Zoom, Johnny Thunders, Kid Congo Powers, Roland Howard, Mike Morasky, Ward Dotson, Larissa Strickland, Paul Leary, Keith Levene, Steve Albini, Guy Kyser, and Jeffrey Lee Pierce (on the later albums especially) are some guitarists whose tone and style were right on for their respective bands and music. Whether or not they had good tone, I don't know. I never thought it bad, but then I never really thought much about tone at all until a couple years ago....
Hey Phil, happy subscriber here. I built a parts castor with a warmoth compound radius neck with an American special body and highly regarded hardware. I had it setup nice but still a bit of buzz so I sent it to a very well renown tech in my area to have my frets leveled and crowned to reduce this and hoped for the best. I got it back and the action was higher and the buzz was more prominent. I don’t know what to do as an amateur who sets up guitars for friends and such I expected a better playing guitar but that’s not what I received. After spending an extra $200 for all that I’m at a loss. It still buzzes and maybe worse. What is your suggestion to get my Strat on point. My guitar was in line behind Grammy nominated guitar players and once complete I was back at square one with the same issues if not worse. Love what you do and any reply would be much appreciated. Best AB
Great song, horrible tone? Anything with Randy Rhoads. SO CONFLICTED.
I always said i didnt like metallica's tone but i love the songs
Hi, Phillip! Why does my guitar buzz electrically when I'm not touching the strings?
Agree with theory
To recreate that meal you gotta be a good player
I always miss the live show lol. No matter I'll watch it all now. Keep up the good work.
Know it's an old post, but the Metallica, yep, knew that was coming. Reminded me immediately of Kirk Hammett's description of their diet in the early days. So those albums were steak and lobster songs with "bologna on hand" tone...they couldn't even afford bread!
Well I got an IKEA pedal board, so... :-) The most expensive being the velcro tape.
Walmart.com is like amazon. Anyone can can sell through them. I seen a Les Paul being sold from a music store in indiana.
Bell end was the one who got the hufschmid first
Hey Phil! What do you think of the new indonesian Tremonti Prs singlecut?
Phil, I don’t necessarily agree with your hypothesis that we love the song, then the guitar player, then seek out the gear to recreate it, but only as far as the loving the guitar player part.
I have always liked the early VanHalen tones, like some of the guitar music, but have zero interest in Edward himself, or any music he’s made since 1983 and before.
I love plenty of tones found in Death metal, but never listen to the music, and couldn’t identify a guitarist if they were on stage with a nametag, but I may occasionally try to find out the gear.
As for great music with lousy guitar tone, and this will not be popular, but I have always liked the beatles, but so many of their songs have a terrible guitar tone that somehow fits perfectly in the song.
1970’s era Judas Priest had uninspiring guitar tone, to say the least, and even for the time it was awful.
Friends don't let friends auto-wah.
Pretty sure my Peavey Classic VTX has a 4 ohm minimum impedance but I could be wrong.
I'm making the IKEA Hejne into pedalboards
More than a few Beatles songs have crap tone. Keith Richards famously called George Harrison's tone "crap."
That really makes me mad when I buy from one supplier and it comes to me from someone else. If that was not prearranged with me and it happens I will no longer buy from that supplier.
Whoa Metallica is your . answer ?! whoa . u've got balls, Phil!
Janis Joplin's Big Brother and the Holding Company; Willie Nelson's guitar tone
Hi Phil! Love your videos, watch all of them. I am from Brazil and we don't have access to all of the gears you show, because of price and availability, not everything arrive at the country. One suggestion for the Gear You should know is the Brazilian company GNI for pedals. nigmusic.com.br/gni/ (in US they sell by the name GNI). Somebody once asked you about the GNI AS-1, but you didn't know them. What I think it would be fun is to find out how a gear we can get our hands on stands up to all this great stuff you already have tried and showed. I believe international viewers would love you to try gears we can access and be compared to the references on the market. Cheers from Brazil.
Agree with the Metallica comment
I think of Pantera. Walk has a shitty tone but is a fantastic song
Interesting that Gibson would ask the former C.E.O. not to talk crap about Gibson. He has no room to talk smack about Memphis or Bozeman and anything he would say about Gibson U.S.A. would essentially be cutting his own throat.
Make an updated pedal collection
Ratio does make non-locking tuners, I bought them by accident.
Most of Grand Funk Railroad tones..great riffs and songs though.
need my Strat sharpened, fret issues
Wal-Mart's selling brand names but their not really from Wal-Mart their like 3rd party actual music shops or The equivalent, but your paying through Wal-Mart's website
I think sometimes the engineering ruins the tone. Early Aerosmith live, and several studio albums sound awful, but I know the gear was solid.
I need an address to be able to send you a guitar
When does a telecaster stop being a telecaster? I'm not being rhetorical here, I'd like to know what people thin.
I AGREE WITH YOU PHIL. metallica early tone sucked
Slash Firebird! looking really good these days go Epiphone/Gibson! yeah . thumbs up, baby!
oh one more thing . U ROCK, baby! ha . ha . from fan michael t wyman LA CA USA
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.it was HUGE this year . 2020 keep it Rocking baby
No way am I ever paying 25 dollars for a pick
randy rhoads always sounded like he was playing through one of those shitty little practice amps that come in a starter pack with the first act walmart guitar. pantera too, but it worked for their music
What goes on here?...Randy Rhoads has a especially monsterous one, both tonally and sonically? Randy Rhoads set the paramount high water mark on the guitar hero pinnacle! Outside of DimeBag no one in metal ever fused it all together, really no one ever sounded better than Randy Rhoads? and then DimeBag never got as gritty as Randy does or did on the Children of the Grave live version from the Ozzy & Randy Tribute Album?...Some peoples kids?...LoL...8P
&...rumor was, as far as cheap amps go, Rudy Sarzo claims Randy Rhoads treasured a 1970's 60 watt Roland cube...8P
Rhoads amp settings were bass 2 mid 4 to 6 and highs 7 to 9. The gain wasn't as high as you would think. Mainly he used volume to dirty up his tone just like Eddie.
Randy Rhoads tone on the first two Ozzy albums influenced a generation of hard rock and metal guitarists, and songwriters. His live tone was spectacular, and ahead of his time.
His talent was immense and undeniable, and growing up in a musical family allowed him to develop a range of skills that was extremely rare for the time.
He combined classical, jazz, bebop, and rock and helped expand what a guitar player could create. While most of his contemporaries did great stuff while mostly using pentatonic patterns and staying in the root note key, he used a variety of scales and was a pioneer at using modes, transposing modes, and utilizing a tonal center that shifted.
EVH was great, but he couldn’t do any of those things, and wouldn’t understand the theory behind it, anyways, as he’s the ultimate “feel” player.
Randy Rhoads also wrote songs using keys like F# minor, and B, when the vast majority of guitar players wrote in open keys E min or A min. It’s one facet of his writing that Ozzy was blown away by.
He actually did use a cheap little amp often, and that cheap little amp, with him playing through it, amazed the guy who’d been more than a decade with the man who is more responsible for the guitar tones that defined the massive and varied genre that is metal.
Randy Rhoads also used chord voicings that were not commonly utilized in rock and metal for 30 years after his tragic and far too early demise.
As for Dime, to say he had “a” lead tone is just uninformed. Dime in the studio would use any number of pedals, at many different settings, sometimes randomly combining and experimenting with the tape rolling. Live, he might use tones close to the recording, and sometimes he would use lead tones he discovered by accident while partying the night before. A true free spirit and creative genius.
Well, Dimebag played through solid state Randall amps.
Early Ozzy albums (Randy Rhodes) had horrible tone. Zeppelin has some awful tone too.
I think that has to do with how they were produced though. I've heard some examples of his playing live, and it was a big sound.
I think the recording technology was up to snuff, it was just the production techniques of the time. No telling what was done in post. All I seem to recall reading was that his amp was mic'd with some SM57s. I know the tone on Diary was much improved over Blizzard. That being said, it's possible his tracks were reamped and re-mic'd, which was a common practice in the days of Marshall stacks. I never was a huge fan of the way Blizzard of Ozz sounded sonically. It's so good musically I forgive it, but it's always sounded like a demo with great playing. Even the Tribute album has some issues, but the guitar sounds quite impressive. Though it's hard to judge with live albums, because nearly every band tweaks their live recordings. One problem I have is just how much reverb Diary has on it. Then Blizzard sounds so dry and muffled. It's too bad you couldn't get the MFSL people on it. Oh well, we're just lucky we can get the albums as they were recorded again.
Not a great idea to read all those names at the start, maybe at the end like film credits.
Oh early clapton when he had the lace sensor I hated the tone loved the songs tho
Uh, yo, that ain't 'early' Clapton...
Oh thanks for the correction but yeah I don't like the whole lace sensor thing
This is the Ikea Bench. I had to get one. Thanks for the inspiration Phil! m.ikea.com/us/en/catalog/products/ART/40241451/ Molger Bench was $39.95 at my store.
Talking about Metallica’s tone, my buddy has a Kirk Hammett signature Randall half stack and it sounds like complete garbage! It’s so “loose” sounding and fuzzy.
Who’s watch this with socks 🧦 on
Half the metallica albums and some of the Megadeth albums have the worst tones omg but so great anyway, System of down is another band with crappy tone but theyre still awesome
Alex Lifeson is a terrible tonemeister but GREAT GUITARIST
Geddy Lee's bass tone is not to my taste, though I love Rush songs. Jimmy Page's Danelectro is awfully weak sounding. And his In-Though-The Out-Door sound is horrible.
F Walmart, they're the reason you can't afford a decent guitar. The Walton family owns close to half the wealth in the US.
That's your money, they stole it, whether legally or not it's pure corruption!
Extreme's Pornograffiti is a fantastic album with fantastic guitars, but I hate Nuno's tone on this album, too much treble, not enough "body".
Stryper. I like the songs, hate the tone
Fender stopped being Fender when Leo sold the company to CBS. The man who designed them went in another direction so do you want a true Fender designed by Leo go G&L
Here is some heresy: the tones on Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs are awful. That album is incredible, but people act like the guitar tones are something to emulate. The tones are what happens when everyone is too high to give a crap.
Phillip, re Gibson, Just bought online a new old stock 2015 Les Paul CM from Sam Ash for $459.99. I have a 2015 Gibson LP Jr and find the CM amazing. It has a carved maple top and concave mahogany body which is slightly thicker than an SG and weighs about 7 lbs. The neck is standard-width with sanded, buffed and oiled fingerboard. The pickup is a 61 Zebra with mismatched coils for a PAF tone. The CM is imo so much better than a LP Jr. They bought out Gibson's remaining stock and are selling them online. Here is the link for which they have limited qtys.....
www.samash.com/gibson-usa-les-paul-cm-2015-electric-guitar-glpcm15se-p
46:28 flame top Les Paul - I agree completely. PRS may not be the first, but flame tops are their dna/reputation. Les Pauls, to me anyway, are burst or simple color tops. A flame top Les Paul looks like it wants to be a PRS. that sounds wrong on so many levels. I love and own both guitars and respect & appreciate their tonal/aesthetic differences.
Rush had great songs and techniques terrible terrible tone. But WONDERFUL MUSICIANSHIP AND GREAT SONGS
I dig the tone on "Bastille Day"