This is a good video for people trying to learn the process, There's no reason any guitar player should be paying someone else to setup their guitar or solder their pickups.
I own about 15 guitars and have little to no knowledge about setting up my instruments. I recently spent $100 at a guitar center for a “platinum” setup and to check my pickup toggle switch. They called me and said they fixed the wire it just needed slight adjustment and that all was setup and ready for pickup. I didn’t have time to check the guitar at the store but when I got home the string action had fretbuzz all over and the toggle switch wasn’t touched and was still not working. Now I plan to do everything myself and learn it all.
I'm a 33 years old brazilian dude that love good (heavy) music. My resolotion to this year was: learn to play the guitar, something that i always wanted to, so this year i bought an used Epiphone Les Paul Custom - wich is already very expensive here in Brazil - and start to watch some videos and found your channel. I wanna thank you for your time on doing this video as thank you for all the tips you gave us all. Thanks, keep posting, i'll keep watching and learning.
Thank you so much for the kind words and so happy to hear you are playing music! Have you checked out the @doesitdoom channel? Some great lessons there
I watched this today several times, took some good notes and FINALLY got my Les Paul to play the way I have been wanting it to for a long time! I had several people who claimed they knew how to setup a guitar do it for me but something was just not quite the way I like it. Thank you!!! No wonder your one of my favorite TH-cam Channels!
LoL "chasing the needle"... yeh umm, I've been married to the methadone clinic for 2 years. Anyway, great video. I've started doing my own setups for the past year. All in all, its very simple and every guitarist should be able to do this. The intonation bit cleared up a few things for me.. which direction to move the saddles etc. Great vids my dude, good stuff and keep them coming!
I've been into doom for a while, but all I've had is a Fender Duo-Sonic for the longest time. I've recently bought an LTD ec256fm though, and this video came out just in time. Because of this video, I think I might try to save a bit of money and set it up myself. Thank you!
Greetings, great video, as usual! Mostly I play bass guitar, and only recently got a decent electric guitar to expand my home arsenal. Unfortunately, I already gave it to luthier, because I wanted to bring it into the maximum possible form for her. However, this video will greatly help me in the future :) My planned setup is Burny RLC-60 1980-1982 lawsuit era "Les paul custom", D-standard tuning, 10-52 / 11-54 DR DDT. P.S. I bet that I'm the first Russian-speaking patron! (I'm the dude with the Cyrillic name who ruined the beautiful font at the beginning of the video). In past videos, you asked where we are watching this channel from. At least a few people definitely watch it from the swampy Belarus.
Thanks for becoming a Patron!!! Really appreciate it and so cool to know people are watching in Belarus! You are the first Russian speaking Patron for sure (: Thank you! Jason
nice one man! just picked up an SG and putting some 12-56 on, was going to put it in the shop to be done but this vid is so helpful I'm going to do it myself now. epic channel and gear man! in matt pike we trust!. proceeeeeeeed the weediannnnnnnnnn narzerethhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Great simple video! Perfect 👌. Believe it or not I’m doing a set up and string change on my little cousins guitar today! Awesome shirt BTW! Thanks man!
Great video Jason! You explained the process simply and accurately. I just picked up my first Stratocaster, I’ve never done a setup on one before. I think my biggest challenge will be matching the tremolo spring tension to the string tension so that it stays in tune after using the tremolo. I’ll be using a set of 9’s and E standard tuning. Wish me luck!
Great instruction, Jason! My other 4 guitars and 1 bass just got here from my last place in Germany, so I’ve got a lot of work to do as I had to disassemble the necks of most of them. My father used to work for Martin in the 60’s and taught me a lot of this from an early age. Yet, I still learn new and easier methods with every instruction I watch. Nicely done!
I just got the Gibson SG from Chicago Music Exchange with their special specs (T-Type pickups, small block inlays, Frost Blue) and am going to put some DR Hi-Beam 11s on it. Thanks for this very helpful video, love your channel.
Easily the best articulated "how to" set-up vid I've seen to date. Thanks for posting. As for what I'm using, I'm currently playing a 7 string Kiesel w/ a 27" scale, and am tuning it to G standard. The strings on there atm feel a little light though. So I ordered a set of .76s. Might swap the B string out for an .80 depending on how it goes w/ the .76 on it.
Thanks a lot for this video. It comes right on point, I am currently trying to setup my guitar and basses myself. Regarding my guitar, I use Ernie ball regular slinky, I remove the 010 and add a 060 ( 13-17-26-36-46-60). I tune my guitar (Ibanez rga with other pickups) in B standard. My 2 basses (fender precision and musicman sterling) are both 5 strings basses, using 45 to 130 gauges.
I'm setting up my Jackson Warrior with 12-54 Dunlop strings in D Standard after upgrading the hardware with a full set from Skull Guitar Parts on Reverb. This was exactly what I was looking for after finding a bunch of videos that gloss over adjusting the bridge and pickup heights. Plus I wanna try being a guitar tech as a stepping stone to becoming a luthier.
Great video, I tried to setup my guitar in C standard right now and it sound awesome!💚 For strings I use two different pairs for my guitars, Ernie Ball Power Slinky (11/48) on a Telecaster in E standard and Not Even Slinky (12/56) on a Les Paul in C standard. ✌️
I tried setting up my SG to C standard just the other day. The measurements that you suggested helped tremendously with finalizing the setup, and nailing the tone that I was looking for. Hail Satan.
I use Dunlop Heavy Core Heaviest for C standard and dropped A# tuning. The last guitar I set up was my bandmates guitar as he didn't intonate the guitar at all....and I did this all without him knowing when I was early for practice ;)
Great video Jason I think this video will help people set up there guitars but one thing I think you forgot was the break angle of the strings over the bridge the strings should never hit the back of the tuneomatic bridge So people need to keep that I mind just my thoughts bro keep the content coming
Great job Jason, really love the new production setup. 👍 If i had one tip, I would suggest raising your studio lights a little higher, and/or getting a soft box, because the lights are reflecting a little harsh in your glasses when you tilt your head in the intro. Keep it up 👍
John Eternal thanks for the tip man! We’ve got soft boxes lighting the intro bit but we’re actually limited by both the stand height and the room height 😂😂 thanks for watching!
I already know how to do most setup stuff, but damn I wish I'd had this video when I was learning haha. Covers everything I was wondering back then. Will recommend this video to others!
On my "souped up" Epiphone Special-II LP, in Drop A, I've got DR 12 highbeams, but I'm going to try out the DDTs, and then the Ernie Ball Mammoth Slinkys after that, to see how they sit and how they feel. I put the DR DDTs on a bass that I keep in BEAD tuning, and they have a good feel under the fingers, without being floppy and farty through the amp, they have a good clear tone and articulation, and I'm excited to see if the DDT guitar strings are actually significantly different from the regular HI-Beam 12s.
that's a good video, but I subbed because of how clean you workspace is. looking forward to checking out more of your work. This is much less ruched and more simple than most set up videos, so I'll be using this for my students now. Thanks dude
Hey dude. Love your videos/channel/pedals when I inevitably buy one because your demos are so rad. I know that it's a matter of preference, but just out of curiosity, if you were going to tune your guitar lower, say to Drop G# (what I tune mine to, incidentally ;) would you set the action at a different height than you do in this video? and If so, can speculate as to what height you might set it at? I ask this because I am having difficulty finding a point at which the action is low enough to sound adequately crushing, but high enough where it's not noodle city U.S.A. Thoughts?
This video inspired me to get my guitar set up for C standard so I can start playing more of the music ive been into lately! I am playing a Gibson SG, and I am having some trouble with the strings buzzing when I hit those big open power chords, i am using 12-56 strings. I brought the guitar back to the luthier for more adjustment, he raised the action the bit but he said the buzz is just a product of the floppy strings and there’s not much more he can do. Does your guitar buzz? How do you deal with it?
Also, what do you do to the nut if your 11's (and above) are too thick for that 9's slotted nut? My SG has 11's (with a wound G-String) and it doesn't stay in tune so I pencilled the slots and it helps a little bit. More wisdom on this is appreciated!
This is great! I have a headless guitar (Ormsby Goliath) that I want to get playing a bit better, so this is helpful! I just need to learn how to better deal with its specific hardware.
Nice tutorial on doing a set up. Also, that's a nice 1990's Les Paul Studio. I have one just like it, and is has the same finish checking on the Headstock.
@@FuzzlordEffects Same here man. My first Gibson was Les Paul studio, bought it in 1993 at guitar store called American Music, in South Center, WA. I think she weighed in at 10 lbs but the tone was perfect. The necks are carved much better as well on these 1990's Les Paul's I think.
That reminds me of when I was younger unloading trucks for TJ Max and boss gave me a 5 minute spiel on how PASS somehow had something to do with using fire extinguisher. I still have no clue what he meant but promised if there was a fire I’d put it out haha
We had to learn that in trade school as part of our OSHA 10 or 30 and it just meant Pull (the pin) Aim Squeeze (the trigger) Sweep (aim for the base of a fire and sweep the flame).
Hey man! Good video. I own a LP Studio, skinny top heavy bottom strings, keep it in C# standard. Is .008" between 1st and 16th fret a good relief for this tuning? I wouldnt say that business card fits between 1st and last fret. Truss rod's been my biggest problem with this setup...
hey man great video! A question: how do you enlarge the hole of the tuner when you want to put a thicker string which doesnt fit through the existing hole?
Ooh that is a tricky one. Luckily I haven't had that issue yet but have come close. I think some brans of tuners have slightly larger holes. A luthier may be able to enlarge that hole for you cheers!
I love setting up guitars, and I love to watch other people do it. I'm weird. Anyway I'm not really a doom player. The last guitar I setup was a Charvel strat copy. Great guitar. I Iet a friend borrow it for about a year and it needed some attention when I got it back. The next guitar will probably be my T-60, but I'm not sure if I want to get it refretted yet or not. That's something I won't do myself. For strings I just use regular Ernie Ball .10s.
Refretting and finishing are the two things I won't do. I don't have the tools or the knowledge for that but just thinking about having to remove the binding to refret a guitar is enough to make me not want to attempt it.
@@FuzzlordEffects The T-60 was actually my first electric guitar. I've had it since like 1987. It's the easiest playing guitar I've ever played, but for some reason I just never fell in love with it. But it will do sounds my other guitars won't, so I've played it enough over the years to wear out the frets. There wasn't a lot of fret there to start with. It's weird like that.
@@MindFiles I'll do a crown and level, polish, etc. I just won't refret one. I especially wouldn't if the neck had binding. But you can do the rest! Get a cheap guitar to practice on and see how much you can improve it. Most of the time, those cheap guitars only need new pickups and some attention to the frets to get them playing pretty well.
Extremely helpful thank you! I have a question. On a 25.5 scale "telecaster" is the 12th fret still "the middle" of the strings and is tuning intonation the same process?
I like to use the D’Addario EXL148 12-60 in my low tuning guitars. C standard on my BC Rich Mockingbird with a Quadmatic bridge (25.5”) and B standard on my Dean Razorback with a TOM bridge (24.75”), though I have one Ibanez GRG270B guitar tuned to D standard with these strings with an Edge tremolo (25.5”), which is still fully functional. 🙈 Your suggestion for the .013 set has sparked my interest for that D’Addario EXL158 set because of its wound G. I very much prefer the sound of that string as a wound string as well. Normally I’d grab a random single wound .022 string and just shove it in the .012 set. 😂 On my E standard and drop D tuning guitars I like to install the cheapest .010 strings from Harley Benton I can find. 😂 Why? Just to make a point. I’ve had these on my Dean Dixie Rebel with a Floyd Rose tremolo in E standard for a while now and they have endured my abuse very well AND they kept their tuning and didn’t break! At €1,49 per set, you really can’t go wrong, right? 😉 Same story goes for my BC Rich Diamond Series Warlock with a licensed Floyd, the strings still work great! Even after many dives and squeals! And the same applies for my BC Rich Kerry King V G2 with a Kahler tremolo, again... no issues, at all! And all my other fixed bridge guitars in either E or drop D use these strings, too. With the exception of two guitars that I’ve experimented with and restrung them with the .011-.052 set by Harley Benton, also for €1,49! These are excellent for D standard, in my opinion. As for action, I like my strings at “medium” height, so they don’t rattle against the frets as much when I dig in hard.
I'm going from 10's or 11's (I forget what I put on my LP) to 13-56 D'addarios I've filed my nut for the bass strings do I need a different bridge with wider saddles? Or would a standard Epi LP bridge suffice? If not can I get away with filing them with a rat tail to widen them slightly?
I'm working on my Ibanez gsr 205 that I replaced the nut on after it setting for like 4 years because of college. It seems to not quite has as much available neck relief as I want and it's bridge and tuners are rattle but have been sponges at the bridge springs and above the nut to fix that. I still need to adjust intonation and it's currently in b standard.
Super video! I have both a LP and SG and set them up a bit differently. LP .10-.50-ish strings and quite low action, but still enough to dig in a bit. The SG is .11-.56, and a bit higher action, and down tuned to a drop B. However I play teles quite a bit, maybe you could also do a video about those fantastic instruments as well? Greetings from Sweden! :)
Hey Jason! I'm currently running D'addario 12-60 for B and C standard on a LP style guitar, but I'm interested in trying the 13-62 with the wound 3rd that you talked about on the T60 video. I don't know why I never thought about using baritone strings before. I consider myself a bass player first, so having four wound strings just feels "right" under my fingers.
You might really like them if you are used to bass! Another plus is they are pretty inexpensive. Heard of string joy? I have fun ordering custom sets sometimes.
I need to get my home built PRS like guitar on the bench to swap worn out Elixers for some new Ernie Ball's. Pick up height is so important I think to good tone, took me a long time to suss that one out though, we're spoilt now with the internet. Also, the name Otto Messmer just sprung to mind, I'm positive Jason knows why! Keep up the fantastic work. 👍👍
Isn’t pickup height a tricky one! I had to look the name up but cracking up about it now. The idea for the came from a lady at post office calling me that because I always show up with a bag of tricks 😂. Ship out pedals once a week in a big mail sack
@@FuzzlordEffects Nice one, dunno how I knew creators name but I remember it from being a kid, I love a back story to stuff, it's what makes me smile inside 😀
Hey Jason ! If you havent already... Check out Rick Beato's recent video on smaller string gauge sets. Its a good video and the reaction from the strings is almost backwards from what a person would expect. I havent had time to put into practice the info he stumbled upon. I will though. Im intrigued.
Cool he made the video! It is a bit different of ballgame tuning this low, have to adjust for tension somehow. Can't tune this low and play 9s (at least most people can't)
@@FuzzlordEffects well ya thats true. I hadn't thought much about the lower 👇( low, lo-low, low, low) down tunings. Lol. Oh well. The outcome was interesting. Its good info too be armed with. If nothing else. Thanks for the vids Jason. Keep er Doom'n !!!
Bryan Keith Jason’s is spot on. Going lower with 9s is a sloppy mess. Drop D was fine with 9s. Great conversation. Btw. This video is great! Super easy to understand. Jason really takes the guess work out of the set-up process!
I'm too broke to take my SG to a pro/tech, so I've been learning from trial and error every time, especially when I change my strings. Nice video too! I think what drew me to this tutorial was your voice and that Les Paul ❤. Again thank you for this!
Hallo! watching from Brazil here. I'm using 010 strings on both my SG and Les Paul but I will change my SG strings to 012 and will be my Heavy metal guitar, probably gonna tune it to B standard.
Les Pauls use a nut on the truss rod. Some guitars are slotted for a screwdriver and others use hex wrenches. I bought a cheap screwdriver set from Amazon that has screwdrivers with hex tips. It's pretty good. it cost less than $20 and has at least 500,000 different screwdrivers. I'm not working on cars or anything so it should last a long time.
@@FuzzlordEffects Sometimes the wall thickness of the driver will prevent you from getting it on right. I've been getting by with a set of old American made Craftsman nut drivers but I also use the wrench that you get when buying a Gibson.
I agree on general, but if you were a famous guitarist doing world tours with several guitars you would want someone doing it for you. But I agree that every guitarist should be able to do it himself. It's about knowing his instrument.
This is a good video for people trying to learn the process, There's no reason any guitar player should be paying someone else to setup their guitar or solder their pickups.
Sure there is, it's called time.
I own about 15 guitars and have little to no knowledge about setting up my instruments. I recently spent $100 at a guitar center for a “platinum” setup and to check my pickup toggle switch. They called me and said they fixed the wire it just needed slight adjustment and that all was setup and ready for pickup. I didn’t have time to check the guitar at the store but when I got home the string action had fretbuzz all over and the toggle switch wasn’t touched and was still not working. Now I plan to do everything myself and learn it all.
No bullshit, I just opened up TH-cam to look up basic luthier videos and this had just been posted. Bad to the bone, you guys. Thank you.
So glad you like it! Ironic guitar shops don't post stuff like this.
I'm a 33 years old brazilian dude that love good (heavy) music. My resolotion to this year was: learn to play the guitar, something that i always wanted to, so this year i bought an used Epiphone Les Paul Custom - wich is already very expensive here in Brazil - and start to watch some videos and found your channel. I wanna thank you for your time on doing this video as thank you for all the tips you gave us all. Thanks, keep posting, i'll keep watching and learning.
Thank you so much for the kind words and so happy to hear you are playing music! Have you checked out the @doesitdoom channel? Some great lessons there
@@FuzzlordEffects i already sub to his and yours channel!
I watched this today several times, took some good notes and FINALLY got my Les Paul to play the way I have been wanting it to for a long time! I had several people who claimed they knew how to setup a guitar do it for me but something was just not quite the way I like it. Thank you!!! No wonder your one of my favorite TH-cam Channels!
LoL "chasing the needle"... yeh umm, I've been married to the methadone clinic for 2 years. Anyway, great video. I've started doing my own setups for the past year. All in all, its very simple and every guitarist should be able to do this. The intonation bit cleared up a few things for me.. which direction to move the saddles etc. Great vids my dude, good stuff and keep them coming!
Thanks for watching!
Been playing for years, always avoided messing with the guitar if I can help it, but this video made it so simple I feel stupid for not learning this!
All basics every guitar player needs to know. Great video
I've been into doom for a while, but all I've had is a Fender Duo-Sonic for the longest time. I've recently bought an LTD ec256fm though, and this video came out just in time. Because of this video, I think I might try to save a bit of money and set it up myself. Thank you!
Greetings, great video, as usual!
Mostly I play bass guitar, and only recently got a decent electric guitar to expand my home arsenal.
Unfortunately, I already gave it to luthier, because I wanted to bring it into the maximum possible form for her.
However, this video will greatly help me in the future :)
My planned setup is Burny RLC-60 1980-1982 lawsuit era "Les paul custom", D-standard tuning, 10-52 / 11-54 DR DDT.
P.S. I bet that I'm the first Russian-speaking patron! (I'm the dude with the Cyrillic name who ruined the beautiful font at the beginning of the video). In past videos, you asked where we are watching this channel from. At least a few people definitely watch it from the swampy Belarus.
Thanks for becoming a Patron!!! Really appreciate it and so cool to know people are watching in Belarus! You are the first Russian speaking Patron for sure (:
Thank you!
Jason
Coming from someone who’s about to have to replace a trem block, nut AND strings on their guitar this couldn’t have been timed any better !
Cheers!!! Hope it all goes well
I'm so glad I found this channel 🤘
Thanks Jeff! There is another setup video on the channel too if you want to check out more!
@@FuzzlordEffects You bet 😎
nice one man! just picked up an SG and putting some 12-56 on, was going to put it in the shop to be done but this vid is so helpful I'm going to do it myself now. epic channel and gear man! in matt pike we trust!. proceeeeeeeed the weediannnnnnnnnn narzerethhhhhhhhhhhhh!
Hope you have fun working on your guitar and thanks for watching James!
I've been doing setup by myself since ages, but that "follow the needle" trick when adjusting intonation is great! I wish I discovered it years ago :)
Glad it helped! I found it in someone else’s video and it just made sense
Great simple video! Perfect 👌. Believe it or not I’m doing a set up and string change on my little cousins guitar today! Awesome shirt BTW! Thanks man!
Thanks for the shirt man! Helping out with a setup is a great way to spend a weekend afternoon 😬 cheers Adam!
Great video Jason! You explained the process simply and accurately.
I just picked up my first Stratocaster, I’ve never done a setup on one before. I think my biggest challenge will be matching the tremolo spring tension to the string tension so that it stays in tune after using the tremolo. I’ll be using a set of 9’s and E standard tuning. Wish me luck!
Great instruction, Jason! My other 4 guitars and 1 bass just got here from my last place in Germany, so I’ve got a lot of work to do as I had to disassemble the necks of most of them. My father used to work for Martin in the 60’s and taught me a lot of this from an early age. Yet, I still learn new and easier methods with every instruction I watch. Nicely done!
I just got the Gibson SG from Chicago Music Exchange with their special specs (T-Type pickups, small block inlays, Frost Blue) and am going to put some DR Hi-Beam 11s on it. Thanks for this very helpful video, love your channel.
Easily the best articulated "how to" set-up vid I've seen to date. Thanks for posting.
As for what I'm using, I'm currently playing a 7 string Kiesel w/ a 27" scale, and am tuning it to G standard. The strings on there atm feel a little light though. So I ordered a set of .76s. Might swap the B string out for an .80 depending on how it goes w/ the .76 on it.
So happy you liked the video! That sounds like a wild guitar!
What timing! I just bought an SG yesterday and was going to be going through the setup tonight. Thanks for the video!
Thanks a lot for this video. It comes right on point, I am currently trying to setup my guitar and basses myself.
Regarding my guitar, I use Ernie ball regular slinky, I remove the 010 and add a 060 ( 13-17-26-36-46-60). I tune my guitar (Ibanez rga with other pickups) in B standard.
My 2 basses (fender precision and musicman sterling) are both 5 strings basses, using 45 to 130 gauges.
Oh wow that’s cool! I think I may have to try that string combo!!!! The 62 bottom is a hair heavy for me
I'm setting up my Jackson Warrior with 12-54 Dunlop strings in D Standard after upgrading the hardware with a full set from Skull Guitar Parts on Reverb. This was exactly what I was looking for after finding a bunch of videos that gloss over adjusting the bridge and pickup heights. Plus I wanna try being a guitar tech as a stepping stone to becoming a luthier.
Great video, I tried to setup my guitar in C standard right now and it sound awesome!💚
For strings I use two different pairs for my guitars, Ernie Ball Power Slinky (11/48) on a Telecaster in E standard and Not Even Slinky (12/56) on a Les Paul in C standard. ✌️
That’s great to hear Willy! Glad you like the way it sounds
what a great video!
Thank you for taking the time to explain every each one of the steps!
I tried setting up my SG to C standard just the other day. The measurements that you suggested helped tremendously with finalizing the setup, and nailing the tone that I was looking for. Hail Satan.
I am so happy to hear the measurements were helpful! Cheers Andrew! Isn’t it rad when you can play chords on 12th fret and it sounds right?!?
Hello!!!
From Chile ... Excellent video ... I have a guitar and I would like to know the specific measurements of the humbuckers ... Thank you.
I use Dunlop Heavy Core Heaviest for C standard and dropped A# tuning. The last guitar I set up was my bandmates guitar as he didn't intonate the guitar at all....and I did this all without him knowing when I was early for practice ;)
Hahahahaha that is so awesome!
Great video Jason I think this video will help people set up there guitars but one thing I think you forgot was the break angle of the strings over the bridge the strings should never hit the back of the tuneomatic bridge So people need to keep that I mind just my thoughts bro keep the content coming
Good stuff Jason. You don't Stretch the strings? 10-52 to C's 11-52 to C#- B's- 10-46 E to Drop D... Depends on witch guitar I'm using. Thanks Jason.
I try to a bit (: Guess we didn’t catch that well this video. Thanks for watching!
Great job Jason, really love the new production setup. 👍 If i had one tip, I would suggest raising your studio lights a little higher, and/or getting a soft box, because the lights are reflecting a little harsh in your glasses when you tilt your head in the intro. Keep it up 👍
John Eternal thanks for the tip man! We’ve got soft boxes lighting the intro bit but we’re actually limited by both the stand height and the room height 😂😂 thanks for watching!
Eric Merrow totally understand, the other “secret” is for Jason not to wear glasses, or take the lenses out and just wear the frames 👍
Great video. Since you play heavy strings on your LP do always keep your tail piece so high and why and have you tried a wrap around before?
I already know how to do most setup stuff, but damn I wish I'd had this video when I was learning haha. Covers everything I was wondering back then. Will recommend this video to others!
Cheers Jonas and thank you!
On my "souped up" Epiphone Special-II LP, in Drop A, I've got DR 12 highbeams, but I'm going to try out the DDTs, and then the Ernie Ball Mammoth Slinkys after that, to see how they sit and how they feel.
I put the DR DDTs on a bass that I keep in BEAD tuning, and they have a good feel under the fingers, without being floppy and farty through the amp, they have a good clear tone and articulation, and I'm excited to see if the DDT guitar strings are actually significantly different from the regular HI-Beam 12s.
Do you loosen the strings before adjust the neck bow?
that's a good video, but I subbed because of how clean you workspace is. looking forward to checking out more of your work. This is much less ruched and more simple than most set up videos, so I'll be using this for my students now. Thanks dude
Cheers thanks for watching! Backround in engineering almost forces me to be tidy haha
Hey dude. Love your videos/channel/pedals when I inevitably buy one because your demos are so rad. I know that it's a matter of preference, but just out of curiosity, if you were going to tune your guitar lower, say to Drop G# (what I tune mine to, incidentally ;) would you set the action at a different height than you do in this video? and If so, can speculate as to what height you might set it at? I ask this because I am having difficulty finding a point at which the action is low enough to sound adequately crushing, but high enough where it's not noodle city U.S.A. Thoughts?
This video inspired me to get my guitar set up for C standard so I can start playing more of the music ive been into lately! I am playing a Gibson SG, and I am having some trouble with the strings buzzing when I hit those big open power chords, i am using 12-56 strings. I brought the guitar back to the luthier for more adjustment, he raised the action the bit but he said the buzz is just a product of the floppy strings and there’s not much more he can do. Does your guitar buzz? How do you deal with it?
Also, what do you do to the nut if your 11's (and above) are too thick for that 9's slotted nut? My SG has 11's (with a wound G-String) and it doesn't stay in tune so I pencilled the slots and it helps a little bit. More wisdom on this is appreciated!
This is great! I have a headless guitar (Ormsby Goliath) that I want to get playing a bit better, so this is helpful! I just need to learn how to better deal with its specific hardware.
Hopefully this was helpful! Thanks for watching
Will 10 gauge strings work on LP style guitar in C standard?
Nice tutorial on doing a set up. Also, that's a nice 1990's Les Paul Studio. I have one just like it, and is has the same finish checking on the Headstock.
Aren’t they nice! Are they considered vintage yet? I like that they aren’t chambered like the newer ones.
@@FuzzlordEffects Same here man. My first Gibson was Les Paul studio, bought it in 1993 at guitar store called American Music, in South Center, WA. I think she weighed in at 10 lbs but the tone was perfect. The necks are carved much better as well on these 1990's Les Paul's I think.
should my strings stay on top of the nut or be inside the nut tightly or loosely?
Just remember TRAIN: Tuning, Relief, Action, Intonation, Noodle
That reminds me of when I was younger unloading trucks for TJ Max and boss gave me a 5 minute spiel on how PASS somehow had something to do with using fire extinguisher. I still have no clue what he meant but promised if there was a fire I’d put it out haha
We had to learn that in trade school as part of our OSHA 10 or 30 and it just meant Pull (the pin) Aim Squeeze (the trigger) Sweep (aim for the base of a fire and sweep the flame).
Awesome video.
Thanks for watching!
Stringjoy 10-48, im building 2 guitars one a jackson soloist and a jackson kelly. Playing in std e and std d as always from South Carolina.
Hey man! Good video. I own a LP Studio, skinny top heavy bottom strings, keep it in C# standard. Is .008" between 1st and 16th fret a good relief for this tuning? I wouldnt say that business card fits between 1st and last fret. Truss rod's been my biggest problem with this setup...
Good explanations rather than just showing what to do. Thanks
hey man great video! A question: how do you enlarge the hole of the tuner when you want to put a thicker string which doesnt fit through the existing hole?
Ooh that is a tricky one. Luckily I haven't had that issue yet but have come close. I think some brans of tuners have slightly larger holes.
A luthier may be able to enlarge that hole for you cheers!
I love setting up guitars, and I love to watch other people do it. I'm weird. Anyway I'm not really a doom player. The last guitar I setup was a Charvel strat copy. Great guitar. I Iet a friend borrow it for about a year and it needed some attention when I got it back. The next guitar will probably be my T-60, but I'm not sure if I want to get it refretted yet or not. That's something I won't do myself. For strings I just use regular Ernie Ball .10s.
Refretting and finishing are the two things I won't do. I don't have the tools or the knowledge for that but just thinking about having to remove the binding to refret a guitar is enough to make me not want to attempt it.
Charvel Strats are great! A T60 is a great choice for a next guitar! Refrets are a bit of work and Luthiers love doing that job!
@@FuzzlordEffects The T-60 was actually my first electric guitar. I've had it since like 1987. It's the easiest playing guitar I've ever played, but for some reason I just never fell in love with it. But it will do sounds my other guitars won't, so I've played it enough over the years to wear out the frets. There wasn't a lot of fret there to start with. It's weird like that.
@@MindFiles I'll do a crown and level, polish, etc. I just won't refret one. I especially wouldn't if the neck had binding. But you can do the rest! Get a cheap guitar to practice on and see how much you can improve it. Most of the time, those cheap guitars only need new pickups and some attention to the frets to get them playing pretty well.
Extremely helpful thank you! I have a question. On a 25.5 scale "telecaster" is the 12th fret still "the middle" of the strings and is tuning intonation the same process?
Yes, always the 12th fret 🤘
I like to use the D’Addario EXL148 12-60 in my low tuning guitars. C standard on my BC Rich Mockingbird with a Quadmatic bridge (25.5”) and B standard on my Dean Razorback with a TOM bridge (24.75”), though I have one Ibanez GRG270B guitar tuned to D standard with these strings with an Edge tremolo (25.5”), which is still fully functional. 🙈
Your suggestion for the .013 set has sparked my interest for that D’Addario EXL158 set because of its wound G. I very much prefer the sound of that string as a wound string as well.
Normally I’d grab a random single wound .022 string and just shove it in the .012 set. 😂
On my E standard and drop D tuning guitars I like to install the cheapest .010 strings from Harley Benton I can find. 😂
Why? Just to make a point.
I’ve had these on my Dean Dixie Rebel with a Floyd Rose tremolo in E standard for a while now and they have endured my abuse very well AND they kept their tuning and didn’t break!
At €1,49 per set, you really can’t go wrong, right? 😉
Same story goes for my BC Rich Diamond Series Warlock with a licensed Floyd, the strings still work great! Even after many dives and squeals!
And the same applies for my BC Rich Kerry King V G2 with a Kahler tremolo, again... no issues, at all!
And all my other fixed bridge guitars in either E or drop D use these strings, too.
With the exception of two guitars that I’ve experimented with and restrung them with the .011-.052 set by Harley Benton, also for €1,49!
These are excellent for D standard, in my opinion.
As for action, I like my strings at “medium” height, so they don’t rattle against the frets as much when I dig in hard.
I use the ernie ball mammoth set for c standard on my ltd viper baritone and love them. Gave me monster tone.
Badass!!
Did you have to adjust your guitar at all for c standard tuning or did you just put different strings on?
@@Dadstrength2.0 had to loosen the truss rod a little
I'm going from 10's or 11's (I forget what I put on my LP) to 13-56 D'addarios I've filed my nut for the bass strings do I need a different bridge with wider saddles? Or would a standard Epi LP bridge suffice? If not can I get away with filing them with a rat tail to widen them slightly?
THANKS SO MUCH FOR THIS!!!
You're welcome and thanks for watching!
I'm working on my Ibanez gsr 205 that I replaced the nut on after it setting for like 4 years because of college. It seems to not quite has as much available neck relief as I want and it's bridge and tuners are rattle but have been sponges at the bridge springs and above the nut to fix that. I still need to adjust intonation and it's currently in b standard.
Sounds like a fun way to spend weekend. Totally understand what you mean, I had to put a lot of things down for school also.
@@FuzzlordEffects Not sure if I want to use a different tuning then the normal 5 string tuning.
Super video! I have both a LP and SG and set them up a bit differently. LP .10-.50-ish strings and quite low action, but still enough to dig in a bit. The SG is .11-.56, and a bit higher action, and down tuned to a drop B. However I play teles quite a bit, maybe you could also do a video about those fantastic instruments as well? Greetings from Sweden! :)
There is one tele video on channel but would you be into seeing a video about working on one also?
Yes, very much! 🙏🔥
Hey Jason! I'm currently running D'addario 12-60 for B and C standard on a LP style guitar, but I'm interested in trying the 13-62 with the wound 3rd that you talked about on the T60 video. I don't know why I never thought about using baritone strings before. I consider myself a bass player first, so having four wound strings just feels "right" under my fingers.
Try something like a .65 then. I find that using a heavier gauge really lets you dig in on the strings. Also, I like the improved sustain too.
You might really like them if you are used to bass! Another plus is they are pretty inexpensive. Heard of string joy? I have fun ordering custom sets sometimes.
PRS Holcomb. I use NYXL 1260s
I’ll have to try those sometime! They seems really nice, cheers and thanks for watching!
I need to get my home built PRS like guitar on the bench to swap worn out Elixers for some new Ernie Ball's. Pick up height is so important I think to good tone, took me a long time to suss that one out though, we're spoilt now with the internet. Also, the name Otto Messmer just sprung to mind, I'm positive Jason knows why! Keep up the fantastic work. 👍👍
Isn’t pickup height a tricky one! I had to look the name up but cracking up about it now.
The idea for the came from a lady at post office calling me that because I always show up with a bag of tricks 😂. Ship out pedals once a week in a big mail sack
@@FuzzlordEffects Nice one, dunno how I knew creators name but I remember it from being a kid, I love a back story to stuff, it's what makes me smile inside 😀
Hey Jason ! If you havent already...
Check out Rick Beato's recent video on smaller string gauge sets. Its a good video and the reaction from the strings is almost backwards from what a person would expect. I havent had time to put into practice the info he stumbled upon. I will though. Im intrigued.
Bryan Keith I was thinking the same thing. After watching that video, I went back to 9s, but I play in standard tuning mostly.
Cool he made the video! It is a bit different of ballgame tuning this low, have to adjust for tension somehow. Can't tune this low and play 9s (at least most people can't)
@@FuzzlordEffects well ya thats true. I hadn't thought much about the lower 👇( low, lo-low, low, low) down tunings. Lol. Oh well. The outcome was interesting. Its good info too be armed with. If nothing else.
Thanks for the vids Jason. Keep er Doom'n !!!
@@unspecified2472 interesting. You just havent tried lower tunings with the 9s yet ?
Bryan Keith Jason’s is spot on. Going lower with 9s is a sloppy mess. Drop D was fine with 9s. Great conversation.
Btw. This video is great! Super easy to understand. Jason really takes the guess work out of the set-up process!
Watching from Brasil. I use 0.10 and D Standard, It´s what i feel more comfortably.
That’s awesome!
I'm too broke to take my SG to a pro/tech, so I've been learning from trial and error every time, especially when I change my strings. Nice video too! I think what drew me to this tutorial was your voice and that Les Paul ❤. Again thank you for this!
Hallo! watching from Brazil here.
I'm using 010 strings on both my SG and Les Paul but I will change my SG strings to 012 and will be my Heavy metal guitar, probably gonna tune it to B standard.
Hallo Lian! That is awesome!
What was the truss rod screwdriver you used? That looked way easier than dealing with allen keys. Love the video, thank you!
It's a nut driver. I've been able to fit them in most guitars but sometimes there isn't enough clearance in that pocket to fit one.
This one barely fit, for these ones sometimes the Gibson tool is best. This was a cheap set of nut drivers I think from harbor freight
Les Pauls use a nut on the truss rod. Some guitars are slotted for a screwdriver and others use hex wrenches. I bought a cheap screwdriver set from Amazon that has screwdrivers with hex tips. It's pretty good. it cost less than $20 and has at least 500,000 different screwdrivers. I'm not working on cars or anything so it should last a long time.
@@FuzzlordEffects Sometimes the wall thickness of the driver will prevent you from getting it on right. I've been getting by with a set of old American made Craftsman nut drivers but I also use the wrench that you get when buying a Gibson.
Heyy guys, i recently bought a epiphone les paul prophecy and wanted to put some 12 to 56 string gauge. Do you thing i will need to file the nut?
you should be ok (:
@@FuzzlordEffects thanks man :)
I agree on general, but if you were a famous guitarist doing world tours with several guitars you would want someone doing it for you. But I agree that every guitarist should be able to do it himself. It's about knowing his instrument.
Don’t forget women 💜
Watched this as I waited to purchase the Void Master.
Cheers man!!!
Is that a band t shirt? Weirdly enough the HOSS word in my language (Maltese) means sound/noise...pronounced the same BTW. :)
Dude?!?!? I wonder if they know that! That is so cool
The band is called Team Hoss 🤘
@@FuzzlordEffects thanks, will have to check em out now :)
i use Ernie Ball 11s!
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