valebliz I built a super strat for £250. To me and the few people that I’ve let play it, it stands up to guitars in the £500-800 range. Building is great value.
Even with a job 1500 isn't something many people should consider. Too expensive for intermediate, too expensive to perform with, and leaves no budget for a matching amp.
Dagan never fails to make me smile. These reviews are so entertaining. The headstock on my Epiphone Les Paul (I’ve had it for 3 years) broke and I need a new guitar, the repair would cost 100 more than I paid for the thing. Anyway, I think I might get myself an SG.
@@PMTVUK Please don’t debase yourself by doing that, I’ve enjoyed your honest non biased opinions in your vids and I find Andertons to be extremely stuck up and pretentious. Keep it real and many will enjoy 😉
Oh wow! Look at those beautiful guitars that seem so cheap! _me knowing full well that i cannot afford anyone of those even before the video starts:_ 🙃
That silly Gibson with strings completely off center is $1600!!! Watch the video..the strings are skewed to the right, they're off center on the pickups too. Gibson sucks! That being said..I have a Les Paul in my lap as I type this...cheap Epiphone version though!
@@onlyguitars Totally. I had one that I had to sell in a fit of being broke. Still have my Standard, which does what I want it to, but the Special is one of the most underrated guitars ever. Luckily a buddy of mine has my old one. Going to buy back eventually.
@@ferox965 Yep! I have the Special and I just love it! Had a 2018 Traditional which was great, sold it, wanted it back at some point but after trying a Special, never looked back. Woudl love to have both, since miss the hambucker sound, but if I had both I would still pick most times the Special, even though the Traditional is still great.
@@onlyguitars Nice. I know there are a lot of Les Paul haters, but for me (I am mostly a bassist) I have found them to be the best in my hands. Every PRS I found to be dead sounding when I played them, but to be fair, I need to try more of them. I just prefer a thick, woody sound, they are comfortable in my hands and my 2001 Standard (which was owned by my friend Victor Griffin from Pentagram) doesn't have the tuning issues (neither did my aforementioned 2004 Special). Other guitars I found great are true vintage BC Rich. I have a 1980 BC Rich Eagle bass and the craftsmanship is second to none.
@@ferox965 And that is fine! PRS are amazing instruments but not my cup of tea. Play what you like and what feels better for you. nice! BC rich has great guitars.
I'd would say the only answer is PRS SE in that bracket for any guitar player. Unless you are kind of a player that you HAVE to have Les paul or SG because that's your thing. If you're looking only for solid, solid, solid piece of gear, then PRS is for you. Great playing Dagan👍
As someone with an SE and an Am. Standard telecaster, I love both but when I moved to another country for a year and could only take one I didn’t have to think about which guitar to take. I brought my Telecaster and never looked back.
@@CosmicHippopotamus You just compared two very different guitars/price ranges. The PRS SE is made in South Korea, while the American Standard (what is now the Professional line) was made in the USA. It would have been more relevant to compare it to the Fender Player series as was covered in this video.
Am I the only one who thinks that orange amp doesn’t sound that good? Not sure why though, since every orange i’ve played sounded fantastic! Great playing anyways 👍
Yeah, I thought it was just me.. was initially thinking that the gibson in tv yellow sounded terrible and disappointing and then realised that ALL of them sounded weird to me..... I’m personally not crazy on Orange amps, but this is awful sounding....
@@vergdan5258 that could be, or the mic they're using, or the cab, or maybe the mids are cranked too high. IDK, but I know what most of those guitars sound like because I've played them before, and none of them sounded like that.
Love this dude but I recently heard the tv thing isn’t true as these were beginner guitars at the time they wouldn’t be on TV. The colour was originally called limed mahogany and was the standard cooour of TV furniture and apparently that’s where it came from
@@Livelaughlimpbizkit I've actually heard both of these explanations before. However, I have a feeling limed mahogany was a different color, because I've literally never seen any furniture painted like that guitar. If it were a standard color of any furniture, you would see it sometimes in thrift shops, but I've not seen it even once that I can recall. I could be wrong. Heck, it could even be both! I can imagine it showing up well on camera though. Were these guitars the only ones painted this way? Maybe they would paint TV-ready guitars this color, but they only provided the color to the public on their cheap guitars.
@@NeoRichardBlake that's definitely it I really don't think guitarists of the era would want pay a load of money to play a guitar just on TV and I really don't think gibson wanted to make expensive guitars just for TV, so I assume that TV guitars were cheaper, and that cheapness carried over to the learner guitars Just speculation though
@@Outta-hz1ej Sound and video quality weren't great over the air in those days, so a guitar only had to look and sound so good for TV I bet. Correct shape and holding a tune is probably all it needed. Dings wouldn't show up on an old TV. Too low res. Plus, any pro can make even crap guitar sound good enough for a half hour of TV. ;P
I bought a gretsch a couple of months ago, word of advice, get a hard case and a humidifier!!! The amount of money I've had to spend making sure it stays in good shape since owning it
1500 pounds for that Gibson. Not exactly what I'd consider intermediate by your definition. Most people upgrading from a learner grade Epiphone or Squire won't be able to afford this.
I love my schecter evil twin. Swamp ash, neck through, ebony fretboard, stainless steel frets, Fishman pups, schecter locking tuners, carbon fiber reinforce rods. That was $1200 in 2019. You can definitely get some really godly guitars for $1500!
Hell Yeah! Love my Evil Twin FRS!!! Just picked up an LTD KH3 last weekend. So many amazing guitars and the quality is phenomenal. Epiphone Les Paul standard pro plus top is another great one that is way under rated.
Bought that exact gretsch from pmt Newcastle, the neck pickup wasn’t working, and so I placed an order, expecting it to be a week, but 3 days later it came in, great service and great guitar! Edit: the one on display, not the one they ordered, that ones neck pickup didn’t work
No Ibanez No Esp Ltds No Cort No Jackson No Washburn No Yamahas These guitars really fit the bill at a cost much lower than these My Esp Ltd mh 300 fm has two active EMG 81 pups and delivers a lot of metal at this price point Include some metal superstrats 🙏
I bought a Fender Strat player from you guys a few months ago and love it. I also have an Epiphone inspired by Gibson SG with P90 pickups, an Epiphone Les Paul Custom a Noel Gallagher Riviera and a Martin Johnny Cash acoustic. Love em all
Given that Ibanez have some absolutely stunning guitars, they always seem to be the red-haired child both on this channel and Andertons when talking about guitars. For instance my AZ242-SFM is excellent, and fits the bill for the requirements of this video.
Ibanez are my #1 brand. I owned a 16 year old fully hollow af85 in violin burst and it was stunning. The binding was 100% perfect still..thing was built in 2004!! Even the pick guard was solid wood..sycamore, and wasn't even scratched! And the guitar was close to needing a re fret..so it wasn't a wall hanger! I'm with you..Ibanez is the best quality for the money on the market today, for years going back, and hopefully years going forward.
As I see it an "intermediate guitar" would be one with a price range of £500 to £1000. Which 5 of the 7 guitars met. It was the Gibson's that broke the bank (then again Gibsons usually do along with PRS(USA) on both). They would be more advanced guitars verging on the high end guitars. It would have been better and more accurate to have gone with Gibson LP and SG Tribute guitars as they are about £1000.
Actually Dagen TV yellow DIDN'T come across as grey cause if it did then there wouldn't be an issue to change it, it came out as a hot spot on TV giving it a kinda blurry image so they changed it to yellow which didn't give off the hot spot and it looked white, that's your fun fact.
I'm just looking into buying may 2nd guitar. Looking at the Epiphone SG classic worn with P90s. If i get to be 10% the player this guy is I'll be happy
Lol me too, I'm thinking about a Epi SG as a second guitar What is the guitar that you're using currently? I have an Affinity 2003 Squier Tele that still kicks ass
This video mentions nothing about prices or attributes which “justify” those prices, such as where they are made (except in the case of the Telecaster).
Lol google exists the point of videos like this are for total normies and people who want something simple who've been playing guitar for a few years and don't want to hear about tonewood or know what MIM stands for
Depends on what someone wants , but with 1.5 k if it is for gigging get a nice amp and then a guitar for 600 and you are good to go. Guitars nowadays are great even in the cheaper market. But the amp makes the difference!
I always love to be given a couple of options and choosing my favorite so, if I had the ability to choose one of these guitars I would pick the... Epiphone Les Paul Standard
I understand they are trying to sell new guitars but I went the used route when I was an intermediate player and needed to upgrade. I ended up getting a USA Paul Reed Smith S2 Custom 24 for under a grand. I couldn’t be happier with it and will have it forever! Although I really want a PRS SE Hollowbody now, or the SE 277 baritone.
Agree with most of the comments on price points for guitars here - to me, beginner price range is £500 and below, intermediate between £500-£1k, and anything above £1k is more suitable for pros/jobbing musicians and/or hobbyists with more disposable income
Definitely will go for Fender Tele and Strat Player series, great sound which close to the US made. Add a little more money to upgrade a locking tuner, and you are ready to rock. BTW, I hope fender can produce hardtail Stratocaster player series MIM.
Dagan you got the TV Yellow fun fact wrong. It was all to do with dynamic range. TV Cameras back in the day had very low dynamic range and under very bright lights when exposed for skin anything that was white or black for that matter would lose all detail. So whites would bleach out and blacks would crush down to pure black. I'm a filmmaker and have to box clever with this even today with modern cameras. I get actors to wear dark greys instead of black and off whites or light greys instead of white. A 'colour' would have worked even better using black and white film as RED for example has a lot of contrast and would be a strong dark grey. Yellow reads as white but with enough detail to handle contrast.
if you're more in a budget (and or a lefty)i would like to suggest Squier contemporary series, it's not for everyone, but they're very unexpensive with amazing necks, some pretty good pickups depending on the model.
Tv yellow was not made because it looks good on tv, it was most likely named that to profit off the Les Paul tv show that came out the same time the finish was first being sprayed. Juniors and Specials were “beginner” guitars at the time, so these guitars would never be featured on tv because the guitarist would be playing a goldtop standard or black custom if they were successful enough to appear on tv.
I really happy with my Vintage V6P with the 3 P90's I love the brand, they are right there with Mexican Fenders and in some cases even better for less money
Iast month i went to a lovely guitar shop ...'the house of acoustics '...(i live in Holland)....a bit misleiding cos they sell all guitars....being a gibson custom shop dealer they have a superb collection all over a large wall...imagine a sg special ..pelham blue..right In the middle of all the sunbursts ..i only went in strings !!!....luckily ive a brilliant wife .....just had to have it ..dont know why..just did....
This is my top shelf price point! Ahahaha but, I buy em used! How come the LP special and junior are the same price as a studio? Thinner no carved maple cap? Sweet video!
Awwww yes! The LP Special has a mahogany neck! For ages the Gibson site was saying they were maple, which put me right off because I'm a sucker for "proper" specs on these things. NICE!
Wait, got it... That's a Les Paul Special, not a Les Paul Special Tribute. Cool guitars, but they are about 2-3 times the price of everything else on this list.
as much as I love Yamaha's acustic guitars and the revstar guitars the pacifica was never on par with them/ all the pacificas I emcounterd had really sharp frets and the shielding was god awfull and the trem system never worked well. i think the revstar deserves it spot. a revstar never disappointed me, great pickups, great quality, ok pret job. Im telling you mate the revstars are where its at.
I have the same Fender Telecaster but mine sounds better because that Orange Amp sounds too muddy. This video would have been better with a different amp. Great job anyway Dagan! 💯
To me, £1500 is no longer intermediate. I would say that's a high end guitar. Intermediate would be £500-800 or so.
I bought yamaha pacifica with the amp for about $250. Fuck my life
The point is more that with 1500£ you can build/get *really great* stuff if you go a different route from big brand names.
Agee. That’s also a 3k setup he’s playing on😂
agreed
valebliz I built a super strat for £250. To me and the few people that I’ve let play it, it stands up to guitars in the £500-800 range. Building is great value.
1500 for intermediate , Damn I wish I had a job.
Ha just start applying dude they’re out there. Assuming your an adult
@@islas357 just graduated highschool 3 months ago....
Even with a job 1500 isn't something many people should consider. Too expensive for intermediate, too expensive to perform with, and leaves no budget for a matching amp.
@@MrSomnix exactly what I was thinking, but intermediate? Damn.
@@idolcesar7124 ive been working as a cashier since sophomore year of high school. you can do it, i believe in you
I think it’s time Dagan got his own signature SG custom with triple humbuckers. Gibson make it happen.
No Chibson are busy suing other brands even though they themselves have copied other brands' designs
10 frets - 10 humbuckers
@@aidanbouw5224 crybaby
Luke Productions fanboy
@@aidanbouw5224 bro, all your comments on youtube are rants and hate... you must be fun at parties
I don’t need a new guitar. This is just fun to watch.
Bullshit, everyone needs one more guitar
@@HPayne62 true af
NEED has nothing to do with buying guitars. WANT is all that matters
"Fits in your hand like an old friend " so it's extremely small and guaranteed to disappoint your girlfriend
😂😂😂
right in the honey nut feelios
It's like you know me
Yeah except those 50s style Gibson Les Pauls have a way to thick neck. It feels horrible.
Hey ohhhhhhhh
Man, look at your face when you're playing; you're really feeling every single tone, love it 🤟🤟
Dagan never fails to make me smile. These reviews are so entertaining. The headstock on my Epiphone Les Paul (I’ve had it for 3 years) broke and I need a new guitar, the repair would cost 100 more than I paid for the thing. Anyway, I think I might get myself an SG.
Is it just me or does anyone else want to see Dagan do a guest spot on andertons?
@Parker Kenney Yeah legally there would be a conflict of interest between competing stores
Jack Hodges ‘legally’?
Hmmmm.. might be a good idea...hey @AndertonsMusic what do you think?
@@PMTVUK Please don’t debase yourself by doing that, I’ve enjoyed your honest non biased opinions in your vids and I find Andertons to be extremely stuck up and pretentious. Keep it real and many will enjoy 😉
@@PMTVUK PLEASE make this happen ;) The captain meets Dagan?
I'm an intermediate player looking to upgrade my guitar and amp and not many channels cover this topic. Great video guys!
Oh wow! Look at those beautiful guitars that seem so cheap!
_me knowing full well that i cannot afford anyone of those even before the video starts:_ 🙃
That silly Gibson with strings completely off center is $1600!!! Watch the video..the strings are skewed to the right, they're off center on the pickups too. Gibson sucks! That being said..I have a Les Paul in my lap as I type this...cheap Epiphone version though!
Michael Boyer Gibson does suck! Even a Squier is better once you sand the neck!
Nothing intermediate about that Les Paul special. One of the most underrated guitars.
1000% agree... monster guitar, its up there with the Gibson Standards in quality.
@@onlyguitars Totally. I had one that I had to sell in a fit of being broke. Still have my Standard, which does what I want it to, but the Special is one of the most underrated guitars ever. Luckily a buddy of mine has my old one. Going to buy back eventually.
@@ferox965 Yep! I have the Special and I just love it!
Had a 2018 Traditional which was great, sold it, wanted it back at some point but after trying a Special, never looked back.
Woudl love to have both, since miss the hambucker sound, but if I had both I would still pick most times the Special, even though the Traditional is still great.
@@onlyguitars Nice. I know there are a lot of Les Paul haters, but for me (I am mostly a bassist) I have found them to be the best in my hands. Every PRS I found to be dead sounding when I played them, but to be fair, I need to try more of them. I just prefer a thick, woody sound, they are comfortable in my hands and my 2001 Standard (which was owned by my friend Victor Griffin from Pentagram) doesn't have the tuning issues (neither did my aforementioned 2004 Special). Other guitars I found great are true vintage BC Rich. I have a 1980 BC Rich Eagle bass and the craftsmanship is second to none.
@@ferox965 And that is fine! PRS are amazing instruments but not my cup of tea. Play what you like and what feels better for you.
nice! BC rich has great guitars.
I'd would say the only answer is PRS SE in that bracket for any guitar player.
Unless you are kind of a player that you HAVE to have Les paul or SG because that's your thing. If you're looking only for solid, solid, solid piece of gear, then PRS is for you.
Great playing Dagan👍
As someone with an SE and an Am. Standard telecaster, I love both but when I moved to another country for a year and could only take one I didn’t have to think about which guitar to take. I brought my Telecaster and never looked back.
@@CosmicHippopotamus You just compared two very different guitars/price ranges. The PRS SE is made in South Korea, while the American Standard (what is now the Professional line) was made in the USA. It would have been more relevant to compare it to the Fender Player series as was covered in this video.
player tele better
Not shopping at pmt but shopping at andertons
That Orange amp sounds awful to my ears... made every guitar sound a bit dodge... nice guitars though
agreed its either not miced properly or not mixed well at all
IKR?! it sounded really boxy, I don’t even know if that’s the right term
Eamo glad im not the inly one who thought they all sounded a bit dull and boxy
Sounds like a pignose.
@@denismacfarlane255 at least a pignose sounds good with gain
you absolutely shred with no stopping. i love it.
Bought myself a Epi Les Paul Custom last week. Couldn't be happier.
I love this guy so much he's so cool he's so fun and he's so helpful
I’m glad opinion has turned around. Because Dagan took a lot of shit for really no good reason.
Am I the only one who thinks that orange amp doesn’t sound that good? Not sure why though, since every orange i’ve played sounded fantastic! Great playing anyways 👍
Yeah it's very nasal sounding. Must be the room.
I think it's the mic placement.
Yeah, I thought it was just me.. was initially thinking that the gibson in tv yellow sounded terrible and disappointing and then realised that ALL of them sounded weird to me..... I’m personally not crazy on Orange amps, but this is awful sounding....
@@vergdan5258 that could be, or the mic they're using, or the cab, or maybe the mids are cranked too high. IDK, but I know what most of those guitars sound like because I've played them before, and none of them sounded like that.
Foo Fighter maybe, although most other amps he demos guitars on sounds great, maybe it’s just the setting he uses on this particular amp?
I freaking love this guy, he is so goddamn charming. I hope all the best success in the world is in store for this cat. What a cool dude.
1. I never knew why it was called TV Yellow.
2. Is it physically possible for Dagan to play a guitar while seated?
1. Glad you learnt something new! 🤘
2. Yes.
Love this dude but I recently heard the tv thing isn’t true as these were beginner guitars at the time they wouldn’t be on TV. The colour was originally called limed mahogany and was the standard cooour of TV furniture and apparently that’s where it came from
@@Livelaughlimpbizkit I've actually heard both of these explanations before. However, I have a feeling limed mahogany was a different color, because I've literally never seen any furniture painted like that guitar. If it were a standard color of any furniture, you would see it sometimes in thrift shops, but I've not seen it even once that I can recall. I could be wrong. Heck, it could even be both! I can imagine it showing up well on camera though. Were these guitars the only ones painted this way? Maybe they would paint TV-ready guitars this color, but they only provided the color to the public on their cheap guitars.
@@NeoRichardBlake that's definitely it
I really don't think guitarists of the era would want pay a load of money to play a guitar just on TV and I really don't think gibson wanted to make expensive guitars just for TV, so I assume that TV guitars were cheaper, and that cheapness carried over to the learner guitars
Just speculation though
@@Outta-hz1ej Sound and video quality weren't great over the air in those days, so a guitar only had to look and sound so good for TV I bet. Correct shape and holding a tune is probably all it needed. Dings wouldn't show up on an old TV. Too low res. Plus, any pro can make even crap guitar sound good enough for a half hour of TV. ;P
Dunno...great player...great presentation....always disapointed at the sound of the amps chosen...
This Orange does not sound great...sorry
I'm wondering if the room has bad acoustics.
agreed, atleast the marshal or laney setup would have been great.
Yeah, sounded kinda washed out - not much low end.
I think the amp is fine he just didn't dial it in right.
yes it does, the orange sounds great
I bought a gretsch a couple of months ago, word of advice, get a hard case and a humidifier!!! The amount of money I've had to spend making sure it stays in good shape since owning it
Hes back, hes back after long last hes back
It’s been 6 days ._.
@@nehemiahzo_ exactly
guitar content is my favourite content
1500 pounds for that Gibson. Not exactly what I'd consider intermediate by your definition. Most people upgrading from a learner grade Epiphone or Squire won't be able to afford this.
Agree, I would say 500 to 700 intermediary level.
There are guitars on this list @ 699, 799, etc
I love my schecter evil twin. Swamp ash, neck through, ebony fretboard, stainless steel frets, Fishman pups, schecter locking tuners, carbon fiber reinforce rods. That was $1200 in 2019. You can definitely get some really godly guitars for $1500!
Hell Yeah! Love my Evil Twin FRS!!! Just picked up an LTD KH3 last weekend. So many amazing guitars and the quality is phenomenal. Epiphone Les Paul standard pro plus top is another great one that is way under rated.
This is the absolute perfect video I needed, i've had my gear4music guitar for ages and was just looking at upgrading
I love the HSS strat thanks, Lord Farquad.
Bought that exact gretsch from pmt Newcastle, the neck pickup wasn’t working, and so I placed an order, expecting it to be a week, but 3 days later it came in, great service and great guitar!
Edit: the one on display, not the one they ordered, that ones neck pickup didn’t work
This guy is such a good player that I bought them all!
I think Gibson Les Paul Special in TV Yellow and Fender Player Telecaster in Polo White is my favourite.
No Ibanez
No Esp Ltds
No Cort
No Jackson
No Washburn
No Yamahas
These guitars really fit the bill at a cost much lower than these
My Esp Ltd mh 300 fm has two active EMG 81 pups and delivers a lot of metal at this price point
Include some metal superstrats 🙏
Ibanez, LTD and Jackson definitely belong on this list as well. Then it’s a top 10!
No Squier Classic Vibe or Paranormal series.
Nehemiah Zo squier id say are starter guitars
Martin Torrebiarte they can be intermediate. If a Squier is a beginner guitar, every Fender on the market is too.
Nehemiah Zo true true and it’s a subjective term it also depends on the money you want to spend and how far you’re willing to go
That Gibson les paul special is my dreeeam!!
I bought a Fender Strat player from you guys a few months ago and love it. I also have an Epiphone inspired by Gibson SG with P90 pickups, an Epiphone Les Paul Custom a Noel Gallagher Riviera and a Martin Johnny Cash acoustic. Love em all
Given that Ibanez have some absolutely stunning guitars, they always seem to be the red-haired child both on this channel and Andertons when talking about guitars. For instance my AZ242-SFM is excellent, and fits the bill for the requirements of this video.
Ibanez are my #1 brand. I owned a 16 year old fully hollow af85 in violin burst and it was stunning. The binding was 100% perfect still..thing was built in 2004!! Even the pick guard was solid wood..sycamore, and wasn't even scratched! And the guitar was close to needing a re fret..so it wasn't a wall hanger! I'm with you..Ibanez is the best quality for the money on the market today, for years going back, and hopefully years going forward.
Yes I have a Ibanez AZ it’s one of my best guitars. It’s my favorite brand followed closely by fender and Gibson
Ibanez make great instruments . Their basses are great as well .
Funnily enough I’m looking to upgrade to an intermediate guitar. Great timing PMTV!
As I see it an "intermediate guitar" would be one with a price range of £500 to £1000. Which 5 of the 7 guitars met. It was the Gibson's that broke the bank (then again Gibsons usually do along with PRS(USA) on both). They would be more advanced guitars verging on the high end guitars. It would have been better and more accurate to have gone with Gibson LP and SG Tribute guitars as they are about £1000.
Dunno if I'd call it intermediate but the Special is a shockingly good guitar.
3 hours late to the party BUT STILL SHOWED UP 👻
Dagan is an inspiration 👍🏼
Isn't the Strat is a 9.5 radius fingerboard not 12...?
Yeah the Player Series are 9.5 radius, except the Floyd Rose and Deluxe ones they have 12 inch radius
i dont know abt others but your tone kills me
I've been looking for a quirky guitar to buy myself for my 40th b-day. Pretty sure I'm now sold on the LP Special. Thanks!
Fender play has an amazing sound!!!
Just bought a pelham blue sg special.....oh.man !!!! ....what a guitar .....les Paul player for 30 years but just look at it !!!
Actually Dagen TV yellow DIDN'T come across as grey cause if it did then there wouldn't be an issue to change it, it came out as a hot spot on TV giving it a kinda blurry image so they changed it to yellow which didn't give off the hot spot and it looked white, that's your fun fact.
Sounds like it's recorded with the room mic rather than the cab mic
I'm just looking into buying may 2nd guitar. Looking at the Epiphone SG classic worn with P90s. If i get to be 10% the player this guy is I'll be happy
Lol me too, I'm thinking about a Epi SG as a second guitar
What is the guitar that you're using currently?
I have an Affinity 2003 Squier Tele that still kicks ass
This video mentions nothing about prices or attributes which “justify” those prices, such as where they are made (except in the case of the Telecaster).
Dude. He didn't even price the tele
Lol google exists
the point of videos like this are for total normies and people who want something simple who've been playing guitar for a few years and don't want to hear about tonewood or know what MIM stands for
Is that Humble Pie at 8:45? Great sound!! 👍
Nice tun through! Loving that Gretsch.
Man I thought my £350 vintage was intermediate!!!! I'd love that LP Special all day😎🎸🤘
Depends on what someone wants , but with 1.5 k if it is for gigging get a nice amp and then a guitar for 600 and you are good to go. Guitars nowadays are great even in the cheaper market. But the amp makes the difference!
That amp sounds like a cheap beginner combo. Shame as it doesn’t do the guitars justice.
I know sounds terrible! Usually they sound incredible
I love the les paul special its like a beefed up les paul junior
Those P90's sound amazing with this amp!!
Dagan you beautiful bastard glad to see you’re okay. Thanks to you I picked up a Vox AC10C1 and never went back 👍🏻
Agreed. Spend more than that, you’re really into either custom or collectible guitars.
I think i'm just about an intermediate guitarist, but with a beginner budget!
Anyone else buy a few affordable guitars than one expensive one? Not saying one is better than the other.
Same here, Jackson and Gio for me
Get this man his own talk show!
I can only recommend the Fenders and the PRS from this list.
not enough Ibanez ;)
For less than 1500 £ you can get the top of the line Yamaha RevStar or a nice Reverend.
Good guitars and they're also a bit different.
Dagan is my hero! 🤘🤟
What about the epiphone les paul standard Pot pro?
I always love to be given a couple of options and choosing my favorite so, if I had the ability to choose one of these guitars I would pick the...
Epiphone Les Paul Standard
Time for your Andertons interview 🤘
Thanks for time for making these videos! I would like to see more of Schecter please? Peace
Would get Epiphone SG Custom before grabbing those Gibson's..🤘
I understand they are trying to sell new guitars but I went the used route when I was an intermediate player and needed to upgrade. I ended up getting a USA Paul Reed Smith S2 Custom 24 for under a grand. I couldn’t be happier with it and will have it forever! Although I really want a PRS SE Hollowbody now, or the SE 277 baritone.
Had to subscribe
Agree with most of the comments on price points for guitars here - to me, beginner price range is £500 and below, intermediate between £500-£1k, and anything above £1k is more suitable for pros/jobbing musicians and/or hobbyists with more disposable income
Definitely will go for Fender Tele and Strat Player series, great sound which close to the US made. Add a little more money to upgrade a locking tuner, and you are ready to rock.
BTW, I hope fender can produce hardtail Stratocaster player series MIM.
You can get a top of the line American fender strat for way less than $1500
Great review! Fun guitars
Epiphone dot would be probably what I would buy
I am curious what you would show with the next 7 best advanced guitars... like stuff 1k - 2k though not the 5k+ stuff
Dagan you got the TV Yellow fun fact wrong. It was all to do with dynamic range. TV Cameras back in the day had very low dynamic range and under very bright lights when exposed for skin anything that was white or black for that matter would lose all detail. So whites would bleach out and blacks would crush down to pure black. I'm a filmmaker and have to box clever with this even today with modern cameras. I get actors to wear dark greys instead of black and off whites or light greys instead of white. A 'colour' would have worked even better using black and white film as RED for example has a lot of contrast and would be a strong dark grey. Yellow reads as white but with enough detail to handle contrast.
if you're more in a budget (and or a lefty)i would like to suggest Squier contemporary series, it's not for everyone, but they're very unexpensive with amazing necks, some pretty good pickups depending on the model.
Is there something wrong? I think the amp sounds awful..
How so?
Mic placement.
Just about to get a player strat, and then this video showed up, still gonna get a player strat but with ,ore confidence that is good
Im 13. Im intermediate. Almost there (the other level) i love slayer megadeth and so on. I will be back in 2024.
Tv yellow was not made because it looks good on tv, it was most likely named that to profit off the Les Paul tv show that came out the same time the finish was first being sprayed. Juniors and Specials were “beginner” guitars at the time, so these guitars would never be featured on tv because the guitarist would be playing a goldtop standard or black custom if they were successful enough to appear on tv.
I have that standard but in black, I love it
I have a fender player series strat. It's a sweet sounding guitar.
CHANGE THAT AMP!!
Yes, more or a continuation of the intermediate guitars 🎸
I own a SE 24 Custom a SE Tremonti and a Player series Tele with Zero complaints
I have the Les Paul special tv yellow. I love it and strongly recommend...
Hell naw man it’s garbage. Terrible neck. The thing is built like a stick that your dog just got done gnawing on.
I really happy with my Vintage V6P with the 3 P90's I love the brand, they are right there with Mexican Fenders and in some cases even better for less money
That SG blew all the others out of the water!
Iast month i went to a lovely guitar shop ...'the house of acoustics '...(i live in Holland)....a bit misleiding cos they sell all guitars....being a gibson custom shop dealer they have a superb collection all over a large wall...imagine a sg special ..pelham blue..right In the middle of all the sunbursts ..i only went in strings !!!....luckily ive a brilliant wife .....just had to have it ..dont know why..just did....
Jon Crane work hard, play hard 🤘!
what's with the amp, though?
It's the mic placement to the speakers. It can completely change the tone of the amp. And clearly, for the worst in this case
This is my top shelf price point! Ahahaha but, I buy em used! How come the LP special and junior are the same price as a studio? Thinner no carved maple cap? Sweet video!
Awwww yes! The LP Special has a mahogany neck! For ages the Gibson site was saying they were maple, which put me right off because I'm a sucker for "proper" specs on these things. NICE!
Wait, got it... That's a Les Paul Special, not a Les Paul Special Tribute. Cool guitars, but they are about 2-3 times the price of everything else on this list.
Fender player HSS can easily be replaced by Yamaha Pacifica whether you are a beginner, intermediate or Professional player.
as much as I love Yamaha's acustic guitars and the revstar guitars the pacifica was never on par with them/ all the pacificas I emcounterd had really sharp frets and the shielding was god awfull and the trem system never worked well. i think the revstar deserves it spot. a revstar never disappointed me, great pickups, great quality, ok pret job. Im telling you mate the revstars are where its at.
I just wish you hadn't used that thin sounding Orange amp/speaker. Reminds me of music through my grandad's old transistor radio.
I’ve been looking for a vid like this forever hahahah noice
You should shoot out SG special, Les Paul special, and the LP Standard p90.... I always wanted to see how p90's differ from each model.
5 fender or gibson/Epiphone ... I know these brands make quality guitars but there are many other brands for this price that offer quality
I love that orange amp!!
I have the same Fender Telecaster but mine sounds better because that Orange Amp sounds too muddy. This video would have been better with a different amp. Great job anyway Dagan! 💯