I still miss the old style of videos where you see more of the guys in the store actually going through the thought process of how they're gonna spend the allotted amount of Pounds, it might seem like waffling but it really was my favorite part, the comments about Top Gear for Guitars still stand today
Andertons should sell 'starter pack' options based on something like a GP100 and a pair of headphones (you could call it the 'parent saver' or the 'flat dweller' pack) because it keeps the players sounds to themselves and allows more flexibility of sound. Later on, when upgrading, the player can then get the big amp without essentially adding to the worldwide pile of e-waste needing to be recycled as the effects can be taken on into the big rig.
I had the chance to buy a Boss 25w amp and a ST type guitar with a baseball bat as fretboard lol bought an Aria ProII guitar later in that I upgraded with DiMarzio distortion pickups ;) (+40y ago…) Bought some decent HB guitars for the same price now…😮
This sort of challenge is always super fun to me. The choices you need to make when it's time to "upgrade" when you are at the bottom level pricepoint of gear.
Nah, you BOTH nailed it! If the next step is more practice+fun time for yourself go Lee's route If your next step is to play with others right away go Pete's route There's no wrong here, if a learning musician can do both definitely make it happen!
Lee definitely nailed what I think the next logical step (hell the thing you should do instead of an amp in a starter pack) with the Valeton. When you're starting out you want/need to be exposed to everything possible. Every sound, every trick, every teaching tool, every opportunity to figure out how to get a sound to the point of finding your sound.
Completely agree. Reality is that while Pete's strategy is excellent if you know what you want, if you've only been playing maybe 6 months you probably don't know what you want. Getting a decent little multi-FX that lets you play along with *every* song you like because you finally have the right effects, and shows you what all of them do, is super valuable. Once you know whether you even like certain effects, then you can consider buying specific individual pedals (or, indeed, a more expensive multi-FX if you prefer).
@@RhizomaticAssemblagewhat Pete chose was possible due to maturity and experience. A young person who has been handed Petes package might still want Lee's multi effects unit. Because it's more fun exploring the different effects options. I never knew why I sounded like sht even after saving up for tons of pedals until later in life. It's an inevitable journey many have been through.
Just a point on my experience from when I started learning the guitar and why I wouldn’t start with spending money on a new amp. I never practiced pugged in, I always played my guitar acoustically. Mainly because there was only so many times I could butcher heart shaped box until my parents asked me to knock it on the head. Unless you have a dedicated spaces using an amp just doesn’t really happen, at least in my experience. I would probably spend money on learning resources or lessons. If I was spending the money on the guitar then probably getting the frets dressed, and look at new tuners as tuning can be an issue with starter pack guitars.
This is more of a tube amp issue. Back when I originally tried learning the guitar, I’d been a dummy and bought the absolute cheapest tube amp with good reviews I could get (a 79eur Peavey 5w)… which was a single volume amp… perfectly impossible to practice with if you wanted any kind of drive… and being a newb I obviously hadn’t bought a dirt pedal… I honestly think not having any idea about all of these issues is one of the things that pushed me towards the bass, where a clean quiet tone was absolutely fine. And definitely something that can still be a pitfall for new players blindly following guitartube advice…
I play unplugged all the time and it's terrible for my playing - transitioning to an amp can be awful because you can't hear how crap you're playing when it's unplugged. If noise is an issue, use headphones. Or get a tiny practice amp.
Great video guys. Couldn’t have come at a better time. I bought an east coast starter pack in January with some Christmas money( couldn’t practice in February or most of march after almost cutting of the tip of my first finger awch) My birthday is coming up and I’ve been looking at budget pedals and multi fx. After watching this video I’m going to go for the gp 100 as I’m still only practicing in my bedroom Thanks Captain
Holy crap I was watching this just for the fun of it. I've had a look r for a year that I thought I had to have cables into the fx loop for what Pete is doing. You just BLEW my mind!! Best explanation of a looper EVER. defo doing that right now with my tube screamer
I've always struggled to work out which way to put it🙈. Guitar-Drive-Looper-Amp or Guitar-Looper-Drive-Amp. Also, need to get some patch cables😝. I always end up with cable everywhere as I only have instrument cables of about 8m to connect 2 pedals that are about 8inches apart🙈
The single thing that can help a beginning guitarist, more than any new equipment, is time with someone who already knows how to play and is willing to pass on such knowledge for a modest fee. One of the few benefits of a fiat monetary system is that you can exchange little green pieces of paper for the tutelage of such a person.
Just noticed aside from the thinline guitar Pete picked up at the start the different F-inspired EastCoasts have 22 frets! That's a massive improvement over their "grandparents" in my eyes
I'm amazed at the sound coming out of those starter pack amps. They seem to be an incredible value for a beginner. The guitars seem great for the $$, too.
Personally I believe that the Multi Effects Pedals are the future... My wife and I both have multiple effects pedals that have the ability to be a portable recording studio and have Bluetooth headphones jack and plug in ubc cable has pedal Sims Cab Sim's Speaker Cab Sim's 🎤 Mic Sims The ability to add pedals as well plus run it through my phone computer 🖥️💻 PC laptop or tablet which is great for gigs mout to stand tablet to run it pre set up your sets. Can Drop Time through the Sims with our Re Tunning or getting another guitar... Can hook to clubs or bars pa system or stadium amps ... Just a Bargain when you add up the cost of what it can do .. Cheers 🍻🥃🥃 🎸🎵🎶🎶
During the intro I was sure we were going to see a Positive Grid amp here. An upgrade on the soeaker with a world of effects at your finger tips... I didn't realise the 40w was a shade over budget, though very close to the budget Pete negociated😜. I always enjoy these vids. Well done fellas
I've just had a look at that Eastman 35W amp (link above). There's a Send/Return on the back! The restrictions of using a looper before the pre-amp which Pete and Lee discussed do not apply. Just stick the looper in the FX return and and you can keep your loop just as you recorded it irrespective of changes you make for the overdub.
If you do that- everything you play now runs through your looper and the sound quality is greatly reduced. If you have a higher end looper with a really high sample rate, so you don't lose much audio quality- you can do it. But they only just started making loopers of this quality tbh- and even using them, you still lose some of your tone. They simply cannot pass all the information through- you're going to lose some information.
@@stoneysdead689 Thank you for your input, but I'm a bit puzzled as to what you mean when you say, "If you do that, everything you play now runs through your looper". Are you saying that if you put the looper in the Send/Return FX loop you are loosing more of the signal than if you have it before the amp, at the end of the pedal chain, as Pete is using it?
@@stoneysdead689 Thank you. I didn't know this. Still, in the context of Lee and Pete's scenario I'm sure a play-at-home guitarist with just a few months of playing practice would be quite willing to trade off some signal loss for the pleasure derived from playing a clean backing track and then soloing over the top of it with some distortion, for example.
@@zebulon39u Well, that's kind of the point- they can do that, and have great tone- just put the looper up front with an OD pedal in front of it. If you don't have an OD pedal- I guess it would suffice until you could get one. That said- this problem is quickly going away because of modelers. To make them sound right they had to keep going with higher and higher sample rates and more powerful processing- and that same technology is now used in loopers to make them sound better. They have loopers now that you can put in the fx loop, and you won't experience much loss at all- and it's getting better every day.
Using TH-cam videos, I wouldn't be afraid to try and do anything to a guitar. I'll admit that I tried fret work on a couple of cheap guitars first but it only made them better . Don't pay someone to put strings on your guitar. I promise you can do it
It's a dead heat to first band -- IF that first band has a PA system with one or two free inputs. Pete uses his upgraded amp, Lee connects his floorboard's outputs to 2 inputs in the PA mixer. I did my last gig that way and sounded killer.
On this front Squier now has Debut series it seems to be the bottomest one yet from what i have seen. A strum buddy comes to mind when talking starter packs.
Bought a b-stock LP style Harley Benton with a FR 1000 for 300€! THREE HUNDRED EUROS!! That's what you pay for just the Floyd, and now I got the guitar basically for free! Anyhow. GREAT feel to it, but the pickups didn't play metal at all. Swapped out for a set of Bare Knuckle's Unity (450€ incl. taxes to get them to Finland). The guitar is my absolut go to guitar for E standard, and I own guitars worth 3x that!
I wish we had all these Information 20 years on a mouseclick away. I brought a old guitar magazine(german version) from 20 years ago. It was the first i ever bought as a teen and beginner. I rereaded it and the struggle with the cd and all. I wish i had learned on another time but... thanks for your vids. Love u for years. (My first Video i ever saw of you was with chappers and and christmas girl elf.)
First guitar kit, multiFX all the way. So many options and, when starting out, you may THINK you are John Mayer but then find a tone that makes you think you can Djent your life away! 🤣
I saw the title and thought to myself "let's see what they did and then go straight to the comments and tell them what they should've done." Turns out Lee already did the best thing I could think of in the shoes of a beginner. With everything I know I'd go down another route, but then I also would not have a starter pack which needed to be upgraded.
Worst decision I made for my 1st axe many moons ago was picking a cheap, strat with single coils. Horribly thin and noisy:(. Moment I played one bar chord on the bridge pickup of my buddy's guitar with an H-S-S config was a life changing experience:).
On the one hand, I believe every guitar amp deserves at least a 10-inch speaker. But since most of us (and especially beginners) are going to be playing through headphones most of the time, Lee wins.
Really tempted by the Eastcost offsets I spotted. Would be good to see a vid on them. Starter stuff these days is far superior to the lumps of plywood with tree trunk necks I got when i started learning. Also, If it was me, Keep the small amp, get a Valeton Indie and a Tone city Micky. Done job
The GP100 will have the presets with amp and cab modeling. You really needed to turn them off so it was more used as being able to put a dirt pedal and a delay infront of the amp. The way your using it, it needs to be used infront of an FrFr cab.
In terms of volume Pete won, but the sheer possibilities and the sounds available, the captain was the clear winner. For a starter guitar and a budget friendly multi effects unit....god damn, that sounded sweet. Where was this shit when us mid lifers were buying our first guitars 30 odd years ago. Hands up if you still have your first guitar 🙋
I think Lee won this one. That rig he could actually gig with. With a DI to the front of house that would be good. I don’t think Pete’s amp would be able to keep up, even with it mic’d. But I could be wrong
Biggest advantage of the multi effects is headphone playing. When I was learning I didn’t want people to hear me. I wanted to experiment without my brother making fun, or my mum complaining about the noise. I would have killed to a multi effects unit back then.
I thought this was gonna be about upgrading the guitars themselves. I was looking forward to seeing what new pickups and electronics were chosen. Oh well, maybe next time.
I would say Lee won, with Pete a close 2nd. The bigger amp is great if you intend playing along with others, but if you're only 6 months into your guitar journey, you're probably still playing alone - listening on headphones or into computer. Experimenting with different sounds is fun and isn't that what we all want? The inclusion of drum sounds may be a bit 'cheesy' but it can replace the boring 'tik-tok' of a metronome. New Strings? For sure. Try going a lighter gauge - experiment and see what suits you.
I love my Barley Henton ST-62, and I think these look perfect from the video, would wanna try one if I was in U.K. Lovely looking and nice rosewood fretboard
Can you do a video on how to get my strat whammy bar out of the middle of my radiator. Just rested it on the rad, and it fell down the slot, stuck half way down. Bugger.
Lee won this hands down because when you start out you don’t know what you want and the Valeton exposes you to a lot of different sounds and effects. Why would you want to play loud when you probably sound really bad anyway? While as a parent I’d be happy to listen to my kid playing the same thing over and over even very badly but neither me or my kid probably wants to hear it super loud and cranked up. Plus as soon as you start playing better you are gonna’ want a better amp anyway.
I still miss the old style of videos where you see more of the guys in the store actually going through the thought process of how they're gonna spend the allotted amount of Pounds, it might seem like waffling but it really was my favorite part, the comments about Top Gear for Guitars still stand today
Agreed. Watching the guys nerd out over gear and piece together a rig while remaining under a budget was always so much fun to watch.
100% - I can order gear from anywhere in the world. But seeing the store is the best part :) Makes me wanna visit haha.
Agree, back to the old Captain and Pete, messing around with guitars, sharing their thoughts with us.
Top Gear for guitars is the perfect comparison!
I miss this too! “Sound like” used to be my favorite series and that was a big part of why.
Andertons should sell 'starter pack' options based on something like a GP100 and a pair of headphones (you could call it the 'parent saver' or the 'flat dweller' pack) because it keeps the players sounds to themselves and allows more flexibility of sound. Later on, when upgrading, the player can then get the big amp without essentially adding to the worldwide pile of e-waste needing to be recycled as the effects can be taken on into the big rig.
I wish a video like this existed when I was just starting out way back when. No ego, just helping.
I had the chance to buy a Boss 25w amp and a ST type guitar with a baseball bat as fretboard lol bought an Aria ProII guitar later in that I upgraded with DiMarzio distortion pickups ;) (+40y ago…)
Bought some decent HB guitars for the same price now…😮
Missed such videos where you peeps waltz through the store and have a challenge. Great to see it's return
This sort of challenge is always super fun to me. The choices you need to make when it's time to "upgrade" when you are at the bottom level pricepoint of gear.
Nah, you BOTH nailed it!
If the next step is more practice+fun time for yourself go Lee's route
If your next step is to play with others right away go Pete's route
There's no wrong here, if a learning musician can do both definitely make it happen!
Lee definitely nailed what I think the next logical step (hell the thing you should do instead of an amp in a starter pack) with the Valeton. When you're starting out you want/need to be exposed to everything possible. Every sound, every trick, every teaching tool, every opportunity to figure out how to get a sound to the point of finding your sound.
Completely agree. Reality is that while Pete's strategy is excellent if you know what you want, if you've only been playing maybe 6 months you probably don't know what you want. Getting a decent little multi-FX that lets you play along with *every* song you like because you finally have the right effects, and shows you what all of them do, is super valuable. Once you know whether you even like certain effects, then you can consider buying specific individual pedals (or, indeed, a more expensive multi-FX if you prefer).
@@RhizomaticAssemblagewhat Pete chose was possible due to maturity and experience. A young person who has been handed Petes package might still want Lee's multi effects unit. Because it's more fun exploring the different effects options. I never knew why I sounded like sht even after saving up for tons of pedals until later in life. It's an inevitable journey many have been through.
Love love love how beginner friendly this all is. Brilliantly accessible and the opposite of gatekeeping - bravo.
Just a point on my experience from when I started learning the guitar and why I wouldn’t start with spending money on a new amp. I never practiced pugged in, I always played my guitar acoustically. Mainly because there was only so many times I could butcher heart shaped box until my parents asked me to knock it on the head. Unless you have a dedicated spaces using an amp just doesn’t really happen, at least in my experience. I would probably spend money on learning resources or lessons. If I was spending the money on the guitar then probably getting the frets dressed, and look at new tuners as tuning can be an issue with starter pack guitars.
This is more of a tube amp issue. Back when I originally tried learning the guitar, I’d been a dummy and bought the absolute cheapest tube amp with good reviews I could get (a 79eur Peavey 5w)… which was a single volume amp… perfectly impossible to practice with if you wanted any kind of drive… and being a newb I obviously hadn’t bought a dirt pedal…
I honestly think not having any idea about all of these issues is one of the things that pushed me towards the bass, where a clean quiet tone was absolutely fine. And definitely something that can still be a pitfall for new players blindly following guitartube advice…
I play unplugged all the time and it's terrible for my playing - transitioning to an amp can be awful because you can't hear how crap you're playing when it's unplugged. If noise is an issue, use headphones. Or get a tiny practice amp.
Do the same thing but with the bass starter packs!
No one would watch it
easy, sell bass, spend 150 on a guitar
jk love u bass players
For the absolute beginner, the multi fx is a huge deal. Being able to get the essence of what a type of pedal does to your tone is a great investment.
Great video guys.
Couldn’t have come at a better time.
I bought an east coast starter pack in January with some Christmas money( couldn’t practice in February or most of march after almost cutting of the tip of my first finger awch)
My birthday is coming up and I’ve been looking at budget pedals and multi fx. After watching this video I’m going to go for the gp 100 as I’m still only practicing in my bedroom
Thanks Captain
Holy crap I was watching this just for the fun of it. I've had a look r for a year that I thought I had to have cables into the fx loop for what Pete is doing. You just BLEW my mind!! Best explanation of a looper EVER. defo doing that right now with my tube screamer
I've always struggled to work out which way to put it🙈. Guitar-Drive-Looper-Amp or Guitar-Looper-Drive-Amp. Also, need to get some patch cables😝. I always end up with cable everywhere as I only have instrument cables of about 8m to connect 2 pedals that are about 8inches apart🙈
That end jam is great proof that you don't need to spend an arm and a leg to get a great sound - just practice, practice, practice! Nice one guys! 😎
The solo at the end was just 🔥🔥🔥
Always a banger when they start inside the store!
The single thing that can help a beginning guitarist, more than any new equipment, is time with someone who already knows how to play and is willing to pass on such knowledge for a modest fee. One of the few benefits of a fiat monetary system is that you can exchange little green pieces of paper for the tutelage of such a person.
The intro😂 Captains lick... Subtle
Amp for sound quality; pickups for genre; guitar for hand/body feel. 😁
P.S. What a great idea for a video. Well done.
The best segment ever, and i consider myself an advanced intermediate player.
Pete just shredding as normal ❤
Just noticed aside from the thinline guitar Pete picked up at the start the different F-inspired EastCoasts have 22 frets! That's a massive improvement over their "grandparents" in my eyes
Lol "F inspired."
Fender isn't actually a bad word. You can just say Fender.
@@sagittated yeah yeah fair enough
its not the equipment, its all in the hands of the player!!
I'm amazed at the sound coming out of those starter pack amps. They seem to be an incredible value for a beginner. The guitars seem great for the $$, too.
Personally I believe that the Multi Effects Pedals are the future... My wife and I both have multiple effects pedals that have the ability to be a portable recording studio and have Bluetooth headphones jack and plug in ubc cable has pedal Sims Cab Sim's Speaker Cab Sim's 🎤 Mic Sims The ability to add pedals as well plus run it through my phone computer 🖥️💻 PC laptop or tablet which is great for gigs mout to stand tablet to run it pre set up your sets. Can Drop Time through the Sims with our Re Tunning or getting another guitar... Can hook to clubs or bars pa system or stadium amps ... Just a Bargain when you add up the cost of what it can do .. Cheers 🍻🥃🥃 🎸🎵🎶🎶
During the intro I was sure we were going to see a Positive Grid amp here. An upgrade on the soeaker with a world of effects at your finger tips... I didn't realise the 40w was a shade over budget, though very close to the budget Pete negociated😜. I always enjoy these vids. Well done fellas
I've just had a look at that Eastman 35W amp (link above). There's a Send/Return on the back! The restrictions of using a looper before the pre-amp which Pete and Lee discussed do not apply. Just stick the looper in the FX return and and you can keep your loop just as you recorded it irrespective of changes you make for the overdub.
If you do that- everything you play now runs through your looper and the sound quality is greatly reduced. If you have a higher end looper with a really high sample rate, so you don't lose much audio quality- you can do it. But they only just started making loopers of this quality tbh- and even using them, you still lose some of your tone. They simply cannot pass all the information through- you're going to lose some information.
@@stoneysdead689 Thank you for your input, but I'm a bit puzzled as to what you mean when you say, "If you do that, everything you play now runs through your looper". Are you saying that if you put the looper in the Send/Return FX loop you are loosing more of the signal than if you have it before the amp, at the end of the pedal chain, as Pete is using it?
@@zebulon39u Yes.
@@stoneysdead689 Thank you. I didn't know this. Still, in the context of Lee and Pete's scenario I'm sure a play-at-home guitarist with just a few months of playing practice would be quite willing to trade off some signal loss for the pleasure derived from playing a clean backing track and then soloing over the top of it with some distortion, for example.
@@zebulon39u Well, that's kind of the point- they can do that, and have great tone- just put the looper up front with an OD pedal in front of it. If you don't have an OD pedal- I guess it would suffice until you could get one.
That said- this problem is quickly going away because of modelers. To make them sound right they had to keep going with higher and higher sample rates and more powerful processing- and that same technology is now used in loopers to make them sound better. They have loopers now that you can put in the fx loop, and you won't experience much loss at all- and it's getting better every day.
Using TH-cam videos, I wouldn't be afraid to try and do anything to a guitar. I'll admit that I tried fret work on a couple of cheap guitars first but it only made them better .
Don't pay someone to put strings on your guitar. I promise you can do it
It's a dead heat to first band -- IF that first band has a PA system with one or two free inputs. Pete uses his upgraded amp, Lee connects his floorboard's outputs to 2 inputs in the PA mixer. I did my last gig that way and sounded killer.
On this front Squier now has Debut series it seems to be the bottomest one yet from what i have seen. A strum buddy comes to mind when talking starter packs.
Bought a b-stock LP style Harley Benton with a FR 1000 for 300€! THREE HUNDRED EUROS!! That's what you pay for just the Floyd, and now I got the guitar basically for free!
Anyhow. GREAT feel to it, but the pickups didn't play metal at all. Swapped out for a set of Bare Knuckle's Unity (450€ incl. taxes to get them to Finland). The guitar is my absolut go to guitar for E standard, and I own guitars worth 3x that!
Such a great video, I just love these jams between Lee and Pete
if anybody's wondering what that intermittent echo is, it's the capn's mic being picked up by both his and pete's mic at the same time
I wish we had all these Information 20 years on a mouseclick away. I brought a old guitar magazine(german version) from 20 years ago. It was the first i ever bought as a teen and beginner. I rereaded it and the struggle with the cd and all. I wish i had learned on another time but... thanks for your vids. Love u for years. (My first Video i ever saw of you was with chappers and and christmas girl elf.)
First guitar kit, multiFX all the way. So many options and, when starting out, you may THINK you are John Mayer but then find a tone that makes you think you can Djent your life away! 🤣
I saw the title and thought to myself "let's see what they did and then go straight to the comments and tell them what they should've done."
Turns out Lee already did the best thing I could think of in the shoes of a beginner. With everything I know I'd go down another route, but then I also would not have a starter pack which needed to be upgraded.
So funny watching the sped-up setup process and seeing the microphones droop. I'm glad someone came in to fix them before they really got going.
It had never happened to them before.
When I got a my starter pack I went with a bigger amp later and a multi effect pedal. Basically combining Lee’s and Pete’s choices haha
Worst decision I made for my 1st axe many moons ago was picking a cheap, strat with single coils. Horribly thin and noisy:(. Moment I played one bar chord on the bridge pickup of my buddy's guitar with an H-S-S config was a life changing experience:).
On the one hand, I believe every guitar amp deserves at least a 10-inch speaker. But since most of us (and especially beginners) are going to be playing through headphones most of the time, Lee wins.
Really tempted by the Eastcost offsets I spotted. Would be good to see a vid on them. Starter stuff these days is far superior to the lumps of plywood with tree trunk necks I got when i started learning.
Also, If it was me, Keep the small amp, get a Valeton Indie and a Tone city Micky. Done job
Glad you guys are showing younger players what's up with there gear.....
Black T-style with black pick guard is awesome. Amazing what you can get for cheap these days.
Depending on the clean headroom of that SS amp the multieffect COULD theoretically make you play louder when you boost the line level.
The GP100 will have the presets with amp and cab modeling. You really needed to turn them off so it was more used as being able to put a dirt pedal and a delay infront of the amp. The way your using it, it needs to be used infront of an FrFr cab.
I made one of them Fret protector plates from an empty pop can, a ruler & a craft knife!
Popsicle sticks are good too. Good suggestion.
As a Canadian, the idea of washing cars and mowing lawns from Dec- March is hilarious
That black Tele sounds amazing for the money
In terms of volume Pete won, but the sheer possibilities and the sounds available, the captain was the clear winner.
For a starter guitar and a budget friendly multi effects unit....god damn, that sounded sweet.
Where was this shit when us mid lifers were buying our first guitars 30 odd years ago.
Hands up if you still have your first guitar 🙋
SO impressive that you 2 can produce a world class jam after only 30 minutes of getting these guitars. Get video.
ha, if only.
Lee's playing getting better and better :-) And I can only do a few chords so I'm a noob (@60)
I know Lee loves reverb, but he should refrain from putting it over lapell mic :D
I think a nice guitar that speaks to you feels nice can be paired with a multi effect pedal and just about any amp be good
Holds up strings: "This could cost you 5 pounds."
Me: cries in 5-string bass
I think Lee won this one. That rig he could actually gig with. With a DI to the front of house that would be good. I don’t think Pete’s amp would be able to keep up, even with it mic’d. But I could be wrong
I was expecting a pickup change or something in that nature but cool to see the the different routes
Golden age of guitar!
Beg to differ on the strings. I prefer D'addario, if they're good enough for the great Mark Knopfler they'll do for me.
Daddario vs ernie. Fender vs Gibson.
Pretty sure there isn’t much difference between the strings that the £5-£9 price point.
What great outro jam!!
Would love to see an east coast mod video, see how it compares to something like a classic vibe / player strat.
Biggest advantage of the multi effects is headphone playing. When I was learning I didn’t want people to hear me. I wanted to experiment without my brother making fun, or my mum complaining about the noise. I would have killed to a multi effects unit back then.
Great video guys🎸👍
people should prioritize tuning stability and playability over pickups and tone...
I love this video concept!
Micromesh! Not sandpaper. Originally produced by the US military for polishing the squashed flies out of supersonic jet cockpits.
What mics were you using on the first part of this video.. the audio was horrendous. XD Awesome video as always!
please continue this and now use Christmas money for the next upgrade
FX Loop for $99! Plu that GP-100 in.
Hurray! Great videos.
I thought this was gonna be about upgrading the guitars themselves. I was looking forward to seeing what new pickups and electronics were chosen. Oh well, maybe next time.
A bit unlikely you'd be doing that a few months in.
A bit late to the party here, but I just have a question for Lee; Is there an Impulse response going on the GP-100 then going in the amp's "cab" ?
is this lapel + camera mic at the start ?
For a second i though i was hearing things XD
Why wouldn’t you buy a better guitar and a little black star combo amp
Pete did the thing, repeatedly.
I would say Lee won, with Pete a close 2nd. The bigger amp is great if you intend playing along with others, but if you're only 6 months into your guitar journey, you're probably still playing alone - listening on headphones or into computer. Experimenting with different sounds is fun and isn't that what we all want? The inclusion of drum sounds may be a bit 'cheesy' but it can replace the boring 'tik-tok' of a metronome. New Strings? For sure. Try going a lighter gauge - experiment and see what suits you.
... Should be called "pimp My guitar pack! "!!!
They can make any rig sound good. I couldn't sound like that if I bought 10 grand worth of gear. lol
I love my Barley Henton ST-62, and I think these look perfect from the video, would wanna try one if I was in U.K. Lovely looking and nice rosewood fretboard
Audio making Lee sound like C3P0
Please move the plants. I can’t read the db meter.
I never get tired of these cheap guitar upgrades!
Well done for not selling your amp and getting a Katana...
Can we have a bass version of this 😁
I too like to play with myself.
Can you do a video on how to get my strat whammy bar out of the middle of my radiator. Just rested it on the rad, and it fell down the slot, stuck half way down. Bugger.
I agree with both options. But I like Pete's best!
It's a bit of a fluke that I managed to tune this floating bridge 😅 I'll still sell it to you though... If you insist
i think the bridge is fine it just not that easy to set the trem bridge in tune
@@leokrissandy5579 so it would've been fine as a bridge if it weren't a trem... is what you're saying
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Lee won this hands down because when you start out you don’t know what you want and the Valeton exposes you to a lot of different sounds and effects. Why would you want to play loud when you probably sound really bad anyway? While as a parent I’d be happy to listen to my kid playing the same thing over and over even very badly but neither me or my kid probably wants to hear it super loud and cranked up. Plus as soon as you start playing better you are gonna’ want a better amp anyway.
Can i buy petes tele since hey takin care of the frets and strings?
Shame that East Coast guitar's are not all that - a Squier would be a better choice for a beginner in my book
I'll take Pete's rig any day of the week. Sounds fat. Very satisfying.
With the gp100 you can get two cheap amps and have a stereo rig.
In my mind, that will always be called "the Captain's Lick!" You know what I'm talking about!😎
Lee's lick... Lee's lick... Lee's lick 😂😂
No specs on the speaker size in Pete's upgrade.
I thought Lee “won” when he pulled out the multi fx, but after listening, Pete wins again.
Pete rocks😎🎸👑🤘
put it through thousands of dollars of studio gear and it sounds fine.😁
Is it in Pete’s contract that there must be a purple guitar in shot at all times??