I think the idea of paying respect to musicians who passed on each month is good but instead of a moment of silence I think it would be kind of cool to talk about one of your favorite songs or musical pieces that they created.
Speaker builder here ! Humidity will affect the speaker with rust . But the tuning of the box is based on the density of the air and the compression inside the enclosure. Then, the sound waves will act differently in the denser air .(distance of the sound wave )
This is sad - after listening to your discussion on the number of guitars I decided to count mine. I honestly thought I had about 10. I have 17. I’m not sure where the extra 7 came from. I must’ve been lax on my one in, one out policy.
From Leo: The microprocessor based amps will not be restored once they die. The processors are iffy to find, they are tricky to change, and the company guards it's proprietary software like it was a bank vault. The modern circuit boards are very cheap quality and fall apart. I have fixed many solid state amps,, the old Peaveys, Fenders, and some others you have a chance of getting them going with straight forward troubleshooting, but microprocessor gear is just not worth the time and effort. Even the Fender repair centers will not repair the new microprocessor amps past warranty. 10 years ago you never had any problem with the quality of replacement parts. The last time I needed a pair of N-channel MOSFETS for a Bugera, I had to go through two bags of 5 to get two good ones. The high voltage Capacitors for tube amps are not as good either, and mechanical board mounted mechanical switches are junk. Remember the problem you had with your supersonic?
I was in Japan recently and was told guitarists at clubs don’t own amps due to limited home living space, they only own tiny practice amps at home and when they gig, they always use the house amps provided on stage by the clubs
I live in Manhattan and this is true for me. But I use a boss katana 100 Watt head, and it turns into a practice amp at home, so I don’t need big combo amps or half stacks. But yeah if I had the real estate I would own them.
I've watched so many Japanese TH-camrs that will play their electric guitars unplugged or on such low volume that the acoustic sound is still audible. Drives me crazy. I live in Japan too and I'm dying for a tube amp again.
I live in Japan, and use an amp of my own. It's not about space; it's about your neighbors hearing you playing. People are very aware of noises at home in Japan. We can hear every loud argument, no one plays their television too loud, and so on. The Walkman was invented in Japan for this purpose. Me however, I asked my neighbors if my guitar is too loud; one simply said, "Beatles. Please play Beatles." and another gave me a massive amount of chocolate.
I live in an apartment and I put my main amp on an amp stand and my speaker cabinets on small dolly’s-- the rubber wheels isolate the bass frequencies from being transmitted thru the floor. Harbor Freight sells the dolly’s in two sizes, plus it makes the rig easy to move around.
hi! I was wondering. What is a "dolly"? Is it an actual name for something and in that case what is that something? Or is it some sort of slang for something else? My native language is not english, please be kind with my ignorance. 🙂
a dolly is a tall thin cart with rubber wheels used to move things. if you google dolly or hand truck you will find one. but basically putting an amp on anything with rubber, inflatable wheels will help reduce bass frequency transfer.@@michaelkarlsson5966
I have a 100 watt Katana head, and it's fine for local gigs. I keep it on the clean channel, boost it a bit, then run pedals. Sometimes I prefer leaving my good amps at home. It is what it is...
I plugged my noisiest guitar into my friend's katana air and there was ABSOLUTELY NO HUM, the guitar i plugged in was my Fender Aerodyne with Fender pure vintage 57/62 pickups, I was blown away with how clean and full it sounded
@@patricklemire9278 You might mean that SS is not digital. But just like modeling amps, solid state amps had to have a tone shaped or modeled from detailed analysis of other amps.
@1:03…I have the Yamaha THR10X and I love it…plenty loud enough for a bedroom or apartment…and it sounds incredible…pick one up used, you won’t be disappointed 👍
Generally speaking: it won't be collectible until enough of them are in landfills and then some random person will play one and make something really cool and everyone will want the remaining operable stock. See: Peavey Bandit, Ibanez TS10.
unfortunatley they also made about 50 gazillion of them, they arent worth fixing when they break and the tech is already dated. no way they would approach Bandit status.
Phil great episode! Don’t ever bleep your swears out…just cuss like a sailor and do the beep after, it’s more fun that way, integrity and the occasional swear is always better than censoring yourself. Keep up the great content!
I have the Katana 50 MkI and 50 MkII, connected ABY via Radial Big Shot. When I bought both of them, a couple of years apart, I did not expect they would have any future value. For me, they are bang for the buck right now. They sound great, they take pedals well, they are easy to use, they are portable, and they are well-enough built for my uses. It wouldn’t occur to me to hope to get something out of them 20 years from now. I’m getting everything I want out of them right now! If anything, in 20 years, so long as they are still working, I will still have them. And probably MkIII and MkIV and MkV lol...
Truth. I like mine. I also have orange 20, the fen champ 20, and a stage right 20 (knock off blues jr). A suitcase full of afordadapedals. There's nothing wrong with this stuff. This is the true golden Era of quality sound gear at low pricing. I have an Amazon brand distortion pedal that blatantly has the same circuit as a zw guv'na.....it was $20. I have a zoom g1 multi fx that I proudly play live with ....$99. I like solid state amps, consistent sound. The fender champ is awesome and is amazingly accurate to the fender modeling. Bc.....it's made by fender. Super simple to dial in. Line out to 2x12. A little weak in the metal department.but I just put a dist pedal in front of it. There's no fx loop but dist doesn't go through the loop anyway and the rest of fx are built in. Hell, you could play live with today's ibanez gr series and nobody would know. We're super lucky in the guitar world.....but not as lucky as the piano world. $99 keyboard is a recording monster
MKII and going from 50 to 100 fixed my only complaints about MKI. I'm probably inclined to skip a generation UNLESS they go bluetooth I/O so I can use wireless guitar AND headphones. Everyone complains no tuner. I get it but it doesn't bother me bc the tuner they incorporate likely won't be what I use. Maybe if the amp incorporated a screen for a strobe type interface. Whoa, did I just design the perfect Katana? lol
The Sweetwater story is hilarious! You mentioned a 32" TV. I bought one in 2001 or so, and carried it into my house with ease by myself. I was 40 or 41. I had to get rid of it 2 years ago, and at age 60, could not risk picking it up by myself. I push it off the stand onto the floor and wrangled it onto a cart to get it to the curb.
Hahaha, Phil, you're right when you said have anybody tried to give away a TV screen lately, well I was giving a plasma 50 inch away, it ended up on the refuse tip, it was only missing the remote.
Phil, happy birthday brother! I also will turn 49 this coming Friday, August 4th, Born 8/4/1974. Keep up the great work! Love your videos and podcasts! Congratulations on the success!!
'Will Boss Katanas be in landfills or collectable in the future?' I'm going to go with neither. They aren't Vintage 60's JTM's nor $60 ali-express knock-offs. I can see them quietly and reliably chugging along as a solid means of amplifying for the common player, as they were designed to do. I've got 40 year old Boss pedals that are still rock solid. I like their track record in that regard. YMMV.
Another note for the Z coil pickups deep dive, would be a cool chance to talk about Leo and his pursuit in guitar design. If anyone could do it justice it’d be you! Happy Birthday!!
Before the pandemic I lived in an apartment in NYC and had a Friedman Dirty Shirley Mini that I played at home and gigged for years. I was able to get a useable tone late night even with a kid sleeping in another room without a problem. I would recommend the Little Sister or another 20 Watt Friedman - Their master volume is really impressive. In fact, now I’m in a house and have a 40-watt Friedman and am able to lower it for late night play with kids two rooms away without a problem (and one is a fairly light sleeper).
I do have a Crate 3x10 Vintage Club Tube amp with PC board no less and it sounds INCREDIBLE. As much as Crate is dodgy it sounds as good as my Mesa DC10. I know it sounds crazy, but it really sounds insane. So not all Crates are garbage for sure.
I had a Katana 50W combo for about 3 months, but returned it. It worked incredibly well, but I just found it too sterile sounding Now I have a really cheap Fender Frontman (with a bunch of nice pedals in front of it) for writing and practicing, and a Fender 18/30W Bassbreaker for recording or shows. It's dead simple, sounds great (to me), and can be heard in space. Loud!
I was sales manager for one of the original 10 vintage guitar stores in the 1970s. My former employer told me several years ago the average vintage dealer from that period has over 1000 guitars in their collection. On the G&L topic, we were one of the first ten G&L franchises (10 is the magic number). My employer returned one of the guitars they sold us for them to fix the way a nut had been slotted. George, yes the G called me up and screamed at me for 29 1/2 minutes. It was not the conversation I had hoped to have with George Fullerton. All in a days work in a music store.
How many guitars is too many? Only a few years ago I hit 10, and was so impressed with myself. When it became 30, I thought I'd realized a childhood dream. When it hit 50, I started to be embarrassed. A few days ago I bought number 70, and I'm done feeling any shame. The only barometer for when to quit is physical space along with affordability. The answer will vary for all of us.
I'm a drummer since 1968, and in 55 years of playing drums there's one thing I'm absolutely sure of, there's no such thing as too many guitars. 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸
Minute 103: indeed I learned when living in apartment in Chandler, had 2 large cabinets with NOS EVF 150 watt speakers. I exercised the speakers covered in sound blankets, speaker facing down with low frequency music playing all day while at work.......after 2 days got in some trouble from complaints........I rarely use these even in my home today! I use low watt amps and lower watt rated celestion alnico speakers......
I built a “Parts-Telecaster”, & I went with urethane & used TransTint Dies. Went with “Vintage Honey Amber faded to Brandywine/Mission Brown”. Beautiful!
I have been pretty happy using my Catalyst 100 on the 0.5watt mode in my apartment. If I'm really concerned about noise and don't want to use headphones I put in on a kitchen chair so it's more or less at ear height while sitting so it sounds slightly louder and is off the floor, you could tilt it but then the open back is pointing at the floor. A couple things I do to make sure I'm not too loud is use my TV as a known acceptable volume to compare too, and use a looper (make sure its unity gain) so I can go to another room or into the hallway and see how far the sound is carrying.
For 12-string electrics - I got a Halo Custom Guitar's 12 string Clarus model. Love it! Seymour Duncan pick-ups; locking tuners; and a 10-way pick-up selector (dual rail Strat-type). Easy to play and sounds great.
Most of the time during the week I don’t have time to play until later at night after everyone else is in bed. I use my headrush pedalboard through studio monitors. I’ve also used an HX stomp through monitors as well. Great low volume tones.
Absolutely right about the televisions..boss just put all new tvs in the restaurant and bar area at work and the old ones are literally 3 year old Vizio and he tried for weeks to give them away and nobody wanted them..i took the biggest ine home just so he felt better 😊
My friends say I have the most ridiculous apartment setup. I use the AFD100 running through an attenuator into a 2x12. I have the built in attenuator around 40% and the other attenuator around 20%. But hey it works with no complaints lol
One of the reasons I bought the Fender GTX was because it doesn't require the app to access all its features, meaning you don't need the app in the future to use it if it's discontinued. Figured that was good future proofing.
12-string electric - you can't go wrong with the Reverend Airwave 12. I'm a Byrds/Seekers fan, and paired with my Fender Tonemaster Deluxe Reverb provides all the jangle of the 60s. Impeccable quality!
I've been thirty-twenty-three for a while, and bald for way more than half of that 😀 Keep up the good work, Phil. Your content is a breath of honest fresh air.
My favorite locking tuners are Tone Ninja, 19:1 ratio, multiple tuner button options, you can even buy many brands of buttons from them to change your tuner button aesthetic. They're cheaper than Hipshot, and IMO better, but do not use an "UMP" plate system and use a diagonal screwhole pattern.
i have had great luck with tone ninja as well! certainly at least on par with hip shot ata agreat price, and as you say, easily installed. just make sure to get what you need.
I spent a great deal of time with a Katana--trying to coax ANY kind of "keepable" sound with just a guitar plugged into the front end (isn't that what they were DESIGNED to work with?)--and came up with maybe a SETTING or TWO that were CLOSE to OK. On the other hand, my "Loop Pedalboard" (featuring a Boss ME-50) into my (Stereo Input) Roland JC-40 is just STELLAR! AND, the JC's Chorus and Reverb are SO good...I use THEM instead of the quite decent ME's!
I have a Boss Katana MK1. I was about to trade it in recently, but it still sounds so damn good to me. The Line 6 Spider, however, always sounded like shit, even when I first played it. Some digital amps sound great, and others not so much. That doesn't change over time.
48:30 - speaking of TV's there is already a collectors market for good CRT TVs because a lot of retro video game consoles and their games were designed to be used with a CRT. A lot of games simply work and play better on a CRT because they were designed with the CRT's capabilities in mind. You might want to hold onto a couple of small TVs, they *will* be worth money in the future. They're worth money now.
i have a feeling that soon we will see a simple crt monitor for just this purpose. feel free to steal the idea. i am too busy to make it happen and i already have too much money.
"I got drunk once... And I found out how fast Sweetwater could ship." Oh my lord, I nearly collapsed on the floor laughing at that. Awesome story. Hope your buddy enjoys his new tele. 😂
I had the largest "picture tube" TV made by Sony. Still worked fine. No takers. Off to the dump. It was from 1998, when we adopted our first child. It was our "stay at home with the kids" TV. Amazing what becomes obsolete in a mere 25 years.
That's the 59 Les Paul of TVs! That would be worth several thousand dollars now! Seriously - People who obsess over retro video games will pay insane money for a larger 1990s Sony Trinitron TV like that. My condolences
I’m not into sports, religion, politics or the military, but I think a moment of silence for those we’ve lost is incredibly respectful and a great way to show their impact
I've got at least 5 guitars and a few amps I ordered after too much wine. But I love them all! And Sweetwater does ship fast, never had time to have any buyers remorse!
Hipshot locking tuners are my favorite upgrade from a cost/benefit perspective, but you have to be cautious if your guitar has a weird headstock. It's very rare, but on my Ibanez Paul Gilbert Fireman, the universal mounting plates did not fit. The Ratio Tuners have individual mounting plates and worked fine (but they're so expensive).
The saddle screws on my new Squire 40'th anniversary are dangerously long and they are gold plated ( so they claim). Instead of replacing them, I will cut/grind them down. First, I'll mic the protrusion, then remove them one at a time. Next, I will cut the measured amount off of the bottom and touch it up on a bench grinder. In case I "F" it up, I will replace with the screws you recommended and hope they don't stand out too bad. Here goes.
Nothing wrong with a katana and pedals for an apartment, i use a VOX AC4 as a pedal platform in my apartment, run gain on 2 vol on 3 and turn gain pedals down to around 3/4 on output/volume.
Re buying a Glarry to practice fret work. I bought one after watching Phil work on one. I expected a complete p.o.s. and it far exceeded my expectations. Even the paint is falling off:)
In my experience, collectables are usually always the top end, or the exclusive items which become sort after, later on down the line. The likes of the katana will never be land fill trash, they're too good for that.
unfortunatly its not worth the cost to fix a katana when it breaks. it is also using what is already becoming a dated tech. they aslo made about fifty million of them as well so there is no initial scarcity. there is absolutely no reason a katana would ever be collectible.
When I first got a Marshall CODE amp , I was underwhelmed.But after updates and the App too, it really is a great buy.I look forward to Marshall's next generation of modeling. And I also have three Marshall tube amps too.
My wife went to Nashville for Thanksgiving to see family like every year & 1 year she got back & I had a New Beard Resonator (Dobro), that became the “Douglas Model”. I spent $4k, she was not happy!
I just bought a Sterling by Music Man 4 string Sterling bass and i mentioned your name there when checking out. They gave me a deal with the protection plan and a case. I said i go on TH-cam to see what gear is good and what’s okay. I did that as were checking into if they could do a money off deal.
The proper number of guitars to own is always 1 plus the number that you now own... 49 and counting. Every guitar is unique, every guitar has it's own feel and tone... it's own vibe. Amps? I am an old school tube lover, plain and simple. I own Marshall's, Peavey's, Sovtek's, VHT's, Bugera's, Bad Cat's, Blackheart's, Crate's and Ceriatone's. Today, I just bought number 16, another Blackheart amp, a BH100H Hothead 100-Watt All-Tube Head, class A or class AB operation. I doubt any of them will ever end up in a landfill.
I still own a Boss MG-10. It's not in a landfill. But it also isn't collectible, and eventually it probably will end up processed/recycled/in a landfill.
I think the idea of paying respect to musicians who passed on each month is good but instead of a moment of silence I think it would be kind of cool to talk about one of your favorite songs or musical pieces that they created.
That sounds like a very good way of honoring their individual artistry. Good call.
Agree
Absolutely agree, even if i don't listen to their music. But a life should be celebrated
Speaker builder here ! Humidity will affect the speaker with rust . But the tuning of the box is based on the density of the air and the compression inside the enclosure. Then, the sound waves will act differently in the denser air .(distance of the sound wave )
This is sad - after listening to your discussion on the number of guitars I decided to count mine. I honestly thought I had about 10. I have 17. I’m not sure where the extra 7 came from. I must’ve been lax on my one in, one out policy.
funny how they come out of the woodwork.
From Leo: The microprocessor based amps will not be restored once they die. The processors are iffy to find, they are tricky to change, and the company guards it's proprietary software like it was a bank vault. The modern circuit boards are very cheap quality and fall apart. I have fixed many solid state amps,, the old Peaveys, Fenders, and some others you have a chance of getting them going with straight forward troubleshooting, but microprocessor gear is just not worth the time and effort. Even the Fender repair centers will not repair the new microprocessor amps past warranty. 10 years ago you never had any problem with the quality of replacement parts. The last time I needed a pair of N-channel MOSFETS for a Bugera, I had to go through two bags of 5 to get two good ones. The high voltage Capacitors for tube amps are not as good either, and mechanical board mounted mechanical switches are junk. Remember the problem you had with your supersonic?
Unscheduled nap made me miss this. Happy Birthday from a fellow 1974 birth year person! The year of the Randy Rhoads Les Paul Custom. 😎
Mrs McKnight is a "ride or die" lady and that's rare in this day and age. You're a lucky man, Phil.
Great show as always!
I was in Japan recently and was told guitarists at clubs don’t own amps due to limited home living space, they only own tiny practice amps at home and when they gig, they always use the house amps provided on stage by the clubs
I live in Manhattan and this is true for me. But I use a boss katana 100 Watt head, and it turns into a practice amp at home, so I don’t need big combo amps or half stacks. But yeah if I had the real estate I would own them.
I've watched so many Japanese TH-camrs that will play their electric guitars unplugged or on such low volume that the acoustic sound is still audible. Drives me crazy. I live in Japan too and I'm dying for a tube amp again.
I live in Japan, and use an amp of my own. It's not about space; it's about your neighbors hearing you playing. People are very aware of noises at home in Japan. We can hear every loud argument, no one plays their television too loud, and so on. The Walkman was invented in Japan for this purpose.
Me however, I asked my neighbors if my guitar is too loud; one simply said, "Beatles. Please play Beatles." and another gave me a massive amount of chocolate.
@@ChrisPuckett The ability to set it at 5 watts is glorious.
Happy Birthday Phil. All the best this year and many many years to come
I live in an apartment and I put my main amp on an amp stand and my speaker cabinets on small dolly’s-- the rubber wheels isolate the bass frequencies from being transmitted thru the floor. Harbor Freight sells the dolly’s in two sizes, plus it makes the rig easy to move around.
hi! I was wondering. What is a "dolly"? Is it an actual name for something and in that case what is that something? Or is it some sort of slang for something else? My native language is not english, please be kind with my ignorance. 🙂
a dolly is a tall thin cart with rubber wheels used to move things. if you google dolly or hand truck you will find one. but basically putting an amp on anything with rubber, inflatable wheels will help reduce bass frequency transfer.@@michaelkarlsson5966
I have a 100 watt Katana head, and it's fine for local gigs. I keep it on the clean channel, boost it a bit, then run pedals. Sometimes I prefer leaving my good amps at home. It is what it is...
I plugged my noisiest guitar into my friend's katana air and there was ABSOLUTELY NO HUM, the guitar i plugged in was my Fender Aerodyne with Fender pure vintage 57/62 pickups, I was blown away with how clean and full it sounded
Chukle
Happy Birthday, Phil! I am a week or two behind you. 74 was a good year.🎉
LAB SERIES were the original Modeling Amp and you will never find those in a Landfill, and they still sound amazing.
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Johnson amps as well. Made in the US too.
@@msh6865 I agree
SS is not modeling
@@patricklemire9278 You might mean that SS is not digital. But just like modeling amps, solid state amps had to have a tone shaped or modeled from detailed analysis of other amps.
Happy birthday, Phil!! May you have a lot of amazing and exciting years to come!
You gotta make a shirt that says:
I got high once and I found out how fast Sweetwater could ship! True story…….Sire L7😅😂
And Feliz Compleanos Phil!!!
@1:03…I have the Yamaha THR10X and I love it…plenty loud enough for a bedroom or apartment…and it sounds incredible…pick one up used, you won’t be disappointed 👍
Generally speaking: it won't be collectible until enough of them are in landfills and then some random person will play one and make something really cool and everyone will want the remaining operable stock. See: Peavey Bandit, Ibanez TS10.
JHS will resurrect the Katana in a decade. The new Bad Monkey.
unfortunatley they also made about 50 gazillion of them, they arent worth fixing when they break and the tech is already dated. no way they would approach Bandit status.
Phil great episode! Don’t ever bleep your swears out…just cuss like a sailor and do the beep after, it’s more fun that way, integrity and the occasional swear is always better than censoring yourself. Keep up the great content!
I have the Katana 50 MkI and 50 MkII, connected ABY via Radial Big Shot. When I bought both of them, a couple of years apart, I did not expect they would have any future value. For me, they are bang for the buck right now. They sound great, they take pedals well, they are easy to use, they are portable, and they are well-enough built for my uses. It wouldn’t occur to me to hope to get something out of them 20 years from now. I’m getting everything I want out of them right now! If anything, in 20 years, so long as they are still working, I will still have them. And probably MkIII and MkIV and MkV lol...
Truth. I like mine.
I also have orange 20, the fen champ 20, and a stage right 20 (knock off blues jr). A suitcase full of afordadapedals. There's nothing wrong with this stuff. This is the true golden Era of quality sound gear at low pricing. I have an Amazon brand distortion pedal that blatantly has the same circuit as a zw guv'na.....it was $20. I have a zoom g1 multi fx that I proudly play live with ....$99. I like solid state amps, consistent sound.
The fender champ is awesome and is amazingly accurate to the fender modeling. Bc.....it's made by fender. Super simple to dial in. Line out to 2x12. A little weak in the metal department.but I just put a dist pedal in front of it. There's no fx loop but dist doesn't go through the loop anyway and the rest of fx are built in. Hell, you could play live with today's ibanez gr series and nobody would know.
We're super lucky in the guitar world.....but not as lucky as the piano world. $99 keyboard is a recording monster
MKII and going from 50 to 100 fixed my only complaints about MKI. I'm probably inclined to skip a generation UNLESS they go bluetooth I/O so I can use wireless guitar AND headphones. Everyone complains no tuner. I get it but it doesn't bother me bc the tuner they incorporate likely won't be what I use. Maybe if the amp incorporated a screen for a strobe type interface. Whoa, did I just design the perfect Katana? lol
The Sweetwater story is hilarious! You mentioned a 32" TV. I bought one in 2001 or so, and carried it into my house with ease by myself. I was 40 or 41. I had to get rid of it 2 years ago, and at age 60, could not risk picking it up by myself. I push it off the stand onto the floor and wrangled it onto a cart to get it to the curb.
A 32 inch by yourself in 2001? Mustve been a bodybuilder 😂😂
Wait tell you get the 75”😵💫
@@Vkiller711 Lol. It was a 110lb awkward thing. The 32" TV I use as a PC monitor weighs 11 lbs. Progress!
Awww man, what a great episode and I missed it. The Ralph story was hilarious. Happy birthday Phil !!! Will definitely be there next week 🤘🏻🤘🏻🎸🎸
Hahaha, Phil, you're right when you said have anybody tried to give away a TV screen lately,
well I was giving a plasma 50 inch away, it ended up on the refuse tip, it was only missing the remote.
Phil, happy birthday brother! I also will turn 49 this coming Friday, August 4th, Born 8/4/1974. Keep up the great work! Love your videos and podcasts! Congratulations on the success!!
Great episode this week Phil , have a great birthday weekend 😊
'Will Boss Katanas be in landfills or collectable in the future?'
I'm going to go with neither. They aren't Vintage 60's JTM's nor $60 ali-express knock-offs. I can see them quietly and reliably chugging along as a solid means of amplifying for the common player, as they were designed to do. I've got 40 year old Boss pedals that are still rock solid. I like their track record in that regard. YMMV.
You are a truely humble guy living the ajerican dream......i salute you
Keep on doing what you are doing Phil
Another note for the Z coil pickups deep dive, would be a cool chance to talk about Leo and his pursuit in guitar design. If anyone could do it justice it’d be you! Happy Birthday!!
Happy birthday Phil from a fellow 1974 baby! My birthday is coming up in a few weeks too!
Before the pandemic I lived in an apartment in NYC and had a Friedman Dirty Shirley Mini that I played at home and gigged for years. I was able to get a useable tone late night even with a kid sleeping in another room without a problem.
I would recommend the Little Sister or another 20 Watt Friedman - Their master volume is really impressive. In fact, now I’m in a house and have a 40-watt Friedman and am able to lower it for late night play with kids two rooms away without a problem (and one is a fairly light sleeper).
I do have a Crate 3x10 Vintage Club Tube amp with PC board no less and it sounds INCREDIBLE. As much as Crate is dodgy it sounds as good as my Mesa DC10. I know it sounds crazy, but it really sounds insane. So not all Crates are garbage for sure.
Sorry I missed the Birthday Show! LOVE THE SHAWNA INTRO!!! 🤘🎸😎🐦🥒❤️
I had a Katana 50W combo for about 3 months, but returned it. It worked incredibly well, but I just found it too sterile sounding
Now I have a really cheap Fender Frontman (with a bunch of nice pedals in front of it) for writing and practicing, and a Fender 18/30W Bassbreaker for recording or shows. It's dead simple, sounds great (to me), and can be heard in space. Loud!
Happy Birthday Phil 🎉 Catching this on the replay.
Thank you for the timestamps!
I was sales manager for one of the original 10 vintage guitar stores in the 1970s. My former employer told me several years ago the average vintage dealer from that period has over 1000 guitars in their collection. On the G&L topic, we were one of the first ten G&L franchises (10 is the magic number). My employer returned one of the guitars they sold us for them to fix the way a nut had been slotted. George, yes the G called me up and screamed at me for 29 1/2 minutes. It was not the conversation I had hoped to have with George Fullerton. All in a days work in a music store.
Happy Belated Birthday
How many guitars is too many? Only a few years ago I hit 10, and was so impressed with myself. When it became 30, I thought I'd realized a childhood dream. When it hit 50, I started to be embarrassed. A few days ago I bought number 70, and I'm done feeling any shame. The only barometer for when to quit is physical space along with affordability. The answer will vary for all of us.
Collecting is a hobby, some people really get into it, no shame there
what is this "too many guitars"? it must be slang for something because the actual words dont make sense?
I'm a drummer since 1968, and in 55 years of playing drums there's one thing I'm absolutely sure of, there's no such thing as too many guitars. 🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸
Happy belated birthday, Phil!
Minute 103: indeed I learned when living in apartment in Chandler, had 2 large cabinets with NOS EVF 150 watt speakers. I exercised the speakers covered in sound blankets, speaker facing down with low frequency music playing all day while at work.......after 2 days got in some trouble from complaints........I rarely use these even in my home today! I use low watt amps and lower watt rated celestion alnico speakers......
I built a “Parts-Telecaster”, & I went with urethane & used TransTint Dies. Went with “Vintage Honey Amber faded to Brandywine/Mission Brown”. Beautiful!
I have been pretty happy using my Catalyst 100 on the 0.5watt mode in my apartment. If I'm really concerned about noise and don't want to use headphones I put in on a kitchen chair so it's more or less at ear height while sitting so it sounds slightly louder and is off the floor, you could tilt it but then the open back is pointing at the floor.
A couple things I do to make sure I'm not too loud is use my TV as a known acceptable volume to compare too, and use a looper (make sure its unity gain) so I can go to another room or into the hallway and see how far the sound is carrying.
For 12-string electrics - I got a Halo Custom Guitar's 12 string Clarus model. Love it! Seymour Duncan pick-ups; locking tuners; and a 10-way pick-up selector (dual rail Strat-type). Easy to play and sounds great.
Happy Birthday Phil! I hope you had a good one.
Most of the time during the week I don’t have time to play until later at night after everyone else is in bed. I use my headrush pedalboard through studio monitors. I’ve also used an HX stomp through monitors as well. Great low volume tones.
Totally agree with the Guitar Center thing. I sometimes forget how bad it is then I go visit it again and remember haha
Absolutely right about the televisions..boss just put all new tvs in the restaurant and bar area at work and the old ones are literally 3 year old Vizio and he tried for weeks to give them away and nobody wanted them..i took the biggest ine home just so he felt better 😊
My friends say I have the most ridiculous apartment setup. I use the AFD100 running through an attenuator into a 2x12. I have the built in attenuator around 40% and the other attenuator around 20%. But hey it works with no complaints lol
I would think Sweetwater would love the sentiment and the shirt... as long as it gets delivered before the buzz fizzles out!!
One of the reasons I bought the Fender GTX was because it doesn't require the app to access all its features, meaning you don't need the app in the future to use it if it's discontinued. Figured that was good future proofing.
Happy birthday homie!
12-string electric - you can't go wrong with the Reverend Airwave 12. I'm a Byrds/Seekers fan, and paired with my Fender Tonemaster Deluxe Reverb provides all the jangle of the 60s. Impeccable quality!
Happy Birthday weekend, I hope it’s a good one for you !
Get a new guitar for your “50th” 🎂🎂🎂🎂
I would love a 32 inch tube tv. Old games look great
They do. I still have a 19" tube TV. Keep it only to play old games. The 32" one died and I had to chuck it.
I've been thirty-twenty-three for a while, and bald for way more than half of that 😀
Keep up the good work, Phil. Your content is a breath of honest fresh air.
My favourite on your wall is the PRS hollowbody…I’ve always loved that one
Watching the replay and literally howling at the Ralph story!
My favorite locking tuners are Tone Ninja, 19:1 ratio, multiple tuner button options, you can even buy many brands of buttons from them to change your tuner button aesthetic. They're cheaper than Hipshot, and IMO better, but do not use an "UMP" plate system and use a diagonal screwhole pattern.
i have had great luck with tone ninja as well! certainly at least on par with hip shot ata agreat price, and as you say, easily installed. just make sure to get what you need.
Happy Belated Birthday Phil.I couldn’t wait to hit 18,then I got my draft card.
A month later they did away with the Vietnam draft.
I spent a great deal of time with a Katana--trying to coax ANY kind of "keepable" sound with just a guitar plugged into the front end (isn't that what they were DESIGNED to work with?)--and came up with maybe a SETTING or TWO that were CLOSE to OK. On the other hand, my "Loop Pedalboard" (featuring a Boss ME-50) into my (Stereo Input) Roland JC-40 is just STELLAR! AND, the JC's Chorus and Reverb are SO good...I use THEM instead of the quite decent ME's!
Happy Birthday ya ol bugger !Love your shows Phil! Thanks
Happy bday love it!!! In landfills🤣🤣🤣
I bought a PRS S2 singlecut satin during lockdown and it’s the guitar I play most at this time.
I have a Boss Katana MK1.
I was about to trade it in recently, but it still sounds so damn good to me.
The Line 6 Spider, however, always sounded like shit, even when I first played it.
Some digital amps sound great, and others not so much. That doesn't change over time.
48:30 - speaking of TV's there is already a collectors market for good CRT TVs because a lot of retro video game consoles and their games were designed to be used with a CRT. A lot of games simply work and play better on a CRT because they were designed with the CRT's capabilities in mind. You might want to hold onto a couple of small TVs, they *will* be worth money in the future. They're worth money now.
i have a feeling that soon we will see a simple crt monitor for just this purpose. feel free to steal the idea. i am too busy to make it happen and i already have too much money.
Appreciate the timestamps and the content, good show
Hot enough for you? I know I’m ready for monsoon!!!!
Happy birthday
"I got drunk once... And I found out how fast Sweetwater could ship." Oh my lord, I nearly collapsed on the floor laughing at that. Awesome story. Hope your buddy enjoys his new tele. 😂
I loved that line as well.. been there done that...
I forgot the story about that tee shirt. I can't imagine hiw getting drunk comforts with somebody shipping fast. But there you go.
I don't buy an amp thinking about its long term popularity or resale value when it becomes vintage. I just buy the gear I like and need.
I'm 49 too, bro.
I'm turning 50 in April. Gonna be a hell of a party.
32 year old here. Old CRT TVs are good for retro gaming. Depends on make and model but there is some application for usefulness today.
Happy birthday Phil!
I was born in Jan 74, so I will hit 50 a little before you. 😂
I had the largest "picture tube" TV made by Sony. Still worked fine. No takers. Off to the dump. It was from 1998, when we adopted our first child. It was our "stay at home with the kids" TV. Amazing what becomes obsolete in a mere 25 years.
That's the 59 Les Paul of TVs! That would be worth several thousand dollars now! Seriously - People who obsess over retro video games will pay insane money for a larger 1990s Sony Trinitron TV like that. My condolences
I’m not into sports, religion, politics or the military, but I think a moment of silence for those we’ve lost is incredibly respectful and a great way to show their impact
If you live in an apartment, consider sound-dampening curtains for your walls. Even just one, on the wall that your amplifier is facing.
I've got at least 5 guitars and a few amps I ordered after too much wine. But I love them all! And Sweetwater does ship fast, never had time to have any buyers remorse!
Happy birthday dude🎉
Hipshot locking tuners are my favorite upgrade from a cost/benefit perspective, but you have to be cautious if your guitar has a weird headstock. It's very rare, but on my Ibanez Paul Gilbert Fireman, the universal mounting plates did not fit. The Ratio Tuners have individual mounting plates and worked fine (but they're so expensive).
The saddle screws on my new Squire 40'th anniversary are dangerously long and they are gold plated ( so they claim). Instead of replacing them, I will cut/grind them down. First, I'll mic the protrusion, then remove them one at a time. Next, I will cut the measured amount off of the bottom and touch it up on a bench grinder. In case I "F" it up, I will replace with the screws you recommended and hope they don't stand out too bad. Here goes.
Phil. There’s a Danelectro 12 for sale at the Ann Arbor MI Music Go Round for $450
One great song written, using a Boss Katakana . 40 years from now, every might want one
🎉HB Phil, Awesome show. Great information thank you 🎸
Nothing wrong with a katana and pedals for an apartment, i use a VOX AC4 as a pedal platform in my apartment, run gain on 2 vol on 3 and turn gain pedals down to around 3/4 on output/volume.
Re buying a Glarry to practice fret work. I bought one after watching Phil work on one. I expected a complete p.o.s. and it far exceeded my expectations. Even the paint is falling off:)
Landfill for sure like all the rest of the chip based gear.. they all have short lifespan because it’s all built based on software updates
exactly! they also are not worth repairing. there is n o scarcity and the tech is dated.
In my experience, collectables are usually always the top end,
or the exclusive items which become sort after, later on down the line.
The likes of the katana will never be land fill trash, they're too good for that.
unfortunatly its not worth the cost to fix a katana when it breaks. it is also using what is already becoming a dated tech. they aslo made about fifty million of them as well so there is no initial scarcity. there is absolutely no reason a katana would ever be collectible.
Proffesonal help in the first few minutes! Yes
When I first got a Marshall CODE amp , I was underwhelmed.But after updates and the App too, it really is a great buy.I look forward to Marshall's next generation of modeling.
And I also have three Marshall tube amps too.
Love this! I am 50 forever, and I cannot remember anyways. haha.
My wife went to Nashville for Thanksgiving to see family like every year & 1 year she got back & I had a New Beard Resonator (Dobro), that became the “Douglas Model”. I spent $4k, she was not happy!
Gorilla was my 1st amp. When I got my Peavey Bandit, it changed my world.
You are 50? Where you live, I'm seriously glad you are still alive with the heat that is coming next week. Please stay safe.
I just bought a Sterling by Music Man 4 string Sterling bass and i mentioned your name there when checking out. They gave me a deal with the protection plan and a case. I said i go on TH-cam to see what gear is good and what’s okay. I did that as were checking into if they could do a money off deal.
Phil,, on your prs question, I highly recommend that you try out the kiesel ct6... Believe me you will be impressed..
The proper number of guitars to own is always 1 plus the number that you now own... 49 and counting. Every guitar is unique, every guitar has it's own feel and tone... it's own vibe. Amps? I am an old school tube lover, plain and simple. I own Marshall's, Peavey's, Sovtek's, VHT's, Bugera's, Bad Cat's, Blackheart's, Crate's and Ceriatone's. Today, I just bought number 16, another Blackheart amp, a BH100H Hothead 100-Watt All-Tube Head, class A or class AB operation. I doubt any of them will ever end up in a landfill.
I still own a Boss MG-10. It's not in a landfill. But it also isn't collectible, and eventually it probably will end up processed/recycled/in a landfill.
Katanas will be right wherever Boss Cubes are right now or even a little bit higher on the good solid state ranking.
The Fluence p90s are fantastic!! I was really reluctant, but they sound amazing and unwanted noise free!!
Treadmills were literally created as punishment for prisoners in English (iirc) prisons so you’re not far off. Thoughty2 has a great video on it.