The Questions You've Been Too Afraid To Ask
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00:00 Intro
00:12 What does a compressor do?
01:39 Why isn't a piano a string instrument?
02:51 Ad Break
03:54 What's up with fraction chords?
05:38 How do you count 5/4?
06:32 What is "playing the changes"?
07:09 What are modes?
08:19 Why does my electric always sound out of tune?
09:13 Why does my amp have a stand by switch?
10:00 Analog vs Digital?
11:03 Why is Limp Bizkit awesome?
12:02 Does any of this matter?
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hey, good to know, but just out of curiosity, do you have anything against things like Telegram or Whatsapp?
Gosh, wouldn’t it be good if the multi billion dollar tech company could do something about this. Shame it must be impossible or something….
Hey, KISS fan here.... Apparently I have won yet another "Prize" lol .. Those stairs referenced in a previous comment are still available for use. Just Sayin..... I have no idea what the ramifications are of actually using telegram to contact said evil doer's but there are people that may be in a big fat mess if they do. I sure hope the powers behind demonetization can sort this all out before reputations are damaged.
I saw this part and it actually isnt that complicated on tube amps
09:55 Stand by switch exists so you don't ruin your tubes under a week
You need warm up your tubes, if you don't warm them and just start playing them on "cold" stage you might even blow them up or "melt" them
When ever you play tube amp you need always turn stand by mode on before actually turn it on, so it can start circulating electricity through tubes, electricity that goes through tubes heats them up so they can handle handle wildly shaping electrical signal overdrive in blues/rock situations or distortion signals in metal situations
Your mics in your electric guitar takes your guitar string vibration and turns it into electrical signal and tubes mission is to boost that signal so it could be louder basically overdriven it or in metal, tubes helps overdrive signal turn into distortion area but that whole different topic and you need more gear for that
In simple tubes in tube amp help you keep that electric signal understandable and something you can blast it out of speaker
So you need keep that electric circuit part closed before actually playing
That is sole purpose of Stand by switch, if you turn it on again, you start heating your tubes again, so do not use it as "mute" switch, use turner or anything that cuts that signal chain or just turn whole amp down
Everyone should be aware that this even happens to the average commenter sometimes. In particular I've seen it happen to a few of the more prolific commenters on some political channels I watch.
I respect this video. It's an unfortunate truth that people are afraid to ask some of these questions. Sometimes not asking these qustions hold people back. Thanks for making this video.
I was in a recording session . The engineer would turn on the amps at least 20 minutes before I got there . The amp would be on standby . He said "the amp sounds good after the tubes are hot" .
@Michael B that's my point : the amp sounds sweet when the tubes are cookin. Hot tubes = sweet tone .
I say that to people all the time on Facebook groups about music. They'll start their post with "this is a stupid question but..."
Sometimes my only comment to them will be something like " It is not a stupid question, by asking this question you are probably getting an answer for 1000 people who are too scared to ask that question, in a way you can be considered a hero"
"That's something that, I think, shouldn't ever B diminished" A great chord -- beautifully dissonant.
Nice pun!
I almost went there. I'm glad someone had the nerve.
I’ve struggled a lot with the idea “does my music and music in general actually matter” and the way you described it really put it into perspective for me. I super appreciate that.
Best part of the video!! I loved that.
Other than intonation, there's another reason why your guitar can often sound out of tune, especially if it's an electric and you're a beginner: you're using too much force to fret your notes, squeezing down so hard that you're effectively bending the strings. When I was a beginner, I went through the humiliation of going back to a guitar store with my new guitar, unhappy with the intonation (and therefore unhappy with the setup they'd done when I bought it), only to be shown that everything was fine if I stopped using a death grip with my left hand.
The guitar also has a unique (unfortunate) trait of sounding out of tune, even when your tuner says that your strings are in tune. James Taylor has a video where he explains why this happens (especially when playing chords) and his tuning solutions to help correct this issue.
@@castleanthrax1833 I haven't seen the video to which you refer, but I'm guessing it refers to the difference between the third in equal temperament and the third present in harmonics of the fundamental. There are a variety of things one can do about this, but the best IMO is to learn to live with it.
@@Big_Bag_of_PusHe's basically talking about how when you fret a note, you pull the string slightly out of tune in comparison to when it was tuned "open". It's unique to the guitar, as most other instruments are more "set" when you play a note. Give it a look. It's striking a happy "medium" to allow your chords to sound more "in tune" but as your playing some strings "open" whilst fretting others, it's not perfect.
@@Big_Bag_of_Pus BTW, I like how you didn't end your first sentence with a preposition. Very well done.
This probably falls in the category of you being a bad/learning player (at the time) and not the guitar sounding bad which i don't think the question was about.
That last question offers a paradox. During the Pandemic, we quickly learnt was services or vocations were deemed to be essential. The Arts/Music sector bore the brunt of that. Yet through lockdown, what brought us more joy, sanity and entertainment? The arts. Music/film/TH-cam kept me sane during our 100 day lockdown in Sydney Australia. So yes, it does matter.
In my opinion, art is essentially a celebration and evaluation of being human. It's not like animals can make "art" for each other, art does not necessarily have to be made to be shared but I feel like it usually is meant to be a way for human beings to document things they can never truly describe to each other. We are all kind of stuck with ourselves, because we can't just somehow jump into someone else's brain or something or somehow connect wires so we can share thoughts, every human is insular. If I'm feeling a certain kind of feeling, I can't just tell someone how that feels and they'll know the exact thing I'm going through, they can only relate back to what they've experienced and can somewhat picture what I'm talking about - they're going to translate what I'm saying and picture what they think it sounds like I'm saying, it's never going to be exactly the same as what I'm experiencing/thinking when I am trying to explain myself though. I think music and other kinds of art can convey those things more clearly in ways we can't typically communicate, the lyrics and vocals kind of help do the job of what is direct and easier to describe but the music behind it helps supplement it with the rest of what it needs, it's always going to be subjective and we can't do anything about that part but I think music gets across things we typically can't.
As Ethan Hawke said “you think you don’t need art, music, poetry until you do. “ You get your heart broken, your father dies, you look into the eyes of your child for the first time. Then you need to feel what others have felt in the art they made.
That "A7/G" explanation just made everything much easier for me. Thanks Sammy G!
I've always known the adage of "There's no such thing as a bad question to ask". I personally feel that is especially prominent in music of all kinds because knowing the hows and whys of the music we listen to and play is very vital to the expansion of said music.
What I've been told about the "Stand By" switch is that it's on tube amplifiers. People say that tube amps sound best when they're warm, so the switch is there to turn the actual amp on to have the tubes warm up but not have any sound go through. Tubes on, sound off - stand by.
I always believed (above being the root reason) it also acted as a safety for the valves themselves. I have no evidence to support my thoughts here, it's based on an assumption because I don't know the in's and out's of how valve powered equipment works FYI. It's healthier for the valves to warm up 15-30 mins on amps as well as it sounding better (I have a Fender 75 valve amp and it sounds amazing after 30 minutes), my assumption for this is due to the glass of the valves, they're very volatile and delicate to temperature changes so maybe the standby switch is implemented as a prevention to sudden high amounts of power heating them up rapidly and causing them to crack/explode?
I may reiterate, this has always been my assumption. This is merely an uneducated guess.
I used to be a radio engineer. Most AM stations run the audio through a compressor as its last stage before going to the transmitter, because compressed sound comes through more clearly on the AM receiver in a car. Just at the moment we were supposed to be signing off for the night, we'd crank the compressor all the way up so that the signal was nearly pure hiss :-)
A quick clarification about the 5/4 bit: In 5/4, we absolutely WOULD count it as equally weighted 1 2 3 4 5, because it is still considered a simple meter. Think about the song “Lingus” by Snarky Puppy, which is in 5/4 (and uses a double time feel for certain sections). What you demonstrated was 5/8, which is a compound meter, and this time of meter implies that we’re feeling a macro pulse of 3+2 or 2+3. Think about “Take Five” by Dave Brubeck for the classic example of this feeling. You can feel the same idea, but simpler with songs in 6/8 or 12/8 like old Doo-Wop tunes like “Earth Angel” where they’re counting a 6 or 12, but there’s a macro plus of 2 with a triplet feel (or 4 in the case of 12/8). Hope this clarifies things for people that have been confused!
A piece of advice for those who struggle with a concept in music theory -- take a break, maybe even a long one, but don't give up. For example, when I first heard about arpeggios, absolutely nothing about it made sense to me, even after numerous explanations from different sources. One day, I finally figured it out, as if by magic. Nothing from the paranormal here; my mind had been processing this information for ages (many months, maybe over a year), and then it finally "dawned" on me. Maybe I wasn't "ready" for it before, no idea. You'll find that many skills and ideas in life get sorted out this way.
BTW, if you want a great practical example of modes, play the notes from a "C" scale over the low-rent flamenco riff (E - F, etc). It's still the notes from the C-major scale (Ionian mode), but in that context it will be the E-Phrygian mode. About 10 seconds after I learned that, I understood modes... 40 years ago).
That is good advice. As a drummer I had many occasions where things just sorta clicked that I couldnt for the life of me understand.
Sometimes it helps to learn it via application, sometimes via breaking it down, and sometimes it just happens. Personally I couldn't get triplets (Lh>Rh>Rf, very John Bonham type of fill) down for the life of me until one day I sat down at my drum teacher's kit with a double bass pedal, something I was nowhere near good enough to play at the time, and while noodling a bit I ended up just kinda doing quadruplets (Rh>Lh>Rf>Lf) purely by instinct. And something in my brain clicked on that being almost the same motor functions as a triplet. Sometimes it just clicks.
I'm a nurse when stressed i use music to calm me help me relax therefore music and muscians have value to me. Plus I'm learning guitar this keeps my brain active and it's fun.
You add more colour to my life my dude! Stopped playing guitar for a bit but back in 2020 your page got me back into playing
I define stringed instruments as anything where the player directly touches the strings to make sound, or uses a hand-held tool (such as a plectrum or bow) to touch the strings. Pianos, clavichords, harpsichords, and the hurdy-gurdy are *stringed keyboards,* keyboard instruments that use strings to generate sound, but I see them as a separate family from other stringed instruments. Hammered dulcimers and cimbaloms are harder to classify since the player does use hand-held mallets to strike the strings, but I consider them to be in the same category as other pitched, hammer-struck percussion instruments (xylophones, glockenspiels, etc.).
I realized a few years back that compression on my vocals or guitar is the thing that makes me sound like I'm not freaking out or having a panic attack on stage. I can't explain it better than that but now I never leave home without it. Go figure.
A compressor does not ever make the soft sounds louder except through the make up gain control which makes all of the sound louder based on the setting.. It works by bringing down the loud sounds to give the compressed signal. After 60 years of designing, building, and playing through sound equipment, I have a pretty fair understanding electronics. I hope this helps.
Well, the compressor pedal definitely increases sustain on a held out note on guitar, so at least in that context it does bring up the volume of a fading note
But isn't that a limiter then? Different effect?
You are right, but its also arguing semantics a little bit ;)
When you apply make-up gain, the compressor makes the softer parts louder than they would be without it. To most people a compressor is just a box with an input and an output (or a plugin), and from that perspective (technically correct or not) the make-up gainstage is very much part of the compressor.
That guitar is absolutely gorgeous.
I've always been a fan of the Silverburst Les Paul. Never seen it on any other guitar, but it REALLY works for the Jaguar shape. And I especially love the really sharp line on the bevel on the front, looks really fantastic when it catches the light.
Oh, video is really good too! lol
It's not a Jaguar my dude. It's a newish one called a Meteora.
While Fender do have that silverburst on a Jazzmaster (the American Professional 2 I believe?), the one in the video is the Meteora model
I love silverburst and sunburst so much. I have several sunbursts guitars and then one silver one, the silver one I didn't get to shop around for for a silverburst so it's actually just sliver, but my god I wish y was silverburst cuz that's hands down my favorite. It's just not as common as a lot of other colors so sadly it's harder to find used guitars in that color. It's hands down my favorite though
I think one of the important distinctions between a piano and other string instruments is that when you go digital most other string instruments still uses strings. Like an acoustic guitar vs an electric guitar. When you go from a piano to digital (keyboard) you no longer use strings and it therefore is no longer a string instrument.
To expand a bit on compressors: higher settings can result in the sound having a "pumping" feeling to it. Even moreso when you apply compression to the master track of a mix; when someone says that a mix doesn't "breathe", it might not necessarily mean that there's too many things going on instrument-wise (which can absolutely be the case of course), but instead that the dynamic range has been lessened too much by means of compression.
As for the standby switch, Colin Scott (CSGuitars on TH-cam) did a video on this 5 years ago, explaining how standby switches on tube amps are... actually kinda useless. The only reason they stuck around is because guitarists will freak out if they don't see one :P
I love your answer to the last question. The way I think of it is this: There are no shortage of human beings. There are plenty of us to work on every problem imaginable, and so it's ok that humanity's effort is not all focused on the same thing. There are lots of people to become doctors and scientists and all other kinds of workers. A single human life is an insignificant fraction of the total hours that all of humanity will contribute to our species' experience, and it is a life well spent to spend that life enriching the lives of others. Without art, life is , like you say, just survival.
I really enjoy your content. Thank you.
12:09 is by far one of the best things I've ever heard.
Hey, just wanted to say "thank you" for what you said regarding "Does any of this matter?". As an older musician, I've struggled with that a lot over the years, especially lately, asking myself questions like "why am I still doing this?" and "what's the point?". What really hit home with me was your comment about how the arts add the flavor to life and how if even one person feels that what I do brings some color into their life, then it's worth it. What you said at the end about even if no one hears what you do, if it brings joy and "color" to my own life then it's important. Thank you for helping reignite the flame.
I have absolutely no musical talent whatsoever, but I have spent a lot of time watching your videos. They are very entertaining and engaging . Although it is unlikely that I will ever play a musical instrument, you have given me a better appreciation for what goes into making the music that I listen to. Thanks so much for all of the work that you put into your channel.
Everyone has musical talent. Talent doesn't exist and it's more about self-discipline. Anyone can do anything if they want to put in the time. In the case of a musical instrument, it's not something you see results from instantly. 30 minutes a day is all it takes. I guarantee six months into doing 30 minutes a day, you will see improvement. Before too long, you'll be playing with some proficiency. Musicians are just athletes of the finer muscles. That's it.
Very informative. Please continue this sessions of TOO AFRAID TO ASK. Never thought of many things in Music until someone asks about it.
Whenever I heard the word slash cords, I always thought they were just cords that Slash liked to use lol
Great stuff, as always! Thank You!
Love your channel, found it from your reviews of crazy gear but love the more educational stuff like this as well-keep up the great work, wish TH-cam channels like this were around when I was a kid first experimenting with music
That was a great speech at the end, nicely done!
Best explanation of Modes ever! Thank you Samurai!!! 🤟😎🤟
That compression explanation was great I've always wondered couldn't decipher with my ear alone
I think this is one of my favorite videos of yours!
Thank you!
Finally a clear explanation of what the hell a compressor does?!
You sir, win!
Thank you!
12:09
This really got to me. Very insightful, I struggle with feeling that same way a lot. Not just with hobbies or work, but with anything I do. I’m glad I heard this.
I absolutely love the answer you gave to the last question. Music has saved my life. Literally. So have doctors on a couple of occasions when I was younger. I don't see either as less important. Perhaps less necessary to the broader definition of survival, but not as less important to life.
Great video! This will definitely help me in my journey as a musician.
I like that thought. Art gives flavour to life. That's what I also remind my son that art is everywhere from car design to buildings to drawings.
Holy crap. Your explanation of guitar modes in relation to solfège just broke my brain. Fantastic!!
ive been subscribed ti you for yonks, i usually get bored of people but damn your videos are just good!!!!!
I like to think of modes as using the wrong scales to play the right key. If I want E dorian, I use a D major scale. Using different “wrong” scales helps you cycle through the modes.
Sammy that was an excellent answer to the final question. Bravo!
Coming from a radio engineering background, Leo Fender chose to add a standby switch on his amps (common on large AM radio stations) without apparently knowing its proper usage. The switch was needed by transmitter tubes (which deal with thousands of volts, as opposed to guitar amp power tubes - receiving tubes - which deal with around 600 volts - that is for monster amps like the marshall pig) and was specified so in the RCA manual. You can actually look up the 1954 manual. Flicking the stdby in guitar amps only does bad things to the switch. You've got quite some voltage over it so each time you flick it, you're prone to sparks and arcs which in time, can melt the switch (heard a couple of stories with exactly this issue from the amp guy in my city). Best thing is just to forget about that switch entirely. I've got a marshall plexi and I've been playing it more or less on 10 through a loadbox for a year now and it's still going no problem, tubes are fine 😉
That last bit of advice is Golden~!!
Great video. Thanks
Your content is soo good man
Thanks for doing what matters. Great video.
Love that tee btw! Hitting your merch asap
Catching up on your older catalgue this week. THis is another good one, I NEED a compressor I guess. Thanks.
I love your vids Sammy G!
I really appreciate your approach to explaining the many different things you outline on your channel. It has a very lyrical way of cutting through the Bull$h#t.... For that I thank you. Hands down my favorite channel for knowledge of musical instruments. It has been difficult lately with all the "Prizes" I am apparently winning from your channel. It is hard to keep up with all the awesome stuff you want to send. Lol... It appears you are not the only person whom has such issues with evil doer's posting "Prizes" in the name of the content creators. It gives the creators a bad name and not everyone realizes that the creator has nothing to do with them. Personally I have nearly fallen for the scam and I consider myself an above average intellectual for a KISS fan anyway. I really wish you the best of luck dealing with the evil doer's. Before the Internet those kind of people had to do such things in person. The last one I had to deal with scammed me out of a car title in 1992. This person fell down a flight of stairs at my home, twice before returning the title to me. It was tragic that they fell twice. There are people in the world that could use a good fall down a flight of stairs, twice. The evil doer's are destroying credibility of otherwise good people like yourself and many others. In conclusion my samurai friend, my stairs are available for just that purpose if needed.
Yours Truly, Shawn
LMAO. Amazing story!
Much appreciated Rez... The most amazing part is that at 25-30 years ago a person that wanted to bully another or scam another really had to do it in person. That is really Ballzy considering how it is done today. It doesn't take a big set of nuggets to be on the internet and call a person fat, ugly or destroy a person's confidence with words. Many people nowadays seem to have all their confidence hinging on whether another hits the like button. Being a creator on TH-cam is difficult enough to not loose your mind through all the endless
Bull$%!t then to have some A$$ hijack a page you have worked so hard to create makes my faith in human decency fade that much more. Imagine how difficult it was to enjoy a band like Warrant in a crowd full of Metal Heads in 1988... lol... Lots of punches got thrown. Or imagine how difficult it was to be gay and have all of your friends find out and have those friends desert a person because others were afraid of what they didn't understand. The world was a different place back then. The internet has created a monster in many ways people never thought possible 30 years ago. Peace, love and ROCK N ROLL. KISS fan out.......
Great video!
That last answer was the best!! Thank you Sammie G!
Last answer was excellently succinct and right on point!
Your last section on "Does Any of this Matter" is beautiful. Thank you.
oh wow this made me understand what modes are in some way. thank samurai!
ive always used modes as just shapes to pull out of a scale for new bass lines. i found some early yt vids describing modes back in like 2011 that gave a cursory breakdown. however, ive never internalized all the corresponding chord progressions that go with those modes. i'll put the time in some day. but just learning the basic idea that sam describes here and applying it to all sorts of scales is a hell of a door opener for beginner bassists and lead guitarists playing rock based music.
Great video
Congrats on 1 million!!!!
Art as expression, not as market campaigns, will still capture our imaginations. Given the same state of integrity, it will surely help us along.
Standby switches on amps are a holdover from Leo Fender's original job as a radio repairman. It's there so you can check for electrical issues without having a cranked amp. It doesn't really need to exist, but since Leo Fender was so influential as a guitar and amp build in the halcyon days of electric guitar, standby switches became a fixture, to the point where guitarists would panic if they bought an amp and it didn't have one. CSGuitars did a great video on this in his TATA series =D *greatest Scottish accent ever* "WHERE'S MAH STANDBY SWITCH!!!"
FYI a small audio compressor device like a pedal doesn't usually make quiet signal louder. The just cut out the loud parts. There is less contrast between LOUD and quiet. That's the perceived audio effect when the loud parts of your audio signal decrease in volume.
Compression is as old as radio & telephone technology. It's just a circuit for dynamic range reduction.
Thanks!!!!!
What a great video!
Saved the best for last. Great answer!
The piano is a percussion instrument. The full name is piano-forte, meaning loud-soft. How lightly or how hard you hit the key. It’s a harp that is played with hammers.
A giant dulcimer haha
@@veenoir1991 - Pretty much.
That's what I was taught in school too. It's a percussion instrument because it uses a "mallet" striking to generate sound.
the way the system that sammyg brought up works is that it focuses first on what makes the sound, and then how that sound is made - that is, a piano is a string instrument, but its strings are struck
Interesting. My roommates just asked me this same question. We learned way back in high school that it was considered tuned percussion like a vibraphone or bell tree.
Ooooh, I've got one of these. Once when I had just started (but not like, JUST started - like, an embarrassingly long time after I'd started for such a question to be honest) I was trying to learn more music theory since I'm 100% self taught and it shows (or showed. I haven't played since my late teens and I'm just now trying to get back into music) so I was talking to my friend who was a much more experienced musician than me. So I knew the notes of my open strings on my guitar and I say to him "I'm trying to learn the musical alphabet but I'm confused - what is the difference between D flat and C sharp?" and he tells me "It's the same thing" and I go "Oooh, okay." (but that wasn't the really dumb part) and then I go "So, wait, what is the order of the musical alphabet?" and he just looks at me and quirks and eyebrow and goes "It's... the same as the regular alphabet" and man, I was floored. Suddenly so many things made WAY more sense - I had been treating it as this much more esoteric thing than it really was -- I think because of the whole E, A, D, G, B, E tuning of my guitar and the B E A D G of my bass that I had got it into my head that it was much more complicated than it needed it be.
But yeah, I felt pretty stupid. Oh, and that was also the day that I got the "B Sharps" joke from The Simpsons :)
I loved ur answer of the last question. I am an engineering student and just got my first live playing experience, this type of questions sorta got into my mind. Also I kind of feel that I don't deserve people's attention when it comes to my playing, it amazes me when people actually come to hear me play. I get this voice on my head saying: "Why would anyone go and listen to me?". Any thoughts on this?
I'm actually in pretty much the exact same situation you've described haha. Honestly, not really found a fitting solution for that self doubt as of yet, but I'm trying to work on myself generally first and foremost as a foundation for everything else at least. My approach to music is just to seek out as much improvement and feedback as I can, positive or negative, so that I can make and perform music to the best of my abilities while enjoying it as much as I can myself. Even if that voice in my head is making me doubt myself, as long as I can look at the performance and say that I enjoyed playing it for me, everything else can fall into place around that. Might as well try I reckon. Sorry it's a bit long, but I hope there's at least something of value in what I've written.
Cool video. I learned something.
Long time subscriber but this was the video that led me to buying my first Samurai course, theory rudiments
Musicians help out those who do more “important” jobs, maybe more than most people realize. Music is valuable.
Exactly! Without music our lives would be painfully dull, and many of these blue collar workers would have literally no motivation in life
While I learned nothing new, bc I been at this game for almost 30 years, I LOVED this video. I'm going to send this to my students
The stand by switch is also used to swap out guitars. It will save you that loud clanking and buzzing the live cord puts out with out turning off your amp and having to wait for it to "warm up"
Awesome Vid
"If not even a single person listens to what you do, if your music brings your life a little bit more flavour, then that is extremely valuable and that's something that I don't think should ever B°"
Adding to the guitar tuning discussion: your ears may be "too good". Guitar is an even temperament instrument (usually). Some of the notes are always going to be slightly out of tune. For me it's one of the charms of guitar...good enough for rock and roll. It drives some people up a wall.
if you can notice the intonation being off, you arent playing enough bends
I think a big reason why we question whether the arts matter is because our current society tends to make value judgements about different professions and the main metric is usually how much money it makes. If we just ignore the present and look back at our history as a species we should actually be celebrating music as one of our oldest traditions.
Please make more videos like this one
honestly felt like the stand byswitch was common knowledge. its mostly on tube amps to let the tubes warm up/create vaccum. take this with a grain of salt, this is how i understood it.
An abssolute legend as always
I have never thought if it matters… well said
great show
It is important to note that active pickups can produce a semi-digital to completely signal.
S-G is a great guitar player, but he is also a wise man. Sharp insight clear teaching.
Congratulations on the million subscribers bro
12:09 can relate, I’m sure nearly everyone doing music often can agree.
My music gets like very very low views... BUT I like my music, AND occasionally i get a message from a stranger that says I kept them alive one more day. Music is worth it, even if its just for you or a stranger :)
Love the channel Sammy G
You've got one of the best vibes channels man.
The standby switch removes high voltage from the tubes but leaves the heaters running... Yes it is better to heat up the tubes (main power on) before applying the high voltage (turning on the standby) but is is also ok to turn off the high voltage while the tubes are heated during breaks to reduce tube dissipation and extend the tube life but leave the heaters going for an "instant on" when returning from break. The main power and standby are turned off when your finished for the day.
Thanks Sammy, great video. Now I gotta look into what the stndby toggle on my amp's for. Just in case you didn't already know, Colin Scott's TH-cam channel (CSGuitars) has had a regular segment called TATA (Too Afraid To Ask) for years. Therefore, I hope you don't get too much heat for this video title.
Cheers..
I would like this twice for the last question. The rest of the vid was good too.
Sammy G, i love your answer to the last question. If we were all meant to be cogs in the big wheel of life, that's just existing. The arts are existance with better packaging that makes it all the better.
the only actual reason why the standby switch exist is because back then you needed them for amp repairs when you want your tubes to stay warm without making noise so it's basically just a killswitch
Thank you
I remember getting piano lessons and being to think of it as a percussion instrument as much as it’s a string instrument.
I make music and 13:01 gave me a lot more confidence in writing music
The simple answer to why a tube amp needs a standby switch is that tubes need to warm up a little before they're ready to push signal, so standby mode gives them a controlled environment for that purpose, as well as for cutting power without hitting the speakers when you're turning the amp off. Leaving the tubes fired up for long periods when the amp is not in use just puts needless strain on the tubes, so turning the amp off for breaks of more than a few minutes or so is best.
All a myth
11:46 - damn near made me spit out my coffee 😂
ngl this is my favorite type of video, ones where he interacts a lot with his audience