Someone once described Line 6 distortion as "Kazoo distortion" and I had the brilliant idea of getting a line 6 spider and a kazoo with a vocoder pedal and comparing if the kazoo through the vocoder created a better distortion than a Line 6 Spider. I unfortunately couldn't afford it (and still can't) so please Glenn, think about doing this shootout. Please I'll even send you different kazoos for testing
If your serious about the kazoo bit, you can actually buy kazoos with built in stereo jacks, so you could actually plug it into an amp. It'd be cool to see how you'd make the sound actually useable.
Yeah, my office manager has a thing for Kazoos and I found one of these for her... I kept offering to bring one of my amps in for her but she was happy with iRig into her iPhone :) www.amazon.com/Kazoobie-HUMMbucker-Electric-Kazoo-colors/dp/B002GI55PY/ref=sr_ph_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1524229977&sr=sr-1&keywords=electric+kazoo&dpID=41OLkh7prDL&preST=_SX300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch
Daniel Acosta If Glenn shaved and they made a wig out of it for Henning I’m sure most people wouldn’t notice if they never said anything. That would actually be great for an April fools prank, they’d just have to dub over each other
One guy is a lot smarter than the other, that's all. In the United States, as the television makes us stupid as F%$#, that same television tells us if we believe what they tell us then we are smart. This makes American's ever more dumber, to the point where we can't even tell what smart is anymore.
It helps that it was running through high-end gear into a high-end recording rig, though. Still, it's a bit like a sleeper car in that it performs better than it looks!
Okay Glenn, I've been watching your videos sense the "how to record heavy drums" series. This is by far my favorite video now. The way you two bounce off each other is great. Keep it up man I look forward to more.
I'm not gonna lie. I was not expecting something that ugly to make such an unbelievably great clean sound. It's warmer than any metal-string acoustic I've heard, but plucky and articulate enough to stand out. Massive props to the lutheir, and engineers who captured the sound!
I love the chemistry between these two. Feels like one of my kind of friendship with the constant teasing, ridiculing and making fun of each other. In my experience, if a friendship can't survive teasing it's not a strong friendship.
That's a flatpup pickup. They are awesome. I make cigar box guitars with the cheapest parts possible and play all sorts of modern stuff on them. Just done a cover of Damage Case by Motorhead, and covered a load of other stuff on my channel. The pickups I use cost just a few bucks!
Henning is the Jackie Wright to Glenn's Benny. The clip should have ended with Glenn being chased by women in St. Pauli Girl outfits, sped up with "Yakety Sax" playing in the background.
Thanks for all the uploads, Glen. I love your videos and tho I am still a clueless musician. Your videos have helped me learn many things that I could’ve been oblivious to. Again, many thanks. Killer video as always. Cool shit. Loved the end.
Well life is complete for me. To day before noon I found out that that Gibson sg guitar with the head stock broken and retrofitted to the back like a stinebirger is not only real but is totally playable and sounds half was good and keeps tune and then I got to see Glenn play metal on a cigarbox guitar.
The short answer is yes.... try the middle 4 of an open G tuning, throw in some slide and off you go. Or try a 3 string cigar box guitar tuned to a low d tuning or g tuning in 5ths
Dude, i cannot recommend a CBG enough. Got one as a gift for my wedding, became OBSESSED. Something about its simplicity makes playing it ridiculously fun. No fluff, fewer strings to mess with, makes it so easy to sit and compose really sweet stuff.
Hey Glenn, I have an idea for a series. You should do reaction videos to metal bands that fans/viewers request whether it's their own music or whether it's music that's professional, if they're great, give em props, if they're meh, give em constructive criticism and if they are bass player level stupid, Rip em a new one. Love the channel, keep going man!
Kudos for Henning then... But as I said before in another youtube post... You are far better guitarist (at least rhythmically) than you ussually accept. :)
It's really interesting the kind of stuff people used for making guitars. i seen electric guitars in Mali west Africa that were made from big dried out gourds. lots of creative methods for making a homemade guitar. Rock on guys
I built a cigar box guitar when I was a freshman in highschool...04 or so..still have it...have a skeleton key for a nut, a coat hanger bridge/whammy bar and tooth pick frets...it's dumb but I still have it...old cremo cigar box
I've owned and played on cigar box guitars for some years now. They are mostly played in an open chord tuning. So if you wanted to do this in the traditional cigar box guitar way you should try it tuned to open E. It's an entirely new experience. Gets you out of your comfort zone. Nothing is where it's supposed to be. I've found that this can really open up your guitar playing. Makes you think and opens you up to more creative approaches to playing.
I just skipped straight to the example because I'm short on time but I've gotta say, I think this is your best drum sound yet. Compressing on the way in is really working.
Hey Glenn, love the channel. As someone who has been blessed with a line 6 spider combo amp, is it better to buy a high quality distortion pedal or just save up for a better amp like the katana 100?
Jug bands were much later than the mid 19th century, early 20th (especially the 20s). A similar instrument that existed earlier was the diddely bow, which was a stick, two screws, some baling twine and a bottle as a resonator, it was the training instrument for slide guitarists and was used for learning intonation and technique.
Juicexlx yeah! First time I've heard that technique used was on Paul Gilbert's "Get Out of My Yard" but I've never heard a metal scream vocal haha that was dank!
I made my 3 string from scratch... I used thick solder wire for frets... And kitchen drain cover as a sound hole cover. I'm actually pretty proud of it. I took it out in public just playing w/ it and made $20 just playing around with it.
Hi Glenn, Awesome Video as usual! I've learned so much thanks to your videos and have treated my room with DIY basstraps two days ago, with awesome results. I have a silly question, I see a lot of people (like you and other pros) using outboard gear for mixing and mastering within their DAW. How do you do that, going out of the DAW into the analog hardware back into the DAW? Might be an obvious one :D Thanks a lot and keep up the great work.
I mean, just stick a mic on the kazoo, and make sure you get a huge wood one for the tone and a larger kazoo for a rounder tone. Then just plug the other end of the kazoo into and amp and kick up the gain and bass frequencies and you can even use a boss metalzone if you'd like.
Glenn new rough mix, using axe FX for guitars,and yes programmed drums, but only as a reference track, live drums will be added after all vocals are done
I have a JN "Cask" series "Cigar Box" guitar. It has a volume knob, a tone knob and a black soap bar P90 pickup. It has a dirty, almost muddy sound. I find that it's absolutely PERFECT for Doom Metal like Black Sabbath, St. Vitus, Electric Wizard, and the like. The A D G B tuning sounds interesting. I might just buy me another one just to have it at that tuning. (Also a tenor guitar) Mine is tuned to "Arkansas" tuning right now. (E A D G)
Most pickups are roughly the same inside. A magnet generates a magnetic field. A transducer (basically an electromagnet in reverse) takes the disturbances caused by the strings as they pass through that field, converts it to voltage and sends it out to the switches, pots and output jack (add in a preamp if its an active instrument) and to the amp. If you have a magnetic transducer pickup in your guitar, which is pretty much every pickup ever made, you're going to be able to play metal through it. Just add in a distortion or drive pedal, or use the dirty channel on the amp. You can play metal on a fucking banjo if you have a magnetic transducer pickup on it.
Very cool, man! I wanna get myself one of those cigarbox guits just because they are so damn unique! It actually surprised me how freakin good it sounded, though! Particularly that clean sound with a splash of reverb: it's so gorgeous that I wanna have it's babies!
This is not new information. Real drums recorded right and with a good drummer will always be far superior to any digital substitute: past, present and yet to come (I've got a fiver that says this will never be not true. Anyone game?). But for the purposes of a demonstration, song writing, pre-production, etc., programmed/sampled drums can be quite useful and save a hell of a lot of time!
Markus Koivisto My mate (an experienced bass player) told me that mixing with sampled drums is a real fine art and not everyone can do it properly, so maybe Glenn just needs a bit more experience to get them sounding better (my mate recommends EZ drumner - apparently that sounds better than any real drums in the right hands).
MrArchie800 that’s the silliest thing I’ve ever heard tbh. Real drums are way harder to edit and mix, but if you know how to do t and have a good performance, it’s the best thing. As always with music, performance is king.
Someone once described Line 6 distortion as "Kazoo distortion" and I had the brilliant idea of getting a line 6 spider and a kazoo with a vocoder pedal and comparing if the kazoo through the vocoder created a better distortion than a Line 6 Spider.
I unfortunately couldn't afford it (and still can't) so please Glenn, think about doing this shootout.
Please
I'll even send you different kazoos for testing
Old Goat
We need this
Yes
That sounds a bit like Glenn’s own personal guitar preset…good for sounding like Jack White or some other garage guitarist.
I was expecting this to sound shite, then when Henning started playing I was genuinely surprised by how good it sounded.
JDODify but why?
why what
I wasn't expecting it to sound completely shite, but I was also rather surprised by just how good it sounds!
The new standard in METAL!
Yeah, because tonewood matters...
If your serious about the kazoo bit, you can actually buy kazoos with built in stereo jacks, so you could actually plug it into an amp. It'd be cool to see how you'd make the sound actually useable.
Sounds like a Rob Scallon video in the making
Agreed, this idea has to happen now! Definitely does sound like something Rob would do :P
You could plug it into a SY-300 guitar synth.
Yeah, my office manager has a thing for Kazoos and I found one of these for her... I kept offering to bring one of my amps in for her but she was happy with iRig into her iPhone :)
www.amazon.com/Kazoobie-HUMMbucker-Electric-Kazoo-colors/dp/B002GI55PY/ref=sr_ph_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1524229977&sr=sr-1&keywords=electric+kazoo&dpID=41OLkh7prDL&preST=_SX300_QL70_&dpSrc=srch
I feel like they both secretly hate each other...
I don't think its a secret.
lot of that back and forth going on, stands out actually
I think they are secretly brothers from the same mother.
Daniel Acosta If Glenn shaved and they made a wig out of it for Henning I’m sure most people wouldn’t notice if they never said anything. That would actually be great for an April fools prank, they’d just have to dub over each other
One guy is a lot smarter than the other, that's all. In the United States, as the television makes us stupid as F%$#, that same television tells us if we believe what they tell us then we are smart. This makes American's ever more dumber, to the point where we can't even tell what smart is anymore.
Damn. That sounded WAY BETTER than it had any right to, both clean and with heavy distortion. I've heard _far_ worse from _far_ "better" guitars.
It helps that it was running through high-end gear into a high-end recording rig, though. Still, it's a bit like a sleeper car in that it performs better than it looks!
Captain Pantaloons its a high end amp but, i can tell. that guitar definitely had its own sweetness!
It is all about guitar player, not about guitar, right? 🙂
Okay Glenn, I've been watching your videos sense the "how to record heavy drums" series. This is by far my favorite video now. The way you two bounce off each other is great. Keep it up man I look forward to more.
This is probably the most fantastic can you play metal I've ever seen !
That’s crazy! I can’t believe how great that sounded...both clean and distorted.
i want glenn to wear hennings sweater :D
The unicorn would turn into a narwhal.
Do you really want him to break the seventh seal to hell? Really?
He already gave the sixth a crack with using samples in this video! :D
What kind of porn is that?
German
I'm not gonna lie. I was not expecting something that ugly to make such an unbelievably great clean sound. It's warmer than any metal-string acoustic I've heard, but plucky and articulate enough to stand out. Massive props to the lutheir, and engineers who captured the sound!
Yeah, it was pretty damned impressive
April Fool’s was seventeen days ago Glenn
That was cool. I did not expect that to work.
I love the chemistry between these two. Feels like one of my kind of friendship with the constant teasing, ridiculing and making fun of each other. In my experience, if a friendship can't survive teasing it's not a strong friendship.
3:22 Output jack, Glenn. Signal comes OUT of the guitar, goes INTO the amplifier.
That's a flatpup pickup. They are awesome. I make cigar box guitars with the cheapest parts possible and play all sorts of modern stuff on them. Just done a cover of Damage Case by Motorhead, and covered a load of other stuff on my channel. The pickups I use cost just a few bucks!
YESS! Subbed!
JanderVK Thanks man :)
Do you build and sell cigar box guitars?
I’m gonna geuss you get your parts from CB gitty right?
Dave Lanciani I build them and used to sell but now I just make them for fun and sometimes as gifts/commissions.
Is this a Rob Scallon video?
The clean tone of that little thing is insanely good!
That head tap near the end 😂 taptaptaptaptaptap
Joao Emmanuel Torres u forgot a tappy tap, in there somewhere
Reminds me of Benny Hill.
Benny Hill for sure
Henning is the Jackie Wright to Glenn's Benny. The clip should have ended with Glenn being chased by women in St. Pauli Girl outfits, sped up with "Yakety Sax" playing in the background.
Surprisingly entertaining video my dudes. Really liked it. Hope you're liking Germany Glenn and safe trip back to maple land.
Maple land😂
Thanks for all the uploads, Glen. I love your videos and tho I am still a clueless musician. Your videos have helped me learn many things that I could’ve been oblivious to. Again, many thanks. Killer video as always. Cool shit. Loved the end.
Lmao his reaction to your joke about his birthday being 30 years ago was hysterical and awkward
i died when i saw it
„Yeah. It’s not funny”
Well life is complete for me. To day before noon I found out that that Gibson sg guitar with the head stock broken and retrofitted to the back like a stinebirger is not only real but is totally playable and sounds half was good and keeps tune and then I got to see Glenn play metal on a cigarbox guitar.
The short answer is yes.... try the middle 4 of an open G tuning, throw in some slide and off you go. Or try a 3 string cigar box guitar tuned to a low d tuning or g tuning in 5ths
Dude, i cannot recommend a CBG enough. Got one as a gift for my wedding, became OBSESSED. Something about its simplicity makes playing it ridiculously fun. No fluff, fewer strings to mess with, makes it so easy to sit and compose really sweet stuff.
The head pat was the best part.
Like & Comment before watching crew, reporting in
Wooooot!? Drum samples!!!!?? NOOOOOOOO
The drumss sound like fish on a dry land. Well at least the drummer is on time for rehersal's...
"grab that piece of wood" and he does. Worth watching for that.
Then the grunt right after!
Very laugh worthy command
Sounds a ALOT better than you think it would.
7:58 WHY!? 😂😂😂😂😂
Isn't it supposed to be good luck or something?
@@captainpantaloons its a sign of affection in anime
This video is completely stupid and ridiculous. I love it! And to add a cliché, does it djent?
Mark Schwarz no jared
Seeing the versatility of these pretty much makes me want to start making them
It sounded pretty good. Also the clean tone when Henning was showing the guitar was very nice
Hitchikers guide is lit
Life is Life.... the Meaning of Life the universe and everything ;-)
Graeme Sheridan 42
Douglas Adams was one of those comic geniuses that only Britain can produce.
I've read every Douglas Adams novel... fucking genius.
Haha awesome \m/
Karl Golden duuuude i love your vids, your an awesome guitar player, rock on man \m/
Hey Glenn, I have an idea for a series. You should do reaction videos to metal bands that fans/viewers request whether it's their own music or whether it's music that's professional, if they're great, give em props, if they're meh, give em constructive criticism and if they are bass player level stupid, Rip em a new one. Love the channel, keep going man!
That sounded awesome, especially the sparkly clean sound.
I'm pretty sure that pickup is a Flatpup built by Elmar Zeilhofer. I've bought a few three-string versions of that from him. I agree, they're awesome.
Is it bad if i actually like this better than alot of modern metal?
I like that Hitchhiker's Guide guitar. That's awesome.
Glenn... the two of you together are just Hilarious!!!!
And that song was just Superb!
I credit Henning. He's actually an excellent producer.
Kudos for Henning then... But as I said before in another youtube post... You are far better guitarist (at least rhythmically) than you ussually accept. :)
can I buy this song? :)
Now I've seen it all. First Justin Johnson plays sick blues on a shovel, and Glenn coming out with a banger of a song on a cigar box.
Love it!
Coffin shaped cigar box guitar for Funeral Doom here I come!
Wow super fun video Glenn! Keep making these "Metal on a ____" videos this one was my favorite!
Also this just proves how beastly Revv amps are
I think the tone of that Nazangi cigar box guitar is amazing. When Henning played it clean it had the most gorgeous timbre. I want one.
It's really interesting the kind of stuff people used for making guitars. i seen electric guitars in Mali west Africa that were made from big dried out gourds. lots of creative methods for making a homemade guitar. Rock on guys
You were on fire playing that thing! Your rhythm playing is a lot tighter nowadays compared to how you played on your earlier videos!
I built a cigar box guitar when I was a freshman in highschool...04 or so..still have it...have a skeleton key for a nut, a coat hanger bridge/whammy bar and tooth pick frets...it's dumb but I still have it...old cremo cigar box
I've owned and played on cigar box guitars for some years now. They are mostly played in an open chord tuning. So if you wanted to do this in the traditional cigar box guitar way you should try it tuned to open E. It's an entirely new experience. Gets you out of your comfort zone. Nothing is where it's supposed to be. I've found that this can really open up your guitar playing. Makes you think and opens you up to more creative approaches to playing.
Completely amazing. The clean sounded like a Strat to me. Very impressing.
Ah the Henning week when Glenn can put out 20 videos in one week
Lol
While his camera was stolen.
The clean sound of that guitar is outstanding.
Love the air guitar on the cat in the background
I can't believe it! That sounded awesome!
Great chemistry between the two, good video, should do more
I just skipped straight to the example because I'm short on time but I've gotta say, I think this is your best drum sound yet. Compressing on the way in is really working.
You both make a great team. This was a good one.
Wow 😮 not what I expected at all
Sounds badass, love the Revv and the drums 😉
That was a way better turn out than what I expected great job!
Ty!
I actually rather liked it. The tone was unique.
I would like to see a new studio tour Glenn. With all the new amps and guitars it will be very cool.
Hey Glenn, love the channel.
As someone who has been blessed with a line 6 spider combo amp, is it better to buy a high quality distortion pedal or just save up for a better amp like the katana 100?
Get a bantamp!
SpectreSoundStudios thanks man, I will look into it more.
YES. Finally some CBG action!
Jug bands were much later than the mid 19th century, early 20th (especially the 20s). A similar instrument that existed earlier was the diddely bow, which was a stick, two screws, some baling twine and a bottle as a resonator, it was the training instrument for slide guitarists and was used for learning intonation and technique.
Awesome video! I really like those guitars. It would be fun to have a guitar with just the 4 middle strings haha
Hahaha! Well, that was kind of fresh & the screaming in the pick-up actually works.
Juicexlx yeah!
First time I've heard that technique used was on Paul Gilbert's "Get Out of My Yard" but I've never heard a metal scream vocal haha that was dank!
That really won the video-of-the day for me.
I want to scream at my guitar's pickups like that. LMAO!
Fuck yeah! Me too! It sounds awesome! Haha
Check out dead and bloated by stone temple pilots, the intro is sung through a les Paul into a Marshall lol
*Jayden Wybenga* Awesome song! I didn't know that little tidbit, though. Very interesting :)
Wow... so damn clean.... did not expect that.
5:28 "Grab that big piece of wood"
You can play metal on anything that has strings and pickups if you plug it in a good amp
I made my 3 string from scratch... I used thick solder wire for frets... And kitchen drain cover as a sound hole cover. I'm actually pretty proud of it. I took it out in public just playing w/ it and made $20 just playing around with it.
What a useful sound. Tone filed away. Thanks!
Dude that was cool! I was going to say you need to de-tune that thing. does it go down to an A tuning?
Please find out where that pickup came from...that guitar sounds AMAZING...especially for a cigarbox...!
Joshua Williams a pickup made in Vienna, Austria, by yours truly ;-) it's an Original Flatpup.
Hi Glenn,
Awesome Video as usual! I've learned so much thanks to your videos and have treated my room with DIY basstraps two days ago, with awesome results. I have a silly question, I see a lot of people (like you and other pros) using outboard gear for mixing and mastering within their DAW. How do you do that, going out of the DAW into the analog hardware back into the DAW? Might be an obvious one :D Thanks a lot and keep up the great work.
Lol this has to be one of the coolest original riffs and tunes you've come up with man.. loved it hehe
It's an Original Flatpup pickup from Vienna, Austria.
You guys bounce off each other brilliantly take for experience. FICH DICH
I mean, just stick a mic on the kazoo, and make sure you get a huge wood one for the tone and a larger kazoo for a rounder tone. Then just plug the other end of the kazoo into and amp and kick up the gain and bass frequencies and you can even use a boss metalzone if you'd like.
I make these guitars, 3 and 4 string these guitars are very unique, mostly used for blues music!
As a Pole I think I'm larger than Henning and Glenn. In height of course because you know poles should be long.
Thank you, Poland, for 4 of my favorite death metal bands: Behemoth, Decapitated, Hate, and Vader.
That was f'in amazing!!! I think it sounded the best out of all the guitars in the series, I am totally shocked and surprised.....
this actually sounded amaze
this guy is GOOD. And he knows the insider tech terms, like the Lookey Inney Woundy thingie!
I'm a cigar box guitar player and that was frickin awesome!!!!!
There are tons of us around the world that make all kinds of CBG's... They're a lot of fun to play... Ellmar's flat pickups are awesome!
Jeez that tone blows me away!
Glenn new rough mix, using axe FX for guitars,and yes programmed drums, but only as a reference track, live drums will be added after all vocals are done
I have a JN "Cask" series "Cigar Box" guitar. It has a volume knob, a tone knob and a black soap bar P90 pickup. It has a dirty, almost muddy sound. I find that it's absolutely PERFECT for Doom Metal like Black Sabbath, St. Vitus, Electric Wizard, and the like. The A D G B tuning sounds interesting. I might just buy me another one just to have it at that tuning. (Also a tenor guitar) Mine is tuned to "Arkansas" tuning right now. (E A D G)
Flat pup humbucker! I'm about to put one on my cigar box guitar!
Most pickups are roughly the same inside. A magnet generates a magnetic field. A transducer (basically an electromagnet in reverse) takes the disturbances caused by the strings as they pass through that field, converts it to voltage and sends it out to the switches, pots and output jack (add in a preamp if its an active instrument) and to the amp.
If you have a magnetic transducer pickup in your guitar, which is pretty much every pickup ever made, you're going to be able to play metal through it. Just add in a distortion or drive pedal, or use the dirty channel on the amp.
You can play metal on a fucking banjo if you have a magnetic transducer pickup on it.
Very cool, man! I wanna get myself one of those cigarbox guits just because they are so damn unique! It actually surprised me how freakin good it sounded, though! Particularly that clean sound with a splash of reverb: it's so gorgeous that I wanna have it's babies!
The clean sound is great, you could totally use that in serious productions and nobody would think it sounds out of place.
Lmao y’all need to do more duo vids together. Too hilarious.
What a great act. They should have their own show
Those drums sound fantastic!
Hey Glenn, what about a "can a plexi do metal"? I feel like that would be pretty interesting
I love Glenn’s guitar playing face
Okay real drums sound so much better than samples.
That's what I've been screaming about for years
He's not kidding about the screaming.
This is not new information. Real drums recorded right and with a good drummer will always be far superior to any digital substitute: past, present and yet to come (I've got a fiver that says this will never be not true. Anyone game?). But for the purposes of a demonstration, song writing, pre-production, etc., programmed/sampled drums can be quite useful and save a hell of a lot of time!
Markus Koivisto My mate (an experienced bass player) told me that mixing with sampled drums is a real fine art and not everyone can do it properly, so maybe Glenn just needs a bit more experience to get them sounding better (my mate recommends EZ drumner - apparently that sounds better than any real drums in the right hands).
MrArchie800 that’s the silliest thing I’ve ever heard tbh.
Real drums are way harder to edit and mix, but if you know how to do t and have a good performance, it’s the best thing.
As always with music, performance is king.