On the topic of heckling the audience, there is a lovely story about Dee Snider getting a crowd in the eighties to repeatedly shout "fuck you!" to a section of the crowd that refused to stand up for Twisted Sister. He later learnt that it was the handicap section.
Did you see the outcome of the Dean lawsuit Glen? Theyve been ordered to stop selling their traditional V and explorer models, which is ridiculous as Dean have sold these lines for decades. Judge also instructed Dean to pay 335k of legal fees for the hearing (Dean and Gibson lawyer costs), I think it's a joke
I heard it yesterday. I never buy a Gibson in my life. The Vengeance is a killer guitar. And the Zero model too. If Dean goes this way everything will be ok.
The US legal system is a complete farce at this point - granting a rent-seeking "lifestyle brand" who abandoned their trademarks a half century ago damages and an injunction over what amounts to public domain generic shapes is egregious; what makes it moreso is that Dean, who has arguably made V- and Explorer-shaped instruments continuously for almost as long as Gibson (let that sink in - Gibson only really scaled up production in 1975), and done more to popularize them, is getting their legs ripped off here.
I’m pretty sure the lawsuit is the only reason Dave moved from Dean to Gibson; either way, Dave’s Dean guitars (at least the one I have) is pretty damn solid and got it used for less than half retail. Kinda wish Glenn would check the VMNTs out to see if they were better than Dave’s Gibson models….
Yeah man, it's getting real bad in the US for worker rights and wages. I'm currently in the process of moving back in with my dad, because he can't keep up with the cost of living as a homeowner, and I can't keep up with the cost of living as an apartment renter. We're both hard workers, too - my dad's been supporting a wife and kids on his own for decades, and I've never been fired. Been employed steadily since I was 18, and going to be 29 in a few months. Yet, neither of us earn enough to live on our own, no matter where we go. So yeah - it's bad in the US, and it's only getting worse.
Ola Englund did a pretty awesome video a few years ago where he had like 10 cabs and 10 heads, and he would run all the combinations to see how each head would react with each cab. It was amazing to hear the tonal shifts. Highly recommend it to anyone who has not had a chance to look at it. Look up these videos: CHUG COMPARISON - MESA BADLANDER, JP2C VS. PEAVEY 5150 VS. EVH 5150 1 Riff / 10 Cabinets - Metal riff shootout 1 Riff / 10 Metal Amps
There is more to it than just that. If you weren't alive at that time then you might not know. We had a horrible recession with a nasty inflation issue caused by.. you guessed it...jimmy carter the peanut head and the democrats. Just as they do every time they are in full power they destroy the economy...just like today with brandon and the fartsack democrats. Companies had little options available to them and business had to find a way or they would collapse completely. Japanese car quality was NOT that good but they did make small engines on a small super light frame that gave them good gas mileage. Japanese steel was awful and within 2 years of purchasing one you would have rust bubbles under the paint. They engines were okay and easy to work on but again, not a lot of power. We also had the same issue with gas. Once again, the democrats created a fuel problem and we the people, paid the price. It was a better decision to buy the cheap japanese crap than drive a bigger and better gas guzzler. I had a '67 Ford Galaxy 500. Excellent quality and a 390 engine that was a beast...but drank so much fuel. This was about '82. My dad had a brand new Olds which also had fantastic quality and a slightly better fuel efficient engine. Other people I knew that had japanese cars were trying to keep them running and were having a hard time at it. Everything was wearing out on them. 75 datsuns were the worst. I think what glenn is talking about are the "K" cars that were being manufactured in response to the japanese cars. It was a mirror reflection of the production quality of the japanese manufacturer. Small engines, poor steel for construction, hence cheap. These things fell apart just as much as the japanese vehicles did.
The autoworkers were lazy too. I’m still in the auto industry but on the dealership side. When I was with a Ford and Chrysler dealership, our diesel tech was able to tour a Ford plant. He said while he was there he watched someone on the line cross thread the same bolt dozens of times while talking on their phone.
@@bfunkadelicmusic while their bosses enjoyed their 5 martini lunches. And I seriously doubt anyone would be talking on the phone on the job in the 1970s, unless it was the bosses…
@@bfunkadelicmusic Unlikely. I worked for years on Auto Mfg lines. The only lazy involved in producing an auto is management and sales.....The workers bust their asses daily. This is the same BS speak that says Unionized workers are lazy. Complete BS.
I think a lot of bands forget about the, "putting on a performance", bit and just play their instruments instead. Almost all great notorious bands all have the same one thing in common, THEATRICS! \m/
I only realised this after watching back live video footage of my old band with the sound off. Boring AF! Important lesson. Shoegazing only works for that style of music and scene.
Exactly. If i just want to listen to the band, the recording is going to be of a much higher quality than live. If i go to see a band live, i want to see a show! Hell, Kiss made a career out of the stage show. The music? Nothing spectacular. But the live shows?!? Wow!
@This is 86 calling Control. Come in, Control... bro I've been signed to record labels and opened up for international acts and have been playing for 20+ years, I think I know what I'm talking about.
“Eric Clapton vomited on this one so it’s worth $300,000” 🤣🤣🤣👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 Going through a hard time in my personal life but this put a much-needed smile on my face today. 👍🏽
The ability to switch speakers (and use different mics) is one of the two reasons I switched to silent recording with a Torpedo Captor. I now have one amp, but I have access to hundreds of cab IR’s, each cab captured with several mics at several distances. As much as I love the experience of mic’ing a real cab, silent guitar recording is the absolute best for people like me who live in an apartment building with cardboard walls.
Torpedo came onto my radar like 10 years ago. Too expensive. Then 3 years ago I got a Cab M. 1/6th the price. Game changer. You're right about the wonderful things you can do. I'm tracking Acoustics through it with some great IR's. Because of the speaker cabs IR's, I record bass through guitar amp. Same tone as rhythm guitar into Cab M bass cabs. I got a Captor 8, a few months before the Captor X was announced. Load Box and second feed to my interface. L & R panned and no need to double track. two unique tones to work with.
In regards to the "Gear" making the show better, the absolute BEST live show I went to was a no name duo who were brother and sister, him on an old crap harmony acoustic and her playing a tambourine and a cheap casio keyboard. I and about 150 other people sat there for 45 minutes listening to some of the most beautiful playing and singing EVER. Until then I never liked traditional irish/scottish/welsh music, but at the end of their set they got a 10 minutes standing ovation, and the main band they were opening for got upset and left the venue.
This is anecdotal evidence, but I pulled the neck pickup out of my SG for a few weeks and did not notice any difference at all. Doesn’t matter if it’s got the neck pickup or not.
Thank you pipeline for asking the question about 3D and depth. I always hear those words get used in audio and it drives me fucking nuts. “3D and Depth” …I was unaware audio was something we did with our eyes.
@@216trixie What you’re talking about is usually achieved with panning, reverb, and delays. But there are plenty of analog emulation plugins that either make the claims themselves, or someone is waxing on about it on a forum somewhere.
On your comment on mixing and matching cabs, mics, speakers, ect. I found the same goes for mixing brands in a single mix. My more recent band mixes have a blend of Helix with IRs, Neural DSP, a BlackStar amp and cab that have been mic'd, and some no name amp sims that came with my DAW. They all sound (and "feel") very different from one another, so the blend feels massive and unique.
BrownsfanLarry I know. I was being sarcastic. With freedom comes danger. Canadians don’t know freedom. They’re in their own matrix, controlled by Queen Lizard.
with population numbers in mind... its not as true as it sounds. I did a quick crunch on canadian crime per capita vs american and... head for head...its not that different. But, we all know glenn is a leftist with commie ideas of granduer(which is bad) while trying to be a capitalist (which is good). Notice he calls out fox for being a bad news organization but never says anything about cnn, msnbc ? Personally I don't watch cable or mainstream news but at least I know that the worst liars are cnn for SURE.
To the 1 pickup vs 2 or 3 pickup question. "Allegedly" as the string vibrates the magnet in the neck or middle pickup can affect the way the movement. I think the only way to test this is with a high speed camera. Also you'd need a robot to consistently hit the string with the same power and in the same spot. Seems like a lot of effort for what might not have 1/10th of an effect. The only REAL advantage I can see to 1 pickup vs 2 or 3 pickups is saving on battery life if they are active pickups.
Just looking at the way the electronics work, I doubt it has any impact at all. Pickups detect motion of the strings, not the position of the strings. The pull of amagnet is permanent, so additional magnets only theoretically change the position of the strings, but they don't cause any movement of the strings. Yes, you could theoretically argue that additional magnetic pull negatively impacts the strings' ability to move, but those forces are completely negligible in comparison to the force you're exerting on the strings by picking, so the impact is practically zero and completely negated by differences in picking strength anyways.
A guy called Will on a channel called Willseasyguitar debunked this like 5 years ago.. He also totally shot down the entire 'ToneWood' mouthbreather debate too , like there are people out there that think certain woods have their own EQ, give me a break!! and also he proved that the 24.75 Gibson and 25.5 Fender scale causes no discernable difference to tone by building a plank guitar with bridge pins in the positions for either scale.. Literally a single strum of all open strings sustains for about 42 seconds or whatever it was regardless of presence of a neck pickup or not, I think he had to get a pretty strong electromagnet under there before he saw any appreciable difference.
1) If one had the ambition to have a kit the size of Mike Mangini or Nicko McBrain's in their recording would the extinction level event be suitable? 2) Rick Beato recently did a full studio tour video. Any chance of seeing a full studio tour from Glenn?
How to test that single pickup theory: get a Relish guitar. The backplate comes off and the pickups pop out without tools or anything. You could demo the guitar with the exact same strings with and without the neck pickup back to back.
@The Tired Horizon Let's say it brings out different frequencies. Do those frequencies survive the signal chain? What the guitar player is hearing and what the listener is hearing are different. The audience is often hearing less frequencies.
Glenn...I bought Extinction Level Event and downloaded it. I tried using it but learned very quickly this was impossible. Anytime I use the drums on reaper it bogs down crazy and the plugin says it's using 100% CPU. My computer and reaper can't handle it. My computer is a $1200 2017 Imac and have never had issues using any plugins before especially drum plugins. I currently use Perfect Drums and my Imac handles that fine. Has anyone had this issue? I really want to use the drums but I can't. Is there something that can be fixed? If not how can I get my $ back?
@@MTD1976 I have trouble if I use too many plugins anyway, so I'm not interested in buying something that takes up a lot of CPU, I'd be wasting my money. A rating system would be great, then you wouldn't have to go through reviews to find out if something is CPU hungry.
I bought one of those Orange Crush Mini 3 watt amps for my niece who is learning to play. The newer ones have an actual cabinet speaker out. I own an older version that doesn't. Of course I had to try it into my 2x12 vertical closed back cab. HOLY SHIT BALLS! That thing for what it is, sounded great through a full cabinet. While you'll never mistake it for for a killer tube head, blending it in a mix or in a pinch as an emergency back up amp head, it will get the job done in many cases. 3 watts of full orange solid state grind into a full size cab IS LOUD!!!
As someone who worked on an audio codec, of course they all sound different. They are more different in noise characteristics than anything else. There is also a minimal phase or zero phase lowpass filter with different characteristics from the down sampling process. They usually work by sampling a 1 bit value at a much higher rate (oversampling) and add it into a counter. The counter acts like a CIC filter which you use series of halfband filters to reduce the rate to 48K, all while controlling the noise produced by the reflected Nyquist frequencies at each step. There are a lot of different types of halfband filters at different orders, you will see either see a zero phase or minimal phase impulse response depending on if iir or fir filter were used.
I have a Blues Jr. and there's only 1 1/4 out for a speaker (I just replaced the speaker with an Eminence Red White and Blues). What if I want to have a cabinet on the side with a different speaker for a different sound. My 2 main guitars are a Harley Benton SC. And the Strat my folks bought me when I was a kid, in the 70's. Maybe 1 speaker for 1 guitar and 1 for the other ? Or what if I want to run the speaker in the cabinet and a second cabinet. Do I need to buy any gismos to make that work ?
I agree. Among other things, people who do this are the reason buying used instruments and gear is basically worthless nowadays, at least in my country - you won't save nearly enough money to justify the lack of warranty, not to mention the fact that often it's cheaper to buy the same gear new from Thomann. People shouldn't try to sell their used crap for profit.
@@snap-off5383 depends on the amount of usage and the socalled provenance. mint quality also sells better. the latter one is what collectors usually do, they dont touch the asset at all. any usage by usual folks will lower the price dramatically, if its a regular produced model.
On the housing thing. I know it’s way off topic, but you brought up corporations buying up houses. To those asking why would corporations buy up a bunch of houses at prices no one could afford? So they can make those looking for housing rent from them. What a wonderful place this is turning out to be
I’d love to see you demo a music man JP Majesty. They are very expensive, though Sterlings are more affordable, but the quality and features are fantastic. It’s a truly unique guitar in my opinion. Actually, I’d be more interested in seeing you demo any guitar with a piezo switching/blending option. I found that for strumming heavy rock rhythm tones blending the piezo adds a lot of girth and definition believe it or not. Jerry Cantrell uses this system. The majesty let’s you dial in the treble and bass so you have a ton of control. Thanks glenn!
Just got one of my gibson set-up under warranty. Strings were catching in nut slots, nut was too high. So the string angle slots were re-filed, nut height filed down. Neck adjustment, professionally intonated for half-step down tuning. Bridge height and pickups adjusted. Nut lubricant, and oiled the fretboard. Cleaned and polished by a professional. Set-up was done at the local store where I purchased the guitar. The action was pretty good and it was quite Playable, but kept going out of tune after hitting it hard and string bending lead work. Now it's a different animal. Stays in tune much better. Nut slots were filed for the angle of the strings and string gauge. Etc. Don't over look a professional set-up by a professional tech or luthier. Your milage may vary. But now I can beat to hell out of it. And from the G string onward takes while to loose pitch and tuning. Otherwise i was looking at a device called the string butler for les Paul's. It has mini rollers on it and after the nut it re-aligins the strings so they are straight before going into the break angle into the string slots. Everyone's milage may vary with those as well. But the idea is it allows the string to easily roll back into pitch after a bend and fixes the extreme break angle in the les paul. The nuts aren't always the right height or filed correctly straight out of factory cheap or expensive. A proper look over and professionally done job by a tech can make the whole difference in the world. For les paul owners, epiphone owners or les paul copy owners. And anyone in general buying a brand new guitar. If your store offers a free set up with purchase take advantage of it. If not shell out the cash and see and hear the difference. In most cases it can fix most tuning and intonation issues if you are having any. Also imperative for studio and live work for whichever tuning and string gauge you plan to use. Everyone in the band should have a professional set up to keep intonation and tuning in check with more than one guitar and the bassist as well. You will play and sound better as a whole unit. Cheers!
Relish Guitars, while REALLY EXPENSIVE, have magnets on their pickup rings so that all you have to do is remove the backplate and swap the pickup without any soldering. Heck, they can even redesign a pickup of your request to fit that function. I think that for whom has the time and money to dispute whether or not pickups (the type, the string placement, the price, and how many) impact the tone, they'd consider this option. Unless it recently came to the news that the company is a sham and I haven't been in-touch about it.
@@Delowist You don't have to constantly remove the back every time you swap pickups as far as I know. Even then, magnets take a long time to wear down. I still have my horseshoe magnet working fine after three decades, I don't think the magnets on the back will stop working after, at best, two pickup swaps (of the three different pickup types). Edit: three swaps if you count the Jazzmaster pickups as an entirely different type.
GLEEEEEEEEEEENNNNN!!!Thank you for being truthful, mate. Seriously, in a sea of bullshit, you’re one of the few who are completely honest as you can be. Cheers!
Hey Glen, how about a video about the importance of breaking things? Not your hammer of truth stuff, but about the studio equipment you damaged or killed in your recording life by accident. I often find myself discouraged when I thought I broke my studio monitor with a loud popping noise, or made the first ding in my brand new perfect guitar. I always have to remind myself to keep going and that it is a part of just „doing stuff“ and should not stop using things because I am afraid of breaking them…
The whole 1 pickup vs. 2 pickups thing actually started with Gibson. Some guitar players think the Les Paul Junior sounds better than the Les Paul Special, because the Junior don’t have a neck pickup, so it’s supposedly less pull on the strings from the magnet of 1 x P-90 vs. 2 x P-90’s. It all started with the vintage stuff. Personally I think it’s just the fact that back in the day, everything was actually hand built, so you had tone variation from pickups to pickups because you had different people winding them by hand, so production was not really consistent.
Can I use my VOX VT20X as a head to power a cabinet? Either through the headphone jack or by disconnecting the internal speaker and wiring in a jack socket
When I have a boring audience, I channel Ozzy, or perhaps Bruce Dickinson, put horns up and scream something like 'Let me see those hands in the air! Thank you for that huge round of indifference! We love you all!' and introduce the next song. 😁 My favourite, which only 1 in 100 seem to get, is 'I'd like to thank everyone that came tonight! Those that didn't, thanks for being here anyway!'.
Ave Glenn! Going back to tonewood thing. I think there is still one thing missing from the equation. Speakers most important agree, pickups and mic as well. But I think that pickup placement is in the same way important as mic placement is. I've been testing some Schecter KM-7s. One important change Sir Keith made was that he asked schecter to move the bridge pickup closer to the bridge... I did noodle on first gen KM-7 and comparable other Schecter, both nazgul equpped, and they sounded different through same amp. Maybe that is something you could explore.
Love the channel Glen! I don’t do any recording and I’m barely a musician, but your content helps me appreciate all the work that goes into my favorite music.
I'm thinking about getting a 4x12 and then changing the speakers so that they're all different and gives unique tone... Is this a stupid idea or somewhat decent?
Just remember, the wattage of the 412 will be 4 times the lowest rated speaker, so if there's a 30w speaker in there it'll still blow if you run more than 120w. And make sure you match the impedance rating if you don't wanna do math lol
Not a stupid idea. There’s a great channel by a guy called Johan Seeborn (or something similar) about different guitar speakers. G12H blackbacks and G12M greenbacks go very well together. G12-65s are great too. An alternative is to get something like the Grossman FatBox isocab and have 3 or 4 speakers on standby. Very easy to swap them around and then reamp the same performance through different speakers and then blend to taste.
Glen! Love the content! Speaking of cabs and speakers, I recently bought a Peavey Valve King 4x12 angle cab for £21 from eBay! It’s paired up with a Peavey 6505+ head. What are your thoughts with the speakers in these cabs? I kind of like them but can’t help but think if I upgrade the speakers it’d be even better! Also I’m loving the t-shirt.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news but the VK cabs are not great at best and a garbage fire at worst. Might do well with a speaker upgrade but you could buy a much better cab on the used market for near enough as much or less than the price of the speaker upgrade.
@@jordanmetcalfe8302 these are my thoughts too, unless I find speakers off the 2nd hand market a different cab would be the same. I May change two of them and see how it goes. But the sound ain’t all bad to my ears.
Hi Glenn! Regarding your comments about wanting to get the consumer experience when buying Harley Benton, I thought I'd share my experience. Ordered the R458 BK fan fret about 4 months ago ($250 USD shipped to my door). I gotta say I was fairly pleased. Paint job was good, just needed a minor truss rod adjustment, and I've been having fun with it. I just replaced the pickups a couple days ago with some EMG 808s, and it's turned into a pretty nice guitar for the price. PS: just ordered ELE and boy is that fun!!
So, my band recently played a small venue in downtown. I play in a progressive rock band, and my tone (especially my lead tone) has a LOT of mids, so I have a good cut in my sound. Every other venue we play and in the practice space my tone is exactly how I want it. In this particular venue, the mids were completely sucked out of both guitars and the bass. I play pedals into an EVH 5150 overdrive that I use as a preamp, and go straight into the effects return of a Jet City JCA20 combo with some sort of a Celestion speaker, essentially using it as a power amp and cab. Guitarist in the other band had the same problem, and he has a Blackstar 1/2 stack. Every other place it sounds great. Is there something to certain rooms that would have a detrimental effect on the tone? Might be something worth investigating....
Regarding the Butthurt of the Week - I really hate it, when people bring slave wages to the discussion about Harley Benton instruments. First, as far as I'm aware, there has never been even a freaking RUMOR about workers being underpaid in the factories where Harley Bentons are made, and, second, people only bring this up when it is about cheap brands. When was the last time anyone saw this argument being used against, let's say, buying Cort instruments? Because their workers in Korea actually protested against a whole bunch of crap about a decades ago. (Including but not limited to mass lay-offs.) Cort's factories don't only produce Cort instruments, btw, they also produce Gibsons, Fenders, PRSes... Also, just to share my experience. I have two Harley Benton instruments - a bass and a guitar. The guitar arrived in excellent condition, and it played well right out of the box, but the strings it came with were horrible and I broke one within half an hour after I started playing. Other than that - an excellent and good looking instrument. Eventually, I lowered the string action a bit, but, other than that and adjusting the intonation once after I put on thicker strings, I haven't had to do any setting up. The bass had fret sprout. I dealt with that in about 20 minutes. I filed the sticking ends off with a nail file. Also, I had to heighten the string action a bit, but, again, that was it. For the money I paid I'm more than happy.
To match speakers to cabinets look for the speaker spec sheet, there are programs out there that will help you design the cabinet that is bet for the speaker, no need for trial and error.
I bought a Harley Benton thunderbird shaped bass from Thomann recently for my son to play in the school band. I'm thoroughly satisfied with how it was packaged and shipped. It just needed a neck adjustment and a tuning. That's all. No flaws anywhere whatsoever. I've already dented it so it's definitely a keeper! I'm seriously considering their double neck for my next purchase.
As someone who is the same age as you Glenn I have been to hundreds of concerts myself. From Slayer to The Weeknd (Which was a surprisingly amazing show) All the big name artists always have good shows due to the budget and can make it up with a lack of stage presence. But when you have no budget it is your personality that wins the day. The bands that come to mind are Supafuzz, Taddy Porter and early Sevendust ( they are getting a bit too old to jump on trampolines now. But still great live). They all had some brief radio play (Sevendust is actually still really popular) but are etched into my mind with having that stage presence that is mainly missing now because so many bands just record in their basement and over engineer everything because everyone is so risk averse. Being afraid of our own talent merely means you will never do anything with it.
sup Glen, i hope you dont have stroke from all that screaming lol ... I have question for you, I send wave files to my other band mate and every time when he loads it into his daw wave file vol and wave it self seems lot smaller/lower. when I send from my end its almost clipping its in red but when he get it it sounds lower.. i use reaper he use garage band.... is there any way i can send it to him without losing vol? I dont have DI box which im planning to get. thanks in advance, keep up the screaming :)
Yup, I'm in a shitty party-punk dad-band that is entertaining as fuck. We do T-shirt giveaways, Shot Skis, novelty songs, we dress up outrageously and have a shit-tonne of fun! (Drunk friends and family are our core audience, of course, but we pack bars and parties when we play.
Glenn! I got back into guitar after a couple of decades at the beginning of the year. I went the FM3 route to be able to experiment. Anyway, after following you through the speaker and cab videos I started trying different cab speaker combos to see if I could hear a difference. While not as scientific as your testing method, my general results have been yes there is a big difference between cab /speaker/mic combos. Not earth shattering news but it has been fun being able to test and validate some of the things you talk about using the FM3. Keep it coming! Cheers!
The wage vs work comment reminded me of a story I heard. A welder was going for an interview after a practical assessment, the interviewer saw one side had flawless welds and was generally awesome; the other side had strike marks and generally looked barely passable. The interviewer said “what happened? One side is brilliant, but the other side is crap.”. The welder said “this (pointing to the crap side) is my $60/hour work; and this is my $90/hour work”.
Yeah, I've been using an AT2020 for nigh on seven YEARS now and it still sounds great, especially for just a USB mic that you plug directly into the computer. Hell, with the right knowhow, you can make even a vocal track in AUDACITY sound good.
After years of watching, I just noticed the "Waaaaaaaaaah" part of the Butthurt of the Week represented a baby crying. Why yes, before I moved up to bass I was a drummer and my favorite flavor of crayon is Burnt Sienna. Why do you ask?
Hey Glen! You’ve done a lot of great videos helping bands out with photoshoots, live performance etc. you should do one on licensing, how to publish original content, license for covers/sampling/interpolation, permits for music videos etc etc. thanks 🤘
Nailed it, it's not a worker shortage problem, it's a wage that covers the outrageous cost of living problem... May be try paying your employees with some of those record profits instead of giving it all to shareholders, ppl are waking up to modern slavery and newer generations simply will not put up with it.... There's honor in hard work, but there's no honor in working hard as a slave
I really appreciate your mix & match, try different things, to find what does the thing in the studio, but how might all that translate to a live situation? Love the channel! ..and really love the Canada t shirt!!
$17 an hour *laughs in tipped employee wage* Here in Texas, The min wage for tipped employees is $2.14 an hour. I made $4, driving my own vehicle. My fuel. My insurance. My maintenance costs. I left because over the last year or two people have all but stopped tipping, The end result is a lot of days I'm paying more in fuel and maintenance than I'm actually making. So I had to leave a job that when I got it I genuinely enjoyed. Only the last year has it REALLY been a huge issue.
Glen! I've been creating demos on logic and do you have any suggestions for drum sample libraries or plugins? Also when mixing guitar DI tracks, whats a quick way to make them sound full and tight within the mix. Everytime i record my tracks they always sound faint
I’m not a collector/investor but I’ve owned and sold a few guitars in my life. I’ve either broken even or made money on every Gibson I’ve sold. Can’t say the same for any other brand.
Yeah, they hold their value pretty well. When I joined a cover band, I found myself in need of a guitar with a tremolo system. I ended up selling my Les Paul because it was the guitar i had with the best value. Most guitars drop significantly in the used market once you bring it home.
They did the same thing leaving Kalamazoo Between 1974 and 1984 Gibson moved its manufacturing out of this facility to Nashville Tennessee. Most of this move happened in 1974, leaving only "Acoustic and Some Semi-Hollow, production for the Kalamazoo plant .It just took longer to move area of guitar production. So only the Acoustic and Simi-hollows were made in Memphis until 2018 or 19, And then moved to Nashville as well.
Yep. Phil X almost always mixes a low watt amp with his Marshall “barbecue” amp or his Friedman. (Usually a Supro or similar) He says the lower watt amp fills in the frequencies his bigger amps starts missing when they’re cranked. Phil likes it LOUD! As it should be).
I know you tend to recommend the kali lp monitors, and they sound excellent. However, I recently played the Yamaha hs monitors next to them and liked them more. Have you ever used the Yamahas? Do you like them? For home use, would you prefer 6.5 inch monitors or 8 inch?
I had two folks mention in the last video comments they made 19-20/hr. Thats the median pay for the nashville area. People where i am are getting paid that all day, but the cost of living where i am is about a quarter of what it is in nashville.
16:33 no it doesn’t. Sorry this theme is to complete for my English level. There’s bunch of terms like “conduction”, “electron’s direction” etc. But long story short there is a buzz cancelling because of the phase flipping, and as a side effect you have some harmonies losses. But the signal is stronger because of the two coils sum, that’s why humbucker pushes your preamp better. I tried my best.
Gibson fired all of their golden era Kalamazoo workers to move down to Nashville when they built the factory there. They basically told the workers to come with them or tough luck. Gibson had to re-hire and re-train employees in Nashville with a fraction of the actual artisans that made the great guitars in Kalamazoo that gave Gibson they're legacy. Fun fact the employees left behind in the Kalamazoo factory started their ow guitar brand based off making similar Gibson models using the original equipment in the original factory named Heritage guitars, in which Gibson proceeded to sue them because...Gibson. Maybe you should review a Heritage guitar to see if the original Kalamazoo plant and workers beat out what is coming out of Nashville today.
GLEEEEEN!!!! I’m looking into getting a PRS MT15 amp head and 1X12 cab sounds kick ass for classic rock and heavy metal BUT it has a vintage 30 in it. sounds good but I know it can be better any recommendations on speakers????
Ok, go easy because this might be a dumb question... I am a n00b and I have ZERO understanding of programming drums or whatever... but is this a one stop purchase (Extinction Level Event)? Will I need to purchase a separate drum sampler to use this software? Does it come with blast beats and beats for use with death or black metal? Thanks for your time! 🍻
I have two Harley Bentons, a strat copy and a fusion tele, the matte black one with emgs, stainless steel frets and so on. Shipping was fine for me, no complaints. The fingerboard wood was dry for both of them (need to oil it, nothing crazy), setup is sorely needed, maybe swap electronics if you have stock ones. The fusion tele is miles ahead the other one (also costing more than double), and some rough features appear, mostly the neck joint slot is cut roughly and the battery slot sticks out, but the guitar sounds and plays great. Oh, and no paint job fuck ups in either one!
Someone in guitar player magazine once said, "you pay millions of dollars for a Picasso painting. Would you pay millions of dollars for his paint brush?"....guitars are tools. I personally do not have the money for guitars as an investment. Rock on. P.S. thanks for your comments on labor and cost of living.
Ok so I have 2 Jackson Rhodes V's, both bolt-on, probably different woods but as we already know that doesn't matter. Both use an DiMarzio X2N in the bridge. One has sn unknown Duncan in the neck and I ripped the neck pickup out of the other with the eventual intention to replace it. I have noticed the 2 X2N's do sound different, but there are limitations. They are obviously different guitars with different electronics, if that even matters. The pick-ups themselves may be the same model but were made years a part and neither is anything close to new; one is from the 80', one from the 90's. It would be interesting if Glen would take on this experiment but eliminate the variables I have in my set up. If the pick-ups are identical I don't forsee a shift in tone, but I could be proven wrong.
To be honest I’ve never liked v30. And especially impulses of orange cabs, and I really love engl IRs. But ironically I have 2x12 orange open-back v30 loaded. And god it sounds great live. The same time I have 4x12 engl, live tone of which I really hate. There is definitely one more thing people are losing. Good sounding cab on a record not necessarily good sounding cab live and good sounding live cab maybe not a best choice for recording.
Damn, son! You demonstrated some hellacious pipes with that opener. And it’s lines like “Oh, Eric Clapton vomited on this one” that keep me coming back. You’re a comic genius, bro. I laugh my ass off at least 5 times per video. Keep up the great work!
Hey Glen, are you going to be demoing any Wylde Audio Guitars? Saw BLS/Anthrax last night and would like to see a good review from a trusted source ; )
I got a cab with a Vintage V30 with a custom cab a guy made me, and another one with a Celestion Black Shadow C90 and the same guy made me a cab using the schematics for the ElectroVoice TL-806. Both are different characters, my LTD sound grate with the V30 and my Epiphone LP (from the 90s) sounds great with the other cab. Don’t be afraid to try
That pickup question reminds me of how I was playing guitar for about 10 years before I realized that there are active pickups which require a battery to work. At that point, I since scoffed at the idea of needing a battery for the pickups because I've been able to get everything I wanted from a guitar sound with passive, if not Alnico pickups! lol
Glenn, I believe as a former auto worker yourself you probably didn't mean to blame the workers for the decline in American automobiles starting fifty years ago, but there have been some phenomenal studies on what really brought down the big carmakers. They broke apart the centralized/integrated production model that they had once pioneered in order to weaken the threat of strikes by UAW. Dispersing manufacturing jacked up prices while Japanese manufacturers imported that centralized model, keeping labor peace by making more wage concessions to the workforce. It was more efficient, so even as wages went up, efficiency surpassed what was now being done in the states, at the very least.
Speaking of Silvia Massey - She says she gets her great drum sound by making sure all of the Mics are pointed in the same direction, no matter which drum they are aimed at. Picture all of the Mic bodies parallel to each other and you get the idea. I'd like to see you test that and let us know what you think.
Hey Glenn, have you ever tried out the Ibanez EX1500 guitars? They were a budget series Ibanez ran in '93 but ended very soon a year later because not a lot of them were sold IIRC. However, these guitars' QC was done in South Korea along with a lot of their higher quality guitars as well. Would be cool to see you review it, I remember seeing a picture of a guitar magazine ad for them for only about 150 bucks
I've really enjoyed the Roundtable episodes. Do I know understand what you're talking about at times? No. Have I learnt anything from what you've been talking about? Yes. Have I found it interesting? Yes.
Cheap MXL/Nady/Audio-Technica condensers can be surprisingly great. Hell, even some from the bigger names have affordable options in the $60-$120 US price range, like AKG, Rode, and Shure. Also, Rode Podmic is a great budget dynamic mic for studio. I still use those cheap Behringer SM58 knock offs for live vox, lol. Also, I know you gave it a bad review, but I still love my Zoom ZDM-1 mic. I never take the wind screen off, though, because the top end gets too harsh, but blending it with any LDC for double mic'd vocals makes it sound HUGE on singing, and for screams/growls, it works phenomenally. Same thing but with an SDC works great for higher pitched vocals, like in the Chester Bennington Range, as well as female singers, especially wide range contra alto and mezzo soprano singers. I wouldn't know what to do with super high vocals, tbh.
GLEENNN!!! First of all, GFY! Love the show, long time subscriber! Keep up the great work. Make the manufacturers accountable, especially the too big to fail BS companies that rhyme with GIBSON. I truly appreciate the honest gear reviews. Us 52 year old's want value for our buck. We've dished too much cash out through the years to keep tossing hard earned money too manufactures that don't give a f*ck about their customers. Keep calling these guys out. Love that you show gear from low ball too the elite. You are covering all realms of the spectrum for all level of players. What more could we ask for. THANK YOU for doing it on your dime! How about a studio tour? Show us the sides of the studio and gear we are never able to see. That would be cool! Keep up the great work and once again GFY!
I have a G&L Bass, made in California....man, it is nice and was not a terrible price point for a 5 string bass, arrived needing just tiny adjustments and pretty close to in tune and is my favorite bass guitar.
Glennnn! So I got a good one for you. I was at Sam Ash buying a new pedal. When I was paying for the pedal, I was looking at the wall of Gibson Les Pauls. And I noticed two of the Les Pauls had warped pickup rings on the neck pickup. So bad, that the ring was arched enough to stick above the fretboard. I could not believe it. I pointed it out the sales guy, and he said “oh that’s an easy fix” . $2500 guitar and it left the factory that. And Sam Ash put that on their wall to sell. Unacceptable!!!!!
Does the guitar stay in tune?, sound good?, is it easy to play? Anything else is a stock market fantasy land of imagined value. I worked in a shop that dealt in vintage guitars and amps, people would get insane and dishonest, if the original solder was touched they would try to talk you down on price. I could understand if the pickups were changed to something more modern, however not the solder
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On the topic of heckling the audience, there is a lovely story about Dee Snider getting a crowd in the eighties to repeatedly shout "fuck you!" to a section of the crowd that refused to stand up for Twisted Sister. He later learnt that it was the handicap section.
Did you see the outcome of the Dean lawsuit Glen? Theyve been ordered to stop selling their traditional V and explorer models, which is ridiculous as Dean have sold these lines for decades. Judge also instructed Dean to pay 335k of legal fees for the hearing (Dean and Gibson lawyer costs), I think it's a joke
Man that's so sad for dean
I heard it yesterday. I never buy a Gibson in my life. The Vengeance is a killer guitar. And the Zero model too. If Dean goes this way everything will be ok.
The US legal system is a complete farce at this point - granting a rent-seeking "lifestyle brand" who abandoned their trademarks a half century ago damages and an injunction over what amounts to public domain generic shapes is egregious; what makes it moreso is that Dean, who has arguably made V- and Explorer-shaped instruments continuously for almost as long as Gibson (let that sink in - Gibson only really scaled up production in 1975), and done more to popularize them, is getting their legs ripped off here.
If they ever come after Jackson King V's i'm personally burning the Gibson factory down
I’m pretty sure the lawsuit is the only reason Dave moved from Dean to Gibson; either way, Dave’s Dean guitars (at least the one I have) is pretty damn solid and got it used for less than half retail. Kinda wish Glenn would check the VMNTs out to see if they were better than Dave’s Gibson models….
Yeah man, it's getting real bad in the US for worker rights and wages. I'm currently in the process of moving back in with my dad, because he can't keep up with the cost of living as a homeowner, and I can't keep up with the cost of living as an apartment renter. We're both hard workers, too - my dad's been supporting a wife and kids on his own for decades, and I've never been fired. Been employed steadily since I was 18, and going to be 29 in a few months. Yet, neither of us earn enough to live on our own, no matter where we go. So yeah - it's bad in the US, and it's only getting worse.
Ola Englund did a pretty awesome video a few years ago where he had like 10 cabs and 10 heads, and he would run all the combinations to see how each head would react with each cab. It was amazing to hear the tonal shifts. Highly recommend it to anyone who has not had a chance to look at it.
Look up these videos:
CHUG COMPARISON - MESA BADLANDER, JP2C VS. PEAVEY 5150 VS. EVH 5150
1 Riff / 10 Cabinets - Metal riff shootout
1 Riff / 10 Metal Amps
It wasn’t the auto workers that were lazy, it was the auto companies that were complacent and cut corners on quality.
There is more to it than just that. If you weren't alive at that time then you might not know. We had a horrible recession with a nasty inflation issue caused by.. you guessed it...jimmy carter the peanut head and the democrats. Just as they do every time they are in full power they destroy the economy...just like today with brandon and the fartsack democrats. Companies had little options available to them and business had to find a way or they would collapse completely. Japanese car quality was NOT that good but they did make small engines on a small super light frame that gave them good gas mileage. Japanese steel was awful and within 2 years of purchasing one you would have rust bubbles under the paint. They engines were okay and easy to work on but again, not a lot of power.
We also had the same issue with gas. Once again, the democrats created a fuel problem and we the people, paid the price. It was a better decision to buy the cheap japanese crap than drive a bigger and better gas guzzler.
I had a '67 Ford Galaxy 500. Excellent quality and a 390 engine that was a beast...but drank so much fuel. This was about '82. My dad had a brand new Olds which also had fantastic quality and a slightly better fuel efficient engine. Other people I knew that had japanese cars were trying to keep them running and were having a hard time at it. Everything was wearing out on them. 75 datsuns were the worst. I think what glenn is talking about are the "K" cars that were being manufactured in response to the japanese cars. It was a mirror reflection of the production quality of the japanese manufacturer. Small engines, poor steel for construction, hence cheap. These things fell apart just as much as the japanese vehicles did.
And shipped all their manufacturing overseas.
The autoworkers were lazy too. I’m still in the auto industry but on the dealership side. When I was with a Ford and Chrysler dealership, our diesel tech was able to tour a Ford plant. He said while he was there he watched someone on the line cross thread the same bolt dozens of times while talking on their phone.
@@bfunkadelicmusic while their bosses enjoyed their 5 martini lunches. And I seriously doubt anyone would be talking on the phone on the job in the 1970s, unless it was the bosses…
@@bfunkadelicmusic Unlikely. I worked for years on Auto Mfg lines. The only lazy involved in producing an auto is management and sales.....The workers bust their asses daily. This is the same BS speak that says Unionized workers are lazy. Complete BS.
I think a lot of bands forget about the, "putting on a performance", bit and just play their instruments instead. Almost all great notorious bands all have the same one thing in common, THEATRICS! \m/
I only realised this after watching back live video footage of my old band with the sound off. Boring AF! Important lesson. Shoegazing only works for that style of music and scene.
Exactly. If i just want to listen to the band, the recording is going to be of a much higher quality than live. If i go to see a band live, i want to see a show! Hell, Kiss made a career out of the stage show. The music? Nothing spectacular. But the live shows?!? Wow!
@This is 86 calling Control. Come in, Control... bro I've been signed to record labels and opened up for international acts and have been playing for 20+ years, I think I know what I'm talking about.
“Eric Clapton vomited on this one so it’s worth $300,000” 🤣🤣🤣👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Going through a hard time in my personal life but this put a much-needed smile on my face today. 👍🏽
You know you need to practice your distorted vocals more when Glenn does it better than you on every video intro! Cheers Glenn!
The ability to switch speakers (and use different mics) is one of the two reasons I switched to silent recording with a Torpedo Captor. I now have one amp, but I have access to hundreds of cab IR’s, each cab captured with several mics at several distances. As much as I love the experience of mic’ing a real cab, silent guitar recording is the absolute best for people like me who live in an apartment building with cardboard walls.
Torpedo came onto my radar like 10 years ago. Too expensive. Then 3 years ago I got a Cab M. 1/6th the price. Game changer.
You're right about the wonderful things you can do. I'm tracking Acoustics through it with some great IR's. Because of the speaker cabs IR's, I record bass through guitar amp. Same tone as rhythm guitar into Cab M bass cabs.
I got a Captor 8, a few months before the Captor X was announced. Load Box and second feed to my interface. L & R panned and no need to double track. two unique tones to work with.
In regards to the "Gear" making the show better, the absolute BEST live show I went to was a no name duo who were brother and sister, him on an old crap harmony acoustic and her playing a tambourine and a cheap casio keyboard. I and about 150 other people sat there for 45 minutes listening to some of the most beautiful playing and singing EVER.
Until then I never liked traditional irish/scottish/welsh music, but at the end of their set they got a 10 minutes standing ovation, and the main band they were opening for got upset and left the venue.
I'm so glad you guys have done a digital kit, instead of shitting on us for using digital drums,you give us an alternative. Fucking awesome Glenn
This is anecdotal evidence, but I pulled the neck pickup out of my SG for a few weeks and did not notice any difference at all. Doesn’t matter if it’s got the neck pickup or not.
Thank you pipeline for asking the question about 3D and depth. I always hear those words get used in audio and it drives me fucking nuts.
“3D and Depth” …I was unaware audio was something we did with our eyes.
Well, people judge the sound of something with their eyes all the time!
We hear sounds in a field. Not just two spots. We hear things as they are in space, 3d. Some sounds are close, or far, to the right or left.
@@216trixie What you’re talking about is usually achieved with panning, reverb, and delays. But there are plenty of analog emulation plugins that either make the claims themselves, or someone is waxing on about it on a forum somewhere.
@@SpectreSoundStudios Like "seeing" Gibson on a head-stock...
@@Gainovermg we're also talking about equalization, timbre and other factors. We hear in 3d.
On your comment on mixing and matching cabs, mics, speakers, ect. I found the same goes for mixing brands in a single mix. My more recent band mixes have a blend of Helix with IRs, Neural DSP, a BlackStar amp and cab that have been mic'd, and some no name amp sims that came with my DAW. They all sound (and "feel") very different from one another, so the blend feels massive and unique.
Sweet shirt Glen, you're making your queen proud.
BrownsfanLarry I know. I was being sarcastic. With freedom comes danger. Canadians don’t know freedom. They’re in their own matrix, controlled by Queen Lizard.
@MARQUIS de QUEENSBURY 5.0 I was talking about Queen Elizabeth, your true leader.
Reaction of a public admission to being Canadian: 🤮
@MARQUIS de QUEENSBURY 5.0 Oh yeah. Good ol’ Fidel.
with population numbers in mind... its not as true as it sounds. I did a quick crunch on canadian crime per capita vs american and... head for head...its not that different.
But, we all know glenn is a leftist with commie ideas of granduer(which is bad) while trying to be a capitalist (which is good). Notice he calls out fox for being a bad news organization but never says anything about cnn, msnbc ? Personally I don't watch cable or mainstream news but at least I know that the worst liars are cnn for SURE.
To the 1 pickup vs 2 or 3 pickup question. "Allegedly" as the string vibrates the magnet in the neck or middle pickup can affect the way the movement. I think the only way to test this is with a high speed camera. Also you'd need a robot to consistently hit the string with the same power and in the same spot. Seems like a lot of effort for what might not have 1/10th of an effect. The only REAL advantage I can see to 1 pickup vs 2 or 3 pickups is saving on battery life if they are active pickups.
Just looking at the way the electronics work, I doubt it has any impact at all. Pickups detect motion of the strings, not the position of the strings. The pull of amagnet is permanent, so additional magnets only theoretically change the position of the strings, but they don't cause any movement of the strings. Yes, you could theoretically argue that additional magnetic pull negatively impacts the strings' ability to move, but those forces are completely negligible in comparison to the force you're exerting on the strings by picking, so the impact is practically zero and completely negated by differences in picking strength anyways.
A guy called Will on a channel called Willseasyguitar debunked this like 5 years ago.. He also totally shot down the entire 'ToneWood' mouthbreather debate too , like there are people out there that think certain woods have their own EQ, give me a break!! and also he proved that the 24.75 Gibson and 25.5 Fender scale causes no discernable difference to tone by building a plank guitar with bridge pins in the positions for either scale.. Literally a single strum of all open strings sustains for about 42 seconds or whatever it was regardless of presence of a neck pickup or not, I think he had to get a pretty strong electromagnet under there before he saw any appreciable difference.
Great Show Glen. Keep up the profanity, as an Ex Royal Navy Sailor I can barely string a sentence together without an F or a B or a C word.
1) If one had the ambition to have a kit the size of Mike Mangini or Nicko McBrain's in their recording would the extinction level event be suitable?
2) Rick Beato recently did a full studio tour video. Any chance of seeing a full studio tour from Glenn?
How to test that single pickup theory: get a Relish guitar. The backplate comes off and the pickups pop out without tools or anything. You could demo the guitar with the exact same strings with and without the neck pickup back to back.
@The Tired Horizon Let's say it brings out different frequencies. Do those frequencies survive the signal chain? What the guitar player is hearing and what the listener is hearing are different. The audience is often hearing less frequencies.
Glenn...I bought Extinction Level Event and downloaded it. I tried using it but learned very quickly this was impossible. Anytime I use the drums on reaper it bogs down crazy and the plugin says it's using 100% CPU. My computer and reaper can't handle it. My computer is a $1200 2017 Imac and have never had issues using any plugins before especially drum plugins. I currently use Perfect Drums and my Imac handles that fine. Has anyone had this issue? I really want to use the drums but I can't. Is there something that can be fixed? If not how can I get my $ back?
Thanks for the heads up! It sounds like my computer would have no hope.
@@Dave-Rough-Diamond-Dunn I’m not saying it will do that on every computer but it is on mine.
@@MTD1976 I have trouble if I use too many plugins anyway, so I'm not interested in buying something that takes up a lot of CPU, I'd be wasting my money. A rating system would be great, then you wouldn't have to go through reviews to find out if something is CPU hungry.
I bought one of those Orange Crush Mini 3 watt amps for my niece who is learning to play. The newer ones have an actual cabinet speaker out. I own an older version that doesn't. Of course I had to try it into my 2x12 vertical closed back cab. HOLY SHIT BALLS! That thing for what it is, sounded great through a full cabinet. While you'll never mistake it for for a killer tube head, blending it in a mix or in a pinch as an emergency back up amp head, it will get the job done in many cases. 3 watts of full orange solid state grind into a full size cab IS LOUD!!!
As someone who worked on an audio codec, of course they all sound different. They are more different in noise characteristics than anything else. There is also a minimal phase or zero phase lowpass filter with different characteristics from the down sampling process.
They usually work by sampling a 1 bit value at a much higher rate (oversampling) and add it into a counter. The counter acts like a CIC filter which you use series of halfband filters to reduce the rate to 48K, all while controlling the noise produced by the reflected Nyquist frequencies at each step. There are a lot of different types of halfband filters at different orders, you will see either see a zero phase or minimal phase impulse response depending on if iir or fir filter were used.
I have a Blues Jr. and there's only 1 1/4 out for a speaker (I just replaced the speaker with an Eminence Red White and Blues). What if I want to have a cabinet on the side with a different speaker for a different sound. My 2 main guitars are a Harley Benton SC. And the Strat my folks bought me when I was a kid, in the 70's. Maybe 1 speaker for 1 guitar and 1 for the other ? Or what if I want to run the speaker in the cabinet and a second cabinet. Do I need to buy any gismos to make that work ?
Honestly, if you bought a guitar "as an investment", I have nothing but contempt for you.
Everything needs to be an investment these days. It's a sad state of things.
@@SyntheticFuture As things stand, $1000 is a current account will hold value better than $1000 on a guitar, and thus be a better investment.
I'd call it "pity". Guitars have never been a great investment.
I agree. Among other things, people who do this are the reason buying used instruments and gear is basically worthless nowadays, at least in my country - you won't save nearly enough money to justify the lack of warranty, not to mention the fact that often it's cheaper to buy the same gear new from Thomann.
People shouldn't try to sell their used crap for profit.
@@snap-off5383 depends on the amount of usage and the socalled provenance. mint quality also sells better. the latter one is what collectors usually do, they dont touch the asset at all. any usage by usual folks will lower the price dramatically, if its a regular produced model.
I remember one time I received a poorly finished guitar. I returned it. Got a new one, perfect finish. And that was that.
On the housing thing. I know it’s way off topic, but you brought up corporations buying up houses. To those asking why would corporations buy up a bunch of houses at prices no one could afford? So they can make those looking for housing rent from them. What a wonderful place this is turning out to be
I’d love to see you demo a music man JP Majesty. They are very expensive, though Sterlings are more affordable, but the quality and features are fantastic. It’s a truly unique guitar in my opinion. Actually, I’d be more interested in seeing you demo any guitar with a piezo switching/blending option. I found that for strumming heavy rock rhythm tones blending the piezo adds a lot of girth and definition believe it or not. Jerry Cantrell uses this system. The majesty let’s you dial in the treble and bass so you have a ton of control. Thanks glenn!
Just got one of my gibson set-up under warranty.
Strings were catching in nut slots, nut was too high. So the string angle slots were re-filed, nut height filed down. Neck adjustment, professionally intonated for half-step down tuning. Bridge height and pickups adjusted. Nut lubricant, and oiled the fretboard. Cleaned and polished by a professional.
Set-up was done at the local store where I purchased the guitar.
The action was pretty good and it was quite Playable, but kept going out of tune after hitting it hard and string bending lead work.
Now it's a different animal. Stays in tune much better. Nut slots were filed for the angle of the strings and string gauge. Etc.
Don't over look a professional set-up by a professional tech or luthier.
Your milage may vary. But now I can beat to hell out of it. And from the G string onward takes while to loose pitch and tuning.
Otherwise i was looking at a device called the string butler for les Paul's.
It has mini rollers on it and after the nut it re-aligins the strings so they are straight before going into the break angle into the string slots. Everyone's milage may vary with those as well. But the idea is it allows the string to easily roll back into pitch after a bend and fixes the extreme break angle in the les paul.
The nuts aren't always the right height or filed correctly straight out of factory cheap or expensive.
A proper look over and professionally done job by a tech can make the whole difference in the world.
For les paul owners, epiphone owners or les paul copy owners.
And anyone in general buying a brand new guitar.
If your store offers a free set up with purchase take advantage of it. If not shell out the cash and see and hear the difference.
In most cases it can fix most tuning and intonation issues if you are having any. Also imperative for studio and live work for whichever tuning and string gauge you plan to use.
Everyone in the band should have a professional set up to keep intonation and tuning in check with more than one guitar and the bassist as well. You will play and sound better as a whole unit.
Cheers!
we used to have an Epiphone 5 watt valve junior, all I can say is,
a small tube amp cranked all the way up, can sound amazing
Relish Guitars, while REALLY EXPENSIVE, have magnets on their pickup rings so that all you have to do is remove the backplate and swap the pickup without any soldering. Heck, they can even redesign a pickup of your request to fit that function.
I think that for whom has the time and money to dispute whether or not pickups (the type, the string placement, the price, and how many) impact the tone, they'd consider this option.
Unless it recently came to the news that the company is a sham and I haven't been in-touch about it.
@@Delowist You don't have to constantly remove the back every time you swap pickups as far as I know. Even then, magnets take a long time to wear down. I still have my horseshoe magnet working fine after three decades, I don't think the magnets on the back will stop working after, at best, two pickup swaps (of the three different pickup types).
Edit: three swaps if you count the Jazzmaster pickups as an entirely different type.
GLEEEEEEEEEEENNNNN!!!Thank you for being truthful, mate. Seriously, in a sea of bullshit, you’re one of the few who are completely honest as you can be. Cheers!
No, it's s job for him to make money off the gullible
This guy’s whole channel thrives from just bashing Gibson. For someone who hates a brand so much, he sure mentions them a WHOLE lot!
Hey Glen, how about a video about the importance of breaking things? Not your hammer of truth stuff, but about the studio equipment you damaged or killed in your recording life by accident. I often find myself discouraged when I thought I broke my studio monitor with a loud popping noise, or made the first ding in my brand new perfect guitar. I always have to remind myself to keep going and that it is a part of just „doing stuff“ and should not stop using things because I am afraid of breaking them…
The whole 1 pickup vs. 2 pickups thing actually started with Gibson. Some guitar players think the Les Paul Junior sounds better than the Les Paul Special, because the Junior don’t have a neck pickup, so it’s supposedly less pull on the strings from the magnet of 1 x P-90 vs. 2 x P-90’s. It all started with the vintage stuff. Personally I think it’s just the fact that back in the day, everything was actually hand built, so you had tone variation from pickups to pickups because you had different people winding them by hand, so production was not really consistent.
Can I use my VOX VT20X as a head to power a cabinet? Either through the headphone jack or by disconnecting the internal speaker and wiring in a jack socket
NO to the headphone jack. Yes to disconnecting the speaker and wiring in a jack.
When I have a boring audience, I channel Ozzy, or perhaps Bruce Dickinson, put horns up and scream something like 'Let me see those hands in the air! Thank you for that huge round of indifference! We love you all!' and introduce the next song. 😁
My favourite, which only 1 in 100 seem to get, is 'I'd like to thank everyone that came tonight! Those that didn't, thanks for being here anyway!'.
Ave Glenn!
Going back to tonewood thing. I think there is still one thing missing from the equation. Speakers most important agree, pickups and mic as well. But I think that pickup placement is in the same way important as mic placement is. I've been testing some Schecter KM-7s. One important change Sir Keith made was that he asked schecter to move the bridge pickup closer to the bridge... I did noodle on first gen KM-7 and comparable other Schecter, both nazgul equpped, and they sounded different through same amp.
Maybe that is something you could explore.
Love the channel Glen! I don’t do any recording and I’m barely a musician, but your content helps me appreciate all the work that goes into my favorite music.
Dude the intro yelling sounds GREAT with ear buds in!🤯🙉🤣
I'm thinking about getting a 4x12 and then changing the speakers so that they're all different and gives unique tone... Is this a stupid idea or somewhat decent?
Just remember, the wattage of the 412 will be 4 times the lowest rated speaker, so if there's a 30w speaker in there it'll still blow if you run more than 120w. And make sure you match the impedance rating if you don't wanna do math lol
I'm thinking of building a "dirty bastard" 4x12, too, with quite different speakers so I have options.
Not a stupid idea. There’s a great channel by a guy called Johan Seeborn (or something similar) about different guitar speakers.
G12H blackbacks and G12M greenbacks go very well together. G12-65s are great too. An alternative is to get something like the Grossman FatBox isocab and have 3 or 4 speakers on standby. Very easy to swap them around and then reamp the same performance through different speakers and then blend to taste.
Glen! Love the content!
Speaking of cabs and speakers, I recently bought a Peavey Valve King 4x12 angle cab for £21 from eBay! It’s paired up with a Peavey 6505+ head. What are your thoughts with the speakers in these cabs? I kind of like them but can’t help but think if I upgrade the speakers it’d be even better!
Also I’m loving the t-shirt.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news but the VK cabs are not great at best and a garbage fire at worst. Might do well with a speaker upgrade but you could buy a much better cab on the used market for near enough as much or less than the price of the speaker upgrade.
@@jordanmetcalfe8302 these are my thoughts too, unless I find speakers off the 2nd hand market a different cab would be the same. I May change two of them and see how it goes. But the sound ain’t all bad to my ears.
GLEEEENNNN! What is your idea of the greatest produced record of ALL TIME? For me, Boston's first album is hard to beat, regarding production quality.
best basement recording ever
@MARQUIS de QUEENSBURY 5.0 Cheers bro, from the UK!
St. Anger
Born Again 😉
@@electriccatstudios9593 Home studio before home recording was even a thing.
Hi Glenn! Regarding your comments about wanting to get the consumer experience when buying Harley Benton, I thought I'd share my experience. Ordered the R458 BK fan fret about 4 months ago ($250 USD shipped to my door). I gotta say I was fairly pleased. Paint job was good, just needed a minor truss rod adjustment, and I've been having fun with it. I just replaced the pickups a couple days ago with some EMG 808s, and it's turned into a pretty nice guitar for the price. PS: just ordered ELE and boy is that fun!!
So, my band recently played a small venue in downtown. I play in a progressive rock band, and my tone (especially my lead tone) has a LOT of mids, so I have a good cut in my sound. Every other venue we play and in the practice space my tone is exactly how I want it. In this particular venue, the mids were completely sucked out of both guitars and the bass. I play pedals into an EVH 5150 overdrive that I use as a preamp, and go straight into the effects return of a Jet City JCA20 combo with some sort of a Celestion speaker, essentially using it as a power amp and cab. Guitarist in the other band had the same problem, and he has a Blackstar 1/2 stack. Every other place it sounds great. Is there something to certain rooms that would have a detrimental effect on the tone? Might be something worth investigating....
Regarding the Butthurt of the Week - I really hate it, when people bring slave wages to the discussion about Harley Benton instruments. First, as far as I'm aware, there has never been even a freaking RUMOR about workers being underpaid in the factories where Harley Bentons are made, and, second, people only bring this up when it is about cheap brands. When was the last time anyone saw this argument being used against, let's say, buying Cort instruments? Because their workers in Korea actually protested against a whole bunch of crap about a decades ago. (Including but not limited to mass lay-offs.) Cort's factories don't only produce Cort instruments, btw, they also produce Gibsons, Fenders, PRSes...
Also, just to share my experience.
I have two Harley Benton instruments - a bass and a guitar. The guitar arrived in excellent condition, and it played well right out of the box, but the strings it came with were horrible and I broke one within half an hour after I started playing. Other than that - an excellent and good looking instrument. Eventually, I lowered the string action a bit, but, other than that and adjusting the intonation once after I put on thicker strings, I haven't had to do any setting up.
The bass had fret sprout. I dealt with that in about 20 minutes. I filed the sticking ends off with a nail file. Also, I had to heighten the string action a bit, but, again, that was it. For the money I paid I'm more than happy.
To match speakers to cabinets look for the speaker spec sheet, there are programs out there that will help you design the cabinet that is bet for the speaker, no need for trial and error.
I bought a Harley Benton thunderbird shaped bass from Thomann recently for my son to play in the school band. I'm thoroughly satisfied with how it was packaged and shipped. It just needed a neck adjustment and a tuning. That's all. No flaws anywhere whatsoever. I've already dented it so it's definitely a keeper! I'm seriously considering their double neck for my next purchase.
As someone who is the same age as you Glenn I have been to hundreds of concerts myself. From Slayer to The Weeknd (Which was a surprisingly amazing show) All the big name artists always have good shows due to the budget and can make it up with a lack of stage presence. But when you have no budget it is your personality that wins the day. The bands that come to mind are Supafuzz, Taddy Porter and early Sevendust ( they are getting a bit too old to jump on trampolines now. But still great live). They all had some brief radio play (Sevendust is actually still really popular) but are etched into my mind with having that stage presence that is mainly missing now because so many bands just record in their basement and over engineer everything because everyone is so risk averse. Being afraid of our own talent merely means you will never do anything with it.
sup Glen, i hope you dont have stroke from all that screaming lol ... I have question for you, I send wave files to my other band mate and every time when he loads it into his daw wave file vol and wave it self seems lot smaller/lower. when I send from my end its almost clipping its in red but when he get it it sounds lower.. i use reaper he use garage band.... is there any way i can send it to him without losing vol? I dont have DI box which im planning to get. thanks in advance, keep up the screaming :)
Yup, I'm in a shitty party-punk dad-band that is entertaining as fuck. We do T-shirt giveaways, Shot Skis, novelty songs, we dress up outrageously and have a shit-tonne of fun! (Drunk friends and family are our core audience, of course, but we pack bars and parties when we play.
Glenn! I got back into guitar after a couple of decades at the beginning of the year. I went the FM3 route to be able to experiment. Anyway, after following you through the speaker and cab videos I started trying different cab speaker combos to see if I could hear a difference. While not as scientific as your testing method, my general results have been yes there is a big difference between cab /speaker/mic combos. Not earth shattering news but it has been fun being able to test and validate some of the things you talk about using the FM3.
Keep it coming! Cheers!
that opening scream tho!!! love the shirt too btw!!
The wage vs work comment reminded me of a story I heard.
A welder was going for an interview after a practical assessment, the interviewer saw one side had flawless welds and was generally awesome; the other side had strike marks and generally looked barely passable. The interviewer said “what happened? One side is brilliant, but the other side is crap.”.
The welder said “this (pointing to the crap side) is my $60/hour work; and this is my $90/hour work”.
Not throwing the inspector under the bus is the right thing to do. You have solid integrity Glenn. Rare on the internet where drama is currency
No, a million repeat vidios on Gibson is The drama, and you clowns fall for it over and over.
what about the painter? he's the one who really F'd up
All Glenn does is drama.
Yeah, I've been using an AT2020 for nigh on seven YEARS now and it still sounds great, especially for just a USB mic that you plug directly into the computer. Hell, with the right knowhow, you can make even a vocal track in AUDACITY sound good.
After years of watching, I just noticed the "Waaaaaaaaaah" part of the Butthurt of the Week represented a baby crying. Why yes, before I moved up to bass I was a drummer and my favorite flavor of crayon is Burnt Sienna. Why do you ask?
Just bought two mini crushes...
LOVE THEM!
Hey Glen! You’ve done a lot of great videos helping bands out with photoshoots, live performance etc. you should do one on licensing, how to publish original content, license for covers/sampling/interpolation, permits for music videos etc etc. thanks 🤘
The neat King Bee & King Bee 2!!!!!
Both amazing microphones for a really cheap price
Nailed it, it's not a worker shortage problem, it's a wage that covers the outrageous cost of living problem... May be try paying your employees with some of those record profits instead of giving it all to shareholders, ppl are waking up to modern slavery and newer generations simply will not put up with it.... There's honor in hard work, but there's no honor in working hard as a slave
I really appreciate your mix & match, try different things, to find what does the thing in the studio, but how might all that translate to a live situation?
Love the channel!
..and really love the Canada t shirt!!
$17 an hour *laughs in tipped employee wage* Here in Texas, The min wage for tipped employees is $2.14 an hour. I made $4, driving my own vehicle. My fuel. My insurance. My maintenance costs. I left because over the last year or two people have all but stopped tipping, The end result is a lot of days I'm paying more in fuel and maintenance than I'm actually making. So I had to leave a job that when I got it I genuinely enjoyed. Only the last year has it REALLY been a huge issue.
the lie of the american dream, the lie of meritocracy
Glen! I've been creating demos on logic and do you have any suggestions for drum sample libraries or plugins? Also when mixing guitar DI tracks, whats a quick way to make them sound full and tight within the mix. Everytime i record my tracks they always sound faint
I’m not a collector/investor but I’ve owned and sold a few guitars in my life. I’ve either broken even or made money on every Gibson I’ve sold. Can’t say the same for any other brand.
Yeah, they hold their value pretty well. When I joined a cover band, I found myself in need of a guitar with a tremolo system. I ended up selling my Les Paul because it was the guitar i had with the best value. Most guitars drop significantly in the used market once you bring it home.
They did the same thing leaving Kalamazoo Between 1974 and 1984 Gibson moved its manufacturing out of this facility to Nashville Tennessee.
Most of this move happened in 1974, leaving only "Acoustic and Some Semi-Hollow, production for the Kalamazoo plant .It just took longer to move area of guitar production.
So only the Acoustic and Simi-hollows were made in Memphis until 2018 or 19, And then moved to Nashville as well.
Yep. Phil X almost always mixes a low watt amp with his Marshall “barbecue” amp or his Friedman. (Usually a Supro or similar) He says the lower watt amp fills in the frequencies his bigger amps starts missing when they’re cranked. Phil likes it LOUD! As it should be).
I know you tend to recommend the kali lp monitors, and they sound excellent. However, I recently played the Yamaha hs monitors next to them and liked them more. Have you ever used the Yamahas? Do you like them? For home use, would you prefer 6.5 inch monitors or 8 inch?
I had two folks mention in the last video comments they made 19-20/hr. Thats the median pay for the nashville area. People where i am are getting paid that all day, but the cost of living where i am is about a quarter of what it is in nashville.
What two channel compressor are you talking about @ 8:10?
ART pro vla
Or FMR
16:33 no it doesn’t. Sorry this theme is to complete for my English level. There’s bunch of terms like “conduction”, “electron’s direction” etc. But long story short there is a buzz cancelling because of the phase flipping, and as a side effect you have some harmonies losses. But the signal is stronger because of the two coils sum, that’s why humbucker pushes your preamp better. I tried my best.
Gibson fired all of their golden era Kalamazoo workers to move down to Nashville when they built the factory there. They basically told the workers to come with them or tough luck. Gibson had to re-hire and re-train employees in Nashville with a fraction of the actual artisans that made the great guitars in Kalamazoo that gave Gibson they're legacy. Fun fact the employees left behind in the Kalamazoo factory started their ow guitar brand based off making similar Gibson models using the original equipment in the original factory named Heritage guitars, in which Gibson proceeded to sue them because...Gibson.
Maybe you should review a Heritage guitar to see if the original Kalamazoo plant and workers beat out what is coming out of Nashville today.
GLEEEEEN!!!! I’m looking into getting a PRS MT15 amp head and 1X12 cab sounds kick ass for classic rock and heavy metal BUT it has a vintage 30 in it. sounds good but I know it can be better any recommendations on speakers????
im sure having more pickups would affect the sustain, but i highly doubt that it would affect the "harmonic purity" or whatever.
Ok, go easy because this might be a dumb question... I am a n00b and I have ZERO understanding of programming drums or whatever... but is this a one stop purchase (Extinction Level Event)? Will I need to purchase a separate drum sampler to use this software? Does it come with blast beats and beats for use with death or black metal? Thanks for your time! 🍻
I have two Harley Bentons, a strat copy and a fusion tele, the matte black one with emgs, stainless steel frets and so on. Shipping was fine for me, no complaints. The fingerboard wood was dry for both of them (need to oil it, nothing crazy), setup is sorely needed, maybe swap electronics if you have stock ones. The fusion tele is miles ahead the other one (also costing more than double), and some rough features appear, mostly the neck joint slot is cut roughly and the battery slot sticks out, but the guitar sounds and plays great. Oh, and no paint job fuck ups in either one!
I so agree on the vintage thing - just old guitars
Thank you for mentioning the shitshow of home prices in the U.S. It's absolutely criminal what's going on here.
Someone in guitar player magazine once said, "you pay millions of dollars for a Picasso painting. Would you pay millions of dollars for his paint brush?"....guitars are tools. I personally do not have the money for guitars as an investment. Rock on. P.S. thanks for your comments on labor and cost of living.
Ok so I have 2 Jackson Rhodes V's, both bolt-on, probably different woods but as we already know that doesn't matter. Both use an DiMarzio X2N in the bridge. One has sn unknown Duncan in the neck and I ripped the neck pickup out of the other with the eventual intention to replace it. I have noticed the 2 X2N's do sound different, but there are limitations. They are obviously different guitars with different electronics, if that even matters. The pick-ups themselves may be the same model but were made years a part and neither is anything close to new; one is from the 80', one from the 90's. It would be interesting if Glen would take on this experiment but eliminate the variables I have in my set up. If the pick-ups are identical I don't forsee a shift in tone, but I could be proven wrong.
To be honest I’ve never liked v30. And especially impulses of orange cabs, and I really love engl IRs. But ironically I have 2x12 orange open-back v30 loaded. And god it sounds great live. The same time I have 4x12 engl, live tone of which I really hate. There is definitely one more thing people are losing. Good sounding cab on a record not necessarily good sounding cab live and good sounding live cab maybe not a best choice for recording.
Is it possible to mix speakers in a cabinet to help get a blended sound live?
You're the only one who will here it, unless your sound man mics every speaker.
@@morbidmanmusic how about for recording though instead of needing two cabinets you can do it all on one
ELE! ELE!! If you like it Glenn, it probably doesn't suck. Congratulations!
Damn, son! You demonstrated some hellacious pipes with that opener. And it’s lines like “Oh, Eric Clapton vomited on this one” that keep me coming back. You’re a comic genius, bro. I laugh my ass off at least 5 times per video. Keep up the great work!
Glenn, thank you for all videos. I've learned and validated so much. You are very much appreciated!
Hey Glen, are you going to be demoing any Wylde Audio Guitars? Saw BLS/Anthrax last night and would like to see a good review from a trusted source ; )
I got a cab with a Vintage V30 with a custom cab a guy made me, and another one with a Celestion Black Shadow C90 and the same guy made me a cab using the schematics for the ElectroVoice TL-806. Both are different characters, my LTD sound grate with the V30 and my Epiphone LP (from the 90s) sounds great with the other cab. Don’t be afraid to try
That pickup question reminds me of how I was playing guitar for about 10 years before I realized that there are active pickups which require a battery to work. At that point, I since scoffed at the idea of needing a battery for the pickups because I've been able to get everything I wanted from a guitar sound with passive, if not Alnico pickups! lol
Glenn, I believe as a former auto worker yourself you probably didn't mean to blame the workers for the decline in American automobiles starting fifty years ago, but there have been some phenomenal studies on what really brought down the big carmakers. They broke apart the centralized/integrated production model that they had once pioneered in order to weaken the threat of strikes by UAW. Dispersing manufacturing jacked up prices while Japanese manufacturers imported that centralized model, keeping labor peace by making more wage concessions to the workforce. It was more efficient, so even as wages went up, efficiency surpassed what was now being done in the states, at the very least.
Speaking of Silvia Massey - She says she gets her great drum sound by making sure all of the Mics are pointed in the same direction, no matter which drum they are aimed at. Picture all of the Mic bodies parallel to each other and you get the idea. I'd like to see you test that and let us know what you think.
Hey Glenn, have you ever tried out the Ibanez EX1500 guitars? They were a budget series Ibanez ran in '93 but ended very soon a year later because not a lot of them were sold IIRC. However, these guitars' QC was done in South Korea along with a lot of their higher quality guitars as well. Would be cool to see you review it, I remember seeing a picture of a guitar magazine ad for them for only about 150 bucks
I've really enjoyed the Roundtable episodes. Do I know understand what you're talking about at times? No. Have I learnt anything from what you've been talking about? Yes. Have I found it interesting? Yes.
i so love when you give different character to each comment
Glenn, have you tried tracking bass guitars through guitar amps (same settings as rhythm guitar) into bass cabs? or Bass Cab IR's?
Cheap MXL/Nady/Audio-Technica condensers can be surprisingly great. Hell, even some from the bigger names have affordable options in the $60-$120 US price range, like AKG, Rode, and Shure. Also, Rode Podmic is a great budget dynamic mic for studio. I still use those cheap Behringer SM58 knock offs for live vox, lol. Also, I know you gave it a bad review, but I still love my Zoom ZDM-1 mic. I never take the wind screen off, though, because the top end gets too harsh, but blending it with any LDC for double mic'd vocals makes it sound HUGE on singing, and for screams/growls, it works phenomenally. Same thing but with an SDC works great for higher pitched vocals, like in the Chester Bennington Range, as well as female singers, especially wide range contra alto and mezzo soprano singers. I wouldn't know what to do with super high vocals, tbh.
GLEENNN!!! First of all, GFY! Love the show, long time subscriber! Keep up the great work. Make the manufacturers accountable, especially the too big to fail BS companies that rhyme with GIBSON. I truly appreciate the honest gear reviews. Us 52 year old's want value for our buck. We've dished too much cash out through the years to keep tossing hard earned money too manufactures that don't give a f*ck about their customers. Keep calling these guys out. Love that you show gear from low ball too the elite. You are covering all realms of the spectrum for all level of players. What more could we ask for. THANK YOU for doing it on your dime!
How about a studio tour? Show us the sides of the studio and gear we are never able to see. That would be cool! Keep up the great work and once again GFY!
I have a G&L Bass, made in California....man, it is nice and was not a terrible price point for a 5 string bass, arrived needing just tiny adjustments and pretty close to in tune and is my favorite bass guitar.
What speakers would you rec. for getting the 80's "hair" metal sound?
Dude, I need that shirt! 💜
Signed,
A possibility future Canadian
... neither violence nor invading other countries!
Glennnn! So I got a good one for you. I was at Sam Ash buying a new pedal. When I was paying for the pedal, I was looking at the wall of Gibson Les Pauls. And I noticed two of the Les Pauls had warped pickup rings on the neck pickup. So bad, that the ring was arched enough to stick above the fretboard. I could not believe it. I pointed it out the sales guy, and he said “oh that’s an easy fix” . $2500 guitar and it left the factory that. And Sam Ash put that on their wall to sell. Unacceptable!!!!!
Does the guitar stay in tune?, sound good?, is it easy to play? Anything else is a stock market fantasy land of imagined value. I worked in a shop that dealt in vintage guitars and amps, people would get insane and dishonest, if the original solder was touched they would try to talk you down on price. I could understand if the pickups were changed to something more modern, however not the solder
As an American myself, I gotta say Glenn, I freaking love the shirt you're wearing in this video!