Love this show Phil, and cool offer - I'm gonna take you up on this! Getting the 12" speaker cabinet kit. One question - does the screwdriver set have one of those extender things so it can be used on truss rod adjustments? None of the pics on Stewmac show every piece.
About what to charge for your time there is a great analogy in car mechanics, the story says that some guy broke down his car and when the mechanic comes, takes a look at the car, takes a screwdriver, tightens a bolt and say to the driver to start it up, the car starts perfectly, the driver says how much do I owed you to the mechanic and he says 200 dollars, the driver can not believe it and says “ 200 dollars for 1 minute of work? “ and the mechanic reply: 1 dollar to tighten the screw, 199 for knowing what screw to tight!
Hey Phil. Thanks for your service. I'm also a veteran. Didn't know about Guitars for Vets. Every month, each person in our house including the kids takes a turn choosing a charity to donate to. I told the family about Guitars for Vets based on you talking about it here, and our oldest son decided to use his "turn" for this charity. I'll be doing the same when my month comes up. Cheers. (And I love your channel, especially the 2 hour talk episodes... I can stream while I work from home and listen while working).
That neck notion is sooo on point. There is no reason you’ll play a guitar if it looks good and the neck doesn’t suit you. Doesn’t matter the price. Guitar is a very tactile instrument.
I have Gibson and Epiphones and I agree with the playability points you make. One you didn’t mention is the neck finish, Epiphone has a poly finish while the Gibson uses lacquer. I find the Stock Epi neck sticky and I solve that with a light polishing with brass wool. The new Epiphone guitars are great and when properly set up and the defects corrected can play every bit as well as it’s parents equivalent.
The MXR is more or less the only way I’m gonna get to buy an analogman - I’m not waiting two years for a new pedal and used prices are too insane to make it worth it. The MXR is accessible.
@@xx-----------xx873 the list is free. I just waited two years for a snouse pedal. Either I eventually get exactly what I want for msrp instead of market price. If I don't like it, I double my money. Turns out i love the pedal and didnt over pay. When your turn comes up, you can ignore it too. I really don't understand your opposition to this.
Phil did indeed answer me before on Patreon, and it never informed me, he never ignored me, to be clear for anyone watching the replay, I realized this after the show Friday night when I logged into Patreon. Only posting this so as it's clear he never ignored me, great show as always Phil, my favorite in fact. Cheers.
My Peavey T-25 was my only guitar for decades. I had no idea the tone controls were variable coil splits until much later and it was very useful. I always loved the bridge on that "between H and S" setting around 7-8. I still own it. 😍
As someone who has gigged for 30yrs solidly and uses boss with a lack of awareness of wider gear as i used what worked first time and stuck with it, i was really pleased that you recognised there are people out there that are in that boat. Awesome.
Yeah. I've been playing guitar for 20 years and I had a breakthrough the other night: every moveable scale and chord kind of connected, I finally know where I am on the fretboard. Then the TH-cam showed me that it's already a thing and it's called 'CAGED'. I'm so mad no one told me. 20 years.
Josh himself admits that he learned a lot by working with Boss and a lot of Josh's innovations came from that collaboration. With the MXR + Analogman collaboration, you should see it as Mike Pierra and Jeorge Tripps collaborating, two of the most legendary pedal builders out there, and you're getting that collaboration and legacy at a reasonable price. Similar to when Paul Cochrane and MXR collaborated for the MXR Timmy. I have a Timmy V3 and I have also played both previous versions of the Timmy and the MXR version. The MXR version deserves it's spot and does the Paul Cochrane version justice.
As a guy who buys and sells a few guitars each year, I don't look for artist guitars unless there is something that appeals to me either in looks or function. If it is something I have never had in my hands before, I can't know how it feels until I get one usually buying it. My wife said that is such a waste, but I replied how much do you spend on fishing each year with your Dad and brothers. They are all catch and release for the most part. So my guitars are catch and release as well I play it a while and take pictures of me having landed it but in the end, I then release it, back into the wild for somebody else to land the big one.
Thanks again Phil for taking the time to talk gear at the end of a long week!! Love your talk about charity and the importance of giving some of our time , compassion, and love to those in need. You are a good man Phil!! Keep up the good work - Much love from 🇨🇦
I live in an older house. I think dirty power effects the Tonemaster quite a bit. I have a tonemaster Twin as well and I got the same white noise and slight radio signals before I changed the outlets in my house. Also use a surge protector. I don’t get any unwanted noise anymore. Hope that helps.
A lot of older houses have the outlets changed out to 3 prong outlets but when you test the outlets they read open ground and when you check the wiring you find out the house has the older 2 conductor wiring with no grounded conductor. Surge supressors don't work properly without the ground conductor and the open ground will add hum and noise to your guitar amp, EMF and RFI. The grounded conductor makes a big difference.
"You don't choose the strings, the guitar does." Very true for me. I bought a SG standard in 2018, and it was sold to me from Gibson with 9's on it. That's the gauge I'd always played previously, and the 2018 SGs have very thin fast necks. Even with an expert setup, the neck was far too unstable to keep 9s in tune. I put 10s on and now it stays in tune (as good as anything will) and plays and feels really nice. It's the only guitar I have with 10s yet, but now that I'm used to them, I could see putting them on others.
I'm one of those people who had a Les Paul and sold it, and I don't want another one. In this case it was a mid-70's Deluxe. So I guess I'm a rarity. But on the other hand I'm a PRS fan, and I own a couple of McCartys. So maybe those count? And I would be open to a Heritage, or a very old (Think 1950s) LP with P-90s if I could afford it.
I think I dig a semi-hollow more than any other guitar nowadays, although the big body is a bit uncomfortable for me. Maybe an ES-339 would be a better fit? And a Pro one with coil split options. That'd be a killer guitar!
@@JuanJaim I also prefer the 339 because the body of the 335 is too big for me. There have also been various semi hollow Les Pauls and tons of other semi hollows but the 339 is my favorite.
Great words of wisdom for starting a business. Trying to break through from mediocrity to success myself. Easier said than done! Quality work, hard work, and customers doesn’t equal success. Wise management does.
I too have a Gibson and epiphone Les Paul, both are too wrapped and the tail piece decked out and the Gibson plays much better, I never thought of the neck break but the bridges are also different, I have a locking tone ninja ABR-1 on the Gibson and cut the nut slots myself, also the Gibson has a bone nut compared to the graph tech that comes with the epiphone, things to consider
Hi Phil. At 42:24, Duesenberg does this on the Starplayer Special. I have one. It's variable coil until halfway down, then there's a notch on full Humbucker, then it is a tone for the humbucker as you turn it down. It's a very cool configuration. You should get a Duesey on the channel for sure. They have awesome pickup configs. Great show as always!
Phil provides an industry MBA level knowledge to the audience here!! (Without the main MBA strategy of simply lowering employee wages as their only real tool for company growth lol)
Duke of tone is going to be a great success. The King/Prince of tone are nearly impossible to buy at retail. This is just increasing awareness of Analogman. The Boss/JHS collab was still a pretty boutique project. I think it just adds to the mystique of JHS in the history of pedal building.
Regarding to the butique pedals on mass market it seems that we do not see elephant in the room. Last year chineese producers began to make exact clones of rare and expensive pedals. And this is not that crappy $20 copies they have even few years ago but exact point to point versions for the reasonable money. It's not a big deal to assemble and solder dosen electronic components. Actually it's a XX-th century technologies. Plus these "magic diods" of course :) I'm not talking about the ethics but only about the market reactions by the way. Hope this makes sence.
Right on, Phil! The Epiphone inspired by Gibson brand has produced some of the best guitars for the money - great value! Boss inspired by JHS and MXR inspired by Analog Man could do the same for pedals if they get it right. 👍🏻🎸🖖🏻
We saw Garth Brooks at Notre Dame stadium (70,000 people) in May. We (my wife and I, both in our 70s) went for the spectacle as much as the music and were not disappointed. We only knew a couple of his songs but the other 69,998 fans seemed to know every one. I don't recall the fans drowning out Garth but it was like a giant sing-along. It was a great experience and I would recommend one of his shows to anyone even if they are not big fans. Wear your cowboy boots, stetsons and bring earplugs!
From Leo: The Washburn VCC system on the idol series guitars is a variable coil split with the tone potentiometer used to trim out 1/2 of each humbucker.
I'm still early in my journey but have been learning how to set up the guitars appropriately. It took me about 1.5y to figure out how I like the set up to be, but after that I can adjust almost every guitar to my liking (as long as I don't have any utterly disliking to it).
Phil you're 100% right on the gear head assessment. I have a friend who's a recording artist and he plays guitar on a weekly basis but he doesn't pay attention to gear at all. He has a digital solution he uses for everything. If he were to buy a new pedal he's the kind of guy who's going to walk into a store and see what they have on display and buy whatever they have there. For those of us in the YT bubble there's a tendency to think this pedal or that one is the BEST and the other options you have well you must not be a serious guitar player. There's tons of players out there that pick a pedal based on price and "yeah it sounds good to me". I think the MXR pedal is going to be a huge seller for them. Most people are gonna walk into a store, and maybe they've heard some good things about that duke king pedal thing, so that's the one they go with cuz analogman who?
Phil is a perceived threat to Fender's sense of well-being and self-assurance: Phil to Fender: "What do think about trying..." Fender to Phil: "DON'T MESS WITH OUR FORMULA MAN!!"
As for Analogman - I don't think they need more recognition if they can't deliver You a product in two years , because they have so long list of orders... But they may have a profit from Mxr sale . If it is too close to Prince Of Tone then it may harm the sale of POT , as it is already produced in Asia and is more expensive. They may though not want to produce POT anymore in future, and that may be the reason for Mxr partnership... Look what happened to Timmy after releasing Mxr Timmy . It is now harder to get the real deal .
Because of the inherent minimum bed radius of a string, when the break angle of the string exposed between the bridge and the "stop" of that string the bridge causes that minimum to be neared. That increases tension in that portion of the sting to increase with the decreasing radius of the bend over the bridge. Therefore minimizing the difference in height between the bridge and the stop tailpiece relieves tension. This differential must be adjusted according to playing force imparted to minimize negative effects of introduction of force to produce string vibration.
So Phil, just figured I would throw this out there to you. The Floyd Rose Blocks. If you would like another opinion I would volunteer. So I have been a subscriber since 2017, also remember the know your beers and gear back in 2020 my idea. So I am a loyal fan. I definitely try to not do you wrong. Why would I volunteer? I have been playing Floyds since the 80's. It is my bridge, it is what I play and what I love. I also do my own setups so changing a block for me is no biggy. I am an active musician and play live. I have roughly 35 guitars with 80% that are not floyds. the 20% include Ibanez, cause they have the various edge trems, or hard tail. You also may remember a couple weeks ago I super chatted New Guitar day Les Paul Access with a Floyd. I have a PRS 10 top with a floyd. I have a Suhr Custom Modern with a floyd. I have USA Kramer with Floyd, I have ESP with Floyd and Schechter with floyd. Floyd is what I do. Which is why I was so excited about this announcement. I feel really odd like I am applying for a job with my floyd rose knowledge. Now I am no youtuber, so yes you would be taking a chance. However, I too have been super curious for years on all the different blocks. Years, long years. I would be more than willing to try and swap several blocks in several guitars and record samples, uploaded to soundcloud or what ever. I am fully set up for sound recording. Then if you would like to chat about it over zoom when done you can record it, edit it. what ever. I want no reimbursement, I want to know. It always seemed gimmicky. Anyway, I know you have worked on floyd for decades, I played on floyd for decades. You have my contact info. I have bought from you on reverb, bought blackstock pickups, Oh and I have a KYG hat rare. If you think about it and interested lets chat. If not well i certain look forward to the video
I have 3 warmoth basses and aside from the fact that they tend to be heavy (they either have steel as the standard reinforcment or carbon fiber rods as the upgraded reinforcment) the necks are straight and the fretwork is very good. Yes a luthier can polish the frets further and round the ends nicely but they are very playable out of the box.
As far as how many guitars I have, I always say some guys spend money on guns, cars, golf, or any other hobby. I choose guitars. Besides, if you get in a tight spot, you have something to sell. The only thing when the wife says, "How many guitars do you have?" She doesn't understand they all sound different depending on pickups and whatnot. 😄
If you have an HSS strat you can variable coil split by wiring the middle of the coil through one of the tone pots, using the other tone pot as a master tone.
I always feel like such a bad guitarist when it comes to liking Les Pauls. I just have never found them good looking. But somehow I recognize why people really like them.
Many people played and recommended the David Grissom Tribute model PRS because of its features and utility and never gave it a second thought. I think it depends on how overt the model identity is, such as an EVH Frankenstein, whole different league.
A lot of wealthy touring people are buying up Dumble amps & ripping out the original EV 12L speakers, & replacing them with Celestion G12100K speakers, so guess what? It's not a Dumble amp anymore. Soldano used different cold clipping resistors & a different bright cap than Marshall. It's not rocket surgery. PRS jumped two Marshall channels together. Again, not rocket surgery. Alex Dumble would do the McIntosh thing by individually pre-checking every component part before using it. Not rocket surgery either, but that is a part of rocket surgery. Parts drift with age and McIntosh had clinics where they would restore your McIntosh amp back to factory specs for free-ish. You had to travel to get to that Mc Intosh clinic and schlep all of your Mc Intosh equipment along for the ride.
The guitar that eludes me is an ESP LTD viper 1000 deluxe with Olympic white, gold hardware, and SD pickups. I am ether a day late and a dollar short or the condition is not what I want or it is not Olympic white. There is one on reverb allegedly owned by a famous guitarist but I am not paying 15 hundred bucks just because somebody famous played it.
About the tone blocks...I've done several of my guitars with big brass blocks and can definitely tell a difference, but...I am playing high gain, high distortion metal. IDK what kind of difference it would make under relatively "normal" circumstances, but for metal they definitely make an audible difference. The next person may dispute everything I say, similar to the tone wood arguments. lol
I tell y'all... If you want some nice affordable tools and guitar maintenance stuff. The Music Nomad has some great great great specialty tools and stuff. They have some must have stuff, and I will continue to use them as long as I can. Check them out.
I can attest to the harder playing guitars versus softer, and as Philip suggested it is usually the nut they are cut deep and you just have to wear that thing in a little bit man for the strings to loosen up or switch to lighter strings.. usually you don’t only feel the difference in tension but your fingers will also tell you because it will hurt more from playing the harder guitar😆
Oh boy the floyd rose story...If they had approached me I would have reminded them about bringing back the speedloader system and the pre cut strings from a decade or so. Obviously it was way too ahead of its time back then, but I do see a market for all the headless guitars that are coming out, and for the most part have lackluster trem systems.
My first business, I tried to to everything "right". It was a disaster. I should have grown into "right". I didn't even know what "right" was, and the only way I could have found out was to operate for a while. But I'm in NJ so the regularity environment is a mess. Also I was exempt from sales tax. You got to be 'right' when it comes to sales tax.
Robben Ford is known to use vintage Celestion G12-65's in his cabinets and that's definitely a major part of his tone, Just wondering if the Celestion Heritage G-12-65's are the real deal or different. ???
?Ive tried a couple of weireless guitar systems an xvibe & boss wl20 both of them cut out terribly they work fine on my line 6 spider amp . any thoughs ? dig the show
Variable coil split can be done easily, but the transition positions aren't very useful or satisfying. The nice thing about the Peavey style coil split is that it's integrated into a normal tone potentiometer, no additional switch or special pot needed. That said, the reason it's never been all that popular is that most players don't understand what it does, and the transitional positions just aren't very useful or dramatic.
I had a really very nice PRS 245 single cut (the PRS version of Les Paul) but I got a 2005 '58 VOS - I never picked up the PRS again! Will never sell the Gibson.
I have a squire strat with a pot metal block and was thinking of replacing it. I excited to see if it will make a difference. You should do the test with a lower end guitar instead of your N2
Well, about how many guitars, I have two humbucker guitars (one Warrior with floyd rose and one SG with fixed bridge), a single coil tele and a P90 LP Junior, plus an acoustic. That looks for me like a good and sufficient solution. But I think a high quality HSS with split coil should be enaugh.
Ease of playing can reduce tactile feedback during playing to the extent of impeding enjoyment. No two players are exactly alike. One must know both self and instrument.
We have an amazing Luthier's Tool maker here in the UK it's not that softly spoken geezer with the Tat's covering his canister, he's very expensive. I buy my Tools from Chris Alsop Guitar bits. He can be Googled. His Tools are just as good as Crimson's but not as pricey.
as for the warmoth my cat jumped on the key board I was going to mention im sure a pro luthier could have found 1 or 2 frets to level but man i have got stainless steel frets on all of them and they are shiny and smooth one ive been playing for 10 years and not 1 fret divit.
If you want to wait for a hand built King of Tone like i did for 2 years then you can, If a mass manufactured product that works the same for less money works for you then there is no problem. Some people would still pay for the original or to get one wired with the custom options like fully split in and out or a hotter chipset or power in and out or custom case colors. Anyway MXR only makes the Prince of Tone, (half a KOT) not the King of Tone which is the bigger seller and is much more customizable.
In the case of MXR / AnalogMan, it's even a better thing than Boss / JHS because of the huge waiting list 4 years) to get a King of Tone. So AnalogMan was not able to deliver more of them anyway.
The internet thing: They sell more internet bandwidth then they actually have, but only a certain percentage of people actually notice that the internet is slower then it should be. They have a priority list, and when you call, you get put at the top of the list. Slowly throughout the year you work your way down the list until you hit the point where they start throttling your internet again. Call back, get put back at the top of the list, rinse and repeat.
As always Phil thank you for your videos they're a bit of sanity and a dark world sometimes LOL literally sometimes anyway I think on the question about it if you were making a collection of guitars what guitars would you you know think we're needed in for that collection that's sort of how I got the question and I think you kind of missed it I don't think he was talking about for a specific use or anything like that I think it was talking about like sort of my little collection where it was like you said in the beginning where I have a hollow body I have a couple of scratches for the pickups that they use which all of a sudden left my mind I have a less pull I have a strat copy which sucks I'll have to get another one things like that I think you know guitars that was sort of round off like a collection you know to make a collection in in my mind that represents specific guitars and maybe even their importance in the history of guitar making so I think that's kind of what he meant that's what I got out of it you know I don't own a p90 I need to get one I need to get a telecaster and a Stratocaster not thinking of you's Mexican probably in the future you know I have my guitar which is my favorite that I've always wanted to say even as a kid and I couldn't play guitar and the first album oh my God album on the cover he's holding his firebird and I always wanted one so I finally got one in 2017 but I think that was sort of what he meant you know examples of guitars that were important in the history of guitar making and music rock and roll blues whatever so leave it with that I doubt you'll be able to answer my question personally but cuz I haven't got an answer personally from you yet but it's no big deal you're a big channel whether you think it or not and get lots of correspondence father I always wonder why when doing a amplifier another demos everyone puts the mic right at the speaker they are the corner to at the each corner in the middle and never a room might cuz to me who who actually he is whether it's a stereo which people don't have anymore or
PRS reeeeeeeally doesn't belong amongst the Fender or Gibson brands. Something like Ibanez (as far as electric guitars goes) or Yamaha (if you count acoustic guitars too) will be. Usually Ibanez is considered the third biggest brand. Really not PRS. And actually, some of the budget brands sell waaaaaay more guitars (something like Cort, which is literally the largest manufacturer in the world actually and mostly sells beginner low-budget stuff). They'll rival the likes of Fender and Gibson, just whilst operating in a different market entirely. Keep in mind PRS makes only like 13,000 guitars per year, whereas a brand like Fender makes more than 161,000 a year. They literally produce each month, what PRS builds in a year. PRS might be a well respected brand and deservedly so, but it's really not the third by a long shot. It's interesting to hear you say the whole thing about humbuckers, P90 and _maybe_ a single coil pickup all in like one or maybe two guitars. That's very very true. The sound is really mostly defined by pickups alone for like 90-95% or so. The rest is more how nice a guitar plays. A guitar that sounds amazing, but plays terrible will _definitely_ be collecting dust.
??? I have pretty much everything tryouts may need to do the Vera-coil split video. I live in Saint David and I am willing to bring the guitars and components to you. Message me if you like.
KYG Stew Mac Deal!
You can save 50% Stew Max, 10% Stew Mac Tools and support this channel while saving money
stewmac.sjv.io/RyQ2nX
Love this show Phil, and cool offer - I'm gonna take you up on this! Getting the 12" speaker cabinet kit. One question - does the screwdriver set have one of those extender things so it can be used on truss rod adjustments? None of the pics on Stewmac show every piece.
Thanks Phil you rule.
Can you on a show explain the relationship between 3 P90s and how to manipulate the fields
Thanks again Phil
Sincerely GD
Great deal man. Thank you Philly Phill. You da affiliated man bro, ha ha!
So 50% off of a 59 tweed or 65 deluxe kit???
Thanks for this! Ordered a bunch of your recommended stuff! StewMac is always great quality.
SAWEET!! 🤘👍
About what to charge for your time there is a great analogy in car mechanics, the story says that some guy broke down his car and when the mechanic comes, takes a look at the car, takes a screwdriver, tightens a bolt and say to the driver to start it up, the car starts perfectly, the driver says how much do I owed you to the mechanic and he says 200 dollars, the driver can not believe it and says “ 200 dollars for 1 minute of work? “ and the mechanic reply: 1 dollar to tighten the screw, 199 for knowing what screw to tight!
Hey Phil. Thanks for your service. I'm also a veteran. Didn't know about Guitars for Vets. Every month, each person in our house including the kids takes a turn choosing a charity to donate to. I told the family about Guitars for Vets based on you talking about it here, and our oldest son decided to use his "turn" for this charity. I'll be doing the same when my month comes up. Cheers. (And I love your channel, especially the 2 hour talk episodes... I can stream while I work from home and listen while working).
That's such a great idea, taking turns choosing the charity. Awesome way to teach kids by getting them involved.
That neck notion is sooo on point. There is no reason you’ll play a guitar if it looks good and the neck doesn’t suit you. Doesn’t matter the price. Guitar is a very tactile instrument.
I have Gibson and Epiphones and I agree with the playability points you make. One you didn’t mention is the neck finish, Epiphone has a poly finish while the Gibson uses lacquer. I find the Stock Epi neck sticky and I solve that with a light polishing with brass wool. The new Epiphone guitars are great and when properly set up and the defects corrected can play every bit as well as it’s parents equivalent.
Epiphones also make satin finished SGs. They don't have that thick poly coat.
The MXR is more or less the only way I’m gonna get to buy an analogman - I’m not waiting two years for a new pedal and used prices are too insane to make it worth it. The MXR is accessible.
@@xx-----------xx873 the list is free. I just waited two years for a snouse pedal. Either I eventually get exactly what I want for msrp instead of market price. If I don't like it, I double my money. Turns out i love the pedal and didnt over pay. When your turn comes up, you can ignore it too. I really don't understand your opposition to this.
@@vzguitars
Getting on the list to scalp it is hella lame
True. First I’ve heard of this. Which pedal is it from MXR?
@@jbn1237 MXR Duke of Tone, coming 1st Oct IIRC
It’s more like 4 years waiting list. Too much time.
Phil did indeed answer me before on Patreon, and it never informed me, he never ignored me, to be clear for anyone watching the replay, I realized this after the show Friday night when I logged into Patreon. Only posting this so as it's clear he never ignored me, great show as always Phil, my favorite in fact. Cheers.
My Peavey T-25 was my only guitar for decades. I had no idea the tone controls were variable coil splits until much later and it was very useful. I always loved the bridge on that "between H and S" setting around 7-8. I still own it. 😍
IVE bought 5 warmoth necks 2 post covid and none of them needed fret work they set up and played great with low medium action
I owned a 2019 Gibson Les Paul Traditional, Tobacco Burst, I didn't think I was Bonding with it. Last year I sold it. Now I really miss it.
As someone who has gigged for 30yrs solidly and uses boss with a lack of awareness of wider gear as i used what worked first time and stuck with it, i was really pleased that you recognised there are people out there that are in that boat. Awesome.
Yeah. I've been playing guitar for 20 years and I had a breakthrough the other night: every moveable scale and chord kind of connected, I finally know where I am on the fretboard. Then the TH-cam showed me that it's already a thing and it's called 'CAGED'. I'm so mad no one told me. 20 years.
Josh himself admits that he learned a lot by working with Boss and a lot of Josh's innovations came from that collaboration. With the MXR + Analogman collaboration, you should see it as Mike Pierra and Jeorge Tripps collaborating, two of the most legendary pedal builders out there, and you're getting that collaboration and legacy at a reasonable price. Similar to when Paul Cochrane and MXR collaborated for the MXR Timmy. I have a Timmy V3 and I have also played both previous versions of the Timmy and the MXR version. The MXR version deserves it's spot and does the Paul Cochrane version justice.
Josh got his start selling modded Boss pedals, so him collaborating with them seems like coming full circle.
As a guy who buys and sells a few guitars each year, I don't look for artist guitars unless there is something that appeals to me either in looks or function. If it is something I have never had in my hands before, I can't know how it feels until I get one usually buying it. My wife said that is such a waste, but I replied how much do you spend on fishing each year with your Dad and brothers. They are all catch and release for the most part. So my guitars are catch and release as well I play it a while and take pictures of me having landed it but in the end, I then release it, back into the wild for somebody else to land the big one.
Thanks again Phil for taking the time to talk gear at the end of a long week!! Love your talk about charity and the importance of giving some of our time , compassion, and love to those in need. You are a good man Phil!! Keep up the good work -
Much love from 🇨🇦
I live in an older house. I think dirty power effects the Tonemaster quite a bit. I have a tonemaster Twin as well and I got the same white noise and slight radio signals before I changed the outlets in my house. Also use a surge protector. I don’t get any unwanted noise anymore. Hope that helps.
A lot of older houses have the outlets changed out to 3 prong outlets but when you test the outlets they read open ground and when you check the wiring you find out the house has the older 2 conductor wiring with no grounded conductor. Surge supressors don't work properly without the ground conductor and the open ground will add hum and noise to your guitar amp, EMF and RFI. The grounded conductor makes a big difference.
Thanks for being honest about Warmoth necks - not sure why many techs need to bad mouth them! Thanks for being straight up! :)
"You don't choose the strings, the guitar does." Very true for me. I bought a SG standard in 2018, and it was sold to me from Gibson with 9's on it. That's the gauge I'd always played previously, and the 2018 SGs have very thin fast necks. Even with an expert setup, the neck was far too unstable to keep 9s in tune. I put 10s on and now it stays in tune (as good as anything will) and plays and feels really nice. It's the only guitar I have with 10s yet, but now that I'm used to them, I could see putting them on others.
Maybe I’m an outlier, but collaborations between brands almost always improves my opinion of both brands.
I’m the opposite.
Lost all interest in JHS and Analogman when they did this.
I'm one of those people who had a Les Paul and sold it, and I don't want another one. In this case it was a mid-70's Deluxe. So I guess I'm a rarity.
But on the other hand I'm a PRS fan, and I own a couple of McCartys. So maybe those count? And I would be open to a Heritage, or a very old (Think 1950s) LP with P-90s if I could afford it.
Strat yes! But I recently play the ES 335 for gigs that I used to play S- styles. The 335 is amazing and very flexible.
I think I dig a semi-hollow more than any other guitar nowadays, although the big body is a bit uncomfortable for me. Maybe an ES-339 would be a better fit? And a Pro one with coil split options. That'd be a killer guitar!
@@JuanJaim I also prefer the 339 because the body of the 335 is too big for me. There have also been various semi hollow Les Pauls and tons of other semi hollows but the 339 is my favorite.
Great words of wisdom for starting a business. Trying to break through from mediocrity to success myself. Easier said than done! Quality work, hard work, and customers doesn’t equal success. Wise management does.
Get that Bass Phil, you earned it!! LOve the show!!
Thanks for the great explanation on the difference of my two Les Pauls
I too have a Gibson and epiphone Les Paul, both are too wrapped and the tail piece decked out and the Gibson plays much better, I never thought of the neck break but the bridges are also different, I have a locking tone ninja ABR-1 on the Gibson and cut the nut slots myself, also the Gibson has a bone nut compared to the graph tech that comes with the epiphone, things to consider
I wrapped the strings out the back and over the top of the tail piece heading to the bridge... It made the guitar play easier.
Phillip, not only do you have a great guitar channel. You also have a fantastic small-business channel. And they're the same channel. 😉 Thanks much.
Hi Phil. At 42:24, Duesenberg does this on the Starplayer Special. I have one. It's variable coil until halfway down, then there's a notch on full Humbucker, then it is a tone for the humbucker as you turn it down. It's a very cool configuration. You should get a Duesey on the channel for sure. They have awesome pickup configs. Great show as always!
Phil provides an industry MBA level knowledge to the audience here!!
(Without the main MBA strategy of simply lowering employee wages as their only real tool for company growth lol)
Duke of tone is going to be a great success. The King/Prince of tone are nearly impossible to buy at retail. This is just increasing awareness of Analogman. The Boss/JHS collab was still a pretty boutique project. I think it just adds to the mystique of JHS in the history of pedal building.
Regarding to the butique pedals on mass market it seems that we do not see elephant in the room. Last year chineese producers began to make exact clones of rare and expensive pedals. And this is not that crappy $20 copies they have even few years ago but exact point to point versions for the reasonable money. It's not a big deal to assemble and solder dosen electronic components. Actually it's a XX-th century technologies. Plus these "magic diods" of course :) I'm not talking about the ethics but only about the market reactions by the way. Hope this makes sence.
You could put on a small business start-up planning session. Lots of great nuggets of wisdom and good advice in that section.
Right on, Phil! The Epiphone inspired by Gibson brand has produced some of the best guitars for the money - great value! Boss inspired by JHS and MXR inspired by Analog Man could do the same for pedals if they get it right. 👍🏻🎸🖖🏻
The angry driver is definitely on my wishlist!
We saw Garth Brooks at Notre Dame stadium (70,000 people) in May. We (my wife and I, both in our 70s) went for the spectacle as much as the music and were not disappointed. We only knew a couple of his songs but the other 69,998 fans seemed to know every one. I don't recall the fans drowning out Garth but it was like a giant sing-along. It was a great experience and I would recommend one of his shows to anyone even if they are not big fans. Wear your cowboy boots, stetsons and bring earplugs!
From Leo: The Washburn VCC system on the idol series guitars is a variable coil split with the tone potentiometer used to trim out 1/2 of each humbucker.
I'm still early in my journey but have been learning how to set up the guitars appropriately. It took me about 1.5y to figure out how I like the set up to be, but after that I can adjust almost every guitar to my liking (as long as I don't have any utterly disliking to it).
I am 3 for 3 with Warmoth necks coming from them needing ZERO fret work.
Another great show! Thx from 🇨🇦
Phil you're 100% right on the gear head assessment. I have a friend who's a recording artist and he plays guitar on a weekly basis but he doesn't pay attention to gear at all. He has a digital solution he uses for everything. If he were to buy a new pedal he's the kind of guy who's going to walk into a store and see what they have on display and buy whatever they have there. For those of us in the YT bubble there's a tendency to think this pedal or that one is the BEST and the other options you have well you must not be a serious guitar player. There's tons of players out there that pick a pedal based on price and "yeah it sounds good to me". I think the MXR pedal is going to be a huge seller for them. Most people are gonna walk into a store, and maybe they've heard some good things about that duke king pedal thing, so that's the one they go with cuz analogman who?
Phil is a perceived threat to Fender's sense of well-being and self-assurance:
Phil to Fender:
"What do think about trying..."
Fender to Phil:
"DON'T MESS WITH OUR FORMULA MAN!!"
As for Analogman - I don't think they need more recognition if they can't deliver You a product in two years , because they have so long list of orders... But they may have a profit from Mxr sale . If it is too close to Prince Of Tone then it may harm the sale of POT , as it is already produced in Asia and is more expensive. They may though not want to produce POT anymore in future, and that may be the reason for Mxr partnership...
Look what happened to Timmy after releasing Mxr Timmy . It is now harder to get the real deal .
Annie Clark used to rock an Albert Lee model Music Man before she got her own signature model.
Always love the business talk Phil, really appreciate the insight and it’s always interesting listening to yo talk about it
Because of the inherent minimum bed radius of a string, when the break angle of the string exposed between the bridge and the "stop" of that string the bridge causes that minimum to be neared. That increases tension in that portion of the sting to increase with the decreasing radius of the bend over the bridge. Therefore minimizing the difference in height between the bridge and the stop tailpiece relieves tension. This differential must be adjusted according to playing force imparted to minimize negative effects of introduction of force to produce string vibration.
I recently got my first Gibson lp 60's and the first thing I noticed was it was easy to play
So Phil, just figured I would throw this out there to you. The Floyd Rose Blocks. If you would like another opinion I would volunteer. So I have been a subscriber since 2017, also remember the know your beers and gear back in 2020 my idea. So I am a loyal fan. I definitely try to not do you wrong. Why would I volunteer? I have been playing Floyds since the 80's. It is my bridge, it is what I play and what I love. I also do my own setups so changing a block for me is no biggy. I am an active musician and play live. I have roughly 35 guitars with 80% that are not floyds. the 20% include Ibanez, cause they have the various edge trems, or hard tail. You also may remember a couple weeks ago I super chatted New Guitar day Les Paul Access with a Floyd. I have a PRS 10 top with a floyd. I have a Suhr Custom Modern with a floyd. I have USA Kramer with Floyd, I have ESP with Floyd and Schechter with floyd. Floyd is what I do. Which is why I was so excited about this announcement. I feel really odd like I am applying for a job with my floyd rose knowledge. Now I am no youtuber, so yes you would be taking a chance. However, I too have been super curious for years on all the different blocks. Years, long years. I would be more than willing to try and swap several blocks in several guitars and record samples, uploaded to soundcloud or what ever. I am fully set up for sound recording. Then if you would like to chat about it over zoom when done you can record it, edit it. what ever. I want no reimbursement, I want to know. It always seemed gimmicky. Anyway, I know you have worked on floyd for decades, I played on floyd for decades. You have my contact info. I have bought from you on reverb, bought blackstock pickups, Oh and I have a KYG hat rare. If you think about it and interested lets chat. If not well i certain look forward to the video
good luck Jeff
I'm so happy for you that you get to do this for a living.
I have 3 warmoth basses and aside from the fact that they tend to be heavy (they either have steel as the standard reinforcment or carbon fiber rods as the upgraded reinforcment) the necks are straight and the fretwork is very good. Yes a luthier can polish the frets further and round the ends nicely but they are very playable out of the box.
As far as how many guitars I have, I always say some guys spend money on guns, cars, golf, or any other hobby. I choose guitars. Besides, if you get in a tight spot, you have something to sell. The only thing when the wife says, "How many guitars do you have?" She doesn't understand they all sound different depending on pickups and whatnot. 😄
First drink at 21, should have gone 3 years ago, it's 18 in Ireland
If you have an HSS strat you can variable coil split by wiring the middle of the coil through one of the tone pots, using the other tone pot as a master tone.
Lately my Schector c6 has been calling my name daily!!!
I always feel like such a bad guitarist when it comes to liking Les Pauls. I just have never found them good looking. But somehow I recognize why people really like them.
Many people played and recommended the David Grissom Tribute model PRS because of its features and utility and never gave it a second thought. I think it depends on how overt the model identity is, such as an EVH Frankenstein, whole different league.
digging the podcast
Garth Brooks? I haven’t thought about him in years but just looked at his tour schedule. He sold more than 400,000 tickets for just the Dublin shows!
A lot of wealthy touring people are buying up Dumble amps & ripping out the original EV 12L speakers, & replacing them with Celestion G12100K speakers, so guess what? It's not a Dumble amp anymore. Soldano used different cold clipping resistors & a different bright cap than Marshall. It's not rocket surgery. PRS jumped two Marshall channels together. Again, not rocket surgery. Alex Dumble would do the McIntosh thing by individually pre-checking every component part before using it. Not rocket surgery either, but that is a part of rocket surgery. Parts drift with age and McIntosh had clinics where they would restore your McIntosh amp back to factory specs for free-ish. You had to travel to get to that Mc Intosh clinic and schlep all of your Mc Intosh equipment along for the ride.
The guitar that eludes me is an ESP LTD viper 1000 deluxe with Olympic white, gold hardware, and SD pickups. I am ether a day late and a dollar short or the condition is not what I want or it is not Olympic white. There is one on reverb allegedly owned by a famous guitarist but I am not paying 15 hundred bucks just because somebody famous played it.
About the tone blocks...I've done several of my guitars with big brass blocks and can definitely tell a difference, but...I am playing high gain, high distortion metal. IDK what kind of difference it would make under relatively "normal" circumstances, but for metal they definitely make an audible difference. The next person may dispute everything I say, similar to the tone wood arguments. lol
I tell y'all...
If you want some nice affordable tools and guitar maintenance stuff.
The Music Nomad has some great great great specialty tools and stuff.
They have some must have stuff, and I will continue to use them as long as I can.
Check them out.
A digital potentiometer which can be programed for its settings to be selected - and modified to taste.
42:50 so true, Phil dropping life lessons!
I have changed "toneblocks" on guitars
Recorded A/B before and after
Sounded the same... I just stick to the stock ones and save myself money :)
I can attest to the harder playing guitars versus softer, and as Philip suggested it is usually the nut they are cut deep and you just have to wear that thing in a little bit man for the strings to loosen up or switch to lighter strings.. usually you don’t only feel the difference in tension but your fingers will also tell you because it will hurt more from playing the harder guitar😆
Oh boy the floyd rose story...If they had approached me I would have reminded them about bringing back the speedloader system and the pre cut strings from a decade or so. Obviously it was way too ahead of its time back then, but I do see a market for all the headless guitars that are coming out, and for the most part have lackluster trem systems.
My first business, I tried to to everything "right". It was a disaster. I should have grown into "right". I didn't even know what "right" was, and the only way I could have found out was to operate for a while. But I'm in NJ so the regularity environment is a mess. Also I was exempt from sales tax. You got to be 'right' when it comes to sales tax.
The stew Mac unlimited shipping is so worth the yearly charge.
Please review Thorpy pedals. Thank you very much. Best wishes from the Timebrowser
Robben Ford is known to use vintage Celestion G12-65's in his cabinets and that's definitely a major part of his tone, Just wondering if the Celestion Heritage G-12-65's are the real deal or different. ???
The ac is off in your house when you’re live-streaming? The summers must be awful
?Ive tried a couple of weireless guitar systems an xvibe & boss wl20 both of them cut out terribly they work fine on my line 6 spider amp . any thoughs ? dig the show
Variable coil split can be done easily, but the transition positions aren't very useful or satisfying. The nice thing about the Peavey style coil split is that it's integrated into a normal tone potentiometer, no additional switch or special pot needed. That said, the reason it's never been all that popular is that most players don't understand what it does, and the transitional positions just aren't very useful or dramatic.
We the customer love you're sock test. and why we love t hi is channel
Phurt!
Missed it live but I did catch it reheated.
And so learned.....do not carry the meat from the BBQ to the house while wearing reading glasses.
I had a really very nice PRS 245 single cut (the PRS version of Les Paul) but I got a 2005 '58 VOS - I never picked up the PRS again! Will never sell the Gibson.
Looking at over a 4 year wait at this point. The latest waiting list update showed they were making about 1 per day.
Dimarzio is Ibanez period ! But I love Duncans too
.? I must have missed it, where can I buy “Know Your Gear” Tshirt?
Try phase canceling the A/C noise with software. Might be worth looking into
I have a squire strat with a pot metal block and was thinking of replacing it.
I excited to see if it will make a difference.
You should do the test with a lower end guitar instead of your N2
love you Phil!
You do you.
While you're testing $1000 silver wire, put some gold strings on too. OPTIMA 24K GOLD STRINGS BRIAN MAY
Well, about how many guitars, I have two humbucker guitars (one Warrior with floyd rose and one SG with fixed bridge), a single coil tele and a P90 LP Junior, plus an acoustic. That looks for me like a good and sufficient solution. But I think a high quality HSS with split coil should be enaugh.
Is that a Fender American Vintage '59 Stratocaster on the wall?
Ease of playing can reduce tactile feedback during playing to the extent of impeding enjoyment. No two players are exactly alike. One must know both self and instrument.
We have an amazing Luthier's Tool maker here in the UK it's not that softly spoken geezer with the Tat's covering his canister, he's very expensive. I buy my Tools from Chris Alsop Guitar bits. He can be Googled. His Tools are just as good as Crimson's but not as pricey.
as for the warmoth my cat jumped on the key board I was going to mention im sure a pro luthier could have found 1 or 2 frets to level but man i have got stainless steel frets on all of them and they are shiny and smooth one ive been playing for 10 years and not 1 fret divit.
Hey Phil, hope you get a Hofner bass soon! Would be cool to see you do a deep dive on one.
If you want to wait for a hand built King of Tone like i did for 2 years then you can, If a mass manufactured product that works the same for less money works for you then there is no problem. Some people would still pay for the original or to get one wired with the custom options like fully split in and out or a hotter chipset or power in and out or custom case colors. Anyway MXR only makes the Prince of Tone, (half a KOT) not the King of Tone which is the bigger seller and is much more customizable.
In the case of MXR / AnalogMan, it's even a better thing than Boss / JHS because of the huge waiting list 4 years) to get a King of Tone. So AnalogMan was not able to deliver more of them anyway.
The internet thing:
They sell more internet bandwidth then they actually have, but only a certain percentage of people actually notice that the internet is slower then it should be. They have a priority list, and when you call, you get put at the top of the list. Slowly throughout the year you work your way down the list until you hit the point where they start throttling your internet again. Call back, get put back at the top of the list, rinse and repeat.
As always Phil thank you for your videos they're a bit of sanity and a dark world sometimes LOL literally sometimes anyway I think on the question about it if you were making a collection of guitars what guitars would you you know think we're needed in for that collection that's sort of how I got the question and I think you kind of missed it I don't think he was talking about for a specific use or anything like that I think it was talking about like sort of my little collection where it was like you said in the beginning where I have a hollow body I have a couple of scratches for the pickups that they use which all of a sudden left my mind I have a less pull I have a strat copy which sucks I'll have to get another one things like that I think you know guitars that was sort of round off like a collection you know to make a collection in in my mind that represents specific guitars and maybe even their importance in the history of guitar making so I think that's kind of what he meant that's what I got out of it you know I don't own a p90 I need to get one I need to get a telecaster and a Stratocaster not thinking of you's Mexican probably in the future you know I have my guitar which is my favorite that I've always wanted to say even as a kid and I couldn't play guitar and the first album oh my God album on the cover he's holding his firebird and I always wanted one so I finally got one in 2017 but I think that was sort of what he meant you know examples of guitars that were important in the history of guitar making and music rock and roll blues whatever so leave it with that I doubt you'll be able to answer my question personally but cuz I haven't got an answer personally from you yet but it's no big deal you're a big channel whether you think it or not and get lots of correspondence father I always wonder why when doing a amplifier another demos everyone puts the mic right at the speaker they are the corner to at the each corner in the middle and never a room might cuz to me who who actually he is whether it's a stereo which people don't have anymore or
tell me the guitar company is the stalone tiger
shipping is the main reason i dont order from them i wait till me and my buddies all need stuff then we put an orer together but its still bad
ive got no links where are they?
KYG Stew Mac Deal!
You can save 50% Stew Max, 10% Stew Mac Tools and support this channel while saving money
stewmac.sjv.io/RyQ2nX
Doscientos ochenta y dos. That's the episode number you were struggling with.
PRS reeeeeeeally doesn't belong amongst the Fender or Gibson brands. Something like Ibanez (as far as electric guitars goes) or Yamaha (if you count acoustic guitars too) will be. Usually Ibanez is considered the third biggest brand. Really not PRS. And actually, some of the budget brands sell waaaaaay more guitars (something like Cort, which is literally the largest manufacturer in the world actually and mostly sells beginner low-budget stuff). They'll rival the likes of Fender and Gibson, just whilst operating in a different market entirely. Keep in mind PRS makes only like 13,000 guitars per year, whereas a brand like Fender makes more than 161,000 a year. They literally produce each month, what PRS builds in a year. PRS might be a well respected brand and deservedly so, but it's really not the third by a long shot. It's interesting to hear you say the whole thing about humbuckers, P90 and _maybe_ a single coil pickup all in like one or maybe two guitars. That's very very true. The sound is really mostly defined by pickups alone for like 90-95% or so. The rest is more how nice a guitar plays. A guitar that sounds amazing, but plays terrible will _definitely_ be collecting dust.
The neck profile may be different.
❤
I stopped buying Analogman when they stopped making their own pedals.
I never bought any JHS pedals.
??? I have pretty much everything tryouts may need to do the Vera-coil split video. I live in Saint David and I am willing to bring the guitars and components to you. Message me if you like.