And that was already the case with their prices nine years ago... I went to USA Custom Guitars (it's like Warmoth) in 2014 because I wasn't willing to pay over $1,200 to get a 22nd fret.
@@BOBANDVEG Fender, Gibson, PRS, all their subsidiary brands, and even other brands that are jacking their prices. You can't just raise the price of everything 30% and expect customers to stick around.
I live and grew up in Alabama, born in Virginia, lived in California too. I was on a job in Little Rock, left my guitar at home. So, I was missing it, went into ac little pawn shop, found a one in a million guitar. A medium, Fender acoustic. It had four rusty strings, dusty and scratched, but I tuned it, and I knew it was perfect, magical. Thanks Phillip, great video.
As far as Fender having 600,000 guitar orders and 200,000 amps orders canceled by retailers. It's probably due to Fender saying they were going to discount the guitars and amps by 30% if you ordered those online direct from Fender. Which was under cutting the guitar retail stores and distributers sales. Which left them with no margin of profit. So they just cancelled their orders in order to keep from getting screwed by Fender. Fender just shot themselves in the foot. It's going to take them a long time to sell all that back stock online. It might take longer than they thought and might have to discount it even more. The stores will just buy from another guitar manufacturer that hopefully won't try to screw them over like Fender.
That's really cool that when Phil describes being inspired by something new and cool, that he got to help make something new and cool! Respect and congrats on the project with Badlands Guitars, those instruments are incredible.
Phil, thank you for the 2 hours you (and the moderators) took out of your week and being away from your families. The KYG video's are so informative and your delivery is so "up-beat" that you help to end my week (as a viewer) on an "up-note"! Please thank your wife for "letting you come out to play with the guitar group". Until next week stay safe and be well!!
My recently purchased Sire S3 and Firefly acoustic-electric tells me that the big names have been taking us for a ride for years. The Sire and Firefly are both excellent! i.e I once repaired a friend's Twin Reverb. When I pulled the Nagahide off the bottom board, there was a paper label on the pine plank. It read: "California Oranges". They'd obiously made the amp from an orange crate! Maybe their chickens are coming home to roost. Shalom/gw
Regarding a Kemper or Fractal with an IR through a regular cab: I think people forget that an impulse response is really just the EQ of the digital amp, or how would if it was through a speaker. Everyone gets hung up "rules" of only using an IR through frfr speakers and no IR through actual guitar cab. In reality, all that matters is that your tone sounds good to you and the people you play for. There are no rules outside of that! 😆 Keep rockin Phill🤘
The truck driver thing is fake as far as I know. When people ask him what he does for a living he sometimes tells them he drives trucks and they like go "ok, that's nice" and then leave him alone and quit bugging him. Funny man. Cheers! @@capnjames
Spot on! The value remains, whilst the debased currency increases the price and quality of Squires (I recently acquired an 2019 Esquire) over the last few years is fantastic! @@TheEricJohnsonExperience
@@TheEricJohnsonExperience that’s interesting to know. Quality on the high end seems to be suffering via anecdotal videos but I don’t know how widespread it appears to be other than a few relatively louder TH-camrs. Of course that’s hard to judge being that’s not on a macro level.
@@mattmanley7118 These are massed produced items so quality will vary but, in general, the higher end Squires like the Classic Vide series is far and beyond anything you could get in that price range 25 years ago. As far as Fender proper...I hit some of their recent sales hard and ordered six guitars, two of them I had to return due to cosmetic defects. That said, their customer service was top notch, sent replacements or gave credit very quickly.
@EricJE I wouldn't say prices are flat at all in the big picture. If you adjust prices from the 1950s or 1960s to today the low end gear currently is crazy cheap and the high end stuff tends to be bit high. A Fender Tele was like $150 in the early '50s which is something like $1800 adjusted for inflation. A Fender Custom Shop today is way more than that. On the other hand a low end Squier is $150-$200 today which would under $20 back in the 1950's and no electric guitar went for anywhere near that price. These extremes are a combination of super cheap over seas labor, modern production techniques, and somewhat questionable parts quality on the budget side and some degree of greed in the high end because there are buyers with a lot more disposable income than musicians back in the '50s.
The eye opening thing is the quality control on the name brands can be so bad. Some " off brands" seem to be hungrier to develop a reputation so you can get alot of bang for your buck.
Hello Phil its your old youtube buddy ernie ......the bassman from Nashville.i really enjoyed your podast yesterday ,Phil keep them coming and i have purchased like 15 duitars and basses based on your advice.Thank you my dear friend....My latest purchase was the black Sassafrass sterling R-34 its the one that the white grains comes threw the black and i have to get the newest color seafoam blue sparkle metal flake cause i already bought the the reg blue sparkle in which its beautiful but i buy 5-10 basses and guitar's a year !!! and i have been playing musicman basses since 84....love if you could do a deepdive on some of the these basses bro, cause us bass players need a little love to and my Shecter sustainiac 6 string guitar was stolen a month after i got it and that hurt my wallet cause this guitar cost me big time cause i gotta get another one very soon ??.Thanks Phillip !! keep on Rocking my friend !!
I just wanted to say that while I get the shorts shortcomings, thats where i rediscovered your channel and found this show that i really like. See it as advertisement
When I chose to take my playing (many) levels up, my "friends" were either "pro's" (had no time), wanted "teacher / jam partner" $$s...or had quit playing, altogether. So I purchased a "Boomerang +" and never looked back! These loopers are SO amazing, they make great performance and recording "partners" too! I'd like to see their reissue, since I haven't found anything that works better (for many reasons)...and good ones are now scarce and pricey!
Usually prices fall when there's excess inventory (the whole supply/demand thing). Interesting that Fender continues to raise prices despite the cancelled orders.
I have the non digital Weller and yes it is nice, I also have a small off brand digital portable iron that came with a variety of tips, I lean on using it more than the Weller, super cheap, works great with a variety of temp options.
The Les Paul moderns have weight relief and they also have a scooped heal carve that make them feel like the les Paul custom lite. I have one it’s 7.8 pounds it’s great player.
53:00 I have a 1993 Les Paul that weighs 7 pounds, 10 ounces… That's not just a nine hole with relief, that's the "Good wood" era of Gibson having some light mahogany. You can just tell by how the whole guitar feels and vibrates.
I remember Best Buy having instruments in them. I was shocked and not impressed. I never considered buying a guitar there. I usually watch the show live Friday evening but enjoyed watching the replay as well.
Thanks for all of the info Phil. Serves Fender well, raising prices for what they call their USA assembled with foreign cheap parts. I'd rather buy a top of the line Squier and do and upgrade.
@Phill Just a Gibson Les Paul a couple months ago, huge difference between and Epiphone I have ever tried, I can see why you say the classic is a great guitar thanks for your advise
I actually like these but i guess im old school, i want a fullfat hardcase with a $2000 guitar! The colors are great for me personally (love the blue, Pink and the seafoam) but man i can see a lot of people being bored by the color selection.
Hi Phil, I took your opinion about leaving the cab sims on if using a modeller with real cabs.....Helix > DSM DLX > Palmer Power Amp > two 1x12s Harley Benton V30 Cabs. Sounds Huge! Thank you 😊
The low frets at the end of the fretboard is not that uncommon. It's refered to fall away. When the neck is needing a reset the fall away relieves the last few frets from buz. Usually the bridge saddle is as low as it can be when you see this. Check the neck angle is at the top of the bridge and at the bottom of the saddle. If so, fall away is not necessary.
Oh wow, I completely forgot about Best Buy getting into the MI business. I worked at GC for almost a decade and I remember when they started to liquidate their inventory, much to the chagrin of us GC folks. There was no way to price match w/ out loosing our commission, which was the only real way at the time to be successful as a sales employee. Man those times were rough
My 3 cents on the soldering issue - I just recently learned to solder and building pedal kits, and the Weller 1010 is the one I bought and it's working really well. No affiliation. I've soldered previously on a plug in iron that wasn't as hot, and agree with Phil - it works, but a notch up is better for ease of use. When I was learning, he's right. I goofed up a lot of stuff while I began to get skill and technique, where I might be able to make do with a cheapo iron now and make it work.
a good iron is important . also - i use flux . i never solder with out flux . i also remove the flux when i am done. yes my solder already has flux in it . i use extra flux . it is one of those things you can talk smack about this concept until you try it. if you do you will never solder with out it .
I watched the video of the Lace Aluma 90 P 90 pickup compared a regular P90 and love the video. I had never seen the Aluma 90 P and now want to use them in a build or add them to one of my guitars. They sound great and they are so differently made to a regular P90. I watched the video 4 times so far because I find the pickup so fascinating.
Phil, that Spector bass is a sheer beauty! Or, is it a Warwick? Must be, looking at the black headstock... And, it looks slightly smaller. Is that bass a 32’’ scale? (I get it most of your energy goes into guitars, because of most of your great followers. But, I always wait for your comments and advice on bass stuff, 😄). Cheers! 🖖
happy happy !!!!! i just ordered the tex mex drop in pickguard assembly at amazon..... 50 bucks off, now at 150....... any comments? love ur take on the industry..... fender has not been cool for many years now........ be VERY careful spending any money w/ them today.... buy used for a way better guitar if u ask me :)
My old white PRS Custom 24 spent years in an uncontrolled environment and had numerous issues. A local professional guitar tech did his best to improve things, but adjusted the bridge by having each of the tremolo screws slightly higher than the adjacent screw. Not cool!
re- EVH amp- people said the same thing about the Carvin mts 3200 and theres all kinds of mods out therre but I think its fantastic just like it is, super clean clean side and a very gainy dirt side..
Lower frets at the high end of the neck is not normal---But some consider it a premium *feature.* It is claimed that that it reduces string buzz & fretting out while reducing the need for relief over the rest of the neck. Lower relief *might* improve intonation up the rest of the neck. It probably does on some instruments with some set ups for some players. But if the instrument is new, you didn't test play the instrument, & fallaway wasn't explicitly in the specs you should return it if you don't like the feel. "Fallaway" is not a standard feature.
For those who don’t know, Patrick Nagel was a popular illustrator who was best known for his work for Playboy magazine. Playboy held a physical-fitness event at which celebrities were exercising as a fundraiser for heart health. Nagel was one of the participants and, ironically, he suffered a heart attack during the event and died.
For me the iconic Nagel picture is the cover of Duran Duran's 'Rio' album. Very 1980s. I've heard that many people bought prints of Nagel pictures and his style then fell out of favour (for various reasons).
Re reverse headstocks. I prefer the Fender design but it is a reversal of a traditional European design for acoustic instruments like the balalaika. Treble strings are more likely to pop out of the nut & placing the tuning peg closer to the nut increases the break angle. The bass strings are more likely to stay in place & can be further away.
You can make the acoustic guitar louder by slotting the bridge. Driftwood guitars has a video on it. I've done it to almost all my guitars it always works.
It's a saddle is not a high density material you can swap it for something high density like tusk and get a little more kinetic energy to transfer from a strings to the top without going to heavier strings.
The problem with Evertune is there is no Whammy Version, which is where you would really need it. Or how about won for Robo-tuner guitars where you're going between different tunings a lot on one guitar. That's the only other situation where it's really needed.
Prs says ‘do not touch and try to adjust the tremolo screws, they are set from the factory and do not need adjusting’. However I adjusted them too :)..
I wanted a Fender Telecaster & Stratocaster. I decided to buy a Chinese clones (SX) just to determine if I liked the style and to see how often I'd use them. Not saying that the SX was as good as a "real" one however, but they played well. I had them professionally setup. The luther was a 50ish shop owner and said they were quite good. No doubt better pickups would be beneficial but he warned me---it is a rabbit hole... as it is a crapshoot which one would be best. How one plays is often more important thajn what one plays. Been playing them often for years now and like them so much.... I never bothered to replace them with a real models.
I was going to apologize for sending Phil off on a tangent, but of course he wanted a reason to talk about the Evertune video anyway. LOL. I just have never seen a Studio with figuring in that finish. SW has them in Bourbon Burst, and at $1699, it checks a lot of boxes for me. I just discovered it this week, but it's into the finals for the One American Guitar I'm ever going to buy, along with the SG Modern (demo) and the PRS Vela and 594 Thinline.
My local GC had a entry level Fender that was one of the best feeling necks I've played... but it had the worst fret sprout of any instrument I've ever touched... I wondered how it made it out of the factory that bad... Never thought about it sitting on a ship at sea for months and months waiting to be offloaded. Wow. [edit: lol - someone said the same in the chat.]
Much of the time, a retail store might not be even close to the level of humidity that the factory was at or when sitting on a ship (as mentioned) for months. The guitars do shrink more making the sprouting far worse. This often is seen as being over-looked by the manufacturer or even the retailer. Many say it as having gotten worse over the last few years, which could be true based on the volume of guitars that were ordered and the time they may have taken prior to dry their wood versus when supplies were in shorter demand. Some retailers take lengths to make sure that sprouting is addressed at the correct humidity level (approx 45-50%) and customers never even know it was an issue. Often bringing a guitar back to the correct humiidy level will alleviate the sprouting you might find in a store.
Gone are the days when you could sell for more than you bought for, thankfully, that was a shit situation that was just bad, everyone speculating instead of making music.
Adam Jones Les Paul - Australian price $5500 or $3500 USD - LP Standard $5439 AUD - $3485 USD we get nailed here, exchange rate is terrible now too :-(
I’m a Fender fanboy but I think there are a few things wrong with them. One is that I think their prices have gone up a higher percentage more than competitors over the Covid boom. I might be wrong but it just seems that the MIM line has gone up more than the Epiphone line in price to me. Can’t remember what the Epiphone Les Paul’s were before but I don’t think they have gone up as much as Fender Player series which are two of the biggest sellers for the companies. Next is the Pau Ferro fretboards they use. It might play as good but it looks horrible compared to rosewood. Even Indian Laurel used on squires looks better. PRS SE silver sky might use a poplar body but the neck is rosewood and looks great. I would bet the Player series is a huge part of not the biggest line they sell and they need to go back to rosewood, or something that looks better then pau ferro
The Best Buy Instrument debacle was due to the CEO and his son getting snubbed at a GC and he wanted to burn them. It was a bad business move and it part of the reason he was canned. But he didn’t care if it was super successful, he wanted to damage GC and he did.
I like Fender , mainly because i love the look and the history behind the brand , but also , Ive never owned a bad Fender product and my own Strat , id seriously put up against anything and feel it would compete well . And then brand loyalty comes in as well . Does it mean i dont like PRS , Ibanez etc.... No , but if i had the money to spend , id look at the Fender range first , before looking at any others .
@@algorithm007ify tell me about it. Once I owned my home I quit work and only work part time, and now struggle to pay the rates, electricity and house insurance. Adds up to about 8K per year. Used to be about 2.5.
I wanna hear about Parker guitars coming back, Phil please spill the beans 🫘!!!!!! Even if it’s just rumors, I’m just trying to keep hope alive brother!!! :)
At the moment, looks like those few limited run painted BC rich gunslingers that sold on SW may have been returned (a couple demos were just listed I think, and they seem to have been played, as well as having some imperfections to 🙄).
I was playing my Aerodyne Strat, and was thinking Gibson should develop a Les Paul with a similar profile. Super thin with contours. At least it would be different.
Did you set up the red guitar behind your left ear to fall into the crevice of the body perfectly? Because it does and I can't stop watching it match up every time you move your head.
Im done with Fender unles two things from now on, USA only and it HAS TO SAY IT TOO, and Matching headstock. Im going all matching for my personal use from now on. They dont make that enough anymore, and Im squarely in the above 1.5k then match the headstock at this point club. Sorry but thats friggin 50 buck in paint and some spare change in labor honestly. It makes a HUGE difference to mojo if you like the matching headstock.
Proud of you Phil for choking on that BC Rich price that none of us could ever think of. Nice move by the artist to sell multiple copies of his original artwork too.
I took some gear to Guitar Center to sell. Like you said, been in the closet for a year, I have not used it, don't plan on it so what the hell. In the past, lets say a guitar was new $1000. The used price is going to be $600, GC is going to give you $400. Because they're going to resell it at the $600. No longer. They have so much used gear that they're not even paying a 3rd of the price of a new. That example I used was $275. I never seen anything like it. And the amount of new gear in inventory is staggering.
The Fender numbers you gave us are staggering and would probably shut down most companies or cause bankruptcies and large scale layoffs. I worked for Bombardier/Learjet in Wichita when the 2009 financial crisis hit and saw thousands of workers get laid off within a few months in my hometown. The fallout in our aircraft industry is still aparent here and had sone devastating effects on local economy. The Fender story might be of lesser devastatiin, but is a signifant strain on the guitar industry. Keep us informed. Thanks.
Why are only certain brands offering up to %35 off for Labor Day? Like Fender and Ibanez, Epiphone, but not Gibson or Godin or Charvel or PRS or Reverend?
I'm not a PRS guy (can't afford to be), but, knowing their reputation....... have you ever heard of Ferrari or Rolls Royce offering 15% off of a car? They don't need to. Their target buyer has money coming out of all of their orifices. Why offer a sale to people who are going to buy at full price anyway?
Totally understand anyone cancelling a Fender order! Overpriced, and underwhelming. When you can get such fantastis quality at such an affordable price, such as the G+L tribute series why the hell would you buy Fender. Some of the Harley Benton's are hitting it for six! I know, sacriledge, but go try their TE52, for such a modest cost a really good Tele, or my Agile semi hollow Tele, WOW, what a guitar! perfect with my Vox, and all 3 together still half the cost of a Fender! Nope, NO Fender, Gibson, and definitely NO Prs! The Asian made guitars offer better quality, features, and price!
1:49:00 i just had a similar issue pop up in my life I took on a project to restore a friend's guitar to life and it has a "fake" floyd or "licensed" floyd and im putting a gotoh on it but i dont know what im doing and need some advice. Weird how life works out. Just when i needed that question answer someone asked it
The prices of used gear may be down 30%...the problem is even at that rate, nobody's buying. I would say if you want to sell a guitar in the next few years, you better be offering a killer deal.
$100,000,000 for 800,000 items comes out to $125 per item. Squiers retail from $189 to $499, Fender guitars start at $750, their amps run from about $100 to $3,000, with their mid range about $400. $125 per item cancelled seems low to me.
Only USA Jacksons worth buying are the USA Select series and the Custom Shop. Everything else is a pale imitation. The Nagel graphics are sweet. You could buy a used 80s gunslinger and get it refinished with whatever graphics you want. Cheaper that way.
These new Jacksons feel like a response from FMIC over last years debacle when they launched the new USA Soloist line. Those guitars got hammered for being way overpriced and under-specced for what they were, I feel like they were trying to hit a 2k price point but FMIC's 25% price hike across the line really killed that guitars vibe, and couldn't have come at a worse time for that product launch. I still feel like these new Jackson Dinkies are overpriced, they should be closer in line to an American Pro II in my opinion, but I can at least stomach the 2k price premium, but I'm still not blown away by them.
I think Fender has raised the prices on their instruments and amps enough that there are now many more options to consider at the new price points.
Right. Some Hatley bentons are midrange fenders at a third of the price. That's with $100 shipping.
Seriously, fender needs to get over themselves
And that was already the case with their prices nine years ago... I went to USA Custom Guitars (it's like Warmoth) in 2014 because I wasn't willing to pay over $1,200 to get a 22nd fret.
@@BOBANDVEG Fender, Gibson, PRS, all their subsidiary brands, and even other brands that are jacking their prices. You can't just raise the price of everything 30% and expect customers to stick around.
Yea $ 800 U.S. for a MiM player strat or tele is expensive since they were like 600-650 a few years ago.
I agree, it's £1400 for a performer tele when you could get an elite (2 levels above) for the same price 3 years ago.
I live and grew up in Alabama, born in Virginia, lived in California too. I was on a job in Little Rock, left my guitar at home. So, I was missing it, went into ac little pawn shop, found a one in a million guitar. A medium, Fender acoustic. It had four rusty strings, dusty and scratched, but I tuned it, and I knew it was perfect, magical. Thanks Phillip, great video.
Thanks Phillip! You Rock! I love your No BS Product Reviews. Very in-depth!
Please keep doing what You do! All the best!
As far as Fender having 600,000 guitar orders and 200,000 amps orders canceled by retailers. It's probably due to Fender saying they were going to discount the guitars and amps by 30% if you ordered those online direct from Fender. Which was under cutting the guitar retail stores and distributers sales. Which left them with no margin of profit. So they just cancelled their orders in order to keep from getting screwed by Fender. Fender just shot themselves in the foot. It's going to take them a long time to sell all that back stock online. It might take longer than they thought and might have to discount it even more. The stores will just buy from another guitar manufacturer that hopefully won't try to screw them over like Fender.
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Wow, this was a very in depth and excellent look at today's trends in the Guitar and Gear Industry. Most Commendable. \m/
That's really cool that when Phil describes being inspired by something new and cool, that he got to help make something new and cool! Respect and congrats on the project with Badlands Guitars, those instruments are incredible.
Phil, thank you for the 2 hours you (and the moderators) took out of your week and being away from your families. The KYG video's are so informative and your delivery is so "up-beat" that you help to end my week (as a viewer) on an "up-note"! Please thank your wife for "letting you come out to play with the guitar group". Until next week stay safe and be well!!
My recently purchased Sire S3 and Firefly acoustic-electric tells me that the big names have been taking us for a ride for years. The Sire and Firefly are both excellent! i.e I once repaired a friend's Twin Reverb. When I pulled the Nagahide off the bottom board, there was a paper label on the pine plank. It read: "California Oranges". They'd obiously made the amp from an orange crate! Maybe their chickens are coming home to roost. Shalom/gw
Regarding a Kemper or Fractal with an IR through a regular cab: I think people forget that an impulse response is really just the EQ of the digital amp, or how would if it was through a speaker. Everyone gets hung up "rules" of only using an IR through frfr speakers and no IR through actual guitar cab. In reality, all that matters is that your tone sounds good to you and the people you play for. There are no rules outside of that! 😆 Keep rockin Phill🤘
thats right -good tone is where you make it .
From truck driver and hair dresser to Fortune 500, Fender dealer and US Army; Phill has been around 😁
I need a deepdive on the man’s life for real what a resume
The truck driver thing is fake as far as I know. When people ask him what he does for a living he sometimes tells them he drives trucks and they like go "ok, that's nice" and then leave him alone and quit bugging him. Funny man. Cheers! @@capnjames
Interesting thoughts indeed. Prices eventually become too high for what you get and perhaps folks have put their foot down.
Adjusted for inflation, prices are flat, plus quality on the lower end is much better.
Spot on! The value remains, whilst the debased currency increases the price and quality of Squires (I recently acquired an 2019 Esquire) over the last few years is fantastic!
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@@TheEricJohnsonExperience that’s interesting to know.
Quality on the high end seems to be suffering via anecdotal videos but I don’t know how widespread it appears to be other than a few relatively louder TH-camrs.
Of course that’s hard to judge being that’s not on a macro level.
@@mattmanley7118 These are massed produced items so quality will vary but, in general, the higher end Squires like the Classic Vide series is far and beyond anything you could get in that price range 25 years ago. As far as Fender proper...I hit some of their recent sales hard and ordered six guitars, two of them I had to return due to cosmetic defects. That said, their customer service was top notch, sent replacements or gave credit very quickly.
@EricJE I wouldn't say prices are flat at all in the big picture. If you adjust prices from the 1950s or 1960s to today the low end gear currently is crazy cheap and the high end stuff tends to be bit high. A Fender Tele was like $150 in the early '50s which is something like $1800 adjusted for inflation. A Fender Custom Shop today is way more than that. On the other hand a low end Squier is $150-$200 today which would under $20 back in the 1950's and no electric guitar went for anywhere near that price. These extremes are a combination of super cheap over seas labor, modern production techniques, and somewhat questionable parts quality on the budget side and some degree of greed in the high end because there are buyers with a lot more disposable income than musicians back in the '50s.
Phil, your honesty is refreshing! Great to hear unbiased opinions and great info in your responses. Love the channel!
There are alot of good soldering irons for alot cheaper. If you can adjust the temp, Its usually descent enough to get alot of work done quickly
The eye opening thing is the quality control on the name brands can be so bad. Some " off brands" seem to be hungrier to develop a reputation so you can get alot of bang for your buck.
Hello Phil its your old youtube buddy ernie ......the bassman from Nashville.i really enjoyed your podast yesterday ,Phil keep them coming and i have purchased like 15 duitars and basses based on your advice.Thank you my dear friend....My latest purchase was the black
Sassafrass sterling R-34 its the one that the white grains comes threw the black and i have to
get the newest color seafoam blue sparkle metal flake cause i already bought the the reg blue
sparkle in which its beautiful but i buy 5-10 basses and guitar's a year !!! and i have been playing musicman basses since 84....love if you could do a deepdive on some of the these basses bro, cause us bass players need a little love to and my Shecter sustainiac 6 string guitar was stolen a month after i got it and that hurt my wallet cause this guitar cost me big time cause i gotta get another one very soon ??.Thanks Phillip !! keep on Rocking my friend !!
Thanks for sharing the thought process behind a Les Paul for the Evertune bridge
I just wanted to say that while I get the shorts shortcomings, thats where i rediscovered your channel and found this show that i really like. See it as advertisement
When I chose to take my playing (many) levels up, my "friends" were either "pro's" (had no time), wanted "teacher / jam partner" $$s...or had quit playing, altogether. So I purchased a "Boomerang +" and never looked back! These loopers are SO amazing, they make great performance and recording "partners" too! I'd like to see their reissue, since I haven't found anything that works better (for many reasons)...and good ones are now scarce and pricey!
Usually prices fall when there's excess inventory (the whole supply/demand thing). Interesting that Fender continues to raise prices despite the cancelled orders.
Hi Phil,
I loved your P90/Alumtone video - answered so many questions I had.
Thank you for making that video 🙏
I have the non digital Weller and yes it is nice, I also have a small off brand digital portable iron that came with a variety of tips, I lean on using it more than the Weller, super cheap, works great with a variety of temp options.
Thanks Phil, have a joyful weekend🫶🙏🏻
The Les Paul moderns have weight relief and they also have a scooped heal carve that make them feel like the les Paul custom lite. I have one it’s 7.8 pounds it’s great player.
53:00 I have a 1993 Les Paul that weighs 7 pounds, 10 ounces… That's not just a nine hole with relief, that's the "Good wood" era of Gibson having some light mahogany. You can just tell by how the whole guitar feels and vibrates.
I remember Best Buy having instruments in them. I was shocked and not impressed. I never considered buying a guitar there. I usually watch the show live Friday evening but enjoyed watching the replay as well.
Best Buy had 2 for 1 strings, though
Great video Phil
Thanks for all of the info Phil. Serves Fender well, raising prices for what they call their USA assembled with foreign cheap parts. I'd rather buy a top of the line Squier and do and upgrade.
I've never had an issue with a buyer or seller on Reverb.... but the fee's are getting bad.
I didn't like FRFR speakers either for HX stomp, I ended up with going with a really good pa speaker. Sounds fantastic.
@Phill Just a Gibson Les Paul a couple months ago, huge difference between and Epiphone I have ever tried, I can see why you say the classic is a great guitar thanks for your advise
Haha, tone holes. Reminds me of that Simpson episode where Homer was wacking his car hood with a pick axe saying he was putting speed holes in it.
I actually like these but i guess im old school, i want a fullfat hardcase with a $2000 guitar! The colors are great for me personally (love the blue, Pink and the seafoam) but man i can see a lot of people being bored by the color selection.
Hi Phil, I took your opinion about leaving the cab sims on if using a modeller with real cabs.....Helix > DSM DLX > Palmer Power Amp > two 1x12s Harley Benton V30 Cabs. Sounds Huge! Thank you 😊
The low frets at the end of the fretboard is not that uncommon. It's refered to fall away.
When the neck is needing a reset the fall away relieves the last few frets from buz. Usually the bridge saddle is as low as it can be when you see this.
Check the neck angle is at the top of the bridge and at the bottom of the saddle. If so, fall away is not necessary.
I love the sound of my Helix through a SD Powerstage connected to an early 80's Marshall 1x12 Greenback Cab.
Oh wow, I completely forgot about Best Buy getting into the MI business. I worked at GC for almost a decade and I remember when they started to liquidate their inventory, much to the chagrin of us GC folks. There was no way to price match w/ out loosing our commission, which was the only real way at the time to be successful as a sales employee.
Man those times were rough
My 3 cents on the soldering issue - I just recently learned to solder and building pedal kits, and the Weller 1010 is the one I bought and it's working really well. No affiliation. I've soldered previously on a plug in iron that wasn't as hot, and agree with Phil - it works, but a notch up is better for ease of use. When I was learning, he's right. I goofed up a lot of stuff while I began to get skill and technique, where I might be able to make do with a cheapo iron now and make it work.
a good iron is important . also - i use flux . i never solder with out flux . i also remove the flux when i am done. yes my solder already has flux in it . i use extra flux . it is one of those things you can talk smack about this concept until you try it. if you do you will never solder with out it .
I watched the video of the Lace Aluma 90 P 90 pickup compared a regular P90 and love the video. I had never seen the Aluma 90 P and now want to use them in a build or add them to one of my guitars. They sound great and they are so differently made to a regular P90. I watched the video 4 times so far because I find the pickup so fascinating.
Ok you talked me into the Weller soldering station. I already have a good soldering iron but I always wanted the Weller digital station.
Phil, that Spector bass is a sheer beauty! Or, is it a Warwick? Must be, looking at the black headstock...
And, it looks slightly smaller. Is that bass a 32’’ scale?
(I get it most of your energy goes into guitars, because of most of your great followers. But, I always wait for your comments and advice on bass stuff, 😄).
Cheers!
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And it’s a 24-fret. Awesome color and it does look like the Warwick headstock. 👍🏻
Oh Best Buy! I remember buying a 2015 Gibson SGJ there... for 350$! That's 350$ for a brand new, made in America Gibson!
happy happy !!!!! i just ordered the tex mex drop in pickguard assembly at amazon..... 50 bucks off, now at 150....... any comments? love ur take on the industry..... fender has not been cool for many years now........ be VERY careful spending any money w/ them today.... buy used for a way better guitar if u ask me :)
My old white PRS Custom 24 spent years in an uncontrolled environment and had numerous issues. A local professional guitar tech did his best to improve things, but adjusted the bridge by having each of the tremolo screws slightly higher than the adjacent screw. Not cool!
re- EVH amp- people said the same thing about the Carvin mts 3200 and theres all kinds of mods out therre but I think its fantastic just like it is, super clean clean side and a very gainy dirt side..
Short Form videos sound great after I realize Ive been here an hour and a half when Ive got stuff to do :)
Lower frets at the high end of the neck is not normal---But some consider it a premium *feature.* It is claimed that that it reduces string buzz & fretting out while reducing the need for relief over the rest of the neck. Lower relief *might* improve intonation up the rest of the neck. It probably does on some instruments with some set ups for some players. But if the instrument is new, you didn't test play the instrument, & fallaway wasn't explicitly in the specs you should return it if you don't like the feel. "Fallaway" is not a standard feature.
For those who don’t know, Patrick Nagel was a popular illustrator who was best known for his work for Playboy magazine. Playboy held a physical-fitness event at which celebrities were exercising as a fundraiser for heart health. Nagel was one of the participants and, ironically, he suffered a heart attack during the event and died.
For me the iconic Nagel picture is the cover of Duran Duran's 'Rio' album. Very 1980s. I've heard that many people bought prints of Nagel pictures and his style then fell out of favour (for various reasons).
That Evertune Studio was actually a very nice Les Paul.
Sweetwater now has used buy/sell. Not nearly the variety as Reverb, but I sold pedal about 30% under new PDQ.
This analysis is amazing good. That is all.
Re reverse headstocks. I prefer the Fender design but it is a reversal of a traditional European design for acoustic instruments like the balalaika. Treble strings are more likely to pop out of the nut & placing the tuning peg closer to the nut increases the break angle. The bass strings are more likely to stay in place & can be further away.
You can make the acoustic guitar louder by slotting the bridge. Driftwood guitars has a video on it. I've done it to almost all my guitars it always works.
It's a saddle is not a high density material you can swap it for something high density like tusk and get a little more kinetic energy to transfer from a strings to the top without going to heavier strings.
Excellent episode.
The problem with Evertune is there is no Whammy Version, which is where you would really need it. Or how about won for Robo-tuner guitars where you're going between different tunings a lot on one guitar. That's the only other situation where it's really needed.
Prs says ‘do not touch and try to adjust the tremolo screws, they are set from the factory and do not need adjusting’. However I adjusted them too :)..
Two point trem? Yeah, it's best to adjust when strings are off or with most of the tension off because you might mess up the threading.
I wanted a Fender Telecaster & Stratocaster. I decided to buy a Chinese clones (SX) just to determine if I liked the style and to see how often I'd use them. Not saying that the SX was as good as a "real" one however, but they played well. I had them professionally setup. The luther was a 50ish shop owner and said they were quite good. No doubt better pickups would be beneficial but he warned me---it is a rabbit hole... as it is a crapshoot which one would be best. How one plays is often more important thajn what one plays. Been playing them often for years now and like them so much.... I never bothered to replace them with a real models.
Modern Fender are crap..best to build your own partscaster...with an MJT body and Musikraft/AllParts/Warmoth custom neck.
I was going to apologize for sending Phil off on a tangent, but of course he wanted a reason to talk about the Evertune video anyway. LOL. I just have never seen a Studio with figuring in that finish. SW has them in Bourbon Burst, and at $1699, it checks a lot of boxes for me. I just discovered it this week, but it's into the finals for the One American Guitar I'm ever going to buy, along with the SG Modern (demo) and the PRS Vela and 594 Thinline.
My local GC had a entry level Fender that was one of the best feeling necks I've played... but it had the worst fret sprout of any instrument I've ever touched... I wondered how it made it out of the factory that bad... Never thought about it sitting on a ship at sea for months and months waiting to be offloaded. Wow. [edit: lol - someone said the same in the chat.]
Modern Fender are crap..best to build your own partscaster...with an MJT body and Musikraft/AllParts/Warmoth custom neck.
Much of the time, a retail store might not be even close to the level of humidity that the factory was at or when sitting on a ship (as mentioned) for months. The guitars do shrink more making the sprouting far worse. This often is seen as being over-looked by the manufacturer or even the retailer. Many say it as having gotten worse over the last few years, which could be true based on the volume of guitars that were ordered and the time they may have taken prior to dry their wood versus when supplies were in shorter demand. Some retailers take lengths to make sure that sprouting is addressed at the correct humidity level (approx 45-50%) and customers never even know it was an issue. Often bringing a guitar back to the correct humiidy level will alleviate the sprouting you might find in a store.
I think it was mostly Squier 40th anniversary models and they’re mostly clearanced already. I got one for $270 brand new
Great job! You are a wealth of information!
I love my Fender gear, guitars, basses, amps and foot pedals, luckily I bought all these before the Fender price hike.
looking forward to getting one of those ox blood les pauls.
Gone are the days when you could sell for more than you bought for, thankfully, that was a shit situation that was just bad, everyone speculating instead of making music.
Adam Jones Les Paul - Australian price $5500 or $3500 USD - LP Standard $5439 AUD - $3485 USD we get nailed here, exchange rate is terrible now too :-(
Sea Shell Green is my favorite coler.
I’m a Fender fanboy but I think there are a few things wrong with them. One is that I think their prices have gone up a higher percentage more than competitors over the Covid boom. I might be wrong but it just seems that the MIM line has gone up more than the Epiphone line in price to me. Can’t remember what the Epiphone Les Paul’s were before but I don’t think they have gone up as much as Fender Player series which are two of the biggest sellers for the companies. Next is the Pau Ferro fretboards they use. It might play as good but it looks horrible compared to rosewood. Even Indian Laurel used on squires looks better. PRS SE silver sky might use a poplar body but the neck is rosewood and looks great. I would bet the Player series is a huge part of not the biggest line they sell and they need to go back to rosewood, or something that looks better then pau ferro
The Best Buy Instrument debacle was due to the CEO and his son getting snubbed at a GC and he wanted to burn them. It was a bad business move and it part of the reason he was canned. But he didn’t care if it was super successful, he wanted to damage GC and he did.
Huh, I had never heard that before. I did benefit from it though, I got a Corgan Strat for under a grand when everything was on clearance.
I like Fender , mainly because i love the look and the history behind the brand , but also , Ive never owned a bad Fender product and my own Strat , id seriously put up against anything and feel it would compete well . And then brand loyalty comes in as well . Does it mean i dont like PRS , Ibanez etc.... No , but if i had the money to spend , id look at the Fender range first , before looking at any others .
Wages in Australia are much higher than USA
Hourly rate here is $20 an hour for casual staff etc
more like $27.50 an hour to 30 for a slight skill.
@@Bluepilled-c5t yeah but almost everything else is more expensive..here
@@algorithm007ify tell me about it. Once I owned my home I quit work and only work part time, and now struggle to pay the rates, electricity and house insurance. Adds up to about 8K per year. Used to be about 2.5.
@ 1:31:42 I read something about this online 🤔 I didn't know you used to be a dealer; interesting comments 🤔 from: Scranton, Pennsylvania
"Prepping for diving into a pool that is slowly draining" is a perfect description of trying to do business in these times.
I wanna hear about Parker guitars coming back, Phil please spill the beans 🫘!!!!!! Even if it’s just rumors, I’m just trying to keep hope alive brother!!! :)
Phil over here on TH-cam making Fender sound like Popeye's dad forcing Robin Williams to eat his spinach LmaoOO
At the moment, looks like those few limited run painted BC rich gunslingers that sold on SW may have been returned (a couple demos were just listed I think, and they seem to have been played, as well as having some imperfections to 🙄).
I would think the Jazz and Neo-Soul folks would be all over the Evertune bridge setups
I was playing my Aerodyne Strat, and was thinking Gibson should develop a Les Paul with a similar profile. Super thin with contours. At least it would be different.
Did you set up the red guitar behind your left ear to fall into the crevice of the body perfectly? Because it does and I can't stop watching it match up every time you move your head.
Most of electric guitars at Long & McQuade are Epiphone and Gibson’s
I'm late, catching the replay.
missed you
Im done with Fender unles two things from now on, USA only and it HAS TO SAY IT TOO, and Matching headstock. Im going all matching for my personal use from now on. They dont make that enough anymore, and Im squarely in the above 1.5k then match the headstock at this point club. Sorry but thats friggin 50 buck in paint and some spare change in labor honestly. It makes a HUGE difference to mojo if you like the matching headstock.
We need a sharpen my axe video where you show us how to add tone holes to a guitar.
Kemper Kone can do 'amp in the room' simulation rather than FRFR-based mic'ed up IRs..
Proud of you Phil for choking on that BC Rich price that none of us could ever think of. Nice move by the artist to sell multiple copies of his original artwork too.
I took some gear to Guitar Center to sell. Like you said, been in the closet for a year, I have not used it, don't plan on it so what the hell. In the past, lets say a guitar was new $1000. The used price is going to be $600, GC is going to give you $400. Because they're going to resell it at the $600. No longer. They have so much used gear that they're not even paying a 3rd of the price of a new. That example I used was $275. I never seen anything like it. And the amount of new gear in inventory is staggering.
Hey Phil what is that Taylor acoustic behind you in this video? Is it a thin body?
The Fender numbers you gave us are staggering and would probably shut down most companies or cause bankruptcies and large scale layoffs. I worked for Bombardier/Learjet in Wichita when the 2009 financial crisis hit and saw thousands of workers get laid off within a few months in my hometown. The fallout in our aircraft industry is still aparent here and had sone devastating effects on local economy.
The Fender story might be of lesser devastatiin, but is a signifant strain on the guitar industry. Keep us informed. Thanks.
For the last question from Australia… ask The Wiggles!! 😂😂😂
You are AWESOME!
I want every one of your guitars in a lefty. Thanks. :-)
Why are only certain brands offering up to %35 off for Labor Day? Like Fender and Ibanez, Epiphone, but not Gibson or Godin or Charvel or PRS or Reverend?
Probably mainly buying power and profit margins and markup , which is connected to profits .
Because they do not want to nor need too...they think. Time will tell.
I'm not a PRS guy (can't afford to be), but, knowing their reputation....... have you ever heard of Ferrari or Rolls Royce offering 15% off of a car? They don't need to. Their target buyer has money coming out of all of their orifices. Why offer a sale to people who are going to buy at full price anyway?
Bob makes a killer Amp
Totally understand anyone cancelling a Fender order! Overpriced, and underwhelming. When you can get such fantastis quality at such an affordable price, such as the G+L tribute series why the hell would you buy Fender. Some of the Harley Benton's are hitting it for six! I know, sacriledge, but go try their TE52, for such a modest cost a really good Tele, or my Agile semi hollow Tele, WOW, what a guitar! perfect with my Vox, and all 3 together still half the cost of a Fender! Nope, NO Fender, Gibson, and definitely NO Prs! The Asian made guitars offer better quality, features, and price!
TE-62 is good as well, especially if you want something lighter.
Modern Fender are crap..best to build your own partscaster...with an MJT body and Musikraft/AllParts/Warmoth custom neck.
Hi Phil! Do your guitars hang like that on the wall 24/7?
1:49:00 i just had a similar
issue pop up in my life
I took on a project to restore a friend's guitar to life and it has a "fake" floyd or "licensed" floyd and im putting a gotoh on it but i dont know what im doing and need some advice.
Weird how life works out. Just when i needed that question answer someone asked it
I have seen toro do the same they tried to force use to buy more than we could sell.
The prices of used gear may be down 30%...the problem is even at that rate, nobody's buying. I would say if you want to sell a guitar in the next few years, you better be offering a killer deal.
$100,000,000 for 800,000 items comes out to $125 per item. Squiers retail from $189 to $499, Fender guitars start at $750, their amps run from about $100 to $3,000, with their mid range about $400. $125 per item cancelled seems low to me.
Im subbed but i dont often watch the vids. But your titles always make it look like the guitar industry is dying lol
Only USA Jacksons worth buying are the USA Select series and the Custom Shop. Everything else is a pale imitation. The Nagel graphics are sweet. You could buy a used 80s gunslinger and get it refinished with whatever graphics you want. Cheaper that way.
These new Jacksons feel like a response from FMIC over last years debacle when they launched the new USA Soloist line. Those guitars got hammered for being way overpriced and under-specced for what they were, I feel like they were trying to hit a 2k price point but FMIC's 25% price hike across the line really killed that guitars vibe, and couldn't have come at a worse time for that product launch. I still feel like these new Jackson Dinkies are overpriced, they should be closer in line to an American Pro II in my opinion, but I can at least stomach the 2k price premium, but I'm still not blown away by them.