Come buy and eat without money or price. 😅 why would you have to tell a bitch anything? There is no marriage in heaven. But I think the point is, that you don't have to buy it😅save yourself some trouble dude bootes
Mine just sees my guitars multiplying, from my first one last year to now ten, and doesn't say anything, but I know that she hates me for it. Many wives get pissed off when they see their man doing something he enjoys instead of doing chores and only what she wants.
The behind-the-scenes moment of you explaining the joke where you set up all the guitars was probably funnier than the actual joke would have been, so it worked out hahaha.
It felt pretty easy to guess if it was the split humbuckers or the singe coils, even in round 3. Everytime the sound example sounded brighter and more quacky, it was a clear sign that it was the single coils. The split humbuckers are always more warm. By far, I prefer the sound of humbuckers and i'm not the biggest fan of strats but it's clear to me that if you need that quacky sound, you gotta have single coils.
I guessed the pickups correctly, but didn't even try guessing the guitars. I play a Strat that I've modded, including changing the pickups from original single coils, to noiseless stacked single coil sized pickups, and then finally to a regular size humbucker in the bridge, a dual rail single coil sized humbucker in the neck, no middle pickup, tone controls for each pickup and a master volume. This setup allows me to get hum and noise free sounds, a wide variety of tones, including ones similar to the 2nd and 4th Strat switch positions, and no volume decrease when using the neck pickup when doing wide string bends. I also use an HX Stomp, as that makes emulating different guitars and pickups much more convincing.
I have the SE Custom 24 and the coil tap isn't very impressive, except in the middle position. That's where it really shines. I have a Schecter Hellraiser with EMG pickups with the single coil option that sounds surprisingly amazing, like really surprising.
I love the wiring on my Charvel DK24. It's just 2 hum buckers but with a 5 way switch and a series/parallel switch and I've never not been able to get any sound I want out of it.
Man it can’t be said much better. I was playing through a budget bass amp with a digital multi effect on my first gig. I had some complements on my tone.
One of my current builds has an interchangeable pickup system. While I've gotten gold foils, lipsticks, and p90s for it, I'm using coil split quadrails and humbuckers for the single coil voicing. I suppose I could add a set of single coils, but the guitar only has neck and bridge positions. And the electronics let you mix and match coils from the neck and bridge positions (inner coils, outer coils, etc). That might get close to a Strat bridge+middle or a middle+neck sound. I don't know for sure, I've never had or even played a guitar that can mix coils. And I've been playing for 44 years and have 92 guitars!
My standard Tele and P90 LP Special are both single-coils but completely different animals. My Schecter PT Saturn super tele and LP Studio both have splittable humbuckers and are also completely different animals. My other guitars are all straight humbuckers and still have a great variety of tones and personalities. I love 'em all.
Interesting. To me differences are more brightness, warmth, clarity, quack, attack, etc. but they are more subtle than I thought it would be, they are really close and could fill many music needs. I think it falls to the user and how it feels or connects them. I like them all.
Got all correct actually. But I'm also a huge fan of Neck and N+M strat sounds, so those instantly jumped at me. Pickup position also makes a huge difference. Having then Neck pickup over the 24th fret (with 21+22 fret guitars) changes something in the tone that I can instantly recognize for some reason. Awesome comparison btw ❤
Ironically(?), my takeaway from this is that I don't need a neck humbucker. After a bunch of research, I've been thinking lately that, in the future, I might want to get a Zexcoil pickup set similar to the set in your Parker Nitefly, but with an HSS configuration rather than HSH. That way, position 4 would have the least compromise when it comes to having an "authentic" Strat-style sound, and position 2 should still be pretty good in that regard while also offering bridge humbucker tones, since the Zexcoil TriBucker isn't a traditional/"true" splittable humbucker, but rather a humbucker voiced Zexcoil and a single coil voiced Zexcoil slapped together as a single unit. And, if I still wanted neck humbucker tones, everything I've read/watched suggests that trying to match warmer tones by darkening brighter pickups is a lot more effective than trying to match brighter tones by brightening warmer pickups. I figured that I could probably use amps/plugins/EQ to darken either the neck single coil or the bridge humbucker to get extremely close to that sound if needed, and your conclusions in this video definitely support that.
Great job, Dr.! Nice little SRV "Lenny", yeah, you got caught... lol .. I'm a strat guy but I've got a PRS Santana SE with upgraded p'ups (DiMarzio) with each splitable but my main guitar is a custom built strat
My favorite pickup combo is neck outer coil and bridge inner coil. I had an ESP that did that while I was living in Japan, and it was incredible for fingerstyle playing. Kind of Tele-ish, I guess.
Another intriguing and entertaining video! I gave up trying to figure things out after round one - I quickly realized I had no clue about which was which. I agree with your conclusions, especially your point about hearing the differences in tone in the context of a mix. If someone can play well then a listener will respond to it no matter what kind of guitar they're playing.
this is really intresting to me . i dont have alot of money so ive only had two guitars my whole 25 years of playing, both single coils. now , usually in your blind tests im agreeing with you for the most part but this time was totally different . the single coils stand out so much to me. ive noticed a few simillar comments so i guess maybe some peoples ears are more trained to it if they havent had consistent first hand access to humbuckers. the best way for me to describe it is when people say about the glassey strat tone . in your video thats what i was hearing and made me able to pick out the single coils without even trying,
I picked the single coil/Silver Sky on every test correctly and as my favorite on most of them. I honestly didn't expect to like it so much lol. But you're right, they're very close, and all sound good.
Re: your concluding statement - truer words were never spoken. I’m glad you said it. I have over 20 guitars because it’s fun. But I cours play any one of them in almost any situation.
And, as a guy who loves the 4 & 5 (bridge) sounds of a Strat, my one complaint with the Silver Sky SE is that those pickups are nowhere near shrill enough for me. The bridge and middle positions, to my ear, are superior.
My results: 1HN, 2SN, 3SB, 4HB [not that difficult] 5HN (MC), 6SN, 7HN (DGT), 8HB (DGT), 9SB, 10 HB (MC) [basically I have switched the dgt with the mc, but recognized the single coil vs split humbucker] 11SS2, 12DGT2, 13MC2, 14SS4 [this was a extremely hard round I got right DGT vs MC but switched SS4 with MC2]. Without my headphones, in a live situation i will never be able to detect split humbucker vs real single coil let alone MC vs DGT, this is crazy. Great video!
I'm completely stuck on Rio Grande Big Bottom sets (Muy Grande Humbucking in the Bridge and a Tallboy Humbucking in the Neck). Each with a pair of true single coils in a humbucker configuration. With Duncan Triple Shot rings, push/push pots for out of phase or series/parallel and a '50's Gibson tone circuit I've yet to seek a tone I couldn't find. Installed in 2 Ibanez FR's (Ash) and an early Les Paul Studio (Alder body) so far.
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That's quality content, man! One interesting thing is... the way the guitar 'looks' interfere in the way we play... it's like a "mojo" thing. Nice video!
I got some tonerider classic alnico 2 humbucker pickups for my chibson les paul and I installed them with the Jimmy Page wiring scheme. I was blown away by how similar the neck split sounded to my strat neck and how close I could get to pos 2 and 4 by messing with the phase and series parallel switches with the split coils. I highly recommend checking out those pickups! Now I'm curious how they compare to the pickups in the DGT
I have a Fender Tele HH with the split humbucker and I can notice big team from when I play with my strat. I’m sure it doesn’t matter to someone listening but it matters to me
I definitely preferred mostly humbucker tones. I used to be a single coil guy but the humbucker tones are more subdued and seem more controllable. A Strat bridge pickup is always to bright for my ears.
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I find it pretty interesting that I come to very different conclusions from yours, I got all the single coils right, and I have to say I also preferred them. But I am also a single coil guy who almost never uses himbuckers, so naturally I'd gravitate towards them. And you can use singles for most things anyway so I see little point in humbuckers, other than to buck them hum when using distortion maybe when on stage
Hmm. I got 0/4 on the first test (I think I misunderstood the test somehow). But I got 5/6 on test two (missed #8) and I got 4/4 on test three. I didn't get any of the extra credit for knowing which guitar was which though. Thanks for the great test, Andre!
My results: 1HN, 2SN, 3SB, 4HB, 5SH, 6S, 7SH, 8SH, 9S, 10SH, 11S2 (1 wrong). Round 3 was very hard and I felt like I was mostly guessing. Round 2 I think I was using the hum which is a little bit of a tell, but think I probably would have gotten it anyway. Agree the split DGT sounded very good. Good test and I am definitely reevaluating some things.
Love the comparison and each new video makes me want an SE even more. One critique though - I don't think this test going straight into the amp is the best way to test. We all play with some amount of gain and compression and in my experience those accentuate the sound of the pickups, better highlighting the differences. I think doing this with a boost or transparent overdrive between the amp and guitar could make it differences more apparent. 🤷♂
My results though - Round 1 was too easy. Round 2 and 3 were harder but I got a few right. You're totally right that if you have to rewind to figure it out, that's a sign the difference isn't enough to matter.
I must admit that culling down even a small guitar collection means less multiple old rustng string changes at the least and less basic instrument maintenance too which means more free playing time. Leaving guitars unplayed for many months can cause strange things to happen to your neck and maybe tuners too from what i've read plus digging out and rotating guitars in and out of gig bags from the closet is just one more a back pain causing chore to me.
Haha. I could reliably pick out the silver sky, but I'm not sure that is the one I preferred 😅 Used to think I wanted a strat, just for how iconic it is (and Gilmore), but after watching this, I think I need to carefully evaluate if I don't prefer the split coil in my Åkerfeldt SE.
No, but I explained it to my wife honestly, I like to collect guitars. Having said that, I have multiple guitars for multiple reasons multiple tunings, so that I don't have to constantly change things up. I do have two core Silver Sky's, but that was because I like the rosewood and maple boards.
the editing is great. You're doing that thing where it zooms in to punch-in instead of jump-cutting to the punch-in... I think it would be even better if you let some of those being jump cuts, that way you're not leaning too hard on that zoom-in trick. Great content!
thanks for doing clean sound comparisons andre. i think i would definitely save up to get a Se DGT2. on a different note could you do a video on ibanez RG 565 EG(Emerald Green)? i know it's a Rock Based Guitar and all but i'd love to hear your opinion on how versatile it can be on other genres if it can even do that sort of a thing.
i was doing great in the 2nd round. i have been playing a tele since a year and i generally like clean tone and i could definitely notice what sounded like a neck and bridge singlecoil. in round 3 i was completely wrong but i wish you played some melody instead of rhythm.
I wonder if you were comparing the Silver Sky with the NF3 SE with the NF3's volume backed off just a tad, if you did a test between the two in all positions, if a person could pick out which is which...Now in regard to different guitars in recording, and how one guitar fits into a particular mix compared to another on the same mix of a track, my guess is that, depending on the track, a person would pick a specific one over any of the other options, because in that particular song, one just achieves what a person is looking for in the particular song better than what the others achieve...but that is just a guess, and that is not to say the others wouldn't sound just fine in the track; it would be that the one just sounds better in the track vs the others from the artist's perspective.I didn't do the test, because I don't own any of those guitars...
I'll say it. 80%(made up statistic) of my guitar choices was based on looks, how i think I look holding a guitar, who I see in my head as I play the guitar (Eddie, Clapton, Gilmour, Prince, Page, Satriani) This wasn't the case when I was a kid. I played what I had. Aesthetics really only took hold once I had money in my pocket. As I get older its starting to go back to "All in one"
Hey! Did you sell your Bedford Bob Weir? Don't see it.. BTW, really dislike not knowing which is which until later. I can't evaluate like that. But maybe I'm the only one. Best Regards and Best Wishes!
In all honesty the only difference I heard was that the sliver sky sounded brighter and the others warmer. I have a 2020 epiphone les paul that does the coil split. But I want a silver sky just to say "yeah I needed a different tone" (I don't but I want I want it)😅
Well I figured most of them even on Airpods and to me there is a tremendous difference. Humbuckers simply don't have this chime of singles whatever you do.
1 and 2 were easy. You just listen to low mids and top end chime. More low mids humbucker, more chime single coil. Round 3 much more difficult. I had to listen carefully twice before I could be pretty sure. But you just have to listen to the high mids in good but familiar headphones and then it becomes easier. Not saying I would get them right every time - definitely not - but humbucker bridge high mids are often honky and a touch veiled, even if bright and low output or wide range humbuckers they still sound like they are pushing through a low pass filter. They are not naturally extended like single coils. Compare 14 vs 13 and you'll hear what I mean about extended. That said strat style guitars have a percussive neck pickup which is a tell and if they have a tone knob wired to bridge and rolled back it's going to be way harder to tell there. But I think once you move away from 250k pots in Strats and Teles toward 1 megaohm pots in Jazzmasters and Jaguars, it becomes really obvious because they are even more extended in the top end. You really have to add a lot of gain before it becomes hard to tell. But I think it's better to think about what a guitar offers in a certain position. Like if you want the quack in 2 and 4, or the tight percussive neck on strat, clear but full middle position on jazzmaster, twang on tele, or the Gretsch tone - no PRS is ever going to cop a Gretsch hollow body tone. And that's a good thing.
I've known guitarists that claim to be able to pick up the color of the guitar by the tone. Some swear red has a softer more defined round tone. Or was it a black one. Or maybe green. Possibly a white one😮🙄🤔😒😏
My 5c. Silver skys pups are not the quackiest singles ever. Something quackier (Say, Fender 57/62 set) or more “classic” would have stood out much more.
I probably shouldnt be watching this because I'm all about that neck position LP life, but the alternative is me actually doing my job, so let's see where this goes
I don't have a wife anymore. Her exit had little to do with guitars and more to do with she couldn't stand the sight of me. It's been thirteen years, and she still can't abide anything to do with me. I'd be bitter, but I have eighteen guitars now. I'm mollified for the most part. You pick up the guitar thinking you're going to score chicks, but instead, you wind up with a room full of middle-aged men chatting about your nails. The brotherhood (and let's face it: it's mostly guys. Women are more than welcome, but they are bound to be outnumbered.) of guitar is a splendid cast of characters, and I would be devastated to leave it. That aside, PRS is going to be a finicky comparison. Paul has been quoted in public about how his humbuckers are designed to mimic single coils. The DGT and Miles Kennedy are quite explicit in this regard. Even so, I could take your P-38 and give you a very wide pallette that would put all these in an opulent corner. A pickup swap would be in order, plus the Seymour Duncan Superswitch, but I can promise a satisfying experience. The warning I will give at the beginning is I have better wiring in my house than yours.
My wife only cares about making sure there's enough room for another guitar, otherwise she doesn't care how many I have. One of the benefits of moving to a digital rig is getting rid of amps to make space for more guitars... 🤣
Yeah I think pickup sounds are kind of overrated as a thing to think about when buying a guitar. When I go shopping plugging the guitar in is the last thing I bother with… if it doesn’t feel right in my hands and I don’t like playing it I don’t care what it sounds like through an amp because I’m not going to buy it.
I'm wondering: would an overdrive pedal make the differences more or less apparent? That might make for an interesting part two of this video. Because justifying the purchase of overdrive pedals is another reason why we all lie to our wives. "But... this one has germanium!"
We need to have different guitars because they make us happy. As long as you're not spending the baby's diaper money on guitars then you're good.......also true: I am not a financial advisor 😂
I don’t lie to my wife. I just tell her I’m gonna buy a guitar because I want to :) also TGIFludd
That's also a possibility!
Yeah I tell my wife I'm "just looking" at reverb and craigslist. And then mysteriously sometimes new packages show up. 😜
@@AJHillis it’s funny how many contests you keep winning 😉
Come buy and eat without money or price. 😅 why would you have to tell a bitch anything? There is no marriage in heaven. But I think the point is, that you don't have to buy it😅save yourself some trouble dude bootes
Mine just sees my guitars multiplying, from my first one last year to now ten, and doesn't say anything, but I know that she hates me for it. Many wives get pissed off when they see their man doing something he enjoys instead of doing chores and only what she wants.
The behind-the-scenes moment of you explaining the joke where you set up all the guitars was probably funnier than the actual joke would have been, so it worked out hahaha.
It felt pretty easy to guess if it was the split humbuckers or the singe coils, even in round 3. Everytime the sound example sounded brighter and more quacky, it was a clear sign that it was the single coils. The split humbuckers are always more warm. By far, I prefer the sound of humbuckers and i'm not the biggest fan of strats but it's clear to me that if you need that quacky sound, you gotta have single coils.
I guessed the pickups correctly, but didn't even try guessing the guitars. I play a Strat that I've modded, including changing the pickups from original single coils, to noiseless stacked single coil sized pickups, and then finally to a regular size humbucker in the bridge, a dual rail single coil sized humbucker in the neck, no middle pickup, tone controls for each pickup and a master volume.
This setup allows me to get hum and noise free sounds, a wide variety of tones, including ones similar to the 2nd and 4th Strat switch positions, and no volume decrease when using the neck pickup when doing wide string bends. I also use an HX Stomp, as that makes emulating different guitars and pickups much more convincing.
Great video! They all sounded great! Looking forward to see the Holcomb review!
I have the SE Custom 24 and the coil tap isn't very impressive, except in the middle position. That's where it really shines.
I have a Schecter Hellraiser with EMG pickups with the single coil option that sounds surprisingly amazing, like really surprising.
I love the wiring on my Charvel DK24. It's just 2 hum buckers but with a 5 way switch and a series/parallel switch and I've never not been able to get any sound I want out of it.
tone is in the eyes
Man it can’t be said much better. I was playing through a budget bass amp with a digital multi effect on my first gig. I had some complements on my tone.
I've always liked the tone of my PRS split coils, there is nothing like it and they sound so close to my strat specially the neck pickup.
Whew. 9 seconds in and i am vindicated. I was preparing to be offended, but an immediate acknowledgment of those of us living the Quack Life.
Quack life 🎸
One of my current builds has an interchangeable pickup system. While I've gotten gold foils, lipsticks, and p90s for it, I'm using coil split quadrails and humbuckers for the single coil voicing. I suppose I could add a set of single coils, but the guitar only has neck and bridge positions. And the electronics let you mix and match coils from the neck and bridge positions (inner coils, outer coils, etc). That might get close to a Strat bridge+middle or a middle+neck sound. I don't know for sure, I've never had or even played a guitar that can mix coils. And I've been playing for 44 years and have 92 guitars!
My standard Tele and P90 LP Special are both single-coils but completely different animals. My Schecter PT Saturn super tele and LP Studio both have splittable humbuckers and are also completely different animals. My other guitars are all straight humbuckers and still have a great variety of tones and personalities. I love 'em all.
my main takeaway was also that the DGT sounded good, i particularly liked it's split neck pickup sound though.
Interesting. To me differences are more brightness, warmth, clarity, quack, attack, etc. but they are more subtle than I thought it would be, they are really close and could fill many music needs. I think it falls to the user and how it feels or connects them. I like them all.
Got all correct actually. But I'm also a huge fan of Neck and N+M strat sounds, so those instantly jumped at me.
Pickup position also makes a huge difference. Having then Neck pickup over the 24th fret (with 21+22 fret guitars) changes something in the tone that I can instantly recognize for some reason.
Awesome comparison btw ❤
Ironically(?), my takeaway from this is that I don't need a neck humbucker.
After a bunch of research, I've been thinking lately that, in the future, I might want to get a Zexcoil pickup set similar to the set in your Parker Nitefly, but with an HSS configuration rather than HSH.
That way, position 4 would have the least compromise when it comes to having an "authentic" Strat-style sound, and position 2 should still be pretty good in that regard while also offering bridge humbucker tones, since the Zexcoil TriBucker isn't a traditional/"true" splittable humbucker, but rather a humbucker voiced Zexcoil and a single coil voiced Zexcoil slapped together as a single unit.
And, if I still wanted neck humbucker tones, everything I've read/watched suggests that trying to match warmer tones by darkening brighter pickups is a lot more effective than trying to match brighter tones by brightening warmer pickups. I figured that I could probably use amps/plugins/EQ to darken either the neck single coil or the bridge humbucker to get extremely close to that sound if needed, and your conclusions in this video definitely support that.
Great job, Dr.! Nice little SRV "Lenny", yeah, you got caught... lol .. I'm a strat guy but I've got a PRS Santana SE with upgraded p'ups (DiMarzio) with each splitable but my main guitar is a custom built strat
My favorite pickup combo is neck outer coil and bridge inner coil. I had an ESP that did that while I was living in Japan, and it was incredible for fingerstyle playing. Kind of Tele-ish, I guess.
Another intriguing and entertaining video! I gave up trying to figure things out after round one - I quickly realized I had no clue about which was which. I agree with your conclusions, especially your point about hearing the differences in tone in the context of a mix. If someone can play well then a listener will respond to it no matter what kind of guitar they're playing.
this is really intresting to me . i dont have alot of money so ive only had two guitars my whole 25 years of playing, both single coils. now , usually in your blind tests im agreeing with you for the most part but this time was totally different . the single coils stand out so much to me.
ive noticed a few simillar comments so i guess maybe some peoples ears are more trained to it if they havent had consistent first hand access to humbuckers.
the best way for me to describe it is when people say about the glassey strat tone . in your video thats what i was hearing and made me able to pick out the single coils without even trying,
Great video! Embarrassed (and enlightened) to say I got a few wrong!
I picked the single coil/Silver Sky on every test correctly and as my favorite on most of them. I honestly didn't expect to like it so much lol. But you're right, they're very close, and all sound good.
Re: your concluding statement - truer words were never spoken. I’m glad you said it. I have over 20 guitars because it’s fun. But I cours play any one of them in almost any situation.
I like that I can say, "A doctor told me it's okay to have a lot of guitars." If they assume MD, that's on them.
😂 take next week off and kick back with your fav dual humbucker axe. Doctor’s orders.
And, as a guy who loves the 4 & 5 (bridge) sounds of a Strat, my one complaint with the Silver Sky SE is that those pickups are nowhere near shrill enough for me. The bridge and middle positions, to my ear, are superior.
My results:
1HN, 2SN, 3SB, 4HB [not that difficult]
5HN (MC), 6SN, 7HN (DGT), 8HB (DGT), 9SB, 10 HB (MC) [basically I have switched the dgt with the mc, but recognized the single coil vs split humbucker]
11SS2, 12DGT2, 13MC2, 14SS4 [this was a extremely hard round I got right DGT vs MC but switched SS4 with MC2].
Without my headphones, in a live situation i will never be able to detect split humbucker vs real single coil let alone MC vs DGT, this is crazy.
Great video!
I'm completely stuck on Rio Grande Big Bottom sets (Muy Grande Humbucking in the Bridge and a Tallboy Humbucking in the Neck). Each with a pair of true single coils in a humbucker configuration. With Duncan Triple Shot rings, push/push pots for out of phase or series/parallel and a '50's Gibson tone circuit I've yet to seek a tone I couldn't find. Installed in 2 Ibanez FR's (Ash) and an early Les Paul Studio (Alder body) so far.
That's quality content, man! One interesting thing is... the way the guitar 'looks' interfere in the way we play... it's like a "mojo" thing. Nice video!
I got some tonerider classic alnico 2 humbucker pickups for my chibson les paul and I installed them with the Jimmy Page wiring scheme. I was blown away by how similar the neck split sounded to my strat neck and how close I could get to pos 2 and 4 by messing with the phase and series parallel switches with the split coils.
I highly recommend checking out those pickups!
Now I'm curious how they compare to the pickups in the DGT
I have a Fender Tele HH with the split humbucker and I can notice big team from when I play with my strat. I’m sure it doesn’t matter to someone listening but it matters to me
I definitely preferred mostly humbucker tones. I used to be a single coil guy but the humbucker tones are more subdued and seem more controllable. A Strat bridge pickup is always to bright for my ears.
you need dark speakers, and dont set everything at noon
@@Healcraftor he can stay with what he’s using and not have to worry about the amp settings and benefit from not getting the hum from singles.
@@yactabay well of course, but some people are allergic to putting the treble below 5
@@Healcraft ha ha, yeah
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Useful.
I've been using my PRS SE Custom 24 for all my single coil sounds for several years now. I actually prefer it over my old 70s Strat.
The difference between is really clear in the 3 round the complex qestion was comparing the Mcarthy and DGT. the silversky sound es totally diferent
I find it pretty interesting that I come to very different conclusions from yours, I got all the single coils right, and I have to say I also preferred them. But I am also a single coil guy who almost never uses himbuckers, so naturally I'd gravitate towards them. And you can use singles for most things anyway so I see little point in humbuckers, other than to buck them hum when using distortion maybe when on stage
Hmm. I got 0/4 on the first test (I think I misunderstood the test somehow). But I got 5/6 on test two (missed #8) and I got 4/4 on test three. I didn't get any of the extra credit for knowing which guitar was which though. Thanks for the great test, Andre!
My results: 1HN, 2SN, 3SB, 4HB, 5SH, 6S, 7SH, 8SH, 9S, 10SH, 11S2 (1 wrong). Round 3 was very hard and I felt like I was mostly guessing. Round 2 I think I was using the hum which is a little bit of a tell, but think I probably would have gotten it anyway. Agree the split DGT sounded very good. Good test and I am definitely reevaluating some things.
I am too. This might have also cured my HsH fascination.
You just proved to me that I don't need so many different guitars. I just have to buy me a PRS now... and all my GAS problems are fixed! 🙂
I couldn't decide but I did enjoy all the tones... So my conclusion is get any of them and you will be happy
I like that approach as well
Until the guy at the store laughs right at you when you ask when the DGT SE will be in stock.
Great video, thank you. Though, you could say the same about humbuckers in Jazz when you listen Lange or Tory Slusher playing Jazz on a telecaster
There are a ton of jazz greats who played Teles. Ted Greene of course being the most famous
@@andrefludd I think you're right, its about how the guitar feels physically as an object.
Love the comparison and each new video makes me want an SE even more.
One critique though - I don't think this test going straight into the amp is the best way to test. We all play with some amount of gain and compression and in my experience those accentuate the sound of the pickups, better highlighting the differences. I think doing this with a boost or transparent overdrive between the amp and guitar could make it differences more apparent. 🤷♂
My results though - Round 1 was too easy. Round 2 and 3 were harder but I got a few right. You're totally right that if you have to rewind to figure it out, that's a sign the difference isn't enough to matter.
I must admit that culling down even a small guitar collection means less multiple old rustng string changes at the least and less basic instrument maintenance too which means more free playing time. Leaving guitars unplayed for many months can cause strange things to happen to your neck and maybe tuners too from what i've read plus digging out and rotating guitars in and out of gig bags from the closet is just one more a back pain causing chore to me.
Haha. I could reliably pick out the silver sky, but I'm not sure that is the one I preferred 😅
Used to think I wanted a strat, just for how iconic it is (and Gilmore), but after watching this, I think I need to carefully evaluate if I don't prefer the split coil in my Åkerfeldt SE.
No, but I explained it to my wife honestly, I like to collect guitars. Having said that, I have multiple guitars for multiple reasons multiple tunings, so that I don't have to constantly change things up. I do have two core Silver Sky's, but that was because I like the rosewood and maple boards.
the editing is great. You're doing that thing where it zooms in to punch-in instead of jump-cutting to the punch-in... I think it would be even better if you let some of those being jump cuts, that way you're not leaning too hard on that zoom-in trick. Great content!
Funny you mention that. I usually do mix it up between the zoom and the jump. But you are totally right, didn’t use the jump at all this video.
thanks for doing clean sound comparisons andre. i think i would definitely save up to get a Se DGT2. on a different note could you do a video on ibanez RG 565 EG(Emerald Green)? i know it's a Rock Based Guitar and all but i'd love to hear your opinion on how versatile it can be on other genres if it can even do that sort of a thing.
i was doing great in the 2nd round. i have been playing a tele since a year and i generally like clean tone and i could definitely notice what sounded like a neck and bridge singlecoil.
in round 3 i was completely wrong but i wish you played some melody instead of rhythm.
They are fairly similar. With EQ, amp settings etc. the minor differences wont even matter. Even less in a band setting.
Bro i am in love with my coil split seymour duncan black winter. Like how the HELL is it so good?
Totally bombed tests 1&2 so I gave up hope and then... aced three. Funny how that works out. Stop thinking too hard and you start succeeding.
@2:16 Fludd should totally be a Mortal Kombat character.
I wonder if you were comparing the Silver Sky with the NF3 SE with the NF3's volume backed off just a tad, if you did a test between the two in all positions, if a person could pick out which is which...Now in regard to different guitars in recording, and how one guitar fits into a particular mix compared to another on the same mix of a track, my guess is that, depending on the track, a person would pick a specific one over any of the other options, because in that particular song, one just achieves what a person is looking for in the particular song better than what the others achieve...but that is just a guess, and that is not to say the others wouldn't sound just fine in the track; it would be that the one just sounds better in the track vs the others from the artist's perspective.I didn't do the test, because I don't own any of those guitars...
Ok fair point. But let’s agree that P90s, mini humbuckers and jazzmaster pickups are totally unique and so I do still need a lot more guitars.
out of curiosity which guitar and pickup setting did you use to set up the amp sound?
I'll say it. 80%(made up statistic) of my guitar choices was based on looks, how i think I look holding a guitar, who I see in my head as I play the guitar (Eddie, Clapton, Gilmour, Prince, Page, Satriani) This wasn't the case when I was a kid. I played what I had. Aesthetics really only took hold once I had money in my pocket. As I get older its starting to go back to "All in one"
I just tell my wife a passed a store window, and there was a once in a lifetime discount...
Hey! Did you sell your Bedford Bob Weir? Don't see it.. BTW, really dislike not knowing which is which until later. I can't evaluate like that. But maybe I'm the only one.
Best Regards and Best Wishes!
Yep I sold it :)
@@andrefludd :(. I still enjoy it. Keep doing what you do best!
In all honesty the only difference I heard was that the sliver sky sounded brighter and the others warmer. I have a 2020 epiphone les paul that does the coil split. But I want a silver sky just to say "yeah I needed a different tone" (I don't but I want I want it)😅
Tone begins with scale length! Strat 25.5 les paul 24 5/8 PRS 25 .
what if you compared HSH vs SSS instead HH vs SSS?
I was really looking forward to taking this, but my sleep deprivation is too much right now (awake 33 hours).
I got every right except I thought 14 was silver sky and 13 HB
Well I figured most of them even on Airpods and to me there is a tremendous difference. Humbuckers simply don't have this chime of singles whatever you do.
1 and 2 were easy. You just listen to low mids and top end chime. More low mids humbucker, more chime single coil. Round 3 much more difficult. I had to listen carefully twice before I could be pretty sure. But you just have to listen to the high mids in good but familiar headphones and then it becomes easier. Not saying I would get them right every time - definitely not - but humbucker bridge high mids are often honky and a touch veiled, even if bright and low output or wide range humbuckers they still sound like they are pushing through a low pass filter. They are not naturally extended like single coils. Compare 14 vs 13 and you'll hear what I mean about extended. That said strat style guitars have a percussive neck pickup which is a tell and if they have a tone knob wired to bridge and rolled back it's going to be way harder to tell there. But I think once you move away from 250k pots in Strats and Teles toward 1 megaohm pots in Jazzmasters and Jaguars, it becomes really obvious because they are even more extended in the top end. You really have to add a lot of gain before it becomes hard to tell. But I think it's better to think about what a guitar offers in a certain position. Like if you want the quack in 2 and 4, or the tight percussive neck on strat, clear but full middle position on jazzmaster, twang on tele, or the Gretsch tone - no PRS is ever going to cop a Gretsch hollow body tone. And that's a good thing.
I use humbuckers, but I still like to have real single coils around. I agree it's not completely necessary.
I don't know, but there is something special about a Strat with a good neck single coil pickup and distortion that a Humbucker can't emulate.
I've known guitarists that claim to be able to pick up the color of the guitar by the tone. Some swear red has a softer more defined round tone. Or was it a black one. Or maybe green. Possibly a white one😮🙄🤔😒😏
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Cory Stevens? I luv you, Man!
acoustic, strat, tele, bass
I currently want to buy a couple guitars because I have pickups that could be put in them.
The brain worms go deep.
And for different tunings... Except I only use one tuning...
My 5c. Silver skys pups are not the quackiest singles ever. Something quackier (Say, Fender 57/62 set) or more “classic” would have stood out much more.
I probably shouldnt be watching this because I'm all about that neck position LP life, but the alternative is me actually doing my job, so let's see where this goes
do split coil vs single neck only vs bridge only. thats what matters.
My main takeaway, I should buy more guitars that way I can show myself I don't need to buy more guitars.
The only single coils worth using are fishman fluence....WOW are they out of this world HOT
I don't have a wife anymore. Her exit had little to do with guitars and more to do with she couldn't stand the sight of me. It's been thirteen years, and she still can't abide anything to do with me. I'd be bitter, but I have eighteen guitars now. I'm mollified for the most part.
You pick up the guitar thinking you're going to score chicks, but instead, you wind up with a room full of middle-aged men chatting about your nails.
The brotherhood (and let's face it: it's mostly guys. Women are more than welcome, but they are bound to be outnumbered.) of guitar is a splendid cast of characters, and I would be devastated to leave it.
That aside, PRS is going to be a finicky comparison. Paul has been quoted in public about how his humbuckers are designed to mimic single coils. The DGT and Miles Kennedy are quite explicit in this regard.
Even so, I could take your P-38 and give you a very wide pallette that would put all these in an opulent corner. A pickup swap would be in order, plus the Seymour Duncan Superswitch, but I can promise a satisfying experience. The warning I will give at the beginning is I have better wiring in my house than yours.
My wife only cares about making sure there's enough room for another guitar, otherwise she doesn't care how many I have. One of the benefits of moving to a digital rig is getting rid of amps to make space for more guitars... 🤣
Thank god it’s not the 80s
Yeah I think pickup sounds are kind of overrated as a thing to think about when buying a guitar. When I go shopping plugging the guitar in is the last thing I bother with… if it doesn’t feel right in my hands and I don’t like playing it I don’t care what it sounds like through an amp because I’m not going to buy it.
It's better to have 20 guitars and only need 1 than to need 20 guitars and only have 1. 😂
I'm wondering: would an overdrive pedal make the differences more or less apparent?
That might make for an interesting part two of this video.
Because justifying the purchase of overdrive pedals is another reason why we all lie to our wives.
"But... this one has germanium!"
We need to have different guitars because they make us happy. As long as you're not spending the baby's diaper money on guitars then you're good.......also true: I am not a financial advisor 😂