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The home of guitarist, singer and songwriter, Ben Smith. One half of Smith & Brewer, UA-cam presenter for Andertons Music, and host of the podcast Making & Breaking Guitars.
The Vintage Revo Elektra - bolt on neck 60s acoustic vibes that's ready to hit the stage.
If you're looking for a gig ready acoustic guitar that is very immune to feedback, doesn't need batteries, but still has a wide range of tonal options, then the @VintageGuitarsOfficial Revo Elektra is for you. Throw in the fact that it also holds it's own acoustically, and that it's basically got a super comfortable electric style neck and you're getting the idea of what the Elektra is all about.
0:00 - Intro jam (acoustic mic only)
0:55 - What am I looking at today? The Vintage Revo Elektra
1:42 - Specs
2:16 - The Neck
3:18 - The Pickup - Alan Entwhistle XS75
3:41 - The ATN5 tone control
4:41 - Playing examples DI only of the ATN5
7:57 - Single Strum examples
8:55 - More strumming examples
9:43 - A note about strings for magnetic pickups
10:59 - Outro Jam
More info here - www.jhs.co.uk/products/vintage-revo-elektra-natural-silk?_pos=2&_sid=f237f473a&_ss=r
Here's what Vintage say -
The new Vintage REVO Elektra Series of electro-acoustic guitars continue the retro lines and hybrid theme of the highly successful Vintage REVO series of electric guitars.
Once again, designed by world renowned UK guitar designer and hardware specialist Alan Entwistle.
Specification
• Top: Spruce
• Back & Sides: Acacia
• Body: Acacia
• Soundhole: Wooden Rosette
• Neck: Bolt-on Maple
• Fingerboard: Rosewood
• Bridge: Rosewood
• Inlays: Pearloid Block
• Scale Length: 650mm
• Frets: 20
• Nut: Bone
• Pick up: Alan Entwistle XS75ND Astrosonic QX
• Tuners: Wilkinson WJ01 E-Z Lok
• Controls: Volume, ATN5 - 5 Way Rotary Frequency Selector
• Strings: High quality USA made
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0:00 - Intro jam (acoustic mic only)
0:55 - What am I looking at today? The Vintage Revo Elektra
1:42 - Specs
2:16 - The Neck
3:18 - The Pickup - Alan Entwhistle XS75
3:41 - The ATN5 tone control
4:41 - Playing examples DI only of the ATN5
7:57 - Single Strum examples
8:55 - More strumming examples
9:43 - A note about strings for magnetic pickups
10:59 - Outro Jam
More info here - www.jhs.co.uk/products/vintage-revo-elektra-natural-silk?_pos=2&_sid=f237f473a&_ss=r
Here's what Vintage say -
The new Vintage REVO Elektra Series of electro-acoustic guitars continue the retro lines and hybrid theme of the highly successful Vintage REVO series of electric guitars.
Once again, designed by world renowned UK guitar designer and hardware specialist Alan Entwistle.
Specification
• Top: Spruce
• Back & Sides: Acacia
• Body: Acacia
• Soundhole: Wooden Rosette
• Neck: Bolt-on Maple
• Fingerboard: Rosewood
• Bridge: Rosewood
• Inlays: Pearloid Block
• Scale Length: 650mm
• Frets: 20
• Nut: Bone
• Pick up: Alan Entwistle XS75ND Astrosonic QX
• Tuners: Wilkinson WJ01 E-Z Lok
• Controls: Volume, ATN5 - 5 Way Rotary Frequency Selector
• Strings: High quality USA made
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The Rapier Deluxe - huge tonal variety from 3 pickups with some clever switching..
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The Rapier Deluxe does a great job of capturing that sixties vibe, and keeps some of those more unique switching ideas that really open up your tonal options with the guitar - a bass cut switch and a middle pickup with it's own volume control. 0:00 - Intro jam 1:58 - What am I looking at today - The Rapier Deluxe specs 3:43 - Pickup demos - Bridge & Neck 7:26 - The Middle Pickup, and what you c...
The Revo Superthin - more like Superfun! 3 pickups, 4 switches, 7 available settings! 🤯
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Retro vibes with modern playability and 7 - that's right, 7 - possible pickup settings make the @VintageGuitarsOfficial Revo Superthin a super flexible tonal tool that can do more than you might think... Lot's of fun to be had! 0:00 - Intro Jam 1:57 - What am I looking at today - The Vintage Revo Superthin 2:46 - Specs 4:00 - Pickups and Switching 5:24 - Individual pickup demos (With and withou...
The Vintage REVO Colt HH Hardtail. Short scale rock'n'roll fun... :-)
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The @VintageGuitarsOfficial REVO series are great fun. REVO stands for Retro Vintage Original. They're retro inspired original designs, and are a lot of fun to play. :-) The Colt has a hardtail bridge and a pair of Humbuckers, with tonal options increased even further with a bass cut switch. It works really well, and is nice and comfy to play. 0:00 - Intro Jam 1:01 - What is it? Specs! 2:18 - T...
The Fret Dancer - an authentic sounding old fashioned fingerpicker with some modern surprises..
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The @VintageGuitarsOfficial Fret Dancer ticks a lot of boxes for me - punchy midrange and some nice mid twentieth century styling, designed by a great player, and all the better for it. I had a lot of fun with it. :-) 0:00 - Intro Jam (Mic Only) 1:04 - The Fret Dancer - a bit of backstory of the guitar and it's design.. 2:06 - Specs 3:13 - Strumming demo and thoughts 4:15 - Bluesy picking and m...
Surf's Up! The Vintage REVO Surfmaster is a thinline vibe machine! 🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊🌊
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The @VintageGuitarsOfficial REVO Surfmaster Thinline is a ton of fun in a cool, retro inspired package. 2 pickups, but 15(!) different tones thanks to the ATN5 Variator, this can cover a lot of ground, and you'll have huge amounts of fun doing it! 0:00 - Intro Jam 1:31 - What is the Surfmaster Thinline? Specs... 3:53 - The bridge pickup 4:51 - The neck pickup 6:10 - Both pickups together 6:47 -...
Super Simple Lead Guitar Lesson 2 - 4 more notes! (Intro to the Pentatonics pt.2.)
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Welcome back! Lesson 2 will take you through the next 4 noted of the Em pentatonic scale in the open position, and having you playing lead lines in no time! You don't need to know any theory to try it, you just need to try it. In case you missed it, here's lesson 1 - ua-cam.com/video/6N6SFJqDQbM/v-deo.html Have fun! 0:00 - Intro Lick 0:28 - What are we doing today? 0:47 - Lesson 1 Recap 1:04 - ...
Super Simple Lead Guitar - improvise a solo with only 4 notes in no time (Intro to the Pentatonics.)
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Do you not know where to start with playing lead lines and improvising? Well then you've come to the right place! This is the first lesson where I will take you through learning to play and improvise solo lines, starting off by using only 4 notes of the E minor pentatonic scale. You don't need to know any theory to try it, you just need to try it. Have fun! 0:00 - Intro Lick 0:26 - What are we ...
Get Better At Blues Rhythm Guitar #13 - The Last Of This Series! A Shuffle on top, grease below...
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The last, but by no means least! This is a more unusual style of rhythm playing, following on from the 'piano' style we covered in lesson 12. This one's a lot of fun, take it nice and steady, and keep the rhythm of your fingers nice and solid, which takes some practice. Huge credit to @officialblakemills5750 for the inspiration behind this technique - if you've not heard him play then you're re...
Piano style rhythm chops! - Get Better at Blues Rhythm Guitar - Lesson 12 🎹🎹
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Piano players have it so easy, what with being able to play two part at once with two hands and everything. FEAR NOT! Here's a way to divide the guitar and your picking into two different parts that interlock like a barrelhouse piano on a a saturday night. It's a new technique to this series, and it'll take a bit of practice, but that's fine, you can definitely do it. 0:00 - intro and catch up ...
Classic Spruce/Mahogany dreadnaught tones from the Canadian made Godin Metropolis Classic
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The Metropolis model from @GodinGuitarsOfficial is their take on the classic combination of a spruce top with mahogany back and sides, and it's a winner. Made in Canada, this guitar combines a slope shouldered body with a 25.5" scale length to really deliver on all the classic tones you'd want and expect from a well made, solid wood dreadnaught guitar. It's also fitted with an L.R. Baggs Elemen...
A Canadian made Archtop that I didn't want to put down - the Godin 5th Avenue CW II Cognac Burst 🍁
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@GodinGuitarsOfficial are to blame for making my recent interest/obsession with archtop guitars much worse than it needed to be! I had a lot of fun with this guitar. :-) This model, the Canadian made 5th Avenue CWII Cognac Burst is a 50's influenced hollow body archtop guitar with 2 great5 P90 pickups and all the features and playability that you'd expect from a modern guitar. Specs are below, ...
Get Better At Blues Rhythm Guitar Lesson 11 - Move That Bass Line!
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Let's have a look at a different type of rhythm playing, with a simple moving boogie-woogie style bass line and some more 'horn' style stabs on top. Start with the bass line on it's own, then start adding the stabs when you're comfortable with it. Have fun, and see if there are any variations you can come up with. It takes time to get the hang of it, which is fine, so look for progress, not per...
Let's add some lead parts! Get Better At Blues Rhythm Guitar - Lesson 10 (Building on lesson 1!)
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Oooh-ee! Let's get those lead parts HAPPENING! Building up on lesson 1's original, let's add some horn style stabs to the thumping bass line. Practice SLOWLY, and only add a note or two at a time until you're super comfortable with it, then move on to the next one. Build it up slowly, look for progress, not perfection! As ever, feel free to mess with it and make it your own. 😀 0:00 - Waffle 0:3...
Get Better At Blues Rhythm Guitar - Lessons 8 AND 9! Building up some funky variations... 😉
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Get Better At Blues Rhythm Guitar - Lessons 8 AND 9! Building up some funky variations... 😉
The Utopia Delay from Anasounds - Modulating musical goodness... 😀
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The Utopia Delay from Anasounds - Modulating musical goodness... 😀
Get Better At Blues Rhythm Guitar - Lesson 7!
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Get Better At Blues Rhythm Guitar - Lesson 7!
Get better at Blues Rhythm Guitar, Lesson 5 AND 6! (whoa! black Friday special! 🤣)
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Get better at Blues Rhythm Guitar, Lesson 5 AND 6! (whoa! black Friday special! 🤣)
Get Better at Blues Rhythm Guitar - Lesson 4
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Get Better at Blues Rhythm Guitar - Lesson 4
Get Better At Blues Rhythm Guitar - Lesson 3. Still keeping it simple...😀
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Get Better At Blues Rhythm Guitar - Lesson 3. Still keeping it simple...😀
Get Better At Blues Rhythm Guitar - Lesson 2 - the next simple step...
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Get Better At Blues Rhythm Guitar - Lesson 2 - the next simple step...
Want to get better at Blues Rhythm Guitar? Here's Lesson 1, and it's super simple...
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Want to get better at Blues Rhythm Guitar? Here's Lesson 1, and it's super simple...
HiLava 2.0 - A new OS for LavaMe guitars with Effects, Loopers, Lessons, Backing Tracks and More!
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HiLava 2.0 - A new OS for LavaMe guitars with Effects, Loopers, Lessons, Backing Tracks and More!
A GREAT sounding acoustic, with a touchscreen, speaker, and multiple apps? 🤯 Unboxing the LavaMe4...
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A GREAT sounding acoustic, with a touchscreen, speaker, and multiple apps? 🤯 Unboxing the LavaMe4...
The Focus Fuzz Silicon from @greateasternfx - still hot! The most useable Fuzz around?
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The Focus Fuzz Silicon from @greateasternfx - still hot! The most useable Fuzz around?
The Xvive XU4T9 In Ear Monitoring system, super easy to use, and it sounds great.
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The Xvive XU4T9 In Ear Monitoring system, super easy to use, and it sounds great.
Use A Thumbpick! Pt.1 - Make it fit, make it easy to use! How to modify your thumbpick...
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Use A Thumbpick! Pt.1 - Make it fit, make it easy to use! How to modify your thumbpick...
Martin Kovar SP Core Strings - New tonal options and a long life without the coating..
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Martin Kovar SP Core Strings - New tonal options and a long life without the coating..
The Xvive U2 wireless guitar transmitter. It's soooo easy to use...
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The Xvive U2 wireless guitar transmitter. It's soooo easy to use...
The LAVA ME 3 36" - An acoustic guitar like no other I've ever played! (it's got a touchscreen!)
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The LAVA ME 3 36" - An acoustic guitar like no other I've ever played! (it's got a touchscreen!)
So happy to discover your channel. Love your playing over at Andertons. Definitely wanted to up my acoustic skills and this seems like the perfect place to do just that :)
I was going to get an Epiphone Casino before I watched this video.
Hello, saving this one to watch tomorrow, I was wondering do you use metronome for practicing? I bought this nice Wittner Piccolo for electric guitar practices, and I am aiming to use it... Cheers!
I do - I find them very useful for slowing me down so that I can really hear any mistakes and correct them before using them to get me up to speed.
I'm simple man. When i see ben with acoustic, i click so fast.. amazing fingerpicker
Very interesting, Ben, thanks. One question; what was the mic that you were using? Sometimes it was still live whist the pick-up was in use. The Alan Entwhistle XS75 seems to favour one string over the others or is it my hearing - what's left of it! Best, C
The guitar mic is an AKG C451, but it was only live during the intro. As I mentioned in the video, it's always worth considering specialist strings for acoustics with magn etic pickups, like the Martin Kovar strings.
Is it equipped with electric strings please?
No, these are phosphor bronze I believe.
@@bensmithguitar oooh. That's interesting
Nope don't like the sound of it.
It is surprisingly much better than most in my opinion. Just look at Andertons pickup swap video done with this gentleman in this video 😅
I bought one and sold it the next day. I think they suck big time. no fan of cherry wood in guitars...lacks soo much I don't know where to begin...save your money
I'll have to respectfully disagree with you there, I enjoyed this guitar a lot.
@@bensmithguitar glad you like it, I just others I like much more
An excellent guitar and another great review. Informative and with brilliant and clear sound comparisons.
Hi Ben, How's the string tension? I'm eyeing one and I play a lot of fills that reuire bends. Looks a little stiff, but hard to tell just watching you play it.
Something about it looks and sounds uninspiring. I'd rather add money and buy an ES-175. Even an Epiphone Joe Pass or an Ibanez Pat Metheny.
Crap website
surprised how good it sounds acoustically. I've been getting into Joe Pass and Chet Atkins stuff lately and this is a nice axe to start with. Same nut width as the old ones
Thanks to your excellent ‘promotion’ I’m collecting my flame maple Emily Rose next week. Now I need to keep watching you to learn how to play it. I know you’re not on a commission from Auden but you should be!
I was waiting for this since I saw it hanging on the wall in the other video. Is it similar in tone to the rapier 33?
For Jatoba fretboards, I'd recommend boiled Flaxseed oil, which I've read online back, and applied it's really cool, it was perfect for that wood imo... Niceee playing!!
Great review, very informative, excellent playing too!👍
Pretty cool. I’m getting one
Sounds freaking great. Nice playing bud
Have one on the way! Thanks for the demo.
12 frets sound so good. I like this guitar it's very crisp and balanced. I just ordered an AP66shb but would love this to go along with it.
Is the bridge attached to the body somehow? I hate those guitars that have the bridge just moving underneath the strings, when restringing you'll need to guess basically where to put the bridge hoping you'll be right and you haven't messed with the scale length and intonation.
That was as sweet as pie. Your affection for it shows. Thanks for the show.❤
When i see someone enjoy playing as much as you it brings me joy. Beautiful playing and great review.
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That’s cool ass sounding guitar.
It really is. 😁
I have the red one. Great guitar with vintage tone. Andcthe vibrola gives no tuning issues. ( no dive bombs off course)
I picked up the fret dancer after one of your vids :-) wish I could play it well though
That's great! How are you getting on with it?
@@bensmithguitar not well enough :-) but enjoying it :-)
I bought me an Ortega six string banjo and I love it! However, I wish I could play it like you do. Love the joy you bring along with your playing. Greetings from the Netherlands 🇳🇱
Hello! I am a 76 Y.O. whose been playing the single P90 version for well over two years at live gigs several times each month. This guitar does it all for my catalog of songs. I added some pedals to change the sounds (everything from ballads to light rock) and the guitar, IMHO, just does it all. It is SOLID, stays in tune, and I have had zero issues with it. I use D'addario Chrome flat wound strings which really mellows out the tone. I choose these because the majority of the songs i do fit that 'style'.
I make my own thumbpick by drilling two holes in a flatpick and putting a zip tie through them and size it to my thumb. Perfect for fingerpicking and strumming and flatpicking. A regular thumbpick is too hard and clumsy for me.
There's a L-122 for free on market place and I'm dying to pick it up for a guitar amp. Lol. Cheers!
Thank you for your well detailed review! I hope on your next video, you take a drink of water first so that you don’t appear like struggling✌️ Thanks again!
I absolutely love these strings. Have them on a Martin D35. I too like that these are not too "shimmery". They are more subtle when new but yet they keep sounding new for longer. They have a gorgeous mid tone and bring a new kind of sound to Martins I feel.
Interesting to come across a video like this. I've had my 5th Ave since around 2010 and it is hands down my favourite thing to play. I have acoustics and electrics which are in more demand for what I do, but given the choice I'd always pick up this guitar I love it so much. Particularly the neck; easily my favourite neck of any guitar I've ever played and I wish I could bolt one on my Strat. It's all laminate construction---which is perfectly fine on an archtop IMO---but that has the benefit of making it a tank. I do not humidify it in winters, and it gets played constantly and it just takes it and keeps on rocking. Godin and their family of companies (Seagull, A&L, etc.) are excellent value for money.
I have Alan Entwistle designed Nemesis AFG's on my Hamer XT, which makes me look at anything Alan Entwistle is associated with as something to listen to. The Surfmaster is a great guitar!
Great lesson Ben,can you tell me which name of guitar and model?thank you so much,have always nice music😊
Thanks! Glad you like it. That's my Auden Emily Rose model in Tobaccoburst. Great guitar. 🙂
I have a Yairi DYMR70SB, it's this same model, but completely hand made in Kani, in the hills north of Nagoya Japan , at Yairi's shop. It's made with East Indian rosewood that has been aged for 15 years, before being used. It is a 12 fret, with ebony bridge pins, ebony(Direct Coupled) bridge, ebony fretboard, and Gotoh 510 open gear tuners, with ebony buttons and a slotted headstock. I've owned A LOT of high end acoustic guitars. THIS guitar is my number 1 acoustic. The tone, the overtones, the projection, the balance and the sustain, the note separation, are better then ANY other guitar I've ever played or owned.
What do you mean by its harder to hit the open D than not hit it? :) Great lessons just confused as how during the strum you're not playing the open D or if you're muting it? Thanks!
Are you strumming the G string with your finger while your thumb plays the E and A strings?
How is this guitar under 500 pounds it's going new for over 700 dollars which is still over 500 pounds
Finally. Some one just says it, “yeah it’s uncomfortable. Life is uncomfortable. Deal with it.”
I like this guitar. You made it sound fantastic.
Great review and with a nice, not too dark tone. Could you also do the model with the 4 pickups? I wonder how they sound, if they are true single coils, etc.
While you are a fantastic guitar player, I'll never understand the idiotic faces some players try to impress us with.
It’s a string review, not a performance at the Grand Ol’ Opery. Pretty sure the guy just loves playing (something you can hear), and the last thing he thought about was how his facial expressions would hurt the wanker keyboard warrior.
I just got my DaveDavePicks Ord thumb pick. It's a game changer! I'm so impressed not only with the pick itself - very thick, smooth, carefully made - but with the packaging, thank-you note, and sweet stickers. Maybe someday I'll customize a pick like you showed here, but until then, I HIGHLY recommend the Ben Smith Ord thumb pick by DaveDavePicks!!
I don’t know why Alvarez doesn’t get enough love like a Martin or Taylor in my opinion they are just as good or even better in some cases
Great playing and a fine sounding guitar. The electronics seem really impressive. Looks like great value for money. I'd really like to hear the 12-string version!😎
I have an earlier version, no cutaway, only the one neck pickup (no bridge pickup). And natural blonde color, no staining. But otherwise very similar. I'm a crappy guitar player, but I like this one a lot! Very nice to see that someone who actually can play guitar also likes it! 😀
Awesome guitar and you are an awesome player
Nice guitar
Super demo. It seems a very sophisticated pickup system for such an inexpensive guitar. It captures the look and sound of an old timey guitar perfectly. It reminded me of a Harmony Sovereign a friend used to have. Now If only the neck was a bit wider---but that's just me. Can't wait to hear the 12 string!
I have been a big fan of Alan Entwistle since fitting a pair of HV58 pups to my old Epiphone Les Paul. I had been imagining my perfect Les Paul sound and it was right there soon as I plugged in after the swap. I have been obsessing lately how to get that great gretsch sound without spending 'vintage correct' Gretch dollar... Turns out Alan's got my back again..!! Thanks for such a fantastic demo. Nice 👌