Just a quick heads up, the Rode Mic wasn't recording so it's shotgun room mic only on this video 🤣. If you have something to add to the list please comment below. Thanks again! 😀
the unbiased solid state claim is not accurate; most solid state amps are not junk; the guy that handle it is the junk part of it. Learning to use the EQ knobs to timbre the sound is something that takes time. Also, not everyone likes or needs the tones of blues.
I've heard you mention albums you have made. I would be interested in buying some. Maybe you could do a vid about the different albums you've made and what they have on them and what you used to make them. Perhaps you have a favorite? I've been watching for almost 2 years now and always enjoy your playing and your content. Peace and health.
LOL!!!! This can be the case. So much of tone is what you can get out of something when you play. One of my students swore my 22 year old Godin LG was better than his Godin Summit CT until we swapped guitars in lessons. "Hey, my guitar sounds great too." Hahahahaha.
Whenever I think I "need" a more expensive guitar, I ask myself the following: Which would be more enjoyable to listen to: a) Richard Thompson playing my guitar, or b) me playing Richard Thompson's guitar? Until the answer is b (it never will be!) I'm not going to worry about "needing" a more expensive guitar!
Lesson 1: next time heed your wifes warning about bringing home another guitar. Or, instead, buy a large double gun case and put the guitar in that and sneak it in and hide it amongst your collection she's lost count on.
About three weeks ago, I sold a guitar for the first time ever. Why? I helped a friend make bail. A small price to pay for a mans freedom. Plus, it was just so Rock n Roll....on the way to the jailhouse to get him out, my local was playing some hardcore blues tunes. I felt like Elwood Blues going to get Jake.
I started playing in 1981, and put down the Guitar several times over the years. But now, with all the RESOURCES available now I'm hooked like I've never been before. "In my day" we got a chord book, and listened to our favorite songs on records, over and over. WHAT A TIME WE LIVE IN!!!!
I would have to disagree. Until recently, my home was right on the ocean. That said, I can tell you for a fact that ocean air will wreck a guitar fairly quickly. In that environment, guitars come out of their case, get played, get cleaned and all wiped down and then put back in their case. I live in a different environment now with the guitars and amps having their own room and I still keep the guitars in cases and all of my amps, cabs and combos have their own covers as well. A fair amount of the gear around me is 50+ years old and I have an obligation to keep it in the best possible condition for the next generation of players.
Last time I put all my guitars on a stand, my house got broken into and they all got stolen. Now I put them all away in their cases and hide them throughout the house.
I just gave my 23yo son a beautiful 1989 Olympic White MIJ Strat for Christmas that I’ve owned for a couple of years. I’ve also got an equally-beautiful 1985 Olympic white Strat. I love them both (one has rosewood fretboard and the other one has a maple 1-piece neck with skunk stripe). They are so similar, but different, and I don’t use them enough. My young bloke is a better guitarist than I am and I’m confident that he will use it and look after it. My decision to pass it onto my son was largely based on your attitude to accumulating too much stuff. I’m happy that it’s going to get used and the frets will get worn out. All the best for 2021 and keep up the great work!
Some good advice here. I couldn’t play that well when I bought myself an American Deluxe Telecaster. Part of me said ‘you’re not a good enough player for that guitar’. But I’ve still got it.......still love it. Bought it more than 20 years ago
@@watersnortmoment3734 not really, if you have a good squire. Squire is probably better than a $15,000 guitar. It's all in your mind. You gotta learn to burn, and the squire is the best one to do it in.
As a guitarist who’s been through a lot of different gear in the past, almost 40 years, I say great video! I still have the Peavy Studio pro combo I started learning in. Just had it fixed up. But! I’ve also put a modest home studio together with vintage gear, Marshall JMP-1 preamp, Alesis quadraverb, TCElectronics Gmajor… new crown power amp. Loving it! The quest for “your perfect tone” , never stops. But I think I have it now.
I still have a 1994 Peavey Bandit 112 Teal Stripe and it’s my foundation amp. I use a Zoom G3x multi-effects pedal into it, and it does the job just fine.
Heh! I have an old teal Peavey Special 112 on which the preamp section is completely dead. Nobody seems to know how to repair it. BUT, the power amp section works fine so I just put pedals in the effects loop return and basically use it as a huge and clean power amplifier... it sounds HUGE! I'm glad I didn't let it go for 40 $ a few years ago... I was out of my mind :)
A Custom Strat I've put together myself, into Line6 PODHD400, into an original 50Watt Peavey Bandit on an amp stand pointing up at my ears. Big gig, mic the amp into PA.
Shane! You are my new favorite guitar channel. You’re such a straight shooter and tell it how it is that I don’t have the urge to double check or filter everything you say. And just like other comments I see here, your recommendations are always spot on. Keep doing what you do and I’ll keep watching!
Glad you mentioned the Roland Jazz Chorus. I have a JC77 that was a hand-me-down from my older brother who taught me how to play. Any praise for the JC always makes me feel all warm and fuzzy.
This is a good reality check! I realized recently that so many gain pedals that sound night-and-day different on a track sound almost the same live in the room, and it was quite a wakeup! Ya just gotta get what works and then go play!
The interner convinced me i needed a tube amp on my 300 dollar budget as a teen, ended up with a all tube crate v33. Ive been buying and selling gear and my goto amp is now a solid state b52 lg100a, a much more powerful and useable amp.
My biggest mistake in gear is your videos giving me GAS!! Based on your videos alone I have owned a Fender Mustang III with your patches, a Bugera V5 and most recently a Marshall DSL40CR. I love your channel Shane but my wallet does not. I will say, every piece of gear I have based on your recommendations has been spot on. Thanks for doing what you do!
It's all about the relationship you have to your gear and not whether it's budget or high end. I've had a yamaha pacifica 112v for the past 18 years I always go back to even if it stays in the case for certain stretches of time. I've got lots of guitars in my flat and I play all of them on and off. Recently, I took out an old epiphone wes montgomery style model I hadn't touched in years because I've started working with a sax player and it has renewed my love of the instrument. The music it makes sounds wonderful.Thank god I didn't sell it to buy pina coladas at some vacation resort! Give your gear time to work for you...
Agree with everything here except your take on the modern wave of modelers/profilers. I sold off my amps and pedals and use my Helix direct to FOH with a small FRFR to monitor myself along with in-ears. Can't think of a reason to go back to hauling all that analog gear around anymore.
Your endorsement of Peavey Bandits has made me wonder if there aren't more Peavey solid state amps worth looking at. There's been a Peavey stereo chorus for sale near me for a while. Only reason I haven't looked at it is having enough amps.
I've had my Peavey Bandit since 1991, and other than the scratches on the side of the cabinet where one of our cats decided to engrave it with her autograph, it still plays great 30 years later!
I wish I still had my Carvin sx100 solid state amp. They don't make them anymore but they were awesome and even got the Guitar Player pick of the month way back when!
I started playing in the mid sixties with a Mustang and a 50s Champ, years before pedals( excluding wahs and fuzz) and digital amps. I went through the new guitar thing once but learned it is all about playing and dialing in your sound. It was a huge upgrade getting a twin reverb in the 70s, and I grooved with just reverb through the decade. I'm a minimalist now with one solid state and 2 tube amps, only 10 guitars, 10 pedals, a bass and that's all I need for now. Good video man. You're observations are real close to my own.
I definitely believe in getting what you want the first time and not making concession for price or versatility. Doesn't mean get the 2k dollar guitar vs a 500 dollar one necessarily, staying in budget is important! It also applies to pedals and amps too. Just spend the extra up front to buy what you want and bypass the re-selling part!
I hear more and more UA-cam guys saying similar things about solid state amps ... most mention the same few, but no one ever seems to mention Orange Crush series. These solid state amps are awesome! Sound great and take pedals well. Lots of great points here! I have Joyo AC Tone, and, much like the American, sounds great! This channel and a couple of others have me convinced to get more from Joyo.
One of the greatest dirt bike riders of all time was Roger Decoster. An interviewer asked one of the other competitors after the race if Roger's win was because he had a better ride. The fellow responded by saying that Roger was so pumped up, he could have been riding a tricycle and he would have won.
I have been playing 50 years and I agree your tone is in your head and hands. I can play a Squier Bullet Telecaster and get a similar tone as a Fender American Standard Telcaster. Happy with the full range of Squier and Fender Guitars.
I like the new stuff at NAMM because the older models go on sale. NAMM just happened, Jackson came with a few new models, and lo and behold, the sl2q that I had been eyeballing for months dropped dramatically in price. Got it in a heartbeat. Thanks for the new stuff, NAMM!
My mistake with solid state amps was the opposite: I was too loyal to them. Everything I seemed to read/hear about tube amps when I was starting out was that tube amps were maintenance-intensive and unreliable, so I was solid state all the way. I didn't get my first true tube amp until a few years ago. I missed out on a lot of tonal fun.
I did the opposite, started with a tube amp, a Sound City 50+ but could never get the tones I wanted and because it wasn’t a “master volume” amp everything was always way too loud! Switched to an H H IC100s combo, then Award Session Sessionette and now a Blackstar ID60 TVP, got the tones I wanted at the volumes I need! Every once and a while I think about wanting a tube amp but then plug into the Blackstar, get the tone in my head and think, what’s the point!
I moved to solid state after getting ripped off by an amp tech. He charged $130 non-refundable deposit, kept the amp for a couple of months before calling me to collect it and saying it couldn't be fixed. Another tech fixed it later. I have found a few great solid state bargains secondhand after that.
@@ces69 A lot of older tub amps were totally NON-versatile, and had no way to attenuate power, so it was either loud or not. At least most of the older Marshall heads or Fender Twins or Reverbs had two channels or more, so you had some control over output and gain. My new Vox VX50 actually has a power level selector so you can literally dial in any kind of power level you want. And it works very well indeed.
Good point about the “sound in your head” mantra. I have multiple plugins from free to downright expensive in my DAW and no matter which one I use or which combination of amps, mics, speakers, pedals I still seem to gravitate towards the same sound I like. The same between my Valve Marshall and my Bandit. It helps when you need a good sound out of someone else’s backline gear that’s unfamiliar.
There’s a lot I can agree with here but I’ll just say my kemper is the best purchase I’ve ever made. I know it’s not for everyone but I love how it works and being able to save performances and not worrying about knocking knobs out of place. But, to each their own!
Great video with much wise advice! Regarding #7 however - I really do hate to be a contrarian, but I don’t think I can get on board with that one. Back in the 1970s, I de-cluttered ownership of my 1965 SG Standard, 1967 Jazzmaster, 1967 ES- 335, numerous black face Fender amps, a 1971 Marshall Super Lead with both cabinets and a Les Paul Professional. All were purchased brand new at a total cost (for all), of around $3500. To say I wish I still had them is a massive understatement.
Responding to #4 on the list about multi-effects pedals. If you want to be able to tweak your sound live, add a couple of expression pedals to your rig. That way if you want to be able to dial in more or less reverb, chorus, delay etc. you can do it without scrolling through menus.😊
#3 resonates with me I played through a fender twin and an orange rockerverb 5 recently and it didn’t sound all that different than when I play through my two solid state combos
I've honestly never found a full blown tube amp that I've loved, I've just always played solid state amps and I'm used to the attack that they have. The only tube amp I love is my Peavey Classic VTX, and it's still got a solid state preamp
I bought a highway one Tele back in '08 and to me it out played all of the other more expensive fenders they had. I still have it and it plays better than ever.
Similar - I was with a chap looking for a bass, he tried heaps, some quite expensive. The Highway 1 Jazz bass was THE one that consistently put a smile on his face. So he bought it, and that smile persists!
I'm learning that your tone is a lot about what you don't want to be heard. Picking/strumming hand accuracy, dampening unwanted strings, string slide noise, string vibrating against the pick before you actually hit it, chord change timing, pinkie nail tapping the guitar body, unplanned pull off and hammer on, ... while deciding where you actually want your fingers to go and then sometimes the extra noise can be great.
I love my solid state fender side kick reverb and my vox da15 and my Marshall mg15 mini stack, and the new 2020 epiphone inspires by Gibson guitars are new and worth it to buy.
#3 is spot on. Learn how to make the guitar talk. The biggest mistake I learned was not upgrading my amp quicker. I was happy with my tone but I thought It was because of guitars and pedals. One day I plugged into a fender princeton and I realized that I should have been looking into amps before the guitars.
Yeh, I bought my amp before my guitar - a 68 Custom Deluxe Reverb. I still like it, and with the Strat, it gives the sound in my head that I was chasing.
Thanks for a great video. It was a pleasing tick box exercise. I have a US Fender Strat with a vintage bridge which I would never swop for a newer model. To me the newer models without a vintage bridge are just not Strats. There again, my influence was as a kid watching Hank Marvin on a black and white telly in the 60’s.
The 40 watt Fender Princeton Chorus is a great solid state amp, it was my first Fender amp but it kept blowing up finally, after two warranty repairs we gave up and the guy at the dealership gave me my money back. I eventually bought a Vibrolux which was better for me at the time but I wish I could have another Princeton, they're great.
I appreciate the time it takes to complete these videos, Shane. I love your honesty and agree with all the points you make. Buy a good guitar once and save the heartache of going thru multiple axes, I have done this as well. cheers T.
I just got one a month ago. I picked up the Orange Bax Bangeetar...for crunch and heaviness, nothing beats it. But I wanted Fender styled cleans...so I researched and found the Joyo. Love it and saved a bunch of money. I'm a bassist, but I record at home a lot, by myself (especially now). I don't want a hundred pedals so between these two, the possibilities are endless.
@@ferox965 Yeah, I’m not even sure why I continue to buy amps only invite one or two of the classic tones I can get out of this Pedal! I also am a bass player, but I have allowed the sophistication of my recording gear to get in the way of my recording. Seeing your comments encourages me to redouble my efforts!
@@Theweeze100 It's really easy to buy it all...I know for myself, I want to try EVERYTHING haha. And then I stop myself by saying, "Am I really going to use this?" Another line I love is the Tech 21 Flyrig line. I may get a few more pedals...Way Huge makes an awesome overdrive/fuzz pedal called the Pork and Pickle that I may pick up...and I'm probably going to get a cheap chorus pedal...I will probably fish through the Joyo line to get anything else I need. Cheers.
I liked that you mentioned the Peavey Studio Pro 112. I had a red stripe rounded corner model that I loved. Moved and that and 2 other amps were sold since space was tight. man, I have 12 guitars now and some haven't seen the light of day in nearly a year (apt life....). I'd need to be nearly destitute to sell anything. The amps was bad enough.
I had a 70's Kustom 100 Watt 2X12 Combo Solide-State Amp with a Nightmare Spring Reverb. I got it mainly for nastalgic reasons. Cost $200. My band mate rhythm player tried lead turned the amp up to Max volume and twangiddy boom, blew the speakers cones out of the amps front grill ! ! !😵, Then we ROFLOAO, then he repaired the amp and I padded that reverb tanks springs to guitten it down. I got a free 60's Fender Rhodes Keyboard Amp, which was 50 Watts per Channel Stereo , 4 square back Fender 25 Watt Speakers. I still have this amp and it works like new. It came from the Middle School I attended in the mid 70's. The amp was used as a PA System. I keep it because of it's nastalgia reasons and artists/ musicians such as my favorite Blues/ Rock dude icon and friendGregg Allman had and used, as did the late great Lap and Pedal Steel pioneer Zane Neck had and used one along with Fender Twin Reverb Valve Silver Face Twin amps and others such as the Roland Jazz Chorus amp. I learned so much from these two guys and members of the Nashville Wrecking Crew members and other artists that played at the local Jamboree Barn on Saturday nights . I had and my bass player sat in and jammed with these guys and gals, and we worked concessions also on the side . Now the place is a Veterinary Clinic ! ! ! I bought a Crate DC-120 2X12, solid state 500 Watt Combo Amp. I still have this amp. It has a Chorus and tube emulation drive, gain, EQ, master volume, effects loop, and a headphone output. It was and is still a work horse amp with a pristine clean channel, and the drive channel offers up just amazing tone and power. Cost me $200 in a pawn shop and is a mid 80's model.👍🤘 I have a 10 Watt Solid State Sears Silvertone 1X10 combo amp from the 60's and another 2 X10 15 Watts Solid State Sears Truetone combo amp with vibrato and Spring Reverb. I have a Roland Jazz Chorus 2x12 100 Watt Solid State Combo Amp, with effects loop, and headphone output. So many applications. I bought a 90's $30 Behringer 1X12 Combo Solid State 30 Watt Amp with Nasty Clean and DriveTones & Hummed Bad, and it got GONE ! ! ! Lots of gear come and stayed or got gone over the years ! ! ! I always take my own personal guitars and effects to try out amps of any brand, model and features. I play the amp out clean to drive, and I use all features, then I use add ons, comparing dry and wet tones ! ! !😎 Peace & Play 🎸 On . . .😎 👍🤘 DDHarris 2-12-202.
I sold a mint condition recent Epiphone Genesis guitar that I didn't use to a young man at work. I gave him a great deal, and he was thrilled to have it. Two days ago I gave him a mint guitar with Duncan Blackout active pickups that was just collecting dust at my house. He absolutely loves it, and it really fits his musical taste and playing style. I don't miss either guitar, and am especially thrilled that he loves and plays the Charvel Desolation DS-1 ST that I just gifted him.
Yeah.. My $40 Epiphone junior got a good pickup and reworked wiring... The Full Fat Les Paul I just got.. Doesn't even push it off first place. Diminished returns in effect at the low end. Also got a Bandit Silverstripe for $20 cdn.
I have been playing and collecting for 30 years, and have suffered from GAS for most of those years; now that my nephew has picked up the guitar, I have gifted him some really great gear that I wasn't using. I hope that he doesn't get the GAS but I am quite happy to be able to help him upgrade his equipment while making room for more gear in my jam room.... Which brings me back to your point that tone is in the hands. I can pick up any guitar and plug into any amp and still sound like me playing, albeit with slightly different colorations; I realized that quite a long time ago and that was the beginning of my GAS, wanting to have a full pallette of colors available for expressing the soundscapes in my mind. But I'm still a sucker for a deal on a beautiful great playing guitar!
I am something of a collector but I am building toward a studio set up. I have several different guitars, each with its own sound, as well as a few project guitars that I am upgrading over time.
Great advice here. We’re in a time where good gear is plentiful and affordable, so it’s hard not to turn into an obsessive purchase of new stuff. I’ve recently trimmed down my guitars and pedals as I realised it was starting to become a barrier to playing well
Your right on the hoarding bit. I see guys with 10 or more guitars and wonder why. I have four. 2 acoustics , one being electric accoustic. 2 electric. A strat and a Led paul. Covers what I need.
One of the deepest rabbit holes I fell into was deciding which DAW to buy and be married to long term due to the learning curve and commitment required. The good thing about hardware and gear is that it can be re-sold where expensive software and plug-in's can not.
Peavy had solid state nailed hands down in the late 70's through the 80's, I used and still own a Peavy Heritage and my pal used the Stereo Chorus, they sounded amazing ..
Old Peavey Bandits (blue label with Scorpion 12" speaker) are brilliant solid-state amps. Crazy loud, pedal friendly, and very versatile. They've been a mainstay in Nashville for decades.
I gig live with a Mooer GE300 for a few years now , I get great results . I create my own patches and I dont have to worry about patch chords failing . I love my pedals but once my patches set they are consistent everytime I put the unit on the floor , plugging it in and flipping the power on . I definitely have all my tones in my head and use that when Im setting up patches . Great advice Shane good points on all !
A decent and simple mutli effects unit is the Sonicake Rockstage(80's Arena rock sound) or the Twiggy(blues) version. Simple effects, sound great and reasonably versatile. Add a noise gate and you can gig with this pedal easily. John Robson has a video on it and I have the Rockstage. Check it out.
Great words of wisdom. I like when you were talking about playing live with a Kemper or alternative and you said something like "no body really cares anyway". If you're talking about the audience not caring about any nuances in tone or the brand of pedals you're using I have to agree. Most of the time the audience is there to have a good time, drink beer and check out each other. The band is for atmosphere. I've played with cheap stuff and expensive gear and no one has ever come up to me and said "wow that Ric sounds great through your AC30". Of course family members might come up and say things like "why do you have to play so loud" or "can you play Freebird?". Great videos.
My main gearing mistake was in buying my 2nd amp. 10 years ago I bought an amp way too loud than I needed, a GK MB115 which is a 200 watt bass amp. I thought at the time I was future proofing in case I started gigging but that never happened and my interest now is just in home recording. Never really used it and it usually won't even work now despite having almost no use over 10 years. Been debating how to get rid of it lately.
I bought a dual rectifier and box… hardly ever use it. Like you bought it for rehearsals and gigs ; so many less musicians out there these days to even create a band.
The old Yamaha G50 1x12 solid state amps are awesome for clean tones, and they have a great reverb tank that you can crash with a kick. They are undervalued and can be found for little money.
4:15 but the multi fx is just one extra element... the only reason i havent switched to full analog is i would have to add 7 pedals or more (and all those cables) just to play some crazy jams
Lol, 1st pedal I ever bought was the Joyo Gem box, demoed by you. Got me in this channel. Ya....I never use it either. I just stack pedals now. Thanks for the cool content.
An example for the namm thing: Fender updated their offset series (Mustangs, Duo Sonics). Now they are player series guitars but the quality stayed the same. They added some new colors but now they cost about 600 dollars instead 450 dollars.
My Boss ME-50 is loaded with dials and I play folk-softer-rock...dials are better...I so get why some players would find using it cumbersome. BTW, I do still use a Dunlop Fuzz and Crybaby as that nearly always sounds better than on a multi effect. Great presentation!!!
Yes. Good points. Shane. Buying a guitar is like buying a mirror. No matter how nice the frame looks, the middle section will still show you. Thank you sir!
"Sound" wise advice Shane and as you said the principles apply to most other things too, like photographic gear for eg. ( it's the photographer, not the camera ! ) Great tips for those on a budget. Some makes or certain models are well known for their great value while others have a reputation as a bit of a rip off, learning which is the case before buying makes sense, Buying Second hand and also modding / adapting equipment can often save money. Enjoy your channel Shane , keep up the good work and greetings from Scotland.
00:38 #1 Solid State Amplifiers Are Not All Junk! 01:42 #2 Next Year's Guitars Are Generally Not Better 02:34 #3 Guitar Tone Is In the Hands and Also In Your Head 04:03 #4 Digital Multi-Effects Won't Replace My Analog Effects 06:30 #5 Thinking Long Term with Guitar Gear
There’s so much to take into consideration with guitar. You’re learning how to use your fingers, what instrument to buy, how to tune and intonate the thing, how to use the controls on the instrument, what amp to buy, using the controls on that, if you’re going to use pedals and how to dial them in, what microphone and system you’ll use to record it, how all that works and what to edit. not to mention cables, strings, and cleaning. And do you need more options. Oh, and songwriting. And the rest of the band or instruments. And are you going to sing. Actually it’s amazing anyone sticks with it.
Good advice here. Though, as someone who has always used digi multi fx, the fact that I can't change knobs on the fly is why I like my Boss GT100. I use it in 4 cable method with an orange Rockerverb which fixes the flat, digital sound of the unit and leaves me with a great, versatile unit that I can program every song into beforehand, show up to the gig, plug it in, and off I go, no problems.
Really enjoyed your video. I am a budget player who gigs. I agree - there is good equipment regarding solid state amps. Very happy with the Marshall MGDFX30 (30 watt multi-fx solid state). I also use behringer pedals (compressor, blues overdrive, chorus, multi-fx pedal that I only use flanger, noise suppressor, and delay pedal). Just tweaked my sound yesterday to find sweet spots in the tone and remove the 60-cycle hum from my single coil pickups in the bass position. Very happy with it. Oh and my guitars are a Jackson SDQX Adrian Smith model, a fender MIM strat, and a Dean vendetta 3.0. I’m set - stayed in budget without risking quality. Best wishes to your channel.
The Headrush Pedalboard is completely and easily adjustable on the fly even during a live performance. All done using your feet and a large, easy to view screen. Simply choose the effect that you want to adjust, push the switch and adjust the parameters, using the Volume/ Wah pedal.
You nailed it about the American sound pedal. Spent about three years building my pedalboard not going cheap buying quality pedals. Then I buy this American sound pedal for $32. It was a game changer. It's always on, set clean and is the heart of my sound. Sounds better than the tube preamp on my amp.
Thanks for the shout-out to solid state amps! I have a mid-80s Marshall 5210, and it may be the best amp I have. I had a Peavey Bandit Red Stripe-awesome! Also, with amp-in-a-box pedals these days, you can get a great tube-esque tone anyway.
The Peavey "Bandit" is one of Peavey's best creations. Legendary crunch channel. That's some of the best distortion I've ever heard. Apparently they're a must have for swedish "Black Metal" according to many players of that genre. The Peavey Studio pro 112 0r 212 are really great amps as well. They have that legendary Crunch channel. Anything from the "Transtube" series is gold.
I hate it every time people say solidstate amps are worse than tube amps. Electrically transistors and tubes do the same thing, only the electrons don't flow between plates, which removes a bit of that organic sound of tube amps. Oh, and you're not wasting energy on warming up the tubes. Still absolutely love my PRS MT15 over my Blackstar ID:60TVP. As for your thing on pedals, I'm in love with my Headrush Pedalboard, and I think it's still really easy to adjust settings. You just hold the footswitch tied to the effect you want to adjust and then you get acces to all settings without having to bend over. Really saves my back. Though modeling is the standard for metal, because we're distorting everything anyways.
Roland Blues Cube Stage and Boss Katana MKII 100, I'm good! I like buying lower cost guitars and modding them to what I want. Makes them less likely to get stolen.
Silver Stripe Bandit and a GT212 CRATE running both ABY off a Junior. I have a Looper and a Compressor but I usually keep that on my bass rig. $20 and $40 purchases I couldn't say no to
All good insight thanks - Point #3 - agree and if you want evidence look at Robben Ford - he prefers an 80s Dumble amp which we know is a hugely expensive clean OD unit and it isn't gig-able (he wont take it on tour due to value and sensitivity to current changes). The Dumble was based (in part) on a Fender Bassman so he hires one of these or a Deluxe and plays through a Zendrive... it still sounds exactly like his Dumble because the sound is 99% Robben Ford. Plays a 335 / LP / tele and he recently got into a Epi Riviera - they all sound like Robben Ford. Incidentally, he uses D'addario 10s set fairly high, Planet Wave cables, Celestion G12-65's in his cab and plays on the neck pickup only... and you can buy an SSS Dumble clone head for around £1500 - but it wont do you any good trying to get his tone... you are not Robben Ford. None of us are :) Peace.
I love your videos and agree with you 95%. Once I bought a Gibson Lucille Es355 I never played another guitar. I just wish I would have bought it 20 years earlier. I would have saved myself a lot of frustration and money. The only thing I disagree with is multi FX processors. They make playing live less frustrating and are a bit more reliable than a bunch of cables and pedals that can crash on you on stage. I’m weird but found that playing a multi fx processor through the front of a clean tube amp really sings. It’s very reliable and takes up less space on stage, which is valuable real estate. I love that today we get choices in gear. In the past all you had was pedals and tube amps. I don’t believe in one way to set up gear and love when people mix the old with new. The Orange Cr120 is the most unbelievable solid state amp I’ve heard. I’ve been playing a Digitech Gsp1101 since it came out and love everything about it. If anyone doesn’t want there’s anymore, I’ll buy it from you. All your other points are spot on! Love you videos Shane!
Couldn’t agree more about the solid states, I switched from a fender blues deluxe to a boss katana. I like the solid state a lot more, it sounds so much clearer and it a lot lighter.
My opinion, and let me make that perfectly clear! Is that single unit pedal boards are far easier to gig with. I have had a lot of road experience using both a traditional board (with independent pedals) and digital units, and find that the latter are fare easier. This of course depends on you taking the time to find which one works easiest as far as interface and programming. The advantage to the boards are that once programmed correctly and understood, the knobs don't get bumped around, cables/connections don't fail, and you get a consistent on stage sound. That being said, they need to be run through a quality amp, mic'd correctly (57 off axis and 609 on axis) and NEVER directly into a FOH board. Otherwise the audience will never know the difference. They couldn't really give a crap about your pedal collection unless they happen to be guitarists. That being said, I am mainly a studio rat. In the studio, you want exactly what you speak of.... but truth to be told- if you add some tape emulation/compression or re-amp certain parts; you'll never know the difference. Especially if you have a good engineer! Carry on!!! I'm 110% on everything else you mentioned, and will pass this video along!!!! Thanks for your time and energy. Plus no worries about the Rhode. They can be finicky by model and pre-amp.
Just a quick heads up, the Rode Mic wasn't recording so it's shotgun room mic only on this video 🤣. If you have something to add to the list please comment below. Thanks again! 😀
Omg your right marshall lead 12 solid state is amazing!!! Appreciate all your content been watching you for years keep it up!!
@KC completely agree!!
intheblues I was going to mention it but glad you got it figured out.
the unbiased solid state claim is not accurate; most solid state amps are not junk; the guy that handle it is the junk part of it. Learning to use the EQ knobs to timbre the sound is something that takes time. Also, not everyone likes or needs the tones of blues.
I've heard you mention albums you have made. I would be interested in buying some. Maybe you could do a vid about the different albums you've made and what they have on them and what you used to make them. Perhaps you have a favorite? I've been watching for almost 2 years now and always enjoy your playing and your content. Peace and health.
Someone once asked me, " I suck at guitar. Should I get a delay?" I responded, "Sure, then you can have two of you that suck at guitar."
That's great XD
words of wisdom from my wife... Don't buy another guitar, buy some guitar lessons!
LOL!!!! This can be the case. So much of tone is what you can get out of something when you play.
One of my students swore my 22 year old Godin LG was better than his Godin Summit CT until we swapped guitars in lessons. "Hey, my guitar sounds great too."
Hahahahaha.
Whenever I think I "need" a more expensive guitar, I ask myself the following: Which would be more enjoyable to listen to: a) Richard Thompson playing my guitar, or b) me playing Richard Thompson's guitar? Until the answer is b (it never will be!) I'm not going to worry about "needing" a more expensive guitar!
ouuucchhhhh
Lesson 1: next time heed your wifes warning about bringing home another guitar. Or, instead, buy a large double gun case and put the guitar in that and sneak it in and hide it amongst your collection she's lost count on.
Up to number twelve. They look nice hanging on the wall.
About three weeks ago, I sold a guitar for the first time ever. Why? I helped a friend make bail. A small price to pay for a mans freedom. Plus, it was just so Rock n Roll....on the way to the jailhouse to get him out, my local was playing some hardcore blues tunes. I felt like Elwood Blues going to get Jake.
Been a year but thanks dude.. 😂
@@ksekhose8933 buy your friend a guitar!
Or tell him to not be a piece of crap and get arrested to begin with
@@firemarshal2629 lol
"All in the hands"............my sex-life the last 4 years.
You don't use it, you lose it. 🤣
69 likes lmao
Let me guess, “Your Married”? Lol
Damn 4 years is a while
@@mma1st105 Better than nothing
I started playing in 1981, and put down the Guitar several times over the years. But now, with all the RESOURCES available now I'm hooked like I've never been before. "In my day" we got a chord book, and listened to our favorite songs on records, over and over. WHAT A TIME WE LIVE IN!!!!
It was a mistake to keep my guitars in their case in the closet. I got a rack and put my six guitars on it and now I play them all more.
Yes! I always leave my guitars out and plugged into amps. Easy to grab when inspiration hits!
I’ve done the same but gone one step further, each even has its own strap which is left on (with strap locks)!
They all get played now!
yep... keep them where you can almost pick them up absent mindedly.
I would have to disagree. Until recently, my home was right on the ocean. That said, I can tell you for a fact that ocean air will wreck a guitar fairly quickly. In that environment, guitars come out of their case, get played, get cleaned and all wiped down and then put back in their case.
I live in a different environment now with the guitars and amps having their own room and I still keep the guitars in cases and all of my amps, cabs and combos have their own covers as well. A fair amount of the gear around me is 50+ years old and I have an obligation to keep it in the best possible condition for the next generation of players.
Last time I put all my guitars on a stand, my house got broken into and they all got stolen. Now I put them all away in their cases and hide them throughout the house.
I just gave my 23yo son a beautiful 1989 Olympic White MIJ Strat for Christmas that I’ve owned for a couple of years. I’ve also got an equally-beautiful 1985 Olympic white Strat. I love them both (one has rosewood fretboard and the other one has a maple 1-piece neck with skunk stripe). They are so similar, but different, and I don’t use them enough. My young bloke is a better guitarist than I am and I’m confident that he will use it and look after it. My decision to pass it onto my son was largely based on your attitude to accumulating too much stuff. I’m happy that it’s going to get used and the frets will get worn out. All the best for 2021 and keep up the great work!
Only seven mistakes? I've made way more than that.
Problem is, I have made some of these mistakes lots of times 🤣
...in the last 6 months :D
Some good advice here. I couldn’t play that well when I bought myself an American Deluxe Telecaster. Part of me said ‘you’re not a good enough player for that guitar’. But I’ve still got it.......still love it. Bought it more than 20 years ago
good insight.
i’ve always thought its better to have a great instrument that doesnt fight you when youre learning.
My logic for buying a fender over like a squire classic vibe or something like that was I could just sell it for about what I paid for it
@@leo._.vincent Well... closer to 60% of what you paid, but the squier would be close to worthless too.
@@watersnortmoment3734 not really, if you have a good squire. Squire is probably better than a $15,000 guitar.
It's all in your mind.
You gotta learn to burn, and the squire is the best one to do it in.
@@luismangiaterra1031 Hi there
''you gotta learn to burn ''
Do you mean.. learn to express your feelings with your playing?
As a guitarist who’s been through a lot of different gear in the past, almost 40 years, I say great video! I still have the Peavy Studio pro combo I started learning in. Just had it fixed up. But! I’ve also put a modest home studio together with vintage gear, Marshall JMP-1 preamp, Alesis quadraverb, TCElectronics Gmajor… new crown power amp. Loving it! The quest for “your perfect tone” , never stops. But I think I have it now.
My 59 Gretsch Jet is my biggest regret everytime I look at the invoice price - then I plug it in and figure I can always eat 2min Noodles.
Gretsches love 2 minute noodles, as well ... as do most guitars.
Throw away the invoice.
Me with a Squier, soul food, and a Peavey modeler amp seeing the thumbnail 😟
😂 It was a little misleading, at first.
I think you & your equipment are safe. 😉
keep your head up bud and rock with what you have.
@shallnotbeinfringed unlessuvotedem can confirm. i have a modded one with germanium sounds amazing.
I still have a 1994 Peavey Bandit 112 Teal Stripe and it’s my foundation amp. I use a Zoom G3x multi-effects pedal into it, and it does the job just fine.
I had a couple of bandits and i liked it more than my dsl 50
Heh! I have an old teal Peavey Special 112 on which the preamp section is completely dead. Nobody seems to know how to repair it. BUT, the power amp section works fine so I just put pedals in the effects loop return and basically use it as a huge and clean power amplifier... it sounds HUGE! I'm glad I didn't let it go for 40 $ a few years ago... I was out of my mind :)
A Custom Strat I've put together myself, into Line6 PODHD400, into an original 50Watt Peavey Bandit on an amp stand pointing up at my ears. Big gig, mic the amp into PA.
basement walls wont tell you how bad you sound
The first generation G3s are amazing
Shane! You are my new favorite guitar channel. You’re such a straight shooter and tell it how it is that I don’t have the urge to double check or filter everything you say. And just like other comments I see here, your recommendations are always spot on. Keep doing what you do and I’ll keep watching!
Namm Spam - Well said 😆
Glad you mentioned the Roland Jazz Chorus. I have a JC77 that was a hand-me-down from my older brother who taught me how to play. Any praise for the JC always makes me feel all warm and fuzzy.
been eyeing the JC 40. These amps are supposedly the cleanest around, perfect for a pedal platform too....and the chorus!!!!!
@@DrunkenRhinoceros The chorus makes everything sound like Enter Sandman. Lol.
This is a good reality check! I realized recently that so many gain pedals that sound night-and-day different on a track sound almost the same live in the room, and it was quite a wakeup! Ya just gotta get what works and then go play!
Every aussie has the "tell it like it is gene" coming through loud 'n clear. Good areas Shaney! 👍
Based on the thumbnail, I was worried he was going to put down my beloved Soul Food pedal. Glad to see that wasn't the case :-)
The interner convinced me i needed a tube amp on my 300 dollar budget as a teen, ended up with a all tube crate v33. Ive been buying and selling gear and my goto amp is now a solid state b52 lg100a, a much more powerful and useable amp.
My biggest mistake in gear is your videos giving me GAS!! Based on your videos alone I have owned a Fender Mustang III with your patches, a Bugera V5 and most recently a Marshall DSL40CR. I love your channel Shane but my wallet does not. I will say, every piece of gear I have based on your recommendations has been spot on. Thanks for doing what you do!
It's all about the relationship you have to your gear and not whether it's budget or high end. I've had a yamaha pacifica 112v for the past 18 years I always go back to even if it stays in the case for certain stretches of time. I've got lots of guitars in my flat and I play all of them on and off. Recently, I took out an old epiphone wes montgomery style model I hadn't touched in years because I've started working with a sax player and it has renewed my love of the instrument. The music it makes sounds wonderful.Thank god I didn't sell it to buy pina coladas at some vacation resort!
Give your gear time to work for you...
Agree with everything here except your take on the modern wave of modelers/profilers. I sold off my amps and pedals and use my Helix direct to FOH with a small FRFR to monitor myself along with in-ears. Can't think of a reason to go back to hauling all that analog gear around anymore.
Your endorsement of Peavey Bandits has made me wonder if there aren't more Peavey solid state amps worth looking at. There's been a Peavey stereo chorus for sale near me for a while. Only reason I haven't looked at it is having enough amps.
I've had my Peavey Bandit since 1991, and other than the scratches on the side of the cabinet where one of our cats decided to engrave it with her autograph, it still plays great 30 years later!
I toured with one in the late 80s, I'd just mic it and run through the mains at gigs. Great tones.
With scorpion distortion yes?
I have one. Used it for years. Sounds decent; weighs as much as a tube amp!
I wish I still had my Carvin sx100 solid state amp. They don't make them anymore but they were awesome and even got the Guitar Player pick of the month way back when!
I started playing in the mid sixties with a Mustang and a 50s Champ, years before pedals( excluding wahs and fuzz) and digital amps. I went through the new guitar thing once but learned it is all about playing and dialing in your sound. It was a huge upgrade getting a twin reverb in the 70s, and I grooved with just reverb through the decade. I'm a minimalist now with one solid state and 2 tube amps, only 10 guitars, 10 pedals, a bass and that's all I need for now. Good video man. You're observations are real close to my own.
Jonathan, 10 guitars and 10 pedals is a lot!!!
"I'm a minimalist now....only 10 guitars" hahaha
I definitely believe in getting what you want the first time and not making concession for price or versatility. Doesn't mean get the 2k dollar guitar vs a 500 dollar one necessarily, staying in budget is important! It also applies to pedals and amps too. Just spend the extra up front to buy what you want and bypass the re-selling part!
I hear more and more UA-cam guys saying similar things about solid state amps ... most mention the same few, but no one ever seems to mention Orange Crush series. These solid state amps are awesome! Sound great and take pedals well. Lots of great points here! I have Joyo AC Tone, and, much like the American, sounds great! This channel and a couple of others have me convinced to get more from Joyo.
One of the greatest dirt bike riders of all time was Roger Decoster. An interviewer asked one of the other competitors after the race if Roger's win was because he had a better ride. The fellow responded by saying that Roger was so pumped up, he could have been riding a tricycle and he would have won.
I have been playing 50 years and I agree your tone is in your head and hands. I can play a Squier Bullet Telecaster and get a similar tone as a Fender American Standard Telcaster. Happy with the full range of Squier and Fender Guitars.
I like the new stuff at NAMM because the older models go on sale. NAMM just happened, Jackson came with a few new models, and lo and behold, the sl2q that I had been eyeballing for months dropped dramatically in price. Got it in a heartbeat. Thanks for the new stuff, NAMM!
couldn't agree more- never buy anything when it first comes out...
My mistake with solid state amps was the opposite: I was too loyal to them. Everything I seemed to read/hear about tube amps when I was starting out was that tube amps were maintenance-intensive and unreliable, so I was solid state all the way. I didn't get my first true tube amp until a few years ago. I missed out on a lot of tonal fun.
funny about the tube thing,i hear it all the time.ive owned 15+ tube amps and have changed 1 tube in 30 years
I hear you. Same here. Nothing beats personal experience.
I did the opposite, started with a tube amp, a Sound City 50+ but could never get the tones I wanted and because it wasn’t a “master volume” amp everything was always way too loud!
Switched to an H H IC100s combo, then Award Session Sessionette and now a Blackstar ID60 TVP, got the tones I wanted at the volumes I need!
Every once and a while I think about wanting a tube amp but then plug into the Blackstar, get the tone in my head and think, what’s the point!
I moved to solid state after getting ripped off by an amp tech. He charged $130 non-refundable deposit, kept the amp for a couple of months before calling me to collect it and saying it couldn't be fixed. Another tech fixed it later. I have found a few great solid state bargains secondhand after that.
@@ces69 A lot of older tub amps were totally NON-versatile, and had no way to attenuate power, so it was either loud or not. At least most of the older Marshall
heads or Fender Twins or Reverbs had two channels or more, so you had some control over output and gain. My new Vox VX50 actually has a power level selector so you can
literally dial in any kind of power level you want. And it works very well indeed.
Good point about the “sound in your head” mantra. I have multiple plugins from free to downright expensive in my DAW and no matter which one I use or which combination of amps, mics, speakers, pedals I still seem to gravitate towards the same sound I like. The same between my Valve Marshall and my Bandit. It helps when you need a good sound out of someone else’s backline gear that’s unfamiliar.
Your channel feeds my gas, but your focus on usable blues/classic rock tones helps me to better buy with my ears. VERY helpful! Thanks!
There’s a lot I can agree with here but I’ll just say my kemper is the best purchase I’ve ever made. I know it’s not for everyone but I love how it works and being able to save performances and not worrying about knocking knobs out of place. But, to each their own!
Head and hands So true. I just decluttered 15 guitars in the past 3 months
Still have 9 .
@SonicChronos Bad case of GAS.
@SonicChronos No man but thanks for asking. I'm keeping the rest.
Great video with much wise advice! Regarding #7 however - I really do hate to be a contrarian, but I don’t think I can get on board with that one.
Back in the 1970s, I de-cluttered ownership of my 1965 SG Standard, 1967 Jazzmaster, 1967 ES- 335, numerous black face Fender amps, a 1971 Marshall Super Lead with both cabinets and a Les Paul Professional. All were purchased brand new at a total cost (for all), of around $3500.
To say I wish I still had them is a massive understatement.
Oh man! Tip #7 helped me so much! It made me appreciate my #1 and #2 guitars even more so.
Cheers from Anchorage Alaska!
Responding to #4 on the list about multi-effects pedals. If you want to be able to tweak your sound live, add a couple of expression pedals to your rig. That way if you want to be able to dial in more or less reverb, chorus, delay etc. you can do it without scrolling through menus.😊
Thanks for the mention of Gibson special w p90's - moded it and added a wcheap whammy and turned out lovely for basic rhythms and funky licks!
Solid advice, especially the point about diminishing returns as the price climbs.
So so true--in regards to so many things!
#3 resonates with me I played through a fender twin and an orange rockerverb 5 recently and it didn’t sound all that different than when I play through my two solid state combos
My guitars are like my kids...I can't sell them...I won't even lend them to anyone. Still, a very sobering and true video, Shane.
I've honestly never found a full blown tube amp that I've loved, I've just always played solid state amps and I'm used to the attack that they have. The only tube amp I love is my Peavey Classic VTX, and it's still got a solid state preamp
I bought a highway one Tele back in '08 and to me it out played all of the other more expensive fenders they had. I still have it and it plays better than ever.
Similar - I was with a chap looking for a bass, he tried heaps, some quite expensive. The Highway 1 Jazz bass was THE one that consistently put a smile on his face. So he bought it, and that smile persists!
I'm learning that your tone is a lot about what you don't want to be heard. Picking/strumming hand accuracy, dampening unwanted strings, string slide noise, string vibrating against the pick before you actually hit it, chord change timing, pinkie nail tapping the guitar body, unplanned pull off and hammer on, ... while deciding where you actually want your fingers to go and then sometimes the extra noise can be great.
I love my solid state fender side kick reverb and my vox da15 and my Marshall mg15 mini stack, and the new 2020 epiphone inspires by Gibson guitars are new and worth it to buy.
#3 is spot on. Learn how to make the guitar talk. The biggest mistake I learned was not upgrading my amp quicker. I was happy with my tone but I thought It was because of guitars and pedals. One day I plugged into a fender princeton and I realized that I should have been looking into amps before the guitars.
Yeh, I bought my amp before my guitar - a 68 Custom Deluxe Reverb. I still like it, and with the Strat, it gives the sound in my head that I was chasing.
@@cass2771 I thought it was the complete opposite. Now I tell people to invest in a good amp first then a good guitar. Unless your guitar is crap
Thanks for a great video. It was a pleasing tick box exercise.
I have a US Fender Strat with a vintage bridge which I would never swop for a newer model. To me the newer models without a vintage bridge are just not Strats.
There again, my influence was as a kid watching Hank Marvin on a black and white telly in the 60’s.
Thanks, Shane. I especially liked the one about tone in the hands and the head. I wish more gear channels gave this topic it's due emphasis.
The 40 watt Fender Princeton Chorus is a great solid state amp, it was my first Fender amp but it kept blowing up finally, after two warranty repairs we gave up and the guy at the dealership gave me my money back. I eventually bought a Vibrolux which was better for me at the time but I wish I could have another Princeton, they're great.
I appreciate the time it takes to complete these videos, Shane. I love your honesty and agree with all the points you make. Buy a good guitar once and save the heartache of going thru multiple axes, I have done this as well. cheers T.
Buy the best squire strat you can find, have it set up. if you can't play that, your not a guitar player your a poser.
I can’t say enough about the Joyo American Sound pedal!
Great episode btw.
I just got one a month ago. I picked up the Orange Bax Bangeetar...for crunch and heaviness, nothing beats it. But I wanted Fender styled cleans...so I researched and found the Joyo. Love it and saved a bunch of money. I'm a bassist, but I record at home a lot, by myself (especially now). I don't want a hundred pedals so between these two, the possibilities are endless.
@@ferox965
Yeah, I’m not even sure why I continue to buy amps only invite one or two of the classic tones I can get out of this Pedal!
I also am a bass player, but I have allowed the sophistication of my recording gear to get in the way of my recording. Seeing your comments encourages me to redouble my efforts!
@@Theweeze100 It's really easy to buy it all...I know for myself, I want to try EVERYTHING haha. And then I stop myself by saying, "Am I really going to use this?" Another line I love is the Tech 21 Flyrig line. I may get a few more pedals...Way Huge makes an awesome overdrive/fuzz pedal called the Pork and Pickle that I may pick up...and I'm probably going to get a cheap chorus pedal...I will probably fish through the Joyo line to get anything else I need. Cheers.
I liked that you mentioned the Peavey Studio Pro 112. I had a red stripe rounded corner model that I loved. Moved and that and 2 other amps were sold since space was tight.
man, I have 12 guitars now and some haven't seen the light of day in nearly a year (apt life....).
I'd need to be nearly destitute to sell anything. The amps was bad enough.
I had a 70's Kustom 100 Watt 2X12 Combo Solide-State Amp with a Nightmare Spring Reverb. I got it mainly for nastalgic reasons. Cost $200. My band mate rhythm player tried lead turned the amp up to Max volume and twangiddy boom, blew the speakers cones out of the amps front grill ! ! !😵, Then we ROFLOAO, then he repaired the amp and I padded that reverb tanks springs to guitten it down.
I got a free 60's Fender Rhodes Keyboard Amp, which was 50 Watts per Channel Stereo , 4 square back Fender 25 Watt Speakers. I still have this amp and it works like new. It came from the Middle School I attended in the mid 70's. The amp was used as a PA System. I keep it because of it's nastalgia reasons and artists/ musicians such as my favorite Blues/ Rock dude icon and friendGregg Allman had and used, as did the late great Lap and Pedal Steel pioneer Zane Neck had and used one along with Fender Twin Reverb Valve Silver Face Twin amps and others such as the Roland Jazz Chorus amp. I learned so much from these two guys and members of the Nashville Wrecking Crew members and other artists that played at the local Jamboree Barn on Saturday nights . I had and my bass player sat in and jammed with these guys and gals, and we worked concessions also on the side . Now the place is a Veterinary Clinic ! ! !
I bought a Crate DC-120 2X12, solid state 500 Watt Combo Amp. I still have this amp. It has a Chorus and tube emulation drive, gain, EQ, master volume, effects loop, and a headphone output. It was and is still a work horse amp with a pristine clean channel, and the drive channel offers up just amazing tone and power. Cost me $200 in a pawn shop and is a mid 80's model.👍🤘
I have a 10 Watt Solid State Sears Silvertone 1X10 combo amp from the 60's and another 2 X10 15 Watts Solid State Sears Truetone combo amp with vibrato and Spring Reverb.
I have a Roland Jazz Chorus 2x12 100 Watt Solid State Combo Amp, with effects loop, and headphone output. So many applications.
I bought a 90's $30 Behringer 1X12 Combo Solid State 30 Watt Amp with Nasty Clean and DriveTones & Hummed Bad, and it got GONE ! ! !
Lots of gear come and stayed or got gone over the years ! ! !
I always take my own personal guitars and effects to try out amps of any brand, model and features. I play the amp out clean to drive, and I use all features, then I use add ons, comparing dry and wet tones ! ! !😎 Peace & Play 🎸 On . . .😎 👍🤘 DDHarris 2-12-202.
I sold a mint condition recent Epiphone Genesis guitar that I didn't use to a young man at work. I gave him a great deal, and he was thrilled to have it. Two days ago I gave him a mint guitar with Duncan Blackout active pickups that was just collecting dust at my house. He absolutely loves it, and it really fits his musical taste and playing style. I don't miss either guitar, and am especially thrilled that he loves and plays the Charvel Desolation DS-1 ST that I just gifted him.
Yeah.. My $40 Epiphone junior got a good pickup and reworked wiring... The Full Fat Les Paul I just got.. Doesn't even push it off first place. Diminished returns in effect at the low end.
Also got a Bandit Silverstripe for $20 cdn.
I have been playing and collecting for 30 years, and have suffered from GAS for most of those years; now that my nephew has picked up the guitar, I have gifted him some really great gear that I wasn't using. I hope that he doesn't get the GAS but I am quite happy to be able to help him upgrade his equipment while making room for more gear in my jam room.... Which brings me back to your point that tone is in the hands. I can pick up any guitar and plug into any amp and still sound like me playing, albeit with slightly different colorations; I realized that quite a long time ago and that was the beginning of my GAS, wanting to have a full pallette of colors available for expressing the soundscapes in my mind. But I'm still a sucker for a deal on a beautiful great playing guitar!
I am something of a collector but I am building toward a studio set up. I have several different guitars, each with its own sound, as well as a few project guitars that I am upgrading over time.
Great advice here. We’re in a time where good gear is plentiful and affordable, so it’s hard not to turn into an obsessive purchase of new stuff. I’ve recently trimmed down my guitars and pedals as I realised it was starting to become a barrier to playing well
Your right on the hoarding bit. I see guys with 10 or more guitars and wonder why. I have four. 2 acoustics , one being electric accoustic. 2 electric. A strat and a Led paul. Covers what I need.
One of the deepest rabbit holes I fell into was deciding which DAW to buy and be married to long term due to the learning curve and commitment required. The good thing about hardware and gear is that it can be re-sold where expensive software and plug-in's can not.
Peavy had solid state nailed hands down in the late 70's through the 80's, I used and still own a Peavy Heritage and my pal used the Stereo Chorus, they sounded amazing ..
TNT
For me I never buy a guitar or amp without reviewing what I have and selling something most times! Part of the process.
Same here I just sold my Bassbreaker along with a few bits and bobs so I could get my blues jr.
Old Peavey Bandits (blue label with Scorpion 12" speaker) are brilliant solid-state amps. Crazy loud, pedal friendly, and very versatile. They've been a mainstay in Nashville for decades.
I gig live with a Mooer GE300 for a few years now , I get great results . I create my own patches and I dont have to worry about patch chords failing . I love my pedals but once my patches set they are consistent everytime I put the unit on the floor , plugging it in and flipping the power on . I definitely have all my tones in my head and use that when Im setting up patches . Great advice Shane good points on all !
A decent and simple mutli effects unit is the Sonicake Rockstage(80's Arena rock sound) or the Twiggy(blues) version. Simple effects, sound great and reasonably versatile. Add a noise gate and you can gig with this pedal easily. John Robson has a video on it and I have the Rockstage. Check it out.
Great words of wisdom. I like when you were talking about playing live with a Kemper or alternative and you said something like "no body really cares anyway". If you're talking about the audience not caring about any nuances in tone or the brand of pedals you're using I have to agree. Most of the time the audience is there to have a good time, drink beer and check out each other. The band is for atmosphere. I've played with cheap stuff and expensive gear and no one has ever come up to me and said "wow that Ric sounds great through your AC30". Of course family members might come up and say things like "why do you have to play so loud" or "can you play Freebird?". Great videos.
My main gearing mistake was in buying my 2nd amp. 10 years ago I bought an amp way too loud than I needed, a GK MB115 which is a 200 watt bass amp. I thought at the time I was future proofing in case I started gigging but that never happened and my interest now is just in home recording. Never really used it and it usually won't even work now despite having almost no use over 10 years. Been debating how to get rid of it lately.
I bought a dual rectifier and box… hardly ever use it. Like you bought it for rehearsals and gigs ; so many less musicians out there these days to even create a band.
I'm in purge mode right now. Sold two guitars in the past two weeks. Great tips Shane. Cheers
The old Yamaha G50 1x12 solid state amps are awesome for clean tones, and they have a great reverb tank that you can crash with a kick. They are undervalued and can be found for little money.
4:15 but the multi fx is just one extra element... the only reason i havent switched to full analog is i would have to add 7 pedals or more (and all those cables) just to play some crazy jams
Lol, 1st pedal I ever bought was the Joyo Gem box, demoed by you. Got me in this channel. Ya....I never use it either. I just stack pedals now. Thanks for the cool content.
An example for the namm thing:
Fender updated their offset series (Mustangs, Duo Sonics). Now they are player series guitars but the quality stayed the same. They added some new colors but now they cost about 600 dollars instead 450 dollars.
My Boss ME-50 is loaded with dials and I play folk-softer-rock...dials are better...I so get why some players would find using it cumbersome. BTW, I do still use a Dunlop Fuzz and Crybaby as that nearly always sounds better than on a multi effect. Great presentation!!!
Am I the only one that couldn't stop staring at the Pacman ghost? I was trying to see if my eyes were tricking me because it was changing colors.
Lol I didn’t even notice it until I read your comment.
Yeah, I thought I was tripping also.
I swear I did hell I was thinking I'd like to have one and at least two more of them.
Yes. Good points. Shane. Buying a guitar is like buying a mirror. No matter how nice the frame looks, the middle section will still show you. Thank you sir!
Also, I would add that buying an American Sound pedal when you have 7 amps sitting in the same room might not be money well-spent.
I have Roland Jazz Chorus. My fav amp ever. Absolutely transparent and LOUD!!
"Sound" wise advice Shane and as you said the principles apply to most other things too, like photographic gear for eg. ( it's the photographer, not the camera ! )
Great tips for those on a budget.
Some makes or certain models are well known for their great value while others have a reputation as a bit of a rip off, learning which is the case before buying makes sense,
Buying Second hand and also modding / adapting equipment can often save money.
Enjoy your channel Shane , keep up the good work and greetings from Scotland.
00:38 #1 Solid State Amplifiers Are Not All Junk!
01:42 #2 Next Year's Guitars Are Generally Not Better
02:34 #3 Guitar Tone Is In the Hands and Also In Your Head
04:03 #4 Digital Multi-Effects Won't Replace My Analog Effects
06:30 #5 Thinking Long Term with Guitar Gear
There’s so much to take into consideration with guitar. You’re learning how to use your fingers, what instrument to buy, how to tune and intonate the thing, how to use the controls on the instrument, what amp to buy, using the controls on that, if you’re going to use pedals and how to dial them in, what microphone and system you’ll use to record it, how all that works and what to edit. not to mention cables, strings, and cleaning. And do you need more options. Oh, and songwriting. And the rest of the band or instruments. And are you going to sing.
Actually it’s amazing anyone sticks with it.
Your #6 - diminishing returns - analogous to a compression pedal right - go past volume where compression kicks in and output ratio changes.
Good advice here. Though, as someone who has always used digi multi fx, the fact that I can't change knobs on the fly is why I like my Boss GT100. I use it in 4 cable method with an orange Rockerverb which fixes the flat, digital sound of the unit and leaves me with a great, versatile unit that I can program every song into beforehand, show up to the gig, plug it in, and off I go, no problems.
Really enjoyed your video. I am a budget player who gigs. I agree - there is good equipment regarding solid state amps. Very happy with the Marshall MGDFX30 (30 watt multi-fx solid state). I also use behringer pedals (compressor, blues overdrive, chorus, multi-fx pedal that I only use flanger, noise suppressor, and delay pedal). Just tweaked my sound yesterday to find sweet spots in the tone and remove the 60-cycle hum from my single coil pickups in the bass position. Very happy with it.
Oh and my guitars are a Jackson SDQX Adrian Smith model, a fender MIM strat, and a Dean vendetta 3.0. I’m set - stayed in budget without risking quality.
Best wishes to your channel.
The Headrush Pedalboard is completely and easily adjustable on the fly even during a live performance. All done using your feet and a large, easy to view screen. Simply choose the effect that you want to adjust, push the switch and adjust the parameters, using the Volume/ Wah pedal.
Much love from Austria, love your vids
I love your pac man ghost!! Thanks for the great advice Shane! You are pretty spot on.
You nailed it about the American sound pedal. Spent about three years building my pedalboard not going cheap buying quality pedals. Then I buy this American sound pedal for $32. It was a game changer. It's always on, set clean and is the heart of my sound. Sounds better than the tube preamp on my amp.
Thanks for the shout-out to solid state amps! I have a mid-80s Marshall 5210, and it may be the best amp I have. I had a Peavey Bandit Red Stripe-awesome! Also, with amp-in-a-box pedals these days, you can get a great tube-esque tone anyway.
The Peavey "Bandit" is one of Peavey's best creations. Legendary crunch channel. That's some of the best distortion I've ever heard. Apparently they're a must have for swedish "Black Metal" according to many players of that genre.
The Peavey Studio pro 112 0r 212 are really great amps as well. They have that legendary Crunch channel. Anything from the "Transtube" series is gold.
I have a Peavey Bandit 112 Red Stripe. It's one of the better amps I've played through.
I hate it every time people say solidstate amps are worse than tube amps. Electrically transistors and tubes do the same thing, only the electrons don't flow between plates, which removes a bit of that organic sound of tube amps. Oh, and you're not wasting energy on warming up the tubes. Still absolutely love my PRS MT15 over my Blackstar ID:60TVP.
As for your thing on pedals, I'm in love with my Headrush Pedalboard, and I think it's still really easy to adjust settings. You just hold the footswitch tied to the effect you want to adjust and then you get acces to all settings without having to bend over. Really saves my back. Though modeling is the standard for metal, because we're distorting everything anyways.
Roland Blues Cube Stage and Boss Katana MKII 100, I'm good! I like buying lower cost guitars and modding them to what I want. Makes them less likely to get stolen.
Silver Stripe Bandit and a GT212 CRATE running both ABY off a Junior. I have a Looper and a Compressor but I usually keep that on my bass rig.
$20 and $40 purchases I couldn't say no to
All good insight thanks - Point #3 - agree and if you want evidence look at Robben Ford - he prefers an 80s Dumble amp which we know is a hugely expensive clean OD unit and it isn't gig-able (he wont take it on tour due to value and sensitivity to current changes). The Dumble was based (in part) on a Fender Bassman so he hires one of these or a Deluxe and plays through a Zendrive... it still sounds exactly like his Dumble because the sound is 99% Robben Ford. Plays a 335 / LP / tele and he recently got into a Epi Riviera - they all sound like Robben Ford.
Incidentally, he uses D'addario 10s set fairly high, Planet Wave cables, Celestion G12-65's in his cab and plays on the neck pickup only... and you can buy an SSS Dumble clone head for around £1500 - but it wont do you any good trying to get his tone... you are not Robben Ford. None of us are :)
Peace.
4:02 ...it's all in the head (and the 4 x 12 the head sits on!).
I love your videos and agree with you 95%. Once I bought a Gibson Lucille Es355 I never played another guitar. I just wish I would have bought it 20 years earlier. I would have saved myself a lot of frustration and money. The only thing I disagree with is multi FX processors. They make playing live less frustrating and are a bit more reliable than a bunch of cables and pedals that can crash on you on stage. I’m weird but found that playing a multi fx processor through the front of a clean tube amp really sings. It’s very reliable and takes up less space on stage, which is valuable real estate. I love that today we get choices in gear. In the past all you had was pedals and tube amps. I don’t believe in one way to set up gear and love when people mix the old with new. The Orange Cr120 is the most unbelievable solid state amp I’ve heard. I’ve been playing a Digitech Gsp1101 since it came out and love everything about it. If anyone doesn’t want there’s anymore, I’ll buy it from you. All your other points are spot on! Love you videos Shane!
Couldn’t agree more about the solid states, I switched from a fender blues deluxe to a boss katana. I like the solid state a lot more, it sounds so much clearer and it a lot lighter.
My opinion, and let me make that perfectly clear! Is that single unit pedal boards are far easier to gig with. I have had a lot of road experience using both a traditional board (with independent pedals) and digital units, and find that the latter are fare easier. This of course depends on you taking the time to find which one works easiest as far as interface and programming. The advantage to the boards are that once programmed correctly and understood, the knobs don't get bumped around, cables/connections don't fail, and you get a consistent on stage sound. That being said, they need to be run through a quality amp, mic'd correctly (57 off axis and 609 on axis) and NEVER directly into a FOH board. Otherwise the audience will never know the difference. They couldn't really give a crap about your pedal collection unless they happen to be guitarists.
That being said, I am mainly a studio rat. In the studio, you want exactly what you speak of.... but truth to be told- if you add some tape emulation/compression or re-amp certain parts; you'll never know the difference. Especially if you have a good engineer!
Carry on!!! I'm 110% on everything else you mentioned, and will pass this video along!!!! Thanks for your time and energy. Plus no worries about the Rhode. They can be finicky by model and pre-amp.