RANT - WHY BLUE GUITARS SOUND BETTER

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  • Опубліковано 31 гру 2024

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  • @Dave-sv5tq
    @Dave-sv5tq 2 дні тому +27

    Tone color is absolutely a thing! Ever since I stocked my studio with spray cans in every shade imaginable, I’ve been refinishing my guitar before every recording session in my fully sealed studio with all the windows closed. By the third color change, I’m usually feeling quite tipsy and dizzy, and my performance takes on a whole new level of ‘vibrancy.’ This even works with blindfolds on during the process. Truly life-changing.

  • @RussInCanada
    @RussInCanada 2 дні тому +7

    I just realized that Buddy Guy and Randy Rhoads harnessed the secret tone of the polka dot.

  • @SalAvenueNJ
    @SalAvenueNJ 3 дні тому +17

    It only took him 34 seconds to mention Glenn in this video.

  • @rutger4131
    @rutger4131 2 дні тому +4

    I showed up to a blues session with and Ibanez RG with floating trem and shark tooth inlays. Nobody wanted to take it / me seriously that night.

  • @jankypox
    @jankypox 2 дні тому +7

    As guitarists. We’ve been programmed by time, marketing, and a litany of guitarist gods to gravitate towards guitars of a certain “look” when we play a certain style or color. Yet when those legends were making their legendary music and forging their legendary styles and tones, they mostly used whatever they had at hand or could borrow from a friend. Angus Young didn’t grab a red SG, because he wanted to sound like AC//DC. AC//DC sounded like that because Angus just had a red SG and made made it sound like he wanted it to sound for the recording. Only now do we see red SGs through that lens. ‘Back in Black’ would have sounded exactly the same if he’d used a white or even black SG.
    The aged sunburst Fender is a perfect example. Sure you might pick one up and think, “Ah, yes, bluesy, clean, with a little crunch, and a gritty dig in style of playing…” But why? Because of Clapton? Because of Vaughn? That’s because those are your personal reference points of players and their style who played those guitars. Others might pick one up thinking Johnson’s Cliffs of Dover, or Frusciante, or early Cobain, or even Kim Deal in the Breeders.
    The legends of yesteryear didn’t have the luxury of picking a color or shape to match their “vibe” or ‘style”, later in their highly successful careers maybe, but when they were starting out and changing the world one classic at a time, they just made do with what their broke asses had to work with and played what they did in their own way regardless.
    We are now deep in the ‘meta age’ of guitar. We take certain combinations and styles as a given, because of 75+ years of experimentation and successes. Yet we forget that when our heroes were forging their own paths, the meta was totally different and they arguably only became legends in their own right because they threw out the rules and the meta at the time and just did their own thing anyway.
    If Jimmy Page had a Pink Hello Kitty Strat on stage at Glastonbury, we’d all associate that guitar with his style of playing. We only think of Page with a double neck SG or ‘59 Les Paul, because that’s what he played on stage, yet arguably the most famous solo of all rock music was recorded on a Telecaster. When we hear ‘Stairway to Heaven’ we’re programmed to think ‘59 Les Paul, yet when we see an old Telecaster, we’re programmed to think, Richards, Petty, or Urban and not ‘Stairway’. Make it make sense!
    Does color and shape affect the way we play and therefore the tone? Now? Yes. But it was not always that way. Heck, even today, Kirk Hammet’s favorite guitar right now is ‘Greeny’. A friggin’ sunburst ‘59 Les Paul. Yet he just whips it out in studio and on stage and plays like, well Kirk Hammett, because he’s Kirk fucking Hammett, not Gary Moore or Peter Green.

  • @Faethon888
    @Faethon888 3 дні тому +16

    blue is the superior color

    • @EstelonAgarwaen
      @EstelonAgarwaen 3 дні тому +3

      Surf green tho

    • @neiljohnsen276
      @neiljohnsen276 2 дні тому +1

      I personally ,have always felt that blue was the best tonehue....

    • @brrblack497
      @brrblack497 2 дні тому

      Gold...me says.

    • @lesslethalmusic
      @lesslethalmusic 2 дні тому

      @@neiljohnsen276 this is why my dream guitar is a lake placid blue lollllll

    • @SteamvilleQuintet
      @SteamvilleQuintet 2 дні тому +1

      No no mon, blue is pretty, but surf green is THE colour for tone!

  • @CrazedFandango
    @CrazedFandango 3 дні тому +11

    I quite like the dining table guitar.

  • @OfficialPerfectoDeCastro
    @OfficialPerfectoDeCastro День тому +1

    I’ll play you Skid Row on any color guitar 😘

  • @PooNinja
    @PooNinja 2 дні тому +3

    2:44 no you didn’t give me that guitar. It was Rafa and it was the white guitar with the tone handle.
    Green guitars are fun, red guitars are hot, black guitars are dark, blue guitars are blue.
    Purple guitars FTW!!!
    My poetry needs work 🫤

  • @MrDonovant
    @MrDonovant 2 дні тому +3

    Totally right on! The conclusion you come to is a conclusion that I came to a while back. "Inspiration is everything". I pick up a guitar because it's inspiring me to play a specific way for the music that I'm playing, and because it thrills me.

  • @streetlegal008
    @streetlegal008 2 дні тому +3

    Pastor Henning makes a valid point here - which applies to so many aspects of how a musician relates to an instrument. It is a real consideration in as much as it has an effect on the player's mental attitude. But the point about 'blind testing' is also important because that completely removes that visual response from the 'character' of the instrument.
    The debate about through neck versus bolt on is a similar one, but it relates more to 'feel' - the sense of touch rather than sight. The difference in player experience is again related to that hands on feeling of vibration within the guitar, rather than sound output through the amp. So these things do matter - but not in the way that we think that they matter!

    • @chrisegonmusic
      @chrisegonmusic 2 дні тому +1

      I hate that the most popular demonstrations are almost never double blind.

  • @areallyboredguy5825
    @areallyboredguy5825 2 дні тому +6

    14:50 glad to see people starting to say remove honey

  • @raygehring
    @raygehring 2 дні тому +1

    I showed a guitar to a new student and commented on the color (blue). I was saying it was a shade I’d never seen before. She answered “I’m color blind, unfortunately I can’t tell”.

  • @fento9
    @fento9 День тому

    It’s so true! I recently bought a new telecaster for the modern country band I play in, but because we incorporate other styles of music into the night I didn’t go with a 3 color sunburst, or butterscotch finish. I usually pick the style of guitar and color based on the band that I’m playing with that night. You’re making me realize how conditioned I am. I could pretty much use one guitar in whatever color for every band that I play in. Amazing.

  • @30_second_guitar
    @30_second_guitar 2 дні тому +2

    i 100% agreed. Whenever i pickup my Jackson King V in haybusa green with floyd i just go thrash all the way. Of course i can play anything in E standard but... i still want to play oldschool thrash

  • @joannalewis5279
    @joannalewis5279 2 дні тому +1

    That's why all my instruments are 70s wallpaper brown.

  • @chrisegonmusic
    @chrisegonmusic 3 дні тому +11

    People feel like they’re personally unaffected by these cognitive biases that everyone else is at the mercy of.
    Which is a shame as it’s a very interesting topic.

    • @timointrouble
      @timointrouble 2 дні тому +1

      I agree, this should be teached early on in school because it is a lifelong process to recognize one's biases... "Thinking, fast and slow" from Kahneman helped me a lot

    • @chrisegonmusic
      @chrisegonmusic 2 дні тому +1

      @ I do think it’s important to be aware of your own biases.
      You maybe couldn’t really teach it to someone that has already decided that they’re too shrewd.
      People think that they’re unaffected by advertising. That tells you all you need to know.
      Will check out that book, thanks.

    • @timointrouble
      @timointrouble 2 дні тому +1

      @chrisegonmusic being aware of my biases, at least to some degree, helps me to make better decisions in general, I guess. The book is fantastic. Great examples from marketing and advertisement, big data, propaganda... apart from teaching me a lot, it is also very entertaining. Gives you lots of great arguments for your next discussion with literal cork sniffers ;-) and also a broad understanding of why they act like this and how they come to their conclusions..

    • @chrisegonmusic
      @chrisegonmusic 2 дні тому

      @ I’m sold.

  • @PedalPlayhouse
    @PedalPlayhouse 2 дні тому +1

    Blue guitars are by far my joy, I also really don’t like brown or sunburst guitars at all. Mario is the best person to fix the amp at TWS! Hope it’s an easy fix too

  • @mcinen67
    @mcinen67 2 дні тому +1

    I only play with black guitars. I bought a White guitar once and I didn't like it at all. So he got a point in my opinion. 🤘😁

  • @TK96
    @TK96 2 дні тому

    I own a blue colored flame top J.Custom RG and have notice the influence on the playing and i think it’s the most versatile color. You can play it really intense metal with it or soft jazz on it and everything between with it. I have owned a Roadflare Red RG550 it always pushed me to the shred zone & 80s hair metal riffage when playing it.

  • @YousefAHMusic
    @YousefAHMusic 2 дні тому +5

    "Let's not go there. Tonewood is real." Prove it. Scientifically. Double-blind test with a minimum of 100 participants. Let's see who can hear a difference in the tone when the guitar is played by itself and in a mix.

    • @EytschPi42
      @EytschPi42  2 дні тому +6

      Nah

    • @spearchuckerbear2817
      @spearchuckerbear2817 2 дні тому

      @@EytschPi42 the US Government would commission a useless study like that.

    • @kanazyr
      @kanazyr 2 дні тому

      waste of time, because wood is 5% of overall tone (all parts in guitar matter (obviously some way more, some matter only a little), then amp and it's parts and settings, cab, guitar pick, guitar player, playing style, strings, even room temperature/ambiance etc)... and no one can hear 5% difference in tone in a blind test, and that's the reason why there's no videos or scientific evidence, because people have obviously tried (because we try everything - like putting a head into a crocodile mouth, so...) and failed, and gave up.

    • @YousefAHMusic
      @YousefAHMusic 2 дні тому

      @@kanazyr It's affects tone by 0%. I don't believe things without evidence and you shouldn't, too. Henning has the resources and ability to do a legitimate test, but he just responds with nah because he's drinking the tonewood kool-aid.

    • @YousefAHMusic
      @YousefAHMusic 2 дні тому +1

      @@EytschPi42 K, adding you to the list of people who are drinking the tonewood kool-aid.
      Seriously though, MKBHD does a blind smartphone photo test every year to determine the best smartphone camera without anyone knowing the actual phone being used. Something similarly could be done with "tonewoods" (makes me cringe just typing it). Send audio files out to 1000+ of your subscribers and have them pick from a list of 20 wood types to see if people can determine the wood being used and how it affects tone.

  • @shanewalton8888
    @shanewalton8888 2 дні тому +6

    Tonewood is a myth. Your theory does not take into account that everyone plays metal on a pink Hello Kitty.

  • @MusicTherapyLaz
    @MusicTherapyLaz 2 дні тому +1

    Dude... the color is EVERYTHING! If you're not excited about the guitar you're playing... because it doesn't look cool... then you might not play... cool! Yeah... it's subjective, but it's still a thing... it has an effect, right? Now... is there an actual effect on resonance or TONE... due to the thickness of the finish, what kind of finish is on it, Poly or Laquered, or hand rubbed oil... or not... because Relics... I don't know about that... but a satin or oil rubbed neck definitely feels and plays... well better... smoother, easier, right? And if your guitar is old and worn in... not making you self-conscious about bumping it into something, etc... you'll think more about the music than about damaging it, right? Oh... and does Sonic Blue count... 'cause it looks kind of white... but it's a shade of blue... anyway... all of it matters if you ask me. Music is art... not some task we use tools for, we get to have fun with our tools... and that's what she said! Love the rants my friend! 😎🤘🎸🎵🎶🫶

  • @GregoryMerritt-o1f
    @GregoryMerritt-o1f День тому

    I love that Legator gave a vocalist a signature guitar.

  • @BeforeTheDarkAge
    @BeforeTheDarkAge 2 дні тому +1

    We all have our preferences. I like the look of that schecter but I like woody looking guitars 🎸 and I like bright and pastel guitars. I don’t like sunbursts or black or overly ornate quilt tops. That said if I need the guitar I’ll go out of my comfort zone I do have a black bass VI.

  • @maitrikashin3906
    @maitrikashin3906 2 дні тому

    Yes. This being... that becomes. All things arise subject to conditions... within a context. Whenever we engage with a context, we become part of that context, while that context simultaneously becomes part of us. I like the way you approach this with regards to tone color and player "presence". A very thoughtful video. Thanks.

  • @joelcraig6416
    @joelcraig6416 2 дні тому

    I never thought about this The look adjusts our moods and influences our approach. This is very true. Pick up a growling strat and I’m immediately in a blues mood with caress abandonment. Break out a Humbucker guitar and more of a rocker mood. A cherry sunburst gives me a mood to rock. Tobacco sunburst gives me a southern blues rock attitude. I agree with you on this.

  • @GraemeCampbellMusic
    @GraemeCampbellMusic 3 дні тому

    I sometimes hear different tones in colour, even effects. Wah Wah is green, overdive is red, delay is white etc. Guitar wise my Gretsch is Aspen Green. I'm sure I'd play a red semi hollow differently

    • @krokovay.marcell
      @krokovay.marcell 3 дні тому

      So the difference would be in the playing, not in the pickups

    • @hoboroadie4623
      @hoboroadie4623 2 дні тому +1

      I use multiple parallel signal paths, the White signal chain and the Red one are adjusted way different from the Black, and I am going to get a couple White Tolex Heads and a Red one, for Tonal purposes. This is defintely a ymmv thing, but if you have more than four amps going, you start to notice things.

    • @GraemeCampbellMusic
      @GraemeCampbellMusic 2 дні тому

      @@krokovay.marcell very possibly and its no doubt largely psychological too

  • @nathanmarcinek2073
    @nathanmarcinek2073 2 дні тому +2

    Some great craftsmen can tell you the difference between a ball pein and a roofing hammer. Some great craftsman will tell you "just give me a damn hammer".

  • @stevenbrunette6817
    @stevenbrunette6817 День тому

    The white blood splattered guitar inspires me to write a jazz tune.

  • @kainagami
    @kainagami 3 дні тому +1

    1:35
    I think that it's more about the ergonomics and how the guitar feels in your hands.
    For example yesterday I went to a guitar store to check out a pedal to put on my pedalboard, they gave me a random Stratocaster to play and oh my god did I feel inspired with everything put together. The guitar felt nice and the sounds were amazing, this has happened pretty rarely and I am not fond of Fender Stratocasters.

  • @carwynvan
    @carwynvan 3 дні тому +1

    Over the holiday break I have completely lost sense of all time. Thank god there's a Henning rant today to remind me it's Sunday today..! 😅 And whilst colour doesn't change how I play, the set up, bridge type, string tension etc definitely does effect how I play (within my very limited playing style...)

  • @lostinpa-dadenduro7555
    @lostinpa-dadenduro7555 2 дні тому

    I agree with this 100%. I am migrating all my guitars to blue. I have two so far. They sound the best and make me happiest to play.

  • @skullndguns
    @skullndguns 2 дні тому

    I think you're right, it's all about the motivation and inspiration an instrument gives you. If your guitar is (or 'should' be) more resonant, you're more likely to let a note ring out (or try harder to) and why a Rhoads has a "flying V sound". I also think different woods have different properties thus different resonation/sounds, even 2 maple bodies will have different properties due to age, moisture content, etc. but I also believe those properties can be compensated, counteracted or simulated with amp/effects settings. Same goes for pickups, even the brand stamped on to them might give you the confidence be it quality control or endorsement of you favorite guitar player. In line with this even the price will have an influential effect. I had a comparable experience on 2 identical guitars, with the exceptions concerning fretwire, even the feel of jumbo v.s. medium jumbo will make you play a certain way (disregarding the physical properties of making tapping easier for instance) and slightly hotter pickups, resulting in a faster and heavier guitar/ playing.

  • @kaimertens2193
    @kaimertens2193 2 дні тому +1

    Thanks for your rant. Colour, type, wood, neck Profile... the feeling that a guitar gives a player when interacting with the amp.... all these Things matter...for me for sure. Agreed!

  • @GlennMichaelThompson
    @GlennMichaelThompson 2 дні тому

    That Schecter Diamond series brings me back to the 1970's when the company was selling parts for kit guitars. I knew a few guys who built the S style from parts and finished them either in clearcoat or stained another shade of brown. I've never had an S guitar... I would definitely play that one you seem to despise. lol :0) Everyone has their own colour choices, finishes etc. For me that guitar makes me warm with melancholy. Only wish I could have such a good S style. Never was big on the big F! In the mid 70's I was shopping for my first decent guitar after saving aprox $350. That was the price of a new Strat or a Hagstrom Swede. I brought home a Hagstrom. It was RED. It was stolen years later, finally replaced it with a BLACK Swede... it plays differently. Or should I say that it makes me play a little different. Thanks Henning. Always enjoy your videos.

  • @christopherkassner8894
    @christopherkassner8894 2 дні тому

    An artist chooses a canvas texture, and certain palette of color in a painting, to bring out his art.
    Musicians do the same thing. It’s what inspires the artist to create what they feel inside. The instrument is the catalyst.

  • @iloveitall
    @iloveitall 2 дні тому

    From my 30 year guitar experience agree that shapes and finishes have a strong effect on your playing even if you have your own style. No one can avoid that.

  • @seanbarker4610
    @seanbarker4610 3 дні тому

    Inspiration is the key to great tone, confidence too. So a great sounding guitar creates an inspiring experience.

  • @iBoss818
    @iBoss818 2 дні тому +1

    I thought this was quite hilarious, but you do have a good point

  • @theelmagoo
    @theelmagoo День тому

    You put it more... scientifically that I've been able to over on Glenn's comments (love that guy). The performance is 100% influenced by many aspects of the instrument, quite a few of those aspects are immeasurable. I think this is what causes the disconnect across musicians in these conversations (especially guitarists) as it's all dependent upon what level of player they are. What do I mean by level? Glad you asked (you probably didn't... but I digress). I personally think players (of any instrument) fall into 3 levels.
    Level 1 is where the player is just trying to get an understanding of the instrument and whatever coordination (mental and physical) is needed to get notes to sound "good" on it. If I were to judge Glenn I'd say this is where he is currently (and constantly improving). At this level it's just about trying to play the notes well and without mistakes. Expressiveness or feel isn't a thing at this stage as it's all about trying to play notes cleanly and in time. Technique is still the priority here. There is no concept of feel or understanding what subtleties exist in the instrument as the brain has no understand of what it's looking for in this regard. Hence if you try to discuss any subtleties of instrument feel with a Level 1 player, they look at you funny and don't grasp the concepts.
    Level 2 is where the player can pretty much play cleanly, in time, and their technique is starting to settle to a point where mistakes are less common. It's at this point where the idea of how to play expressively begins to enter the mind. Things like learning to bend accurately, learning to control vibrato so it can be done at different speeds evenly and while controlling pitch, learning to add other expressive elements like sliding into notes or pre-bending, pick angle and attack and where to pick and how that all affects the sound of the note, etc... This is where the mind can free its self from mainly focusing on how to play the notes with technique, to how to play the notes so they say something. The player is beginning to understand how the feel of an instrument affects their playing. The subtleties of the many components that make up the instrument start to become noticeable, and those subtleties will begin to affect how the instrument is played.
    Level 3 is where level 1 technique is automatic, and level 2 expressive concepts are automatic, and now it's all about exploring how to be expressively creative with the instrument. What other expressive techniques and ideas can be explored? What are other ways they can be used to make the instrument "talk"? How to get what's in the mind to come through the instrument. The feel of the instrument is king here as the mind is now fully responding to that feel and reacting with it constantly, the brain is fully aware of all the subtleties and is primarily focusing on them.
    I think the afore mentioned disconnect is that players of higher levels discuss the subtleties of the instrument with the assumption that everybody is on the same page. Yet they forget that when they were a Level 1 or 2 player they had no concept of those subtleties. So the comments get lit up because people don't realize these levels exist (or they forgot what it was like to be at a lower level). It takes a lot of time and very specific kinds of practice to go up a level (especially to level 3), and none of this has to do with note selection or music theory.... it's purely about the ability to play the instrument expressively (Billy Sheehan is a great example as he knows very little about theory or scales or the like, yet he fully knows how to get whatever sound he wants out of the instrument).
    All that to say... yeah mental perception is a thing that absolutely affects performance, and unfortunately it takes a high level 2, or a level 3 player to really appreciate and grasp the understanding as to why.

  • @eightfootmanchild
    @eightfootmanchild 2 дні тому

    I like striking - some might say "ugly" - color combos. I see my purple and orange frankenstrat, and I'm immediately inspired to pick it up 💜🧡

  • @mikeme4456
    @mikeme4456 День тому

    Colors have their own vibrations! Blue is one of the highest vibration = 600 - 670 THz. Reflects the Third Eye chakra, just beneath the Crown chakra. (Red, by the way, is the lowest frequency chakra, probably that's why represents the lowest part - sexual organs - of the body.) Most of my guitars are blue, and that is my always color! I made DIY some of them or repaint, but I love natural looking guitars as well. Very important is how can you connect with those vibrations, in harmony or not. I remember I had a guitar (forgot what color) that made me not feel good when vibrated on my chest-guts.
    Another interesting subject would be: vibration frequencies of the neck and body, AND if they fit, sound harmonic or not. I found somewhere a guy from big F speaking about pairing neck vibrations with body vibrations on Custom Shop guitars... how about such a test????

  • @pyratoothNL
    @pyratoothNL 2 дні тому +1

    Glenn Fricker says himself guitarists listen with their eyes. The points you make are about how the human treats the tool and not characteristics of the tool itself.
    So tonewood is still a myth, even with this argument.

  • @GitShiddy
    @GitShiddy 2 дні тому

    When I ordered my Revstar I was struggling with which colour, knowing I wanted to define the guitar for myself, I intentionally didn't get the Goldtop (the best looking finish imo) because it's "Too Chris Buck". I bought a guitar because of how excellent it played in a hideous Copper finish & the second the warranty ran out completely refinished it. I bought a Squier Baritone Tele because baritone is rad and immediately relic'd the guitar because for me "a Tele must be beaten up." Attraction is fundamental to the human condition and that is absolutely true with guitar, we buy with our eyes first. You'll never know if a guitar you don't want to play is good or not, except because you don't want to pick it up it's not a good guitar irrespective of how it plays.
    Everything matters. Even if you believe nothing matters well, when nothing matters everything matters.

  • @Desirsar
    @Desirsar 2 дні тому

    I write mostly punk, and I go out of my way to write things that will make people who actually studied music argue over the key and progression and "intent" of every part, and ideally, they'll all be wrong. "Color"? Ha! I'd play to the opposite of what a guitar should be played for its color. As soon as you expect that, then I switch to playing what is stereotyped.
    If I'm paying attention to the guitar, it's the pickups and strings, and being annoyed at how little range it has because it's not a Filtertron with Cobalt strings that I can EQ later in the chain. If you can hear the wood, I'm doing something wrong. If you can hear the color, you're imagining it yourself.

  • @mark.guitar
    @mark.guitar 3 дні тому +1

    Nice topic Henning. You have loads of footage from Gear St. of people picking up and trying out random guitars. I'm sure you could do a great video about this.

  • @mr_travismc1
    @mr_travismc1 2 дні тому

    That schecter looks like a work of art. I know it looks like grandma's kitchen table; however the finish "looks" flawless on screen.

  • @honigdachs.
    @honigdachs. 2 дні тому

    It's not just the power of suggestion for me. I'm very pragmatic and I do know my guitars very well. I don't pick them up for what I think they will do or depending on how they look like - I pick up the one that in fact does the thing that I need at that particular time a little better than the other ones. But of course that also has to do with the fact that I do kind of keep in with the expectations. The spalted maple explorer has thicker low strings and the EMG Het Set, the lemonburst LP has PAFs, the shreddy shredguitar has the Fender scale with the 24 frets and thinner strings, low action and high output Dimarzios, etc. I don't care what people like Glenn can hear, or can't. I can hear how my guitars sound and how different pickups react. If someone doesn't - their loss, not mine.
    Of course, I would never buy a guitar that I don't love the looks of. I'm not dead inside. I fucking love guitars. Why would it not be of the utmost importance what they look like. Also, it's clearly part of your image. You can't be standing somewhere with a guitar that's a total mismatch with yourself and look like an asshole. Oh, don't listen with your eyes, blah blah, all this smartass BS. I'm not. But I'm damn sure looking with my eyes.

  • @handsofdoubt31
    @handsofdoubt31 3 дні тому

    You make some interesting points here. There's definitely an aesthetic link that is part of our playing experience. But it is a general rule which of course can have exceptions. For a long while my only electric guitar was a custom made beast with a single humbucker (ultrasonic), fully scalloped board, natural oiled ash. It's a super strat but I've played pretty much every genre with it and it worked well. It taught me the versatility is really in the player.
    About tone wood for electrics. Honestly if it was a thing it would have been pretty clearly demonstrated by now. Here's an interesting perspective.....a lot of people will say that mahogany electrics produce a thicker, warmer tone. But ask an acoustic maker and they will tell you it's clearer and brighter with more articulation. Now most of us agree that tone wood is a "thing" with acoustics as the wood is the primary resonator. So who is more likely to be right in that case?? Honestly a lot of people think it's warmer just because it's a dark coloured wood!
    Glenn has a point in his videos but I totally agree with your point about what the playing would have been like which cannot be compared. At the end of the day he's dealing with highly saturated and therefore compressed tones which have the least variation between guitars/pickups etc. It's in the cleans and edge of break up where the most tonal variation lives. I play differently depending on the tone at that time with that guitar and that rig. The differences in tone or sustain or action have a massive bearing on my inspiration. Whilst I can shape it myself it's the base that I start from.

  • @vintageswiss9096
    @vintageswiss9096 День тому

    I own a 2022 Ocean Blue Les Paul.
    I chug the strings off of this thing when I'm in the mood. 😂
    The only difference in a guitar is single vs bucker and pickup placement... everything else can be dialed in...

  • @stevenpipes1555
    @stevenpipes1555 2 дні тому

    Thank you so verry much! I happen to believe that every single element of a guitar effects its tone. Im so sick of people treating the recorded frequencies as though they're the only component of tone. Tone is way more than that. Colors have tones and stories have tones. Conversations, Songs, entire albums have tones. Tone is a sound, sure, but more accurately defined, its a feeling. Tone is the feeling thats created by anything and everything you experiene. An angry dogs bark has a far different TONE than a happy dogs bark. Same dog, same vocal chords, and echo chamber, but one makes your blood run cold and strikes fear while the other drops you to one knee with a happy carefree smile.

  • @katzensprung7449
    @katzensprung7449 2 дні тому

    Great video, very interesting thoughts. Thank you, Henning!

  • @martinclayton7260
    @martinclayton7260 2 дні тому

    I have two USA Fender Telecasters, and they are both blue. And I have two green guitars, a Mexican Fender Jaguar HH, and a USA Fender Stratocaster ash deluxe HSS, and they are all amazing.

  • @vasotoe
    @vasotoe 3 дні тому +1

    Hope you get that amp fixed Henning, and all I know is that TAO is just *chef's kiss*

  • @RaymondoGalfredi
    @RaymondoGalfredi 2 дні тому

    If I owned the blood-spatter guitar I would be auditioning for one of the many Duke Ellington tribute bands (circa Cotton Club era).

  • @herrquh
    @herrquh День тому

    I hated my PRS until I put a sticker on it. Now it's awesome.

  • @Broccoli_Highkicks
    @Broccoli_Highkicks 2 дні тому

    I take your point, but it doesn't make an objectively measurable difference then, only subjective.
    It's not the characteristics of the guitar themselves that dictate the tone colour, irrespective of the player, but the individual player's interpretation of those characteristics.
    You absolutely could do a blindfold test for colour and woods and pickups, maybe not for shape. Although a strat shape, for example, could be just as easily associated with Clapton as with Iron Maiden, Malmsteen, Knopfler, Hendrix, Gallagher, Blackmore, etc...
    An SG will do AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Frank Zappa, and more. And so on.
    Yeah, the look will make you approach a guitar in a certain way, but the difference is not objectively measurable. Every player will (hopefully) play any guitar in their own unique way.

  • @shamrockshamus
    @shamrockshamus 2 дні тому

    It doesn't matter what guitar or colour I pickup, I always play the same stuff over and over again. ;)

  • @ospifi
    @ospifi 26 хвилин тому

    And for those without endless racks of guitars to pick a colour from : Povertytoan, play whatever with the single guitar gifted, inherited or found dirt cheap.

  • @iBoss818
    @iBoss818 2 дні тому +1

    2:40 you'll give me that guitar? 🥹👉👈

  • @jltrem
    @jltrem 2 дні тому

    If Henning doesn't like brown guitars that look like grandma's kitchen table it's a good thing he was born in 1975 and was but a babe in that decade. It was when guitar finishes became natural and looked like wood. I was born the same year as the Gibson Les Paul so I experienced it. I think it had something to do with being "organic", but I don't know for sure.

  • @chinatosinthiti3076
    @chinatosinthiti3076 2 дні тому

    Good point you brought up: I do agree that psychological and sentimental factors do affect what you write and play, I do not deny that. However when it comes to how measurable these factors are and making decisions regarding which gear to use I got more questions:
    1. Where do you draw the line between "I really need that piece of gear to write or play [something]" and "Screw buying new gear, what I already have will get the job done" ?
    2. When we are not feeling inspired or not being able to write anything satisfactory, should we blame not having "inspirational gear"? I see this can turn into a terrible cycle if the amount of people error is shifted to gear.
    3. How does "stereotype-breaking" experiences factor into this? I've experienced teles giving a unique metal rhythm tone, jazzmaster baritones rocking downtuned modern metal, pointy guitars with EMGs doing clean jazz stuff, PRS with split coils pretty much playing any genre and I stopped assigning genres for each instrument.
    2 cents:
    - Green basses and guitars are awesome!
    - That grandma table Schecter would look a lot better if the body and hardware were matte instead of glossy.

  • @planetpjr
    @planetpjr 2 дні тому

    I have Carvin / Kiesels, saphire blue quilt and emerald green quilt. My basses are black and mahogany. I play them all differently.

  • @zwerko
    @zwerko 2 дні тому

    No matter of the guitar color, glossiness, quilt/flame/splash/whatever, pointness of its headstock, number of strings and any other potential indicators of what is 'supposed' to be played on it - I'd play simple cowboy chords on it because that's pretty much at the top of my current abilities 😅

  • @Beelzehump
    @Beelzehump День тому

    12:00 funny thing, I'm extremely atracted to guitars in natural finishes like that one more than any other shown previously in the video.

  • @ToddHavel
    @ToddHavel 2 дні тому

    The blue in paint is often cobalt, which reacts to the capacitors(lol). Now the different windings on pick ups with the style of music( country to jazz to heavy metal) is application. Some tools pick ups are not appropriate for the style of music( too mild or too harsh). Mostly because we are amateur players. A good musician will sound the same regardless of the instrument. EVH played Ted Nugent’s bird land hollow body rig and Ted said it sounded just like Eddy! He was amazed! We need to spend more time and effort to play better and sell most of our gear to pay for lessons!

  • @christofdonat2702
    @christofdonat2702 2 дні тому

    Of course, you're wrong about blue being the best color. Blue is much too cold, nice, warm red is obviously superior. 😉
    I get your point, but I think, you got it the wrong way. I don't play what I think, the guitar, I have in my hand does best. I pick the guitar, which I think does best, what I want to play. So color is important when I pick up the guitar, not when I hold it in my hand.
    If I plan to play some jazz, I'd probably pick up my ES335-style guitar, while for dirty Rolling Stones like rock, my Tele is probably my first choice. For singing Blues stuff, I'd probably choose my Les Paul, or the PRS, and for hard rock, my SG comes to mind first. I rarely pick up the Tele planing to play jazz, though it actually delivers great jazz sounds as well with the correct amp settings.
    And yes, there are huge overlaps, and in the Studio it probably doesn't really matter so much. There playability is the most important aspect, and then the e.g. SG could be best for your jazz project. But when you decide, which guitar you take on stage, of course optics are among your top priorities. Simply because you're not only making music, you're delivering a show. And visuals are most important on stage. You don't wear a flashy silk suit with paisley pattern, and a colorful tie, when you plan to deliver a death metal show either, do you?

  • @stan_likes_single_coils
    @stan_likes_single_coils День тому

    You actually made a good point here. Good job!

  • @rafaelzamorano_
    @rafaelzamorano_ 2 дні тому

    I agree with the central idea of ​​the video, as the look of the instrument really impacts the musician's approach. In fact, the appearance of the instrument equally (or even more) impacts the public's perception of the sound presented... this issue of psychological influence on sound perception is very interesting.

  • @lifescanofslovakiamusicand4802

    Absolutely brillant video Henning. IMHO green emerald burst guitars (and bases) are most lovely, versatile and (sadly) rare, especially in lower price categories. When you pick green guitar like that, you can chug on it or play Wes Montgomery style...especially when it is HSS pickup config or HH with split coil (PRS style).

  • @joutynathan4168
    @joutynathan4168 2 дні тому

    As someone who use a shell pink strat to play drop B and a Solar to play jazzy clean, this was a great video

    • @ianvaughan9028
      @ianvaughan9028 2 дні тому

      I have a shell pink P-bass which I use for Industrial and metal. I love it.

  • @valadez191
    @valadez191 2 дні тому +1

    This is exactly why I dislike and try to avoid shiny guitars
    Removing the scratch/damage anxiety from a tool is the better approach.
    Also if you want to get over the grandma table block just rewire it and think "that is a Guthrie Govan looking guitar".
    You'll still dislike it but your subconscious might give it a bluish tint 🤣

  • @charlesb7831
    @charlesb7831 2 дні тому

    I totally get what your saying, I'm in a situation where all I buy is 80's 90's shredder guitars. However I do use them for everything, Blues, clean tones and obviously metal and heavier stuff. I use them for everything just to prove I can lol. So just for reference, said guitars are a 1989 Kramer Nightswan Aztec, Peavey Vandenberg model, Kramer Dave Sabo signature model, 2004 Epiphone Zakk Wylde Grail , Jackson Dinky, Fender Squire Jim Root model and a 1996 Hamer Californian, last but not least a Spector Performer4 Bass.
    Someone mentioned Blue guitars being the magic color, I have to agree, although my Green Dave Sabo model is right there with it lol.

  • @rowbags3017
    @rowbags3017 3 дні тому

    This is an interesting point. I definitely form an opinion of what to expect from a new guitar based on looks before I pick it up, and I've often been surprised. Maybe this is something that you could test at a Gear Street get-together. Have a selection of guitars in different styles and watch players' reactions to them and what they play straight off before they have a chance to get to know the instruments better.

  • @Gholdwayne
    @Gholdwayne 2 дні тому

    I played my lawsuit ESP Eclipse in Honeyburst in my friend's metal band... Had a JB/59, which i didn't care for, but it was totally fine and did the job ..
    And I had the option of my black M-1000 Deluxe 🤣

  • @mattdylan664
    @mattdylan664 2 дні тому

    I love Blue guitars...but ahem Purple Hello!? anyone in there? and then my Cherry Red guitars and my Absinthe Green and Polar White and ...man you just gotta have em all

  • @alankelly1001
    @alankelly1001 2 дні тому

    I agree with you... except about that Schecter guitar, that was gorgeous. I would be playing that before the blood plattered finish. And I would be playing doom metal on it.

  • @ed713ca
    @ed713ca 2 дні тому

    Just checked Glens
    Now time for blue electric guitars
    I agree. For most acoustic guitars as well.

  • @misterknightowlandco
    @misterknightowlandco День тому

    If it matters to you, then it matters to the “tone”. Scientifically it may or may not matter, but as a human it matters…
    Btw, all my guitars are dark shades of green. I’m the one guy who loves green guitars.

  • @garethbarlow5278
    @garethbarlow5278 2 дні тому

    Thanks again Henning, that was marvellous. 🙃 I guessed that you might do a tone colour Rant as you've mentioned it more than a few times.
    Having had the time to consider it since you first mentioned it I believe you are correct. In the 80's Metal was my thing and it was all angry riffs and pointless solos. Although I acquired many different guitars if they weren't already red I had them refinished in red. And they all inspired angry pointless music.
    In the 90's an injury left me unable to play guitar so I focused on diversifying my music consumption. Couldn't fail to notice that musicians were changing guitars, live, for reasons entirely related to the look of the song. Stage guitars if you will, but clearly many guitarists own as many guitars as they do because the look makes you feel something and that something is reflected in the music you write with it. And colour and shape are the things that shape that feeling.
    So I recently decided that I'd begin the journey of relearning the guitar. So I bought an Iceman. In blue. Why? Because I've always thought, from the day the first one appeared in the Brash's Instruments shop windows in nineteen seventy something, that it was the coolest guitar I'd ever seen if only it was red.
    I bought it because it inspires me to pick it up. Cause in my head I still look cool playing it. I can't walk past it so maybe I'll force myself to do something I'm finding bloody hard. And it's still blue. Because I'm not really interested in angry riffs and dick measuring solos any more. Blue is the colour of the sky, my daughter is named Blue Sky and it just makes me think of the most effective ways I can accompany her while she unleashes her voice.
    Tone colour? Real to me.
    Have an enjoyable NYE Henning, whatever you do. Peace, Love and Joy to you and Leslie.

  • @santana1002001
    @santana1002001 2 дні тому

    You are absolutely right 👍 I would go even further. Every thing on the guitar has influence , strings, wood ,..... It will alter how you approach the playing. And this all together will great the tone.

  • @Curt.dammit
    @Curt.dammit 2 дні тому

    I'd play weird Chuck Berry, Motörheady rock and roll/punk rock shit because that's basically all I play.

  • @Santaheckler
    @Santaheckler День тому

    Yep, this pertains to pickups too. Watch demos and you’ll almost never see a bridge pickup played slow and clean…that’s for the neck pup. And in kind for some reason a neck pup can only be slow and soulful. Nobody knows what to do with middle position so they just say they prefer the neck or bridge. Lol

  • @thepeetjournal4469
    @thepeetjournal4469 2 дні тому

    The tone is in the fingers (and amp, pedals, etc.), not in the looks or brand of the guitar. The looks are just a mind set, the image of the player.

  • @GregoryMerritt-o1f
    @GregoryMerritt-o1f День тому

    Owning an artful PRS made me neurotic.

  • @Stef140
    @Stef140 2 дні тому

    You can convince yourself that pretty much any little thing you do in your daily life impacts your tone in a positive or negative way.

  • @SebGrimm
    @SebGrimm 2 дні тому

    Matt Chamberlain quote from the early 2000's: " If it looks good, it sounds good" - I think he was referring to a blue Ludwig snare drum in that ModernDrummer Interview back then :D Cheers

  • @mars6433
    @mars6433 2 дні тому

    @2:52 Henning is NOT talking about Quentin James.

  • @craigtodd8297
    @craigtodd8297 2 дні тому

    I have found that my guitars have specific identities and no matter how I try they conform and are not multi genre or versatile.
    I do agree with you on the approach to the instrument but ultimately the guitar tells you want it wants to be.

    • @craigtodd8297
      @craigtodd8297 2 дні тому

      Look I have to give examples here. My Epi Sheraton (Burst/gold) only works with Oasis.
      My Diamond 75th Tele only works with Lofi.
      My Green Boxer HH Strat only works with Linkin Park
      My Gold 50th Strat works best with Beach boys.
      My Burst Jazzmaster works best with Linda Ronsdadt or Eagles
      My Black Chapman ML1 has a wonderful clean tone.
      My Gibson Greeny yes only seems to do Gary Moore.
      Etc...

  • @blanko66
    @blanko66 3 дні тому

    So I agree on the color thing and play style. But I think, if you are a guitar player from a country, where it's hard to get a good guitar for a reasonable price or if you are simply broke, you probably are not that "picky". You'll play what you like, no matter how the guitar looks. But if you have options, look and color are getting more important. Because you want to get a guitar which makes you think: "I just want to play it right now!" every time you look at it.

  • @thenextkurt
    @thenextkurt 2 дні тому

    My favorite ever guitar was blue!

  • @AlekSaint
    @AlekSaint 3 дні тому

    Man this is a difficult topic. On one hand I share your sentiment, and I keep telling myself this exact thing, partially to justify owning as many guitars as I do. But on the other hand, I do find myself noodling the same pseudo-bluesy licks that I play on my telecaster, on my Explorers as well. And I have also written some of my meanest metal riffs on one of my single coil telecasters.
    But then again, I'm not the most versatile player, so maybe this effect applies more to the more experienced players than to players who only play a handful of genres. Now to clarify: I'm not saying that I am "above this", I think that I am lacking the versatility for this to even be able to apply to me.
    There is one exception that I have experienced though which definitely agrees with you: I own exactly one strat, and whenever I feel like playing clean bluesy stuff I do pick that one up more often than any of my other guitars.
    So I think there is some truth to this, but I don't think that it applies to as many people as you make it seem

  • @zombiemontage
    @zombiemontage 2 дні тому

    I do the same thing when selecting car colours. I refuse to buy a red car

  • @ffxiiangel
    @ffxiiangel 2 дні тому +1

    Billy Corgan vindicated! 🤣😂

  • @Margilio5150
    @Margilio5150 2 дні тому

    Luckily, soon we’ll have those Cream Guitars which change colors and hence will be able to switch tone too 😎

  • @dreamsinmusic
    @dreamsinmusic 2 дні тому

    Every Guitar tells a story an we emotionally react to it, consciously or not 🤟 it's our bias, our blessing, our sweet curse

  • @OliverAmberg
    @OliverAmberg 2 дні тому

    Apart from the fact that you mention the color blue, I can only agree with you, Henning! 👍

  • @gavmurph3764
    @gavmurph3764 2 дні тому +1

    I couldn't work with yellow. What kind of music is yellow? ...cheese!

  • @landonbailey
    @landonbailey 2 дні тому

    Blue guitars. that is all