The Week in Gear 41 | Strymon discontinue the Big Sky? | Ibanez go on a Quest
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- Опубліковано 13 чер 2024
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@seymourduncan Alt Metal Blackout
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Danelectro Sitar
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@IbanezOfficial Q52PE-NTF Quest
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00:00 - Welcome to The Week in Gear 41 with Sweetwater
00:17 - Seymour Duncan Alt Metal Blackout Pickups
02:09 - Danelectro Big Sitar Reissue
04:04 - Win a $12000 of microphones with Sweetwater (This Week's Sponsor)
05:26 - Strymon Big Sky MX
07:50 - Thorpy FX Electric Lightning with Chris Buck
10:43 - Andy's Pick of The Week - Ibanez Q52PE-NTF
This week, Strymon updates a modern classic, Ibanez lose their heads and you can now get
a Thorpy FX pedal for a buck!
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Such a natural presenter. Fast becoming one of my favourite channels.
Thank you Liam
Same here! His content and personality really work well together.
The alt.metal Blackouts are just the Mick Thomson signature set with a rebrand due to him switching to Fishman. The logo is the same, and they reused the audio clips and EQ graphs on the SD website.
Which is great, I wanted a pair of EMTYs for my Ibanez baritone but you could only really get them on Reverb at a big upcharge, or in remaining stock of Mick's Jackson signatures, which are near $6000 Canadian.
I used to be firmly in the disgust camp when it came to headless guitars, but I have come around. I particularly like 8 string headless, because ergonomically it’s just superior in every way to bohemoth neck dive monsters with two handed swords for a headpiece. But I guess lusting after headless 8’s has changed my outlook on 6 and 7 as well. They all look great to me now. It just takes some getting used to, I guess!
Love your vids mate, keep 'em coming :)
I've got the "AHB-3s" Mick Thomson Blackouts and they are totally fine.
Even for cleans and bluesy stuff.
People overestimate the influence on the sound because pickups are "high output" ...
Marketing working as intended, I guess...
Oh man, that Q52 is a beaut!!! Too bad there's still no new colours for the Q54 or a vibrato bridge Q model.
Although I’ve never owned a Big Sky, if they are not the leaders of verb there still top shelf. One pedal with there eyes on the prize just might be the Source Audio Ventris.
I wonder if in the far future, when we've possibly colonised Mars, there will be a time when the "Andy's pick of the week" jingle doesn't make me smile and feel happy. I somehow doubt it.
I live 30 minutes away from Sweetwater. My favorite store eva! I am perpetually paying off something. Good times!
I hope you read the fine print about Synchrony's new terms: no more zero-interest financing, 2% added to all promotions!
If I play a song that needs a sitar, I just use a flanger. On certain settings I can get a fairly convincing sitar sound.
There was an electric sitar company that went under not long ago. All 6-string with a buzz bridge. Jerry Jones guitars, I think. I should have bought one when I had a chance. They sounded killer.
My favourite guitar channel
I like seeing the MSRP. I like it very much.
The Ibanez QX 527 PB-ABS is something that I have to try... and to compare with the Strandberg Boden 7 string...
I am really surprised how much I love my ibanez quest, I play it everyday
Pale moon ebony?? Dang.. that's a $300 upcharge just for a fingerboard alone at Kiesel, let alone a whole top. Granted the Ibanez will probably only have a veneer not a full cap. But still. This thing is nice. Jumbo gold frets. No streaks in the ebony. Luminlay side dots. I wants it. Oh, nice to hear someone say "nyatoh" correctly for once. +10 points!
My local shop has the nicest Ibanez gio. Hard tail, roasted neck , hipshot style bridge. Amazing color.
That Sitar is my pick of the week for sure. It’s been in my dreams ever since I saw Steve Vai playing one but especially because Sitar was my instrument of choice before I picked up the guitar.
Just gotta say it... Ibanezezezez FTW! 🤘😎🔥
Oh man I want that Ibanez.
This is me showing some love despite not having anything to say about this week's gear.
It’s strongly appreciated
Plain ole chocolate ice cream for me please. Love the show!
Words no guitar player has ever said: "a new pedal? No thank you. I currently own the amount needed."
😂😂😂
That Ibanez Q-whatever with the pale moon ebony veneer looks incredible IMO.
I believe it is priced in the same ballpark as the new Biden Essential from Strandberg which make it a really tough decision for one interested in headless fiddles !
I play an Ibanez Q as my main guitar. I have back problems and it's the most comfortable guitar I found. I like it better than Standberg but I wish they would find a way to add a trem.
I’m not a headless guitar fan but the Ibanez looks great but I’m an Ibanez fan and the finish reminds me of old barn wood ( a good thing to me ) , now how about an Iceman premium LP custom but Iceman Premium from the Indonesian plant. I think there’s a market for a really nice mid tier priced Iceman, and the new ones they released recently are almost there if they only had a Rosewood or Ebony finger board, I just don’t like the baby poo tan look of whatever wood they are using on those, I guess I want something like a PS10 but de blinged take all the Paul Stanley stuff off the PS10 especially the chrome plate behind the bridge the inlays can stay they’re awesome. Something in between an IC400 and a Paul Stanley , something to compete with the new inspired by custom shop Epiphones LP, bound body neck and headstock, with parallelogram inlays (mop or abalone) 4 knob vvtt three way switch. I can’t be the only one who would be interested in something like that. I’ve gotten the LP itch as I’m getting older but I’ve always loved the iceman’s extreme but still classy shape, I had an IC300 and I loved it but it was a bolt on so I kinda felt like it wasn’t a “real iceman) I know they’ve always made bolt on versions of their set neck designs I have a destroyer II that’s just on the verge of being rebuilt. Anyway way off topic but I think Ibanez should really do something cool with the Iceman and make it a real competitor to the Les Paul .
My favorite thing about the new BigSky MX has to be the bloody insane price LMFAO. I'm good, Strymon. Thanks, but no thanks.
Will Strymon give access to screen replacements for the MX? Can you check this out please, Andy, as OLED tech has a severely limited lifespan. Having had two different OLED displays, on (very) expensive equipment, go down in the middle of a gig after around 4 years I can't see the point in buying one...
I had no idea about the failure rate of OLED.
wish the big sitar had quartertonal frets
Ibanez rarely drop a .... Priceless.
I wish Seymour Duncan had put the logo in the corner of the pickup covers. It looks odd there in the middle.
I have one question about the Ibanez, how do you hang it on the WALL!!!!!!!
Q52PE-NTF Quest isn't on Sweetwater 😭
"YOU MAY be high, but You'll never be Tony IOmmi Playing sitar in a bathtub high!" amazing meme and quote
Ive really missed a sitar....
GPD? what currency is that?
How are you going to hang that Ibanez on the wall hangers behind you?
The hangers come with spacers and it fits just fine.
If yours don’t, you can wrap rubber bands around the hanger forks.
@ 12:43 Iz tha frm yoke-shee-ah na thaz dropt a bolok?
It took me a LONG time to understand that 😂
Hi Andy,
any news on the classic black Fireman?
Btw: Any other brand but ibanez would ask at least 1600,- for such a headless grainmonster.
Same news…. It’s coming… maybe….
@@TheGuitarGeek Thanks! All the best!
How is this the Quest with better specs? They are all the same spec except this one is coming out with EVO frets instead of SS. Seems like a downgrade, at least until they run out of necks and start building them with SS.
the quest is not ergonic. It doesn't weigh much if at all less than other Ibanez offerings with bass wood, and it is hard to sit in a classical position. Ormsby has an ebony that is ergonomic, but with a fan fret. Strandberg essential is less expensive no fan, and very ergonomic if you want to give one a try
I respectfully disagree.
It’s actually pretty good for classical position. The problem seems to be that most people think that they need to stuff the tuners into their leg instead of using a right angled cable.
Ibanez just really hate the idea of me saving money don't they
Is the big sky actually discontinued or was that clickbait? I thought the mx was being sold alongside the regular bigsky.
Buy a Line 6 Varix you get a sitar and 28 other great sounding guitar models. It’s worth it if want a sitar.
It means that the og big sky price will drop, right? Right?😂
I’d hope so!!
They got Fluff to demo? Couldn’t they find anyone good ?
Ok Wayne..
Love your Videos, follow you since a little while.
If you wanna break in the 7 string headless guitars area, also check out Valravn if you not heard of em. They are affortable custom made headless guitars from the Ukrain.
I took a look. They look fantastic. I couldn’t find price info though
@@TheGuitarGeek
Price go usually as high as around 2k which is not bad for custom made stuff.
If you want the price of any custom he made you just can ask him on the post, I did it once or twice and he was always answering.
Think since a while myself about getting an 8 string made of him
The black SD pickups look absolutely stupid with the big light-colored SD logo. What a joke.
I wonder WHO will be the First to Bring out the First £ 1000 guitar pedal ? It seems that is where they are all heading for ! ..Epiphone on it's way to a $2000 GUITAR amps now reaching $3000 to 4000 ? ...Who are theses Companies aiming at ? Here in the UK Bars & Pubs only doing JAM NIGHTS so they get Bands & ACTS For FREE so Those Musicians Wont Be buying Expensive GEAR With no money earned !!
Chase Bliss Audio smashed the 1k barrier years ago with the CXM 1978 Reverb.
Session and touring pros need such things as Fractal’s FM9, for example. The cost is almost meaningless for a successful touring player. I can’t understand why home users don’t get this. I see complaints about the cost of instruments, amps, televisions, computer monitors, and on and on…
All of these and much more see professional use easily justifying most any price. Instead of bemoaning the high cost, we should be grateful for the development being done for these $$ users as it soon is used to create more introductory-priced variants.
High tech R&D is spectacularly expensive. Companies have to find a model for recovery or risk going out of business.
@@artysanmobile If you have 1000 World wide PRO Players who can pay $1000 for a Pedal ...& you have 100,000 World wide Amateur & Semi Pro's that can pay $500 Which Group will you make the Most Money From ?
@@MrPinkStrat The formula is nowhere near that simple for manufacturers. A company does not have infinite time to make the math work. The 100,000 semi-pros aren’t going to buy at all without a relentless program of marketing. Every one of those 100,000 units needs to be sold, as in SOLD! Much of that program, particularly for a smaller builder, consists of high-end users putting their face and name on the line. It’s just the way it works.
I’m in the record biz and the parallels are uncanny, and sickening. Hits are MADE. They’re bought, influenced, created by the expediency of cash. A prominent manufacturer like Boss can leverage the enormous up front cost by releasing an array of models right off the bat, going many millions in the hole in the process, and advertising the hell out of them. A smaller maker, and that describes virtually all of them, would be broken by the development hole. It’s hugely risky.
Hue G Rection😅😅
Strymon... gotta pay those California taxes.
I love the idea of a git/sitar but I really hate their color scheme. They lost out on making a plain version, a burst-ish version, and maybe a psychedelic Ltd version that looks like the cover from Sgt Pepper's. "Crackle" on any guitar, for me, is turn off.
Seymour Duncan as a company. At least I. My opinion choose the wrong youtoober to demo this set. The demo was boring and did show what runs ,soloing and clean chording can sounds like. That being said, Emg 57/66 along with 81/85 got pretty much active pups covered. I don’t know what Seymour Duncan company is thinking really. How about bring back the original live wires or make the retribution set got 6 string. Whatever I guess.
Am i the only who see's the illegitimate hate child of Steve-o and big bird?
To me that finish on the ibanez looks terrible.
It’s not for everyone i
What people want in a guitar: 24.75" scale, Offset Body (Jaguar), Headless, Dual (or single) low output humbuckers. What manufacturers offer: 25.5", strat style body (or less paul), crappy loud humbuckers or single coils (or some crappy active junk). 22 frets > 24 frets.
Interesting. Where did you do your research?
Funny, that's not what I want at all. Also 24>22. I play several tracks that require 24. If you're going to go less frets for neck pickup tone preference, get a 21 instead.