Stop LYING about Harley Benton!
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- What a week! Guitar Players have to be #1 at EVERYTHING! Apparently, that includes writing REALLY stupid comments as well!
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Glen I am willing to bet you'd probably never see this, but I have an idea for you. Take an actual blind person. Put them in a room and show them mixes with different tubes. Then different guitars with different pickups. And finally different speakers. Ask them when and where they hear the differences and see if they match up or not with what the results actually are. I'm blind. Have been playing for 17 years. And trust me the amount of variables that people think exist when they can see quickly start to go away when they can not. I had perfect vision when I started playing. I'm almost completely blind now. I have to use my ears for practically everything. and I'm telling you all right now Glen's more on the ball on this stuff than any of you are realizing. I'd love to take part in something like this if it was ever possible. Keep going and doing what you are doing man it is awesome. Oh and before anyone asks like I know people eventually will look up the terms screen readers and voice over. That is how I use my computer and phone to do things like this. Blind does not mean helpless in 2024
This comment needs to go up!
Nah this is bullshit /s
Bumping this comment up. Well said, mate!
Can UA-cam comments be read with braille keyboards, too? Or does only the voice over work? I’ve also been wondering how blind-accessible most DAWs are. Voiceover can read out the dB numbers of the faders to you, I guess, but the only way to have tactile feedback would be to use an actual mixing desk with tangible faders.
For guitar, did you put the numbers in braille on the upper or lower edge of the guitar neck? I assume that‘s what I would do, to make sure I’d quickly find the right fret without looking.
(In case you’re wondering, yes, I work in a facility for visually impaired people. 😉)
So to answer these one by one. I would imagine a braille keyboard would work just fine for UA-cam comments. As far as I’m aware it works just fine. I used to have one, but mainly used it for inputting math braille back when I was in college a few years back. Never thought about it for that use. The only time I really even use braille these days is on my phone with a feature that allows me to type in braille which is way faster than standard typing.
For the DAW thing that is tough. I think it depends on the user’s ability to learn and adapt. ProTools is a F**KING nightmare! There’s so much happening and honestly it is one of the most frustrating ecosystems I’ve ever had the misfortune to try to learn. Its a joke plane and simple for access. It can be done. Sure no doubt about that. But it is a serious learning curve. The only reason I figured it out is I’m a pretty advanced user who knew both the ins and outs of my screen reader and knows music technology to a decent level. I’ve heard Audasity is OK on a Windows based system, but not tried it on a MAC based system. Personally I use Logic Pro for everything. I have it streamlined exactly how I want it. I’d say 98% of it is user friendly for the blind and the things that are not are things that are annoying, but not deal breakers to say the least. It reads me all the info I need in real time for each track. I have also designed a few templates I use depending on what I’m doing so I can get up and going and start working as soon as I sit down. Plug in my gear and go. I understand some people’s hesitation on templates and presets, but I want something I know will work. Something I know will work every time. And something I can work on immediately to make sure I get ideas in place as quickly and affectively as possible. I’ve used Logic Pro since 2018 and have not looked back. Done everything from tracks for singers I’ve worked with to my own project work to live sound and entertainment more recently. I do own a mixing board. It is analog. But I don’t really use it at all. I tend to try to keep all of my mixing and mastering as internal in Logic as I possibly can. It gives me more control of where things are and how they are happening so I can figure out problems easier. Again I know that is not very traditional. But it is what I’ve found works for me. I basically just need a connection between my Helix and the computer. And my guitars. And I’m in business. I can lay down midi instrument and drum tracks as holding tracks. And send them out to people who play those parts to be replaced with real instruments. So it makes my life that much easier.
As for the guitar? Nah. You’d think the tactile marks would help. I’ve even considered it when I’m playing slide guitar since that is an extra level of difficult. But honestly nope. I’ve had to get very good at what I do through muscle memory entirely. I actually learned how to play guitar originally purely by ear and never even looked at my fretboard when I could for the most part. So by the time my vision started to go in my early 20s I was already pretty well equipped to deal with the situation. It makes it really interesting working with guitar instructors because they have had to basically reteach me guitar from a different perspective. I had to learn much more from muscle memory once I started doing professional lessons because telling me to look at the board was basically out the window by then. My current instructor (And yes I still take lessons 17 years later because you are never too good to keep learning) is arguably one of if not the best hired guy in the world today. He’s had to completely reinvent how he’s teaching me things like 8 finger tapping because it is such a visual exercise. We have to break things down to their individual components so I can get used to the step by step feel of the motion in my hands and wrists. Then build up step by step so I can get used to the motions rather than using fret markers to tell me where I am at any given time. It goes against practically everything he knows as a guitar player. but the coolest part is it is making him even better which I didn’t think was possible at his level. Because he’s learning this the same way I am and it is forcing him to think differently about how he plays. I know he did a recent solo with the group he’s on tour with in South America right now with his eyes completely closed to get a feel for it. There’s nothing to bring you as much pride and joy in yourself as getting a text from a guy who’s been a guitarist in some major label bands that just says “how in the hell do you play like this it is incredible?” I’ll never forget that question as long as I live.
Sorry this got way long. I’m willing to take a guess and say if you are based in the US you work in a Lighthouse for the Blind facility? Or possibly a school for the blind. Those are the only places that would come to mind for something like that. Its funny. I’ve always known my vision would go. Ever since I was a kid. I even went to a school for the blind for a bit. Yet I have never really felt connected to that community. I tend to kind of avoid it for the most part. I think that has helped me a ton because its made me learn to think outside the box. I tend to take things more as a “how do I do something my way” rather than “you can’t do them”. Sadly my experience around the visually impaired community is certainly colored by my own experiences with people in it. I… Just could not quite click with most of them. Probably because even to this day a lot of my interests are quite visual in nature. I mean even the field I run a consulting business in (The healthcare industry) is not exactly a traditional place for someone like me. But it is something I’m interested in. Anyway hope this answers a few things.
Glenn: try this gear out, it slaps and is way cheaper
Guitarists: Angery honest man is hurting the feelings of my empty wallet
Is that what you think? People who own Gibsons have an empty wallet?
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@@travisspaulding2222 in that case it's not the wallet that's necessarily empty..
@@yajrobot Lol, so now we're doing blanket statements about people's character? Maybe take a look in the mirror.
@@travisspaulding2222 LMAO another Gibson owner detected.
I missed when Glenn talked shit at Bass players. WHY DO GUITAR PLAYERS TAKE EVERYTHING FROM US!!
Because Guitar Players keep running their mouths while us Bass Players are too dumb to think lmao
@@longview3k69 That's the accuratest statement ever
“That’s all I have for you today. Now, ffffffffuck off!”
Dude, I saved a clip of that and send it to like 10 of my friends
Thanks for the idea!!! Haha
@@Guilhermetmfranco guaranteed laughs for you and the boys
_Masterful Signoff_
Guys watch the new video of Rhett Shull he compared different necks and if they affect the tone. The difference is really surprising. Anyone seen it?
@EbonyPope yeah that video is a very suspicious.
7:46 as an American i have to disagree, i spend my money on much more than just burgers and guns, i also buy weed and I’m paying off my thousands of dollars medical debt from 5 years ago when i sprained my ankle and needed tylenol
"Tylenol"
@@YxYzYx yeah right, it was totally his fault for getting run over
@@naattxxnaattxx7055 lol it was just a joke but i don’t think he can actually comprehend that concept
hell yeah weed is expensive. top shelf anyhow.🤷🏻♂️
@@YxYzYx what im saying is when someone gets hurt, its not necessarily their fault. Someone could get run over and never be able to pay back the medical bills just because "its not the taxpayers fault"
Im not saying it is their fault, but people should help each other rather than stay inside their own bubble for the rest of eternity
I too miss Myspace and Bebo. Anyone remember MSN Messenger? Also good honesty about the politics, religion and corporate greed.
MySpace was comfy AF
MSN messenger was alright. AIM (aol instant messenger) was where the action was though
Lol Msn messenger and the chat rooms.👍 When I lived in New Orleans that's how I met a few cool friends in "Chat New Orleans" I think they started a pay wall and MSN went belly up.
ASL? Haha
@@thesandman775 AOL, MSN, and YIM.
Glenn, you need to take it to the next level. Review a Chibson
"It's not Right vs Left, it never has been. It's rich people vs everybody else."
Never expected to hear such a profound thing on a UA-cam comments review on a Guitar Recording Channel, but it happened.
I salute you my man!
he says that and then craps on Christians constantly so clearly there is SOMETHING else.
@@L0rd0fTh3N3rdz What does that have to do with it?
That is just Marxist rhetoric. The individualistic nature of the right is diametrically opposed to the collectivist Rich vs. Poor class conflict that is espoused by Socialists/Marxists/Communists. Glenn by his very nature is a Capitalist. He may say these things but is still charging $250 for a pedal/effect. However, I agree that Glenn should do this because I am a Capitalist too. He sets the price for which his service/commodity is worth on the market, and he should have the right to do so. The huge glaring problem is Glenn is the rich compared to us common people. He is the "Bourgeois" /Rich to us. Apart from his outstanding tests and his incredible work, I don't think it is a good idea to listen to this rhetoric because it does not logically lead into Glenn being a part of the common people. I think he is doing an outstanding job-sharing information with us and helping us get to where he is. But, in the end, the Marxist viewpoint from which his views come from hold that he is diametrically opposed to us because of his position of power/wealth.
@@solaresat Why are those the only two schools of thought in your world. Please climb out of the holes you have dug for yourself.
@@L0rd0fTh3N3rdz There is no need to bring his attitudes about a particular religion into this. I think it was a simple, and quite accurate assertion, that is all. We can learn from each other without completely agreeing about everything.
"It's not right vs left. It's rich people vs the masses. It always has been."
Exactly right. I wish more people understood this point.
actually, it's J..................................... vs.................................
and who exactly are these rich people
@@itsgoldmate8859 ohh I think you nose who it is.... 🤫
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Interested to see Glenn break down Rhett Shull's guitar neck tonewood video. Tonewood is still bullshit to me, but curious to see how this is analyzed
It's a very flawed video. There are several things that jumped out at me immediately.
First of all, he is obviously very biased. He even said so before he even played any of the necks. When he plays the maple neck, it seems like he picks harder, perhaps unwittingly, basically confirming his own bias that maple fretboards are supposed to sound "snappy". Then he also mentions that, even though the necks were set up by the store for that guitar, he had to do adjustments because there was a lot of fret buzz. He did not mention or document anywhere by how much it was adjusted and if the string heights were the same for every neck. String height is pretty important, and the strings slapping against the fretboard may again be interpreted as the "snappy" character. If he had to adjust the string height, that also may have changed the distance from the pickups, making it louder or quieter going into the amp. And that might cause the amp to react slightly differently, with more or less compression. And then there is the fact that he did not do a blind test. When he listened back to the results, he knew which was which, and you can't judge anything reliably based on that.
These are some of the reason why Jim Lill's videos are so much better than any of the other stuff that's out there so far. He puts in the time and effort that's required to produce actual results that you can draw conclusions from. Plus, he documented his process very well. I'm not saying Rhett was trying to be misleading deliberately, but he just did not put in the time that would have been needed. The conslusions of his experiment (if you can call it that) just feed into people's preconceptions.
Oh and on another note, I don't understand where the notion comes from that maple sounds bright and "snappy". I suspect it's purely based on the visual appearance of the wood? Because in theory, maple is a less stiff material than rosewood and would probably dampen the sound more. I'm not a physicist, but I'd expect rosewood to dampen the vibration of the string less. (Not that that would translate to what comes out of the speaker.)
i guess there needs to be that robot arm thing that one of Glenn's more profound critics (must be the "physics of electric guitar" guy himself) had been ranting and raving for quite a while.
@@mrcoatsworth429very true. Did he also mention if he was using the same pickups on each guitar? I suspect they were not likely the same exact set of pickups. But regardless, your points stand.
Also, did he use a brand new pick on each guitar take? Because a worn pick will also change the attack and how snappy the strings might sound.
And was all the other wood the same except for the fretboards? And were materials like tuners and bridges identical?
I enjoyed watching the video, but there were some problems with ensuring his hypothesis was properly tested to remove as many biases and issues as possible. He did not claim it to be a scientific test, but that’s the only way to know for sure.
@@MashaT22 He changed the necks on the one guitar. So yes, they were the exact same pickups and I think strings as well. I also think he made sure that the tuners on the three different necks were the exact same models. So it's not like he put no thought into it at all.
@@mrcoatsworth429 the test was also done using a loose rhythm pattern which is highly unreliable, as it depends on the feeling of the player at the time. I'd rather hear static open chords to get a full spectrum of the sound
"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that." - George Carlin
(Then apply it to the average musician and it gets REALLY bad 😂)
Scary shit.
Mathematically, that is not strictly correct.
@@mrcoatsworth429 it is a fucking joke. Lighten up francis
@@mrcoatsworth429When the mean, median, and mode are all the same, as with normalized IQ scores, then it is, no?
@@sparella true. Carlin doesn't mention a normalized test, though.
Here’s the thing about Harley Benton - it’s a QC lottery and this is unfortunately true for most budget import guitars. I have purchased five of their guitars so far, three of which had to be exchanged at least once to get playable instrument, one had some major cosmetic issues and Thomann have issued a partial refund as the guitar was playable-ish after complete setup. Only one had no major issues other than a messed up grounding. The pickups were always solid for the price. I still think that they are great value; however, I would personally not recommend ordering them outside of Europe as most likely you will have to exchange it due to the QC issues. Some people just get lucky and get good copies. I have also purchased two Jackson’s from their budget JS series and they had even worse QC issues, one of them had to be exchanged and it took Jackson over a month to send a replacement since it was coming from abroad, in other instance they have issued 40% partial refund.
My friend had to exchange four of the same US built Gibson Explorer. Has nothing to do with Harley Benson. The guy he dealt with at Gibson just laughed at him and said people just pay for the name only.......
You're not wrong, but it sounds like you've had much worse luck than most. I just bought two. One of them has a stiff tuning peg and the pickup selector switch is loose and rattles a bit. Still very playable and nothing I can't fix. I figured I'd be upgrading to locking tuners anyway and I'm actually bonding with that guitar more than I even expected. The other... there's nothing functionally wrong with it at all, but "Ocean Flame" stopped being blue and became green at some point, which has me annoyed/disappointed. Is it dumb to be caught up on the color? Yes, it is. Plays well. Sounds good. But I feel like I'm making due with a mistake and it's a pebble in my boot at the moment.
Didn't Thomann open a factory or subsidiary for you US guys to shorten shipping distance, time, and risk of shipping damage
@@Nachtmahr616 They have a US store up on Reverb and that'd be better for returns, but it's a more limited selection and the prices are better through the Thomann site, particularly if you split the shipping costs between multiple guitars.
I always love it when I ask someone, "How F***ing stupid can you possibly be?".... and they take as a personal challenge... "You want stupid? I'll show you f***ing stupid...Here, hold my beer!" lol
I love my Gibsons, but I also love that you're sharing more affordable options with folks. The more people who can get into playing and making music, the better in my book.
It's annoying that people have to take a side and judge a person who owns Gibsons, PRS, or Fender. It's pretty sad, really. Glenn kind of encourages it, but he knows better.
I'll never own a PRS. I think my next guitar will be an Enya. Inexpensive carbon something or other with a speaker and effects on board.
I want to see Glenn do a review on it. I haven't seen anyone in the metal space review it yet.
I have a prs custom 24, I think it’s a good guitar for the price.
@kaoe145 I am not willing to spend PRS kind of dollars when I can get a comparable guitar for less than half. That unhinged video he posted about tone wood just sealed the deal.
Get a used Yamaha , Epiphone, or Squier and change the pickups. I got a few trash guitars, for well under $100, changed the frets and pickups, shims in the neck pocket, and they sound amazing and feel great.
@rustystove8410 if all you want is a quality guitar, that may be the single best way to get one.
I actually managed to get a Harley Benton DC Gotoh, it was a B stock, last one.
The problems - had some scratches (not actually a problem), the nut could have been slotted better (fixed in a minute).
I've had it for 7 months now, it's sitting next to a 2005 ESP eclipse, it's amazing just how much they managed to pack into that price.
I had pickups that cost more than than HB, and this HB is a better value for money.
I’ve only played one of their electrics, and my only complaint is there wasn’t enough info as to what the finish was. I thought it was gonna be sand blasted or at very least grain dyed, but it was like a synthetic veneer or hydrodip type fake grain top. Other than that singular cosmetic ‘issue’, it’s a super solid guitar, I just need to break it out more, I’m debating brining it to a blues jam sometime soon. The monophonic comment, while potentially accurate to the product they received, is simply not true for all of their products. The shop I work at often carries one of their acoustics in both the electric and pickupless options, and they’re some of the best budget guitars I’ve played. I also own a u bass from them and it’s pretty fun, tho I will say I prefer the much smaller ones from Kala
Glen, you've got some great taste. I still keep going back and listening to Kyuss and QOTSA. They're as interesting as anything else I've heard in the last 20 years.
DUDE! More videos like this please. Also, you might tell people "Bless your heart" as well LOL.
I would just like to mention that I have an acoustic HB and I’m pretty happy with it. I’d say it does an amazing job, especially considering the money, plus it looks great! Couldn’t be happier with my purchase.
Glenn, I'm really curious to hear what you can do with only a stock install of reaper, no extra plugins or equipment like hardware compressors and stuff.
Bonus points if you can do DI only, but honestly what I'd love to hear most is a comparision between DI only stock reaper, recorded stock reaper, and DI only and fully recorded using all the hardware and software you have available, if you can find the time to do all that.
Would be really interesting to see how much an expert can do without their software and hardware equipment and how much they can do with it.
My Harley Benton JA baritone was awesome right outta the box. I've never named one of my instruments, but I instantly named it The Beast!
I bought an HB and have had it for months now. I gave it a good setup and changed out the strings and slight truss rod adjustment and it plays great. Dude your channel is cool, informative, Thank you
marshall is also now a "lifestyle" brand too. so much for that jcm combo reissue...
CNC manufacturing doesn't negate quality controls, in fact I would say the big differentiator between "good" and "bad" CNC lines are the quality inspections that come on after a part is made. Machines operate within tolerances and wood is full of irregularities, so you still get quite a lot of variations. Better machines and engineering can get you tighter tolerances, but let's be honest the guitar industry is too small to get that kind of attention. It seems that right now there are competing guitar factories, mostly in Asia, that make similar models of guitars for big brands (and their off-label couterparts) and the level of QC you can expect is tied to which factory it was built at. Famously the Squier Classic Vibe factory in China was actually beating out Fender's own Mexico plant for a while. The other thing is there are automated inspection systems, but these are generally REALLY expensive so you wouldn't see them at a guitar factory. This is what Sweetwater's Plek service is, but it's only for assessing the setup of an assembled guitar. I'm someone who has bought several Squier and Tagima guitars and upgraded their hardware (yes including pickups), so I'm all about the cheap guitars.
I remember (very badly) many cases where Glen was accused of eq-ing 2 guitars, amps, etc to make them sound near identical. I thought, “if you can eq 2 pieces of gear to sound identical, then why bother with super specific gear? just get a good eq”, it’s a thought i’ve had for a while
Jesus Christ is not a fictional character. There is as much historical evidence of his life as there is for George Washington or Aristotle. He died for our sins. Yours and mine. And He is the way to eternal life. You may scoff at this or make fun of me for my beliefs, but I really want to see you in heaven. As Penn Jillette even said, if someone has the knowledge of how to achieve eternal life, how much must you hate that person to not share that knowledge? Praying for you, Glenn. BTW, thank you for introducing me to Harley Benton. I love my SC450. And the 2x12 with Celestion Vintage 30s.
jesus was a real person but the idea that many have of him is fictional
Harry potter's school years are related in more detail than any of those characters mentioned...
@@koalatea9960 I'm praying for you, too.
@@theskullkid421 and I'm praying for you, as well.
@@TacMedTV i will pray for you as well my friend
Good call on Harley Benton. Bought mine last summer and was super impressed. Had to do a small setup but it was playable out of the box and only a little over a half step out of tune after shipping halfway across the world.
Hey Glenn, planning on getting an EX-84 with EMGs after seeing all of the videos on it from the past few months, hoping it’ll be as good as it seems!
"Stealth buy" - neat idea. I've invested €1000 into "scientific research" - for 5 Harley Bentons. Results were positive, 2 were borderline "professional quality", all were good, but there was one QC blooper that was absolutely hilarious. Glad you had good results with yours too!
Heeeyyy mate- spot on with the left/right thing! We are all just people and perhaps we should all look after each other because those at the ‘top’ rarely look after us.
I have the Red HB sg.ish. It is one one my favorite sounding guitars.
I have Gibsons, Reverends, Fenders. It totally holds it's own.
I got the gotoh sg and its awesome. Pickups are microphonic but if you dont get to near to the speaker you can deal with it. The bad think is that they are not available in thomann any more. They are removed from their page completely. Only the sc is available as a b stock.
Thanks for plain speaking. I'm trying to learn basics and value your opinion. I like that your not swayed by image of brands.I bought a Genz Benz el Diablo cheap and like the range of tones I can get in more clean direction.
Glenn, if studio monitors produce a flat sound, which is what the actual band sounds like, should our car speakers have studio monitors too? I wanna hear Metallica sound as close as possible to how they are in the recording studio, Mesa Boogie and all. From Mr. Meza himself.
Studio monitors can add character as well. That’s why major studios have multiple monitors. We actually would use 3 or 4 different monitors with different sound curves to ensure we weren’t going to sound bad on somebodies low end speakers at home.
9:09 Alternate video title: Senior Citizen Rants About Irrelevant Social Media
Glenn been watching you for 2 years now, your show got me through a lot of months in the hospital,I am from Moncton NB Canada, love your show, love that blue Harley Benton SG, hope I can get well enough to grab one,my cheap old Korean LP needs a lot of work, keep up the good work..... Will Thibodeau
I had that HB explorer and I have to say it wasn’t incredible like you describe them. For a beginner it’s a fantastic choice, but the pickups are decent at best and it’s super lightweight.
HOW DARE YOU SAY KROM IS A MYTH?!! My God laughs at you from the mountain!
Seriously, I am Christian. And, miracles aside, Glenn, there is a huge amount of evidence that Jesus lived. The Romans were huge record-keepers. The only thing in doubt is his divinity.
Hanging with you for a day would be hillarious! Keep being you! We need more of this in the world!
GLEEENNN!!!
You're always going on about getting the best tone with analog speakers and you've even delved into IRs and VSTs. However, what do you think of products like the Spark from Positive Grid and the like? I don't know about you or anyone else, but the Spark Mini is a HELL of a practice amp and even just to show off to friends and family a new riff or song you've been practicing. Not to sound like a shill for it, but ever since my Fender Frontman 212R has pretty much bit the dust, it's the only thing I've been able to play my guitar on besides Reaper. (Blobnarok is awesome, btw)
Waaaait, you were involved with the Frequency Unknown fiasco as well? My dude! I am still waiting for a check!
It’s funny you bring up the EX84. I played a gig where I was playing my £1200 Solar E1.6,
(I have just left the airforce and treated myself with a bit of the golden handshake)
another bands guitarist has the Harley Benton EX84! Being British I was the embarrassed one! Americans will never understand this!
i got a HB cheap SG copy with 24 frets. had them put in grovers and set it up with extra low action. it is the best playing guitar I have and the cheapest.has roswell pups. I like this better than my jackson soloist, perhaps because of my hands. I also have a HB single cut active with 24 frets, nice guitar, a HB single cut deluxe goto with Tesla also nice but only 22 frets. i am happy with my HB guitars.
Just went by a guitar center and found a harley benton DC600 for sale for $400. told them that it retailed for $160 + $80 shipping. At first the guy just went "ok bro, whatever", then proceeded to come back as if he saw a ghost and admitted I was right. Was a great guitar but needless to say I couldnt stop myself from laughing. Whoever owned that guitar previously made BANK off selling it to a store that didnt know any better.
As far as my experience with Harley's, I own a DC-200 and it cost me about $150 total to buy and ship to the US. Pickups sounded bland so I went for some Seymour Duncan 59's and I recently switch from 10ga to 9ga strings. EVEN WITH ALL THAT + 2 years of maintenance cost its still about $100 cheaper than your next nearest epiphone and it RIPS. If I ever buy a guitar with $1k or more, I better be able to see sound or control minds because I have no idea where all that money is going otherwise...
Bob Balch from Fu Manchu is a SUPER nice guy! He runs Play This Riff where he teaches lessons and gets the actual artists to show you riffs - reach out to him!
Ty! I just subscribed!
@@SpectreSoundStudios PS their bass player Brad runs Creepy Fingers Effects ;)
GLEEEEEEEEEN! What are your thought on Jackson guitars? I think they're still great metal machines, but I wonder if their quality is still as high as it was back in the day.
I am once again asking for you to do a shootout with the WAZA craft 12inch cab speaker with the other speakers you recommend. I had a katana artist series with the waza craft and loved the thing!
Someday I'm gonna record drums in your studio. You forking rock dude.
As a guitarist, I can’t count how many times I heard from other guitarists complaining about a guitar like “it’s a piece of shit”, “it sounds so bad” and everything. I noticed to biases:
First, if you don’t tell the price, it changes mind a lot. And after it is appreciated, knowing that it’s cheaper than expected even improve to opinion on the instrument.
Then, and it took me so much time to realize that, but a well treated instrument sounds so good. This means we have to tune the guitar, adjust the intonation, the truss road, the pickups height, and clean it, and suddenly, it sounds great. It’s a shame that some very expensive guitars are not setup properly, but thinking it’s a bad instrument just because of that make you a bad guitarist.
I don’t know how you could demonstrate that without being accused of cheating, but I’m pretty sure more than 90% of us guitarist would prefer a perfectly adjusted cheap guitar than a badly adjusted expensive guitar. I think you demonstrated enough that the tone is in the cab 😂
When I was the manager of the supermarket Fresh Produce department, Saturdays we'd close at 12, but the fruit and veg had to be counted/weighed, put away, and the displays cleaned. The last shift of checkout girls would be told to help, and I'd go up into the Manager's office, put Motorhead on the storewide PA system and crank it! Sometimes, followed by some Dead Kennedys. They'd all piss and moan, and workers from other departments would come and bitch, but hey, it got them all moving and me to the pub earlier!
7:06 thats what you get for robot slave when you have no trade
bought a cort kx507ms recently and im in love with it, such an amazingly setup guitar with great specs
The difference between cheap guitars and expensive guitars are the specs. If I could get a 26.5" 7 string neck thru with a real floyd rose, compound radius ebony fretboard, luminlay side dots, inlays besides center dots, lundgren pickups, spokewheel truss rod, and stainless steel frets for $500... I'd be all about it.
Harley Benton vs. Gibson is the same argument as Snap-On vs. Icon on the tool channels. At the end of the day, both tools can do that job just fine. The person using the tools is going to prefer one over the other though.
I need to know your rig setup for the guitars in your intro
I have a Harley Benton JB 75 Bass.
Nothing bad to say about it.
It does "Bass-Stuff" pretty descent.
I quite recently bought myself a Harley Benton 8 string multiscale. Apart from an iffy volume pot (that doesn't bother me too much as I bought it as a tool for composing rather than recording), It is A VERY NICE BIT OF KIT. The finish is of good quality and fret work on the neck is very nice, with no snags whatsoever!!! When it does work properly through an amp, it has a rather nice sound. Especially the neck pick up when played clean!!!
IF asked. I would (even though I've got a dodgy volume pot) still recommend Harley Benton to anyone looking for a decent instrument to learn on or to use in live or studio environments. Far superior to many so called BIG NAME brands out there...
Kyuss! Dude, you just became even cooler. How come I never noticed that t-shirt. 😆
Every guitar player has picked up at least one inexpensive guitar and been surprised at how good it sounded. In fact, most of us have multiple stories like that. And yet so many of us fail to put 2 and 2 together and realize that these are NOT FLUKES. The difference in sound between a $500 superstrat with active humbuckers and a $1000 super strat with active humbuckers played through the same rig is usually negligible at best.
My first bass guitar (I know, I know, bass player! but I also play guitar😅) was a Harley Benton Jazz type. It worked for me as begginer. But the body was made of conglomerated wood, because of that it had a terrible neck dive. Worse, the screw for the strap jumped out of it while I was playing. Also, one of the tuners got a small hit and got bended. This was in 2009, I am happy to see the brand has improved in this 15 years. But that experience keeps me away from their instruments.
Thanks Glenn!I work the graveyard shift.Nothing better than eating breakfast and listening to the show right before sleep!👍
Nice weekend man .. Always fun if i come at home then this video is out on YT
You should do a null test between the output of an amp hit by the guitar pickups vs. the same performace through a reamp box. I've noticed significant differences between them. The reamped signal does not capture as much breadth and nuance (I know those terms are subjective!) as the signal from the original pickup. The original pickup just has a ton of interesting electrical behavior that is not duplicated in the re-amping process. This is why - for fooling around - things like pedals, wireless guitar stuff, reamping, is all fine. But for recording, you need the purity of the pickup hitting the amp.
Depends on the reamp box
@@SpectreSoundStudios i’ve tried the radial active and passive boxes. The active box gets a lot closer, but it still doesn’t quite seem like a real guitar pickup hitting the amp. That said, i’ll be first to admit that in an emergency it’s way better to have a clean signal for re-Amping than not!
The radial SUCKS
The "purity of the pickup hitting the amp"? If you use active pickups or any sort of buffer, then you're not getting "purity" and that is okay. Opamp buffers, jfet buffers, tube buffers; they're all good.
I too would like to see that reamp test, but as a blind listening test, not a null test. Passing through a reamp transformer will cause a phase shift that will be inaudible but will cause a non-null. Passing both signals through the transformer would fix this, and thats what I personally do when necessary, but it would kind of defeat the point of the test in this case.
Hey Glenn lot of your videos are focused on heavy sounds. Appreciate your recommendations for affordable gear. Metal though has clean sections. Can u show how to get jazz chorus sound like James Hetfield without forking over $600-800 for a JC 120?
hey ho Glenn, since you worked at Chrysler for so long I gotta ask, have you worked on the PT Cruisers? I know they get a lot of hate because people find it ugly, but I can respect it for what it was supposed to be. the only actual problem is, that the 2 design-languages used just couldnt play together all that well.
ugly? thats debatable. reliable? no way would i recommend. mechanics hate working on them.🍻
What frustrates me is that there are a mountain of guitars that are prohibitively expensive and everyone complains but when companies try to introduce lower budget but still quality sounding and playing instruments people become brand snobs or just make up cope fictions about them. Its almost like consumers are ignoring the market. Schecter has some amazing playing and sounding lower end guitars and I think people are just self justifying their own expensive purchases. There are several brands that have options like these but people adopt these inverted attitudes.
I see this sometimes with the Gretsch Electromatic line, now that i think about it.
Guitars in general should have become cheaper over time, not more expensive. The technology itself hasnt really had a lot of major leaps and the market has been saturated for some time. People are paying for status symbols.
Nearly zero of this has anything to do with anything other than consumer attitudes.
Glenn, you are a necessary part of what's keeping this guitar player's head out of his ass. Thanks! 🤘😎
Star man!
Edit: I'll say it every time -- pro labor Glenn is my favorite Glenn.
Glenn, next time film just the re-amp box and the guitar beeing played just in a small box, or make a video explaing that will be used a re-amp box and use it before every tone comparison. BTW THE DIFFERENT WAY HOW GUITARRIST LOOK TO THE GUITAR CAN MAKE THE SOUND CHANGE DID YOU TESTED IT? :p
I bought a £89 humbucker Tele from Harley Benton and it's the nicest guitar I've ever played
you lived through the DaimlerChrysler Merger too? HAH....respect...lol
Honestly, i love harley benton guitars. I got one of their DIY kits and it's still one of the best guitars i had.
For my at home guitar tone I use a Soldano Astro 20 with a fractal FM3 in 4 cable method. I use an 5 band Eq on the FM3 in the effects loop to change to a lead tone since it only has a single tone stack. It works great and I didn't notice any latency. Some of the options in the Fractal stuff are hard to beat for live use, especially if are using a real amp with midi and a real speaker cabinet. I can get mix ready tones or a more raw tone using eq and filters with no noticeable latency. In my opinion, it's the best of both worlds. I'd like to hear your thoughts on combining analog and digital equipment to get whatever tone you are after. Thanks and F*CK YOU GLEN!
I bought and tested several Harley Benton and I have to say that is amazing how they sound and play. I’m talking about basses, acoustic and electric guitars, so, yeah, that’s bs Chris!
🤣🤣🤣 LMMFAO !
Love the Energy so much I Had to Sub !!!
On the Myspace topic: you should reach out to Finn McKenty for a discussion on that!
I enjoyed this so much I’m watching it again.
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Most MySpace pages during their peak years would bring even your M2 to its knees with all of the garbage Flash modules and animations loading at the same time.
Lol at Mr. T.
I arrange my stack thusly: 4x12, horizontal 2x15, another 4x12, topped with my two heads. It looks like an inverted cross.
When you refer to "recording off the floor" I'm assuming that the band is playing the song together as if on a stage. How is that actually recorded so that the elements can be mixed later on? Are the drums in seclusion and everyone is wearing headphones while playing straight into the board?
Mason from Vertex Effects recently put out a video where he tested tone before and after having his Clapton strat's Urethane finish stripped off and replaced with Nitro. Not done the most scientific way, but it was a pretty good video. The end results weren't game changing (of course) and actually seemed to indicate that the nitro finish was a little tighter for overdriven tones and the poly finish actually seemed a bit better for clean tones. Pretty ironic result given who the model would appeal to and all the talk about nitro finishes 'letting the guitar breath' which seems to appeal to all of us edge of break up dorks.
My questions would be "What does 'letting the guitar breathe' actually mean?" and "What does it do for tone?"
@@travisspaulding2222 "What does it do for tone?" - that was Mason's question, which is why he did the video.
The end results, the tone difference was negligible, and the difference that was there was in an unexpected way.
In the end though, Mason did not recommend any one strip a poly finish to redo a nitro one. He only did because his youtube channel's monetization covered the cost.
As far as 'letting the guitar breath', I took that right from Fender's marketing on a model they offer a nitro finish on, so we might want to ask them what it means considering there's usually a $2k price difference on nitro finish models.
@@Nedly79 Yeah, that was my point. It sounds like bullshit, lol. I have owned a ton of guitars in my life. None of them had lungs, lol.
What's a Major Label these daze? Is there actually money for recording? GOOD LUCK WITH THAT!
It has to be expensive because what a shame if the executives don’t get their million dollar bonuses. Thanks for doing the work so I can afford the equipment and not be disappointed with the expensive crap. You’re the best!!!
MySpace, in it's heyday, was amazing.
@@nicholasbstone im sure you had a lot of fun stalking ppl and correcting they're grammer
"Its not right vs left, it never has been. Its rich people versus everyone else" needs to be on a shirt
5:54 - Jesus was a real person. yes, his "miracles" are fictional but the man was real. his existence was well documented by romans who judged an executed him.
14:19 - ahhhh. those guys mentioning precision and tolerances speaking of basically a carpentry product. modern electric guitar doesn't contain a single part with a "tolerance" other than "it fits"
i own a HB Bass for 300€ 5 String looks great, play great, sounds great
Glen when are going to do a video where you use the free open source Neural Amp Modeler (NAM) software to capture some of your gear and play it back for us to hear? Some of the most "realistic" digital tones I have played are NAM captures I downloaded for free from Tonehut. Prove me wrong?
I bought a Harley Benton JA baritone last year. It's not flawless. Lots of fret sprout a couple weeks after getting here which I can file pretty easily but I have rough hands and it doesn't bother me. The setup was trash but again, it was shipped overseas and it's to be expected when you ship wood over the ocean. There was a fair bit of superglue or drops of neck finish that ran onto the fretboard that doesn't affect the playability but will get scraped off someday. One screw on the bridge P90 is installed at a wicked angle which makes it bind against the other screw and the pickguard and wouldn't raise level until I redrilled it straight. The knobs came apart until I added a drop of superglue. There's no shielding but I can just move my backlit keyboard an extra foot away and it doesn't hum anymore. Is it flawless? No. Is it playable? Very. Would I still recommend if you understand basic use of tools and don't mind a couple hours of work for a great deal on a solid instrument? 100%. I'd much rather buy budget instruments and use the extra money on tools I'll have forever to be able to make them flawless myself than spend a fucktonne on a guitar that's great out of the box then spend even more at a tech when it sill needs to be set up twice a year or god forbid, repaired.
A proper setup works wonders for your guitar, my American fender played great out the box, my vintage v100 was brilliant after a set up, the new pickups made a massive difference 😉
People miss one think, quality is not about price point but about, well, quality. Is a guitar well made, well playing, well sounding and can keep up with the abuse? So it is a quality instrument.
I've bought several Harley Benton guitars, from really cheap to moderate ($134 to about $400), and they've all been pretty great. Yes, sometimes I've swapped out pickups, but when you buy a $134 guitar, and put a $60 set of better pickups in it and end up with a fantastic guitar...that's a win
Harley Benton is the shit!!! After watching your demos I've bought 2... Bass n guitar both for under 500 and they play n sound phenomenal thanks Glenn🤘🏼
Glenn Fricker: "I just got a $129,000 Neve Genesys Black from sweetwater"
Also glen "Don't waste your money expensive cabinets. Buy budget cabs and put celestial speakers in it. Don't buy new pickups, just turn the gain up on your amplifier. Don't waste money on instruments buy these entry level guitars from China, Vietnam, S Korea, Indonesia like Schecter and Harley Benton... the savings from paying near slave labor wages are passed on to you!"
Hey, Glenn. I was wondering if 32bit float has any place in your studio. I hear it's great for voice overs or extremely dynamic recording situations. Is it useful for recording metal/hard rock? I feel like the file sizes might not be worth it if you have such good control of your levels during recording. Talking about you and not the royal you.
I once played in and gigged with alt/experimental band that honestly wasnt very heavy metal at all with an guitar that looked like I went back stage at a Cradle Of Filth gig and stole it. It was very very out of place!
BUT! If you like the guitar, enjoy playing it and it performs as you want it to. Dont pay any credence to those who want to be negative, belittle you or chat shit about it.
I love these videos. I am guessing some of these people are intentionally saying stupid stuff just to make the show, trolling essentially. I may be wrong but in the end the stupid comments make for great content. Rock on Glenn!
7:43 Touche!
Badass shirt Glenn!