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
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.
"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!
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.
@@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.
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
@@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
Why is it that whenever someone says “gO rEaD aN eCoN bOoK” or “tAKE aN EcOn ClASS”, they are the ones in the conversation with the least knowledge of economics…
They think they've checkmated you, because these idiots are under the presumption that the book will agree with them and prove the person they are arguing with completely wrong. They also have never read an econ book, so it's all just arrogant assumptions that they are right.
Eddie believed in everything that this guy says is nonsense. He built that guitar from Charvel parts, put in countless hours of work to keep those guitars perfect, modified his pickups, believed in using humbuckers vs single coils, modified his marshal amps, used different tubes, boiled his strings, wax potted his pickups, and built his own recording studio so that he’d have complete control over his sound. Eddie was a genius. This guy is a retired Chrysler employee playing in his basement.
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
Hey Glenn, just wanted to say that you’ve been a huge inspiration for me. Just left my automotive line job to start my own business. Been watching you for the last couple years and hearing you talk about corporate/managerial BS ruining the lives of their workers gave me the reality check I needed. In less than a decade, I’ve had two surgeries related to the job. Thankfully, my *glorious* (heavy sarcasm) country & state have decided that cumulative trauma is not the fault of the employer, so there was no compensation; only short-term disability. Now I have hardware screwed into my spine and a couple nasty scars without even the common courtesy of a reacharound. I’ll never work for someone else again, and you’re partially responsible for that. Of course, now I’m responsible for my success/failure, but having the courage to walk away all started with you telling us about your life. Didn’t make it twenty-seven years, but I think that’s a good thing. While I didn’t start a music business, I still look forward to your videos to help keep my metal spirit alive. Thank you, Glenn. Stay strong on the sea of haters; they’ll drag you under the first chance they get 🤘
I watched the Rhett Shull one and initially thought I could hear a slight difference between the rosewood and maple. Then I tried closing my eyes for a bit and I couldn't tell shit for the rest of the vid.
it's the playing. No humans can replicate their playing back to back. I don't care if you're the best guitar player. It's impossible. Why do we do two takes when we double track a guitar? It's for the differences on our playing. You can't do copy-paste the same track, it'll sound bad.
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 😂)
I just hit 11 years at Chrysler. I hired in right after FCA took over, and have been here thru the transition to Stellantis. Glen is spot on with his words about it all has worked. The sale of the brand from company to company is 100% so others can make more money. It does not benefit the workers in any way.
Hey Glenn ! Joe here from Scarlett XIII as well as a solo and session player. I get compliments on tones and mixes frequently and fellow guitarist freak out when I show them the gear I use for tracking. The track 'Dying Inside' was done on a Chinese guitar called Bad Cat ( no affiliation with the amp company ) I used a Les Paul and Strat style called and Unicorn ( LP ) and a Polaris ( strat ) I had an endorsement but they have since gone out of business in the US. Anyway, they play and sound amazing, just as good or better that my Gibson's and Fender's and they are totally stock. They came stainless steel frets and priced under $400 USD. Thanks for showing that it's not the name on the headstock that matters. CHEERS !
I have seen Glen educate one musician at a time on the value of a reamp box and I will truly never tire of his frustration and bravado in doing so. Keep fighting the good fight, sir!
I ordered one of the Benton guitars. When it showed up I was very unhappy with it.. It was no better than firewood. Upon closer inspection I realized that what I was looking at was our actual fire wood delivery. For some reason I confused it with a guitar. My bad.
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.
@@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.
Love your work, Glenn! You really hit the nail on the head with, “it’s not the workers, it’s rich people versus everyone else.” Yep. I do own a Custom Shop Gibson Les Paul. Great guitar and I worked my ass off to get it not being particularly well off. Your channel has me rethinking things, and I’ve explored many reasonably priced inexpensive (not cheap!) guitars, and have found you to be absolutely right on. So many kick ass, inexpensive guitars, and I appreciate the service you’re doing for myself and others. Cheers and ope!
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.
What was really wrong with Rhett Schull's video is that he just listened to the sound while playing. He should have made recordings with all 3 necks, had someone re-name the files, and listened back a week later when he didn't know which was which. "People listen with their eyes". Now where have I heard that? ;-)
Are you sure about that? If I don't use plugins as often as before, doesn't that mean I use them less, not fewer? English is not my first language, but that's what my brain tells me.🤐
@@metalzonemt-2 Yes, though don't worry too much about it as native English speakers frequently get it incorrect too. 🙂 A plugin is a countable noun ("I use 1/2/3/etc plugins on my mix") and therefore should use fewer. For noncountable nouns, e.g. water, you would say ""I drink less water than I used to". Guess who used to teach English grammar at school...😉 English grammar isn't easy or logical at times, but Finnish (grammar and the vocab in general) is impossible!😂
I used to play clean a lot and while tonewood makes a bigger difference in clean tones than it does under high gain tones (or any clipped gain flr that matter), it doesn't make enough of a difference to affect how a listener will perceive the performance. It's just an argument musicians make to pretend they know more than the next musician.
I always appreciate and am grateful for your input and contributions to the industry, Thanks. @3:21 A HB SG with tesla pickups? Link please. I've been all over both the HB & Thomann sites and I find nothing that matches.
Glenn! Hello from Philadelphia! The guitar community are so lucky to have a guy like you who tells it like it is. A lot of great points made in this one. Cheers!
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 think that it would be an interesting experiment to hand multiple guitar players who are blindfolded different guitars and see if they can determine which is which simply by feel and sound
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"
With distortion, that is a way to compress the signal almost, you just cut the low and high freq register so those little nuances on the sound, that are present on clean comparatives, just disappear very quick.
It is feasible to get an EQ match and playing it live by just exporting a sweep and turn it into an IR, it's something I've done hundred of times from other records that I often put out there for everyone to get, it's always fun to blend album tones from various albums.
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 😂
Melda's match EQ can create an IR file that will make the difference between a reference speaker and the target speaker. Then you can stick it in a zero latency IR loader
Yes, MAutoEqualizer or MAutoDynamicEQ can be used to achieve the same tonal balance. I've had good results by matching the general tonal balance and then recreating one or two most prominent resonances and notches. I think I might have done that in some of the MGuitarArchitect bass presets, actually...
Trying to help us guitar players save money is like trying to get underwriters to read. In all seriousness Glenn has helped me save metric tons of cash; his demonstrations have surprised me by his results, often unexpected, which has helped me to make better decisions on how to buy gear. On another note I’ve been trying to refine my skills with recording my band live off the floor. We’ve gotten interesting results and now we want to record our live shows. I’ve been taking most of the rhythm roll on our originals, and have used some of Glenn’s techniques to mic’ing up different guitar speakers and trying different mic/speakers and have found some tones I really enjoy. I take notes so that I can re-create it. Have also thought about learning how to capture impulses, but might get into that later on. The speaker in my amp is from Eminence but it’s hard to tell the model since it’s proprietary to my Jet City amp. Anyway, listen to Glenn! He’ll help you save money!
Glad I stumbled onto this video. As an ex-Gibson employee, I won't touch any of their gear made there in Memphis. Not that there's instruments made during that time that people didn't try their best to make great, but as you stated, it was quantity over quality... and I saw it all first hand. Also their pay to the workers and the conditions we were subjected to were absolutely terrible. I moved from there to Oregon to work at Breedlove, which by comparison was a millions times better. Or so I thought. Truth be told, I'd still be there if not for more of the same, i.e. shoddy business practices/ethics. However a QC issue happened about 6 to 8 months into it, and a labor cut across the board soon followed. I may be fuzzy on some details as this was 10 years ago, but if I remember correctly, it was just a name in a hat layoff scenario, adding up to about 50% across the board, which is insane as I was a part of the new hire crew to double their staff as well as their output. So people with seniority as well as new hires and in-betweens all fell on their sword for them, but the person(s) who inevitably made the snafu retained their job(s)... which was ridiculous, if you ask me, or perhaps even anyone that stopped working for whatever reason. The consensus for both companies echoes your statement that poor management and greed always pushes consumers, players, and fans aways but the novelty, branding, and market oversaturation, will always manage to keep these companies above water and in business, so long as they have the will to be. That being said, both companies still carry on and I no longer build guitars anymore, I just play, and adamantly boycott both companies to this day and will till my last. TL;DR: Capitalism fucking sucks and guitars have no business costing in upwards of 3k and yeah, you can all bitch till you're blue in the face, but there's absolutely no monetary justification for it with the exception of compensation for competition, and overall inflation. All products of the capitalist hellscape we're forced to endure. Thankfully though there's still lawyers and doctors that are brand collectors and buy this shit up in droves to drive the prices up just to hang them on their walls so that aspiring musicians can't afford a "quality" instrument without going into debt or losing a limb to do so...
6:40 I really Loved how you getting to your Point! 7:43 And this Last sentence is the Most important, but alot of mindless people dont understand that there are workers and people who own and dont have to Work. There are No classes. Thank you for saying this! 🎉
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
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
I wish more people could just relax and let someone tell you what they’re doing with equipment and signal editing. I trust your experience way more than keyboard commandos. I know nothing compared to your background. Keep giving out easy to understand real wold information. Thanks for the time and effort invested
Would you experiment with guitars made out of something other than wood to see if you can get a different tone or sound? I’m no expert but I’ve learned a lot from watching your channel and have a morbid curiosity
Finally got to try a HB, felt about equal to an Epiphone. At half the price not bad, good modding platform but on their own there’s still lots to be desired.
Harley Benton have indeed had some problems with microphonic pickups. KDH has a video on it with a guitar with their filtertron-style pickups. HB were kinda evasive about the problem and claimed it was just 60-cycle hum but it definitely wasn't. You could hear the guitar rubbing against his hands and shirt through the amp.
My band (not sure if we're still a band, scheduling conflicts have killed our practice time) spent an afternoon recording a song last December. We had to start it playing live after the guitarist couldn't track to a click. After that, everything gelled where I only needed to do a couple takes on each half of the song. Good luck finding that song though as the guitarist and vocalist have it and they won't send it out on streaming until we record a couple more songs! I don't see it seeing the light of day and it pisses me off. It's really having me just consider doing my own solo projects. I just need to clean up my music room before I am able to do so.
2:30 nah i get great amarok (not without issue cause bridge saddle on g string was way to high and destroyed nut but hey i can replace it for less than 10 euro so not a big deal)
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.
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.
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.
In this episode, I started hearing the sound of your chair creaking, and then I couldn’t stop focusing on it! It’s like a ticking clock or the squeaky bass pedal on Led Zeppelin III: once you hear it…SHEESH! 😁 I say that because, that’s my only gripe. Never stop being you!! 🤘
Hey Glen, fellow Ontarian here. With all this talk about corporate b/s, manufacturing, profits, etc. I've gotta say, and with most sincerity........ I love distortion 😊
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 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.
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.
@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.
I started listening to this video while programming, and I stopped it to have lunch and swap the speaker in my 6505+ 112 Combo, half hour to lunch, 15 minutes to change my life, I ended up dropping a brand new Celestion Greenback in, I got it on sale, the EVH was too expensive, this one cost me 3 times cheaper. Man, what a difference! The Sheffield really sucked! Love you, I'm gonna drop by in your streams again, I like how you analize sound.
Glenn, I don’t always agree with your opinions, but you are spot on with your views on manufacturing. I’ve been in manufacturing since 1988, and at my current job for 25 years. Worked my way up from an operator to the department supervisor. Each and every thing you said is exactly true, I’m fighting with some of my fellow supervisors and certain members of management on exactly that. We have people in our organization gouging customers for their own commissions, and we are losing business as a result. It’s an extremely frustrating experience. My employees are the ones suffering and it pisses me off.
Glenn, what's your opinion on EVM 12L speakers? I've been diggin for Steve Harris bass tone and came across that he used these speakers. And I've been thinking how would they sound in a full high gain territory. I've found some samples here and there but i'm just curious what you could do with them as i really enjoy your method of testing. Yes, i know, they're expensive as F
Adrian and Dave have played them, too! I think on Live After Death, possibly also Powerslave. Zakk Wylde has his signature version of that speaker. So check out his stuff for some high gain.
Fantastic...after everything youve said about tonewood ,speakers,pickups etc and agreeing its down to minor adjustments on the pedals and amp as far as gain,and eq for the sound /tone i want thank you Sir Glen purty simple and maybe a little time consuming...
"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!
Hey. I have read that analog circuit in amp reacts dynamically to electrical niuances happening in guitar pickup like impedance .That's why it should sound in theory different when connected directly to guitar whitch is played and differently when recorded audio is feeded into amp or guitar played through digital modeller after signal conversion (analog>digital>analog). Is this true and if so how noticable are differences? I have read, that similar thing happens with amp and speakers, when you use power reduction device like attenuator. Some dynamic attenuators are said to behave more like an "additional fake speaker" while cheaper ones have constant resistance whitch changes behaviour of amp somehow. According to this theory signal coming directly from power amp woud be differend depending on parameters of speaker/speakers that are connected to it.
Yes, there is some difference in theory, but in reality reamping is pretty much the same thing as the original playthrough. I venture to guess that no human could consistently hear the difference in a blind test where the only variable is live play vs reamp. Modern transformers can be made to be extremely linear in the guitar's bandwidth. Speakers are a different beast because they are a large mechanical system with physical inertia (impedance) and physical resonance. Reactive loads simulate these mechanical properties electronically, and it helps with some of the nuance.
Dude! You are Awesome 🤩 Can we start a tradition and get an extra episode now and then with a bracket war of butt hurt comments to see if we can make a champion of the most ridiculous comments? Maybe annual competition? Who has made the most outrageous butt hurt comment of the year? Can we have a golden asshole trophy 🏆??? Dude, you’re the best!
Completely unrelated, but I have nowhere else really to mention it and I'm excited. Got an entire week off of work, and I'm going out of town with my drums, guitars, bass and all my damn recording equipment. I've been planning this since last year. Going to work on a new album. It's no studio by any stretch, but a large garage in the middle of nowhere, which is still better than my apartment. Can't wait to use my amps and real drums again!
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.
Dude totally right about MySpace. It was amazing for music because everyone was on it. The music platforms not so much. Hell I used MySpace to book a 20 band battle of the bands and probably only spent a couple hours messaging bands I thought fit the bill
I'm with you Glenn. As a guitar player, idk why most of us refuse to admit when we're wrong, but I've done my own little experiment using my phone, and just moving that around gave me different tones from the same speaker. Not rocket science! Btw, ever consider doing a vid where you pair a G12T-75 with a Type-A in a 2x12? I have one with the G12's but am considering how it would sound with a Type-A. Rock on Glenn!
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!
Glenn! About that EQ change to make microphones sounds like other microphones, Andertons recently released a video with Universal Audio and they've just done something really similar (but works with their own new special microphones not a blanket works with all)
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.
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.
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’m with you on the speaker being a huge part of the sound and the guitar is a closed circuit that goes off string vibration, out of curiosity wouldn’t the density of the wood effect the strings vibration slightly or am i just not understanding it properly?
I purchased a dc-dlx upon your recommendations and it was the biggest mistake I made all year. This damn $300 guitar has made me question everything!! I now reach for this guitar over every other guitar in my arsenal. I immediately purchased another just to see if it was a fluke….it wasn’t! Thanks for the solid advice dude!!
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...
hello Mr. spectre sound sir, i have a question, i am a fan of GnR, but sometimes i listen lynyrd Skynyrd, Metallica and Eagles, I always used les pauls and had that single problem, it never stays tune no matter how good the tuners are, i am done with LPs, what should i buy, HSH Strat perhaps, i know nothing about guitars and i need your high level guide in order to choose a good guitar, i watched a video of yours, HSS strat vs les paul and couldnt tell the difference, with an HSH Fender Strat, i think i can get GNR sound as much as LP can, do have any other recommendations?
Honestly, I would recommend an HSH Ibanez that was Made in Japan. The RG550 Genesis is a great example, but the colors may not be your thing. You can find used guitars for between $500-$1000 of Ibanez guitars made in Japan. With those, you can get whatever tone you want, as far as what difference a guitar makes. Music Go Round has an RG520QS, which has a 5 way switch, so you can still get that single coil sound out of it. I have one, and it's fantastic. They have it for $550 right now, and the Ibanez Edge tremolo is one of the best on the market. I have 5 MIJ Ibanez guitars and the tuning stability is as solid as it gets. Very versatile instruments.
Can get les Paul's not made by Gibson that stay in tune, string butler can solve les paul problems and allighn strings but yea Gibson suck. I would get a schecter or ibanez.
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 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!
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?
😅😅😅😅🤣🤣👍
@@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.
"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.
“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.
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
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
Why is it that whenever someone says “gO rEaD aN eCoN bOoK” or “tAKE aN EcOn ClASS”, they are the ones in the conversation with the least knowledge of economics…
What does Y equal?
@@AmericanNationalist852do you want the income or output equation?
They think they've checkmated you, because these idiots are under the presumption that the book will agree with them and prove the person they are arguing with completely wrong. They also have never read an econ book, so it's all just arrogant assumptions that they are right.
"Well there's this little thing called SUPPLY and DEMAND and that means-"
*toilet noises*
Yep, ah, the Intertubes. They have truly done wonders for human civilization.
Every guitarsnob: You have to empty your bank account and buy expensive gear to "git guuud".
Eddie Van Halen: Hold my beer and Frankenstrat.
Eddie believed in everything that this guy says is nonsense. He built that guitar from Charvel parts, put in countless hours of work to keep those guitars perfect, modified his pickups, believed in using humbuckers vs single coils, modified his marshal amps, used different tubes, boiled his strings, wax potted his pickups, and built his own recording studio so that he’d have complete control over his sound. Eddie was a genius. This guy is a retired Chrysler employee playing in his basement.
Whenever the world pisses me off to much I just watch a few hours of George Carlin and I start to feel sane again. That and Sabbath
The video on tone woods and PRS on play and trade guitar is still up.
Yes. UA-cam has been spamming for me to watch it for the past few days.
i swear being a musician is like a bragging contest!,
people judge you heavily
on the gear you use more than the skill you have!
I truly appreciate your honesty. You state the obvious that everyone else runs from.
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
Hey Glenn, just wanted to say that you’ve been a huge inspiration for me. Just left my automotive line job to start my own business. Been watching you for the last couple years and hearing you talk about corporate/managerial BS ruining the lives of their workers gave me the reality check I needed. In less than a decade, I’ve had two surgeries related to the job. Thankfully, my *glorious* (heavy sarcasm) country & state have decided that cumulative trauma is not the fault of the employer, so there was no compensation; only short-term disability. Now I have hardware screwed into my spine and a couple nasty scars without even the common courtesy of a reacharound. I’ll never work for someone else again, and you’re partially responsible for that. Of course, now I’m responsible for my success/failure, but having the courage to walk away all started with you telling us about your life. Didn’t make it twenty-seven years, but I think that’s a good thing. While I didn’t start a music business, I still look forward to your videos to help keep my metal spirit alive. Thank you, Glenn. Stay strong on the sea of haters; they’ll drag you under the first chance they get 🤘
I watched the Rhett Shull one and initially thought I could hear a slight difference between the rosewood and maple. Then I tried closing my eyes for a bit and I couldn't tell shit for the rest of the vid.
Well I could definitely hear a difference when he picked harder. Lmao
Oh I had to restrain myself from writing a fekkin essay on the comments to his video. Used to like him but he defo appears to be becoming a gear snob.
@@Vincegpz500 So now you don't like him? lol
it's the playing. No humans can replicate their playing back to back. I don't care if you're the best guitar player. It's impossible. Why do we do two takes when we double track a guitar? It's for the differences on our playing. You can't do copy-paste the same track, it'll sound bad.
@@Vincegpz500 He became a boring guy!
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.
I just hit 11 years at Chrysler. I hired in right after FCA took over, and have been here thru the transition to Stellantis. Glen is spot on with his words about it all has worked. The sale of the brand from company to company is 100% so others can make more money. It does not benefit the workers in any way.
'Stellantis'
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There is no more vivid example of how the management is overpaid.
You might make Glen's "Butthurt Chrysler worker of the week" segment with this comment!
Hey Glenn ! Joe here from Scarlett XIII as well as a solo and session player. I get compliments on tones and mixes frequently and fellow guitarist freak out when I show them the gear I use for tracking. The track 'Dying Inside' was done on a Chinese guitar called Bad Cat ( no affiliation with the amp company ) I used a Les Paul and Strat style called and Unicorn ( LP ) and a Polaris ( strat ) I had an endorsement but they have since gone out of business in the US. Anyway, they play and sound amazing, just as good or better that my Gibson's and Fender's and they are totally stock. They came stainless steel frets and priced under $400 USD. Thanks for showing that it's not the name on the headstock that matters. CHEERS !
I have seen Glen educate one musician at a time on the value of a reamp box and I will truly never tire of his frustration and bravado in doing so. Keep fighting the good fight, sir!
Pink noise to truly see tube's nuances 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 can't make this shit up.
I ordered one of the Benton guitars. When it showed up I was very unhappy with it.. It was no better than firewood. Upon closer inspection I realized that what I was looking at was our actual fire wood delivery. For some reason I confused it with a guitar.
My bad.
I assume you swapped the pickups out?
happens all the time no worries mate lol
If your firewood looks like guitars, I will take a referral. That lumberjack takes pride in his work...
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.
Love your work, Glenn! You really hit the nail on the head with, “it’s not the workers, it’s rich people versus everyone else.” Yep. I do own a Custom Shop Gibson Les Paul. Great guitar and I worked my ass off to get it not being particularly well off. Your channel has me rethinking things, and I’ve explored many reasonably priced inexpensive (not cheap!) guitars, and have found you to be absolutely right on. So many kick ass, inexpensive guitars, and I appreciate the service you’re doing for myself and others. Cheers and ope!
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.
As long as you don’t use the self drive/autopilot on the Tesla pickups.
You kidding? Statistics shows they outplay great guitarists 98% of the time!
What was really wrong with Rhett Schull's video is that he just listened to the sound while playing. He should have made recordings with all 3 necks, had someone re-name the files, and listened back a week later when he didn't know which was which. "People listen with their eyes". Now where have I heard that? ;-)
About that "matching EQ" stuff... Isn't it possible to turn that specific EQ curve into an impulse response?
(Disclaimer: Grammar snob alert) Glenn - "I'm using less and less and less plugins". Me: "FEWER!" 🤓 Another great episode though. 🙂
Are you sure about that? If I don't use plugins as often as before, doesn't that mean I use them less, not fewer? English is not my first language, but that's what my brain tells me.🤐
@@metalzonemt-2 Yes, though don't worry too much about it as native English speakers frequently get it incorrect too. 🙂 A plugin is a countable noun ("I use 1/2/3/etc plugins on my mix") and therefore should use fewer. For noncountable nouns, e.g. water, you would say ""I drink less water than I used to". Guess who used to teach English grammar at school...😉 English grammar isn't easy or logical at times, but Finnish (grammar and the vocab in general) is impossible!😂
Jesus the man was real historically speaking. There are enough accounts to prove that regardless of your faith 5:53
Where did you work when you were with Chrysler/FCA, Brampton or Windsor?
Windsor assembly
I used to play clean a lot and while tonewood makes a bigger difference in clean tones than it does under high gain tones (or any clipped gain flr that matter), it doesn't make enough of a difference to affect how a listener will perceive the performance. It's just an argument musicians make to pretend they know more than the next musician.
tone isn’t in the wood it’s in the balls
@@tre107 tone is stored in the balls
For the guy asking to change the eq to make his mic sounds like another he can take a look to Lava by Acustica Audio. It’s a cool plugin for that
I always appreciate and am grateful for your input and contributions to the industry, Thanks. @3:21 A HB SG with tesla pickups? Link please. I've been all over both the HB & Thomann sites and I find nothing that matches.
Glenn! Hello from Philadelphia! The guitar community are so lucky to have a guy like you who tells it like it is. A lot of great points made in this one. Cheers!
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.
Glenn, you need to take it to the next level. Review a Chibson
I think that it would be an interesting experiment to hand multiple guitar players who are blindfolded different guitars and see if they can determine which is which simply by feel and sound
Anderton's does those videos all the time, and they can almost always tell what's what.
Wrong channel. No one hears "feel" in a mix, so it doesn't matter in the studio.
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"
With distortion, that is a way to compress the signal almost, you just cut the low and high freq register so those little nuances on the sound, that are present on clean comparatives, just disappear very quick.
DUDE! More videos like this please. Also, you might tell people "Bless your heart" as well LOL.
It is feasible to get an EQ match and playing it live by just exporting a sweep and turn it into an IR, it's something I've done hundred of times from other records that I often put out there for everyone to get, it's always fun to blend album tones from various albums.
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 😂
Melda's match EQ can create an IR file that will make the difference between a reference speaker and the target speaker. Then you can stick it in a zero latency IR loader
Yes, MAutoEqualizer or MAutoDynamicEQ can be used to achieve the same tonal balance. I've had good results by matching the general tonal balance and then recreating one or two most prominent resonances and notches. I think I might have done that in some of the MGuitarArchitect bass presets, actually...
Trying to help us guitar players save money is like trying to get underwriters to read. In all seriousness Glenn has helped me save metric tons of cash; his demonstrations have surprised me by his results, often unexpected, which has helped me to make better decisions on how to buy gear. On another note I’ve been trying to refine my skills with recording my band live off the floor. We’ve gotten interesting results and now we want to record our live shows. I’ve been taking most of the rhythm roll on our originals, and have used some of Glenn’s techniques to mic’ing up different guitar speakers and trying different mic/speakers and have found some tones I really enjoy. I take notes so that I can re-create it. Have also thought about learning how to capture impulses, but might get into that later on. The speaker in my amp is from Eminence but it’s hard to tell the model since it’s proprietary to my Jet City amp. Anyway, listen to Glenn! He’ll help you save money!
Glad I stumbled onto this video. As an ex-Gibson employee, I won't touch any of their gear made there in Memphis. Not that there's instruments made during that time that people didn't try their best to make great, but as you stated, it was quantity over quality... and I saw it all first hand. Also their pay to the workers and the conditions we were subjected to were absolutely terrible. I moved from there to Oregon to work at Breedlove, which by comparison was a millions times better. Or so I thought. Truth be told, I'd still be there if not for more of the same, i.e. shoddy business practices/ethics. However a QC issue happened about 6 to 8 months into it, and a labor cut across the board soon followed. I may be fuzzy on some details as this was 10 years ago, but if I remember correctly, it was just a name in a hat layoff scenario, adding up to about 50% across the board, which is insane as I was a part of the new hire crew to double their staff as well as their output. So people with seniority as well as new hires and in-betweens all fell on their sword for them, but the person(s) who inevitably made the snafu retained their job(s)... which was ridiculous, if you ask me, or perhaps even anyone that stopped working for whatever reason. The consensus for both companies echoes your statement that poor management and greed always pushes consumers, players, and fans aways but the novelty, branding, and market oversaturation, will always manage to keep these companies above water and in business, so long as they have the will to be. That being said, both companies still carry on and I no longer build guitars anymore, I just play, and adamantly boycott both companies to this day and will till my last. TL;DR: Capitalism fucking sucks and guitars have no business costing in upwards of 3k and yeah, you can all bitch till you're blue in the face, but there's absolutely no monetary justification for it with the exception of compensation for competition, and overall inflation. All products of the capitalist hellscape we're forced to endure. Thankfully though there's still lawyers and doctors that are brand collectors and buy this shit up in droves to drive the prices up just to hang them on their walls so that aspiring musicians can't afford a "quality" instrument without going into debt or losing a limb to do so...
Hey Glenn does a re-amp box do the same as a looper pedal? Do I really need to buy one if I have a looper?
interesting. i never thought about that. i have the big ditto looper. 🍻
09:53 - what guitar is that Schecter? the "Aaron Marshall AM-7"?
Hanging with you for a day would be hillarious! Keep being you! We need more of this in the world!
6:40 I really Loved how you getting to your Point! 7:43 And this Last sentence is the Most important, but alot of mindless people dont understand that there are workers and people who own and dont have to Work. There are No classes. Thank you for saying this! 🎉
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
"It's almost like distortion destroys the signal or something weird like that..." my favorite quote, keep fighting the good fight man!
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
I wish more people could just relax and let someone tell you what they’re doing with equipment and signal editing. I trust your experience way more than keyboard commandos. I know nothing compared to your background. Keep giving out easy to understand real wold information. Thanks for the time and effort invested
Would you experiment with guitars made out of something other than wood to see if you can get a different tone or sound? I’m no expert but I’ve learned a lot from watching your channel and have a morbid curiosity
"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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Tried making a MySpace. Won't let you upload pictures for some reason
Finally got to try a HB, felt about equal to an Epiphone. At half the price not bad, good modding platform but on their own there’s still lots to be desired.
Harley Benton have indeed had some problems with microphonic pickups. KDH has a video on it with a guitar with their filtertron-style pickups. HB were kinda evasive about the problem and claimed it was just 60-cycle hum but it definitely wasn't. You could hear the guitar rubbing against his hands and shirt through the amp.
My band (not sure if we're still a band, scheduling conflicts have killed our practice time) spent an afternoon recording a song last December. We had to start it playing live after the guitarist couldn't track to a click. After that, everything gelled where I only needed to do a couple takes on each half of the song. Good luck finding that song though as the guitarist and vocalist have it and they won't send it out on streaming until we record a couple more songs! I don't see it seeing the light of day and it pisses me off. It's really having me just consider doing my own solo projects. I just need to clean up my music room before I am able to do so.
2:30 nah i get great amarok (not without issue cause bridge saddle on g string was way to high and destroyed nut but hey i can replace it for less than 10 euro so not a big deal)
Thanks Glenn!I work the graveyard shift.Nothing better than eating breakfast and listening to the show right before sleep!👍
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.
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.
Awesome shirt!!! One of my favorite Kyuss albums!
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.
In this episode, I started hearing the sound of your chair creaking, and then I couldn’t stop focusing on it! It’s like a ticking clock or the squeaky bass pedal on Led Zeppelin III: once you hear it…SHEESH! 😁
I say that because, that’s my only gripe. Never stop being you!! 🤘
Hey Glen, fellow Ontarian here. With all this talk about corporate b/s, manufacturing, profits, etc. I've gotta say, and with most sincerity........ I love distortion 😊
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 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.
Trying not to sound stupid but what is pink noise and what's it used for Glenn?
Cool to hear that you like the stoner-metal stuff. That huge fuzz tone is definitely where it's at for me.
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 started listening to this video while programming, and I stopped it to have lunch and swap the speaker in my 6505+ 112 Combo, half hour to lunch, 15 minutes to change my life, I ended up dropping a brand new Celestion Greenback in, I got it on sale, the EVH was too expensive, this one cost me 3 times cheaper. Man, what a difference! The Sheffield really sucked! Love you, I'm gonna drop by in your streams again, I like how you analize sound.
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!
Glenn, I don’t always agree with your opinions, but you are spot on with your views on manufacturing. I’ve been in manufacturing since 1988, and at my current job for 25 years. Worked my way up from an operator to the department supervisor. Each and every thing you said is exactly true, I’m fighting with some of my fellow supervisors and certain members of management on exactly that. We have people in our organization gouging customers for their own commissions, and we are losing business as a result. It’s an extremely frustrating experience. My employees are the ones suffering and it pisses me off.
Glenn, you are a necessary part of what's keeping this guitar player's head out of his ass. Thanks! 🤘😎
Glenn, what's your opinion on EVM 12L speakers? I've been diggin for Steve Harris bass tone and came across that he used these speakers. And I've been thinking how would they sound in a full high gain territory. I've found some samples here and there but i'm just curious what you could do with them as i really enjoy your method of testing. Yes, i know, they're expensive as F
Adrian and Dave have played them, too! I think on Live After Death, possibly also Powerslave.
Zakk Wylde has his signature version of that speaker. So check out his stuff for some high gain.
Fantastic...after everything youve said about tonewood ,speakers,pickups etc and agreeing its down to minor adjustments on the pedals and amp as far as gain,and eq for the sound /tone i want thank you Sir Glen purty simple and maybe a little time consuming...
"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!
Hey. I have read that analog circuit in amp reacts dynamically to electrical niuances happening in guitar pickup like impedance .That's why it should sound in theory different when connected directly to guitar whitch is played and differently when recorded audio is feeded into amp or guitar played through digital modeller after signal conversion (analog>digital>analog). Is this true and if so how noticable are differences?
I have read, that similar thing happens with amp and speakers, when you use power reduction device like attenuator. Some dynamic attenuators are said to behave more like an "additional fake speaker" while cheaper ones have constant resistance whitch changes behaviour of amp somehow. According to this theory signal coming directly from power amp woud be differend depending on parameters of speaker/speakers that are connected to it.
Yes, there is some difference in theory, but in reality reamping is pretty much the same thing as the original playthrough. I venture to guess that no human could consistently hear the difference in a blind test where the only variable is live play vs reamp. Modern transformers can be made to be extremely linear in the guitar's bandwidth.
Speakers are a different beast because they are a large mechanical system with physical inertia (impedance) and physical resonance. Reactive loads simulate these mechanical properties electronically, and it helps with some of the nuance.
Dude! You are Awesome 🤩 Can we start a tradition and get an extra episode now and then with a bracket war of butt hurt comments to see if we can make a champion of the most ridiculous comments? Maybe annual competition?
Who has made the most outrageous butt hurt comment of the year? Can we have a golden asshole trophy 🏆???
Dude, you’re the best!
Completely unrelated, but I have nowhere else really to mention it and I'm excited.
Got an entire week off of work, and I'm going out of town with my drums, guitars, bass and all my damn recording equipment.
I've been planning this since last year. Going to work on a new album.
It's no studio by any stretch, but a large garage in the middle of nowhere, which is still better than my apartment. Can't wait to use my amps and real drums again!
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.
Dude totally right about MySpace. It was amazing for music because everyone was on it. The music platforms not so much. Hell I used MySpace to book a 20 band battle of the bands and probably only spent a couple hours messaging bands I thought fit the bill
I'm with you Glenn. As a guitar player, idk why most of us refuse to admit when we're wrong, but I've done my own little experiment using my phone, and just moving that around gave me different tones from the same speaker. Not rocket science! Btw, ever consider doing a vid where you pair a G12T-75 with a Type-A in a 2x12? I have one with the G12's but am considering how it would sound with a Type-A. Rock on Glenn!
Someday I'm gonna record drums in your studio. You forking rock dude.
Nice weekend man .. Always fun if i come at home then this video is out on YT
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!
Glenn! About that EQ change to make microphones sounds like other microphones, Andertons recently released a video with Universal Audio and they've just done something really similar (but works with their own new special microphones not a blanket works with all)
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.
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.
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 have found my f****** people
I’m with you on the speaker being a huge part of the sound and the guitar is a closed circuit that goes off string vibration, out of curiosity wouldn’t the density of the wood effect the strings vibration slightly or am i just not understanding it properly?
I purchased a dc-dlx upon your recommendations and it was the biggest mistake I made all year. This damn $300 guitar has made me question everything!! I now reach for this guitar over every other guitar in my arsenal. I immediately purchased another just to see if it was a fluke….it wasn’t! Thanks for the solid advice dude!!
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...
hello Mr. spectre sound sir, i have a question, i am a fan of GnR, but sometimes i listen lynyrd Skynyrd, Metallica and Eagles, I always used les pauls and had that single problem, it never stays tune no matter how good the tuners are, i am done with LPs, what should i buy, HSH Strat perhaps, i know nothing about guitars and i need your high level guide in order to choose a good guitar,
i watched a video of yours, HSS strat vs les paul and couldnt tell the difference, with an HSH Fender Strat, i think i can get GNR sound as much as LP can, do have any other recommendations?
Honestly, I would recommend an HSH Ibanez that was Made in Japan. The RG550 Genesis is a great example, but the colors may not be your thing. You can find used guitars for between $500-$1000 of Ibanez guitars made in Japan. With those, you can get whatever tone you want, as far as what difference a guitar makes. Music Go Round has an RG520QS, which has a 5 way switch, so you can still get that single coil sound out of it. I have one, and it's fantastic. They have it for $550 right now, and the Ibanez Edge tremolo is one of the best on the market. I have 5 MIJ Ibanez guitars and the tuning stability is as solid as it gets. Very versatile instruments.
Use whatever gets you close enough for most occasions.. The HSS and HSH combos seem good overall. But I doubt the audience will even notice.
Can get les Paul's not made by Gibson that stay in tune, string butler can solve les paul problems and allighn strings but yea Gibson suck.
I would get a schecter or ibanez.
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 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!