At the end of the video you asked what our most treasured piece of gear is. My most treasured piece of gear is the Yamaha piano at my parents house. I used to play it for my mom. The last time I played that piano was in January, just a few weeks before my mom passed away. She was having a particularly bad day with her health, and she asked me to play for her. I played for about two or three hours before I ran out of things to play off the top of my head. The very last piece I ever played for her was Chopin, Nocturne in E Flat Major. I'm glad I got to play a little concert for her one more time.
When I was 15 I begged my dad for a guitar. He walked into the music store and said, "Where's the absolute cheapest electric guitar you have?" They handed him a 1996 Chinese made Squier Strat. "Great, ring it up." "You'll also need an amp and cable." "No we don't. He'll do fine with this." My dad wasn't a musician, and we were dirt poor, in case you didn't notice. My first year of playing electric guitar was on a Squier with no amp. It wasn't until I found an old amp next to a dumpster that I finally had power to my guitar...... and it was a bass amp. That's also how I got my first couple of pedals. Dumpster diving and fixing them. Growing up poor was rad. Fun fact: I still have, and occasionally play, that old squier.
@@u.s.a.198 Oh for sure. I don't dumpster dive all that much anymore, but I still hit garage sales and stop to pick up stuff I see on the curb. I've gotten guitars at garage sales for under 10 bucks that they say "don't work" just to get them home and find out all they needed was the input jack re-soldered. I got my marshall amp from a junk pile on the curb in front of someone's house. Apparently, they didn't know that tubes are replaceable. LOL.
Ah yes I remember playing whatever song I wanted on the old cheap nylon string guitar we had. There's something to be said about having to have the bare minimum now as an adult I'm trying my best to get some good instruments in my life
I wish I still had my very 1st guitar; a 'Lero' $99.00 Les Paul copy. God was it ever a bad guitar, but it fueled my desire to become a world famous heavy metal guitarist playing sold out football stadiums.......which never happened, lol.
So my kid has watched you forever. Because of you, he applied to college and decided to pursue music as a career. He would get down watching other youtube videos of people creating music just with computers and thought he had no future with his guitar. He knows it is a difficult industry, but he decided he would rather try than just give up. So now he is off to UT Knoxville next fall for theory/composition. So, thank you.
my guitar teacher sometimes flexes his fender, which is worth 12000-15000 dollars. I dont remember the name of it, but it was one of 12 guitars of that model in the world. He said he bought it from a german that worked in the same town which he became friends with.
Can't believe you had a PRS as a kid, so lucky Edit: So UA-cam randomly decided to give me a notification that somebody replied to this 3 year old comment. Turns out there is a lot of replies (lol) to what I thought was a pretty obvious sarcastic remark. So for those that didn't realise, now you know. ✌️
I've been out of the music scene for a while and when I got back into it, I looked up the amp I used to gig with to see if maybe I could buy one. It was a peavey 5150 II, turns out that amp is super sought after now and sells for over $2000. I sold mine like 15 years ago for $400.
I DID just get back an old guitar. I sold my first NICE guitar a Gibson SG about 7 years ago, needed the dough cause I was getting married. And about a month ago I thought about the guitar and checked through my craigslist emails from that time and found the guy. He still had the guitar and NEVER played it. It still had the strings that I put on it. I got it back and I'm so happy!
For me, there are two guitars I had as a kid that I later had to sell with a family on the way. The first is a black Ibanez proline PR1660 and the other is a late 80's BC Rich hot pink warlock. I was lucky enough to finally find the Ibanez. Well, today is father's day and by step son managed to find a warlock and bought it for me.
I think it’s hilarious and adorable, that 15 year old tech can be seen as “vintage”. When in my, almost 50 year old mind, it only seems like yesterday :) So cool seeing people revisit their childhood.
Exactly! Vintage gear. We all played a little guitar, one of us much better. Another friend in the house was playing bass with him one day, but no one would play the drums (we rented out space to a college band. Kit always stayed, said we could play it. Finally I jumped behind the kit and it actually worked! That was around 1990, and I don't think most of this gear was around yet. Well, I always remember The Boss Pedals! Probably many more models now? Seemed to be 2 or 3 companies that were all about pedals. The main few companies, then many more started creating all sorts of pedals, remakes, and then the digital "sampling" age brought about a giant pedal (well, it had a pedal on one end), and maybe 50 or more(?) Different "Sounds" that you could pick out with the rest of this "giant pedal". It was the first of it's kind, and very popular? IDT it was an EVH product, but someone big/big company? It was like having 50(?) pedals/guitar player sounds, in one piece of gear, and pretty darn sure it had a wah like pedal at one end? It was a big deal when released in the 90's, and several hundred bucks, it seems, as no one I knew had that kind of money, and if they did, it went towards our rent, or basic gear, keeping it going, adding something here and there. Spent as much buying Albums, Cassettes, CD's, cause the love of music was first! And we played because the interaction between the 3 of us was unlike anything else, and the incredible thrill and joy of playing was our primary reason to play. Who cares if our friends said it sucked, lol, as long as some seem to like it like we did! We'd start playing, maybe the bassist had a riff, I'd play whatever I could to put a beat to it, guitarist would play something of that, I'd play to the guitarist, lol! We did a lot of Improv in our music, and sometimes play constantly for 20 minutes (we'd tape everything in case we found something that sounded/felt good, that just came together perfectly, then listen to the tape, finding riffs/songs this way. What was so strange is we were a Hardcore/Punk/Metal band, lol. I remember surprising some better known Punk band we were friends with. Metal club underneath our apartment, so this Punk band climbed up, looking through the open window w/the "Shhh"(quiet sound), as he was gonna grab our bass player and startle him through the window. Big tall Mohawk wearing brothers, scary looking, but the nicest guys. Suddenly he grabs our bassist in a bear hug from behind, through the window, lol. Startled the Hell out of him, but he was happy to see the guys, just like us! "What songs that?!", one asked, we looked at each other. It's not. We're just jamming! All the other bands had their songs written first. Ours just formed! No "play this on the drums. "Then do this at the chorus", like someone who wanted a song a certain way. Maybe an idea here and there, but at the most, a riff to start with, then whatever the others added to it, propelled it the right way. That's not how music is made. Maybe Jazz, not Hardcore/Metal, lol. We were following The Grateful Dead on Tour Spring, Summer, Fall Tour from 89'-95'(less at the end), doing our thing, before self destructing, like many, when H started coming into the scene, leaving many greats to an early death. We survived though! But many, many didn't. Great guys! But no one's perfect, especially those in the spotlight. Taylor Hawkins had this incredible spirit! A friend to almost everyone he met. A real family man and great friend, from all who knew him. He passed away with "substances" in his system. That's not why he passed away! It was because he had a huge heart! Actually, an enlarged heart. Twice the size of normal! No wonder such a relentless beat? Look into the one of the greatest horses ever named "Secretariat", early 70's I believe. Faster than any horse! Winning by 50 yards kind of stuff. What was it that made this horse so fast and strong? When the horse passed away, they did an autopsy. His Engine, His Heart, was double the size as expected from a horse like this. But the bigger Engine had more power. Taylor Hawkins had this same problem/gift. A heart 2X the size it should be! No wonder he was loved by so many, and showed immense love to his family and fans. He had to much heart in him! And he will live on in the music, forever! What video was I watching? Lol! Forgive my rambling all over, please. Great, interesting video, once again, Thanks for getting your old gear. It was a blast, like always!👍
@@timturk1899 that’s so cool! We did the same thing. I ran my 4 track tascam during a rehearsal and we’d just improv and jam, and sure there were lots of terrible sections. But there are always little gems that can be cultivated to a diamonds lick. And that’s still how I write today. I record a chord progression and then start jamming over top for a few takes. And listen back and take the cool ideas, which often make me “hear” other phrases in my head that o will than track. Boss peddles! I loved them but boy were they expensive! These are awesome days to become a guitarist. You buy AmpliTube or GuitarRig and you have all the gear we could only dream of.
£50 guitar that I pressed too hard on the whammy bar and a £90 amp that I think got donated to a church. It was a Marshall 8020. That thing could scream for a little guy although it was a bit tinny.
My first real acoustic guitar was an old 79 Yamaha concert guitar. I missed that thing desperately. Last week I found the EXACT guitar I sold 6 years ago. I bought it immediately and have loved playing it again. It was the guitar I really learned on.
i have a late 70s tokai LC8 standing in my room and i could never ever sell it. Its my first and only guitar and i love it. Although i know how you feel! The same happended to a couple of years ago with a console i had as a kid haha
Ive been chasing my old gear also.. About 2 years ago I was in a GC ( yeah yeah, i know) for some strings and cables.. I look over at the used guitar section. And there she was.. My old satin matte purple finish all black hardware Fender Strat that I sold when I was 20. Im 36 now. I sold it because I needed the money and sacrificed it. Turns out it IS the exact same guitar. It had the same dings that I put in it. ALSO has my initials on the inside of the back cover. It currently hangs next to my dads acoustic and gets played very often.
I couldn't afford an amp when I was a kid, so my dad brought home this old broken reel to reel tape recorder from work. The motor and tape heads were beyond salvage, but the preamp still worked, so I'd plug into the mono input, crank the monitors and... that was my amp.
Ritchie Blackmore also plugged into a tape deck... as part of his gigging setup. I've also seen youtubers restore/convert old tube radios into practice amps, often they sound pretty good, even if they lack the versatility of a full-featured amp.
@@dimsumpizza4746 I remember it not having a lot of low end (that may have been on account of the speakers rather than the preamp), but having some nice light breakup if you pushed it. Hardly gig-worthy, but usable. I guess the noteworthy thing was that it was technically stereo, so if I'd have had the pedals and technical know-how at the time, I could have done a wet/dry split.
I think that obviously the gear you start with is not as good as it can be, but it's the fact that it helped along the way is what makes it a relic in a Guitarist's journey. My most treasured piece is my first acoustic guitar, it's worn down but the feeling was so exhilarating.
My Mexican Telecaster my grandmother bought me before she passed away will forever be missed. It was stolen years and years ago which lead to me not playing for over 10 years.
Yes, I still have my M Strat from 1999. But that certainly wasn't my first. My first was in the 70's, and it was a full size (Dreadnaught) acoustic I could barely get my fingers around. It was a Kay guitar I think, could be wrong about that.
Pods had wonderful clean tones. The closest i can get in a sim is positive Grid’s bias fix clean tones. I use neural for all my dirt tones. Mainly because it feels closest to playing a real amp. All the pick attack and sag you expect.
I started with a steel string only because the music class at the middle school I went to had us do very basic shit on acoustic. And a friends grandma was cleaning out her garage and had an old acoustic I got to keep
My oldest is about your age, and on our weekends we would go to guitar center and just daydream. I was totally broke at the time and line 6 was completely out of the question. I’m glad you got all that gear.
I miss my fender strat acoustic and my silver sparkle jagmaster .... fucking heroin man... 6 years clean now tho and I have so many guitars my wife hates me lol
I did actually locate and purchase not my “first” guitar but my first decent guitar and the guitar I played my first gig with. It wasn’t a “quest” to find my old gear I just happen to see it at a pawn shop while I was looking for guitars to restore and mod. I saw it was like “hey that looks exactly like mine” it was going for only about 100 bucks because it had seen better days and when I started pulling it apart I saw my initials that I had cut in the bridge pickup cavity. I have it in a display case and people are like why the hell do you have that thing displayed when you have Les Pauls chilling in their cases so I tell them the story.
MyName__ Kosmo it’s a bc rich mockingbird i know that today they aren’t considered to be cool but back in the mid eighties they were considered to be the quintessential hard rock guitar.
LOL... BC Rich was one of those brands I wanted (before the Ibanez bug). A Mocking Bird, Warlock or Rich Bitch would have been the bomb. Nice find BTW.
When I was 14 my friend and I got our first guitars, mine a squier affinity strat, his a Crate Electra. A year later his moms car was stolen along with his guitar he'd left in the trunk. His parents didn't have the money to replace it so I saved up some birthday/allowance money and got him an Ibanez GAX75. I know, I'm a nice guy. It's been 20 years since then and he and I still talk from time to time. Last month I get a call from him out of nowhere saying "You mother fu@ker lol you mother fu@ker..." I have no idea what he's talking about. He goes "I decided to clean up that Ibanez you gave me and saw what you put in the neck pocket..." Still had no idea what he was talking about. He goes "You drew a dick on a post-it note and wrote 'don't lose this one fa&&ot. Love, *insert my real name*" Lol
Just discovering this channel over the past week. So awesome. The childlike joy and love of music is infectious. I randomly clicked on one and now I watch at least 3 a day. Thanks for being here for me to find as I dive back into making music
my first was a squire black strat now i have 78 Dean white Flying V, a Jackson soloist, a fender acoustic dread knot, a hollow body gibson, a black ibanez strat, and an ibanez acoustic electric, wow they've really added up,
Howard is just awesome. I’m so impressed by the help with opening the packages. Regular updates required as that pup is gonna get massive! Green metal sounded pretty good through the headphones.
I’ve got the newer Spider V MKII and have been blown away by the versatility of that little amp- paired it with an Ibanez Jem Jr. for new electric guitarists, I absolutely recommend this combo
I learned guitar later than 14, but 14 year old me had a greater outlook on life, and so badly wanted to be 24 year old me that I am now that I never enjoyed being a teenager and im like in that phase of trying to relive what I missed. Its miserable.
I think I'm happier now. I was depressed and had undiagnosed, untreated learning differences that made school an absolute hell--except for choir, my saving grace. I still have the guitar my mom gave me when I was 15. I am past 60. Yes, it needs a refret. I kinda like the buzz, though.
@@pilsplease7561 i know that feeling dude. i started playing at like 15, and stopped at 19 due to a existential crisis and really bad bouts of depression. im 26 and feel alot better about life now. i should starting playing again. still have my old peavey pa200 amp and 2x10 cab haha. do mis my weird ass lp copy i owned though. it was a spalted maple top with a kramer banana headstock. the brand was "highlander".
@@frigglebiscuit7484 You should start playing again. I've gotten frustrated and put it down more than once due to life getting in the way. I will rotate between it and cars. I guess I gotta have more than one outlet. I've been in quite a few bands but finding people that are responsible and take things seriously is a headache.
True Story. Sounds ridiculous but I promise it's 100% legit. I learned on a classical accoustic that was similar to the one in this video that was a gift from my Grandma. I didn't have a pick, so I fashioned my own out of the corner of an old original Xbox game case. Then I just messed with it for awhile and it was so old the strings kept breaking, until I only had one left. The A string. So I literally googled "Songs you can play on one string" and Thunderstuck came up. And I was like well there's no way. That song's just amazing and impossible (I thought to my young mind) so I looked it up, and it was pretty straight forward, so I learned it slow and gradually brought it up to speed. I didn't have to worry about muting or anything, because I only had one string! So i could just bash away at it. So Thunderstruck was literally the "first song I ever learned" on guitar. Pretty wild to think about that all these years later.
I started on a Line 6 Spider too - recently was clearing out stuff at my parent's place and found it was still in the loft. Clean sound is surprisingly OK and useable despite the gainier ones being a bit fizzy. Was still working so gave it to a friend for their kid who took up guitar over lockdown - on the promise it gets replaced though if they keep with playing guitar!
I had a Peavey modeling amp and a original crybaby wah for years. Honestly did the trick. I'm definitely a more mature of all the player with my strandberg headless and boss katana and a real big boy pedal board. But ultimately not too far off I really enjoy the simplicity of solid state amplifiers and the features they come bundled with. Having reverb and delay just built into the amp makes sense to me and also saves a shit ton of money. In a way I'm still that budget guitarist but the budget has increased?
@@Nestorglass As artists we get very picky with tone but as long as it sounds reasonable enough most people are going to enjoy it and not even think or care that your tone could be better it's a hard realization to get over as a musician but most amps from the 2010s forward sound just fine.
When I was 14, I had a Kramer guitar that wouldn’t stay in tune, a boss heavy metal pedal and a gross solid state Randall amp. For reference, I was 14 in 1989. You had it good, son. 😂
I forgot to add, I played it through a ovation electric. If you think the acoustics were bad well. In fact I never heard the phrase “man I just love your tone”. At one time in the late 90s I had a hot rod deluxe with an MXR COMP PEDAL RED 2 dials and a Peavey Cropper Classic all mahogany built like a telecaster Such nice tone when the hot rod cooperated which was every other gig.
I get ya... I was 18 in 89.... my very first rig was a Cort Guitar and a Gorillia Amp.. Later went to a half stack.. way to much amp for my second amp, but held me well when we formed a band in 88.
I used to have that exact Line 6 amp. The only thing I remember about it is that as soon as you touched the distortion knob, the amp would immediately go to 100% volume even if the volume was turned town. It was horrible.
Happy Thursday, I started with a Les Paul copy Hondo 2 guitar with a Fender Vibro Champ amp. This was in the 80's. I literally paid less than $100 for the amp and it's selling for $1500+ these days. I gave the guitar to my neighbor as a gift because I bought a Ibanez. I'm 50, still playing and going strong. CHEERS to ALL
Mine was what I’ll call the “Central Coast Classic” rig: Samick “Strat” > Zoom 505 (the black one) > Peavy Rage 15 (the black and grey one). In my hometown amongst us noobs, there were two camps: Zoom or DigiTech for your multieffects. We butchered many a song in garages and youth group meetings with those rigs. It was glorious. That 505 has a few sounds I still think are cool.
Ha! The Peavey Rage 15! I thought I was the only one. Eventually got a 20W Marshall Valvestate combo and a Zoom 606 and a Boss Flanger. Thought I was Hendrix. Nobody really cared about "tone" per se, as it's obsessed over these days.
My first electric was a Samick "Abeline" Strat. Still have it. But I have replaced the pick ups... and the body... and the neck... Is it still the same guitar? Stroke chin emoji.
@@theqgene826 I always liked mine but I replaced both of them fairly quickly once I found better options in the price range, after playing a katana I ever wanted to see a line 6 again
I'm gonna be completely honest with you Tyler, 1: that peice that was one of the first things you played on the guitar, sounded genuinely amazing. I loved it cause it sounded like a western ballad. 2nd, I LOVED THE SOUND OF THE LINE 6 SPIDER!!! My nostalgic gear was a Jackson Dinky JS32Q
Mine was a 1950 Gibson J-50 it was the most beautiful guitar, and was priceless. Passed down from my uncle. My house was broken into when I was on vacation and it was stolen. I was only 10years old. Now 17 years later I've never found a guitar that sounds as amazing
Around 1993 my father offered me a Washburn HB35, "tobacco sunburst", I chose it with him in a second hand guitar shop. It was a huge deal for me as I dreamed of a 335 for a long time, as also it was one of the few opportunity I spent such time with him, and as it was one of the very few present he ever did to me. When my father died this guitar was in his home because I hadn't enough room where I lived, and I lived hundreds of miles away so my mother was first there to empty his appartment. She sold my guitar for 10€ in a pawn shop, they were divorced, she still was very angry, it was the greatest legacy linking him to me, some shit went in her head... anyway from all the gear I ever had, this the one I wish I could have back.
@@ChristophAus Thank for sympathizing. I'm now able to talk about it, and about the grief, without feeling sad. It's just what it is, no more bad feelings. Also it leaded me to learn luthery so maybe one day I'll be able to build a tribute to replace that guitar. Got joy wood working, in a way it's a better thing than having this guitar as my father used to wood work too, it's keeping the flame alive. :)
the amp sounds pretty awesome, Line 6 was a hot brand in the 90’s. I still have the ZOOM 505 multi effects pedal, which i had to get the yellow diagram to figure out, so now just use my Peavey Viper 1, it has built in effects and can make an electric guitar sound like an acoustic, lots of pretty lights, and is quite loud. I think you might enjoy a nicer classical electric guitar, one of these days I’d like a Yamaha NTX-1.
I don’t have nostalgic gear. Since I’ve been using all the same stuff as when I first started. Just upgraded that stuff and got a new amp. Still have my old stuff
You uploaded this the second I logged on to UA-cam. Watching this video was clearly fate. I’d love to see you analyse/react to some silverchair riffs mate. So many hidden gems throughout their back catalogue.
As a kid I loved my Boss Metal Zone pedal. Had is for many years and it got lost in translation somewhere. Fast forward about 25 years and I saw one at my friend's garage sale and I asked her how much for it. She said "Um, I dunno, what do you have in your pocket?" I dug in my pocket and I pulled out 58¢. She said "ok, that'll work". SCORE!
I started with a Spider IV 15. Definitely had the Insane setting, although I was sophisticated enough to use Metal most of the time. With my SSS Bullet Strat.
Let's make a counter-petition for him to keep saying it, and more petitions will pop up for him to stop, and the counter petitions will rise like a multi headed Hydra.
Am I the only one that thinks most of this gear is perfectly useful and good sounding? He plays well - and that makes it most important. I still have the stuff that I bought at 14 - a Marshall VS65r and a Jackson KE3 - and I love it.
Crate MX15R practice amp. Gave it to my stepson a few years back and was gratified to hear him and his friends using it in their jam sessions. Still works and sounds fine.
My favorite piece of gear was a red Squire Stratocaster gifted to me by a former friend of my family. It was was stolen about a year ago in a robbery of my old apartment.
I'm a drummer but I like to mess around on my grandpa's guitar. He passed away in 2015 and I got to keep his guitars, he has an acoustic and a telecaster. It was actually a big bit of luck that I got to keep it. Originally it was to go to my cousin but everyone knew he would've just sold it. My mom decided to keep it and she put it in her closet. A year or two later I asked about a first act discovery acoustic guitar and my mom brought me to the closet and showed me my grandpa's acoustic and electric, and my dad's bass. I've been using the electric and bass since, I love them. I'm not any good since I never took it seriously but I still have them and I cherish them.
Ah this is great!!! I also had the line6 spyder, but my very first rig was a kramer stryker explorer guitar, boss metal zone plugged directly into my stereo receiver with the iconic giant pioneer speaker towers of the early 90's...would give anything to go back! Thanks for the trip down memory lane...still have my zoom 501 ...or was it 502...that thing sounds terrible!! Lol
Lol Kramer Stryker with some garbage Peavey amp and a Digitech multi-effects pedal lol. Still have my Kramer. It's a shit guitar but the fretboard and neck are super-comfy and playable.
OH! Almost forgot. When youre 16 in the mid 80's and working a crappy job at a fast food joint after school, saving every penny for a stompbox was a major thing AND it wasnt even a new one. You needed an overdrive or distortion pedal and no way was a Tube Screamer close to affordable even used but a Digitech Hot Rod was. They sounded great when they werent squealing at you. Standard high school pedalboard that took a year of making burritos at taco bell to put together had these pedals. Used Digitech Hot Rod, very used purple Boss Flanger, a used Boss Chorus pedal that looked like an 800 pound gorilla jumped on it and a beat up Boss Delay. With any luck you could find a noise gate made by ANY MANUFACTURER cause the Digitech was wicked especially with single coils. Dude, what an awesome time. Certainly explains the tinnitus (constant ringing in my ears) since my early 20's, 49 years old now. 🤘🏻
My first amp was a Peavey Rage 158 (15W 8"). It is no longer around, nor do I miss it. My first guitar is still in my possession 25 years later. The one piece I miss dearly is Schecter Omen 6 that I modified with a Duncan Distortion and Jazz set. It was stolen in 2009.
That was the same amp I first got. Peavey Rage 158 from a pawnshop. Guitar was a black Squier Strat with Rosewood fingerboard from eBay. Pedal I bought out of a Digitech catalog new and was a Digitech Grunge pedal.
If some of the patches aren't working, move the wah pedal. I have this issue with one of my pedals. If the wah is open some settings don't work as the wah is set as a volume pedal
I really enjoyed this video. Not gonna lie, I liked every sound, it didn´t sound bad or stupid to me at all, I guess great guitar and mic work its magic, but anyway, I´m sick of chasing a guitar tone....every tone has something to it and who the hell knows what "good" guitar sound even means. Guitar can sound different every time you play it and I´d say that´s what´s great about it. It changes every moment. But whatever the sound, guitar is just fcking awesome. Always! Cheers!
I started with a Gould (Eagle) Cherry sunburst les Paul, which I still have and play (in my do) my amp was a Acoustic Solutions 20w.. had this since I was 11, I’m now 25 and have upgraded to PRS SE Hollowbody II faded blue burst!
Actually he likes a few products they did like the pod, its the shit ones that people come in the studio with, convinced that they sound like heaven he doesnt like
They're just not recording amps, and that's Glenn's entire deal. Sound pretty reasonable for practice or small live venues. Takes a lot of pedals to get the same flexibility, or a pro-level modern amp modeler. They're an awesome guest amp because of the switcher pedal. And there is no better amplifier bargain out there today. I've got one in the corner, and with the pedal I can get maybe $150. What could I replace it with that's significantly better for the same money, since I have another amp I use all the time?
I find it ironic that Glen Fricker’s last name is Fricker when he drops the actual F-bomb every 3 seconds in some videos. I can’t watch him for that reason...
The thing I remember about the late 90s and '00s digital effect stuff is that the cleans, reverbs, delays all sounded pretty great, everything else was very hit or miss especially overdrives and distortion....they were almost always a miss.
The previous owner most likely messed with the settings as I have one and none of them have those crappy effects on by default lol. Of course it's going to sound like trash, for one, using an amps built in effects, and two, when they're set to 80-90%. They don't sound bad if you take the effects off and don't have the settings maxed out. It's hard to get a usable distortion tone at that price point outside of those amps.
I started playing late, so I bought a 1993 usa Fender stratocaster used for $400. Wish I never sold it but I did not connect to guitar til 20 yrs later which is now. My wife and I separated and I learned what the blues was for real. That feeling went into the guitar for the first time ever I had emotion added to the notes. Very good feeling to learn that and then win my wifes love back! Now I can play the blues ok even when I feel good
I’ll never forget my first guitar and amp. I went to a swap meet with my dad and I picked out this sweet red and white squire. I also bought some cheap picks and a furry red and black tiger striped strap too. It was super comfy but rough to install on the strap locks. I had to cut a slit and forced it in. There was a time when Walmart used to sell First Act guitar and amps. I got the M2A 110. At the time I thought it was bad ass with the shiny silver hardware and bright blue light when you turned on the distortion. Unfortunately it didn’t last more than a couple of months and I don’t remember how it sounded. (Probably terrible.) but I was so determined to play!!
I‘ve been playing Guitar now for 6 years and i still Play a lot of my old stuff like my first Electric Guitar a Ibanez grg and my First acoustic guitar a Harley Benton HBO, 2 awesome Guitars for a little buck The only thing i upgraded was my amp, from a Blackstar fly 3 to a marshall dsl 1 (tube amp) and i love it . And i recently i bought the new line 6 pod Go🔥
Just getting into electric guitar after mostly playing around with steel string acoustics for 30 years (not that I'm any more than intermediate at best) and have been binging your channel. Bought the Donner solid body T style guitar from one of your other videos and now have bought a second hand line 6 pod xt because it looks like a ton of fun and frankly that EJ clean tone is worth the few quid it cost me on its own. Thanks for all the excellent advice and keep up the stellar work.
My high school have that same exact amp and I remember we can’t put it on “Insane” mode because it’ll disturb other classes and we’ll be placed in detention if we do 😂
Al DiMeola's "Splendido Sundance". We used to listen to that hours. Insane. Even the rhythm part is near impossible. Ah, "old-time" effects. The Zoom 606 was my poison along with the Marshall Valvestate 20. These items existed in a market vacuum, before the Klon, and prior to all of this boutique gear and the sudden love for 'vintage" gear. Back in the days when "pedals" to the average player meant only one singular thing: Boss. Though Fuzz and Wah pedals were much the same as today. My friend, and I would get dropped off and go to Sam Ash and GC (when it finally came into existence) and stare for hours; trying amps and guitars we could never have. The only way to get those sounds was with outboard rack gear in studios. Today, many bedroom players have the same gear they use in pro studios. Back in the early '90's they were different worlds.
@@drakeonyou At the time I thought it sounded great. There was very little cork-sniffing, tone snobbery back then. I loved the high gain sounds from it.
im 14 turning 15 tomorrow and currently im using a lovely yamaha pacifica with a grey and whit body and maple fretboard. this will definitly be my peice of nostalgic gear in years to come.
Advice for new guitar players: Find a guitar that is comfortable to play first and foremost. It shouldn't hurt, even if you don't have calluses yet. I used to have an Epiphone Casino and an American made Fender Stratocaster and both were really comfortable to play. Now I have an Ibanez RGA 42 FM, a PRS SE Custom (both Indonesian made, so relatively cheap), and a Chinese made Yamaha LS16M acoustic. All of these are in the 700 Canadian dollars range brand new (PRS was used actually). All of them are comfortable to play. Some more advice: Learn how to finger pick, hybrid pick, and tap early. These 3 techniques are way less boring than practicing the same scales over and over, and they open up a lot of doors for your playing to never get boring. Figure out how to adjust the action (distance between the strings and fretboard) and probably start out with some lighter gauge strings (tell the guys at the store 9s or 8s and they will know what you're talking about). This is kind of advanced, like you wont care much about this when you're new, but when you start playing on a brand new set of strings, stretch them out first (maybe look up videos on youtube for how to do this). There's nothing worse when you're just starting than replacing strings all of the time, so stretch them properly first, and they will be less likely to break when you're playing (keep in mind, if you're breaking strings all the time and storing your guitar in the cold basement, the strings might be brittle because they're cold, so consider storing the guitar somewhere relatively warm (like 20 degrees celcius or warmer). Also, get some headphones so you can practice without pissing off your parents.
8s is a bit low, and they won't stay in tune very well especially on lower end gear. Also, id reccomrnd some coated strings for beginners cause they save cash and make changing strings something you need to do less often, plus if you do t practice often enough they'll keep sounding good over time for longer
I just started playing a guitar and I just want to thank you guys for giving good advice Personally I love my guitar and really want to make it sound awesome you guys have helped me out a lot thanks -the green been
This has to be one of my favorite videos you did. You were really just having fun. Also made me snag a line 6 pro xt off eBay today for $77 shipped with manual and cord.
I have that Spyder 2 also, it was my first “real” amp having a little stagg 10 watt piece of trash. The Line 6 wasn’t very classy but it definitely did the job for me back then & I gigged with it many times, with no issues. It also has a pretty large compartment in the back that was perfect for hiding things I wasn’t meant to have in my parents house haha.
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What is your most treasured piece of nostalgic gear?
My Epiphone Les Paul GT with the trem
My 27$ ukulele
My first distortion pedal.
My cheap crappy $50 strat copy
My strat and a Epiphone studio 10 amp
Tyler: _"Let's play the gear I used when I was fifteen!"_
Also Tyler: _plays his $5,000 PRS Singlecut_
True.
Kinda disappointed that he didn't get his first electric guitar too
and the pedals through his PRS amp...not the Line 6?
right? i thought he'd buy a cheap electric but no :(
There's a good story behind that guitar. It has the most miles on it by far.
Tyler: "Let's play the gear I used when I was fifteen!"
Me, 27: Still using the gear I used when I was fifteen
Me, at 40, still using the same gear I had at 14.
Me too 😅
"what isnt broke doesnt need fixed or replaced"
Same, almost age 29!🤘
lol i watched this looking at the first guitar I bought with my own money at 18. now 28
At the end of the video you asked what our most treasured piece of gear is. My most treasured piece of gear is the Yamaha piano at my parents house. I used to play it for my mom. The last time I played that piano was in January, just a few weeks before my mom passed away. She was having a particularly bad day with her health, and she asked me to play for her. I played for about two or three hours before I ran out of things to play off the top of my head. The very last piece I ever played for her was Chopin, Nocturne in E Flat Major. I'm glad I got to play a little concert for her one more time.
RIP Mike's mum. Nice story bro
Omg, such a sad/beautiful story, Rest In Peace, bro
And now im crying
Your mother deserves the whole heaven
I hope you can keep your hands on that piano. Sorry about your mom. Lost mine last year and it's never easy no matter how old you get.
When I was 15 I begged my dad for a guitar. He walked into the music store and said, "Where's the absolute cheapest electric guitar you have?" They handed him a 1996 Chinese made Squier Strat.
"Great, ring it up."
"You'll also need an amp and cable."
"No we don't. He'll do fine with this."
My dad wasn't a musician, and we were dirt poor, in case you didn't notice. My first year of playing electric guitar was on a Squier with no amp. It wasn't until I found an old amp next to a dumpster that I finally had power to my guitar...... and it was a bass amp. That's also how I got my first couple of pedals. Dumpster diving and fixing them. Growing up poor was rad.
Fun fact: I still have, and occasionally play, that old squier.
Great story man!
Im in my 50's I still dumpster dive and pu from the curb... its the best!
@@u.s.a.198 Oh for sure. I don't dumpster dive all that much anymore, but I still hit garage sales and stop to pick up stuff I see on the curb. I've gotten guitars at garage sales for under 10 bucks that they say "don't work" just to get them home and find out all they needed was the input jack re-soldered. I got my marshall amp from a junk pile on the curb in front of someone's house. Apparently, they didn't know that tubes are replaceable. LOL.
Oh hell yeah man, those struggles must have made you so much stronger for it. Neat story.
Ah yes I remember playing whatever song I wanted on the old cheap nylon string guitar we had. There's something to be said about having to have the bare minimum now as an adult I'm trying my best to get some good instruments in my life
I wish I still had my very 1st guitar; a 'Lero' $99.00 Les Paul copy. God was it ever a bad guitar, but it fueled my desire to become a world famous heavy metal guitarist playing sold out football stadiums.......which never happened, lol.
It didn't, but you taught me how to play stairway like in 2008 so that's cool too.
@@adrielsotolongo4591 Wow that is cool, thanks for watching!
But Bobby my man, you have taught thousands how to play guitar!
@@ZekaSpalcev Thanks man!
Hasn't happened... YET.
My favorite piece of long lost gear is my first pick
What kind was it?
My first guitar came with 3 and after all these years only 1 remains
Same! My first pick broke on the second day!
Same, it was some weird knock off jazz III I bought at the guitar store near me when I was a kid.
Yeah don't we all
Tyler: *buys amp*
Tyler: *buys petal*
Also Tyler: *buys acoustic guitar*
*classical guitar
LMAO
I was scrolling trying to find this comment
@@feared_sniper-ytbros1701 same
@@gergoretvari6373 i mean, both are acoustic, classical and Anglican have an acoustic box
So my kid has watched you forever. Because of you, he applied to college and decided to pursue music as a career. He would get down watching other youtube videos of people creating music just with computers and thought he had no future with his guitar. He knows it is a difficult industry, but he decided he would rather try than just give up. So now he is off to UT Knoxville next fall for theory/composition. So, thank you.
Wow! Thanks for the story! Very nice!
My most treasured instrument is the harpsichord that I built for my mom which she cherished to the end of her life. I still have it after 47 years.
wow that's cool and sweet
That’s by far the best story on here.
Tyler: "Today I want to revisit my old gear from when I was a kid."
Also Tyler: *Plugs £3500 American built PRS Singlecut into Line 6 Spider*
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@@grungefever1813 Stolen name
Jaap Kievit I know
Kurt Cobain he knows too
my guitar teacher sometimes flexes his fender, which is worth 12000-15000 dollars. I dont remember the name of it, but it was one of 12 guitars of that model in the world. He said he bought it from a german that worked in the same town which he became friends with.
Can't believe you had a PRS as a kid, so lucky
Edit: So UA-cam randomly decided to give me a notification that somebody replied to this 3 year old comment. Turns out there is a lot of replies (lol) to what I thought was a pretty obvious sarcastic remark. So for those that didn't realise, now you know. ✌️
SE not a big deal but yeah I only got a strat copy as a kid haha an I appreciated it
@@alds9729 he is not playing an se
@EMMANUEL OBIOZOR because he's endorsed by prs
@A Gough then you can do work for people and save up for supplies. there is literally 0 reason to assume and call someone a spoiled brat
@A Gough how do you know that?
I've been out of the music scene for a while and when I got back into it, I looked up the amp I used to gig with to see if maybe I could buy one. It was a peavey 5150 II, turns out that amp is super sought after now and sells for over $2000. I sold mine like 15 years ago for $400.
I'm so sorry for your loss
Yeaaa the 5150 is my favorite amp I've ever played. Rip.
Same
That amp sounds great but is a hernia waiting to happen. Ridiculously heavy.
Engages the Red "INSANE" setting, automatically becomes a kid again
Wait we have gone too far lol
Ears Automaticly die
It sounded like absolute garbage
@@lukasrydelius6174 NO IT DID NOT! it sounded like absolute bliss! i'm sure Jack White or Jonny Greenwood would love it
THE BEST
I DID just get back an old guitar. I sold my first NICE guitar a Gibson SG about 7 years ago, needed the dough cause I was getting married. And about a month ago I thought about the guitar and checked through my craigslist emails from that time and found the guy. He still had the guitar and NEVER played it. It still had the strings that I put on it. I got it back and I'm so happy!
Why did he buy the guitar if he didn’t use it?💀
@@nathanb7474 idk I guess he intended to. I was a little sad. The case seems to have a little water damage but the guitar is mint still
Sick!
"I wonder if green metal has a usable sound"
**Hears Green Metal**
**Immediately tunes down**
My man.
For me, there are two guitars I had as a kid that I later had to sell with a family on the way. The first is a black Ibanez proline PR1660 and the other is a late 80's BC Rich hot pink warlock. I was lucky enough to finally find the Ibanez. Well, today is father's day and by step son managed to find a warlock and bought it for me.
I want a hot pink warlock 😂
I think it’s hilarious and adorable, that 15 year old tech can be seen as “vintage”. When in my, almost 50 year old mind, it only seems like yesterday :)
So cool seeing people revisit their childhood.
That is pretty funny. I watched this while sitting next to my 1968 fender bandmaster lol.
@@connorsmith1295 that makes you even older than I am 🤣
Exactly! Vintage gear. We all played a little guitar, one of us much better. Another friend in the house was playing bass with him one day, but no one would play the drums (we rented out space to a college band. Kit always stayed, said we could play it. Finally I jumped behind the kit and it actually worked!
That was around 1990, and I don't think most of this gear was around yet.
Well, I always remember The Boss Pedals! Probably many more models now? Seemed to be 2 or 3 companies that were all about pedals. The main few companies, then many more started creating all sorts of pedals, remakes, and then the digital "sampling" age brought about a giant pedal (well, it had a pedal on one end), and maybe 50 or more(?) Different "Sounds" that you could pick out with the rest of this "giant pedal".
It was the first of it's kind, and very popular? IDT it was an EVH product, but someone big/big company? It was like having 50(?) pedals/guitar player sounds, in one piece of gear, and pretty darn sure it had a wah like pedal at one end?
It was a big deal when released in the 90's, and several hundred bucks, it seems, as no one I knew had that kind of money, and if they did, it went towards our rent, or basic gear, keeping it going, adding something here and there.
Spent as much buying Albums, Cassettes, CD's, cause the love of music was first! And we played because the interaction between the 3 of us was unlike anything else, and the incredible thrill and joy of playing was our primary reason to play.
Who cares if our friends said it sucked, lol, as long as some seem to like it like we did! We'd start playing, maybe the bassist had a riff, I'd play whatever I could to put a beat to it, guitarist would play something of that, I'd play to the guitarist, lol!
We did a lot of Improv in our music, and sometimes play constantly for 20 minutes (we'd tape everything in case we found something that sounded/felt good, that just came together perfectly, then listen to the tape, finding riffs/songs this way.
What was so strange is we were a Hardcore/Punk/Metal band, lol. I remember surprising some better known Punk band we were friends with. Metal club underneath our apartment, so this Punk band climbed up, looking through the open window w/the "Shhh"(quiet sound), as he was gonna grab our bass player and startle him through the window. Big tall Mohawk wearing brothers, scary looking, but the nicest guys. Suddenly he grabs our bassist in a bear hug from behind, through the window, lol. Startled the Hell out of him, but he was happy to see the guys, just like us!
"What songs that?!", one asked, we looked at each other. It's not. We're just jamming! All the other bands had their songs written first. Ours just formed!
No "play this on the drums. "Then do this at the chorus", like someone who wanted a song a certain way. Maybe an idea here and there, but at the most, a riff to start with, then whatever the others added to it, propelled it the right way. That's not how music is made. Maybe Jazz, not Hardcore/Metal, lol.
We were following The Grateful Dead on Tour Spring, Summer, Fall Tour from 89'-95'(less at the end), doing our thing, before self destructing, like many, when H started coming into the scene, leaving many greats to an early death. We survived though! But many, many didn't. Great guys! But no one's perfect, especially those in the spotlight.
Taylor Hawkins had this incredible spirit! A friend to almost everyone he met. A real family man and great friend, from all who knew him.
He passed away with "substances" in his system. That's not why he passed away!
It was because he had a huge heart! Actually, an enlarged heart. Twice the size of normal! No wonder such a relentless beat?
Look into the one of the greatest horses ever named "Secretariat", early 70's I believe. Faster than any horse! Winning by 50 yards kind of stuff. What was it that made this horse so fast and strong?
When the horse passed away, they did an autopsy. His Engine, His Heart, was double the size as expected from a horse like this. But the bigger Engine had more power.
Taylor Hawkins had this same problem/gift. A heart 2X the size it should be! No wonder he was loved by so many, and showed immense love to his family and fans.
He had to much heart in him! And he will live on in the music, forever!
What video was I watching? Lol! Forgive my rambling all over, please.
Great, interesting video, once again, Thanks for getting your old gear. It was a blast, like always!👍
@@timturk1899 that’s so cool! We did the same thing. I ran my 4 track tascam during a rehearsal and we’d just improv and jam, and sure there were lots of terrible sections. But there are always little gems that can be cultivated to a diamonds lick.
And that’s still how I write today. I record a chord progression and then start jamming over top for a few takes.
And listen back and take the cool ideas, which often make me “hear” other phrases in my head that o will than track.
Boss peddles! I loved them but boy were they expensive! These are awesome days to become a guitarist. You buy AmpliTube or GuitarRig and you have all the gear we could only dream of.
@@CallousCoder
Just wait Mr. Coder. Your gear AND you will be vintage before you know it. Have as much fun and sex as you can!
Hey everyone, wasn’t it fun when you were a kid just starting out and you played your $5000 guitar through your $250 amp? Those were the days.
Lol same
12 years playing....... And I have an fender telecaster and I am playing it on the Roland cube 20x
i would have probably sucked a lot less on a proper guitar with setup on day 1 😜
£50 guitar that I pressed too hard on the whammy bar and a £90 amp that I think got donated to a church. It was a Marshall 8020. That thing could scream for a little guy although it was a bit tinny.
You mean $100 guitar and $35 amp?
I’m getting my first electric guitar tomorrow. Today is my birthday. I’m exited!
Dude you get the guitar? What guitar and amp?
Happy b-bday!! What you get??
My guitar is a Gio Ibanez electric, the amp is my grandpa’s old one and it is a peavey amp, don’t know the model tho
And for my b-day I got a couple of video games, a desk chair, some clothes, and a kapo
Cool! best of wishes dude
My first real acoustic guitar was an old 79 Yamaha concert guitar. I missed that thing desperately. Last week I found the EXACT guitar I sold 6 years ago. I bought it immediately and have loved playing it again. It was the guitar I really learned on.
i have a late 70s tokai LC8 standing in my room and i could never ever sell it. Its my first and only guitar and i love it. Although i know how you feel! The same happended to a couple of years ago with a console i had as a kid haha
Oh damn that gets me thinking about the old Washburn acoustic that I basically gave away that I first learnt on😐....damn I miss it
Ive been chasing my old gear also.. About 2 years ago I was in a GC ( yeah yeah, i know) for some strings and cables.. I look over at the used guitar section. And there she was.. My old satin matte purple finish all black hardware Fender Strat that I sold when I was 20. Im 36 now. I sold it because I needed the money and sacrificed it. Turns out it IS the exact same guitar. It had the same dings that I put in it. ALSO has my initials on the inside of the back cover. It currently hangs next to my dads acoustic and gets played very often.
True story???? Wow. Talk about homeward bound.
@albertplaysguitar cant get any more true. I was shocked. Still am everytime I pick it up.
Awesome story
Cool
@RyanORourkelol I was making reference to the movies from the 90s based on the incredible journey.
I couldn't afford an amp when I was a kid, so my dad brought home this old broken reel to reel tape recorder from work. The motor and tape heads were beyond salvage, but the preamp still worked, so I'd plug into the mono input, crank the monitors and... that was my amp.
Ritchie Blackmore also plugged into a tape deck... as part of his gigging setup.
I've also seen youtubers restore/convert old tube radios into practice amps, often they sound pretty good, even if they lack the versatility of a full-featured amp.
You do what you can with what you have, it's all good! Pretty sure Guided By Voices recorded entire albums-worth of stuff through a boom box.
Im really curious on how it sounded like!
Well, hey.. Everyone has a different story on how they became big.
@@dimsumpizza4746 I remember it not having a lot of low end (that may have been on account of the speakers rather than the preamp), but having some nice light breakup if you pushed it.
Hardly gig-worthy, but usable.
I guess the noteworthy thing was that it was technically stereo, so if I'd have had the pedals and technical know-how at the time, I could have done a wet/dry split.
That red insanity was the most awful sound I've ever heard
Fender should use that as a PRS slander campaign
The video is paused and I can still hear it. It's like some kind of dying computer noise
IKR. I don’t know how anyone would enjoy that
Agreed... my ears felt violated
I liked it ngl, but I could see why most would dislike it
I have that exact amp at home right now. I've had it for over 15 years now. Insane mode is great.
Line6 designing the Spyder:
Alright guys, how much gain for the insane setting?
Yes.
Just all of it
I think that obviously the gear you start with is not as good as it can be, but it's the fact that it helped along the way is what makes it a relic in a Guitarist's journey. My most treasured piece is my first acoustic guitar, it's worn down but the feeling was so exhilarating.
Exactly!! I owned a spider also now 7 years later a tube Amp shame I sold my first Ibanez Jumpstart guitar haha
yeah dude i still have my first acoustic, i stole it from my high school
My Mexican Telecaster my grandmother bought me before she passed away will forever be missed. It was stolen years and years ago which lead to me not playing for over 10 years.
I hope you got back to playing eventually.
How was it stolen if you mind me asking?
25 years later, I still have and use my 80s Mexican Strat I got at 14. It remains a joy to play.
Yes, I still have my M Strat from 1999. But that certainly wasn't my first. My first was in the 70's, and it was a full size (Dreadnaught) acoustic I could barely get my fingers around. It was a Kay guitar I think, could be wrong about that.
Literally no one talking about how Howard opened that package? He's a good boy
He is indeed
the goodest boy.
He is a good boy, yet a Dane *shivers*
That EJ Clean Sound even from an old line 6 pod is still one of the most gorgeous clean tones ever
Pods had wonderful clean tones. The closest i can get in a sim is positive Grid’s bias fix clean tones. I use neural for all my dirt tones. Mainly because it feels closest to playing a real amp. All the pick attack and sag you expect.
I started with a classical we just had at home for some reason - tbh who didn't
Then upgraded to a dobro, then tele, then an es-335
i started with classical yamaha, then yamaha pacifica, fender tele SWIRL and now is Gibson SG
Started with Strat, then a Epi Les Paul, back to a Strat, now I have a Jackson Soloist.
I started with a steel string only because the music class at the middle school I went to had us do very basic shit on acoustic. And a friends grandma was cleaning out her garage and had an old acoustic I got to keep
It's like the blues guitarist pokemon evolution
Mine was the slash signed, Hendrix signed and Hetfield and Hammet signed air guitar by Gibson.
My oldest is about your age, and on our weekends we would go to guitar center and just daydream. I was totally broke at the time and line 6 was completely out of the question. I’m glad you got all that gear.
I miss my fender strat acoustic and my silver sparkle jagmaster .... fucking heroin man... 6 years clean now tho and I have so many guitars my wife hates me lol
Glad for you man! Keep going strong and dont let anything make you look the wrong way. Stay away from alcohol even! Good luck
I sold my American made original fender Stratocaster for $60 worth of H in the depths of my addiction :\ I understand.
Commendable dude, takes strength to get clean hope things are even better now
@@pinball-wizard thank you ❤ I have been off H for years as well as suboxone. I use nothing recreationally anymore!
@@toxicyouth94 👏👏👏 True bravery and courage
I did actually locate and purchase not my “first” guitar but my first decent guitar and the guitar I played my first gig with. It wasn’t a “quest” to find my old gear I just happen to see it at a pawn shop while I was looking for guitars to restore and mod. I saw it was like “hey that looks exactly like mine” it was going for only about 100 bucks because it had seen better days and when I started pulling it apart I saw my initials that I had cut in the bridge pickup cavity. I have it in a display case and people are like why the hell do you have that thing displayed when you have Les Pauls chilling in their cases so I tell them the story.
That’s awesome
MyName__ Kosmo it’s a bc rich mockingbird i know that today they aren’t considered to be cool but back in the mid eighties they were considered to be the quintessential hard rock guitar.
LOL... BC Rich was one of those brands I wanted (before the Ibanez bug). A Mocking Bird, Warlock or Rich Bitch would have been the bomb. Nice find BTW.
When I was 14 my friend and I got our first guitars, mine a squier affinity strat, his a Crate Electra. A year later his moms car was stolen along with his guitar he'd left in the trunk. His parents didn't have the money to replace it so I saved up some birthday/allowance money and got him an Ibanez GAX75. I know, I'm a nice guy. It's been 20 years since then and he and I still talk from time to time. Last month I get a call from him out of nowhere saying "You mother fu@ker lol you mother fu@ker..." I have no idea what he's talking about. He goes "I decided to clean up that Ibanez you gave me and saw what you put in the neck pocket..." Still had no idea what he was talking about. He goes "You drew a dick on a post-it note and wrote 'don't lose this one fa&&ot. Love, *insert my real name*" Lol
In my country nylon strings are more available than steel string acoustics so I can relate
Pinoy? Mariposa?
All latinos can relate
as a latino, I can relate to this
Here in brazil to
I love my nylon string guitar. I have big hands and fat fingers, so a classic neck is easier for me.
Just discovering this channel over the past week. So awesome. The childlike joy and love of music is infectious. I randomly clicked on one and now I watch at least 3 a day. Thanks for being here for me to find as I dive back into making music
6:40 "Kinda feels a little bit like it came from ToysRUs"
*me, whose first guitar was a nylon string guitar from ToysRUs*
@Rayyan mhm
Same lol
Where's the punchline
Nothing good ever came from that store, unfortunately... my nephew's bike was a superturd.
my first was a squire black strat
now i have 78 Dean white Flying V, a Jackson soloist, a fender acoustic dread knot, a hollow body gibson, a black ibanez strat, and an ibanez acoustic electric, wow they've really added up,
Howard is just awesome. I’m so impressed by the help with opening the packages. Regular updates required as that pup is gonna get massive! Green metal sounded pretty good through the headphones.
I'm just starting guitar now wish me luck on my journey.
edit: thanks for all the encouragement :)
good luck dude
Check out Boss Katana, Harley Benton guitars, Agile guitars, and PRS SE. pretty good stuff for the price.
Good luck I started about a year ago
I get mad easily
Wish u luck amegio
I’ve got the newer Spider V MKII and have been blown away by the versatility of that little amp- paired it with an Ibanez Jem Jr. for new electric guitarists, I absolutely recommend this combo
*plays comfortably numb solo*
Tyler: “That is just a WALL of milky goodness”
I see what you did there lol
If someone starts playing it i am always deeply dissapointed they stop after 5 notes.
You made a 5000$ guitar sound like the worlds shittiest synth real quick there
Not all in the guitar
@Ben Birchman lol
Towards the end of this, I started to reflect on that wonderful age of 14 when life is simple, and playing your guitar was the main part of your life.
I'm 47 and while i love my 3 kids and wife dearly, the sound of one of my guitars is still super exciting and a huge part of my life.
I learned guitar later than 14, but 14 year old me had a greater outlook on life, and so badly wanted to be 24 year old me that I am now that I never enjoyed being a teenager and im like in that phase of trying to relive what I missed. Its miserable.
I think I'm happier now. I was depressed and had undiagnosed, untreated learning differences that made school an absolute hell--except for choir, my saving grace. I still have the guitar my mom gave me when I was 15. I am past 60. Yes, it needs a refret. I kinda like the buzz, though.
@@pilsplease7561 i know that feeling dude. i started playing at like 15, and stopped at 19 due to a existential crisis and really bad bouts of depression. im 26 and feel alot better about life now. i should starting playing again. still have my old peavey pa200 amp and 2x10 cab haha. do mis my weird ass lp copy i owned though. it was a spalted maple top with a kramer banana headstock. the brand was "highlander".
@@frigglebiscuit7484 You should start playing again. I've gotten frustrated and put it down more than once due to life getting in the way. I will rotate between it and cars. I guess I gotta have more than one outlet. I've been in quite a few bands but finding people that are responsible and take things seriously is a headache.
The line 6 with all the presets is an amazing amp(120w version). I use it way more than the Tube EVH 5150 I just sold. Lot of fun on that amp.
True Story. Sounds ridiculous but I promise it's 100% legit. I learned on a classical accoustic that was similar to the one in this video that was a gift from my Grandma. I didn't have a pick, so I fashioned my own out of the corner of an old original Xbox game case. Then I just messed with it for awhile and it was so old the strings kept breaking, until I only had one left. The A string. So I literally googled "Songs you can play on one string" and Thunderstuck came up. And I was like well there's no way. That song's just amazing and impossible (I thought to my young mind) so I looked it up, and it was pretty straight forward, so I learned it slow and gradually brought it up to speed. I didn't have to worry about muting or anything, because I only had one string! So i could just bash away at it. So Thunderstruck was literally the "first song I ever learned" on guitar. Pretty wild to think about that all these years later.
Dude that’s sounds to crazy to make up, nice
@@lzasyr lol
Thunderstruck is played with a b string
@@henryatherton Could you not just tune it up a load?
@@Kyle-gw6qp probably could tbf
I started on a Line 6 Spider too - recently was clearing out stuff at my parent's place and found it was still in the loft. Clean sound is surprisingly OK and useable despite the gainier ones being a bit fizzy.
Was still working so gave it to a friend for their kid who took up guitar over lockdown - on the promise it gets replaced though if they keep with playing guitar!
The 75w and 150w have decent celestion speakers in them.
That's gotta be a big part of their current resale value.
I felt the same with the clean on my Spider IV 75w. I don’t really remember the higher gain sounds though.
Line 6 has always impressed me with their clean settings. You barely have to touch it and you've got a great clean tone.
Did anyone ever get the black box syndrome on their line 6 75w or 150w ?
I got a 30w spider 2 with a Celestion in it, and it sounds pretty good on the clean setting.
19:13 That pick was never seen again
I had a Peavey modeling amp and a original crybaby wah for years. Honestly did the trick. I'm definitely a more mature of all the player with my strandberg headless and boss katana and a real big boy pedal board. But ultimately not too far off I really enjoy the simplicity of solid state amplifiers and the features they come bundled with.
Having reverb and delay just built into the amp makes sense to me and also saves a shit ton of money. In a way I'm still that budget guitarist but the budget has increased?
peaveys are still good. their head/cab combo sounds amazing
I love a Peavey sound! I was in a band and the singer had a Peavey amp and I was totally jealous.
I still use my peavey vypyr 2x12 combo at home and I might end up taking it to some gigs honestly. It holds up insanelly well.
@@Nestorglass As artists we get very picky with tone but as long as it sounds reasonable enough most people are going to enjoy it and not even think or care that your tone could be better it's a hard realization to get over as a musician but most amps from the 2010s forward sound just fine.
@@NestorglassHell, Peavey's VIP and X2 even hold 8 string tones. Amazing starter amps
“$50 shipping, that’s a lot more reasonable”
*me if I don’t get Amazon prime free shipping*
“?????!!!!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!”
Yeah! 😊
He said 15
@@Fausto_4841 That was for the Pod. The guitar was 50.
I mean 50$ is a lot better than 150$ right?
When I was 14, I had a Kramer guitar that wouldn’t stay in tune, a boss heavy metal pedal and a gross solid state Randall amp.
For reference, I was 14 in 1989.
You had it good, son. 😂
OHHH WAS IT BY CHANCE A FOCUS 1000?
I had that damn Randall amp The guy who built them is genius but I shoulda thrown it in the garbage after my 1st gig.
I forgot to add, I played it through a ovation electric. If you think the acoustics were bad well. In fact I never heard the phrase “man I just love your tone”. At one time in the late 90s I had a hot rod deluxe with an MXR COMP PEDAL RED 2 dials and a Peavey Cropper Classic all mahogany built like a telecaster
Such nice tone when the hot rod cooperated which was every other gig.
I get ya... I was 18 in 89.... my very first rig was a Cort Guitar and a Gorillia Amp.. Later went to a half stack.. way to much amp for my second amp, but held me well when we formed a band in 88.
I am 14 now and I have an ibanez gio jumpstarter pack and a boss turbo distortion
I used to have that exact Line 6 amp. The only thing I remember about it is that as soon as you touched the distortion knob, the amp would immediately go to 100% volume even if the volume was turned town. It was horrible.
Same, I don’t know why but it’s hysterical in hindsight.
Yeah I have this amp. That’s why I only really play with pedal that has a bunch of effects
Holy shit I'm having PTSD flashbacks thanks for reminding me lmao
I have that same Line 6 amp too, but mine doesn’t do that.
Happy Thursday,
I started with a Les Paul copy Hondo 2 guitar with a Fender Vibro Champ amp.
This was in the 80's. I literally paid less than $100 for the amp and it's selling for $1500+ these days. I gave the guitar to my neighbor as a gift because I bought a Ibanez.
I'm 50, still playing and going strong.
CHEERS to ALL
Mine was what I’ll call the “Central Coast Classic” rig: Samick “Strat” > Zoom 505 (the black one) > Peavy Rage 15 (the black and grey one).
In my hometown amongst us noobs, there were two camps: Zoom or DigiTech for your multieffects.
We butchered many a song in garages and youth group meetings with those rigs. It was glorious. That 505 has a few sounds I still think are cool.
Samick Strat is what I started on as well! Samick Strat -> Boss DS-1 -> Crate GFX-15
Ha! The Peavey Rage 15! I thought I was the only one. Eventually got a 20W Marshall Valvestate combo and a Zoom 606 and a Boss Flanger. Thought I was Hendrix.
Nobody really cared about "tone" per se, as it's obsessed over these days.
Samick Strat, zoom 505, and a Crate GX 15
My first electric was a Samick "Abeline" Strat. Still have it. But I have replaced the pick ups... and the body... and the neck... Is it still the same guitar? Stroke chin emoji.
505 a smasher of a pedal with monster headroom ooh that blues setting
"From when I was a kid!" proceeds to pull out a Line6. I'm old.
Line 6’s are good amps. Orange and Marshall as well!
Right there with you man.
@@theqgene826 I always liked mine but I replaced both of them fairly quickly once I found better options in the price range, after playing a katana I ever wanted to see a line 6 again
I personally love line 6 amps. I know they’re branded as trash but in my opinion it beats a boss katana for its effects. That is my OPINION
I'm gonna be completely honest with you Tyler,
1: that peice that was one of the first things you played on the guitar, sounded genuinely amazing. I loved it cause it sounded like a western ballad. 2nd, I LOVED THE SOUND OF THE LINE 6 SPIDER!!! My nostalgic gear was a Jackson Dinky JS32Q
damn i have that gear myself rn 😂 its an awsome thing
@@rusty1253 I actually recently got a Line6 spider 4
@@WalkMannMusicOfficial I got a Spider V to go with my Jackson 7 string.
Mine was a 1950 Gibson J-50 it was the most beautiful guitar, and was priceless. Passed down from my uncle. My house was broken into when I was on vacation and it was stolen. I was only 10years old. Now 17 years later I've never found a guitar that sounds as amazing
Around 1993 my father offered me a Washburn HB35, "tobacco sunburst", I chose it with him in a second hand guitar shop. It was a huge deal for me as I dreamed of a 335 for a long time, as also it was one of the few opportunity I spent such time with him, and as it was one of the very few present he ever did to me. When my father died this guitar was in his home because I hadn't enough room where I lived, and I lived hundreds of miles away so my mother was first there to empty his appartment. She sold my guitar for 10€ in a pawn shop, they were divorced, she still was very angry, it was the greatest legacy linking him to me, some shit went in her head... anyway from all the gear I ever had, this the one I wish I could have back.
oh man...thats sad...
@@ChristophAus Thank for sympathizing. I'm now able to talk about it, and about the grief, without feeling sad. It's just what it is, no more bad feelings. Also it leaded me to learn luthery so maybe one day I'll be able to build a tribute to replace that guitar. Got joy wood working, in a way it's a better thing than having this guitar as my father used to wood work too, it's keeping the flame alive. :)
@@Bloodysugar good to know!
@@Bloodysugar Mah man!!!! Bro, you deserve the best guitar ever!!! You do!!!
@@chipcaronte Kind thoughts, thanks, but for real it would be a waste as I'm not a good guitarist by any mean. ^^'
Brings me back to when I was a 15-year-old beginner guitarist
as in last year
the amp sounds pretty awesome, Line 6 was a hot brand in the 90’s.
I still have the ZOOM 505 multi effects pedal, which i had to get the yellow diagram to figure out, so now just use my Peavey Viper 1, it has built in effects and can make an electric guitar sound like an acoustic, lots of pretty lights, and is quite loud.
I think you might enjoy a nicer classical electric guitar, one of these days I’d like a Yamaha NTX-1.
I don’t have nostalgic gear. Since I’ve been using all the same stuff as when I first started. Just upgraded that stuff and got a new amp. Still have my old stuff
You uploaded this the second I logged on to UA-cam. Watching this video was clearly fate.
I’d love to see you analyse/react to some silverchair riffs mate. So many hidden gems throughout their back catalogue.
As a kid I loved my Boss Metal Zone pedal. Had is for many years and it got lost in translation somewhere. Fast forward about 25 years and I saw one at my friend's garage sale and I asked her how much for it. She said "Um, I dunno, what do you have in your pocket?" I dug in my pocket and I pulled out 58¢. She said "ok, that'll work". SCORE!
I started with a Spider IV 15. Definitely had the Insane setting, although I was sophisticated enough to use Metal most of the time. With my SSS Bullet Strat.
My first squire is actually for sale an hour north of me right now.
dude id buy it
Maybe it's a sign
Dude what are you waiting for?
Petition for Tyler to never say the words "Milky Goodness" again.
When did he say it
Josh Asdf
15:17
Let's make a counter-petition for him to keep saying it, and more petitions will pop up for him to stop, and the counter petitions will rise like a multi headed Hydra.
Jordan Miller was funnier in my head, than it actually turned out to be
@@The_Horse-leafs_Cabbage I was literally about to say I'd like a petition for him to use it as many times as he possibly can, in every video.
Am I the only one that thinks most of this gear is perfectly useful and good sounding?
He plays well - and that makes it most important.
I still have the stuff that I bought at 14 - a Marshall VS65r and a Jackson KE3 - and I love it.
Crate MX15R practice amp. Gave it to my stepson a few years back and was gratified to hear him and his friends using it in their jam sessions. Still works and sounds fine.
I'm still using the same gear I started with. Don't plan on ever selling my little shit boxes.
Ur name says everything
@Sïôro he'd do anything for the nookie, man
@Sïôro You deserve many likes
My Little Shit Boxes would be a great band name.
@@richharris2864 Or pedal brand name
My favorite piece of gear was a red Squire Stratocaster gifted to me by a former friend of my family. It was was stolen about a year ago in a robbery of my old apartment.
That sucks, man
I'm a drummer but I like to mess around on my grandpa's guitar. He passed away in 2015 and I got to keep his guitars, he has an acoustic and a telecaster. It was actually a big bit of luck that I got to keep it. Originally it was to go to my cousin but everyone knew he would've just sold it. My mom decided to keep it and she put it in her closet. A year or two later I asked about a first act discovery acoustic guitar and my mom brought me to the closet and showed me my grandpa's acoustic and electric, and my dad's bass. I've been using the electric and bass since, I love them. I'm not any good since I never took it seriously but I still have them and I cherish them.
Do them right and learn a song and play
@@eduardoprieto5267 currently im learning how to play snow by rhcp
Snow is a fun riff, hurt by Johnny cash, wind cries Mary and hey joe all great entry level songs
Ah this is great!!! I also had the line6 spyder, but my very first rig was a kramer stryker explorer guitar, boss metal zone plugged directly into my stereo receiver with the iconic giant pioneer speaker towers of the early 90's...would give anything to go back! Thanks for the trip down memory lane...still have my zoom 501 ...or was it 502...that thing sounds terrible!! Lol
Lol Kramer Stryker with some garbage Peavey amp and a Digitech multi-effects pedal lol. Still have my Kramer. It's a shit guitar but the fretboard and neck are super-comfy and playable.
I had a Marshall lead 12 Micro Stack that got stolen. Loved that thing!
Sean Barker F for respects
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Some dude gave me one of those amps to me when I bought a guitar off him a few months back lol
@@Kinetex they only made a couple of thousand of them. The value has sky rocketed, Metallica used to use them for backstage warm ups.
@@seanbarker4610 they are readily available here in germany for around 300€
You had better gear as a kid then most aduit guitarests I know.
me
I'm also a kid xD but I use almost the same gear but I'm a Pantera fan so I use Dean Guitars!
@@jaspersleegers7567 how rich are your parents?!?!
But you have the spelling ability worse than most kids
@@salvatoreusrex8257 ture
OH! Almost forgot. When youre 16 in the mid 80's and working a crappy job at a fast food joint after school, saving every penny for a stompbox was a major thing AND it wasnt even a new one. You needed an overdrive or distortion pedal and no way was a Tube Screamer close to affordable even used but a Digitech Hot Rod was. They sounded great when they werent squealing at you. Standard high school pedalboard that took a year of making burritos at taco bell to put together had these pedals. Used Digitech Hot Rod, very used purple Boss Flanger, a used Boss Chorus pedal that looked like an 800 pound gorilla jumped on it and a beat up Boss Delay. With any luck you could find a noise gate made by ANY MANUFACTURER cause the Digitech was wicked especially with single coils. Dude, what an awesome time. Certainly explains the tinnitus (constant ringing in my ears) since my early 20's, 49 years old now. 🤘🏻
My first amp was a Peavey Rage 158 (15W 8"). It is no longer around, nor do I miss it. My first guitar is still in my possession 25 years later. The one piece I miss dearly is Schecter Omen 6 that I modified with a Duncan Distortion and Jazz set. It was stolen in 2009.
That is odd, I had the same guitar, with the same pups. But i bought it from a guy in stenage, UK, and sold it 3 years later. Great guitar/pup combo.
@@bpdarragh I think you had that guys guitar. Probably not but who knows
That was the same amp I first got. Peavey Rage 158 from a pawnshop. Guitar was a black Squier Strat with Rosewood fingerboard from eBay. Pedal I bought out of a Digitech catalog new and was a Digitech Grunge pedal.
If some of the patches aren't working, move the wah pedal. I have this issue with one of my pedals. If the wah is open some settings don't work as the wah is set as a volume pedal
I always forget about this with my Boss ME-80 and I sit there going, "Why am I not getting any sound out of this?"
I was thinking that when he was complaining about it, like dude move the pedal and you'll get the sound ya goof
seems like the expression pedal may have been the part that wasn't working.
It should be mandatory that all amp manufacturers have “Insane” settings somewhere on theirs amps🤘🏻
But there can only be one Insane™
Amps should go to 11 instead of 10 as well just for that reason.
@@daanvdwielen8760 spinal tap hehe
Sick Procaster, hot daddy.
why am i subbed to u
Tjabooo idk, because I too have a sick procaster I assume
@@fvg yo wtf first time i see a csgo youtuber on a guitar video
oh look at this funny man
Holy shit dude! I go to Music Go Round here in Minnesota all the time!!!
I really enjoyed this video. Not gonna lie, I liked every sound, it didn´t sound bad or stupid to me at all, I guess great guitar and mic work its magic, but anyway, I´m sick of chasing a guitar tone....every tone has something to it and who the hell knows what "good" guitar sound even means. Guitar can sound different every time you play it and I´d say that´s what´s great about it. It changes every moment. But whatever the sound, guitar is just fcking awesome. Always! Cheers!
You can really just see how much he's enjoying this
Tyler: "I need a Line 6 Spider!"
Also Tyler: *proceeds to spell it spyder*
The “y” makes it more insane
@@Dljjfbjfgkh it's because the peavey vypyr is a thing
that really bothered me, why, why
I own a spider iv and had to check and see that its not spelled with a y
I started with a Gould (Eagle) Cherry sunburst les Paul, which I still have and play (in my do) my amp was a Acoustic Solutions 20w.. had this since I was 11, I’m now 25 and have upgraded to PRS SE Hollowbody II faded blue burst!
I still have the gould eagle too! Actually a great guitar I was playing it earlier today
Tyler: I can't thank Line 6 enough for all the innovations
Glenn Fricker: *visible hatred*
Who's Glenn Fricker?
Actually he likes a few products they did like the pod, its the shit ones that people come in the studio with, convinced that they sound like heaven he doesnt like
They're just not recording amps, and that's Glenn's entire deal. Sound pretty reasonable for practice or small live venues. Takes a lot of pedals to get the same flexibility, or a pro-level modern amp modeler.
They're an awesome guest amp because of the switcher pedal. And there is no better amplifier bargain out there today. I've got one in the corner, and with the pedal I can get maybe $150. What could I replace it with that's significantly better for the same money, since I have another amp I use all the time?
@@venkatbalachandra5965 A fat greaseball producer with mediocre mixes.
I find it ironic that Glen Fricker’s last name is Fricker when he drops the actual F-bomb every 3 seconds in some videos. I can’t watch him for that reason...
The thing I remember about the late 90s and '00s digital effect stuff is that the cleans, reverbs, delays all sounded pretty great, everything else was very hit or miss especially overdrives and distortion....they were almost always a miss.
Any one who has that amp for a beginner is extremely lucky IMO.
I have a 10W Squier Amp, so I know.
I had it and never learned properly in 7th grade....
Now Im 25 with a Epiphone amp I bought for a gram of weed sounding better than ever
Still have it haha
@@wids 😳
The previous owner most likely messed with the settings as I have one and none of them have those crappy effects on by default lol. Of course it's going to sound like trash, for one, using an amps built in effects, and two, when they're set to 80-90%. They don't sound bad if you take the effects off and don't have the settings maxed out. It's hard to get a usable distortion tone at that price point outside of those amps.
I had a squier frontman 10g and it was pretty bad to learn on but now I got me one of those fender tube amps and I'm a happy guy
I started playing late, so I bought a 1993 usa Fender stratocaster used for $400. Wish I never sold it but I did not connect to guitar til 20 yrs later which is now. My wife and I separated and I learned what the blues was for real. That feeling went into the guitar for the first time ever I had emotion added to the notes. Very good feeling to learn that and then win my wifes love back! Now I can play the blues ok even when I feel good
I’ll never forget my first guitar and amp.
I went to a swap meet with my dad and I picked out this sweet red and white squire. I also bought some cheap picks and a furry red and black tiger striped strap too. It was super comfy but rough to install on the strap locks. I had to cut a slit and forced it in.
There was a time when Walmart used to sell First Act guitar and amps. I got the M2A 110. At the time I thought it was bad ass with the shiny silver hardware and bright blue light when you turned on the distortion. Unfortunately it didn’t last more than a couple of months and I don’t remember how it sounded. (Probably terrible.) but I was so determined to play!!
I‘ve been playing Guitar now for 6 years and i still Play a lot of my old stuff like my first Electric Guitar a Ibanez grg and my First acoustic guitar a Harley Benton HBO, 2 awesome Guitars for a little buck
The only thing i upgraded was my amp, from a Blackstar fly 3 to a marshall dsl 1 (tube amp) and i love it .
And i recently i bought the new line 6 pod Go🔥
Tyler: if the drum machine doesn't work im gonna lose my mind.
*drum machine works
Tyler: ..
U
Just getting into electric guitar after mostly playing around with steel string acoustics for 30 years (not that I'm any more than intermediate at best) and have been binging your channel. Bought the Donner solid body T style guitar from one of your other videos and now have bought a second hand line 6 pod xt because it looks like a ton of fun and frankly that EJ clean tone is worth the few quid it cost me on its own. Thanks for all the excellent advice and keep up the stellar work.
8:35 I feel like I'm high and running a 110 fever
My high school have that same exact amp and I remember we can’t put it on “Insane” mode because it’ll disturb other classes and we’ll be placed in detention if we do 😂
lol that doesn't even make sense, what a silly rule
@@matturner6890 I agree, no distortion = no fun.
Al DiMeola's "Splendido Sundance". We used to listen to that hours. Insane. Even the rhythm part is near impossible.
Ah, "old-time" effects. The Zoom 606 was my poison along with the Marshall Valvestate 20. These items existed in a market vacuum, before the Klon, and prior to all of this boutique gear and the sudden love for 'vintage" gear. Back in the days when "pedals" to the average player meant only one singular thing: Boss. Though Fuzz and Wah pedals were much the same as today.
My friend, and I would get dropped off and go to Sam Ash and GC (when it finally came into existence) and stare for hours; trying amps and guitars we could never have. The only way to get those sounds was with outboard rack gear in studios. Today, many bedroom players have the same gear they use in pro studios. Back in the early '90's they were different worlds.
Bro! I gigged with the 606! It was amazing looking back.
But that was late 2000s so imagine that.
@@drakeonyou At the time I thought it sounded great. There was very little cork-sniffing, tone snobbery back then. I loved the high gain sounds from it.
im 14 turning 15 tomorrow and currently im using a lovely yamaha pacifica with a grey and whit body and maple fretboard. this will definitly be my peice of nostalgic gear in years to come.
Advice for new guitar players:
Find a guitar that is comfortable to play first and foremost. It shouldn't hurt, even if you don't have calluses yet. I used to have an Epiphone Casino and an American made Fender Stratocaster and both were really comfortable to play. Now I have an Ibanez RGA 42 FM, a PRS SE Custom (both Indonesian made, so relatively cheap), and a Chinese made Yamaha LS16M acoustic. All of these are in the 700 Canadian dollars range brand new (PRS was used actually). All of them are comfortable to play.
Some more advice:
Learn how to finger pick, hybrid pick, and tap early. These 3 techniques are way less boring than practicing the same scales over and over, and they open up a lot of doors for your playing to never get boring.
Figure out how to adjust the action (distance between the strings and fretboard) and probably start out with some lighter gauge strings (tell the guys at the store 9s or 8s and they will know what you're talking about).
This is kind of advanced, like you wont care much about this when you're new, but when you start playing on a brand new set of strings, stretch them out first (maybe look up videos on youtube for how to do this). There's nothing worse when you're just starting than replacing strings all of the time, so stretch them properly first, and they will be less likely to break when you're playing (keep in mind, if you're breaking strings all the time and storing your guitar in the cold basement, the strings might be brittle because they're cold, so consider storing the guitar somewhere relatively warm (like 20 degrees celcius or warmer).
Also, get some headphones so you can practice without pissing off your parents.
8s is a bit low, and they won't stay in tune very well especially on lower end gear. Also, id reccomrnd some coated strings for beginners cause they save cash and make changing strings something you need to do less often, plus if you do t practice often enough they'll keep sounding good over time for longer
I just started playing a guitar and I just want to thank you guys for giving good advice
Personally I love my guitar and really want to make it sound awesome you guys have helped me out a lot thanks -the green been
The red insane setting sounds like something your parents must have loved XD
This has to be one of my favorite videos you did. You were really just having fun. Also made me snag a line 6 pro xt off eBay today for $77 shipped with manual and cord.
I love line6
I have that Spyder 2 also, it was my first “real” amp having a little stagg 10 watt piece of trash. The Line 6 wasn’t very classy but it definitely did the job for me back then & I gigged with it many times, with no issues.
It also has a pretty large compartment in the back that was perfect for hiding things I wasn’t meant to have in my parents house haha.
many water bottle bongs and bags of dirt weed hahahaha
@@kingkosher6231 lmao exactly! So many of us lived such similar lives haha
@@logansbt586 long live stoner metal heads just doing their things!!!