5 Guitars You Think Are Good (but they're not)
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Every time I see a Jazzmaster, I wonder what the USB ports are for.
@@treeman47 LOL Packman. That's what my Dad was called when my parents got divorced.
This comment made my day! Thank you. 🤣
@@maysamgoudarzi5771 😭
That USB port let's you charge your phone according to your playing dynamics
😂😂😂
Being a metal guy, i always thought fenders couldn't do it in my younger years. Now i realize that they can and absolutely do. I had a Japan model back in the day, and man that one guitar changed my whole perspective.
I live and die by Japan, my Japanese Ibanez from 91 is my match made in heaven
I was the same way with Telecasters.
I avoided them right up to the day that I discovered the old electrified baseball bat can do ANYTHING and do it extremely well.
I mostly play blackened and death metal. Only play custom modified fenders 😊
@@Axeman1980 japans ibanez rule
I don't get why a lot of people think that stratocasters aren't fit for metal. I find it almost obvious that they can do it since Ritchie Blackmore, the Iron Maiden guitarrists' and Yngwie Malmsteen use it.
Nothing bad to say bout the Telecaster, the classic block of wood is unbelievably versatile, nearly always stays in tune, and I always think it’s crazy how Leo got it SO RIGHT in his first attempt…
I used to dislike Telecasters untill I played one. It just felt like the perfect simple guitar. Nothing unnecessary, but with a brilliant tone.
I have two Teles and wish I hadn't bothered. Not my sort of geetar.
I have a replaced rib because of my tele.
I have an offset tele myself and its an excellent guitar, I love it and its cheerful seafoam green
Well, except for one thing . . . two really.
1.The pickup selector switch is too close to the volume knob. I sometimes roll the volume when I reach to change pickups.
2. Speaking of the pickup selector switch, that little plastic cover on the switch always falls off. I've lost so many I can't even count all two of them.
There is it, that what's wrong with the four telecasters I own and play way too much for such terrible guitars.
The strat is a perfect example of how most guitarists choose instruments based on looks. Always hates the look of strats and how common and boring they are, then I actually played one and realised I didn’t have a clue what I was talking about previously. So much fun to play. And way more versatile than people realise.
Nowadays you can have any guitar shape with any pickup you want anyway. You like the les paul sound but don't like the shape ? there's a telecaster with humbuckers and les paul wiring style on the market.
I just got it because Costco had a great deal and it would be my first electric guitar
@@azyxte84 as long as you enjoy playing with it you know that's what matters. Just give it a good set up
It’s the same way with the Tele, I started with a Tele as my first 6 string and was playing everything from Green Day to Slipknot, mostly Slipknot, a friend I learned bass from set my guitar up and I dropped the tuning and went for it. 😂Dude didn’t think it could make those sounds, and he was actually a professional player!
Me too!
As you get used to the strat, The placement of the volume knob becomes more of a feature than a problem, since you can make cool ambient sounds with it.
I have many guitars and strat volume placement is in perfect spot for volume swells compared to other guitars
i have mine taken off lol. just got the metal piece under the volume cap sticking out and that half an inch difference pretty much fixed all my issues of the odd volume pot placement. a bigger issue with strats imo is the dumb pickup switch spot lol. every time i play on neck pickup i gotta be really careful to not hit it since i got big hands and play with an open hand
@@idk9637I hear ya! I stopped playing my Strat for a couple years cuz I just couldn’t get used to the damn volume knob. Ended up just taking it off, no problems anymore 😅
Put a rubber washer under the knob so that it takes more effort to turn.
To the people saying negative things about the placement of the knob or switch, you guys need some inspiring on (how to use it to your advantage)
I'm not even trying to put anyone down...I'm just sayin'
The key with Jazzmasters is you have to set them up properly in order for the bridge to work right. The original design requires a tilted neck pocket, so a shim will do the trick.
If you set them up right, it is one of the most reliable and stable trem systems.
And a hell of a versatile instrument. Love Jazzmasters.
Ditto for a Strat, which is why Teles are so beautiful. They just work, and the tuning is rock solid.
@@Aeronaut1975 No vibrato is a bummer, though.
Original one does not *require* a shim. It just helps. No more required than a Shaller or mustang bridge. I prefer ripping it out of all my Jaguars and putting in a tune-o-matic and a shim anyway. It works fine stock if you use the right strings and don’t beat your guitar like most of us do
Best to ditch the stock bridge with vintage style Jaguars and Jazzmasters as it's still troublesome even with a shim, setup etc. Get a Mastery bridge, lot of problems solved - better replacement than a Mustang (which the StayTrem is based on) or Tuneomatic, I think, as I've tried a bunch and have had the Mastery on my Jag for about 15 years now.
To me the ultimate sound is the Jazzmaster neck pick up. So amazing and soothing.
I can tell you have been playing a lot lately. I absolutely loved the hotel California harp guitar style. Really cool. Looking forward to hearing your album.
No matter how many guitars I try, my hands just love the Les Paul…the heaviness, the cream…the TONE!!! man I love this guitar…
Truly a timeless design.
I had a love hate relationship with a 1982 Cherryburst LP Standard for forty years, recently gave it to my nephew, he was going to get it eventually anyway. It is now on stage again... PRS McCarty Soapbar to the front!
I've been playing my black 1974 LP Custom for 25 years and never have tuning problems, apart from new strings and/or outdoor gigs in the full sun.
I think the same way. I love LP and SG.
I regret selling my 59' goldtop for that reason... Les Paul tones can't be beaten.
I've actually held a Gibson harp guitar that was made in the early 1900's. That said, the owner said it was impossible to tune let alone stay in tune. Cool piece of history. She even had the catalog that came with it - original price was $300.
An absolute shitload for back then
Potentially a years wage.
@@TalonfromtheRCif we use inflation data, but just guessing that it was purchased in 1901, that would be equivalent to $10,700.
That's a LOT of $$$!
@@walkingTANK Some of them still bring 5 figures at auctions....
I love the way you can so clearly hear the differences in the Strat when you flip the tone switch, it just sounds so gooood...😁
I loved the Royalty free version of "Motel West of Nevada" you played on the timberline 😂
Glad I wasn't the only one to hear it. lol
I greatly appreciate the subtle, yet tasty, slap in the face to the biggest copyright bullies in music.
May you fly as high as they once did good sir.
May he fly like an Eagle
Shhhhh.... Don't let them know
Lets hope Don's Minions don't come to steal his guitar!
I was just gonna comment this. Funny to see it already mentioned. I won't even listen to that band anymore lol
I love Strats in general, and the problem, the only one in my opinion, isn't the knob, but rather the selector switch. It's way too easy to hit by accident.
My fingers always hits the volume knob, turning it down. I glued it with superglue on full volume so that it can't bother me anymore.
i use to think that but keep playing you'll find the hand placement as you become more adjusted `
I find the switches mounted on the upper sides of Gibsons and Gretsches way worse. Tele switches are perfect, with Strats maybe a bit worse because of the angle
My problem with strats is the tremelo, it just knocks is out of tune too easily.
agree
I love the volume control location on a Strat. That's the #1 reason I use it so much.
Played a Jazzmaster regularly for 10 years, AV62RI, and never had an issue with original bridge or string displacement. I have a light touch and use 11s. Work with it!
I appreciate the quality of your videos so much. The smooth transitions, the videography, the blending of the music between scenes... your videos are top notch tyler! keep shredding.
Notice the tele was left out…because he knows in his heart of hearts it’s a perfect instrument that has zero time for satire.
To get the most out of a strat.. I made my own 3-step resoldering of the pickups mostly to get a "humbucker on demand". I also removed one tone knob and put the remaining 2 one step down to get the volume knob away.
Finally putting a small killswitch in the remaining hole as the sugar on the donut😎
Everyone has their own unique set of mods for the strat. I wire my strats differently as I have no real use for the middle pickup and like my tone control on the bridge pickup. I also have really aggressive humbucker sized P90s in another strat, which I have tuned to C#/drop B, and I play a lot of metal on it.
Strats are the best modding platform of any guitar in my opinion.
The best thing about the Strat is that the pickup selector is in the perfect place to hit it without even trying. Need to switch from the bridge pickup to anything else? Don't worry, you will.
The accidental switch to the bridge PU on HSS models can be pretty jarring.
@jholmes45 People who have this issue haven't played strats enough to get used to them. I've been playing strats almost exclusively since I was 16, and I never have that issue. The strat was designed with the help of a guitar player and ergonomics and versatility were the main priorities. The volume knob and pickup selector both can be manipulated without missing a note while playing. Not a bug but a feature. Watch David Gilmore playing Shine on You Crazy Diamond from Pulse. He is absolutely one with the instrument, constantly changing pickup settings and riding the volume control, and the transitions are seamless.
If you accidentally hit these controls, I would argue you need to work on your technique, because it's probably too aggressive and uncontrolled. In the immortal words of BB King to Billy Gibbons, (regarding ridiculously heavy strings, mind) "why are ya workin so hard?" Let the amplifier do the work, no need to beat on the guitar. Try some lighter strings, it will force you to develop a light touch, because otherwise everything will be out of tune.
Personally I couldn't do light strings, I was too heavy handed. But I got into low tunings, and one day I didn't have any ultra heavy strings for playing in drop B on hand, so I threw on some 10s and set the guitar up for drop b/C# standard. I've never looked back since, and feel so much more freedom now, because playing is easier, the instrument is more responsive to my picking dynamics, and bends and vibrato are effortless. Oh the tone is smoother. Now 10s in standard tuning are painful to use, and feel like elevator cables.
When I finally found the Jazzmaster, 21 purchased guitars in, my search for the ultimate guitar tone and playability ended. Sorry for anyone who missed its glory!
I’ve gotten sounds/tones out of a Jazzmaster that I haven’t been able to replicate with any other guitar I’ve owned.
Novidade é sempre o máximo. Isto passa.
Great video. I will never stop loving my Les Paul Custom. Something happens when I take it on stage ... I become someone else and channel music that is beyond me. I have other guitars such as a PRS McCarty and Tele that I also love. However, I could never sync with a Strat, although I own two of them. Every guitar has issues in one way or another...we need to use our brains to overcome that! Play on dudes.
Great video. love the tongue in cheek. My Classical Yari has to be tuned and retuned often during a session. My LP Standard weighs a ton and never goes out of tune! Like never but I do have to fiddle with knobs on the guitar and the twin reverb like continuously! It's like some mad violin out of Wagner's Ring cycle that's about to release the storm troopers!!
I 100% agree with you. A lot of the big name guitars never like to correct the bad design until the day they close their door. I like the new oversea brands, they always give you the best guitar you can get for the money.
that bit on the harp guitar at 4:13 was sick though
Gotta tread carefully tho with what happened to Charles On his channel tho. I am shocked at what went down but also kinda not.
what happened?
@@ShatterScript Don issued a copyright strike against him because of his Hotel California video
definitely NOT hotel california - because if it was then the Eagles has-beens and their lawyers would block the video.
@Gergő Rétvári oh damn that sucks :s
4:13 *begins playing clearly transformative adaptation of Hotel California*
"Why do I feel like I'm in danger?"
Your demo of the strat was amazing. I was fully vibing to that!😂
The Gibson SG. I love my old epi, had it since I started playing. But the neck dive is absolutely BRUTAL!!! Which is why my first big budget guitar is gonna be a Mayones Regius 7.
I know what you mean. The neck shape on the Epi SG is super comfortable, but it's so unbalanced. The mahogany neck is too soft as well, you can actually hear the guitar pulling itself out of tune if you lean it forwards or back.
That's a common issue but a wider strap with a frictional surface such the under side of leather fixes that.
My favorite guitar I own is a brand new gold foil jazz master, one of the most unique things I ever played, had it for only a month and a half but I knew I had to get it the second I laid hands on it. It’s got a bigsby tremolo system and a totally different bridge from standard jazzmasters so it doesn’t have the issues I’ve heard some people complain about with it. Thing sounds wicked too!
Why’d you only have it a month and a half?
@@Axeman1980 I still have it, I was saying that's how long I've had it so far.
Ive been meaning to play one of em and see how those pickups sound. Looks cool and unique
Love that throwback to the older days haha. Ultimately, any guitar is good if you try hard enough! I still play the first guitar I own, and with just the right settings, it truly makes it still a fun beast to play. Cheers
One of the first guitars I bought was this mid 90's Epiphone LP Special II. Many guitars later, I came back to it, fixed it the hell up, replaced all the wiring, knobs, switch, and poppied in some Seymour Duncans... the thing rips, and it plays better than I ever imagined a $115 guitar would.
Whats the best guitar you own? Answer: the one you play the most... it doesn't matter if it is expensive or not.. the guitar you go to more often inevitably plays better.. it probably gets the more attention in terms of set up and care.. and the fact that it plays alot .. makes it play better and better... prove me wrong!!
Lol same. I still play my $60 first guitar gifted to me.
My first “electric guitar” was an acoustic with a pickup slapped on
I always played a stratocaster owned 3 of them now with different pickup config, and I recently got a japanese les paul this year because it's like my holy grail guitar (aside from a butterscotch tele or an offset tele-jazz body)
It felt weird at first, everything was small and the fretboard felt tiny compared to a strat. The guitar feels like it's not fighting me lol until I felt the comfort of loosen string tension of a les paul and now I grab it more than my strats for random noodling (ofc strat tone is still a fav but playability and ease i'd go for the LP)
The saddle issue with Jazzmasters is definitely annoying, but I can give Fender somewhat of a pass, seeing as they were originally designed for flat wound strings. Changed mine over to Mustang saddles, and it corrected the issue enough for my liking.
3:48 I love when Tyler just casually pulls up the guitar that was present at Jesus birth
😂
Great now do the reverse video of guitars that you think are bad but aren't
Yes, that's what I thought this video was going to be for some reason...I guess I can't read words 😕
Oh it’s comin
@@MusicisWin woo hoo!
Still waiting on that video lol
@@MusicisWinwhen? 😂
I had a Fender Mustang, and had problems with the tremolo, just like how you described the Jazzmaster. The string would go out of place sometimes, and it would get out of tune rather easily. There was even this one time I used the whammy stick, and it got stuck. I eventually replaced it with a Telecaster, which has been much better.
I have a jaguar which has the same issue as the jazz master, and found a great aftermarket part that fixes to the rear of the bridge. I always knocked my strings out of the grooves and this fixed it completely… I also swapped the standard pups for quarter pounders and now it rocks!
I got my first solid body electric in the last year and it's a squire bullet strat. I wanted something I could do crazy upgrades to and really make my own but without breaking the bank. It's already become a metal machine and even though there isn't a whole lot left from what I originally purchased the personalization is for me what makes it my guitar and not someone else's.
I have some very expensive strats and I also have a bullet I bought for 79.00 about 15 years ago . I have done so many mods to that guitar with all spare parts I always have laying around . it still plays great . Neck never needs adjustment . Will probably need fret job real soon ,but don't think it's worth cost
@@riviecc Dunno I got a fully kitted out ca 2010 Bullet and it sucks. Tone is great but sustain is aweful and the neck doesn't feel good. I wanna get an Affinity and put all the expensive hardware in that. Tried one once and it was night and day. Felt so close to a Fender, while mine feels exactly like a below 100€ guitar. I even scalopped the neck and polished the frets and all that but it's such a baseball bat neck with bare wood that you can't really slide around on easily. And it doesn't intonate perfectly either despite the new tremolo that cost as much as the guitar. I think you need a bare minimum of a decent guitar to mod or you will spend more money in the end than just getting a slightly better guitar and replace less. I think Affinity is a real sweet spot but the new Bullets are MUCH better than the old ones. Mine may also be a bad example.
Picked up a new affinity for $210. Replacing bridge with a Fender American, loaded pickguard with Custom 69, nut and tuners with Fender locking. But yea the neck needs a bit of rounding and just 1 fret leveled, but it feels real good. Had a 76 Strat and this one feels right to me
@@stevejoyce3151 I went the heretic way and got a Harley Benton Telecaster instead. 158€ and fantastic. The neck is D profile so not true Telecaster style but I enjoy that. Was gonna trash the pickups but they're the only ones that I even feel like playing since I put boutique PAFs in my Flying V... Man I never was a huge Telecaster fan, I didn't like the look. I tried a Fender once and I was surprised how much I liked it. So I think I'm done with Strats now... they just don't do it for me anymore. Telecaster or something with PAFs preferably a V or Les Paul if I can sit down, standing up I don't like Les Pauls that much anymore either. To weak. I'm honestly so in love with the thing, I'm trying to convince myself not to buy a second one as backup and to have a bit of variety. The same manufacturer of my beloved PAFs makes some rad Tele pickups and I like to have one tuned down for SRV stuff.... TE62DB Lake Placid Blue.... yumm yumm. I'll probably still get an Affinity Strat to put my Strat hardware in but that's mostly for peace of mind. I really can't see myself playing Strats anymore. Doesn't have the brightness on the bridge and it not quite as warm on the neck. If you live somewhere that they ship for free try one of those. I polished the frets and reset action, truss rod and intonation to fit my thin gauge strings but it came set up perfectly for 10s. But I like 9s for E flat and 8s for standard E. The tuners are aweful... pots are okay. But the guitar, neck and pickups... just wow. Not sure I still want a Squire. If cheap HB and if I strike it rich a player series or made in US. The classic vibes are supposed to be great but for 500+ bucks I can find a used player series so yeah...
Killer playing and sounds on those 'horrible' guitars!! Very cool.
I now want one of those darn harp guitars having heard it played so brilliantly (song was... familiar? Nah... I shall not name it).
@@martin-1965 i thought about it buuuut nevermind 😂
@@martin-1965 I think it was Hotel Rwanda?
@@beachcomber4141 Suella lovely face, such a lovely place...
@@martin-1965 Jamie Dupuis does well with it.
Bought my first fender strat at the age of 40. I haven't been tempted to play any other guitar ever since. It just feels right.
It is!
What took you so long? Ive had many, but i have a vintage partscaster i built that is just divine and i would put up against the finest custom shops fender has ever produced. I think i just got lucky.
Played a strat once back in the late 60's. Put it down after about 30 seconds and picked up a Les Paul Gold Top. I still have it.
The tone in the harp guitar was absolutely stunning! Loved it. I'd hire the orcs.
Better off hiring the orcs to keep your Les Paul g string in tune. They could work shifts!
It really does sound amazing.
I have never played a bad guitar out of all my years except for my acoustic when I started taking lessons. Every guitar might not have been setup well or not at all. My first electric was a Westone which wasn't an expensive electric but it sounded and played like a dream because I had it resetup after I bought it from my first guitar teacher who was upgrading.
I've come to accept that there are no good guitars without costly modding. They all have pointless flaws either due to heritage nostalgia or just horrible taste. I like metal elements but they're usually ugly. For some reason they tend to come with poplar burl, so it looks like a coffee table in a ski lodge. Quilt maple is tacky. Abalone is tacky. Charvel DK would be perfect if it had steel frets. An Ibanez RG would be perfect if it weren't ugly as sin. A Schecter would be perfect if wasn't sponge painted and called Demonrayper 666.
I love all of my guitars. My Strat was the first electric I owned. Then I got my Les Paul's. Then my Schecter Hellraiser was my go to for a long time...until I got my Jackson Dinky DK2, which is my now favorite! I then got a Steinberger to travel with, and that is what I grab while noodling at home...
I've never had problems with my 30-plus year old Les Paul tuning. In fact, since my first guitar about 60 years ago I've never had a problem with tuning stability. The main "trick" is to make sure the strings aren't sticking in the nut or on the bridge. I push the strings above the nut (and depending on the bridge type, below the bridge) to see if they move (change tune). Usually a quick correction gives a stable tune. In bad cases some mechanical correction to the nut or bridge slots may be needed.
Guitars with tremolos can be more troublesome but the technique is the same.
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Luthiers knot also solves the majority of tuning stability problems.
i dont know if its only the jazzmaster that i've been lended, but the rotary thingies and mic switch drive me nuts. its like a safe combination
Love the hidden message here... none are perfect but they are all good guitars! Play them and love the and don’t let anxiety steal the joy of your passion.
I had issue with the G string on my Les Paul too. I got a tip from Robert Baker on YT: instead of winding the string down, wind it upwards, that changes the break angle of the string. It worked for me on all Gibson-type instruments (with a 17 to 14 degrees angled headstock)...
Yeah do that on all the unwound strings and also lube the nut. A pencil will do, paint the slot and get some graphite in there, as well as widening the slot at the back. So it's not such harsh angle to the side. With the string wound upwards you reduce one angle, wider slot reduces the other angle and lube reduces friction. Often the string catches on the nut. So you think it's tunes but it's just stuck and then you do one bend and it comes loose. Reducing the angles and lubricant reduces the chance if it catching.
I always thought the weight of the Les Paul was also a negative!
Two special mentions. The Brian May type guitar is 'weird' when playing sitting down, although very light when standing, and my first guitar, a red Hofner V3.
The V3 had a loose bridge which meant if you took all the strings off, the bridge would fall off! It had a weird tremelo/vibrato system with a wide whammy bar, along with a rotary pickup selector switch, a volume pot, and three switches for bass on, treble on and solo/rhythm. I bought it used, and never got on with it, I actually gave it away eventually. Wish I had it now, it was in good condition and I see them going for up to £1,000 these days lol
I had one of those Hofners. Mine had the body binding down the middle of the side of the body and some kind of vinyl or whatever shrunk on finish in lieu of lacquer or paint. I traded it for some Kluson tuners and '69 Gibson mini-humbuckers.
I love all my 6 guitars from Gibson SG and Fender Tele, PRS, Hagstrom down to a Harley Benton Jazzmaster style and a kit guitar, they are all good and play differently. Whichever guitar I play makes me play differently, a real source of creativity.
I still have my first electric, but after 20 years I finally admitted it can be so much more and swapped out the pickups to satisfying results.
I had a Les Paul Supreme. Rare color apparently. It was ok. I sold it for a haul and bought a sick drum set. I have plenty of other guitars that I liked way more. My 86 Ibanez Roadstar II is customized over the last nearly 40 years and plays like a dream in different styles. My Gretsch White Falcon is my favorite. ESP 6 and 7 strings are my go to metal guitars. And I have an off brand Flying V copy that I tore down and rebuilt. That thing is fun and plays like a charm.
I dig your style. Great channel. Most of your licks/solos for these videos are acutally awesome. Kinda makes me wish you would spend more time on your music and less time on youtube. But you do you, it's fun anyway. All the best :)
I agree on your opinion on the jazzmaster bridge, but I love the jazzmaster for its versatility and body shape. For me it is the perfect guitar, but I can see the problems with it such as the bridge and the noisy pickups.
Know exactly what you mean! I have a 1976 Fender Stratocaster with a natural ash body and maple neck. I have been in a love/hate relationship with it since I bought it, new. The best thing about the volume knob placement is for swelling notes. In the days before class A/B amps and modeling products, you cranked your amp and used your volume knob for control. Listen Ritchie Blackmore, Ty Tabor or Gary Moore.
My favorite guitar to play is my Hamer Pro. It has the sweetest Seymour Duncan PAF's in it.
I love your videos man, is more important the hands and know how to play than the chosen guitar of course. greetings.
I liked all of them. I think it depends lot on the player too. That acoustic improvisation seems inspired by Hotel California song. I enjoyed it ❤
“Inspired by”, it WAS.
I’d love to see you do a deep-dive on single pickup guitars like the jr.
The sustain and growl are just amazing. Also super versatile if you use the knobs.
Why don't you just use a single pickup on a guitar with multiple pickups?
@@plusmin09 EVH, Phil x, and Jared James nichols would disagree.
There’s more sustain and “growl”. There’s a reason Eddie took the neck pick up out.
They’re incredibly versatile too if you know how to use your knobs
@@tippysdad6937 How does that make a difference electronically?
@@plusmin09no interference and magnetic pull from the other pickup
@@mohamedtlass3842 ok interesting. Thanks for responding
Love the strat, by the larger head stock I'd say it was a seventy's model. The first Strat I owned was and still is the last time I looked a white 79 with trem set up, a lot of 70s strats were hard tail and black. Three screws and Allen key attaching the neck, Truss rod around the head stock end and it is about twice as heavy as my 56 custom shop reissue. It's white with a white mother of pearl scratch plate and black knobs and selector switch. I got it on my 21st birthday I'm 63 now and still playing.
I think it’s the 73 vintage II reissue (lake placid blue). It’s killer.
@@cmadelaide56 Yes they are great guitars it's a shame some 70s Strat's get such a bad rap.
Hey there boss! Love your videos, legit watching you has made me want to go out and get myself a guitar of my own.. Was wondering if you could respond to me and just let me know what kind of amp and Foot pedal if at all you're using to play at 1:45.. Love the tones, absolutely shredding!
I love my ‘78 Guild S300D. Looks so different to everything else and ahead of its time when built. Anybody else had the pleasure of playing these beauties?
Have not played that one but I have a 1980 S65D with a dimarzio dual humbuck and coil splitter switch with a 24 fret set neck it was my first electric and I still love playing it. My ex-wife kicked a hole in the pickguard right at the volume knob , one of these days I will have a new one made for it.✌👍
I will say this, as someone who has played a long time, your are killing it. Very Trevor Rabin like! Great job
I bought Vintera Telecaster from a shop recently with cosmetic damage and traded a Chinese Gretsch Jet I didn't like for it. I got it basically half price, but have so far 1) changed the flappy, warped OE pickguard for a decent one; 2) shield-painted the cavity to stop it humming; 3) changed the awful string breaking "vintage" tuners for Gotoh locking ones; 4) bought a compression pedal to make it sound more like a Tele, as it sounds a bit crap without compression. I am considering swapping the bridge, at which point I may as well do the pickups. In retrospect, I should have either bought a Chapman or Schecter T shaped guitar, or a pile of parts and built my own......!😆
My LP E1 Studio, out of the box, was complete shiz (sound wise). I got it 6 weeks ago. It's my first guitar. The string heights were totally screwed up (way too high). The relief was totally bowed and the truss needed to be relaxed. I lowered the strings at the bridge after I adjusted the truss rod. The intonation needed tuning all the way across for the 12th fret. That said, a complete set up brought it back from the dead. It forced me to research and learn how to set up an electric guitar. I had bought some Ernie Ball Slinkys to replace the factory strings but after all the adjustments, they sounded good and weren't too bad on my fingers. I'll save them for a little later after my fingertips get some calluses. The body work, pick ups, well oiled fretboard, polished frets and smooth fret ends add up to a quality guitar at an affordable price. I was a bit concerned about the two ceramic pick ups after reading reviews before I bought it but once I played it, the treble is right where it should be. All the controls work as they should and it sounds great.
I really like this video, because I have had these exact issues in the past... (Except the harp) But at the same time those are still great sounding guitars!!
I'm home, sick today, glad you uploaded to make my time a bit better. Also, anyone else notice his style of playing is much more intense in this video? Feels honed in and tighter than usual. Someones been practicing.
Hope you feel better
@Redorbluepill Thank you my man, that means a lot especially with the state of internet comment sections these days. Hope you have a good rest of the week (:
I bought a tele in 2006 and it took me over 10 years to figure out how to love her. In my case, refusing to experiment with ... two knobs was the problem. This guitar is so versatile once you have tamed it's simplistic but über efficient electronics.
My set-up guy told me that on the maple neck strats ,they install the frets first then spray the clear coat over the fret board so if you need a new fret job the neck has to be sanded down because taking out the old frets cracks the clear coat around the frets and said it would cost $800..Rosewood fretboards don't have that problem..
Hmmm. I could be really overlooking something, but couldn't a drywall razor knife (or something like that...exacto knife) be used to LIGHTLY score each side of the frets, clear coat, to avoid cracking?
Experiment with a few frets all the way up the neck to get the feel of it. Scoring and pulling the frets out. To closely monitor the scoring and effect of pulling out the frets.
Dude, your acoustic cover of Hotel Cali on that guitar was Awesome!!! Makes me wanna buy one... 😁
@@RealMusiciswin831 just said "Relax... We're open to receive..."
Bro, don't even mention that song here. Are you trying to get this video blocked? Lol😅
Another great, sarcastic video!!🤣 Tyler you slay me. I recognize that they're all your axes. I do love my guitars.... Because they're mine!! I've been extremely blessed to have picked out guitars that have awesome for a hack like me, who has sausage fingers 😂. We just make it work. Thanks for all the time, passion, and awesomeness that you pass on to us. You're an amazing guitarist and a great human! 🤘💯🎸
I fell into the Stratocaster trap. After buying the Fender, I just felt I had to have one of Leo's other brands, the G&L Legacy. And it turns out, I hate it just as much as my Fender. I especially hated that the two-tone controls were more like an EQ, unlike the Fender. One tone knob is for treble and the other one is for bass. The push in tremolo arm was a pain too. It didn't end there. I felt there was more to hate if I got a super Strat style, so I bought a Yamaha Pacifica. I'm like, come on, Seymour Duncan pickups, a push pull tone knob to split the humbucker, Grover locking tuners, 13.75 radius all just added to my struggles. Is my Paul Reed Smith McCarty considered a Strat style? That would really tick me off.
OMG when you finish playing the Les Paul and then have to tune the G string is hilarious! I love your videos.
I have a soft spot for the Fender Stratocaster, considering my first electric guitar was a Squier Strat.
I had a USA made Jazzmaster (c.£1100) which had a strat type bridge and just a normal pickup selector and it was really nice. I quite liked the off-shape and all that. The Jazzmaster was great, really liked it, but I got an unbelievable deal on a G&L Custom Shop Doheny (c.£1500) and it was just that bit better in every department and unbelievable clean tones too, so it was bye bye mr Jazzmaster in Lake Placid Blue . . . . someone got themselves a nice instrument there.
I've also got a Gibson Les Paul Custom and I can honestly say I've never, not once, not ever had an issue with the G string staying in tune, and I'm not the most gentle of players. I have a Les Paul Special and a SG Standard and no issues with those either.
I personally love the volume knob placement on a strat as I play a lot of Knophler/Beck stuff (fingerstyle) and it gives me a lot of control. The biggest issue is the standard bridge pickup, in a modern world, strats almost *need* a humbucker. I also wish they came standard with the option for out of phase wiring like on Brian May’s red special… he’s got some of the best tone I’ve ever heard, and I’m surprised Fender didn’t copycat and then simplify elements of that circuit in order to capitalize on the fact that his pickup layout is effectively a strat with trick wiring 🤷🏻♂️🤔
They did this in 1983 with the Strat Elite....Ty Tabor of Kings X used it to great effect and his tone was legendary.
Man what awesome playing. What was that rendition of Hotel California..!! Amazing stuff
"Fighting an instrument to get what you want out of it is part of the joy of playing guitar."
I want this embroidered on a pillow.
The real problem of the strat is the selector switch is in a pretty weird spot and is prone of accidentally switching.
Also the middle pickup I usually have to adjust because it gets in the way of picking sometimes, and the pole pieces on the bridge pickup on mine isn’t aligned that well.
Still love the strat with all my heart tho
Yep the toggle switch is in a dumb spot. Always gets knocked. And the input jack sucks too. As for only one volume on 3 pickups SMH
cool thing about a strat is that you can shim the neck to get them to play right, if you got a gibson made on a monday or friday and the guy was hungover and didn't glue the neck on straight it will never play right, the 14 degree break angle is a 80 year old design flaw epiphone has since fixed by reducing it to 8 degrees. for my money floyd rose perfected the tremelo in 1984 every other bridge feels like a step backwards once you've played a top mounted floyd with a brass block, i couldn't play a jazzmaster, rickenbacker, style trem at least gibsons fixed bridges are usually solid.
The jazzmaster is just fine. The bridge was designed with more break angle in mind just like jazz guitars of the time (the players they were targeting) but at some point they stopped setting them up that way from the factory and never changed the bridge. Pitch it back and it’s rock solid stable and acoustically louder. Shit they’re so good pitched back even if I had one with a mastery or mustang bridge I’d do it
About a year ago I would’ve said the telecaster, purely because I didn’t like the way it looked. It since having had a chance to play one in a store, and hearing so many songs that are played with the telecaster I’ve definitely changed my mind, and would love to have one
I love the way it looks tho
@@graesf7448 Samesies. Even my metal guitar is a tele
@@graesf7448 I’ve come around to it, it’s another iconic guitar look
15 yeas ago you couldn't give a tele away.
There’s no other guitar that compares to a Tele. Period.
Its not about which guitar you have,its about how well you can play, and adapt..In my opinion ,although im not a good guitarist,yet all are absolutely beautiful finished guitars.
I love the video! My son is making his first foray into guitars, and videos like this go a long way to showing the pros, cons, and capabilities of the many choices that are available. I do have a question, though. The video was supposed to be about 5 guitars, yet there were only four guitars in the video. Were you counting the Timberline as two separate guitars? Just curious.
The title of this video was to satisfy the UA-cam algorithm which prefers catchy numbers ("top 10"). It's a pros/cons video like you said, but it has to be clickbaity to get the interactions (edit: this isn't bad, just how it works). I don't even know how I ended up on this video.. I was just watching old reviews of my bass while I cleaned it.
Strat and its unfriendly volume knob that always get in the way of playing! Heck you're stuck strumming in between the Neck & Middle pick-up! Hardly can you play near the bridge area!
Can someone advise on HOW TO RELOCATE the volume knob. Thanks
Stratocasters have some magical energy and mojo that is insane! Love my YJM model.
As long as it makes sound and stays in tune it can be great
I think having different guitars Strat, tele, LP, 335, even a hollow body Gretsch etc, is that it forces you to play differently. Each one has different sonic characteristics and dynamics, so the approach to playing will be vary too. That's a good thing. Imagine getting your driver's licence and only ever drive 1 car. Nah it ain't happening.
I enjoy your humor as much as I enjoy your playing. Good stuff.
Careful, man. Charles Berthoud just got a copyright hit for playing Eagles.
I love the sounds you got out of that Strat. An actual '70's Strat, or is it a reissue?
There's an episode of him buying that blue strat. It's his most expensive guitar.
@@adamwalcott_official Thanks. I found the video and watched it. Very nice '72 Strat!
Nice work man! The playing, the visuals, the audio, the guitar, the edits and the content. +1
I had this guitar called a squire p bass...the problem I faced was that it had only 4 strings and shredding on it was a little difficult because of the really thick strings...
I had a similar problem with a four stringed guitar that I inherited. It's supposedly a Le Maurien model made by some guitar company named Stradivarius. Man, this is the smallest guitar you've ever seen. I think they were trying to copy a Gibson ES-335 with those funny shaped looking "f's" on the front. I had to take it apart just to put a humbucker and a tremolo on it but it still sucks at metal. Next I'm going to replace these ridiculous wooden tuning pegs.
@@MrLBDude Ahhh... That's odd bro. My friend had one like that too...came with a really long pick that had horse hair on it...wierd...
@@craigdanj yeah!! Mine too! That’s wild. I am starting to wonder if there’s another way to play this hairy picks.
Funny thing is in 2020 I bought a no name Les Paul,and during lockdown I was practicing with Fender play and found the LP to be rather heavy and uncomfortable. A year later I was house sitting for a friend and used his Squier Strat and found myself missing my Les Paul. I bought a Epiphone Les Paul Standard last year and been practicing regularly
Hows the epiphone LP holding on? Been thinking about getting one
I had no idea the g string on the Les Paul going out of tune was a known issue. I thought it was something that just my guitar did. Thanks for making feel like I'm not alone!
Really?
The G string out of tune is not only a les paul issue . Most guitars with three tuners on each side have this issue. You have to be sure not to over wrap the tuning pegs . Also locking tuners help alot
My Les Paul Studio has a problemwith the G string going out of tune. My Telecasters do not have any tuning problems.
I believe it's not just about the guitar; it depends on the guitarist's talent. Dan Hamilton was an excellent guitarist, and I think he always used his 60s Fender Jazzmaster.
Thanks for the heads up. I nearly bought a stratocaster. Now I just have to sell the les paul.
Awaiting your recommendations.
Keep the Les Paul just get somebody to put in a new nut, making sure they angle the slots aimed towards the corresponding tuning peg.
Holy crap the jam at 1:01 is absolutely incredible! Am I the only one that wants a full version on the album he's releasing?
Heck yeah.
Is it based on real song? The Harp Guitar jam sounded a lot like Hotel California and the Strat jam sounded a lot like Life is A Highway.
I was thinking the same thing! Thought it sounded cool af. Wish he made a full version of the song
The strat solo was pretty sick man! One of the best strat solos I’ve seen you playing. Nailed it 👏👏✌️
I have a Ibanez Jem Jr.(Steve Vai edition), an Epiphone SG, Squier Strat, and an acoustic Taylor GS mini. I can't afford a Fender, and I've heard their quality control isn't so good lately.
I play the Squier daily.
Got 3 Casio MG510's, love them all. Strat style with tapped bridge humbucker, only 1 tone knob, onboard MIDI processor so I can be any of 128 instruments, plays great, sounds great.
Les Pauls suck! Too heavy, controls too far away, hit pickup switch when strumming, can't bend strings on Custom, need straplocks to keep strap from coming off, and... due to weight and angled tuning head, if guitar falls on back, tuning head breaks off.
Les Pauls are the best guitars ever made! Almost all of my favorite Rock songs had been recorded with a Les Paul. I love Strats and Teles for certain stuff, but to rock you either need a Les Paul or maybe a SG if you want to go a wee bit slimmer...
I was never much a fan of Telecasters until I realised that so many of my favourite songs and artists used Telecasters. Now I have a classic looking Blackguard Tele and I love it. I'm with Rory Gallagher on Stratocasters however - they belong in a ditch!