Nobody would be seen ON STAGE with a CORT Guitar!
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- Опубліковано 25 кві 2024
- Apparently, somone didn't get the memo about Cort. Failure to undestand "white label manufacturin" seems to be beyond the understanding of some guitar players. And yet they still KNOW EVERYTHING!
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As a bass player, please keep bullying us. It’s still entertaining, and for those of us sober enough to care, it’ll only make us stronger
No problem. Shortest bass player joke? Two bassists walk past a bar. 🍻😄
In our band we survive on “blame the bassist” and as the bassist I’ve come to appreciate it. Good sense of humor and being there for others helps a lot in a band who cares about each other and the music they’re making 🤘🏼
Thick strings
Thick skin
@@gilbertspader7974 amen to that
I got an infinite supply of whiskey and a prs se (cort) i recently bought let's jam
Q: How many guitarists does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: Ten - one to do it, the other nine to stand around with folded arms and say, "I couldve done that better"
😁
I'll show myself out now........
Q. What do bass players use as contraception?
A. Their personalities!
@@tomasotreasaigh111 bass players dont even know what that word means
@@COhlencan confirm i play bass and don't know what that word means
The line is "with his equipment I could have done that too".
and 10 more to say that they didn't use proper vintage lightbulbs to get the good vintage photons in the room
Honestly, guitar players are starting to seem like the new bass players these days.
I mean, the strings are getting thicker and tuned lower. I think you're on to something... 🤔
@@espenstoro and they only play 4 of them
@@sgholt 4 is generous
Disagree, guitarists still have a reason to exist in music.
@@DarrenWaters75 maybe complaining about how Gibson is the best brand in the whole wide world and how Glenn bashes the hell out of its (and their) existence?
Any time you see an *Indonesian* PRS SE, it was made by Cort. The older, Korean ones were made in a factory that does Schecter/Wylde Audio, low end BC Rich etc.
As a Bass player I 100% agree and enjoy your jokes.
I go on stage with my Cort Curbow 5 FFS. It's also pictured to the left. I seen it in a magazine when I was 15 and dreamed about it until I was 26 (ish) when I actually bought it. It is still my favorite bass. It plays far easier than an $1800 fender precision and won't weigh me down like a Gibson Thunderbird.
Hey Glenn I'm a bass player myself but I still find the bass player jokes hilarious! I use them as advice to be better.
@bloomtikbloom9593this is a salty bass player
Matt "Guitar" Murphy's signature model was made by Cort.
Honestly, I think Cort is a great name and a really solid guitar builder. Obscura, frontwoman for the black metal band Asagraum, plays Cort. She's a great guitarist.
I only wish they would change their logo. It looks like a brand of 1970s home perm.
I have a Cort M-200. PRS clone. It plays *so* far above its pay grade.
Having said that, I do agree, an update to the logo might be in order 😁👍
I wonder if they were bad in the past and got better over time, maybe a reverse Gibson
@@JoeStuffzAlt I like that. 😆. A lot the same happened to Harley Benton. It just depends on how much the company can afford to spend on QC, I think. These companies can build really good instruments if they really want to.
Bassist here, I enjoy the bashing, especially when 90% of metal bassists I've met are failed rhythm guitarists. Keep our skin thick Glenn.
Almost all of the bassists I've ever met were: a) failed guitarists, b) failed drummers, c) guitarists who were really good but, as the band they were about to join had a guitarist that whined like a babygirl, then they were forced to grab the bass...
I myself was a frustrated drummer, but as soon as I realized that: a) there's only 1 bassist for every 5145873480.75 guitar players (and yes, the decimals are accurate), b) you can be as creative with a bass as with a guitar (or even more, if you play your cards well), and c) bass can be easily adapted into practically every single genre in the world (something that guitar can't do very well), then I learned to love the bass, and I even got my degree in music with a mention in jazz bass.
@@erikboncoref.7020 I started on bass cuz my guitarist buddy had two guitars, he gave me the one with a broken B and high E and was like "dude learn bass", so I did. Within a year I had several basses, taught myself to read sheet (poorly), and joined my high school orchestra on upright.
The amount of at home solo hobbyist players who rail at Glenn’s points (coming from the recording engineer perspective) boggles the mind. Talk about yelling into a brick wall 😂
I hope everyone changing there speakers are paying attention to the ohms. And when wiring them up.
"Their", dear bassist ;)
@CyberChrist, He was paying way too much attention to the "ohms." 😂
@@castleanthrax1833 Well, "there" won't fry his speakers, so, he's got his priorities sorted ^^
@@CyberChristI don't have much experience changing speakers, but I'm pretty sure paying attention to the "ohms" is to protect the amp.
@@castleanthrax1833 True, but can't it fry the speaker too, or is it only when there's too much power? And why quotes on ohms? lol
Rob Halford is a legend, totally agreed!
I pulled a forgiveness not permission routine by exchanging the guitar/bass/acoustic combo speaker out of a Peavy Vypyr X2 modeling amp, with a G12M-65 Creamback to see if a self proclaimed expert with magic ears can pick up on it. If he never notices I might forget to swap things back.
I have an x2 and the stock speaker is TERRIBLE! Completely lifeless and muddy. I bought a Mojotone bv30h and it sounds so much better.
Great channel. Honest. Every great artist is honest. This guy and team are honest.
The FART sound when Glenn mentions vocalists. HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
I read your comment right when Vince showed up!! Hahahaha.
I must admit when I first started watching the channel I didn't know what to think. But after viewing I began to understand to realize that most of the topics and information here are very useful and so I Subscribed. I want to thank you G, I purchased REAPER and took your advice and I am very happy in my little world with a very serious hobby. Your advice, your experiences and your ideas have been helpful and also a confidence builder, after all if you can do this, I sure can, LOL!
I’m a bass player…and even I’m not nice to bass players. 😂
7:16 My grandma used to work the radio assembly line for General Motors. They made the exact same radio for Buick, Chevy, and GMC, but where they went was decided by the bass response. Excellent bass response went to Buick, good was Chevy, and fair to poor went to GMC
Spring thingy is well worth the buck. Haven’t started the courses yet but the drums are really cool and you should hear how fricking awesome the bass sound. Can’t recommend it enough! Greetings from Czechia!
The final nail in the "speaker doesn't matter" argument...
Play your guitar rig though a bass speaker cabinet and see how awesome your thousands of dollars of snake-oil laced pickups and tone-wood sound then.
I had to do this out of necessity for a short time a few years ago moving from one band to another and from bass (back) to guitar. All I had was my Hartke 4x10 bass cab to run my Marshall guitar head through and it sounded like absolute S**T!! After a few rehearsals I managed to find a cheap cab with some Celestion redbacks and holy hell did things change. Obviously an extreme example but SPEAKERS F**KING MATTER!!
Could go both ways tho, my 65 reverb dlx sounds pretty cool through my 4x10 Kustom Bass box. Not shure if I'd record with that setup but for kicks at home 👌
"Speaker doesn't matter" isn't even an argument. It's just plain wrong.
Anyone with half a mind could tell you swapping out the thing that *actually makes the sound* will drastically affect how it's heard.
Well, the Fender Bassman was originally meant for electric basses (as you may have guessed😉) but became the go-to guitar amp for decades and an inspiration for many guitar amp manufacturers.
Fantastic observation! Mind if I do an episode on it?
@@SpectreSoundStudios Absolutely Glenn, go nuts my friend!!
I play Bass, guitar and keyboard but can only sing and play Bass together. This has DOOMED me being stuck forever as the Bass player. The only evidence I've ever found of God, not an kind God.😢
This is not beeing doomed - this is beeing blessed to play the best instrument of all! 🎸🤘😈
@@VatroCramer Only if you’re Les Claypool
@@rowanmartin4397 he's quite sloppy live, so you'd better go with Wooten or someone like Jacob of Intervals band.
Damn, I wish I could sing really well. Being a singing bassist has been one of my biggest dreams for years now. I do sing a bit - some harmonies, some line trading with our lead singer in one song - but I wish I was good enough to sing more lead. Unfortunately, asthma and a crooked nose cartillage fuck with my breathing and that makes it so much harder.
@@rowanmartin4397 no offense but I prefer to be me myself and I 🤘👿🤘
My first instrument was a Cort, 36 years ago. It's still a great sounding instrument that plays just as well as its Fender counterpart.
I'm a proud bass player and all of this bass player bashing is...more or less justified. Great stuff Glen 10/10 fricheks
Love your channel, your work and content!!! Please DO keep opening our eyes and ears, as a musician and engineer I (we?) have been reproducing clichés of the industry for years, because that's what they "taught" us to be the right thing, and thus we ended doing things more with our eyes than our ears! How stupid that can be? But that was the standard... And unfortunately up to some point it still is. We need more eye openers that are sincere, unpretentious, and practical. So Thank You very much, and keep doing this wonderful work!! (And BTW, yes, "Confess" has been one of the most wonderful readings in some time, and also a very human, revealing, and sensible message for any one that, as me, has followed Rob's career for decades, and can find even a tiny bit of reflection in his story. All the respect, admiration and love to the man!!!!)
By the way, Greetings from Venezuela!!!! - Juan Carlos
First of all, good lecture about learning from experiments and errors others have done, since because you (me, the viewer) will never have time to do them those mistakes. I'm very grateful of the stuff I've learned from this channel.
The best part about being a bass player is you can play whatever you want in a live show because nobody can hear you 😂
Not true, depends on how it's mixed, if Steve Harris played whatever he wanted in Iron maiden do you think nobody would notice? And if it's mixed low it will sound like shit it the bass player is off key, for those who dont know better will think its the guitars being off
@@Henoxen Brooo~ You can even hear Maiden's influence in retro video games. The original Mega Man X games' soundtracks wouldn't hit _nearly_ as hard if the bass wasn't prominently featured in the mix.
Thats why metal is no bass music..
@@trajectoryunown Mega Man 2 on NES, it's full on gallop metal songs on the soundtrack
Then your mix and live sound sucks 🤷♂️
Im a vocalist, im telling you straight up. Drums and bass are most important. (Im also a guitarist of 20 years too)
Good addition putting in the part about failing forward. Over time I learned when writing a song what some of the early signs are that it’s basically just not working and it’s time to work on a different song or maybe take a couple cool riffs from it and abandon the rest. But definitely took a while to get to that point and not just try to force a bad song to work.
Hey Glenn, I started an speaker experiment this year. I built a 412 cab with 2 celestion g65 and 2 jensen j12m. They are wired independently with 2 outputs. 2 small 5 watt amps power the speakers and i can fade between them with my audiointerface and reaper. You can get some crazy tones out of it and you are more versatile, than a pure 412. I bought a palmer cab merger, so I can combine all speakers with my bigger h&k tubeamp.
Cort guitars have been one of if not the best budget option available!! The current line up looks pretty great too!!
Glenn, A big part of the reason I began watching this channel was your bluntness and willingness to say what you meant. Sometimes tough love is required. Especially with bone head bass players who care barely count to three.
Hey Glen, I've been a fan of your content and advice for years, and it has truly helped me. I have a question that I'd love your input on. With the advancements in amp simulations, quad cores, and products like Axe-Fx, what should be the priority now: investing in high-quality guitar heads, high-quality guitar cabs, or just guitars?
Thinking out loud on the 4x12 speaker mixing: maybe putting the speakers that cut thru the stage noise better (like more mids and highs) in the top of the cabinet so the player on stage can hear what he is doing better. This might help especially if you aren't using monitors.
That music clip during the Spring Thing sounded delicious; those drums, that guitar, that bass - I wanted it to keep going!
Glad you enjoyed it! Go get yours today!
Been playing guitar almost 18 years now, and as a beginner I thought too that speakers don´t matter. A couple of years ago I bought my Kemper and OH BOY was I wrong when I started using IRs. We guitarplayers are sometimes blinded by all those shiny knobs on boutique amps, thinking that that's gonna make us sound better. My first real big amp was a Randall Diavlo with a Randall 4x12. You think I cared what speakers were in that cab? Fuck no. It was Randall. And it sounded like shit because I DIDN'T CARE!!! Thank God for this channel, otherwise I'd still be struggling. Fuck you Glenn. We love you.
The Cort G290 Fat II is an Ibanez AZ premium at less than half the price and made in the same factory as many Ibanez models. Fantastic guitar.
I played in an AC/DC tribute act in Cape Town and two of us had Corts. The audience didn't care at all what kit we used, just that we gave them a good performance and they had a great time.
I talked to a guy that has a EVH 5150-3, and he's thinking about selling it because it sounds "hollow" ??? I asked him if he tried plugging the head into a different cab, or changing out the speakers in the EVH cab for a more modern over vintage tone (vintage tone due to the fact that the EVH speakers are a recreation of Eddie's original Greenbacks)... or how about trying 2 different kinds of speakers in the cab in a X pattern??... 'Blank stare followed by uncomfortable silence.' Is it a recording issue? What mics are you using and where are you placing them? ... 'Blank stare followed by uncomfortable silence.' I LEARNED ALL OF THIS FROM WATCHING GLENN! THANKS FOR THIS TEACHABLE MOMENT, GLENN!! KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK!
what does that mean? like honky ?
Hi Glenn, thanks for the amazing videos.
I use a Fractal AX8 and think it would be good to have a powered cab / FRFR. Have you already tested any? Good speakers? I read good things about the Headrush, Kemper and Laney, designed with the help of the amazing Devin Townsend. But I would love to have your take on them.
Thank you.
3 body problem; Read the books watched the first episode pretty good so far.
Love the videos, finally subscribed yesterday 😀
Oh I do consider myself a bass player first and a guitar player second.
I have to ask one question. I really want a Jazzmaster but I’m definitely on a budget I know the Harley Bentons rate highly, but which budget JM is the best out there (preferably one with a term)
Had two Boogie Studio 22's, one a 22+ and needed to sell one. I liked one better than the other and...... guess what..... they had different speakers in them. So I kept the speaker I liked and put it in the one I kept. The one I didn't like was the Vintage 30. There you go. Thanks Glenn.
Just curious about if the Prism plug-in been abandoned? I've been waiting for content updates for months. Even if they never come, I'm still loving it. Thank you Glenn.
Thanks for all you do Glenn. My brother is a bass player, I know I know, but, an older one who cant live heavy gear anymore. I built him a speaker cab using an old Garnet pa column I had. Basicly cut it in half, and put a 3 inch port in it for him. Because the cone size is smaller, it gives him wicked mids and highs, yes, the smaller the cone, the more highs a speaker will produce, the larger the cone size, the more low end the speaker will produce. The cab only weighs 26 pounds and sound awesome. Also, the less power rating the speaker has, usually results in better quality sound, allegedly. Someone a very long time ago told me, have more power in an amp to drive into a less powerful speaker will result in better quality sound. Something you can experiment with Glenn to prove if this is true or not. Also, you should experiment with cone sizes to see if brighter or more low end is produced when using different cone sizes. Cheers and F you Glenn, I love your show.
Ive been mixing and matching speaker cabs since i was a teen in the 90's, i was very fortunate to have a dad that had multiple cabs in our basement and always assumed everyone new how speakers changed your sound! Boy was i wrong 😆 🤣
I thought the same thing but I guess all that advertising got so plenty of folk
Osaka was my favorite city in Japan. It’s not where I did the most tourism, but it’s so easy to find something to do
I'll be nicer to bassists when they can remember to put napkins and ketchup in my to-go bag
I'd happily put the napkins and the ketchup in your to go bag. Whether the lid is off the ketchup and the contents of the bottle are being squeezed into said bag, is proportionate to how much you piz me off lol
As a bass player, I don’t need to flex.
Great work Glenn as usual I play live through a ampero . I monitor on in ears and have a very high end PA system, turbosound martin audio, the true sound comes from my PA system which is what the audience hears not what goes into my in ears which is adequate.
Speakers are everything
Glennnn!!
2x Greenback or Creamback+Greenback in a 212?
Also what’s a good way to store speakers that are not used in a cab at that moment?
Have an Ibanez s470 with a quilt green top. Beautiful! Excellent fit and finish. Sounds and plays good enough to be a keeper. Built by Cort.
Glenn, Really appreciate your videos. While more in the classic rock genre, your videos translate well in to there as well. I have a question about FRFR speakers/sims. Have you made any videos about FRFR speakers, and how they affect tone. I know frfr's are supposed to be agnostic to tone, but are they really?
Optimism .Thats a Good analogy
Osaka is a cool city. I hope you get to stay there longer than just this weekend.
Not sure what you're into beyond music, but lots of cool places to visit. Osaka Castle Park is awesome, and the keep at the top was converted in to a museum. There might be a cool show at Osaka Jo Hall next door to the castle. There are a bunch of smaller concert halls and clubs in the city to catch a show, too.
Cool shopping areas like Dotonbori, Shinsaibashi-suji, and Minami might be fun to visit. Osaka is a real short train ride to both Kyoto and Nara for some fun touristy stuff to do. Also, Kobe is right next to Osaka if you want to sample some authentic Kobe beef.
Lots of rock bands come from Osaka. Loudness formed there, as did Dir en Gray. Others are Scandal, Aldious, Crossfaith, and a _bunch_ of others. It has a really vibrant music scene with tons of small clubs in the 150-300 capacity range for shows where you're right on top of the stage.
The punk and underground scene is very active too🤘
I took your advice and purchased me some Harley Benton gear. I picked up an 8 string multi scale guitar. I did not have to file sharp frets or do any truss rod adjustments. The finish was flawless. Impressive for $260.00 . I also picked up the 2x12 slant cab with v 30s. Was very satisfied with it. Thanks for saving me some $$$!
Glen, I find your videos interesting and informative. I was wondering if you had ever tried to record using a guitar built from a kit?
I am in the unfortunate position of being a singer who knows just enough to be dangerous on guitar and bass. I LOVE it when you roast singers, bassists, and guitarists. Keeps my ego in check.
Jokes aside, this channel's really helped me to be more confident experimenting in the studio, and it's made a MARKED improvement in the quality of recordings I've gotten to make for local bands. Cheers, dude. Some of us are listening.
This episode made me subscribe 😂 love it man!
Gleeeeeeeeeeeeen!!! I'm starting to go down the older greenback pre-rola etc. rabbit hole.
What speaker brands Have been tickling your fancy?!?!
Thanks Man.
You kick Ass
I have a WGS Reaper (bright) and Reaper 55hz (dark) in that Harley Benton vertical 2x12 and depending on speaker placement they sound vastly different in the room. Whichever speaker is on top seems to dominate acoustically.
Last week I did practice bass before going to band practice, it felt so strange.
about the 4x12 with 4 different speakers, I see (at least) two issues : first, it may be complicated to find 4 different speaker with a really close sensitivity, which means one would probably be louder or quieter than the others. second, if you find 4 speakers that gets you an overall great sound, that also means that you will have to get the studio and/or FOH engineer put at least 4 microphones on your cab and use 4 tracks for your guitar alone.
On the top of that, you multiply the possibilities and it can become an endless quest for balanced and nice tone. I think there are enough speakers on the market so you can find your dream tone with just one or two
I seconds the 4 different speakers in a 4x12 cab so we can check if the room mic picks up any changes using the mixed speakers or if they all blend together. Still would love to see you check out barefaced cabs too!
Tbh I like it when Glenn calls something that applies to me idiotic. I'm not an expert at this stuff, i just love metal and playing guitar and I like to record it sometimes. I only found this channel because im really bad at recording and was looking for tips to find out whatever i was doing wrong, and its turned out that Ive been doing lots and lots wrong. Just a couple quick examples: I used to crank the guitar up way too loud in my mixes and wonder why they never sounded huge, I also used to try to make my guitar tone approximate the sound of a full mix and would wonder why it sounded thin and shitty in the mix. There are plenty of more things ive learned here i could list but I've made the point. What I dont get is that if Im here to find out what im doing wrong and get better at recording/mixing, and Glenn points out something stupid that I'm doing, im supposed to get mad or offended? Maybe if I was a pro I'd have more of an ego about this, but if i was a pro i probably wouldnt be looking up recording tutorials on youtube right?
Anyway, keep up the good work man \m/
Yep, for recording I now use a $100 IR CAB sim straight into the desk.
Have you had a go at keyboard players? I have a hi-fi with a built in A-B speaker switch and recently set up two sets of different hi-fi speakers for A and B. When changing I can hear a difference, have you tried an A-B box on an amp to quickly switch between cabs to compare them? Would it damage an amp?
I used to be a guitarist but my ego wasn't big enough so I stopped and became a Colin Grigson, and I didn't even need the Lobotomy.
Always enjoyed your content Glen. Certainly opened my eyes to about pickups and speakers for sure. I considered putting different pickups in my Epiphone SG and then I decided to lower the pickups because they were sounding hot….too close to the strings. Wow my result was amazing!!!.
Also even though I play through amp sims I’m amazed how it changed it up after some small Eq adjustments and cab sims. Keep it up Glenn I really enjoy your show. Cheers from Tasmania,Australia. 🍻🥳
Back in the day, the first thing my buddies and I did was change the speakers in our cars. Speakers make tons of difference
I love dumb ass of the week! I love this segment! Keep it up! 🤘
Those Cort guitars do look sick though
I'm so glad I was able to live in and visit other countries when I was growing up. It really influenced my worldview and made me realize that the US is NOT the only country in the world.
Decent bass players wouldn't be offended by the jokes lol
As a guy who only ever plays garage punk / ramonescore punk... I find that your videos have always been amazing and super informative. We're not a genre known for obsessing on tones... but you have still been a Northern Star guiding our way towards providing a better experience for the person buying our records. So on behalf of the UK punks here... we thank you... and of course... fuck you Glenn. And I'm sure the people buying our records will also thank you for your recording advice.
Ramonecore rules, what’s your band’s name?
But, I mean, you gotta love for how many people, the most important part of the guitar is the decal on the headstock.
I was just a couple of days late on being on stage last wednesday with a Cort KX700 guitar, due to a smart guy from the local music shop who forgot to ship the instrument in time 😊. I received it today and this guitar is fucking stellar. Got it on sale for the amazing price of less than 800 € 😮. As owner of two Solar guitars with Evertune, i had my doubts about Cort, but they were unfounded. So much guitar for the money. I will definitely go on stage with this guitar and take pictures 😂.
That would be quite funny, if you got the guitarist to plug into the "magic box", but it gets sent to the Line6 Spider meme amp that's wired to a 4x12 cab with the best speakers.
I bought a Cort Earth series acoustic parlor guitar, a superb instrument with abalone ’tree of life’ inlays in the fingerboard, and the most beautiful tone I’ve ever heard. It cost me around $800 Australian. I subsequently discovered that it is identical to a Washburn Centennary reissue which cost around $2500. Made in the same factory. To exactly the same specs. Only the name on the headstock was different. One third of the price ! You can keep your ‘American’ version. Cort make lots of famous brand guitars. No one makes guitars better IMO.
Could you please make a video about how to use multiple guitar pedals as insert outboard gears...I.m thinking about buying a few UAD 2a and 1176 pedals using with my old analog mackie mixer.
I always loved Cort guitars and they’re usually my go to. They’re well built, play great, sound great and are priced rather well!
When I was doing a recording project they wanted me to quad track the guitars to use 4 dif mics. I told them no just put 4 different microphones on the four speakers I'll play it once stagger one foward and one backward by micro seconds done. They say they've used that process for other projects since.
Wow. I've gotta say thanks Glenn. I play all 3 instruments at a basic level, so I don't watch for the production stuff. I watch for entertainment and to feel not-so-stupid in this world. These viewer comments reassure Me that I am on the more recent end of the evolutionary scale.
Thanks, bro.🤘🏻
Love the sign, great video full of great advice.
When putting 2 different speakers into a 2 by 12, how much does the difference in efficiency make? I'm sure there must be some difference. Great show as always,m Glenn!
Mesa on their website offers a V30 custom-made for MESA in the UK, which they also use in their cabinets. I wonder if there are any sonic differences between this V30 and the Chinnees one that you reviewed back in the day, the one you also made that great free IR. I hope you will investigate this someday. Keep up the good work Glenn.
Bro i played the Cort Mathew Bellamy signature and almost bought it on the spot a few years ago. I like Cort guitars. If the scale length was longer i would absolutely buy that 7 string you showcased on here
Glen I think you are being misunderstood a little bit after reading some comments. I think people are missing the fact that you are steering people based on HOURS of experimentation . I think you are all for creativity and thinking outside the box. You have just spent a ton of time trying shit that gave you the results you were looking for. Some assholes don't understand that you aren't closed minded, you are NOT a gear snob at ALL rather you are exactly the opposite and you encourage creativity. You have just consolidated some ideas that are very helpful and of great importance when folks are looking to get the results THEY are looking for IN the most economical way possible. Great job and keep it up!! Cheers!
Hi Glenn, what do you think of guitar center CEO wanting to put more premium guitars rather than affordable ones? I don't have anything against GC, but it's rare if a guitar is set up, especially used gear. Thanks!
I'm strictly a bedroom guitarist nowadays, but I'd still rather tinker with speakers now after watching your vids for a while. I even tried moving my phone around while recording some riffs to see how it changes the tone, and what a difference even that made! Btw, any chance you could do a vid comparing tones of various speakers paired with the Celestion G12T-75? Particularly the Celestion Type-A, as that's one I'm seriously considering for my own 2x12 with the G12's.
Kohle Audio Kult has an oversized Mesa cab with four different speakers on it. Obviously for recording only as each speaker is mic’d up independently from the others. Would be interesting to hear how it’d sound with a room mic and speaker blend.
11:39 Truer words have never been spoken
Yeah. I got a Texas Dragon cabinet. I wanted to put 4 different speakers in to use in the studio. All 8 Ohms. So I could put a mic on them for layering GTR tracks. I know that each speaker, even the same brand/type would produce a different tone. That would be a great experiment!
Hey Glen if you have any pull with Harley Benton you should try to get them to do a mid shop like Fender that would be awesome
For the uninitiated - Lancia is an Italian (and they drive on the right side of the road) brand but Chryslers were rebadged for the British market as Lancias. Hence Glen working on right-hand drive Lancias so they can drive on British roads on the left :)
I live in Kyoto wich is just an hour away from Osaka but I really don't want to bother, hope you enjoy Japan !
Similar thing happens in most industries - for instance if you put a fancy expensive high-quality power supply unit in your computer, it's probably a SeaSonic. Sure, it might have a sticker on it that says something else, but SeaSonic is the OEM of most of the other brands 'high-end' models. I went direct to SeaSonic and put their Platinum psu in this computer 12 years ago and it's still powering along beautifully, despite my house power supply being so dirty it's killed the protection circuitry in the Belkin power strip everything is plugged into.
Cort guitars have always been great as long as I can remember. I have been playing since 1983
Just curious if 8ohm vs 16ohm 112 makes a difference. Since most 112 are 16 and 212 are 8. I have a mesa 112 that 8. Does that mean that it’s just as comparable to a 212 thanks
I know a lot folks say it, but THANK you again for these videos busting guitar myths and trying to find deals - I also believed a bunch of crap regarding sound over the years. Spent a bunch of money on pickups, pedals, tube amps... OK I did actually buy a decent speaker to replace a crap one but I didn't really understand the overall impact.
I was at least smart enough to just judge guitars by craftsmanship and not brand... Aside from judging the whole brand Gibson for that time they were selling a pair of 50 cent capacitors for $130 by wrapping them up to look like the old "bumblebee" caps. Absolute corksniffing scam shit.
I think all of my guitars came out of Cort factories and they're all great!
Can you please elaborate what's the sound difference between 8 ohm and 16 ohm within the same speaker model?
My very first electric was an 1985 Cort super strat.
Taking a wild guess I'd assume that when using mixed speakers putting them in a X pattern makes for a more even, balanced blend between them while putting both kinds side by side would lead to even more massive tone shifts depending on your mic positions.
I feel like there's some merit in that but boy does that sound complicated to use effectively, mic position already has a pretty big impact but that would add a whole new layer on top of that.
I had a Cort for 10 years. A guitar with the Cort logo. It was my main gigging guitar. While the look would not be mistaken for a Gibson or PRS, it's sound was often mistaken for a Les Paul in recordings.