Know Your Tone - Blind Test Guitar Challenge!
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- Have some fun, and see if you can identify each one of these popular guitars by sound only!
*Gibson Les Paul, *Ibanez RG, *Fender Strat, *Fender Tele!
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The comparison #4 riff is from the son "Desperate" by Fireflight
My eyes need Lespaul, my hands need Ibanez, My ears need Telecaster, my wallet needs Stratocaster
...got the same: 😂 one for cooking, one for cleaning, one ...✔️
Just a lespaul with an ibanez neck and telecaster pickups but the price i cant fix that
SG is the answer
Gibson is most expensive.
My wallet says CORT
i play for 7 years and my success rate 0%
I never play and i get 100% in the first one
ROVAKAN also since 7 years and I got maybe 10-15 % haha, I think it's because the test is so difficult, I hope so
39 years on my side - I had two out of the 16 right. Which was pretty much by accident! I was shocked on one side, but tests like these are real eye-openers sometimes!
TraumaGore & Co no you didn't
i play for 5 years on my hotas TM "warthog" & 0 on guitars =)) my result is:
1TC_2SC_3RG_4LP 2 correct
1SC_2LP_3RG_4TC 0 correct
1TC_2LP_3RG_4SC 2 correct
1SC_2RG_3TC_4LP 2 correct (accident)
Not distorted LP i recogniz even from da moon!
клевая балалайка =))
The fenders were really easy to tell apart from the others
I own 4 fender guitars and I got EVERY ONE wrong,, lol.
I got the strat for both the distorted ones. Looks like i chose right.
Yeah and I dont like the tone of it much. But its preference I guess. Teles are a different story tho.
Singles vs humbuckers
Gibson too
I'm a bass player. I picked the example that I thought sounded best, it was the Telecaster each time. Interesting.
juzek1958 I’m also a bass player, but I love teles
Same Im also fond of the bass and I always get the tele right
I'm a bass player, too, and I chose 3 tele's and 1 strat. Fender rules!
I'm a guitar player, Les Paul's for me
heavy dist 100% les paul,...
Still easier than the Yanny and Laurel thing
Ya same here.
I could mostly pick out the single-coil vs the humbuckers, but beyond that I was lost.
Tim Douglass yeah me too although a second listen of course makes it easier.
Yeah, I couldn't tell the Tele from the Strat.
The telecaster has a slightly brighter twang; even brighter than the strat. The Gibson has a warmer sound than the Ibanez. I've owned all three makes and all three are great guitars.
Tim Douglass Electric noise vs. cancellation, excellence discrimination man.
I could pick apart the strat and Tele especially in the last one, but then I got the Les Paul and ibanez mixed up mainly when the neck pickup was used
I always thought teles had brighter tones compared to strats, but after watching this, it's the vice versa
Strats can get shrill and ice picky, teles can beef up, depending on pixkups and amp settings
Yeah bro I have a 65 Princeton (not the reverb) amp and a tele and it sounds gorgeous and I’ve always loved teles but I do wish I could get the picky strat sound like John frusciante
It really depends on the instrument in general but I thought so too.
In my experience, public opinion on which fender sounds brighter flip-flops every 10 years or so.
i think people might presume that teles sound brighter because a lot of people who famously play teles just happen to play styles where you use a twangy, brighter tone.
NO JOKE: I picked Tele and LP every time as my favorites. I have a Strat at home. :(
You always need just ONE more guitar!
@@cnine5640 I'm gonna buy a Lp style guitar soon.
Michael You won’t regret it, I have two and they’re the best guitars ever made.
@Mr. Richardson that's kinda cruel but ok... I'll leave you thinking like that then...
Im ibanez player. Me too, i want had strat soon😁.
I'm an audio engineer & got zero right. I guess guitars are just not my thing.
That is some bold and respectable honesty sir.
OR guitar choice doesn't matter nearly as much as people think (religiously)
same and I can really only pick out guitar tone when its really good or really bad. everything thats in the middle is hard to distinguish
No, they just sound very similar. Some pundits will never concede it though
Easiest ones are the telecaster's sharp sound and the les paul's nosy timbre.
JhonnLT yeah AHAHAHA I got right all teles
JhonnLT totally right. They have unique sounds. for me I could tell the strat apart from the RG because the strat has that single coil buzz.
Totally agree
Bang on. I could always pick the Les Paul and Telecaster examples, always mixed up the Strat versus Ibanez. Quite a testament to how trash Ibanez pickups are that you can't hear the difference between them and a Strat.
Then it should be easy to tell the difference between the single coils on a strat and the humbuckers on the ibanez
I’ve never played any guitar.. YET.
The tele sounded amazing each time for me, the strat was a close overall second.
strat to play guitar bro
@@mesapnq7549 Ibanez is the best bro
and how is it now? did you already play a guitar? im just ordering mine
@@pi2z806 notice the keywords: to play
Strat is the best beginner guitar by far
Ibanez wins on distortion, but the tele has a phenominal clean tone
Ibanez is an amazing guitar that has a lot of range from having that solid crunch of the Gibson, to the clean crisp to warm clean tone sounds. My first guitar i bought was the Rg 550 and lovedddd it
@@TheAlaskansandman Is just many work to set it up😂. The others just plug and play.
@@mixmixture7049 That's only bcs Floyd Rose( edge zero more accurately), i have one Ibanez with floating bridge and i blocked that motherfucking demon for life, now i play with no stress and enjoy the guitar alot 😂, keep in mind that most guitars need set up at one point(at least intonation and truss rod), yeah floyd rose guitars are bit harder to set up but once you learn how to it's not a biggy.
Who plays clean?
I adore teles' and strats' clean tones, but they're also winning distortion sound for me
Daaayum, that Telecaster sounds nice.
Rory G lol yeah wasn’t expecting it at all
If you enjoyed this blind test, you can try the Acoustic guitar version here:
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Good luck!
You made the videos! This is awesome!!
+Fragmatic Yeah!
Thank you for the test. Always choose Ibanez. This is destiny.
+shane mcmurray Thanks!
It was likely a Mesa Boogie Blue Angel with a Rode NT3.
+shane mcmurray 😀👍
Wow this really blew my mind. Instead of trying to guess what guitar was what, I just picked my favorite tone. Hands down each time I always picked the Ibanez. Whats crazy is that I have never even actually played one. I guess I will be trying some in the future.
This was actually a lot of fun to do...really gave me some insight of my own perception of the different tones, especially the classic Fender v. Gibson sound.
Same
I could tell the difference between the humbuckers and single coils, but I couldn't tell the difference between a Strat/Tele or RG/LP.
oh really? i just struggled with rg/strat
+iwanttosmell I have a Strat and play with high gain. I really don't like the tone but I can recognize it through the video. I also recognize the Tele/Strat sound from listening to Hendrix.
same here.
I actually could! strats have a brighter tone and LP's pups are mad beefy
if the pickups were custom in every guitar you would be lost.
I got Gibson Les Paul right everytime.
Charudatta Munde it sounds like balls... tele and Ibanez were the best
Mee toooo
Yeahh me too.. is it means we are les paulers? Haha
Charudatta Munde I did too with the exception of the first one where I had it right but switched it away, rats! I was always an RG guy, then one day out of sheer boredom I threw an EMG81 in my gf's kid's LP that he left behind unwanted. So, that's how we met and I don't really talk much to the ex anymore, but I heard RG moved to a nice retirement closet in the basement, which was good to hear.
Me 2 :-)
1:34 Guitar 1
1:53 Guitar 2
2:11 Guitar 3
2:29 Guitar 4
Totally lost track of them. In other words, they all honestly sound really good. And are quality instruments. You played great. You make them all sound awesome! 😄
Only guessed the Tele right. Lol telecasters are the goat
aaron robinson agreed
aaron robinson got telecaster right all four times and got strat wrong all four times
aaron robinson ive played on too many humbuckers that i got the gibson and ibanez always right. Was thinking of saving up for a tele this year!
Aaron Robinson I ve got only the les paul I can't see the difference between the 3 other
Totally same result for me.
it's curious how the ibanez and the strat sound so similar, but the les paul is always recognizable
+Josh W it really depends of the pickup position, but the les paul is still the most recognizable of the four
For some reason the RG was the most recognizable to me
the LP has a shorter scale length which makes the tone darker/warmer, or you can say more mid-low and less high-mid
It is really common misconception, but for a rule of thumb imagine a viola and a double bass. Which of them has warmer sound? And all the Gibsone/Fender scale/tone tests should take a look on a picking spot, because that`s one thing that makes huge difference;)
LP is also made of mahogany (thicker and darker sound), whereas the strat is made of alder (which is very similar in sound to basswood, hence the similarity)
Tele is twangy, the Ibanez is bright, the strat sound like a warm breeze blowing through wind chimes, the Les Paul has a rich thickness.
True af
Exactly!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for making this video! Really helpful. Could definitely tell the Les Paul and Ibanez apart from each other and the Fenders, but got a little mixed up between Strat and Tele when there was no signature Strat quack. Love the tone of the Tele in all clean tests.
Ibanez and strat really got me! Great video! Love these for when I am up late at night.
Heavy distortion was easiest to tell for me
Yeah
In all i mixed the tele with the strat😂
TheBfutgreg indeed, though i mixed up the ibanez and the gibson. didn' expect the ibanez had such a growl. perhaps due to the pickups
Jokerz Designs
Same!!
I got the Les Paul and Ibanez right every time, but only got the tele and strat on the first one. The subsequent 3 tests i got the tele and strat the wrong way around.
Ive always felt the tele is the brightest and cleanest sounding of the lot, with the strat sounding similar but a bit dirtier. Yet every time i picked what i felt was the cleanest and brightest of ended up being the strat (except the first test).
Incredible video! Great stuff!
I just wanted to pick my first guitar by the sound i like the most.
100% i picked Ibanez RG, I made my choice!
Strat is more better
This is what imma do
Same... They're simply the best...
I did the same
Yeah. But literaly had more time to set up Ibanez rather than the others😂. Many Ibanez players at concert at least they should had 2 guitar to carry them, in case your string snap, could be mess.
I'm doing this hard mode! on my smartphone with no headphones. It's a dumb mode actually.
work1907 same got first test right but distortion was hard
Not as dumb a mode as Locrian #6 ;)
I got it all correct doing the same thing! Stay hardcore man! ;)
I did it with volume at 0. Did i do it wrong?🤔
One of the funniest comments I've ever read.
Only got all of them when clean. On the dirty sounds I was only able to know what were humbucker or single... Great test! Incredible that sometimes the Strat had a little more bite on the bridge pickup than the Tele...
i nailed them clean but i had no idea with distortion - thanks for posting, this was fun
Dude this video was SO fun!!!!
I've been playing for a year, just got my first electric guitar and it's interesting to hear different tones as I get more of an ear for tone
That was a lot more difficult than I imagined, great video!
+SaberSongs Glad you liked it :)
Beautiful Ibanez!!!
Great video!
Glad someone made a video like this!
I'm watching a black screen
Sad.
+s7eveninch But you can't hear black. Well, at least not without heavy doses of hallucinogenics.
+Cyborg Pirate Ninja Jesus I put red bull in my coffee and Now I hear colors
Wow, funny AND original. Do it all the time, though
Dude, it's an African-American screen. Don't be racist.
I'm glad I could recognize the Teles and Strats, I got confused between the Les Paul and the Ibanez. I would be a good reason to buy one, hahaha.
Strat is suitable to play all music than the others.
Les Paul all day! Makes me want to get one now. Thanks for this and all of your videos. Pro work!
I really enjoy these blind tone exercises. It is teaching me about my incorrect preconceived opinions
Awesome video man, that Ibanez really threw me off on the clean tones. Excellent test.
+Jack Best Glad you liked the video 👍
the ibanez and strat sound really similar, suprising
why surprising? they are quite similar guitars the ibanez just has more metal oriented pickups
The ibanez is a "Superstrat", it need to sound similar
+Mauro Rodriguez I don't know much about guitar tones and all, but with my little experience I think there is a huge difference between these two.The strat I believe is more aggressive. Is the Les Paul really characterised as the superstrat?
+Tony McDante les paul isnt ibanez, the ibanez is the red guitar without a pick guard
les paul is usually gibson (not always)
+OutsideOfParking i'm not sure, i just imagined they would have a very different tone
That tele bridge pickup is nuts. I was dead set on that being the ibanez on the distortion test. Crazy how powerful it sounds
I really like the first clean riff.. what is it called??
100% on the clean round. Reversed the Les Paul and the Ibanez on the second round. I've always been a strat player primarily, though I owned a Tele for a while.
Pickups and there impedance are a huge factor. It would have been more challenging to match the pickups better and choose solely on make and wood. The Humbuckers were easy to pick out. Learning the difference between the two took a minute . The LP pups were hotter and darker. Single coils are always thinner.
Your Strat didn't have the typical "strat neck" sound that distinguishes it more so from a Tele. (Jimi/Stevie) By the end I was nailing it.
Thanks, that was fun!
ayyyy i got the second one right :D so happy with that. way off on the first one except the les paul though. can always tell if its a nice chunky les paul. awesome vid dude
Very useful! II got 7 out of 16, obviously I‘ve got a lot of ear training left to do. Some of them really surprised me when I was 100% sure
I got the telecaster and the les paul right every time those are my favorites
I got the first tet almost right, the second I was awfully wrong, the 3rd and 4t was perfectly right!
awesome video btw
What a great blind test, really help me talking myself out of buying new guitars😂
Very similar tone with strat and ibanez is amazing similar and too close one and another. Great job.thanks for share
Oooh I picked my favorite sound for each test and all of them were the Ibanez RG Premium! Maybe I should start learning the guitar😂😂
I'm very skilled at this except for everytime the only guitars I kept messing up on were the tele and the strat. Very similar sounds, good challenge
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS VIDEO!
I am a beginner and I am struggling a lot to figure out what guitar I want (i currently have a stratocaster the zone knobs don't work). I am learning the different types of guitars and it made my "shopping list" complicated because I didn't know it made such a difference. Been trying a bit in stores but i can't seem to make up my mind and I think I'm biased because i feel the les paul looks pretty nice but I am not sure it's the one I want. I've been wondering about the ibanez, that i cannot find in my city (not a lot of music stores...).(it seems more comfortable than the les paul)
So i took that blind test not to figure out if I could recognize ehich is ehich but rather figure out which one I prefer!
Aside from the third riff (that I wasn't so fond of and I couldn't tell the difference), the first choice always landed on the Ibanez! While the les paul got second in the first two.
Doesn't necessarily means I'll settle with this but it does make it obbious that I need to try it!
Thank you!
I can identify the Les Paul all the time and im in love with it. I thought this will change my mind to not getting a les paul but it only convinced me more.
After distortion kicked in i was lost. I got the rg right everytime though
Weird because I got some of the cleans wrong but as soon as we got to distortion, I had 100% accuracy
@@Squall6575 Last clean tone one was the tricky one to my ears haha got the Gibson right but the Strat and Ibanez can sound pretty close. Tele i can tell everyyyy time, stands out the most to my ears
On the bridge pickup distorted sound, I literally thought the telecaster was the les Paul.
Thank you. These tests helped me select my ideal guitar;
Test 1 = Les Paul
Test 2 = Telecaster
Test 3 = Les Paul
Test 4 = Les Paul
No guitar blows me away for clean warm and rich tones like a Les Paul. I like the biting overdriven bridge pickup tones of the Tele too. But I can get a similar tone on a coil split Les Paul based on the reviews I have seen. I do not own any of these guitars yet. So it's gonna be a Les Paul Traditional Pro for me this Christmas.
+E Franklin Nice! I'm glad you liked the video, and I hope you enjoy your upcoming new guitar!
Ur gonna waste moneyyyy
Many thanks for putting this together! I had to go several times on each to commit. So with lots of effort, I nailed the Clean Neck and Distorted Bridge, got the LP and RG correct on Bridge Heavy Dist. and only got the LP singled out on Neck Light Overdrive. I was so sure the Strat was RG on that one:) But yeah the LP is not that hard to single out though it was harder than I expected having done several previous blind tests.
Lespauls tone always had that unique feel and life to it, Which made me pick that everytime in the test by the sound only...
lol the last one were they had distortion i got all of them right but for the others i got them all wrong
same.. i guessed stratocaster then telecaster, then said the other way around cause i cant really tell the difference between those two. but the treble on #3 just screamed stratocaster for me.. and the nice thick tone on #1 sounded like les paul.
luck still exists
same
same for me, i have no idea how or why
WW Heisenberg I placed the Les Paul correctly all but one time (but I am mostly a Les Paul player) which was the second one and picked it out as the Telecaster (hmmmm... lol) and also got the Ibanez right half the time. The Fenders I found more difficult to distinguish in these single pickup sound tests. I guess inbetween positions would have been more obvious on the Strat or maybe I just need to play Fenders more.
I own that Ibanez and i couldn't pick it out.
I own that Tele and I couldn't pick it out lmao
What model is it?
RG970WQMZ ...i had to look at the order email to recall that name :D
+Teutone Haha yeah ibanez names, love the guitar wanted to look it up.
PixelmansGaming It's a fantastic guitar. I really like what the Indonesian factory produces. They are on point.
Hey, I want to know is it possible to change timbre of an electric guitar to various ones? thanks.
Love the look of the Fender tele....
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2:30 - HH - 3:02 - 4:45 - 5:52
Tele tele strat tele... i was just trying to convince myself about not buying a tele, strat would be better for a beginner etc etc but damn...
I bought a strat because it is nicer to play when sitting down.
@@weekasi1 haha i also bought a strat, people said tele is too heavy
@@Zoidbergsin The weight isn't as well distributed on tele IMO. In that sense it feels more like Gibson style guitars. It feels much heavier than the strat, even though it probably isn't.
Strat is the easiest guitar I've ever played but not the fat neck version...seriously get the modern c neck Squier or whatever and it'll be great with some tweaks.
get the tele man..u can never go wrong with them
Nothing beats a nice mellow strat tone...
Just in the last one I could get all the four in the right order. The others I got just one or two. Great and fun video!!
the only one i knew was the les paul. the earth tone hits yah right in the chest.
Elena Garcia its pretty bad in my opinion
Im stunned! Been preaching Gibson sound forever and I picked Fender all 4 times!
Ooopssss!!
Tele and les paul was a good reference point and easy to distinguish. I had trouble separating the ibanez and the strat
I was surprised that I got them all right. I could definitely tell the difference between the clean sounds of the single coils from the bell like tones and the thicker midrange from the humbuckers when the guitars became distorted.
got the tele right every time. The rest was a big mess :D Good Test!
+volltroll Hahaha, yeah it is tough!
Got the strat and tele confused everytime except on the last one.
The Les Paul was the easiest guitar to identify - probably because I'm a Les Paul player myself...
tele has a slightly louder and deepet sound i think
+iwanttosmell deeper*
About the tele/strat thing... I've got the same here!
ITs because the difference is very minor and if there is any difference, it is most likely in the pickups and strings.
Weeelll if your regular fender player you can see a pretty big difference in sound by no means is it as big like a a strat to a les Paul the tele has lot warmer neck pickup that tends to be slightly muddier while a strat has is a little less warm but cuts through better and teles have a great bridge pup that can have great twang, but the bridge pup on the strat can be twangy it just seems more shrill to me strats are all about the neck pup and middle switch but with a tele its all about the bridge, by no means is it huge but those are things I've picked up being a player using mostly fender guitar for the better part of a decade
Only me catched in this? I was confounding the tele and strat... Ibanez and Gibson are easy to distinguish. However compliments! I liked the funny idea and the way you played it!
No joke. I clicked on the link without noticing/looking at who's video it was, but immediately upon hearing the music I knew it was Darrell's playing. Didn't do so well with discerning the guitars. I did better than chance, but got more wrong than I would have expected.
ha! I guessed the heavy distortion one right! (But not every other one)
Good test! for me one think it's true, i'm a les paul boy :D
1. Tele (fail), Ibanez (right), Strat (fail, single coil are similar), Les Paul (right);
2. Les Paul (right), Ibanez (fail), Strat (right), Tele (fail);
3. Ibanez (right), Les Paul (right), Tele (right), Strat (right);
4. Les Paul (right), Ibanez (right), Strat (fail), Tele (fail, another time single coil messing me up xD)
Cheers from Portugal!
I'm actually dying right here: I literally picked the fourth sound as HEAVENLY, and it's the Les Paul. I was doubting whether or not to buy the Epi LP, but now I must say there's no doubt about it anymore 🤣😆thank you for this video!
Wow, I actually guessed the second and third tests exactly. On the fourth test, I confused the two Fenders. The first one I completely butchered though. Haha It wasn't easy though, and I had to replay each test a few times. Great comparison!
I got everything right except for the heavy distortion.
Tele's are the 🐐
Damn it, mixed up the Ibanez and Strat for the first one... So close
Me too.
Such a great video awesome for the guitar players under us
I already knew I loved strats and this video has confirmed it
Well, the Fenders clearly shine when played clean, the Tele having a tiny bit more bottom.
When adding distortion, everything sounded nearly the same to me. :)
I don't know why but to me a Les Paul with distortion is instantly recognizable. The Neck pickup on a strat sounds a bit more muddy and scooped than the one on a Strat.
But HONEST TO GOD... That Ibanez was a troublemaker xD
All 3 times it was the Tele and the Strat for me and I have always had Les Pauls and PRS's. Going to try out the Silver Sky now😂🔥 Great Video🔥
I did great on the rock and blues bits. Biffed it big on the jazz section.
I did good on the first and last test.
Alec McGrath stfu edgy
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guitar in the intro solo is a Les Paul
+connor adcock 👍😎
Great test! I picked the Telecaster as my favorite.
Got it right for the last two and 50% right for the first two. Nice test. I'd say the clean neck and heavy distortion bridge reveal most of the differences.
And yeah, that tele kills
I keep getting the ibanez and telecaster mixed up. I got everything else
Got the les paul every time best tone by far
Got my fenders right! Less familiar with Ibanez and Gibson but when the tone is clean Tele's and strats have a very distinct ring to their sound.
Very valuable.... I don't play and am looking to buy a guitar and learn. I listened to all 4 and had Ibanez and LP in 1 or 2 of every one of the comparisons. Was fun waiting to see when you revealed them. Also helps me not choose a Strat. since I was between Squire, Epiphone LP and Ibanez GRX70QA
I don't own an electric guitar so I really took this test seriously to rate the sound I liked best. I had a point system and i listened through the whole segment of each test then went back and listened again, rating the sound on each one, then added the points at the end.
Some tests i pretty much couldn't tell any difference so i had to really strain to differentiate.
Turns out, the strat and Les Paul tied for #1, then Ibanez, with tele finishing last.
I've always loved the look of a les paul, so that's the tiebreaker. I'll get a les paul style tho, since I dont have tons of money laying around. Probably Wolf or maybe Grote.
did u end up getting it?
epiphone les pauls are good for begginers
OMG I got all 4 right after they were distorted!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm freaking out XD!!!!!
Heard the Strat neck tone on #3. Thought the tele was ibanez, ibanez was les td...so got a strat ear. Question is, are there modest to mid gain environments that could make one sound like another?
I like this challenge! Fun !