Me when I first started playing guitar as a teenager "Aw jeez, I can't wait to get out there and talk with other guitarists about what guitarists, tones and guitars I like and make friends." Me now at the age of 36 "Most guitar players are over opinionated assholes that I avoid at all costs." I really relate with the guy who said about not having many guitar player friends.
I like hanging out with other guitar players. Gear talk can be fun. But I've also recognized to learn the tell tales that you are dealing with a connoisseur of fine tone tonewoods, expensive pickups, and boutique amps and pedals. So if I judge the person to be like a Jehova's Witness or Social Justice Warrior in their beliefs in that matter I tend to keep my conversations in a more light manner. Nothing a true believer hates more then being challenged on their beliefs. Also, guitar players tend to make for the worst audience. You can always spot the guitar player at a gig in a crowd. Arms crossed across his chest, looking frowning and judging, thinking he could do a better job and in fact should be the one on stage instead.
i am sure you know about this, but i want to share a great lesson life taught me : If you make someone jealous to the point of anger, it's because there is something to be very jealous about, and the best way to deal with this is to celebrate that you have found one more thing that is valuable about you and your contribution to the world, which is pretty neat. Thank you Glenn ! David
@@brandonthompson8413 That’s amazing. I thought you could just rip components out and absolutely nothing would change. Next you’re gonna tell me playing with the knobs in front will change the sound as well.
@@DizzyDez613 Well sometimes, depends on the circuit and design of the amp. My amp doesn't have knobs on the front they are in back on the top kind of.
So..quick précis. When buying a guitar for heavy metal don't worry what pickups are in it, as long as they are quiet. Don't worry what wood it's made out of, it makes no difference. Make sure it plays nice, stays in tune and it looks cool. Job done! Excellent show as always Glenn, thanks for sharing.
Man you have saved me so much money. I almost bought super expensive pickups to make my guitar sound better but thanks to you I didn’t have to! Keep up the good work!!
On Led Zeppelin I, Jimmy Page used a Supro amp with a Sola Sound Tonebender mk2 fuzz pedal that he used primarily as a booster of sorts. Additionally, the ambient sound was gotten through having additional mics placed further back from the amp and using the room's natural reverb to add enhancement.
Another thing that was done back those days was to record a playback of one or more tracks in large rooms/locations and then add those recorded tracks into the mix. Hence the names for types of reverb. Ever seen how real plate reverbs in an elevator shaft are done? 😄
I'm so thankful for your channel because the end goal is to clearly help people. And all I do is beat on the drums like a neanderthal. Crazy how much push back your channel receives over this simple principle.
Well excuse you, Mr. Glenn Fricker! I am not low enough to do my audio in my gArAgE sTuDiO. I, as the higher being, do it all right in the comfort of my bedroom!
As the saying goes "It's the musician not the instrument." Good musicians can make a cheap/bad instruments sound good. In most cases, good equipment makes the task easier. No amount of gear is going to help a bad musician. Even though I'm a keyboard player I enjoy you show. Your show is for all musician not just metal players. Keep up the good work.
i always said it's better for people to learn music on cheap ass instruments. it makes them way better players when they do get soemthing that is good. because they do every thing in their power to make that cheap insrument sound better and those kind of techniques really carry over to better gear making taht gear sound even better as well. this stems from a simple fact some one once told me . ALL electric guitars suffer from the same basic issues , just the cheap ones don't try to hide those issues because they are cutting cost instead (fret chew, fret buzz , static buzz aka hum ect. ect.).
To an extent... yes however, I've heard practice amps that sound downright abysmal and I've played guitars that feel like literal plywood and its MUCH more difficult to play a more complicated song on it than on a better rig. No but seriously, there's this 20 year old Fender practice amp that my school's had and it sounds like actual garbage. When I first played it I was genuinely under the impression that the speaker was broken until I realized there was nothing wrong with it.
Good insight. It's also important to point out you don't need massive amounts of recording equipment. to make a a good recording. Boston's first album was recorded in Tom Scholz's basement on a 12 track tape machine
I agree. I have also played on some crappy amps. I also bought a hideous keyboard in the early '90s. It was awful. Learned my lesson on that one. I have a Crate amp from the late '70s early '80s that is showing it's age. Had to retire it. Someday I might disassemble it or take it to a repair shop in attempt salvage it and use it as a spare. There's always that person who needs an amp during jam sessions. Still use a Peavy KB100 from the 1980s and a Behringer K450 FX when I don't want to lug the KB100 around.
@@DenverStarkey I go against this way of thinking. Spending just a bit more for a better instrument will make a begginner spend more time with an instrument and make for an enjoyable time at the begginning...ive had shit guitar for begginning and it only took me a few years to actually make myself to not quit this time.
About to fly to Europe for a series of gigs (first time gigging internationally!!)... the tears and salt of these angry guitar players is the perfect fuel ahead of the flight. Cheers from a gloomy Toronto airport, Glenn :D
New VC episode means; the weeekend can come! Seriously, watching your videos has become such an important part of my life lately. A Glen sig guitar would truly be amazing. Much fun travelling and stay safe. Cheers
Glennn!!! I crashed my bands van in Hollywood this past summer. We now have a shirt with the totaled van that says “we let the bassist drive” I think the shirt would look great on you man! We’re called split persona. Check out the shirt maybe our music!
a hot-swappable speaker cabinet would be amazing. here's what I'm thinking a 4x12 with a Channel selector non soldered speaker connectors, plus bolt stud and wingnut mounting hardware (like a car tire) instead of wood screws for the speaker to cabinet mounting for tool less hot-swapping. any thoughts?
Coil tap is supposed to be a lower output because it’s tapped windings, like having a high output pickup that you can switch to vintage output. Coil split separates one coil by turning the other off, making a humbucker sound like a single coil. At least in theory. I have never heard a tonal shift with either option, any difference is due to lower output pushing less gain into the amp. I learned early on was this: use the proper pickup TYPE to the sound you want. Also note, you can roll the volume back to get vintage tones from a high output pickup. I typically set my volume to 8 and tone to 6 or 7, then dial my amp to the sound I want. I got that tip from Colin at CSGuitars and it really does work.
Lots of "Chefs" will EPICALLY FAIL blind taste tests too...which is precisely why such tests exist. Most guitarists can't tell if their guitar is even in tune, much less its "tonal nuances due to wood". The Truth hurts.
Thanks for responding to my comment Glen! That was awesome. I may have just saved my friend from buying new pick ups. We were jamming and he said he wanted to get some EMG pick ups like mine. I was like, lets do a recording test first. We put our guitars through the same rig and recorded the same riff back to back. To his surprise they sounded almost identical besides a slight change in gain. He was blown away and thanked me for saving him time and money! your knowledge is spreading mayne!!!!
Dude, Glenn!! The diet and exercise regimen that you put into place a few years back is REALLY paying off man. Looking great, keep up all the hard work.
Thanks again for all you do Glenn. I’ve learnt more in the past two weeks watching your videos about the little tricks and odds and ends than I have in the past 20 years of playing. Because of you I’ve progressed a Shit pile and seemingly making huge leaps daily it seems…..keep on keeping on brother.
18:26 for hot swappable speakers, you can put hard wires on the end and imitate the way an electric stove coil plugs in, definitely a prototype idea but when I finally get a work shed again I’ll probably give this a shot…
If you do a signature cab, I really think it ought to have doors in the back you can use to tune the bass response to suit speakers with different resonant frequencies and get the frequency response you want. Worth experimenting with. It's also worth comparing that to what you can do with a flat cab response and EQ.
1:00 yep Glenn saved me a bunch of money as well! I was in the music store today for an XLR, and the salesman sold a guy one hell of a Fender American custom shop with the legendary words, "these pickups are like The Beatles sound and this like this the Clapton sound... huh and so Glenns 'The Eagle Has Landed' intro went through my mind. He might as well could've did the same thing on a entry level guitar on that Fender combo cab. Anyways... Oh, yes I released my first Elektro music album today, thanks to Glenn advising DistroKid. Unplugged and Metal releases later this year. Huge progress! Get your business in your own hands. So yeah, watching this channel saved me a lot of struggle and money... Eyes and ears open folks, this guy knows what he is talking about 👉
YES!!! PLEASE make a video on a budget 500 setup! I'm curious about outboard gear in my future, and the 500 series of gear seems tailor-made to my situation with limited space and budget. Thanks for all your hard work!
Glenn!!!! I definitely think creating a cabinet that has a quick release backplate for hot swapable speaker changes would be absolutely amazing. If you constructed it with the build quality of some of the more popular cabinets using similar materials, you would pose a SERIOUS threat to the competition!
I have watched the video a few times about the pick-up tests. Mainly cause it does proves the point of the guitar pick snake oil theory. So i put 11 of my guitars to the test. They're loaded with Fishmans (modern fluence and carpenter signature), Seymour Duncans (Jb and black outs), MOJO tone , EMG , Roswell, HBZ, Tesla (stock loaded Harley benton) stock loaded ibanez pick ups and also Rockfeild. So I recorded everything direct , wrote down with channel was what guitar waited a about 3 days and listened back to each track dirty and clean... and oit of the 11 I got 3 right.. the hbz and the 2 that have fishmans.. The only reason I could pick those 3 out from all the others was due to volume. The tone difference was too small to really pick out. I really hope others try this test out for yourself. I'm sure the results may vary, but it was fun. Great video, Glenn. I'm looking forward to the next test !!
GLEEENNN!, I'm on a flight to Malta in a few months and I'll be bringing my bass guitar with me and I need to know how to protect my bass guitar from those careless ground handlers (and Ryanair themselves) who are usually dumber than bass players themselves!. A video on how to safely pack your instrument before flying please
I really enjoy your videos and how you break it down to what really matters. Sometimes a cheap guitar sounds good by accident and you would probably agree that the most important thing is playability and some guitars are just more comfortable to play due to their weight balance and being set up correctly
An easy swap speaker cab would actually be pretty easy to do. You just need some alignment pins for the screw holes and some twist locks (like want are used on truck bed covers or travel boxes).
Well, what about them rattling around, and if not right away, then over time? Not saying there aren't ways, but I cannot imagine the would come cheep if anyone ever makes them. The mark up on simple and basic hardware is quite high, add a bit of engineering and it could ad a whopping $100 to every cabinet made with it, and with gear snobs out there, the mark up can be even higher the second they show any interest!
@@spencermcelrea9311 I didn't think you were thinking of manufacturing them, but you made the suggestion and said it would be easy, and it may sound that way until you consider everything involved, and good engineering is not trying things until you find something work, but designing it to be sure to work, before you build a prototype, or even a "prove principle model" before a prototype.
GLEEENNNNNNN!!!! Tried out the AT2020 mic on your rec, absolutely blown away. Might be my favourite mic on heavy guitar now. More diamonds in the rough please!
Speaking of affordable imitations of the original gear, have you ever reviewed any Warm Audio stuff? I'd be curious to hear your thoughts. I've had my eye on a couple pieces of outboard gear from them as well as their 251 mic clone. .
Hey Glen! Please do a review / tutorial of using 500 series gear in this context. I have been looking at integrating 500 series stuff into my in the box rig, and this would be extremely helpful. Thanks!
I was thinking about gettin' Suhr Doug Aldrich pickups for my LP. You just made me change my mind and made me save some money that I can spend on things that are very useful if you wanna actually play the guitar: strings
I just saw Carcass live, the guitarists use Gibson Les Pauls (Bill Steer was using a Melody Maker) and they were playing through the EVH 5150 III 50 watt versions, plus the signature cabinets.
I have a lot of respect for all the free knowledge and gear that you share with the music community. I do agree that the speakers contribute to 80% or more of a guitar sound. Tubes just provide power, they either work or don’t work, a guitars wood and construction type only do very little for the sound and pickups(with exceptions to true single coils vs Humbucker)only change output mostly, besides some being a little more compressed than others. Even different amps do very little for the overall sound, especially when most people eq them to their liking. The eq on amps only slightly sculpt the sound, as they are not full frequency ranging as other eq’s. The mic type/placement can change the sound a good deal. All this I’ve learned from playing guitars and recording them for 25 years. So I do agree with you but I think it’s worth mentioning that pickups can be more or less a mod for someone who wants a different look and/or slightly different output. Thanks for all you do, keep putting out videos and I’ll keep watching them. I’ve got my mind set on the ELE drums at the moment, I will be purchasing them soon!!!!
I wanted to know your opinion on Warm Audio stuff!? You talk about 1176 from Stem at 1600$ but does the warm stuff any good? planning on getting a Pultec Style Warm EQ and a LA-2A Style and I would lot to know
Gosh dang! That opening comment was so cultured and intelligent in its simplicity with just a single versed reference. Obviously not written by a bass player!
Hey Glenn great show! I just bought a Schecter C1 FR-S apocalypse series guitar. What a gem this thing is! Could you do a review of this beautiful guitar? I got the RED REIGN color and it is mind blowing!
1 out of 1500 is in the realm of Type I error. I would have thought a few more people would have gotten the guesses right by chance alone. Full disclosure: You totally stumped and educated my bass playing behind.
I gotta share this one too, dinosaur Jr fans were all shocked last year when J Mascis told everybody that his signature Jazzmaster-Big Muff-Marshall stack sound was pretty much never what was actually on any of his recordings. I think he said Out There was an SG junior through one of the smaller fenders.
The bassist in my band just came up with a genius way to save himself money. When it was time for us to pay the engineer for mixing & mastering our album, he quit the band. Brilliant!
Why would compression on the way in be needed and how would be that different from doing this post recording? Other than limiting to prevent distortion of course but recording so hot is hardly needed these days.
Denial is a dangerous thing unfortunately. People who have been dreaming in a dogma all their lives can easily panic when they get shaken out of their sleep
Two things here: 1. Have you tried contacting James Hetfield himself? 2. Most of Jimmy Page's sound came from using MK II and MK III Tone Benders. As for his amps: He didn't only use Marshall Plexis. He also used Hiwatt, Rickenbacker, Supro, Vox, and Orange amps. He stopped using Hiwatts live and switched to Marshalls because it was difficult to find places to service Hiwatts when he was on touring in America; whereas, Marshall had authorized service centers everywhere.
I'm a broke college student who doesn't have a ton of money and your videos have helped me feel like I can actually lay down some bangers without being a millionaire. As someone who had to take over a year off of recording because of a shitty living situation, you learn to work with what you have and use your brain and ears to make good songs, not your wallet (i do play a Gibson SG though, it was a gift and is my baby. after a string butler and some locking tuners it's a beast)
@@DoktrDub it works great for keeping the A, D, G, and B strings in tune, but it doesn't actually do anything for the E strings so if you're having problems there I'd look at other methods. Some nut lube every string change is enough to compensate for those two strings in my case, and my G string wouldn't stay in tune at all before the Butler and now I can hammer on it for a while before it goes out
Hot-swappable speakers? No! The cab would need an auto-switching dummy load to maintain the impedance during swapping, or you might risk damaging your amp (depends on how robust the output transformer is and whether your increasing or decreasing the load during the swap). Quick-swappable speakers? Yes, make it easy to pull them out and put them into the cab, with nice quick-connect plugs/sockets on the wiring.
I'm not quite sure why so many people do not seem to get the science of near field micing, which is what a pickup is basically doing. A piece of wood does not effect this
Hey Glenn! We did a test once where we tried like 7 different DI boxes through a front of house at a venue, with barely any tonal difference. Any chance of getting a DI box comparison? I think people are overspending on those too.
A hot swappable cab would be really easy to do the only thing that would be concerning is if the speaker doesn't mount properly it may have some vibrations but it seems like a really easy problem to solve
Up until the 1970s, after babies were born they'd be slapped on their bottom to help clear their airways. When a baby cried after being born it meant they were healthy and ready to be handed to the mother. This was a long accepted practice until a gentleman named Frederick Leboyer wrote a book that suggested that the practice was traumatic to a newborn infant. As such the tradition of slapping a babies bottom after birth was dropped. To this day however the only thing more whiney than a baby just being born before the 1970s are some of the people in this comment section.
Hey Glenn, I'm curious to hear what your thoughts are about FRFR cabs for modelers. I'm downsizing my gear to just a couple guitars and a modeler. However, I would like an FRFR cab to play through rather than just play it through studio monitors to give it an "amp in the room" esque experience. I am nervous about purchasing one of these, setting up my presets on one, and then in the future taking the modeler to a gig and then plugging into the venue's PA system and noticing a completely unbalanced sound compared to when playing through the FRFR cab. I have had a hard time finding science on this topic. Just a lot of sponsored crap.
Since there's compressor talk... I have a MG10XU that I use for recording and I love it. Now, it has a built in compressor for the first 2 channels and what's your opinion on whether or not use them while recording bass or if the rawest DI possible is best. Also I'm a bass player so a single knob is too hard to figure out. I have no idea if it makes my sound better or worse if someone can help me out...
Glenn, the fact you let “John” down that gently proves why I come back each week. You could’ve easily had the algorithm take care of posts like those (who’s to say you didn’t?) but you also gave him some constructive criticism to think about. Maybe his mom needs to take away all his Monster so he’d stop punching holes in the drywall…
Hey Glenn, For phase issues on null tests, you might give the spectral alignment feature of MAutoAlign a try (along with the 192kHz rate). I know it helps tremendously when blending direct bass and an IR.
I think one thing overlooked when talking about good pickups is noise. When a humbucker has perfectly matched winding on each side it eliminates hum much better. The further wraps are off the more noise will come through. The output and how quiet they are when you're not playing is how I judge a pickup. I do play metal but I like to bust into classical type clean parts so I can't just judge my pickup based on how good it sounds with chainsaw gain and a noise gate. If I was still playing death metal I wouldn't worry about it very much. I would like to see this experiment done again using bigger chords in distortion mixed with power chords and a clean part. Addressing a coil tap. It will also not reveal much difference unless you're playing clean, with the exception of noise of course. I wasn't surprised at all by the results of the chainsaw gain test. I also would like to see you use KT66 tubes in your test. I couldn't get the gain tone I wanted from my signature amp until they got rid of the KT66 tubes but all the other tubes we tried worked great. Those are the only tubes I've ever found that actually do change the sound of your gain. I didn't actually watch the tune video all the way through because I knew there would be little difference. Also almost no high gain amp is loaded with KT66's so it's really not a factor. Just thought it was worth mentioning.
Glen, I know it’s not your type of music, but listening to you talk about the speakers I am reminded of a Joe Walsh interview. He said the sound on “Funk 49” was due to it being recorded on a Fender Champ and how the small speaker broke up and shaped the sound.
When it comes to coil splitting the difference is minimal but in my experience it isn't inconsequential. volume is definitely the biggest difference and the pick up is a bit more noisy which I guess adds like "character" which I like but idk how to measure so does it really matter? I think the best analogy I've heard was from Rob scallon he said humbucker smooth peanut butter coil split crunchy peanut butter.
In my bedroom I have a lot less power than in my official jam spot. I’m using a Peavey VYPYR 1 almost always a tad of reverb and delay to fatten up the sound. Usually use the 6505, XXX or Rectifier. Use an Ibanez tube screamer an boss noise suppressor hooked up with the 4 cable method and it freaking rocks!! Super tight decay knob all the way up ! The amp already has a tube screamer but only 2 parameters though. Like your dingaling ya just have to play with it to get it right!! You’ll be playing guitar just like ringing a bell!!
In the basement there’s 280 watts of power!! Once again you can actually get good sounds from the line 6 catalyst just need a pedal board and run it in stereo!! That’s when the Boss Metal Zone sounds it’s best in stereo, boosted and EQed!! Distortion pedals definitely change your tone!! We all can agree!! But from what I’ve learned great metal tones are always boosted and use noise reduction. The Boss is still the best when hooked up properly! The 4 cable method insures to truly quiet all unwanted noise! Otherwise you don’t get the optimal results ..
Will see if someone at Medley can ask Flemming. But should be in the lines of Mesa Mark 2C+ preamp into JCM800 and a standard 1960B cab, so G12-T75 speakers.
Just one thing about hot swapping speakers. I’m no good at working with tools or anything like that but it takes me no more than 5-10 minutes to swap a speaker in a cab. It’s really straightforward with newer speakers and cabs.
I’ve watched a lot of people debating religious fanatics (especially creationists). The similarities between the religious fanatics and guitar puritans is staggering. “Oh, you have scientific evidence to support you? We’ll that doesn’t matter, I’ll keep believing what I _want_ to believe!”.
For hot swapping speakers you can obviously do 1/4" jacks, then a three point hold down system with hooks on the bottom and a cam lock style hold down up top (possibly also on the lower two for holding it in best). Think like what you have on bicycle front wheels.
Tonewood might not make a difference in metal, but playing clean, you definitely hear differences in instruments depending on wood and wood quality. There are so many factors that go into how a guitar sounds, though. I will agree, that I don't really hear a lot of difference in tone when using distortion.
I'm so glad you showed how pickups make little difference, especially when played with extreme distortion like you do. I always suspected that. Don't get me wrong, I play primarily clean jazz and blues, so I gravitate to Fenders with noiseless single coil pickups and do like my Gibson LP Standard 60's despite your hatred for them. I do however love listening to heavy metal. I'd like to go one step further. If you play with extreme distortion, then I think it doesn't even matter what guitar you use, cheap or expensive, as long as it has a nice playable fretboard and stays in tune.
Giordano Bruno was just saying too. It doesn’t really depend on time we are living, people gonna be the same. If they could, they would set people on fire again….
How about just a line of quick-connect accessories that modify any speaker, making it swappable without soldering? Like, adapters that snap on to bare leads on one end, tabs on the other.
Master Of Puppets speakers. There were a few Marshall 4x12 jcm800 4x12’s being made in the 80’s. I’d guess either 65 watt celestion or the old G12-80. Those speakers were different from the CL80. We had a bunch of speaker cabinet ets together once and my friend had an old beat up JCM800 with the g12-80 and it was killer. That was among the best along with, surprisingly, an Engle 4x12 loaded with v30’s.
When it comes to trying to achieve a guitar tone heard on somebody's record, I'm very surprised nobody talks about the use of guitar layering. For example, the Master of Puppets tone, James recorded at least three takes that then gets combined to create that thick heavy tone. The raw tone is actually thinner than you'd expect in order to keep each take sounding tight. Then they still have to add in the bass guitar. In the end, what you hear is a tone that's nearly impossible to get with one guitar alone.
Sound is in everything, but mostly the speakers. I use an old Crown amp salvaged from a building PA system with a 2x18" Peavy Black Widow cabinet. It's perfect because it has no bells and whistles. Simple and stable amplification, removal of signal noise, and good speakers will get a person 90% "there". Chasing that last 10% is what it is, I chase tones as much as anyone, but I'd rather drop $5k once on a piece of gear I know will do something for me than spend $200 ten or fifteen times because I'm just guessing.
For hot swappable speakers, how about getting a 4 x 10 or 4 x 12 cab and set up switching so only one speaker is on at a time. Only good for in-studio demos, not recording. But it's a start.
Hello from Australia, re pickups, a few years ago i did my own experiment with a few second hand dimarzio's i got off ebay, i had my beloved old ibanez ex, i had already changed the stock bridge pick up for an ibanez V8 by then, but next i tested a PAF Pro, a Breed, and then a D-Sonic (bar to the bridge) hunting for a good death metal bridge pick up. I recorded my self playing (attempting to play) rythm parts from lashed to the slave stick by Nile in Drop A tuning. I eventually settled on the D-Sonic. But through that whole process the biggest shift i saw was between old and new strings.
Hey Glen! I loved your test to prove tonewood and pickups matter little when it comes to high-gain playing. I wonder though, what about bass tones? As they are not usually under the same levels of distortion, are pickups more relevant than on guitars? Pardon the noobishness.
The main thing i learned from the video where you swapped pickups; i am really interested in a guitar with p-90’s. That pickup had some killer snap to it, even with high gain
@@denverrandy7143 I bet somewhere they do, I've only tried one set of noiseless P90s and they sounded a bit more like a brighter humbucker than a P90. Still good, just not the same sound. Can't remember who the maker was, it was a while back.
@@denverrandy7143 Looking them up only thing I could find that kinda fit the bill of what those pickups I tried were Fishmans. So they were active as well. They were in a Yamaha guitar I played for a short while, if noise is an issue, they might be something to look at.
@@connerstines1578 Right on man,I'll look them up.Ive really been getting into the "Doom" looking guitars.lol even though I don't play doom. But the Yamaha SG series are awesome. Have a great first act custom look to me. Thanks again!!!
The guitar tone in my airpods sounds astonishingly different than my Klipsch RP-600M speakers at home, or the Rockford Fosgate boom booms in the back of my 1994 Civic hatchback... ;)
do these youtubers recommend headphones because nobody owns decent home audio? honestly asking...im a bit older and laughed at beats headphones from day 1 cuz they were for bus riders and highschoolers...meanwhile a great used home stereo setup can easily be had for under $500 im omitting the car audio aspect only to keep it short
@@kazzxtrismus I'm sure headphones are recommended because most people don't have the resources, time, or brain cells to put up decent acoustic treatment. Wanna avoid the hassle of figuring out how to treat your room, building/buying said treatment AND installing it? Just buy good headphones. As Glenn has pointed out, I have noticed a huge difference in stereo imaging between monitors and headphones (headphones miss out on crossover, basically speaking), so I tend to record with headphones and mix on monitors nowadays. But, that's because I am now at a place where I can actually build/install some treatment.
@@CantKillACowboyTX while acoustic treatments are necessary for recording to catch the finer elements i wouldnt think theyre really that necessary for just listening to youtube or music while cooking. a good older yamaha 4 channel stereo amp and a set of even decent speakers will sound dramatically better than most headphones and no the bose tiny things through a pro logic theater setup is nowhere near as good (and not better than real studio quality headphones at $2-400)
Yea I guess they do typically, the youths consume virtually everything on their phones. We need not go down the road of audiophile quality compression, D/A converters, Bluetooth, or headphone amps in telephones. That being said, Glenn is a recording engineer. How the stuff get played back is out of his control, but I'm sure he listens to his mixes on airpods just to make sure it's not complete garbage on what most people will listen to it on.
Thoughts on true temperament frets? They claim to make the guitar more in tune and intonation nearly perfect. Kinda seems snake oily to me but I don’t know
re: Hetfield MoP sound Have you tried contacting Flemming Rasmussen? I known the session notes have been floating around for years now but it's possible he may have some receipts saved from Sweet Silence or other stuff from the sessions he hasn't made public.
What would be interesting is if you have top level engineers listen to a guitar shootout. Not so much as to see if they can name the guitar, but rather what aspects they pick out when they hear cheap and expensive guitars. I think that would be a great lesson.
You don't just save people money, you teach them how to make the best with what they've got and that's even more valuable.
Like that brown lipstick.
@@morbidmanmusic Grow up.
@Morbid Man Music < Keep your fetishes to yourself.
Very true, always enjoy that about this channel
True!
Me when I first started playing guitar as a teenager "Aw jeez, I can't wait to get out there and talk with other guitarists about what guitarists, tones and guitars I like and make friends." Me now at the age of 36 "Most guitar players are over opinionated assholes that I avoid at all costs." I really relate with the guy who said about not having many guitar player friends.
So, you likely have few friends, wearing that brown lipstick...
@@morbidmanmusic judging by your comments on the other videos sounds like you're quite butt hurt by the tests. If Glen hurt you I'm sorry 🥺
You are sooo right on this one! Let me tell you the feeling does not change.
@@mech14Nine Exactly. My closest friends are mostly non musicians. And those that are definitely are less upright people
I like hanging out with other guitar players. Gear talk can be fun. But I've also recognized to learn the tell tales that you are dealing with a connoisseur of fine tone tonewoods, expensive pickups, and boutique amps and pedals. So if I judge the person to be like a Jehova's Witness or Social Justice Warrior in their beliefs in that matter I tend to keep my conversations in a more light manner. Nothing a true believer hates more then being challenged on their beliefs. Also, guitar players tend to make for the worst audience. You can always spot the guitar player at a gig in a crowd. Arms crossed across his chest, looking frowning and judging, thinking he could do a better job and in fact should be the one on stage instead.
i am sure you know about this, but i want to share a great lesson life taught me :
If you make someone jealous to the point of anger, it's because there is something to be very jealous about, and the best way to deal with this is to celebrate that you have found one more thing that is valuable about you and your contribution to the world, which is pretty neat.
Thank you Glenn !
David
“Tubes are not equalizers” would make an awesome tshirt, Glenn.
They are when they fail, and all output is equal to 0.
@@brandonthompson8413 Wait… are you telling me that when tubes die, it’ll effect the sound coming out of the speaker? 😱
@@DizzyDez613 If silence is the effect you desire.
@@brandonthompson8413 That’s amazing. I thought you could just rip components out and absolutely nothing would change.
Next you’re gonna tell me playing with the knobs in front will change the sound as well.
@@DizzyDez613 Well sometimes, depends on the circuit and design of the amp. My amp doesn't have knobs on the front they are in back on the top kind of.
So..quick précis. When buying a guitar for heavy metal don't worry what pickups are in it, as long as they are quiet. Don't worry what wood it's made out of, it makes no difference. Make sure it plays nice, stays in tune and it looks cool. Job done! Excellent show as always Glenn, thanks for sharing.
Wood makes no difference in tone. The wrong wood can make a huge difference in the weight of the guitar, for good or for bad.
Man you have saved me so much money. I almost bought super expensive pickups to make my guitar sound better but thanks to you I didn’t have to! Keep up the good work!!
On Led Zeppelin I, Jimmy Page used a Supro amp with a Sola Sound Tonebender mk2 fuzz pedal that he used primarily as a booster of sorts. Additionally, the ambient sound was gotten through having additional mics placed further back from the amp and using the room's natural reverb to add enhancement.
Another thing that was done back those days was to record a playback of one or more tracks in large rooms/locations and then add those recorded tracks into the mix.
Hence the names for types of reverb.
Ever seen how real plate reverbs in an elevator shaft are done? 😄
I'm so thankful for your channel because the end goal is to clearly help people. And all I do is beat on the drums like a neanderthal. Crazy how much push back your channel receives over this simple principle.
Well excuse you, Mr. Glenn Fricker! I am not low enough to do my audio in my gArAgE sTuDiO. I, as the higher being, do it all right in the comfort of my bedroom!
🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣
That's nothing. I do all my recording in my theoretical studio that's built directly into my head. 😄
@@courier11sec I prefer to just play live, in my head, in front of Moscow Metallica crowds.
@@courier11sec That's how you stay truly underground. You can't become popular if the songs only exist in your head.
YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG!
As the saying goes "It's the musician not the instrument." Good musicians can make a cheap/bad instruments sound good. In most cases, good equipment makes the task easier. No amount of gear is going to help a bad musician. Even though I'm a keyboard player I enjoy you show. Your show is for all musician not just metal players. Keep up the good work.
i always said it's better for people to learn music on cheap ass instruments. it makes them way better players when they do get soemthing that is good. because they do every thing in their power to make that cheap insrument sound better and those kind of techniques really carry over to better gear making taht gear sound even better as well. this stems from a simple fact some one once told me . ALL electric guitars suffer from the same basic issues , just the cheap ones don't try to hide those issues because they are cutting cost instead (fret chew, fret buzz , static buzz aka hum ect. ect.).
To an extent... yes however, I've heard practice amps that sound downright abysmal and I've played guitars that feel like literal plywood and its MUCH more difficult to play a more complicated song on it than on a better rig.
No but seriously, there's this 20 year old Fender practice amp that my school's had and it sounds like actual garbage. When I first played it I was genuinely under the impression that the speaker was broken until I realized there was nothing wrong with it.
Good insight. It's also important to point out you don't need massive amounts of recording equipment. to make a a good recording. Boston's first album was recorded in Tom Scholz's basement on a 12 track tape machine
I agree. I have also played on some crappy amps. I also bought a hideous keyboard in the early '90s. It was awful. Learned my lesson on that one. I have a Crate amp from the late '70s early '80s that is showing it's age. Had to retire it. Someday I might disassemble it or take it to a repair shop in attempt salvage it and use it as a spare. There's always that person who needs an amp during jam sessions. Still use a Peavy KB100 from the 1980s and a Behringer K450 FX when I don't want to lug the KB100 around.
@@DenverStarkey I go against this way of thinking. Spending just a bit more for a better instrument will make a begginner spend more time with an instrument and make for an enjoyable time at the begginning...ive had shit guitar for begginning and it only took me a few years to actually make myself to not quit this time.
There are plenty of bruised egos out there. Keep up the sterling work Glenn.... and FU, from the UK!
About to fly to Europe for a series of gigs (first time gigging internationally!!)... the tears and salt of these angry guitar players is the perfect fuel ahead of the flight. Cheers from a gloomy Toronto airport, Glenn :D
Just in plane crashes off coast of Canada....j/k....I hope!
New VC episode means; the weeekend can come!
Seriously, watching your videos has become such an important part of my life lately.
A Glen sig guitar would truly be amazing.
Much fun travelling and stay safe. Cheers
Met you at NAMM last year and you were extremely nice. Hope to see you again this year! Cheers dude
"When The Shaman Calls Down The Lightning" That's a good one.
Glennn!!! I crashed my bands van in Hollywood this past summer. We now have a shirt with the totaled van that says “we let the bassist drive” I think the shirt would look great on you man! We’re called split persona. Check out the shirt maybe our music!
a hot-swappable speaker cabinet would be amazing. here's what I'm thinking a 4x12 with a Channel selector non soldered speaker connectors, plus bolt stud and wingnut mounting hardware (like a car tire) instead of wood screws for the speaker to cabinet mounting for tool less hot-swapping. any thoughts?
Coil tap is supposed to be a lower output because it’s tapped windings, like having a high output pickup that you can switch to vintage output. Coil split separates one coil by turning the other off, making a humbucker sound like a single coil. At least in theory. I have never heard a tonal shift with either option, any difference is due to lower output pushing less gain into the amp. I learned early on was this: use the proper pickup TYPE to the sound you want. Also note, you can roll the volume back to get vintage tones from a high output pickup. I typically set my volume to 8 and tone to 6 or 7, then dial my amp to the sound I want. I got that tip from Colin at CSGuitars and it really does work.
I really love the way you own the naysayers with science and logic. Keep up the great work, sir!
Lots of "Chefs" will EPICALLY FAIL blind taste tests too...which is precisely why such tests exist. Most guitarists can't tell if their guitar is even in tune, much less its "tonal nuances due to wood". The Truth hurts.
Thanks for responding to my comment Glen! That was awesome.
I may have just saved my friend from buying new pick ups.
We were jamming and he said he wanted to get some EMG pick ups like mine.
I was like, lets do a recording test first.
We put our guitars through the same rig and recorded the same riff back to back.
To his surprise they sounded almost identical besides a slight change in gain.
He was blown away and thanked me for saving him time and money!
your knowledge is spreading mayne!!!!
Dude, Glenn!! The diet and exercise regimen that you put into place a few years back is REALLY paying off man. Looking great, keep up all the hard work.
Thanks again for all you do Glenn. I’ve learnt more in the past two weeks watching your videos about the little tricks and odds and ends than I have in the past 20 years of playing. Because of you I’ve progressed a Shit pile and seemingly making huge leaps daily it seems…..keep on keeping on brother.
Glenn, you are a much more kind and patient fellow than I'd be after getting some of the comments you have.
18:26 for hot swappable speakers, you can put hard wires on the end and imitate the way an electric stove coil plugs in, definitely a prototype idea but when I finally get a work shed again I’ll probably give this a shot…
If you do a signature cab, I really think it ought to have doors in the back you can use to tune the bass response to suit speakers with different resonant frequencies and get the frequency response you want. Worth experimenting with. It's also worth comparing that to what you can do with a flat cab response and EQ.
1:00 yep Glenn saved me a bunch of money as well! I was in the music store today for an XLR, and the salesman sold a guy one hell of a Fender American custom shop with the legendary words, "these pickups are like The Beatles sound and this like this the Clapton sound... huh and so Glenns 'The Eagle Has Landed' intro went through my mind. He might as well could've did the same thing on a entry level guitar on that Fender combo cab. Anyways... Oh, yes I released my first Elektro music album today, thanks to Glenn advising DistroKid. Unplugged and Metal releases later this year. Huge progress! Get your business in your own hands. So yeah, watching this channel saved me a lot of struggle and money... Eyes and ears open folks, this guy knows what he is talking about 👉
YES!!! PLEASE make a video on a budget 500 setup! I'm curious about outboard gear in my future, and the 500 series of gear seems tailor-made to my situation with limited space and budget. Thanks for all your hard work!
Love your videos. When the Z monster starts to pull me under into the dark embrace of sleep while I’m at work, your videos give me life again.
Glenn!!!! I definitely think creating a cabinet that has a quick release backplate for hot swapable speaker changes would be absolutely amazing. If you constructed it with the build quality of some of the more popular cabinets using similar materials, you would pose a SERIOUS threat to the competition!
I have watched the video a few times about the pick-up tests. Mainly cause it does proves the point of the guitar pick snake oil theory. So i put 11 of my guitars to the test. They're loaded with Fishmans (modern fluence and carpenter signature), Seymour Duncans (Jb and black outs), MOJO tone , EMG , Roswell, HBZ, Tesla (stock loaded Harley benton) stock loaded ibanez pick ups and also Rockfeild. So I recorded everything direct , wrote down with channel was what guitar waited a about 3 days and listened back to each track dirty and clean... and oit of the 11 I got 3 right.. the hbz and the 2 that have fishmans.. The only reason I could pick those 3 out from all the others was due to volume. The tone difference was too small to really pick out. I really hope others try this test out for yourself. I'm sure the results may vary, but it was fun. Great video, Glenn. I'm looking forward to the next test !!
I'll do that... I just need 8 more guitars XD
@MarukagePlays use what you have I think you will be amazed with the results regardless of how many guitars your have.
GLEEENNN!, I'm on a flight to Malta in a few months and I'll be bringing my bass guitar with me and I need to know how to protect my bass guitar from those careless ground handlers (and Ryanair themselves) who are usually dumber than bass players themselves!.
A video on how to safely pack your instrument before flying please
I really enjoy your videos and how you break it down to what really matters. Sometimes a cheap guitar sounds good by accident and you would probably agree that the most important thing is playability and some guitars are just more comfortable to play due to their weight balance and being set up correctly
2:43 Did I maybe miss an episode about using a real compressor vs just a plug-in? Curious why it really matters.
Thanks for your honesty and opinions regardless of other people's butt hurt. Carry on. Peace!
An easy swap speaker cab would actually be pretty easy to do. You just need some alignment pins for the screw holes and some twist locks (like want are used on truck bed covers or travel boxes).
Well, what about them rattling around, and if not right away, then over time? Not saying there aren't ways, but I cannot imagine the would come cheep if anyone ever makes them. The mark up on simple and basic hardware is quite high, add a bit of engineering and it could ad a whopping $100 to every cabinet made with it, and with gear snobs out there, the mark up can be even higher the second they show any interest!
@@Bob-of-Zoid foam or rubber tape.
Also, I was just throwing it out as a simple DIY but, if you think I should be manufacturing them, ok?
@@spencermcelrea9311 I didn't think you were thinking of manufacturing them, but you made the suggestion and said it would be easy, and it may sound that way until you consider everything involved, and good engineering is not trying things until you find something work, but designing it to be sure to work, before you build a prototype, or even a "prove principle model" before a prototype.
GLEEENNNNNNN!!!!
Tried out the AT2020 mic on your rec, absolutely blown away. Might be my favourite mic on heavy guitar now.
More diamonds in the rough please!
Speaking of affordable imitations of the original gear, have you ever reviewed any Warm Audio stuff? I'd be curious to hear your thoughts. I've had my eye on a couple pieces of outboard gear from them as well as their 251 mic clone. .
Hey Glen!
Please do a review / tutorial of using 500 series gear in this context.
I have been looking at integrating 500 series stuff into my in the box rig, and this would be extremely helpful.
Thanks!
"It’s Easier To Fool People Than To Convince Them That They’ve Been Fooled." Mark Twain
I was thinking about gettin' Suhr Doug Aldrich pickups for my LP. You just made me change my mind and made me save some money that I can spend on things that are very useful if you wanna actually play the guitar: strings
I just saw Carcass live, the guitarists use Gibson Les Pauls (Bill Steer was using a Melody Maker) and they were playing through the EVH 5150 III 50 watt versions, plus the signature cabinets.
Recorded yesterday, and doing it again today... Reaper/x32/Eminence Texas Heat/57/U87/Podgo running Rev Red... OH MY GOD IS IT GOOD!!!
I have a lot of respect for all the free knowledge and gear that you share with the music community. I do agree that the speakers contribute to 80% or more of a guitar sound. Tubes just provide power, they either work or don’t work, a guitars wood and construction type only do very little for the sound and pickups(with exceptions to true single coils vs Humbucker)only change output mostly, besides some being a little more compressed than others. Even different amps do very little for the overall sound, especially when most people eq them to their liking. The eq on amps only slightly sculpt the sound, as they are not full frequency ranging as other eq’s. The mic type/placement can change the sound a good deal. All this I’ve learned from playing guitars and recording them for 25 years. So I do agree with you but I think it’s worth mentioning that pickups can be more or less a mod for someone who wants a different look and/or slightly different output. Thanks for all you do, keep putting out videos and I’ll keep watching them. I’ve got my mind set on the ELE drums at the moment, I will be purchasing them soon!!!!
I wanted to know your opinion on Warm Audio stuff!? You talk about 1176 from Stem at 1600$ but does the warm stuff any good?
planning on getting a Pultec Style Warm EQ and a LA-2A Style and I would lot to know
Gosh dang! That opening comment was so cultured and intelligent in its simplicity with just a single versed reference. Obviously not written by a bass player!
Can any mention which compressor, EQ, mixing board, mics, that were used on Exodus' albums? If you worked with them.... quiet!
Speaking of Carcass, I absolutely love the guitar tone on Edge of Darkness from their Wake Up and Smell the Carcass album.
Hey Glenn great show! I just bought a Schecter C1 FR-S apocalypse series guitar. What a gem this thing is! Could you do a review of this beautiful guitar? I got the RED REIGN color and it is mind blowing!
Looking good, Glenn. Hope you’re staying healthy and that your year is off to a great start.
1 out of 1500 is in the realm of Type I error. I would have thought a few more people would have gotten the guesses right by chance alone. Full disclosure: You totally stumped and educated my bass playing behind.
I gotta share this one too, dinosaur Jr fans were all shocked last year when J Mascis told everybody that his signature Jazzmaster-Big Muff-Marshall stack sound was pretty much never what was actually on any of his recordings.
I think he said Out There was an SG junior through one of the smaller fenders.
The bassist in my band just came up with a genius way to save himself money. When it was time for us to pay the engineer for mixing & mastering our album, he quit the band. Brilliant!
Why would compression on the way in be needed and how would be that different from doing this post recording? Other than limiting to prevent distortion of course but recording so hot is hardly needed these days.
Denial is a dangerous thing unfortunately. People who have been dreaming in a dogma all their lives can easily panic when they get shaken out of their sleep
So hyped for your bass strings 🤘🏻
Two things here:
1. Have you tried contacting James Hetfield himself?
2. Most of Jimmy Page's sound came from using MK II and MK III Tone Benders. As for his amps: He didn't only use Marshall Plexis. He also used Hiwatt, Rickenbacker, Supro, Vox, and Orange amps. He stopped using Hiwatts live and switched to Marshalls because it was difficult to find places to service Hiwatts when he was on touring in America; whereas, Marshall had authorized service centers everywhere.
I'm a broke college student who doesn't have a ton of money and your videos have helped me feel like I can actually lay down some bangers without being a millionaire.
As someone who had to take over a year off of recording because of a shitty living situation, you learn to work with what you have and use your brain and ears to make good songs, not your wallet
(i do play a Gibson SG though, it was a gift and is my baby. after a string butler and some locking tuners it's a beast)
I have a Gibson sg, Have you noticed any difference with the string butler? Is it worth getting?
@@DoktrDub it works great for keeping the A, D, G, and B strings in tune, but it doesn't actually do anything for the E strings so if you're having problems there I'd look at other methods. Some nut lube every string change is enough to compensate for those two strings in my case, and my G string wouldn't stay in tune at all before the Butler and now I can hammer on it for a while before it goes out
Hot-swappable speakers? No! The cab would need an auto-switching dummy load to maintain the impedance during swapping, or you might risk damaging your amp (depends on how robust the output transformer is and whether your increasing or decreasing the load during the swap). Quick-swappable speakers? Yes, make it easy to pull them out and put them into the cab, with nice quick-connect plugs/sockets on the wiring.
"Oh, no, Glenn presents an argument I don't like, better threaten violence!"
I'm not quite sure why so many people do not seem to get the science of near field micing, which is what a pickup is basically doing. A piece of wood does not effect this
For someone your age to just find out, the importance of the speaker tells me you have been under a rock for a long time
Hey Glenn! We did a test once where we tried like 7 different DI boxes through a front of house at a venue, with barely any tonal difference. Any chance of getting a DI box comparison? I think people are overspending on those too.
A hot swappable cab would be really easy to do the only thing that would be concerning is if the speaker doesn't mount properly it may have some vibrations but it seems like a really easy problem to solve
Up until the 1970s, after babies were born they'd be slapped on their bottom to help clear their airways. When a baby cried after being born it meant they were healthy and ready to be handed to the mother. This was a long accepted practice until a gentleman named Frederick Leboyer wrote a book that suggested that the practice was traumatic to a newborn infant. As such the tradition of slapping a babies bottom after birth was dropped. To this day however the only thing more whiney than a baby just being born before the 1970s are some of the people in this comment section.
I have the Elite version of Bias FX. Guess what I've been using the most lately? Nalex free Amp sims, Nadir, and Glenn's V30 IR impulse. 🙂
Hey Glenn, I'm curious to hear what your thoughts are about FRFR cabs for modelers. I'm downsizing my gear to just a couple guitars and a modeler. However, I would like an FRFR cab to play through rather than just play it through studio monitors to give it an "amp in the room" esque experience. I am nervous about purchasing one of these, setting up my presets on one, and then in the future taking the modeler to a gig and then plugging into the venue's PA system and noticing a completely unbalanced sound compared to when playing through the FRFR cab. I have had a hard time finding science on this topic. Just a lot of sponsored crap.
Since there's compressor talk... I have a MG10XU that I use for recording and I love it. Now, it has a built in compressor for the first 2 channels and what's your opinion on whether or not use them while recording bass or if the rawest DI possible is best. Also I'm a bass player so a single knob is too hard to figure out. I have no idea if it makes my sound better or worse if someone can help me out...
Glenn, the fact you let “John” down that gently proves why I come back each week.
You could’ve easily had the algorithm take care of posts like those (who’s to say you didn’t?) but you also gave him some constructive criticism to think about.
Maybe his mom needs to take away all his Monster so he’d stop punching holes in the drywall…
Hey Glenn, For phase issues on null tests, you might give the spectral alignment feature of MAutoAlign a try (along with the 192kHz rate). I know it helps tremendously when blending direct bass and an IR.
15:33 I own a Tele and it sound pretty darn close to a Les Paul thru a Bugera 6260. You should try it one day.
I think one thing overlooked when talking about good pickups is noise. When a humbucker has perfectly matched winding on each side it eliminates hum much better. The further wraps are off the more noise will come through. The output and how quiet they are when you're not playing is how I judge a pickup. I do play metal but I like to bust into classical type clean parts so I can't just judge my pickup based on how good it sounds with chainsaw gain and a noise gate. If I was still playing death metal I wouldn't worry about it very much. I would like to see this experiment done again using bigger chords in distortion mixed with power chords and a clean part. Addressing a coil tap. It will also not reveal much difference unless you're playing clean, with the exception of noise of course. I wasn't surprised at all by the results of the chainsaw gain test. I also would like to see you use KT66 tubes in your test. I couldn't get the gain tone I wanted from my signature amp until they got rid of the KT66 tubes but all the other tubes we tried worked great. Those are the only tubes I've ever found that actually do change the sound of your gain. I didn't actually watch the tune video all the way through because I knew there would be little difference. Also almost no high gain amp is loaded with KT66's so it's really not a factor. Just thought it was worth mentioning.
Glen, I know it’s not your type of music, but listening to you talk about the speakers I am reminded of a Joe Walsh interview. He said the sound on “Funk 49” was due to it being recorded on a Fender Champ and how the small speaker broke up and shaped the sound.
When it comes to coil splitting the difference is minimal but in my experience it isn't inconsequential. volume is definitely the biggest difference and the pick up is a bit more noisy which I guess adds like "character" which I like but idk how to measure so does it really matter? I think the best analogy I've heard was from Rob scallon he said humbucker smooth peanut butter coil split crunchy peanut butter.
3:01 In regards to the 500 series, you should. Warren Huart did an episode on that. Would like to hear your take on that.
In my bedroom I have a lot less power than in my official jam spot. I’m using a Peavey VYPYR 1 almost always a tad of reverb and delay to fatten up the sound. Usually use the 6505, XXX or Rectifier. Use an Ibanez tube screamer an boss noise suppressor hooked up with the 4 cable method and it freaking rocks!! Super tight decay knob all the way up ! The amp already has a tube screamer but only 2 parameters though. Like your dingaling ya just have to play with it to get it right!! You’ll be playing guitar just like ringing a bell!!
In the basement there’s 280 watts of power!! Once again you can actually get good sounds from the line 6 catalyst just need a pedal board and run it in stereo!! That’s when the Boss Metal Zone sounds it’s best in stereo, boosted and EQed!! Distortion pedals definitely change your tone!! We all can agree!! But from what I’ve learned great metal tones are always boosted and use noise reduction. The Boss is still the best when hooked up properly! The 4 cable method insures to truly quiet all unwanted noise! Otherwise you don’t get the optimal results ..
Will see if someone at Medley can ask Flemming.
But should be in the lines of Mesa Mark 2C+ preamp into JCM800 and a standard 1960B cab, so G12-T75 speakers.
Missing the mic/mics, I forwarded the question to someone that most probably is able to ask the man himself.
Just one thing about hot swapping speakers. I’m no good at working with tools or anything like that but it takes me no more than 5-10 minutes to swap a speaker in a cab. It’s really straightforward with newer speakers and cabs.
I bought a 6505+ two days ago just from your $325 video. ITS FUCKING AWESOME. KEEP IT UP MAN. YOU AND OLA ARE THE ONLY ONES I WATCH
I’ve watched a lot of people debating religious fanatics (especially creationists). The similarities between the religious fanatics and guitar puritans is staggering. “Oh, you have scientific evidence to support you? We’ll that doesn’t matter, I’ll keep believing what I _want_ to believe!”.
Remember Glenn: It is easier to fool most people than to convince them they have been fooled. Look at almost anything in life and you will see this.
For hot swapping speakers you can obviously do 1/4" jacks, then a three point hold down system with hooks on the bottom and a cam lock style hold down up top (possibly also on the lower two for holding it in best). Think like what you have on bicycle front wheels.
Tonewood might not make a difference in metal, but playing clean, you definitely hear differences in instruments depending on wood and wood quality. There are so many factors that go into how a guitar sounds, though. I will agree, that I don't really hear a lot of difference in tone when using distortion.
I'm so glad you showed how pickups make little difference, especially when played with extreme distortion like you do. I always suspected that. Don't get me wrong, I play primarily clean jazz and blues, so I gravitate to Fenders with noiseless single coil pickups and do like my Gibson LP Standard 60's despite your hatred for them. I do however love listening to heavy metal. I'd like to go one step further. If you play with extreme distortion, then I think it doesn't even matter what guitar you use, cheap or expensive, as long as it has a nice playable fretboard and stays in tune.
Giordano Bruno was just saying too. It doesn’t really depend on time we are living, people gonna be the same. If they could, they would set people on fire again….
How about just a line of quick-connect accessories that modify any speaker, making it swappable without soldering? Like, adapters that snap on to bare leads on one end, tabs on the other.
LOL dude at 10:29 is apparently a "Math Scientist." XD
"Hey what do you do for a living?"
"I'm a math scientist..."
"....You mean a mathematician?"
Master Of Puppets speakers. There were a few Marshall 4x12 jcm800 4x12’s being made in the 80’s. I’d guess either 65 watt celestion or the old G12-80. Those speakers were different from the CL80. We had a bunch of speaker cabinet ets together once and my friend had an old beat up JCM800 with the g12-80 and it was killer. That was among the best along with, surprisingly, an Engle 4x12 loaded with v30’s.
When it comes to trying to achieve a guitar tone heard on somebody's record, I'm very surprised nobody talks about the use of guitar layering. For example, the Master of Puppets tone, James recorded at least three takes that then gets combined to create that thick heavy tone. The raw tone is actually thinner than you'd expect in order to keep each take sounding tight. Then they still have to add in the bass guitar. In the end, what you hear is a tone that's nearly impossible to get with one guitar alone.
Sound is in everything, but mostly the speakers. I use an old Crown amp salvaged from a building PA system with a 2x18" Peavy Black Widow cabinet. It's perfect because it has no bells and whistles. Simple and stable amplification, removal of signal noise, and good speakers will get a person 90% "there". Chasing that last 10% is what it is, I chase tones as much as anyone, but I'd rather drop $5k once on a piece of gear I know will do something for me than spend $200 ten or fifteen times because I'm just guessing.
For hot swappable speakers, how about getting a 4 x 10 or 4 x 12 cab and set up switching so only one speaker is on at a time. Only good for in-studio demos, not recording. But it's a start.
Hello from Australia, re pickups, a few years ago i did my own experiment with a few second hand dimarzio's i got off ebay, i had my beloved old ibanez ex, i had already changed the stock bridge pick up for an ibanez V8 by then, but next i tested a PAF Pro, a Breed, and then a D-Sonic (bar to the bridge) hunting for a good death metal bridge pick up. I recorded my self playing (attempting to play) rythm parts from lashed to the slave stick by Nile in Drop A tuning. I eventually settled on the D-Sonic. But through that whole process the biggest shift i saw was between old and new strings.
Hey Glen! I loved your test to prove tonewood and pickups matter little when it comes to high-gain playing. I wonder though, what about bass tones? As they are not usually under the same levels of distortion, are pickups more relevant than on guitars?
Pardon the noobishness.
The main thing i learned from the video where you swapped pickups; i am really interested in a guitar with p-90’s. That pickup had some killer snap to it, even with high gain
Only thing is they are insanely noisy, so be prepared to tame that. I've got a Strat with P90s.
@@connerstines1578 Do the make a "noiseless" p90 of any sort that's worth a crap?I've really been digging the crunch of them lately.
@@denverrandy7143 I bet somewhere they do, I've only tried one set of noiseless P90s and they sounded a bit more like a brighter humbucker than a P90. Still good, just not the same sound. Can't remember who the maker was, it was a while back.
@@denverrandy7143 Looking them up only thing I could find that kinda fit the bill of what those pickups I tried were Fishmans. So they were active as well. They were in a Yamaha guitar I played for a short while, if noise is an issue, they might be something to look at.
@@connerstines1578 Right on man,I'll look them up.Ive really been getting into the "Doom" looking guitars.lol even though I don't play doom. But the Yamaha SG series are awesome.
Have a great first act custom look to me. Thanks again!!!
The guitar tone in my airpods sounds astonishingly different than my Klipsch RP-600M speakers at home, or the Rockford Fosgate boom booms in the back of my 1994 Civic hatchback... ;)
do these youtubers recommend headphones because nobody owns decent home audio?
honestly asking...im a bit older and laughed at beats headphones from day 1 cuz they were for bus riders and highschoolers...meanwhile a great used home stereo setup can easily be had for under $500
im omitting the car audio aspect only to keep it short
@@kazzxtrismus I'm sure headphones are recommended because most people don't have the resources, time, or brain cells to put up decent acoustic treatment. Wanna avoid the hassle of figuring out how to treat your room, building/buying said treatment AND installing it? Just buy good headphones.
As Glenn has pointed out, I have noticed a huge difference in stereo imaging between monitors and headphones (headphones miss out on crossover, basically speaking), so I tend to record with headphones and mix on monitors nowadays. But, that's because I am now at a place where I can actually build/install some treatment.
@@CantKillACowboyTX while acoustic treatments are necessary for recording to catch the finer elements i wouldnt think theyre really that necessary for just listening to youtube or music while cooking.
a good older yamaha 4 channel stereo amp and a set of even decent speakers will sound dramatically better than most headphones and no the bose tiny things through a pro logic theater setup is nowhere near as good (and not better than real studio quality headphones at $2-400)
Yea I guess they do typically, the youths consume virtually everything on their phones. We need not go down the road of audiophile quality compression, D/A converters, Bluetooth, or headphone amps in telephones.
That being said, Glenn is a recording engineer. How the stuff get played back is out of his control, but I'm sure he listens to his mixes on airpods just to make sure it's not complete garbage on what most people will listen to it on.
Many thanks Glen
Thoughts on true temperament frets? They claim to make the guitar more in tune and intonation nearly perfect. Kinda seems snake oily to me but I don’t know
re: Hetfield MoP sound
Have you tried contacting Flemming Rasmussen? I known the session notes have been floating around for years now but it's possible he may have some receipts saved from Sweet Silence or other stuff from the sessions he hasn't made public.
What would be interesting is if you have top level engineers listen to a guitar shootout. Not so much as to see if they can name the guitar, but rather what aspects they pick out when they hear cheap and expensive guitars. I think that would be a great lesson.
That Milli Vinilli quip was legendary! Kudos to whoever posted that 😂