How Bad is Music Gear From Wish.com?
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00:00 Intro
00:33 Buying The Gear
03:09 Ad
03:57 Trying Out The Gear
10:10 A Song With The Gear
11:54 Closing Thoughts
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How did the bass strings feel?
Do more of vids plz
Haha you know you have made it when people start impersonating you online... or you are a victim of identity theft... either way... actually, I can't think of anything to say there...
And I thought I'd won the contest to get all of your equipment!
Ah shit, I was so excited at first 🫠
The multi FX pedal was actually really impressive
Ikr I might actually buy it lol
I got one. Really good for budget guitarist hahaha
Yeah really, it did a pretty decent job!
For the price, darn good value@@stone5against1
The most impressive thing here isn’t the song, as cool as it is, it’s the fact you actually received all your items from wish 🤣
🤣🤣🤣
Except for the piano's missing mic!
I mad a hundred+ dollar purchase from Wish a few years ago. To this day, I have not received any of it >:( Though it seems when I ordered stuff one or two items at a time, they always arrived in a timely manner. Maybe I broke the shipping system, fragile as it is.
Wish is getting better since their Founder left a couple months ago.
Dang I've never bought anything from them that I didn't receive.
I have no idea why, but the "Thanks Baby" on the keyboard sent me into absolute hysterics.
Lol that was a "thanks for the money! We ripped you off.. SUCKA!"
@@joshuawilliams1893 Pretty much how I interpreted that. Like buying a speaker system from a guy in a parking lot, taking the box home and opening it to find a bunch of bricks with a note saying thanks. 😆
Yeah, that caught me off guard 🤣
Me too. I think it might be a bad translation, and I REALLY wonder what it was meant to say.
I really have a soft spot for cheap and sometimes crappy instruments because you can make music with almost anything, no matter how low the bar. Play with it, record it, edit it and sometimes you don't even have to do much. Each instrument comes with its own charme. Yes, even the REALLY bad ones. All it takes is... accepting it for what it is and make the most out of it. Be creative. And you'll be surprised what you can pull off with very little :)
And the entrance bar is really low. Like with Harley Benton guitars. I got mine to learn guitar and it for sure isn't a Fender Strat but I'm blown away of the quality for 79€.
limitations breed creativity
Same.
Pushing stuff to its limits is fun.
And plus, you can make the crappiest gear sound great in the right hands.
Reminds me of the guy that used a can as the only instrument to make a song, granted, he tweaked the sounds using an editor (forgive me for not having the music tech lingo) to make it
I've got to say, the little amoon pedal thing isn't bad at all for what it is. I've heard things that cost way more, and sound way worse.... so
@@DamageJackyl still using my Zoom G-1 to this day. i thought i killed it a few weeks back but nope, it just outlived another power pack lol
Generally even the crappiest gear can be convinced to do one or two things well. Whether those things are useful or reliable is another matter.
They were giving them away for free about a year ago on Wish. I paid the shipping charge for $2 and waited months and months for it but it's impossible to beat for $2. I ended up with like 3 or 4 of these. I want to give one away to someone who needs one.
Sounds good, but looks awful and cheap. I doubt it can handle a lot of use.
@@tenJajcus I've had mine for over 2 years and I still use it frequently. If I'm on break and I don't eat, I just grab my guitar from the trunk, throw some headphones on and start playing. I always have ideas for riffs at work too. I like bringing my guitar so I can play whatever is in my head and commit it to memory before I forget about it.
I built my first guitar from parts I bought off wish, 2 years down the line it’s still my fav guitar and my stage guitar. I love it in its terrible way and yet it sounds good and I get asked where I got the pickups from all the time haha
I use an 80$ etsy 3-string Piezo-pickup cigar box guitar lol. It’s Uber cheap, looks cool, and is easy to play due to only 3 strings and open tuning!
@@tilltanky5367 remember the 300$ frankenstrat replica? chinese made body and neck for almost the same as Eddies purchase price for parts in the 1974...
EVERYONE should own a pock-rock. I own one and it's fucking amazing for the price. You can get legit, usable tones out of it, it has a drum machine, a tuner, aux-in/headphones-out, etc. It even has a built-in noise gate! This thing would have revolutionised guitar in the 90s.
I agree 100%. Also it would have been 299.99 in 1995
How can you not love a Thanks Baby keyboard? It's so bad it's wonderful.
Hainbach would be drooling all over it ; )
Thanks baby for the $25 bucks more like.
More a Simon the magpie thingy
That killed me lmao
My favorite part is that the shirt design extends to the collar, but it's not even in line
😂
😂💀
Amazing... that shirt was absolutely amazing
100%
Those "mics" for 6$ are really great for acoustic instruments. I've been using one of those for my classical guitar even in live setups and it's OK. The trick is that it's just a piezo element, not a real mic, so it's not that expensive to produce. Many electroacoustics use the similar elements, just in different shape.
7:46 the visual of “Thanks Baby” actually made me laugh out loud.
Even though the bass strings failed to glow in the dark, did they provide you with the perfect musical experience?
More importantly, did they not cut his hands?
@@brendanm6921 I was going to ask that same thing… lol
What is wrong is that they are supposed to glow in the dark, not in a black light. Totally different things
@@assmaster420 This is a good use for a camera flash. If those strings glow in the dark _at all,_ hitting them with a camera flash should get a visible glow off of them for a few seconds at a minimum.
@@assmaster420
Things that are made to glow in the dark will glow in black-light.
The song sounded amazing! Awesome that you did it with all the cheap crap! I guess it's the player, not the gear.
This was all gear. The keyboard made the song! Thanks baby indeed!
$197 for an UNFINISHED guitar kit? I got a fully assembled beautiful flamed quilted maple top Gibson replica for sub $200, that's nuts.
I've never seen a guitar kit for more than 130
its CAD
Well done for admitting buying cheap chinese knockoffs....Flame quilted maple top LOL You really have been duped.
@@sonicmistress correct 😂
i think ive seen almost the exact same kit that he got on ebay for like half the price. and stewmac has mini guitar kits that are (probably) actually good for around 200 dollars
ammoon makes some surprisingly okay stuff. I bought one of their soprano saxophones, and it's actually good. I'll be the first to admit I won the cheap musical gear lottery with that one and it could have been an awful pile of junk just as easily, subject to who was working the assembly line and what kind of day they were having, but I'm happy with it.
Ammoon ripped me off hard with a looper pedal that couldn't be shipped due to COVID, couldn't even get a refund
@@iliketrains3495 that sucks man I got mine second hand on ebay and it's awesome
I built my own S-type kit from Ammoon, even though it would have been slightly cheaper to buy one fully assembled. Then I upgraded the pickups, the tuners, the nut, and the pickguard/pickup carrier. And it still came out to less than $200, even counting the cost of polyurethane and stains and guitar-specific tools like a fret file and an action gauge. This is the guitar that I sampled for my (free) virtual instrument, Blue Jeans and Moonbeams.
The only thing wrong with it is that I need to replace the 14th fret because I mistakenly did all my fret leveling with it not quite hammered all the way in, and now it's too low on one end.
@@_Diego_ damn bro don't rub it in
I might as well give it a try. Not bad tho
That was actually a really catchy song. Good job finding a way to use that piano lol
7:35 when ancient samurai discovered vinyl recordings 🤣
The contact mic was surprising - I thought the clip was initially a condensor microphone and you were about to switch to the contact mic which would sound rubbish in comparison. The little multi-fx seemed pretty good for the money too
same i was waiting for him to say, “okay so now let’s compare it to wish contact mic”
I bought a cheap contact Mic that was so noisy it was unusable, but I think I just got a dud. But I'm saving for a new acoustic so I'll just get one with a pickup already in it.
Cheap contact mics can actually sound pretty good. It only costs a few bucks to make your own if you already own a soldering iron, and you'd probably get better results. Just a piezo, a jack, some wire, and a piece of tape.
Yeah, I feel like you could buy a $30 contact mic from a music store and get a similar sound quality. It was a bit harsh and brittle, but not the worst.
@@BosseCory the tone is entirely dependent on where it's placed. I know why he didn't do this (the adhesive on these things are no joke) but if he placed it further from the note hole it would have sounded better.
I once made a decent contact mic with an old headphone cable and the piezoelectric speaker from a greeting card. It's kinda amazing how easy and cheap they are to make.
@@sock2828 Absolutely! I've even used dollar store earbuds to make drum triggers before. Worked like a charm. Wouldn't try using those for anything else though lol
@@lazrpo Note hole? Oh you mean the pick swallower?
Samurai "Thanks Baby" T-shirts are needed.
guitar shirts a must , he can bootleg wish
I was surprised and impressed by how that guitar sounded, and that multi FX was brilliant. I'd forgotten about those devices. I'll be buying one. Superb result of what you produced too.
I definitely love this concept ! I didn't think you were going to be able to do much with this stuff , and there you were knocking it out of the park with these toys that were being sold as instruments !
Bravo ! I definitely felt the same way as you about these products .
Watching you make perfectly outstanding music with this is like watching Steven Spielberg make Marcus Mumford's music video on his iPhone while his wife pushed him around on a rolling office chair instead of a million-dollar rig of cranes, trucks and dollies. Sometimes the magic is in the gadgets; but sometimes it's in the magician.
Magician indeed..
The magic is never in the gadgets!
A terrible guitar player won't sound good with a beautiful instrument.
Loved the video! Just to offer some constructive criticism, although I really liked the song at the end (it gave me chills), it was mixed in such a way that the sound of the DIY guitar kind of overpowered everything else, so even while intently listening with headphones I struggled to pick out the other instruments. While in a musical sense it probably sounds better the way you did it, I feel that it could have been more satisfying as a finale to the video if the mixing had put the instruments on more equal footing.
Yeah, definitely. I couldn't really hear the kazoo or the tongue drum at all, even with nice headphones.
@@GGov86 Yeah that is what I thought it was the best instrument and you could barely hear it!
@@GGov86 Couldn't agree more. The steel drum lines looked like they would sound sweet but I couldn't hear them at all.
kinda sad, as if you get really good headphones you can actually hear the kazoo and the steel drum in the mix, and they're neat, but so quiet it's a shame...
Sam…you’re proof that an accomplished musician can take even the most lacking of music gear and make solid music with it. It’s the human making the music that matters most as opposed to the gear itself.
Sammy has so much talent!!
These vids never fail to put a huge smile on my face! 👍🏼
This was truly remarkable. Fun nonetheless. Thanks Baby!
This is a great example of “tone is in the hands”
I love this video and I can't believe you made a really slick catchy piece of music with all of that gear. Great stuff.
Thanks mate, amazing what you can do musically with a bit of knowledge and some talent thrown in.
Some of the items were actually worth it like the pedal and the steel drum and the microphone was worth the price as well!
Bro, only you could come up with something that sounds really good out of a bunch of wish stuff. I frickin loved it.
This was one of the most creative videos you’ve made in a long time! Props! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Awesome video and great jam at the end. Thanks baby!
Nice jam at the end! The tongue drum actually sounded excellent, and even that cheapo Ammoon multi-fx processor sounded semi-useable. I think the lesson here is that if you're a good musician, you can make even the cheapest instruments sound great.
I’ve use that contact mic in a lot of projects and I always thought of it as the “expensive one” for my nice projects. You can go way cheaper.
I think I bought a 6 pak for cheap... triggers for an Octopad....
You can even use the little piezo speakers out of McDonalds toys and other small electronic gadgets if you want to go really cheap.
Love these videos, entertaining and enlightening 👍👍. Thanks baby
Some of the budget brands are definitely better than others. Aklot, which made your tongue drum, and its parent company, Kmise, are very well regarded as makers of "budget" ukuleles. I have a solid-top tenor ukulele, an all-solid concert ukulele, and a 16-string lyre from Aklot. No complaints about the ukuleles. I'm not sure the strings have ever fully stabilized on the lyre, but I probably haven't spent enough time with it.
Back in the '80's we would take a $20 Barcus Berry contact pickup like that, install it inside under the bridge, add a $5 end pin jack and send them out the door for $50.
My whole pedal board consists of Joyo and Caline pedals from Wish. Also Pedal power supplies, microfone clones and such. Funniest thing is that the same items are sold by Thomann under the Harley Benton brand.
BUT: I’ve used this equipment for around five years now at home, in studio and live situations and it never failed me.
My other guitarist in the band likes to make fun of my „Chinese crap“ while pointing out proudly on his 2,000 € Line 6 Helix which he pays over two years and can’t operate properly.
My stuff was free and it does the job very well.
Brokie
@@robbirose7032 Brokie rather has his home paid off by the age of forty 😂
@@FlorianGuitar85 homes are not important. Having nice pedals and showing them off to people is what's important.
Get your priorities straight.
@@robbirose7032 Lubing the nut regularly is my no. 1 priority. I also show that a lot to people.
@@FlorianGuitar85 well lubing ones nut is very important. I agree.
And the more people that you tell is also very important.
Agreed 👍
Diggin' that Dano bass!! Their "Tuna Melt" tremolo is legendary, and yes I own one. Great video. I love really cheap stuff!
At about 9:08 he sounds like the host from Total Drama Island
Also: Happy Memorial Day
That guitar kit was quite expensive, you can get those for like $60..
Got that pock rock on a 50 cent deal on wish and ended up paying only like 8.50 for the thing plus shipping. It is really awesome for the price.
gotta luv sammy's sense of humor.
keep doing a great job.
That was a lot of fun! The song at the end very much had a Walk Off The Earth vibe to it, would love to see you partner with them to create cheapest gear song!
You should do a video where you mod that guitar into a very playable and good sounding instrument. Better tuners, nut, electronics, pickups, fret dress and polish. Possibly also stain the wood and do something with that head stock.
“One of these things is not like the other.”
When I was a high school freshman (in Houston, TX), Einstürzende Neubauten came to town. My often overprotective-but strangely open-minded-mother would only let me go to the all ages show if she could check out the venue (Phideaux’s if I’m remembering right) beforehand. On the afternoon of the show, I went down there with her for the approval process. We arrived during soundcheck. The guitarist was on stage using some sort of handheld device to get this crazy electronic buzzing/whirring/grinding sound through his amp. Intrigued, I approached him and asked how he was creating this incredible noise. He revealed to me a piece of “gear” that I was wholly unfamiliar with. My mother walked up just in time for him to say, “It is ‘wibrator.’” I was ultimately denied attendance. To this day, I believe it was the “toy” that broke the camel’s back.
Damn what a missed opportunity lol
Germans are dedicated lol
Dude, this is one of the more fun gear videos!! And also gives a good advice to starting musicians - just start playing and don't give up! And as you prove in your playing and composition - The human brain is the most amazing musical "gear" in the Universe! God bless you!
I don’t care how bad some of these products turned out to be, because the song you created with them totally slaps! The fact that you created such gold out of an assortment of sewage trinkets speaks volumes!
I've heard so much about Samurai Dad.. Would love to see him on the channel someday..
That fuzz was pretty cool.
That drum set wasn’t that bad..same for the multi fx.
The tongue drum was neat too.
Hands down the most creative video I've seen in years. That t-shirt kills me bruh!! You wore it the whole time! I bought one of those red pocky guitar effects processor from wish and it is a cool little gadget to noodle around on at home. That keyboard didn't even have an led screen did it? Was it a sticker?
The shirt is hilarious & the song amazing. Keep on keepin on brotha🤘
Thank you for doing this. I’m always second guessing my wisdom in refusing to buy these products. And I’m like “but WHAT IF?”
Bro when u put on the shirt and said “the sizing is completely f*cked” I couldn’t stop laughing 😭😭😭😭
Awesome vid man! Keep it going, I would def subscribe for stuff like this!
Thanks that was brilliant and informative cheers.🇬🇧
The pedal sounds actually decent and there are plenty of effect options. Sounds like not a bad deal as something for a beginner or to take in travels
Also I loved the music in the end!
That multi effect is surprisingly serviceable, sounds better than both a zoom and a digitech that I used to have lol
I haven't watched you in a couple years and it's awesome to see you have grown from 200,000 followers congrats bud 🥳
Man! That Shirt!!! I laughed a bit when you showed the design, but I was DYING when you put it on. Pure gold, dude.
It’s awesome how amazing musicians can make low quality instruments sounds great
That melodica is cool, I used to have a very similar one that we actually used on stage quite often. I also had a glock I paid $35 for at a Cracker Barrel restaurant that did an entire tour with us. We would just mic it up as if it was a standard set of bells.
When you say u bought a Glock at cracker barrel for 35 plz tell me your not talking about the gun. That sounds highly unreliable
@@mattmoore4044 I thought so too (or a clock). Then I realized he probably meant a glockenspiel. I don't think Cracker Barrel sells real guns😁 either.
@@cathoderaytube7497 Then they're missing a market.
bro wth you got a strap from cracker barrel for 35 bucks?
The keyboard was absolutely hilarious! What a great laugh. Thanks for putting this together.
loving that you immediately went for the robin hood rooster tune soon as the kazoo hit your lips
You should wear this t-shirt more often I think, in rehersals, gigs, concerts, everywhere 😂😂
I have a waldman go-fex, which is basically that PockRock pedal but with a different brand, and i can say it's absolutely worth buying if you're practicing guitar
The Hamster Dance is always a welcome trip down memory lane, especially in kazoo 😂
That truly is a super neat and catchy song though man, nicely done!
Gotta say his mixing skills are very good, his sense of space in the song is great
I hope Sammy knows he has to wear the guitar shirt to his big event in San Diego later this year.
I want him to bring the mini guitar so we can have a contest to who can coax the sweetest tone/lick out of it.
Amazing musical arrangement bro ❤️
Awesome song at the end 🔥🔥🔥
I bought a looper pedal from Wish once. It did nothing except quiet my signal to 5% of it's usual volume.
I remember Fluff reviewing the pock rock as well some years ago and being similarly impressed by the quality and the tones he could get out of it. It's been sitting in my wishlist since then.
that little red multi effects thing is actually phenomenal!
Omg, this was hilarious and your tune made me very happy too. Thanks Sammy G! ✌️😌🎸
“Thanks Baby” just absolutely killed me
I like the reverb, honestly
The little red guitar effect is awesome!!
Thoroughly entertaining! Awesome video
0:47 That's actually just vibrato with an extra r.
I bought a Klon Klone on wish for something like $36... It's actually not bad. Unlike that keyboard which actually is bad.
probably a mosky golden horse, those are solid klones for around 35-40 bucks
@@adamnovak7602 On wish they call it "TTONE KLON CENTAUR GOLD HORSIE"... It's a larger form factor pedal than the mosky and it resembles a shrunken real klon. There are some that look similar from various sellers that have treble knobs that cut instead of boost, so YMMV. It's cheaply made, but it is metal and sounds pretty good.
@@thomaslearn1136 Gold Horsie :)
That's awesome.
@@thomaslearn1136 I got a couple TTONE wish pedals all for like 20$ and I love them
I actually bought a few of those contact mics, and use them sometimes. Use a strip of masking tape or painters tape to avoid peeling the finish off lol because the adhesive is indeed very adhesive-y.
Congrats on a milli!!!
I ordered a shirt that said it was "eastern sizes" and if I want "western sizes" I should order 3 times my size. They were out of 3xl so I grabbed the 4, and it fits fairly well. I'm assuming your shirt was ordered in "eastern sizes"
Seconding this, definitely have to go up 2+ sizes. Also, I saw on the listing at 1:51, it says 90cm as the size. That's only around 36" around, which if that describes the shirt and not the person's body size, is a US small.
okay dude for your question......yes i live up a holler in Kentucky , just one cousin , and the 8th grade was it but i never in my life have heard of eastern sizes or western, or am i just to dumb to get the joke, or all the above, well yes who dont smoke pot?
@@brianpinion5844 Nothing wrong with that, if you've never ordered clothing sized for places like, you probably won't have encountered it before. It's just something to keep in mind when ordering cheap clothes online since they mostly come from China and often use Chinese sizes, which are a good deal smaller than American sizes.
The worst part is I know that that first kit is like $120 and he got scammed. Granted, it might be showing Canadian, but still.
Also, that little effects box is actually well reviewed and sounds pretty decent. But also, that contact Mike is very cheap to home make because it's just a piezo disc connected straight to a jack with a bit of double-sided tape on it
Yeah I used to see those pedals advertised in guitar magazines, they must be somewhat ok.
It is in Canadian. Americans get stuff cheaper anyway, so no he didn't get scammed. Either way, his revenue from this video makes it worth it.
I don't know if he got scammed, but you can buy a Harley Benton kit on Thomann for less than half the price he shows here. I'm not sure what the fee for the delivery to Canada would be, though. Here, in Bulgaria, it would be about 10-20 euros.
@@Tigermaster1986 it would be at least 100 extra to ship here from Germany
hey Sammy the song on this episode rocks awesome job buddy
That's a good song mate!
Cheers from Nova Scotia!
You probably made that stuff sound 100% better than anyone else would have. Thanks for putting so much effort into the final mix.
I bought a guitar on Ali Express from a brand called NK. I think I had seen the brand on UA-cam being reviewed. For a $250-ish strandberg knockoff, it was actually pretty nice. I've sold it since then (super light headless guitars are not my jam it turns out) but it proved to me that there is functional--even nice--gear out there for pretty low prices.
Steinberger?
@@gevansmd1 What? No, either way. It wasn't one and wasn't similar to one.
@@gevansmd1 Strandberg is a different company, who also makes a lot of headless guitars/basses
@@demoleramera OK, I wasn't familiar with that brand.
Lol a knockoff strandberg sounds like a nightmare.
Nice melody! Towards the end I really heard the influence of mid-60’s Japanese contemp music. You really worked some magic on that junk that NO musician would ever “wish” for! 👏🏻😂 Bravo! Haha!
Super fun video, well done!
And once again, evidence clear as a day- music comes from us , not instruments. Great work SG.
I laughed so hard when I first heard the sound that crappy piano made lol
And then you describing how terrible it is made me laugh even harder
I love how the design on the T-shirt doesn’t line up with the collar. It’s just.. Perfect
I bought the pock rock effects thing and just use it for headphone practice which is pretty good bang for buck also the little Drum machine works great with multiple patters and tempo control can be fun to jam along with
0:53 "Clitoral suc"