The Fallout of Youtube's Double Standards
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- Опубліковано 17 тра 2024
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I'm Glenn Fricker, engineer here at Spectre Sound Studios. I love making records, and after doing it for sixteen years, I want to pass on what I've learned. On my channel you can find tutorials on how to record guitar, bass, real drums and vocals. There's reviews and demos of tube amps, amp sims, drums, mics, preamps, outboard gear, Electric Guitar, Bass Guitar, and plugin effects.
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Jokes on you Glenn these videos get me absolutely rigid.
Did you not see the disclaimer?
Dude, I impulse bought a schecter just based on the pics, would be lying if I said there was no rigidity on me when looking some of those pics
I have a redwood in my khakis
Blue vein throbber
The fact that Glenn hasn’t pinned this is a disservice
Remember, everything is a butt plug if you are brave enough!
🤣 This is going to make me giggle all day. Please tell me somebody has that as a tattoo.
ER Doctor on standby ...
ALWAYS ensure the object has a FLARED BASE
@oatmeal710 my wife is a nurse who sees random objects up people every day XD once something goes in, the body wants to take it all the way up.
🤣🤣🤣🤣
That disclaimer is NOT going to stop ME!
*unzip pants*
I refuse to live in a world where we can't use Glenn vids for our own gratification.
“Jokes on you, He-Man. I’m into that shit!” Lol
“Man who sells expensive electric guitars says “tone wood matters” 😂😂😂
I make guitars just for my own fun. Yes wood choice does affect tone...a little bit. You won't notice with the overdrive turned up.
@@Turboy65 you do realise you’re commenting on a metal channel ? You’re claiming can hear the difference wood makes in an electric guitar whilst plugged in and amplified ? Yeah whatever.
@@hozzer68 I agree about tone wood, but it honestly makes me a little nuts when people claim high gain is the only sound used in metal. Song after song of non-stop cranked to 11 riffage and chug generally makes for a boring album. Putting some actual dynamics into your music by incorporating different tones isn't going to make you any less cool.
If you play a guitar clean (and who among us really does?!?!) the wood selection can matter. That said there is so much that colors the tone that it becomes a bit of a moot point.
I did take a pickup winding course at Roberto Venn a while back and while I was talking to instructors there, even which part of the tree the wood comes from will affect tone. So acoustically it's more prominent, when you start coloring the signal on an electric with gain, effects, and noise, the difference is much smaller
That said buy a guitar that vibes with you and you find it sexy, you will play it more often.
@@Turboy65 i cant remember the channel but theres a video on youtube where a guy takes apart his guitar, recording a sound saple each time he removes a piece. He routes away all the non vital wood untilhe eventually just has not guitar body and hes just rigging the neck and bridge to a table, and the whole time the sound DOES NOT change. no change in sustain, no change in tone. not wioth no wood, not with a whole table, not with a standard guitar body, is there ANY difference in the sound of that neck/bridge/electronics. If you cant hear it it just does not matter. If you want to hear wood play an acoustic.
Harder than stainless steel frets watching this right now.
If given the choice Glenn, I much prefer the angry, crusty, semi-bitchy version of you on your videos. That is precisely why I love your output. You don’t puss out on topics that you obviously know and understand, which shows that you’re honest and believable. I’ll keep tuning in no matter your persona. One thing - your “nice guy” side had me worried that you’d suffered a personal loss. Very glad that you seem fine, man!
Fair Use needs to be given some legal teeth and businesses like UA-cam must be brought to heel in court when they violate it. Fair use is just as important as copyright protection.
The folks on the other side have ample funding to continue paying for lobbyists and politicians to keep fair use weak and useless.
Progressives believe that 'Art should belong to the commons, man'
Liberals believe that 'My art belongs to me, pay me'.
The left always eat their own.
sue them, for all of us
Can't wait for Glenn's see through try on haul
I'll make sure I have a barf-bucket nearby.
Takes me back to the Booty shorts Debate with Glen. People are still waiting.
Don't give up on humor. This is the best place to find "Better Idiots."
Nobody needs to find them; they are the one playing the solo.
@@DriveSMR LoL, looks like the lead guitarists beat out bass players for the BI awards.
@@johnpittman3756 Funny enough i was the bass player but shhhh
These people triggered by swear words........ what do they do, sit at home all day in the fetal position crying and praying ?? They can't leave the house....people swearing out there...oh no... scary stuff. Self inflicted virtuosity resulting in a miserable, miserable life.
Glenn absolutely needs a sexual warning, given all the subconscious phallic symbolism 😂 0:31
Man, the Gibson birds just don't stop squawking, do they?
Talking to a wall is more entertaining then those Gibby fanboys
@King-Ransom
Hell, I'd rather get stung by a wasp than talk to Gibson owners. They really are the vegans of the guitar world haha
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Thank you, just made my day better.
Dammit not the gratification warning! You mean I have to stop self stimulating to these videos as well? Man, the internet sucks.
you beat Napoleon to smg-vids? wtf!! gross!!!
The bullshit with youtube just automatically allowing copyright claims for music and not movies (for fair use) really does reinforce my opinion that musicians will always get the shaft in the industry.
I get the feeling that when the writer strikes are resolved, they will turn a blind eye to musicians and composers when AI starts taking their jobs.
NO, NO NICE GUY GLENN. Nothing relaxes me after a stressful day like watching Glenn unload! Keep it up Glenn!
Funny thing about epiphone to me is the fact that when they were cheaper they actually had rosewood fretboards...interesting isnt it lolol
Same thing with squier, they used to use basswood bodies and rosewood boards like alot of the japanese fenders people rave about
I don't like most indian laurel fretboards, however i have found that sanding it with 600 grit and then a pass with 1000 grit makes it really nice to touch and finally i wax it and machine buff that to an excellent finish! Mind you, i would not buy a 1700.- Epiphone anyway....🤫
Nice guy or asshole, I just like when it feels genuine rather than just a performance..
(Sweet Home Alabama would be hilarious coming from this channel.)
About the warning, In the words of the great Homelander "I can do whatever I want! I can do whatever I want!"
There should be a "sponsor-friendly" logo for the show whenever "sponsor-friendly" Glenn appears.
I just got a new strap. My tone has really improved!
Hey Glenn, you should do a crossover with the friendly Glenn. It would be a good script for a future video.
Don't let your wives in SMG?? My girlfriends laugh the whole time, and she's a bass player
lol. Give her a big hug and count yourself lucky. :) :)
Tone wood matters 100%, Paul is right. The problem is that, it matters 100% WITH DRUMS.
Build an electronic kit with real shells and then claim that it’s all in the tone wood. 🤘🎸🤘🤣
Fortunately, no one has ever disputed that 😂
@@DavidPerry-ui2qz As a drummer, I support this message. 🤣🤣🤣
Wood makes an improvement...in speaker cabs
Acoustic drumbs I might add.
I used to make YT videos about the people who lived in my little town in England, one of those people was ‘Dozy”, from a famous (in the UK) ‘70’s band called “Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky ,Mick and Titch”. In the interview Dozy played a song that he composed for the band on an acoustic. After I uploaded the video, I got a copyright strike from some obscure German company claiming copyright on the song. The guy singing it fucking wrote it!!!!
That interview with Mr PRS where he spouted his toanwood nonsense was... truly something else. Seriously though, thank you Glenn for backing up your statements regarding electric guitar tone with actual tests, and also being open minded to be wrong if a hypothesis you had ends up being incorrect. Being willing to learn is certainly a valuable trait. :)
Frick, just keep frickin being you - some of us need this uncensored Frick. Don't change a thing, Frick!
🤢Humorous PRS scumbag story:
In the early 80's, I bought my first electric in Japan. A Destroyer II neck-through. I knew nothing. What did the pickup switch do? What do _pickups_ do? NOTHING. I didn't own an amp yet. I had questions. So, I looked in the phone book under "Guitars" in Annapolis, found a guy named Paul Reed Smith who had a shop downtown within walking distance. Entered, case in hand.
Dude kept me waiting a few minutes, and I noticed prominently displayed poster boards with handwritten rockstar names. People he had custom made guitars for. Nugent, others. Wow. I was impressed. I asked questions, curt answers. He looked at the guitar. Looked in my case, saw a truss rod adjusting wrench (I did not know what that was).
"Hey, I could use one of those. You probably won't need it. Mind if I keep it?"
Yep. He said that, with a straight face. Not, "I'll give you X for?" but "Can I keep?".
I had just come from places where, if you heard footsteps behind you, you reflexively covered your wallet (which you kept in a _front_ pocket...). "Nah, I'll keep it with the guitar." I left with no useful knowledge, and a memorably bad taste in my mouth.
I still have the guitar. And the wrench. And I know how to use both.
And, oddly, I have never purchased a PRS guitar... Hmm. 🎶
I would like to see Nice Guy Glenn argue with Normal Glenn like those cartoons where the angel and devil on the shoulder fight with each other.
Actually, my wife knows barely nothing about music composing or sound recording and editing stuff, but she's a big fan of yours because she finds you hilarious! No joke, she watches your videos on her own just for the pleasure of it, go figure... 🤔😂
P.S. We have a few Glenn Fricker short self edited reaction videos that's we use as memes and stuff when we write online messages to each other's, ha! 🤣
Hey Glenn, I bought the Spring Thing package a couple of weeks ago and I am totally blown away. My midi drums took me forever to sound as authentic as possible and getting bass tones as ripping as the ones in element bass would have taken me hours with my old plugins. Thanks for creating some of the most badass software I have seen to date!
Subscribe people! This guy gives you recording tips, no bullshit product reviews and most importantly shows you how you can really improve your recordings on a budget. And he does all that while using abusive language. Whats better then that!? Oh wait, I've got one! My current bands sound engineer now hates me because when something sounds like shit not only do I tell him but I always have a couple of ideas (that I got from Glenn) which means more work for him. It feels so good to be hated. Thank you Glenn!
Glenn: If you are a movie reviewer you can use clips with no problems
Critical Drinker and all the other youtubers reviewing movies: Nope!
Especially Warner Brothers is infamous for copy right striking.
A couple years ago I bought a c1 elite. The specs and playability for a 3rd of the of a Gibson is mind blowing. It is my favorite guitar
Instead of Nice Guy Glenn, you should create a new character, "Salad Fingers Glenn."
Looks like you had great time in Asia. Here in Finland we just had a very first Comic Con and it was pure awesomeness - I bet the next year is gonna be a blast!
We got a saying here in the states: "Fuck em if they can't take a joke"
Much love, you magnificent bastard.
Thank you for what you do, brother! You are helping a lot of guitar players out in ways that nobody else is. You are helping guitar players think outside the box to achieve what they are trying to achieve without breaking the bank and that is just absolutely awesome.🤘🔥🤘
Long time viewer and subscriber here and big fan of what you do. Thanks for that. Also since you mentioned the "try on" channels they have been coming up in my suggestions. I'm not sure who to thank!
Honestly, there's nothing wrong with wanting a pretty piece of wood, but the Tonewood mental gymnastics are honestly extremely funny, but when you see Billy Gibbons shredding on a cardboard guitar and sounding way way way better than any of us will ever hope to sound just sends that debate straight to the recycling bin.
Unless the cardboard was made from paper made from 100% tonewood.
Glenn, glad you had a good trip and all the years of hard work are paying off. Love the flash backs to fat Glenn, looking much better these days, keep it up!!
Imagine that warning was written in the SEARS book when i was a kid
LOL
I didn't get to where I am today by obeying warnings!
I want to see Glenn dressed as Mr. Rogers and talking like him. Then, playing Sweet Home Alabama!
On the subject of tonewood (which doesn’t matter for electric instruments with magnetic pickups), what I’d like to see is a scientific demonstration that even in ACOUSTIC instruments, it’s the specific piece of material’s physical properties rather than species of wood, or whether it’s even wood at all.
I think you can see that well enough with carbon-fiber or other polymer guitars such as Emerald Guitars’ carbon fiber or Ovation’s “Kaman Industries helicopter-blade material” bowl backs, but I don’t have the stuff I’d need (including the guitars) to make a test video myself.
I get a full chub when Glenn uploads
Don't change a damn thing Glenn! I love your channel and the hurt feelings that go with it. Keep those horns up brother!
Thanks. Agree with you. Competitors take note -- so many are ready to switch when there is a viable alternative. Love the SLURM T-shirt!
Yeahh... Seeing Nuno Bettencourt state that tonewood is a thing during his interview with rick beato was pretty harsh to hear, and well, it just confirms that being a great guitarist doesn't mean you're a great sound engineer... But somehow a lot of guitarists are convinced that since their tone sounds good to them, it WILL sound good in a mix (i remember some guy putting on 10000 effects and playing leads just to say that it was gonna sound good to record rythms... That was me 4 years ago)
Got the ir Glenn. Absolutely slams my friend. Fucking dope! Thank you dude!
I love what you said about free speech. The first words printed throughout history were paid for.
Damn. Advertiser and family friendly Glenn is even creepier than close-cardiac-arrest-pissed-off Glenn.
Hey Glenn thanks for the free IR, loved the previous V30 and Friedman give aways so expecting awesomeness :)
Nothing gets the southern blood pumpin' like audio engineering videos
Glenn would you consider having a series on helping identify amplifiers? I have one I can’t even find a picture of to see about getting parts for to do repairs to it. It’s my first amp ever all tube. Love the show! Keep rocking!
Love these videos. I’ve been a subscriber for years. You might want to tell us exactly what more subscribers actual does for you. For example, Rick Beato gets the elusive interviews because artists and their publicists look at his exposure.
That jab at Gina Rineheart made my day.
Love from Down Under.
My favourite copyright strike was Dave Simpson getting struck for playing a single E chord.
Great show Glenn. Much respect.
I had a video from Electrical Audio recommended to me where Steve Albini (R.I.P.) details the micing of guitar cabinets and how placement/microphone type changes the sound of the recording.
Curious as to whether you've watched it, thought about doing a similar video to put the same information within a metal context, and if you're gonna do a monthly interview with another producer/engineer/mixer to help get their tips out.
Count me as one who wants to hear about how Corrosion of Conformity's "Blind" and "Deliverance" albums were made, along with many others that I haven't discovered yet.
Hey glenn i really appreciate your honesty when it comes to guitars in general, i was wondering if you could do a review on jd ovk ocean 7, it was a really budget friendly guitar i own i got it off a friend too who was annoying with the floating bridge system in general and i was wondering what would your opinion would be on that. Love the content as always stay brutally honest 🤘🏽
Quoted. Nice! Nuno may have said, "Tone is in the hands" but he also said guitar finishes change the tone, and that's why he prefers unfinished guitars.
But truth be told...I've seen Nuno jam on other people's rigs and guitars, and he sounds exactly like Nuno Bettencourt.
Moral...if you play like Nuno Bettencourt, tone is a microscopic part of the conversation.
That Schecter sounds much better than any Gibson or Fender (and knockoffs) I have. I entered to win it so hope the odds are in my favor.
Would love to see you review some more of those amp in a pedal format sometime. I know you did the Laney. But there are the UA ones, the Friedman IR-X or D if you care for tubes, the Tonex One pedal. So many choices out there!
So, the thing with different amps sounding similar: Yes if you dial 2 similarly made amps in to sound the same, they probably will. But I’ve also heard something about “gain structure” and “contour.” Basically, it seems to me that the differences are more how the EQ curve is designed and how it cracks up once you add gain. Now I have no video or recorded evidence of this, but I do have a way to get it. Basically I’d measure exact distances from the speaker and leave the mic there. Then I’d swap heads and record the knobs at different EQ and gain settings. Would the contour and the gain structure affect the way the amp sounds? Would they still sound very similar? I don’t know! Hell… maybe I should record it to tape. That way there’s no “OH YOU JUST USED A VIRTUAL AMP!!!” crap. And I’m serious I have a reel to reel…
DUDE!!!!! The 90s 5150!!! Drools!!!!🤤 Glenn, buddy, you make me wish I could subscribe multiple times. Always a fan. Ohh and big shout out to Steve’s wife. 😉🤣🤣🤣
Glen playing sweet home Alabama. . . . Doooooooo it.
Hey Glenn, speaking of guitar amp clones (plexi etc.) what do you think of the Bugera models? I've tried a few over the years and I think they were a pretty good bang for the buck. I didn't experience any build quality issues people talked about and I did tour with them.
On the tonewood debate, I’ve purchased two electric guitars with mythical Brazilian rosewood fretboards and it was a total waste of money. It was no different tone wise from any other rosewood fretboard guitar. It’s nothing more than a $1200 snobbery upcharge.
To your point about record labels claiming copyrights on critique videos - I completely agree with you. For them to claim 100% of the revenue for such a video is just par for the course, it's the same thing they try and do to the artists. The place that it needs to stop at is UA-cam, they condone and facilitate the practice, hell, they do it to! Look at what they have done to creators! I don't agree much with you on your stance on "corporate greed", but, these cases are especially egregious. A suggestion for you, mirror your content on Rumble. It's not the best platform, but it is an alternative platform.
Thanks... Oh, and Fuck you Glenn!
😊
Record labels stealing other peoples income has always been the business model!
Welcome back,Glenn!!!Thanks for the killer episodes you left for us.
Get some rest!!!
That Australian lady must have never heard of the Streissand Effect.
That slow-mo head-banging... them neck muscles from working on the assembly line...
My girlfriend and I bark laughed when you brought up his wife. I was not ready 😂😂😂😂
Reminder that on the Amped Roots loader to click where it says IR next to the switch to load it, it's not in the menus.
Thanks Glenn!!
13:05 Glenn, following your advice I tried combining different amps in the mix and got some really cool results. My favorite was using a Sunn Model T with its stock cabinet for a huge low end. I dialed it a little bit back while also using a Rockaverb (with Greenbacks) for the brighter more defined sounds. And man did I get a sound I love. Even though I have that huge Doom tone I am still able to play faster riffs that aren’t pure sludge. I’d love to see you try something like that in a video. I’ll add a link to a song I just put out below. Oh and I used your bass plug in on it too! Thanks Glenn!
The fun starts at 0:13. P.S. the whole album features the same set up. ua-cam.com/video/FlrxRXc3EDY/v-deo.htmlsi=BF-4-GRiSdJUhMig
They cave due to having major investors from those countries that are beholden to those regimes. Usually.
I own the Demon (tuned down to standard C) and it is a metal machine... -Worth every dime and more. Great guitar, thanks Glenn for shining some positive sunlight on it!
My C-8 Deluxe has a F# (below B) standard (stock), think it was...$350 in 2017? Just to "one down you", lol
Can you test out Hughes & Kettner amps? I have a Switchblade and my friend has a Grandmeister and they're awesome in the way that they're programmable like digital modellers or like back in the day think Mesa TriAxis but it's a fill amp. I wonder what you'd get out of them, especially when comparing different channels with styles of amps they were based on (most European, be it from Germany or Poland or anywhere else, less popular and/or boutique amp manufacturers tend to add one clean channel based on Fenders, one crunch to high gain based on Marshalls, and one ultra high gain based on Soldano style amps like Mesas, sometimes they add something more, usually with some twist of their on to show off their own identity as a brand that goes beyond being just a clone/copycat). I wonder what you think of those as they aim to be usually more budget friendly (not as cheap as Chinese Bugeras and stuff but still cheaper than actual Mesas or Marshalls and such) and versatile to have everything in one package, and lots of people swear by them on the domestic markets (like in Poland you had Bash amps before the owner got sick and needed to wrap the business up or MG amps, I picked the German instead of these H&K just for the of getting the cheapest programmable amp cause I really like the programmable capabilities). I'm rambling but just throwing ideas for you to explore different local brands across Europe and maybe some interesting brands in other parts of the world as well :)
The bit about editorial videos has me thinking. The Record labels are losing money so they're going after all the music on UA-cam. Well, Hollywood is destroying itself right now. It can't be too long before they're as hard up for money as the record labels. And I'm betting they'll start scouring UA-cam also.
Who the heck wants more nice guy Glenn?!. I want the honest opinions and advice from the blunt asf Glenn I've loved to watch all these years. Keep being Prickly and FU Glenn!! 🤘😎🤘
Very excited about you investigating the plexi clones, would be very interesting to hear it against the real deal. Orange might be even more unpredictable, keep it up Glenn
Glen - Kohle did a great interview with Steven Fryette. Long one, but there was some cool history and they touched on the interaction between the tube power amp and different speakers.
Might be a factor you could test in your next amp shoot out. Might have to research the differences in the power amp designs of the amps you have or can borrow, but it may be worth checking out.
My bet is subtle...maybe tightening the bottom end or the opposite.
You have done a great series of videos on why the speaker is the most important part of the chain for guitar sound. Could you do similar for Bass Guitar using, for example, a 2 x 12 cabinet. And if possible some speaker recommendations. Thanks Glenn.
How UA-cam treats copyright and fair use has eveything to do with Google's relationship with multinational coorporations and nothing to do with laws.
You mentioning Epiphone going up in price reminds me of the same thing with various Squier series and models, but all of a sudden every guitar youtuber and his sister has a wonderful "Debut" model they're showing off like it's the best thing since sliced bread.
Dude - you gotta fuckin tell us the comments that made you laugh that hard at the end. We wanna see em!
As a member of the clean tones in metal community, my only rebbutle is Opeth. Thank you for your time and consideration.
Hey Glenn, Question. You know how you get a "Mix ready" guitar tone that sounds kinda thin on its own for a mix? I was wondering if you would keep that same tone for a live setting. say if you are jamming in a room with your band with no mics on the amps, would it be detrimental to the overall tone if you EQ your tone to be a little more beefy as if you were jamming alone? Thanks man!
Gentle Glenn is greatest Glenn
So here's the thing about cheap guitars - it's the QC. I've had cheap guitars that are absolutely incredible and cheap guitars that have some problems. Generally, I find things like it can't keep in tune, or there are intonation issues above the 12th fret that can't be fixed, or a fretboard angles in a warped way on a neck-through guitar. Something that can't be fixed easily, and QC didn't catch it. When I've bought higher-end guitars, and I don't mean break-the-bank ones, but let's say Japanese-made guitars, I've found there to be much less problems in the QC area. Still though, finding a killer sub-$700 guitar is fun and Schecter makes some great guitars for sure.
so you have to have use fakebook to do the raffle? i really need a second guitar, but fakebook or twatter is not an option for me.🍻
Something I’m interested in the “tone wood” debate
Would be; if the wood doesn’t matter, and the pickups don’t matter
How about hollow - semi hollow - solid body construction?
By theory - if acoustic tonal properties have no impact on the sound of an electric guitar plugged into an amp - then construction shouldn’t either; right?
I wanna see a video A/B-ing multiple solid and semi hollows, and see if people can pick out the difference.
I know I’ve had a few, of the same models that way, and the semi hollows always felt “weak” thru the same setup.
Saved my back, playing live!
But they never had “it” when plugged in. Of course, I never recorded them - so maybe it was all in my head.
I dunno, just a thought
Glenn. It's not the record company that issues copyright claims, it's the publishing companies that represent song writers.
Just came across a video by KDH, dismantelling PRS on the whole tonewood situation. Definitely worth a watch
Your awesome Glenn and for those who complain, I know a good place you can shove that V. Question for ya, though I have a feeling I might get told where to go and how to get there. I'm looking for a new practice amp. What do you think of the Yamaha THR desktops?
So does this mean Monday Mix reviews might return soon?
Regarding the digging out older equipment comment. I don't do metal but I do synths. I have a few from the Juno I bought in 1987 and soon after the DX7 to a lot more modern ones. Whenever I'm after a certain sound, there's usual ones I turn to and it's too easy to default to the equipment you're most easy to get along with.
I've got a few of the cheapy little Behringer or Korg things and I use them generally for portable writing.
There's one sound that I've always liked and never quite recreated - the MemoryMoog sound from Gary Numan's "Cars". Lo and behold buggering about the other night I played with the Behringer ProVS mini and there it is.
It's really a good idea to try and remember to dig out the old stuff and TRY not just going through them but combining them with other things. You can often surprise yourself. Sometimes I layer my old Juno with something else and the results are great
Sweet Home Alabama rocks with power chords and distortion, we always played it that way.
The Schecter Omen Elite is also $499, with a Floyd Rose $549