My first ever concert was seeing Styx on their Paradise Theater tour, at the Capital Center. Great show, great memories and I would love to see this current version! Great videos! As a drummer, I really enjoyed seeing Todd's kit.
only watched a few vids on your channel, but can already tell I'm impressed with the format style/camera work/audio quality. nice work m8, love the several episodes of BTS Styx setup/engineers, neat perspective. lot of folks dont understand what it takes to produce a clean vid/channel like this, but you're making it look easy. appreciate the work you're putting in!
love these sorts of vids if it's any use, you can get the polytune pedal tuner to be a lot more accurate when you put it in strobe mode (0.02 cents accuracy in strobe mode vs 0.5 cents in poly mode) , makes a big difference
It's kind of crazy to me that they are doing pedal switches from the side and doing everything individually as opposed to using a pedal switcher with scenes/presets they can just flip through the scenes. That Sherwin-Williams situation is insane though, and I can't find ANY information about that online right now.
For the "White" LP, the original '73 from the early tours was stolen. I had a M&G with TS and asked him about it and he said it was stolen. Back in '76 I was helping with a setup, "house roadie", and got to soundcheck it. After the M&G, I searched the web and found this in an article. I have for years been trying to do a "tribute" of it, but haven't found much info on it other than the varitone, series, parallel and OOF switching and the harmonica bridge. No idea of the pickups. Shaw’s electric lines on “Crystal Ball,” not to mention those on other Styx classics like “Come Sail Away,” “Fooling Yourself,” “Blue Collar Man” and “Renegade,” were played on Shaw’s “go-to” guitar of the era, a white 1973 Gibson Les Paul, which he’d purchased from a suburban Chicago music store. Shaw later appeared with the guitar on the cover of Guitar Player magazine. “I put a lot of miles on it,” Shaw remembers. “I had it when I joined Styx, and during one of our breaks, it was in our warehouse and somebody stole it from me. So somebody else has that guitar-with a lot of bad karma. I’m telling you, there’s a special place in guitar hell for people who do that. It’s just such a crappy thing to do. I’d hate to think that I ever bought a stolen guitar. I wouldn’t want it.”
The Murphy-lab Gibsons and any nitro finished Gibson will definitely finish check. If you want a guitar to look pristine like a kitchen appliance then maybe a guitar with a poly-urethane finish would be a better option.
Old trick - if you can stuff enough tape weights (used for balancing tires) in the control cavity sometimes it can mitigate some of the neck dive. That guitar doesn't have it but the ones ordinary mortals can afford usually do so that tip wasn't for *this* guitar but for SG-type lovers (ESP's version also has same issue as do many other builders).
I don't believe in the sound difference between string gauges. I use two different 9's and two different 10's on my guitars with only a fixed set for floating trem guitars.
There is a significant differance in sound between gauges, especially between brands. A set of EB 9s and EB 10s will sound different, as they are at different tensions which forces a different feel and pick attack. IT is a measurable thing. AND it has been measured on waveform graphs.
Will is the new guy. Came on in 2021 live but co-wrote and produced the last two studio albums. He’s been in the organization since 2017 behind the scenes.
Picturesque until a bird craps on a guitar. Right on the the neck or pick ups. A bird shit on my head in high school. No lie here, I was talking to a girl a really had a crush on and this bird crapped right on the top of me head. She still dated me.
Yay, another great shout out to "Play ORIGINAL !" , "yeah the paint company they used got baught out by a house paint company and they can't get it right", you've got to love paying thousands for American made guitars, that look S**t in a couple of years when you could buy guitars that aren't badly made for a couple hundred.
Just personal anecdote here. It’s legit sad. I went shopping for a Les Paul but I could not find one that would stay in tune. The pickups felt off… it didn’t feel right for the price. I ended up buying a pre lawsuit PRS single-cut. And it’s fantastic. It may not be original… but it does what I need it to do. And it stays in tune.
A lot to consider here. Players acidity level in their perspiration, outdoor conditions that these shows are being played in (wind, dust, humidity) plus time riding in a truck. It seems absurd to a player who has a guitar sitting indoors all the time, it’s a different world than that these guitars live in. Be honest, those things affect the life of strings (you want a pro player to break strings during a solo?) and their tone out front to the audience. What seems wasteful to most people is actually show integrity insurance to the player.
@cookie_mix is correct. It’s more about consistency and making sure the artist doesn’t have any chance of breaking a string on stage. 6 songs might not seem like a lot, but when a guitar only gets used for one song a night, that means we’re talking about at least a week, maybe more, worth of time being handled, traveling in the truck and played. Better safe than sorry!
The cheap clip on tuner the guys use. Http://sweetwater.sjv.io/DKOz05
Great video!
And finally an explanation for the Gibson Mod Shop...
Sherwin Williams. Good enough for your LP Custom, good enough for your barn!😂
My first ever concert was seeing Styx on their Paradise Theater tour, at the Capital Center. Great show, great memories and I would love to see this current version! Great videos! As a drummer, I really enjoyed seeing Todd's kit.
My first ever concert was also Styx at the Indiana State Fair in Aug '78.
@@yamahagrand We kinda got spoiled!
The last gentleman in the video is just a wealth of wisdom. This was great to watch!
Just ordered a UniTune clip
🤩This is a hugely important job guys!
This Styx series is amazing. Thanks a lot!
I was just there last week with a band. Funny thing is I used to work for Will as well when he was with The Guess Who.
Will is such a great guy to work for!
only watched a few vids on your channel, but can already tell I'm impressed with the format style/camera work/audio quality. nice work m8, love the several episodes of BTS Styx setup/engineers, neat perspective. lot of folks dont understand what it takes to produce a clean vid/channel like this, but you're making it look easy. appreciate the work you're putting in!
Dude. Thank you. That means a ton…
I love these guitar tech videos
love these sorts of vids
if it's any use, you can get the polytune pedal tuner to be a lot more accurate when you put it in strobe mode (0.02 cents accuracy in strobe mode vs 0.5 cents in poly mode) , makes a big difference
Awesome video dude🤘🏾
Great vid... I had to chuckle. I still have my tiddly bits road case in the shed. It still saves the day!! LOL.. Be Safe Man...
Man, I could learn so much from Tommy, wish this was longer and that we could have seen the white axe!
i like the label 'tools & secret weapons'
thank you for this very beautiful vid bro, greetings to all frm greece
Great video - love these!
So glad!
Loved it
Keep rocking John!!
Great content man, as a visual fx and musician, bring a tripod for at-least have a camera doing steady shots
I love these vidsz
It's kind of crazy to me that they are doing pedal switches from the side and doing everything individually as opposed to using a pedal switcher with scenes/presets they can just flip through the scenes.
That Sherwin-Williams situation is insane though, and I can't find ANY information about that online right now.
For the "White" LP, the original '73 from the early tours was stolen. I had a M&G with TS and asked him about it and he said it was stolen. Back in '76 I was helping with a setup, "house roadie", and got to soundcheck it. After the M&G, I searched the web and found this in an article. I have for years been trying to do a "tribute" of it, but haven't found much info on it other than the varitone, series, parallel and OOF switching and the harmonica bridge. No idea of the pickups.
Shaw’s electric lines on “Crystal Ball,” not to mention those on other Styx classics like “Come Sail Away,” “Fooling Yourself,” “Blue Collar Man” and “Renegade,” were played on Shaw’s “go-to” guitar of the era, a white 1973 Gibson Les Paul, which he’d purchased from a suburban Chicago music store. Shaw later appeared with the guitar on the cover of Guitar Player magazine.
“I put a lot of miles on it,” Shaw remembers. “I had it when I joined Styx, and during one of our breaks, it was in our warehouse and somebody stole it from me. So somebody else has that guitar-with a lot of bad karma. I’m telling you, there’s a special place in guitar hell for people who do that. It’s just such a crappy thing to do. I’d hate to think that I ever bought a stolen guitar. I wouldn’t want it.”
“My go to acts”… 😆😆😆🤘🏼✌🏼
The Murphy-lab Gibsons and any nitro finished Gibson will definitely finish check. If you want a guitar to look pristine like a kitchen appliance then maybe a guitar with a poly-urethane finish would be a better option.
I love tens but they are a bit harder to bend and hit some notes in standard tuning and I'm sure in other tunings tuned a bit higher.
My SG has a crazy neck dive, I love the guitar, but because of the dive it's kind of discouraging to play.
What's with the Red Ensign?
It's a tribute to the tech who passed away 4 years ago. That was his sticker. He put it on their way back when. Tommy's original tech.
Bands could make so much money on the side profiling rigs and selling the patches.
Crew dude opened the road case, so we could see the Bogner amps, and you never pointed the camera at them. 😑
It’s the Bogner with google eyes in the broll
I haven't seen styx but I did see damn yankee's and that was awesome.
Billy gibbons uses 7 gauge strings and they sound pretty good.
Want to hear more? Watch the podcast with the guys in this video. ua-cam.com/video/D3hUqVf4xdM/v-deo.html
Old trick - if you can stuff enough tape weights (used for balancing tires) in the control cavity sometimes it can mitigate some of the neck dive. That guitar doesn't have it but the ones ordinary mortals can afford usually do so that tip wasn't for *this* guitar but for SG-type lovers (ESP's version also has same issue as do many other builders).
I'm ignorant to what happened. Where's JY?
He’s still there. His tech wasn’t available for this one but did a run through on the video last year.
Yaaaaas!!!! Hot damn Tommy Shaw!! Been a die hard Stygian since he graced Styx for the first time on Crystal Ball!! ❤❤❤
I don't believe in the sound difference between string gauges. I use two different 9's and two different 10's on my guitars with only a fixed set for floating trem guitars.
There is a significant differance in sound between gauges, especially between brands. A set of EB 9s and EB 10s will sound different, as they are at different tensions which forces a different feel and pick attack. IT is a measurable thing. AND it has been measured on waveform graphs.
Who is Will?
Will is the new guy. Came on in 2021 live but co-wrote and produced the last two studio albums. He’s been in the organization since 2017 behind the scenes.
Picturesque until a bird craps on a guitar. Right on the the neck or pick ups. A bird shit on my head in high school. No lie here, I was talking to a girl a really had a crush on and this bird crapped right on the top of me head. She still dated me.
TIDDLY BITS! 🤣
marry me john ptak
Yay, another great shout out to "Play ORIGINAL !" , "yeah the paint company they used got baught out by a house paint company and they can't get it right", you've got to love paying thousands for American made guitars, that look S**t in a couple of years when you could buy guitars that aren't badly made for a couple hundred.
Just personal anecdote here.
It’s legit sad. I went shopping for a Les Paul but I could not find one that would stay in tune. The pickups felt off… it didn’t feel right for the price.
I ended up buying a pre lawsuit PRS single-cut. And it’s fantastic.
It may not be original… but it does what I need it to do. And it stays in tune.
When did Tom Segura start doing Guitar Teching?
Love is love sticker... lol wtf
No so long video 🙂
Fingerboards are on fretless instruments, fretted instruments have fretboards!
I'm sorry... was that six songs on a set of strings and then they get changed?
jfc, are you kidding, smh.
Too many songs?
A lot to consider here. Players acidity level in their perspiration, outdoor conditions that these shows are being played in (wind, dust, humidity) plus time riding in a truck.
It seems absurd to a player who has a guitar sitting indoors all the time, it’s a different world than that these guitars live in.
Be honest, those things affect the life of strings (you want a pro player to break strings during a solo?) and their tone out front to the audience.
What seems wasteful to most people is actually show integrity insurance to the player.
@cookie_mix is correct. It’s more about consistency and making sure the artist doesn’t have any chance of breaking a string on stage. 6 songs might not seem like a lot, but when a guitar only gets used for one song a night, that means we’re talking about at least a week, maybe more, worth of time being handled, traveling in the truck and played. Better safe than sorry!
Gotta keep his job security!
It's called neck dive by people who know what they're talking about but whatever...
Cool
@@RecordingStudioLoserwhen are you free for a reshoot?
Time and place brother. I’ll be there
@@RecordingStudioLoser why would you want to fight me?
This escalated quickly😂