Question Index 00:00 Intro 04:38 Hi to Nathan from PRS and now Fender Custom Shop in the room 02:30 Getting a Les Paul bridge sound with a Strat neck sound? 05:40 Working in the industry and having fun with it also 07:50 If you want Epiphone on the channel let me know 10:00 I also recommend Agufish's channel for Epiphones as well ua-cam.com/users/thirdykal 14:38 The issue with the Spark amp and humming 16:38 Humbucker pickups that sound good coil split 18:40 Can you put white out on a Nitro finish to make bigger side dots. 20:20 Nirto finish smells like vanilla 22:30 Do you have to remove all the finish on a MIM sorta to put nitro on it? 23:49 Are Paper Towels the best polishing cloth? 24:45 Finish delaminating from a Music Man what should I do? 28:00 Pickup going to half volume when blending with the other pickup? 30:45 The How you say your name video we did at NAMM that was crazy ua-cam.com/video/SX71wmIijYc/v-deo.html 33:45 Guitar techs and trust 38:30 Guitar techs with horrible attitude 43:00 Guitar tech dropped a screw driver on your guitar what should you do? 1:01:01 The first time we met Lawrence Petross from LPD pedals 1:06:30 More gear has a point of diminishing returns? 1:14:40 The Sire guitar review 1:20:26 GMP guitars and art work from Dan 1:22:26 What is our favorite envelope filter 1:26:15 Grumpy Mike practice amp video ua-cam.com/video/zqhMhmPNBnY/v-deo.html 1:27:25 My thoughts on Honest vs unbiased reviews 1:29:15 What is the ideal conditions to spray nitro spray paint? 1:30:45 Why does my Jackson satin nitro finish feel better than my PRS satin nitro finish? 1:35:20 Does Nathan have a you tube channel? 1:39:00 On Ben Coombs show on Sunday ua-cam.com/users/BenCoombsvideos 1:44:00 can you put a Fender 22 fret neck on a guitar that has a 21 fret neck? 1:45:10 Talking Ovation guitars 1:52:19 Any plans to review the new Fender Jazzmasters? 1:53:00 Is neck relief a preference or just set to certain specifications 2:02:00 Gibson Les Paul with finish flaking off? 2:05:15 What is Nathan's favorite type of finish? 2:07:20 Paint Huffer finish and my Charvel 2:15:49 Pawn shop Fender, not Fender amps 2:19:20 Best way to remove pick scratches? 2:20:20 Should you get a PRS or a Kiesel? Why the neck matters 2:29:30 Getting side tracked and talking about the PRS Nathan made 2:35:50 60 Cycle Hum Rickenbaker video ua-cam.com/video/J7zANlhL9jw/v-deo.html 2:36:50 Nathans new Custom Shop Jackson 2:44:48 What do you use to get sticker residue off nitro finish? 2:46:53 What do you do if your PRS starts to have cloudy spots in the finish?
Watched this live, this was a wonderful show!! You two really did a great job and compliment each other well with knowledge and fun! Looking forward to seeing Nathan again sometime in a future KYG! And Nathan, I love your new pink Jackson, that axe is hot!!!
What a wonderful show! Nathan you were a great addition and loved your knowledge and loved the shout out to PRS addressing you concerns coming back to work. Truly an amazing company!!! Phil as always a great show! Looking forward to your dump truck pedal reviews and as always your sharing of wisdom and knowledge!!!
1:03:52 To guy with Zoom lesson question here are a few tips, I teach a lot of zoom lessons. 1. Keep your device close to your router for better signal. 2. Too many devices on the same wifi can effect impedance. 3. If you have an audio issue, Zoom has a tendency to drop down the input level of everybody's mics. Go to your mic settings and turn the input level up and make sure the other party in the meeting does the same (around 75%). I was struggling with that one for while and finale figured out a solution. Hope this helps!
i can say this about halifax, ns, long and mcquade: i brought in a guitar for a set up that was missing the plastic tip off its pick up selector. they put one on for me, and didn't charge me for the part. i really appreciated that. i know it's a super cheap part, but it was the thought of it.
This was such a good episode! Please have Nathan back again! Listening to two experts converse is so much more educational than just one expert talking to a screen. My favorite episode yet! I learned so much!! Thanks!!
The fact that you have nice tools and a clean work space makes me feel and think that you take your job seriously and care about what instrument is entrusted to be worked on and taken care of that instrument. I know that isn’t always the case, but based on experience from different people, I would feel better when you feel that a $100 guitar is the same as a $6,000 guitar. Thanks for your integrity!
One motivation for me to work on guitars decades ago was exactly what you spoke of. It also led me to start building guitars and basses for people who spent a huge amount for a custom build but never heard from the builder, never heard back on questions, didn't get options they wanted, were limited to options In their inventory and their inventory was very limited.
Hey Phil: Thanks for answering my question about neck relief. The funny thing was I had to go do some work at a client's office immediately after I put in that Super Chat, so I heard your answer on the play back. But yeah, you interpreted my question correctly. I had loosened the truss rod a 1/4 turn so the neck went from dead straight to a slight relief. Then I lowered the bridge a bit, and the SG plays much better. I'm thinking I might try another 1/4 turn to see if it plays better or worse. Thanks for your show!!
Just bought the 2021 fender american professional 2 HSS.(mercury/silver burst) That's what he needs. 2 single coils and a humbucker. I love the tones this guitar makes
Phillip, thank you so much for all the great videos you create. I have had a spark amp for about a year now and have just been putting up with the hum. It has made me always try to touch metal on my guitar to kill the hum. I just reached out to positive grid to try and get a fix for it. Thanks again!
Reminds me of in the 90s I took a dirt bike into a dealer/shop to have new rings put in it. They returned my bike back with the motor dismantled in a box because they couldn't figure out how to do it.
Finally have a good tech for things beyond me or my small set of tools. Prior to that I had one argue with me about how I like things set up and one who did exactly what I told them in writing not to do to the guitar I had brought in. Mind blowing to treat someone else's guitar like that. Neither of these were GC but were supposedly well reputed local techs.
Yes to Epiphones on the channel. Specifically a review on the Les Paul Muse if enough people are interested. I just bought one and I’d love to know your thoughts and how to maximize its potential!
I'm definitely making sure I buy a sire if I every buy a guitar. I have an astounding respect for this brand now. I liked their basses before but after hearing how much they understand this community I have to make sure to buy one of their 5 strings new
Phil, very excited to hear what you think of the Sire H7 as well as the S Flame... Loved hearing that the owner of Sire was humble and polite. I want to buy one of his guitars based on that alone!
"Whatever gets you to pick up your guitar is, that thing is doing its job" . This rings very true with me. I hated the distortion sounds I was getting and got an Abasi Pathos, and can't get over the sounds I get out of it!. Pedals are brilliant. And now I have the pedalbug 1:09:00 is about where he starts to make that comment
I would love to see Epiphones on the channel! Id love to see Squiers, too. I got a 2020 LP Custom and Im just blown away by it (although I havent touched a Gibson LP in years). Its almost as much fun to look at as play it.
On Ovations, I like mine. It does slide off the leg a little but I’m sure that’s part my belly’s fault. It sounds great plugged in, fine unplugged and the neck and action are fantastic. Gotta take the pros with the cons sometimes.
Why is it the only thing I find problematic is that Nathan hands Phillip a cough drop on the 'left' with his Right Hand...and Phillip takes it from the "right" with his Left Hand!?!?!?!? That's just messed up!!! And...I "love" it. If no one else find this the least humorous?? I apologize for the interruption. I really love that Nathan and Phillip did this!!! Please do this as often as possible??? Great Work!!!! Looking forward to seeing more like this!!!
Have you ever tried out the monoprice stage right SB 100 100watt 2 channel amp head? It uses 4 6L6 power tubes and has plugins on back to run 2x12 or 4x12 cabinets with 8 and 16 om's. Text back, but it would be good for your pod cast to go over these stage right tube amplifiers of guitars as there are may of us getting into these since as good of sound as may Fender and Marshall tube amplifiers. Let us all know since many of us are in our 60's and have been around and playing and listened to Clapton, SRV, and Hendrix and went to their shows. Try it.
Walked into a guitar shop in 1975, picked up an Ovation, played it for ten minutes and bought it. The frets, action, intonation were perfect. Sound was just fine. It was the most effortless acoustic guitar I'd ever played. Wrote ten of my best songs on it. Then someone stole it. Bummer.
GEWA Music had become the new owners of Ovation Guitars in September 2020 (just FYI) production resuming in New Hartford Custom Shop. Celebrity and Adamas were a part of the deal as well.
I use the moen gec9 pedal switcher, and the LPD 68 drive has its own loop. It’s my go to sound, and it will be your’s too, get one, seriously, get one.
Guitar center broke the truss rod on my scalloped neck strat and then blamed the scallops on the neck. I told them that it was unacceptable and that they would need to make the situation right. They gave me the full value which they listed the guitar at when I brought it in. Didn’t think it would work but it did.
Working in aviation for over 35 years have had to pay for damage done to customer aircraft, very important to do a good incoming inspection or your paying or fixing everything
FYI. My first Guitar was an SG Prophecy and I bought it when a store was going out of business so it was very affordable. This guitar was actually amazing and if the new Prophecy guitars are anything like the old ones they are really good. The new ones definitely have my interest.
I wanted an Ovation badly when I was young because of Alex Lifeson. Finally was able to find one (I'm lefty and this was before the internet), tried to play it sitting and hated the round back sliding off the leg. Now I know why Al Di Meola looks like he's hunched over trying to keep his guitar from escaping when he played one.
From Leo: with online lessons, the sound problem seems better if you can plug the computer into a guitar amp, Many amps have an AUX input so you can play the lesson and your guitar through the same amp. At a live lesson, you are always hearing the guitars in the room, things are different through even good headphones. I don't know how to help the visual issues
I totally agree with you about the attitude of techs. I’ve had people that are “great” do the work, take forever, and give me attitude because I didn’t like being overlooked because I’m just an everyday guy who plays guitar. It shouldn’t take 3 months to get a new toggle switch installed! And when I said my truss wrench was missing they laughed at me. So I left and will never go back. I don’t care how great you are, if you’re an asshole then my business goes elsewhere. Luckily, I found some great guys that do great work. I also had a SG that the tech ruined. I bought it new and it had a bad pickup and fret sprawl. He filed the frets down so far he messed up the fretboard. Then he said to just call Gibson and have them replace it. I wonder how many times that happened... I returned the guitar immediately and got my money back. The manager was cool and gave me an appeasement for my next instrument I buy (haven’t used it yet).
There are some decent, honest techs at Guitar Center, but then again, there are many techs who truly don't give a shit. In fact, I knew a guy who was a GC tech at a location in New Jersey, and this guy truly didn't give a shit about anything he worked on. In my early guitar days, I took a secondhand LTD guitar that I had recently purchased to a Guitar Center tech. When I purchased the guitar, I didn't realize at the time that it had massive fret-buzz, so I wanted it fixed. I knew fret-buzz was not the end of the world and this was something that could easily be resolved.... So, I went to GC and I paid $80 to have it serviced up and down, fix the buzzing and I even tipped the tech $20 after it was done. I was very clear that the fret buzz was my main issue, but when I got home, I come to find that I was handed back a guitar that had even worse fret-buzz - I don't know how that is even possible! I took the guitar back the next day, well, because this aggression was not going to stand, and I was told that the issue was the fretboard, which required an additional $125 to fix! A small detail the super-competent "tech" could have disclosed immediately. I know he could have said something because I saw him use a ruler checking the fretboard for gaps. It's something he must have noticed immediately, but he chose to say nothing about it. Instead, when he was done, this guy just handed the guitar back to me, already inside the case, and then gave me the bum's rush! Being rushed out gave me no opportunity to test it at the store. Plus, I just assumed this guy was on the level and wouldn't dick me, but he did dick me....he dick'ed me pretty good. I still go in this Guitar Center occasionally but only for strings or some other nonsense like that; never for any service! On the bright side, this was the situation that forced me to learn how to do these things myself. When I heard $125 bucks, it wasn't about the money, I make good money so I could have paid right then and there, but it was about the fact that they would never get another nickel out of me for service; not after being screwed without at least being kiss! For this guitar, when I got home, I ended up watching a great instructional video and filed down the frets myself! I purchased the luthier tools I needed online and I then got cracking once I received the tools. I have since learned to do many other things myself, like rewiring, change pots & pickups, change tuners, adjust the intonation, just all around maintenance. This situation has been beneficial. I have since purchased some vintage guitars that I've been able to bring back to life. I recently purchased a 1970 Lotus Les Paul copy, which hadn't been played in years. The knobs were frozen stuck and one of them even broke off when I tried to turn it. I paid $35 bucks for this guitar but after I rewired it, it played beautifully and I ended up selling it for $550! It's not all bad, I guess my negative GC tech experience led me down this road of repairs and profit! Maybe I should be grateful.....nah!
I have a envelope filterish pedal suggestion... have you tried the earthquaker interstellar orbiter. It’s like dual filters, pretty nuts, but I’ve been checking them out!?
??? Hey Philip and for the luthier I forget your name I'm sorry but I have a 2005 Les Paul studio cherry wine red and I need it to be redone any suggestions?
You can use oil based enamel on nitro and it won't hurt it, nitro is a much hotter product, stay away from any thing with lacquer thinner I'm it. I've personally used alittle enamel and have had luck with it. For small dots in would work perfect.
Hi Phillip , i have a question about the neck profile of Ibanez AZ Premium...I have a Fender American Professional that has a thicker neck than American Standard...said that....The Ibanez AZ has a Thicker neck than Fender American Pro or is almost the same ?? I know they have different radius fingerboard.12 on AZ and 9,5 on American Pro...but the AZ neck is thicker than American Pro ?
When it comes to guitar text I have a cousin who owns and is New York guitar repair in Manhattan I think he honed his skills at Manny's or one of the large music stores when they used to be a music district in the upper 40s in Manhattan and I don't know exactly why but somehow sumac had heard of him and asked him if he wanted to do a video it wasn't the other way around my cousin was a Godsmack he didn't understand why or Howard they even do it but anyway and in the end he had one stool Mark tool which he showed but he kind of explained his technique and doing guitars one of the things that he explained was how he stores his tools where he keeps them and how he uses them in regards to the relationship of tools arm reach all that stuff and the guitar itself I recommend it I don't know what the actual videos name is but it's New York guitar repair my cousin is an amazingly talented man he graduated I sure graduated Berkeley School of Music he's a bass player played professionally and all that kind of good stuff and also very intelligent I'm not plugging him for you know maybe he'll get some business I think he has all the business he he needs I don't think he needs to have anybody get in business but it would be a really good video a resource to get an idea of how a good guitar tech works I remember before we started doing a professionally visiting him and going into his bedroom with my sister and he had his my uncle's a guitarist hanging and they were all this beautiful wood inlay work he did and he told himself how to do that too so yeah New York guitar repair watch it it's really cool it's interesting and it's informative
I brought in a Taylor acoustic to see how much they would pay for it. Guy at the counter was checking it when another sales rep came over and took the guitar from the case, and right after I told him, careful with that, he hits the mint condition black guitar on the countertop edge causing damage.
@WannaBeatle PLEASE tell John Hall that 24 fret necks on a Ric 330/360 is insane! No one shreds on them and it completely pushes the neck pickup out of the sweet spot. It's time to go back and make them better again.
To have a guitar sound like a Les Paul not only do you have to use humbuckers, they must be placed in the precise distance on the body between each other, the neck, the bridge and the nut. Then the pickups have to be raised to the correct height. Fender Guitar's string scale is different from Gibson's, so they will not sound the same no matter what pickups you put in them.
I asked a lady friend to take my inexpensive jazz box in to repair the 1/4" jack. The tech told her it would be $600.00USD unless they had to take the top off the guitar!! Shes a smart lady and walked out. She and I pulled the jack soldered it and I don't patronize GC.
Regarding the PRS to Kiesel neck comparison, when I hold my PRS S2 Custom 24 next to my Kiesel Aries, the main thing I notice is the neck finish - painted vs tung oil. The next thing is that the PRS feels like it has a little more shoulder than the Kiesel, but neither neck feels substantially thinner than the other. I also have a McCarty 594 Thinline with a wide thin neck, and truth be told I cannot tell the difference between that and the pattern regular. Helpless comment is helpless, I know, but my humble opinion is that neck finish and fret size make infinitely more difference than neck shape or thickness.
Took my Sheraton ii to guitar center for some clean up before storage, and it came back with wood falling out of the f holes. Still not sure if it was from my guitar or not.
they gave me brand new replacement when this happened to me,... but not after I had to complain to corporate,.. they did attempt to make it right (the guitar was 10 months old)
Guitar Center techs are the worst! I bought a brand new 60th anniversary Fender Strat at Guitar Center. I was really psyched to get it home and play it but I wanted to put a bone nut and locking tuners on it first so I left it with them for those repairs. The tech who did these repairs spent 30 minutes online searching for the right locking tuners and I chose sperzel locking tuners with chrome finish. The guitar was supposed to be ready in a few days and then it got postponed to a week and then two weeks and then into a month. Finally when they called and said the repairs were done I went to pick up the guitar and the new locking tuners where are Reddish pink in color instead of Chrome and they were all crooked. The bone nut that they put in was cut horribly and not flush in the nut slot. But most egregious was the fact that this guy decided to polish my frets with steel wool and the pickups were loaded with shards of steel wool. It was a brand new guitar there was absolutely no reason for anybody to polish the frets nevermind not take precautions to keep the pickups clean. And the wrong tuners that they installed required new holes in the headstock. They tried to get me to settle for repairs to correct the problem. But I told them to keep the guitar I wanted my money back. I wasted like 6 weeks of my life dealing with the purchase and repairs of a new guitar to end up with nothing. Live and learn.
I took my PRS custom 24 to guitar center years ago and they completely ruined it. I just wanted a setup done on it. The tech denied any wrong doing and blamed me saying I did things to the guitar after he worked on it. I learned how to do my own setups and fixed what he did. I sold that guitar last summer and bought an ESP eclipse.
Just buy the tools watch some good setup videos and learn to set up your own guitars. It's fun rewarding and easy! I've been setting up guitars for about 7 years now and I love it. I learned all I know at Daves world of fun stuff. Best setup guy on the planet!!!!
“Service is a different LLC than sales” or anything of the like is a BS attempt to blow you off. No judge is going to accept that argument in court. The main reason, aside of tax purposes, for large businesses separating in store entities like this is to be able to maintain “the brand” if one has to declare bankruptcy or gets sued. I worked for an RV and boat dealer who had three LLCs set up for each department for this very reason. Not long ago he changed the name of the whole company after decades of ruining its reputation. Couldn’t get out of there fast enough
My name is Paul. Although I have James Burton red palsy signature tele I just bought 2021 squier 70 vibe strat. Please let me know if it is a stable guitar. I bought it new from Sweetwater for $399.00. Thank you
Hi Paul, I have a remake of a 69 pink paisley tele like JB played while he was with Elvis. I have some experience with Squier Classic Vibes in the past. They are really good guitars. I had a Squier Classic Vibe 50's Tele. I should have never gotten rid of it. I have a Squier vintage modified 70's strat from 2014. Still going strong, great guitar. A musician friend set it up for me, his comment was that he thought it was a good guitar and would play it on stage if it was his.
Why do guitar manufactures stick to less than 24 frets? It seems to me that 24 frests = 2 Octaves, and makes a lot more sense.... What are the advantages of less frets?
Musicman instruments seem to have problems with the finish not staying on. I remember saving up for a stingray and looking at every single used listing, I can tell you at least 60% of them had paint lifting, peeling or discoloration on the back side of the instrument
I find it funny that your friend thinks Josh Scott making two videos affects the price of a pedal more than hoarding 14 of them.. I’m not hating on him, just my opinion. Great episode and I love your channel, keep up the good work.
I pay attention to the prices of DOD pedals as a whole, not just the Filter. Right after his videos released, there were 2 massive price spikes on DOD pedals, especially the "Lamb Series" ones. 14 out of the thousands produced hardly accounts for a price increase.
@@nathansongne9790 that’s a fair point, and I never said that there wasn’t an affect on the prices after the videos, but you have to see that collectors also affect the price, like I said I’m not hating on you at all, I’m just of the opinion that it’s more than one thing that leads to a price rise, thousands of pedals made and with hundreds if not thousands worldwide collecting them all with double digits in their collection and the numbers soon add up.
Sam Ash and most of his employees are probably fantastic people, but the company's online support staff is some of the worst and most impersonal I've ever experienced. The store even takes your money if they're out of stock (not indicated on the webpage) for months before the instrument is back in stock. On the other hand, I just had a spectacular experience with Guitar Center's online support staff, specifically Gus Wolf. Made so many things happen on the spot without any issue and answered every question I had with multiple solutions. I don't work for Guitar Center, nor do I have any particular opinion on the place, just sharing my experience. Thanks, Phillip, for the great content!
2:20:55 The neck can make a guitar feel wrong for you even if you want the guitar. I really want a Yamaha Revstar RSP20CR, but every guitar in that line feels like it has a neck similar to an LP, it's kinda think and I didn't enjoy it. It's also a gloss finish on those necks, which makes that thick neck even worse for me. I still want one, but I have to get used to thicker necks first.
Question Index
00:00 Intro
04:38 Hi to Nathan from PRS and now Fender Custom Shop in the room
02:30 Getting a Les Paul bridge sound with a Strat neck sound?
05:40 Working in the industry and having fun with it also
07:50 If you want Epiphone on the channel let me know
10:00 I also recommend Agufish's channel for Epiphones as well
ua-cam.com/users/thirdykal
14:38 The issue with the Spark amp and humming
16:38 Humbucker pickups that sound good coil split
18:40 Can you put white out on a Nitro finish to make bigger side dots.
20:20 Nirto finish smells like vanilla
22:30 Do you have to remove all the finish on a MIM sorta to put nitro on it?
23:49 Are Paper Towels the best polishing cloth?
24:45 Finish delaminating from a Music Man what should I do?
28:00 Pickup going to half volume when blending with the other pickup?
30:45 The How you say your name video we did at NAMM that was crazy
ua-cam.com/video/SX71wmIijYc/v-deo.html
33:45 Guitar techs and trust
38:30 Guitar techs with horrible attitude
43:00 Guitar tech dropped a screw driver on your guitar what should you do?
1:01:01 The first time we met Lawrence Petross from LPD pedals
1:06:30 More gear has a point of diminishing returns?
1:14:40 The Sire guitar review
1:20:26 GMP guitars and art work from Dan
1:22:26 What is our favorite envelope filter
1:26:15 Grumpy Mike practice amp video
ua-cam.com/video/zqhMhmPNBnY/v-deo.html
1:27:25 My thoughts on Honest vs unbiased reviews
1:29:15 What is the ideal conditions to spray nitro spray paint?
1:30:45 Why does my Jackson satin nitro finish feel better than my PRS satin nitro finish?
1:35:20 Does Nathan have a you tube channel?
1:39:00 On Ben Coombs show on Sunday
ua-cam.com/users/BenCoombsvideos
1:44:00 can you put a Fender 22 fret neck on a guitar that has a 21 fret neck?
1:45:10 Talking Ovation guitars
1:52:19 Any plans to review the new Fender Jazzmasters?
1:53:00 Is neck relief a preference or just set to certain specifications
2:02:00 Gibson Les Paul with finish flaking off?
2:05:15 What is Nathan's favorite type of finish?
2:07:20 Paint Huffer finish and my Charvel
2:15:49 Pawn shop Fender, not Fender amps
2:19:20 Best way to remove pick scratches?
2:20:20 Should you get a PRS or a Kiesel? Why the neck matters
2:29:30 Getting side tracked and talking about the PRS Nathan made
2:35:50 60 Cycle Hum Rickenbaker video
ua-cam.com/video/J7zANlhL9jw/v-deo.html
2:36:50 Nathans new Custom Shop Jackson
2:44:48 What do you use to get sticker residue off nitro finish?
2:46:53 What do you do if your PRS starts to have cloudy spots in the finish?
Sammy, or Richie Ash? Richie loves his guitars....
Your tech was obviously an idiot because Ibanez kinda rulez!
Do an undercover sting. Take in a guitar to repair shops and when it's returned check if they've done anything.
Thank you for gracing us with 3 hours podcast
Love the longer shows!
Should be in theaters and released on DVD
Need to do more of these with Nathan. He adds a great dynamic and knows his gear for sure, very insightful!
Watched this live, this was a wonderful show!! You two really did a great job and compliment each other well with knowledge and fun! Looking forward to seeing Nathan again sometime in a future KYG! And Nathan, I love your new pink Jackson, that axe is hot!!!
Nathan and Phil have awesome jobs! Congrats guys on living your dreams.
What a wonderful show! Nathan you were a great addition and loved your knowledge and loved the shout out to PRS addressing you concerns coming back to work. Truly an amazing company!!! Phil as always a great show! Looking forward to your dump truck pedal reviews and as always your sharing of wisdom and knowledge!!!
Nathan should be a regular co-host. The show is always good, but he makes it come alive!
Appreciate that, thanks!
Agreed! Nathan seems to be a great guy! With knowledge!
1:03:52
To guy with Zoom lesson question here are a few tips, I teach a lot of zoom lessons.
1. Keep your device close to your router for better signal.
2. Too many devices on the same wifi can effect impedance.
3. If you have an audio issue, Zoom has a tendency to drop down the input level of everybody's mics. Go to your mic settings and turn the input level up and make sure the other party in the meeting does the same (around 75%). I was struggling with that one for while and finale figured out a solution.
Hope this helps!
This was a fun one Phil. A guest was a welcome addition.
i can say this about halifax, ns, long and mcquade: i brought in a guitar for a set up that was missing the plastic tip off its pick up selector. they put one on for me, and didn't charge me for the part. i really appreciated that. i know it's a super cheap part, but it was the thought of it.
This was such a good episode! Please have Nathan back again! Listening to two experts converse is so much more educational than just one expert talking to a screen. My favorite episode yet! I learned so much!! Thanks!!
Thank you!
Phil, I really enjoyed the podcast with Nathan. I also miss Ralph on the podcast. Thank You for all the info, insights and technical direction.
The fact that you have nice tools and a clean work space makes me feel and think that you take your job seriously and care about what instrument is entrusted to be worked on and taken care of that instrument. I know that isn’t always the case, but based on experience from different people, I would feel better when you feel that a $100 guitar is the same as a $6,000 guitar. Thanks for your integrity!
Awesome episode with Nathan on there! Great job guys!
I like when Nathan comes on. Seems like a cool guy.
I think I'm pretty cool. I light be biased though
Great to see Nathan on the show!!
loved the co-pilot. great show. this is sick stuff.
Glad you enjoyed it!
This is good shit, thanks for taking the time to make these!
One motivation for me to work on guitars decades ago was exactly what you spoke of. It also led me to start building guitars and basses for people who spent a huge amount for a custom build but never heard from the builder, never heard back on questions, didn't get options they wanted, were limited to options In their inventory and their inventory was very limited.
Hey Phil: Thanks for answering my question about neck relief. The funny thing was I had to go do some work at a client's office immediately after I put in that Super Chat, so I heard your answer on the play back. But yeah, you interpreted my question correctly. I had loosened the truss rod a 1/4 turn so the neck went from dead straight to a slight relief. Then I lowered the bridge a bit, and the SG plays much better. I'm thinking I might try another 1/4 turn to see if it plays better or worse. Thanks for your show!!
Just bought the 2021 fender american professional 2 HSS.(mercury/silver burst) That's what he needs. 2 single coils and a humbucker. I love the tones this guitar makes
My favorite neck is the first one I pick up in the morning.😂
Thanks Phil!!! So Stoked on your Charvel🤙🏼⚡️
Phillip, thank you so much for all the great videos you create. I have had a spark amp for about a year now and have just been putting up with the hum. It has made me always try to touch metal on my guitar to kill the hum. I just reached out to positive grid to try and get a fix for it. Thanks again!
Reminds me of in the 90s I took a dirt bike into a dealer/shop to have new rings put in it. They returned my bike back with the motor dismantled in a box because they couldn't figure out how to do it.
Finally have a good tech for things beyond me or my small set of tools. Prior to that I had one argue with me about how I like things set up and one who did exactly what I told them in writing not to do to the guitar I had brought in. Mind blowing to treat someone else's guitar like that. Neither of these were GC but were supposedly well reputed local techs.
Yes to Epiphones on the channel. Specifically a review on the Les Paul Muse if enough people are interested. I just bought one and I’d love to know your thoughts and how to maximize its potential!
I'm definitely making sure I buy a sire if I every buy a guitar. I have an astounding respect for this brand now. I liked their basses before but after hearing how much they understand this community I have to make sure to buy one of their 5 strings new
I love the pattern vintage neck!
Phil, very excited to hear what you think of the Sire H7 as well as the S Flame... Loved hearing that the owner of Sire was humble and polite. I want to buy one of his guitars based on that alone!
Ovation made a reverse of several models for people with bellies. The rounded part is in the front. Very rare.
Love the pink Jackson. I have an SL3X which obviously doesn't match the American made one but it has fantastic playability and tone.
"Whatever gets you to pick up your guitar is, that thing is doing its job" . This rings very true with me. I hated the distortion sounds I was getting and got an Abasi Pathos, and can't get over the sounds I get out of it!. Pedals are brilliant. And now I have the pedalbug 1:09:00 is about where he starts to make that comment
Phil? Do video explaining the 3 lugs on pots. Regular and push pull please. How to test them ect. Loved this episode. Finish work is my battle.
I would love to see Epiphones on the channel! Id love to see Squiers, too. I got a 2020 LP Custom and Im just blown away by it (although I havent touched a Gibson LP in years). Its almost as much fun to look at as play it.
On Ovations, I like mine. It does slide off the leg a little but I’m sure that’s part my belly’s fault. It sounds great plugged in, fine unplugged and the neck and action are fantastic. Gotta take the pros with the cons sometimes.
Dude Nathan that guitar is awesome!!!
Why is it the only thing I find problematic is that Nathan hands Phillip a cough drop on the 'left' with his Right Hand...and Phillip takes it from the "right" with his Left Hand!?!?!?!? That's just messed up!!! And...I "love" it. If no one else find this the least humorous?? I apologize for the interruption. I really love that Nathan and Phillip did this!!! Please do this as often as possible??? Great Work!!!! Looking forward to seeing more like this!!!
We were sitting across from each other lol
@@nathansongne9790 There it is!! Love It!! Thank you!!!
Have you ever tried out the monoprice stage right SB 100 100watt 2 channel amp head? It uses 4 6L6 power tubes and has plugins on back to run 2x12 or 4x12 cabinets with 8 and 16 om's. Text back, but it would be good for your pod cast to go over these stage right tube amplifiers of guitars as there are may of us getting into these since as good of sound as may Fender and Marshall tube amplifiers. Let us all know since many of us are in our 60's and have been around and playing and listened to Clapton, SRV, and Hendrix and went to their shows. Try it.
I've used whiteout for side dots for a long time w/no problems
60 cycle hums Rickenbacker review is one of my favorites. I want to see more like that just playing and feeling.
Walked into a guitar shop in 1975, picked up an Ovation, played it for ten minutes and bought it. The frets, action, intonation were perfect. Sound was just fine. It was the most effortless acoustic guitar I'd ever played. Wrote ten of my best songs on it. Then someone stole it. Bummer.
GEWA Music had become the new owners of Ovation Guitars in September 2020 (just FYI) production resuming in New Hartford Custom Shop. Celebrity and Adamas were a part of the deal as well.
I use the moen gec9 pedal switcher, and the LPD 68 drive has its own loop. It’s my go to sound, and it will be your’s too, get one, seriously, get one.
Guitar center broke the truss rod on my scalloped neck strat and then blamed the scallops on the neck.
I told them that it was unacceptable and that they would need to make the situation right.
They gave me the full value which they listed the guitar at when I brought it in. Didn’t think it would work but it did.
Really enjoyed this episode.
Working in aviation for over 35 years have had to pay for damage done to customer aircraft, very important to do a good incoming inspection or your paying or fixing everything
Speaking of Ferringtons , what about going all Nuno spazz and going for the Washburn AE-20 Festival in black?
FYI. My first Guitar was an SG Prophecy and I bought it when a store was going out of business so it was very affordable. This guitar was actually amazing and if the new Prophecy guitars are anything like the old ones they are really good. The new ones definitely have my interest.
Has anyone considered the Spark amp hums because it doesn’t know the words?
My Spark doesn’t hum at all. I just bought one and this thing sounds awesome all the way from clean to heavily distorted!
Missed the live show (rats). Really enjoyed this. Thanks Phil and thanks Nathan!
I wanted an Ovation badly when I was young because of Alex Lifeson. Finally was able to find one (I'm lefty and this was before the internet), tried to play it sitting and hated the round back sliding off the leg. Now I know why Al Di Meola looks like he's hunched over trying to keep his guitar from escaping when he played one.
From Leo: with online lessons, the sound problem seems better if you can plug the computer into a guitar amp, Many amps have an AUX input so you can play the lesson and your guitar through the same amp. At a live lesson, you are always hearing the guitars in the room, things are different through even good headphones. I don't know how to help the visual issues
I totally agree with you about the attitude of techs. I’ve had people that are “great” do the work, take forever, and give me attitude because I didn’t like being overlooked because I’m just an everyday guy who plays guitar. It shouldn’t take 3 months to get a new toggle switch installed! And when I said my truss wrench was missing they laughed at me. So I left and will never go back. I don’t care how great you are, if you’re an asshole then my business goes elsewhere. Luckily, I found some great guys that do great work.
I also had a SG that the tech ruined. I bought it new and it had a bad pickup and fret sprawl. He filed the frets down so far he messed up the fretboard. Then he said to just call Gibson and have them replace it. I wonder how many times that happened... I returned the guitar immediately and got my money back. The manager was cool and gave me an appeasement for my next instrument I buy (haven’t used it yet).
There are some decent, honest techs at Guitar Center, but then again, there are many techs who truly don't give a shit. In fact, I knew a guy who was a GC tech at a location in New Jersey, and this guy truly didn't give a shit about anything he worked on. In my early guitar days, I took a secondhand LTD guitar that I had recently purchased to a Guitar Center tech. When I purchased the guitar, I didn't realize at the time that it had massive fret-buzz, so I wanted it fixed. I knew fret-buzz was not the end of the world and this was something that could easily be resolved.... So, I went to GC and I paid $80 to have it serviced up and down, fix the buzzing and I even tipped the tech $20 after it was done.
I was very clear that the fret buzz was my main issue, but when I got home, I come to find that I was handed back a guitar that had even worse fret-buzz - I don't know how that is even possible! I took the guitar back the next day, well, because this aggression was not going to stand, and I was told that the issue was the fretboard, which required an additional $125 to fix! A small detail the super-competent "tech" could have disclosed immediately. I know he could have said something because I saw him use a ruler checking the fretboard for gaps. It's something he must have noticed immediately, but he chose to say nothing about it. Instead, when he was done, this guy just handed the guitar back to me, already inside the case, and then gave me the bum's rush! Being rushed out gave me no opportunity to test it at the store. Plus, I just assumed this guy was on the level and wouldn't dick me, but he did dick me....he dick'ed me pretty good.
I still go in this Guitar Center occasionally but only for strings or some other nonsense like that; never for any service! On the bright side, this was the situation that forced me to learn how to do these things myself. When I heard $125 bucks, it wasn't about the money, I make good money so I could have paid right then and there, but it was about the fact that they would never get another nickel out of me for service; not after being screwed without at least being kiss!
For this guitar, when I got home, I ended up watching a great instructional video and filed down the frets myself! I purchased the luthier tools I needed online and I then got cracking once I received the tools. I have since learned to do many other things myself, like rewiring, change pots & pickups, change tuners, adjust the intonation, just all around maintenance. This situation has been beneficial. I have since purchased some vintage guitars that I've been able to bring back to life. I recently purchased a 1970 Lotus Les Paul copy, which hadn't been played in years. The knobs were frozen stuck and one of them even broke off when I tried to turn it. I paid $35 bucks for this guitar but after I rewired it, it played beautifully and I ended up selling it for $550! It's not all bad, I guess my negative GC tech experience led me down this road of repairs and profit! Maybe I should be grateful.....nah!
NEVER bring a guitar to GC. Im glad I have someone who does wonderful work.
I bought a third-party power supply for my spark. the hum was bad when I first got it. Like 2x a strat middle coil.
I have a envelope filterish pedal suggestion... have you tried the earthquaker interstellar orbiter.
It’s like dual filters, pretty nuts, but I’ve been checking them out!?
What advice do you have on getting started as a repair guy?
Can you review the sire acoustics as well????
How much would you charge? for a wooden nut and Bridge. On Acoustic guitar
??? Hey Philip and for the luthier I forget your name I'm sorry but I have a 2005 Les Paul studio cherry wine red and I need it to be redone any suggestions?
You can use oil based enamel on nitro and it won't hurt it, nitro is a much hotter product, stay away from any thing with lacquer thinner I'm it. I've personally used alittle enamel and have had luck with it. For small dots in would work perfect.
Oooh enamel is a good idea. I just bought enamel paint last week but haven't tried it yet. I wouldn't have thought to suggest it
Hi Phillip , i have a question about the neck profile of Ibanez AZ Premium...I have a Fender American Professional that has a thicker neck than American Standard...said that....The Ibanez AZ has a Thicker neck than Fender American Pro or is almost the same ?? I know they have different radius fingerboard.12 on AZ and 9,5 on American Pro...but the AZ neck is thicker than American Pro ?
Techs must love when they get relics.
When it comes to guitar text I have a cousin who owns and is New York guitar repair in Manhattan I think he honed his skills at Manny's or one of the large music stores when they used to be a music district in the upper 40s in Manhattan and I don't know exactly why but somehow sumac had heard of him and asked him if he wanted to do a video it wasn't the other way around my cousin was a Godsmack he didn't understand why or Howard they even do it but anyway and in the end he had one stool Mark tool which he showed but he kind of explained his technique and doing guitars one of the things that he explained was how he stores his tools where he keeps them and how he uses them in regards to the relationship of tools arm reach all that stuff and the guitar itself I recommend it I don't know what the actual videos name is but it's New York guitar repair my cousin is an amazingly talented man he graduated I sure graduated Berkeley School of Music he's a bass player played professionally and all that kind of good stuff and also very intelligent I'm not plugging him for you know maybe he'll get some business I think he has all the business he he needs I don't think he needs to have anybody get in business but it would be a really good video a resource to get an idea of how a good guitar tech works I remember before we started doing a professionally visiting him and going into his bedroom with my sister and he had his my uncle's a guitarist hanging and they were all this beautiful wood inlay work he did and he told himself how to do that too so yeah New York guitar repair watch it it's really cool it's interesting and it's informative
Would love to see your thoughts on the new Fender Vibro Champ Reverb amp!
for humbucker that splits well: Tonerider Birmingham out way before Lollar for $70/set
Curious what you prefer about the Spark over something like the Fender GTX50
I brought in a Taylor acoustic to see how much they would pay for it. Guy at the counter was checking it when another sales rep came over and took the guitar from the case, and right after I told him, careful with that, he hits the mint condition black guitar on the countertop edge causing damage.
@WannaBeatle PLEASE tell John Hall that 24 fret necks on a Ric 330/360 is insane! No one shreds on them and it completely pushes the neck pickup out of the sweet spot. It's time to go back and make them better again.
To have a guitar sound like a Les Paul not only do you have to use humbuckers, they must be placed in the precise distance on the body between each other, the neck, the bridge and the nut. Then the pickups have to be raised to the correct height. Fender Guitar's string scale is different from Gibson's, so they will not sound the same no matter what pickups you put in them.
I asked a lady friend to take my inexpensive jazz box in to repair the 1/4" jack. The tech told her it would be $600.00USD unless they had to take the top off the guitar!! Shes a smart lady and walked out. She and I pulled the jack soldered it and I don't patronize GC.
Regarding the PRS to Kiesel neck comparison, when I hold my PRS S2 Custom 24 next to my Kiesel Aries, the main thing I notice is the neck finish - painted vs tung oil. The next thing is that the PRS feels like it has a little more shoulder than the Kiesel, but neither neck feels substantially thinner than the other. I also have a McCarty 594 Thinline with a wide thin neck, and truth be told I cannot tell the difference between that and the pattern regular.
Helpless comment is helpless, I know, but my humble opinion is that neck finish and fret size make infinitely more difference than neck shape or thickness.
Hard to find a PRS Patern Regular on a core. Sweetwater says they only get them in if someone orders it then returns it.
Classiest PRS I've ever seen..
Took my Sheraton ii to guitar center for some clean up before storage, and it came back with wood falling out of the f holes. Still not sure if it was from my guitar or not.
It's a lefty too, and the tone pots came back wired wrong so they were just on / off switches.
they gave me brand new replacement when this happened to me,... but not after I had to complain to corporate,.. they did attempt to make it right (the guitar was 10 months old)
Guitar Center techs are the worst! I bought a brand new 60th anniversary Fender Strat at Guitar Center. I was really psyched to get it home and play it but I wanted to put a bone nut and locking tuners on it first so I left it with them for those repairs. The tech who did these repairs spent 30 minutes online searching for the right locking tuners and I chose sperzel locking tuners with chrome finish. The guitar was supposed to be ready in a few days and then it got postponed to a week and then two weeks and then into a month. Finally when they called and said the repairs were done I went to pick up the guitar and the new locking tuners where are Reddish pink in color instead of Chrome and they were all crooked. The bone nut that they put in was cut horribly and not flush in the nut slot. But most egregious was the fact that this guy decided to polish my frets with steel wool and the pickups were loaded with shards of steel wool. It was a brand new guitar there was absolutely no reason for anybody to polish the frets nevermind not take precautions to keep the pickups clean. And the wrong tuners that they installed required new holes in the headstock. They tried to get me to settle for repairs to correct the problem. But I told them to keep the guitar I wanted my money back. I wasted like 6 weeks of my life dealing with the purchase and repairs of a new guitar to end up with nothing. Live and learn.
I took my PRS custom 24 to guitar center years ago and they completely ruined it. I just wanted a setup done on it. The tech denied any wrong doing and blamed me saying I did things to the guitar after he worked on it. I learned how to do my own setups and fixed what he did. I sold that guitar last summer and bought an ESP eclipse.
Just buy the tools watch some good setup videos and learn to set up your own guitars. It's fun rewarding and easy! I've been setting up guitars for about 7 years now and I love it. I learned all I know at Daves world of fun stuff. Best setup guy on the planet!!!!
Best Humbucker with a coil split is Seymour Duncan Seth Lover.
Best Ever, but get the one that is not waxed potted.
The best Envelope Filter ever is the DOD FX25B. I love mine, and I'll never sell it.
My name is Rosie. I’m a gear addict.
Lmao
Hi Rosie. Why dont you tell us a lil bit about yourself ;)
Spark amp hum. To deal with it, usb it to computer, that adds the ground.
Can you put an aftermarket tremolo to a PRS Hollowbody II ?
“Service is a different LLC than sales” or anything of the like is a BS attempt to blow you off. No judge is going to accept that argument in court. The main reason, aside of tax purposes, for large businesses separating in store entities like this is to be able to maintain “the brand” if one has to declare bankruptcy or gets sued. I worked for an RV and boat dealer who had three LLCs set up for each department for this very reason. Not long ago he changed the name of the whole company after decades of ruining its reputation. Couldn’t get out of there fast enough
Fortunately we have some really good techs in Sacramento.
My name is Paul. Although I have James Burton red palsy signature tele I just bought 2021 squier 70 vibe strat. Please let me know if it is a stable guitar. I bought it new from Sweetwater for $399.00. Thank you
Hi Paul, I have a remake of a 69 pink paisley tele like JB played while he was with Elvis. I have some experience with Squier Classic Vibes in the past. They are really good guitars. I had a Squier Classic Vibe 50's Tele. I should have never gotten rid of it. I have a Squier vintage modified 70's strat from 2014. Still going strong, great guitar. A musician friend set it up for me, his comment was that he thought it was a good guitar and would play it on stage if it was his.
Why do guitar manufactures stick to less than 24 frets? It seems to me that 24 frests = 2 Octaves, and makes a lot more sense.... What are the advantages of less frets?
Musicman instruments seem to have problems with the finish not staying on. I remember saving up for a stingray and looking at every single used listing, I can tell you at least 60% of them had paint lifting, peeling or discoloration on the back side of the instrument
I find it funny that your friend thinks Josh Scott making two videos affects the price of a pedal more than hoarding 14 of them..
I’m not hating on him, just my opinion.
Great episode and I love your channel, keep up the good work.
I pay attention to the prices of DOD pedals as a whole, not just the Filter. Right after his videos released, there were 2 massive price spikes on DOD pedals, especially the "Lamb Series" ones. 14 out of the thousands produced hardly accounts for a price increase.
@@nathansongne9790 that’s a fair point, and I never said that there wasn’t an affect on the prices after the videos, but you have to see that collectors also affect the price, like I said I’m not hating on you at all, I’m just of the opinion that it’s more than one thing that leads to a price rise, thousands of pedals made and with hundreds if not thousands worldwide collecting them all with double digits in their collection and the numbers soon add up.
Hail Thorr !!😉
I was lucky and was referred to Scooter the tech of Cannibal Corpse and Hate Eternal. So yeah he's my tech now 🤣
@Know Your Gear I must also say that his attitude might rub most people wrong, but who am I to argue with a master luthier
Sam Ash and most of his employees are probably fantastic people, but the company's online support staff is some of the worst and most impersonal I've ever experienced. The store even takes your money if they're out of stock (not indicated on the webpage) for months before the instrument is back in stock.
On the other hand, I just had a spectacular experience with Guitar Center's online support staff, specifically Gus Wolf. Made so many things happen on the spot without any issue and answered every question I had with multiple solutions. I don't work for Guitar Center, nor do I have any particular opinion on the place, just sharing my experience.
Thanks, Phillip, for the great content!
Use the sound “when you removed the pickup from that guitar” in a new song. It’s sounded really cool.
2:20:55 The neck can make a guitar feel wrong for you even if you want the guitar. I really want a Yamaha Revstar RSP20CR, but every guitar in that line feels like it has a neck similar to an LP, it's kinda think and I didn't enjoy it. It's also a gloss finish on those necks, which makes that thick neck even worse for me. I still want one, but I have to get used to thicker necks first.
Epiphone.... old school balls
Ahhh the new Gibson's smell. 👍🎸