My custom guitar : part 2, the sound test
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- Опубліковано 2 кві 2020
- Here it is at last !!
for those who have been nagging about it,
but also for those who asked nicely,
the sound demo of the guitar I made in december 2019.
I tried to capture the full range of what the guitar can give, using the minimum gear,
I'm one of those who think that a lot of the tone comes from the player's fingers, so sorry for my very average playing :p
But I remain pretty confident that this guitar would sound amazing in the hands of a virtuoso.
Gear in this video:
* amp: Orange CR60C (solid state), clean channel only, flat EQ, no reverb
* mics: Shure SM 57 (center), AKG D112 (edge)
* logic : no EQ, no compression
* pedalboard:
- tc electronics HyperGravity compression
- Bluesky reverb
- ibanez TubeScreamer (mini)
- tc electronics MojoMojo overdrive
Thank you so much for watching the build
the video has 300k views as I'm writing this and so many nice and constructive comments!
Stay tuned, more builds are coming !
I particularly appreciate that you actually let us hear what the guitar sounds like "dry" because so many people on youtube expect us to just guess what a guitar played with distortion or an absurd amount of reverb might sound like by itself. The Dimarzio PAF in the neck was very impressive, by the way.
Totally agree. Too many demos are swamped with overdrive from the outset - even a plank with crappy pups can sound reasonable when you push everything beyond extremes.
Man, no matter the sound... The whole process is a magic. Congratulations
2:51 love me some Vulfpeck! Especially that Darwin Derby riff, I’m so glad I stumbled upon these videos! Very therapeutic to watch, so satisfying
Thank you !
yeah exactly!
building in the name of...
Satisfying to listen to it after the journey of seeing it be built.
Highly skilled craftsman, highly skilled guitarist.
Man, this looks and sounds fantastic! Congrats on such a beautiful build!
what a job to achieve such a magnificent result.
Congratulations.
Best regards from France.
Awesome! Sounds as good as it looks!
Just came from the build video. Sounds AMAZING!!!
Man, I don't even play the guitar (play 🎹), but I am loving watching the builds and the sound tests! Awesome!
Thanks !!
Sounds beautiful!
Very impressive video. I especially liked the sound of hypergravity compressor. Thank you!!
Saw the build video...sounds GREAT!!! Awesome build!
Beautiful build sounds lovely better than some big name brand's 👍
That sounds great man. Good work on the build.
Great build and range of tones! Also, nice CAKE solo!
Absolutely beautiful build that also has a great tone range, well done!🫡
Watched the whole video of you building this. It has good humbucker sounds.
love it!! sounds incredible!!
love the vulf near the end
Nice job!! 👏🏼👏🏼Sounds amazing!!
Absolutely beautiful!
Excellent sound,good readability and of course appearance. Great job!
Beautiful guitar
2:24 that cake riff tho, nastyyyyy
Beautiful build and the sound... congratulations love from INDIA
That RATM riff..wow. Fantastic job man.👌
Beautiful craftsmanship with a pickup sound like hell
this is a beautiful guitar, well done, im a fan
Very Beatl-ey tones! Love it!
sounds AMAZING
The bridge pick up sounds sick!
Your a magician best video I've seen on UA-cam
Very good sound man! Congrats!
Very cool sounds and it looks fantastic! I look forward to seeing the build process for this one as well.
Thanks ! It's already available. Look at my video from December 2019 this is actually my second guitar build :)
@@tchiksguitars Just watched it, it's awesome!
F’n awesome! I love that guitar! Wouldn’t mind buying one if I could afford it
If it makes it any better, it's not for sale aahaha
Sounds awsome.
Beautiful guitar & sound!!.
If I were rich I'd love one of your guitars. They're so beautiful. Thank you.
Sounds great!
ohhhh a perfect guitarist too!!
Bon bah 2 jours après la découverte de la chaîne j’ai déjà tout regardé et j’ai encore plus envie de fabriquer ma guitare ! Merci Tchiks !
Hehe. Ca fait tellement plaisir de lire ça :)
tchiks guitars and furniture c’est totalement mérité !
Te felicito, muy orgulloso de tu creación ha de sentirte, sigue con más creaciones, saludos !!!
It sounds very nice. I liked the clean sound a lot.
Love it too, I'm considering the same neck pickup for my current build. Thank you !
Love watching you build guitars. I wouldn't worry about that switch I did mine like that as well. I took the switch plate of a Les Paul, the one that says treble and rhythm and was asked about why I had. My reply was was I kinda know what it does and I wanted to see more wood. Some people get it others tend to think I'm nuts. My guitar so it goes the way I want. RATM are cool! Congrats on another build and a really good one!
Yup it's purely tradition, there is no logical reason behind it in my opinion :)
This is wonderful
Wonderful guitar
Sounds very good! 👏🏼👍🏼
Thanks !
great work and excellent playing! i wish i could build my own guitar.
J adore le son de cette gratte, bon choix pour les micro, et beau matos au passage.
Sounds great!!
That body style is sick
Good looking guitar and its sounds very good as well:)
God it's Gorgeous!
I like the overall shape of the headstock.
Просто супер! Вы большой молодец.
Super awesome 👍I love it🎶🎸
Thanks ! Check out my Les Paul build :)
@@tchiksguitars I think I have, it was super cool, too
Nice guitar, good sound
Nice sound😍😍😍
why is this mans god
Great humbucking sound
Hey, I have that same amp! Great build and great gear
Great job...came from the shelf build video and hit the sub button. Playing RATM last seems like good timing right now.
Thanks ! It's always a good time to play RATM :p
Wow :O That neck pickup is divine.
I know right ! I'm considering the same for my current build :)
@@tchiksguitars I hope we get to see that, too!
Yes I'm filming it :)
Master class builder and player very nice . I would love to have your woodworking tools and woodworking knowledge simple the best . WOW a true master piece . Work of art .
2:50 great taste, sir! Hail the Vulf!
i wanted to do a duet with myself (with the bass that i built), but then i thought, this is not the point of the video :) (song would have been dean town !)
@@tchiksguitars do it in another video! Awesome builds dude :)
@@mitchtube3 will do ! and thanks !
Perfect
Nice sounds
Sounds good through my phone. 👍
Отличный инструмент.👍
Wow, great again.
at 2:25 and at 2:50 very cool! I'd be using those two the most.
Thanks!
Excellent craftsmanship! Just mind kind of guitar. Fixed bridge, over under headstock tuners, DiMarzios! Sounds great!
Thank you ! It's my kind of guitar too :p
@@tchiksguitars It's world class and I wish you the best with your company. BTW, I have a question. Are Duncans or DiMarzios more popular in Europe? I'm just asking because I live in the states, in Los Angeles, and I've been playing guitar for thirty five years and in this time I've noticed an overwhelming tendency of smaller music shops and custom builders to push Duncans very aggressively. I even had a custom guitar built from scratch in'89 and they almost refused to install DiMarzios over Duncans, and I already owned the DiMarzios! I've always prefered them to Duncans. They're much more alive and to my ears, generally warmer too.
I have no idea what is popular here. When I was a 15 I bought an Ibanez RG in a the states (think it was in Guitar Center in California). Brought it back to Belgium. A year later the original bridge pickup died (can't remember what brand it was though, probably a proprietary Ibanez pickup? ) so I brought it to my local guitar shop in Brussels and the guy offered me to change the entire pickup for a Dimarzzio evolution, I loved it and that's the reason why I took that very same pickup and put it in this guitar 17 years later :p so you see I haven't really thought about it. Now with my different builds I'm still trying to explore different tones and different pickups. By the way I don't go in guitar shops in Belgium anymore, and that for many years now, Belgian guitar guys are notable jerks and their stocks are ridiculous :) so I only shop online.
Awesome 👍👍👍👍👍
Beautifu justl Damn Beautiful.
Perfect!! Dude
Sorry I got to say the guitar sounds awesome to . I got so caught up in the build . What kind of wood do you use soft wood or hard wood just wondering if you don't mind me asking .
I only used hard wood (maple walnut and mahogany). I believe soft wood are mostly used in acoustic guitars
Show de bola 👏👏
Great!!!!
Amazing bruh
Brilliant, so satisfying to hear after watching the build, what pickups did you use?
Dimarzzios ! Evolution and paf 36th znn
Oh Mann... Verry manly sound... I like it
Very well built and played Sir. The comments seem to be unduly critical. I can't say it's entirely to my taste but why should it be? I hope you love it as much as you hoped you would! I do have to ask though. Pickup selector is "upside down" by convention. I've wired a few guitars and have often got toggle switches the wrong way round. So, mistake or deliberate?
hey thank you, it is almost exactly as I wanted it to be and it makes me very proud :) about the pickup selector, it's not a mistake, or rather, I intentionally rotated the flip direction 90° clockwise because of a mistake : one wire was too short (hot wire between toggle switch and tone pot), and since I didn't want to unsolder two solder joints just to be "conventional" I kept it as is. Now in practice, it doesn't feel unnatural, or maybe I got used to it, because I play it a lot (it's my main guitar now).
If you were my friend I would ask you to teach me this kind of woodworking, because making guitars is both art and satisfaction
For me it's mostly satisfaction, a big dose of satisfaction :) thanks !
Your guitar is awesome! By the way, how do you know a right point to set pickups? I have a guitar with 3 pickups. It has 2 single pickups and bridge humbucker. This guitar has stratocaster style pickups attached to a pickguard. I wish to replace a pickguard with a new laser cut copy to replace neck single pickup with humbucker. But I do not know how to find exact position for the new humbucker. I know that polepieces can affect strings by magnetic field and create undesired harmonics. Is there some equation of something to find this out?
Thank you ! I have no idea ! For this build I reproduced the measurement from my Ibanez prestige sz2020 which is a double humbucker. So what I would do in your case is to find a guitar that has the same configuration, reproduce the layout and then have your pickguard laser cut.
I wouldn't use a laser engraver though, but a router with a flush trim bit and an mdf template. You will have to route some new cavity for the pickup itself in the body anyway. You can find humbucker templates for sale on the internet (stewmac delivers in Europe now). Personally I used to make my own template on mdf now I 3d print them on my tiny 3d printer. Does the job perfectly !
Wow. Nice Tele paul.
Hahahahah
You ought to try humbu king pickups in a build to see how one of your build guitars sound .
Well done, sounds great 👍 the only negative comment’s I would have are, dislike the big contrast between the fingerboard and body, also the fact it’s not rounded at the bottom strap button. I really like the Tele behind you. 👍👍👍
thanks ! ! I get the idea but I personally love two tones contrasts, I've always done that, wayyyy before making guitars (in furnitures specifically). Oh and I built the tele too :) it was my first build.
I like rage against the machine,too!
Me too ahahaha
I WANT ONE!
I've just seen the build video - here it is. That works well, very well - Telecaster in the background, who's is that? The sound balance is really good across the strings on both p/ups, really shouldn't need to use compression all that often. Congrats on a really nice build of a really handsome guitar.
Thank you for the kind words. The telecaster was my first build. 2 months before this one :)
@@tchiksguitars WWAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGHHH he made the Tele as well!
Haha
@@tchiksguitars I like your guitars good job friend. Its fun to watch you make them, its way more than I could ever do but still interesting because of all the work that goes into it. It must be so satisfying to play a instrument you made after 1-3 months of hard work.
How long have you been making guitars and why did get want to make your own? what got you started?
Also do you make instruments for other people or just for yourself??
Amazers😀🎧☺🙌🙏☕🍵🌾
sound was coll
mixed up what the neck and bridge positions were. Nice playing :)
:-) respect Bro ....wow
That cake solo. ❤️
3:15 till the end was the best part😁
Ratm fan here I see !
what an outstanding build! my only minor suggestion would be move that pickup selector to the back so the player can “ride” the volume knob
I’d also be forever hitting the switch with my picking hand accidentally and changing the setting with where it is at the moment... but that kind of stuff is a very personal technique thing. It’s a gorgeous guitar.
👍🔥🔥