I've been to the Samsung factory in Vietnam where they make many of their televisions and appliances. No kids. Just very poor Vietnamese people working 12-14 hours a day, 6-7 days a week, in a multiple mile long factory working for barely enough money to afford rent, diseased water, and repairing a tiny dangerous motorbike in a pollution filled wasteland of of traffic and humanity called Ho Chi Minh City. Your conscious is clear. You can sleep soundly.
Hi Uncle Judy! Last night I was watching Tim Henson's livestream on Twitch and someone asked him about your videos. He said he had watched them and he thinks you're entertaining (and loud). Just wanted to let you know if you want to watch the VOD replay later. Time stamp is around 01:22:50 of yesterday's stream :)
As an older dude (30 lol) I can very much appreciate the art of a finely crafted higher end instrument. The 19 year old me chugged on a $200 LTD and loved every minute. Everyone’s taste will change as the years go on. Keep Rockin
Uncle Judy: ha ha hand made guitars Me holding my brand new exotic premium woods hand made In England Jesus water wine red Noah’s ark special one in the universe Gordon Smith: nothing will ever be enough for uncle Judy
@@evil1st when we reffer to communism and the "many deaths" that it caused those are numbers counted by the right. although during the time of Stalin there was mass starvation that was not due to communism but the fact that Stalin was a dictator but the right also counted the deaths of things like car crashes and deaths from illness etc. if we claim that communism and socialism fail then how come every good socialist leader or revolutionary where the country being to see positive change under their leadership ( Thomas Sankara, Che Guevara ) is assassinated by the CIA or other government interference, why don't we just although the countries to fail on their own ?
I just wanna say, I own the guitar you showed around 2:43, while it is a 400 squire it is still one of the best and most unique sounding guitars in my collection
How long has CNC tech been a thing in the mass produced guitar market? Because I feel like the quality of budget guitars is WAY better than it use to be when I started playing in 2007.
I think you kinda ignored the “One perfect things vs a bunch of decent things” argument. Recently I traded 3 guitars for one perfect one(strandberg prog 6). I’d much rather only have the perfect guitar for me vs 5 guitars that just feel a bit off.
I feel like he used a lot of guitars just to show how much you could really get but to me the point still stands that you could get an amazing guitar half the price and be really happy with it and not have to get a second mortgage to pay for it
i don't think he necessarily ignored it but sorta glossed over it. like him saying "you don't need an expensive guitar" implies (at least to me) that it's more about what gives you the best experience and not about more $$ = better guitar
I don't exactly think thats a terrible argument but it is sorta subjective also one thing that is a bit off to you might be perfect for someone else Some people simply do not give a fuck about a finish flaw or a slightly less than ideal setup and just want something that sorta looks cool and sorta sounds good enough to them
I buy cheap guitars and i am really happy with their tone and playability. I bought my last strat for a little more than 100$ and it sure does sound like a strat. Yeah, fretwork is a bit rough, but pickups and hardware a pretty neat! (The brand is called vintage, they use wilkinson stuff). Oh i also don’t by anything new. Why pay more for a cardboard box delivered from shop, when you can just pick up a cool guitar with great mojo. Granted, if i was a dentist or a lawyer or didn’t live in russia, i would consider buying more premium stuff, but at the end of the day guitar is an instrument, and cheap guitars are perfectly capable of getting the job done (especially these days)
Uncle Judy, you make some of the best guitar videos. You are self aware, funny, and don’t beat around the bush. I feel like youtubers like music is win and Jared dines do a lot of padding and get to the point later in the video. While I love both of those channels, I feel like they don’t make videos of the same quality as you
For the past 12 years I’ve been buying cheap guitars and setting them up myself and they can easily achieve the quality of an $800+ guitar simply by giving them the time and TLC that was skipped at the factory to get them down to that price. Not all cheap guitars are salvageable but most of them are. You’ll have to adjust the truss rod, maybe file or replace some frets, fix the intonation, fix the tremolo balance etc… stuff that the factory is cheeping out on because they don’t want to pay people to refine them off the line. Once you get good at setting up guitars you can save a lot of money. You won’t get the fancy paint jobs or the pretty designs but the sound and feel will be the same.
As an only two cheap AF guitars owner, I couldn't agree more. I'm also a BIAS FX user and sold my big Laney amp with my loved EVH signature overdrive pedal because that plugin makes all the job I need, and it's actually better for recording directly through my cheap Behringer interface. I downsized my rig and I couldn't be happier with the money and free space I got back. I don't even play outside my room, so that's more than enough for me.
Sometimes it's the price and the color. I wanted a specific metallic blue Squier, similar to the Daytona Blue that Fenders use. However, Squiers have been using many different shades of blue for years. I went through Guitar Centers website and ended up on the fifth page to find the blue guitar I wanted for $160ish. Granted it was a 2005 Squier so I had to put a ton of TLC into it like sanding and crowning the frets, replacing the nut, adjusting the neck and truss rod. However, I don't regret it for a second. I love that guitar
I used to think the whole "tone is in the fingers" argument was bullshit, but honestly as I've gotten better at guitar I've realized thats pretty true. If you're shit at the little nuances then no gear can fix that
I built my own sustainer strat… Right now, probably at $300 between a pickguard and a vegatrem. Got a squire body i refinished, paint kit was free due to stew mac’s 7 day promise. Traded some parts for fender locking tuners. Did some 3D printing work for a friend who sent me hot rails, found a sustainer on IG. Patched the input hole with stuff I had, refinished and assembled with a spare MIM neck. The closest thing is an EOB strat which is $1500. And mine has more features and plays better than the ones I’ve demo’d 😂 Between a 10 way switch with fun wiring, the vegatrem, SD (psychedelic neck, hot rail bridge) pickups and a sustainer, I can make more tones than i ever need 😅
About the playability issue. I repair guitars at work. People sometimes bring me veeery cheap and crappy guitars to do something to them. If you actually understand how the different parts of the guitar, be it acoustic or electric, contribute to the overall feel, you can easily correct those problems. I can make a 100$ guitar play like a 1000$ one. Yeah, it's some work, but the money they pay me to make it better is much less than buying a better guitar. (I should point out, that it might not sound exactly as an expensive one, but that thing is explained in the video already)
Even Jack White dropped the “a guitar that hard to play is cool” thing. He ditched the dogshit plastic vintage Nationals and went with Music Man, then Fender. Life is hard - guitars should be easy.
5:17 - A $300 Acoustic Guitar I would suggest that Looks, Sounds, and Feels Amazing is the Mitchel T333CE-BST. Its a Great guitar, Especially for the price!
for me expensive guitars isnt about tone at all , its about playability , i have a 1500 ibanez and ever after playing that , any other guitar i've played feels like not smooth , the best way i can put it is like if both the strings and the frets were extremely rusted , thats how it feels , so my theory for now is that it might just be that stainless steel frets make that much of a difference , i kinda want to find a cheap guitar with stainless steel frets to see if that's what it is
6:13 XD I have that exact Ibanez 8 String. I use it to play a variety of styles and techniques and it works really well for me. My only complaint about it is that the screws that allow you to adjust the string action on the bridge are sharp as f*** and had to be sanded down a little. This is something I only noticed once I started trying to learn Tosin Abasi's technique.
I Will still argue, that you might not need an expensive guitar, but you do NEED good pickups for certain things. I mainly play 8s and my first 8 string was a Harley benton multiscale 8 string for around 200$ and i plugged it in and it sounded awful, so much so that i Got discouraged from playing it, it had so many problems with tuners, the nut and the fretwork but the worst was the Stock soapbar pickups. A year later after basically quitting, i Got a 2000$ ibanez 8 string with lundgrens and it sounded a universe better than the Old one, even on the shitty amp i had. Then i Got a good amp around 6 months later which was a rectifier, and Got a fortin boost pedal. And damn it finally began to Sound really good. Then i thought “wait i want to try plugging the Old 8 into the new setup, it Can impossibly Sound bad now” and it did, with a completely midded out amp, it manager to still Sound muddy. I would say after the 2000$ Mark a guitar only gets more prestigious. But before that you Can only go up. Am also currently having huge issues with fret height on even a 2k $ guitar.
Took me some time to get my guitars sound how I want, it's pretty cool to see how each one of them have their benefits. Got 3 now and there's lot of playground. Only been playing about a year, so lots to learn.
Gidson SG's aren't made well on the string nut and neck by having cracks and breaks.....all of them.... SG fakes are actually even sometimes made better than Gibson's for alot less than 1k💀
Simple take a cheaper guitar and upgrade it, boom now you got a great sounding guitar that still costs less than an expensive guitar. And you actually get to choose what you want on it versus paying a whole lot for a set guitar
Brand named vintage and overly expensive guitars has a "curse" on them because of theft and/or accidents. Which is why you should always leave that "Stradivarius" at home and use a professionally setup, cheaper makeshift guitar instead. Epiphones and Squires are the best at not just the sound but you also get to look the part..
My most expensive guitar is a Peavey Grind 6 string bass guitar. It's considered one of the more affordable guitars of its kind, which I find funny cuz I had to save up and go in on it with three other people.
90-s Peavey Reactor is a great telecaster. You can still find one for $400-600. Got mine for $480 in nearly perfect condition. Thought I'd upgrade electronics, but never got to it -- it's pretty good as is.
I have a 2009 Gibson Les Paul Studio, and it plays and sounds ten times better than my 1881 Les Paul Standard did. Not long ago, the Fender Squier Strats retailed at the Guitar Center for $99.00 with a gig bag.; around the same time period, I bought an American Standard Strat for $700.00. If I did it again today, I would definitely go with one of their Mexican models. I think the key to a good guitar is right in the middle somewhere. I like a good playing guitar but I'm not impressed with fancy paint and bindings. Jimmy Page bought all of his guitars second hand and probably didn't pay more than a couple of hundred for his LPs.
benefit of buying expensive guitars for me, you can often put them on payment plans. still in debt, but at least you can feel like you're actually affording it.
Just got my michael kelly patriot custom shop about a week ago absolutely love it you get those custom looks nice neck coil split gives you a little twang neck through and string through mahogany body mahogany neck quilt maple top pau ferro fret board for 600 and honestly only paying 89 a month on zzounds deffinitely a score
I went to guitar center 5 years ago with a friend and he picked up this $99 Squier and it played and sounded amazing. FOR $99!!! Goes to show that price doesn't always equal quality
So I Love my cheap guitars, however I can say there is a quality and playability difference in a much higher end one say,PRS McCarty 594, or Silver sky for my references. There is a tonal quality difference and there is definitely a playability difference. That being said everything you had to say in this video is correct You don't have to spend a month's wages to get good tone and a decent playable guitar. One of my favorite ones is a Squire that I dropped a fender custom shop pick guard into, can't beat the sound in that guitar; but you get to play it and you get to work at playing it.
I own an epi lespaul vintage unclejudy trashed in a video. Absolute dirt cheap. Its pretty good on a bias amp, after setting it up. Pots are mid but other than that playabality and tone are pretty good.
I have an epi les Paul custom pro (koa) and it’s amazing for the price. While 650 wasn’t exactly “cheap” it sounds amazing and has great hardware for the price point. Highly recommended
I own a streamliner and unless you want to spend more money than it's worth on setup, installing rollers, new nut and tuners I strongly recommend the hardtail version as I did. Chinese bigsby is worse than boomers. The guitar is fire tho.
The only diffrence between cheap and expensive guitars in my opinion is playability/ quality control. If I buy a stingray sub bass, the action will probably be high and the frets will need doing. If i get a usa stingray, that thing will be near perfect out of the box. QC takes time and time is money. The sound will be simmilar. The looms will be the same. But the neck feel and playability will be night and day
Guitar is about playability. Tone is down to loudspeakers. Everything in between, those are your toys. I had to sand down the frets on my Squier because they had burrs down the neck, and the whole string setup and tuning was a bit of a PITA, but otherwise it's a sweet guitar. Cheap guitars have their own charm.
You can get great deals on used guitars. Sometimes guitar center has used cheap guitars that have upgrades and mods done to them but they sell them as if they didn’t have upgrades, and sometimes the upgrades alone cost more than what they’re asking for. That being said, expensive guitars hold their value much better
I own 3 guitars, an Epiphone Dr-90 cheap ass acoustic that has been loved, set up and maintained properly, plays okay, sounds alright. An Ibanez Gio RG, and Jackson X series Soloist. While the jackson plays great, and sounds amazing, something about the feel of the Gio is just, so right in my hands. There is a $650 (cad) price gap between the Ibanez and Jackson, and I prefer the feel of the Gio. That being said the jackson has a floyyd for all that dive bomby fluttery goodness. Love all my guitars and never saw/ felt the need to spend over $1000 on a fancy pro or sig series guitar, outside of some of the higher end finishes being all too sexy, they don't feel any better, or at least 3x the price better.
Ok I'll back that up. I got a Ibenez Geo like 15 years ago. Tuned her up and threw GR 5 on that beezy. I can get nearly any sound I want. It might take me 5 hours of tweaking, but oh my god what am I doing with my life.
One thing is for sure: Gibson will never lower their prices
EVER
And Fender is increasing theirs
Gibson could sell a stick for 1,000 and no one would be surprised
Rip “pre Gibson” Mesa amps 🖐 😔
Yeah
i like my guitars made with emotion. i ask the luthier to cry on the wood it really makes a difference
Do you ask him or do you make him cry? Askin for a friend
Tone tearzzz
@@flawlesswalruss ahh dang it :(
@@notoriusdrifter40 I personally bully my luthier on something he’s deeply insecure about
yeah same, I just ask mine to shit on it
You know, deep inside, what we all really want is that
D A N G B A N G
T E L E T W A N G
kirk you don't use tele's remember?
@@khalilhammoud1854 Kirk has a see-through telecaster with a blue liquid inside called the Wavecaster or something
@@iqceo4276 the pisscaster
@@blakecameron good enough
Imposter
Judy: "but what if they are using child labor?"
My UA-cam: well i guess its time for a samsung ad
I've been to the Samsung factory in Vietnam where they make many of their televisions and appliances. No kids. Just very poor Vietnamese people working 12-14 hours a day, 6-7 days a week, in a multiple mile long factory working for barely enough money to afford rent, diseased water, and repairing a tiny dangerous motorbike in a pollution filled wasteland of of traffic and humanity called Ho Chi Minh City. Your conscious is clear. You can sleep soundly.
The rationale behind me buying a Gibson Les Paul custom a few weeks ago was quite simply the fact that it is fuckin sick
that's the only rationale you ever need tbh
Thats the only one that i can think of
Otherwise the epiphone version is probably pretty damn good enough
Hi Uncle Judy! Last night I was watching Tim Henson's livestream on Twitch and someone asked him about your videos. He said he had watched them and he thinks you're entertaining (and loud). Just wanted to let you know if you want to watch the VOD replay later. Time stamp is around 01:22:50 of yesterday's stream :)
(here's the link- I think this proves Judy is famous now.....LET'S GOOOO) www.twitch.tv/videos/872999020
Lets goooo
Let's goooo
Twas a good day 🥺👉👈
@@unclejudymusic what are those two fingers pointing at each other for?
As an older dude (30 lol) I can very much appreciate the art of a finely crafted higher end instrument. The 19 year old me chugged on a $200 LTD and loved every minute. Everyone’s taste will change as the years go on. Keep Rockin
Uncle Judy: ha ha hand made guitars
Me holding my brand new exotic premium woods hand made In England Jesus water wine red Noah’s ark special one in the universe Gordon Smith: nothing will ever be enough for uncle Judy
@Mailroom Clerk you know your purple carrots oh holy cow water
"RGA stands for rEaLly GoOd aAS."
this is the equivalent of Karl Marx coming up with communism
except the video was actually good, the communism wasnt
based, comrade
@@evil1st when we reffer to communism and the "many deaths" that it caused those are numbers counted by the right. although during the time of Stalin there was mass starvation that was not due to communism but the fact that Stalin was a dictator but the right also counted the deaths of things like car crashes and deaths from illness etc. if we claim that communism and socialism fail then how come every good socialist leader or revolutionary where the country being to see positive change under their leadership ( Thomas Sankara, Che Guevara ) is assassinated by the CIA or other government interference, why don't we just although the countries to fail on their own ?
@@band4132 thank you comrade, workers of the world unite
@@jack-zs3tz and I thought q boomers and /pol/acks were schizo
“It’s made with emotion that’s for damn sure”
Average Gibson Les Paul Custom fan
Average Squier Affinity Strat enthusiast
Im literally about to buy a squire affinity jazz bass lmao
@@beenis08 congrats
@@beenis08 good decision, just go for it. i got a squier affinity jazzmaster guitar and its great. some professionals use squiers as well.
@@beenis08 my first bass was an affinity pbass. build quality was pretty bad but it had that very reliable pbass tone that got the job done
Man les paul custom looks so nice especially in alpine white
Too bad it costs my fucking consciousness to buy
I just wanna say, I own the guitar you showed around 2:43, while it is a 400 squire it is still one of the best and most unique sounding guitars in my collection
I like the idea of the child slavery. They have smaller hands and can make new things possible.
Oh god
👀
Man that’s fucked
It definitely doesnt exist though, the little kids here in Indonesia are either too obsessed by mobile games or doing tiktoks.
@@kenz2756 tell me you're joking
Tbh I think it’s pretty awesome when I see somebody rockin a squire on stage
The Cnc router was a blessing to the budget guitar market.
How long has CNC tech been a thing in the mass produced guitar market? Because I feel like the quality of budget guitars is WAY better than it use to be when I started playing in 2007.
I think you kinda ignored the “One perfect things vs a bunch of decent things” argument. Recently I traded 3 guitars for one perfect one(strandberg prog 6). I’d much rather only have the perfect guitar for me vs 5 guitars that just feel a bit off.
I feel like he used a lot of guitars just to show how much you could really get but to me the point still stands that you could get an amazing guitar half the price and be really happy with it and not have to get a second mortgage to pay for it
i don't think he necessarily ignored it but sorta glossed over it. like him saying "you don't need an expensive guitar" implies (at least to me) that it's more about what gives you the best experience and not about more $$ = better guitar
I don't exactly think thats a terrible argument but it is sorta subjective
also one thing that is a bit off to you might be perfect for someone else
Some people simply do not give a fuck about a finish flaw or a slightly less than ideal setup and just want something that sorta looks cool and sorta sounds good enough to them
I buy cheap guitars and i am really happy with their tone and playability. I bought my last strat for a little more than 100$ and it sure does sound like a strat. Yeah, fretwork is a bit rough, but pickups and hardware a pretty neat! (The brand is called vintage, they use wilkinson stuff). Oh i also don’t by anything new. Why pay more for a cardboard box delivered from shop, when you can just pick up a cool guitar with great mojo. Granted, if i was a dentist or a lawyer or didn’t live in russia, i would consider buying more premium stuff, but at the end of the day guitar is an instrument, and cheap guitars are perfectly capable of getting the job done (especially these days)
Uncle Judy, you make some of the best guitar videos. You are self aware, funny, and don’t beat around the bush. I feel like youtubers like music is win and Jared dines do a lot of padding and get to the point later in the video. While I love both of those channels, I feel like they don’t make videos of the same quality as you
1. Buy cheap ass squier / epiphone
2. Throw bomb ass $200 pickups in that thing
3 congrats it sounds like a custom shop
For the past 12 years I’ve been buying cheap guitars and setting them up myself and they can easily achieve the quality of an $800+ guitar simply by giving them the time and TLC that was skipped at the factory to get them down to that price.
Not all cheap guitars are salvageable but most of them are. You’ll have to adjust the truss rod, maybe file or replace some frets, fix the intonation, fix the tremolo balance etc… stuff that the factory is cheeping out on because they don’t want to pay people to refine them off the line.
Once you get good at setting up guitars you can save a lot of money. You won’t get the fancy paint jobs or the pretty designs but the sound and feel will be the same.
How my day becomes wonderful by one notification , Judy thankyou for what you are doing for us.
Proud owner of Harley Benton guitars, don't fall in those marketing traps kids
Yo that Custom Judy signature model sounded sick
Glad to be back watching this video again.
3:47 lost my shit
As an only two cheap AF guitars owner, I couldn't agree more. I'm also a BIAS FX user and sold my big Laney amp with my loved EVH signature overdrive pedal because that plugin makes all the job I need, and it's actually better for recording directly through my cheap Behringer interface. I downsized my rig and I couldn't be happier with the money and free space I got back. I don't even play outside my room, so that's more than enough for me.
Capitalizing on used gear is huge too. 7 string goes for like $1600 dollars MSRP and I got it for $850 bucks. Can get some steals on reverb.
Sometimes it's the price and the color. I wanted a specific metallic blue Squier, similar to the Daytona Blue that Fenders use. However, Squiers have been using many different shades of blue for years. I went through Guitar Centers website and ended up on the fifth page to find the blue guitar I wanted for $160ish. Granted it was a 2005 Squier so I had to put a ton of TLC into it like sanding and crowning the frets, replacing the nut, adjusting the neck and truss rod. However, I don't regret it for a second. I love that guitar
My $500 Cort Bass plays great, I really have no reason to upgrade. Good video man, you make some good points
I used to think the whole "tone is in the fingers" argument was bullshit, but honestly as I've gotten better at guitar I've realized thats pretty true. If you're shit at the little nuances then no gear can fix that
stop uploading videos right when i´m about to practice, now i have a reason to procrastinate, unsubscribed.
uncle judy, you’re gonna go far kid
The old Judy Custom Chrome is making an appearance
Those little Indonesian children would be so proud of you
squier sure can rock. they’ve really upped their quality with their higher end guitars
Do what I did.
Buy a Squier Strat and upgrade the parts over time.
The only real plus to more expensive guitars I’ve noticed is the finishing of the fretwork and the feel of the neck.
"You're gonna go far kid" ... as a college student, this hits me
Yo I just met Uncle Judy on Omegle! Let's GO! Thanks for being so nice!
I built my own sustainer strat…
Right now, probably at $300 between a pickguard and a vegatrem.
Got a squire body i refinished, paint kit was free due to stew mac’s 7 day promise. Traded some parts for fender locking tuners. Did some 3D printing work for a friend who sent me hot rails, found a sustainer on IG.
Patched the input hole with stuff I had, refinished and assembled with a spare MIM neck.
The closest thing is an EOB strat which is $1500. And mine has more features and plays better than the ones I’ve demo’d 😂
Between a 10 way switch with fun wiring, the vegatrem, SD (psychedelic neck, hot rail bridge) pickups and a sustainer, I can make more tones than i ever need 😅
About the playability issue. I repair guitars at work. People sometimes bring me veeery cheap and crappy guitars to do something to them. If you actually understand how the different parts of the guitar, be it acoustic or electric, contribute to the overall feel, you can easily correct those problems. I can make a 100$ guitar play like a 1000$ one. Yeah, it's some work, but the money they pay me to make it better is much less than buying a better guitar. (I should point out, that it might not sound exactly as an expensive one, but that thing is explained in the video already)
Honestly speaking, a $400 Squire, with the same amp settings, will sound pretty much the same as a $2000 Fender.
Even Jack White dropped the “a guitar that hard to play is cool” thing. He ditched the dogshit plastic vintage Nationals and went with Music Man, then Fender.
Life is hard - guitars should be easy.
The amp is a better investment, it does more to your sound than your guitar will.
@Mnbvcxz indeed but What's thu?
@Mnbvcxz o ill try it
"i wouldnt buy anything lower than 200 bucks" my ibanez gio was 150 lmao
5:17 - A $300 Acoustic Guitar I would suggest that Looks, Sounds, and Feels Amazing is the Mitchel T333CE-BST. Its a Great guitar, Especially for the price!
Uncle Judy having 3 Ibanez guitars and calling them all cheap makes me feel like my $2000 Ibanez is less expensive 😂
I absolutely love my Squire Tele - in fact, I just replaced the bridge saddles, pickups, and pots and now it’s, well, incomparable.
And you get a superior guitar, for half (or less) of the price
I bought a super cheap $180 guitar and just put some new pickups in there, literally the best sounding guitar I have
for me expensive guitars isnt about tone at all , its about playability , i have a 1500 ibanez and ever after playing that , any other guitar i've played feels like not smooth , the best way i can put it is like if both the strings and the frets were extremely rusted , thats how it feels , so my theory for now is that it might just be that stainless steel frets make that much of a difference , i kinda want to find a cheap guitar with stainless steel frets to see if that's what it is
6:13 XD I have that exact Ibanez 8 String. I use it to play a variety of styles and techniques and it works really well for me. My only complaint about it is that the screws that allow you to adjust the string action on the bridge are sharp as f*** and had to be sanded down a little. This is something I only noticed once I started trying to learn Tosin Abasi's technique.
I sold mine recently. The stock pickups were just not good at all.
I Will still argue, that you might not need an expensive guitar, but you do NEED good pickups for certain things. I mainly play 8s and my first 8 string was a Harley benton multiscale 8 string for around 200$ and i plugged it in and it sounded awful, so much so that i Got discouraged from playing it, it had so many problems with tuners, the nut and the fretwork but the worst was the Stock soapbar pickups. A year later after basically quitting, i Got a 2000$ ibanez 8 string with lundgrens and it sounded a universe better than the Old one, even on the shitty amp i had. Then i Got a good amp around 6 months later which was a rectifier, and Got a fortin boost pedal. And damn it finally began to Sound really good. Then i thought “wait i want to try plugging the Old 8 into the new setup, it Can impossibly Sound bad now” and it did, with a completely midded out amp, it manager to still Sound muddy. I would say after the 2000$ Mark a guitar only gets more prestigious. But before that you Can only go up. Am also currently having huge issues with fret height on even a 2k $ guitar.
I really like this channel, thanks Judy
Took me some time to get my guitars sound how I want, it's pretty cool to see how each one of them have their benefits. Got 3 now and there's lot of playground. Only been playing about a year, so lots to learn.
I want a Gibson SG. I will probably never buy a Gibson SG and instead just end up buying an Epiphone
Gidson SG's aren't made well on the string nut and neck by having cracks and breaks.....all of them.... SG fakes are actually even sometimes made better than Gibson's for alot less than 1k💀
I can’t tell if he’s talking about that guitar, or college
Love these vids!
I bought a used PRS SE after playing for 12 yrs.. I want to get a headless someday but this one is good enough for all I need.
i'm gonna like this video for the algorithm
judy deserves all the atention
expensive guitars are for rewarding yourself for years of dedication to the interment also i have regretted everyone i own LOL
Everyone you own??
Yea my real Gibson's and fenders I rarely play .to afraid of theft
@@MrMcflanigengaming oh every one not everyone. it sounded like you owned people
Simple take a cheaper guitar and upgrade it, boom now you got a great sounding guitar that still costs less than an expensive guitar. And you actually get to choose what you want on it versus paying a whole lot for a set guitar
Brand named vintage and overly expensive guitars has a "curse" on them because of theft and/or accidents. Which is why you should always leave that "Stradivarius" at home and use a professionally setup, cheaper makeshift guitar instead. Epiphones and Squires are the best at not just the sound but you also get to look the part..
lmao went to high school with the TikTok'r you called out, has a big ego but was always kind to others
My most expensive guitar is a Peavey Grind 6 string bass guitar. It's considered one of the more affordable guitars of its kind, which I find funny cuz I had to save up and go in on it with three other people.
90-s Peavey Reactor is a great telecaster. You can still find one for $400-600. Got mine for $480 in nearly perfect condition. Thought I'd upgrade electronics, but never got to it -- it's pretty good as is.
I have a 2009 Gibson Les Paul Studio, and it plays and sounds ten times better than my 1881 Les Paul Standard did. Not long ago, the Fender Squier Strats retailed at the Guitar Center for $99.00 with a gig bag.; around the same time period, I bought an American Standard Strat for $700.00. If I did it again today, I would definitely go with one of their Mexican models. I think the key to a good guitar is right in the middle somewhere. I like a good playing guitar but I'm not impressed with fancy paint and bindings. Jimmy Page bought all of his guitars second hand and probably didn't pay more than a couple of hundred for his LPs.
benefit of buying expensive guitars for me, you can often put them on payment plans. still in debt, but at least you can feel like you're actually affording it.
Damn! the into playing was fire!
Just got my michael kelly patriot custom shop about a week ago absolutely love it you get those custom looks nice neck coil split gives you a little twang neck through and string through mahogany body mahogany neck quilt maple top pau ferro fret board for 600 and honestly only paying 89 a month on zzounds deffinitely a score
yoooooooo that gibson joke was high brow and low brow at the same time mlol
Babe wake up, new Uncle Judy video
not gonna lie, though that blond fuzz before the TS sounds exactly like my old HM-2!
What is the first riff he played in 1:04 .
lowkey got a 130€ bc rich warlock copy, just learnt how to set up a guitar and now it works like a charm.
man when he said would I rather a 450 dollar squire guitar my first thought was "jeez is that the expensive guitar?"
I went to guitar center 5 years ago with a friend and he picked up this $99 Squier and it played and sounded amazing. FOR $99!!! Goes to show that price doesn't always equal quality
So I Love my cheap guitars, however I can say there is a quality and playability difference in a much higher end one say,PRS McCarty 594, or Silver sky for my references. There is a tonal quality difference and there is definitely a playability difference. That being said everything you had to say in this video is correct You don't have to spend a month's wages to get good tone and a decent playable guitar. One of my favorite ones is a Squire that I dropped a fender custom shop pick guard into, can't beat the sound in that guitar; but you get to play it and you get to work at playing it.
(orangewood makes great-sounding cheap acoustics)
That’s what i was thinking lmao
I find them a little dry, uninteresting. I bought a secondhand solid woods dreadnought, and it sounds so much more interesting than an orangewood
@@ermanngies1914 it’s a good beginner standard guitar. Obviously doesn’t match up to a Taylor or anything like that but it’s good enough.
I agree, they are good guitars, but I got mine in good condition for the price of a midrange orangewood (I think) and it's amazing
@@wxsteria3451 I think for certain products, second hand is the way to go
is it just me or is Mister Judy flexing that bizeps.
Props dude
Dayum looking buff at 3:34
I own an epi lespaul vintage unclejudy trashed in a video. Absolute dirt cheap. Its pretty good on a bias amp, after setting it up. Pots are mid but other than that playabality and tone are pretty good.
I have an epi les Paul custom pro (koa) and it’s amazing for the price. While 650 wasn’t exactly “cheap” it sounds amazing and has great hardware for the price point. Highly recommended
As a mid tier player that owns some expensive gear I can absolutely say you are correct. Gibson will never lower their prices.
7:10 sounds like Primus solo
Okay but what if this sonic blue strat I’ve saved up for is my all time dream guitar
thank god i found this channel honestly
I have a $90 Greg bennett strat copy, and it is amazing, and it sounds good without any pedals or effects too
Nice. Finna buy a Squire Tele as well. Lookin' rich Unc.
I own a streamliner and unless you want to spend more money than it's worth on setup, installing rollers, new nut and tuners I strongly recommend the hardtail version as I did. Chinese bigsby is worse than boomers. The guitar is fire tho.
you’re really funny man you just earned my sub
nice gains manbro
3:49 Unlce judy be getting sued for us all
The only diffrence between cheap and expensive guitars in my opinion is playability/ quality control. If I buy a stingray sub bass, the action will probably be high and the frets will need doing. If i get a usa stingray, that thing will be near perfect out of the box. QC takes time and time is money. The sound will be simmilar. The looms will be the same. But the neck feel and playability will be night and day
Guitar is about playability. Tone is down to loudspeakers. Everything in between, those are your toys.
I had to sand down the frets on my Squier because they had burrs down the neck, and the whole string setup and tuning was a bit of a PITA, but otherwise it's a sweet guitar. Cheap guitars have their own charm.
You can get great deals on used guitars. Sometimes guitar center has used cheap guitars that have upgrades and mods done to them but they sell them as if they didn’t have upgrades, and sometimes the upgrades alone cost more than what they’re asking for. That being said, expensive guitars hold their value much better
The wood makes almost no difference whatsoever on an electric instrument. So go figure.
Sadge he called Jazzmaster Coils P90s
Interesting video, Guitar-Pewdiepie
i just started and bought a squier strat and its been awesome for me dont need anything else and i quite like the tone
I own 3 guitars, an Epiphone Dr-90 cheap ass acoustic that has been loved, set up and maintained properly, plays okay, sounds alright. An Ibanez Gio RG, and Jackson X series Soloist. While the jackson plays great, and sounds amazing, something about the feel of the Gio is just, so right in my hands. There is a $650 (cad) price gap between the Ibanez and Jackson, and I prefer the feel of the Gio. That being said the jackson has a floyyd for all that dive bomby fluttery goodness. Love all my guitars and never saw/ felt the need to spend over $1000 on a fancy pro or sig series guitar, outside of some of the higher end finishes being all too sexy, they don't feel any better, or at least 3x the price better.
I own that Tele you show at the beginning lmao
Ok I'll back that up. I got a Ibenez Geo like 15 years ago. Tuned her up and threw GR 5 on that beezy. I can get nearly any sound I want. It might take me 5 hours of tweaking, but oh my god what am I doing with my life.