I met him at Sweetwater at gearfest some years ago, he is a super nice guy, I seen him and recognized him and just said hi and he legit stopped and talked with us. Super guy! I just found this channel, is he local to Indiana? Sweetwater is my local go to shop!
Do they argue that the scientific approach is fake, or do they just not trust a lot of the science they hear about? Ie, they think its manipulated to fit an agenda or whatever? Big difference. But I imagine some people may not believe in facts or at least that they are knowable.
@identifiesas65.wheresmyche95 They just don't trust science or believe in objective reality. You can do mental gymnastics to try to make it seem like they're just placing distrust in "the system" or some dumbshit like that, but at the end of the day the people we're talking about are just delusion and unintelligent.
From Leo: Paul Red Smith is the last of the great entrepreneurs that builds and backs his own products, and is openly passionate about every single detail. Like when Walter P Chrysler would show his new cars, like a proud papa.
@@60CycleHumcast And Paul paved the way for many of them, holding off Gibson's lawyers, even helping many of them get started or to keep going when they struggled. No one has done more for the entire guitar industry than Paul Reed Smith in the last 40 years. We all benefit from his work, even if you've never touched a PRS.
PRS stating that a slice of cheese pizza is his favorite has changed my mind about his brand. Now I'm fan of the brand. He knows that you have to get the basics right.
Paul is a class act. So happy his brand has been sucessdul. Ive only played 1 prs, it was 20 yearsago.Never bought one and have been meaning to do so ever since. And it will happen vuz they make a great guitar
Paul is always quirky, funny, and passionate at the same time. In real life, I don't enjoy talking with a person like him. But, I always enjoy watching him talking with another person.
It's interesting Paul makes the stratovarius comparison about the tonewood debate. Tests have been done with stratovarius instruments, professional violinists when choosing instruments based on sound alone pick the modern budget violins over the stratovarius.
100% on pot values being matched. I use 500s on my Strats, then dial down until it sounds best. Full on , too much treble, but there's a sweet spot where the treble stays pretty much the same, but the bass blooms to give a balanced full and "right" sound. W normal 6Kish p ups its 325-375 K; which is why they now have 350K (might be 375) pots available.
@@kalkidasofficial That's specifically for his pickups. To change a pots value, use the formula for parallel resistors and solder the right value resistor across the two outter lugs of a 500K pot.
@@JohnShalamskas Usually adding a constant to a formula changes absolute value but not the curve. An exponential curve for example and thats sort of the taper here. So I'm not so sure unless you have some mathematical proof you can show. TO the EAR and fingers there's either no difference, or the new curve is just as useful and you instantly adapt ei, it works about the same. For Fender $ level pots its not really a curve, but 3 or more linear sections, which is why it doesn't change perfectly smoothly. Thanks for questioning.
There was absolutely no room for this in the interview, but being a country music fan I wanted to point out that that Ryan’s shirt is a reference in and of itself. The Louvin Brothers had an incredible record with terrible album art called “Satan Is Real”. The cover art is so bad that it’s become a cultural touchstone and that is undoubtedly where TMBG got their inspiration. Also, Paul is a blast to interview.
The wood used on acoustic guitars clearly makes a difference. But does wood affect the electrics on an electric guitar? I dont know anyone who could hear an electric guitar being played through an amp (without seeing it) and be able to tell what wood it was made out of it.
You couldn't tell what wood an acoustic is made from. The point is it sounds different from another, and do to personal preferance some like one sound over another. All parts of a guitar affect the tone, acoustic or electric.
In the case of acoustic guitars the wood and the construction really give the guitar the sound. For an electric guitar it is the pickups that make the most difference. Solid wood doesnt make a jot of difference. Whats happened is that the manufacturers know that its a great marketing ploy to sell to guitarists and they based this on the construction of acoustic guitars and the "tonewood" idea and transferred it on to solid electric guitars. Its your money their after! At the end of the day its everyones own choice - I have moved to cheaper but still exceptionally good guitars these days - Vintage, Eastman etc. @@bradt.3555
Hello from GCJ! Is this the toan zoan? All jokes aside, Paul is a truly fascinating guy and certainly believes that the wood makes the difference. I'm not convinced but his experience and knowledge is astounding whichever you look at it.
paul is such an interesting character that i bought a prs se a few years ago and i absolutely love it. its 10 times better than my ibanez guitars in build quality. a bit of a high price for me but it was worth it because both of my ibanez guitars have been damaged by aging and weathering. weirdly both of the bridges had problems. my acoustic has a crack in the wood connecting all of the string holes and my electric had the vibro bar break because it was stuck in the blocks threads that i heard breaking when i was using it. (for context my electric is a geo that is about 23 years old and my acoustic is probably 5 or 6 years old at this point but i have had it since then and the bridge broke after about 1 year of owning it.) the only gripes i have about the prs se are that the push pull pot feels fairly cheap but it works perfectly fine and the toggle switch is a bit crackly. i did get mine as open box so im not upset about these faults as i got the guitar at a discount. and still the price was only a bit more than both of my ibanez guitars, so im not mad when the build quality of everything else is so much better. the neck is perfect, the body shape is comfortable, and the pickups are amazing. 100% would buy again. thanks PRS for making a good quality instrument for a sensible price.
Hes right. I have 2 guitars made out of pine that are beasts, but the fiber board thing... sounds like Dan electro was all about the bottom line rather than actual quality. I guess that explains why ive never seen one that wasnt painted. Didnt they do the lipstick pickup thing too? Using discarded lipstick tubes instead of making or buying pickup covers, fiberboard instead of real wood. If someone did that today they would be laughed at and called out for being fraudulent. As for stradivarius he make amazing instruments. People today just follow the blueprints and the magic isnt in the blueprints its in the craftsmanship!
I remember when I got my first PRS and my buddy told me they would never compete with Gibson or Fender. I told him just wait. Now he has more than I do. But then I scaled back to the few I really liked and played most.
As of July 1st we can slug the pot in Maryland as well! Paul was quick to go with Lebanese H.O. but I don’t have the heart to tell him that’s no mas. Terp sap and kief are what people slug the pot with now, old man. 😜😜🎄
Even if we were using piezo acoustic guitar pickups in a solid body electric guitar, anything more than 1/8" thick won't be affected by strings (according to acoustic guitar luthiers)... PRS had a demo of a guy smacking wood blocks with a mallet, to prove wood makes sound. He seems like a nice guy though!
I have multiple guitars, but whenever I play my Custom 24 (which I rarely do) people around me comment on how good my sound is. I laugh and tell them All I did was play the PRS Custom 24 this time 🤷♂️🙂
If you can hear it, its measurable. If a serious guitar manufacturer really wants to end the tonewood "debate", someone like Paul who has done this experiment with identical guitars with just different woods could run a spectrogram and prove it. There's just no point. Play/buy what you like for whatever reason you want.
@prsplayer210 ya, I'd tend to agree with you. My point is that if you are passionate about it and have the means (like PRS does) you could definitively prove/solve the tonewood debate with spectogram. Or, you could just buy the guitar you want based on how it looks/sounds/feels to you.
Watching people interview PRS is like watching somebody interview Stalin - you don't quite understand his humor at times, but to be safe, you laugh regardless because you respect him so much.
@sagittated People often seem intimidated in front of Paul - it's very obvious in many of these interviews. Yes, it reminds me of the way Soviets (who were clearly intimidated) would laugh or clap regardless of what Stalin said. Obviously Paul is not Stalin - its just the dynamic it reminds me of is all.
I seen a documentary that mentioned Antonio Stradivari works, it is theorized that the wood that he gathered from a particular forest had once survived being buried in snow for many years which changed its characteristics (for lack of a better term), whereas later violin makers that even harvested wood from the same area could not produce the same sound because those trees had not experienced the same climate.
In blind tests Stradivaris don't score higher than the best modern violins. It's just hype. When using magnetic pickups the only thing that you hear is the strings and the frets and it doesn't matter what they're attached to.
Answer to tone wood, It's the force of your hand that makes the sound or is it the thought going through your brain to control your hand or is the oxygen that carries the sound to your ear.
I like that he's a fanatic...just for the sake of trying to be "rhe best." But I question how much any of this really matters. E.g. if nut material affects the tone, what happens when you play a barre chord or use a capo?
I feel for Paul. I feel like he is just over Talking and explaining things, yet he just keeps having to do it... If I were him I would make someone else say the same things over and over again. I think that is the thing that can make him look like a jerk. But it is hard to talk about the same thing over and over with any kind of enthusiasm. Especially if that's not your particular talent... That being said, I like all these guys.
This guy never failse to amuse and be very informativ at the same time. By the way, the Stradivaris sound great because the workshops of Guanieri and Amati where down the road in Cremona and these guys talked to eachother so all of them would shine and make the best instruments possible in their time.
Tone Paul Ryan Mob Reed Cycle Smith Hum REVEAL ... Fruit Cake Cookie Sanmmich Should have titled this "My time with Larry David just after his haircut"
Balsa is not a tonewood? I thought it was the same thing as basswood, and I got a couple instruments made of basswood, great material, though maybe the maple cap is doing the heavy lifting tonewise
With all due respect to Paul, his legend and all the things he has done to the guitar world in general, he is entirely wrong when he says a pickup is just like a microphone. It is not. The mic pick ups sound, the guitar pickup picks up the movement of the strings in a electromagnectic field.
Oh child. They are very similar. Both are reacting to waves and their solo purpose is to translate those waves or vibrations into an electrical signal. It’s sad so many people feel the need to make swipes at a guy out of their own ignorance.
@@StupidGuitar I wish it was as simple as just "waves". You know there isn't only one kind of wave, right? Also, I'm not making "swipes" at Paul, as I seaid, I really respect him.
@@OniDasAlagoas The mic "picks up" sound. The guitar pickup "picks up" the movement of the strings in an electromagnetic field. They both "pick up". This is the way in which they are "just like" each other. They are also "just like" each other in that what they are each picking up are "waves". Additionally, they are "just like" each other in that what they are doing with those waves is translating them from one kind of wave into another, this being essentially what is meant by "pick up". The overall process involves multiple translations from one type of wave to another. Different types of waves are affected by different aspects of their environment.
I guess Peter Frampton was wrong in his guitar interview then when he said he uses his maple top gibson for a brighter tone and his mahogany for a darker tone. It all makes a difference. Might not be a huge difference but it is there.
That is my experience as well. PRS mechanical design, fit, and finish are all superior. But the pickups don't inspire me at all. Perhaps I should buy one and swap out the pickups.
@@JohnShalamskas Yeah, its crazy right! We went to see a covers band a few weeks ago... Walking down to the bar they were playing I said to my missus, thats a PRS guitar playing. Hadn´t seen the band before, we were still walking down the street to get to the bar. Sure enough a PRS. They just sound so meh. Maybe swapping pickups is a great suggestion!
I think it has something to do either the scale length where the balance between the bass and treble harmonics/ frequencies just sound flat and weird, they sound too even but also feel compressed/ like your hitting a dull piece of rubberised metal, it's so hard to describe but its also like when you tweak random eq band and it sounds weird..but with a prs guitar you cant add those frequencies back....
I do like PRS’s positive, toilet-half-full sense of humour. He can dish it out, but more importantly, he can take it.
He's a blast to hang out with. So glad this got to happen again.
Paul Reed Smith needs his own podcast. What a personality!
He does! He posts it on the PRS UA-cam channel
Now I want to see Paul Interview Noel Gallagher....no, wait, I want to see Noel interview Paul...
I met him at Sweetwater at gearfest some years ago, he is a super nice guy, I seen him and recognized him and just said hi and he legit stopped and talked with us. Super guy! I just found this channel, is he local to Indiana? Sweetwater is my local go to shop!
Omg!!! That ending was EPIC from Paul!!!! Loved the interview, you guys rock!!!!!!
Great show guys best 60CH I've seen in a little while. Mr. Smith is a treasure and very funny. Thanks guys.
I think Ryan' and Paul's silly humor really meshes well together! This was super entertaining 😂
"Who would say science is fake?" Paul doesn't know my family.
Do they argue that the scientific approach is fake, or do they just not trust a lot of the science they hear about? Ie, they think its manipulated to fit an agenda or whatever? Big difference. But I imagine some people may not believe in facts or at least that they are knowable.
@@identifiesas65.wheresmyche95 They're Trumpists.
@identifiesas65.wheresmyche95 They just don't trust science or believe in objective reality. You can do mental gymnastics to try to make it seem like they're just placing distrust in "the system" or some dumbshit like that, but at the end of the day the people we're talking about are just delusion and unintelligent.
Science is real, but the Results can be faked 🙂 That’s why you should always have multiple resources.
What a great interview thanks.
Hearing Paul and the guys talk about pot like veteran potheads was awesome. What a great interview.
From Leo: Paul Red Smith is the last of the great entrepreneurs that builds and backs his own products, and is openly passionate about every single detail. Like when Walter P Chrysler would show his new cars, like a proud papa.
The guitar gear industry is full of those types of people.
The great Harley Benton!
@@60CycleHumcast And Paul paved the way for many of them, holding off Gibson's lawyers, even helping many of them get started or to keep going when they struggled. No one has done more for the entire guitar industry than Paul Reed Smith in the last 40 years. We all benefit from his work, even if you've never touched a PRS.
PRS stating that a slice of cheese pizza is his favorite has changed my mind about his brand. Now I'm fan of the brand. He knows that you have to get the basics right.
Dont touch me... Ha ha... This was a fun interview. ❤ PRS
just give Paul a show and he knows a lot of cool peeps and I bet has the best stories.
this is the video I am watching right now
Lol , Nice interview guys. PRS is a crack up.
hilarious! love listening to the banter.
Always love hearing what PRS has to say
Paul is one hell of a funny dude! Haven’t found the PRS for me yet but I do try them when I see them due to I like Paul as a human lol
I found one last month. Instantly the best guitar I've ever played. Hope yours finds you soon!
@@DarrenTK128 Nice! Which one did you buy?
Paul is a class act. So happy his brand has been sucessdul. Ive only played 1 prs, it was 20 yearsago.Never bought one and have been meaning to do so ever since. And it will happen vuz they make a great guitar
Seriously, buy one, even if it's just an SE. They are the most fantastic guitars I've ever played.
This was way funnier than i thought it would be. I was just looking for background noise and got entertainment.
This is Absolutely brilliant! I seldom laugh hard but here the format is gold 😂
Paul is always quirky, funny, and passionate at the same time. In real life, I don't enjoy talking with a person like him. But, I always enjoy watching him talking with another person.
I will pay good money to see the Great Home Depot / Lowes Guitar Build Off! Sponsored by PRS!! That will definitely be worth it!! DO IT!!
This was a great vibe!
It's interesting Paul makes the stratovarius comparison about the tonewood debate. Tests have been done with stratovarius instruments, professional violinists when choosing instruments based on sound alone pick the modern budget violins over the stratovarius.
That is Stradivarius btw, Stratovarius is the band from Finland:)
@@NauEktila Go ahead and kill me please
Yup, totally true
@@NauEktila Bender Stratovarius
Proof?
100% on pot values being matched. I use 500s on my Strats, then dial down until it sounds best. Full on , too much treble, but there's a sweet spot where the treble stays pretty much the same, but the bass blooms to give a balanced full and "right" sound. W normal 6Kish p ups its 325-375 K; which is why they now have 350K (might be 375) pots available.
How to get to the 274 k value Paul talks about?
@@kalkidasofficial That's specifically for his pickups. To change a pots value, use the formula for parallel resistors and solder the right value resistor across the two outter lugs of a 500K pot.
@@kalkidasofficial What pickups do you have in the guitar ?
@@terryenglish7132 That will yield the desired max value for the pot, but it will also affect the taper of the pot.
@@JohnShalamskas Usually adding a constant to a formula changes absolute value but not the curve. An exponential curve for example and thats sort of the taper here. So I'm not so sure unless you have some mathematical proof you can show. TO the EAR and fingers there's either no difference, or the new curve is just as useful and you instantly adapt ei, it works about the same. For Fender $ level pots its not really a curve, but 3 or more linear sections, which is why it doesn't change perfectly smoothly. Thanks for questioning.
Thank You! I do love to listen to Paul....... you guys done good.
There was absolutely no room for this in the interview, but being a country music fan I wanted to point out that that Ryan’s shirt is a reference in and of itself.
The Louvin Brothers had an incredible record with terrible album art called “Satan Is Real”.
The cover art is so bad that it’s become a cultural touchstone and that is undoubtedly where TMBG got their inspiration.
Also, Paul is a blast to interview.
This was an entertaining interview from which I got little or no information on the guitar at all. It was entertaining though..!!
The wood used on acoustic guitars clearly makes a difference. But does wood affect the electrics on an electric guitar? I dont know anyone who could hear an electric guitar being played through an amp (without seeing it) and be able to tell what wood it was made out of it.
You couldn't tell what wood an acoustic is made from. The point is it sounds different from another, and do to personal preferance some like one sound over another. All parts of a guitar affect the tone, acoustic or electric.
In the case of acoustic guitars the wood and the construction really give the guitar the sound. For an electric guitar it is the pickups that make the most difference. Solid wood doesnt make a jot of difference. Whats happened is that the manufacturers know that its a great marketing ploy to sell to guitarists and they based this on the construction of acoustic guitars and the "tonewood" idea and transferred it on to solid electric guitars. Its your money their after! At the end of the day its everyones own choice - I have moved to cheaper but still exceptionally good guitars these days - Vintage, Eastman etc. @@bradt.3555
Paul is a great guy! By the way: Did you send your buddy Glenn Fricker the link to this video? 😉
Hello from GCJ! Is this the toan zoan?
All jokes aside, Paul is a truly fascinating guy and certainly believes that the wood makes the difference. I'm not convinced but his experience and knowledge is astounding whichever you look at it.
this was a pretty, pretty, pretty good interview.
PRS should do a guest spot on Curb.
Amazing mr Paul Reed Smith is a great guy
Fun interview and I learned a couple things
paul is such an interesting character that i bought a prs se a few years ago and i absolutely love it. its 10 times better than my ibanez guitars in build quality. a bit of a high price for me but it was worth it because both of my ibanez guitars have been damaged by aging and weathering. weirdly both of the bridges had problems. my acoustic has a crack in the wood connecting all of the string holes and my electric had the vibro bar break because it was stuck in the blocks threads that i heard breaking when i was using it. (for context my electric is a geo that is about 23 years old and my acoustic is probably 5 or 6 years old at this point but i have had it since then and the bridge broke after about 1 year of owning it.) the only gripes i have about the prs se are that the push pull pot feels fairly cheap but it works perfectly fine and the toggle switch is a bit crackly. i did get mine as open box so im not upset about these faults as i got the guitar at a discount. and still the price was only a bit more than both of my ibanez guitars, so im not mad when the build quality of everything else is so much better. the neck is perfect, the body shape is comfortable, and the pickups are amazing. 100% would buy again. thanks PRS for making a good quality instrument for a sensible price.
I accepted the nf53, but I need a se version, I can't afford a 2600 guitar right now. That's a big commitment in these times.
All I want and dream of is my very own PRS Gary Grainger 5 string.....period. Mr. Paul is a wizard. I will have one no matter what.
Fantastic interview!
Hes right. I have 2 guitars made out of pine that are beasts, but the fiber board thing... sounds like Dan electro was all about the bottom line rather than actual quality. I guess that explains why ive never seen one that wasnt painted. Didnt they do the lipstick pickup thing too? Using discarded lipstick tubes instead of making or buying pickup covers, fiberboard instead of real wood. If someone did that today they would be laughed at and called out for being fraudulent. As for stradivarius he make amazing instruments. People today just follow the blueprints and the magic isnt in the blueprints its in the craftsmanship!
How does the pickups pick up the wood vibrations?
That was fun!
I remember when I got my first PRS and my buddy told me they would never compete with Gibson or Fender. I told him just wait. Now he has more than I do. But then I scaled back to the few I really liked and played most.
Larry David of the guitar builders 🤙🤙💯.Great axe
As of July 1st we can slug the pot in Maryland as well! Paul was quick to go with Lebanese H.O. but I don’t have the heart to tell him that’s no mas. Terp sap and kief are what people slug the pot with now, old man. 😜😜🎄
You wish you could still get real Lebanese hash to make hash oil from....
@3:52😂😂😂😂 did nobody sitting there get that burn???
I would think a 60 cycle hum and the tone mob would be sonically mutually exclusive
Super cool!
I love PRS guitars! But I don't know which is more abrasive, Paul's personality or his guitar playing.
Even if we were using piezo acoustic guitar pickups in a solid body electric guitar, anything more than 1/8" thick won't be affected by strings (according to acoustic guitar luthiers)... PRS had a demo of a guy smacking wood blocks with a mallet, to prove wood makes sound. He seems like a nice guy though!
PRS Dano in the works?
Paul is a book of knowledge,and so respectfull of Leo Fender,and funny as hell
Great ending, Ryan. It seemed like PRS was impressed.
just a reminder the silver sky se is made of poplar
PRS one is the most entertaining listen of all guitar makers today
Damn that guitar is awesome as hell, I just wish there was a version that's not 3 grand! Anyone know if they plan to make a more affordable version?
I have multiple guitars, but whenever I play my Custom 24 (which I rarely do) people around me comment on how good my sound is. I laugh and tell them All I did was play the PRS Custom 24 this time 🤷♂️🙂
Balsa wood was used in the c6 corvette too
The Home Depot challenge could be a good idea but how do you buy pickups or the parts for pickups at HD?
think about it. besides the plastics, you CAN get all those parts at home d. screws, slugs, magnets, [wire. all that is at home d
If you can hear it, its measurable. If a serious guitar manufacturer really wants to end the tonewood "debate", someone like Paul who has done this experiment with identical guitars with just different woods could run a spectrogram and prove it. There's just no point. Play/buy what you like for whatever reason you want.
The thing is no one can hear the difference between wood species in an electric guitar because it has zero effect.
There is no measurable difference
@prsplayer210 ya, I'd tend to agree with you. My point is that if you are passionate about it and have the means (like PRS does) you could definitively prove/solve the tonewood debate with spectogram. Or, you could just buy the guitar you want based on how it looks/sounds/feels to you.
Watching people interview PRS is like watching somebody interview Stalin - you don't quite understand his humor at times, but to be safe, you laugh regardless because you respect him so much.
You were trying to think of an archetypal example of someone that people respected and you ended up on Stalin?
@sagittated People often seem intimidated in front of Paul - it's very obvious in many of these interviews. Yes, it reminds me of the way Soviets (who were clearly intimidated) would laugh or clap regardless of what Stalin said. Obviously Paul is not Stalin - its just the dynamic it reminds me of is all.
Chris Elliot, Larry David and James Corden, talking guitars?
the reason PRS guitars sound sooo good is because Paul knows what he is doing.
most of them just sound like humbuckers.
personality...interesting...honest...quirky, so many people eager to use complimentary language to describe a guy that just comes across as rude
I got it , it’s like Abe Simpson but irl
11:02 that synchronized laugh 🤣
Paul is a genius
Find a copy of Robert Benedetto’s book on building. He made a lumberyard arch top that he claims sounds as good as anything else he built.
Also, PRS, make a freaking Duo-Sonic type Fender guitar. Baaaahhhhh!!!!
Huh, I didn't know that Chevy Chase built guitars 😜Great interview!
You should have asked Paul when he was going to build us a PRS V and a PRS E- xplorer.
I hope Larry David plays him in a spoof sometime... He was a fun interview, as always. :)
I seen a documentary that mentioned Antonio Stradivari works, it is theorized that the wood that he gathered from a particular forest had once survived being buried in snow for many years which changed its characteristics (for lack of a better term), whereas later violin makers that even harvested wood from the same area could not produce the same sound because those trees had not experienced the same climate.
In blind tests Stradivaris don't score higher than the best modern violins. It's just hype.
When using magnetic pickups the only thing that you hear is the strings and the frets and it doesn't matter what they're attached to.
Answer to tone wood, It's the force of your hand that makes the sound or is it the thought going through your brain to control your hand or is the oxygen that carries the sound to your ear.
Paul Reed Smith is the Larry David of luthiers and that's a good thing.
I like that he's a fanatic...just for the sake of trying to be "rhe best." But I question how much any of this really matters. E.g. if nut material affects the tone, what happens when you play a barre chord or use a capo?
Guitars have spirits that's why they all sound different.
I thought Ryan was taking a nap looking at the thumbnail lol
Paul Reed Smith is a national treasure!
Paul has a great persona!
Paul Reed Smith reminds me of Larry David.
I feel for Paul. I feel like he is just over Talking and explaining things, yet he just keeps having to do it... If I were him I would make someone else say the same things over and over again. I think that is the thing that can make him look like a jerk. But it is hard to talk about the same thing over and over with any kind of enthusiasm. Especially if that's not your particular talent... That being said, I like all these guys.
3k$.
It comes with a free scarf joint and gig bag.
This guy never failse to amuse and be very informativ at the same time. By the way, the Stradivaris sound great because the workshops of Guanieri and Amati where down the road in Cremona and these guys talked to eachother so all of them would shine and make the best instruments possible in their time.
Ask Paul if when he will send me my guitar I pre ordered. It’s been 6 months lol
Paul’s gotta be crazy to drink with
I give you a thousand views a minute, no questions asked!
Please make a core edition Starla stoptail.
Tone Paul Ryan Mob Reed Cycle Smith Hum REVEAL ... Fruit Cake Cookie Sanmmich
Should have titled this "My time with Larry David just after his haircut"
Balsa is not a tonewood? I thought it was the same thing as basswood, and I got a couple instruments made of basswood, great material, though maybe the maple cap is doing the heavy lifting tonewise
They are related but not the same - steve
With all due respect to Paul, his legend and all the things he has done to the guitar world in general, he is entirely wrong when he says a pickup is just like a microphone. It is not. The mic pick ups sound, the guitar pickup picks up the movement of the strings in a electromagnectic field.
Oh child. They are very similar. Both are reacting to waves and their solo purpose is to translate those waves or vibrations into an electrical signal. It’s sad so many people feel the need to make swipes at a guy out of their own ignorance.
If you look close enough at a microphone it’s a magnetic pickup with a few extra parts. I hear what you are saying though.
@@StupidGuitar I wish it was as simple as just "waves". You know there isn't only one kind of wave, right? Also, I'm not making "swipes" at Paul, as I seaid, I really respect him.
@@OniDasAlagoas The mic "picks up" sound. The guitar pickup "picks up" the movement of the strings in an electromagnetic field. They both "pick up". This is the way in which they are "just like" each other. They are also "just like" each other in that what they are each picking up are "waves". Additionally, they are "just like" each other in that what they are doing with those waves is translating them from one kind of wave into another, this being essentially what is meant by "pick up". The overall process involves multiple translations from one type of wave to another. Different types of waves are affected by different aspects of their environment.
13:22 💡 Ryan understands Ohms Law
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TONE SHED!!!!
Thanks Paul.
Paul is a character, an innovator and a great ( if not a wee bit snarky and controversial at times) ambassador for the guitar. Rock on peeps.
Yeah...my all-time fav comment of his was the one about not making a left-handed piano. Gold.
A violin? That's an acoustic instrument. Ridiculous comparison.
I guess Peter Frampton was wrong in his guitar interview then when he said he uses his maple top gibson for a brighter tone and his mahogany for a darker tone. It all makes a difference. Might not be a huge difference but it is there.
"How many products come out that die in peoples arms?"
*blockbuster hat dies a little inside*
the steak is all 'labout thee Sizzle. Bee thy crunchy sizzly edge baby
Of course the vibration of wood matters in an instrument that makes noise solely in vibration.
Would an electric guitar made of solid steel sound different than one made of cardboard?
Great interview. PRS guitars. I just dont like them 😞 Have tried a few times and every rime the pickups always fail to impress.
That is my experience as well. PRS mechanical design, fit, and finish are all superior. But the pickups don't inspire me at all. Perhaps I should buy one and swap out the pickups.
@@JohnShalamskas Yeah, its crazy right! We went to see a covers band a few weeks ago... Walking down to the bar they were playing I said to my missus, thats a PRS guitar playing. Hadn´t seen the band before, we were still walking down the street to get to the bar. Sure enough a PRS. They just sound so meh. Maybe swapping pickups is a great suggestion!
I think it has something to do either the scale length where the balance between the bass and treble harmonics/ frequencies just sound flat and weird,
they sound too even but also feel compressed/ like your hitting a dull piece of rubberised metal,
it's so hard to describe but its also like when you tweak random eq band and it sounds weird..but with a prs guitar you cant add those frequencies back....
@13:58 “blonde Lebanese hash oil” .. ok, I wanna party with this legend 😆
Seriously tho, what a rad dude. Great interview!
I was so happy he went there
My guitar is made of morning wood, the best tone wood for Cock Rock. Sometimes, you don't have to post...
I bet the notes practically spurt off of the fretboard.
Your guitar is always happy to see you!