EVH WG Standard Review And Demo With Van Halen Riffs - Does It Hold Up
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- Опубліковано 17 бер 2023
- In this video we take an in depth view of my Wolfgang WG Standard (Indonesian). I show an up close perspective of the build quality and finish, and also take a look at the inside compartments and wiring. At the end of the video I put the guitar through a series of tests with Van Halen riffs and we check out the sound and see if it sonically holds up to the EVH name brand. This is a budget guitar and I think you will see that these models are an outstanding value for the money. They are very beautiful guitars and play and sound excellent. I hope you enjoy the video. Please subscribe!
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Marty is like an encyclopedia of Van Halen riffs. Good to watch.
I'm trying over here 🤩🎵🎵🎵🎵
@@Ranch5150SkinWalker your doing a damn good job😎
Any time you get a plethora of Eddie licks in one sitting it is a GOOD TIME. As always thanks for sharing my friend 🤘😎🎸🏍
I agree! Lol. I had no idea what I was gonna play. I just sat down and let 'er rip. Lol
Another killer way to spend 16 minutes on a Saturday! Thanks Marty! And the WGS guitars are basswood, with a relatively thick maple veneer.
Thanks Andy! Yeh, I was thinking this veneer is like 3-4mm perhaps?
Nice! I've got the black fade evh wolfgang standard. I put a de-tuna on it. But I've never really been a whammy guy! My favorite is still my les pals and fender stratocaster without trems! Thanks Marty I forgot mines got roasted neck! I love it
My favorite is a Les Paul as well. Just love 'em. I really love my EVH Frankie. She's a special beast. But my Les Pauls are just too sweet.
It sounds so good. Thanks for sharing those fine EVH licks with us on a dreary Saturday morning.
You're very welcome Ron !
I wish they make tobacco sunburst version of this.
Odd they don't!??
Luv these guitar's.🤘 R.I.P~EVH🙏
RIP EVH 🙏
Wow, your amazing guitar player musician. 😊 love the evh sound ❤ I am learning and also watching you.
Thanks for checking out the video Rich I appreciate the kind words too! 😎🤟🏻
Marty. I have one of those. It is taxicab yellow that I bought new just a couple weeks after he died. I love it. I upgraded the pots to evh USA specs, dtuna, and Gotoh tuners. Great video brother. You got a super deal on that one for sure. Love the quilted maple.
Oh taxi cab yellow. That's awesome man! Great upgrades too!!
@@Ranch5150SkinWalker thanks Marty !
If you haven’t, you owe it to yourself to try the EVH sig model sometime Marty. Believe they are coming out with a new Japanese sig version soon at a much lower price point. I got mine before the Fender death tax (RIP EVH). Have a standard, special and US… all very nice and love the neck profile. Actually wanting to try that hollow body WVH has been playing. (335 with that neck profile may turn out to be one of my favorites). Anyway, enjoy the channel…keep up the good work.
Man, if I could find one somewhere near me I would. I have never seen one in the wild. I'm sure they are killer.
Gotta get your buddies at Casino to get one in…let you demo it for them and I’m sure it would sell 😁
Marty love your channel. Great Score on that beautiful guitar. As a fellow EVH fan, You have inspired me to continue to learn more EVH tunes. Your smile at the end says it all! (:
Great playing and killer sound!
You nailed that unchained riff Marty!!
Nice WG. I like it..
Thanks man! I appreciate you watching 😎🎵
Awesome review, Marty!!! I have the EVH exotic Midnight Sunset! Love it!!!!
Thank you Todd! 😎🤟🏻
@Ranch5150SkinWalker you dah man!!
You nailed the runaround riff. What a classy riff.
Thanks man! I love that tune, been riffing in it for a long time. It is a classy riff indeed. 😎🥂
I can assure you it is a very thin veneer about .070 thick! I bought a 2020 EVH standard that some young guy had and had some kind of wild strap accident and it caught a hard hit just above the cable jack and ripped off a chunk of veneer about 2" x 3". He was devastated and sold it as is. Gorgeous pound cake Quilt veneer killed. I saw that as a chance have a striped Wolfgang. I bought about $200.00 in Auto grade paint and clear for it. I now have a striped Wolfgang. Just the top I left the back original to make it more usable. That had me setup with paint for 3 more striped EVH replicas. A white and black Eruption, a Charvel 5150 with a OU812 serial number plate I had made and a Strat style 5150. Yeah I had the Stripe bug bad that year. I ended up with 8 Wolfgangs and the last one built from parts from Stratosphere the part out guys who made a rare mistake of putting EVH parts on auction and it seems to have gone unnoticed but for about 3 people. We cleaned house! They haven't done that since! The last one I built I didn't want to put EVH pickups in it because I have so many "correct" ones. I almost put a set of Seymour Duncan JB and 59 in it with coil split like a Charvel San Dimas. At the last moment I scored a EVH neck p/u. So I got a hot 15k Alnico 5 for the bridge. Sorry EVH I like that better. Finally got a 52mm bridge pickup in a Wolfgang.
50 years ago, EVH was drunk building guitars and lost his pickup mounting ring. Little did he know that this drunken mistake would start the BIGGEST GUITAR MYTH EVER!!!! Side note, remember when EVH used to gaslight everybody about his variac?? He often told people he "Cranked" the variac to get that "Brown sound" when in reality he lowered the voltage to aroun 85-90 volts. EVH was the original gaslighter. Think about how many little fibs he's told over the years.......and guitarists everywhere do everything that they can to replicate the fibs.
Yup, how the pickup is attached makes no difference on tone. I prefer the actual rings for better adjustment.
@@AndyK.23 I agree 100%. My favorite Myth of ALL TIME......PRS taking a 3x3x36 maple neck blank (no machining at all) and taps on it......then proclaims that this "neck has excellent tonal properties." ROTFLMAO As soon as you do the first major cuts, all that tapping went right out the window.
🤣🤣🤣. True!
Lucky for us we have the experts here to set us straight.😂😂
Nice color on the guitar and sounds great. I have Wolfgang Specials (Mexico and Japan) and the recent Frankie. They are amazing guitars for the price. I love all of them.
Great tone and playing the Van Halen riffs. 🎸🎶🤘
Thanks so much Roger! I'd like to try the Japan model!
The Japan models are really nice. They have Birds Eye maple neck and the frets are stainless steel frets which its very easy to bend the strings. I have not put one flat spot on the frets for the last 12 years that I owned it.
I finally get to do my own unboxing of this guitar. I got myself one for Christmas Marty! 🤣🎸 I got the WG Standard in Chlorine Burst, it will be here tomorrow!
That is badass ,it's frickin awesome I dream of this guitar
Thank ya man!
Nobody really notices but the center spring when you install them like that the center spring doesn't do anything really, you only need two anyway. I took out the one in the middle. Never a tuning issue.😎🎸🎶
True man. I like fewer springs for easier whammy response. I was just thinking before posting this video about taking off that 3rd spring!
@@Ranch5150SkinWalker a few guitars that I've seen that Ed played there was only two in the v configuration none in the middle.
Dude… that “sound demo” took us on a great journey. Women in Love was a special treat… man the tone on that song. Love that song & that entire record. =VH= FOREVER
I have one as well, I modified mine, I put in the true floyd rose push in trem bar, I upgraded all hardware in the floyd rose and nut with FU-Tone titanium with d-tuna with the big brass block and noiseless springs.. I put on the evh striped 5150 fender neck has the wider nut, got the neck from either reverb or stratosphere, had to sand the neck pocket a little for a tight fit, also changed out the volume pot to the low friction pot, then finally had the whole guitar put in a plec machine. That's about as close to the USA version I can come to at half the cost.
I have a 98 wolfgang peavey I did everything to as well then had a paint and body shop guy strip it like the Frankie. I have 4 total evh guitars, all with fu-tone, got them off stratosphere and reverb. My 5150 I put poundcake pickup in it. Wish I could attach a picture. My little steinberger is just black, one day I will get the body shop guy strip it too. Wish I could find an actual trans trem for it .
Love your videos man, keep rocking VH!!!
Dude that is all so killer. Amazing man. 😎. It sounds wicked cool brother. Thanks for watching the video as well 🤟🏻🎵🎵
Dude you rock
Thanks dude 🎵❤️
Thanks for opening the back up and showing the wiring, route, etc. Body wise, the WG Standard is extremely comfortable. I wish the specials and USA models had the same body contours. The neck is too thin for me (E string to E string); string spacing too narrow but great review. Thanks so much for posting.
Sounds fantastic
I have a MIJ wolfgang and I love it…they are built like tanks and play like butter…Marty, I too would love to get my hands on one of the 5150 models or maybe that blk and white striped one…maybe one day…rock on bro👍
They really are built well. Super solid and great guitars 🤟🏻
Holy Crap!! Man you picked that bad boy up for $3 hundee? Dayum! You stole it Bro!! Man what a killer guitar. Absolutely gorgeous, and I think these are very good guitars. I have one in Stryker Red. Love it. As always - great riffage, Marty. Anything Van Halen is a winner... but man you are such a Beast on guitar!
Of all the Wolfgang review videos of people playing random Eddie licks, I've never heard anyone else play Runaround. Love that song and your tone!
Brother Marty, you rip the guitar 🔥🔥🔥 love the vids!!
Thanks dude. I really appreciate that and also for the support !🤟🏻
Nice video. Like you Marty I am always looking at various sources (Ebay, Reverb, Craigslist, local pawn shops, estate sales, etc) to pickup new gear at a slightly lower price. Last year I picked up a Wolfgang WG Standard Koa because it was just so pretty and the price was too good to pass up. Lovely guitar although my only complaint is even though it has the same pickups I feel it has a bit of a harsher sound compared to the other Wolfgangs I own....also I wish the D-Tuna came standard.
Overall though could not pass a nice guitar like that for the price I got it for.....love it!
Man, I love the hunt. As JB calls it... the guitar safari. It's so fun to get a deal. My rule is if you can find a good guitar for what you'd be paid cash in a trade ... buy it. That's an even break. And who knows. You may never trade it. But if you do, you won't lose the money.
I just was lucky,for my 50th family got me the special with sassafras body, love it and for my 52 they got me the striped series 5150 with the matt b/w/r . I feel like they’re good instruments. But really like the neck on the special👍
That's great man! Sounds like you have a great family. Enjoy the guitars dude!
I got the same thing only mine was black satin and somebody painted it white and now it's got the black stripes it's pretty cool. I like it, but yours is way more fancy than mine. I like that quilted face. I'd say i paid about the same. And yes it was worth it their great guitars. Even the lower-budget ones are good. I also install the D tuna.
Great Marty 👏👏👏👏!! I want one and I didn't know if between standard or special and I'll stick with the standard, everyone speaks well of it and it's €500 cheaper
Amazing guitar bro
Thanks dude!
I'm impressed as I wanna really skepticle of these.
Did you see the made in Japan Wolfgang's that are coming which are basically the USA models but about $1900 less?
Man I never knew about the Japanese ones. I need to look into that. Very interesting!
Nice one. I know I'm out of the scene but 300 for that thing seems like a steal!
It really was man. I believe it was an auction I snagged mid week. Early morning. eBay.
You will love the 5150 line,great guitar!!
I'm so ready for one!!!
Had the same. Sold it, couldn't put a D tuner on it..
Yeh it really sits on the body.
In my opinion it's the best damn guitar out there I miss mine daily. One-day
Nice top! My dad had the Ernie Ball version and it played sweet.
Miss Eddie. ☮️
Thank you 🙏
sweet sounding guitar bro!
i found a wild tele clone in a pawnshop with some kind of floydrose setup with h/s pups...reall dark green...i 4get the brand but its the "custom shop" edition...
sweet maple fingerboard and fretsides feel nice!
yup i put it in layaway...along with a jasmine acoustic model...both for 240!
I love the A2 pickups,they sound The best to my ears..👍✌️
They really rip. I prefer A5 but I kinda like less hot pickups. But these are badass.
I've owned two. Great guitars. Gonna sell my Northern lights standard now as i don't use it enough as playing my USA Peavey and evh musicman more!
I tried one of the standards.. the neck carve reminds me more of my Peavey Wolfgang than the Mexican versions.. asymmetric.. a bit chunky on top.. nice rolled edges as well.. I was impressed..
I would rather have a Wolfgang than a 50,000 vintage guitar any day
Understandable. It's a workhorse man!
Now That's What I'm Talkin About! 😉👍 "Tone."
Thanks man!! 😎🎵🤟🏻
Ever meet a guy from Michigan, Chris Hubbard? Another great EVH player
Those pickups sound like the Bare Knuckle Holy Divers. High gain pickups.
Great guitars worth every dollar spent
Agreed! 😎🤟🏻
awesome- what amp were you going thru?
Thanks man! Well, for UA-cam I run in stereo directly to pro tools with my Fractal AX8 and a Friedman BE model. And Friedman IR's. I usually run delay and reverb on post just for ambience. It's just more consistent to make content like this (for audio purposes and speed). Thanks for watching man!
Instead of letting my Floyd Rose just land on the body I floated it just a tiny bit so it doesn't make a bump sound when you let go of the whammy bar and that doesn't affect the d-tuna. I wonder if you could use a d tuna on a full floating Floyd Rose cuz you can float it a little bit and still have it work.🤔
Good idea man. And makes total sense!
It is not the Wolfgang pickup per se that is squishy but the one in the Standard. @Marty5150 I just added a Wolfgang Standard to my Wolfgang Special to serve as a "beater/travel" guitar. I just played it for the first time for 1 hour and I immediately recalled your review. The bridge pickup produces huge sound but it lacks the top end clarity and sizzle of the Wolfgang in my Ensenada Special. I bought for basic practice, much of it unplugged so I don't know if I will upgrade it, but the Wolfgang in your Frankie is like the one in my Special, whereas this one in the Standard is not quite as good.
Nice. Only the springs are installed wrong....
I think I'm gonna take one off 👍
Have you tried the baked maple fretboard models?
Not yet. I bet they are awesome. My Frankie has one and I love the neck so much.
I still have the clear plastic on my covers as well. except I'm missing the center cover which I don't really care I could always replacing if I need to, cheap I bet.
I realized when shooting the video they were still in there lol. 🤣
Don't let the fact that it's the budget wolfgang have you thinking it's not good, the standard is a tone monster and has some features I WISH they would put on the specials. I had the standard ziricote top and it was an incredible guitar for the money. Buuuuut I traded it to a friend because he played it and fell in love with it, so I ended up with his basket case of a baretta and he got my wolfgang.
Marty what's your thoughts on a 2 PC guitar without the neck plate,I'm an old guy so I appreciate them
Not sure man? 2 piece without neck plate? Got an example?
@@Ranch5150SkinWalker I've seen it more
and more on PRS stuff or is my old eyes wrong
It has screws and little escutcheon things but not an actual plate
@@garybrady9531 ah, Ferrules and screws. Simply cosmetic. Works good when bolting on a neck that doesn't have a flat heel like a strat. 👍
3:57 it looks like the A and G string are not in the saddle properly. The string spacing is messed up because of this.
I'm curious, at 7:02 underneath the headstock, I notice a "F" that looks very closely like a Fender logo character -- Servco Pacific .
Marty, this has an asymmetrical neck, right? What do you think of those?
It's rounded and thicker at the nut I believe. I don't mind it truthfully. It is quite easy to adapt to if you're not used to that. I have no problems with the neck shape, it's easy to play!
Sounds great but I’ve never been a fan of the shape nor the headstock.
Yeh they are both a little polarizing. I think that's my Hangup bonding with this thing. As odd as that sounds.
Did he say 300 bucks?
Yeh. eBay used deal 3 years ago!
Do I see a Peavey Wiggy? Ha!
$300… drive it like you stole it! 😮
that guitar doesn't resonate with you, then you need to play it more! 🤣Hey man, that guitar is you!
Woo-whee! You'll get some leg tonight for sure!
Tell us how you do! Hoo hoo hoo!
(Come on Marty, gimme a break)
Hey-hey-hey-hey! One break, comin' up!
I've been playing it a lot today. It's really a bad ass guitar. I feel guilty now. Haha
@@Ranch5150SkinWalker 😂
Yeah man. Cool. I have 4 Wolfgangs. 3 Mexican builds. One is a Peavy build. I did purchase a stealth 5150. All very cool.
thats a sweeeeeet axe!!!!
Thanks man!!