Lets be honest, at this point Gibson makes guitars for collectors, not musicians.

@bmir89

5 ай бұрын

This. I know 2 people with Les Pauls. Neither see any regular action, aside from just noodling around at home - Both people using other guitars for shows/recording. I've never asked why, but I'm sure the reasons are plenty.

@sdi87hhk

5 ай бұрын

Correct, it’s a lifestyle brand after all

@ruffestneckaround

5 ай бұрын

​@@bmir89Probably had their shit stolen enough times

@WilDBeestMF

5 ай бұрын

​@@bmir89 A LP is kind of comfortable to noodle on while sitting on the couch, truth be told.

@DudeMcGuybro

5 ай бұрын

It's what I call the "investor brand" People don't buy Gibson's to play, they buy them to sit in a case to never be played. They're like Grandma's fine china set. Looks nice, supposedly worth a lot of money, but Grandma will never use them for anything.

Don’t let Glenn fool you. None of those were actual guitars. He was practicing his guitar noises into the mic. Very believable but some of us aren’t so easily fooled sir.

So I did some testing of my own, and I came to a conclusion for another really great way to change the tone of the guitar for cheap, and even free in most cases. there’s these weird knobs on the amp with a bunch of numbers around them and if you turn them the sound changes. I would have never known if I didn’t accidentally brush up against it the other day. It blew my mind. I still don’t know what any of them do but I will update when I find out. I’m not sure if other amps have them but I have a 6505.

@danarnold4210

5 ай бұрын

Be careful, those knobs are magic. No one knows what they are and who puts them there

@karolszymanski4791

5 ай бұрын

Put them all to max, that way you get all the tone

@lessthanpinochet

5 ай бұрын

Wait until you can see what an eq pedal can do through the send/return jack. Wow

@MadNoisy

5 ай бұрын

🤣🤣

@jpizzleforizzle

5 ай бұрын

​@@karolszymanski4791Ive played amps that sound best diming the eq knobs and using subtractive eq.

And yet another fine test you've gotten us into! Colour is just an audio quality that most find pleasing to their ears.

No it’s in the speakers Glen. How many times do I have to tell you ?

@MadNoisy

5 ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣

@jzoomradog583

5 ай бұрын

yep all sound the same. D is just the loudest

@stratman9449

5 ай бұрын

don't forget what kind of material is used to cover those speaker cabinets...and how thick the wood is...and what it is.....

I have no idea which one is which but I liked the 2nd tone best. It seemed clearer and brighter than the others.

@Wob-O

5 ай бұрын

That’s what I was thinking.

@BandOfHarjaps

5 ай бұрын

Yep, one can only say which one they preferred.

@jonathanwolverton705

5 ай бұрын

watch it be the harley benton lol

@joshuamartin7932

5 ай бұрын

@@jonathanwolverton705 Imma buy one if that's the case. It's too much value for money. RIP PRS and Gibson.

@Wob-O

5 ай бұрын

@@jonathanwolverton705You need to play authentic 😡

Really cool to see the SIT String shop. I play a 7 string and use the Rusty Cooley set. I really like the way they play. As always thank you so much for making these videos, so much great information for everyone!

Glenn, let me just say that this video was the best at explaining to the other guitarists how the tone is basically unchanging when you compare stuff while recording. I feel like a lot of people don’t pay attention to that sentence even though you’ve said it a million times in other videos. But I feel like this video it would be near impossible for someone to not understand this 😂 Awesome video of tests!! 🤘🏼

Could you do a tone comparison between strings and no strings?

@Vykk_Draygo

5 ай бұрын

I can speak from experience. A guitar with no strings has the cleanest tone ever. Difficult to achieve distortion though.

@CodyBarnette-GNARK

5 ай бұрын

@@BandOfHarjaps who’s there

@BandOfHarjaps

5 ай бұрын

@@CodyBarnette-GNARK Ton(e)y

@RandysRides

5 ай бұрын

@@BandOfHarjaps Tony who

@razznote7586

5 ай бұрын

How about when the volume is in 0 and in 10?

Awwww Glenn, you did it again! None of those guitars were actually used. You OBVIOUSLY went with that new company, ALL SOUND and used their newest model, THE SAME. AWESOME! Good job as always Glenn.

This is a great and incredibly informative video. Great job Glenn.

Great video, Glen. I've been playing guitar for 40 years but I'm always open to learning, especially when it comes to recording. I've learned quite a lot from your channel. Looking forward to the next one!

Crushed it Glenn, what a collection you’ve built of hypotheses testing videos for us all to use on our journey🤘🏼at this point the GAS is on us at least somewhat now vs the marketing

Thanks for having me on Glenn! I guess I should chime in, it would be crazy if I couldn’t guess! Test 1: A: Harley B: Shecter C: PRS D: Gibson Test 2: A: shecter nickle B: PRS C: Gibson

@crunchchannel8788

5 ай бұрын

If this is true, I really liked the gibson the best from the Audio. II liked D in the first one and the C in the second. If you tell me that has the HB, I will take it as is. I still liked it the best.

@ChristianVegh

5 ай бұрын

@@crunchchannel8788I may be wrong tbh we will see

Thanks for your continued efforts, Glenn. I used to replace pickups whenever I would buy a guitar. The thought was that I needed to get good pickups in the guitar to start with. Now, I generally leave the guitar stock. You've saved me a considerable amount of money.

First test: A. PRS - sounds like a semi-hollow/hollow B. Harley Benton - bigger bandwidth and higher output than a classic PAF C. Les Paul - Sounds the thinnest and honkiest, so likely the vintage style PAF D. Schecter - High output high bandwidth makes me think this is the active pick up. Not sure 100%, but thought it might be fun to give it a try.

@Wardecke

5 ай бұрын

I think that schecter doesnt have active pickups

@iancarney3082

5 ай бұрын

None of these guitars are active. Explain thin/honky sound. If you can't define it, don't use it to describe sound. And, genuine question, IS the PRS hollow/semi hollow? I think Glenn would've mentioned it if it was. Or maybe I just missed it. Genuinely don't remember.

@bartpappas3236

5 ай бұрын

@iancarney3082 I don't really feel like it, take it or leave it. The PRS did have an f-hole. As for active vs not, it doesn't really change my impression of D, where I heard a wider bandwidth and higher output, which you could still get from a more modern style passive humbucker. I guess we'll see if I'm totally full of shit, which I may well be.

@iancarney3082

5 ай бұрын

​@@bartpappas3236 You're right it does have an f hole and I just missed it. I would still like "honky" defined though...that's just a buzzword. What makes it honky? More defined mids? Trebles? I genuinely would like to know since, to my ear after hundreds upon hundreds of guitars across my workbench, I hear VERY very little difference between A, C, and D. The only guitar with a significant difference in sound is Guitar B to my ear. I believe B is the HB, the others are far too close to call.

@mustang351c4

5 ай бұрын

@@iancarney3082 honkey is easily described as a bump in the upper midrange. centered around 600hz. diyaudioheaven.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/descriptors2.png theres a graph showing the frequency response affects that we associate with each phrase we use to describe audio.

This is true, especially in a live setting. There are so many times where the signal is being processed by something different, thus creating a different interpretation of the sound. By the time it comes out of the venue’s PA speakers (that are blasting way too loud and are probably abused af, btw), there’s absolutely no way that you could hear the difference between a flame-maple top or a quilted-maple top, or tell what material the tuners are made out of or what their mass is lmao.

@AMSOfficial79

5 ай бұрын

Guitarists primarily care about how their gear sounds in a room to them... making all of your statement irrelevant. How the guitar sounds in a room will alter how a player plays, too; you can't deny that gear can make us play more 'inspired'. Personal choice is very important here. I'm glad you advocate for bland, boring sound. Go play cardboard guitars, since it makes zero difference (to YOU).

@CamdenBoggio

5 ай бұрын

@@AMSOfficial79oh, word 👍🏻

@jihamiya5755

5 ай бұрын

​@@AMSOfficial79🤡

@Vykk_Draygo

5 ай бұрын

@@AMSOfficial79 Judging by posts like yours, I think that (some) guitarists primarily care about having their choices validated and having their ego stroked. 🤣

@AMSOfficial79

5 ай бұрын

@Vykk_Draygo See.... that isn't me, though. My main rig is a Peavey Bandit 112 combo modded into just a head, using a 5150 cab. A Nux MG30 is in the effects loop. All of my guitars are self-built partscasters. No purchases to justify because I'm already budget minded.

Very subtle, essentially indistinguishable differences. Nothing that I'd stress over: I'd be happy with any of the four.

I preferred guitar D in the first test and guitar B in the second test. String material composition is supposed to make a difference. Nickel strings are said to have less magnetic pull, and that results in a lower output from the Pickups. I've never tested this myself, but it makes some sense.

Always great info from you for free, Brother. Please keep it up

On the 1st Clean tone test - listening on Yamaha HS7 monitors: A & D's tone sounded a little different then B & C - but not in a better/worse way just different,, and D seemed like it might have a little bit hotter pickups than the rest of the guitars, or the player just strummed 10% harder that time. B & C sounded almost identical. Overall they all sounded similar enough with only minor differences and I couldn't guess which is which specifically. They all sounded fine - as far as a bone dry and uninspiring clean tone can sound fine. Re: string test - idgaf, whatever.

@zacharyduncan6118

5 ай бұрын

I had the exact same thought. A and B sounded more dynamic, D was probably the schecter and I think C was also less expensive. A and B were the nice ones in test 1. Don’t care about strings either

@adam872

5 ай бұрын

I definitely thought guitar D had a hotter output

Second test, C sounded a little quieter compared to the other two.

@frjhracing

5 ай бұрын

I agree, and based on how stainless is supposed to be less ferromagnetic, I would say C being the stainless strings is the only maybe definitive answer out of the whole test which is honestly zero idea.

@erici9025

5 ай бұрын

No clue on which string is which but it was the only difference i notice and it was just not as loud compared to the other two lol @@frjhracing

@jasonbone5121

5 ай бұрын

On the second test, guitar C was the one I liked the least. Could have been due to it being quieter...

@sly5999

5 ай бұрын

I agree with that fact.

@waranghira

5 ай бұрын

@@jasonbone5121 Not just quieter. Deader. Like all the harmonics took a backseat.

I am glad to be able to hear at all after concerts in the 90s and early 2000s. I'm more glad that I learned what little difference pickups make, for the cost.. saved me tons Glen!! Rock on ehh!! From almost nearby in Michigan 🤟

One of your best vids yet. 🤘🏼

I HAVE NO IDEA WHICH GUITAR IS WHICH. THEY ALL SOUND THE SAME TO ME.

@buaidhnobas1ify

5 ай бұрын

They have wood, check. They have metal, check. They have a body, check. They have a neck, check (Check check if it's a double neck). Yeah, they're all the same.

@WilDBeestMF

5 ай бұрын

Especially in a metal context where everyone is using enough distortion to make Lemmy blush, that's gonna happen.

@scorchedearthdj

5 ай бұрын

truth

@MadNoisy

5 ай бұрын

Go listen again! There's a difference for both test (guitars and strings test).

@cycomiles4225

5 ай бұрын

Theres a difference. Very and I mean very small, but theres a difference. If I tried to guess which one was which, even if I guessed correctly it would be a lucky guess, thats how similar they are. Guitar C for some reason sounds like someone turned down the tone knob, just a bit. I'd say thats the Schecter Omen 6.

Are the tone and volume knobs made with vintage plastic? Are the truss rods made from steel salvaged from WWII battleship guns? Is the wire for the pickups from the original Tesla coil and hand-wound by one 97 year-old spinster?

@howardmaryon

5 ай бұрын

No, Nigel’s mummy winds them.

@tostrmofo6686

5 ай бұрын

I would totally buy a guitar with a truss rod made from steal salvaged from a WWII battleship.

@stratman9449

5 ай бұрын

oh yes please......

STRINGS - I can say fairly confidently string test #3 was semi flat wound. String type absolutely makes a difference in tone, I've used all types to either mellow out or brighten up a guitar. It works and its much cheaper than new tone pots or pups.

why was this string factory tour one of the best things I've seen on KZread in a long time

Regarding PRS' lighter tuners: from what I read in reputable sources (i.e., engineers who actually tried it), the phenomenon of "dead spots" (i.e., notes that have significantly shorter sustain than others) is due to resonant frequencies of the neck, and the frequency of the dead spot can be shifted by adding weight to the headstock. That kinda makes sense to me. It would, however, indicate that even if a neck with regular tuners dampens one particular frequency, putting on lighter tuners would merely dampen a slightly different frequency.

@AMSOfficial79

5 ай бұрын

Weight absolutely increases sustain in some regards; astute observation!

@stratman9449

5 ай бұрын

as a wise chinese man once said....."BS"...!!!!!

You have the best guitar channel on KZread. Congrats

@timointrouble

5 ай бұрын

Agreed. The best guitar channel isn‘t even a guitar channel

@truescotsman4103

5 ай бұрын

it's low-information lowbrow garbage

@Dave-Rough-Diamond-Dunn

5 ай бұрын

​@@truescotsman4103Gibson owner? 🤔

@sly5999

5 ай бұрын

I just went on your channel dude and talk about lowbrow garbage! Your second video is exactly the definition of it!@@truescotsman4103

3:58 - 4:02 minute mark is my favorite part. I listened to this several times. My setup is with my Kali monitors and an Audient iD14. I honestly tried to hear a difference. Thanks for that.

Thank You Glen!! Great video!

Hitch slap!!!! Nice to see a Christopher Hitchens quote!!! Loved that guy!!!

@yucatansuckaman5726

5 ай бұрын

I tip my fedora to thee good sir.

Just out of curiosity: would the differences between all the guitars and strings used in this test be more discernible through a direct input (into an audio interface or something)? My guess is that they probably wouldn’t be more discernible, but a test like that would still be interesting to hear.

I watched the results video before this video. But I definitely would not have been able to tell the difference on anything. I was surprised how dull the nickel strings sounded though. This is all very fascinating stuff, and I am a guy who buys pricey guitars. Great video Glen. 😊

lmao i love these blind tests. I listened while not even looking at the screen and i could barely tell a change at all. At one point the volume slightly went up, but no tonal change to my ears.

Can you do the bass guitars comparison pretty please?

@Memu_

5 ай бұрын

That's actually a great idea. He mainly focused on guitars and guitar tone but hasn't really made much content on bass.

@stratman9449

5 ай бұрын

guitarists don't pay attention to bass players....everybody knows that.....chhhhh....

Hey sir ! Could this test be applied to a bass guitar? Maybe a Wal vs Jackson vs Stingray? Kudos !

@frjhracing

5 ай бұрын

Solo, differences should be much more noticeable, even after an amp or "in a recording setting" because you're dealing with a higher energy input at the same perceived volume. So any attenuation or differences along the chain will be more pronounced, say pickup to pickup and amp to amp. However, I think once it's in a mix- you lose subtle differences because of less ear sensitivity in the bass range in context of everything else going on. I recently put fishman fluences on my 5 string and I also wired up all the different mode switches (3 eq profiles + single coil "tapping" on each pickup + pickup blend). Just with a straight amp and playing you could play with settings for days, but the second I tried to record it - it all fell apart as you're just trying to get whatever out of all the billion choices that gets you the best sound stage for the mix, which isnt always what sounds good solo.

@oskarus3

5 ай бұрын

@@frjhracing there is audible difference between pickup types in basses actually, even in the mix. In metal, pickup types matter the least, but in less crowded mixes you can easily distinguish Stingray from Jazz bass, Precision from Thunderbird, WAL from Ibanez. Even Spectors with PJ setup sound way different (even in the mix) from Fender PJ because of the active preamp and different mgagnet materials.

@frjhracing

5 ай бұрын

​@@oskarus3 bass's with some amount of eq, even just bass/treble boost mixed with a bass preamp w/ parametric + shaping makes a world of differences in a mix as well. And then like your saying with the P or Jazz bass - their different pickup layouts and types are very obvious. With guitar and all the "magic pickups", at the end of the day there's really only two layouts; H H or S S S... yes there's more but they're not "standard". But with the bass's they have the offset S's like on P bass's or like a H and S mixed, etc. Bass's just have more layouts that aren't as standardized across the board. The key is that a dedicated bass preamp has all the low-mid-"high" in context of the sonic range of bass itself. Unless you have a really granular parametric, those adjustments are typically ignored - some people just DI their bass into a preamp/interface without even amp modeling. Though - SMG's "element" bass plugin really shows how far you can get with just plugins for bass in a mix.

@Mikey__R

5 ай бұрын

Definitely. You're not comparing one humbucker loaded guitar with another humbucker loaded guitar. Wal and MM both technically have humbucking pickups and active electronics, but those are superficial similarities. They can be made to sound similar, or they could sound totally different. And the Jackson bass probably has either J or P pickups, which are sonically different again. But yeah, deep under a dense rock mix, I couldn't tell you which is which.

@Mikey__R

5 ай бұрын

And with bass, the style of the player will come through much more. Bass isn't all chugga chugga or screaming solos, so the tone isn't quite so dominated by the amplifier and speaker. For example, compare Justin Chancellor with Geddy Lee with Lemmy with Steve Harris, who plays flatwound strings with his fingers and gets more attack than anyone.

I liked the sound of guitar B in the first test and guitar A for the second test, C used flat wound. In terms of guitars test 1: Benton, Prs, schecter, & Gibson.

Great test Glenn!

No idea which guitar was which. D was louder, B was brighter? Strings A and B sounded the same to me but C must be the semi flats wounds. Going by the fact flat wounds usually sound “duller” on bass?

@nunninkav

5 ай бұрын

Guessing B is the PRS.

After listening a few times to those tests I can very confidently tell you that I haven't the faintest fuckin' clue which guitars were which, nor what strings were which. I can't even tell you for sure which one I liked the most. It does remind me a bit about the legendary Stradivarius violins that supposedly have this incredible unique silvery quality to them, but whenever they're A/B tested musicians can't tell the difference or they lean towards preferring modern instrument sounds. I'll pick the Harley Benton as my favorite because that is not only within my price range but I also wouldn't be terrified of playing the damn thing. Hell, that's exactly what I did. My R-446 is my workhorse and while I very much appreciate my Solar V1.6 I kind of wish the R-446 or the Solar S series existed back when I bought it.

@GianmarioScotti

5 ай бұрын

I wish everybody were as honest as you are.

Another good episode, really happy I found this channel. Would love a one on one one day or a clinic if you ever come near to the Mississippi Gulf Coast.

Great video Man!

Please Please Please do a video about soldering 4 cassette decks together!!!!

@ulfdanielsen6009

5 ай бұрын

Has to be tone plastic then!

@ulfdanielsen6009

5 ай бұрын

And tone solder. Otherwise null and void.

@stratman9449

5 ай бұрын

but only "original" phillips casettes......

I won't pay $999 dollars for an entire instrument, much less just a set of pickups.

Thanks for another great test Glenn! Interesting how the critics need to 'see' which guitar sounds better!

Glenn!!! I own an S2 PRS, and I love how it plays. The wood finish is nice, but honestly when I got it, there were tons of micro-scratches in the finish on the back of the guitar. I was really taken aback by this, for a $2K guitar to have scratches like that. They were very minor, barely noticeable, but I could see them. As far as the tuners go, the switch from metal to the plastic tuners, IMO, has nothing to do with tone, and everything to do with them being cheaper for them to manufacture. It's all about increasing their bottom line; again, IMO. Love the channel! Keep it up!!!

Yes, the PRS sounds in tune

@Gueli

5 ай бұрын

😂 spot on!

@switch1e

5 ай бұрын

LOLLLLLL

It might just be the volume difference, but Guitars A and C sound "cheaper" to me, while B and D sound "more expensive". But even the percieved difference is very small. But considering that two of those guitars are over 10k while one isnt even 300 bucks, they shouldnt even come close to one another. And thats on a pretty clean tone that still lets you hear some of the guitars sound.

i liked the first guitar in the first test the best. There was one that sounded a bit thinner and one that sounded like it pushed the amp a bit more, which i think was the one missing in the second test. Can't tell you which is which but there's definitely a difference. I wouldn't be worried using any of them to record.

TEST 1: GUITAR A: PRS Private Stock, short scale neck, less projection. GUITAR B: Harley Benton Double Cut, the best sonically of them all. GUITAR C: Schecter Omen Elite-6, the most high in bass of them all. GUITAR D: Gibson Collectors Choice 39 Minnesota Burst, bad acoustic sound but it changes when the sound coloured by effects. TEST 2: Guitar A: Pure nickel. Something in the middle. Gibson. Guitar B: Stainless steel. Most ring. Harley Benton Guitar C: Silencer. Most depth. PRS. This is just a lucky guess. People do shop with eyes, not ears. Thank you Glenn for this community service. It's a therapy. 🙂

@MadNoisy

5 ай бұрын

Nice one man. I like your take on the strings. I do too believe that D is the Gibson one. The rest.....pfft no idea.🤘🤘

Bravo, Glen. This PRS tuner BS is the peak trust-me-because-I-built-a-good-product-so-everything-I-say-must-be-true situation of the guitar world as we know it. Paul is a likeable, seemingly brilliant, guy, but the more I learn about why he does what he does....I think he's just a good furniture salesman. "That chair is beautiful! I bet it sits better than any other chairs!"

@ithemba

5 ай бұрын

I genuinely think Paul Reed Smith is just very much trapped in this boomer artisan mindset of yesteryear (when he actually learned what he knows about guitars and luthiership), when availability of different products for comparison was very very much more limited. Even professionals working around instruments would probably hardly ever lay their hands on more than five different styles of guitars. A-B Comparisons with modern recording tech was unthinkable. So most of what these people knew came downhanded from their teachers and other builders, and their own experiences - which we know are mostly seriously flawed and coloured by a shitload of preconceptions.

@ziplocktheimpostor1402

5 ай бұрын

Add some beds & office tables & a jacuzzi to the pile of his speechcraft and we have a deal...🤣

@jarredbaca8112

5 ай бұрын

Hey man, Paul isn’t just “seemingly brilliant” he’s incredibly smart when it comes to guitar design and luthier stuff. It’s probably the case that he just doesn’t look at things through a recording lens like Glen is saying

i have so many vintage guitars ... I'm playing an Ibanez rgt320 and rg580b at the moment.... guitar is a guitar is a guitar... but. when i sell those vintage guitars I'm glad these people exist. 😂 I'm one of them lol.

have to say I bought that same Harley Benton before i saw yours as I needed a guitar with no trem for learning songs at home. stacks up great against all my other guitars.

Quite amazing on the stainless steel test. I always use stainless steel and in person/band practice the difference is massive.

I will pay 999 only when this pickup will be strait build in the sick ass of Gibson Factory boss.

@ScottsGuitar

5 ай бұрын

The people flipping them for 100% profit or more are laughing at you. Easy money..

Can hear a difference between them in the first test, but what is what? Who the fuck knows. Tbh they all sounded good

I've never commented on your videos Glenn, but this one was the best!!! I love how you shot down in flames both the big G and PRS bullshit!!! I couldn't wait to hear you call it how it really is!!! Thank-you!!!

Another key point about sound. Listening to your video with a nice set of headphones vs the speaker on my $150 cell phone will throw a wrench in everything as well. Haha Awesome channel!

Nice Christopher Hitchens reference at 2:43, love it!

tbh the string type made more audible diference. I'd say that the order on the string test was Nickel, stainless (due to the increase in higher frequency range) , and semi-flats/groundwound ('cause they sound dead)

@fuckinliveinsin

5 ай бұрын

Hahahahaha what a nonsense

Love it dude. I have been recording, playing guitar, and building guitars and pedals for most of my life. I am 100% completely lost listening to those examples. I can hear very subtle differences, but by no means enough of a difference to make me want to spend $1000s on a piece of gear. "Don't feed the greed." This saying now lives rent-free in my brain, and I will be using it to make judgments on my future musical purchases. Thanks for keeping it real.

That's why I use a Gibson Les Paul Studio. The differences in pick-ups are tiny and you can dial in a Studio's 490/498T combo to sound like the most expensive humbuckers on the planet (probably its used on the Les Paul Custom). It makes more sense to buy a versatile guitar and a flexible amp than dumping thousands on useless accesories.

After seen this video and could not stop laughing. Glenn, you are going to kill the tonesnob on the internet of this video. Keep up the great work.

I love this channel calling out all the bullshit out there 😂 I wanted a Gibson Les Paul bad until I started watching this channel. Now I don’t give a shit about Gibson

@Vykk_Draygo

5 ай бұрын

Makes me see how foolish I was when I bought into stuff like tone wood. Love it. 🤣 To your point, I prefer the Gretsch or ESP/LTD take on the single cut body. Looks nicers than the Gibsons, in my opinion. That said, I went with a double cut for my Gretsch. It has better fret access than my Gibson Flying V! Fair price, it looks awesome, and it plays great!

Hey Glenn, great video! i got a question, if different guitars plugged through the same amp on a clean channel have a similar sound due to the coloration as you mentioned, then wouldnt guitars (dry) sound entirely different coming out of monitor speakers since monitors are supposed to be flat/not have coloration? thanks!

Love the new console. So cool.

Clearly the body of guitar "C" has been built with a plank of Mahogany of 76 and a half years of age; by the slight tone shift during the 33rd note I can desume that it was planted between 09:00AM and 10:35AM. The pickup has 3102 windings and the persond that wound it was wearing a green t-shirt. The pickup switch was assembled during a very cold morning. But maybe I'm wrong... Keep it up, Glenn!!!

@bevh46294

5 ай бұрын

In Scotland! 🍻

@DavidSmith-xz4zz

5 ай бұрын

​@@markbushong4826 Benton, Arkansas man. I owned the outhouse. 🤣

All I can say, C sounds the “warmest.” No clue which it is, but gonna guess it’s the PRS. D sounded the loudest to me, so gonna guess the Schecter(assuming it has hotter pickups). Other two are negligible.

@sebastian6121

5 ай бұрын

it lacked mids

@DesertScorpionKSA

5 ай бұрын

I thought A sounded like it had the highs rolled off and the other three sounded close to each other.

I was wondering when you'd get around to mentioning the PRS tuning knobs. I immediately thought of you when I heard about them.

I liked guitar B in both comparisons mainly because it was the cleanest/brightest. I record direct to DAW/Guitar Rig 7 and find I get best results with a low output/high headroom signal hitting the software, then mixing flavors of gain together in the box

Gibson: When you have Lambo, but the head gasket blows after every start 😂 “Looks good in the driveway”

In the first test, guitar A had more bass. Guitar D had more volume than guitars B and C, but guitars B through D all sounded near identical to me. You could make guitars B through D sound like guitar A with an equalizer. For the second test guitar C was brighter sounding, but again you could probably use an equalizer to make guitar A and B sound like guitar C. My main takeaway from this experiment is to invest in a good equalizer instead of multiple guitars.

Another great video AND a Hitch Slap? I love you more every day, bro!

Even without the amp coloration, I learned that in mixing, it's common to cut out frequencies on an EQ. So many guitarists use delay and reverb pedals especially. This also reminds me of singers getting ticked off with me saying that almost all microphones color your voice, sometimes it's slight, especially ones under $200. There's been times where a singer sounds better on a mic a Capella, but in the mix, sounds better on something like an SM57

@JoeStuffzAlt

5 ай бұрын

This is making me wonder: are there any guitars that sound like ass by itself, but sounds great in the mix? In fact, I think Glenn had a mic situation like this. The mic didn't sound good by itself, but used with another mic, it had an interesting effect.

Love the Hitch quote!! Miss him ❤️

With the second shootout, A has a similar distortion profile as A did before, though brighter, now. B and C are also bright, but C's 'throat' seems the same as C did before. Second set of tracks: A: A (LP with new strings?) B: B (Schecter) C: C (PRS) And, again, I don't really have a strong preference of one over another. They all have their own down side: A is a bit distorted, B is a bit thin, and C is a bit 'throaty'.

Hey Glen! I began recording by playing and singing into the same Yamaha combo and a Hi z mic plugged into the second input. I recorded on a stereo boom box with the onboard mics. I played that cassette through my home stereo and played and sang the second guitar and vocal harmonies recording onto a mother cassette in the boombox. But HOW THE HELL did you solder two cassette players together? How did you synch them? Love the show! Congrats on the Neve! You deserve it!

One guy said in one of his videos that the tuner peg holes should be really tight to where you need to really press the tuners in to get them to seat flush behind the headstock. He said it makes more sustain in the guitar. Now, mind you. This is a guy who believes in 125 inch scale length and soaks guitars in rubbing alcohol. If this were true with the tuners, a locking nut would really change things. First challenge. A-Schecter B-PRS C-Gibson D-HB Second challenge. Gibson was taken away. A-PRS Power Groove. B-HB Power Steel. C-Schecter Flat wounds. But..... I could be wrong.

B and C sound great. D is nice and bold. Really comes down to what tool you need for the job. A needs better pickups.

Did you just paraphrase HITCH in your video, Glenn?! I hereby announce that you are my favorite audio channel on KZread from this day onwards. More people need to know about Hitch!

Great show, Glenn! Always learn something new. That SIT boss guy "We don't give lunch". Factory work America 2024! Yippee!😁😀😀

If possible, can you also do videos comparing average studio recording gears vs the expensive ones? For example, the fancy mixers, and things like analog vs plugins (e.g. UA 1176 vs CLA-76). Would love to see the blind tests and bashes

@paulw.3967

5 ай бұрын

There's an interesting "expensive vs. cheap gear" thread over on Gearspace, where a Klark Technik compressor does well compared to an 1176.

I live in Akron. I love some SIT bass strings! However, I switched to coated strings a few years ago due to the (alleged) better longevity of the bright, new string tone. SIT doesn’t make a coated bass string :( assuming dirt and corrosion account for some of the loss in tone, it *appears* a nano coating could give brighter tone for longer. Can it be cleaned better and not corrode as fast? I’d like to see a longevity test between coated/non coated strings! Same guitars, played the same amount of time, and periodically recorded to hear any changes. If I had two of the same bass guitars I’d do it in a heartbeat. Thanks for your tireless dedication to disproving hype and myths in our field!

This is just a fun stab at it, they all sound very similar and I have no idea. A: Schecter B: PRS C: Les Paul D: Harley Benton

How cool. The SIT string shop is near me. That big Amazon across the street used to be a popular mall.

So we have tried pick ups, Tonewood, speaker, and now tuners. What about electronics such as potentiometers? I wonder how much of a difference electronics make in the sound.

I'm just happy i can hear the sound difference

In 1988 I traded a '73 Strat for an Electra Phoenix - and $200 worth of extras, including a hardshell case. Still have it, still play it, still love it. All 4 guitars in the first test sounded slightly different, and they all sounded fine. Same for the 2nd test, except that I think C might have been the half-rounds. I use flats on my 335 copy, and they had a similarly slower attack.

I own numerous guitars and a variety of brands. None of my favorites are the most expensive ones and one of my favorites is a Squire strat which I paid 285.00 I changed the tuners to locking and yes cheap Amazon tuners, a bone nut, yes Amazon and Wilkinson pickups which were cheap, yes I got lucky and got a Squire with an excellent neck (as good as my expensive guitar necks) and I ended up with a guitar that to my ears and eyes looks and plays as good as the expensive guitars. I didn't listen to this channel much until this guy started testing and proving that expensive pickups have very little difference from cheap ones. I am now subscribed and going back through his earlier post.

I’m going to say the Harley-Benton was guitar B in the first go round and then was removed for the second…and I’m probably wrong. The differences between all the guitars was so minute, that like you said, play what looks good or you like. The guitar in my icon is a 1987 Fender American Standard Stratocaster. I purchased it new in 1988 for $399 with the case. If I were to go out and buy a guitar today, I’m not spending more than $500. There’s no need. Keep on making this content, it’s honest and refreshing.🤘🏻❤️🎶

Huge tone shift from Pre to Post Neve from Glen : ) = Happy Glen

I can't really tell the difference. There were very minor variations, but they all sounded awesome to me. For the strings, the last one sounded a little (eensy bit) less bright. Were they the semi-flatwound strings? Great test Greg, I love my HB Fusion III T hardtail.

When do we get the results? Im dying to get the answer.

i have a $200 epiphone les paul, it sounds like this too. though one of the tuners has some damage in the gears and the frets are sharp on the edge, it sounds REALLY good.

I love how wild Glenn is going with is lmao! i love this man

I'm pausing at 9:40 to comment...very cool to see how strings are made, ty to SIT Strings! My guesses for guitars A-D: A-LP, B-PRS, C-HB, D-Schecter. All sound similar and as you said, without the visual que's, all we can tell is THAT they are different, not which is which with any certainty. EDIT: Added after the second/string shootout; I can't tell at all any longer, between guitars A-C. They quite literally all sounded like the same instrument to my ears!

What a time to be alive when Glenn has become the voice of reason on those subjects. Thanks! I'm not losing hope yet

On the second Blind test on the strings, did you break your own rules and use different guitars? All I could hear were very slight tonal differences on the four guitars and could not tell one from the other and I own a Harley Benton "double cut" deluxe (three pickup DC-600). A superb guitar.