Tosin Abasi is slowly becoming the Virgil Abloh of the guitar industry!

@Ganesaviii

2 жыл бұрын

More like the Rick Owens of the guitar industry

@Bilsuburbians

2 жыл бұрын

Virgil abloh isnt that great 😂 Tosin is the next 21st century Basquiat in the concept art.

@Nghilifa

2 жыл бұрын

Let's hope not, Virgil is dead!

@athmaid

2 жыл бұрын

More like Errolson Hugh, but without the arrogance. Helps that he is into the style as well lol

@oh033

2 жыл бұрын

Yohji Yamamoto

This dude deserves all the success he's getting, he's influencing a whole new generation of musicians with the way he plays!

Tosin is our generation's Hendrix, EVH or Vai. Absolutely changing the way people approach playing the instrument, and even transforming what guitars look like. We need more like him!

@DigitalBath306

2 жыл бұрын

nah tim henson is that

@jarretc110

2 жыл бұрын

maybe vai becuase they're both self indulgent wankers. but people like listening to music, that's why Hendrix and van halen actually sold records. edit: i take that back, van halen went off the deep end after he lost his filter in david lee roth.

@th0tp0lice666

2 жыл бұрын

@@DigitalBath306 tosin has been doing it for way longer than Tim.

@DigitalBath306

2 жыл бұрын

@@th0tp0lice666 doesnt matter

@RobertoReyesChHC

2 жыл бұрын

@@DigitalBath306 They both are contributing to modern guitar. There's nothing wrong with acknowledging that.

that 8 string looked really sick. im not much of an HSS kinda player but the shapes and paint were all there!

Tosin got him to smile AND laugh , I think.Woooo !!!

Damn he’s good! Yeah Tosin!

Man, these look amazing. That SSS one is very tempting! Go Tosin!

Damn, this video is dope!

Damn that tone was crazy good.

Wonderfull

Yoo Damnnnn that is Soo dope

Love that new 8 string doublecut Emi with the HSS pickup configuration. Strat sound in a modern multiscale 8 string package. Would like to get one of those!

FINALLY!! An HSS 8 string!! In my head, my dream guitar was always an Hss 8 but except for custom build, I had no way of finding one

I have followed the 3 links he provided at the end of the interview. He's right: these guitars sure have nice curves!

@Acepilot1312

2 жыл бұрын

Man of culture I see! ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

@yokisullivan8647

2 жыл бұрын

bro?

@marcelohuapalla

2 жыл бұрын

some have big holes, but I understand it because of the weight relief .-.

I actually really love the strat one. I've always been a big strat guy, but absolutely everyone has a strat. I might actually try to get one of those

Sickkk

oh yes here come the clips

Looks pretty good

I enjoy Animals as Leaders, but imo Tosin really found a calling designing and running a guitar company, he has very good taste and is immediately likable presenting his shit. His brand has yet to put out something I have not been impressed with.

@EthanRadell

2 жыл бұрын

Right? Usually when artists try something like this it feels gimmicky or kinda lack luster. This is actually the real deal 🤝 and Tosin is such a G

great personality

"really heavy" lmao, love Tosin

I can’t wait to buy the Emi-6. It felt great in my hands, and sounds nice!

@JeighNeither

2 жыл бұрын

Tone profile? They didn't let us hear any of these, which I found really odd, so how would you characterize the pickup tones in comparison to the obvious Fender influence? I'd love to find a balance HSS set-up that actually has some balls in the HB.

@Viper-dz2kw

2 жыл бұрын

Glad he’s actually letting people try his stuff now, went there in 2019 and he didn’t let anyone touch anything

@michaelvarney.

2 жыл бұрын

@@JeighNeither I only played the Emi-6. I played it on clean first, and it basically sounded like a strat. Same pups as my Fender Ultra Luxe. Two channels on the push pull, single tone knob. I like strats, and it gave me what I needed in that department. The trem felt standard. Ergonomics was amazing, neck felt great, and I have huge hands and it still felt great. I’m not used to two octave fretboards, but I was easy to reach up all the way. It will be my next guitar.

Where can we find these guitars? Pronhub? That tracks.

This guy is the reason why I’m getting a 7 string

@RobertoReyesChHC

2 жыл бұрын

I just got one last month after playing 6 for 20 years, you will not regret it!

The world isn't ready for 60fps videos

The bat signal went out nearly a year later for the Emi-6... today. I got one... I wanted the cream but had to settle for the black... They were all gone within 2:34 of dropping.

I think what´s missing in the range is the Emi 6 just with a HH config. i really LOVE the new Emi line. It´s basically the perfect line I always wished for. The non locking yet stable Gotoh bridge, the Strandberg-like cutout at the bottom (which provides playing positions you just can´t have with other guitars) without the strandberg endur neck, a normal fretting (not the fan fretted version), a double cut body, an elegant headstock and the REALLY nice fret dots. Just please: Offer a HH version of this (and of course other colors).

@AGuitarNinja

Жыл бұрын

Same here I would just prefer the hss setup for selfish reasons or just get crazy and throw a sustainiac in the neck and a Fishman on the bridge

Tosin got Abasi concept also Kaizen Great job

Finally! He added a freaking tone knob. I always liked with the Larada had going on but no tone knob was a deal breaker.

@scomu9742

2 жыл бұрын

i was like that but then when you hear the quality of pickups the tone knob kinda loose his utility

@IsaacLausell

2 жыл бұрын

@@scomu9742 I get that however in live playing there are adjustments that need to be made on the fly. It is not a question of quality since evidently it is there, these are good products. You might dial a patch or your gear at home but each venue sounds a bit different. That is when being able to do an adjustment on the fly as small as adding a bit brightness or rolling it off makes the difference. Even on one pickup setting there are range of tones available between the tone and volume knobs.

I agree with Tosin! This is dope!

4k!

@premier guitar - did you guys get with Abasi at NAMM 2023?

I checked out the website that Tosin said but I didn’t find any guitars there although I have to say it’s even more interesting. : P

@opethian8512

2 жыл бұрын

animals as breeders

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Oh boy, wait til the silver sky strike force gets wind if this s style guitar. There will be blood.

Its nice having your own company -you can say anything you wan’t.

When abasi put a headless model in production is gonna be the best guitar in the market

@thomasreuter1614

2 жыл бұрын

I love Abasi guitars but I feel that for the headless game Strandberg has had it down just right for a while now. An Abasi headless will struggle to compete with Strandberg, but I'd love to be proven wrong

@Koffieleuter

2 жыл бұрын

Kiesel?

@5urg3x

2 жыл бұрын

@@thomasreuter1614 Strandbergs suck. There’s so many things wrong with them…the quality is horrible, the price is ridiculously high for an Indonesian guitar made by low skilled and EXTREMELY low paid Indonesian factory workers, and the zero fret is a huge design flaw. I have one, and I never play it. I actually wanted to get an Abasi 7 at the time but they didn’t have any in stock.

@carlchameleon9847

2 жыл бұрын

@@thomasreuter1614 Not so sure about the quality or longevity of Strandberg and its products... I've definitely seen and heard complaints.

@thomasreuter1614

2 жыл бұрын

@@5urg3x I am a 4 year owner of a Strandberg 7 and a 6 month owner of a Larada 8 and I think that my Strandberg is just as good, if not better than the Abasi.

Not excited about the designs but very curious about the neck shape.

my only desire for this brand is to do a headless tunner at bridge option. the body is made for it and i feel like hes not doing because stranberg or ibanez will sue him. otherwise why not make it that way

Everything is good, but why raincoat ?!!

The one year i dont go to namm....

Wish I could afford these one day

wasn't a huge fan of the other Abasi shapes, but this one's pretty cool !

And an Ernie Ball signature too?

Is namm only professional guitarest like tosin or can I go there being Metallica pro

I thought I saw he just became an Ernie Ball artist too? And they made him a signature model… ? Unless I was in the middle of a trippy lucid dream? Lol … go figure… im such a nerd,, if ever was lucky enough to have a lucid dream I probably would just winding up nerding out on guitar gear.. HAHAHAHAHA LOL. Ahhhh …. Life is funny……

@ifgwelf

2 жыл бұрын

No you're not lucid dreaming. Tosin seems to be really enthusiastic about the luthier side of guitar work, seems like he'll work with anyone to make his creative visions come true.

@Ottophil

2 жыл бұрын

Why not both?

@thesmellycatjazz

2 жыл бұрын

You can do that when you're the boss. In the video about his EBMM sig, he mentions they have the R&D that he doesn't have with his brand. It's not far fetched to thing that he might have EBMM help in either designing or potentially manufacturing his stuff. He's currently working with Schecter to produce the Legion line.

@thomasreuter1614

2 жыл бұрын

Important to note that the Kaizen isn't a Tosin sig - it's a modern 7 string EBMM model that he helped to design but it doesn't have his name anywhere on the guitar itself

@yokisullivan8647

2 жыл бұрын

That one you saw might be that KAIZEN which is a guitar designed from collaboration of Tosin and EBMM, and is not Tosin's sig model.

so basically if you like strandberg guitars bodies but hate that it has no headstock then the emi is for you!!!! I think the 7 string model emi is legit

At this point, the ONLY thing preventing me from owning an Abasi of my own is the price point, and that's no fault of Tosin's. I understand it's a business and when you're doing what he is, that's more than likely the most adequate price for the instruments in order to keep producing them with a healthy amount of headroom to feel comfortable doing so. One day, though.

@jarretc110

2 жыл бұрын

it is his fault, because there's no actual demand for the product.

@VintageLeatherWings22

2 жыл бұрын

@@jarretc110 If that were true, then why do their product runs sell out in a matter of 1-2 days? I’m not saying they have insane demand like fender or anything comparable, but there’s obviously demand there if you’re able to sell $2-4k guitars in less than 3 days.

Looks like a strandberg, but with a head...

These guitars are awesome but they’re impossible to get. I wanted to buy one last year but they were all out of stock, every single model on their website is out of stock currently, too. You shouldn’t have to sign up for a newsletter and wait 6-12 months for a guitar, unless it’s a custom shop…and I don’t think you can even order a custom color or config with these. Can you?

@seanwallace7517

2 жыл бұрын

I got one earlier this year. You just have to be ready once they send out the email. I had the website loaded up and saved my debit card information onto my computer and kept hitting refresh until the guitars showed up. I ended up returning it though. Playing multi scale required me to adjust my picking hand which aggravated my tendinitis. Great guitar though. Wish I could have kept it.

@justsomerandomguyman

2 жыл бұрын

That exclusivity & low stock is what allows them to keep the prices really high, sadly.

@5urg3x

2 жыл бұрын

@@justsomerandomguyman Exactly…

It's kind of funny to see Abasi behaving like a guitar sales man. BTW, I need a single cutaway 6-string Abasi guitar made in USA.

Not a big fan of the emi over the Larada. That said, I can sold on a modern Jazzmaster styled emi, with the rhythm circuit and all.

I wish he would put something other than fishmans in his guitars.

@opethian8512

2 жыл бұрын

check out the last site he mentioned

@RyanAmplification

2 жыл бұрын

@@opethian8512 I did. I didn't see many guitars.

@NoNo-sv2fo

2 жыл бұрын

@@RyanAmplification lol it was a joke cause he mentioned a porn site 🤠

@RyanAmplification

2 жыл бұрын

@@NoNo-sv2fo I know. I didn't see anything to do with guitars or pickups on that site! Lol

@NoNo-sv2fo

2 жыл бұрын

@@RyanAmplification totally flew over my head hahah. I saw one with a girl doing weird things with a guitar lol

Needs more than a tone knob ......

@justsomerandomguyman

2 жыл бұрын

The guitars with one knob have only a volume knob. Not a tone knob. Tosin doesn't use tone knobs, I assume, because he doesn't like the bassy lofi sound of rolling off the tone knob (not a lot of people like this sound, honestly).

Why he ALWAYS has to touch the interviewed guy/gal? ALWAYS

Too expensive......nice though

ridiculous

Thing is ugly but I know it plays great.

Can you stop that intro now please ?

Wonderfull