I've been following you for some time already and what I personally like about your channel is your unique perspective on the industry that you work experience gives you an insight that I find very interesting. Also that you are not a professional player, so your guitars you see them not as tools. Pro players can give great info on guitars, but they tend to have the view of how practical it is and does the job they need. As a hooby your is 100% personal pleasure and admiration of the instrument. I've had over 40 guitars myself through the last 5 years, and I know what you mean that you learn lot of things from the consumer point of view, and I like that perspective. You've had much more so you know more than me. Plus you dont come around as a snob or a dutch lol. You seem like a cool dude to hang around and talk about guitars. So keep it up! And I was the one who mentioned in your video if you saw about the N53 SE lol.

@ministryofguitar

Ай бұрын

Thanks for the tip (on the NF3 SE). And yes, I do think being passionate about something does help provide a different perspective from the pros. Thank you for the vote of confidence

@onlyguitars

Ай бұрын

@@ministryofguitar My pleasure!

Utkarsh, I just found your Chanel recently but I am enjoying your intellectual views and “conversation” that you bring to the table. Keep going my friend.

@ministryofguitar

Ай бұрын

Thank you. Appreciate the vote of confidence

I appreciate that your channel is very informative, your opinions and experience are relevant, and you aren't "flashy". You have a good delivery, and I hope your channel continues to grow. Congrats!

@ministryofguitar

Ай бұрын

Thank you. Appreciate your kind feedback

You blew by 10k so fast! It's well deserved. I'm frankly impressed you are able to maintain the stream of conciousness monolog so well, it must be informed by the years of presenting a meetings. I imagine you must at least. have an outline you follow, but it may be worth while experimenting with writing a script and using an iPad as a teleprompter. I know it sounds kinda lifeless, but Technology Connections does it really well and shows it's just you putting your best self out there when done properly! Please keep it up, I'm here to listen to your musings as long as you make them!

@ministryofguitar

Ай бұрын

Thanks. Yes I do spend a lot of time off camera thinking about outline and structure (while driving, running, walking the dogs or just life). I have tried using a script (both in this life and the past corporate life) but somehow it comes off robotic. Thanks for your encouragement right from the beginning and on the PRS forum as well

Congrats my guitar loving friend...enjoy ur videos immensely...lets keep it going!!!

@ministryofguitar

Ай бұрын

Thank you. Will do

Congratulations. I’m glad to see the channel grow.🎉

@ministryofguitar

Ай бұрын

Thank you

Wow you had three and a half thousand subs when I started watching and it felt like that was a couple weeks ago. Time flies.

@ministryofguitar

Ай бұрын

It does indeed. Also I have been lucky to have some disproportionate growth in May and June

I appreciate the story shared behind your channel, your skills are on display!

@ministryofguitar

Ай бұрын

Thank you

Appreciate the perspective.

I totally agree on the CE24 satin & the SE NF3. Both are great guitars for the money.

Excellent work ,keep going

@ministryofguitar

Ай бұрын

Thank you

Your videos are very insightful 😊

@ministryofguitar

Ай бұрын

Thank you

I hope you get to 100K subs.

@ministryofguitar

Ай бұрын

Thank you for the kind wishes

i've been enjoying this channel immensely for the past few months. keep up the thoughtful content!

@ministryofguitar

Ай бұрын

Thank you. Will try my best

Congrats on 14.1K subs mate!! Great insights into the business side of things and thanks for telling the story of your journey. Keep it coming and 100k will be just around the corner!!

@ministryofguitar

Ай бұрын

Thank you. Appreciate your kind wishes

Congratulations on the great milestone, I really enjoy your contents not just only your passion as a guitar collector but your life journey as well.

@ministryofguitar

Ай бұрын

Thank you. Appreciate your encouragement

I extremely appreciate what you do and have appreciated your videos for some time! I just wanted to say and keep doing what you are doing, thank you!

@ministryofguitar

Ай бұрын

Thank you. Encouraging words like yours are very helpful

Congratulations on the great milestone, I really enjoy your content. Your videos are from the heart. Keep up the good work.

@ministryofguitar

Ай бұрын

Thank you. Appreciate your encouragement

I have the SE SAS and the SE NF3, and they do sound very different. I agree that the “Strat” 4th position of the SAS sounds exactly like a Strat. The NF3 sounds unique in its in-between world, and the SAS has more true humbucker and true single coil sounds depending on the pickup position it is in. The necks are basically identical, and the hardware is very similar if not identical. The build quality of both is excellent. Between those two SEs it really is a matter of taste and one couldn’t go wrong with either.

@ministryofguitar

Ай бұрын

Good to hear this translates across to the SEs. Once the NF3 SE arrives in Singapore, I'll do a comparo

Word on the street is PRS is interested in bringing you on board.

@ministryofguitar

Ай бұрын

Well, PRS is one of my favourite companies for sure

Nice!

Excellent point on Taylor Swift playing guitar. Play that thing, Taylor! (I feel better now)

thank u

You’ll need a 20K video next week 🙌

@ministryofguitar

Ай бұрын

haha too kind dude

RE: DD Narrowfield S vs Original Narrowfield... I have a 2010 Swamp Ash Special with the 57/08 NF pickups. I went to a local shop and played an NF3 SE with the DD NF S pickups and I was pleasantly surprised. Not because it sounded like my SAS NF... but because it sounded different. The neck also felt very different because it lacked rolled edges which made it fell very wide. My original 57/08 NF are bright, full-bodied, and bridges the nuances that I (as a humbucker guy) felt a strat has too little of and P90's has too much of. The DD NF S are darker sounding, balanced, full-bodied, and are much more like a humbucker trying to be more P90 like. Basically less growl and bite. I'm curious of your thoughts when you get a chance to A/B with you Original NF. Thanks for the thoughts and you now have a new subscriber. I'll post a video on my Swamp Ash Special NF after I get back from a short tour... probably sometime in August.

brilliant

the attention economy is a great album title.

@BillySoundFarm

Ай бұрын

🤯

@ministryofguitar

Ай бұрын

Hmmm...

I think Levi's should sponsor you :))

I too am a musician who went to school for engineering in mechanical. I’m not really a car guy like you but I always thought car design was the pentacle of engineering. I’ve had an amazing career playing drums, engineering not so much. lol

@ministryofguitar

Ай бұрын

I am a mechanical engineer as well. Not sure if I mentioned that in the video

@allenmitchell09

Ай бұрын

@@ministryofguitar I assumed mechanical, because a lot of my classmates in engineering school were car nuts too. It made me wonder if I was in the right program at the time.

The road that I have walked upon has filled my pockets but emptied out my soul. Now I empty my pockets to refill my soul.

@ministryofguitar

Ай бұрын

I feel this deeply

@SeanAllocca

Ай бұрын

@@ministryofguitar I got it from the George Michael song - Waiting (Reprise). it is worth your time to give it a listen, it will hit you like it hit me I think.

Have you ever played a sitar? That would be a cool video.

@ministryofguitar

Ай бұрын

I haven't. I have contemplated getting one several times. Maybe next time I go home to Bangalore

in relation to your other video; taylor swift you could replace with a hologram overnight & it would be functionally be no different. her songs are already written by committee (so her 'talent' wouldn't be noticeably missed), they have access to her solo vocal tracks so getting the 'swift-o-tron 3000' to scan & replicate her voice with a.i. would be trivial, from a corporate marketing perspective she's the mickey mouse ears, the coca cola symbol, the nike swoosh already.. it makes perfect sense to replace her robotically to use indefinitely as a marketing construct, and nothing of value would be lost.

@ministryofguitar

Ай бұрын

I fully agree

@orlock20

Ай бұрын

She is a step up from the 1990s boy groups. However, there were plenty of popular acts from the past that did the same thing as Taylor Swift, some with less talent such as Cher.

I hope Taylor inspires more people to start playing guitar, then they can discover "real" guitarists, eventually. She is very popular, and those votes are coming from the general public. I wish "artistic integrity" would be the next trend!! lol.

@misterknightowlandco

Ай бұрын

Artistic integrity… those were the days…

@orlock20

Ай бұрын

Taylor Swift songs are also easy. Some people have put up full covers of Taylor Swift songs 15 minutes after Taylor Swift released a song. That easy part is done on purpose so that her audience can feel special. Jumping from Taylor Swift to Samantha Fish might be too hard for her listeners. Beth Hart was performing dates without her band and at one concert she joked that she was embarrassed that she was playing her acoustic guitar in front of her friend Jeff Beck who was in the audience with his wife. Good songs are good songs.

That guitarist list generally looks more like a “list of guitarists popular with the layman” than a guitarist’s guitarists list.

@ministryofguitar

Ай бұрын

Agree

You know you’re old when you hear 8th best guitarist of this century and you’re first thought 1900-2000 😂

@ministryofguitar

Ай бұрын

haha you don't have to be too old for that

Enjoying the channel .. but I'm skipping the Taylor Swift bit, have never heard a song of hers and never plan to.

@ministryofguitar

Ай бұрын

Haha fair play

Your assessment of Taylor Swift as a guitarist seems to me fair and sound. It's good to keep in mind that she's a singer-songwriter, and if you're a singer-songwriter you need to play an instrument. For a few hundred years the instrument of choice was a piano, and there are still a few musicians who write pop music who still use a piano -- Elton John and Billy Joel, for example. But, for the most part, the guitar has taken over in the world of popular music. Is Taylor Swift a great guitarist? No, but she'd likely be the first to admit it. Is Neil Young a great guitarist? Was Kurt Cobain a great guitarist? No and no, but they are and were good enough to create their stuff. And so it is with Taylor Swift.

@ministryofguitar

Ай бұрын

Exactly

@jasondorsey7110

Ай бұрын

So much of what's coming out in pop actually is keyboards...look how much the basslines aren't being played on bass guitars anymore, and the drums are done on keyboards or keypads with keys assigned to the various drums and cymbals...as much as it chafes me to admit it, taylor swift's popularity is good for the world of guitar

The guitarist list has to be a joke Taylor swift Is a corporate creation, and can barely strum a guitar. Ariani didn’t make the list? Too funny.

@orlock20

Ай бұрын

The music world was full of corporate creations. The members of the Beach Boys didn't even play instruments on their own records.