Tele vs. Strat Blindfold Shootout? Mix a few Strats and Teles, and play just the bridge and neck pickup sounds... that could be interesting.

@tihomir7

3 ай бұрын

Big difference in sound

those rock tones are fire! well done!

I played along while having lunch. My guesses: 1.) LP 2.) LP 3.) LP 4.) LP 5.) LP - So I was right, right? I spotted the LP ... ^^

@ThomannsGuitarsBasses

3 ай бұрын

Aham, playing safe I see. 😆 //Kris

woah the jackson :) love it ! Great job monsieur G

A blindfold shootout to find a Fender Strat with other guitars being PRS CE 24 (split), PRS Silver Sky, Fender Nashville Tele, and a G&L Fullerton Deluxe S or Charvel PRO-MOD DK22. Could be interesting to show the differences with them but hopefully it wouldn't be too easy.

As usual the main takeaway is that we listen with our eyes!😬 Maybe a little easier to hear in the room but I could easily have believed three of them were Lesters. They all sounded awesome👌 Humbucker Fenders vs Gibsons next please!

I've never been an LP fan, but I've been playing Ibanez for years. I had no idea which one was the Les Paul but I was sure I liked number 4 the most... big surprise :D

The only one I got right is the Ibanez... I have played a cheap Cort made RG for over 15 years modded with a tone zone, air norton and original floyd. These pickups are Unmistakable.

Guillaume is insane! Only guessed LP and Ibanez. Both are correct. As an Ibanez owner, the air norton & tone zone set does sound familiar. Have no clue on Jackson & Charvel though.

please keep the blindfold... it's amazing :). that Ibanez sounds real sweet

Interresting, spotted the LP but had all others wrong. But I don't know the other ones.... I had Ibanez, LP., Charvel, Jackson.

Cool video. I was surprised at how similar they all sounded. The LP did have something to it; it was smalland almost instinctive. But it was the only one i was able to pick out; at the end I thought it may have been the Ibanez too. Maybe ear fatigue. So basically, all good guitars will have a little "something" that appeals to you or not. Be it the scoop, of the output, the fullness, etc. To me, the texture in the Les Paul tone gives it the "that's it" factor. You call it is "airy"... but yeah i guess it's that difference between water and soda. Between a Coffee with creamer, and a cappuccino...... hahaha

Thanks great video. Hard to pick but for me the Charvel sounded best. So sweet sounding. The Jackson was my least favourite. Not a fan of that scooped sound.

Had them all correct. The LP is just clear identifiable in comparison. The Jackson has the typical scoop. The Ibanez is the most aggressive, because that is what they are designed for. The Charvel was a lucky guess.

@ThomannsGuitarsBasses

3 ай бұрын

Good job! Impressed. 🙌 //Kris

@PooNinja

3 ай бұрын

Awesome 👏🏽 I couldn’t tell one from another, maybe i need better headphones.

I would love to hear the same shootout between neck pickups: DiMarzio (1) 36th Anniversary and (2) Air Classic Seymour Duncan (3) 59 and (4) Alnico II Pro.

bravo :)

I did guess the Les Paul, and somehow I confidently got the Charvel (even though I've never heard any of the others), but I mixed up the Jackson and Ibanez.

I don't know how he could guess the rest of the guitars (just lucky guesses based on the output level? So nothing to do with the guitars themselves?), but I think with the dirty tone, the LP was very easy to guess, because it's the only one without an FR style trem, and that just sounds different when you really dig in and play those staccato type things.

Modern les pauls have less low growl and are more like strats apparently as this difference is not that much. 🤟 congrats on the perfect score ❤

Gtr1: Clean 4:07 - Dirty 4:57 Gtr2: Clean 5:47 - Dirty 6:18 Gtr3: Clean 7:31 - Dirty 8:05 Gtr4: Clean 8:55 - Dirty 9:42

I was completely wrong but the Jackson is quite impressive.

So many different guitars out there, so many different styles, different brands and different Pickups.....but the sound 🤷‍♂️😉. Next test please with Amps...

@ThomannsGuitarsBasses

3 ай бұрын

Uhhh, nice idea with the amps. I have it noted, thanks! //Kris

I'm sorry, this was not that tough to tell them. The Les Paul sounds thicker, especially in the neck. So it had to be #2. #1 & 3 sounded very similar, so they had to be the Charvel and the Jackson, both had the same pickups. And then the Ibanez sounded different, hotter than the others, but not as thick as the Les Paul, so obviously #4.

Guillaume you're amazing. Unbelievable

@ThomannsGuitarsBasses

3 ай бұрын

He really is, I was so impressed. A magician, haha! Thanks Joseph, you're the best! :) //Kris

@josephhughes9490

3 ай бұрын

​@@ThomannsGuitarsBassesAs always both of you do such an amazing job. Kris your guitar skills are great. My favorite show

First one sounds strattish in the neck. Bridge is thicker still quite bright. I suspect it is one of the first two, probably the Charvel, because I expect the Jackson to sound chunkier. Fingers crossed...

@mike42356

3 ай бұрын

Number 2 is clearly rounder still slim, I could see how it can be a PAF. Possibly the Les Paul, but I'll wait for the rest to make up my mind 😇

@mike42356

3 ай бұрын

Oh, Guillome basically says the same 😮

@mike42356

3 ай бұрын

Guitar 3 rings like the 1st, still has slightly tamer, possibly the Jackson?

@mike42356

3 ай бұрын

Oh, the 4 is bassy, I totally suspect these DiMarzio dual resonance.

@mike42356

3 ай бұрын

Norton is normally a bridge pickup, middle if the road between vintage and modern gain. The "air" makes it lower output but should still be thicker. Definitely I don't expect the third being a PAF like the other 3. I hold my stance 😎 edit: sorry, I meant "the fourth"

😊Bravissimo Guillaume the best ...

I got the charvel and les Paul correct but got the other two the wrong way round.

@ThomannsGuitarsBasses

3 ай бұрын

Fair enough man, that's very impressive! :) //Kris

@asktheraccoon

3 ай бұрын

Yeah i was 100% sure the iba was where the Jackson is as well. Those dimarzio usually super "easy" to identify. Well, guess not that easy lol.

@matt926uk1

3 ай бұрын

@@asktheraccoon yeah, i thought i knew a tone zone, especially as i have a guitar with one in lol

paused at 9:45. I feel like this is the lester. The last guitar. Edit: Dangit!

Should have thrown a PRS McCarty in.

Still waiting for my amp to be replaced after two months

Lololooool i fand G sah mit der augenbinde sogar etwas besser aus 😂

@ThomannsGuitarsBasses

3 ай бұрын

Haha, geil. Das übersetze ich sicherheitshalber nicht für G. 😆 Ich will nicht, dass er weinen anfängt. //Kris

@yetimatzenightcat8702

3 ай бұрын

@@ThomannsGuitarsBasses 🤭😄

Guillaume looks handsome in them ngl.

I thought the 1st guitar was a les paul

I like the idea, but the execution needs to be adjusted. If we could hear some tone samples first to get a baseline, people might have a better chance. Being in the room makes all the difference, and trying to blindly pick them without any baseline reference is nearly impossible. Let us hear each one first before the blindfold test.

@mike42356

3 ай бұрын

I view blindfolds as more of a trivia test, checking our own prior knowledge. The baseline is our experience with the gear, including previous videos we've watched. I could guess all of them (check my thread in the comments) and I listened to the video on a crappy bluetooth speaker! I think the trick is not to try too hard, make it for fun and let go with your feeling. One probably has to be in the right mood, I guess? It happened to me before to fail them all, only to relisten the blindfold shootout at a later time, when everything became obvious LOL. I could recognize I relistened to that particular video by the dislike reaction I have previously submitted 🤣

@andrewbecker3700

3 ай бұрын

@@mike42356 Here's the thing, a Seymour Duncan JB can sound vastly different when put in various guitars. If you think you can tell the difference by just listening to a single sound sample through whatever rig they happen to be using, your delusional.

@mike42356

3 ай бұрын

@@andrewbecker3700 oh, I have not accounted for the bridge pickups in this shootout at all, only the neck pickups 😇 I think there was too much gain and the sample too basic. I agree with you about the different responses some pickups can have in different guitars, but there is generally an explanation behind that behavior. Not claiming I know about the JB, because I have no experience with this one.

Blind and deaf or just too many variables

@PooNinja

3 ай бұрын

I couldn’t tell but G has da skills and hours upon hours of rockin different axes 🤘🏽

1st comment? xD

I almost disliked the video. Keep the mask!