My oldest guitar is from 1966 and I’ve still got it. It’s a Japanese Pleasant brand guitar. It cost me $15 with a 5 W amp. The amp blew up in 1974. It was glorious.

The reason I love my Kemper and Quad Cortex is because I can finally get the timbres that are VERY close to the recorded timbres on my favorite albums as long as I am using similar strings and pickups.🤘🏻🤘🏻

100% with it Dylan. This is why all of my guitars are vastly different from one another. I even built a guitar, from a kit, but had tons of fun painting it and setting up, playing it is even more fun. Im having a blast with my $200 3 pickup firefly LP, and my Solar 1.6 Canibalismo V and everything in between I own.

Woot! Sorry I missed the live show. Vacation is a good thing!

Personally I never think about these myths while playing guitar or going about my daily life. The ONLY time I hear about it is from KZreadrs through their content. Whatever gets clicks and creates controversy is good for views. I get it, the news stations have been doing this for decades. Ratings, ratings, advertising dollars. America !!! 😂

@honkytonkinson9787

Ай бұрын

I did business with a local guitar tech for a long time and he put a lot of that stuff in my head when I was young. He’s like an unsuccessful PRS, where he does really good work, when he gets around to it, and knows what he’s talking about, but he peppers everything with opinions like what is the point of this video. There’s no arguing with the guy; he’s set in his ways. Hard for me to disagree with him when he has so many examples of what he believes that he’s made for the last 30 years

I had a chameleon when I was a kid, but he came to a tragic end. He exploded trying to hide in a box of crayons. These days, there's a desert iguana living behind a hole in the sheet rock at the end of my bathtub. I named him Iggy. He comes out at night and hangs out in the tub, hunting the big bugs that come up through the drain. I try to do a catch and release with the bugs in the morning, and most of them are surprisingly cooperative. Iggy seems to like old country music like Hank Williams or The Texas Playboys, but he seems to be especially fond of Emmylou Harris. Iggy is a good pal, and I like having him around.

"If it sounds good, it is good." There's your next t-shirt design.

Yesterday I was playing a homemade lap steel guitar made with a cigar box and wood from Menards, through a homemade fuzz pedal and a cheap delay, into a small Peavey keyboard amp…sounded great.

If even 10% of our section of the guitar community took your advice to heart… our section of KZread would go out of business 😂😂😂😂😂 “what do you mean if I have an eq pedal and know how to set my amp properly only a 20 year session player can hear the difference between my epiphone Les Paul and my buddy’s 59 goldtop?” 😂 honestly the most fun I had playing guitar was when I was 19. I had a gretsch hollow body and a ss crate 2x12 with the eq and distortion set to ten and the volume at like 4. We found one place in the garage it didn’t howl like a mofo so we marked that spot with tape. I’d step off the spot just to piss’em off once in awhile and start yelling “what? I can’t hear you. What do you mean you do t want to play summer of 69 for the 5th time in a row. Feedback what feedback?” 😂😂😂😂😂

I’ve got a few expensive guitars, a handful of inexpensive ones and several somewhere in between. I like them all for different reasons.

My motivation for playing guitar is twofold: first I’ve been playing instruments since I was a small child and gravitated towards guitar and drums, so just a general enjoyment of playing guitar, and that part of me doesn’t care much about gear as long as the thing sounds good and is fun to play The other part is some kind of weird obsession with electric guitar and tube amps, that believes in tone wood and magic capacitors. I don’t always like that part of myself, but it drives me to play better and know more. I don’t actually believe in a lot of that stuff anymore, but vintage style equipment gives me the fizz more than modern stuff; don’t know why though. lol, I stopped obsessing as much about hand wired analog boutique effects pedals when I stopped having as much disposable income, which is around the time I moved out, got married, bought a house, and had kids. My kids are grown, mostly, and I’ve been able to buy a few things lately. I’m overwhelmed with how much gear there is compared to 25 years ago!

Nice Shirt Dylan!!

I loved the battery rant so much I wanted to comment again!

FYI, I use the Bigsby pedal and love it.

On the replay Thanks for Sharing 🧠🎸🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶

People that hate on gear that they “can’t afford” or consider “too expensive” are just the Fox character in Aesop’s Fable of “Sour Grapes”. It's just misdirected envy and, more often than not, leads them to become one of the "just as good as" gang.

Being a lefty, I learned early to appreciate any guitar that stays in tune and plays well. I'd make a terrible reviewer, because I just love playing any guitar/pedal/amp, and think they all have at least one good sound in all of them.

I get a kick out of performing with my highly modified Squire stratocaster and having other guitarists ask how I get my tone with a Squire. I've got a Fender American Standard, but I like my Squire better. It's just a name

I care about the guitar looking like I want, plays well after I set it up, and it needs your p/u in it. I don't care what it's actually worth to anyone but me, I just want it to sound my way.

I have this amazing EQ and dynamics control device that works miracles on any guitar you use it with. It's my right hand. I can get an infinite range of EQ depending on where I use it on the length of the string between the bridge and the middle of the neck. I can also achieve nearly infinite variations in gain and breakup, from clean to stinky gnarly by how hard my hand hits the strings. It also works well with any guitar on planet earth, and I can get surgical precision in the harmonics and saturation from the grid of the 12AX7 in my Princeton, based on the mechanical energy applied to the strings. I can carry this miraculous device with me everywhere I go, and it cost me absolutely nothing. The hard part was learning how to use it properly, but once that was done, the search was over, and I no longer had to lie awake at night wondering how many angels can dance on the head of a pin.

People seem so hung up on what they like or dislike that anyone that doesn't agree with them is wrong.

No one's really killing my fun. I just don't care about gear. The only thing that I used to care about and still do is tuning stability.

Something that does not bother me any more is the odd scratch and dinks on the body of any of my guitars, i would like a guitar to look prestine but unfortunatly i am not that carefull so why bother.

I love how half the youtube channels say they don't want to talk about tonewood, while simultaneously put it in their headline 😂 the irony is great, we all know why :)

If you want to be happy, buy what you like, and ignore anyone that tries to rain on your parade. Who do you think is happier....the guy who spends their entire day online talking shit about people's gear, or the guy who spends his free time playing guitar?

This seems like the old philosophical debate about whether it is better to be a pig lying happily in the mud or Socrates sitting around depressed.

@diegesisfreak

Ай бұрын

socrates didn't sit around depressed. he was literally murdered for being too popular with young people.

@shanewalton8888

Ай бұрын

@@diegesisfreak Dude, this is a famous philosophical problem first posed years after Socrates death. It is not supposed to be historically accurate. Basically they want to argue that being intelligent and depressed is better than being ignorant but happy.

@diegesisfreak

Ай бұрын

@@shanewalton8888 oh sure I get that but I guess what I'm saying is that it's a false dichotomy based in a bad stereotype that critics of society are secretly sad or whatever. personally I think that oftentimes people who talk crap on haters are just jealous so they project their feelings of depression or whatever onto them.

@killthebuddha5034

14 күн бұрын

​@@diegesisfreak nice rebuttal

Dylan, I’ve been watching your channel for a little bit, but this video was the greatest fucking thing I’ve ever seen. What could be better obviously second amendment supporter, cough, cough, PRS and the icing on the cake was I think you were sipping on a spindrift,my favorite drink of all time, great vid!

The main reason to be interested in busting all the stupid myths around guitars is to save a lot of money and time as to me. And the earlier you do it, the more time you will have for the actual growth as an artist.

Explore and find out yourself

What your guitar is made of doesn't matter, people are really just arguing over their choices and preferences. If you spent $6000 on a PRS from their wood "library" and some knucklehead like me does a video where I say a $300 guitar sounds just as good...some people feel the need to defend themselves, their brand and their purchase. So really the debate is less about actual wood and more about people proving they are "right".

According to this audience, every player who has nice guitars sucks at playing them, and everyone who has cheapos are amazing prodigies. This is ridiculous. I love cheapos, and I love the nerdy stuff. I also practice all the time and I can play really well. Am I the only one? Joe Bonamassa loves flame maple and mahogany, does he need more practice? Eddie van Halen went from beat up Frankie to super high end flame maple and mahogany Music Man's. What does that say about him? If you're only "pretending to be a guitar nerd" to sell pickups then I'll NEVER buy them. I only have time for guitar lovers who ACTUALLY LOVE guitars.

honestly being a hater is just as much fun as playing guitar when you're good at it.

@willdenham

Ай бұрын

Kind of a hollow victory though.

Play your guitar and don't listen to others. Just play, the pickups are fine, controls are fine... no need to change anything. Unless you want to.

Most of the time the tone that sounds good in the mix does not sound good isolated bye itself

You sure do like Texas Toast guitars. Do they care what meterials they use? Are Texas Toast guitars made of plywood or plastic?

@DylanTalksTone

Ай бұрын

They use whatever is cool, well balanced, and looks great. They do use a variety of different woods

@stevenpipes1555

Ай бұрын

@@DylanTalksTone And do they charge more for maple and mahogany than they do for alder and poplar?

@DylanTalksTone

Ай бұрын

Nope

@DylanTalksTone

Ай бұрын

I know there are some options that do cost more

@stevenpipes1555

Ай бұрын

@@DylanTalksTone Thats funny because I just went to their own website and the flame maple IS more expensive. A Level 2 challenger loaded package is 1,700 dollars and a level 2 loaded package with flame maple is 2,200 dollars. That's a 500 dollar difference for the "not tonewood" that supposedly doesn't make a difference. The fact of the matter is that everyone knows that rare and beautiful woods, and high quality parts make for a better and more beautiful guitar! Just like your knives and your pens, the quality is self evident and can't be denied! If Paul Reed Smith is a charlatan and a snake oil salesmen then so are Matt and Chris or whatever the hell their names are.

This is basically Buddhism for Dummies: Guitarist Edition

Kinda like religion and god

Please stop[ using batteries for pedals..... I get why people use them especially for vintage pedals, but for the love of Fucking God get a Proper Power Supply and Go Out and buy a UPS they use for Computers....

My motivation for playing guitar is twofold: first I’ve been playing instruments since I was a small child and gravitated towards guitar and drums, so just a general enjoyment of playing guitar, and that part of me doesn’t care much about gear as long as the thing sounds good and is fun to play The other part is some kind of weird obsession with electric guitar and tube amps, that believes in tone wood and magic capacitors. I don’t always like that part of myself, but it drives me to play better and know more. I don’t actually believe in a lot of that stuff anymore, but vintage style equipment gives me the fizz more than modern stuff; don’t know why though.