For your convenience I time stamped each subject Buy A shirt and send us a picture www.kyg.altacolor.com Send picture of you and your KYG shirt to be featured in a video here askknowyourgear@gmail.com Subject Index 00:00 Intro 00:40 Contest now has a twist!!! 07:45 The Dean vs Gibson lawsuit My Video kzread.info/dash/bejne/Y3mB0dZxj8nOh9I.html KDH Video kzread.info/dash/bejne/dn-clqxpZcnRksY.html Blues Lawyer Confessional Video kzread.info/dash/bejne/hJqcs659Y8zSo8o.html 13:50 What is my favorite guitar (Right Now) 15:20 Is my Princeton a 65 or 68? 19:50 If it is less labor to make a fretless why does it cost more? 27:28 Army Vet wants to open a guitar store what does he need to know? 38:00 Boutique Strings A Gimmick? 44:55 Theft in a guitar store 50:00 Always buy an acoustic in a store with a friend 54:00 Fretboard Radius and why 12 inch is safe 58:30 Guitar? Of The Week 1:10:00 Wiring diagrams 1:17:00 The rule I follow with refrets 1:23:00 Adjusting P90s 1:26:30 Why I do not make videos outside Guitar 1:29:00 Marshall's Plan To Be The Next Peavey? 1:36:20 Neck pocket issues and fix 1:38:00 Is a Humbucker in a Tele neck postion a gimmick? 1:42:43 Engl Fireball vs Soldano SLO30 vs Mesa Rectoverb? 1:48:50 Thank you and the 2nd channel www.youtube.com/@@knowyourgear2320 This Podcast is sponsored by Patreon and Channel members www.patreon.com/phillipmcknightKYG?fan_landing=true Blackstock pickups, KYG Zither Stands, and Iron On Logos blackstockpickups.com Buy A shirt and send us a picture www.kyg.altacolor.com Send picture of you and your KYG shirt to be featured in a video here askknowyourgear@gmail.com You can also get other cool merch here including new mugs www.bonfire.com/store/know-your-gear-shop Check Out Sweetwater stuff here and support the channel sweetwater.sjv.io/oejk7g

I'm a die hard d'addario fan. Only because their color coding system is idiot proof - and I need all the help I can get in that department

@Tomekkplk

23 күн бұрын

Agreed. The attention span needed to read a label is about 5 seconds and I do not have that time

@wesd3370

23 күн бұрын

Well it wasn’t a bad decision. I switched over from Ernie ball a few years ago and have found that the tuning stability is far better.

@foggyblues13

23 күн бұрын

lol

@SurfRockitt

23 күн бұрын

Consistency and price = D'addario My only no-go string brand is Earnie Ball. Don't like the thin core feel...yuck.

Thank you for sharing your personal story, your honesty and character is greatly appreciated alongside these wonderful Friday shows and tutorial videos you do for us. Wish you and your family all the best 🤘🏼🙌🏼

@fj5144

24 күн бұрын

Perfectly stated I agree.

Sorry for your loss, there isn't a line in the Fire Codes that wasn't written in blood, sweat, and tears.... And personally, I'll never buy an American car again.

Needed some nerdy guitar talk today, Phil. Thanks for doing what you do!

Very sorry to hear about your loss and what you had to go through.

@Seggy75

21 күн бұрын

Feel the same. That was something really serious to share with us. Must have an ongoing and serious impact.

Thanks for the shout out, Phil!

I guess I am one of the 4 bass players who watch regularly.

@demogis

24 күн бұрын

When you mentioned you had the Stu Hamm on a recent episode I was hoping you'd show us. That was a dream bass back in the 90s.

@admarhermans1

24 күн бұрын

That makes 5 of us than 😉. 🖖

@chrisggoodwin777

22 күн бұрын

I'm one, also 🤘

@Ŕụṣṣṣṣṭ

22 күн бұрын

👋

@myoptik3x103

20 күн бұрын

Me as well.

When I was growing up my Uncle who is a bassist always had Bass Player magazine and stuff like that lying around, and when he got tired of having them laying around he would pass them on to me, along with Musician's Friend and other gear related magazines. Reading bass centric magazines, the same handful of names would ALWAYS come up in every single magazine back in the late 80's and early 90's. Jaco of course, Billy Sheehan, Victor Wooten, and Stu Hamm. I used to have actual dreams about owning a Stu Hamm Fender bass back in the day because they just looked so different from any other basses I had seen... I still see a lot of design language from those Stu basses being used to this day in very new bass models. Turns out those basses seem to be kind of like Parker Fly guitars or Zon basses in that you either REALLY like them or you can live without them entirely and never miss it or worry about it a day in your life. I'd still buy one if I could find one in good shape and for hilariously cheap in a divorce/fire sale or something

Ordered my shirt today! Thanks to your channel, I've started building my first parts-caster and doing my own setups. It's opened up a new layer of the hobby for me. Thanks!

Phil, LOVE watching your streams. Your the only guitar guy I constantly watch on YT. Keep up the great work and interesting stuff.

@PhillipMcKnight

20 күн бұрын

Thank you

Hi Phil, Thanks for answering my question about the 65 or 68 Princeton. Sorry I missed the live stream.

Matching a suit with your vans is a wild power move, you're a legend for that

@misteress3840

23 күн бұрын

Post a pic, perhaps?

I was sweating just watching you wear two shirts! Stay Cool Big Guy! Thanks for all you do.👍👍👍

Haha thanks for answering my question from last week! My daughter was very upset and as part of a distraction we popped open KZread and you happened to be in the weekly live show. She was amazed by all your guitars and I told her we can ask Phil a question, what do you want to ask him. She asked “what’s your favorite guitar?” Cheers!

5 min away of making it to the live stream. Maybe next week. Love your content man!

@jctedsap

24 күн бұрын

I just missed by an hour.

I played the coated elixir 10s for a long time. Just recently switched to 9s on everything except my LP. Only time I play strings that aren’t coated, is when I buy a new guitar.

Been lit for about 4 years so thank you for all the great insight!

@jeremeydonovan8286

21 күн бұрын

7.12 bro guess I’m getting a shirt! I figured you for selling tons of those! Your a next level show!

1:40:00 Great description of what a tele is. Prob why my standard tele has been my fav for a very long time now.

Highlighting a BASS for a change of PACE!! Good move, Mr. Phil!! The "Stu Hamm Thread" makes even more sense, since he eventually went to Warwick...as YOU did! Did his choice have anything to do with yours? Man, I'm really digging the Preamp feature in my new Charvel Pro-Mod P/J (New technology has certainly solved some of the issues present on the "Old-Schoolers", like that otherwise uber-kuul Fender "Artist" you are featuring, no?)

For me, the biggest reason for string spacing is to allow open string to ring. I can find away to mute, when necessary, but if I can' t get my fingers out of the way I need a wider string spacing. And, a 12" first position radius is the flattest I can cope with.

Donno if I’ve ever left a comment but always leave a ”like” 👍🏻 Probably watched 100s of hours, and what a great community you’ve built ! Really enjoyed your playing the “guitar of the week” on bass! Super Cool! So sorry to hear the news about your Pup. Bless you and your wife for your kindness and care of the animals 💕 best wishes for the remainder of the year! 🎸✌🏻🤍

Loved the Tele pickup descriptions. 🤣 🤘

Phil, big love from another family who has struggled with trauma. Weekly listener and big fan 🤙👍

As one of the four subscribed bass players I appreciate the Stu Hamm bass spotlight! Those Fenders with the Kubicki electronics are a rare find.

Please release a shirt or T-shirt with the explorer style logo.m! That is so cool!

38:03 I have found that selecting electric guitar strings is a matter of trial and error to find the set that gives the feel, sound and durability being sought after. I have tried (for solid and semi-hollow body electric guitars) many different gauges; coated verus non-coated; , all stainless steel to nickel wrapped over a stainless steel core to pure nickel; and at all levels of expense. In the end, I narrowed my choices for all of my electric solid body and semi-hollow body guitars to those strings made of pure nickel, and as far as brands, I purchase either Fender 3150 Original Bullet-Pure Nickel or Gibson Les Paul Vintage Reissue Historic Era Specifications-Pure Nickel, and mainly in 3 sizes, 9-42, 9-46, or 10-46. They cost more. But, they give me the sound I am looking for, which is a little warmer, plus I like the feel of the nickel strings.

I worked at Firestone during this period . It was a rough time. Sorry for your loss.

Boss’s Katana with their AB amp and Tone Logic emulation of a Marshall amp or, even my Zoom G3Xn multi effects unit with its Marshall 1959 amp and cab emulation is good enough to use at a gig at the volumes that you can play today! That’s the shame of the traditional amp companies, when the emulation systems are so close as to be “good enough” for most scenarios today! Unless you’re playing large venues and the gear really matters… 🤷‍♂️ why not use a more affordable, portable rig! Keep the great content coming Phil! ❤️👍🎶🎸✌️

My thing about bass pickups is it is determined by the players picking. For example I finger pick my p bass it has a Seymour Duncan pb3 and I think it sounds great. Buddy of mine hated it when he played then again he used a pick. So always very difficult to answer bass pickup questions. You had a great answer always enjoy your show and insights.

Phil - Love to see some bass guitar action... Thanks

I love supporting fellow veterans, plus your show is top notch which makes it easier lol. Got 2 shirts inbound and can’t wait! Thanks Phil!

The wider the frequency range and the more even the balance (string to string) the more adjustment range of each is made available to the player.

Mike Lipe built me a guitar back in the day (amazing guy, amazing experience). For the neck he recommended roasted maple with a Pau Ferro fretboard, both of which were relatively exotic and unknown at the time. Still one of the best guitars I own today. :)

The KYG explorer looks great!

I'm primarily a bass guy, so I appreciate that your Fender Stu Hamm bass is the guitar of the week. Thanks! I suggest that you show at least one bass per month as Guitar of the Week. 🙂

I have a Fender Urge 1 in Black. Sitting in the case … now I want to pull it out!

More basses for guitar of the week phil! Buy more basses you neeeeeeeed them.

I play fretless bass, love it. The bass I have has a fretted version, or rather the fretless model is a fretless version of the fretted one, and the price on both models were the same, it was mentioned some companies charge the same, yes that happens. ( In my case it was Ibanez)

Good source of diagrams... Les Schatten "the new book of standard wiring diagrams".

HEY PHIL!, THANK YOU, FOR ALL THAT YOU DO, FOR US, AND ALL OF HUMANITY!! WHAT DO YOU THINK OF "FANNED-FRETS", AND, ALSO, "SCALLOPED FRET BOARDS"..??!!

More bass! Yay!

I generally prefer smaller bodied acoustics but my dreadnaught is amazing even though I need to stand to deal with the arm lift.

Hi phil! I understand that its not a guitar question per se, but would really like it if you could go trough your live stream rig, and how you set it up for both guitar and mic for talking

I have a neck with a flat radius. An it’s fantastic didn’t take long to get used to that’s my 2 cents

A lot of fretless guitars costs are because: Ebony is often used for the fretboard.

Not sure I agree with the reasoning that a fretless neck requires more labor than fretting a neck. From what I’ve seen fretboard radiusing is an automated process in high production factories rather than done by hand.

@neilpatrickhairless

20 күн бұрын

Fretted necks are entirely different setups because the pull of the fret wire changes the inherent relief in the neck which has to be adjusted with the truss rod. I would assume it's harder to keep a backbow relief out of a fretless neck when building it for that reason. I wonder if it's more labor intensive because of that? Never made a fretless neck or even really considered it

Photographer here, and Phil I love the show, but please, its Pictures not pitchers..

I enjoyed the bass as the GOTW.

? Hi Phil, I have an Ibanez with pickups that are little hot and bright for my taste. Any pickup suggestions for getting a more liquid sound?

Who copies your channel is Guitaristas. But only part of your repertory. He even mentions you sometimes.

@PhillipMcKnight

24 күн бұрын

He has a great channel

@MiguelMakesMusic

24 күн бұрын

I wish they were my uncles.

Guitar electronics in AZ.

Did you ever doanything on Crate amps? Growing up I had a Crate combo amp my Dad gave me with my first Samick Guitar. My Dad, when he thought of amps, just always thought of Crate, and I used to lust after those Crate Blue Voodoo stacks in the Musician’s Friend catalogue in the 90s. I have no idea if they’re even good, but they were blue when everything else was black (and said Randall on it it seemed). I’m just curious what happened to them, were any of them ACTUALLY cool/good, and is there ANY chance of somebody resuurecting it like Magnatone did?

@BlurpeeBaggins

22 күн бұрын

I bought my son a Crate Blue Voodoo last year as his first tube amp. I know the Internet craps on the Crate BVs, but my son and I both love this amp. It has one of the best clean channels I have ever heard on a high gain amp. It also has a great sound on the high gain channel but you definitely need to dime the gain knob to really bring out that high gain tone.

@neilpatrickhairless

20 күн бұрын

I had heard some people can get good sound out of Crate Blue Voodoos but I am definitely not one of them

Marshall should make an amp like the Fender "Tone Master" amps but offer a small selection of classic Marshall amp models (high quality models) and with knobs and no menus.

Telecaster Bridge sound = >> Roy Buchanan

wait you are going to release the explorer shaped merch?

Marshall needs to produce a new version of the Marshall Lead 100 Mosfet (not digital). To have a good sounding SS amp that you can play live similar to the Fender Tone Master or Orange Super Lead.

Hi. What is the Marshall model you have on display behind you? Origin 50??

Thanks, I like guitars and they need electronics too!

For custom string sets check Pyramid strings from Germany. They don’t have an online shop, but you can write them an email what you want and they make you any custom string set you want. And they sell direct to consumer for a very reasonable price. As I know, they ship worldwide! I play their „new rock standard“ set and I love them!

@neilpatrickhairless

20 күн бұрын

I have heard of them before but never seen them or used them. I am going to check this out

The no.1 rule supporting life long success is to not lie to your self. Self deception is the prime redirector which leads to the dead end. Lies lead to the liar. it's the lie we are all born into. Listen for and seek the continued company of the one who cannot lie. Learn to trust the one who alerts you to the liar. Truth leads to the truth.

Vinyl still sounds better than CD.

I'm all for companies using the classic guitar shapes and making their own version like PRS or ESP, what I don't like is when companies copy the exact body size and shape, use the same pickguard, the same body carve, same bridge, change the headstock and sell it as their own unique product, that is just lazy design banking on the originals nostalgia.

@neilpatrickhairless

20 күн бұрын

Do any of the companies that copy this stuff actually try to pass it off as unique? Furthermore, even if they did and it wasn't immediately apparent that it's not unique or original, wouldn't that be the problem of the company being copied? Don't make stuff that can be confused with a 1-6 hundred dollar guitar and try to sell it for 6-8 thousand dollars if it's that big of an issue

Some big companies are just bullying others despite half of their success comes from artists who inspired people to pickup instrument . Gibson still can't get over the fact that their biggest endorser - Slash - recorder Apetite For Destruction on a Les Paul luthier copy .

TL;DR When your Clean Tone is Good then your Big Tone Is Great Soo, I have played on Many, like 15+ old school Tube amps. About half of them were Fender Silverface and Blackface units in the mid 80's to early 90's (imagine a silverface Twin Reverb for 1 week of dishwasher pay and you'll understand). Tube Amps have a definite Harmonic Convergence. Each of these Fenders were quiet, reliable, responsive and most of all predictable. They are "Reference Tones" I could dime it all in, and like I tell my students "go BIG AF and then turn it down until it starts to stop suckin'."! Now with the 8-9 Marshalls and the Couple of Vox's and 2 janky Earth/Acoustic Bass Amps that I played these were also Tone MONSTERS - - at reasonable gain however… Since it was 1985-1995 people were going for High Gain with No Emphasis on Tone, Harmonics, Intervals, Intonation etc. It was about High Speed/Low Action ::COUNTERPOINT:: My current Favorite Amp is a Solid State Fender Champion 20. (*Hush*, -- Wait) I have all of the reference tones and with a lil'bit of knob turning I can get 90-85% of my Jazz/Funk Café tone. Yeah it does a great, well actually several great "edge of breakup" tones but this and a PodGO and I'm confused. See I can buy 4+ Champ 20s and be less than a PRS Hendrix 20 Head. BUT I CAN'T buy 5 Hendrix 20 heads and pick which ONE is perfect Clean and LOUD. Just had this happen last month at a Jam with an Orange 100 - on the Clean channel letting it push air and Gallop away from me, but then get the same tone the next day at practice with a Solid state 20. FACT is (the TL;DR of it) at least 70% of "Tone/Tonality/Timbre) in in the F★coin Knobs. When your Clean Tone is Good then your Big Tone Is Great

@neilpatrickhairless

20 күн бұрын

Bro really said Tone is stored in the Knob

I had a chance to play the Febder Tonemaster Prdal, I was not impressed at the tones at all. Kemper for the win any day.

Freidman amps did what Marshall needs to do........They took Marshall's old designs and improved them.

The idea that Gibson argued that consumers are basically stupid,(but of course in flowerly legal-eze language) and especially guitar consumers, that we'd confuse a copy made shape or style with a Gibson original is beyond insulting and clearly shows it's about the money for Gibson and not the actual guitar buyer! A counterfeit with Gibson's name on the headstock is one thing, but another guitar maker making a different or possibly better version of a Gibson style guitar, means Gibson needs to up their game.

I'm Two Five One :) 27:10 it is a guitar detail ii-V-I

F tube chasing maintaining my amps. Manufacturers should focus on improving modeling capabilities in cheaper programmable pedal format.

A Marshall Class 5/reverb would selll well now, I think. Digital or tube....

Tele bridge: tigger Tele neck: eeyore Middle position: pooh?

More bass!!

for that Charvel guy with the POP, its the locking nut! the screws due need to be tightened or use the tooth pick thing. A lot of Jacksons are having this problem and the 1500 series bridges seen to be even more a problem. its hard to pin point the pop but once u know its the nut probably its easy to see.

@jimmcdougall9973

24 күн бұрын

@@TheTactical6string it could also be a machine head that’s slipping.

@TheTactical6string

24 күн бұрын

@@jimmcdougall9973 but on a floyd rose i dont think so. Search Jackson MJ Soloist SL2 Quality Control Problem and youll see the nut crack .🙂

Philly ChersrSteak. 🙂

NEVER buy an acoustic without playing it first.

🤟

The most memorable guitar/amp sound I ever played through was a Marshall head on a 4x12 stack. I don't know what model of amp it was, I was about 18 and barely a beginner but my band (Blues Brothers copy) opened for a local rock band. They let us use their gear. I plugged my crappy SG (Basically a Melody Maker) straight into the Marshall and turned it up without touching any knobs other than volume. Whatever that amp had at the time was IT for me. It would be totally impractical, but I still sometimes fantasize about finding a vintage Marshall half-stack.

more bass for us (4) bass players! 🤓

The Tele neck pickup is very polite.

Fender is still killing by making reissues of all their classic amps, including digital versions! Marshall hit a homerun with the 20-watt reissue stuff, imo, but they need to stay in that wheelhouse. They need to maybe vary the wattage options a little? I also know and understand the Fender amp lineup way better than Marshall. I grew up with Fender amps. I would love a 20-watt studio vintage, the plexi super lead reissue, but Marshall is backordered, and the combo only comes with a 10" speaker, which bums me out. But Marshall might look at what Fender is doing because it's working for them.

That red on in the back right is an Eastman! Video coming soon on that one? Looking forward to it!

Shout out to Bowling For Soup

A bridge tele tone is probably my least favorite tone on the planet. To each their own. My favorite tele is a Peavey Generation series S2.

@neilpatrickhairless

20 күн бұрын

Peavey Gennies are nice indeed

Flat wound black tape strings on your Stu bass?

you know - your perfect amp sounds a heck of a lot like a Bogner. just saying.

I Could for sure use A pair of BlackRock pickups. ;o) 🐅

@TigerIndy

24 күн бұрын

Thoug if I use D'addario strings I'll NEVER complain. They're Thé Best Strings. ;o) 🐅

@TigerIndy

24 күн бұрын

Thé Most luxurious car I've Driven, was a Honda. ;o) 🐅

A copyright or trademark is useless if the holder doesn't defend it. I'm not siding with Gibson but, copyrights do protect the holder's investment and work. Regarding Marshall , they do seem to be intent on following Peavey into the abyss.

@neilpatrickhairless

20 күн бұрын

Yeah, weird how Gibson never seems to defend it against Chinese companies. Maybe because they aren't big or bad enough to, financially. Ain't that a bitch!

Idk if you want to get into it, but what was your corporate job?

@neilpatrickhairless

20 күн бұрын

Guessing accounting

Marshall should be trying to find a way to make affordable amps using analog solid state technology that look, feel, and sound like their classic amps with some modern updates like master volumes, boosts, more powerful EQ’s, cab-emulated DIs and IR loaders, USB recording connectivity, etc. make a line that’s between $500 and $1,200 USD and they’d sell out instantly.

@neilpatrickhairless

20 күн бұрын

Yeah, but in the real world, they set a ridiculous premium on such features as "analog" and "tube" and "power". The market sets an average price range for those premium features and charge that until people start picketing the company on the internet and threatening to burn down the factory. Then they drop that price by ±25%. Then, for a fiscal year they will gradually raise THAT price usually in smaller increments until people start picketing the company on the internet and threatening to burn down the factory. Then they drop that price by ±10-15%. Then, for a fiscal year they will gradually raise THAT price usually in smaller increments until people start picketing the company on the internet and threatening to burn down the factory. Rinse and repeat. Marshall has no incentive to make a cheap all analog tube amp with more than a few rudimentary features and is bigger than a low wattage bedroom amp.

@neilpatrickhairless

20 күн бұрын

They did cheap solid state amps once upon a time and.... I mean... Chuck Schuldiner and Criss Olivia made them sound good?

Love the Urge! I like Stu's Warwick signatures, too, especially his Captain America edition. Thanks for showing us bass players some love 🤘

If you got another 12-string you should learn a REM song or two.

Dude, thanks for being so honest and open dude. 🤘🤘

you can always tell when someone has only seen reactionary videos about SF lol FOR SOME REASON it's always packed, and rent soars there higher than anywhere else. please stay in alabama.

As far as buying an acoustic guitar online- I had a fantastic experience with Penny Lane Emporium in Ft Lauderdale, FL. I bought an Eastman, and was able to negotiate the price down. They went and took pics of the guitar for me so I got the top I wanted. They also set it up specifically how I wanted at no extra charge. Guitar showed up to me in two days. Tough to beat all that.

Yay! for the bass!!

Thanks, Phil❤🙏🏻

Re: Marshall. In my opinion modellers do really well copying clean Fender Amps and high distortion amps, but that Marshall blues rock ‘natural overdrive’ sound is definitely not there yet. Maybe it’s because there’s an element of them being unpredictable, unreliable and unwieldy that can’t be properly replicated. I guess the question is do today’s kids playing jangly afrobeat indie, 3rd Gen emo, or glum cod folk want an amp that makes them sound like Paul Kosoff?

@neilpatrickhairless

20 күн бұрын

I want an amp that makes me sound like that stud who sang for the Smithereens

Somebody got an Eastman...

Hey Phill, long time listener, first time caller lol. I’ve found the D’addario NYXL and Ernie Ball Paradigm strings to be well worth the money. I use both on different guitars, though I prefer the tone of the Ernie Balls a little more. They also have less string tension. For me they last indefinitely as long as I take care of them and have never broken either type. Ever. I feel they are definitely worth the money. I play 80s/90s thrash and death metal and early hardcore punk. I have purposefully abused these strings to test them. Just make sure you keep your string path burr free and you stretch them properly.