Johnski Petruchkovich 🔥

@cunjoz

10 ай бұрын

Ivan Petrović

I work in the guitar industry and handle guitars priced from 100 dollar cheapos to 20+ thousand Gibson custom shop units; that said, there is something I have noticed with instruments coming out of China, Indonesia, and other Asian countries and that is that the house brands exhibit many of the same features in basic construction as you would find being used on the more prestigious brands that have their "economy" models made in these same factories but at a seriously less inflated price. Companies such as EART, Harley Benton, IYV, AIO, Wolf, and so on are putting out the same quality in playability with maybe slightly less desirable pickups, switches, and other hardware. The thing is how much more are you willing to pay for a brand name on the headstock? I have a dual humbucker T-style Harley Benton that you can buy right now for 125 bucks that plays better than a 450 dollar Squier and is on par with a MIM Tele that costs close to 800 bucks. I changed out the pickups and made so action and intonation adjustments and it is a beast. I have like 2.5 hours of my time in the guitar and zero money as the guitar itself was gifted to me by my older brother. Look at it this way if you spend a couple hundred bucks on one of these Amazon guitars and use it as a mod platform you can build your custom dream guitar for a fraction of the cost of the branded siblings and interestingly enough the big names still tend to go for nickel silver frets while the knock-offs are using ball-ended stainless which IMO is a worthy upgrade. I have played 1500 MIM Charvels and EVH Frankie's that aren't any better than the Steve Brown Sound super strats that you can get from Guitar Fetish for around 380 bucks. Again, I ask you what premium are you willing to pay for a logo on the headatock?

@paisteplayer1040

10 ай бұрын

True.. Import guitars have come a long way.. The lower cost ones usually have terrible electronics, iffy fretwork and cheap fret wire.. This one seems like a bargain. Gibsons USA quality and finish is lower than than an import PRS..

@killacoiler1707

10 ай бұрын

@@paisteplayer1040 Gibson has all kinds of quality control issues. It is sad if you ask me because Gibson's cheapest guitar is the Les Paul Jr. and they are still over 1500 bucks. It is sad to think that you can get 4x the guitar from Epiphone with their new modern series offerings. IMO, the Matt Heafy Origins signature Les Paul is probably one if not the best value in a guitar coming from the Gibson owned brands.. Epiphone has been killing it with many new offerings that punch way above their price tags. One that really has me impressed is the Classic in what they call a worn finish. At around the 450 dollar range it is superb and the only thing I might do is swap in some pickups and wiring of my preference.

I recommend planet tone pickups as a cheap option for pickup upgrades. Theyre hand made to order but at super low prices. I bought one last year and i loved it and ill be getting another one for another guitar.

@bushcry1

10 ай бұрын

Gotta try them...

@GIJodie12420

10 ай бұрын

I'm putting planet tone pickups in a Harley Benton tele. I'll find out inna few days if I agree!!

Jordan Benino is such an accomplished musician. Really glad he finally got his signature axe

Holy crap your playing in the intro was actually crazy. Such a well done solo. Sounds like petrucci, Michael Romeo, arch echo all somehow in one😂 great job

Honestly: No one (as a listener) in the world would notice that this guitar is so cheap. Insane!

@thedavidshreds

10 ай бұрын

As a player I'd never guess either

@daa5249

10 ай бұрын

It's GREAT until this kind of globalization takes YOUR job away.

@erickaufmancustomguitars1351

10 ай бұрын

As a builder, I would. The trem arm looks to be very very sloopy. And you lost me trying to convince me there's no difference between plastic and other. Especially if your grinding on that cheesy trem. I gotta go now. Before you give me more to write about.

@thedavidshreds

10 ай бұрын

It feels like it would cost $4-500 I'd say.

@josuastangl7140

10 ай бұрын

​@@thedavidshreds Does a $4-500 guitar not feel DRASTICALLY different to a $4-5.000 guitar?

Price is jumped to 189.00. They all do this starting point to get a few to try them. Then jack the price. Unless they finally added the locking tuners thats fair. I dig it but would love to try one.

@fromquake

9 ай бұрын

Currently unavailable. They either sold the stock or received a cease and desist.

I love your presentation, such great humor its so subtle it makes my day 😅

1. The names were hilarious 😂 2. Your playing is sick! 🤘🏻 3. Cheap guitars have come a looooonnnnngggg way in terms of bang for the buck. Took a shot on an eart t380 and it’s honestly my favorite guitar to play right now.

Thanks, I will check out one of these Jeramiah Prophylactic guitars..they are now 319.00 on A Prime..

You can cut up a 75 cent airable sponge and place it underneath the springs and get the same effect as a new set of noiseless springs

Excellent playing

Bruh, you posted this yesterday and it already hiked up to $180. I still think it's worth it at that price but that took it from "buy now" to "Ima give it a few weeks". That said, this video really got me wondering if I should buy the 8 string Strandberg lookalike kit I found or this thing... DECISIONS!!!! Lol, ima follow this saga tho. I wanna hear the new pups!

@insightguitars

10 ай бұрын

$190

@BoltRM

10 ай бұрын

Ugh 😣

Great review! Love the Symphony X shirt!

Nice playing man. Great solo. Ive had my eye on these guitars for a while. Like you said, they seem like an awsome mod platform. Im addicted to modding guitars, so im pretty sure I'll have to get one 😆

Which Saphue pickups are you comparing to the DiMarzios? I couldn't really tell from their Amazon or AliExpress stores.

I had a Sterling (bass) and I didn't care for it, but I would be interested in a John myung model if they ever made one

this seems like an insane modplatform

@thedavidshreds

10 ай бұрын

Absolutely

This John Panini is currently the best deal on the planet for HH style guitar with those specs. Honestly I don't even understand how they can do it that cheap.

"This product is currently unavailable" 😅

Unavailable on Amazon

Seems like the model in the link is no longer available. And it is not on the Amazon Canada marketplace. I do want a real one, though.

Your left hand technique is the wackiest thing I've seen, I love it 😂 Yet yes great playing and i'm lowkey interested now 😂

Well this video put an unexpected smile on my face this morning. Could you do a follow up after you have made all the modifications? Also, what are the pickups you said you would use? Great video and nice find!

These are no longer available on Amazon, I went directly to their store and they do not even list them...

this was awesome! how'd you like the neck profile though? i've seen other reviews of Volgoa saying the neck was super thick

@thedavidshreds

10 ай бұрын

It's not particularly thick, not thin either. Honestly feels a bit like the EBMM Petrucci neck.

You are extremely good!! And im ignorant for never seeing any your videos until now!! Im officially 🪝 hooked on this channel. Your up there with old ungland . :)

I mean, could you put a locking nut and a couple Dimarzios or Duncan’s and maybe a Floyd Rose on the thing and it be a pretty decent Copy of a Musicman JP?

Solid video and solid f'n chops, man! Had to sub after watching it.

@thedavidshreds

9 ай бұрын

I appreciate it!

Anyone knows a guitar like this but 7 string? Normal scale length, trem, but 7 string??

The review was great but hot damn that solo in the intro!

That Juan Pedro signature sounds sick

Damn bro your a badass guitar player

Very interesting...floating trem?

@thedavidshreds

10 ай бұрын

A bit. It only goes about a 1/2 step sharp when you pull on it, but it's enough for little accents like I was doing in the beginning

I love this, Dave. I bet that you knew that I would...

Nice! Now we just need a John Myugonini signature bass version!

@RonnieThrillsap

9 ай бұрын

Sean Myson signature Ernie Ball MusicSham Mongo 6

ROFL!!! If you don't make it in the music business, Your stand-up comedy act is TOP! 🤣🤣🤣 Gonna check your review!

That's unbelievable. We'll done !

There's the link but bro, what about an affiliate link?! Great find! I just picked up a $110 Tele that is surprising and I'll put a video up soon as well. Seems like some of these cheapies can be quite surprising. Makes you wonder... what's the catch? Is there like some hidden spy electronics in it? :P Cheers! Great video!

Nice chops! Great vid!

killer licks dude!

Came for the guitar but appreciate that souls screensaver

Very busy on the lower bout with all the knobs and switches.

Honestly it’s a pretty good looking guitar for a photo flame top! Sure beats some of the older cheap guitars out there. I bet some of them are not super consistent though.

Well it's $189 now (10-12-23) but they're offering a $15 coupon.

killer playing man!!

That trem is probably better than the one on my Sterling Majesty Dimarzio model I got for 1.5k.

Sounds great! What did you play through on the recording? Amp? Modeler? Plug in?

@thedavidshreds

10 ай бұрын

I use TONEX by Ikmultimedia. It's a killer plugin.

Jangles Padunky is an amazing guitarist, and one day after many grass cutting jobs, I will own this. OH YES, IT WILL BE MINE.

Great playing!

And it's no longer available on their store.

If the neck and body is good and the base electronics I’ll spend a bit of money to upgrade nut, tuners and pickups! Nice find though!

sadge. not available in canada

Why do you say 6 screw bridges dont work? PRS USA uses 6 screw and they work flawless

Jake Patitucci Arnold Sphere Sound Woman. Pretty neat.

I had one months ago. Mine had locking tuners which were absolute garbage. Build quality is pretty much what you expect to see on a Glarry. Pickups were shit and couldn't adjust the heights because they didn't have foam or springs under them 🤦‍♂️ Fret work was decent(about what you'd expect from Squier). The foto-quilt was not appealing at all, I'd rather see the 6 piece body or just painted a solid color. I returned mine. I'd rather have a Firefly, tbh

That's some insane pricing. Unbelievable indeed.

I'm baffled how good it stays in tune, without locking tuners and with a cheapo plastic nut. I imagine a Graphtech TUSQ nut will improve tuning stabillity even more. Over her in the EU, a TUSQ nut goes for around 15 Euros, super cheap as an upgrade. Trem springs and new pickups and this thing will make a great backup or practise guitar. The trem unit looks like they copied the design of the GOTOH 510, I think that's the main reason it holds tuning so well. Generally speaking, the Chinese are getting better in guitar building. They're still producing lots of cheap crap but they're getting there.

@thedavidshreds

10 ай бұрын

I'll have to Google that, I've never seen this design before but it works really well and seems less cheap than I was expecting.

@greekfreak1980

10 ай бұрын

@@thedavidshreds I'm not sure but from what I can see from the video, it kinda looks like the Wilkinson GOTOH 510, that Mayones, Suhr, Tom Anderson use. Maybe they made a Chibson GOTOH 510 , a ''CHITOH'' 510. 😆

Had me at the intro lol

great job bro

My green Jay Precarious came with lockers. ( I ordered a black one got a green)

@MyLoveIsVengeance

10 ай бұрын

Also replaced pickups with emg

Love the reverse headstock

I love my guitar i got my son few years ago. Amazon special. Schecter c-1 like . But put together over seas . It came in. I like it better than my diamond series.. special was 125$

Looks like Guyker tuners. They are a cheap brand, but really damn good! Probably the best cheap replacement tuners out there. They are definitely better than any Fender/Charvel/Jackson/Schecter/Ibanez branded locking tuners I've had. I've only received one bad tuner out of maybe 15 sets that I've ordered from them.

@montauta

10 ай бұрын

Guyker made a excellent products. All are well built and great prices.

It is 185 now

Wow, pretty tempted to buy one of these now. My PRS Mark Holcomb signature doesn't even have stainless steel frets 🤡

It’s 189 US now

bro you play great ~

Does it have piezo in the bridge?

John Pannini Earnie Bong Music Woman - I would buy it for that name alone.

Whats your setup on this video please?

You should make a video comparison of sound with a real one or the most expensive guitar you have

Sold out.

Videos like this really show that the more expensive guitar makers are ripping people off. No guitar should cost thousands of dollars.

I just hate that it doesn't come in red or sunburst. Blue is a big turnoff for me in guitars that have a flamed top. If I bought this over the Fesley I'd *have* to sand off the finish and redo it myself

@BoltRM

10 ай бұрын

Seems like this same pattern, but in gray with black quilting would be great

@rockincoffee

9 ай бұрын

Not a red fan

This was amazing, It sounded phenomenal 🤣

such a funny demo ,,well done

The Bert & Ernie Sphere Melody Gender Johann Pelosi signature guitar

Its got its own plugdo

It looks and sounds kicka** actually

The Charvel mid tier signature guitars like Warren DiMartini snakeskin are decals too.

Damnnnn nice jim palachenco signature dude

great picking!

I’ll have to check out this Joan woman’s playing

All you need to do to fix those pickups is wax pot them. Which is a pretty simple process.

currently sold out

Dude don’t be trashing my Sterling Majesty.

Okay but... is there a 7 string version?

@thedavidshreds

10 ай бұрын

Not sure, didn't see one

Nice chops!

@thedavidshreds

10 ай бұрын

Appreciate it!

I have two Volgoa’s, TN2 and 7-string, and I love them. They have there small quicks, like I had to scrape some of the coating off the bridges on both guitars to make better contact for the ground and the pickup on one was tilted forward. But those are easy fixes… but literally half to a quarter of the price from major brands… and the playability is amazing. The neck profiles they have are better than any others that I have played. The TN2 I just got about two weeks ago was $170…. And it’s leaps and bounds better than the Ibanez that I payed $100 more for. On the Volgoa I’ve only had to replace the factory strings (obviously), adjust the action (it was fairly high), and remove some of the coating on the bridge… so literally $6…. The Ibanez, I replaced the pickups because the ones that came on it were absolute trash. Replaced the tuners because it had no stability. The neck is fine, except that it had some sharp frets and the truss rod needed to be adjusted. So a ton more to do on it and it was more expensive. What’s really sad though, I also have a Harley Benton 8-string that was roughly the same price as my Ibanez… and that came better out of the box than the Ibanez. I don’t know if that would be more about the growing quality in some of the affordable brands or that some of the major brands are reducing the quality of their lower end lines.. I’ve played some of the lower end LTD’s, Schecter’s, and Sterling’s… not one compared to my Volgoa’s for double the price.

Now it is $189.

imo.. all the money is in the neck or it should be, that's the most important part. pickup, hardware and body can be cheap, but if that neck is rock solid and well made then 👌 👌👌

it's $189 now..

Juan Poonani Signature *

Still love my Majesty guitar, but that's pretty cool!

In 1 day, the price increased to $175

I recently got a Gibson clone from a Chinese manufacturer on eBay. I think it was like $229. Exact same super dry fretboard. Same not so great nut. But at 1/10th the price of a real one, I’m saying 100% worth it. Plays well. I’ll probably replace the pickups, definitely replace the nut, maybe even the machine heads. And I’ll still be way under 20% of a real Gibson. I’m kinda on the fence about the morality of fake brand name guitars. But, damnit, I’ve always wanted a gold top, and I’m just not gonna pay $3k+ for one. Never been a dentist or a lawyer.

Question. How out of tune does that trem make it after a good use?? I see mixed reviews on these cheap trem guitars. I was looking at this exact axe last week. Roasted neck. Not bad

@thedavidshreds

10 ай бұрын

I showcase that about mid-way through the video, but really well!

Currently unavailable.

Piezo?