You don't just save people money, you teach them how to make the best with what they've got and that's even more valuable.

@morbidmanmusic

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Like that brown lipstick.

@mobsiesixsixsix9785

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@@morbidmanmusic Grow up.

@SteamvilleQuintet

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​ @Morbid Man Music < Keep your fetishes to yourself.

@Metaldad87

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Very true, always enjoy that about this channel

@robertturner6567

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True!

“Tubes are not equalizers” would make an awesome tshirt, Glenn.

@brandonthompson8413

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They are when they fail, and all output is equal to 0.

@DizzyDez613

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@@brandonthompson8413 Wait… are you telling me that when tubes die, it’ll effect the sound coming out of the speaker? 😱

@brandonthompson8413

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@@DizzyDez613 If silence is the effect you desire.

@DizzyDez613

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@@brandonthompson8413 That’s amazing. I thought you could just rip components out and absolutely nothing would change. Next you’re gonna tell me playing with the knobs in front will change the sound as well.

@brandonthompson8413

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@@DizzyDez613 Well sometimes, depends on the circuit and design of the amp. My amp doesn't have knobs on the front they are in back on the top kind of.

Me when I first started playing guitar as a teenager "Aw jeez, I can't wait to get out there and talk with other guitarists about what guitarists, tones and guitars I like and make friends." Me now at the age of 36 "Most guitar players are over opinionated assholes that I avoid at all costs." I really relate with the guy who said about not having many guitar player friends.

@morbidmanmusic

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So, you likely have few friends, wearing that brown lipstick...

@TokiWardguitar

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@@morbidmanmusic judging by your comments on the other videos sounds like you're quite butt hurt by the tests. If Glen hurt you I'm sorry 🥺

@OnePixelBeyondStudios

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You are sooo right on this one! Let me tell you the feeling does not change.

@TokiWardguitar

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@@OnePixelBeyondStudios Exactly. My closest friends are mostly non musicians. And those that are definitely are less upright people

@chaptermasterpedrokantor1623

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I like hanging out with other guitar players. Gear talk can be fun. But I've also recognized to learn the tell tales that you are dealing with a connoisseur of fine tone tonewoods, expensive pickups, and boutique amps and pedals. So if I judge the person to be like a Jehova's Witness or Social Justice Warrior in their beliefs in that matter I tend to keep my conversations in a more light manner. Nothing a true believer hates more then being challenged on their beliefs. Also, guitar players tend to make for the worst audience. You can always spot the guitar player at a gig in a crowd. Arms crossed across his chest, looking frowning and judging, thinking he could do a better job and in fact should be the one on stage instead.

i am sure you know about this, but i want to share a great lesson life taught me : If you make someone jealous to the point of anger, it's because there is something to be very jealous about, and the best way to deal with this is to celebrate that you have found one more thing that is valuable about you and your contribution to the world, which is pretty neat. Thank you Glenn ! David

Well excuse you, Mr. Glenn Fricker! I am not low enough to do my audio in my gArAgE sTuDiO. I, as the higher being, do it all right in the comfort of my bedroom!

@Tijuanabill

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🤣🤣😂😂🤣🤣

@courier11sec

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That's nothing. I do all my recording in my theoretical studio that's built directly into my head. 😄

@Tijuanabill

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@@courier11sec I prefer to just play live, in my head, in front of Moscow Metallica crowds.

@skaldlouiscyphre2453

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@@courier11sec That's how you stay truly underground. You can't become popular if the songs only exist in your head.

@Jayteaseepiirturi

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YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG!

So..quick précis. When buying a guitar for heavy metal don't worry what pickups are in it, as long as they are quiet. Don't worry what wood it's made out of, it makes no difference. Make sure it plays nice, stays in tune and it looks cool. Job done! Excellent show as always Glenn, thanks for sharing.

@joshspunkrockgarden9914

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Wood makes no difference in tone. The wrong wood can make a huge difference in the weight of the guitar, for good or for bad.

Lots of "Chefs" will EPICALLY FAIL blind taste tests too...which is precisely why such tests exist. Most guitarists can't tell if their guitar is even in tune, much less its "tonal nuances due to wood". The Truth hurts.

On Led Zeppelin I, Jimmy Page used a Supro amp with a Sola Sound Tonebender mk2 fuzz pedal that he used primarily as a booster of sorts. Additionally, the ambient sound was gotten through having additional mics placed further back from the amp and using the room's natural reverb to add enhancement.

@JoeBaermann

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Another thing that was done back those days was to record a playback of one or more tracks in large rooms/locations and then add those recorded tracks into the mix. Hence the names for types of reverb. Ever seen how real plate reverbs in an elevator shaft are done? 😄

Glennn!!! I crashed my bands van in Hollywood this past summer. We now have a shirt with the totaled van that says “we let the bassist drive” I think the shirt would look great on you man! We’re called split persona. Check out the shirt maybe our music!

About to fly to Europe for a series of gigs (first time gigging internationally!!)... the tears and salt of these angry guitar players is the perfect fuel ahead of the flight. Cheers from a gloomy Toronto airport, Glenn :D

@Barnabus007

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Just in plane crashes off coast of Canada....j/k....I hope!

Man you have saved me so much money. I almost bought super expensive pickups to make my guitar sound better but thanks to you I didn’t have to! Keep up the good work!!

I'm so thankful for your channel because the end goal is to clearly help people. And all I do is beat on the drums like a neanderthal. Crazy how much push back your channel receives over this simple principle.

There are plenty of bruised egos out there. Keep up the sterling work Glenn.... and FU, from the UK!

New VC episode means; the weeekend can come! Seriously, watching your videos has become such an important part of my life lately. A Glen sig guitar would truly be amazing. Much fun travelling and stay safe. Cheers

As the saying goes "It's the musician not the instrument." Good musicians can make a cheap/bad instruments sound good. In most cases, good equipment makes the task easier. No amount of gear is going to help a bad musician. Even though I'm a keyboard player I enjoy you show. Your show is for all musician not just metal players. Keep up the good work.

@DenverStarkey

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i always said it's better for people to learn music on cheap ass instruments. it makes them way better players when they do get soemthing that is good. because they do every thing in their power to make that cheap insrument sound better and those kind of techniques really carry over to better gear making taht gear sound even better as well. this stems from a simple fact some one once told me . ALL electric guitars suffer from the same basic issues , just the cheap ones don't try to hide those issues because they are cutting cost instead (fret chew, fret buzz , static buzz aka hum ect. ect.).

@wingsoficarus1139

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To an extent... yes however, I've heard practice amps that sound downright abysmal and I've played guitars that feel like literal plywood and its MUCH more difficult to play a more complicated song on it than on a better rig. No but seriously, there's this 20 year old Fender practice amp that my school's had and it sounds like actual garbage. When I first played it I was genuinely under the impression that the speaker was broken until I realized there was nothing wrong with it.

@davel7507

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Good insight. It's also important to point out you don't need massive amounts of recording equipment. to make a a good recording. Boston's first album was recorded in Tom Scholz's basement on a 12 track tape machine

@davel7507

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I agree. I have also played on some crappy amps. I also bought a hideous keyboard in the early '90s. It was awful. Learned my lesson on that one. I have a Crate amp from the late '70s early '80s that is showing it's age. Had to retire it. Someday I might disassemble it or take it to a repair shop in attempt salvage it and use it as a spare. There's always that person who needs an amp during jam sessions. Still use a Peavy KB100 from the 1980s and a Behringer K450 FX when I don't want to lug the KB100 around.

@cycomiles4225

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@@DenverStarkey I go against this way of thinking. Spending just a bit more for a better instrument will make a begginner spend more time with an instrument and make for an enjoyable time at the begginning...ive had shit guitar for begginning and it only took me a few years to actually make myself to not quit this time.

Thanks again for all you do Glenn. I’ve learnt more in the past two weeks watching your videos about the little tricks and odds and ends than I have in the past 20 years of playing. Because of you I’ve progressed a Shit pile and seemingly making huge leaps daily it seems…..keep on keeping on brother.

I really enjoy your videos and how you break it down to what really matters. Sometimes a cheap guitar sounds good by accident and you would probably agree that the most important thing is playability and some guitars are just more comfortable to play due to their weight balance and being set up correctly

YES!!! PLEASE make a video on a budget 500 setup! I'm curious about outboard gear in my future, and the 500 series of gear seems tailor-made to my situation with limited space and budget. Thanks for all your hard work!

I really love the way you own the naysayers with science and logic. Keep up the great work, sir!

Thanks for responding to my comment Glen! That was awesome. I may have just saved my friend from buying new pick ups. We were jamming and he said he wanted to get some EMG pick ups like mine. I was like, lets do a recording test first. We put our guitars through the same rig and recorded the same riff back to back. To his surprise they sounded almost identical besides a slight change in gain. He was blown away and thanked me for saving him time and money! your knowledge is spreading mayne!!!!

"It’s Easier To Fool People Than To Convince Them That They’ve Been Fooled." Mark Twain

Glenn!!!! I definitely think creating a cabinet that has a quick release backplate for hot swapable speaker changes would be absolutely amazing. If you constructed it with the build quality of some of the more popular cabinets using similar materials, you would pose a SERIOUS threat to the competition!

Glenn, you are a much more kind and patient fellow than I'd be after getting some of the comments you have.

"When The Shaman Calls Down The Lightning" That's a good one.

Looking good, Glenn. Hope you’re staying healthy and that your year is off to a great start.

So hyped for your bass strings 🤘🏻

Dude, Glenn!! The diet and exercise regimen that you put into place a few years back is REALLY paying off man. Looking great, keep up all the hard work.

Denial is a dangerous thing unfortunately. People who have been dreaming in a dogma all their lives can easily panic when they get shaken out of their sleep

I gotta share this one too, dinosaur Jr fans were all shocked last year when J Mascis told everybody that his signature Jazzmaster-Big Muff-Marshall stack sound was pretty much never what was actually on any of his recordings. I think he said Out There was an SG junior through one of the smaller fenders.

Love your videos. When the Z monster starts to pull me under into the dark embrace of sleep while I’m at work, your videos give me life again.

Thanks for your honesty and opinions regardless of other people's butt hurt. Carry on. Peace!

Met you at NAMM last year and you were extremely nice. Hope to see you again this year! Cheers dude

Coil tap is supposed to be a lower output because it’s tapped windings, like having a high output pickup that you can switch to vintage output. Coil split separates one coil by turning the other off, making a humbucker sound like a single coil. At least in theory. I have never heard a tonal shift with either option, any difference is due to lower output pushing less gain into the amp. I learned early on was this: use the proper pickup TYPE to the sound you want. Also note, you can roll the volume back to get vintage tones from a high output pickup. I typically set my volume to 8 and tone to 6 or 7, then dial my amp to the sound I want. I got that tip from Colin at CSGuitars and it really does work.

I have watched the video a few times about the pick-up tests. Mainly cause it does proves the point of the guitar pick snake oil theory. So i put 11 of my guitars to the test. They're loaded with Fishmans (modern fluence and carpenter signature), Seymour Duncans (Jb and black outs), MOJO tone , EMG , Roswell, HBZ, Tesla (stock loaded Harley benton) stock loaded ibanez pick ups and also Rockfeild. So I recorded everything direct , wrote down with channel was what guitar waited a about 3 days and listened back to each track dirty and clean... and oit of the 11 I got 3 right.. the hbz and the 2 that have fishmans.. The only reason I could pick those 3 out from all the others was due to volume. The tone difference was too small to really pick out. I really hope others try this test out for yourself. I'm sure the results may vary, but it was fun. Great video, Glenn. I'm looking forward to the next test !!

@MarukagePlays

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I'll do that... I just need 8 more guitars XD

@SoundForgeStudio

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@MarukagePlays use what you have I think you will be amazed with the results regardless of how many guitars your have.

I was thinking about gettin' Suhr Doug Aldrich pickups for my LP. You just made me change my mind and made me save some money that I can spend on things that are very useful if you wanna actually play the guitar: strings

I have a lot of respect for all the free knowledge and gear that you share with the music community. I do agree that the speakers contribute to 80% or more of a guitar sound. Tubes just provide power, they either work or don’t work, a guitars wood and construction type only do very little for the sound and pickups(with exceptions to true single coils vs Humbucker)only change output mostly, besides some being a little more compressed than others. Even different amps do very little for the overall sound, especially when most people eq them to their liking. The eq on amps only slightly sculpt the sound, as they are not full frequency ranging as other eq’s. The mic type/placement can change the sound a good deal. All this I’ve learned from playing guitars and recording them for 25 years. So I do agree with you but I think it’s worth mentioning that pickups can be more or less a mod for someone who wants a different look and/or slightly different output. Thanks for all you do, keep putting out videos and I’ll keep watching them. I’ve got my mind set on the ELE drums at the moment, I will be purchasing them soon!!!!

I love your content. I run a4x12 behringer cab. I put a4x12 Ibanez cab on and the sound was completely different. Now I know why, lol. Thanks Glenn.

I just saw Carcass live, the guitarists use Gibson Les Pauls (Bill Steer was using a Melody Maker) and they were playing through the EVH 5150 III 50 watt versions, plus the signature cabinets.

Speaking of Carcass, I absolutely love the guitar tone on Edge of Darkness from their Wake Up and Smell the Carcass album.

The bassist in my band just came up with a genius way to save himself money. When it was time for us to pay the engineer for mixing & mastering our album, he quit the band. Brilliant!

That Milli Vinilli quip was legendary! Kudos to whoever posted that 😂

If you do a signature cab, I really think it ought to have doors in the back you can use to tune the bass response to suit speakers with different resonant frequencies and get the frequency response you want. Worth experimenting with. It's also worth comparing that to what you can do with a flat cab response and EQ.

18:26 for hot swappable speakers, you can put hard wires on the end and imitate the way an electric stove coil plugs in, definitely a prototype idea but when I finally get a work shed again I’ll probably give this a shot…

Remember Glenn: It is easier to fool most people than to convince them they have been fooled. Look at almost anything in life and you will see this.

As far As Zeppelin 1, Page said the amplifier he used was a Supro…which he later regretted revealing, as when his main one died, he couldn’t find another Supro to save his life! 😂

Gosh dang! That opening comment was so cultured and intelligent in its simplicity with just a single versed reference. Obviously not written by a bass player!

1 out of 1500 is in the realm of Type I error. I would have thought a few more people would have gotten the guesses right by chance alone. Full disclosure: You totally stumped and educated my bass playing behind.

Hey Glenn, For phase issues on null tests, you might give the spectral alignment feature of MAutoAlign a try (along with the 192kHz rate). I know it helps tremendously when blending direct bass and an IR.

I bought the subscription to UA Spark and then realized - I don't know how to dial in a good sound on vintage type gear! - So I am back to my FREE Klanghelm two knob compressor which I actually know how to use because I have used it and I am happy with the sound

I remember the first guitar I bought with Seymour Duncan pickups. I was so excited, plugged it in... and it sounded just as shitty as every other guitar I played through my shitty amp with a shitty speaker. Thanks explaining for why and saving me a whole load of money in future, or maybe not saving me money but getting me to spend it on the correct gear.

GLEEENNNNNNN!!!! Tried out the AT2020 mic on your rec, absolutely blown away. Might be my favourite mic on heavy guitar now. More diamonds in the rough please!

“Garage studio.” What?! Pretty much anyone can turn a corner of their bedroom into a better studio than what was used to record the most iconic albums of all time thanks to modern technology. I swear, some people are just hellbent on being consumers.

Many thanks Glen

The best option I can think of for a "hot swap" speaker would be something similar to the relish guitars pickup swapping where you squeeze a form of spring with electronic contacts. I'm sure the companies would know better than me but just throwing it out there as a quick idea. Many hands makes light work

For someone your age to just find out, the importance of the speaker tells me you have been under a rock for a long time

Lol, Glenn looks either slightly blazed or slightly sloshed here! 😆

I just enjoy watching your videos as I slowly drudge and stumble my way through the process of figuring out how to use reaper. I don't even have monitors or a headphone jack for the studio headphones i got that I know now by way of your videos will ultimately not be good enough. Aside from just preventing peaking im not into actually mixing anything at all. Im literally just figuring out the bare bones basics of how to make it work right.

OMG the vendors in this industry are ruthless, thank God I m in photography and this never happens here! that reminds me I gotta check that new sony/nikon/canon/leica release it will make my camera obsolete from what i 've heard.

Turns out being broke while being (a gullible) twenty something ended up being an advantage! I had to make do with what I had. Eventually (in my thirties now) these test videos came out and suddenly I ended up thinking, ""Whale Oil Beef Hooked, what a relief!"

GLEEENNN!, I'm on a flight to Malta in a few months and I'll be bringing my bass guitar with me and I need to know how to protect my bass guitar from those careless ground handlers (and Ryanair themselves) who are usually dumber than bass players themselves!. A video on how to safely pack your instrument before flying please

Whenever I heard "the tone is in the hands" I always thought it had something to do with the guitar player's skill and experience and nothing to do with tone at all.

I'm not quite sure why so many people do not seem to get the science of near field micing, which is what a pickup is basically doing. A piece of wood does not effect this

All that was missing from the trifecta was the “Ima be a big star one day Yo Ima doing you a favour “. You could have discovered the next vanilla ice polka rapper 🤹‍♂️ and extreme juggler Glenn

Our challenge back in the beginning was making great recordings with cassette 4 tracks!! Gotta really watch those levels!! Have to use all your fingers to mix!!

I’ve watched a lot of people debating religious fanatics (especially creationists). The similarities between the religious fanatics and guitar puritans is staggering. “Oh, you have scientific evidence to support you? We’ll that doesn’t matter, I’ll keep believing what I _want_ to believe!”.

I'm so glad you showed how pickups make little difference, especially when played with extreme distortion like you do. I always suspected that. Don't get me wrong, I play primarily clean jazz and blues, so I gravitate to Fenders with noiseless single coil pickups and do like my Gibson LP Standard 60's despite your hatred for them. I do however love listening to heavy metal. I'd like to go one step further. If you play with extreme distortion, then I think it doesn't even matter what guitar you use, cheap or expensive, as long as it has a nice playable fretboard and stays in tune.

I bought a 6505+ two days ago just from your $325 video. ITS FUCKING AWESOME. KEEP IT UP MAN. YOU AND OLA ARE THE ONLY ONES I WATCH

Plot twist: John Asbury paints guitars at Gibson!

Hey Glenn great show! I just bought a Schecter C1 FR-S apocalypse series guitar. What a gem this thing is! Could you do a review of this beautiful guitar? I got the RED REIGN color and it is mind blowing!

Master Of Puppets speakers. There were a few Marshall 4x12 jcm800 4x12’s being made in the 80’s. I’d guess either 65 watt celestion or the old G12-80. Those speakers were different from the CL80. We had a bunch of speaker cabinet ets together once and my friend had an old beat up JCM800 with the g12-80 and it was killer. That was among the best along with, surprisingly, an Engle 4x12 loaded with v30’s.

Two things here: 1. Have you tried contacting James Hetfield himself? 2. Most of Jimmy Page's sound came from using MK II and MK III Tone Benders. As for his amps: He didn't only use Marshall Plexis. He also used Hiwatt, Rickenbacker, Supro, Vox, and Orange amps. He stopped using Hiwatts live and switched to Marshalls because it was difficult to find places to service Hiwatts when he was on touring in America; whereas, Marshall had authorized service centers everywhere.

a hot-swappable speaker cabinet would be amazing. here's what I'm thinking a 4x12 with a Channel selector non soldered speaker connectors, plus bolt stud and wingnut mounting hardware (like a car tire) instead of wood screws for the speaker to cabinet mounting for tool less hot-swapping. any thoughts?

All this talk about tonewood..... WHAT ABOUT TONE PAINT?!

@trumpanzee

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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I love it!

@michaelhodilofficial

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@@trumpanzee My red guitar sounds COMPLETELY different than my blue guitar. IT'S IN THE PAINT!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@connerstines1578

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Actually man, as like, the light spectrum is a frequency band man, you've like, got to pick just the right one out of the rainbow man, because like, if you get the wrong color the like frequencies will clash with the frequencies you play man.

@michaelhodilofficial

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@@connerstines1578 as long as that rainbow leads to the Dark Side of the Moon, I'm in, man.

@cordero6960

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bro i firmly believe the tone comes from the SOUL itself 😂😂😂

Hello from Australia, re pickups, a few years ago i did my own experiment with a few second hand dimarzio's i got off ebay, i had my beloved old ibanez ex, i had already changed the stock bridge pick up for an ibanez V8 by then, but next i tested a PAF Pro, a Breed, and then a D-Sonic (bar to the bridge) hunting for a good death metal bridge pick up. I recorded my self playing (attempting to play) rythm parts from lashed to the slave stick by Nile in Drop A tuning. I eventually settled on the D-Sonic. But through that whole process the biggest shift i saw was between old and new strings.

I would definitely love to see an episode on 500 series gear, seems like a good way for a lot of us to save some money

Since you are a good source of information about speakers, how about trying out other varieties like 15 inch guitar speakers, full range speakers, etc. I started playing guitar trough a full range 15 inch speaker and it’s awesomely punchy! We are so used to play trough 12 inches speakers that we tend to disregard others!

I was agonizing over which guitars to buy, because I wanted all the tones, and thanks to this channel I have stopped that nonsense and instead I now agonize over which amps to buy lol

Sound is in everything, but mostly the speakers. I use an old Crown amp salvaged from a building PA system with a 2x18" Peavy Black Widow cabinet. It's perfect because it has no bells and whistles. Simple and stable amplification, removal of signal noise, and good speakers will get a person 90% "there". Chasing that last 10% is what it is, I chase tones as much as anyone, but I'd rather drop $5k once on a piece of gear I know will do something for me than spend $200 ten or fifteen times because I'm just guessing.

Glen, I know it’s not your type of music, but listening to you talk about the speakers I am reminded of a Joe Walsh interview. He said the sound on “Funk 49” was due to it being recorded on a Fender Champ and how the small speaker broke up and shaped the sound.

A hot swappable cab would be really easy to do the only thing that would be concerning is if the speaker doesn't mount properly it may have some vibrations but it seems like a really easy problem to solve

Recording in a garage? I wish! We record in a 6'x8' closet. We get positive comments all the time about the sound of the recording. The only gear we have that cost more than $1k are the instruments and computer, and most of it is far cheaper than that. Glenn is my hero.

Good catch. Almost let a curse slip in the first 8 seconds!! XD

Hot-swappable speakers? No! The cab would need an auto-switching dummy load to maintain the impedance during swapping, or you might risk damaging your amp (depends on how robust the output transformer is and whether your increasing or decreasing the load during the swap). Quick-swappable speakers? Yes, make it easy to pull them out and put them into the cab, with nice quick-connect plugs/sockets on the wiring.

Glenn, I loved what you did on the pick-ups. Now hot switching speakers in a cab is tough but how about testing open vs closed vs semi closed cabs ?

An easy swap speaker cab would actually be pretty easy to do. You just need some alignment pins for the screw holes and some twist locks (like want are used on truck bed covers or travel boxes).

@Bob-of-Zoid

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Well, what about them rattling around, and if not right away, then over time? Not saying there aren't ways, but I cannot imagine the would come cheep if anyone ever makes them. The mark up on simple and basic hardware is quite high, add a bit of engineering and it could ad a whopping $100 to every cabinet made with it, and with gear snobs out there, the mark up can be even higher the second they show any interest!

@spencermcelrea9311

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@@Bob-of-Zoid foam or rubber tape. Also, I was just throwing it out as a simple DIY but, if you think I should be manufacturing them, ok?

@Bob-of-Zoid

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@@spencermcelrea9311 I didn't think you were thinking of manufacturing them, but you made the suggestion and said it would be easy, and it may sound that way until you consider everything involved, and good engineering is not trying things until you find something work, but designing it to be sure to work, before you build a prototype, or even a "prove principle model" before a prototype.

For hot swapping speakers you can obviously do 1/4" jacks, then a three point hold down system with hooks on the bottom and a cam lock style hold down up top (possibly also on the lower two for holding it in best). Think like what you have on bicycle front wheels.

Hey Glenn Fricker, The guitar Jimmy Page used in the studio for the first Led Zeppelin album was the same Telecaster Jeff Beck gave him. The amp he used was an small old Supro. Probably about 10 to 12 watts.

"Zeppelin Sound" - as far as I know, Page played a Tele into a cranked baby Supro combo in the studio for the first album. Not a Plexi.

In my bedroom I have a lot less power than in my official jam spot. I’m using a Peavey VYPYR 1 almost always a tad of reverb and delay to fatten up the sound. Usually use the 6505, XXX or Rectifier. Use an Ibanez tube screamer an boss noise suppressor hooked up with the 4 cable method and it freaking rocks!! Super tight decay knob all the way up ! The amp already has a tube screamer but only 2 parameters though. Like your dingaling ya just have to play with it to get it right!! You’ll be playing guitar just like ringing a bell!!

@jeremyswalley8625

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In the basement there’s 280 watts of power!! Once again you can actually get good sounds from the line 6 catalyst just need a pedal board and run it in stereo!! That’s when the Boss Metal Zone sounds it’s best in stereo, boosted and EQed!! Distortion pedals definitely change your tone!! We all can agree!! But from what I’ve learned great metal tones are always boosted and use noise reduction. The Boss is still the best when hooked up properly! The 4 cable method insures to truly quiet all unwanted noise! Otherwise you don’t get the optimal results ..

The guitar tone in my airpods sounds astonishingly different than my Klipsch RP-600M speakers at home, or the Rockford Fosgate boom booms in the back of my 1994 Civic hatchback... ;)

@kazzxtrismus

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do these youtubers recommend headphones because nobody owns decent home audio? honestly asking...im a bit older and laughed at beats headphones from day 1 cuz they were for bus riders and highschoolers...meanwhile a great used home stereo setup can easily be had for under $500 im omitting the car audio aspect only to keep it short

@CantKillACowboyTX

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@@kazzxtrismus I'm sure headphones are recommended because most people don't have the resources, time, or brain cells to put up decent acoustic treatment. Wanna avoid the hassle of figuring out how to treat your room, building/buying said treatment AND installing it? Just buy good headphones. As Glenn has pointed out, I have noticed a huge difference in stereo imaging between monitors and headphones (headphones miss out on crossover, basically speaking), so I tend to record with headphones and mix on monitors nowadays. But, that's because I am now at a place where I can actually build/install some treatment.

@kazzxtrismus

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@@CantKillACowboyTX while acoustic treatments are necessary for recording to catch the finer elements i wouldnt think theyre really that necessary for just listening to youtube or music while cooking. a good older yamaha 4 channel stereo amp and a set of even decent speakers will sound dramatically better than most headphones and no the bose tiny things through a pro logic theater setup is nowhere near as good (and not better than real studio quality headphones at $2-400)

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Yea I guess they do typically, the youths consume virtually everything on their phones. We need not go down the road of audiophile quality compression, D/A converters, Bluetooth, or headphone amps in telephones. That being said, Glenn is a recording engineer. How the stuff get played back is out of his control, but I'm sure he listens to his mixes on airpods just to make sure it's not complete garbage on what most people will listen to it on.

Glen; I just watched a video from a band "Main Squeeze" They covered Pink Floyds' Comfortably Numb (really well too). During the first solo the guitarist nailed the Gilmore solo. Using a SG with humbuckers. Impossible to tell the diff between his SG and the Gilmore strat. It wasn't until he improved to show his own style on the 2nd solo that you could hear the difference.

Just one thing about hot swapping speakers. I’m no good at working with tools or anything like that but it takes me no more than 5-10 minutes to swap a speaker in a cab. It’s really straightforward with newer speakers and cabs.

I've been watching you Glen for a while. And am I happy I found your channel. I like your no bullshit attitude as well as your engagement with your fans. I've thought about doing music and started to think I could never with how much equipment is nowadays. But you've helped other's. I'm still deciding on what I i want to do but I'm so happy that if I need great affordable gear I can turn towards you. Speaking of gear do you know any good cheap Amp that could help me get the dimebag darrell sound at an affordable price?? Thanks!

What would be interesting is if you have top level engineers listen to a guitar shootout. Not so much as to see if they can name the guitar, but rather what aspects they pick out when they hear cheap and expensive guitars. I think that would be a great lesson.

Hey Glen! Please do a review / tutorial of using 500 series gear in this context. I have been looking at integrating 500 series stuff into my in the box rig, and this would be extremely helpful. Thanks!

LOL dude at 10:29 is apparently a "Math Scientist." XD "Hey what do you do for a living?" "I'm a math scientist..." "....You mean a mathematician?"

even with acoustic guitars it blows my mind how similar alot sound. my local guitar center had a 100-800 series taylors and wanted to sse the difference between them all. the 400 series sounded completely different than the others while the the other 7 all sounded similar and easily came down to personal taste. the 214ce koa edition was my personal favorite and went for like 1/3 of the price of the 814

Although I don’t typically record/produce metal, I get sooooooo much from this channel. Most everything you have to say translates to other genres (only thing for me is the pickup/tone thing as I do record mostly clean guitar tones but it’s still just a single vs humbucker vs wiring (ie series/parallel) and nothing else) every time a player comes into my studio and rants about the wood of their instrument I send them a link to your vid. I have an old Ibanez jet king mk1 that 99% of the time gets used instead of their high dollar axe cuz it’s generally smoother and more comfortable to play. Btw, you should definitely do a 500 series vid, I’d love to see what you think of the ssl e series eq unit Also, Fuck you Glen🤘

For your hot swap cab, dzus fasteners with a universal mounting surface and a removable grill might be something to look into.

I must thank you Glen. Until I watched your vids on pick ups I was a sadly deluded pick up head myself. I had been saving up for some awesome top of the line pick ups for my Ibanez. Instead of wasting the money on pick ups I went out and got a brand new Jackson JS42 for $560.00 Canadian. Thanks again Glen.