Speaking of Ian Hill, he grew up as a Jazz bassist, and after realizing that he's playing metal, he found that it's probably better to be THE FOUNDATION of the band.

@RobSinner

Жыл бұрын

Ian God Hill*

@potatolew4495

Жыл бұрын

​@@RobSinneryou have to be kidding. He should have e a one string bass as he never plays any other than the E string.

@SalAveNU

Жыл бұрын

How about Cliff Williams ? He's one of my favorites.

@mikewilson3581

Жыл бұрын

@@potatolew4495 If all I had to do was play the E string to be as wealthy as Ian, I'd be happy. Beats working retail.

@potatolew4495

Жыл бұрын

@@mikewilson3581 you have a valid point.

Live engineer here: I've had good luck explaining to guitarists that the speaker is the "topwood" of the instrument; The part which vibrates to create the sound. We're all picky about the topwood on an acoustic guitar, why would we be any less picky about the speaker of an electric? Yet we all show up to venues and just use whatever beat-up house amp happens to be there, sacrificing tone for convenience.

@MoreMeRecording

Жыл бұрын

I hope you also explain to them that they don't need as much gain as most guitar players **think** they need either ;) All this speaker rant is 100 % relevant - especially to Hi-Gain as Glen clearly reiterates but come on ffs....If your gain structure from the amp sucks, you could cycle through 1000 speakers and end up with varying degrees of suck.

@martyshwaartz971

Жыл бұрын

I remember watching a rig explanation of a dude who said he brings his own amp but uses whatever cabinet is there…like wouldn’t it make more sense to do that the opposite.

@MrSpeakerCone

Жыл бұрын

@@martyshwaartz971 That's mostly how it used to be here in London. Folks would bring their amp heads and the venue would provide the speakers because when 4 bands each bring three 4x12s, the storage cupboard gets a tad crowded! Thing is, the venues had 4x12s loaded with greenbacks or vintage 30s, so it almost didn't matter which amp you put into it. Also meant that the venue had a "sound" to it which I guess we always thought was the acoustics, but looking back it was probably that and the house speaker folks were running their amps into.

@markcheetah4960

Жыл бұрын

Damn, I've never HEARD of an in-house guitar amp. We always brought our own amps & cabinets.

@stansotelo8164

Жыл бұрын

@@MoreMeRecording q

Honestly, the best bang for buck guitar related purchase I have ever made wasn't new gear, it was guitar lessons. I feel like we don't talk about the value in investing in your own ability enough.

@Nightwinflyer

Жыл бұрын

Hard to dig out from Western culture and the mass consumerism. You don't want customers knowing they have all the gear they need with just a guitar, amp, and a few pedals. Keep 'em on the hook!

@itsjustme8947

Жыл бұрын

Heh, I always suspected the Fender Squires were a 'gateway drug'.

@captainkirk70

Жыл бұрын

@@itsjustme8947 I absolutely love the Classic Vibe series though. Best deal going.

@captainkirk70

Жыл бұрын

I agree but these days you can learn anything on KZread. I would say putting in the hours is most important. All my favorites were pretty much self-taught. In my case lessons were a detriment kinda. I was at the mercy of my teacher who was trying to teach me things that were too intimidating. I was losing confidence. I wish someone would have just taught me barre chords and AC/DC chords and let me go. But im 53 and didn't have the options that kids do today. You didn't know any better if your teacher was good or not. I think the first thing a kid should learn is how to play along with their favorite songs to get that thrill going as soon as possible. Even if it's just the very basic way to play along. Once they feel that they will automatically want to learn all the other parts of the song and improve as they get bored. But that first hill is the hardest IMHO.

@itsjustme8947

Жыл бұрын

@@captainkirk70 I've been a bassist for 45 years now and knew a long time ago that the instrument matters far less than knowing how to play your instrument (and as long as it's of high enough quality to be properly set up). I've got a pair of $200 Harley Bentons (a 4 & 5 string) that sound as well as my far more expensive instruments. Cabs are what matter the most in my experience. Cabs and a good EQ are key. aaannnnnnd I'm rambling again. Must be the pain meds talking again. Sorry. 🙂

For $5000, I expect my pickups, frets and tuners to be made of solid fucking gold!

@JohnWiku

Жыл бұрын

And silver wires! 😂😂

@DavidCase101

2 ай бұрын

Meanwhile I'm over here dreaming about owning a 25k Fender Custom Waylon Jennings guitar 🤣🤣🤣

@zackcarty4790

20 күн бұрын

Lol I wanna hear the $10000 martin accoustic guitar! A video where 2 or so ppl dress as angels and dance around when you play it would be hilarious!

You always put out these shirts when I’m broke; I guess that’s cause I’m a ‘musician’. I’m glad somebody else understands and is willing to promote the benefits of speaker swapping. Thank you Glenn.

As for why any musician would want to replicate another guitarist's tone, simple. We all go through several stages as a musician. Stage 1, learning how to play. Master that, go to stage 2, imitation, you start copying your favorite artists, stage 3 experimentation, you start searching for your own sounds, stage 4: frustration, as you feel inadequate and inferior in your development and tone, and finally stage 5, you accept who you are and that you are a unique musician with your own sound. Many never graduate past stage 2. And some never past stage 1. Henceforth their desire to still sound like their heroes.

The show is also about protecting us from the big industry sales machine even when we're too vain and stupid too realize it or too say thank you Glen so thank you Glen

For anyone questioning the importance of speakers just play around with different IR's on your favorite plug-in. You can make the same amp sound completely different in just about every way.

@FKA_Skull

Жыл бұрын

And in reverse, keep the same IR activated and swap amps and you'll get completely different results too.

@SpectreSoundStudios

Жыл бұрын

@@FKA_Skull not really. Not in any kind of “huge difference” way. Evidence: kzread.info/dash/bejne/o6Slmdase5DRis4.html

@lessthanpinochet

7 ай бұрын

​@@FKA_Skullit's not as pronounced compared to switching the speaker or IR. Mic, mic placement/angle, blending in the room mic and speaker is everything when it comes to guitar tone.

Glenn's that dude we all wished we had as an Uncle growing up. Stayin' the night on a Saturday while his band jams or records and you get to hang out, watch, learn and play with all the gear.

We need to create a speaker cabinet with a transparent back so guitar players can show off their newly acquired purchase AND actually have improved "tone".

I have to say Glenn, I've been watching your channel since about 2015 as an owner of a reasonably sized home studio I have to say, my skills as an engineer have come on leaps and bounds from a combination of your software releases and just general advice. I always use the Extinction Level Event drums on any midi drums and have started using the Prism software on my recordings and have to say I've got some of the best guitar tones I've ever recorded from that. This isn't some lick-arse type of post trying as believe me, as a Brit, we rarely give compliments - (unless of course it's in a sarcastic or ironic manner), it's a genuine thank you for progressing my recordings at a rate that just wouldn't have happened had I gone through the frustration of trial and error and also saving me a ton of money on stuff I didn't need too. Keep up the great work and greetings from the U.K.

@1337murk

Жыл бұрын

Rarely giving compliments isn't a Brit thing, that is just a you thing.

I am so addicted to this channel. I am new to this channel and I am spreading your link to my groups!!! 26 years mixing and recording and I am still on year 5 of your channel. I have bought into all of your called out bullshit for years. Thanks for your no BS approach. It’s not to late for anyone to learn!!!

My biggest problem with the minimal tonal differences between different guitar hardware or whatever is that they can be negated by putting a simple eq in front of the signal chain, and as a bonus you get actual control over your tone

@cycomiles4225

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, but you are actually using sone brain. Guitars are mythical things and tone is a mythical mistress never to be heard unless you buy the newest or oldest crap there is.

@captainkirk70

Жыл бұрын

I agree. I only change things if they make it more playable. Like if the bridge is total crap I might change it out for a mid-priced replacement. There is def some really shitty hardware on cheap guitars. But I'll go for a new bone nut cut properly before changing out tuners.

@captainkirk70

Жыл бұрын

An EQ is the most overlooked pedal in the world. I see most pro boards dont have one either. I don't bother with any pedals usually because I'm a straight in to the amp kinda guy. But certainly an EQ is probably the most important next to a tuner. Especially if it has a Level setting.

@tommilitello198

Жыл бұрын

I’ve told people that for decades,falls on deaf ears

@bassyey

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, but EQ isn't a hype pedal. Who uses a loser pedal like EQ? Just kidding. Who would've thought that a device that adjusts the volume of specific frequencies would affect tone. Jfc guitar players. You know what, even bass players have figured this out, their preamp pedals almost always have 3-4 band EQ, why? Because it actually changes the tone.

always putting out the best videos. this one was very informative thanks buddy

Im so happy with my bass 6string Harley Benton prog series (150€). Great sound and feel. It is my main bass for playing live. If it get stolen, i buy another one

@SpectreSoundStudios

Жыл бұрын

I really must review one for the show!

@thomasr.5443

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, me too! Ok, it's guitars in my case, from a silly 69€ Stratkit to a cheap 199€ Explorer like axe. They all play really well.

@PooNinja

Жыл бұрын

I love my HB axes

As a (terrible) bass player myself, I really really like Roger Glover. But his studio work is INSANE. The man knows exectly how to fill in the blanks and he's good enough that even when he didn't do a lot in live performances Blackmore and Gillan could just go crazy, no rythm guitar needed. After 25 years throwing tantrums because I really wanted to see Deep Purple live, I did it this year and HOLY SHIT, does the man deliver.

Hello from Detroit! Always a Good Friday morning with coffee and Glen.

@SpectreSoundStudios

Жыл бұрын

Good morning! Just had my walk, now time for coffee here, too!

Wow, you actually posted the VC video on a friday. Nice work Glenn 👏👏👏

@SpectreSoundStudios

Жыл бұрын

You’re welcome! Buy a shirt :p

well as always....thanks for a great video. Be safe and skilful. Pinge

I'm starting to think that even the engineers of these iconic guitar tones didn't realize that the speaker is the most important part of a signal chain. I hope this means that your name will go down in music history cuz that's a really important discovery.

@captainkirk70

Жыл бұрын

Oh for sure brother. People didn't talk about speakers back in the day. There weren't nearly as many options. If you wanted a Marshall Cab you got what was in it. If you bought a Fender same deal. You only replaced speakers if it was blown in my memory. Some people preferred vintage cabs but they wouldn't change out speakers in a new cab. They would just go with it. Rhoads and Van Halen would have speakers they liked but the common musician just trusted the speakers that were in them as just fine. Jim Marshall put no thought into the actual design of Marshall cabs he just tried to make the cab as small as possible to hold 4x12 speakers. He got lucky. They are still thought of as some of the best cabs around. I love them.

I’m a bass player and the bass player jokes are what attracted me to this channel in the first place! 😂 Keep it going! 👍🏽

@restojon1

Жыл бұрын

I OrlSo BaYse PlAyr. I dID a ReaDIng, yUmMy CrEyOnnz

Bass player - I got a Mesa/Boogie WD-800 Lightweight and man has it been a savior. Our sound guy for one band has been so much happier with that and I don't cart my amp around. When we play outside, I bring the big ol' amp just in case and don't need to mess with the settings much at all. Other band I play with is an in-house band and nothing ever changes - same deal: barely need to mess with settings (I just put little marks on the head to make it simple). I used to cart the big stack around for no good reason. I wear in-ear monitors, we always go through pro sound systems. Basically I only use the amp for home and a backup outdoor. I wish someone would have explained that a long time ago and I would have saved an absolute ton of cash.

Ian Hill and Cliff Williams. BOTH have been the epitome of bass players doing their jobs. Being the groove in their rhythm sections. Extremely simplistic, and anyone “can play” the songs. No one can replace those two or even fill in.

Although Mr. Vai said tone is in the fingers. He does talk extensively about how he gets his sound from his speakers and mic distance. He seems very well aware that his tone is from his speakers. When he said tone is on the fingers, I think he was referring to the style. But that is Vai and the rest of us are mere mortals lol

I just wanna say I'm a big fan of that transition from metal guitar to chill flute music at 20:43🍂

2 good mics for snare bottom are the beta 57, (very different from the standard sm57, and if you can find a series one beta 57, even better) and my current go-to the sm98, and the advantage of the 98 is it’s small size so it’s easy to get it where you want to get what you like (I try to get mine between the centre of the snare and about ⅓ of the way across, but keep it focussed on the snare strainer, get your position right and you can negate how much spill you get from the kick drum

I’ve played bass for forty years. I love your bass player observations.

An episode about Eastern Bloc guitars, amps, and pedals would be super-interesting. Also, +1 for Ryan at 60 Cycle Hum; that dude rules. Love the crazy psychedelic shit he comes up with sometimes.

@fonzy781

Жыл бұрын

I’d love to see Glen try a Skervesen Raptor

When you do the string test, try some Flat Wound strings to hear a MASSIVE difference in why strings matter a lot.

@captainkirk70

Жыл бұрын

I like flat wounds on basses. Makes using a pick sound closer to fingers. Less clackey-clack. IMHO.

@captainkirk70

Жыл бұрын

Also I think flat wounds are good for slow doom on guitar. When youre moving at a snail's pace it helps with string noise and anything you dont like about the sound can easily be EQd out. Most ODs can get bright as hell.

@ravenmad9225

Жыл бұрын

Flat wounds are great until you try to do a pick slide.

I was a young musician when the Line 6 AxSys212 was first released. A friend got one and it had so many options to play with that he could do whatever he wanted. We used it live but never in the studio, because we never recorded anything. It was the perfect amp for a garage cover band. To have that for $400 and just run right into the PA would have been a dream.

Glenn "what speakers are in that?" Fricker

Man I just recognized who you are. I've been watching you for months and something was familiar with your voice. So on a whim a just added what I thought your last name was and.. lo and behold you are exactly who I thought you were. Man I remember 20 years ago hearing your name whispered like a myth or something amongst harder music scenes and then you ended up all over our local rock station 97X.. though I think back then it was still called 97.7 Pirate Radio. Just wild to see you on video instead of just hearing you over the radio. I also feel ancient now. Thanks for the great vids man.

Guthrie Govan just has digital modelling, the Ax Fx I believe, that he uses on Tour with Hans Zimmer. And he’s one of the best guitarists alive.

@cycomiles4225

Жыл бұрын

Kiko Loureiro uses quad cortex... although seeing how their software has massive security issues i doubt be is happy about thst...

Cheers glen have a good weekend dude 👊🏻

GLEEEENNNNNN!!!!!!! I have to say i really appreciate all that i learn watching this channel. I started building guitars and doing home recording in 2020 since my band went tits up. And i knew jack shit about both building and recording guitars. Glenn, your advice has helped me save money and kept me from wasting time listening to the tone snobs who insist that spending wads of cash is the only path to a quality sound. I can build a guitar for a fraction of the cost, and have a great custom instrument that sounds and plays just as good. And i have learned so much from using the Ampknob by Bogren, which has saved me so much time on chasing a good sound and let me get to whats important: writing actual music. Thanks Glenn!

I really enjoy this show, great work Glenn!

I would love to see a video with building a “budget” live rig using something to the effect of a tonex and some kind of amp in a box or pedal platform amp.

@SpectreSoundStudios

Жыл бұрын

Ok!! I can do that!

@brianrobichaud4798

Жыл бұрын

@@SpectreSoundStudios Glenn! Keep up the great content. I discovered your channel as i started getting back into guitar as an “adult” and you have really helped quell my desire to buy gear.

@Giovanni_Frau

Жыл бұрын

Great idea! A Tonex with a multi-effects unit and a speaker/power cab would be a great video 👍😎

@dannydazzler

Жыл бұрын

Yes please. I have been following this channel for 3 months now. I am watching from Antarctica - I am cut off from everything until after winter, but because I have internet I have been able to trial Amplitude 5 and I liked it so much - I bought it! So glad to be living in a time when I can source more tones for my guitar than ever before and yet couldn't be any further away from civilisation. When I return home, I plan on going in the direction of amp modelling.

@NuclearHeadshot

Жыл бұрын

​@@SpectreSoundStudios I've used a Harley Benton GPA-100 amp to great effect. It's less than $100, and combined with a Boss DS-2 and a used Valveking cab I got the fundamentals of metal for $300. It's plenty loud and very musician-friendly with knobs and buttons.

Guitar max did a video last week about Jimi Hendrixs speaker cabinet and they said Jimi blew the speakers and fender replaced them with JBLs which is the one they always replaced them with!!! Love you brother and have a blessed day!!

You're so bang on about Traynor and their amps! Ignored for so long but they can hang with some of the best vintage Marshall and Fender tones around. Heck even their recent stuff is so underrated. My main set up is a Darkhorse 15 head into a vertical Traynor YBX 2x12 cabinet with Vintage 30s. Got turned on to the head when I saw Patrick from Sloan. All his main live rig amp wise was 2 of those heads into 4 Traynor 4x12s. With his pedal setup, holy shit did it sound great!! Bought the head used for $350 and the cab brand new 8 years ago when they were $515. Now the head currently retails for $799 and the exact same cab is now $1099!! I know inflation has accounted for some of the increase but I'm betting that demand has too, but this setup is still way cheaper than almost all the big name stuff and sounds as good is not better. Plus Traynor STILL manufacturers all their stuff in Canada!

Love the nod to Ian! Solid as they come. 🤘

Hey Glenn! I've seen Austrian Audio LDCs on your show a number of times, but never the CC8 SDC. I bought a stereo pair of those for live drum overheads and they're AMAZING. They're a pretty dark mic (does not give you that "nice little sizzle" out of the box), but the highs are very smooth and can be boosted with EQ with no nastiness or harshness. Great dynamic range and detail. These are really great sleeper mics and I think people need to hear how good they are! Also, my new favorite snare mic is the Beyerdynamic M201tg. Also worth checking out.

The last thing in your signal chain is the microphone and the soundman's mood.

Hey Glenn, Ive been looking at getting a second mesa cabinet so that I can experiment with trying out some different speakers, but even a 2x12 is like $1000 brand new which is insane. Have you ever done a shootout where you compare the same speaker cones in different cabinets? Im wondering how dramatically the sound would change by using the same speaker in a mesa cabinet vs a non mesa cabinet. My 4x12 has V30s and I kind of think it sounds like crap, where my rectoverb combo has a Mesa Black Shadow which I absolutely love, so Id love to see what else is out there beside the V30. Thanks!

I'm offended because you dissed my expensive purchase. 😅

Actually, the AIR between the speaker and your ears is the last piece of the signal chain. I wonder whether anyone has tested for air pressure, altitude, and humidity and whether it affects tone.

@travisspaulding2222

Жыл бұрын

Yes, it is actually in physics textbooks. The environment you're in affects the way your amp will sound. Back in the day before storage units were commonly climate controlled, I always hated practicing in the winter because my amp would sound like ass until we were able to get the room warmed up. I was really happy to move on from storage units, lol.

A few months ago I posted on a Bugera forum about my 6262 (6505+ clone) being too fizzy at the top end. I got a dozen comments about "change the fuzzy stock tubes". I tried to argue the point that it wouldn't make any difference but it fell on deaf ears. What DID help? I outfitted an old Line6 Vetta cab with a pair of WGS Retro 30s and another pair of ET65s in an X pattern. Guess what? Fizz gone. Amp kicks ass and I don't need n EQ in the loop to tame fizz anymore. Still has stock tubes. Sounds great. Speakers ARE tone.

Some of my favorite guitar tones come from di setups where no cab and mic was in use,Nile Rodgers ,George Harrison,they plugged straight into the console on some songs

I've been done with amps for several years now for home and live on everything I play - guitar, bass, drums, mandolin. YMMV Great point on not being able to use them past about 2 on the vol knob. I've got a keyboard amp that needs an SUV/Van/truck to haul and good luck with using it past 2.

Y'know, I love gear. I geek out about them, I love exploring settings, I love just messing around. More so than actually writing music. I love playing music, but creating it has not yet become as much an addiction as everything else about playing guitar. And that's okay. Cause I'm not gonna be a pretentious ass about it. Fun things are fun! Saving money while having fun is great too. Rock on, Glenn!

I'm a younger guy, no seasoned show-enjoyer, but ever since covid was over, I went to as many shows as I could (afford), not only enjoying the music and the privilege to having these artists perform for you, but also carefully watching every now and then, what the pros are doing. (and also what the bands I didn't like where doing) And if there are two things, I can say with a certainty now, its two harsh truths not many guitarists of this modern age want to hear: 1.) Your sound doesn't really matter all that much. Make it nice, make it loud, make it work. You have an original JCM 800 that has a little bit of Slash's spit on it? Nobody cares. Literally. Think about this: It's a metal show, smart people wear ear protection, which will alter the sound, and the not so smart don't wear it - and it shows. I know that when I'll play live one day, I'll not bring a good ol back breaker, but make it a challenge to make my rig as small as possible. 2.) Super fast, but directionless guitar solos are completely uselss. Because you literally can't hear them. I know kind of get the 'Slayer Solos', cuz all the audience hears at most is you playing something something super fast, it might aswell be random. Bring in melody, what happened to harmony? Shred in between the high points for the wows, but don't. forget. the melody. A dude who confidently plays exactly 16 notes in the entire 8 bar solo section, but plays the right ones is a hundred times cooler than the one who shows that he can play the minor scale at 400bpm.

Hey Glenn! Longtime fan, love your videos man. I stumbled upon a supposed technique to refresh bass strings, basically it involves loosening them up to squeeze out the grime, and then aggressively snapping them against the fretboard to make it detach. KZread channel "MarloweDK - Bass lessons, licks and low notes" covers this technique, I was wondering whether you've heard of it before and what your thoughts on it are, do you reckon it could work? I'd try it myself, but I just bought a fresh set of strings. Greetings from Slovakia!

I don’t know if you’ve done it before but I think it would be cool to see what a Neural DSP style amp sim sounds like when you disengage the plug-in cab and run the signal through a physical cab.

@colelewis9940

Жыл бұрын

Not as good as the Axe FX or Helix would.

I know Satriani is not metal to its core, but he does hit alot of great high gain tones. In interviews, he has claimed he moved from vintage 30's and greenbacks to T75's recently. The point is, even Satch has realized the speaker is the end game. And as far as his tone from clean to high gain, is glorious. Cant be argued with.

@ArinKambitsis

Жыл бұрын

Didn’t he forgo the use of amps altogether on his last album?

@jatenten

Жыл бұрын

@@ArinKambitsis Yeah he did, used the stock Sans Amp plugin with ProTools, he claims. But live he says he uses Marshall bottoms with T75's.

I LOVE you Glenn. You've already saved me hundreds, maybe thousands

Hi Glenn, possibly cabs didn't get opened to ID speakers in sessions back in the day, as battery drill-drivers weren't so much a thing. Maybe the users couldn't be bothered. If it sounded good - it was good. Taking the rear panel screws out of 4x12 with a screwdriver is such fun.

GLENN!!!! From what I've heard, they were likely using a Marshall 1965 or a 1975. The 65 had Celestion G10L 35 speakers. So that might be a place to start looking!

Dear Mister Benton, I've been playing bass for 25 years and I LOVE EVERY bass players jokes you've made so far. I'm not being sarcastic and I LOVE your show. I live in a town near Montreal named Longueuil (Good luck prononcing that) and I would LOVE to record at your studio. I don't know when but, it has to happend.

I know this channel is for high gain tones but I would really like to see you test out tone wood on acoustic and classical as well. Is this something you could consider?

Wow you really have a lot of great points in this vid being my third comment- I bought a 100 watt JVM210H and all it has gotten me was Community Service in my town of Roselle and my teenage son laughing at me after dealing with the police I had no clue they were at the door and my sons pictures and Baseball Trophies were vibrating and bouncing on the wall as he told me later- But I never had to play a gig that loud! 30 watts with my Hughes and Kettner has proven to be sufficient and I had bought a Quilter 101 years back which as an alternative to Tubes has been a great choice for gigging! Power is not everything Grow Up you sleepy dreamers haha.

I'm a bass player.. Michael Anthony and Gene Simmons.. two of the most underrated bass players... The way Anthony filled the space. And Gene Simmons has a lot cool licks that he's put into several songs... They seem to be pretty smart guys.

I bought a Vintage 30 for my combo a while ago because I was watching your older videos and you mentioned them a lot and said speakers were important. Then you started saying the V30 is overdone and totally unoriginal so I felt bad about it. But then you tried one of the 2022 ones and loved it so much you made an IR of it. So I could feel good about it again.... I realise myself and a lot of other people need to figure out why someones opinion on something as insignificant as 'what gear is best' is taken personally. Somehow I don't think it's really about the gear, or even music at all.

GLEEENN!! I just got my sticker and I am going to put it on my stage hand hard hat. I work at a major music venue with major musicians so we are gonna see how this goes lol

I realized that the speakers are the main key of the sound when, using amplitube, changing the cabinet changed the sound a lot more than other devices on the signal chain. Ppl should try doing this and listen the results.

I have a 1x12 egnater cab that I was considering swapping speakers in. I almost put a UK made V30 I had lying around until I realized it wouldn't hand my 50 watt marshall clone by itself. I'm not stuck on tbe V30 sound. It sounds good, but I already have a cab with 30's. I thought about greenbacks but have the same issue. Is there a greenback voiced speaker that could go in a 112 cab that would handle a 50 watt amp?

Al Cisneros made me want to sell every guitar related thing I own and play bass

Turns out you've improved enough to have haters calling you a "guitar god" Keep it up!

Glenn! I had a question about your experience with Teespring (now just Spring) for your merch store. My band has had a Spring store for a few years, which we do advertise and link to on our social channels and on our CD cover. We kind of set it up to set it and forget it, so it doesn't get much traffic. We have only had about 10 items purchased thru that shop and about 1/2 of them had quality issues and took forever to be fulfilled. Most of those items were ordered in Jan/Feb of 2023. I looked thru some reviews of Spring and there seemed to be a pretty significant increase in negative reviews during those months. I know you have used The Spring store for some years and I am curious what your experience has been. Love the channel! We self-produced or first CD using real drums in a crappy room with budget gear. Mixed and mastered it ouselves as well. We are happy with how it turned out, although there is definitely room to improve. We aren't so concerned with how the first one sounds anymore, as long as the next one sounds better. Thank you for all the advice and the encouragement to just keep working at it till we get it right.

I think tonewood and subtle differences in pickups makes a difference, just not when you've got tons of gain and using emg's. If you're playing something clean, like chicken picking, it can make a large difference. For metal, it's pointless to obsess over it though.

I had a 70's Traynor for a while. It was fastic sounding, but WAY too loud for my needs. These amps are built like tanks. Apparently they used to drop them off the roof of the factory as a durability test. If all they had to do was replace the tubes and it still worked, it passed QC. 😂

Glenn: perhaps you remember traben basses? The singer from skillet played one. Their selling point was the bridge that was extra large and goes into the body, adjusting the tone of the bass. However, I don’t think they exist anymore

You added CHAPTERS! Thank you!

Hey Glenn! I own a shecter hellraiser c1 2007 like yours. I seemed to be experiencing buzzes in few frets when bending. And my tune goes out quiet often. Any suggestion?

Man I had a killer Peavey Classic 400 bass amp and an ampeg 8x10 cab and I never got it much past 1.5 at local shitbox venues. I loved the preamp tone so I carried the 120lb head around and the fridge cab…but once I found an MXR bass DI I made the switch to that a power amp and an old ass Peavey 4x12 bass cab.

Your in top form man! Knockem out! Great vid!

If it's the LEAST I can do, I already subbed and bell'd a looooong time ago mate

@SpectreSoundStudios

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Ty!

I run a helix stomp live. Sounds great, is small and doesn't need new tubes :D (I owned a rectifier before, changing the tubes cost like half of the helix).

I was a sound guy (this ONE time). I was helping my friend's band, which was a quartet, and the sound guy at the bar, thinking we were a quintet, asked me some questions I didn't know how to answer. Taking him to ask an actual member he did. After that, he said, "So I gotta go..." and I ended up working center house which was situated NEXT TO ONE OF THE MONITORS, which were also situated on the wall, BEHIND THE FUCKING BAND. After all my bedroom mixing, I would love to explore working analog sound but fucking hell I never wanna do that again... Final note, they didn't have house gear. A couple of the members literally had to rush to a local guitar center and spend around $120 just for mics and mic stands for any spares they had at home were the next county over.

@soundman1402

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Damn! I'd never play that bar again!

Hey Glenn, I had the thought while watching your video on the solar X type. If you were to use 2 different mics on a cab during recording and have each one on their own track, would that have the same affect as double tracking something or would it be the same as just taking one track and copying it into another slot? Hope that makes sense. Thanks in advance cheers!

@marshallfairbrother7602

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You would end up running into issues with phase

@soundman1402

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It depends on how you place the mics. If they're right next to each other, that's actually pretty common... A Royer 121 ribbon next to an SM57 is a classic combination for recording guitar. In this case, you want to place the mics as close to each other as possible to avoid phase cancellation, and to get the exact same speaker sound; you then blend the two mics together to get the tone balance you're after. The ribbon sounds thick and gooey, the SM57 adds some sizzle. If you want to get stereo width out of using two different mics, that can work... It's better if you can place the two mics on two separate speakers to get some additional shift in tone. I've done this and it sounded good (ribbon on one speaker, tube SDC on the other). I got a bit of width to the sound that was pleasing. However, it's not the same as double-tracking. With double tracking, you're recording two separate performances; and the best musicians in the world cannot eke out the EXACT same performance. Even if you had a precision robot playing the guitar, the strings will vibrate differently (thus sound different) due to environmental conditions, minute changes due to wear, etc. This is why you end up with a very wide stereo field with double tracking; the two sides, though the same, are also quite different. You can't get that level of difference from two mics and one performance.

Aaron rash actually proved this in his nirvana tone ventures

4:44 what is that guitar and where can I find one?

I don't understand why musicians still have to argue today by raising the volume of their instruments on stage when with little money and by dividing the expenses you can get yourself a good IEM system with integrated mixer so you can decide what you want to hear and at what level without making the sound engineer angry.

@martin-1965

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And you can play ANY venue - if you carry a small monitor desk with you - and always get a perfect mix for each band member. Yup, IEMs are a game changer and it means the huge bands can play toilet venues for warm ups without having to rely on the battered monitor rig in house :)

What tonewood is used in those fractal systems?

True about the tubes. They cannot be used as intended anymore.

Have you tried any powered guitar cabinet? I’ll probably try the Headrush FRFR. It comes with Headrush speakers, but I haven’t seen anyone talk anything about it. Good speakers?

Speaking of neodynium, MarkBass have a guitar branch, named DV Mark. A 4x12 comes in at under 20kg. You CAN navigate that up a narrow staircase alone.

Great shoutout to 60 Cycle Hum.

OK OK OK, I believe you about the speaker, spme back to back with popular speakers would be brilliant, help the customer out in the minefield of different options

?? What do you think of Creambacks? I love them and they seem to work great for any application. Which is very important to me as I only have one cab.

I like to blend speakers and amps, its easier to tweak the sound after with EQ to sound like the tone in your head.

I’ve been using line 6 amp modeling for almost 10 years now. They’ve definitely come a LONG ass way. I started using the Pod XT live for effects only, into front of amp. But when I started doing fly dates, (HD 300 by then) I couldn’t bring the amp. Had to just use the pedal direct. The sound was barely acceptable (classic rock tones). But, now I’ve got the helix. It’s pretty great going direct. As easy to setup as a direct box. I think we’re one generation of musicians away from nobody lugging amps to gigs, and the only stage volume being drums.

@itsjustme8947

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Once upon a time, mentioning Line 6 here was considered a war crime. The more you know, lol!

Gleeeeeen, do you think it is worth to change the speaker in a modeling amp, lets say a Fender Mustang GTX100. It comes with a celestion speaker but I don't know how good it is. It sounds good to my ear but I'm only a couple years into guitar learning.

Love the show Glenn. Just sharing my own thoughts - My dad bought me my first guitar 20 years ago which I still own and play today - A 2nd hand Epiphone Les Paul copy, made in Korea. My dad and I both found the standard pickups that came with Epiphone a bit too 'screechy' and I'd hear awful feedback overpower the chords I was holding and letting ring out. Dad put in some Dimarzio pickups and we both thought it sounded amazing. The cost (guitar & pickups) $500 total, a bargain. I agree with everything you're saying in regards to certain guitars & pickups offering very little improvement for an overblown price-tag.. but I think it is fair to suggest: - buying a cheap guitar and throwing in certain pickups is a great way to save money and get the best out of your guitar. Keep on keeping it real. Watching all the way from Antarctica 🎸❄

@martin-1965

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Hey Danny - how's the weather in Antarctica? I guess when you crank up the guitar you can only annoy the local wildlife and icebergs :) I have to agree 100% about upgrading pickups and sometimes the electronics as a whole on a cheap guitar. For a few hundred bucks you can turn a good guitar into a monster. I have an old Epiphone LP but the pickups that came with - Korea built - are superb so haven't changed them. On a few others, changing the pickups has just made them so much better at high volume and upgrading the pots means I can control the feedback and get much better control over the sound and level of gain when playing live. It's sent me down a rabbit hole though and now I love fixing up guitars and plan on making it a nice little side earner when I retire (if that day ever comes lol) 😎

@itsjustme8947

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I hear that in Antarctica it gets cold enough that if you play your guitar outside, you don't hear any music and the notes just freeze and fall into a nice little pile in front of the amp. You mind checking the veracity of this claim and reporting back?

@66fitton

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@@itsjustme8947 🤣

@dannydazzler

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We have a small building where we can jam and turn up. Few fender guitar amps, drumkit and a JBL p.a does everything we need. We are losing daylight hours. Sun rises at 1130 and sets near 160 and soon we lose all sunlight so it will be dark just like my heart and even the most depressing Alice In Chains covers won't express how I feel someday 🤣

@alanjamesh.zamorano1677

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​@@dannydazzler That is so metal

NOw that I have a halfway decent modeller, my favorite thing to do is mix and match amps and speakers while tweaking all the knobs. I've found some really fun tones that way.

Speaking of bridge materials affecting tone, what are your thoughts on "tone blocks" or "sustain blocks" for Floyd Rose bridges? Most of my guitars have a FR tremolo system on them, and I frequently see this as a mod, but it always makes me raise an eyebrow of skepticism. Does a 32mm vs 37mm chunk of brass really make a difference? Does brass vs steel vs tungsten even matter? Hell, they even have one made out of granite. Seems absurd... (Edit: Maybe they should make one out of tone wood.)

Unpopular opinion: ANY music instrument/audio gear that costs over ~1000 euros/dollars falls into the "law of diminishing returns" category. Sure you can get it if you can afford it and want to get it, but it's not the most efficient and bang-for-the-buck road to the tone you have in mind. Remember the Pareto principle: 80% of the tone will come from 20% of the equipment, ie the speaker.

You should make a playlist with all the reviews of gear you actually think is decent, to make it easier for us to find out what products we should trust/ investigate. Also, selfishly, i would appreciate one for amplifiers at the moment. I gotta get rid of the like 6 spider i got from my parents as a gift back when i started playing because it does not do my guitar justice.

I loved those Oktava mics. Wish that I never would have had to sell them. Had a buddy who worked at Guitar Center back in the day who turned me onto them and he told me that the buyer went to Russia and was shown this warehouse full of their stock. When they asked hi how many he wanted he said, all of them which is why they were such a deal.

@soundman1402

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Apparently Oktavas had a lot of potential, and Mike Joly started Oktavamod to upgrade some of the components in the mics such as the capacitors... These Oktavamod mics were said to hang with the big boys. Never used one myself, though.

Glenn, thanks for everything on this channel. You really have saved me a lot of money and turned my attention to stuff that actually matters. Much appreciated ! Any predictions for future gear, software or types/directions of technology we haven't seen yet? Or something on the horizon you predict to be huge? You rock!! Greeting from Denmark!!

Hi glen - I really appreciate you, keep up what you’re doing. Regarding tube vs transistor amps I have a point to make: it is entirely possible to make a tube circuit that is transparent, and it is also possible to make a transistor amp that is coloured and rich with harmonics. The real shame is that the manufacturers don’t explore these areas more than they do, and instead, choose to push dated marketing stereotypes onto newer generations of buyers. Capitalism didn’t always mean lazy exploitation.

Crazy how much tone is from the speaker. I used my 5150iii preamp out- in direct to a computer, and just drastically sounds different