I am an independent guitarist and songwriter from Southern Maine. I write, perform and record original Americana, rock and blues. In 2013 I was selected by Joe Bonamassa as a Guitar Center Blues Masters Grand Finalist, and played with Joe and his band in Los Angeles. I am a husband, father, surfer, painter, martial artist, and sous chef of fine family cuisine.
On my KZread channel you'll find a mix of original music and guitar videos. It's been my great pleasure to work with many independent gear companies and help them create content to sell their guitars, amplifiers and pedals. If you are a builder interested in collaborating on demo work, please email [email protected]
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It's a shame that kids are less likely to pick up instruments now as the beginner grade guitars are so good it's getting hard to justify the big name brands.
hi! i have the DC tour excel, a very good guitar....did you compare SS and DC ( i saw you premier DC vidéo) ? wondering if the SS realy sounds more jazzier or different from the DC ( im now looking for the more expensive excel versions with seymour duncan pick ups in it)
An absolute steal. Which begs the question - who is the company stealing from?
Great price point and excellent video. One thing I don't understand about all these "budget" rounded "ball" stainless steel fretted guitars. Why can't they cut the frets to near edge of the fret board? The necks are computer routed so the width of the neck should be exact for each neck made. The same is true for this guitar if you go to their website and look at the closeup as they show "ball-end" frets. This guitar really looks outstanding for the price point, but if they would simple work this out they'd kick the final product to the next level. Have to wonder if all these makers buy the frets from an outside supplier with incorrect precut fret measurements.
What's the weight ??
Great review. Thanks
To me the Peavey looks and sounds way better than the Fender. The blues Jr. sounds almost muffled or something. The Peavey sounds clear, articulate and present even with drive.
The black and silver is sick.
Got to add another T style to my collection. I only add quality guitars that are affordable.
Absolutely fantastic have a wonderful day Jack also happy independence day to the United states ❤😊
No mention of woods used? Not even on the website; come on man ☹️
Like the color!
How's the switch and knobs ❓
Just picked up an Epiphone LP Junior. Great value
It makes me think of Florida. Not my thing looks wise but totally my thing sound wise.
It certainly is pretty
The thing about this guitar is they ship to Canada. 99% of any of these magic cheapie guitars do NOT ship to Canada.you read that ...NEVER ship to Canada.
Blue guitars are better for playing the blues innit
You won't find any alder, ash, maple or mahogany here.
Maple fretboard. Maple neck.
Today I played my Harley Benton left-handed. TE 90 it’s the bomb
great bang for the buck for sure
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A good, honest review. Interesting history too so Thank you! Beautiful guitars but because of the bowl shape (which I love aesthetically) yes they always feel like they are slipping off my leg and I’m chasing the dang thing 🥺
Here's a suggestion, why doesn't everyone just worry about their own guitar set-up and worry less about what some other person is doing. World would be a lot happier place if people would just attend to there own affairs.
1299.00 for a Epiphone Les Paul Custom 490/498 Pickups Mahogany Body Ebony Fretboard USA Electronics VS 5500.00 for a US Model is a fantastic value
Always love your videos Jack! Got a 5420t a couple days ago, in blue like the one in your video, love the tone and bigsby, I lowered the action to my liking and dig the feel better, so far only been playing it at home through Fender Deluxe Reverb, Fender Red Knob Champ 12 and my little BlackStar ID Core 10, it’s fun to play, and will test it out more in upcoming live shows to see how I bond with this big beast. My favorite tones is through a clean Fender tube amp, delay & reverb for a Surfy Rockabilly vibe. Pure and simple, then step on a Tube screamer pedal for some occasional dirtier leads. Happy 4th Everyone!
Add a boost pedal and the blues junior wins, you dont need fx loop and you dont need the extra 15 watts. Also, when something goes wrong you dont want to deal with that folded circuit board inside the peavey.
I own a Blues JR I/The first US-made model with that crappy hum noise when you dial in the reverb. The Bass and Mid knobs are very effective but the Treble kicks in not before 6-7.
I swapped my Blues Deluxe Reissue with a Roland Blues Cube. The taper of the Fender BDR is nonsense. I know you don't play that amp at home but even in a band it's so hard to adjust the right volume of that thing. And when it sounds good it is just too f.... loud. Too heavy, too loud and not able to sound good when loud - only when earbleeding loud. Nonsense.
Lovely pedal, i must confess im a stacker 🙊🙊🙊 it is a lot of fun to stack this pedal with others , boost mode seems not only to boost volume but to change eq and harmonics on a magic way. 🤗🤗
I use them as a mod platform. Have 2 which I changed a lot of parts on. The frets needed dressing and I polished them. I put in better tuners, wiring and pickups and brass saddles. Oh and electro socket output jack. One has tone Hatch pups in it thats the blonde and the Mary Kay has Seymour Duncan Antiquity pups. They punch way above the dollars invested...they both setup and intonate excellently.
I have a 90s Uk Guvnor, and i must say yours sounded better than mine (surely because of player fingers ) 😂🙊🙊. I liked it but was not at all impressed by its sound but i think it is right as you said they are classics and more collectible pedals , strange my Ehx Operation overlord sounded similar to my ears (the boost side , and with right amount of mix ) , i also have the Marshall Guvnor II Gv2 (very different tone to my ears but has it charm ,also i ve tried it at 18v🙊🙊 ) , Blues Breaker BB2 (really like this pedal 🤗 both modes boost and drive ) and the Vibratrem Vt1 (really not bad 😁, i used it to split signal towards 2 amps ,nice pedal ) . Great video as always 🙂👍👍
I still have my 1975 red Ovation. It still sounds like the first day I bought it.
Killer playing and demo. Gonna have to steal some of those licks.
I had Crate combo amps starting out (yeah I’m getting old.) but around 2006, I found a coworker selling his 1994 TRRI for $800. Just for kicks, I offered him $550, and he took it! First time I plugged in my 2002 American Strat, I remember thinking, “Ah, there’s the tone!” Pure Yellowledbetter vibes!
I find mine too loud and harsh and that's why I don't enjoy playing through it the odd time I do.
Gibsons #1 selling guitar😊
I really dig overdriven Firebird tones in a MAJOR way. Great examples are stuff by .38 Special and this... kzread.info/dash/bejne/ZmWgpK6zmKi0dZs.htmlfeature=shared I HATE playing firebird's however. I really want to put together a custom Tele with Firebird pickups - anyone out there with experience doing this who can provide some tips in how to go about doing this to get as close to that classic Firebird tone with a Tele?
I have boot, greath Amps, but C30 beats the Junior, mine haves some tweeks, only a few Caps, cheap mods in my guitar signal, also the Junior is Modded, but C30 is my Amp
Jack, Love the videos you put out, everything is so well explained and you show the amp settings and pedals that you are using, something a lot of channels fail to do. BTW loved the AC10 with the Ric.
I have two the first Chinese one and the current one, I play the current one when I’m playing Beatles or Shadows stuff
I own 2 Eric Johnson thinline Strats and a maple top Select thinline Strat. They are all right around 7 lbs, and i LOVE them!
Twin every time
Jack, please review the Fender 59 Bassman Tone Master - Arriving October 2024👍
Guys just learned that you could put the Turner on the side of the headstock lol sounds dumb I know but for the Ovation its like learning level hard for a beginner but I also learned that if you tilt your Ovation just high enough you can play them way better!!! IF anybody has more Ovation tips please let me know thank you!
Is the only way to have the two Volume controls linked is to use a patch cord from the one channel to the other? I ask because some other 5E3 models I have seen seem to have the two Volumes in series stock without using a patch cord. Thanks in advance. very well done video. Phil
I like them both 😊
The accoustic amp does help
Picks,picks,picks
Too many electronics dude