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I just sat down to watch this while taking a break from building a baritone guitar because I don't want to pay 1k+ for a new one. And let me tell you. Everything costs a lot. Just a slab of alder was close to 100. I don't have a problem with the prices on new guitars. But they're not for me. I'd pay 5k for a perfect guitar, but I'd rather have a few that do cool things that don't cost more than a few hundred. But that's because I enjoy tinkering and modding. And yes, I'll slap some Porter pickups in it when I get to that point! I can't wait.
Love your channel and your pickups! It definitely is an issue. Especially when the wood quality is no where near as good as it was years ago. The cost has skyrocketed and made it harder to buy instruments. If you do some homework however you can find gear for cheaper (or what used to be the old prices)
Yes, i do believe alot of guitars are overpriced. IE: Fender strat American vs Fender squire strat or mim. For the price difference , i much rather mod a Squire or mim strat than pay for a American strat. I own a number of both. I have a Affinity strat and tele that ive modded and i play them more than my American Strat. Same goes for my Gibson Les Paul vs my Epiphone Les Paul. I paid $179 for my Epi LP and have changed the wiring to a 50's /60's wiring , pots , pickups, tuners, etc. Roughly put $300 into it in all. Plays and sounds much better than my $2800 Gibson. Also, your pickups are in 4 of those guitars. You guys rock!
Well, for a trust fund child, it doesn't matter. If you're living with your parents, same deal. Me... I don't buy any more guitars. I just mod the ones I have and more importantly, just play them. Besides, you buy a new Fender, you're not getting anything special. You're just paying for Fender's high California taxes and cost of living. But yeah... prices increases have far and away exceeded income. Be an adult and just say no.
@@PorterPickups I finally got it to work. I changed the tip to one that is more like a blade and pushed on it for a good solid 60 seconds and it melted just enough that I was able to break the seal. Thanks!
hello! im planning to add a toggle switch on my guitar to activate the neck pickup and i already have a push push split coil on my tone pot for my bridge humbuckers. should I do the same as you did on your add neck strat mod video or is the wiring different now that i have a push push split coil on my tone pot? thanks!!
@PorterPickups Well, get a massage then. You probably deserve it. 😆🤣 Seriously, since I have your ear. Why is it that I don't hear your pickups put through a high gain R&R amp head such as a Marshall or 5150 for example? I've only heard one person do that and I was very pleased with the sonic results. I myself utilize the old school Ampeg VL-502 Lee Jackson modified head. Thanks for your time,,,,,and hard work. 😆
10 years ago, I bought a preloaded Porter Moderns pickguard for my MiM strat. I've had that strat for over 30 years and I've bought many guitars over the years which cost thousands of dollars more. Everytime I pick up that guitar to play it, the tone is always there and I always get comments on how I'm making such a cheap guitar sound so good. Of course I just tell them it's all in the fingers. haha...just playing. I always send them your way. And Marco, if you had anything to do with that preloaded pickguard, I thank you from the bottom of my heart. That strat has been with me since I was 15 and I'll never sell it, and it will always have Porters in it.
Thank you, Marco. I was a walk-in with a pawn shop 96 mij Jackson during covid. You made me the best pickups I could have asked for. It's always been my favorite. Thank you again, Marco. Best of luck.
Noooo. I'll miss you Marco! I loved your playing and unique viewpoints. I wish you the best moving forward. Your ability to accept this change despite your obvious love for the business really speaks to your character. Thanks for coming to say goodbye. I appreciate you.
Yes! You need a no load pot. Otherwise you’ll have the sound of the bridge pickup bleeding a little even with the blend off. * I’m saying that because I made this mistake of using a regular pot
@@erickpontes2564 odd question but I see wiring diagram’s that have the pins 1 (left most) and 2(middle) soldered on the blender pot. A video said to solder the switch connected to the neck to pin 3 instead of pin one so number 10 on the knob actually allows the neck to fully blend in. The wiring diagrams with neck pickup to pin one make it so knob on number 1 is actually full blend. So now I’m confused should the switch be soldered to pin 1 or pin 3?
I have an odd Les Paul Bias to admit: I was 13 in 1984. My 1st guitar was an imitation Les Paul with bolt on neck, made by "GranPrix" guitars. It was the "cheapest" guitar in the shop $159 and the only one my mom would buy me. It would not stay in tune and sounded horrible through the "Gorrilla" practice amp. I hated that guitar and eventually I put a used 70s Stratocaster Neck on it. (😂 that mod was worth the $50 bucks, looked hilarious.) I have to admit that I'm loosing my Gibson Bias. I've been looking at Epiphone LES Paul TV Special. In contrast I just bought Thinline Squire Tele. It does NOT go out of tune. Other then the terrible sounding fake CuNiFe pickups. (I will swap them out) It plays absolutely amazing for $300.
Wow, you guys are clinically incapable of getting to the point, aren't you. Minute after minute goes by while you keep explaining the video title over and over, then make some jokes and comment about your personal comfort... then lose your train of thought and start explaining the title yet again. We saw the title and we clicked it. You needn't waste minutes of our time on end telling what the fxxk we just clicked. Bloggers who don't give a $#!+ for their viewers' time may just be businessmen who don't give a $#!+ for their customers. The pickup replacement business is a crock anyway. If a guitar sound is great, buy it and leave the pickups alone. If the sound isn't great... don't buy it in the first place, because there are so many factors that go into the sound and pickup is just one of them. And if you still feel like replacing your pickups, go read the Wiki page on Placebo Effect, and keep reading that page over and over until the feeling goes away.
As someone who does a lot of recording I’ve come to appreciate the ability to stay perfectly in tune as the #1 quality of a guitar that I’m recording with. I won’t say it’s the only thing that matters but it’s by far the thing that slows me down more than anything else when I have to stop recording to check the tuning of the guitar. Or even worse, throw away an otherwise perfect take because it was slightly out of tune. Even lack of confidence about the tuning can slow things down a lot. This is especially noticeable to someone like me who plays all the instruments, not just guitar. I never have to tune my keyboard. I’ll tune the drum heads once at the beginning of the session, same with the bass. Finding a guitar that has no need to keep checking the tuning is pure gold. It makes it easy to tolerate any other quality.
I think price doesn’t matter to me much. If it’s cheap but just feels good. Then it is good. Unless it has some wack electronics in it. But personally with so much great digital stuff now a days. An EQ pedal and effects can do a lot to give you a great tone. Especially when playing out live. I’m also a mechanic so tinkering with cheap stuff and upgrading it is sorta my jam anyways. But to get into specifics. How the neck and frets feel is most important to me. Most other stuff I can change and improve. But a new neck can be pricey.
