Hello and welcome to my channel. I regularly post about a lot of the cool gear I run into and my thoughts about them as well as a few comparison videos here and there. Thanks for tuning in!
@@Guttural I couldn't tell you the exact measurement's, but my problem with the pickups initially was that they felt a little compressed. So I lowered the pickups until I was able to get a bit more of a snappy, open sound. The pickups are a little warm too so if bring up the treble a bit on my amp, then we get a sound I'm happy with 👍
I have the 40th anniversary version and at first I had the same feeling about the pickups. Both yours and mine are designed to have that vintage feel, so they won't sound "modern." I had to do some tweaking and now I like mine better too - so it's not just you. Also, maybe try different pick types and where you pick. I'm finding that thicker picks take out some of the "bite." Right now, I'm using purple Tortex but I have a bunch of different heavy picks to try out yet. Good luck!
I purchased the Squier 70s Telecaster with the wide range Humbucker in the neck and a little bit hotter single coil in the bridge. The guitar is perfectly balanced and looks & feels and playability is amazing. The wide range Humbucker doesn't take away from the Telecaster twang or tradition. Which I wondered about before buying it , since most come with the Lip stick single coil in the neck. But my fear s are long gone. I absolutely LOVE it and it s in the semi traditional 3 tone Sunburst. I couldn't be happier with the purchase.
I have one of the Chinese ones, swapped the pickups a few times. Then settled on the Fender Pure Vintage ‘64 set. I still have the original bridge pup, might have to throw it in something, to see how it sounds nowadays
I have the sparkly green one, and had the same comments on the sound. It was cool, but in the end I put in some bareknuckle 60s style pickups, and now it's fabulous! Almost as good as my custom shop 60s tele custom!
**UPDATE** After recording this video, I began playing with the pickup height on this guitar, and it made a BIG difference. Now, it sounds much better, I probably should have looked at that before doing this video, but I wanted to give a true opinion on what this guitar is like brand new. So lesson learned!
Rickenbackers are as 'made by hand' as any other Fender or Gibson guitar, meaning they come out of a CNC machine while the sanding and finishing is still done by hand. RIC stopped doing handmade guitars in the late 90s, and it's a good idea anyway: a CNC will produce the same good guitar over and over, which you cannot guarantee with work done by hand.
I was in a Guitar Center, and they had a Ric 325 on the wall in the high-end room. I think the price was $3600. That was a few months ago. I'd bet even money that it is still there. Rickenbacker commands higher prices because of exactly what you said. Like myself, you're a huge Beatles fan. Therefore, they charge us what I call the "Beatle tax." I don't blame them, if people are buying them for that reason, but it's out of reach for many of us.
Thanks for taking the time to share with folks the differences in the two guitars. I am 76 and have been playing for 60 yrs. I am blessed to own a real 1964 with a Bixby and original case. Over the years i have owned every brand name out there at some time. Still have a modest but diverse collection of solid, semi-hollow and holliw bodies. Im not a collector just an old player that appreciates vintage sound. There isnt enough money out there to get my 64' away from me. I'm an old man but i can still throw down. The 1964 P90's on my casino are the epitome of classic sound. Be blessed brother and may God bless you with as many years to play as i have been blessed with.
I have a Vox Cambridge 15, i've bought the amp from a Second hand Music Store for 80$ and its very worth it, and its versatile. Paired with a Yamaha JX 25 amp,that i bought after two months, now i can practice with a much bigger amps, than a small practice amp. These two amps can be used in a gig.
@@Gevin555 I think immediately you will notice the neck is just a little shorter in length. I like it. It's a C shape neck on mine and I would say it sits somewhere in between a chunky and slim neck. The only thing that takes getting used to in my opinion is the small vintage style frets but it's not a deal breaker. Hope that helps!
@@Lucas_Arredondo Ah yes ! First, thanks for that incredibly helpful description, checks all the boxes I definitely will get my hands on one as there are no deal breakers for me so far. Never had an issue with Gibson/Jaguar scale lengths. C shape of any size is my fav. As far as vintage frets go they lend themselves more to chording, sliding on the fretboard with ease. I like guitars that give you that thing "thing you gota get use to" otherwise they would be identical to the guitar before.
All that matters is it sounds good when I bought my fender68 deluxe reverb made in Mexico review said oh your capacitors need to be changed blah blah blah it’s circuitboard crab blah blah Amp has been flawless
My favorite settings by far are the AC15 and the AC15TB. The moment you cranked the master's volume and it staring breaking up, it sounded (to me) like the real AC15. Great video!
@@Lucas_Arredondo You can tell in your video! It just sounds great! Will be nice to listen to it with some pedals in front, like with a tube screamer, blues driver, sd1, klon, Timmy, etc.
Yes! The AC settings on this are the most realistic! Also UK 70's is my favorite but the UK 90's seems to work best if you work the volume knob on yr strat.
Merci pour cette super comparaison. Perso, j'étais hyper chaud pour me prendre une casino, et finalement le manche ne me convenait pas du tout, beaucoup trop fin. J'ai choisi la 335 (qui un manche plus buchesque) et j'en suis vraiment ravi. La palette de sons qui en sort est juste dingue. C'est une inspired by Gibson comme la tienne, et j'en suis plus que ravi. Je pense qu'un jour je choperai une casino, mais aujourd'hui c'était plus raisonnable de prendre l'ES335. En tous cas, ton comparatif aide beaucoup. C'est super de l'avoir fait. Merci.
Every amp is better than Boss Katana. No low end. Very digital. Like an old digital amp. Nothing good with it. No soul, no taste. Don’t buy a Katana. I sold my Katana, best day of my life.
Very interesting; I think the speaker swap improved both amps. The Pathfinder speaker brought a Fender-like clarity to the Cambridge's clean sound and that crunch tone was amazing! The Cambridge speaker, on the other hand, brought some body to the Pathfinder that worked really well for the bluesy overdriven stuff. Having played both myself, they can be dialed in to sound largely the same, but it's interesting to hear the subtle differences side by side. I also really like the Cambridge Blue Bulldog speakers. I currently own three Cambridge 15s and have stolen the speakers out of all of them to pair with other amps. Truthfully, I don't care for them in the Cambridge, but I think they pair really well with Orange amps! FWIW, I really like the Weber Alnico Blue Pup 8 in the Cambridge. I'd love to see Vox reissue a combined/improved iteration with a 10" speaker, the mid boost from the Cambridge (or just a mids control knob), and the reverb from the Pathfinder (but maybe upgrade to a large cab-mounted tank- apparently you can mod a full size tank into the Pathfinder fairly easily). PS- I watched your previous Cambridge video as well. You know about Cambridgeitis and replacing the optocoupler, but another thing to look out for is heat damage on the circuitboard around R66/R67. All four Cambridge 15s I've opened up have had some scorching there. The two parallel 3 watt wirewound resistors (pale green, cylindrical, with 5 colored stripes) should be upgraded to 5 watt wirewounds to better handle the load and heat they're subjected to so it'll last another 25 years. Yours seems to not have much play time on it, so if you don't see anything yet, it'd be a good opportunity to take care of it before it happens- and replace the opto while you're at it!
I love mine. My P15 is the Tremelo version. Same color pattern. I have player it through my 120watt 8 ohms 4x12 Marshall MG series B cab. Brings it alive for that 4x12 tone. But this lil thing is loud with its Blue Bulldog speaker. Definitely get one if you can find one.
As you stated in your previous video on the falcon 20 you are not an amp tech so why would you disagree with the fact this amp is build like a 300 bucks chinese amplifier!?! If you doesn't have the knowledge how can you disagree with something you don't know?! The build quality is pure shit, pcb with tube sockets mounted on it, wtf?!? At that price and for a simple amp like that it must have been a point to point construction, c'mon... For an amp tech point of view this amp is a joke, period. And honestly the tone is not amazing, which is obvious when you see the components quality and the construction!😮
Man I love my ac15 that I’ve had for like 15 years but about 4-5 years ago I splurged when I saw one of these hand wired ones on craigslist nearby. It’s awesome. It just sounds SO good. The 15 has some more features but ive also really fallen in love w the ac4.
I hope you used the pedal in stereo at some point. It's a missed opportunity to do the first impressions video in mono. I have both the delay and the verb and it sounds to me like stereo was the intended use instead of an added option like other compact reverbs/delays (*cough* RV-6 *cough*). Notice that the left input isn't labeled "L (mono)" like other stereo pedals? I don't think that's an oversight.
Well said re price. Let’s not keep trying to drive guitar and amp prices down when Private Equity owners will take any reduction out of the pockets of workers. I worked in PE and know exactly who suffers first, last, and always when costs and prices have to be reduced…
