Getting there... I had a digitech GSP 7 in the early 80's that had a preset called GSP Squirrel. As I remember it sounded a lot like his solo sound. PS... that song is on my top 5 favorite VH songs.
Since we're among Nerds, I'll take this opportunity to point out that on the Letterman Show Ed played a Peavey even though the Peavey Wolfgang hadn't been released on the market yet. And it didn't have its final headstock yet.
Great review and spot on in describing the attributes and potential downsides of the keyboard. I know where your coming from with the ‘stupid questions’ having watched the Myriad of review vid’s myself before purchasing! This is a great keyboard for stage/studio or just playing at home.
I did. I kept it about 28 days. i was just shocked that it actually came to me in this poor condition. I have no idea how it not only made it out of the factory, but how the music store sent it to me after their inspection. Absolutely not cool.
When you said you found a video of someone singing better than Steve Perry I thought you were being serious. Deen did great but he was slightly flat in many areas and no where near as powerful. His range wasn’t the same either. Steve has pretty much perfect pitch. He didn’t even try the angelic part at the end. That’s strike 3
Well the part at the end is not that magical like everyone seems to think. Also, I would love to see Steve play that amazing drum part Deen did while singing. Not possible. I sing and play guitar in my band, and on song I only have to sing I sing much better. I don't have to divide my attention. Deen kills this all while drilling it on the drums. That is simply no easy feat. I don't care who you are....that is hard. But you should listen to Deens solo stuff where he just sing. Might change your mind.
I have my new for me Jem woody in my hands (that sounds odd... :/) and i needed to know how to intonate the zero edge trem. Thanks so much! It's kinda weird that you don't have any kind of mechanism to move the saddle other than sliding it ever so slightly. This really helped!
Get one of the new for 2024 PRS SE models. I bought one and if I close my eyes I cannot tell the difference between that and my Core PRS. Seriously, the new Indonesian ones are THAT good! Only $799 for a damn good guitar!
Man I have played them and I can't find one that I like. Of course they were all hanging on the wall at guitar center and lord knows how many snotty nosed kids have flogged them.
You can hold the Floyd Rose in place by putting a small block of wood (I sometimes use an old 9 volt battery) and use that to hold the tremolo in place. That way you can still get to the screws to tighten the strings. The Ibanez Low Pros are nice, but I still like the Floyd Rose. It's the original! Also, I'm with you on the balls of the strings at the head stock. That looks retarded!
Yeah I have blocked up the rear to hold the trem while I work on it. I do prefer the lo pros. They are just awesome and yes....those damn balls look ridiculous.
@@TraceTaylor3 I got on the internet pretty early on back when famous musicians were just fascinated to get an email on this cool new internet thingy. I was able to email David Paton of Pilot because I just loved the full organic sound of his vocals on Magic. He told me via email that back then the secret to most studios for vocals was the Neumann U87 and that is what he used on his vocals to get such a good sound. I emailed Carol King and she sent me a few bass lessons and the key to her sound was a piece of felt taped over the strings right at the bridge. Established a good email relationship with the guy that maintained David Gilmours equipment and he sent me for free half of an old rotten Star Finder cab like Davids so I could see how it was made and build a proper clone. The internet used to be so cool around 2001.
Hey Trace. New subscriber here. Have to agree on the economy picking thing. Was recently trying to play an old Jan Ackerman lick that is really at the absolute limit of my speed skills. Couldn't play it cleanly or in time. So I carefully figured out a better way to pick it. Starting the phrase on an upstroke and incorporating three economy-picking moves cracked it.
That is awesome. And that is what this video is about....but I must tell you....I have the hardest time starting licks on upstrokes. I will work out a solo that requires to start on the upstroke and damnit if I don't revert right back to starting on a downstroke every time. This little lick I play here...if I start on the up then those 3 big outside stroke turn into inside strokes and I work it out that way....then go right back to the down....so I just worked it out that way. Thanks for the sub my friend.
@@TraceTaylor3 You're welcome. Yes, it's odd to start on an upstroke, but I persisted for this one phrase only. It ultimately helped on this particular phrase, but had the side effect of making upstroke starts feel natural. I guess the goal of learning techniques is to get to the point you don't think about them anymore, and happily I think that has happened for me here. If you want, take a look at the video I made of that piece of music. The video is called 'Just a bit of Tommy (Focus)'.
@@latheofheaven1017 I will check it out right now. And yes. Kind of with economy picking. It took me a minute to get a feel for it and now it pretty much comes naturally.
@@latheofheaven1017 Nice. How do you like that guitar? I have tried them with the frets like that but I always wondered how well they will stay in tune when doing big bends. Do you notice anything different when bending on pitch? Also subed your channel bro.
@@TraceTaylor3 It' a MIM Strat with a retro-fitted True Temperament neck, and I love it. It's a very common question about bending strings, and I wondered myself before I bought it. The truth is, it made no difference. The first day I played it, I think I was slightly tentative as I tried to 'compensate' when bending behind particularly twisted frets, but then after ten minutes, I realised I hadn't been thinking about it for a while and I'd been bending to pitch fine anyway. It makes me wonder about what the process is mechanically and mentally as you bend a string. I used to think it was all about getting used to the feel of the tension of the string, but I'm thinking there's semi-conscious monitoring of the pitch playing a bigger part than I'd thought. Anyway, as I said, bending strings is absolutely fine.
John P ertruci uses jazz picks. Which probably adds 20% speed to any player. Personally I don't like the sharp attack but man it add speed changing nothing to your playing.
I agree. It does add speed and I played with one and still do for years. I just did a video about this very thing talking about how as I have gotten older that I really don't like all that attack anymore. And after trying countless picks, the one I finally landed on. Check it out if you have time. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9BPilI6h3gk.html
This whole explaination is overcomplicated. Whose solo you playing that you can't pick in time? Plus hammer ons and pull offs are used for this reason all the time. Some of the greatest guitarists might pick one of 3 notes but all have the same intensity.
It is complicated. I was explaining the difference in your picking when you have several notes that fall on outside picking and the fact that when making such large strokes as opposed to inside picking how the time of your picking hand cannot stay consistent. These are little things most people don't think about and I am talking about a technique to eliminate it and make it easier. It doesn't matter whose solo you are playing. The physics simply dictate the further you have to move the pick the faster you must move it to say in time with your left hand. The point...if you are having this issue, do this to fix it. And yes, I mention legato playing, but sometimes things need to be picked. Sometimes it just sounds wrong to use legato. And I use the hell out of legato. Then you have to know that not everyone wants to use legato. Some just want to pick everything.
I got faster, more accurate and overall better at picking when i stopped thinking about it altogethor…. I just track my fret work and somehow my picking hand does better that way
That is true....and I try to let me left hand dictate my right hand but sometimes that is hard. Then Occasionally I run into these little issues like this when there is 3 outside strokes and I noticed a slight time drift. Then I have to try and fix it.
Also helps to have time markers in your head of key notes, not try to count all of them. Create groupings of notes, so you’re brain focuses on hitting the exact time for the key notes and the orders fall in to place naturally
@@vinny5004 My brain can’t do that hahaha… you are smarter then me maybe… all my recordings are done without a click or a backing track, and its always perfect time and I literally don’t think at all about timing, becoz im so focussed on the fretboard and not messing up note selection,… i think after 25 years of playing some stuff becomes automatic and some stuff i just can’t develop.
Thanks my friend. Yeah, trying to explain my shortcomings in my head is easy....trying to explain them to someone else....sometimes not so easy. And yes...they are beast.
I have some 1st and 2nd fret buzz on a new jackson dinky with a floyd. Might just change strings to with same or close gauge to see if that fixes the issue
Go with the same gauge and see if it still does it. If it does you might need to adjust the truss a little bit but check the action to make sure it is correct. If it is correct you more than likely have a high spot on the second or third fret.
I bet you think EVH, Zakk Wylde, Alex Lifeson and John Petrucci suck don't you. See they all use Chorus. Also, I sound test with sounds that I use. Comment again when you learn about tone.
My hands are small, so jazz III picks are my choice. The biggest issue i have is finding the right material, the tortex ones get destroyed so fast, i want something that would last forever
Every single time I tighten the edge zero 2 at the bridge, it snaps the top 2 strings. Went through 3 packs of strings. Waste of money, returning it for a Floyd Rose guitar.
Really? I have 4 Ibanez guitars with this bridge, or a low pro and I have never had a single issue out of any of them. Actually, in the 5 years I have been playing Ibanez guitars I have only broke one string. And if you are breaking the E and the A string there is something seriously wrong. I have never broken and E or A in my entire life. It is always the high E or the B. Floyds are good. I have a few of them also with 0 issues, they are just a little bulky it seems. But I have to ask. What do you mean tighten at the bridge? Do you mean the saddles?
But does it not feel like it has been oiled when you pick the strings? It just glides across. I have never had any other pic that feels like this one. But yeah, it doesn't lubricate. Thanks bro.
When I saw the tital of the video I thought you were talking about former ceo of the voltswagon group Ferdinand Piëch. Then I realised your a guitar chanel! LOL!
I picked correctly but I also own an EVH WG Special and an EVH WG Standard. The American sound better in your demo but not by much. I would say the thick maple top on the American gives it more cut and slightly higher mids, which makes it a bit more articulate. Both sound awesome at the end of the day.
Yeah dude....when you start cranking the gain they start to sound very very similar. I play all of them at shows. The American feels better as it should for thousands more....but I can play the standard just as well and rock the life out of it.
I have to be honest, I thought guitar B sounded "better" every time, the difference being that it seemed to have a bit more of a bump in the mid-range making them sound a bit more "full" or "lush", and I completely expected that to be the American, possibly due to the mahogany top, brass block or steel saddles, if not the pickups. - But it turns out it's the Indonesian, so that's kind of "lucky" for me since I have that one. - But then still, who knows what caused the difference. Perhaps it's some variation in the pickups or other electronics. - Myself, I'm looking to replace them anyway. Not because they're bad at all, they sound really good, but perhaps a little too "classic" for my taste. They come from EVH after all, which of course would model anything after a more Classic Rock type style, including sound, but not everyone who buys their guitars necessarily plays that. - Myself I tend to buy the more affordable but good quality guitars because I like to modify them anyway. Who cares that they don't have the right pickups or no brass block or things like that, they're not that expensive to replace and you wouldn't even touch the cost of the American-built one and still get a whole lot closer in terms of parts. - Yes, it looks a lot more fancy and that's cool and all, but not always necessary. It's an extra luxury that I don't need and most people don't.
7:30 - It's worth noting that the difference in metals aren't for all the parts of the tremolos. The Original has everything of steel, with the block being brass, while the Special has a steel base-plate, but the block and also saddles are of zinc alloy. - Other than perhaps sound from the saddles and sustain from the block, there isn't much different in quality as zinc alloy is still very hard. Plus, steel is important for the base-plate for the so-called "knife edges" that hook into the bridge-posts, which should be hard so that they don't wear down easily and cause tuning-issues. - While the steel might be different steel (I'm not so sure), the quality should be generally the same, other than perhaps sound and sustain to some extent. - It's still from Floyd Rose, in the end, not some (non-)licensed knock-off, and they seem to care about their products if I read the descriptions on the FR-website.
I just got a WG STD like that, just the Olive Green one, and I got it based on... well, a variety of reasons, one being that I was looking at another guitar with the same color (because I was looking to make one with a certain theme), which was a Jackson Dinky, perhaps out of the same factory (unless it was Mexico), but that eventually went out of production and I never got it. - Then I noticed that there was an EVH in that color, and also because it was like a guitar a certain artist used and I wanted to model it after that idea, I decided to check out that one. - So I skimmed through some reviews and they also said it's just solid. I basically got the guitar almost "blind", but as soon as I tried it at home, I was pleasantly surprised how comfortable it felt immediately, first of all. It's comfortable to sit with, to stand with, it's not the lightest but the weight is very balanced at the body, the shape is great with the contours... Then it also plays very easily, like I got along with it immediately. And then the sound is very good, being very resonant and bright. Also, the Indonesian factories and people there in general are just very good with woodwork, so it's no surprise that after all these years they just make excellent guitars. And I'm also glad that EVH or Fender doesn't tarnish Eddie's name by just selling a very mediocre line of the products alongside supposed premium ones. I'm not sure if Wolfgang "himself" has any say in this, I bet he does, so that's probably key cause I don't think he would stand for crappy products coming out of the EVH-brand. (And just note that I'm not even a Van Halen fan or anything. I couldn't even hum through one song apart from 'Jump' perhaps.) - I just think they designed really good products and made sure they do it right for the money. Well, that said, the premium ones that cost double or multiple thousands... of course you're paying for American/Western wages first of all, but then also perhaps premium materials and parts, plus the fact that they're different with the arch-tops and bindings and whatnot. - It's not so much that they're very different in terms of playability and sound and such, but more that you're paying for a fancier version of the guitar, which is fair enough. - I happened to be looking for a matte army-green guitar, so I'm kinda "lucky" in that I wasn't looking for a super-fancy guitar in that sense, cause that would've made it a very expensive requirement just for it to look fancy. - But this guitar immediately shot up to one of my top favorite ones, out of the 10-15 I have (and some are definitely more expensive), the other top ones being a Japanese Ibanez from the '80s, a Chapman from a few years ago, another Ibanez from about two decades ago now, as well as an Epiphone from around that time. They're all very different but all have that same kind of quality of playability and sound.
yeah they are great guitars....and one thing about the EVH guitars.....even if you have never played one....they are extremely easy to play. Eddie was brilliant in the design of the instrument. I Have played more guitars than I can count and the two I never have issues with as far as having to adjust to the guitar are the EVH guitars and the Ibanez guitars. You can literally go buy one and go straight to the gig without having to worry about adjusting to the guitar. You made a good choice bro. You will love it.
Dude you have to hear Dean sing on Jeff Scott Soto's song Coming Home. Sounds just like a young Steve Perry ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DF5sHLiud1o.htmlsi=h_fZGRRfm0QUvRdH
I am super late to this video, but I am happy I found it. I am coming from the synth side of the world and the lack of on device controls is down to a lot of those creators wanting a workstation with Arturia's engines for sound design and recording purposes. That's just been my view given how few of them i see tour vs. be at home and create. To your point, there are a lot of workstations out there and they can use those. They could also just use Arturia's midi keyboards and the $200 software you mentioned. It's great to watch someone review the keyboard for what it is: a highly playable simple instrument that you feel great taking with you on stage. I'm left with one question, though. Does it work in a church? I couldn't get that from your review.
Got the new 8570 RBS and I am astonished how nice it is. It's even better than the 3120TW Prestige, which was my benchmark. It literally plays itself. Every note sparkles, the neck is the smoothest thing on earth, and it's close to perfection. Only thing I don't like is the H-S-H the 'S' got in the way of pick , so i lowered it, lots ! I only really use bridge and neck, so no big deal.
Congrats. Yeah dude. if the prestige is 99%, that 1% difference between the prestige and the J Custom is massive. The J Customs are on a whole different level. On mine, to moved my volume down to my tone and put a kill switch in the volume spot. When I get time, I am going to rewire the pups and just lower the middle pup all the down and remove it from the chain. I want to wire it more like me 1120.
I've never seen your videos before but watching this, in the first 5 minutes you said "to be honest with you..." which gives the impression you're normally a liar but just this one time you'll be honest with us. It's simple psychology. Break that nasty habit. I sure hope you read the comments.
A guitar is worth what someone will pay for it. Does it make sense for a novice player to pay $4k for a guitar, maybe not. But the Standard will rarely hold up to a gigging professional musician.
Piano sounds like shit, and a lot of the other tones too..either you're used to digital sounds or you don't have a lot of experience with real organic instruments,
Found a WG used for 650 I only own 1 FR floating bridge guitar Bridge is flat and stays in tune My question is the WG guitar id like to buy has the bridge lifted up off the body,, action isn't great past 12fret I'm typically more of a Gibson guy, but can you give me any advice on critical things. I need to check on this guitar before I slapped down the money. Any info or things to look at I really don't want to buy and have to do a bunch of work on the bridge but if I do, I will ,, it looks like I need to try to make sure before I buy it hit some deep dives on the bar lol Any info to try before I buy would be much appreciated
Well the action is high because as you probably know, that trem is supposed to sit flush with the body. But that should be an easy fix. Just tighten the springs on the back to pull it back flush and that will lower the action a bit. They are really good guitars but one thing in particular that I have noticed, sometime the neck is not lined up properly with the trem. The high E sting will sit very very close to the edge of the fretboard which almost makes it unplayable. I have come across this twice on the new Fender wolfgangs. Not sure what the hell is going on but that is unacceptable. Play the guitar and really pay attention to that. If you look down the neck you will be able to see if it has this issue. It will have a bit more room on the low E side than the high E side. If that is good then you should be good. the trem is an easy fix. As longs as the frets are good, you should be good to go.
