I've heard from road crew people (many years ago) that many famous guitarists play very light gauges like 8s and lower. Even SRV dropped down to 9s because his wrists were starting to feel those 11s. I just put Reverend Willy's 7s on my PRS Paul's guitar.
@@guitarstuffstudio I thought I was being racy using nines...... I'm an OAP now and I'll get some 7s and 8s to try them out. Some of my guitars have tens and I have a problem bending more than half a tone. Cheers!
I have the first iteration of HB's vertical 2x12 cabinet with the V30s and just happened to find it at a thrift store for $59.99 USD. I am very happy with it and could not pass up the deal.
I use one of HB's vertical vintage 30 cabs under my Marshall DSL20. I think it's a killer little cab for home and studio use. I wouldn't try touring with one since the construction is more medium duty rather than heavy duty. But I can honestly recommend these cabs for any budget minded player. Tone wise, it sounds like any other modern V30 loaded cab. So you know what you are getting. Nearly all modern V30 cabs are loaded with Asian production speakers regardless of brand or price point.
Hi! I get my new stuff from zZounds. I play an import mockingbird. I buy most of my stuff used locally. I have a bassist friend I jam with and I have a subscription to Lick Library.
A cab being very heavy isn't necessarily a good thing as a quality material like real pine or baltic birch plywood is considerably lighter than cheap stuff like MDF and particle board. V30s are made in Vietnam not China and as Harley Benton guitars are also made in Vietnam I would imagine this cab is made there as well. Basically a couple of V30s would cost about as much as this cab loaded so it seems a pretty good deal.
I’m currently drowning in cabs and speakers, also not anywhere near Thomann so no danger of one of these showing up here. I like having a few different speakers to swap out though, easy way to get a different sound from whatever amp. Cool review and I am sure you will enjoy the cab for many years. Ever try any Fane speakers? I love their alnicos.
"Can you learn guitar from watching RU-vid videos?" Absolutely. But in most cases you (especially if you're a true novias) don't need the high dollar gear they use and play. And infer you need to make progress. And sometimes really they push their favorite brands on you. Just find a playable guitar watch, listen and learn. C'mon folks ? If Django Reinhardt can play with 2 useable fingers on his noting/chording hand? You can play too; There's all kinds of ways to skin that cat, Before Jeff Healey or Larkin Poe; there was Thumbs Carllile (not for slide) who laid the guitar in front and played with all fingers and both thumbs. Richie Havens played with only his index finger, Jimmy (honeycomb) Rogers played with only his thumb. And the list goes on. There's always a way if you want it. You can get it .. you just have to want to. Just Say'n.
I learnt (and continue to learn) using a mixture of the things mentioned. Im not too old to have had the internet be a major influence when i started howrver RU-vid instruction being common was a few years away. My older brother had friend who gave me some tabs which his mum, who worked at the university, printed out for me - i was a student who couldn't afford the printing fees - it would eaten into my beer money! I will say however that Kurt Cobain (who was unfortunately dead by then) was a big influence on me, so i will politely disagree that you about him being a musician! Ive been fortunate enough to have paid for some lessons from some great teachers which has really helped me put stuff into context. But the biggest and best advice i can give anyone to to play with other musicians - guitarists, drummers, bass players, singers, even bloody flugelhornists - whoever - you'll learn the most about playing by playing with others.
They work fine for Fender scale but they flop about a bit too much on shorter scales. I also have hand problems. Eventually if all else fails, I will buy a slide.
I wasn't thinking and I nearly dropped them on my Jaguar. I've been playing them this morning and I'm still not over my fear but they are a lot of fun to play
While heavy string sets certainly have their place they don't necessarily mean your tone will be better or that you are a better guitarist because you are a manly man simply because you have the strength to play them. I played GHS 11-52 on 24 3/4 scale guitars for ages because I've always been a bit of a hard hitter and mostly a rhythm player attacking the strings with a lot of force (not necessarily always a good thing). Eventually I moved up to 12-52 and even finally experimented with 13-56 and a wound G because I wanted to understand what guitar players back in the "old days" used. In the last few years I have learned that before there were light gauge strings many of the great players had the secret of swapping a banjo string for the high E and moving all the others up a position and ditching the low E, essentially making a lighter gauge set than was available to purchase at the time even before Erine Ball started offering light sets in 1962. This info along with me starting to get interested in doing more than just slamming chords got me to realize that 11 gauge can be a bit difficult to do bends on even with 24 3/4 Gibson scale so as I was wanting to do more than just play rhythm I gave a try to the Ernie Ball Skinny Top Heavy Bottom 10-52 set and I'm finding it to be a very good compromise between being able to do fairly heavy handed rhythm playing and still being able to do bends fairly well. Use whatever strings work best for the kind of playing you are after and what personally works for you. Heavier gauges can make sense if you tend to have a very strong pick attack and don't bend much but lighter gauges can offer much easier bending and less overall effort in playing the instrument. Also keep in mind that the scale length of your guitar affects string tension so 10's on a 24 3/4 scale guitar will feel similar to 9's on a 25 1/2 scale instrument and shorter scales (24" and 22") will be even easier to play to the point that some might want to use heavier strings so they are not so floppy or to simply go with that scale and enjoy the extreme ease of playing. One last thing I will mention is downtuning. Obviously if you down tune your string tension is less making playing and bends much easier. Stevie Ray Vaughn who is known for playing very heavy strings but the story often is missing the fact that he played in E flat standard which obviously changes things quite a bit. Definitely give a shot to playing in E flat or even D standard as it can give you a different sound and outlook to your playing. I recently realized that many twelve string players tune to E flat or D and that has given me a whole new outlook on my crappy Mitchell twelve string that is so difficult to play in E standard but even on electric lower tuning can be very cool for all kinds of guitar styles of playing. Hope this mini novel of my journey informs or inspires somebody !!!!!
yea bro same as you,,,Didnt watch TV for 6 months and 2 books,,Eagles and CCR,,,If you cant learn these days with whats available then you never really wanted it 🤘😎👍
When I was a kid my family moved to the south in the states. Culture shock. Could not understand what most of the people were saying. Over time found a group of friends. It was a big deal to jam out Freebird. We learned the cords then lyrics then the leads. We were having 3 hour Freebird jam sessions. Just one song. Taking turns playing different parts.
More or less how I learned. I did already know how to read music, though I never really used it for guitar much until a little bit just recently. RU-vid is a great resource, but without guidance you might learn higgledy-piggledy and have large sections of "basics" missing. People act fearful around the term "theory" like it's rocket surgery or something, but there's a lot of use you can get out of it if you look at it more like "standard structures in western music" instead of chemical formulae. Learn the construction of the major scale, the four chord types and their extensions and how the chords fit diatonically in a key. Then get the basic Barry Harris ideas about functional harmony and you'll be light years ahead of 99.9999% of guitarists. That whole deal should take a few minutes worth a day for a couple months. You can certainly go way past that, but it's hardly worth it for someone not dedicated to a full jazz education. Beyond that a quick bit of study in species counterpoint and learning 12 tone non-diatonic harmony, negative harmony etc. are things I use personally but probably won't ever be needed by most folks.
My go-to when I was first learning electric guitar when I was 13 was Total Guitar magazine, which meant I would just try to learn whatever was in there every month, sometimes it was pretty random, like that’s the reason I can play Tears in Heaven even though I hate the song and not keen on Clapton at all! 😂 I would have been an INCREDIBLE player if I’d had access to You Tube when I was a kid! Or at least I’d be able to play the ENTIRE solo to Sweet Child O’Mine for sure!!
How did I learn what little I knew? I lived alone for a summer without a tv. But yeah, pick a song you know and practice until it sounds close, then move on to a new one with different chords
Leo was not a guitar player. But he said he tele was designed for the ashtray to stay on. Of couse Les Paul did not envision the Marshal stack either. And I'm about positive Leo did not anticipate what Hendrix did with the Stratocaster. Artists at their best!
It’s not just with guitar and music. The negativity epidemic, spans across every single subject matter on social media. Sadly, you can’t talk sense into those kinds of people. They only learn/change, on their own, when they’re ready to ( imho )
PUG! ❤ Anyway…yeah I find the amount of negativity around guitar channels to be baffling really; I guess I just don’t feel the need to assert my ‘authority’ or whatever, I don’t need to get validation by sounding like a pompous prick in the comments of a You Tube video, it really is pathetic. I call out anyone who does it on my channel, in a fairly assertive way but without resorting to hostility. I’ve had a few apologies actually, I think when people realise they are engaging with an actual person they tend to re-evaluate their behaviour.
I know what you man about the personality thing, not mentioning any names, but a guy with the initials JNC drives me up a tree. I just try to avoid the ones that make me feel irrationally violent.
There are a few key differences between Deans and Gibsons that are blatantly obvious, namely Dean headstocks look nothing like Gibson headstocks, Deans cost less, and Deans stay in tune.
It is not the matter of general shape. Many companies make variations of V and Explorer with modified proportions, some additional cutouts etc. Dean's shapes are almost (if not exactly) identical as Gibson. And they own the right to these shapes (they invented them, so they want to earn on the invested money). But they should have proteced it in 1970s, not now. If they did not care back then, why do they care now? Other companies would not invest in their projects based on these shapes, if they knew that Gibson will ban them from making the guitars. Now it is too late. This whole shape mistaking thing is just lawyers talk. Has nothing to do with reality in case of Dean. It make sense though in case of Chinese copies. I am not favouring one company over another. I own a Gibson Les Paul and a Dean Z. Both play and feel great.
The affordable market has certainly gotten better, I don't think they ship over the pond but I recently did a review of a guitar that costs $144 U.S. and it plays just as good as a Mexico made strat. I would never knock either side of the camp. I think though when you have to put a considerable amount of money to make something sound good then thats where you have to start to ask would I have been better off buying a higher end. Great video though.
