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@@silvel2edge It‘s amazing with a fuzz, a screamer, SD-1 or klon style pedals in front of it. If you keep it clean(ish) it‘s great with delays etc too. But it’s not your transparent drive pedal platform. 😅
Hi Kris. The round core may be the reason Blackmore leaves the strings uncut and coils the excess length into a kind of pig tail shape sticking over the headstock. This looks very cool as well. Do you know if this would make sense and if it is possible to do with vintage style tuners?
@KRIS BAROCSI, not sure IF you remember but a while back you did a Gibson Custom Shop R9 video and i was talking to you about how i finally got one and loved it. anyway a few days back was able to trade that one and cash for a 2023 Murphy Lab heavy aged R9 in Golden poppy burst. Kris these are insane! It is on a whole other level than the standard R9's. The aging was done very classy and real authentic looking. and the neck is incredible. If you can play one or two and see what you think?
@@TommyLeeDepp thanks so much buddy! You see what I did there, I totally included bassists too. 🤩 We’re all one big, string picker plucker slapper slider strummer family. Haha!
I finally got to play one today and I gotta say....no. I was using a really nicely set up ESP with great pickups and even with that, I was just "meh" about it. I'm sure it'll record nicely, but just being in the room with it, I was surprisingly underwhelmed. I preferred the Bogner 3534 and my Grandmeister 40 significantly more. I'm thinking maybe it's a headroom thing, 20 watts is just too squishy feeling for my taste.
Hi Kris, what do you think about using the Stomp with a captor X, I mean it's still cheaper than an OX box, and it really just solves the problem that some people are complaining about, if the stomp truly sounds like the box.
I appreciate and respect your opinion but have some points to make. I think the whole point of the original test was to put things in perspective and proportions. And it did help to understand what are the things that make up 90 percent of the tone, and what are the things that might influence 2-3 percent of it. To say now that you can hear the difference its fine- you might have incredible hearing, but you'll agree that the difference that you hear is only dealing with the 2-3 percent stuff. So as you said- the difference is there and we can say that its not important to us. On the bigger picture now- how would you consider these differences alongside other factors like playability, weight, looks ect.? The whole idea is to help us be in proportion with how much effort energy and attention we give to stuff. Cheers and keep up the good work!
I just had an amazing experience with tone capacitors. The usual values, we know the differences in sound. Most of the time as soon as you set the potentiometer to zero the sound is muffled, unusable. With 0.015uf it is the least worst. I experimented with much lower values, between 0.0047uf and 0.0082uf. It sounds like a wahwah pedal stuck in the middle position, when the tone pot is at zero. With some mid/treble frequencies which are preserved. By choosing the right value I reached an extremely interesting and unique sound, and above all very usable. Not a dull, uninteresting sound. I tested these values with a single p90 junior LP (50's wiring). The sound is amazing. I think that for stratocaster style pickups or humbuckers, other values could be better, but not certain.
This not only applies to hambuckers but also to single coils. Metal covers generate less noise but filter highs and generate a darker tone. I love that darker tone in my epi casino and I would never change its pickups for others with a plastic cover, although I know that there would be more top end and a more articulate sound.
This video is very very spot on accurate in it's explanations. There are a million different videos on youtube trying to explain this topic, but if one wanted to have a basic understanding of how guitar construction and "tone" actually works, this video is probably the one you want to pay attention to. Nice job.
The differences are so minor, I don't know if in a live situation anyone will hear any difference at all (probably not), may a bat will LOL, thanks for the video
Great explanation and vid of the Plex... I own one too and also like it a lot but Plexi's are so different . i have many and its more a matter of taste; i think Friedman did a great job. Kris, I would ove to know youre OX setting in this clip;mic,cabonet, Reverb,delay, eq,compress ? cuz this does a lot for the sound in this clip
The 1 power tube in this that I didn't like was the EL34, which is what I've always used. As well, the differences in the preamp tubes were small, but in both cases (power tube and pre amp tube) the difference is enough to warrant changing tubes for me.
@@tobyeshaw Thanks! I love all amps with teles. 😅 My main one is this in the video, the Revv Dynamis. It’s very much its own thing, very well balanced clean channel, takes pedals like nothing else and out of all classic amps it’s closest to a bassman. Cheers!
Hi, that bridge has the same measurement as the custom shop bridge I have. I'm not sure about the metals they use for the PBBR-059 though, I couldn't find that anywhere.
Besides the obvious use of having some reverb and delay from the Ox does it sound better with the MCV cranked up and using the attenuater in the Ox vs the MCV on low?
Hi, yeah the MVC is great but the amp sounds best when the knob is at least over 12 o'clock. So a good attenuator is the way to get the most out of the Plex.
