Do pickup covers matter? 

Kahler it and load it with amazon humbuckers next

Glen seems like the type of player who never adjusts anything on his guitars out of fear of breaking them lol

glen needs to be in more videos, yalls energy is very intertaining

I like the chrome covers. They are aesthetically pleasing to me

Glen needs to be a permanent co-host.

I declare the pickups shall be P U R P L E.

Very interesting experiment. Really like the back and forth banter, it keeps the video interesting. Nothing like losing a pickup spring.

I love that you guys are just huge music nerds. Bless youse both

Always liked Shure products. Seeing them support smaller channels just solidifies my liking.

"why is that smoking?" "I LEARNED IT FROM YOU, I LEARNED IT FROM WATCHING YOU!"

wow! Rad on the Shure sponsor!!!! Well deserved and LEGIT!

The Videos with Glen are always super entertaining. I can’t tell you how often I have watched the Tier List videos.

Possibly the greatest video I've ever seen on this channel.

I noticed enough difference to know I prefer the sound with the PU cover off. It sounds a little brighter, both the clean sound and the crunch had higher mids and a little more bite.

Ah, my man is back in yet another great video... One fine man to share a beer with... A force of nature... Chillest dude among the chillest... Oh, and KDH is a nice guy, too.

You two have such great comedic chemistry! Always fun to watch.

You're having too much fun for it to be legally allowed. Glad to be here for it!

Brightness is coming through for sure

I had a feeling you might say “zebra” weird, but I wasn’t prepared. I love it.

I've wanted to do this to my Les Paul ever since I got it in 2004, this video has made me want to get it done, always thought it looks better this way.

YES! I'm always psyched when Glen shows up 🤘🤘

We removed pickup covers in the "old days" because most were not potted and the cover could create "microphonics" in which the pickup would become overly prone to feedback and at times actually act like a microphone picking up random noises around it. This is how the practice began. For a functional reason not ot look cool. I also heard some back in the day say it would increase output slightly. I never put this to test with a multimeter but by having less resistance between the magnet and strings this seems likely true.

I like the looks of covered and uncovered pickups, but if it were me, I would have just left the covers on if it came that way.

5:21 "That smells like toast" "HaaH"

Spent an hour wrestling with rewiring a flying V, only to give up. Went on RU-vid and this vid was in the top row. Just what I needed

Whenever Glen is in the video it's immediately solid gold...

It’s always a fun video with Glen. I would love to see you guys build guitar kits! 😂

1:55 - It’s like Glen is being shown the instruments of torture. Hilarious. Well done.

Glenn, surely you'd be calling the Gardai, not the police?

The ad break at that perfect time, chefs kiss lol

I love your channel. The chemistry between you and Glen really add something. Keep up the great work!

It depends if you're a cover on cover off person I myself cover on. I just bought a PRS and added covers . Looks great. Sounds about the same either way on my guitar as well as the one you just demonstrated.

Glen survived, pickup survived (through pure skill) and the public hairy protuberance survived. Sounded a touch brighter without the cover to my lugs. Fun and educational in one vid - nice one you guitar nerds 😉

the tone-wax and tone-Solder removal is compensated by the Tone-Hair paired with the tone-woods under that finish. gr8 video lads lolz.

I think Glenn has a cousin in Australia named Ozzy man . Awesome video you guys are awesome together.

As a guitar player your videos often come up and I glance but this was entertaining lol.laughing in CO, US

Glen is just scared you’re gonna take a razor to the pube hair in his guitar, lol. 🤣🤣🤣 Thanks for shoutout to American Zeeeebras and dad jokes! 🤘🏻🇺🇸🦓👨🏻

Couldn't tell myself , but more of these videos please .

by far the funniest video I've seen in ages, this is why i stick around lol

If you two are ever in Northern California, please, come have some beers with me lol

Glen is super funny , looks like you have great fun together 👍

The pube paul returns!

Sometimes i wonder if Glenn is even a real person, but then i remembered that Glenn was the legendary song writer for the Band in the late 1790s "The TOBIE O'bias theory" and After many successful tours and centuries, it was decided that Glenn was still unsure which pick up cover was chosen.

Looks cool, reversible, costs nothing to do. Glen, think of it like this. Telecasters have one covered pickup, and one uncovered pickup. It's still in the spirit of 1950s guitar making 😉

Honestly, I never believed open humbuckers would sound different to covered ones...but I was wrong. They are noticably brighter. God tier content.

Ah yes, the classic PAFH found in almost all Gibson products, the "Patent Applied For Hair" in the finish. I'd like to get Paul Reed Smith's take on tone hair and its importance.

You two together is undeniably entertaining for reasons unknown. More please

I've been adding covers to pickups lately mostly out of preference for the aesthetic. Sound on the ones I have done hasn't changed much at all and I am playing heavier stuff. Got a Seymour Duncan black winter I added a Raw metal cover to from Philadelphia Luthier Supply and a chrome trembucker cover to go on a Duncan Custom.

Glen was in such a great mood!

I just finished taking down an absolutely massive maple tree and have some chunks i really want to get milled cuz it was beautiful and there are several pieces you could make multiple matching solid one piece tops.

Love Les Paul’s , I just bought one Epiphone Les Paul 1959 limited edition

The uncovered bridge pickup always reminds me of Jimmy Page, looks cool

I took the covers off and I love the sound (the looks too!). You should have tested the neck pickup as well, that's where it shines in my opinion. Usually the neck pickup on LPs is very muddy (at least to my liking) and taking the cover off puts some life into it.

Cover off adds a little bite to the tone , I once got a Les Paul with a sunken in handprint on the face where someone picked up the wet guitar. Still passed Gibson QC though Next modificarion you should refret it yourselves with super jumbo frets , Just make sure theres a defibrilator close for Glen !

Top wrap all the way!!! Looks way better uncovered, can i hear a difference? Hell no but my hearings screwed from years of drumming. Every stock geetar is a great modding platform :) n if you can wind up some purists in the process even better ;) Looks great sounds great and you 2 are bloody mint together!

also....we officially need "that smells like toast" the song

Glen looks like an extra in a 60's Cave Man Movie in that shirt! 😂👌

Little brighter little clearer 😮

fancy recording this on the one hot day of the year in Ireland 😉

cant get enough of these videos thanks guys

I too used to be exhausting to be around. It was a lot of fun for me but not always for others LOL

The audio is a little louder on the left side but the mic itself sounds good!

It's definitely hotter😮. You guys are now responsible for a million mods worldwide😂 well done

Brave guy!!! A guitar player with his fingers directly under a razor blade

I could watch Glen all day make a grilled cheese sandwich and enjoy it

In awe of the size of that watch he's wearing

The lore in the '70-80s was that taking the covers off gave you more power and treble; I did it to 2 LPs and noticed no difference. One of them had a zebra pickup, the others all black. Never understood Page's uncovered bridge instead of an uncovered neck, but he's Jimmy Page, so good enough. I do like top-wrapping, plus it helps prevent/postpone bridge collapse.

I prefer to leave the covers on since that's the sound it had when I chose to purchase it.

We love you Glen ❤

I think Glen has officially the biggest watch ive ever seen. Genuinely impressive

Put a Floyd Rose special on it it's a real Floyd Rose and the ones who complain about them are the ones who actually screw them up by messing with them I had mine now 4 years and zero issues..I have 3 high end 2021 Epiphones and would never switch anything out on them all high end electronics hardware and build no reason to change anything..

Glenn, I feel for you.refinished my guitar, 7 coats of nitro laquer. It looked gorgeous, wonderful, then I saw one of my hairs with about 2 coats of finish on top.

A lot of folks aren't aware that covers don't shield the pickups. If the screws/slugs/pole pieces are extending out past the cover, they aren't being shielded. Soldering the cover to the pickup just grounds the cover and keeps it from picking up noise and sending it through. it doesn't interfere with signals hitting the exposed screw. The covers do magnetically connect to the pickup, though, and add a tiny bit of capacitance which cuts a little treble. Electric players started removing the covers because they felt like the increased treble response pushed more distortion. How much difference it makes is a matter of much debate. I feel like I hear the difference. For what it's worth, I like the way they look with the cover off. The covers were a purely cosmetic decision.

I put uncovered Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates in my 60s standard. Big improvement. That's my take.

Glen is doing the "I'm going to show off in this video with my friend" bit that a lot of friends do and I'm here for it...

Huge difference!!!

That's a killer top on that Les Paul

Glen makes these videos 10x better

I wasn't prepared for how much brighter it sounded uncovered. Kinda crazy.

In theory, the pickup cover should help reduce noise due to the whole Faraday Cage thing. Especially if you also shield the cavity the pickup goes into. While you can put the cover back in, you need to pot wax the pickup again, so it may not be for everyone.

I personally like the look of covered pick ups. They're just aesthetically pleasing to me.

I top wrap my 10-56's. Just seems more comfortable since I palm mute a lot.

A man who audits companies and folk within the guitar industry who cuts solder. Come on chief!!!!

lmfao i actually got an ad break after the "these messages" bit

Next week Glen fits a kill switch to the ormsbe 😂😂😂

Definitely sounds brighter without cover

I prefer the look of covered pickups, but I definitely noticed more bite in the uncovered pickup... it's making me have second thoughts about my current mod project

Name a better bromance than KDH-Glen

When is that new walker album coming out?

Looked like you had a good time 😊

At one stage I think I was like glen, always as it was bought, never change anything! And definitely no relic! But....I think in the last few years that's really changed. On my Pacifica 612v I've swapped out the pickups to bare knuckle bootcamps, probably the guitar that has the nicest neck I've played, ibanez sz520 I've changed the pickup rings, changed the bridge as it was tarnished to hell and back, and likewise changed the tuners to surprising cheap and wonderful Gyker lockers, easily now one of my faves. Gretsch I changed the tuners as the originals really were a bit piss, now it's wonderful. My Les Paul from the early 90s, my first guitar......I've taken the scratch plate off....and that's it. Well, i had the tuners replaced to identically looking but better performing gotohs, original pickups sound wonderful and I couldn't bring myself to change

You two kill it! Always the best guys!👍😃🌏🌎🌍🇨🇦

Okay, so this kind of adds to a testing video I did a while back. I was testing single coils vs coil-split humbuckers to see if there was any real difference, as some people claim there is. What I found is that no, there isn't really a difference, but one of the pickups had a chrome cover while the others were uncovered. It lacked a little bit of treble in comparison, and suggested that it could be the cover causing the roll-off. In this video, I do hear that the uncovered pickup is a little brighter than it was with the cover on. Does this matter to me? Absolutely not, I couldn't give a damn about that. I like the look of covered pickups, and in real-life scenarios like in full mixes, you can't tell a difference. And that's where a lot of gear tests seem to end up. Does it make a difference? Sure, probably. Does that difference actually matter? To me, not at all. 🤷

Very funny! You say Zebra and we say Zeebra. You say solder and we say sodder.

I haven't see a Les Paul stringed with the strings wrapping around the tail piece, why do that? Mine is just straight trough with the end at the very bottom. For the vid, didn't really hear much of a difference, more a looks thing (I prefer the cover on). Glad to see how to take them off though, shows me that I won't even ever consider that process. Fun banter, Glen is a great co-host!

Love a Glen video!

Looks good either way … no cover bridge does look more Page/RnR, tho’ … and definitely hotter/brighter without the cover (assuming the height was constant). Noice.

btw from my own extensive testing the uncovered pickup vs covered pickups sound different, without the cover its more bright and raw, with the cover it sounds smooth, rounded in frequency and a tiny bit less harsh. you can also adjust the flathead screws on the pickups for more further tonal shifts. glenn needs to be himself more, the cheetah print shirt suits the hairdo..

You forgot to put a link to the Shure stuff in the description.

off sounds brighter, more raunchy. very nice'