Thank you so much for the video Warren ! I was feeling a bit down and then I saw the video, and after watching it I was smiling again. in the end, we musicians are still kids inside 😁
I have been a @Sweetwater customer for 4 years. They make every customer feel special. My dedicated sales engineer (Darius B) is amazing. They honor their return policy, and 2 year warranty without issue. My dream home studio was 99% equipped by Sweetwater. They made me feel my $150K in purchases over those years was as important as a customer spending 10 or 100 times that amount. I still need to make the trip up to the store sometime though. P.S as always a great video Warren, your channel, book and online academy are excellent resources.
my daughter and i make a road trip to sweetwater a couple times a year... mmmm. the french fries. plus one time we were in there and i had a guitar that i'd bought used and had questions about and the tech just kind of tweaked the set up for me and didn't charge me! they're totally the best!! : ) you know what's funny about this? it's so quiet you can actually have a conversation! i'm jealous. ; )
@@Producelikeapro i believe it! that's where we bought my daughter's elec. drum kit, i walk around the mic and gear rooms and gaze in wonder. and we've had fun in the guitar rooms with my daughter bringing guitars for me to play that i would never pick up on my own! next time you go there, call me! : )
@@Producelikeapro, Once upon a time, Disneyland was indeed *for musicians*. David Lindley played bluegrass there in 1963, and got Linda Ronstadt (David's second cousin) a gig there with her band (who later became the Eagles). Comedian Steve Martin, a banjo player himself, remembers seeing Lindley play there!
I'll vouch for the folks at Sweetwater: you will not get better service anywhere, and their prices are equal or better than most other places. The buying experience is great but the service... just at another level. I send family and friends there. Good people.
I worked for many years in a mom and pop guitar store in Bloomington IN, and was always geared toward local brick and mortar stores, but I have to say that the customer service experience at Sweetwater is second to none, and now it's where I get all my gear. If online is the future (and frankly present) of gear, then Sweetwater has set the bar high. I need to get up there to visit sometime.
Great tour Warren, thanks....I've been to the mothership and it is truly an astounding place....and the folks who work there were very kind! This was a nice re-visit 👍
Just bought my second guitar from them and waiting on the arrival. The sales tech has stayed in contact with me throughout by phone and email and I know if there are are any issues it will be handled without question. Bought a new amp as well. Really glad to see your tour because if I've went there myself I wouldnt to leave.
The online search and doing experience is top shelf. I called customer service and was treated like they really cared about me. I highly recommend Sweetwater!
Hearing you call my bass room "eclectic" really makes me proud to be one of the ones who picks the stuff in the showroom. I'll make sure I have a Yamaha BB waiting for you next time, though.
@Produce Like A Pro I'm a huge fan, myself. Got one a few years back and can barely keep them in stock. I push em a bit for people who want a P Bass with a twist.
I watched on YT. It has therapeutic value, professionalism, joy, eclectic, valuable even religious experience. I watched this episode with my wonderful wife and my soul is satisfied, something beautiful, UAD DLX, Atmos is something that excites me now. The Focal headphones are brilliant
Warren, regarding Kenny Aronoff...he was born in Albany, NY, but he grew up in the town of Stockbridge in western Massachusetts (also my home state). I ran into him at the old Manny's Music in NYC in the 90's when I was going to graduate school in the city. I talked to him for a little bit (mostly about the Patriots because it was just before a Superbowl) and he is one of the most humble, genuinely nice guys in music.....2'nd only to you, Warren, of course! 😆
Sweetwater is more like "Candy Land" & practically in my back yard. About a 35 minute drive from my home. I buy all my musical gear from them. Great customer service, great prices & fast shipping. I also have a lot of friends who work there as well & love it. Worldwide they are the best in the biz!
In my 35 years in the music industry, and this may be my own opinion. Not all piano players know how to rock a synth properly. And not all synth players can play piano properly!! There is definitely a difference between the two. Great episode, Mr. Huart!! Blessings Jim Williams
@@Producelikeapro -- I'm not a musician. (I'm a voiceover artist (and a RU-vid content creator). But if I were a musician, a trip to Sweetwater would seem to be a pilgrimage that every musician would want to make, much like baseball fans want to either go to Cooperstown, or (for the really ambitious) see a ballgame at every Major League ballpark. I don't have the musician jones, but seeing all the microphones and preamps and other cool studio toys would make the trip worth it for me. (Even if I would probably have to leave without spending much money.) So thanks for letting me vicariously enjoy YOUR trip there. (Really enjoy your videos.)
@13:40 LTDs are THE budget guitars IMO. I highly recommend checking them out on your channel. They even make a semi-hollow. The super strat shaped guitars have a recessed neck plate for better high fret access. The mid tier ones come with Seymour Duncans. 🤘
Wonderful customer service. My customer tech phoned me a few days back, just to see how I was getting on. Great, great customer service. And Warren, I saw you pick up the Epiphone Casino. The Epiphone Custom Riviera P93 I purchased at Sweetwarer a while back is a brilliant instrument (for $500-odd!). Well done this!
I was just there and I still watched the whole thing lol. The Neumann monitor setup there made me buy a pair. I was mad I stopped 😂. I was happy with my monitors till I heard those lol.
Wow! Every year me and 2 musician friends drive to Musik Produktiv in Germany (around 3 hours for us) and it already feels like Disneyland... Next year I vote that we fly to Fort Wayne (in the summer...) Great stuff!
Fantastic video. I buy the majority of my gear at Sweetwater. In fact, i just bought my first “real” amp last week at Sweetwater…fender tone master blond deluxe reverb. Amazing. And I can’t rave about the service enough. My sales engineer, Ben Cameron, is fantastic. Always takes time to answer my questions. I send everyone Sweetwater. I buy on line and some day I hope I can make it to the store. It’s my Disney Land too.
Supermarket sweep.......Take your trolly and you got 1 minute to grab what you can. Awesome shop, Sweetwater also has some brilliant videos and tutorials for all things audio related. Great video thanks very much
@@Producelikeapro I am contacting Sweetwater now for a time to start. In all honesty it could be good PR for Sweetwater, something like 1 min to grab $1000 of gear for the lucky winner 🏆. I think you should have a go first, let us see what you would grab in 1 minute. Cheers Warren your a real gentleman 👏
absolutely amazing, very cool video, I would like to see you in the same way in THOMANN, Germany, or Music Store in Köln in Germany as well. I'll stay tuned to your channel as always. 👉🏼👉🏼
I'm about 4 hrs away from sweetwater and need to go there but I know I will go in extreme debt if I do lol great as always Warren! Nice jacket by the way at the end 🤘
My Eleven Rack came from SWEETWATER., as did my Strat. and my SE Mic isolation and a couple 57's. and it's time to go back and shop some more.. The sales people are great.
I really hope one day they will open up a store in Canada. Love Sweetwater. We don't really have something that reach this "level" of quality and audio expertise here in Quebec.
Great video, thank Warren! Love Sweetwater! Shout out to my rep Chris lol. If anyone is in need of a drinking game just take a shot every time Kaydee agrees with Warren ("ya" "absolutely" or "exactly") lol.
I really knew very little about Sweetwater, now I want to support a company like this! I swore I would never go to a Mall again, however this would be the exception. Great video tour! Have you ever tried the GLS es57 mics?, They sound great for the price, I did not see those mentioned. I do have Shures as well. Great headphone shootout, going to buy a pair you mentioned.
I am shopping headphones right now for home studio. Suggestion that won't kill the budget? Great adventure in there for sure! Would love to see the interface shoot out.
Oh I wish I could spend a day there (It's a bit far, I'm in Europe). But I haven't seen Warren smile so much ever! Disneyland for musicians indeed. Any recording consoles to play with there?
I have a red Yamaha BB300 bass from way back, which is simply the bass that happened to be for sale in the used section of my local music store back then. It’s what I still have, to use to record bass. I use a Bass SansAmp with it, with flat-wound strings. Didn’t know they were other people’s choice as well?
See... this place would be hell for me. I want that. That over there. Can I take two of those? I need about 10 of those! Can i borrow them for a week? haha
