I Got To Design a Balaguer Ambient Guitar! | Secret Weapons Demo & Review

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First things first; Matt at ‪@ambienttrash5234‬ and Andrew at ‪@AmbientEndeavors‬ are goddamn savants and having them as collaborators on both this guitar and this song is the absolute coolest. Specing out this line of guitars with Balaguer and those guys is a high watermark of my time being a gear nerd on the internet. I really love this guitar and I hope you do too. Let's give it a listen.
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Guitar Specs:
Body: Espada
Body Wood: Alder
Top Wood: Maple for See Through black
Body Construction: Semi Hollow With F Hole
Finish: Gloss Lake Placid Blue, See Through Black Burst, Vintage White
Body Binding: Cream Multi Ply Front and Back
Neck Wood: Roasted Quartersawn Maple Bolt On Neck
Neck Shape: Comfy C
Fretboard: Ebony
Fretboard Inlay: Cream Pearloid Dots
Fretboard Radius: 16”
Frets: Medium Jumbo Stainless Steel
Headstock: Modern 6 Inline
Headstock Finish: Body Matched Top Tone, Black Bottom Tone
Logo Color: White
Hardware: Chrome
Bridge: Balaguer J Style Trem
Pickups: Balaguer Chrome Foil Covered Evergreens
18:1 ratio locking tuners
1 volume
1 tone with push / pull for coil splitting
3 way toggle
Signal Path:
Bondi 2026
Benson Boost
1981 DRV
Bondi Sick As
CBA Gen Loss
Strymon Timeline
Strymon Bigsky
UA Ruby
Timecodes:
00:00 Intro Song
04:09 Review
13:21 Guitar Straight to Amp
09:58 Guitar Through Pedals
Recorded in Universal Audio LUNA
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23 июл 2024

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Комментарии : 57

@willgoodfellow3144 Год назад

That intro is awesome. I'd listen to a whole album of this.

@Dorachagi1 Год назад

What an awesome collab, you guys are all really inspiring, thanks for doing this!

@yellowbench2297 Год назад

I always looking forward to see what brand of guitar you are going to use ,I love your channel,thank you

@saltstream Год назад

Sounds and looks fantastic Mark

@Captain_Yata Месяц назад

Jaguars are my favourite guitars of all time, and these feel like the perfect balance of that sort of style and also practicality. I love Balaguer designs so much, I really want to get one soon :)

@Fireflies.Rising Год назад

Gorgeous guitars and cool song! 👌

@bassimprovjams3772 Год назад

Awesome Mark!!! Much deserved!! Loved the length of the intro song!!!🤘😎

@markjohnstonofficial Год назад

I had to make sure I left enough room for both of them to really show off. It's rare we get playing of that caliber on this channel.

@bassimprovjams3772 Год назад

@@markjohnstonofficial yes it is, but I loved it!!

@EricMerrow Год назад

Such a huge congrats are deserved! You 3 really made an incredible instrument! The sounds and look are phenomenal. All three models are great, but I think I’d have to go with the blue version 🤘🤘

@markjohnstonofficial Год назад

Andrew's vision on that guitar is amazing. The renders had me nervous about his choice but I think his might be the most striking of the three, it's absolutely gorgeous.

@gantronyc Год назад

Great great video! One of the nicer offsets on the market.

@nickschillace3172 Год назад

I love that guitar. I'd be rolling the vintage white if I made it happen. Great video and congrats.

@markjohnstonofficial Год назад

That vintage white is great. Matt killed it on his look.

@frantiseksvarc1672 10 месяцев назад

I discovered this video only now. I love the look of Balaguer. Beau's model is pretty amazing. I wish Balaguer was (more) available here, in EU. And that tune in the beginning is just amazing.

@alexwalker5645 Год назад

This guitar is timeless. Class.

@anthonysim563 4 месяца назад

That sound amazing!

@scottschmittmusic 6 месяцев назад

That's Awesome saw the blue sparkle in a store yesterday never heard of them

@jhardindrums Год назад

Andrew’s blue Espada though 👌

@markjohnstonofficial Год назад

Yeah I think he definitely won on that one. It’s absolutely stunning in every photo I’ve seen of it

@ryanhurley8170 Год назад

I know not the point, but seriously, the bass sounds incredible, Mark!!!

@sk8rn8thegr8 9 месяцев назад

just came across this video. been eying a jennings voyager deluxe for a while, but a bit out of my price range, so decided to go with one of these. just put in a preorder for what seems to be the last batch of the blue ones. stoked to get it soon!

@markjohnstonofficial 9 месяцев назад

I get it. Jumping up a tier for guitar pricing is tough. One of the things I love so much about this model is how accessible the price point is while still being a such a solid instrument.

@dots.sounds Год назад

stunning guitar. hope I can check one out at some day.

@a11an72 3 месяца назад

Awesome

@smuthered Год назад

Just put my deposit down on one in the vintage white!! That coil tap tone sold me, along with te affordability when compared to other offsets from Fender and other 'boutique' brands

@markjohnstonofficial Год назад

Thats awesome! Matt’s colorway on these is gorgeous, congrats!

@ediththeband Год назад

Let me just say that you three along with spiral caster and collector//emitter are the reason I watch this stuff. I have improved not only my pedalboard pallet but my playing style and technique as well. So thank you all for that. These guitars... Oh my god! What else can I say. I was playing around on their website and damn they are reasonable for a custom build. You certainly make them sing. Great job boys!

@wheresallthezombies Год назад

These guitars are so sick. Plus the song is great. Inflation is no joke lol, I feel like balaguer used to start at like $700? Only a few years ago. That’s wild.

@markjohnstonofficial Год назад

Dude you aren't kidding. I bought a PRS Custom 22 in 2006 for like 1,800 and I found out literally yesterday that a PRS Custom line is now comfortably above $4,000. Cost of stuff is waaaaay up these days. Most of the guitars I use these days all sit between 2,500-3k+ so for this to come in under 1,500 and be THIS good is such a huge win in my opinion. We can gripe all we want about the state of things but for a brand to be delivering on this level at this price in the current market is great.

@musicenjoyer4203 10 месяцев назад

Intro reminds me of what was happening in post-hardcore in the mid 2010s, like Pianos Become The Teeth or Touche Amore's chiller sections. edit: oh nice I see I wasn't super far off later in the video

@cameronleal2622 Год назад

What effects did you use to get the swell sounds at 21:54? Great video btw

@offkilter Год назад

God these look good

@cheadlebased5215 Год назад

Maybe I missed it in the video, but when are these made available?

@chrisgarciaj16 Год назад

How does the foil on the pickup change the tone at all? Is it similar at all to a filtertron? Or what kind of guitar would you maaaybe compare these pickups to? High output or low output?

@markjohnstonofficial Год назад

it's only aesthetic; they're standard humbuckers will cool looking covers.

@TheSuperDmyers 4 месяца назад

What is the nut width on the ambient? Can’t find it on the site

@chrisgarciaj16 Год назад

What type of guitar would you compare this neck to? Tele, Strat, Veritas, Gretsch?

@markjohnstonofficial Год назад

“Comfy C” profile according to Balaguer. My 52 Tele is an old school fender C and it’s huge. This is much slimmer by comparison, I’d say it feels more modern than almost any of my classic style guitars but still chunkier than I proper “shredder”

@flipgraulus8187 Год назад

Will these be available in europe?? Looks and sounds amazing!

@markjohnstonofficial Год назад

Check out Balageur's dealer network on their website for info!

@flipgraulus8187 Год назад

@@markjohnstonofficial will do! Thanks!

@Dorachagi1 Год назад

What was the other band besides Silent Planet that you mentioned being influential for you at the beginning of the video? Always eager to check out new to me music.

@markjohnstonofficial Год назад

Saosin. An absolutely incredible band that actually had a heavy hand in developing the genres we all now live inside haha

@Dorachagi1 Год назад

@@markjohnstonofficial Nice, I'll check 'em out, thank you Mark!

@simonkeenangomez Год назад

@@markjohnstonofficial don’t forget Circa Survive

@markjohnstonofficial Год назад

And L.S. Dunes, if we’re just rolling through the best of Anthony green. Haha

@ESANANIKONE Год назад

It seems it's no longer available, do you think you'll do another edition someday?

@markjohnstonofficial Год назад

The second round of preorders ran earlier this year. I would check out little box effects; they had pre orders open and miiiiiight have some left over. Not super likely but possible

@ESANANIKONE 11 месяцев назад

There is still one :)

@jamessharier7529 Год назад

Nervous leg syndrome? The guitar has a beautiful sound, would def love to have one, but at 70 I believe I’m too old🤗🤗🤗

@markjohnstonofficial Год назад

Yep. Lots of nervous energy here.

@shquankinket8068 Год назад

Guitar Jesus

@DrGray-qh6ow 4 месяца назад

Clean but chunky - sounds (obvious) like a cross between a JM and a LP. I would want it in Alder, but I wonder if they made a mahogony version, if it would have a little more sputnik. Beautiful guitar - I'd definitely make sweet sweaty love to it...all. night. wrong.