Lee was spot on at the end, this was more of a guitar recognition than it was a price estimation. Since Pete works there he knows most of the axes, and their prices thoroughly. Still a great episode though!
As soon as this video started I though if they allow him to do anything other than just play the guitar, so just touching the back of the neck, it is a wasted exercise.
The way he felt the knobs, and selector switch, on the Silver Sky and chuckled as he began to play "slow dancing in a burning room"... 🤣🤣 impeccable lol
Lee was spot on at the end. Pete’s knowledge of guitars meant it was a guess the guitar rather than the price. Maybe could try just playing no touching anything or for a real test, lee plays and Pete had to guess purely on sound.
Perfect entertainment on Xmas-Eve afternoon. And it's especially entertaining to listen to these blindfold challenges as a blind guitarist. Well done, Pete! 👨🏼🦯
In all honesty, would be awesome if they could have an actual blind guitar player on the show. I'm curious to know what a blind guitar player might make of a test like this one and that would truly give an unbiased opinion on what feels and sounds best to you guys.
He can't really guess based on the feel and sound of playing only, because he has so much experience with them, so he knows the little nuances in how their constructed. Still the blindfold challenges are why I started watching years ago, and are still some of my favorite
Cool video , more like finding aesthetic clues to determine price rather than plug-in play by ear/feel . I can see in The captain eyes he’s like “DONT TOUCH EVERYTHING LOL
Pete: Thinks it's a D'Angelico. Touches headstock. "Oh that's a Squier Affinity." Goes to show a cheaper line can sound and play as good as something many times more expensive.
The amount of almost perfect guesses Pete has gotten is a testament to both the consistency of construction in most of these brands as well as the sheer ungodly amounts of guitar knowledge this man has!
Before even watching him touch a guitar, I am confident in Pete. His blindfolded guitar guesses are always spot on. He opens his third musical ear and just knows!
I'm Danish. At 34:20 roughly, Pete spoke Danish, and I just continued for a bit then went "Wait, what?" realising the language change after like two more sentences back to English, haha. Fun moment - would almost think he'd "lose it" a bit after so long in the UK
What did he say? My mothertongue is German and it sounded similar to what "the next..." would sound like in German, and then a word I couldn't figure out, but given the context it was the Danish word for "guitar" maybe?
Maybe this is too nitpicky, but I kinda don't like when they're allowed to feel everything. It always changes the dynamic a lot. It goes from "how do you feel about the quality of the sound and feel of this?" to "Oh okay this feels like a fender headstock, and it's a tele body with humbuckers, and this kind of bridge. That means it's probably X model which costs about Y amount". It make it feel more like gaming the system into trying to figure out what you're holding rather than ranking how the quality compares to the price, or "how do these guitars compare each other in sound and quality?". I hope that ramble makes sense haha.
You have to remember that the cost difference is not tone, but feel. Ie more expensive guitars have different smoother playing feel, vs tone, which is mostly pickup and electronics.
Pete's guitar detective skills and knowledge of different makes and models is truly impressive. 🤓 I commend you both for being totally honest about how difficult it is to conduct such a blind test and all the pitfalls. Perhaps a blind test of just listening to sound examples for which guitar "sounds the most expensive and/or best" would get us closer to what really matters. I think the player should be a good, secret guest guitarist. That was a fun video, and test. Thanks, and Happy Holidays to everyone! Special congrats to East Coast Guitars for making such a good, affordable guitar, and to Andertons for having to the good sense to put it in your Christmas Bundles! You're helping budding guitarists get off to a great start. 👋👍🤟
Well, the sound is far from the most important thing in a lot of guitars, and in a lot of cases a cheaper model will sound very similar to a more expensive one, but the more expensive one will feel nicer to play; Especially in the lower mid-range
@casperes0912 was about to say. It's not about the sound at all. It's just different types of EQ variations. Most important is feel which is defined by level of craftsmanship and materials used. And that will also drive usability over time, ie tuning stability, neck stability, trem stability.
I absolutely love these videos! I can't believe how high up the Eastcoast "ranked" in Pete's "hands on" opinion! You guys are getting so close to that massive million sub mark, and in my humble opinion, you guys deserve it more than most! Love the content guys!
Stellar job DP. Clearly you love your job to know so many of the guitars by features and feel. The next blindfold challenge should be a "first impression" video. When you get a new guitar that Pete has never played, let him play it blindfolded and see if he can figure out who makes it, where it belongs in their line of guitars and guess a price.
I think the only way to get Mr. Danish Pete would be a few guitars that are brand new releases or maybe taping over the switches and knobs. Hard to fool someone who has played, or owned, almost every guitar that has been available lol. Great video.
I wasn't looking at the screen and whatn Lee said "Just a moment, I'm tuning this guitar" I imagined Pete saying "Well, it must be a Les Paul". And it was
Good to see some more Blindfold challenges. Always entertaining. It's so much better when the person who is blindolded has to go straight into playing blindfold. When they have played them before or even seen them it takes a lot away.
This popped as my number one suggestion to listen to as I got in the car to grab my son drumsticks from our local music store for his stocking. Happy Holidays to our friends across the pond, keep up the great work!
As someone who used to work in retail, I find it comforting that even though Lee is trying to play with Pete's imagination, Pete's product knowledge is too strong.
It's so odd to see a Harmony guitar that costs over a grand- when I was a kid that was the budget brand. My first guitar was a Harmony Les Paul knock off- I paid 75 bucks for it, and then 30 bucks for an amplifier that was literally just a speaker with a volume knob on it. If you turned it up all the way, the speaker would distort- not really distortion as we think of it but- sort of. I played Bad to the Bone on it until my mother was finally like "Get in the car." and she took me back to the shop to get a Peavey Rage 80. The guy who owned it had explained to her that with this amp, I could turn it down and still get the sound I wanted- and she was sold.
Despite LOVING these types of videos, perhaps having a bass player or acoustic player for the "which feels expensive" videos. Just a suggestion of course. I'll watch and love either way!
Super entertaining content! I think if you want to make it more about the price, you would need to choose like ibanez, jackson, fender/squier, ltd. Something where there are similar guitars across multiple price points. Having silver sky and harmony are fun to watch, but it is just too easy for Pete to know the price since he knows which brand it is.
great this it is astonishing the depths of the mans knowledge from feel alone you'd think with amount of guitar fettling he does it'd all be forgotten next do sound only but stick with style like tele or LP's or something anyway great vid for xmas eve viewing in-between the family stuff thanks so much and Merry Christmas everybody
Should've kept the usual no headstock rule ,too big a giveaway imo but the way Pete got the Nick Johnston from the neck alone was unreal.Incredible scenes .!
Very Cool, Thankyou. Found this very interesting, Informative and Entertaining. Nice Work Pete Amazing how he picked most of the guitars spot on. Merry Christmas All. Cheers
Great video....and yes, it makes it very difficult when Danish Pete is already familiar with the guitars and where they sit in comparison to each other...price wise. Merry Christmas!
Love blindfold challenges, and this was an entertaining vid, but would have been so much more effective if Pete was not able to fiddle with the guitars. Just play them for 1 min and guess the value solely based on feel and sound. I'm sure he thought the SG was more expensive until he touched the headstock, same as the Tele.
Christmas Gold! Thank you Anderton's for ALL your fantastic content and laughs for 2022 it was much needed for these weird times. Thank you once again and Happy Holiday's from from my house to all of yours.
Just want to wish you all at Andertons a very merry Xmas. I ordered Billie joe Armstrong junior on 22nd late at night. Was told 29th for delivery and then DPD informed me would be 24th and got it in time for Xmas. Cheers guy’s much appreciated 😊
Easy. Smash them on the floor and judge the cost by Lee's reaction - laughter = cheap, crying = getting expensive, a kick in the nuts = most expensive 🤣 Seriously though, the Gretsch. all you have to do is run a finger along the top of the pickups - a screw in between the poles/no adjustment screws on the ring is a Proline, no screw, narrow, two adjustments screws on the ring, and the border between the chrome and blacktop is an Electro, wider pickups etc is a Streamliner. Other brands with different ranges have similar clues to which is which.
"it's a floating Trem which means it's not a fender" every new gen I've ever bought came with a floating Trem setup 😂... You guys should do floating Trem 2 point vs vintage style blindfold challenge
A welcome distraction from the horrors of a consumerist zombie nightmare. Many thanks guys and despite my exasperation I wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
The discussion at 47mins: This is the same as an F1 driver saying they prefer a 1980s Manual shift Ferarri with a painfully heavy clutch, over a 2022 automatic with twice the power!
Whew, time to start an Anderton's Blindfold Marathon. RU-vid keyword: Anderton Blindfold, enter. Start autoplay and sit back with a cold one and snacks. This is the first one up!
Anyone know if there is a "budget" version, or something at least close, of The Dane pedal they're using in this video? Sounds amazing, but $300 is just too rich for me.
Lee was getting cranky lol chill Lee. Pete is too smart for this. Feel is how you determine the brand to help you guess the price. Same way I could guess a squiers price. Get Chappers on this challenge if you want a goof lol
Love these blindfold challenges. Pete's a guitar wizard! I do wonder if budget guitars are SO good these days that the give-away bells and whistles are all you're really paying for?
Honestly it is a shame that Pete tends to touch the points of guitars that give away whether it's expensive or not. Would love to see one of these where he can only play them, nothing else.
Great video as always.👍 But maybe you guys could incorporate a few less familiar brands for Pete, like maybe Esp, Jackson, Musicman, Ibanez etc for example. Might be a bit more suprising in the results then and make it even more interesting.
