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...I'm not stuck in quarantine I work in a hospital. In Canada where it's... not quite the same. Statistically I'd say I'm not the only one watching who works at a hospital in Canada. So there! XD Now you know what some of us are doing. :)
The aluminium guitar neck is an old invention. I own an Ovation Matrix from ca. early 1970’s with a solid aluminium neck but with a rosewood fretboard. It also has extraordinary sound, as all Ovations do.
The funniest thing is he's vehemently a "tonewood" person and attempts to joke about people who think otherwise. I guess it's hard for him to justify flashing his cash on youtube if he doesn't get to talk about how great the wood sounds
My dad's electronic guitar is a cheap Swedish version of a Walmart guitar purchase. Sounded like shit out of the box. Also certain frets where to high. He filed the frets in question to order and put new pickups on it. Great sound now.
mostly, yeah. But everything can contribute to the sound. it's little differences that all comes down to preference. I prefer a warmer, vintage vibe so I modify my guitars to suit that.
Don't worry about that. Keeping it in tune as the temperature shifts one degree will get you ripe for the funny farm long before the fingerprints will do.
It's about rocking it. If you care about fingerprints and cigarette dust and dents and so on, you're a 50s housewife with OCD, not a rocker... Heck, most of the greats played hella burnt, bruised, dented guitars...
Exactly , todays guitars are made way different than back in the day . you were lucky to have a volume and treble dial on an electric guitar and at least 2 different pedals to make it sing ! I love the way he plays and makes his guitars magic !
I have one. Most aluminium necks are much much smaller than wooden ones, mine is about 0.6" at the first fret. They feel very solid to play, I cant describe in more detail than that, but wooden necks feel like toys now, they also don't get sticky or anything if you sweat.
@@whatatool Yeah all modern aluminium necks have steel frets, no need to re fret them, it can be done but no luthier will touch them. They are fretted like any other instrument, fret wire pressed into a slot.
ive played one before. they're smooth and feel amazing. the only downside is the weight and the fact that the neck is a little bit cold when you first pick it up
I dont think the point of it is that its ment to sound recognisably different? I think the biggest change there is how it FEELS different, it probably feels great
Eric Hopkins Yeah it sounds “CRAZY” to me as someone who has played many different guitars. It’s pretty cool. Also I bet the difference is more audible in real life versus through this video.
You're not crazy. The high end could just as (or more) easily be accounted for by the amplifier settings or the capacitor on the tone pot. Neck material makes such a negligible difference in tone, it's easily covered by the electronics.
@@DavidHite this is simply a false statement regarding tone wood. comments on the electronics is true. Check out a pbass or jbass comparison. Same model with maple fingerboard vs. rosewood. You will find if you put the two through a spectrum analyzer at matched volume, there is actually a few DB's of a difference in certain frequency areas. So objectively, it in fact does make more than a negligible difference if you dont feel like compensating with your equalizer in a surgical way all the time
@@chrismusicx sure, you can see the difference with a spectrum analyzer and even hear the difference with your ears. But it's not a radical difference. It's easier (not to mention cheaper) to tweak a knob on your amplifier or guitar, or even change the position of your picking hand than to change instruments. Granted, much of that goes out the door with acoustic instruments, but even with that, the position of your hands likely makes a much more significant and noticeable difference than the neck material.
I don’t know, for me it actually sounds quite weak, like the sound just wants to die constantly and he has to do something to keep it going. I mean the sound itself is pretty normal, but it’s as if it had no body and no sustain.
Best guitar I ever heard was a Jackson with 2 Seymour Duncans and one B.B. King pickup. All three on sounded fantastic. Everybody always wanted to play that cheap guitar over the expensive ones.
As a lightly rounded musician keeping it as a hobby and having a career as an automotive technician and avid drag racer, I've found it easier to keep it simple rather then go over the top. And it definitely seems to work in both aspects of my life 😂 Currently kicking around the idea of building a strat. Just keeping the body of it, thinking a relic style.
Exactly - As it's done in the video, we have no idea if the sound of the guitar was changed at all. I initially thought it sounded quite bright but was that really due to the new neck? Without an A/B - preferably with the visual turned off or moved away from the necks for a moment so we are not influenced by what we see - I can't say the neck had any affect on the sound. It does look quite cool!
Mask, hand sanitizer, follow the arrows, social distancing 6' apart, employee has to sanitize instrument before and after use, you are issued 1 disposable guitar pick ... post purchase, employee wipes guitar with a cloth ... "it's Covid free" lol smh.
@@danielflintknapping The problem is the expectation given for something that didn't happen, if your boyfriend tells you you're getting head tonight after work you'll be bummed when he says he's too tired. I've never heard an aluminum neck, so if he says it sounds crazy, i'm expecting to hear something not quite like anything I've ever heard. He could easily title it, SOLID ALUMINUM NECK!!! I'd watch for that alone without the expectation of some crazy sound.
@@bryangluce I dont know if it's the same guy but the first video recommendation I got with this video was about glass guitars and the channel is called Morningstar glass guitars.
Anyone notice he wiped that guitar while holding it with his bare hands. I am so glad to be vindicated at exactly how stupid, absurd, and moronic this plandemic has been from day 5 on. Soo stupid, sooo weak. Guitar looks pretty awesome…but sounds no different imo.
My first brand name guitar was an Ovation Matrix, it had an aluminum neck. By and large, the neck contributes little to the sound, imo, the Matrix's body projects differently than a wide body; back to the neck, the frets cratered out in @2-2/2 years and there was a 6 month backlog in getting a replacement.
@@mikelord9860 Yeah, for me it was an Ovation Applause, also aluminum neck. It was my first decent guitar. Played it for a couple of years, then sold it. Later I realized that the biggest down side is that frets cast right into the neck can't ever be replaced.
Fingers get stuck to the neck, like a tongue to a flagpole? "Alright, everybody. This is a new song I just wrote. It's called, 'Just the G Chord.' Hope you like it."
Tyler: "If you are not signing for the event, I dont know what you are doing" Event price: $100 Me: a college student in a 3rd world country: haha fany jok...
I had a silver pick with gold and some emerald inside, my mom found it after a public concert. Some *sshole stole it. I hope he gets cursed by some ancient ghost.
Watching the paranoia about the coof in 2022 is hilarious. So much paranoia. So many lies. So completely overblown and loaded with idiocy. "OMG don't touch the guitar you could dieeeee!!!"
Alu neck player here. Aluminium necks are much more wide range, they are balanced at the top and the bottom end, wood sounds quite muffled in comparison, lots of low end woof but no clarity up top
@@adammaher6962 Yeah that ain't true. I've actually tested this myself. I took a strat with a rosewood fretboard and swapped the neck for a gloss maple fretboard, while keeping all the pickups and everything else the same, and the maple fretboard sounded noticably brighter.
alluminium is softer then the steal strings so u gonne get some scratches! alluminium it self can not corrode wich is pritty awesome, but it can get less shine do to a self hardenig process over a long time.
I’ve had a number of the squier affinity strats over the years and that neck definitely gave it a more tinny sound than a standard wood neck. People saying otherwise simply haven’t played affinity strats or they just don’t possess the skills required to hear the difference
@@xx3astmanxx287 I just don't know man... I mean, the video's title is quite misleading as the guy also replaced the pickups (enhancing the sounding possibilities of the guitar) so it kinda ruins it for me, but for my untrained ear is quite difficult to really tell any difference. That being said, I reckon you trained ear is one rare blessing that we people should have to improve (if possible), so props to you, my friend.
@@jaewhite2462 Easy there mate, don't go calling people stupid if you yourself can't spell and don't know your facts. 'Aluminium' is pronounced like that - because it's spelled differently to 'Aluminum'. Pay attention, and get off your short horse.
@@Cyanide1205 No, we Americans would still pronounce it uh-loo-min-nee-uhm, with accents on the "loo" and the "nee" with that spelling. What puzzles Americans is the "Alu" part, which we all spell the same; we see that as "uh-loo" not "al-you" and don't understand why the rest of the world doesn't see that too.
Not a player I take it? There's a pretty clear distinction in sound. Obviously it sounds like a guitar, it **is** a guitar, the only way you're bypassing that is with effects, but this has a unique sound where guitars are concerned.
@@fleekwoodmac3705 Alright fair enough, "crazy" is a pretty big overstatement, but a lot of musicians speak in hyperbole over even subtle difference in sound. I only assumed that you didn't play because I figured you heard no difference at all, which most people who don't play wouldn't.
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James Zelazny jr Gibson’s headstock have had this notorious problem for decades. I’ve heard it’s in the physics of the guitar, and also that it’s supposedly gotten better in recent years.
@@joepalladino4323 Yeah, it has some higher, tinny sounds than your typical Maple neck (unsurprisingly) but unless the video explicitly mentioned that the neck was some obscure material, I wouldn't have really picked up on it enough to comment.
@@Sparrow-Music The echo does sounds good though or it's just me having a set of really good speakers. sadly the drive feels really odd, as if it's distorting in a bad way.
The sound is one thing you won't hear a big difference it's the feel... aluminum feels faster or more direct or acurate than wood especially in the higher frequencies and attack. Its as if aluminum reacts faster and more consistently to vibration. Concert grade tuning forks are made of aluminum because the acoustic properties of the metal are well known. The necks can also get crazy thin like.60 inch thin on full aluminum guitars see "Electrical Guitar Company". There are lots of folks making necks and full guitars its a thing, check out Aluminati, Alef, Robot Graves, Obscura, Nude TTides Developing Nations ... Guitars they all make cool stuff I like Baguley which I think is fabulous as well is one of my favorites!
@@mjstamos there's a small company in Massachusetts called Toneacane Guitars that makes guitars out of copper pipe. It's naturally a very resonant material, and the copper pipe is so strong that the neck never shifts - so once the guitar is strung and set up it never needs to be set up again. They're pretty cool.
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And a lot has to do with left- and right-hand technique. I told my granddaughter that it's better to spend your money on a good amp. A good amp will make even a less-expensive guitar sound good. I like my original '59 tweed Deluxe, personally. It makes even a Harley Benton sound great.
I own a few guitars with aluminum replacement necks & they dont sound too different than a neck made of wood. The main difference is that the aluminum necks have more of a piano like quality to the sustain and can have a bit of harsh high end if the guitar has single coils. I actually found my aluminum neck strat (with texas specials) had a warmer tone overall compared to my all rosewood neck strat (also has texas specials).
This plandemic was ridiculous. Can't pick up a guitar but what you do when you fucking BUY it. Do you just make it float?? The guy HANDED him the thing. Lol people are sheep
I mean it depends on what level you are at player guitar. When i first started i couldn't even hear the difference between humbuckers and single coils. Yet there are guitarists like Eric Johnson who can hear the difference between a battery powered fuzz pedal and a dc powered.
I bet it was super slimy sanitizer. The stuff dumb businesses provide which makes it difficult to even handle things in the store, let alone an expensive aluminum neck. Tyler wasn't going to make his hands slimy for the rest of the afternoon. I would recommend having your own wipes or sanitizer if you're going to try a guitar.
It could have been interresting to hear the sound of the guitar before the neck switch, as compared to after the change. Sort of beeing an A/B comparison of certain licks/riffs...
And, make that comparison with the same strings, and using NO effects on the amplifier. That way, we could REALLY hear the difference between the original neck, and the aluminum neck.
@@vincentrobinette1507 I build once all aluminum guitar made of aluminum profiles glued together with a silicon. as a profile was a kind of flat square tube it really had an interesting sound of metallic resonance. it was nor electric, just fret-less acoustic. Another one was iron neck bass guitar i made with a friend. The neck was made from triangle steel profile, and the body was made from epoxy heavy toilet seat cut in two halves. the sound was great and had a steel resonance i haven't heard in any bass guitar. actually it was too heavy to carry around...
Seeing those arrows and the mask reminds me how absolutely stupid the world was back then. Like some tape on the floor was going to save your life. Ridiculous people went along with that nonsense.
I think people are missing the point. It LOOKS fucking epic and it saves chopping down trees. I don't think it's meant to sound anything less than an electric guitar.
Manrico Corazzi and in the pedals and cables. In this case i meant 90% of the tone from the guitar, not the setup, but yes. Its true. Always go for 200% tone
Its all in the pickups and a good amp . The rest its up to you . Wood has zero to do with it . Unless its a acoustic instrument like a violin, don't believe the wood hype ( unless its morning wood)
I don’t think the neck creates the reverb/chorus, cause you can hear in the second song he plays that there is no reverb or chorus. Kinda sucks that we couldn’t get a true comparison seeing as he changed the pick ups out with the neck
honestly, it's pretty stupid of him to post this and not even have a comparison, I'm not sorry for saying that. A waste of my time but I got to see what it looked like I guess
@Aidan Van Dera Do you have a guitar neck stuck up there? Yes I would have liked a comparison but it's probably mostly aesthetic and it looks pretty great. Maybe there's someone playing that same guitar he bought, on YT.
@@aidanvandera7069 The guitar would have sound way worse before. He changed the mics, probably for some expensive ones. So the before should sound like a 150-200$ guitar, nice but weak. The after sounds like a maybe 1200$ guitar. I try to estimate but the effects don't help. Plus he must have a great amp like no begginer has... So it'll be a bit like comparing Despacito with Moonlight Sonata.
@@evanboth5766 Biden sided with the rioters. Whenever there are mass riots the republican wins. Additionally Trump is the incumbent. Only a third party spoiler breaks that pattern(Ross Perot). Dont keep your hopes up.
@@clemmcguinness1087 it would make a great topic for Grandpa Simpson to tell... "Well, i can remember the first great Aluminium drought of 1926, but back then we just called it Ala‐min-yum, like the rest of the world. But once the Aluminium drought was over everybody had started calling it Aloo-min-num, I can't remember why... something... something... Canadian tin... Zzzzz"
@Multorum Unum I mean if you can afford a guitar you can afford a $5 pack of Ernie Ball or D’addario strings or something but it was still painful to see new strings be clipped.
