@@ataikonotatsujinplayer2610There’s always an old Univox picking up dust somewhere out there, you just have to keep an eye out for one you want. I’ve got a Phase II and it’s so perfect for what I wanna do that I’ve thought about selling all my other electric guitars.
Amazing setlist for a demo, and you've got amazing clean tones. Sappy, Old Age and About A Girl are really good. Most of you distortion sounds good and very close as well, great job!
this guitar it was always my dream since Kurt played it on Argentina 1992 show, because its my country haha. In 2018 i almost bought one but the Ebay seller sold it for a ridiculous price so i would love to buy one of these in the future 🖤
I have one of these coming my way soon. It's a phase 1 Hi-Flier Custom but it has the Univox style "Maestro" badge on the headstock. I know there were factories that made the same guitar for multiple brands but I've never heard of a Maestro version of this guitar.
too bad I cant afford one, they sound great and the tones are great, my favourites off it were downer and beeswax they really sounded great on the Hi-Flier. P.S great Video I Loved it
Insane output range. You will be so pleased with that univox phase 1. Sounds great. I see in sappy than you accidentally hit the swicht of pickups. Is that a problem in this guitar pro just simply that you played too hard?
Thanks, I absolutely love it! I've accidentally hit the switch a few times before, but playing less hard would definitely help. I wouldn't say it's a big issue, they're harder to hit than Mustang switches.
Hey jq, first of all I'm a big fan and I love the tones you get with your guitars, and second of all I was hoping that maybe you could do some measurements for me please? All I would like to know is the length and width of the univox guitar neck plate and the length and width of the univox body itself too, I'm trying to build my own univox and I cant find any measurements for the guitar so if you could tell me the measurements then that'll be great, Thank you and keep up the amazing work!
Mind you I'm at work with earbuds in: but I just want to say I think ur guitar sounds great! I jnow you're playing out of an amp that is awesome (which I couldn't ever afford)- I have played one of those amplifiers- so that might be part of the sound. Personally; I've been looking for either those pickups or the humbuckers out of an old univox and on reverb I can't find anything that's under $200 per p.u.
Don't change those pickups if you know what's good for you. You know they sound amazing clean. At the very least make sure to save the original if you feel the need. A good thing about this guitar is you don't have to route the body for a humbucker cause those single coils are so ridiculously big. I think the only wood work would be a new screw hole to mount the pickups with since they're wider than humbuckers. Also, don't you just love those sensitive ass rocker switches are right where you strum? I got two phase 1s, ones a "custom" like yours and im half tempted to duct tape those bastards
Already changed them. I kept them so I can change it back easily. I also have another Phase 1 I'm keeping stock, they sound great that way. No wood work was done, I stretched the humbucker legs to fit the stock pickup rings.
@@jq.guitars well at least you kept them. They're pretty sweet. I was so gonna change them too before I played them. Maybe my hearing is going bad but in my old age I'm really loving single coils for just jamming out in my room. Getting up to loud enough to play with drummer might be a nightmare but just for the room I can keep the more annoying noises tame.
Great video as you always do jq, hey have you tried to try the boss "metal zone" pedal on your guitars? I have seen several videos on youtube that have used and compared how this pedal sounds with the other kurt pedals. I know that the "metal zone" has a bad reputation for being a garbage pedal by metalheads but one would be surprised how good it sounds with a good equalization on the nirvana songs, it sounds like the mix of the "live at reading" albums from '92 or "live and loud" from '93. A video comparing how that pedal sounds with your guitars would be good. Cheers!
I actually own a Metal Zone, it was my first distortion pedal. It's been a few years since I've plugged it in, maybe I'll try it again in the future. Thanks for the comment!
These could work lefty, Kurt played his that way. There's also BrewersArcade on RU-vid, he made a video on this exact model of guitar on RU-vid flipped lefty. I bumped the switches myself in this video during Sappy, probably wouldn't have happened if I were lefty
I play both left- and right-handed; the Univox is arguably one of the most comfortable guitars to play flipped. I actually find the switch and knobs are harder to hit when flipped to play left-handed, so you should be fine playing a right-handed Hi-Flier left-handed. In my experience, anyway.
Hey man, I have a question for you about your Hiflier. What did you do specifically about the bridge posts for the Ibanez Gibraltar? When I was building mine, the Gibraltar bridge i found on ebay came with the sustain block but no bushings. So I routed out the body for the block and recessed it into the body. I couldn't find the normal style round post bushings for the life of me. So I was curious about how you addressed this issue?
@@jq.guitars Huh, cool. If it works, run it. Routing the body out for that block kinda sucked, but I like having the adjustments. I really wish I could find the original body bushings that match the gibraltar threaded posts. Anyway, thank you for your input.
