NEW! The KNOW YOUR GEAR PODCAST WEBSITE knowyourgearpodcast.com Subject Index 00:50 Intro 01:30 knowyourgear.com 02:00 Can you mix string brands? 06:30 What would I upgrade on a Ultra or Ultra Luxe Fender 08:00 Lace pickups are not the same to me anymore 10:00 How Many Times Can A Guitar Co. Be Sold And Still Be The Same? 13:18 The Time Fender didn't know they invented the 7-string Electric guitar www.maestroalexgregory.net/id17.html 16:50 V-30s or Cream backs? 20:10 How long does it take to break in the speakers in a new cabinet? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YTJR-UHpLQ4.html 30:59 The bridge is not the reason your guitar is not staying in tune 36:20 The new I mean old Marshall pedals imp.i114863.net/5bOV62 46:10 Why Boos would not reissue a pedal for decades 49:40 Does a weight relived guitar sound different 59:30 Amplified Nation and Bad Cat amps 1:12:50 My wife on the audio podcast 1:19:00 What amps under $800 for metal at home use? 1:23:29 Loller and CuNiFe style pickups 1:27:24 If I could only have one guitar? 1:33:50 The Supro Amulet and the Beatles mono recordings 1:37:00 If you could only rescue on guitar which would it be? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8NS3NxMTNzQ.html 1:39:50 Why Buying A Custom Shop Guitar Is Not A Good Idea 1:56:00 Finding a guitar when you travel 2:09:20 If the Guitar market is slowing why is there so many back orders? 2:13:40 What is a digital detox? Records and Tube amps My guitar set up tools stewmac.sjv.io/jWE9W6 The guitars and amps behind me in this show Kiesel KYG Copper Penny Metalic Finish on a Delos Video click here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-A25TgudPKkI.html www.kieselguitars.com Danelectro 59 imp.i114863.net/x9Nykd Amplified Nation Overdrive Reverb ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-RZtN4v5eIXM.html Amplified Nation Ampliphonixs and Gain Video coming this month Friedman Twinsister ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4SSpR2HrElw.html Fender Super Sonic 22 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3X86L3i9yjY.html Marshall 2061 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JAajlPABSHA.html Friedman Small Box 50 Let me know if you want a video in the comments Bad Cat Black Cat Video click here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tEqBco6Xl3k.html You can become a Patreon and support more videos like this www.patreon.com/phillipmcknightKYG?fan_landing=true Join me on Instagram for cool giveaways and more guitar content instagram.com/phillip_mcknight/ Join Know Your Gear Facebook for other videos and posts facebook.com/Knowyourgear Want to have your product on an episode ? Contact us here mgclessons@gmail.com iTunes: smarturl.it/KYGitunes Spotify: smarturl.it/KYG-Spotify RU-vid: smarturl.it/KYGyoutube iHeart Radio: smarturl.it/KYGiheartradio
Phillip, you provide a great service to the folks watching, 99.5 % of the viewers do not make a living in the industry. It’s all about the passion and enjoyment of playing. I hope that you are able to continue along your path for many years to come. As always thanks for your service. Sincerely Rik
Hi Phil, You are a class act. It's refreshing that you want people to appreciate things because of what you went through. I listen every week. I usually gig Fridays or I'm busy with my kids but I never miss the replay. I'm going to send a thank-you super chat now. I love the honesty and genuine nature. You're awesome! Don't change a thing.
I have a 2x12 cabinet with one Vintage 30 and one cream alnico speaker. I thought mixing them in the same cabinet might not be ideal, but they compliment each other so well. Highly recommended.
I built a tele that I auctioned off for charity, and it had a Lace sensor in the bridge. It was my favorite tele pickup, and I literally tried over a dozen different tele bridge pups. YMMV. The guy who bought it owned a pro studio and he absolutely loves it.
I agree, your takes on the emotional, psychological and, I'd say, philosophical dimensions of the guitar enthusiast are stellar. You and Psionic Audio are probably my two most trusted sources re: gear on YT. Irreplaceable, tbh.
I keep a close eye on the second hand market. I've noticed some softening for widely popular guitars (eg Fender Players) though nothing crazy. At all times, there is a big supply of Fender Custom Shop. So many people trying to offload them.
Man, this episode really got bit by the ad bug..... Usually have a couple ads here and there, but been having ads about every 3 or 4 minutes tonight. Great info, as always, Phil! Thanks!
I hear you. I've owned klon number 300, fuzz faces from 1968 and several other vintage pedals. Sure they sounded wonderful but that's why they were reproduced. Being honest there's pedals for under £200 that do the exact same thing just as good. The difference is how they make you feel having them on your board, not how they sound (excluding part tolerance which can I pact 1 pedal from the next regardless of age)
I just bought my first real Fender custom shop. I knew what I wanted the specs I would order, and went on Reverb and found exactly what I would have ordered, $3500 to my door all in total. So before tax and all it was 3200, which I don’t think is too shabby considering the prices today. Its a heavy relic, listed as mint but who would notice lol. Only 2 yrs old and only in studio never gigged. I wouldn’t say that was a bad buy. I didnt buy it to collect it or resell it anyway. I got it to play it, and replace some guitars I didnt play. So I downsized a few good guitars for 1 custom shop. Its still worth it to me, I just wouldn’t ever order a brand new one. No way! Also Id never buy a brand new 335. Check Reverb man. Ouch! And yes I have guitars worth more than my pickup truck lol. And I live in an old farm house. Most would call a fixer upper. But Id rather have guitars and enjoy living, than a truck payment or a huge mortgage any day. Its not an investment. Buy what you play, play what you buy, never buy new. I know what broke feels like, I know what trailer park living is like, I know what a crap apartment is like. Yeah we’ve been dirt poor. We still live like it too. It made a big impression on us. But when we do treat ourselves, which is very rare, we get something nice to keep a very long time. It took 46yrs and raising two kids on every penny we made, (30yrs with my wife) to finally get a custom shop, and Im quite happy with the price I negotiated. Excited to finally own one.
Yamaha Music Group bought all of Córdoba ( Guild as part of the bundle). As a fan of the most recent Guild iteration and an avid Helix user, I am hopeful!
Yeah, was going to say, Yamaha bought the whole thing. Safe pair of hands, in my opinion. Really like the Guild brand -- fair point from Phil of course that it's changed hands so many times that the brand fronts different things over the years -- and I think distribution has been their issue as much as anything else. Yamaha should definitely help with that side of things.
Yeah, Marshall's reissue pedals are being made in UK, all the same supplier parts when available. Anderton's video tears one apart, thumbs up across the board.
Talking about single strings, I had gotten a seven string guitar, and my local guitar store didn't have any seven strings sets, but they have singles, so they were able to make me a set.
Fender CS not being able to build a 7 string sounds like a cop out to me. They are obviously able to reproduce a perfect 60s or 50s strat, and even some of the 80s of the rack stuff like the lead series reissues were pretty accurate, so whats up with that ? The og builders may not be there anymore, but there surely have to be schematics or some kind of data sets available.
Taylor and PRS are two great companies that really understand their brands. Probably because they have the same original owners and they are younger companies than fender or Gibson.
Suggestion: Buy 3 sets of strings that you love. Throw away nothing. Keep old strings as spares - this is so if your jammin' at midnight and the shop is closed and you break a string you can put on an old one and keep playing. I use D'Addario strings because the strings are very good and D'Addario went green.They recycle the old strings - millions of pounds in used strings are recycled by them..they are an environs friendly company - products all made in the USA.
I actually use different brands of strings on one guitar on purpose. Getting 8 string sets if you don't play in standard tuning is difficult. I play in DGDGCFAD for my own music on a Schecter with a 28" scale. So a standard D'addario 9-42 set works great and I already have them for my 6 string guitars. D'addario doesn't make the gauge of string that I want for the 8th string though, that being a 95, and the 7th being a 68 I think. So I actually use String Joy strings for the 7th and 8th string and it sounds just fine. I've tried getting a full set of strings from String Joy but I wasn't impressed with the rest of the strings.
@PhillipMcKnight - I love your weekly show, and tune in live when I can - lots of great content! Your thoughts on the psychology behind guitar decisions really hit home (this week's was the impulse buying effect during travel). Have you done a video on fixing guitar dings? Wondering if it’s easier or harder than replacing frets which I see as an advanced repair that you’ve already covered. Thanks!
1:40:20 That’s weird, because here in Europe, the high end guitars such Private Stock, Custom Shop, Murphy Lab and such, they all retain value, or sometimes even gain values over the year. They’re very rare since they’re all custom made in the US, so very little available in Europe in the first place… So, many it depends to where we live.
Had the exact same thing happen to me regarding breaking in speakers. Bought a mini recto cab (V30) to use with Boogie MkV:25. Loved it... like any speaker I've ever had it started out bright and spikey without much bottom end. Knew it would break in and wasn't worried. After a few days of playing it started sounding right. Bought another mini recto cab a few months later and it was so spikey compared to the other one I couldn't believe it. I hoped it would break in the same. Wasn't sure it would because of the drastic difference. Took a few days, but now I can't tell the difference either. So that's two identical datapoints. Theory supported! Haha.
I have 2 V30's from a early 90's line 6 (that is now a failed DSP boat anchor). But those two speakers are gold. I have one in a 1x12 and the other in a 2x12 with a greenback. Super mix IMO.
What are your thoughts on 8 strings? I cannot deny that I love djenty and modern technical and slam stuff but I have found myself using my 8 string how you described your 7 string use the most. I like to play jazzy stuff with lower voicings and bass lines, sometimes combining bass and guitar parts, and I LOVE thumping away and using some super full chords with a lot of strings, but no one I have met shares this view. Seems like everybody really loves or really hates extended range guitars, but no one realizes that you can play any genre and do some pretty creative and relatively unique stuff with an "ERG". Do you like the low bass range and the ability to play those guitar highs aand even switch between instrument sounds (with multiple amps or digital patches)? Or do you think it's too much?
That shirt already pops WAY more than the Spring stuff. PLEASE let us know who you switched to. You probably don't remember, but a few months back I posted a SuperChat about how I had dumped insane hours into a Spring store and they were ...just a bad choice....
Buying a custom made guitar and then hoping to sell it later and at least get your money back is taking a big risk. When i asked a highly respected luthier to make me a Strat to my spec, he started by asking what i intended to do with the guitar, this he said makes all the difference, as the chances of finding a buyer with the same requirements are very slim, plus it won't have a well know brand name to help you sell it. He made that guiatar and i still have it, will i ever sell it, i hope not as i will be lucky to find a buyer prepared to pay a sensible price.
I've seen online I think it was amazon that you can get a pack of one single gauge string like a .008, .009 or .010. I was thinking of buying a pack of one of those. I don't usually break strings from playing, but I have occasionally broken them when restringing the guitars.
Until I got a Les Paul recently (‘89 Orville by Gibson), I thought there’d be little difference in sound with my 359. I was completely wrong. Completely different tone.
If the idea of breaking in a speaker is to soften the foam or paper edging so the cone moves more freely, why would you use a solvent like WD-40 instead of a lubricant such as Teflon?
Getting a great guitar is simple, buy any model made in Japan Jackson or Charvel, or an ESP/Ltd 1000 or higher or actual ESP boom ,,,,done. They can do ant genre well depending on pickups and sometimes model. All other stuff is a gamble, also Fender is still great but varies from guitar to guitar.
These aren't expensive, but I've been collecting the Ibanez ART300 for several years. There's five finishes, and I've managed to acquire four of them. The elusive ART300 BBC (Blackberry Caiman) is my unicorn. So, if anyone knows where I can find one, that would be awesome!
Hey Phil what do you think about the Sire Larry Carlton S7 I just heard you going over a list of sub-$600.00 guitars and did not hear it mentioned. John McCormack
Hi Phil. I have a question. I want to install a DiMarzio DP218 on my strat. Do I need to put a 500k pot along with it , or just leave the stock one. It a new m.i.m. fender. Thanks in advance.
The best Les Paul's, I've either played or owned, were either light weight 50's models (1952-1957) or later ones that used maple necks, or used ash bodies. The off the shelf Les Paul's you find these days are just boring to me, as are most major guitar brands, in that the CNC revolution made guitars consistent and therefore _mediocre by definition_ .
????hey Phil,???? As for the American Guitar - it's a waste of money compared to overseas. As for speakers, I run 2 homemade cabinets I built. Using 2 of 10" Warriors, then 2 D123e JBL 12" from 1970. It's ported and sealed with a JBL 2-way crossover SF20M Sansui tweeters and piezo Horns. For travel, 1 made a single-size box with another JBL crossover SF20M with another JBL 12" from the 1990s JBL's 2130. I added a Sansui tweeter too. I also was gifted a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe Mod 3 that has a Celestion V-80. If I ever play anywhere carrying that much weight in 1 cabinet with a tube amp and a speaker is too heavy. I'll take-out the speaker and make a modified amp cabinet. The lighter the better.
Lol. It’s like the universe was waiting for me to buy my first custom shop guitar for you to make this video. Yes, this is how a narcissist thinks. Always enjoy your broadcasts 😊
