Bless you sir for being the only music KZitemr brave enough to advise people NOT to buy a thing. Also lol, good one.
@honeypotusername
Жыл бұрын
I mean dude he's probably sponsored by a competitor. No actual opinions are given in today's world
@DS-nw4eq
Жыл бұрын
He’s selling himself as a source of information. Pickups are a component of tone and some are better than others given the purpose and other gear involved. Goofball
@FG-vp6id
Жыл бұрын
@@honeypotusername Hell no, this guy is one of the few people who research into shit, and if he is sponsored by someone to review their product, he will tell you if its garbage or good.
@DS-nw4eq
Жыл бұрын
@@FG-vp6id No, he’s a shill for views
@sirspongadoodle
Жыл бұрын
@@DS-nw4eq no he isnt. i hope that was simple enough for you.
@tayzonday
Жыл бұрын
Yes. Any accumulated dirt/residue/corrosion has an inherent electrical resistance that can be overcome with more electricity.
@grimfiddle578
Жыл бұрын
Tay?
@ggaabb_
Жыл бұрын
Correct me if im wrong but the last time I used a magnet to collect nails in the ground it didn't give a damn about any dirt, corrosion or residue. When we're talking about electromagnetic transduction the only important elements are the potency of the magnets and the inductance of the coil (this one can be affected by corrosion though) so... HOLY SHIT IS THE CHOCOLATE RAIN GUY
@jrkb89
Жыл бұрын
Chocolate rain!
@TrashMarineMusic
Жыл бұрын
Everybody is gonna reply "WAOW CHOCOLATE RAIN!?!!?" but I do appreciate the explanation of whats happening here
@pickledparsleyparty
Жыл бұрын
My signal chain! It's aliiiiiiive!
@mawhit1176
Жыл бұрын
Except most people need to turn the knobs the other way lol
@bigassdummy46
Жыл бұрын
All the gain
@gilernt
Жыл бұрын
fr. tho i gotta say i fall into the group he's talking about here, i gotta strat and wanna chug on it but it kinda boofs even on the neck pickup - and i've seen everywhere everyone's like "TURN DOWN THE GAIN" so i'm always running the dial at like 40 max, so imma try not doing that and see how it goes
@AnArmoredMarch
Жыл бұрын
@@gilernt most guitarists dont know how their shit works lol. Single coils have low output and less magnets working on the string, so you get a little more "definition" (read: slightly more treble), so you can get pretty much the exact same sound by just turning the gain higher and dialing back the treble ***slightly.*** You kinda have to get more aggressive with the gain knob to get the same kind of sound from most singles as you would with an active humbucker. Note: aggressive compression will dampen this effect heavily
@sEaNoYeAh
10 ай бұрын
@@gilernttry getting a Digitech Grunge pedal cheap second hand. It's a cheat code for chugging on stock single coils.
@gilernt
10 ай бұрын
@@AnArmoredMarch thankfully im not one of those guitarists 🤨 i just prefer not having 75% of the mix be hum and noise
@yorkshirej2219
Жыл бұрын
Holy fuck it worked
@jonniefast
Жыл бұрын
trying other types of pickups and friends guitars is a good idea , i like having access to dif stuff but imo i think ppl should stick to what works for them i dont do ANY high gain stuff and use the breakup of the amp and meticulously dialed "overdrive" or "compression" (the signal chain is technically neither of those lol anyways learning about pickup wiring is fun and a labor of love in itself; but prob unnecessary for most and downright silly if you think its gonna "fix" your intonation/picking-attack 😅
@jonniefast
Жыл бұрын
this is one of those few channels that i find acceptable in terms of usefulness and mixing/tone shortcuts not too big on the jokes (im an old man lol) but the guys on this channel seem happy and strive to get even better 💖
@c.noahbaoas6816
Жыл бұрын
Honestly I think at least 50% of the “improvement” folks hear when changing their pickups is from the new strings they put on after swapping pickups haha
@alanjamesh.zamorano1677
Жыл бұрын
@@c.noahbaoas6816 that's why I use my same old crusty strings after every general setup.😎 Also because I'm a cheap mofo
@jonniefast
Жыл бұрын
@@c.noahbaoas6816 i somewhat agree but ive turned some pickups into fridge magnets and they were absolutely horrible/unusable
@argento8447
Жыл бұрын
Instructions unclear: I bought 7 PAF boutique replicas to improve my chugs.
@koDaffi
Жыл бұрын
You can't djent properly without a $4,000 amp my friend. Don't pay a guy to plug it in either, that's part of the experience. All the great used to do it.
@koDaffi
Жыл бұрын
@@Spaggot That is true I was a little tipsy when I commented it. The trick is you have to get your pants off all the way, you squat like your going to go handicap bowling, then while it's puckered but still slightly open you plug straight in. I need to stop commenting when I've been drinking because I never give clear instructions and I feel bad once people reply confused.
@Flat_Stanley
Жыл бұрын
I bought an auto zone long stem high capacity funnel to improve my butt chugs!
@stallionstudios
Жыл бұрын
Have you considering swapping your tonewood out on your guitar as well?
@DS-nw4eq
Жыл бұрын
@@koDaffiyou probably can’t afford coffee so you make ridiculous statements out of spite. Unfortunately the economy doesn’t support the boomer lifestyle anymore so you’ll just have to play your IRs
@martianmurray
Жыл бұрын
Can we get an in depth video on this complex technique?
@doknox
Жыл бұрын
You just watched it.
@LPOband
Жыл бұрын
Turn it up to eleven
@hudsonmccaffery1619
Жыл бұрын
@@LPOband yea, you go to ten and where can you go from there? Nowhere. That’s why we have eleven
@AllThisOverASliceOfGabagool
Жыл бұрын
You must be a bass player 😂
@prod6thl
Жыл бұрын
@@doknoxno shit really?
@DaveTaste
Жыл бұрын
I've bought a new TV so I can watch a different channel.
@stallionstudios
Жыл бұрын
oh man funny
@deskducker
3 ай бұрын
I bought a new tv because i wanted 4k instead of 1080
@hhaste
3 ай бұрын
@@deskducker Except pickups are even less of a difference than that, with a rare exception here and there.
@Gutszomb11
Жыл бұрын
This is the equivalent to turning the knob before TV remotes came out. SO MUCH WORK 😂
@martianmurray
Жыл бұрын
When I was a kid I was the remote
@sirspongadoodle
Жыл бұрын
@@martianmurray what you turned objects on?
@greevar
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, you can do a whole hell of a lot to change your tone by simply putting a graphic EQ before the preamp. If it has a level boost, you can make your pickups sound like other pickups by cutting and boosting frequencies. Making a single coil sound like a humbucker/active can be done by adjusting the EQ and boosting the output with the level boost of the EQ. Moreover, we have a particular range of frequencies in the middle (centered around 8Khz) we are most sensitive to while not so much on the extreme ends of our perceptible range. When we boost the volume, those frequencies we don't detect so well seem to just "show up", which many of us perceive as a "tone shift", when all that is really happening is that we can now better hear what wasn't loud enough relative to other sounds.
@ismaeledridi390
Жыл бұрын
Very true, and also you can apply this same concept if you put an eq after an overdrive to shape even better the response. The Eq are the most powerful pedal in a chain.
@doknox
Жыл бұрын
@@ismaeledridi390 yes right next to the fart pedal.😂 But seriously you aren't lying. I prefer my eq before OD but...that's the cool thing about this stuff is there are no rules it's just what sounds good to you. That being said sometimes people cant hear for shxt and we end up here. Lol.
@ismaeledridi390
Жыл бұрын
@@doknox yes,ideally you can put an Eq before and after for having the best trim and boost of frequencies from your overdrive.
@murrayguitarpickups9545
Жыл бұрын
You cant amplify frequencies that dont exist to start with, if the pickup isn't producing anything over say...3k, adding 4k, 6k or 10k will only add hiss
@ravenslaves
Жыл бұрын
yeah. the eq pedal, or rack mount, is the most versatile and underrated effect that anyone, of any genre, can have.
@nathanv.4397
Жыл бұрын
That didn't work for the stock pickups in my Jackson JS30RR Rhoads (04 or 05 model) Sometimes the pickups are just shit.
@jonathanthompson9068
Жыл бұрын
Agreed. I changed out my stock Jackson pups for the blackouts and there was instant high gain clarity. Sometime pickups sound like mud and adding gain will simply make them muddier.
@alrecks619
Жыл бұрын
cheap pickups from bygone era tend to be dog water. but nowadays they should be decent enough to be put on a recording.
@nathanv.4397
Жыл бұрын
@@alrecks619 that's reassuring. I've heard nothing of the contemporary entry guitars. I'll say it slays though. It appears to be extremely similar to Glen's mid 90s Rhoads but more affordably made. ...Personally, I want more gain and my intention is to put two onboard preamps into my guitar and run it through a parametric EQ, perhaps one more signal boost before hitting the amp. I can raise the strings as I prefer, and introduce some Eddy's in the magnetic field (diminishing the efficiency of the pups however altering the tone as legend has it). If it sucks I'll revamp my application. I'm following the practices of Dimebag, Bill Lawrence (who I discovered via Dime), and my own ideas.
@beefnacos6258
Жыл бұрын
I had a Jackson stealth with pickups that were so bad no matter what I did in the signal chain it just sounded bad.
@M0RGAT0RY
Жыл бұрын
That's true...especially for 7 strings
@stoneysdead689
Жыл бұрын
If you can't tell- Glenn produces and understands nothing but metal- more gain fixes everything.
@jofusnufc841
Жыл бұрын
which is bullshit
@torbenlysholm1
Жыл бұрын
Exactly, @stoneysdead689. In this case at least. I like his "no bull"-approach to things, but this only applies to very heavily distorted signals. In his KZitem video about this, he allows for a bit more nuance, but still generalizes. It's as much clickbait as it is true in what he does and how he does it.
@sirspongadoodle
Жыл бұрын
@@torbenlysholm1 no good deed goes unpunished.. refuse loads of money from pickup companies, get people bitching about something he literally tells you about in the video.
@grizzlymanverneteil4443
Жыл бұрын
He does some core too
@nicolasreveco3748
9 ай бұрын
i think this is not about metal, but the fact that pickups don't make much difference in tone at all, like a lot of people tend to believe. there are very subtle differences, but only in a really clean channel, almost no gain, and in a mix it's not noticeable. the biggest difference is in the amplitude of the signal (some are a bit louder, some are quieter). and our brains are routed to think that louder=better. so all of the differences in amplitude can just be made by, guess what, turning up or down the gain. so do that instead of spending $200 on pickups
@ryanscholl-thurman3799
Жыл бұрын
my single coil just turned into a humbucker! truly a magic tip!
@obelisk5400
Жыл бұрын
One thing Glenn often does forget to mention: He talks about METAL tone. Aka high gain, high distortion tone. If you play clean tones (aswell), pickups do matter.
@shroomlord682
Жыл бұрын
graphic eq before the amp and then mixing and then putting it in a full track, it does not really matter that much
@cadengroves
Жыл бұрын
I agree to this for example. The bridge on a EMG 81 for example (just because that’s probably the most common) has great distortion sure but shit cleans, sounds like plastic. Now you could say “just switch to your neck pickup” and sure. But let’s compare that EMG 81, to a Seymour Duncan Pegasus bridge pickup. In comparison (even if it’s an active and a passive comparison) you get way better and tonally versatile clean and distorted tones out of that pickup.
@dirgmario
Жыл бұрын
@@shroomlord682 oh, it does. Good luck getting the clean character of a Bridge Tele pickup on a strat
@ruledtrendy5066
Жыл бұрын
He makes it very clear he's talking about high gain metal tones
@jessesalas1692
Жыл бұрын
No shit he is a metal production studio
@stefanfyhn4668
Жыл бұрын
Only Glenn will argue that a 5 dollar pickup sound like a 50 dollar pickup by setting gain to 10
@beefnacos6258
Жыл бұрын
Actually I've seen a lot of people agree with that. It's nonsense. For him claiming to be an audio engineer he sure is wrong about some things
@helio1055
5 ай бұрын
@@beefnacos6258No literally, it’s embarrassing that some are actually believing this shit
@CLaw-tb5gg
2 ай бұрын
no, he's saying that the stock pickups in the average guitar are fine. Not that $5 pickups are fine lol
@duckbuster6391
2 ай бұрын
Make that 11 👀
@lobsterman5602
Жыл бұрын
I wish this came a few days earlier, I literally just bought new pickups 😭
@FEV369
Жыл бұрын
Oh don't feel bad... unless you never plan to play guitar without high gain... You know, so the other 50% of the time you play with low gain or clean will have nice tones VS shitty cheap pickup tones...
@charlesmayberry2825
Жыл бұрын
As another pointed out (Ravic) you will still get a tone difference, and better pickups the largest difference is in the cleans. As well as the higher tones the high mids and treble are better with a real nice set of pickups, so if you are playing low gain or clean ever. You will still get something out of it.
@beefnacos6258
Жыл бұрын
Good pickups are worth it. I like this guy and usually he has a lot of valuable information but this is just stupid. I'm glad you bought some good pickups
@robob3ar
Жыл бұрын
So do they sound better
@charlesmayberry2825
Жыл бұрын
@@robob3ar in low gain applications the tone will vary quite a bit. Also for instance my "cheapest" guitar (shelf price) had terrible imported electronics in it. It always sounded super muddy and no amount of EQ could fix it. Swapped them out for some hot rodded Seymour Duncan pickups and it's now the clearest guitar I own. The thing is if the pickups are alright, and you're just getting started it may not be worth the money. Especially if you pay someone else to change them. I do my own work on my guitars. So it's just part cost and effort. At the end of the day, if you don't have the money and they sound alright for the most part, it's not worth changing them to chase a marginal gain. Especially as pickups age the resistance changes and adding a bit more gain on the amp will combat it. Like everything in life the answer is it's complicated. At the end of the day Glenn's advice isn't terrible. It comes from a place assuming you really can't afford it or the money would be better spent elsewhere. Which starting out for most musicians he's right
@z1g
Жыл бұрын
Wait, how much does that knob cost?
@MrMOGHammer
Жыл бұрын
About the price the amp it comes in… oh wait … free amp sims. There you go.
@Tijuanabill
Жыл бұрын
If you have to ask, you probably can't afford it. That is an Aged Brazilian Polyurethane New Old Stock knob, with mold figuring.
@MrMOGHammer
Жыл бұрын
@@Tijuanabill functioning hardware sold separately
@bluesoulzero7754
Жыл бұрын
Gotta say. I've been recording while trying to learn and understand mixes, but something I always noticed is that regardless of the pickups I'm using, they do tend to sound the same after mixing and adding stuff on top of it. I do have to say on my GFS Redactive there's a huge difference in tone but just for 1 little reason, those pups came with EQ switches to adjust and boost the highs, mids and lows
@Jimbodaddy74
Жыл бұрын
You mean crank the gain until your guitar sounds like bees farting in a box? Sounds like a winning plan, man.
@wadesams194
6 ай бұрын
Me with stock ibanez pickups at 15 years old
@user-nk8ww9ce9k
Ай бұрын
Bees farting in box ist metal af
@Eblan85
Жыл бұрын
Love how Glenn is always goofing around while giving the best advice.
@streetlegal008
Ай бұрын
The key is pickup height adjustment, individual pole piece height adjustment for each string and in this way balancing out the sound between bridge and neck pickups. It takes a bit of time but it will help develop your ear and you can fine tune these settings over time to home in on the 'tone' that you like.
@zynosgd9982
Жыл бұрын
I tend to agree, however, I personally dabble in both "big chugga chugga monkey brain metal" as well as "clean goody two-shoes indie pop" and then I believe pickups do matter. THAT BEING SAID, cheap does not mean bad, I've had phenomenal tones from my expensive guitars but also from some import brand guitars. Believe your ears, not your money!
@therideneverends1697
Жыл бұрын
this is exactly it, PLAY THE THING before you screw about with it, might not even need fixing. i have a japanese knock off 335 copy i got for 275 bucks that has these wierd single coils that are like a strat pickup but with a coil almost twice as tall. and it sounds super cool!
@Napalmdog
Жыл бұрын
It’s true! I mean one of the biggest reasons EMGs and other active pickups are so loved by the Metal community is they increase the gain signal. I still want to hear Glenn try a P90 in metal though!
@Electro_Chrome
Жыл бұрын
The George Lynch Screamin Demon makes a massive difference if you like to play Zakk Wylde style squealies. It's super responsive to artificial harmonics.
@Spoon8lld
Жыл бұрын
The only time it's worth changing pickups in my opinion, is if you're upgrading a super low budget guitar with pickups that are microphonic, or otherwise really really bad
@beefnacos6258
Жыл бұрын
I disagree I don't feel that budget guitars are worth the investment of upgrading. To each their own
@Spoon8lld
Жыл бұрын
@@beefnacos6258 budget guitars can be a fun way to learn guitar modding, so I definitely disagree with that I've also had budget guitars with better playability (baretta special) than my gibsons
@sirspongadoodle
19 күн бұрын
@@beefnacos6258this aint the 80s…
@peteherring5438
Жыл бұрын
Replacing those crusty old strings can really improve your tone too. I see so many guitars with strings that haven't been changed in a year or 10.
@therideneverends1697
Жыл бұрын
its actually amazeing, when i first got my 62RI jag i was kind of perplexed how flat and muddy it sounded with pickup hight and everything totally dialed in put it aside for a bit then decided to put new strings on after cleaning it, whole thing came alive. Dead strings are a real thing no doubt
@rcstl8815
5 ай бұрын
I thought the rust tone added charm to them?
@charlesmerfeld2988
Жыл бұрын
Changing the height can make a bit of difference. For some new strings can do it too lol. Or maybe a new battery ?
@Mkemcz
Жыл бұрын
I was expecting Glenn to just shout: "GO PRACTICE!"
@lone-wolf-1
9 ай бұрын
This!👍🏼
@JosephGorbach
Жыл бұрын
I never thought about the tone in pickups when I bought one. Only time I did but a new pickup was cuz my bridge pickup was giving massive feedback. Which when I night and swapped out for an EMG which it worked and fixed the problem.
@beefnacos6258
Жыл бұрын
Exactly..
@demokraatti
Жыл бұрын
Correct. Tons of gain will ruin your tone no matter what pickups your guitar have.
@fezzibuzz
Жыл бұрын
Total bollocks 🤣
@ethanskelly467
Жыл бұрын
Yeah I wish my gain setting could go any higher
@FAFetus
Жыл бұрын
try to chug a little harder. james hetfield hits his strings fuckin hard and it gives a meaner sound. new strings helps too
@meiji...
9 ай бұрын
boost the gain on your EQ pedal?
@user-xd7rc9mj3x
8 ай бұрын
You can remove cover, replace cover with raw nickel-silver, adjust pickup height, adjust pole height, eq, lower the gain (for cleaner sound). Lots to do before buying a new pickup. But some pickups ARE a lot better than some of the cheaper stock pickups.
@danielhunter8008
7 ай бұрын
Cheap single coils never cease to amaze me. Every other day I see someone playing squire Sonic that sounds just like a fender custom shop. It's definitely more noticeable on cheap humbuckers versus expensive humbuckers. But I would still say mess with your EQ and your pickup height before spending money unnecessarily.
@alexjacobs5132
9 ай бұрын
You can also adjust the pickup height and pole pieces too! It’s amazing how much you can affect the tone of a set of pickups just by adjusting how close they are to the strings.
@PrinceVinceJohn
Жыл бұрын
Glenn calls the KZitemrs out, but they just stay silent.. lol
@worldaswar3784
Жыл бұрын
Watching your videos i can say that the pick up height and the amp gain is the key. I watched the video on pick up height and it makes the most impact to the tone and dynamics.maybe i am wrong. So please correct me.
@jayfabe620
Жыл бұрын
Changing pickup height, especially with hunbuckers, can make it seem like you have an entirely different guitar.
@worldaswar3784
Жыл бұрын
@@jayfabe620 exactly
@TheZguitarboy67
Жыл бұрын
jokes aside, I wish more people realized how much difference can be had just by playing with the pickup height.
@istvanfabian881
Жыл бұрын
There is small difference in tone, but a louder signal going in the amp is different than havig more gain
@Durkhead
Жыл бұрын
Active pickups make a difference
@nicolasreveco3748
9 ай бұрын
but isn't it more of a gain difference than a tonal one? actives are hotter
@Durkhead
9 ай бұрын
@nicolasreveco3748 kinda, but active pickups have a flatter frequency response and when they distort they have like an extra grind to it, if u listen to slayer you can hear it I play bass and I use to think active pickups for bass were better but now I like passive cause they usually a little scooped sounding
@peachmelba1000
Жыл бұрын
If you buy a cheap mod-platform guitar, it'll very likely have pretty atrocious pickups (meaning, weak/microphonic), so take this advice with a grain of salt. Sometimes, you do have to replace them.
@maraviyoso8473
8 ай бұрын
Can the guitar replace its owner? That'd be better
@dextersbeard3472
8 ай бұрын
@@maraviyoso8473 yeah, its called selling it and buying a better guitar
@spark300c
6 ай бұрын
it make a lot sense to replace low output for high ones if some playing with distortion because of signal to noise ratio.
@jimshorts6751
4 ай бұрын
The most articulate difference I've ever heard, or showed people I changed pickups for is : AMP ! You need a good amp ! 2nd... I throw my trusty '71 Les Paul at them, and they instantly want my pickups (provided they aren't metal heads), then I tell them they're 50s spec PAF's, underwound with Alnico 2 mags. 🤷♂️ Tone doesn't get better by creating a stronger magnetic field, it's usually detrimental. But, I'm weird that way.
@Turboy65
Жыл бұрын
This advice only applies if metal is all you play. If your musical tastes are broader than that, and you turn the distortion down at least SOME of the time, the differences between pickups, and much more, will be more apparent and may matter more to you.
@scacchomattho
Жыл бұрын
That's right, but this is a metal-focused channel, so the point stands
@MichaelSheaAudio
Жыл бұрын
get an EQ pedal. It's cheaper than pickups and can be used on all of your guitars. :)
@axelnoi
Жыл бұрын
Hear that people don’t waste your hard earned money on a new set of pickups. Just buy a 2500 dollar amp and bump the gain. Because every amp works the same.
@jackbootshamangaming4541
9 ай бұрын
My Fishmans have given me massive new tonal variety, like a ton. From a twangy sound I couldn't get with the passive feels on, to the even better active sounds than I had. Both neck and bridge are fairly different, not as much on super high gain, but still can tell. My Amarok-7 is clearly different in neck and bridge, even on very high gain.
@guitarjams1008
Жыл бұрын
high quality pickups do approve your guitar tone And sound. In any and every way
@Tijuanabill
Жыл бұрын
High quality vs poor quality, or high quality vs good quality? Yeah, $2 ceramic Chinese pick ups suck, but swapping your USA Gibsons out for Seymour Duncans is lighting money on fire, unless you are swapping to a different output level.
@Eliphas_Elric
11 ай бұрын
@@Tijuanabill Output level, magnet type etc. Although you can always just swap the magnet for yourself (unless its a dimarzio ceramic, they glue those bastards in).
@Tijuanabill
11 ай бұрын
@@Eliphas_Elric Yes, of course there are a million designs. And that is sort of my point. We know how these are made, and it's clearly repeatable. Changing pickups is an artistic choice, not a quality choice. Buying a more expensive pickup, of the exact same design, with the exact same tone, is not going to change anything. If you prefer a hotter or less hot pick up, or a single vs humbucker, etc, etc, then a cheaper version of the same exact thing, is not going to change the tone that much. The big brands are easily copied, and are.
@Wazona1980
Күн бұрын
I agree.
@ChadieB
Жыл бұрын
Revolutionary
@abirbhaimusic9740
11 ай бұрын
I have multiple guitars with different pickups. Trust me, just playing with gain does not help. As a guitarist, I am really sensitive about tones. Each pickup have their unique sound. My Dimarzio have one voice, my invader have another voice, my EMGs have other voice. That's why I have multiple guitars for different sets of songs.
@Spacefiddler
8 ай бұрын
And for the listener all sounds the same
@abirbhaimusic9740
8 ай бұрын
@Vidaxata you are correct about majority listeners.
@jowildcat40
Жыл бұрын
Bought a guitar that had ceramics and I replaced it with alnicos. Went from muddy to clean like it was night and day. I've heard the reason why is because those ceramics aren't made with enough copper (since it's a Squier), so those ceramics were cheaply made. For someone who likes to play just about every genre, upgrading the pickups was necessary. Wasn't so much about the type in this situation, but moreso the quality. Turned that guitar into a machine that sounds and plays better than a Fender player strat by only spending $100 on pickups.
@tjborekvideo
10 ай бұрын
Yes, I recently picked up a used Squier Affinity Strat HSS. After cleaning it, lubing it, adjusting action and intonation, and floating the vintage-style trem, it holds tune really well -- this coming from a guy spoiled by $400 Ibanez Edge tremolos. I bought it as a backup for gigs, but I'm playing it on the daily! Enjoying the honeymoon, but I will upgrade that bridge humbucker. It's thin sounding, and gain alone isn't the solution.
@shizzlefohizzle417
Жыл бұрын
Adjusting the already installed pick up can also improve tone as well! Whether its adjusting the pick up height it even adjusting the poles (if its an opencore pickup)
@gadget348
24 күн бұрын
If you play with tumps of distortion then all you need is something magnetically resembling a humbucker and this tip works a treat. If you play with a small amount of breakup or clean then changing pickups, picks, pick angle, pick attack, pick position, fingers, finger nail length, jack cable, capacitors, transistors or valves, valve type, speakers, cabinets and microphone will all change your tone in varying degrees of subtlety.
@personalfreedom2700
Жыл бұрын
Note: The idea that different configurations of pickups have zero effect on tone except to add or reduce amp gain is against the laws of physics, and there is no evidence to support his claims. In fact amps themselves impart far less tone characteristics then pickups do.
@darrylportelli
2 ай бұрын
Im convinced that a good cab with good speakers is where its all at ... You can throw whatever you want through a great cab and it will still sound great
@cadengroves
Жыл бұрын
I love Glenn’s videos, and a lot of what he does is truth and quality information. But I have to disagree on this certain thought about pickups. Pickups CAN completely change tone, either for the better or for the worse. It’s been trouble shot multiple times with different pickups, and each different pickup model produces a certain tone. For example I’ll take 2 active (because those are most common for metal) For actives we’ll go with the EMG 81 and the Seymour Duncan Blackout. Both very similar active pickups, how ever, comparing tone with the same exact amp settings the EMG 81 produces a more high end and scooped mids sound. Where as the SD Blackout produces a more bass filled tone, while still compensating for the treble, it isn’t as high as the EMG 81. As for the cleans of that pickup, the EMG 81 produces a way more treble and plastic clean sound, where as the SD Blackout produces a more warmer sound, per as the more bass tone from the pickup. Some pickups are just straight out more versatile and produce different sounds for what you want. As for distortion, if you crank more gain on a shitty pickup or low end pickup (let’s take the stock Ibanez Infinity pickups for an example) you will just get a muddier and grosser tone, which will completely just get rid of any tone for that example and leave with you something shit. Where as on a EMG 81 you just get hotter sounding tones, doesn’t make it as muddy as that Ibanez pickup. Sure, you can just adjust amp setting if you have low end pickups, but if you’re playing live on for example a Line 6 Helix, or Quad Cortex, your mostly going to be using one specific tone for each thing, a rhythm, a lead, and a clean. It’s not practical to keep messing with settings during a guitar switch if you don’t like the sound the pickups produce. That’s my 2 cents about it at least :)
@armara70
Жыл бұрын
Very true, but I would say there are a few pickups (Air Norton, Black Winter, etc) that do offer a unique tone.
@painengineer
Жыл бұрын
VALUABLE information. Learned this a long time ago. Some pickups just dont run hot and you need to crank it thats all it comes down to.
@dewdiepopatm9449
10 ай бұрын
A guitar pickup literally has the complexity of an incandescent light bulb. I bought a $35 SH-4 knockoff from amazon that rivals my $100 Duncan black winter in tone and output. Whats the secret recipe? A magnet, some screws, and a couple miles of copper wire.
@PaidInBoredom
Жыл бұрын
I mean new pickups can really help if the guitar have really cheapo weak magnet pickups or if the poles got really corroded. But yeah crank it to 11.
@scrummyvision
3 ай бұрын
havent caught a live mix review stream in a long time; i was 💯% expecting "PRACTICE YOUR FUCKING GUITAR" but i forgot, the key is 🤘 (and then dial back volume knob on the guitar!)
@emilbygde9146
3 ай бұрын
Stock pickups are most often absolute garbage that sounds like a cessna taking off. If this method worked, i could duct tape a fridge magnet to a piece of cardboard covered in aluminum foil, and it would sound the same as a set of Fishmans... For those who havent tried (i actually have): It doesnt work like that...
@johnpell6867
2 ай бұрын
Yeah it's weird for me when I see a comparison video and the pickups sound exactly the same all the time. But then the person in the video is saying oh wow what a difference! If you really want to change your tone it's down to your amp and your pedals. With the right stuff you could make an $80 guitar sound like you paid 10 grand for it.
@shadowhawk3790
Жыл бұрын
Bro I've made some of my hardest shit on a budget strat, I've been preaching this for years
@beefnacos6258
Жыл бұрын
With 20 pedals in the signal chain?
@jasonshaffer7516
4 күн бұрын
lol, no wonder my dad kept telling me to turn the gain up when I was learning guitar in the 90s
@allnostalgia7192
11 ай бұрын
pickups are just a business and a profit strategy. you can distinguish every sound this pickup makes but there is not much difference. what this guy said is absolutely true. you buy an expensive pickup but you only get the brand name of the pickup but the real one what really helps you is your guitar playing skills and how you keep that musicality alive.
@guitartec
Жыл бұрын
This is EXACTLY what I tell my customers to do when they either misunderstand things or have $$$ burning a hole in their pocket. Most get bummed b/c I stole the wind from their sails, but saved them stupid money. I also tell them to NEVER expect to get their money back for mods if sold.
@Tijuanabill
Жыл бұрын
Likely get less because of the mods, if anything.
@samsonlovesyou
Жыл бұрын
I thought the answer was going to be "PRACTICE YOUR FUCKING INSTRUMENT". But this was actually better.
@dehved
Ай бұрын
in theory, a bit more gain is just the same (slightly more voltage) as more turns around the pickup bobbin.
@tyler9033
7 ай бұрын
I don’t know. The guy at guitar center was pretty adamant that it was my pickups.
@autumn2333
Жыл бұрын
What about active pickups like emgs? Would that be a good investment because I wanna get some for my les Paul studio but after watching a lot of your content you say otherwise
@baldman7595
Жыл бұрын
are you making a video on them would be curios to hear the tim henson ones since they been very hyped
@MrMOGHammer
Жыл бұрын
Keyword here is hype.
@baldman7595
Жыл бұрын
@@MrMOGHammer yes ik but i still would like to hear them because he already had them so why not
@madhalodog21
Жыл бұрын
I know this might be satire . But whenever my single coils are weak I turn up the presence 😅
@StereoPenguin94
Жыл бұрын
Sweet now my $60 single coil strat sounds like a tiny tin robot squealing when i lift my palm off the strings!
@FreeUrMindz
4 ай бұрын
Love it. Also a simple used EQ pedal can greatly change any guitars sound.
@sm0key529
3 ай бұрын
That's a bold statement. Now you're dealing with a lot of hum and unpleasant sound due to frequency response
@dokterkarel
Жыл бұрын
actually, this dude is spot on. I do have several guitars with several different pickups, and some do actually change the tone slightly, but others just have more output which can easily be compensated by adjusting the gain or adding an overdrive pedal.
@dogsmith
Ай бұрын
I loved this so much. He barely moved the knob. Haha.
@randyfaulkner688
Жыл бұрын
Clean boost is also great for this. The micro amp is dirt cheap and wonderful
@josephsanson4727
14 күн бұрын
I love the breath of fresh air and common sense. Thank you!!!
@davecooper360
18 күн бұрын
The only reason I'd put new pickups in a guitar is if they're too dark sounding. I need clarity. My experience lately is even budget guitars have clear sounding pickups in em. Old Peavey Bandits have a 'pull-bright' volume knob that has the same effect of installing new pickups lol.
@tusharjamwal
5 сағат бұрын
That works for me but it sounds like the same "type" of pickup. Like a bridge humbucker sounds like a bridge humbucker. What I cannot achieve by turning knobs and eq is a split coil sound, single coil sound, parallel humbucker sound etc. And I really enjoy those.
@Ryan.Rivera
Жыл бұрын
“One neat trick pickup manufacturers DONT want you to know” thanks for helping save me my hard earned bucks, glen
@RyansCustomShopandGearOutlet
Жыл бұрын
Another simple trick to making massive improvements to your tone without spending a dime is...practice more.
@SpectreSoundStudios
Жыл бұрын
That’ll improve your technique, certainly. But not tone.
@RyansCustomShopandGearOutlet
Жыл бұрын
@@SpectreSoundStudios True. I didn't think of it like that. Great videos on saving money.
@Jose-FernandX
3 ай бұрын
Nada is looking for him. Really nice one tho. Made my day 😂
@Mischu708
Жыл бұрын
I thought you were going to say to adjust the pickup height 😂😂😂
@Noo90
Жыл бұрын
If only everything in life was this easy to save money on it
@beefnacos6258
Жыл бұрын
Glen just wants you to have a bad tone
@EasyHeat
Жыл бұрын
My #1 fav player guitar currently is a 2017 Affinity Squier JM HH. I upgraded the tuners to Grover and replaced the plastic nut. Not once have I considered changing the stock ceramic pickups. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@maxmoumneh4909
11 ай бұрын
Instructions unclear, now my amp is making this weird buzz when i’m not playing
@northgreen6547
11 ай бұрын
Get a noise gate pedal they’re made specifically for stopping that buzzing noise
@PISSEDOFF-MADABOUTIT60
Жыл бұрын
MY grandfather just died, Getting up to raise the gain nob! But now we can go to 11! Thank you
@thejedirangersworkshop2
Ай бұрын
I was expecting him to say practice.
@paulj0557tonehead
Жыл бұрын
No, it's not gain that gets you an edge, but first of all pickups might seem trivial, but they are absolutely elemental to tone. The problem is it's important we carefully amplify the Treble first! I have a simple alternative to an expensive Dallas Arbiter Range Master Treble Booster. Buy a $25 Donner Ripple Tremolo pedal. Leave it on and turn up the Color knob. Turn Speed and Depth down with switch on Normal and you won't hear tremolo effect, but your tone will have great definition. You can operate the Ripple on just 4vdc to 12vdc. Experiment. Btw it's a good tremolo as well.
@johnbillson3767
Жыл бұрын
All glory to God, amen.
@SpectreSoundStudios
Жыл бұрын
Which one?
@TakeHit0
Жыл бұрын
@@SpectreSoundStudios Me
@Burnt_Gerbil
Жыл бұрын
Hmm. Roman or Greek? Hindu possibly? 🤔
@jochenstacker7448
Жыл бұрын
@@SpectreSoundStudios would have to be Crom or Odin obviously.
@TheMasterOfMetal9
Жыл бұрын
Best way to trigger glen!
@deemorty6831
10 ай бұрын
I love a lot of what Glenn says, but pickups do make a big difference my Northern brother. Lower output pickups, sure, usually add a bit of gain/drive to the signal and voila, he's totally right. It's why I usually just mess with my volume when playing. But to me the big difference is in the magnets. I usually notice between ceramic, a5, a2, (a3 single coils) on passives a noticable difference mainly in feel/responsiveness, no matter the brand or guitar it's in. Alnicos can be tough to tell, sometimes, but it's mostly ceramics. Probably tiny audible differences to the winding wire used too and blah blah blah... but I find the magnets are often significant in the 30 or so guitars and total 50 or so pickups I've had and experimented the last 20 years (not that that's a lot, just my personal experience). And sorry, you can't eq that. If it sounds good it is good. And maybe it's not the pickups fault, maybe it's my hands... (or something else for a sound engineer)
@Unluckyfawn
Жыл бұрын
Me, finding this video after my EMG Shat the bed: "Welp... Uncle Glen said I don't need a bridge pickup I guess, Sorry Jackson"
@DocRoc94
4 ай бұрын
The fact this is the hill you’ve so aggressively chosen to die on. So strange, so abrasive, so petty.
@JoshWillyMusic
Жыл бұрын
I was thinking it was going to be just a fresh set of strings 💀 this is EVEN more simple
@TDZPearson
2 ай бұрын
I have an Ibanez S570 where the volume would drop off from the G to the high E string... We all know the reputation Ibanez has with their pickups... I replaced them with Bare Knuckles and the improvement was massive.
@alfalfasprout69
9 ай бұрын
Very true, I’ve replaced pickups in a lot of guitars and most cases from passive to passive had very little impact.
@alexdenton6586
Жыл бұрын
I knew there would be some fuckery
@basicoptimalmouse
Жыл бұрын
I'm confused. Can you please make a 10 minute tutorial?
@brandonaguero883
Жыл бұрын
Oh my god I couldn’t stop laughing I was so not ready for that😂
@johnpacino4491
Жыл бұрын
I've been following for years, so I know what is Glen talking about. But it might worth mentioning for the people who get this reel recommended, that this works on heavy saturated metal tones. It won't work on clean tone when your pickup is dark sounding and muddy and you want sparkling clean tones.
@beefnacos6258
Жыл бұрын
I guess man, all I play is metal and I absolutely hear night and day differences with my guitars with different pickups
@TheBrianLlewellyn
10 күн бұрын
I replaced the passive pickups in my Ibanez RG with active EMG Zakk Wylde set an 81 bridge & an 85 neck! It's a completely different sound & feeling to me the way my Ibanez plays now! If you can't tell & feel the difference! Then maybe you are literally tone deaf in certain ways to distortion! You can turn the gain up! It's not the same to me though! My active pickups cost $200 or $300 years ago! Some of the best money I've ever spent on my guitar or anything which is really cool because it was my guitar!
@DaskaiserreichNet78
Жыл бұрын
I made a massive improvement to a cheap guitar I bought by shielding the pick-up and other cavities with aluminium foil. The guitar had a lot less noise afterwards especially on high gain settings. This is a really simple and cheap way of giving a cheap guitar a massive upgrade.
@MrMOGHammer
Жыл бұрын
I did that AND change all 3 for hot rails the guitar just stopped being so noisy. And sounds great both clean and saturated for Metal. That is a very cheap strat copy bought at Costco.
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