I love guitars! One tone test to rule them all.

Cool, can definitely tell the difference, it's always subtle though.
One thing I have noticed about speakers, amps, pickups and guitars ... is ....they sound quite similar in an on line comparison. But play a gig for an hour and you really know the difference. Certain songs and in the band etc seem to tell it all.
Thanks!

 

Hilarious!!!

 

Based on this demo all I can say is throw # 4 out- the rest I could EQ to satisfy.

 

Could you please test 18 guitars the next time around? Did any of the nine have Barden pickups by chance?

 

Agreed on #4
Wasn’t impressed with #7 which was probably something amazing like SRV’s favorite strat, but it didn’t seem to have any colour or character.
Nice playing.
So what were the guitars?
I’d love to see them.

 

The lack of a real mic'd tube amp in the chain made the sound of all those guitars boring to me.

 

I'd rather play a cheaper guitar through an excellent tube amp than the other way around.

 

I took this to be an intentional farce given his comments at the end, so not sure he ever intends to share that.

 

Generally, I think this is very true.

 

OB,

Very cool!

I perform the ''window rattle test'', 3/4 volume/3/4 gain/full treble, guitar and amp/boost on/bass off.

Windows rattle, good to go.

As for your contest, which is a trick question all played on a 34'' long unpainted spruce 2''x 4''. one volume 200K CTS solid shaft pot, one Switch-Craft jack, vintage cloth wrapped wire, black/white, volume knob made from old Budweiser beer cap, jumbo 21 S/S frets, fret markers black Sharpie pen, five Gotoh vintage Butter Bean tuners, high E tuner Schaller Mini, strap buttons, the exposed heads of two 3 1/2'' Ardox nails, one TVJ Power Tron PU, strings EB Skinny Top/Heavy bottom/10-52, Gibson Tune-O-Matic bridge/stop tail-piece, both in old, worn chrome, pick-guard, which you recently removed was made from a red Tupperware lid. Amp is a tiny reissue battery operated Pig-Nose.

Your current project guitar is being made from a cricket bat.

PM me, I'll give you contact/shipping info, I hope it's a ''one of''', I hate copies.

Happy Thanksgiving.

BIB.

 

The audio on YouTube is generally terrible for this sort of thing. They compress the crap out of it and do a lot of other shenanigans to reduce file size that just kill overtones and timbrel differences. It's always best to take an online video review with a grain of salt until you can try for yourself.

 

Hahaha! Wonderful! LMAO! Well done!

 

What's a grain among friends?