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The Know youw Gear Podcast. The Know youw Gear Podcast is brought to you by Patreon Members Channel members and viewers who like and subscribe. Thank you for making this possible. Hey everybody. Welcome to the Know youw Gear Podcast. What are we at? Episode 436. Welcome to episode 436. We're gonna have some fun today. Rest in peace. G L Guitars. So if you haven't heard, some more information has come out about G L guitars and they are officially as we know them, they're over. It's over now. Does that mean they're gone? It doesn't mean they're gone. It just means as we know them, they're over. And as we know them means a lot of things. So let's talk about what we do know and then do some kind of like water cooler talk about what, what happened and why. So first of all, let's talk about who bought them. So they were sold, okay? They were sold to Fender Musical Instrument Corporation. So that's who bought them. If you been to their factory facility, you will now see that it is empty. It was cleaned out. They cleaned everything out or threw a bunch of stuff away. Actually it was a combination of both throwing stuff away and cleaning stuff out. The other thing that we do know, or that you'll know now when we go here is here is that we can see here. If you're looking at this paperwork right here, this is a trademark paperwork. So Fender Guitars has filed for the trademark of Leo Fender, his namesake, the name Leo Fender. So that's the Leo Fender mark. That is the thing that GNL owned that Fender did not. GNL had Leo Fender's name and I believe likeness, but at the very least it had its name. And, and, and so essentially obviously Fender filing for that means that they plan to use that. There's a lot of speculation as there will be and I'm sure most of it's going to be accurate. You know, Fender is not known for taking a brand that is competitive to their normal products and doing well with it. So obviously they bought, you know, Jackson Jerval and they've done well. But see, Fender didn't have anything to compete with Jackson Charvel. You know, their, their 80s era strats, even heavy metal Strats, which are now high collectible and loved, they just weren't popular. In fact, Fender has never been able to make the mainstream metal genre guitars. Of course we're not going to say that people don't use them. Obviously McMars uses them. Right. Jim Root Used them. I mean, people have used Fender guitars in metal, but you know what I'm saying? And so Jackson Charvel to me does not compete with the Fender product line. And so that's why it gets a stay. Gretsch is the same thing. Gretsch, even though they don't own Gretsch, they distribute and sell Gretsch and market Gretsch. But it doesn't matter because what's important is Gretsch isn't really a competing product. You can walk into a dealer or go to somebody like Sweetwater and say, here's your Fender Strats and your Tellies. And also there's Grets and also there's Charvel's and also there's Jackson's. You know, there's more products. But let's talk about where Fender didn't continue the line of guitars because believe it or not, they own product lines that they've sold off. So, you know, they, for a moment they owned Ovation. They don't own that anymore. They, for a moment they own Guild, they don't own that anymore. There are brands, for a moment they own Jen's gens, they don't own that anymore. But then there are brands that they owned and they still own, but do not, do not service, I guess is what you call it. We're going to say shelved them. So let's look at them now. One of them is not really a real brand that they. You'll see what I'm saying in a second. Let me just show you this. I thought it'd be fun. Okay, so SWR Amps. SWR Amps is still owned by Fender, as far as I know. And they shelve that brand. Why? Because SWR Amps, which is Stephen W. Raby's old company, is a great base amp company. But does it really need to exist in the Fender, you know, ethos? You know, Fender bass amps are the best selling base amps in the world. Sun amps, now I know some are going to say they brought sun back. Kinda did they? Kinda did they? Right. I put sun in the same category as I do, like with Music man amps, where they are really good amps. They just didn't make the huge mainstream for a long time. At one point they were way more popular than they are now. But sun amps, to me it's a product line again. They're not really pushing Tacoma guitars. We already know they shelve that brand. It's all out, it's gone. Because they don't need it. They have Fender Acoustics and in the grand scheme of things, Fender Acoustics outsell Tacoma Acoustics. De Armand is another brand that you just don't see anymore. Hartfield was a brand. I don't think they own the brand. It's just. It was on there because I actually had this done by. I asked Chad gbt. I go, hey, give me some brands that Fender owned and killed. I like how it added the G and L. So anyways, it's kind of funny. So this is where we're going to be talking about what's going to happen. So a lot of people believe that now that Fender owns G and L, what they'll do with the property is they'll use some of the assets. For example, is maybe some of the vintage machinery. Maybe they'll use that for some. Some custom shop work or something. You know, do limited runs of custom shop instru. Maybe GNL's. They. They also might obviously going to use Leo Fender's name and likeness. That's definitely what they wanted to. To add to their, to their. Because it's part of their history and something they were denied or not able to use. And then. But, but I. What I don't think is going to happen. I don't think they're going to continue the tribute line of G L. I can't imagine that a lot of people do. A lot of people think that they're going to basically take the G L line and slap it on Indonesian guitars. Here's my problem with that. There might be an appeal to that. In fact, there might be a way that they can use that as a inter. Like a, a slide in between the Fender line and the square line. It's all possible. Everything's possible. The, the real problem is really that Fender's brand and Squire's brand is so much stronger than GNL in every way. And this is why I said, you know, it's kind of like the death of G and L. Everything that I thought that made G and L cool, which was not a lot of things. Okay, let's be fair. G&L's mostly their coolest things were how unique they are. The fact that they were made kind of the same way. The fact that it was a small shop and it was. They were made in small batches. The fact that they did cool finishes and lots of them. The fact that they did lots of variations of those products. In other words, you could get a different radius fretboard or a different type of fretboard or different things and so essentially it was a plug and play. You could do a lot of stuff. All of those things, I believe they are gone forever. You'll never see those things ever come back. And if they do, they're sure ain't going to be at those really affordable prices that GNL had. And so, so like I said, as far as I know, I can't imagine G L being existing in any frame or frame in any way that it's existed in the past. It'll be something different now. So, you know, Fender is weird as a company and that's why I'm still a Fender fan for a lot of reasons. Because they do every once in a while, pull, you know, they, they go left when you think you're going right. You know, they zig in the zag and they do something cool. And they might pull something cool out of this and do something cool. But I just can't imagine the, the cool thing about G L was it's kind of like the secret guitar everybody that some players knew about that you could get a really good deal on a really high quality guitar. And, and, and, and I think that part of it's gone unfreakably. Says so a Charbel rampage. You know, sadly enough, you know, you know, you kind of think about the rampage. I just did a video of the rampage. You know, the rampage is a great guitar, obviously, and it's. But again, we're talking about big numbers. I just don't know if it has big numbers. So. So we'll see what Fender does with it. Time will tell. But it is official. It is, it is dissolved. The, the building is empty. So, you know, the building is empty. The, the corporation, the, the corporation who owned gnl, which was BB Sound, is dissolved. They've dissolved their company. So there's no merger. In other words, what I'm trying to say and everything else after that's kind of speculation. And it's. And the reason I thought I'd even talk about it is one, it's an update. So let's talk about the update. But the second thing is this is where it gets a little scary on Halloween. It can get scary because you may not hear anything. We may never hear anything ever again. It is in the realm of possibility that Fender will just never acknowledge that they even own any part of that GNL anything. And again, they might not even acquired. Think about this. They can cherry pick out the things they want. So they acquire like Leo Fender's name and likeness and maybe some other, some, some patents. If there is Such a thing left with their. In their company. Like I said, Fender can take a couple of the few things they want and then the rest can just be sold off to somebody else and then who knows what happens? Or like I said, shelve it out entirely. And that's the question. The real, the real problem right now is, is the market is not booming for guitars. So I can't imagine a company, even Fender, wanting to go and push out a new line of instruments right in the middle of this. But again, we could be totally wrong. Again, we're just speculating so. So we don't have their. Their money, their power, their marketing. You know, Fender can put a lot of pot of. Put a lot of muscle behind GNL and all of a sudden put GNL on the map. But I don't know. It'll be interesting. I'm really curious. Let me know in the comments what you guys think, like I said. And let me know if you think this is the end of gnl. I kind of think it's the end of GNL as we know it. We'll never see it again. And then Lee says, hey, bbe, what about the sonic stomp pedal? That BBE is gone. As far as I know, that's all gone. So you won't see any more of the BBE stuff anymore. So now when I say that, keep in mind as is. As it. As it exists in the way it existed. Let's say just a couple months ago. And a lot of people talked about G L and talked about what brought GNL down. I've worked with G L since 2017, okay? I know as much as probably anyone who worked with them. I've heard a lot of people say that they kind of know the secret, what happened. And I can tell you that I'm sure there's some truth. Everything everyone says, just like there's gonna be some truth in things I'm gonna say to you right now. Anyone who worked with them could tell you a couple things they were very passionate about Leo Fender. They were very passionate about guitars. I thought as a company, they always were passionate guitars. I was never overly impressed with their business prowess at any given time. And that sounds like an insult. And I don't wanna insult them because I think they were. I like them. So, you know. But I will tell you that I really felt like. And I feel this way about a couple other companies too, and a couple companies that are also now gone out of business. They just weren't connecting with the time now, much less 2025 they weren't connecting with. I mean, getting them up to 20, 25 would have been great. They weren't up to 2010. And. And in their defense, which I will. I will tell you, the. One of the owners did reach out to me, so, you know, earlier this year, I believe late last year, somewhere on there, we spent hours on the phone talking about strategies for new marketing. And they started to actually try some of the new ideas. I. But you gotta understand, it was already kind of too late. There was a lot of things happening in the background that was just. It was just a lot of things that happened to small business like that. They start running out of money. They start. Which is always a really huge problem. You know, you need cash to run a business or credit. And usually if you're out of cash, you've exhausted credit and so on and so on. So Michael Nelson says, hey, where does the old inventory of GNL guitars go? I don't know. To the Gibson tractor. He says, I don't know. Because again, there's no real disclosure as there wouldn't be. Right. Everybody's kind of picked up pieces just like, what I got now. I, you know, obviously, like, hey, we have people reporting that they, you know, were paid out by Fender. We have people reporting that obviously, like what I just showed you and other people showed you that, you know, Fenders filing trademarks for Leo Fender's name, which was definitely a GNL property. GNL is dissolving their LLC or their business. That seems right, so. Or you know, the company that was called, you know, the parent company, Gmail. So I mean, there's. There's things going on there that you're like, okay, this happened. But the small details, I don't know, who knows? It's really interesting because we've seen what happens, right? What's gonna say? Oh, yeah, yeah. What I was gonna say was it's kind of like when. Remember when Gibson moved facilities and then just started having people step on their ES335 guitars? Does anyone remember that? Talk about bringing up something horrible. If you've. Everybody kind of remembers when Kips Gibson ran over their guitars with a tractor. That was pretty bad. But I think the worst thing I ever saw, and you could find it on YouTube if you want to watch it. I don't recommend it. It is Halloween, though, if you want to scare yourself, was they were just taking Gibson ES335s and one of the employees was putting them against the wall, like two, like one by twos, and just snapping them Like a karate kick. And they were throwing them in the dumpsters. And then, if you recall, I think FedEx bought the old Gibson building. And FedEx was on the news because they found all this memorabilia, like BB King and all this important, like, history of Gibson that Gibson had just left to throw in the dumpsters. And FedEx was like, they called Gibson and Gibson's like, we don't want it. So they. So FedEx gave it to a museum. It's a true story. You can look that up, too. That's an article, too. So what I'm trying to say is it's. You gotta understand a lot of people, you and I, and the things that I've learned in this industry was I thought, because I did it as someone who's like, I love guitar, and I loved the music industry, and I just want to be a part of it any way I can. You know, hey, if I could own a store, if I could make a guitar, if I could fix a guitar, if I could, you know, help, you know, work in marketing, if I could be a YouTuber, whatever it is that gets me somewhere close to the world of things that I love, if I could just do that with some piece of my life, I feel like I would be just so happy. That's great. But a lot of people in this industry, they just don't. They're not into music or guitars or anything. They just do a job. You know, a lot of people are surprised when most factory workers don't play guitar. Cause to them, they're like, no, they just were looking for a job one day and it said hiring to sand. And they're like, okay, I can sand. And people in marketing are like, hey, I used to sell monster energy drinks. I can sell Strats. So I once was at a NAMM show and I was picking out stuff at the store, and this guy next to me was a buyer for Guitar Center. And we were talking, and I can't remember, I thought it was Coca Cola. I thought I would have swore. He said he used to work at Coca Cola, but I could be wrong. But he was telling me, basically, he was. He had reports. He had, like, paperwork that was telling him what to order. He didn't know what the hell he was looking at. He just knew how to read reports. Oh, those are good. And what happened was how I even knew him and even got into this was I was picking some stuff and a couple other dealers were too. And he was, like, asking us questions like, why are you getting those. Flipping his sheets going we didn't even sell like a lot of those. And we're like, they're cool, man, they're new. And that's when I was like realizing like, oh my God, he doesn't know anything that's new because he only knows what the report tells him to buy. And then again, it was like, there's tons of things like that you find out in these industries where it's like, yeah, they. Some people are in it because it's a job, some people are in it because it's money. And so like I said, so that's my way, Michael, of telling you that some people will just take some of those. Like, who wouldn't kill right now for a GNL half finished necker body from that factory just to have a piece of that history. And you know, deep down it was probably thrown in a chipper. It's like, by the way, when I laugh, it's always just because I'm like, I'm just so. Ugh. Like, what the hell? Nathan's. Nathan's saying the production manager at PRS came from Black and Decker. And he goes, I don't think he plays at all. Yeah. And then since think about this. We're talking about the king of doesn't play guitars. Leo Fender never played guitar his whole life. So, you know, that's the argument. Do you need to, do you need to play guitars, you know, to, to build guitars? Apparently not. He, by the way, Leo Finner is not the only one. There are multiple people in the industry. The owner of Warwick does not play bass or guitar. Think of that. So when you covet one of those $5,000 Warwicks, just realize the person who started it all and built them doesn't even play bass. So think about that. He just knew how to build you a bass. And I guess in the. And I guess if you think about it, and I just did. Now I really think about when I see Paul Reed Smith playing guitar in his band and stuff and he's playing on stage and I see sometimes the owner of companies playing guitar and I go, I don't want to see them play guitar. I don't care. I want them to build guitars. I really don't care if Paul Reed Smith. I'm just picking him because easy. I don't care if he can play guitar well. I care if he can build a guitar well. So I guess that's what I think about that stuff. So maybe it doesn't matter if they play guitar, but it is, it is a sad tragedy. Let's See? Oh yeah, Nathan said Ted McCarty also didn't play. Yeah, he heard. That's what I heard too. I heard he did not play as well. So it's interesting. So anyway, so that's the way we're gonna cap it up. You know, we're gonna say, rest in peace, GNL guitars as we know it. Now, this is the unfun talk, but it's important to talk about because I know it's gonna come in the comments later, which is some people are gonna ask me, I just know it, like, should you buy a gnl? Is it a good. You know, right before it's too late. I would say this. If you love G and L guitars and you were gonna buy a GNL guitar anyways, I would buy a GNL guitar, especially a USA one, right? Especially something that has some memory. Not because it's an investment. Not because. Because here's why. These things go 5050 on you all the time. All the old gnls could be worth nothing because depends on what happens with them in the future as people don't talk about them. Remember, GNL can just fade away into the ether. We'll just never hear them again. In two years we'll have a hundred new podcasts of this show and maybe we'll never talk about G again. And see. Think about that. That eventually wears on you. The other thing that happens is Fender could just do the opposite. What we think they could release GNL again better than ever in a small shop. And I mean, because like I said, I told you, Fender is known for doing that. They go sometimes, like I said, they, they pivot in a different way. So, so anyway, so my point is all of that. I would not, you know, buy low, sell high. Don't worry about that. What I will tell you though is if you want to own a. A guitar, GNL guitar. I would say this. As the news comes out about GNL closing, some people are going to get a little nostalgic. It's going to happen. It's just like when an artist dies and their signature guitars go up in sales for the next couple weeks, some people are going to try to cash in, kind of like buy them. Like, oh, these are going to go up in value. There's going to be that stuff. So I'm talking to the honest people out there who just honestly love G and you know, and maybe it's they want to add another one to their corral of guitars or they want to get their first one. I would go out there and consider it And I think you could probably get deals. In other words, the market's still soft. Keep that in mind. You know, if you reach out to somebody who's got a gnl, maybe they're willing to part with it for a good price, like a store or something. And then, like I said, I think there'll be a small boom in it, because there always is. But then I think it'll deflate a little bit. But again, I don't want to talk about the whole buy low, sell high thing. That stuff is breaking boring. And. But the main thing I only want to talk about is just you protecting you guys from doing dumb things with your money. I think if it's a good time to buy a gnl, if you wanted one, I don't. I don't see a downside to getting one of those guitars. They're great. If you guys saw I did the Rampage View video and it had a few flaws here and there. I fixed them. And now we know, you know, that it was at the end of the line for that stuff. So, like I said, stuff like that happened. But overall, I've been always impressed with my Gino guitars. What's this? Happy good thing says, hey, how's your foot? It's fine. It's in a. Right now, it's in a boot, so I can walk up here. I walked up here because I didn't want to scoot around. So I still use a scooter for distances, obviously, because it's only been two weeks, but it's healing fine. Swelling's down a lot. Still swollen, but way down a lot. So for those, thank you for asking. Sprained my ankle two weeks ago. And, yeah, so I have a brace, and then I switch between a brace and this boot. Depends if I need to move around. So it's really nice. Chris says, hey, maybe Fender will make a Cantrell Rampage. And that's it. It's possible. It's really. I mean, anything's possible. You know what? You know what's weird is. What's weird about this is because of the timing. I believe Jerry Contrell just left Friedman for. For Bogner, I think. Right. I don't know if that's true. I think it's true. I think I heard that. You know who would be great for making a new Rampage would be Friedman. Have Freeman Guitars build him a Rampage. That'd be really cool. Those are very cool guitars. Unfrequent. Believable. Thank you. Says to bring this up. We need to bring this up. So we have Some. These are just for me. I just want to share with you guys. We had two milestones. One big one this month for the channel. This is the first time since the channel started, we broke 2 million views in a month. And what I mean by that is the channel this month did 2.5 billion. No 2 point. Might as well pull it up. We'll look at the actual numbers. Right now we're going to look up the actual numbers to say thank you because it was really crazy good. I say that and then it doesn't pull it up. Am I blocked from YouTube? I'm blocked from YouTube, guys. That's what happens when you. If you do well, you're gone. Okay, ready? In the month of October of 2025, for the first time ever, ever, I've been trying. I told you guys this, that you know, hey, look, I'm. I've had great luck here on YouTube. I've done a million views every month and that's great. But for the first time ever in the history of the channel, I broke 2 million views in one month. 2.4 million views in the month of October. Thank you guys so much for that. It's something I actually tried to do a couple times. Just once, just to be able to say I'm like, am I never can I ever hit that level? 2 million views for the month. And I want to say thank you guys so much for that. However, that is also why Chris brought it up. We also have a second achievement that I need to thank you guys for. And I know we're not staying on top subject, but there's the other achievement. Our second channel hit 579,000 views for the month, which is its record number. So I want to say thank you for that. 29,000 subscribers. We hit 29,000 yesterday. Again, thank you guys for that. With a total views of 4.6 million views. 280 videos. We started it, it says here in 2016. That's not when we started it, but that's okay. That's what. But what's important is 579,000 views. So the both channels killing it. But more importantly, I just want to super thank you for the 2 million. Both, of course, but the 2 million, I mean, like I said, it was just like when I saw it, I actually thought so, you know, I saw 2 million when I was looking at stats one day a couple days ago and I go, two million. Two million. What? I was like, we never do two million. And KDUB says next month do four million. I Don't. Look, I'm going to be honest with you. To do 2 million again, if I do 2 million again, ever, I'll be shocked if I do that ever again in one month. I'm okay. Trust me, I'm okay. Look, I'm okay with it. It was just nice to hit it. It felt like it, you know, because I've tried so many times this month. I wasn't even trying. It just happened to work out that way. But I've tried so much. Jaded says. Is Social Blade free? It is. There's a basic thing that you can get for free that you can look up if you want to look up stuff. And then if you want more detailed information, they charge you for it. I have never paid for Social Blade, but I have had friends that are youtubers pay for it and tell me that it's not really worth it. So I didn't buy it myself. So, so fantastic. So. So those are two milestones I want to say. Thank you guys for that. Okay, let's go. Okay. Let's talk about. Oh, Bob, the Blind Bedroom guitarist who's been a commentator, commenter and watcher and viewer. I know it sounds weird because I'm saying that way, but you understand what I'm saying for many years. I just want to thank you. Thank you to Bob. Bob. It says, I do foresee using Existence. Wait, do you foresee using accessibility apps on touch screens for amps, et cetera? For the line, question mark? I can't find any that are under market today, question mark. So, yeah, touch screen things for amps, I think that's where they want to go. Absolutely. And I don't know much about this stuff, but I would imagine touchscreen stuff, it's got to be horrible if you're blind because, you know, there's no tactile. You know, there's nothing tactile for you to touch. You can't feel where the hell you are. Right. You're just touching a. Basically what probably feels like you as a piece of glass just touching that. Definitely see that look. For. For people who are not visually impaired, it's. It's the most practical user interface ever presented for dumbing stuff down. So obviously, you know, you like Head Rush. I've said this before. I didn't love the way the Head Rush sounded. When I say that, I mean, it was fine, but I just thought Kemper sounded better. I just thought I liked the axe effects better. You know, I just. I just thought I like certain things better on those. Okay. But the Head Rush platform. The touch screen interface thing is so easy, right? It was so, so easy and fantastic. So, yeah, of course there's a part of me that's like, I think that's kind of a thing. I saw that there's a new amp, guitar amp that has it, somebody's got designed. So I can see that, you know, and, and, and I believe the quad Cortex is a touch screen interface on the, on the pedal unit. So of course, this is definitely something that we're going to see. Lots of, lots of companies integrate. One, I think it's because it's affordable for them to do so, and two, it's because user interfaces, it's just dumbing it down. Just makes sense. You know, I think that's where you really open up. You know, a product line is when you can make it easy for everyone. Because let's face it, most of us are dumb and we need something super, super easy. Super, you know. Yeah, but that. Yes. So, Dan, I think that's what your question is. And if I'm answering correctly, I believe yes, I think that's the future of it. So. Okay. All right, let's talk about John. John says, hey, Phil, I ordered a fret end beveling file with a 25 degree angle on one side and a 90 degree angle on the other. In your experience, will, there will using this before filing the fret ends have some. Save some time. I mean, it can. If there's a lot of material that you got to move away from the fret ends. You know, in my experience, usually you don't want to. Like I said, you know, sometimes, let's face it, sometimes the frets are really a mess on the front, on the ends, and you're just gonna just go and take a bunch of material off real quickly. I'm always nervous to take a lot of material off of anything that's a fret because like I said, it's, it's. If you mess up a fret, you're gonna pull a fret and then refrat. So. And you know, it's not, it's not aggravation. Keep in mind, for me, you know, when you're doing repairs for a living, it's never aggravation, right? You're there all day anyways, right. You're just working and you know, you're there and you're working. It's really money. It's really. Everything breaks down to oh, no, If I take four hours on something that should have took me 30 minutes, look at how much money I Lost. So, you know, you tend to move slower because moving slower saves you money because mistakes cost you the most. So yeah, I think you can do that. But I always tell everybody, don't, don't, you know, don't worry about taking away too much material quickly. Just kind of, you could go slow with the fret end dress file if you want to and not use the, the fret end beveling file. It's up to you. But yeah, you can use it to, to round over to get a lot of the material out of the way very quickly. In fact, actually, let me reframe my answer. I think if you're experienced, you could do it, no problem. I have no problem with that. I would be a little cautious to tell you if it's your first time doing stuff, maybe practice on something you don't care about first doing that. Because again, what happens when I worry about stuff like that is some of those files, one pass and all of a sudden that's too much. And there's no take backs. It's just, you're just done. And especially on the front ends. Let me tell you what happens when you get aggressive on your front ends and you take too much material away from the end of the frets. You bend, you go to bend a string on the high E string and it rolls right off the side of the fretboard. And it will drive you crazy because you'll, you won't. I don't even like you're going crazy vibrato. Just, you just go to touch it and it slips right off. And then once you do that, your guitar doesn't feel good. And now it has to be fixed. And to fix it, you're going to pull frets and refret either that fret or a couple frets or all the frets. Either way, it's not a place you want to be if you can avoid to be. D. Forbes says I ordered the fret Kister after last week's show. I had it in three days to Canada. Yeah, you know what that was? You know what's funny was we pulled a clip of that for the second channel. You guys bought a lot. Thank you for using the link, everybody. In fact, I had some people tell me that they forgot to use the link, but they contacted Stu Mack and Stu Mac said they'd take care of me, so. And I don't, I don't know how to tell if they take care of me, but, but, but thank you for that because I get 10%. So you got to stand. You Want a fret frat kisser? You got a fret kisser? I got five bucks, man. That's like that. That doesn't sound like a big deal to you. You're good for you. Good for you. But for me I was like five bucks. And then you do that multiple times. That adds up. So that's pretty cool. Very nice, in fact. So thank you guys for do that. Not only because like I said, that was an affiliate click. That was really cool. The. And then Bob said he's following up. So thanks for ANSWERING My question. 2015 is when I found you. So, yeah, that's right at the beginning. I started posting things in 2014 randomly. So he goes, I'm talking about screen readers to make it accessible to blind people. Oh, oh, like talk back on Android. Oh, you know, then I don't, unfortunately, I don't, I don't know. I don't really know that that area that much. I think it's re. Re. I'm gonna say oh, artist with a big art. Oh, it's phonetic smart. So his sign on is big R T I S T. Artist says, do we get discounts when using links? You can. There's discount links. Not for the Stu Mac stuff. Basically. Here's what I can tell you about affiliate links. Don't ever click them. You know, don't go out of your way to click stuff. From me. They don't usually pay me very much. Well, first of all, stmac pays me the most, so that's, that's pretty cool. They pay me the most. However, it's just not something a lot of people are going to click on. 1 and 2, it's not big ticket items. Right? I mean it's expensive stuff. Like I said, you spend fifty hundred bucks. I mean that could be five, ten dollars, but it's not, not going to be huge items. So they give you the most. What I can tell you about affiliate links is in my experience with affiliate links is there's a hundred things that's going to make an affiliate link not work. And even when you're trying to give me money on an affiliate click, it may not even happen. So, you know, so I personally use my own affiliate links to buy stuff because I get, and I can tell you, I feel like 60% of the time they work and 40% of the time I didn't get credit. So I know, I know something's up because I'll click the link, I'll buy something, and then I'll look in my report to see where I Bought it, you know. So I, where I did get my, my affiliate and I didn't get an affiliate. It didn't track. Right. So I'm like, oh, well. So like I said, it's. But discount. We do have discount links to things, but not the Stu Mac. Not right now. Stumac's blowing stuff out right now. So they're not going to give us any extra discounts, I would imagine. We could always ask them, but I don't imagine so. Jaden says don't click the links. You heard them? Yeah, it's jaded. It's funny, the links. Let me tell you how the links work for those. I told you gu. How this works in the past. They're not specific. No links are specific. I always be very clear about this. So when you click a link, an affiliate link on anybody's link, the majority of time, especially in my case. So let's just talk about my case. If you buy the item that you click the link for, that doesn't matter. It really, if you buy anything, it's going to give me a percentage of something. And there's sometimes could be different percentages and it's usually for a period of time as it's saved your cookies. So essentially how that works is a perfect way to say. It is like, let's say you click on a Sweetwater link and you look at the thing that I put the link for, but you decide not to buy that, but it saved your cookie. So let's say five days later you decide to go to Sweetwater without clicking one of my links and you buy something online. It will give me credit. So it. Or it can give me credit. So there's things like that. But what you have to realize is that's important is. And this is why I tell. I remember having to tell my own relatives. They're like my wife's parents even call us like on a Sunday afternoon. Can we get one of Philip's links? We're gonna buy something off Amazon and we have to tell him like, don't, don't worry about it. The real, the way links work is this. You get hundreds of millions of views and you'll make some dollars. That's it. Like the amount of money I make from affiliates and links. And I get a lot of link clicks, but it's. Yeah, it's. So I always tell people, don't, don't stress yourself over. Don't, don't worry about it. If you click a link and you want to specifically help me, that's great. But Don't. Yeah, don't. Don't go out of your way. It's not worth your time, I promise you. And even in Stumac's case, it's. It's. What do you call it? Thank you. That's. You know what? I'll just say thank you. How about that? Thank you guys for doing it. Okay, let's talk about this. I got something cool and I thought it'd be fun to share. So this came in the mail. Somebody who's watching right now. If you sent this to me, you know who you are. I'm going to say your name in a second. I didn't notice. This came from Mike. I'm just going to say Mike's first name. Mike sent me this really nice letter right there. And this came in the mail. I was like, what is this? And Mike sent this, which I know some of you are going to have a moment right now with like. I am. This is pretty cool. He used to work in a music store in the 80s and 90s that was a official BC rich dealer. And he sent me this official, like a BC Rich poster. This is a BC Rich little handmade in America poster with all the specifications. Look at that. Right? Straighten it out. And that's cool. But what? But what? Really? Some of you guys are gonna have flashbacks. He sent one of these. It's a BC Rich catalog. Look at this. And I thought I'd share it with you guys real quick. A little show and tell. Look at how nice this is. I'll try to center it up. Look at how, like, remember the NGA series? So the platinum series and the NJ series. Some of these BC riches. I remember drooling over these. Now here's what Mike doesn't know. It's always cool. Mike. Mike, thank you for the gift. This is really cool. It's impressive, but. But how this happened is actually weirdly funny. How you time this. When he sent this to me, I had just been talking about two weeks ago, two BC Rich guitars about something. And I mentioned to BC Rich that I wanted a guitar called the Outlaw. And I said it looked like a Gunslinger. And they said, no, the Outlaw would have two pickups. And they were saying it was different. And I said, no, I wanted a white BC Rich gunslinger. But I remember in the store it was called an Outlaw. And then look at your catalog, Ben. It's right there. It's called the Outlaw. In fact, let's go to sidecam because that's the clearer camera. Look at that. So there's the BC Rich outlaw. Right? And it looks like a gunslinger. But you know what else I noticed too that I never really noticed? Does anyone notice how extreme the angle on that pickup is right there? So it's at a. It's, you know, you know, the humbucker is one humbucker and it's kind of tilted. This one's seriously tilted. So anyways, I thought that was a cool gift. Thank you for sending it to me. And then ironically, I got to send it to be serious going, that's the outlaw. That's what I was trying to tell you. There was a guitar called an outlaw. There it is. Outlaw. So thank you guys for that. I thought it'd be a little fun to share that with you guys. Thank you for that. And then also, it kind of worked out to this in my way too because I've been trying to find something and I never thought to ask you guys. I am seriously looking for a 1989 Ibanez catalog. I don't need an original catalog. So, you know, I know you can get PDFs online. Please don't send me links to PDFs. If anyone has a printed version, it doesn't have to be the original. If you just have a nice recreation printed version, I can print one out, but it just on my printer it doesn't look great. But if anyone has a nice printed out version of or a 1989, only that year 1989 Ibanez catalog, I'm looking for one for something I'm doing for a video and for a friend. And it, it would make the video even better instead of just using screen grabs to actually have something in print. But I'm just letting you guys know, but especially if you guys have a real one, please reach out and let me know. Or like I said, if it's a recreation of some sort but you think the quality is really good, I'm willing to buy that as well. So I thought I'd share that with you guys. But 1989, okay, let's move on. What are we gonna do now? We're going to move on to just fine. Says, hey, I have an old BC rich gunslinger. It has the best neck of any guitar I've ever played. Yeah, I mean, you know, some of those older guitars, those necks were just magical. Diedrich. Diedrich says if I'm saying it right, says, hey, what's going on with beast rich guitars anyways? In Europe they're almost extinct. Yeah, I think they're, they're going through phases, as we know. I think right Now, I don't really have a whole lot I can tell you, but I can tell you that they're working on something. You know how you hate it when some YouTuber goes, Man, it's gonna be really exciting. You're gonna be amazed. Wait till you see what they're doing. It's gonna be cool. And then it's like they came out with, like, you know, red. No, they're working on something really cool. I can't tell you guys in any way. I'm already telling you too much by saying they're working on something you. It's something really cool. So something that. And something very unexpected, which is why I was shocked to hear it too. So when that will happen? I don't. Months. Hopefully in months. There'll be some information eventually, but it's pretty cool. So there is something cool. So if you're a BC rich fan, let's just say you have something very cool coming that will be. And, and, and, and when I mean cool, I mean cool. Don't. Don't think I'm like, oh, they're gonna come out with a new color or they're gonna finally make a new model and it's not gonna be an outlaw. Anyone gonna guess thing? Oh, they're gonna do an outlaw. No, that's not. That's something kind of cool, but in a strong, dominant way. They're gonna try to come back stronger and better. Bigger. Better than ever. So Frank says buying GNL from vendor, that would be cool, but I don't think it's gonna happen. Okay. Okay, let's do. Okay, we got one more section right here. And why am I missing. Here it is. Okay, hold on. Sometimes when I jump screens because I try not to bog down the Internet when I'm on live. Here we go. Okay, so here's a question. This came from Brian. Brian says, hey, Phil, I recently purchased a Synergy syn 20 IR head and I am on the hunt for a module or two. Did you mention previously that there's someone who. Who reviews like you like? Oh, do. Someone who does reviews of these that I like. Could you share that again? Do you have any of your own favorite modules? So I don't really watch a whole lot of reviews of the Synergy modules as there's only a few modules I'm really interested in. So the synergy thing. And look, there's. Obviously, I'm a fan of Synergy for sure. Right. I have the IR20 head and I have the 50 head, and one is really more of a practical Kind of, you know, using it for videos and then one is just something cool. So in other words, one more practical for me. Anyways. I love the Saldana module. I almost tell you, like, if you're going to get a Synergy amp, I mean, first of all, it's a taste thing. So if you want to get like the Tone King amp or the Fender style amp, you know, and you're like cleans, then telling you to get this saldano or the 5150 or the. Sorry, the 60505 PV1 isn't going to make sense. But me personally, of the modules that I have and the modules I've tried, I absolutely love the Saldano. I love the 6505 from PB. It totally is like having a 6505amp, which is basically a 5150, especially old school style. The angle stuff's okay. I like it, it's good. But it's not something I put plug in. The Friedman module is what I use absolutely the most because I like my Freedman amps and this gives me that Friedman sound. I really like the, the. The Tone King. No, not the Tone king module. The Doctor. The Zrec by Dr. Z. I have not tried the Tone King module. And I use like the Fender basement or whatever. I use the two Fender modules. They're fine. There's nothing about them that I love. They just work. And that's really all it's about for me. The module though that I find I go back to definitely the Friedman module and the Saldano module, because to me, those are the two amps that I would really come back to anyways. And it's. And I could tell you that I like the Synergies Saldana module and head as much as I like my Saldano head. And I like the Saldano with a Friedman module almost as much as like my Freedman head. So. Saxby says Michael Nielsen does great reviews of the Synergy stuff. He's okay. I mean, he's kind of overrated, don't you think? I'm just kidding. No, Michael does amazing stuff. Yeah, I had a bunch of chops. Yeah. I don't know if he's still here. It's only funny if he's still in the. In the chat. But anyways, no, Michael is amazing. In fact, I was just watching some of his videos recently because I got it in my head that I had to have something and then I watched a couple videos and. And yeah, sometimes I'm Watching them go, going, okay, now I think I need more than I thought I needed. So Brian says, Phil, Phil is slowly but surely talking me into a synergy head. You know, I, what I can tell you about the synergy stuff is it's not, it's not amazing. It's just really good, you know, and when I say that, I don't mean to like bag on it, like, it's not amazing that way. I just mean like, yeah, it's not the greatest amps ever, you know, greatest amp ever. It's just so good and so practical and so useful for so many things. And the 20 watt head is the way to go. I have the 50 watt. I'm convinced that unless you need the headroom, the, the volume, I don't know what's really different about the two. When I play them at the volumes I play at in the, in this office, the 20 watt does everything I need. The 50 watt just has two modules that you can load in, which is a nice feature, but. And then Julius says, phil, can you do the Marshall module review? I haven't bought the Marshall module yet. I've been thinking about it. So, you know, my problem is sometimes I look to do that stuff and I have like four videos I have to do now and I'm, I'm, you know, my foot put me behind schedule. So it's like I don't want to order anything just to have it sit around. So maybe after I get, after I get caught up with some stuff, I'll be able to do it. I know one thing we're going to do is we're going to take a lot of the amp and pedal videos that I do. We're going to be putting them on the know your gear channel, the secondary channel, because those are edited by someone else and because they're edited by somewhere else. That's where that's the time suck for me is the editing. So the idea is to have a different editing vibe on that channel, which is what it has now. None of those, none of that stuff is edited by me on the second channel. That's why some, you probably notice it, some of you don't. It has a different vibe. So editing is storytelling. So you know, so it does change the vibe, even if it is clipping stuff. Oh, Yardbird says, hey, Phil, who is speaking of which? He goes, who is responsible for those re edited podcast nuggets on your KYG channel? I love watching those and I'd like to give them a shout out. Thank you, Yardbird. 68 for the shout out, they're edited by someone else, which is what I just said. But here's what's interesting about that. I'm not involved, okay? And when I say I'm not involved, I mean, yeah, they'll. I'll get a text or I'll get. We'll have a meeting and we'll say they have a question about a title. However, what we've discovered is that I need to not be involved in any way, almost. And that's why I think the channel's killing on the second channel. If you haven't watched the second channel. Okay. And I know it's just basically a lot of. It's just the clips from the podcast and there's added, you know, like video clips and stuff and stuff. But it's also context. In other words, sometimes they're edited in a way that. That, like I said, gives it more context. Context. But the vibe is totally different. Definitely. Definitely the vibe's different, which was the whole point, right? Because one of the things that we're experimenting with and it's helping for the second channel is. And I know everybody hates the YouTuber talk, but this is interesting. I'm the voice here. But then, because, like, when I do content, I'm editing. I'm an editing voice, too. And now we're experimenting with, how does it look if I don't do everything? Like, if everything's not how I see it? Because I can tell you right now, here's what I can tell you. There is a dozen clips of the podcast that have been edited or whatever, you know, whatever that, you know, added stuff, whatever, on the second channel that 150% I would not have put on that channel. I wouldn't have put out in public, period. I wouldn't have posted it. I would. I probably regret I said it here on the channel. So basically, that's why that's what they're doing, is they're pulling stuff. Okay? So, Aaron Short Music. What's up, Aaron Short Music? He says, hey, Phil, great to see you. What does it mean? If you can. If I can hear the pickup selector switch and tapping on the pick guard on a strat. Is that a ground issue? It sounds to me like a microphonic issue. And that I don't. I mean, yeah, a ground issue could be possible. Sure, anything's possible. But to me, usually, like, first of all, let's use this as an example. Right? So I got this on and I should. You should be able to hear. Okay. Literally, I'm gonna mute myself hey, can you guys hear me? Okay. My microphone, you guys know my microphone is off. I am talking to you guys through the power of guitar pickups. So I mean technically. So technically what you guys are hearing now. So technically, you know that mess of distortion you know that you hear and stuff. Yeah. I mean here's what I can tell you. The looser the wire in the pickup. This pickup's a tragedy. So this thing should have been really microphonic. Okay. This is a horribly, horribly made pickup. It was squealing when you guys saw me do the muting thing. I don't know if you saw me. I went. You know, I did the muting. And then when I muted I both hands left and right palmed out the guitar. Because this pickup was. Would squeal. I needed all string movement to stop. Otherwise something would go through. So it's the pickup. So the reason what I'm telling you Aaron is in my experience it's the not about what it is for sure. Because again I'm not there. But is a diagnosing the problem. My first concern is something's wrong with a pickup. It's microphonic something. Maybe the wire is loose. Maybe it's not pot wax potted like it's a strat. It's not wax potted. Or sometimes strats are wax potted but it's not wax potted. Something like that. So what I would do is then try to. To answer use your pickup selector to see if I know the pickup selectors making noise. You understand what I'm trying to try to eliminate the pickups. If it's three pickup guitar, two pickup guitar. Try to eliminate one of the pickups and see if that's not the issue more than anything else. And so especially if it's. And it doesn't matter if it's an expensive guitar. Look, pickups are made like. Like I'm trying to say they're made like they're still made in the 50s. Right. So the technology of pickups is still pretty pretty, not. Not amazing. So they. There's mistakes and it's not something that they're going to be testing for in a. In a perfect in. In the. When they're building the guitar. Right. Usually look when you go to factories it's always the same thing. They have the guitar on. They take the selector. I'm not going to put you guys to the horror of talking through the pickle again. But if you could see me, I'm taking a. A pin which makes no sense. But imagine a screwdriver in my hand. And they just tap on the coils. Right. That's what they're doing in the factory. If you watch a lot of factory tours, they tap on the coils and then make sure there's sound coming through. But they don't really test to see if the pickups becoming is being microphonic. John 1:4 is saying shielding tape. Sure, shielding helps. All that stuff helps. But. But. And you're right, John. Like I said, everything. You know, you could do 10 things, and those 10 things collectively will fix a problem. But. But usually the pickup is. Is a pretty easy thing to. To you want to eliminate right away just like a tube amp, you know, microphonic tube. Let's eliminate the easiest thing first and then figure out where it's going to get more complicated. And Aaron said, thank you. I'll make a video and send it over to the builder. Otherwise, I love the guitar, so I want to fix it. Sure. By the way, Aaron, you can send it to me as well. If you send it to the ask know your gear gmail.com send it to me and I'll. I can watch whatever you do and send you a quick response. And then if you have my text, you could text me. If you. And if you don't have my text, you could just send me your number and I'll text you back there. That's how it works. Let's see. Jada says. Says, except for Fisherman's. Yes, Fisherman's, of course. Will, first of all, Fisherman's are in theory, like a perfect pickup. Right. I can almost hear some of my friends who are into vintage pickups cringing right now. But what I mean by that is I'm. I'm totally in love with the fishman fish pickups concept. The laminating the. The way that they can actually make a pickup for every artist individually just by doing the different laminates up. And. And yeah, I've messed with lots of fishermen since, like I told you guys, they're. They're fantastic. You know, there's no such thing as perfect, especially in an artistic world where sometimes flaws are beautiful. You know, I want some mess in the world when it comes to the artistic things I love. But the fisherman's are fantastic. So just fine says, hey, Phil, what's the purple guitar in the corner? It says the jet guitar. I'm doing another jet guitar video. You guys love the jet guitar. I did. That was the affordable. This one's a little bit more of the pricey ones. You know, I love hitting these guitars that you guys Will not stop talking about. These are the guitars that never get on my radar. I don't know what it is. I don't know why I don't see this stuff. But I, I didn't see them forever. And then what's great about when I do a a a a unknown brand, you guys always take the lead and say, hey, have you check out this other brand that's like them. And so, so when I did artist guitars, you guys really, really kind of talked up jet. Okay, okay, let's see. I'm scrolling backwards. Let's do. We're gonna button this show up. We got trick or treating to do. You know what's funny is, is let's go back to this one. Let me try another one. And I have more here. This came from Luis says. Hey, Phil, I know you've seen a lot of the factories and you've been a bunch of factories. I'm curious if you've ever been to the Fender Japan facilities. Come to think of it, does Fender Japan contract out their guitar manufacturing or do they have their own facilities? So I, I believe I understand. Again, this is my guess, but I think I'm right, is that Fender doesn't actually have a factory in Japan that it's outsourced to like Fuji gen or some factory in Japan. That's what I think is happening. As far as I know, Fender has two factories. One in California, one in Mexico and Ensenada. Those are two factories. And when I say they have. Hold on, Sneeze. Wow, I'm glad I have a mute button for sneezing. So anyways, they have two factories. When I say they have two factories, I mean that those employees receive a check that says FMIC or they have the company Fender paying them. Obviously Fender has a facility. They have a building, a factory in the Cortech compound. There's a Squire building and a Fender building. And you know, we weren't allowed to share those buildings with you guys because we didn't have their permission. Which is fine. But. But I can tell you right now, I can share. I can tell you that there, there is a Squire building and a Fender building. They are separate. So they are same but different. But same, but different. Anyways, got jokes. So. But those employees are paid by Cortech. So that's how I'm defining that. I'm not saying so. I'm saying in Japan, I would imagine if they do have a facility, even if it's like Cortech where it's a factory or only making Fender product Which is very likely. Cause they do that much volume. I would not imagine they're actually Fender employees. They're probably subcontracted like Court is. And so they might be isolated to them, but it's not their physical building, their physical property, their physical employees. So, but. So that's the answer to that question. I would love to go after Court. You know, the whole plan was to get to Cortech because Cortex, the largest guitar manufacturer in the world, and no one's really ever seen it in the way that I've showed it to you guys. You know, it's usually like some fast pass kind of filming. And the plan, the hopes, not the plan, the hopes was after doing that, it would open some. Some doors, physically open some doors to other companies saying, hey, maybe we should have you come and do a Factory video. And especially those factory videos. Because it's like I want to approach every factory differently. If you have you notice, the keys of Factory video is. Is amazing in my opinion, because it's one entire shot with no edits. There is not a single second edited in that video. Once it starts, once me and Jeff entered into the building, right? There's an edit at the beginning of me telling you about it. And then it goes right to the cut. What's that movie? 1921 or something. 1911, whatever the hell that movie is. And it says it was all done in one cut. And I understand now, I guess it wasn't. But that's the whole push. That was one, you know, one seamless film. I don't think I'll ever, ever, ever, ever, ever be able to do that again. Like the Kiesel Factory tour. It's not just that Jeff let it happen, which is already super rare. It's that. Oh, thank you. 1917, which is an amazing movie, by the way. It's not that Jeff just let it happen, which is rare. It's that we just didn't do anything that would have been a problematic to show anyways. Right. And so. So doing a one shot factory tour was different. The way I did the SE Factory tour as like a vlog style, I thought that was different. And the way I did the Cortex video as a factory tour I thought was different. And that's what our plan going forward is to do these. But not do these traditional boring stand there while they tell us. And then this machine makes necks. And then this machine in this plex and this machine, right? We want to actually go there and learn something and give you something back. I want to give you something back. And I want to answer a question, one question in every factory tour. And that's my plan going forward. And the key and the Kiesel Factory, I just wanted to ask answer one question. How do they make all those different custom variations? And I think we answered that question. The cortex factor. I wanted to know, how do you make a million guitars in a year? How do you physically do that? And I think we answered that question. So I got to tell you, I can't ruin it yet, because jinx it. But we did get a reach out from a company that I never thought would ever let me do a factory tour. And they flat out said, hey, we want to do a factory tour. I'm. I'm getting ready to talk to them. So that will be exciting. It will be great. Especially for me, because it's not 36 hours of travel to do it. Plus, I think it'll be one of those cool things. And it's something that not a lot of people have seen a lot of. And so that'll be cool. And so back to Japan, which is important. I'd really like to do some factory tours in Japan. And I think if we do that the logically and financially, because that's a big part of it too, we're going to have to line up two or three. So it's got to be two or three factories in Japan to make it make sense. Because you fly there, maybe stay three, four days, and then go through them. Everybody's like Pierre Skipson, don't try to guess. And even don't guess because you won't. You won't guess. And then. And if you did get it right, I just, I wouldn't tell you. And then you'd be mad later when you said, that's the one I said. And you said no. So anyways. But yeah, I would love to go to the Japanese factories. That's the big deal for. Of course. And you gotta understand, the big problem is the big problem with these factories, kind of like Fuji Gen in Japan, all these factories is they make multiple products. So again, it's not as easy as when you go to prs and you say, hey, I want to film your factory. And they okay, film it. And then it's, you know, these factories, it's okay, film it. But we can't show this and we can't talk about that and we can't see this. And. And then also, why even film it? So think about this. I could not answer one question I had in my head and I thought I would give you the answer. And I never did. I could never answer the question, why Cortek let me film the Cortec Factory. I'm glad they did. He's been. June and Cortek have been fantastic and sent me very amazing, heartfelt thank yous about the video and loving the video and they love the video. And, and I probably shouldn't say this, but I'm going to say it to you guys because I love you guys. Apparently, you know, they were very nervous about me. Even the day I was there. They were nervous. They told me and it came across. They don't know why they're doing this, and they don't know what the upside is for them, but they're letting it happen. Let's let them film everything and see what comes out. And the important part of the story is I still don't know why they did it, because there's no upside to them other than you going, oh, we love Court now, but you're like, great. But I think they know you love them because they make a million guitars a year. They're not trying to make more guitars is what I'm trying to say. Let's go on to another one. And then it's button this podcast up. We have. This one's a fast one, so it's easy. Antique rocker says, hey, I'm thinking about buying an Ebo and I want to learn how to play one. I'm not laughing at you learning to play one. I'm laughing about what I'm gonna say. I want to learn how to play Bowie's Heroes like, like Mick Ronson. Okay, so he's talking about the song, but Bowie's Heroes, like, yeah, playing it like MC Ronson. MC Ronson. Sorry. I see the memorial concert for Freddie Mercury. Have you tried one? Would you consider reviewing? Have tried theirs. And TC Electronics has a version two as well. I shouldn't say two, but as well. And I could not do it. I if you the hell of EEBO is you go to the NAMM show and the owner of EEBO demonstrates it, and it's just ridiculously good when he's skipping around me. The Ebo was the most tragic. I, I, I, I bought the Evo twice, okay? I bought it. I couldn't use it. I was an idiot. It was horrible. I got rid of it and then bought it again years later, thinking, well, now I'm, I'm better. Nope. I figured out it's not me. Oh, Yoli goes, what's an Ebo? An Eo. Let me show you what this is. They're usually about a hundred bucks. They've been a hundred bucks since the 90s. I love that my. Put Ebo on my computer. Says ebay. Yeah, that's. That's. That's what I want. Okay, you cannot. This is so crazy. Okay, this is the Evo. It's $99. Just for the record. This was $99 in 19. Like 92. I know for a fact they were 99. They've been. I'm not. I don't know for a fact, but they've been that way forever. This is it. So what we're looking at, it looks. I don't know what it looks like. It looks like a stapler, right? It's kind of silly looking. So this device has two magnets. So let me explain it in the most dumb way I can explain something, because I don't. But just rudimentary. Let's just call it that. Rudimentary. I wish they'd show you the bottom. I don't show you the bottom. So let's do it this way. So right here, what you have, what I'm pointing at right here is these are two slots. You see those little, little bumps right there? That's where two strings go. So you rest it on, let's say, like your, you know what your A and your, you know, your G string. You rest the A and the G string here, a string here, G string here. Vice versa. Probably vice versa. And then in the middle of this spot, you would have your D string. And then these two magnets, which are, I'm assuming, different polarities or something. And that might be electric magnets. Is that what it is? It's got to be electro electric. That makes sense, right? They cause a string to move to simulate what a bow would do. Like a bow, like for a violin on a guitar. And so you can get that sound. And when you see people do it, they go. They just. Like a violin bow, they go. You're like, oh, cool. When you get it, it's like this. You set it on a string and it goes. And you lift it off and then you put it back and it does nothing for a second go. That's it. Now for those that can figure it out and play it. I've seen people play it. They're great at it. So 99 bucks. Did you get one? Sure. Could you do worse things? You buy when used. There's always somebody getting rid of one because there's always one for sale. Used. So you can always do used. There is Copies on the market. I think there are, like. So you might want to look at, like, Ebo copy. When I say copy. Like, brands, Right? There's like, brands that copy it. Yeah. Jo yo makes one. Figures. Okay, so what's the Joyo one? Ebo Joyo on Amazon. Oh, okay. So here you go. Let's look at here. We're looking here, $62. It looks like a Black and Decker Dustbuster. I feel like. I feel like this thing is giving me trauma. I'm looking at this thing. It's reminding me when I would sit on the couch and my mom would come around the corner with a Dustbuster and be like, we got to clean up the. Clean up the. Whatever the. The cat hair. So anyways, 62.99 for this one. So you can get that on Amazon. And Amazon's return policy is really great. Let's face it. That's kind of why they're. They're winning in that category. So. And then. So he said, jaded Jerome saying, Donner. Yeah, I'm sure. I'm sure there's tons of one. And if the Donner one's cheaper, go to the cheap. I'd go with the cheapest one. I would definitely say that there's no one single one of those units that are significantly better than the others to where if you can't get along with it, it's the. The product's fault. It's. It's just one of the things. So if you want to give a try, you try it, you know, whatever it is. Me personally, somebody said a sustainer, a sustainiac pickup. I absolutely love sustaining act pickup. I have a video of that. Like, how does the sustaining pickup work? Absolutely. So if you can get yourself a guitar, a used one with sustainiac pickup in it, it's way, way better. But that's a lot to ask just to do a song. I know what you're talking about, so. But give it a try. I didn't have luck. Maybe I felt bad because now I'm, like, discouraging you. I want you to understand something. Your first inkling, and I don't know you because I don't know you. Maybe you're like. Maybe you're a way better guitar player than me. And you're like, this is easy. I'm going to do it. Phil's a moron. But just in case you're looking at me and going, oh, Phil's a better guitar player than me. And he can't do it. I can't do it. I'm a moron when it comes to that thing. I want to tell you that I put some effort into it, but I put in soft effort is what I'm trying to say. I did it and then I was like, this isn't working. And then I'm like, I'm done. So. So let's just say it didn't get my full hearted try. I thought it was one of those things where I. If I could, if it could. You know what somebody just said date to win says Wawas come in and out of fashion. Hold on a second. You know what he meant? Just you mentioning Wawas. I gotta tell you, the Ebo reminds me, reminds me why the Ebo was a failure to me. Because I expected it to be like a Wawa pedal. Like, I don't know about you guys, everybody's different. Everybody has different life experiences with gear, but the Wawa was a thing that when the first time I tried a Wawa pedal, I was like, I'm Kirk Hammett. Like, there was no moment where I was like, how do people do this? I don't understand. You gotta go backward, then forward. What is going on? I like, I, I got a wall. I stepped on it and I'm like, holy crap. I am literally Jimi Hendrix. I am Kirk Hammett. I am, you know, right? I'm. I'm doing funk, I'm doing. I'm, I'm there. It's easy. It was, if anything, not only was it easy, it made everything I play sound better than it was. And so it was great. And so part of the problem, I find when you have an experience like that with certain pieces of gear, like a wall pedal is, then you buy an Ebo and you have the exact opposite experience where it's like, oh, you mean I gotta learn some technique for this, right? And yeah, so, but I think you should try it. Look, there's worse things you can do with your money than buy one of these things for 50 to $100. And I'm sure if you look around, you'll find somebody who makes one for 50 bucks. Without a doubt. And I'm sure, and somebody's going to put in the comments telling you where you get one. So for 50 bucks, give it a try. But I can tell you if you really, really, really want to do like a sustain like that, really, the sustainiac pickups in a guitar are by far better in my opinion. Because although those, I didn't have a huge amount of success with needing them all the time. I can tell you. The first time I picked up a sustainiac pickup and a guitar, it was like the wall pedal again. I'm like, whoa, look at me. I'm like Pink Floyd now. Like, I can do stuff. Like, right. I was making sounds and music was coming out of me and it was great. So I'm just going to tell you. So that's. It's all about the. And by the way, more to more. More 10 guitar. More 10 guitar says AliExpress has one for 35 bucks. Yeah, I have no doubt you can find stuff like, look, we all know there's stuff out there. Now there's a cheaper version of everything that you can buy everything for a nickel if you keep trying. And then. And you find where you're comfortable spending to try the endeavor and you do it. So I will tell you though, one thing I can think of is if you can buy an Ebo use, you could probably sell it for exactly what you paid for it. So, okay, Mr. Ortiz, Mr. Ortiz says, what's my favorite? Oh, because it's Halloween. I get it. What's my favorite candy? And what is my least favorite candy? He goes, let's start a controversy. Like Gravy part three. My favorite candy. I don't like candy. I know it sounds suspect for a fat guy to tell you he doesn't like candy, right? You're like, something's up. I don't like candy. I like chocolate. Now, if you think chocolate's candy, I think you're wrong. I think there's chocolate candy. I think that's why they use it. Like, I don't tell people I want to get me a can. Well, I guess you get a candy bar that's chocolate, right? I don't know. But here's what I'm saying. I really don't eat candy. Now, when I say that, there's some caveats I'm not a big into. I've never been into that. I like chocolate like everybody else and I do like licorice sometimes in some ways. Okay. Which is probably a candy as well. But outright, when you think of candies, all the candy stuff, I'm not really big on it. So. So, you know, the follow up question he had was, what is my favorite candy in the Sweetwater? I do not get candy with my Sweetwater products. I have it blocked. So you can contact Sweetwater, which I did many, many years ago. I don't know if it was by email or calling them. And I said, please don't put candy in my, in my box anymore. In My. My packaging. Now, what's funny is it actually worked out in the greatest way you could ever happen, which is. So Shauna's favorite candy from. From Sweetwater is Laffy Taffy. Now, I know what you're thinking. Wait, you don't get candy in your Sweetwater packaging. So how does your wife like Laffy Taffy Sweetwater candy? It's because I have it blocked on my account. When I order stuff from Sweetwater, I get a box and there's no candy in it. But however, as you guys know, Sweetwater sometimes sponsors content with us and they'll send us products to do videos and they send us products. And it doesn't go on my direct account. It goes like a sideways account, I guess. I don't know. I don't know what that costs. They put it on a different account. And so when it shows up, it has candy in it because it doesn't have the. The notation to not put candy in my box. So. So Shauna eats the. The Laffy Taffy and the bit of honeys from Sweetwater. That's what she likes. Me, I hate all that stuff. I don't know what it is. As a kid, I ate it like every kid. But it's just over time. I'd like. I said I like chocolate, like a lot of. I mostly like dark chocolate now a lot. And. And like I said, the only candy I can think of that I actually can eat or not actually want to eat is licorice. So that's my. There's no controversy. Well, other than I just called chocolate not a candy. Maybe that will get. Average Joe said the bone shredder sold out. Well, good, Good for Firefly. They'll order more, you know, you'll get more. I don't know how we're going to end on this. I don't know how Firefly is not getting season desist like hell on these guitars. What I love is, I think this is what I like about Firefly guitars is they're basically AliExpress. They're selling. Selling us the knockoff guitars, but they're doing them like with the roasted necks and the quality is a little better. Right? And they're not putting fa. They're not putting the, you know, the, the ESP logo. They're not. They're just putting Firefly on there. And so I feel like, look, to me, I call this a replica guitar. I. I have no problem. I've told you guys before, I. Everybody can argue to death on this, but I'm going to end on this point, I like replica guitars, and I hate fake guitars. To me, the difference is, is as simple as what I just said. If somebody looked at this, they're like, oh, that's a replica of like, the George Lynch ESP or the J. Frog guitar. And I go, yeah, it's a replica. It's not one. It does. You know, it's not one. And if you can read because it says Firefly on it, right, which implies that it's not ESP or J Frog. However, it did say ESP or J Frog, then I would call that a fake. So it's meant to make you think that it's the thing. It's not. So I like replica stuff. So that's how I differentiate that. If that's not legally correct, it's not legally correct, but it's least how I look at it. And the reason I say that is because, sure can a replica, you know? Can you trick somebody with a replica? Yeah, you can. But to me, it's why I don't get too caught, you know, to me, it's too caught up in the weeds with, like. I don't get upset when the Dodge truck and the GMC truck and the Chevy and the Ford trucks all start looking the same on the freeway. I don't go, oh, this is ridiculous. They should sue each other into oblivion because they're so close to each other. I go, yeah. You know how I know that's a Dodge? Because it says Dodge on it. Actually says Ram. You know how I know it's a Dodge? Because it says Ram. You know, I know it says. You know how I know it's a Ford? It says Ford on it. That's the whole point of putting a word on a thing, right? And naming it so that when people see it, they go, what is that truck? It says it's a Chevy. Well, it's a Chevy. So it's. It's a Ford. No, it's a Chevy. See how it says Chevy? That means it's a Chevy. So again, I. I find it's. I don't like the fakes, but I like replicas. That's just my opinion on that. And on that note, you guys gotta go get free candy. Some of you guys do. Or give out free candy today. Either somebody's giving away something or getting some. Either way, I hope you guys are safe. I hope you guys have fun. I guy. I hope you guys enjoy your weekend. Play some guitar. Thank you guys so much for making another amazing episode. Thank you so much for 2 million views thank you so much for making the second channel. Killing it. It's awesome. And I'm gonna leave on that note. I think that's the high note. Let's go. All right, guys, thank you for your time. To the next time, know your gear. And then I'm like, where's my. If you're learning something or having a good time, don't forget, you can subscribe for free and help this channel. Or for $10 a month, you can join me on Patreon for live clinics where.