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The Most Hated Guitar On The Internet & The Gear Market Is In Free Fall
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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 everyone. Welcome to the Know youw gear podcast, episode 421. I hope everybody had a fantastic week and is ready for. For some guitar fun. I guess it's gonna. It's gonna be guitar fun. I know it. We have. Let me get into a couple things. We have some announcements to make that I'm excited about. In fact, one particular one I'm excited about. And of course, great subjects and questions by you guys. The first announcement is I want to thank everyone who subscribed to the second channel. There's a link down below. The second channel has been hitting over 300,000 views per month. That is a huge, huge, shocking, huge, you know, milestone. Great. And it's about to hit 23,000 subscribers. If you don't know about the second channel. Well, the second channel is where we put a lot of like the bonus type of content. So not only is there like pod clips, but sometimes a little bit more detailed clip of the podcast, but like yesterday's video was a detailed video of all the tools. I think you should own content, complete with timestamps and everything. So you could actually go and watch the whole thing or just go to the timestamps. And the thing that I want to be, I want to say that I'm most proud of is yesterday's tool video is the most engaged video we've had on that channel with a massive amount of you making it to the entire end, which is very, very cool. It's just cool as hell. That's what that is. So check out the second channel if you haven't checked out the second channel. And then I need to actually do this because even I don't even know do I have the link. I do. There's announcement I'm supposed to make, but I'm looking for my link and I don't have it. I don't have the link. So we'll probably push that. Push that out because I don't have the link. I was looking for the alt color link. We have. Well, I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll make sure I update the alt color link. And we have a. We have new merch. And when I say new merch, more importantly, we just have some new logos. So we've put some new logos out per request. These are people's requests. So they requested some know your gear logos. That weren't necessarily just like a Strat style guitar. So we have a Les Paul style guitar and a telly style guitar. So we updated that with some new colors, not the colors of clothing, with the colors of the logo itself. And I'll try and put the alt color logo, our thing when I timestamp it. Okay. We. Oh cool. Brian's got it. So let me hit it and then share with you. Look at that. So we go to the web. Thank you, Brian. And oh, there you go. So here it is. You have your single cut. Let's pull in the red. So they decided to. We did the single cut in red and we did the tea style in what looks like gold, but it's essentially butterscotch. Right, right. So look at that. So new, new stuff. Just new choices. And of course there's the original OG merch as well. I just want to let you know that that's available now. Let me go back. And so there you go. That's our. That's our announcements. Besides always just saying thank you to the moderators and the patrons and the channel members and everybody who's here live. So you know, if you're watching live, there's no commercials while it's being posted live. However, that always brings up some problems. So let me tell you the current problem so you don't have to put angry comments in the comment section. First one is there's no ads during the live feed. There is no ads on the audio feeds on Spotify, itunes and what have you. And there's no ads, of course, course on the Patreon $5 tier or the channel member $5 tier. Other than that unfortunately get ads. And I do not place the ads in. YouTube does. And so for those that get upset that YouTube's putting a lot of ads. Yeah, my guess is. So my guess is the ad rates are. They're probably trying to try to basically because they can't raise ad rates right now in the market, the current market. So they're probably just throwing down more video, more ads. So. So you're gonna get more ads. That has nothing to do with us on our side. We can't control it. We get the benefit of that. But keep in mind, not really that makes any sense. And then the other announcement is because we don't monetize it right away, some of you guys were. I got a couple emails saying that they. The live show was not closed captioned. We are not disabling the closed captioned. What's happening is, we think is because we don't monetize the video. YouTube does right away. In other words, you don't monetize it until after it goes into. What do you call it, the re. Rerun mode. We don't think, we think YouTube's not prioritizing the closed captions because so, you know, YouTube Teams tends to prioritize ad rated videos with ads in all kinds of ways, as you can imagine, because there's financial stake for them. So I just want to let you know, we're aware of all these things. There's nothing we can do about any of them. I do check to make sure the closed caption goes up. And my. And what I'm noticing is they're going about an hour to two hours later than they used to when we monetized the channel when it was live in the live. So I apologize if that creates a problem for anyone. Okay. Grumpy Mike guitar says, I got my gravy shirt this week. Looks great. You know, a couple you've sent me gravy T shirts. I appreciate that so much, and I'm pretty excited about that. We have, we. We've been thinking about doing a pro gravy T shirt at some point to get the other side. You know, it's like, it's funny because it's like we definitely looked at the numbers ago. You know, if we would have did the pro gravy shirt, we would have made a lot more money. But, you know, I had it. I had to stand where I had to stand. All right, let's get into some early riser questions and subjects. And the first one is from Edgar, who says, hey, Phil, what was the thinking process of you deciding of the deciding of your deciding factor that made you keep the Clio PRS guitar since it seems the price tag may be out of your comfort zone? Well, pretty much all the price tags of all guitars are out of my comfort zone for the most part. Let's just start there. Okay. Couple things. So it's a good question, and I'll give you the answer is about I'm kind of stuck. And here's why I'm going to tell you I'm stuck. I'm going to give you an honest answer minus a piece of information I just can't disclose. And when I say I can't disclose, it's not for disclosure now. It'll be disclosed in the future. Okay? And it all makes sense when it happens. You won't even have to ask me. Is that what you're talking about? You're going to be like, oh, yeah, it makes sense. Why? Okay, so let's. So what I'm saying is there's one reason I can't tell you why I did it yet that's really important in the future. But I can give you enough of the other reasons to make sense. So when I did the video of the guitar, I. I gotta tell you. So, you know, a lot of people look at you go on YouTube or you do any kind of job, I don't care what you do, and you do a job and you're. What do you call it? On the job training. YouTube is on the job training. Right? It's not like I took a YouTube 101 course and I go, this is how you make a video. This is how you upload it. This is how you make money. This is how you do that. You know? Right. I basically, Mr. Magoo, this all the way through until I kind of figured it out. You know, each one trial and error. So, like I said, every horrible mistake you can make on YouTube, I've made it. If you guys want to know what those are, I'll share them with you. Some of you have seen them, some of you haven't. My point is, is that one of the things that happened on YouTube that kind of changed me as a person, as a guitar player as a person was the Silver sky launch. So when PRs, everybody now has a different attitude. But let me just tell you, when the Silver sky came out, what happened was Gina P. Reached out to me and said, hey, we're going to be launching a guitar with John Mayer. Now, at that time, all I knew was John May came out with a $6,000amp. I was there for the launch of the amp. I got to see John May talk. In fact, that's how I met Mary Spender. We were both interviewing that day people and. And then they did, you know, the. The John Mayer guitar for the Grateful Dead. And so they go, hey, we're going to release this guitar. And so, you know, it's the only time PRs ever sent me, like, a core guitar, like an expensive one, and said, hey, and by the way, you could. You could keep it after the video. So I got my Silver sky core sent to me, and I was so excited as a. As a. Like, as a, you know, as a content creator. I'm like, wow, I'm getting to keep this amazing guitar, and I'm going to make this amazing video, and everyone's going to. It's going to just be the bell of the ball, right? And I got the guitar and I made the video and I put it out and I got beat to shit by the Internet. And excuse me when I curse, but, I mean, I don't want to under. I don't want to underplay this like everyone. God, the comments just would not stop. This is just a Strat. Two years to develop this. What are they. Who are they kidding? This is horrible. It was the most. And to this day, I've never seen a guitar more hated than the Silver sky guitar. This is. This really kind of sticks to the story. Trust me, there's more. I wish there wasn't. So, you know, I did the video and, you know, I'm looking at the comments and I thought the comments gonna be like, phil, great video. Way to go through, you know, the guitar. And no, instead it was like, phil, you're a shill for PRs. You're not admitting the truth, which is. It's garbage. And I'm like, how could say it's garbage? You didn't even try when no one's tried one yet. Just me, right? So I was just like, okay, you know, everybody hates it. And then because we do the Friday show for weeks, you could go back to those episodes. Every Friday show was like, phil, why do you think the silver sky sucks? Why do you think this the silver sky sucks? It was just the most hated guitar I've ever done a video on to this date. Nothing's ever beat it. And then fast forward a little bit further. Not much. Marty Schwartz from the Marty Schwartz Channel. If you don't know his channel well, then you haven't been on the Internet yet. But huge channel, 3 million subscribers, twice over. Keep in mind, he got 2 million the first time, then had to restart his channel, got 3 million second time. Anyways, Marty, out of nowhere, reached out to me and said, hey, would you like to come to San Diego and do some content with me? And I'm like, absolutely. Let's go do some content. So I went down there, and if you haven't seen the videos, they're on his channel. They're amazing videos. We did a video like, what would a guitar teacher and a guitar tech pick as a first guitar for a student? We did that video together. We did a bunch of other videos together. You know, he's the big time. So you gotta understand, like, they. They rented a studio for us. We went in and filmed in the studio. We did on location stuff. It was like. It was like legit youtuberness instead of just in a. In a closet or in A basement somewhere, making a video in a corner. And I was like, wow, this is great. And in the middle of this, who I was like, wow, Marty's so great. And I won't say his team, but Michael and the guys were great. Everybody's great. Marty goes, hey, so you know, American Music Supply is giving away a silver sky and I gotta do a video. And hey, since you know so much about it, would you do this video with me and talk about the silver sky? And I go, Marty, I go, dude, it's just going to be nothing but people telling you how horrible the guitar is. It's just a horrible guitar. And so. But he's Marty Schwartz and I'm not going to say no because he's a great guy. So I go in the video, you can find that video to this day too. And I sit with him and I, we talk about the silver sky and we get through the video and I. And he's like, thank you for doing that. And he's like talking to me and he's like, yeah, you okay? And I'm like, you don't understand. Like every time this guitar comes up like this, the hate for this guitar is so intense. And then it. Fast forward a couple months later. Okay, so a couple months later I go to PRS's factory and I'm in the factory and everywhere I go in that factory is just stacks and stacks of silver sky guitars, just bodies everywhere. Next I have the pictures to stay. It's insane. It's, it's, it's. I think I've talked about this story before. Pier. I should change their name to just the John Mayer Company at this point. With that many guitars being made, this is way before the se. So keep in mind it's before the se. And I'm looking at this and then I decided to look at my affiliate links. I'm like, wow, a lot of people bought a Silver Sky. I was like, oh. And what I learned from that was the things that people hate the most and the strongest opinion on the Internet. Sometimes it's just, this is the noise of it. You know, people like to hate on stuff so they're just real vocal about it and, and yet the guitar is cool and fast forward now and you know the Silver sky is a. One of the top selling guitars not only with PRs but in the world. And it's does really good. So when I did the, when they sent the, the Herman Lee and I, I like to point out this is a pre production guitar. So that doesn't mean Prototype. That means this guitar is. I don't know and I can't tell you. But I got to ask PS if, if you guys are curious, I don't know. This guitar will actually be in the 200 run. When guitar companies typically do a limited run of something, they usually make some pre production guitars, some for marketing. If you've seen this gray purple guitar in any ads or any like online in pictures, the one you're seeing is this one. Because this is the one they, the marketing took pictures of and they sent it to me. And when I did the video, I was like, wow, this guitar is really good. And I gotta just tell you, I gotta tell you the whole story. So I finished the video and you know, I get it ready, I launch it, I put the time, you know, because it has an embargo time. So it's out to go out. And the title of the video is like the new signature Herman Lee PRS guitar or something like that. And I go, I'm downstairs, I launch it. As you guys know, if you're, if you follow the channel, I launch everything as a premiere. So I'm there if you want to ask me questions. You can type in things in the comment section as real time. I'm there to answer and I do the premiere. I go downstairs and I'm like, wow, this is cool. I'm really excited about this. But kind of knowing, you know, hey, this could be Silver sky again. This could be Everybody Hates It. And the first five comments are, this sucks. I hate this. It's ugly. Who is this for? The price is ridiculous. And I just laughed out loud going, well I've been around, now I know what happens next. So I changed the title to why Everybody Hates this Guitar is a Reverse Troll. I was just trolling everybody back. I was like, okay, fine, all going to hate it. I'm going to just put why everybody hates It. Herman Lee got it. He thought it was funny. Beerus got it. No one was upset that I titled it that way, but I did it as a reverse troll because I was like, and to me, this guitar being a pre production model and having that history and the fact that I, I think it's one of the most unique PRS's I've ever played in my life. And it's, it looks like a work of art and I enjoy playing it. And a second factor that you guys won't know about for months. I decided when it's got to go back, right? So they sent a return label for it and I asked Sean I said, hey, when you. When you. Because she reaches out to them saying, hey, we're ready for the label. Usually what happens to the guitar next is it goes to either another YouTube channel or to Guitar World or somewhere for promotion. I said, hey, let them know, I would like to buy this one. This exact one. This one's special to me. I don't want the. I don't want another one. Don't tell me, yeah, we'll get you one. And you know, no, I want that one. And then I told her, as you can imagine, I said, they're gonna respond with either no or yes. And I go, so you don't have to deal with me on this. I told her, as long as it's a discount, obviously. Keep in mind, they sold to me for. Sometimes referred to as accommodation pricing. Some people refer to it as a dealer cost kind of thing. And they did. They came back and they said, yeah, we'll. We'll sell it to you. And. And of course, they did me accommodation pricing. So I did not pay the full retail on that guitar, as you can imagine. And that was obviously a factor in that too. But as your point is. Yes. Is it out of my car? Yeah. It's this crazy expensive guitar. It's ridiculous. But I have a couple expensive guitars. I do regret most of them, but most the expensive guitars that I bought, well, like I said during COVID weren't special. And I'll tell you this. And this is the last part of this long tirade, which is important, which is I don't really connect to guitars unless two things happen. Just a long time of intimate playing. Like, if I play a guitar a lot, I become connected to it. Like, I just don't want it to go okay. And if a guitar is unique or special, in other words, unique in the way that it's one of a kind or it's. Or it's in unique because of a situation that happened. Like, maybe I went somewhere and I was, you know, or a friend got this for me, you know, so the Herman Lee now just has a special connection to it. It's just a unique, unique guitar. If I could change. I'll tell you right now, if I could change something, I will tell you this. If I could have a perfect PRS guitar, like an absolute perfect PRS guitar, it would be the Herman Lee guitar, without a doubt, with regular pickups. Not the Fishman and not the Floyd. The go to. Like, if they put. If they made this guitar with the PRS Tremolo and just PRS Pickups. I would absolutely. Probably. I could see where that would be my favorite guitar. Without a doubt. It's so uniquely good and fun. I like it the way it is now, but, you know, I'm not a huge. I'm not huge on the Go to and I'm not huge on the Fishman. So that's the. So I don't know. That's it. That's the. The insight and why. But yeah, it was expensive and of course I have to let go of a lot of this stuff to justify it. I don't. Obviously, you guys know the rule is if a guitar comes in, something goes out, and that's not the case in this case. What happens now is something. This comes in the Herman Lee comes in. So a couple guitars go out for sure. There's just no way to. To justify it any other way. All right, that was a long time on that. Romero wants to talk about that Nuno guitar and the rumors it sparked. Personally, I don't think he's leaving Washburn. Okay, so what's going on? Let's find. First of all, let me give the shout out to the channel so that I don't mess it up. Let me go in my history and I'll cue you in. So there's two stories. Sub, two Nuno stories going on. First of all, you guys know I bought an N4. And. And you know, it is. It's got a defect, a factory defect, which seems like most of them currently. The ones that are out right now have. Okay, let me pause this and. Oh, that's a good picture. Okay. You know, usually when you freeze a. I call it resting der face, like dur. You know, Right. Everybody, when you freeze a video, they're always making the dumbest face. He's not making the dumb face. So I'll show you this. So a channel called Steve Cassidy Guitar. It's a very good channel because. Oh, look, let me put it in. See, guys, See his face. Great channel. Also, coolest glasses on the Internet, right? I mean, I love this. This is just great. Anyways, great channel. And he did a video called Has Nuno Left Washburn? I believe. I thought Nuno commented on his video. I could be wrong, but I don't know. I thought Nuno commented saying, I'm not leaving anywhere, or it's somebody who had a sign on, like Nuno. But anyways, so if you haven't figured it out. So we. They did the. The farewell tour, farewell show for Black Sabbath. And of course, Nuno was just anchored there on Stage kicking butt the whole show. And during the show he was playing two guitars that I saw. One was a look like a typical N4. The other one was different. It was the, it was brown with two like white or not white, but maple looking stripes. So in other words, it could have been stained or inlaid, I don't know. But the headstock said Nuno on it, not Washburn. So his theory, his being the channel. Steve. Steve's theory was, is it possible that Nuno is leaving Washburn and starting his own brand like a la Evh, you know, Ola England, Zakk Wylde, you name it, right? And there's a ton of, ton of people. And of course a lot of people then connected or a lot of people from this channel connected. Hey, you know, Washburn, by the way, we're five weeks. Washburn never sent me a response on the guitar. You know, hey, I, I asked Washburn if they could, you know, let me know what the, why the mistake was made or if it's not a mistake or whatever. And I got silence from them, even though they were talking to me briefly. And so somebody's like, well, maybe that's why Washburn doesn't care because Nuno's leaving and they don't care. It's possible. Anything's possible. I don't get the vibe of that, but I mean, we could, you know, we could. What do you call it? Let me shift here. We could, we could guess, you know, that's all we can do is guess. And I, I just don't see it happening. But who knows? At this point, I believe Washburn was down to two USA made guitars, which was the Michael Sweet guitar and the Nuno Bittencore guitar. And I believe they're down to four. Finally, just the Nuno guitar. So if you think about this, Washburn only makes one USA made guitar, and that's the Nuno Bitten Court. And then that's Ghostbill by another builder, right? So I mean, it's possible that Washburn's like, yeah, maybe we need to move on and just push acoustics. Why are we, why are we doing this? I, I don't know. I just don't know the whole situation because I don't know their volumes. I don't know what the, you know, just like, you know, I don't know what the advantages are, but I would, I guess a good guess would be if Nuno was to. So let me say this. If Nuno was to ever leave Washburn, I could imagine why he would just basically just do his own brand, not so much because I think he wants to be in the guitar business. Just because that's his guitar. If you think about it, I mean, he designed it, it's his guitar, so he would continue to play it. I just couldn't picture him playing a different guitar at this point. So I don't see him going to another company just so they can make a version of the Washburn guitar. He could, but who knows if anyone knows? You can put it in the comments if you have real information, but I have no idea how to pronounce this cute to cute. So whatever. There's a lot of. A lot of, lot of letters says. I didn't even realize Washroom was still in business. He should probably lose. He. He should probably lose elsewhere. Well, yeah, Washburn, they're really known. They've always been known for making acoustics. They've made electrics. You know, you gotta understand, there was a lot of companies like Washburn, which has changed hands throughout the years. And it's obviously not. The company it started was much less, not even the company that it's, you know, it was a couple times. But there's a lot of companies like Washburn who are acoustic brands. Alvarez is another one where when the 80s came, it was a bloodbath in the guitar industry for electric guitars. And what I mean by that is it's. It's still to this day, true, more acoustics are sold every day than electrics. That's how it is every day today. It's how it was 10 years ago. And it was how it was every everywhere except for a short window of time known as the 80s, when everyone, and I mean everyone who wanted to play guitar wanted an electric guitar. It's just how it worked. And so a lot of companies who are acoustic companies only were really seeing like the, hey, we need to get an electric guitar business. We're were saying no to a lot of money. And so Alvarez and Washburn were some of the companies that are like, hey, let's start making some electrics. And that's where the Nuno thing came from. They wanted to get into the electric business probably really badly. And then they saw Nuno as their opportunity to break that. That industry. And then here's the sad thing. Over the years, it's. There's just no way. I told you I was a Washburn dealer. As a Washburn dealer. I think we were a washburn dealer for 15 years. No, what am I talking about? That's too many years. Why am I thinking like that? 11 years. 12 years. 1112 years. So 1112. Just over a decade. I sold Washburn for over a decade. What we sold was acoustics. Lots of them in our store. The is Fender Acoustics and Washburn Acoustics were our two head to head number one selling guitars. And because you're trying to sell a guitar that's above a $99 student grade guitar but something below, you know, a mid price or high expensive guitar. But I can tell you we, we sold Fender Acoustics really well. But mostly in the absence of Washburn. It was so hard to get Washburn Acoustics all the time. I could never order enough Washburn acoustics. No matter what I put in the order for whatever came, we would sell through too fast. And so when we couldn't get Washburn we would just go Fender. So. So yeah. So the update is Washburn still never responded to my email. I think next week I'm gonna send them a little email saying hey, just following up to see if you ever heard anything. We'll see. And let's see. Okay, I'm sorry. Okay, let's go on to the next subject and we'll do this. We'll refresh this screen and we have from Vimps 69 says hey Phil, love my no gravy shirt. Oh that's awesome man. I'm glad you got one. You mentioned in your video about the PRSS NF53 that it doesn't really sound like a telly. Do you think it will be short lived model or do you think it will last? I personally don't. You know when I did the NF53 core, it's not a core but it's you know, USA bolt on series. Just so you guys know the hierarchy of PRs. Again there's private stock, there's core, then there's like bolt on, then S2, then SE. That's kind of how they stack it and I think that's in the hierarchy of it. So it's considered a bolt on even if it's USA but not core, if that makes any sense. Anyways, the NF53 USA made one. I liked it. Like I said, it's quality guitar. I thought for $3,000 it was a little much for what it is. I mean essentially it's just a telly for $3,000. And like I said, I pointed out there's to me a lot of PRS guitars that are $3,000 that I think are better like the C24. But again I can see where somebody really wants like a Televibe guitar, the se. I said it in the video. Somebody asked, but I said in the video somebody's like, why do you think it was $979? I think it was $979. 79 because of comparative pricing. So in other words, the USA one's 3,000. So of course the Korean or sorry, Indonesia one's gonna be a thousand. That's just how that works. It's the same business model Epiphone and Squire use. I told you guys, it doesn't have to be based on factual costs. It just has to be based on, you know, you have a customer who's like, hey, I want a $10,000, you know, Joe Bonamassa model, Gibson, but I can't afford it. But now here's a $2,000 Epiphone one, right? That's how you really basically do it. And then somebody goes, well, why would, why is an Epiphone $2,000? Because the USA wants 10,000, right? Or something like that. So same thing. But what I said in the video was it's, it's not very telly, like in the way it sounds and the way it feels. So is it going to be short lived? No, I think, I think PRS has proven that it can, it can dominate in different areas. I just don't know if it's ever going to see the stellar success of like the Silver Silver Sky. And when I say that, I don't mean, I don't mean in the, it'll sell as much as the Silver sky. But you understand in the Fender world, Fender Strats outsells Telecasters so you know, by volume. So I, but Telecasters are obviously pretty close. So I would think, like, I'm curious to see how close the NF53 gets to the Silver sky or the, you know, the Strat esque versions of what SE has out there. I, I just don't know. I think the pickups are good quality pickups. It's just that's where I'm not falling in love with the guitars. They sound fine. But you know, I'm not a big fan and I'm not a big fan of companies making their own shaped pickups. It's not that I want to switch out the pickups for, you know, the pickups I want. It's that I can't. So. And I feel like through, I feel like through the Murphy's Law of it, you know, just the right that every time I get a guitar with a goofy shape pickup, I go, oh, I don't really love this. I wish I could swap it out, and I can't. And that's, you know. So I think you're stuck with it. So you can. In that guitar. So, you know, the se though, you can. Because of the pick guard. You just have to cut a new pick guard and you can stick whatever pickup in there. So me, I think they should put two humbuckers in it. Or two P90s. I think two P90s would be even better. Even though those pickups have a P90 vibe, they're just not P90s. And I think it'd be better to be. It's the one thing I think they messed up on. And I think, look, their logic is probably they're going to sell way more guitars than I could ever sell. So maybe they. They know. Well, they know way more than me. But I think they look at it like, hey, make it like the core. So use the pickups that are like the core. Me, I'm thinking that guitar with some P90s, that's kind of fun. Like, I. All of a sudden, I'm liking it and. And the price is 7.99. I'm really liking it. I think that would be more. Just a more fantastic guitar. But what's great is guys, you don't understand is they get to do that later anyways if they want. So might as well try it the way they. They tried it. I don't know how well the guitar is doing, how well it's received, or how well it's doing. I haven't kind of put my finger on the pulse of anything yet. That was sent to me. So you guys know that guitar was sent to me because I'm going to Cortech very soon. Let's say in a month. My fight's already booked everything and I'm gonna be in that factory. So I think the logic was, hey, let's send him the SE stuff because he's gonna see it in the factory anyways, right? So it's smart. So they sent it to me. It was a good move. I would have done the same thing. Yardbirds says it needs coil splits. Yeah, I agree. I think coil splits would have been a nice option. Kind of like on that limited edition Fender we did where I added the coil splits. I think that's a. I think, why not? You know? But it's a good. It's a good guitar. That's the important part. It's a good quality guitar. You just have to decide if it's for you. I love the Way it looks. I like the quality of it. I just wasn't in love with the pickups, but it wasn't because they sound bad. I just. It just didn't, you know, I don't know. Just didn't do anything for me. Okay, what else next? What do we got to talk about? Antique rocker says, hey, do you think musical education is as good now as when you are learning? What would you charge if you could? Would I charge? Oh, what would I change? Oh, yeah. What would I change if I could? Public, private? Where should I start? Where should you. Where. Where should it start? Okay, let's do that one again. He wants to know, Antique rocker wants to know, how good do I think a musical education is now versus back in the day? And I think it's better now. I think education period is better now. I can't imagine. And I'm going to be really reserved on this because I'm trying to say it correctly. I think that there was probably more in the past of people pushing into people into education. There was more opportunities that way. But now the way that access to information now is so huge, so much information is just available to you. And the one downfall is, yeah, most information is available, most information is free now, but you got to do a lot of searching and research. But I almost prefer that. Me personally, you know, I've never been a big. I'm not a big fan of the US Learning system, the school system here. Now, keep in mind, I went. I grew up in Tucson, Arizona, on an underfunded school district. So I have a lot of not good things to say about that school district. Not because I'm picking on any specific teachers or anybody in the industry or not industry in that, in, you know, in the education. But obviously the funding was just for crap. The main reason at the time was, if you're not familiar with Tucson, Arizona, it's essentially built on two economies, which is a retirement economy and the military, which is an air force base. And which means you have a lot of people who are not really vested in paying a lot of taxes there. Right? You have a lot of military people who are going to be gone soon. So, you know, building up the city isn't really an important thing for them and are a focus point for them. And you have a lot of retirees who are like, hey, I'm trying to stay. I'm trying to stay here just a few months of the year because they have the snowbirds. So the schools were really. When I say they're underfunded, like every Every, like back when I was in school there, everything got voted down. So we had no wood shop, we had no metal shop, we had no auto shop. We didn't have any of those stuff. They didn't exist. And when I went to school at all and. But good news is I have friends who have kids that go to the school that we grew up in, and they say that they have those things now, so they're better funded now. But, but back to what I'm saying is, yeah, education is better now. First of all, I've always thought it was dumb that everybody learns on their, you know, in school music. They go to music and they learn the recorder. It's just dumb. Everybody should learn the piano. I believe in Japan they do that, right? They. They have. A lot of the kids are basically exposed to piano. I think the piano is the. You know, as someone who, who ran a music academy for over a decade, I can tell you from watching students, we paid, it was a big investment. We paid to make sure there was a piano in every single lesson room. Even though we were 90% guitar students. 95%. Whatever. We were 90, 95% guitar students. And the reason we did that is because we knew that you could teach music theory so much better and more easily on a piano than guitar. And, and so when you have a new student sitting there with a piano and kind of explaining music theory and music, it's just a logical instrument. And I think everybody should be exposed to piano. I've said this before because at least you'll understand, kind of like a cooking analogy, how the ingredients work, how it all comes together, or what's involved in it. But I think everything education wise is better now just because of the opportunity to get the access information. So the reason I say it that way is I'm not saying that technically the system is better now or anything like that. I'm just saying the, the availability of the information is so much more readily available. It's great. And so mighty Guitar mod says no wood shop heathens. Yeah, it's a weird, weird time. And yeah, so that's my answer to that. And thank goodness for YouTube University out there. You can learn anything on YouTube. It's crazy. Dr. My bowel zich with a Z. I'm gonna hit that z hard bubble zich. I like that. Says, hey, a Slash own Gibson is worth more than a doctor My balls itch. Own Gibson, man. You have an addiction to that word. Anyways, okay, so anyways, so he, he's saying, Slash own Gibson is worth More than a Gibson owned by him. Think any youtubers can price their guitars higher from their name recognition? I don't know. When I say I don't know, I'm sure they do. You know, in my experience, most YouTubers that sell their stuff try to put a premium on it. I can tell you that I have sold a crap ton of gear because that's just a revolving door of gear to have a channel. You know, I mentioned that we have 33 guitars. No, what? We did 33 guitars to sell. And somebody's like, 33 guitars. I'm like, well, I do 52 deep dives a year, not including other stuff. So I'm like, that's 52 guitars are cycled through in a year. That's a lot of guitars just in that one category. And so, yeah, you just have a lot of product and not all of it goes sent back. There's all different ways that it works. So anyway, so I have to sell a lot of gear whether I like it or not, which is, I don't, I don't like doing it. I hate it. We have no idea. But, you know, it's a, it's a good way to keep your, your channel going. But in my experience, I will tell you this. I have sold a ton of gear at what I thought was a very fair or discounted price. And I watched people flip it for more money than when I sold into it using the fact that it was in a deep dive video. I thought that was funny. You know, I, I, I've seen it. So I've seen it. They, they've done that. I have to tell you, how I price my gear is really pretty straightforward. If I'm selling a piece of gear, usually it's because I'm churning it, okay? Like a lot of channels, I get gear. Sometimes I'm like, okay, they send a piece of gear and sometimes you're, it's on loan, like the Herman Lee, because it's a expensive guitar and they're not going to give that. They go, hey, you got to send that back. So if I try to buy it, sometimes in most cases, I can get what I like. I said accommodation pricing. In other words, they're going to cut me a deal. It's a smart move, right? Because now look at this. Look at all the conversation we had today on the guitar. They sold the guitar for a profit because remember the deal, their, their discount is cheap. Their discount to me is cheaper than I can get anywhere else. But it still comes with some kind of profit to Them. The other thing they could do is they could leave guitars behind. People come. Sometimes companies do that. They'll say, hey, we'll send the guitar to you and you can keep it, right? And then that is basically a way of saying, yeah, you could sell it, and then you can take the money you sold, know, you got from it, and that pays you for your time and effort in making the video. Another thing we do a lot of is we used to a lot of companies would send guitars on loan. And what we've learned is we try not to send any guitars back or very few of the guitars back. And here's why. Because what we've learned is we can contact them and say, okay, we got the guitar. I know you want it back. If you can, you sell it to us for a really good deal, and then we'll sell it to our audience, and then we can make a little bit of money. Because that was Shawna's idea, by the way. She came up with the idea. She was like. She was like, well, you know, if they give us a deal for, like, guitar, let's say, you know, they sell it for 600 bucks and we sell it for 750. You know, we. We make like 100 bucks where we would have got nothing if we just sent it right back to them. And either way, we're making a trip to the stupid store to ship it. We still got to box it up and ship it. I was like, you know, that's a good point. For 100 bucks or sometimes more, because depending on what we're selling for, you're just taking some extra pictures and listening. It makes total sense. So in that you can see some of the guitars and stuff we sell, some of it is stuff that was left behind. I'm selling it to pay my. For my channel. Some of the stuff I'm paying them for. And I'm giving you a deal because I just want to quickly flip it and keep the difference to fund my channel and endeavors. And then, like I said, sometimes that's pretty much it. Sometimes it just goes back because they want it back or I have to send it to another channel. Sir says, hey, new amp day. Kind of okay. Got a synergy 2C plus module. Oh, and I wonder if you've messed about with that at all. I haven't. I can definitely achieve the Mesa sound, but, oh, boy, is that tiny little EQ band sensitive. Yeah, well, so is the real Mesa Boogies. There are. The EQs are just nuts. So I would imagine it is too. I Never tried the Mesa Boogie Synergy modules. The I reached out to Synergy. As you guys know, I bought the sin 20 head. I bought that recently and, and I got it because I was curious about it and retailers were blowing them out. It's funny, they just. I found a ton of retailers that were willing to give you smoking deal. So I paid a smoking deal deep discount on it. I'm pretty sure I paid dealer cost or a little bit less. But anyways and so I got it to try and I really like it. I prefer it over my 50 head in the fact that it's just smaller platform, it's easier for me to move around. It's like the last thing I need is another, you know, 50 pound amp to move around the room. This is something else I don't need to deal with. But I, I, I just have a, a couple modules and I keep thinking about getting another one and I another module and I just haven't decided. But I have not tried it. Yuli says, what's a smoking deal on a Synergy amp 15 off? I think I paid six something for it new. So I don't know, maybe with tax it was closer to 7. So I thought that was good. I thought it was a good deal. Eddie says, hey Phil, I got a Squire Bullet Mustang with a Strat style bridge. After adjusting the action, the saddles stick out and dig in my hand. Any tips are fixed? Yeah, I would go to monsterbolts.com and you can get new screws for those or you can cut the screws, you know the, the grub screws yourself. I have a short video on it, a YouTube short video. So I will, I will link it. Making a quick grab right now. Do it. Give me one second. One of the thing we really focus on is making shorts of certain things that are reference materials like that. And so the Monster Bolts was something that we made a short of. So you can not only find a video on that, you can find a YouTube short and it'll take you right to Monster Bolts. But otherwise you can just go to monsterbolts.com and you can. I'll find it and put it on the there I'm in a notation to put it to find it. Put it on the timestamps and you can find new grub screws that are shorter and relatively inexpensive or you can cut them yourself. The video shows you how to cut them or how to buy them. It's up to you. It's up to you. I prefer buying new ones, but I understand everybody's got a. It's. It's really a work cost benefit analysis for me. You know, pulling them out and cutting them maybe takes me 20 minutes, $6 or whatever it is, $10. It just seems like an easy. And I just. And I just said screw it and just bought tons of them, so I have tons of tons of those, so I'll never run out. I just said, instead of thinking about, like what a set cost me, I just spent like 50 bucks and bought a bunch of. Maybe 60 bucks and bought a bunch. Grumpy. My guitar said, hey, I love the Tools video. Oh, every serious player should have many of those tools. Just not just text. Totally worth having. I mean, obviously, I don't think anyone should ever regret buying tools. The only, you know, obviously if you don't use them, it sucks. But they're not like, they go bad. We're going to be adding a new feature. I don't know. Feature is the right word. So in the Deep Dive videos, we've decided that this came from the clinics, which is great. We learned stuff from doing the clinics. When it goes into geeky stuff now what we'll do is we'll, we'll announce. Well, I'm going to be announcing every tool that will be in the geeky section of the video. So you'll know. So instead of like, as you watch it, you know, and I'm. I use this radius gauge or I use this measuring, you know, this rule, or I use this caliper. Whatever I'm using, it says, hey, let's get into the geeky stuff. And then you get. And it says, hey, for this section, we're using these tools. And then there'll be links to those tools maybe. Of course, that'll help revenue for the channel because if you click any of the tools and buy them, we get kickback for that. Which is a good segue to something to talk about in a second. And also I think just. It will be nice to see going into it. These are the tools you'll see in the next, you know, seven minutes, which I think is cool, right? So you, you don't have to go. Okay, what did he use? What do you use? What do you use? It's like, here's the. You lay them all out on the table and you go, here they are. Just so. You know, speaking of affiliates, I thought it was interesting. I thought I'd share this with you. I got a weird email from Fender Guitars. Somebody might have heard of them. They're. They're a big up and comer I mean huge. I think they're going to be the biggest company one day. Anyways, Fender Guitars reached out to me and pretty much shocked me. I gotta tell you, they shocked me. I know what you're thinking. What they said, hey, we want you to do deep dives. No, they didn't say that. They said, hey, you are pre approved to be affiliate for us. So they're like, hey, we'd like you to be an affiliate. Maybe that doesn't seem like a big deal to you guys. I'm gonna lay it out to you in an interesting way. Cause this is crazy. So I clicked the button and then all of a sudden. No, I'm just kidding. No, there's no scams, no, no bad side of the story. I clicked the link. Cause obviously it's a trusted link. Cause I know what it's going to. And instantaneously I was approved. So if I send you guys to the Fender website and you buy any of the Fender products, I'll get a kickback, I'll get a piece. What's interesting is they're paying me two and a half times more than Sweetwater does. So it's an interesting thing is because we've talked about this many times about the future and the future of Fender selling direct to consumers and where they plan to go with this and Gibson and everybody else. And look, you know, affiliate marketing is huge right now. It's been huge for years. It's why Sweetwater is basically involved with all the YouTube channels. And the reason I'm telling you that is not so much to go. Hey, click the. Well, I don't even have the affiliate links up. But one, one, there was a question. This all ties in. Anytime I can tie in like two subjects or two questions, it's great. So this is what I thought was interesting. This means without a doubt, in my opinion, Fender is now online head to head competing out there. That's. That's what that means. Now I'd like to also point out that Seymour Duncan, I'm an affiliate with Seymour Duncan. I'm affiliate with a lot of brands that also give me that same percentage which is much higher than retail. And part of that reason is because unlike retail stores like Guitar center and Sweetwater stuff where if you go there you can buy anything and maybe it kicks something back to the channel like Amazon, you know, if you buy dog food, I still get something. Where if you don't, you know, you go to Fender, you got to buy specifically offender product or Seymour Duncan. But it's just Interesting to see the evolution of this, which in my mind is the evolution of. Well, Fender's actively out there. Because this isn't just a. Hey, if they happen to go to our website and buy Fender direct from us over a dealer, that's fine. This is. Hey, here's. They're giving me a financial incentive to push you to Fender's website. I just told you, I'm not, Not exaggerating. If I send you to buy a Fender at Fender's website versus Sweetwater, I make two and a half times more from Fender. So in theory, when I say that. Because keep in mind that means if you buy this a like item and Sweetwater may pay me less, but of course there's way more opportunities for you to click and buy something. So I thought that was interesting. I wish It's. To me, it's. It's definitely Fender moving into the direct to consumer market. That's what I take that as. This is more. This is more than just them listing stuff on their website. This is more than you know, any of that. This is actively out there marketing and campaigning to sell direct. So. Which is what we predicted. Why that ties into. Another subject was I got a question from a patron and they wanted to. They had an issue. Not a negative one, but they had an issue. And the issue was they said, phil, I am in Europe and. Hold on. What does it say? Eu. I'm in the eu. And when I try to use affiliates to support your channel, you only use Sweetwater Reverb and Guitar Center. No, Toman. Can you please add Toman to your affiliate links? No, I cannot. So, you know, Thomann reached out to me a couple years ago and asked me if I wanted to be an affiliate. I said yes. I set up their thing, which I thought was the long, hellaciously horrible process. I'm just complaining. There's no reason to complain. It's just it was a lot harder than some of the easier affiliate Pro processes, in my opinion. But it was fine. I went through it and I set it up and like you can imagine, I don't have time. It's so, you know, to put affiliate links on my videos. Like when Sweetwater, when I became a Sweetwater affiliate, it took about two weeks of about four or five hours a day for two weeks. So, you know, 50 hours, 40 hours total, something like that, to put all those links out there. So hopefully you guys click them and if you buy some pics, I'll get, you know, 4 cents. And I did not do the Toman ones. For the first month or so, because I was like, oh, I'll get to it, I'll get to it. And then Toman sent me an email which was very funny because it was. You ever read something and you're like, this is. This is jilted ex girlfriend. Is that the thing you say? Like, this was a pissed off girlfriend. They were like, your affiliate links have not been performing. And basically, if that doesn't change, we're gonna get rid of you as an affiliate. And so I just. I think I responded with, that's fine if you wanna remove me as an affiliate. So Toman reviewed, removed me as affiliate. So that's why I was. I was. I was fired as an affiliate from Thoman. Cause I can't say sell product. So. And as I've told you guys before, look, I'm not going to turn free money away. That's just dumb. Especially when I'm out here trying to make content. And most time it's not always performing. But I'm not actively trying to sell you guys crap either. So it's, you know, it's not like a heavy loss. I just thought the answer is, that's why I'm not a Tolman affiliate. And I wouldn't be a Toman affiliate if they asked again, because it'd be one thing if they said, hey, you're not performing. What can we do to help? But they basically wanted to tell me that I. It was like I got a. I got the email, like, you know, you're underperforming and if this doesn't change, you're gone. And I was like, all right, well, then I'm gone. So that's the answer on that. And to be honest with you, I don't even really use the reverb affiliates anymore. I try. I don't know. Actually, I don't even do the affiliates anymore. Luckily for me, like I said, we have somebody who does that now. I have someone who puts the affiliate links in all the videos. So thank goodness, because otherwise, like I said, it's time away from making content and that's time away from stuff that I want to do. Ryan says, hey, Phil, patron member here and glad that I can finally join the live show. Hey, thanks for joining live. He says, what's a good first tube amp for bedroom volumes? That sounds good. Clean, takes a looper and pedals low watts effects loop. Oh, the effects loop throws you off. What should you look for? It depends if you do you really need an effects loop if you're gonna run pedals look, here's Ryan Blues Jr. You know, Fender, Princeton. Any Fender tube amp is gonna be a great, like if I could only have one tube amp, it's probably gonna be a Fender amp. It's just a great way to go. And the only reason not to buy a Fender tube amp is because it's expensive inside of your budget, right? So you would go with some other more obtainable brand pricing. You know, a brand brand pricing. But to me, like, you know, if I was going to have one amp, if I only had one amp, it's going to be a Fender because it's got reverb. It's a great clean amp. And clean is the one pedal you can't buy. You got to get that right. You know, if that clean's not great, it's not going any, you know. And at this point, most the amps that do clean, okay. And do distortion, great. Again, I could just use a, I could use a katana and just throw his pedals in front of it. So for me, if I'm using pedals, I just want a good Fender clean amp with reverb. If you're, if you're a little bit more like the Vox vibe, you could go Vox too. But I'm still going to be a Fender person. Hot Rod Deluxe, Blues Jr. Princeton 65 Deluxe, you name it. Something like that's always a good way to go. And again, like I said, unless it's a budget constraint. And then effects loop, they don't have those in those. Well, the Hot Rod Deluxe, that's a George Benson amp right there. So that's the George Benson version of a Hot Rod Deluxe that has an effects loop. I don't think the Blues junior does. I don't remember having one. So you could go. But that's a little overkill. 40 watts tube and a 112 is a big sounding. It's a really loud amp, even with pedals. But I would something like that for a tube amp. And I wouldn't worry about effects loop because the effects loop is really important if you're going to use the distortion off the amp. Because you got to, if you're using the distortion off the amp, you got to put the delay, reverb, time based effects in the effects loop after the gain, right? It has to go after the distortion, not before. But if you're going to use pedals for your overdrive sound, don't worry about effects loop. It's not really that important. In my experience. The James says, oh, you still have your Benson kinda I mean, there's a Benson there. That sounds sarcastic. It's not really me to be sarcastic. It's me basically saying it's not my. The Benson I had years ago, but it's an. It's a Benson. So the. Yeah, you'll see there's a video kind of explaining it soon. Not a specific Vincent video, but something else. Okay. Okay. Nathan's topic question is, hey, where can I find a wiring diagram for how your Delos Strat is wired? I want to do the same wiring on my Strat. I want something to take to my tech. We. I was gonna do that as a, you know, a schematic, and I didn't do it. And then it makes sense that it's coming up soon. There's something come up soon. It will be a clinic on it, but we will again probably condense it down and throw the condensed version out on the second channel. And I'll. I'll let you guys know when that's out. Or you could subscribe to the second channel and notify, be notified when it comes out. But it is something we're actively working on right now. It's not something we think we're gonna do. It's something we're actually doing. Seth says, hey, Happy Friday. Is the Gears market still seems like it's in free fall. July 4th and Prime Day deals weren't crazy, but more of the same trend. Yeah, I wouldn't you know the terms free fall bad. I'm not. Here's the. I use this analogy once before. I like it. I'm going to keep using it when we talk about the market in. In the concept of a recession or things like that. How I explained the last big recession to somebody is if the recession was the ocean, the people on the beach felt it first, then the people in the valley, then the people in the mountains. And so while the people in the beach said, hey, we're drowning here. It's pretty bad. The people in the mountains go, it looks pretty good. No issues. Right? And the people in valley said, I don't. It's fine, but the water's really close. I think the recession almost works the same way. Or, you know, like a market like this as it's softening, you have people who are like, really feeling it at some point. There's some people in the situation. They're feeling it right now, and they're like, hey, everything is doom and gloom. The problem is you just don't know how far the water comes. In other words, does it go to the Valley. Does it go to the mountains? What I see now in the market is what I told you. This is the eye of the storm. So in other words, we're seeing deals. You're just seeing smoking deals. But I think those all end by the end of the year. So I think. And then that's when it's going to get really messy because then I think it's going to be survival of the fittest. So it'll be. The ones in the right positions will win and the ones don't, they go. Because right now you can definitely blow out gear and churn revenue and churn product and have movement and keep your company going. But. And because what I see is there's definitely people buying a lot more stuff than I thought they would be. If I was going to guess in January, which I didn't think goodness of where we would be in July, it would not be as much product as moving in our industry right now. It's really selling a lot of guitars, comparatively speaking, considering to where you think we should be. It's a summer. Summer is usually slow. The market's definitely slow on. There's a lot of crazy things going on in the world. So you'd think that would have a more, you know, diver, you know, more dire kind of vibe or feel. And I'm not really seeing that. There's definitely a. There is people wanting to move product though, because like I said, I've bought some deals, but I don't know, it's tough. What's interesting is. So I'll. I'll tell you now. So, you know, I'm gonna be, as you guys know, I'm gonna be doing a lot of traveling. One of the things I'm doing is I'm going to Sweetwater to interview Mike, the CEO of Sweetwater. So I'll be doing that. This is something that the patrons knew about for the last month or so. But. And that's probably one of the topics we'll talk about is the market in the current market right now. So we're, we're. We're going to have a sit down and discuss things. Things like I said, it'll be interesting. See how we'll see what he has to say. Be interesting. I think so. I already know kind of a couple things he might say and I think those are gonna be shocking to you. So Volvith1. Volvith1 says, hey, Sup, Phil? I've been following your channel since 2013. I wasn't around 2013, but I understand that you would have to be following me on Facebook. I thought, yeah, but I could be wrong. Pretty. I'm pretty sure my first video. First video I ever. We moved it. So. So here's a funny thought. So the first videos ever did were on Facebook and they were essentially for friends and some friends, people I knew. And then we moved one to YouTube per request from one of my friends because they could Download video off YouTube but not on Facebook. And we moved one. I thought it was January of 2014 when we moved one. And then YouTube wasn't something I was tracking. So interesting enough, if you look at the very first year of YouTube that I was posting videos, those were not made for YouTube, they were made on Facebook. And I was. And we were moving them over and I didn't even look at. I didn't even know there was numbers there. Like, I didn't know, like, oh, they're getting views. I was. Wasn't even sure to look. But anyways, back to. Back to this. Okay, so thank you for your knowledge and hard work. And he goes, I sent you a mail with a bad cab experience. Do you have similar stories? So if you guys send an email to me, what happens is everything gets thrown in folders. So all the emails are thrown into a folder of a category. So we'll have like, you know, you know, retail issue, guitar issue, tech problem. And then I go through those folders and look for. I don't want to say titles, but look for, you know, the. The subject line that makes like, oh, okay, well, that's okay. This is something interesting I think people will be interested in. So I. I haven't looked, but I will tell you that. And I just say this so you guys understand. I had. I've had people many times sent us an email saying, hey, I saw you guys open the email, but you didn't respond. Every email is almost open immediately because they're sorted immediately. So. But we don't. I don't necessarily get to read them. So I guess that's my problem is I don't know the cat. The specific cab experience. I can try and find it. I can't do it right now. It'd take too long. The amount of emails we get daily is insane. Still to this day, when I say insane, I don't think it's like thousands, but it's. It's just too many to, you know, I still take a whack at it every day for about an hour to an hour and a half. I used to do two to three hours a day, but right now it's like, for. In the last couple years, it just makes more sense to spend about an hour doing emails. After that, you just realize, like, you could lose your whole day to emails. And then. And we learn now that we're better off and you're better off if we answer, like, in this format so that many people can see the question instead of getting a response to one person's question. So. But I will take a look at it, and I'll see if I can pop it on next week's show. And I'm marking that right now so I can have it on my notes for later. Mr. S says, hey, Fire. Favorite wireless guitar system for hobbyist. Cheers. So I don't do wireless. I have a wireless that's built into my THR30, the Yamaha THR30. I did buy the Boss Wireless specifically because everybody kept asking me wireless. So I thought, I'll buy the BOSS one because I trust boss. It's up on a shelf in the. Over there. I used it for a little while. I thought it was okay. It did not work for me, and here's why it did not work for me. I have too much. Too many wireless units going at any given time making content. And it was. I. I was getting some kind of digital interference, and I didn't know if it was coming from the BOSS wireless or if it was coming from my lapels or it's coming from. There are so many wireless units transmitting either through Bluetooth or through whatever, when I make videos that it just didn't. Didn't work. And there's a lot of equipment that are sending signals. So. But I. I liked it. Okay. It sounded fine, and I didn't have any issues unless I was doing all that. So the Boss One is the one I like. Frank says, hey, two. Which two would you. Okay, let's try this. Two. Need to go. Which two would you choose? I'm having a hard time. Orange trim. Lord. Or the Twin Tone Master 71 or the Twin 65 Deluxe Reverb and. Or a bad cat cub. Thanks. I mean, I'm a Fender guy, so I'm gonna say Fender amps. I mean, bad cat Cub is a great amp, that's for sure. And the orange trim. Lord. I don't know if I played that amp. I played the rocker verb, which is a great amp, and I played a few other oranges. Just orange isn't an amp that I have a whole lot of experience with. And so maybe. I don't know. I like my 65 deluxe reissue isn't that funny. I know everybody likes vintage amps so much. I just don't like the headache that comes with sometimes with vintage amps. So sometimes it's just a, you know, I don't know. So. 65 Deluxe Reverb. I know that's a boring answer, but it's the one I'm going to go with. Joseph says, hey, is Gibson customer service step up over Gibson usa? Well, it says cs, I assume. Is Gibson CS step up over Gibson usa? Oh, custom shop. Okay, is the custom shop a step up over the Gibson USA or is step up over mid range Epiphone? I'm considering custom shop, but I really love my Gibson USA custom shop. Gibson is their top of the line stuff in their pricing. So I would say it's the step up from Gibson USA for sure. Absolutely. And then this is from. I think it's Radhey. If I'm just phonetically doing it says. Any recommendations on how to measure string gauge? Yeah, I use my calipers. I tried a caliber in the past, but it was not accurate. Yeah, it is. So it'll be, it'll be accurate enough. You can, you can, you'll be able to. So how you, how you measure string gauge with your caliper, if you're having issues is, first of all, you're going to have to do some guesstimates. Okay. So it's going to be pretty accurate. But what I would do is sometimes like, let's say I caliper the high E string and it says, you know, nine. I go, okay, it's a nine, but I don't believe that yet. Then what I immediately do is I caliper the lowy and it goes, oh, 46. The odds of it being 9 to 46, which is a hybrid set, are very rare. Okay. So more common to come across a 10 to 46 than a 9 to 46 set of strings. So I don't assume then that it is 10 to 46. I just go, okay, from that 9 to 46, I'm assuming it might be a 10 gauge set. And then what you do is you hit them all. You. And you really just need the caliper to go. Okay, the next one, the B strings are 13, right? Well, if that's a 13, it's probably 10, 13, 17, you know, 26, 32, 46 or 36, 46, something like that. So, so you can do it even if you're getting a little bit of variance. You just want to, you just want to, what do you call it? Just do all the strings and then just kind of figure it out from there. That's the best way to do it. There is a chance, for instance, that they use some random strings, you know, but you're not going to put those strings back on anyways, so you're gonna. And my, what I'm trying to do when I'm trying to figure out what strings are on a guitar is trying to figure out what strings I'm replacing with. So if they were using 10 to 46, I want to go 10 to 46. So they're 9 to 42s. I want to go 9 to 42s. So. And then good music. Good, good music is good. Says my latest strings are 9.5 to 45. And it's such a great compromise between nines and tens. So same thing, you know. Right, you know, you know, it's, that's great for your personal taste. But like I said, in most cases, if you're just trying to figure out what strings are on there, like I said, just do the, all the strings and then from what you read on the old strings, it'll kind of tell you the story. That's the best way to put it. And the caliper is actually accurate. It's just your hands. Not, it's not. Your hand moves. You, you, you. You know, I was watching a friend of mine the other day and they were cocking the caliper a little bit. I'm like, no, no, it's very important to keep your caliper specifically straight when you're doing this because if you turn it just even so much, you'll get a, you'll get the measurement be off. So, but that's, that's what I do and that's how I do it. And I've never had a problem that I can remember with just taking the, all the strings and then figuring out from there. Arnest says, hey Phil, love the show. Can you tell me about those Marshall amps behind you? Yeah, it's my 26. Yeah, hold on a second. And specifically the smaller one, is it possible to use a home volume? Yeah. So Arnest, the video, this is a 1974X and I have a video on that. It's called the Other Great Marshall Sound. That video is a couple weeks old. So if you want to watch that, that's a 1974 X hand wired 18 watt Marshall. It's kind of different with a tremolo in it. And this is a 2061 Marshall 20 watt head with a 212 cabinet, which is great because it. Through some people, because the cabinet kind of looks like a 412. So then you think, this amp's really huge. It's not small, but it's not much bigger than that. Benson. If you look at it for scale, you see it's not much bigger. And they're just, to me, like an iconic set of Marshalls. And I've had the 2061 forever and the 212, 2061 X cabinet forever. And I reached out to Sweetwater and I said, hey, I think I want to do a video. I think I want to get a 1974 X. Is there any interest in helping sponsor or co sponsor the video so I can make the video? Because I think it'll be a cool video. And, you know, I just like. As you guys know, I really like my Friedman's and I really like my Magnetone. Like, I really like my magazine a lot. But there's just something about Marshalls. There's something about the way they look, right? I mean, come on, look at that. Isn't that just. Man. I have to admit, I usually don't stage the room for you guys. I don't really like, kind of like, oh, but today was a little bit like a jazz master, a les Paul, the ESP 39, 60, strat, the Marshalls. Like, I just thought that. Look, I'm like, I just thought that looked great. There's just something. I don't know. Like I said, romance. I love it just looking at it. Okay, let's. Let's see. Amanda's been sending me stuff. So is Chris. I'm gonna grab this. Okay. Frank says, what's the dumbest thing you've ever done on YouTube? Have you ever. Half the stuff I wish I had. This is one of those things, like, where you're like, oh, let me tell you, it was so easy. I've done a lot of dumb stuff on YouTube. The. I don't know if it's dumb, like a haha funny story, but I can tell you what. What you do when you start out or when you're doing it for a little while as you start out, you feel this need to make content. So you're like, what? I'm gonna make content like. And so I started. Me, I would make videos that. I don't know why I made them. To this day, I just went like, I need a video. And what's a video idea? I should do a video on this. And I know you're probably like, what's the example? You Know, it's funny is I'll tell you, I'll tell you again. I think instead of like telling you a video, a little quick little recap story. When I was invited out to Tolman, they invited me out to go to Gearhead University. And as you guys remember, when all those Gearhead Universities, all that stuff came out, all these things where all these YouTubers congregated, I'm really big into trying stuff, so I was like, I'm not familiar. I'm not familiar what this is. But I. I love the fact that, you know, if I go, somebody's gonna have an opinion about it. But it's a lot easier for me to go, well, I was there and this is what happened, right? So like I said, I went to all these events, like once. I've never really gone to an event two times, really, because I don't really need to, because once I experienced it, I kind of experienced it. And so Gearhead University. So Toman's like, come here. Make videos. So what happens when I go to these events? And I kind of shouldn't say this, but I'm going to say it when I say that, because it's like, I think it's giving away a secret sauce. I write treatments, I write ideas for videos. So before I go anywhere, I go, oh, here's some, here's some video ideas I think will be great. So, and. And you can hear the hesitation of my voice because I want to say it. And I pretty much know if I'm gonna have like a half a million or a million view video. I've never had a video that did a million views or half a million views or a quarter million views that I didn't know already was gonna have that video. In fact, I keep a little folder of videos that I think all are quarter, half and million view videos. And then I parcel them out over time. This makes sense to keep the channel going. It's. It's just, look, I wish I had one every week. I just don't. I don't have that kind of. But I can. I come up with ideas. So. And when I go to these events, I kind of go, oh, I'm going to make this video and it's going to be huge. So of course I, the last time I went, Sweetwater had a video that did over half a million views. Last time I went, when I went to Toman, I had a video did a million views. In fact, every event you ever see me go to, I have a video. And the reason I do that is it's to pay for the cost of going. So a lot of these times, these companies will pay your airfare, or sometimes they'll pay your hotel. Sometimes depends on your hierarchy or your channel. But there's always costs. Just. There's just tons of costs. So you go, well, I want to go. I don't want to make content. But you. But you want to have a video that does well enough, that pays the overhead of. Of going. And so I went to Tolman and I had the million dollar video idea, million dollar, million view video idea. And I went. I did that video, and I did a couple other videos that I thought were cool, like, two. And then I did that in the first two days of being a Tolman. And. But they make you go for like a week. All these places, they want you to go for days. And so I sat around and I was like. And people at there were like, hey, man, what are you doing? Like, nothing. They're like, they're looking at you like, you know, you're like, you're being lazy. And I'm like, but they don't understand. Like, I already know in my head. I'm like, look, I'm gonna put out two videos, and one will get a million and one will get like half a million, right? So I already know. I did my banger videos, and everything's good. And so what happened is, what happened with Tolman is there. I. I felt the pressure. It wasn't necessarily anything he did or said, but I felt the pressure to, like, you need to keep making content. But I already. I already did what I set out to do. I did the videos that I thought were gonna be huge. So then I just started making up stupid videos. So I made a video of, like, who's Harley Benton? And I made that video, and that's not even out anymore. I took it down and I made that video because I was like, I needed something to do. And then I did a review of a amp that I was like, why am I doing this amp? I don't even care. And I already made the video. So. So that's why I said, it's. It's. It's. It's. So that was. I don't know if it's the dumbest thing, but that's kind of the. Some of the dumb things you do on YouTube, if that makes any sense. So I don't know. It's. It's. I guess the. The reason I, again, I keep some of that close to the chest, as you can imagine, this is What I do for a living. And I have and I, and I, I mean I can go through all my go through and show you guys one day if you ever want to have like ever curious. I can show you how every video that's ever done well I can actually show you the notes and how it was like this is going to do, right? Because this is why I'm doing this video. Also. You also notice most of my biggest viewed videos are always in the summer. It's because the channel suffers over the summer. So I always launch one big banger video every summer. So if you go back in my history of my channel, you'll see almost every June and July is the one big video of the year. Which is stupid because the ad rates are the lowest. But it's also how I keep the channel volume volume up and, and not have to listen to YouTube. Tell me how my channel is underperforming because I. Because no one's watching during the summer. I don't know stupid YouTube stuff. Okay. Okay, let's go to another one. This is from Amanda 2 says bubble bubbly juice says hey Phil, is it any better or worse if Your viewers are YouTube Premium members or not? Wondering if any of the subscription costs are passed on the channel? Sure. On a, on a. Like I always tell you with affiliate links or clicks or thumbs ups or comments or views, never as much as I appreciate you guys asking that, like, hey, I made sure the video played to the end. I appreciate all that stuff. But the system is, it's a system of pennies for thousands of views. And so you'll never, you'll never really move the needle no matter how much you try, even collectively as a group. So don't, don't stress it that way. I appreciate you the sentiment and just like I said, if you like content like it, you know, the, the one thing I will tell you is as, as someone who put disclosures on my videos, you know, product was provided, this is independent video before YouTube even made it a thing. The whole theory behind that was, I was wrong. But the theory for me at the time was if when you saw independent content, you would embrace it harder and then therefore it would do better. And because it would do better, it would drive me to do more independent content or creators. Right. And what I've kind of learned now is good. You watch good stuff. People just generally watch whatever's interesting or good. It doesn't matter if it was paid for or if it wasn't paid for. They're gonna say whatever in the Comments Right now it depends on who you want to listen to. Some random person who's got a theory about how it works or someone who's got almost a half a billion views. Right? Okay, so nothing matters if it's good, it's good and it goes and it doesn't matter why. And if it's not good, it doesn't go and it doesn't matter if somebody paid for it. Sponsored it didn't matter. But I still like the disclosure and obviously back then and I still disclose now because now you have to. But I was doing it back then. But put to your answer, Bubbly Juice. What? What happens? Yes, if you have YouTube Premium, if you pay for YouTube, they do pay you when you watch the video. So I get paid too. I don't know if I get paid less or more at all. I have no concept of it. I haven't done any research. It doesn't allude to me any different. But if I paid attention to all the little things, like I said, I make Money like all YouTubers in pennies. So if you start paying attention, you're just paying attention to pennies all day. It's emotionally a weird thing to do. Steve O says, hey Phil, do you have a birth year guitar? Mine is a 1977. They ain't coming in cheap, man. Especially I still can't play jack crap. Lol. I don't have a birth year guitar and I don't really have a desire for one. And I don't know why I just, I told you guys, like, it's just not something I'm. That's not my big. My big thing was the Steve I universe. And I think the reason is, and I said this before, the Steve I universe. It's not about the album, it's not about Steve I. It's about when I walked into Music Store for the first time. I just started playing guitar. I was just getting into it, you know, it's like, you know, imagine if you're at the beginning of your guitar journey or if you've been doing it a long time. Like me. Everything is new and everything's exciting and you have moments where you hear a solo for the first time. You're like, wow, that's great. Or I see a band or see a guitar and there's all these first moments. And to me, when I went into the music store and I saw the Stevi Universe, I remember like I'd never seen a seven string before because no one really had had seen one, you know, but especially like in person or just. You just never saw it. And it would be probably different if I'd been playing for 10 years or five years and I could actually play at that point. I was still trying to hold down just basic chords and basic playing for the most part. And to see this, I was like, who? You know, I can't even figure out six. Some guys played seven. This is crazy. Like, to me, it was just crazy. And it really stuck with me as like, this iconic thing of being like, you know, the one better guitar. Kind of like the. You know, it's kind of like this. The seven string to me was kind of like the Spinal Tap of guitars. Oh, you have six strings. Well, this is one more string. This is seven. And I just thought the guitar looked cool. And. And so that was kind of my holy grail to get. And as you guys know, my wife bought that for me last year for my anniversary. And I'll tell you what I learned from that. It's a beautiful work of art is what it is. It's a work of art, and it's a cool guitar, and I don't regret it, but I don't think I would have. I don't think I was missing anything, if that makes any sense. So this is from Will, who says, hey, Phil, here's something for your tone jar. I recently bought a. It's. I think it's a Bowen Boem backwing Firebird style with Bixby. And have you ever checked out this brand? I'm based in Europe and they're everywhere on social media. No. What? That sounds familiar. B A U M bom. I think that's balm. I don't know how you're saying it, but I have not. So I will, as we do this right now. Oh, if I can get out of this. I'm trying to pin this. Maybe that'll work. Nope. Huh. Now I'm stuck in this. This is. So I just wanted to pin your comment in. All right. It's thinking. While it's thinking, I'll do this. Okay, we have. Will says, hey, here's something. Oh, we did that. This is from Litvay. He says, hey, greetings from South Korea. Will hit up a few guitar shops. Know of any local brands of World or others like Peerless I should be looking out for? I don't. I'm really not familiar with that. You know, the. The brands that are built by World, that are exclusive to South Korea. Nothing that I know of personally, so. So I'm no help there. I hear. I've Heard different stories. I've heard that you can get the guitars dirt cheap there, and so it's great to take them back. And I've heard that they're more expensive there, so it's not worth it. I've heard that the cool ones. They won't say the cool ones, but I don't know much about it. As I said, I'm curious to see, you know, what happens with the Cortek factory. To see what I see. That'll be really cool. Okay. And then. Okay, let's button it up. Okay, so no more super chats. I appreciate all of them, but we're button up. I'm just gonna make sure if I pull. If I don't think I missed any, but if I did, I'll scoop it for next week. I'm gonna do okay. Okay, hold on. I'm just reading some. Okay, so this one, we have one more subject topic. And this one is. I don't know. Hold on. I'm trying to find one last cool. Like maybe something we haven't touched on. And I don't see. Let me get out of this. Since I lost the feed, there's the feedback. Okay, good. We're back to normal. Romerio. Romerio says, hey, Phil, have you ever. Have you had any conversation with Kaylor about collaborating? I believe what I was told. So, like I said, I don't deal with companies. I don't talk to them. It's just how I like to do business now. It's been that way for a long time. So Shauna handles that stuff. I believe Kaylor was on a list that she was talking to. And she gives me the updates, like, because she has to pass through, like, hey, this is what they're asking for. And I thought she reached out and she. Or she didn't reach out. She. She told me that Kayla was interested in me doing a video on some kind of new bridge. And so she told him that she wanted, you know, that it obviously would take me a week to get. You know, it's a week's worth of work. Look, when there's new product on, what I call unproven, untested product, it doesn't matter who the brand is. Something new, something we haven't seen. I gotta, you know, before I can say, hey, everybody, go out around, spend your money and buy this thing. You know, I gotta put it through its paces, make sure every company tells me the same stuff. Every company. Every company's like, oh, it's the best, and everybody loves it. And we spent years Everybody, like, it's not. It's not a slam against any company, but you can imagine the companies that. The companies that do the worst lie the most. So it's like, you know, so. And then the companies that aren't, you know, aren't lying, they get kind of in that mix because everybody's saying it's all noise to you. It's all, hey, check this out. It's great. Meanwhile, you know, like, on a. On a retrospect, just think about this. I told you guys a couple weeks ago that I have a video coming out about a flaw on a guitar and stuff, but the video didn't come out. If you notice, that's because I'm actually working with a company now, and I'm gonna be dealing with some stuff. Go. You know. Right. So because that's a better outcome for everyone. Instead of me outing the hey, here's a potential problem to, hey, here's how they. They seen it. They recognized it, or they recognized, you know, my. And we're. We're gonna deal with it. But that's a lot of work, right? I mean, it'd be a lot easier for me to make the video and put it out than spend the next, you know, the last two weeks, you know, working it out with the company. But that's the importance to make sure it's done right. So back to this. I think the way it was presented to me, she was like, yeah, it's gonna take you a full week. Because she. She specs my. My. My calendar so I can get stuff done. And the problem I have is if something takes four or five days, then that's the only video I can make that entire week, period. I can't do anything else. And keep in mind, I also do a weekly guitar clinic. I do a monthly bonus podcast, and I do two hangs with my top tier patrons with coffee, which is two hours each or two and a half hours each. That's on my schedule, too, on top of all this. And that's to fund this podcast that you guys are enjoying. That's the stuff I do for the patrons to fund the podcast. So it's, you know, you got to figure out your time schedule. So I believe what happened. She. She told them, look, this is what it would cost to do that. And then I think they either didn't respond, sadly enough, I don't know the answer. So I don't want to say. I'll say they didn't respond. They might have said no, but I thought they didn't respond. And that was the end of that. So like I said, if it was one thing, if it was like, hey, we want to check out a bridge that you've seen before, check out something. But whenever anything's new, we definitely got to put it through its paces and make sure. And the reason I do that is because no matter what I do and say, even if I say, hey, this thing sucks, you guys all take it as an endorsement. I don't know what to do about that. It's just part of YouTube, it's part of the world we live in. So think about this perfect example. And I mean this, you know, just so you guys understand, so you have a I, I, I've never done an Ex Viv video. Ex Vive is like a wireless company, makes all kinds of products. I've never done any of their products. I've never found anything that I found particularly interesting about their products for me personally. And there was just nothing about the, any of their particular products that I, you know, wanted to showcase on the channel. And one of my good friends came to me once and told me, hey, I bought one of those XP wirelesses you recommended and it crapped out on me. And I go, yeah, I've never done a video of them. And he goes, yeah, you did. You did a video and you said it was like the best wireless ever. And I'm like, I have never talked about that product company at all. In fact, I've said no to them for six years straight. Dan. I haven't been interested in doing any of their products because I hear things like that, that they have issues with quality and I didn't want to, you know, have to spend all that time to put it through the pace to find out and then see. And it's because he confused me with another YouTube channel. So that's what I said. Sometimes it's so that's why I said I still do videos of stuff I don't like. But I understand that no matter how even if I'm out there telling you guys, like, ah, this doesn't work or I don't like this, in a year from now, everybody still just remember they think I just hyped it. They think, oh yeah, I remember you said it was great. I'm like, no, I remember I said it didn't work. So, so products have to be tested. So that's my answer. And we get a lot of that with companies. We get a lot of, like I told you, small companies that reach out and mid sized companies and they're like, hey, and, and you know, it's why I do some consulting on the side to help smaller companies. It's not something I'm really eager to do or want to do so much, but I do it because sometimes, like with Kaler's private examples, companies will reach out and they'll suggest something to you. So we'll say, hey, this is what it's going to cost to do this. And it's because they don't know. Like, look, you either have to take some of the burden off me and so we could figure out a mutual way to work together or you got to pay for the time that you're taking. But in my experience, and I believe, I believe, and this is just so you guys know, with the Kaylor thing, I had done videos, I'd worked with Kaylor before, or the person who runs Kaylor, I've worked with him before. And we did it for charity. And I do a lot of stuff for charity. So if you company reaches out and says, hey, we want you to work with you, but we don't have a really a budget, I'm like, well, we'll donate to charity, right? We'll do something charity wise. So sometimes I'll throw that as an option because at least, like I said, this is my joke and I think it confuses some of you. Some of the people are not in the United States. My, my statement is I don't work for free. Unless you're a 501C. For those that don't know, 5 1C is a, is a tax classification for a charity. So in other words, if I don't want to work for a billion dollar company or a million dollar company for free so that they can sell product, but if they want to donate money to charity, I'll work for the charity. That's a good, that's a noble thing to do. I make content for you and a charity gets money, I'll do that. I'll work for that. But when a company reaches out and they, you know, if it's not a video that you guys are absolutely begging for or I think it's going to be a great video because you guys want it. Doesn't make sense. Okay. I think we get too hammered onto these YouTube questions, specific guitar stuff. Let's finish up the show with some guitar, a guitar thing. So anyone got a guitar question? What we get in with so we can start the weekend with guitar stuff? Let's do this one. It's easy. This is an easy one. This one says, hey, I have a Pickup selector that cuts out. Do I have to use Deoxit or can I just use standard contact cleaner spray that has no lubricant in it? I mean you could use a contact cleaner spray that doesn't have lubricant in it. It's fine. That's not really the issue. And with the problem with your selector switch. So you said you have a pickup selector switch. Let's talk about this first. We didn't. You didn't say if it was a blade or if it was just a regular toggle switch. So let's start with this. The toggle switch. Just cleaning out the switches is important because I have video showing this that basically there's a usually a nylon ball, plastic ball and it pushes the two pieces of metal apart so that they don't make connections anymore. So you don't really need to lubricate that. That's not. In fact lubrication can actually make that sometimes worse because the little ball slips off. And that makes sense if you saw the video. So that's a three way switch, not a big deal. The five way switches, the problem you have is one's a PC board based switch and one's like a mechanical switch is like how I like to explain it. So cleaning the PC board switches don't always work because again one of the things that happens in there, they get bent up because they're really soft. The metal's all soft, everything's easy to bend, it's plastic, a lot of stuff in there. So what I would suggest sometimes, and I mean this, you got to be very delicate with when you're dealing with a five way switch and you're having issues with it cutting out before you clean it, just wiggle it side to side ever so gently to see if that fixes it. And that'll tell you that there's something's making contact that wasn't making contact. And then that's not a clean issue, that's a, you, you've bent it, it's been damaged. But you can use contact cleaner. I would use for years just contact cleaner. I bought it AutoZone cause it was way cheaper than Deoxit and Deoxit just wasn't. The main reason, and I've said this before, main reason I use like Stumac tools or Deoxit or higher end tools, expensive, more expensive stuff is because majority of my work on guitars is for customers. And so I'm not trying to find the least expensive solution for a customer. I'm trying to give them premium service. They Pay me well. So you. Absolutely. If you're doing the work for yourself on your own stuff, please fill the way. Oh, and he says it's a three way switch, so. Three way. So again, is it a blade switch or is it a toggle switch? So either way, yeah, you can shoot some contact cleaner in there. It's not going to hurt anything at all. So telly driver says, hey, contact cleaner is not plastic safe. Be careful. Sometimes it's not. So you know, sometimes the, the. That's why it depends when we talk about switches in particular, there's different components that are in them. So you can imagine like for instance the three way switch which I don't have one here. Sometimes I do, but I don't have one here. I've noticed that sometimes the manufacturer uses, like I said, a nylon material. So it's nylon, like a plastic nylon that's really durable and takes a beating. And then sometimes they use a cheap plastic and you can just tell. So it depends again, it depends. But, but. And then average Joe says deoxy green is good for most things. I use Deoxit green as well too. I've never had any problems with Deoxit. So you know, I've never used Deoxit on anything and went ah, crap or had a, had an adverse problem later. Now keep in mind, I don't work on amps, I only work on guitars. All guitar related. I've never damaged any guitar with Deoxit ever. There are a bunch of things that just have never happened to me. 20 years working on guitars and basses. Never damaged anything with the Oxit, never damaged anything with steel wool. Like there's a lot of people that they, that will tell you on the Internet, like the comment section, they'll caution you about certain things. There's probably, they probably had a bad experience. I always try to point this out. I'm not, I'm not more correct or more right than anyone who's giving information on the Internet. That's not what I'm trying to say. My way is that like I'm, listen to me, I'm smart and you're not smart. But I will tell you the caution yourself, all of you, and we all should be like this, that when an answer is given, like I give an answer, it's usually based on like 50 things. Like for instance, let's say you said, hey Phil, you ever had a cold solder joint from this experience? And I go, well, I've done a thousand and I never had that problem. Somebody goes, well I Did it and I had a problem like, well, well, how many times you do it? One time? Well, what if I said I did, I had the problem? One in a thousand. Is that something I should caution you about? So that's what I'm saying. A lot of times when I'm talking about stuff, if you notice, I reframe if I haven't done a lot. But a lot of times I've done so many things for so many of those things, so many times. Especially the, the habitual like setups, electronics work. A lot of the problems people talk about. Yeah, it's possible, but it's just not common. It's just not as. It's just. You're not going to see it on. You know, if you do it once or twice, it's not going to be. It's not gonna be a problem. So. Okay, I think we did it. I hope everybody had a good time. I told you guys I'd do some announcements at the end of the show. I basically kind of gave it away. I'm gonna be going to Sweetwater. I'm gonna be going to Cortek in Indonesia. That's very exciting. I'm actually most excited about that. I have another trip that's not disclosed. I can't disclose yet, but it's in September. I'm very excited about that, that it will be great content as well. And what else? And then obviously last week when I said it rhymes with smears, you guys realized it was the PRS and F53 guitar. So this week, what do I have on the schedule? I don't know what I have on the schedule. Nothing. That's like. I have no products that I can't tell you about. So everything I have is coming out. It's pretty, pretty cool. We have some epiphones. I have a Squire coming video. I have a. I have a. What else? A Martin guitar video. I have two amp videos coming, a pedal video. So some good stuff. And there's a guitar. I know I'm. I'm like thinking in the. It's in the rack and I'm just can't think of it. But it's not. Cuz like I said, it's not that it's embargoed or anything. I just can't remember what it is. All right, guys, I want to thank you guys so much for joining me today and. And what else? That's it. You guys have an amazing week. We can go play some guitar, have some fun, and I'll see you next week as Always thank you for your time. Know your gear. 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 Clinics where you can ask questions every single week.