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Today's episode of the Know youw Gear podcast is brought to you by Patreon members. Thank you for making this possible. Hey everyone. Welcome to the Know youw Gear podcast, episode 389. As you know, this is a totally fan funded podcast, so obviously appreciate that. Plus it's, you know, not only funded by you guys, but just you guys hanging out every week and stuff. We hit, we're about to hit some milestones and we want to share that with you. One milestone is 400 episodes. The other is a couple things. Cool. Two announcements that I thought were just cool. First of all, today is episode 389, which means obviously we're 11 away from 400 episodes. Which I feel like 400 episodes is a big deal. It is a big deal because it has been done with the support of you guys. We're gonna hit a total of 20 million views, streams and downloads collectively on the podcast. So 20 million, which is a big milestone. So, you know, for a two hour show that apparently people say can't happen. 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I don't know how it's going to work but apparently you can go to Patreon now and for seven days you can sign up for free. But you have to cancel within seven days otherwise you're going to build the $5 or whatever. So just let you know there's a free option. It's totally free so just be aware what you're picking. Free option, totally free. You never get charged. And then there's a seven day free trial where you will get charged $5 if you don't shut it off. Mark B says there's nude photos. No, there's foot photos. I show my feet like onlyfans. That's a pretty cool thing if you want. It's. It's really just sexy pictures of my vans in front of pedals. So I don't know why I'm laughing about that. It just makes me laugh. Maybe that's a thing that probably exists. There's probably like an only fans where it's just feet next to guitar pedals. It's a crazy thing. All right, I spent too long on the intro. Let's get into the subjects. The first subject we have to talk about is some guitar. Some guitar companies. Some companies are either closing or shutting down. All the above or. And. Or liquidating. I'm going to obviously talk about JHS pedals. That's really cool thing that happened with Ross pedals and ghs. When I say really cool it's not cool what happened but it's cool how it's handled and how it's discussed. We'll get into that. But first I want to talk about some of my good friends which is Diamond Guitars. So if you guys don't know, let me tell you the story about Diamond Guitars. Diamond Guitar started out as DBZ Guitars. DBZ Guitars. What was Dean Zelensky and Jeff Diamant and they started a company called dbz. Familiar with them? I've owned a few. Seen A few guys too. Dean Zielinski left for a ton of reasons. I've heard both versions of the story. They're somewhat similar, but somewhat different. Doesn't matter. Dean Zelensky leaves and starts Dean Zelensky Guitars. And DBZ becomes Diamond Guitars. Diamond Guitars were built by the World Factory in Korea. High, high end, Korean quality Factory guitars. And whether you guys know it or not, I was one of the parties that was approached to buy Diamond Guitars. Jeff Diamant was like, hey, do you want to buy it? Me and some other partners. And I wasn't interested at the time. Wasn't interested, no. So another company bought them called World Music Supply. If they sound familiar to you, it's because a few months ago I told a funny story about how they reached out to me and asked me if I wanted to review some diamond guitars so you don't have to go back and watch that episode. Although on the second channel there's a clip to that section that's been there for a few months. You can watch just the clip. The short version is they said, hey, would you like to do it? I said, yes. Here's what I'd like you to do. Could you send two guitars to the channel? I pick one, you pick one, and if I like one, I'd like to keep one and send the other one back. Or we could do a giveaway. And they said, no, we don't want to give you any guitars, we just want you to borrow them. And I said, okay, obviously I'm still interested in talking to you, but I'd like you to know, since you said you're reaching out to a ton of YouTube channels, you guys probably remember this story that a lot of these YouTube channels aren't going to want to work for totally free. And he said, yeah, well, we're not used to working with influencers, YouTubers, guitar channels. We're used to working with real artists like Post Malone. And then if you guys remember the joke, I responded to him with, oh, I don't know, Post malone. What's his YouTube channel like? Right? Because I was being a smartass and I said, does he do guitar reviews? What does he do? So now fast forward and guess what? They're blowing out all their guitars. So why this is important? Well, these guitars are really being blown out. But I want you to know a couple things are important. First of all, let's look at this Maverick. That's really cool. I like it. This Maverick is now $239. So that's a massive discount as you can see they have 17 in stock. So they've been blowing out the guitars as you can see here. The thing that you need to know though is that they're no longer made in Korea. These were moved to China so. So they did change a few things. These have. This looks like it has locking keys. They used to have Grover keys. A lot of them did have Seymour Duncan. Looks like they went to some more price friendly pickups obviously price friendly tuning keys. This one's £7. But they are blowing out the guitars. Whether that means it's the end of the guitar company or they're just dumping these loads. They did mention they are mentioning that some of these pickups do have blim or these. Some of these guitars sorry do have blims or issues. They also are checking each guitar before they ship it is what they are saying like here's a guitar for 249. Look at this. I mean they're just smoking deals. I understand they're made in China. I understand this. But these are still great deals for these guitars. So they're blowing out the guitars. I don't think Post Malone really really pushed the brand as hard as they as he could have and as they hoped. I think he was too busy writing hit country songs. It could be possible. I like the new hit song that he wrote with Morgan so maybe, maybe that's. If I was him I would have wrote a hit song too instead of talked about DBZ or sorry diamond guitars. Back to the web. So again here's some guitars 149. Let's see if they're in stock though. Let's see. Yeah. 24 in stock. Look at this 149. I mean this is legit. Now again these are made in China. There is no levels so I didn't see any that are made in Indonesia. They're 65 to 80% off. So I would imagine with this ravenous as you guys are. Here's one I really like. I don't know why I like these but I like them. Let's see if it's in stock. 22 in stock. Look at 149 guys. This is pretty crazy deals again 65 to 75% off. They have about 1300 guitars approximately. Wow. 299 does this. I don't know. So here's where it's a little tricky. Some of these are bolt ons like this one which going to have to look at the specs where the old version was a set neck this is a bolt on. But look at that guitar for 299. So they're blowing out their guitars. If this means the end of diamond for them, this will be the third iteration of Diamond. This will be the third company that's owned diamond guitars. And, you know, it's one of those things where it's like, you know, there were cool guitars, maybe. I think the failure, if. I was going to say if it's a failure, let's go back to the web because, I mean, look at. Here's one for $149. It's in stock. 30 in stock, $149. I'm pretty sure this is a bolt on. Essentially it is a brand name. They did successfully brand a name people are familiar with Diamond. Oh, I don't lose my voice, Steven. Saying the 299 linear burst is a set neck with EMGs. I mean, see what I'm saying? These are smoking deals. I mean, this is legit. So you guys know when they're saying 60, 80% off, these are real sales, they are blowing these out. What's the risk in this? I can't imagine they're worth much less than what they're going to be selling them for you if you decide, you know, six months from now you don't like them, you want to throw them out there. Is there going to be a ton of buyers for them? Probably not. But I can't imagine if you buy one of these guitars for 149, you know, these guitars aren't worth $100 later. I mean, they're going to be worth something. These are. This brand is possibly going away. They're not really saying, at least I couldn't really confirm that. Maybe it's. They're going to move factories. Maybe they learned a lesson. My thought process is, you know, diamond guitars had a. They had the Schecter thing going where they were kind of unique a little bit. And then they were made in Korea and they're really good, but they were, you know, not inexpensive but not super pricey. And obviously, I think, you know, kind of dumbing down the feature sets and moving the manufacturing over to China maybe kind of put off some. Some buyers in the. In the price points they were offering. Plus, you know, who even knew they even had them. So I never looked at one, like I said, and they reached out to me. So I don't. Like I said, it's just really cool that there's an offering here. It could be, you know, could be a good deal for a lot of people to check out. Fred 11 midnight says a sell on an overpriced guitar. They were probably overpriced. I agree with you. But those prices are not overpriced. There's no way. There's no way this guitar is not worth $149. I've done a thousand guitar reviews and deep dives of guitars and I have done guitars that don't look nearly as cool as this and don't have a brand name whatsoever. It's a no name brand that no one's even heard of. And they were one. They were more than 149. So if you're looking for an inexpensive cool guitar, these are the buys. And by the way, if you want my advice, I would buy the super cheapy ones like these, these 149 ones. This is where you want to go. Once it breaks up to 300 again, it's fine if you really wanted one and now it's a deal for you. But I'm going to tell you a lot of the ones that are 3, 400 bucks, they're probably going to go lower. I mean, for 229, that's pushing it now. But that's a cool guitar. I mean, look at all those carves. Looks like it's mahogany. Like I said, they're saying some of these guitars do have issues, but again, seems like a pretty good deal. And it's one of those things. If the brand doesn't go away, it's one of the things this will really hurt the brand because that's. These are the mistakes that companies make that really hurt them. Speaking of companies making mistakes and that really hurt them. Let's talk about. You guys sent me a lot of messages about JHS Pedals and Josh Scott talking about the end of Ross Pedals. Now, if you're sadly enough, it's too late for you guys watching this show now because they blew them all out last night, technically this morning. So if you don't know, Ross Pedals is gone again. It says, what did I, what did I do wrong? Basically learning from the failure of Ross Pedals. So Josh did a video of talking about what happened with Ross Pedals and why they're gone. And you know what's great is he said something in the video that is 100% true. He said, I don't know if most companies or any companies would ever discuss what they did wrong and share with you guys. Most companies would kind of like ignore that it happened away. And the other thing that was interesting about his discussion was he talked about where he made some mistakes, and some of the mistakes he said he made is he made them too nice. And I kind of would agree with that. A lot of people didn't want him. And. And, you know, this is the funny part about this. Look at what I think about this is these two companies that in the same week are having. Like I said, you got diamond blowing out their guitars because like I said, they, they. They said during COVID they bought. They switched factories. They bought some guitars that are not as up to their standards. Dumbing down the quality seemed to hurt them. And that seems where most companies go. In JHS case, they upped the quality on the Ross pedals and that kind of hurt them. So they had about 3,000 overstock plus, I guess he said about a thousand buybacks where he bought back pedals from dealers and stuff. So what happens to that brand now? I think he said he's the third iteration of it or fourth, probably the third of people having it, and he's working other brands. I think this is a really cool subject. What he really brought up that I thought was really, really cool is this bringing back dead brands, which doesn't seem to happen as often as it used to. It seemed to be a thing for a long time whenever the market was booming with guitars. You see a lot of companies buying up old brands and bringing them back to life, but like a shell of what they used to be. Where JHS really kind of really brought them back and really did a great job. But I think obviously it. And what I would be curious to know with Josh, but I bet you it's some line of this, is that he's really, really built the JHS brand so strong that I can't imagine, you know, even if he owns other brands, people are going to care. They really want to support jhs. I think that's what I see. That's how I kind of feel is his. His pedals are really. People really like them and they like his videos and they like what he's done with the company. And, you know, and you know, he makes great pedals, so why have other brands? So I understand what he was saying about wanting to resurrect old brands and do stuff like this. But I think, although I think you think people would blindly not, you know, blindly go after whatever he's involved with because they like him. I think they really want to support what he. What he does. Michael says sometimes brands die for a reason. No offense to Josh. Sometimes there's a reason why a brand died and shouldn't come back. And there's some times there's a reason why a brand dies and it should come back because maybe it was in the wrong time, it came out the wrong time, and now is the right time. That is very rare, but it's a thing. But the main thing about resurrecting a brand, I used to wonder this all the time when I had the store. One thing that we would notice was there was always this restaurant. And during the 13 years our store was open, that restaurant had changed hands. I can't even tell you. Six times every two years, it was a new restaurant, it was a new store, a new restaurant. And we were like, what the hell? We used to call it a drug front because we didn't understand. I don't understand the restaurant business. So I'm like, this is weird. Why would somebody build a or why would somebody buy a bankrupt restaurant that didn't do well and put another restaurant there? Same kind of restaurant. It was the same restaurant over and over again. Just different names, different owners. It wasn't until I talked to one of one day and we learned it's because although buying a location that died and a restaurant that died doesn't seem like a good idea, building a restaurant from scratch is so expensive that if you can buy a restaurant with all the kitchen equipment already in and everything already in, that that saves you so much money that even to then even have to build it all from scratch again, it's still more cost effective than starting from scratch, right? With a new location, a better location and all new stuff. And I was like, oh, I get that. So let me give you an example. So for instance, if you were resurrecting a dead guitar brand or a dead pedal brand, but you were buying all the equipment at pennies on the dollar and of course the building and all that stuff. Now you could build the instruments for a fraction fraction or the pedals a fraction of the cost of what they were building for. And that would give you a really good incentive. What I find though is that's not what seems to be happening all the time. People are just buying. Like with diamond, there was no, no assets to buy. Diamond did build amps and they still are have amps, but they didn't buy that facility. They're having those made ocs, I believe. So this is what's really funny. They're just buying names. And then like I said, they don't even go with the factory that was building them because to them they could just go source to another factory. It's really interesting to see how this is done, but it's really interesting to see how many times it succeeded versus failed. I feel like it succeeded more times than it's failed. I think there's a lot of brands that are back today that are big or doing well. And perfect example that is like Jackson Guitars was a resurrected brand, it was bought. And another brand is Dane Electro was a brand that was purchased as just a brand and then brought back. There's a lot of brands I can name where they just buy a brand and they bring it back from where it was. So it's really interesting and like I said, so I thought I'd bring this up since I thought it was interesting. In this week there wasn't a lot going on, but it was weird to see two companies basically approach things differently. I gotta say that one more time. Josh was, I thought that video was amazing. I thought, wow, really giving you insight into what he did, what he did wrong, what he did right and why he's doing what he's doing now. And I thought, you know, you don't realize you live in a time, you know that. Could you imagine hearing Leo Fender, could you imagine hearing the, the people back in the day being able to tell you their mistakes, their successes and why they're doing things instead of getting a, you know, a 3 3rd person heard story that we get now from all those days and you know, to see it from the actual person that was there and explaining honestly what's going on. And I thought it was great. I just thought I'd share that with you guys. So let's get into some of your guys's topics. Okay, let's do this. I thought I had an early riser question. This one came from Kev who says, phil, do you think Fender will ever offer a slimmed down Tone master standard for 999? So what he's getting at is like the Tone Master series, like maybe a more slimmed down, not physically thinner amplifier, but yes, like a cut down version for a lower price, I think. So I could see them coming out with Tone Master series that is a more affordable. I don't know what that would retain, but I could see that. My guess is that once they feel like they've tapped all the market they can for the series they have now, then maybe open up a lower price point. That seems to be the way it always seems to work. So, you know, you know, everything works that way. Like I said, everything goes from top down. I always tell you guys this, this is the problem when people complain like a $5,000 guitar, who the hell would want that? I'm like, everybody who buys a 200 guitar is that guitar is a version of a more expensive guitar. The whole point is you have to have expensive stuff so that cheap stuff can be made version of it. It doesn't work the opposite. Nobody's out there looking at a inexpensive $200 guitar, and I mean a builder, like a luthier and going, I'm gonna build a $6,000 version of this. It's opposite. They build high end stuff. They build nice amplifiers, they build nice pedals. They build. Same with pedals, you know. Right, yeah. You won't have your 49 great Amazon pedal if you don't have a really nice 300 pedal for them to basically base that off of. It's how it works. So same with Tone Master. Once they, I think they, once they perfect the series and make it really nice and they'll probably up the price again, again and then they'll make a more affordable version. That seems to always work that way. It always goes top down that way. And when I say always, so you guys know, because there's always somebody who's got to say they got a point, they're going to pull up some random factoid where it's against what I just said. I'm talking about the rule, not the exceptions. The rule is always going to be top down. It says, Phil, if you had a. Had to start the collection over but was restricted to one budget series of guitars, what do you, what would, what do you pick? Squire Paranormal Epiphone inspired by Gibson, Mexican Fender. You know, the whole point of collecting guitars was to get the experience of all these guitars. And once I've had the experience, I kind of. The moment is gone. It's not about. I don't really find the joy in owning it as much as getting, getting to learn about it. You know, even my universe is, you know, the holy Grail guitar. It's been a most interesting week learning about it. I've, I've, I, I've uncovered some secrets that now make sense to me. You know, about it especially the neck and the carve and why the other carves aren't exactly like that and all these things. It's really interesting and, and it's just. For me, I just want to know stuff. But back to your thing. If I was going to pick. Let me just start here. If I was going to pick, pick an inexpensive line of guitars to build a collection off of an inexpensive is a hard thing to say, I want to say $300. Around that price point. I mean I would probably go, well first of all, the real answer, the real real answer is I would just buy you stuff. I would just take that budget. I wouldn't pick a brand I wouldn't like. So Harley Benton makes all these different kind of guitars for 300. I wouldn't go, okay, I'd buy every version of Holly Harley Ben. I would take those amount of money and literally just go buy used guitars. Funny enough, I have a video that is hopefully coming out very soon that's going to illustrate something like that. It's very cool. It's been one of the longest, hardest videos I've put in production. It's not your typical video that I do on the channel. It's something a little bit more involved and that will kind of go address that. But so to answer your question, I would probably just own all the guitars I own now. Just the less expensive versions of it and used. So for instance, there's a JP7 whatever seven string guitar, JB13, JP13 seven string guitar. I would just have the Sterling version. I'd have the SE version instead of that PRS right there. I'd have an epiphone instead of that Gibson right there that I can't point at. But you understand there's a Gibson gold top behind me. I'd have a Squier version or Mexican made Fender used or a parts guitar of my Strat, the Ibanezes. I would just have the Indonesian made versions. The Nuno N4 behind me. I would just have the, you know, N2 or the import version in 24s or whatever. That's exactly what would happen. And so I reason, I know that is, that's how this happened. Almost all the guitars that you see that are expensive or iconic or sought after that I currently own, I have transitioned to them. I didn't just like I didn't one day go, oh, I got a crap ton of money, I want to buy all these guitars. It's literally been this long, exhausting, multiple decade process even having a store of just, you know, I start with the version I can afford and then I work to the version that I couldn't afford and I just keep going. And as I hit one, then I go do another one and I do another one. And that's how I've gotten this collection to tip for reference. So that's how I did it. That gold topless Paul that's behind me is the sixth or seventh gold top Les Paul that I've owned and all trading and trading, buying and trading and trading and trading to get to the one I have and why I love the one I have. Same thing with that seven string. You know, I know my wife kind of basically shelled out for it, but essentially it was a accumulation to get there. The gem that's behind me is again, you know, I traded for it and same thing looking for those opportunities. So to answer your question, it would be exactly what I would do is exactly what I would do did before I would buy the inexpensive versions of it and then slowly trade my way back up. And that's just what makes sense to me. And I like. And it's fun to do that. It's fun. It's fun. And it's more obtainable. So. So Parker says, hey, Phil, I saw you got a couple DiMargio cables. They are my favorite. The switchcraft Silent ends are great. What's your favorite cables that you used? So funny enough, I mean, I did a post on Instagram I totally screwed up. So I'm letting you guys know right now. You know, sometimes, you know, I have a friend and his name's Larry DiMargio and I should have asked him something. I didn't think to bother him and ask him something. So if you watch my Instagram, you know that I just recently bought some new pickups. I bought three pickups and three guitar cables. I bought fluorescent green with the breaker cable on it. And I bought fluorescent pink is right here with the breaker cable on it. Why? I don't know. Look how cool it looks. I just wanted. I wanted to try them. And so I bought them. And mostly because I was on their website and I wanted new pickups. I got purple pickups for my N4 and I got some pink pickups for my RG565, which we'll talk about next week. Probably why I remember I was going to get rid of that guitar and why I decided to keep it and what I did to it. And I bought that stuff from the demargio website. And I know somebody asked me a funny thing. They sent me a private message saying, you posted on Instagram. I understand what they're saying. They say, I think you made a mistake. You posted on Instagram that you bought some new DiMargio stuff. You meant to say they gave you some stuff. And so I responded to them and said, no, no, I bought it full price. I said, actually, so, you know, I told them this, what I'm telling you now. Larry DiMargio is not only a good friend of mine, he's just a great person. He. When he saw I got the swirled universe, he sent me. I think he gets here tomorrow. He sent me as a gift, the swirl matching strap as a gift. I know that we talk a lot, me and him. I know that I could call him and be like, hey, hook a brother up and give me some pickups. But the way I look at it is the same way when my friend asks me to go to their show, I don't go. Well, give me some free tickets. If I'm going to my friend's show, I'm going there to support them. You know, there's a lot of people here who can. They've seen me do this. I pay to get into the show. I will buy their merch. So people can see somebody buying merch. Because why not? They're my friend. It's the, you know, if you can't support your friends, what the hell good are you? So. So, yes. So I bought that stuff from DiMargio, even though, yeah, he does give me stuff as gifts. And sometimes we do work on the channel level a little bit, but I don't look at it that way. I don't look at everything. Needs to be a favor. So. So I just. I kind of made the purchase and so the cables, I wanted to. That's what I'm just curious. He talks about them all the time, about how he likes them. And I was like, all right, let's give it a try. I really like them so far. I can't really say I'm amazed or blown away. I mean, at this point, you guys seen when I posted is when I got it. So I've only had them for a few days. So far, so good. So I'm really happy to say I really like the way they look. And the breaker system, that breaker thing works really great. The why I'm an idiot is they posted today that if you go to Demarje's website, everything's 25% off. So I'll be buying some stuff this month weekend from DiMarzio as well for 25% off. Everything on their website is 25% off. And there's no code or coupon or anything. I just saw it. It came in my Instagram feed. I'm just sharing that with you next time. I could tell you this before I ever buy anything from DiMarzio's website again, I'm probably going to text Larry and go, hey, Larry, any sales coming up I should know about? You know, because why not, you know, I still support them and I get a discount. There's a. That's a good deal, too. But for you guys, get the 25% off deal. And. And they might. So, you know, they might be having that sale on Sweetwater and stuff. So check around if that's where you like to sell or buy stuff. We're 30 minutes in. Let's do a giveaway. What are we doing? We're giving away A nickels. 1966 Fuzz Overdrive pedal with the booklet. This is a cool pedal that Steve, the owner of Dane Electro, built this pedal when he was in high school in 1966, and he sold 4,000 of them. And now they reissued this pedal. I'm going to be giving one of these away. And the winner is John Mesa. John P. Mesa. Now I'm going to show you the picture. Here it is. This is John's picture. Now, he's taken this picture in front of the Hollywood Guitar center next to the Eddie Van Halen guitar. The interesting part of this picture, I didn't even notice the email. My wife did. She was looking through the emails and she said, how did this guy get this shirt? We only made two. Now. I think we actually made three. So, you know. Okay, I'm gonna go back to in a second. I believe I own one. John owns one, and I believe Ralph owns one. I think Shawna made Ralph one. I'm not 100% sure. I didn't ask her. There's definitely the max. Can only be three, as far as I know. But definitely there's. There's two. All right, so let's go back to this. John. Why is John winning? Well, John's winning because John owns this shirt. If you don't understand what it is, it says groovy on it and it's got a chainsaw for hand. John sent me this beautiful gift a couple years ago. I'm going to show John and you guys the gift because I have now have it framed. I've had it framed. It's in my office. This is on the wall over there where you guys don't get to see this is on. Okay. I'm trying to show it so it doesn't reflect I had this framed. When I say had it, me and my wife or me and my daughter did this. What this is, is this is a picture of John and his brother, I believe. And this is him doing the miniature work for army of Darkness, which is from the Evil Dead series. And this tombstone that I'm pointing at, that's On a popsicle stick. This is actually a part of the miniature graveyard from that movie. If you're an army of Darkness fan, like, I am a huge one. This is. This is a. He sent me this as a gift. He sent me this and a book, Bruce Campbell book. And sent me some pictures, actual pictures. These are actual, like, Kodak developed at Walgreens pictures from back in the day, which really took me back. And then he made me a nice little card telling me about the gravestone. And. And anyways, so John sent this beautiful gift. I. I framed it with my daughter. We hung it on the wall. So, John, thank you so much for this gift. When I saw the shirt or when my wife point out the shirt, I said, oh, my God, that's gotta be John. Cause he's the only one that has it. Cause she said. She's like. She didn't recognize the name right away. And she said, is that. Did somebody get one of those shirts that we don't know about? And I was like, oh, now, here's why the story's funny, John. If he's watching the show. If you're not watching the show, John, you. I'm so happy you did that for me. It's one of the most cherished gifts I've ever received in my life. And I've received a lot of great gifts. I'm a very fortunate person that way. But that gift is crazy. The funny part of the story is this week, that gift is why I had some hell this week. It's because when I got that gift, my daughter said, oh, what's that? I said, it's army of Darkness. I'm a huge army. Dark. Me and Ralph love Army and Darkness. We love Evil Dead. And so my daughter watched Evil Dead and Army of Darkness and became a huge, massive fan of it. Massive. Okay, so, you know, this Halloween. Oh, no, no. Last Halloween. Last Halloween, she dressed as Ash. She had the chainsaw and she had the shirt, and she did the whole thing. So. And my daughter's 20. Okay, so why is that funny? So that. That's called a gateway movie, apparently, like a gateway drug, right? It's the first one. So this week, what I ended up having to do, because my daughter asked me to as a favor, because she's so into these movies now, I had to go see Terrifier 3 this week with her in the movie theater. Why that's funny is I have never seen Terrifier one and two. If you guys don't know what it is, it's like, gorgeous War Porn is what my son called it. I agree. It's like just bloody ness. Some are gonna hate it, some gonna love it. Doesn't matter. I'm just telling you my experience. I had to watch all three in 24 hours. I had to watch the first two back to back and then go to the movies with her. And I was sitting through this thing, which, if, you know, if you're into it, God bless you. It's. To me, it's. I get it. But it's. It's a little much for me. But I want to let you know my daughter is now the biggest horror movie fan of all times. And, And. And she got me that puppet and you get the idea. So. So that was kind of funny. So if you haven't seen Terrifier, I don't. I'm not recommending it. And I'm definitely not recommending watching 3 in 24 hours. All of them. It's. That was a lot. That was a lot to process. It's like. I don't know how to explain it when. Not the movie. The feeling. The feeling of three of those in a while. But that's what happened. So, John, congratulations on the pedal. Thank you so much for sending the picture. Let's look at that one more time. Look at that, the groovy picture. And. And also thank you so much for this gift. And like I said, I thought it was a great opportunity to show you that we had it framed. I never. I don't think I ever showed you guys that. I framed it and put it up, man. Really Cool. All right, now everybody's going to be talking about horror movies. I hope not. Let's go. Let's go. Let's go into the next topic. Subject question, thing. Whatever we're. We're doing, that's going to come from T sides who says, hey, Phil, new guitar day. Phil for me at least got. Wait. Phil for me at least got an Ibanez UV 777P. Right. And a 91 RG 77070 in ruby red today. But I never understood why I stopped. The yellow, green, red, green color scheme with the pyramid inlaids. I. I'd buy them now. Thoughts? Okay, let me clean that up because I was reading it kind of. So basically what he's asking is he never understood why Ibane has stopped making the. The what is behind me. The red, green and yellow swirl universes. Well, we know why they stopped. It's because, pretty much they weren't selling. They were difficult to make. They were expensive and Then the market change, which is grunge came in and kind of killed that kind of stuff off. Plus the seven string didn't take off as you know, it took off much later when Korn and Limp Bizkit and Deftones and those guys kind of brought it back in into the main, I want to say the mainstream for those that remember, like bands like Morbid angel and stuff, use that stuff to use them too. And there's a lot of artists who use them as well. Even John Petrucci Dream Theater brought, brought it in for, you know, the song Awake and really kind of brought it more mainstream. And even now they're not that popular. The eight string and seven string guitars are not as popular as they were like just 10 years ago, but still popular. Why they never made it? Well, they made the reissues. I don't know what the issue is. I think it has to do with Steve wanting the swirls to look really nice and they just can't get them right. Maybe that's it. I've heard. Read that a little bit. I like I said if they were to make this guitar as an Indonesian guitar for $3,000, I would be a buyer in a second. I'd be excited, you know, I mean, part of the problem now is I have a real one, so I don't know if I sell it, when to get the, the import. They're both imports. But you understand the, the more affordable obtainable. One shouldn't say affordable, just stay obtainable. Even though that's a lot of money, you guys understand these things have gotten so crazy with the prices. It just, it doesn't make any sense. But that being said, I don't know why they don't do it. Who knows? Who knows? They'll probably keep doing them as limited reissues every few years, every decade or so. And they'll be expensive. This is my whole point. That's my rant. I wish the. I mean, look, a lot of you guys don't understand this, so let me explain it to you in a way that makes sense. Guitars like this, this universe that I'm pointing at this world, it's not just that guitar. There's tons of guitars like this that have just become. People want them, guitar players want them, and there's not a lot of them and the prices have just gotten insane, okay? Insane. And if you work hard at finding one a deal, you'll find it because they don't sell easy and they usually don't go selling for most of the ones. If you go look At Universe right now, I bet you 90% of the ones listed, they're never gonna get those prices for them. They put a crazy, insane price on them, and they just wait and wait and wait, and then eventually there's a deal to be had. This guitar, maybe this is interesting to you. I told you, my wife got this for me. My wife obviously has been fortunate enough to be in the guitar business for as long time, as much as long as I have or as long as I have technically. And she knew a couple things. One of the things she knew to do was to say, hey, look, the sales tax on the guitar is expensive. To give you a reference, the sales tax on the guitar alone was almost $1,000. So that's an expense. And the fees to the. Because it was a small dealer who she bought this off, the fees are on that guitar were probably close to $500 to them. So what she did was she said, hey, if we send you a personal check, right? So in other words, no credit card or no transfer fees, right? Whether you're doing credit card or paypal or vemo or whatever, no fees. And small dealers usually don't charge sales tax anyway. So in other words, instead of buying it off ebay or reverb from them, hey, we'll buy from you directly. Because then you don't have to collect sales tax selling directly on your website. And from that alone, she was able to save over $2,000. That sounds about right, about $2,000. But also, keep in mind, the dealer netted pretty much close to what they were going to net anyways. So the dealer upside was, you know, they don't really have to, you know, they're not taking a hit, and we're saving a lot of money. So you got understand that's how you got to be creative when you're buying things like this. You have to figure out ways to make it make sense. I'm not exaggerating the $2,000, she saved at least $2,000 on the price just talking and negotiating with the store. And I mean, could you imagine what you could do with $2,000? It's a lot of money. So it's a crazy thing to do. And that's why you have to be creative when you're doing stuff like this. Okay, next subject. I don't know why I'm saying it like that today. I think it's because I got a lot of stuff going on in the screens. Amanda sent me this, says from kdub, says, hey, I plan to leave an electric bass and rumble amp at my cabin. When I'm not there, the temperature inside will drop to 40, 55 degrees. Is the temperature likely to cause any issues? Not with the amp, but the bass, it's not. It's. Again, the temperature is a factor, but really it's the humidity or dryness that's going to affect the bass. I would just be prepared to have to adjust the neck on the bass. That's the main thing. That's it. No huge issues there. I would definitely put the instrument in a case or gig bag, and I'd set it somewhere vertical in a closet just to keep it easy, maybe not leaning on anything that there. There you go. So the. Sorry. So you guys made me laugh. Matt2Head says, how much was the guitar? I don't know how much the guitar was. She bought it for me. So I don't know. I have an idea, but I kind of feel like anybody who buys your gift, it's like a little. I just know what she saved, because that's what she discussed with me, is if she does this, because, again, she was just running everything by me because she's like, you know, we're talking and she's like, she wants this to happen. So, you know, the main reason she got it for me is not only is my 26th anniversary wedding anniversary, but the book Wire and Wood is about to come out, which is a book about Stevie's guitars. When those things kind of come out, the prices go up again. I was telling her this, like, oh, yeah, the prices are going to go up even more for a few years. And it wasn't like, oh, we should get it. Like the stock market get in low and go high and sell it. It was more like, hey, God, I don't want to pay what they're asking now. I'm not going to want to pay what they go for in another five years or so. And so that's what prompted this whole experience. So I just know that she didn't pay any, because she told me this. She didn't pay anything close to what people are asking. So, you know, when she bought it, people are asking, on average, if you go on reverb and ebay, I think people are asking about 8, 10, 8, not 10, about 8, $9,000 less than they're asking now. They're not gonna get those prices, but they did skyrocket 8, $9,000. For some reason, all the guitars went crazy expensive. But I would be shocked to see one go for those prices. But as one of my guitar, one of My friends who's a vintage guitar dealer says all you gotta do is sell one at that price and then that's the price. I'm like stupid. So. Ah, Vicky, you're. Vicki says, what did you give her for anniversary? She got a new dishwasher. It's very exciting. I'm kidding, not kidding. She did get a new dishwasher on our anniversary was just. Cause it was delivered that day. That's not what I got her. So last year we went on a vacation together. We did our honeymoon because we never had a honeymoon. That was our gift to each other last year. My gift to her is it really wasn't a gift. It was more of a. She asked me, let's see. It's one of those things. Do I tell you guys stuff? I don't know if I should tell you everything. I'm like. And my favorite colors. Blue. No, I basically I'm going to just tell you. She asked me a while ago. I couldn't tell you if it was five years ago. I couldn't tell you if it was 10 years ago. I couldn't tell you how long ago it was. I don't think it was 10 years ago. And I. I don't. It couldn't be more recent than four years. She asked me as a gift those many years ago a while that she would just not like to have bills anymore that she would like to. Because we live in a, you know, we're self employed, we live in a feast and famine environment. Like in other words, we make a lot of money then we make no money. And when you make no money, it really puts a lot of pressure on you to like, oh no, what are we gonna do for money? Because it's not like you're like, well our paycheck is X days away. Sometimes you could go forever without a. Not only a paycheck, but a decent paycheck. So long story short, she asked me if I would basically not do that but work with her to achieve that. And we have done that for the most part. So no more car payments, no more stuff like that. And I think. Which by the way, and when I say we've done that, we're not 100 there, we're 85 there to having no extra debt more than what you need, which is your physical like electricity and all that stuff. Right? Those bills. I don't handle the bills in accounting, but that's my understanding. So. So that was it. You know, she just gave her peace of mind in this crazy world that I live in. And how I make money and how I do things. So. So basically debt free is what she wanted. And we were like I said, we have 100% achieved it, but we achieved it so close that I don't. We're close enough. We're close enough. Like it's. It's inevitable to be the rest of the way there, but it's close enough. So I think that's what it was. So, you know, it's just different mentalities, right? My wife is so pragmatic and smart. She's like, maybe we shouldn't have interest debt. And I'm like, well, we should have a swirl guitar. That's cool. This is why she's the smart one and I'm the pretty face. Let's go to the next question, which came from Brian with a Y, who says, hey, on a tuna manic style bridge, if I. If you raise the saddle portion, should you also raise the tailpiece portion the same amount to limit the brake angle? This is not mandatory. A lot of people will tell you that you don't want the string resting on the edge of the bridge, you know, because it can damage the string or it's problematic for sustain. I don't necessarily disagree with that. In some situations that has to happen. In some situations you can get away out doing it. But what do I do? That's really a bigger question. I pretty much slam the tailpiece pretty much close to the body as I can. I don't know why I do that. It's probably not a good idea. I don't do it for my customers. I just. On my personal guitars, I bet you if you look at most of these, I just take the tailpiece and I kind of come down real low. That's what I do. But. But you. The rules. There's no real finite rules. There's suggestions everywhere. I like them relatively. For customers, I like them relatively close. So if I raise the bridge height little bit, I'll raise the tail piece a little bit. Just keep it in play. But again, what I'm really looking for is to make sure there's no string touching the edge of the bridge. For that reason. For all the reasons I just said, Sustain issues, damage, string issues, you name it. So Mr. S says, Hey, I have, I have a bad back. I. I'm a. I'm sorry to hear that. I have a bad back sometimes as I get older, you know, as you. My friend said my last birthday says, oh. He goes, now your check engine light came on. I'm like, ah, you bastard. It's true. My back sometimes is bad and sometimes not. It's. I'm always doing stuff like I think I'm still 20 years old and I hurt my back all the time. But luckily it's been recovering every time I do it. But I can't let go of a couple heavy guitars. Best straps for heavy axes. I hope you and Sean had a happy anniversary. We did have a happy anniversary. You know, 26 years together is very romantic. We drained the entire pool. We used as some muriatic pool acid. I wear a respirator. We sprayed muriatic pool acid on the edge of the pool and then we cleaned that. That was a two day process. We cleaned the filter and all that stuff. And that's not joking. That's exactly what we did last weekend. That's it. That was the whole weekend. And we were happy to do it because here's why we did it. We did it because she didn't want to pay somebody to do it. So. And I knew she didn't want to pay somebody to do it probably because she just bought a swirl guitar and she was probably thinking now let's budget in some stuff, you know. So we did it ourselves. But anyways, back to straps. There's all kinds of really wide neoprene straps that help. I have used them in the past. As you know, I'm very focused on having lighter guitars so I don't have to deal with that. But. But I will say that any kind of wide neoprene soft strap will dramatically help you with a heavy guitar for sure. They really are a big difference. There is special straps. So you know, I remember this is where sometimes I wish Sha sometimes would do the podcast with me sometimes because she knows the answer, which is we would have customers come in the store with bad backs and she would order them special straps from Levies that were made for bad backs and they came around this way. I just remember that they hooked the instrument around your belly and then over your strap. I remember it looked cumbersome like overalls and stuff. So I don't know if you can Google search that and see but there is a strap specifically for bad backs that Levy's makes and it's. And she would order that for people all the time. We didn't stock them but I remember her ordering them for. For people with bad backs. But definitely neoprene padded. Well padded 3 inch or wider straps, right? Stay away from the two inchers, go 3 inches and go heavy padded and buy a good strap, you know? You know it's kind of like, you could almost say, you know, it's kind of like the first per. First piece of good advice you get as you get older. Somebody says buy good shoes. You know, it's your, you know, take care of your feet. And I would say now if you're having issues your back, buy good straps. Well, well made quality guitar straps that are padded and, and it'll pay a dividend to you in your back lock. Sustainer says, hey Phil, Happy Friday. It's 10am Saturday here in Oz. Okay. I, I've never seen you, you review an LP SG Junior. Are you not a fan of the rap Tails? They're my favorite. I would love to do those. You know I like I said I'm. I'm in the market for an SG Junior. I, I want to do it. It's just I haven't found the one and if I buy one, which I eventually will because I'll trade for it. I have some guitars to get rid of so I would trade for it and eventually get the one. There's a couple stores in town that sometimes will get them on trade and that's what I'm looking for is one to come in and trade so I can go and talk to them and kind of, you know, play it, test it, find. I love it and then trade some gear for it and then we'll do a deep dive of it. As you guys know, the, you know, the Gibson guys don't send any gear to this channel. So it's not going to come that way. It's got to come, you know, self sponsored, so to speak. Which is fine. That's why we do self sponsored gear reviews. Like I said, majority of our videos are self sponsored. Well, it's fine because. But I would love to do that. I would love to do both those. I think they're great guitars and we'll eventually get them on here. We've done, I've done the Squire versions of stuff and I've done epiphone versions of like one piece Wraparound Bridges. One of my favorite guitars is my PRS Mirror. It's a one piece wraparound bridge. So you know, if that, if that makes any sense to you. And I have no deep dive with that guitar either. Maybe I should do that. But you can't buy that particular one anymore. So. Spasm says Eastman makes a good junior. Yeah, you know, maybe they'd be good to reach out to and talk to about that. They were really nice when they sent the last guitar for a video. So maybe we can get them to get a guitar out. It's always nice to not have to buy these and then have to flip them to make videos, as you can imagine. And we can make more videos that way. It's not bad to have to buy guitars and do videos. It. People always ask me, like, they're always trying to help in some way. It's not that we don't want to buy guitars and videos. It's just you make less videos when you spend out of pocket for them because you wait to, you know, for the return of that investment to come back up. Does that make sense? You spend a couple thousand, you got to make a couple thousand back, and then you move forward again. It's a lot easier when a company just sends out a guitar and you're like, okay, now it doesn't matter what we make on the video. Well, it does, but, I mean, it's not as crucial the now you know what it is. Now it's time for Guitar of the Week. Awesome. Today's Guitar of the Week is special because it's tied in to three different things. It's part of the giveaway. So we're gonna be picking a winner. I don't know if I should tell you the winner and then do the Guitar of the Week. I will. We're gonna have it. Do it that way. Let's do the Guitar of the Week. This. This winner. Please don't do this. Just kidding. He. He was great. He sent a couple different pictures. I can really tell he was excited. This picture. If you ever want to see a picture, you know the saying I love, which is, a picture's worth, you know, a thousand words, whatever. Isn't it so true? It's just so true. You can look at a picture. When you guys send me a picture sometimes, yeah, it's like, oh, it's a Know youw Gear shirt. That's the picture. Or something Funny. This picture conveys a lot to me. I'm gonna share it with you. This is Cullen. Not just because he's making the heart symbol. Not because he made his. I love that he's got his, his, his equipment all set up. By the way. I gotta tell you, the first thing I saw when I see this is what it's funny when you see, uh, I see. Man, look at those tape dispensers in the background for all that masking tape. That's pretty. That guy's legit. You. You know, Colin, you have ocd, man. If you haven't been diagnosed, I. I'm gonna. I'M gonna say it's pretty sure. As someone who's pretty close to clean, I mean, those labels on those drawers make me jealous. Um, I get told all the time my work area is too clean by viewers, and I'm always like, I think I. So you guys know. This is how you can tell maybe you do have an issue. I think when I see my repair shop, I see chaos. Every video, it bugs me. Looking at it. It's just chaos, and I want to clean it up even more. The only reason I don't clean it up more is because every. Every video, somebody was like, man, your shop's too clean. I'm like, it's too clean. I don't think it's clean enough. Anyways, Colin, man, your shop dialed in. I love it. We got a lot of stuff going on. He's got the gold top. He's got an sg. Really cool. So what's Colin getting? Colin's getting something special. Why? I just like this because, man, Colin, the picture I see here is you're just enjoying life, you know? This is the picture. You want to see somebody just doing something they love. He's working on a guitar, and he's. He's got great tools, and he's got a lot of swag. He's got the new year swag. He's got the cool. The magnifying glasses that Earl1 uses, which is great. So what are we gonna do? Well, we're gonna give a special pedal, and I'm actually going to use the pedal in guitar of the week. So Guitar week is kind of a hybrid guitar that we. Again, we talked about. Like, sometimes it won't be a guitar. It is the guitar today. But it's also this pedal. My good friends at Pedal pal sent me a pedal to give away. This pedal is the PAL987. This is a Marshall plexi in a box. As you guys know, I'm a huge fan, but also because they're good friends, Colin not only going to win this pedal, which is great. I'll make sure to sign this pedal before it goes out to just to devalue it a little bit for you. But you'll know that it was one I'm going to demo. So with this week's Guitar week's a little different. This is a pale and blue epiphone sg. I love pale and blue. Don't you guys love pale and blue? Like, to me, it's like, just one of the coolest colors. I don't know why it's so Cool. It's really not that exciting. Like, you know, sometimes they call it ice Blue. Not on Gibson, but this is all stock. This guitar plays amazing. In fact, here's what's disgusting. The neck, the. The feel feels exactly like my Gibson SG that I love so much. The only difference is dramatically, is I can tell a big difference in the pickups. But the difference in the pickups is these are just a little hotter, a little darker, so you get a little bit more muddiness in them, a little bit more push on. On the amp or in this case, the pedal, you know, So I like the. The Gibson pickups more than these. Okay, so now what I have is the pal 987 cranked. I got the gain cranked. I'm actually running a boost pedal into it right now, and I'm running that into the Synergy Sim 50 head. I'm using the basement module clean. I have it mic'd up with an SM57. And then, of course, this mic hears it as well, because I'm gonna leave both on. So I'm gonna play the backing track, but here's what I'm gonna do different. I've never done this on the podcast. I'm gonna play this track to you, which is only like 20 seconds long with the amp juiced. What? I mean amp, I mean the pedal, full gain, boosted, go. Then I'm gonna turn off the boost, and I'm going to turn the gain down and give you more of a plexi sound. So I want to show you how you can get achieve two sounds but on the same track. Notice how it vibes differently. All right, let's go ahead. Boost is off. We turn the gain on the pedal down. Same track. Let's see how it vibes differently. Here we go. To me, that vibes. And. Okay, again, I'm gonna juice the pedal up again, getting back down again. Cool guitar, right? Man, it's just super impressive. I gotta tell you, I prefer the way this one looks more than my personal one, my Gibson one, because I just love the color. But fantastic. If I. If I was. If I could do one thing, I would definitely change the pickups. I don't know why. The pickups are fine. They just, you know, I'd rather have a different set of pickups in it just for my personal taste. Okay. Cyber says. Hey, Phil, FYI, selling sellers on reverb are buying low and then are listing the items later with new photos and listing them for up to 1 to $2,000 more using a different account. Okay. I mean, there's could be. That's possible, and it's possible. It could be money laundering or it could be fake accounts, you know, taking pictures of stuff. I mean, there's all kinds of stuff. This is what I talk about. Reverb. Unfortunately, fortunately, reverb is not, in my opinion, as bad as re. As ebay, but still pretty bad when it comes to having scams and all kinds of problems. And of course, that's there. I told you guys this before. Guitar flippers are a thing. I'm not. I'm not here to shun them, but I'm not a big fan of that concept of just buying and flipping guitars all the time. It's. It's not something I like. You know, one of the things that you guys keep asking. You guys will notice how eager I am if you ask me to talk about saving money, keeping money in your pocket. I relate to that concept. I relate to, like, I feel like I have to work harder than I think I should have to sometimes for money. And. And I'm like, and so it's my money, and I wanted to, you know, I want to spend it in a way that feels good and not wasteful. So when you guys ask me questions like, how do you save money? Notice how fast I am. Like, yeah, here's some thoughts, and here's how I do it, and here's why I want to do it. Notice, if you talk about making money with guitars, I'm more apprehensive and not as excited to talk about it. I mean, I know I had a music store, but I had a music store because I wanted to hang out with guitars and hang out with guitar players more so. And that was a way of doing it. Notice how fast I was eager to go to YouTube to do the same thing where I don't have to sell anything to you. It's not really my exciting. It's not what I'm most excited about. So to answer your question or your statement about reverb and people flipping guitars, it happens all the time. I'm not a big fan of it. And I say, you know, I don't. I would never say I've been a victim of it, but I have. I have happened to me when I did. I told you guys, when I. I reviewed a couple guitars that I personally bought on Reverb, and they. I can tell when they were like, like flipping houses, like, flipping guitar. Somebody bought it and just had flipped it. And I. Looking at it, looking at the history, I was like, man, they just bought this to flip it, but I really want it and I want it for a video. So I bought it and you know, I was like, oh, this sucks. So, yeah, I'm not a big fan of the flipping for flipping sake. You know, I understand buying something, not liking it and want to moving on and keep and try to get as much money as you can for it. Or I understand buying a guitar and then it's gone up in value and you're like, hey, I might as well cash in on it. But I'm not as eager as like when the intent was I'm buying this solely just to make money on it. And I told you that that's why a lot of me and my friends have buyback closets to buy guitars we sell to each other back so we don't have to worry about that. Steve Wright says, just ordered a third. Keisel. Great sale. I heard they're on sale. I ordered a two with a Cali Burst Flame maple purple top on a roasted Bird's eye maple fretboard. Yay me. Love the channel. Cheers. Congratulations. Yeah, I think they've been having some smoking deals lately too, is what I've seen in pricing and stuff. I was just talking to the guys from Kiesel today and yesterday about something, a project we're working on for one of the PM Delos and that's kind of cool, you know, as you know, I'm a fan. I'm a fan of. They check all the boxes for me. They make them in the usa. They're a small company that supports their workers really well and they have a lot of pride in their. In their work and they are not crazily overpriced for comparatively speaking. So that's why I always say good things about them. That's it. That's the end of my incentive. It's. It's really just what I like about them. David says, related to your ESP E2 chat last week. I have a. I have two E2 guitars which are great, but I feel ESP hurt themselves when they need to explain themselves to have artists in promos explain it. Agree or disagree? I agree. Look, I posted a short. Funny thing is, obviously the podcast hit some milestones. Obviously. 20 million streams, downloads, whatever you want to call us. Crazy. Coming to 400 episodes is crazy. Obviously the Patreon has been pretty strong patron. So, you know, it peaks and drops. You know, there's a lot of people on Patreon, then it drops off and that's how it goes, right? Because you understand that mostly they're supporting a thing that you are free to watch all day here. You just watch it for free. I mean, they get some benefits, but, you know, obviously I can't give them so many benefits that it takes so much time that it's, it doesn't make sense. For me, the point of the raising the patron funds is like how a company would pay me to make me to do this. Right? It's like having a sponsor for this. The reason I tell you that is we, we just onboarded a new, a new employee who's going to be helping with all the podcast work. So podcast, because the podcast is a separate job on YouTube, it's almost like as much work as YouTube and vice versa, even though they cross pollinate, like they're both platforms. So my point is, so anyways, you might notice more clips out and stuff. You're noticing more stuff is what I'm saying. And so I agree. I, I really think they would do themselves a favor just following the ESP line. Some people put comments in the last week's video saying they disagree and they like it having different brands. I, I understand their point. I just really like what I, I'm like, I said I put my money where my mouth is. If there was a esp. In fact, somebody said, Phil, just so you know, they, they basically were saying I was incorrect. They're like the E2s. They, they used to say ESP on the main Japan ones. And I'm like, I, I know, but I didn't, I didn't have, I didn't have the money or the opportunity to buy one then. Now I am in the market for one and, and they don't do it, so. Oh man. Sorry about that. Hitting my, trying to get some water and making all kinds of noises and hitting things. My point is if esp rebranded the E2s as ESP put ESP on the headstock, somebody said they put on 12th. I know that but just like they put ESP on the back of the headstock that says, you know, ltd. Just I like the ESP look. They got the same headstock. Just put the ESP logo on the headstock and then sub brand it, you know, E2 or Ltd and I, I'd buy one. I'd buy one. Alex said, I, I'd be excited. I'd probably still buy an E2 anyways because I've already had one. I like them. I just like said I would, I would feel, I'd like them. I'd feel better if it's at esp, it's not. I'm a brand snob. It's just. It's so much damn money. It just feels weird to spend so much money and not get. Like I said, it'd be weird to me to spend $70,000 for a car and not get the logo on that car, the brand that's causing that price point. It just seems weird. Perfect example. I don't know how excited I would be to give Paul reed Smith guitars $2,000 for a guitar that didn't say Paul Reed Smith. It just said S2 on the headstock. I'd be like, yeah, I'm good. You know, I might as well buy the ltd. That's kind of how I feel about it. Just my thoughts for those that care. All right, um, Enrico says, hey, for you, what percentage in tone are worth chasing and when are they worth worthy of cha. What? What percentages in tone are worth chasing and when are they worthy of chasing? Okay, Enrico, I'm going to go with what I think you're saying. You basically, what. What percentage, like, how valuable is the. The tone of something and how hard do I want to chase it? Or what's the value point of me chasing it? First of all, I just like said, I know it's a broken record, but I think it's always important just, you know, say that, what you're going to say the same way every time. I really care about how things play. Comfort and playability paramount to me. No guitar I own that doesn't play nice stays. Doesn't matter how good it sounds. Eventually I always get rid of the ones that sound good if they don't play great. If the neck's too thick, it's too thin, it's too awkward, the action won't dial in. It's. I'm fighting it. I just don't like it. It pokes me somewhere, right? Whatever it is, that is first the neck, feel how it plays first, that's paramount. Then after that tone, and then the tone really isn't. I'm looking for a tone in a guitar. I'm looking for a guitar that lets me achieve a tone. And why that meaning doesn't like this guitar I was playing right now that I said it's a little dark. I have the amp pretty pegged out in the highs right now. So you guys know I did not edit it in the mix. In other words, there's a mixer control here and I can go in and edit more or edit, add in more high frequencies. That Synergy amp is pretty Pegged when it comes to the high frequencies. And that guitar still sound a little dark to me. There was just nowhere to go with it. I could have put an EQ pedal in it. But again, if you EQ after distortion, it changes the tone. I don't like it. And if you throw it in front of the distortion, even if you set it unity gain, it kind of pushes the pedal or the amp a little harder than I want it. So to me, that guitar. The only way to solve that problem is maybe put in some pickups that just have a little bit more brighter clarity to them. Right. Which to me would just mean just a little lower output pickup that's not so aggressive. Okay. And whatever the combination is there. But. But that guitar. But that guitar sounds great. And I could put it in a different amp. And that amp being brighter, it would pair up better. So what I'm basically saying is when it comes to tone, it's not so much I'm chasing tone as I'm adjusting to it all the time. In this particular case, I couldn't adjust it as much as I want. So in this case, would I put new pickups in the guitar? I would. I wouldn't change the pots. I wouldn't change the switch. None of those are going to make enough difference. I would change the pickups just a little bit. Tele driver says pickup change or capacitor change. The capacitor change. Literally. I could take wire cutters right now, and I could go in the back of this guitar and I could clip off those two tone pots. They're not even in the circuit anymore. And you would hear no difference. You guys would hear no difference. We ab them back side by side on a clean amp. You'll probably hear a little bit more darker sound just a little bit when the capacitors were in the circuit. But that's it. Like I said, it's. That would be the smallest change, the biggest change in the effect of the actual guitar. First changing the strings. New strings. These strings are pretty new. New strings would be brighter. That's important. And then new pickups. And those two things will be dynamic changes in the guitar. After that, you need to change the amp. Like I said. In this case, we could have switched to a 112 cabinet that would be a little brighter than this 212. Again, there's things I could do if I needed to adjust. But for what I did now, small adjustments, I got me as close as I needed to be, and it was good enough for rock and roll to do the Video today on the show. But like I said, back to what the core of the question is. I really pay attention to the guitar and how it plays and feels, and then I adjust tone. It's not. It's not so much. I'm chasing it all the time. It's not. It's not my. It's not my. It's in my top 10, but I don't think it's in my top five issues. Drew says, hey, Phil says Paul Wiley composed the Terrifier 3 soundtrack. He toured with. He toured with Marilyn Manson. And he was a signature Schecter guitar. He had a signature Schecter guitar called the Paul Wiley. Oh. So, yeah, I thought. I thought I saw a bunch of stuff on terrifier 3 and terrify 1, 2. The first one, I think the budget was done with $30,000, and the second was like $250,000. Like I said, I didn't dislike the movies. It's not my thing. So, you know, my son is really into anime. I've told this story before, years ago in the show. He's really into it. When I say he's really into it. He's really into manga. And he collects his huge bookcases full of manga that have like, almost like how I told you guys my windows are tinted in my office. So they don't. So the sun doesn't. The UV doesn't hurt the guitars. He has tinted glass so that the. The light in the room or in the sun coming through the window doesn't hurt his books. Because he's so into manga and because I try to be a somewhat decent father, I take him when he wants me to. We go and hang out and we go to these movie theaters where they're only showing this one cartoon. It's animation on a Thursday at like 4:00 or 8:00 at night. And it's all subtitled. I have to read everything. And they talk so fast. I'm like, it's probably helping me for the show, by the way, doing that. So when my daughter's like, we gotta go see Terrify, I go the same way I go with him. It's like, I'm okay, I'm going. Is I'm gonna be there. I'm here with you. But it would be not my first choice. I wouldn't be. Not the thing I would do. But again, I. Again, if you're not into those hardcore gore movies, I get. Doesn't bother me per se. So it wasn't like anything. I was offended by or bothered by just. Again, not my first choice. It's kind of. That's the way I put it. Like I'd have picked up. There's other movies I would have picked to go see that I would. I would enjoy maybe just as much or more. Let's do a question. Let's have Amanda. Oh, by the way, like dripping water here. Okay. This was pulled by Amanda. Thank you, Amanda. This is Jay. There's a real J, apparently Jay, he says, hey, watching from Japan. I like your channel. Quick question. What do you prefer high quality guitar and less quality amp or other way around? So this is always a question. Comes up a lot, all the time in guitar forums and guitar YouTube channels and stuff. And I probably answered it different ways over the years as I've kind of refined my way of thinking over the years. So I'm pretty sure I'm sticking to the same version of what I've said in the past. But I'm kind of gonna go with this. Now is my feeling. Like I said, guitar to me is more about the feel and the way it plays. And that's paramount. I keep saying paramount, but you understand that's the priority for me. And I go, so that's. That's it. The amp is where I think I'm gonna get all my sound or the modeling or the. That's where I'm gonna get my tones from mostly. So to. To me, I don't care if it's a cheap guitar, as long as it plays great. And I'll run that through a nice ramp. And then. So this is one of those tough things, like would I prefer a cheap guitar and expensive amp? I would prefer a nice playing guitar and a good sounding amp, you know, so that's basically. That's it. This guitar, I think has a street value used of about 400 is where this epiphone's at. This is fine. I have no issues with this. The way it plays. This is good. So there's a little relief in the neck. A little. I might, you know, I might. I might have straightened it out just a hair maybe. But this is good. Okay. I could, I could play this guitar for the rest of my life and be fine playing wise. So then of course, and as you know, with an amp, I can dial in the sound a little bit better. So I guess I would say I would pick this guitar, which is not cheap. 400 bucks. Not cheap. But I understand it's not $1,000, not $2,000. So that would be my idea. That question is always to Me, it's like, where should you put your money? Question. Like, I like it when it's phrased like that. You did a great job. But I like the. I like it when it's phrased like, if you had a budget to buy a guitar and amp, how would you slant the budget? You know, which way would you push it? Position it? Would you put more towards buying a better amp and a less expensive guitar? And I would say yes. I would rather. I would rather have a nice amp and a good guitar than a really great guitar. And I'm not so great amp, so. But. But then as I say that out loud, there's one thing I want to make a caveat to, which is for recording, I could use plugins and stuff. So I really don't need the amp to be super great. See what I'm saying? I mean, you can get away with a lot, get a lot. It's crazy. I mean, it's crazy what you can do. That sounds great. Now I think you can get yourself a man. I wish I could tell you guys what video I'm up to for these. These guitars. I'm so excited about it, and it's going to answer so many of these questions. Essentially, what I do is, over the years, I. I get you guys these questions and I start building up and I go, maybe instead of talking about it on the show, we need a video about it. And, you know, test. Somebody said spasm. I think it's spasm. S P A S M. Spasm says, do you know Phil X? Do I know Phil X? I do know. To Felix. First time I ever met him. This is true. First time I met him, I was at an event, and I got into the. There's a car rental car, and there was somebody driving, and I was in the back seat, and he came in the back seat. So it was like. It was. He's on the other side of the seat. I'm behind the passenger. He's behind the driver. There's three people in the ride, so to speak, and the driver. And he got in, he was looking at his phone. He was very upset, very upset for Felix, which means, like, he was not actually upset. He was just like, man. So apparently somebody was trolling him on the Internet. And he said, I guess he had just played some shows with Bon Jovi in front of, like, I don't know, 80,000 people. And he said somebody was saying, like, the show didn't sell. Didn't sell out. He's like, he. Oh. He said, oh, okay. I'm going to do it. This is my Phil X impersonation. He gets in the car, he sits in the car, right? We haven't even introduced yet. I haven't been like, hey, my name is Phil, too. I just sit in the car. He sits in the car. He's looking at his phone. He goes, what? I'm a never was to him with a bunch of has beens, man. Last night's show was 80,000 people, is almost sold out. And then he looks at me, he's like, hey, what's up? And he shakes my hand. I go, hey, I'm Phil. And he goes, I'm Phil. And I said, oh, yeah, that's cool. I go, you get. I go, you get trolled, too? And he goes, yeah, man, I get trolled, too. And I said, yeah, it sucks. And he says, yeah. And he goes, you know, last night's show, he goes, almost every seat was sold out. And I said, well, maybe if you guys put out more flyers, you could fill in those seats. And he goes, what? And then he goes, that's funny, man. And so then we hung out the next day. I liked it because at that time in my YouTube career, I didn't know, like, cool people got trolled. I thought it was just, like, dorks like me, people were just crapping on me. So when you start finding out that people just crap on everybody and it doesn't matter, you're like, oh, so there's no escaping this. Like, I. You, when you start out, you think you'll get to a level and then people will just knock it off, right? Like whatever they're saying about you. And no, you realize, like, no, it actually intensifies. The more. The better you do, the better. Not the bigger you get, the better you do. Like, the better you hit that note perfectly. The more you. You do better, the more the negative comments come a little bit more ferocious. But yeah, he was really cool. So it was cool, like I said. And I've had a couple interactions with him over the years and always been very positive. Very cool guy. Yes, super. Oh, and we played together. I should also point that out, too. If you go on my second channel, there's a video of me playing slap bass. We played a bunch of cool songs together. Very cool. The. Yeah. In fact, he choked me, too. Now I should tell everybody about Phillips choking me. Yeah, he choked me at breakfast one day. Because the first night we were at the event, they were on stage, on stage playing. And he said, because he knew me from the car now. And he'd seen me that day. He was looking for people come on stage and play. And he goes, phil, come on stage. I actually had a couple of German beers and I was tossed, man, I'm no good. So, you know, I'm no good. One beer in. I can't even play anymore. It's no good. Doesn't happen. So I already been drinking, so I was like, nah, I'm good, man. I can't play. I'm good. He's like, oh, come up on stage. I didn't go on stage the second night. I'm. I'm not actually in the bar area. I'm somewhere else. And somebody comes and grabs me and says, phil X is looking for you. He wants you. He says, come, come play on stage. So I go up on stage because, you know, Phil X asked and I said, you know, he goes, oh, he grabbed a guitar. And I go, ah, I'm actually a bass player. He's like, okay, grab a bass. He didn't care. He's like, grab bass. And I grabbed bass. He goes, what song you want to play? And I said, let's see, what do we play? I think it was play that funky music, white boy, something like that. And. And I think we did Scorpions. Anyways, I said, yeah, you know, anything's good. And he said that song. And I played. And then he did that thing that, you know, cool singer guitar players do in the middle song for no reason. He's like, phil on the bass. And he just wanted me to play. So I played something and I slap bass and stuff. It was really tall. It was hard. I know. I hate giving excuses, but the bass I grabbed, it had like one inch high action. It was horrible. So I was really working that bass. So if you watch me in that video, you can see I'm just. I'm. I never like, do that. I'm slapping. It's really fast and shallow on the string, but I'm just hitting everything as hard as I can. And so. So anyways, play the. Play the songs in the night, Go back to the hotels. Next morning I'm at breakfast. He comes up and he goes, you could play bass this whole time and you didn't get up on stage. He's like, we were looking for bass players the whole time. He didn't choke me hard, he just chugged me in that loving way that you choke someone, I guess. But it was funny. I was like, he's like. He's like. And then he sat down for breakfast and he's like, man, Phil, next Time get up on stage. When I ask, I'm like, all right, so great guy. So yeah, all right. I, I, we want, we've just went two sideways now with the show. We just, let's just. All right, let's, let's refresh. Let's. No more super chats. Let's finish this show up. We got, we have. What do we have? We have John own 16, can't play any. Okay, Rod. I always says brought in. I says, hey, Phil. I bought a Harley Benton Aggie Fish signature guitar. Ordered it Thursday, delivered it five days later. PA amazing features. Looks fantastic. I actually did a setup on Agafish guitar. I had a viewer bring before we stopped doing repairs and was one of the last guitars I worked on as officially as a repair person. And it was pretty cool guitar I got. I didn't think to like take it and go, hey, can I do a review of it and review it. It was really cool. As you guys know, I like Hunter. I think Agafish is a great guy. And you know, I, I like Harley Benton. As I've said, I like the, the prices in the guitars. Harley, Ben, the guys I don't really work well with, apparently. But as guitars, I got nothing but good things to say. There's a hardly been coming in a video soon. But that's not really cool the way I don't know it's coming. Mr. S says, hey, Agafish. And I told the ESP USVP the same thing you said at NAMM. So, okay, was that. I don't think that was Jeff. Right. Because now he's not the VP or he's not the VP anymore, but I forget who the new guy is. And he goes and LT is a corny name. Having separate name is lame. Squire is sucky name too. Yeah, but Squire is a brand now. I understand what you're saying. Yeah, I think a lot of people feel the way I do. I think we're, we've gotten to the point now where Epiphone is a brand. Squire is a brand. What I mean by is a brand is it's a, it's a brand. People buy Epiphone because it's an Epiphone. There is a. You know, I never thought of it. You know, sometimes you have to have perspective. When I used to say, like, maybe Gibson should just get rid of Epiphone. Just have Gibson import and Gibson usa. And then there's a lot of feedback on my comment about that going, well, I really like that Al Gibson is made in the usa, which is something you'd only say about Gibson in that title because obviously Fender has Squire, but Fender makes stuff not in the usa. They make stuff in Mexico, they make stuff in Korea, they make stuff in Japan. They make stuff in China with the Fender logo on it. Almost all the Fender acoustics are made in China and they say Fender on them. So there is levels of, you know, of that. But one person said this thing, just one voice that kind of gave me this sense that I was like, oh, I never saw it from that perspective. They said, I like Epiphone because it's not Gibson. I get to own a Gibson, but to them, and which I totally get, the Gibson is too bougie is the term we use all the time. But I'm trying to think of it, like, too elitist. Elitist, you know, Right. They don't like the vibe of it. And I was like, oh, I get that. I get that. Right? I mean, I get that. You know, some people want to wear brand name clothes and some people can't afford brand name clothes, but some people choose not to wear brand name clothes. Close. I'm like, I get that some people choose to play an epiphone. I get that. I do. So like I said in that case and. But I don't think that's a case with ESP ltd. I think people like ESP and I think it'd be better if the brand was just consistent across all its lines. Ben says, hey, great story. I saw Striper last week. Ah, Oz Fox is amazing. Talk about Oz Fox, the singer. Striper Is I is a classic example of clean living, no drugs. Right? Like, that guy's voice is legit today as it was when. When, you know, Striper was in their 80s heyday, so to speak. I'm a striper fan by not by choice. So you guys know I. I am a huge striper fan. But what happened was when I was a kid in high school, back then, way back then, when they had wagons and horses, there was not a lot of Christian rock. In fact, Christian music was like, Amy Grant, striper. And, you know, that's it. And you know, I mean, crap, that's not even rock, you understand, But. And so I have a friend and he was. I was in a guitar. He was in a guitar. But his family is extremely religious. I never experienced that before. Coming from a family that was mildly religious, extremely. Like, all music's from the devil, so to speak, kind of attitude. And the only thing he could listen and by the way, Striper was that was toeing the line for them, you know, I mean, if it wasn't for all the time they said the word God and were like, they didn't hand out Bibles at the show. There would be. His family was like, this is still the devil's music because it's distortion. I mean, I tried instrumental music. So, you know, his mother told me that Steve's instrumental music was from the devil. I was like, how was. I was like, I wasn't arguing. I wasn't that kind of kid. I didn't argue with my, you know, with people's parents. I was always like, oh, okay. But I would, you know, I'd push back a little and I'd be like, I don't understand. How can an A minor be the devil? Like, I don't. It's just, you know, it's just a minor chord with distortion. But they were very hardcore. And so the only way we could hang out and play music or talk about music was if we played Striper and. And. And did Striper and we went to a Striper concert because that was it. That was like the only concert we can go to. So it was cool. So I became very familiar with Striper. That's what I'm trying to say. And because. And then. And then luckily, towards the end of high school, there was just a ton of. Then all of a sudden, the Christian band movement really started pushing, you know, the rock scene and the metal scene. And you could get more. But at the time. But boy, if you guys want to see how great Oz Fox still is, is. Oh, am I thinking of my. Yeah. Why am I thinking of Michael Sweet? Alice Fox or Michael Sweet? I think I'm thinking Oz Fox, but I'm thinking Michael Sweet is a singer, right? Michael Sweet is a singer. So understand. Don't Michael Sweet singing apologize. But more. More importantly, check out the song. I'm gonna pull it up right now. If you guys aren't into this stuff. This is just cool. If you're 80s guys is type in. Go to YouTube and type in George lynch and Michael Sweet and. Yeah, Sweet and Lynch, man, I think they did a killer job for Walk is good. Where's the song Hollywood something. Hollywood is really great, like, looking at this stuff. So I'll put a link to some of these videos. You can check it out. But man, you can see how good his voice is. But yeah, so. So anyways, like I said, so that's. That's how I know Striper is. It was just. It wouldn't have been on my radar if it Wasn't for him. Anyways, I went on. I didn't get onto your subject or your question. It says. Anyways, he says, turns out he had a brain surgery in March. Oz played guitar during the surgery called. Called it awake craniotomy. Wow. Oh, he did. He had what's called an awake craniotomy, allowing surgeons to monitor critical brain functions. Yeah, I don't know much about that, except for I have seen that in documentaries that when they do, like, when the surgery on your brain, you have to be awake because if they touch something, they need to know immediately whether or they've done something wrong. That's crazy. But, but like I said, I, I love the lynch and sweet thing and I liked. I love striper because of that reason. Like I said, it was, it was just. It was. It always reminds me of the time we could always hang out. Well. And play music. Later he got into blues and I thought that was gonna be better. And his parents really didn't like that. It was like, even worse. It's really, really worse. So I don't remember much about. It was a long time ago. I just remember the other thing too was we couldn't have soda at all. No carbonated drinks at all. And I remember like, this is, this is intense. It was like water and tea. And every once in a while I would make have. I would screw up. And it was. And it was like a big deal. Like a big deal. Like at the dinner table, his mom would say, like, what do you. Oh, you want something to drink? Yeah. And I go, sure. And she goes, what would you like? And I said, I like a Coke. And she's like, tea or water? And I was like, tea is good. And then his face, like, he was just like, no, you didn't say it. They're gonna know, right? It was crazy. All right, again, this is nothing. This shows just off the rails the whole episode. But I apologize. All right, let me refresh this. I'm gonna grab an Amanda question real quick. We'll end on that. Just to make sure. I know there's a super chat that I'm missing, so let me grab that one. This is from Destructo, who says, hey, Phil, if I wanted a Les Paul shaped guitar, that would stay, stay in C standard. What spec sheet? What specs, setup and tips should I look for into when buying one in the 600 range? You know, I would LTD. I, I, you know, there's a ton of options out there. I would definitely look at the Les Paul shaped single cut shape guitars that are 25 and 25 and a half inch scale. So again the PRS ones at 25, it's better than 24 and 3 quarters. 25 and a half. Even better. Again, if you're tuned to C, you know, at very, very least some players are going to tell you they want 26 or 27 inch extended range for C. But me, I, I can do everything in, in a 25 and a half inch scale and I'm fine with it. So just I gave with a thicker gauge string. I'm fine. But definitely you want to go with something like that. I would look at the culprits. I would look at for single cuts in the 600 range. I would look at the Jackson single cut guitars. I would look at the Ibanez single cut guitars. Hey, look at, I made thumbs up. And I would look at the LTD single cut guitars. And then you could go to the off brands too, you know, and there's a ton of those off brands that make great stuff too as well. Let's see. And then this came from Indie RPM says, hey, but it is such a phenomenal build. I would like to send it to send to you. What is, what are we talking about? Is there something I'm missing? Let me go back one. Is this a second half? Sometimes there's a second half question. Let me refresh this. How weird that I don't see your question in my archive, but I see you here on the main screen. So let me go back to the main screen. This is from Indy RPM and it looks like there's a two parter. So let me go the first one. Phil. This is Indy RPM says, Phil. Hey Phil, I'm building a super strat. I'm a luthier by trade and I and I am certain point and at a certain point on it, I am stumped. Oh, okay. All right. Says but it's such a phenomenal build. I would like to send it to you. Okay. And that was the second one. Oh, it's the same one. Second time. Send it to me for what? To. To check it out. To fix it. Is that the question? What I would do in DRPM is reach out to the ask know your gear or mgc lessonsmail.com either one of those. You're gonna go right to Sean and Shauna. And this is where it gets a little weird. Everybody always thinks that I'm putting them off. If I put them to them. You are not gonna get my attention. Once this like once the show ends, you understand for the next two Hours I'm doing something, and my closest friends that watch the show will tell you this. Absolutely will tell you this is true. Larry Mitchell messages my wife to get a hold of me. Ralph messages my wife to get to me. Everybody understands this. The reason why is not because she's my wife. She's. She manages this, my attention, because otherwise I would never stop. You understand? I don't have fixed hours. If you want to do what I do for a living. It's not that there's a lot of people. There is. It's a 247 job. There's people in when it's nighttime here, they're daytime, they're messaging me on, they're texting me, they're calling me. So essentially, what ends up always happening is the loudest person or the person who hits me the most always got my attention. So either you got lucky and got my attention because I wasn't doing something when you hit me, or you just hit me so many times that finally I'm like, I cave in and I. And all of a sudden you got my attention. And that's not really the best way to do it. The best way to do it is to reach out to Shauna and tell her what you need. She is going to literally. I'm not making this up. Every morning, I have a debriefing. Every single morning. I have coffee and I have a. Here's my routine. I have a routine. It's. This is how exactly goes every single day for me. I get up in the morning and I literally, I brush my teeth and I shave, I take a shower, I cold plunge and then I go make two sunny side up eggs with. Or eggs. Yeah, sunny side up eggs with the tomato and avocado. And I get a cup of coffee. I make that same thing for my wife. And then we spend the next 30 minutes, an hour, all we talk about is she's debriefing me on all the things that people have reached out and where in the priority line do I want to respond? Sometimes I'll respond to you directly, and sometimes they respond to you directly. But either way, that's how it works. So that's who you want to reach out to. So it's ask, know your gear and. Or if you really want to get direct in, you really go to mgclessonsmail.com you're going right to Shauna and you just tell her what you're. What you want me to do or what you want to do. And she'll figure out how to make it Happen. And then you'll have a back and forth. And the only advice I can give everybody is, is that whatever she suggests or whatever she says to you, please, if it doesn't work for you, just tell her it doesn't work for you. And let's. Can we do something else? Because all she's going to do is say, like, you know, just. You get the idea. That's the best way to do it. It's the fastest way to get ahold of me. And it's actually the best way because it doesn't fall through the cracks. Just as on a side note. On that side note, we're going to end with one last little thing. Oh, except for in Cortex, we got to do. In Cortex says, hey, Phil, I love the show. Can you do a video on the GNL Z coils versus normal single coils? Traditional noiseless single coils? Yeah, I can do that video. I can't do it like this week, but I will put. Put it in the notes that we need to do that video. That's something I can actually probably reach out to G and L and maybe that would be. They'll be interested in doing it. So that would be great. They could provide the stuff to do it. So that's. That's it. On the last note of the show. The last. I want to end the show with, I got a gift. I want to share it. I thought it was cool. So a couple weeks ago, somebody won, and they won because they took a picture of themselves with Doug Pinnock. And I. I love Doug Pinnock a lot. As you guys know, singer Kings X. My buddy Joe, who owns Rat Pack Records, sent me this record. It's Doug Pinnock's new album. Look at that. You know what? Take this sheet off there. Take this. This is the poster. Look at that. There you go. So I'm gonna be listening to this on the record player this weekend. I want to thank Joe for that. By the way, Joe, if you're listening to the show or watching it, your phone number is down at the bottom of a river. So if you could text me and say, hey, this is Joe. So I can put you back in my phone. Some people's phone numbers, they're not lost. They're just at the bottom of the river in my old phone. And it's just hard for me to. Because it wasn't. You weren't backed up. I don't try to put people's personal information in any kind of anything other than just on the one device. So just let you know. But thank you, Joe, for the amazing album. And now I have something to listen to all weekend. And I'll mark his album artwork is amazing. If you guys want to check that out, go to ratpackrecords.com and and I'll put a link when I timestamp it. Everyone else, including the moderators, thank you so much. Amanda, thank you for the questions. I'm Nolan. I'm vintage. The real Mrs. Kyg, by the way. That is the real Mrs. Kyg. She says I'm not a gatekeeper. That is absolutely correct. I think people think she is the gatekeeper. They think that she's trying to filter you from talking to me. She's actually the fastest way to get to me because I will literally Forget with the 10 other 10 other things I'm paying attention to. I'll just focus. I focus on, like I said, whatever fires closest to me is the one I'm gonna put out. But yes, so she's absolutely true. And thank her for doing that because otherwise everything would be a mess. Thank you, guys. Thank you, Amanda. Thank you, Brian. Thank you. Unfreaking believable scrolling thank you, everyone. I don't know what I just clicked, but something went wrong. And as always, I'll see you guys next Friday. Some of you guys are probably gonna watch the fight tonight. So if you're doing that, enjoy, I'm sure it'll be interesting. Even I. I don't know sports and even I know there's a fight tonight. So there you go. Anyways, on that note, I will let you go until the next time. Know your Gear the Know your Gear Podcast Today's episode of the Know your Gear podcast is brought to you by Patreon members, Channel members and viewers who like and subscribe, thank you for making this possible.