Why do Guitar Players INSIST on being THIS DUMB?

That moment when you spent thousands on your bass amp and cabs, haul it all in the studio and the engineer then just DIs your signal straight into the interface.

Hey Glenn, I am a high school science teacher and this video is an excellent example of practical applications of the scientific method. Data and evidence is much better than uninformed opinions. Thank you for all the work you did for this video.

From the perspective of a Sound Engineer… THANK YOU for this! I’ve just been sending my guitar-playing friends to your channel rather than trying to convince, I’m letting you argue for me. Great job!

I agree, in 2014 I bought a JCM800 2203x, the reissue model, I tried various 2x12 cabs with different speakers, but still couldn't get that 80's metal tone I had in my head. Until it dawned on me that to get that 80's metal tone, I needed to have a speaker they actually used in the 80's. Eventually by pure luck I stumbled upon an early 80's JCM800 2x12 cab with Celestion G12-65's in it. And that was it! There was that Judas Priest and early Metallica sound!

Imagine the CEO of Celestion sitting at a desk, his hands making the “ triangle of doom”, muttering “goood...good....” like Mr Burns from Simpsons....?

The Matamp factory has a "speaker tester" corner where you can plug your amp in and switch between several different speakers, and decide which works best for you. It was one of the most useful and educational things I've ever seen, and I wish that more places (eg. music stores) had something like that.

I've learnt so much. Your social awareness programme on money saving with music recording really helps me so much. Really weird when there are those who still didn't understand your messages through your useful experience. Let them sink with their egos. Thank you Glenn for showing us the economical path and shortcuts to make our lives easier when recording. ✊🏽

Great production on the video! This is so cool Glenn, thanks to you and the team as always. I always felt it when I played with my Headrush mx5, the difference in the amp really gets overshadowed by the cab/ir

Been an amp tech for 25 years. I’ve told every player looking for a “mod” to change the speaker first. Most high gain amps are either a Marshall/Soldano clone to a small varying degree. Sure you get fancy channel options and switching, but the gain structure is the same.

Like most players, I've been guilty of falling for marketing and hype, but I've also spent much of my playing years feeling either confused at my inability to hear the massive differences that others heard, or shunned because I felt confident enough to speak out against them. Hearing my guitar heroes talk about how their pickups and their choice of woods influence so much of their tone, or listening to the "tone is in the fingers" argument from people that I admired as musicians...it always left me feeling deflated, wondering why I couldn't hear what they heard. Here we are now, years and years later, and Glenn is confirming most all of the things I've always felt and thought I knew. Turns out, I wasn't crazy or or totally lacking in Golden Ears after all. Thanks for all that you do, Glenn.

Hey Glen, Just wanted to thank you for all the great advise. Your testing has has been such an eye opener. Unlearning what I think I know is not easy. All the best to you.

I enjoy your fact reporting videos. I'm 60 and playing guitar is a hobby I love. With that I've never dropped tons of cash on anything and have always looked for the best thing I could get testing and comparing everything I have. I have played many expensive guitars and read everything about what they were made of. I looked for less expensive quality stuff that basically was made with the same materials. You do wonders with a less expensive acoustic guitar by simply replacing the plastic nut and saddle with Tusq version. I play everything from metal to country to blues and I just love it. Spending time with the knobs on any gear you have can really get you good results. You can save a ton of cash by just learning some simple care and setup adjustments. You do good work Glenn. Thank you.

It's crazy. When my eyes are in the equation, i could hear a slight change in eq, more "meat" in the mesa mids and more fizz in the 5150 highs. Without the benefit of eyes, didn't even really notice the change mid clip. Awesome video as usual Glennjamin!

Thank you Glenn! I have been applying a lot of what I learn here to my rig and recording set up and you have saved me tons of time and money. Your work is very appreciated.

You're spot-on about the speakers making a huge difference. Years ago, I replaced the stock speakers in an Ampeg 4x12 straight guitar cab with Eminence Texas Heats and that cab not only sounded better for what I play, but seemed to go noticeably louder before starting to distort. Keep preaching the truth man!

As obnoxious as this guy can be, I really appreciate the brutal honesty. He's just trying to help us out.

so basically, bringing this thinking to digital modelers like an axe fx, helix or quad cortex, we now learned, if you need to change your favourite tone to fit a mix, try changing the IR fiirst 👌 thank you glenn!

I don’t even play metal, but I couldn’t agree more, it’s alllll about the speaker, once you figure this out it’s such a relief to know.

I am so glad you mentioned microphone placement in this. As I’ve always thought that once you have a mic, changing the position is the easiest (and honestly a kinda interesting) way to change your recorded guitar sound, rather than buying new gear. Tbh always felt it’s a little under represented😅

Hey Glenn! Excellent video! Concerning mics, not something a lot of people think about but would love to see a shoot out between a dynamic, condenser, and ribbon mic for mic’ing guitar cabs. Keep up the killer vids always love watching them