1 SONG - 1 AMP - 6 GUITARS - Does it REALLY make a difference !? METAL GUITARS Comparison
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0:00 Intro
0:20 Guitars
1:06 Guitar Tone
1:45 Ibanez Premium RG721
3:00 Solar S2.6W
4:19 Sterling by Music Man Cutlass CT-50
5:36 Ibanez Prestige RG652
6:55 ESP LTD MH-1000 Deluxe
8:12 Ibanez GIO GRG121
9:28 Closing Thoughts
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@BrianAndersonTT 9 ай бұрын
1:58 3:16 4:33 5:51 7:10 8:26
@resington 9 ай бұрын
Pretty small differences, worth considering but not as much as the amp and cab.
@Cultifact 9 ай бұрын
Exactly !! My thoughts are exactly the same and that was the reason I made this one :)
@francescob.3019 9 ай бұрын
and that is why the most important thing on a guitar is comfort and playability (and looks, sure)
@Cultifact 8 ай бұрын
This ! :) Thanks for the comment !
@vinne.wav88 9 ай бұрын
Amazing as always! Love the riffs 🎸🔥🤘
@LcBoy131 9 ай бұрын
The quality of this video is just way to good for such "low" amount of subs. Ty so much
@Cultifact 9 ай бұрын
Wow, thank you for your comment. Appreciate it! I'm happy to hear such opinion - it's really motiviating for me as this channel is strictly made for fun - as you noticed i'm not even doing any patreon or other "pay me" stuff as I don't want to ask for money people who are here for fun and info.
@LcBoy131 9 ай бұрын
@@Cultifact it really is professional. Maybe top 5 Videos i saw in Terms of production. It seems like u are capable of Something! Use it :)
@xXDarkKatanaBucketXx 9 ай бұрын
Ibanez premium sounded the best for me, it has really nice saturation and feels like a wall of guitar sound compared to the others with a bit more note definition but not enough impact.
@Cultifact 9 ай бұрын
The big advantage of the Blackout pickups are they overall EVEN gain structure. I don't know how to describe it but the sound is "even" all around the song. Also they have TREMENDOUS amount of output - I had to back the DI Gain on my interface a lot to prevent signal clipping. I'm a huge fan of those - even more after doing that demo
@stiman1 9 ай бұрын
Agreed
@user-by6eb6zo7g 9 ай бұрын
Nasty right hand man. Really liked the premiums finish
@Cultifact 9 ай бұрын
Lamb Of God playing and proper choice of cinematography :D Thanks for your comment man !
@snippitsnicker 9 ай бұрын
4:19 incredible how a little tone shift can turn it into an Every Time I Die song
@davidtobis3614 9 ай бұрын
For me they all sounded great, the one that stood out to me was the prestige with the fancy pickup, which to me sounded a bit honkyer in comparison, but the winner for me was actually the gio, mainly because of looks thought! 😅
@Cultifact 9 ай бұрын
Gio with it's fancy pants price is just a meme of all the guitars out there :D
@BrianAndersonTT 9 ай бұрын
This also made a good pickup comparison. The SD scourge, tb5 and blackouts were great with the mutes.
@Cultifact 9 ай бұрын
Thank you for your comment! TB5 and Blackouts are for sure my two favourite pickups. I even like the more after making this demo! I also really like the overall classic - the SH6 but unfortunatelly I got the SH6 only in my 7-string and couldn't engage that one into that demo.
@krisskross6846 8 ай бұрын
discovery of the 2023 when it comes to KZfaq guitar channels! Riffy i mix miażdżą 🤘
@Cultifact 8 ай бұрын
Łoo panieeee, ślicznie dziękuje. Działam z następnymi tematami :)
@TristanL585 9 ай бұрын
I would absolutely love to see a higher end band use budget equipment or gear and tour or record songs with that instead of thousands of dollars worth
@FaaipDeOiad12th 9 ай бұрын
Świetnie się tego słucha! Różnicy nie słyszałem żadnej, ale i tak powiem, że Hathor najlepsze, bo sam gram na BGV i Razorweire.:) Super vid.
@Cultifact 9 ай бұрын
Hathorowe pickupy zdecydowanie wyróżniają się tutaj najbardziej tnącą górą i highmidem :) Do dalszego miksowania jest to perfekcyjne rozwiązanie - w tej strefie czestotliwosc jest bardzo dużo "informacji dźwiękowej" od gitar :)
@gianlutallica 9 ай бұрын
Great video and amazing song! Yes, all the guitars sound pretty similar with lot of gain and chuggy riffs, but they're all quality instruments, probably a cheap one would be sound crap. Maybe... 😉😉
@HoaPierre 9 ай бұрын
Killer riffs! I have a preference for the ETD and Sterling and the ibqnez prestige to me they do the most justice to ur riff. But the other guitars sound just fine too
@Cultifact 9 ай бұрын
Hey Hoa ! Thanks for your comment. LTD & Prestige are for sure two of my main 6-string instruments right now. Prestige is also the only guitar I bought brand new from the music store few years ago so I was pretty much sure with that one haha
@bishop8095 9 ай бұрын
Mam nadzieję że ten filmik wybuchnie Świetna robota
@Cultifact 9 ай бұрын
Przestałem się już po 2 latach łudzić :D Ale bardzo dziękuje !
@BrianAndersonTT 9 ай бұрын
After listening to this so much times, I just have to say this is some awesome riffage man.
@Cultifact 9 ай бұрын
Thank you so much man ! I tried to compose something wich will implement all of the characteristic technique of metal playing within one minute jingle :)
@BrianAndersonTT 9 ай бұрын
@Cultifact it's awesome and would make a banger of a song.
@bedroommusicfromsoma 9 ай бұрын
I liked most the LTD, the Stirling and the Ibanez GIO. (Insanely good playing btw)
@Cultifact 9 ай бұрын
Thanks! TB5's in LTD makes a really wide sound - In Sterling - the Scourge pickup is less gainny and pushed me to pick harder as you might notice on the video. My friend told me that I was visibly making much more effort playing with Sterling and that is 100% true - least forgiving axe on this list. The tremolo bridge is terribly uncomfortable :D
@GERGOHAJEROFFICIAL 9 ай бұрын
What a beauty LTD MH-1000 Deluxe!
@Cultifact 9 ай бұрын
ha !!!!!!! This is my all -time fav guitar - 2007 LTD from the era of extreme high quality of the guitars when Cort Schecter and LTD were battling on the high mid budget customers with quality :)
@rasmusevald8427 9 ай бұрын
honestly I just think my approach to make riffs, licks and progressions I different when I use different guitars, because I might play more melodic when I use my Ibanez Jem (because it reminds me of Steve Via) and I play more heavy on my Jackson Kelly (because I've used it mostly to write death metal with my friends). My conclusion is, I think different guitars assign different approachs to the guitar, because of what jobs we connect them to in our brain.
@Cultifact 9 ай бұрын
This is the reason why I hoard so much same sounding instruments. There is also one thing that I should mention and you pointed out - inspiration. All the guitars I gathered (because those are only 6 of them) are there because at some point I felt like this is the one which will keep me working with passion. Thanks for your comment !
@themightymcb7310 9 ай бұрын
It's nearly always cab > right hand > amp > pickups in that order of importance
@Cultifact 9 ай бұрын
This ! Cab/Speaker can make the top-end gear sound like poopoo and low budget like gold
@martyshwaartz971 8 ай бұрын
And the mic!
@martyshwaartz971 8 ай бұрын
Big takeaway is that the amp knob is op. Oh, and having killer riffs, that helps too.
@Cultifact 8 ай бұрын
Yup - to be honest I could really use something different but the one knob set on 4,6 just made it a little easier for me.
@mickeybreezy 9 ай бұрын
Mike Kerr said the reason he chose such a cheap instrument (Gretsch junior jet ii) was because if you're gonna put a bunch of pedals that fuck up the sound between your guitar and amp then what difference does it make. This illustrates that very well.
@Cultifact 9 ай бұрын
Exactly!
@oskarwroniewicz 9 ай бұрын
So, I went into this comparison assuming there won't be meaningful differences. Listening on my studio monitors... well, it's pretty much what I expected. The two that stood out were the Ibanez Premium with Blackouts (it has more saturated low end and sounds more compressed/even - exactly how you discribe it being "easiest to play") and the very surprising one was the Prestige with Custom Hathors - it has VERY interesting mid range, almost chainsaw-like in some parts. Very unique tone and I can honestly believe that you would have a hard time dialing in such a unique tone with the other guitars. Incredible job with the comparison - that's exactly how it should be made. Now I'm waiting for IR comparison, to show some folks what really makes the difference lmao
@oskarwroniewicz 9 ай бұрын
Actually, you could get that Hathor tone with other guitars - just use EQ before the amp and push the mid frequencies Hathor pickup emphasises. Just another reason to think twice before splashing out on pickups... which are basically magnets with some copper wound around them lmao
@Cultifact 9 ай бұрын
Thank you Oskar ! Happy to hear people enjoying the video. Your conclusion is exactly the same as mine - I think that the Prestige got the most interesting and prone-to-change/susceptible kind of high-mid and high range which could be post edited with great results by professional producers to blend into the mix with different results. But ofc we are talking about the 1:1000 situation - everyone is talking about the recording sessions, studio sounds etc. where in fact enters the studio once in a lifetime...if at all.
@tomaszbogucki1582 9 ай бұрын
Greetings from Poland :)
@Cultifact 8 ай бұрын
Siemanooo
@EricKsMobileDetailing 9 ай бұрын
For me it was the Ibanez GIO. It sounded the most crispiness. The squeals and the hammer ons were on que. In my opinion I think the Ibanez takes the cake.
@Cultifact 9 ай бұрын
Gio surely should be an underdog with its 299€ price but it turned out that even on the stock setup it keep up with the much more expensive brothers. This is the reason I made a review/demo of this guitar some time ago. Getting a good, free of any quality issues model is great entry-level guitar for beginners, intermidiates and those who need a cheap gear for some kind of touring or backups.
@VVVY777 8 ай бұрын
The GIO holds up. None of them are "better" than the others- they're all just different. It's all up to preference. I'm pretty sure you could tweak settings to get them to match. Overall, the answer to the question was always "the differences don't matter".
@Cultifact 8 ай бұрын
Yep - the video has no interest in showing which one is superior over the other one. The GIO is actually great one if we consider it a budget solution - especially for beginner guitarists! Thanks for the comment.
@crocodileman7790 9 ай бұрын
I vote for Ibanez with blackouts, it sound so alive and good
@Cultifact 9 ай бұрын
Seymour Duncan Blackouts are highly underrated imho - I'm kinda surprised that Seymour is not really promoting that products range anymore. They were always in a shadow of EMG's, and now they are becomming forgotten as fluences and other pickups promoted by modern players are pushing them in some sort of oblivion.
@jrettetsohyt1 8 ай бұрын
Solar and, surprisingly, the Gio.
@MichaelSheaAudio 9 ай бұрын
The only one that really stood out for me was the Ibanez Prestige RG652. Whatever's going on with that guitar is giving it a lot of treble, especially in the palm mutes. If I had the choice of spending time and money to change pickups to get that sound, if it's even the pickups that are changing the sound and not like super low action compared to the guitars, or pulling up an EQ for free and changing the sound in an instant, I'd choose the EQ. 😅 For the most part they all sounded pretty much the same though. The more videos I see, the more tests I do myself, and the more I really think about it, the less I care about what pickups are in my guitars. I put a $30 Wilkinson humbucker in a Fender Strat build I did and it sounds like a guitar with a humbucker in it. 🤷
@Cultifact 9 ай бұрын
Thanks for your comment mate ! Yes - the Hathor pickups and Prestige body kinda emphesized the high-mid & high frequencies. There is a lot of "melody information" in those areas so for someone who would do the professional mixes this might make a bigger overall difference.
@areksrocks3375 9 ай бұрын
Gio has some kind of less full sound, a little "clumsy". Prestige the biggest difference has on playing chords - it sounds the most connected and fully. But generally I hear small differences. Comparing all the guitars there are differences in some frequencies and the overall feeling of the sound, so it is up to the player which fits their best.
@Cultifact 9 ай бұрын
In this test all the guitars are using exactly the same EQ setting but as you noticed - each of those, treated individually will make bigger difference - if we will cut the annoing frequencies out of the Prestige it would sound different than if the Gio or other would have been implemented with the missing frequencies which are present in the prestige - I hope you catch my drift here haha
@mityaIvanov2023 8 ай бұрын
Drop D tuning with such thik strings???😮
@Acre00 9 ай бұрын
1. Loved the piece you wrote. Super heavy and aggressive as hell 2. I was surprised at how much difference there was. I expected to have a hard time knowing when the guitar changed, but going from the Ibanez to the Solar was night and day. And that was through my garbage phone speakers! I'm sure the difference would be even more pronounced on headphones 3. The Ibanez Prestige sounded the best to me personally. The Solar was also very good but the more upper mid focus didn't work as well in this particular case. The Stirling sounded the worst by far - completely anemic compared to every other one. I sure hope it sounds better in other genres because I'd be pissed to spend that much for a sound like that
@Cultifact 9 ай бұрын
Thank you so much for your comment! I'm very happy to see people hearing the differences because in the middle of recording I was in doutbt if this comparison will make a sense at all as differences are very subtle and might not be so obvious for majority of people. Still... they are rather cosmetic in the mix :)
@tomix1970pl1 8 ай бұрын
Kocham twój akcent tak starannie ukrywany...
@Cultifact 8 ай бұрын
Dziękuje i cieplutko pozdrawiam
@carlosg4537 9 ай бұрын
Sterling pozamiatał. RG 721 też nieźle. Takie testy mają pewną niesprawiedliwość, mianowicie gdyby do każdej gitary indywidualnie pobawić się gałkami, można by wykrzesać z nich więcej, bo taki Hathor wypadł jak dla mnie dosyć kiepsko tutaj. Sam mam u siebie w wiosłach Hathory (Razora i Juicera + 42) i jak dla mnie najlepsze pickupy jakie miałem dotychczas.
@Cultifact 9 ай бұрын
A widzisz... ja właśnie bym powiedział że wypadł w topie - w mojej ocenie brzmi najbardziej agresywnie i dynamicznie w częstotliwościach które mają najwięcej muzyczny informacji - porównanie to porównanie - nie mogłem nic edytować ale gdybym robił ten sound stricte pod Prestige'a to prostym zabiegiem EQ usunąłbym te częstotliwości które są drażniące i mogą - tak jak mówisz - sprawić że ogólne odczucie są niesprawidliwie :) Dzięki za koment !
@carlosg4537 9 ай бұрын
@@Cultifactwiadomo, tu jeszcze wkracza kwestia gustu. Świetnie, że jest taki wybór, każdy znajdzie coś dla siebie 😊
@andmetalforall2763 9 ай бұрын
The Ibanez for me.
@scotty-dude 9 ай бұрын
For sure the RG721 with the Blackouts sounded the best. The rest sounded similar to each other.
@Cultifact 9 ай бұрын
Thanks for the comment Scott !
@jasonstanko 9 ай бұрын
Prestige wins, but it definitely seems that 95% of it is in the skill of the player.
@thatguywithamustache6043 9 ай бұрын
Would be better more variety, those are all humbuckers basically, some lipsticks, p90s, single coils, filtratrons, we need those
@oskarwroniewicz 9 ай бұрын
I dunno man, for this kind of metal it's pretty much humbuckers all the way. Also the point of this video is to show that humbuckers sound like humbuckers and there is no need to pay $400 for a Bare Knuckle set - the tone difference is just not worth it. Also $2000 guitar won't necesarily sound better then $300 Ibanez Gio. You wouldn't get that conclusion testing different pickup types
@Cultifact 9 ай бұрын
Well - would love to do that but I didn't won the lottery yet :D One of the guitar is already borrowed :)
@thatguywithamustache6043 9 ай бұрын
@@oskarwroniewicz I guess your right
@thatguywithamustache6043 9 ай бұрын
@@Cultifact ye that's true, you even do say metal guitars in the title. Didn't want to come off as arrogant, I think you,re doing great
@Guis37 9 ай бұрын
Where is the Jackson ??????
@Cultifact 9 ай бұрын
Ha! Thanks for noticing ! As the only Jackson I own is a 7-string I couldnt make it work - I tried to record it without using the 7th string but it was so uncomfortable I seriously gave up after few tries
@marekwisniewski8082 7 ай бұрын
As good as "holy hand grenade".
@lusario2650 8 ай бұрын
Articulation differences but in terms of tone, very minimal.
@Cultifact 8 ай бұрын
Thanks for your comment - I did my best but sure - there are slight differences in playing as well :)
@gameon2000 8 ай бұрын
Well these were mostly Ibanez (same brand) with mostly the same (Seymour Duncan) pickups
@Cultifact 8 ай бұрын
Unfortunatelly those are all the guitar I had at the disposal - one is already borrowed and few of them are listed for sale so I wanted to make a last video before reducing their numbers... as this hoarding gets a little bit out of control.
@6oundStudio 8 ай бұрын
yeah, they sound different. seems pretty logical
@Cultifact 8 ай бұрын
Sure they are ! But you have to admit - not as much as the price tags would suggest (ofc we are talking baout hi-gain chuga chuga playing)
@6oundStudio 8 ай бұрын
yeah, no doubt about it! Price tags are a bad way to choose a guitar, for sure. I discovered pretty early on that changing the pickups will make almost any guitar sound good, if you know which ones to choose for your style of playing. the only other factor is how comfortable it is to play, how stable is the tuning and stuff like that. I'm not a wealthy guy by any means, so I've just invested in BKP pickups a bunch of times, put them in my reasonably priced korean schecter\ibanez guitars, bought a DI box, and my DI was as good as any other, so I've just focused on the playing instead. Thanks for the answer @@Cultifact
@Cultifact 8 ай бұрын
No probs! I already told that someone in other comment - GIO is borrowed from Ibanez as I got it at Guitar Summit 23 from guys at Ibanez - borrowed for the tests and needs to be returned this week. Few other guitars are for sale as I came to the point of guitar hoarding - as much as it's fun to keep it has no financial explanation and I need to back up some money. Also all of them (except the Prestige) are bought second hand. This is also one of the reasons I decided to do this video as this is probably the last time I can flex with so much of them and put them to the real test for the last time. RG652 is sticking with me and LTD MH-1000 as well as they are serving different purposes in terms of music composition. I'm thinking about leaving the 721 for the downtuninng but not sure yet. 721 is not so expensive second hand so maybe I'll keep it is as well.
@6oundStudio 8 ай бұрын
@@Cultifact different guitars for different tunings seems logical enough for me. you should check out guitars with single coils and baritones, they can sound very different from a regular guitar
@Cultifact 8 ай бұрын
@@6oundStudio - I got Bartione RGIB21 - even made a lot of videos with it over the channel and one dedicated video about Baritone > 7/8string - this is one of the first videos on my channel which hit over 10k views. I'm also using the Jackson 7 string and Multiscale basses as well. I just got too much 6string which at this point do not offer me any more variety when it comes to creating music :)
@sixsledges5474 9 ай бұрын
they sound WAY too similar for THAT big of a price difference
@Cultifact 9 ай бұрын
Thank you for your comment ! That was the idea behind this video. If there is anyone out there unhappy with his instrument & thinking that buying much more expensive instrument would drastically change his tone and "metal-game" than I hope he might reconsider and stay happy with what she/he have already :)
@SteelyGlow 8 ай бұрын
Gio's disadvantage is that its body is made of soft wood and won't last long with the string gauge in the video. It's a common problem of low budget guitars.
@jhmusic1 8 ай бұрын
@@SteelyGlowthe Gio is made of poplar which is just about the same hardness as alder, it'll be just fine lol. Cheap guitars aren't being made out of balsa or anything, they're perfectly fine. My RG Prestiges are made out of basswood which is quite a bit softer of a wood compared to poplar and I've had them tuned a half step down on 11-56s for years with no issues at all
@Cultifact 8 ай бұрын
That is actually a good point of view - it would require some in-depth long term test to be prooven but I must agree with you@@SteelyGlow
@cilkodebilko 9 ай бұрын
For my taste the first (natural) Ibanez & LTD. 👌
@BrianAndersonTT 9 ай бұрын
Same but I have to include the cutlass with the scourge pups.
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