BIG Changes Coming to Guitar Center, CEO Says They want Pro Musicians Now
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Subject index
00:00 Intro
04:40 The G&L Build (link down below)
• Phillip McKnight’s ASA...
08:00 Issues with roasted necks in the long term
13:58 Kiesel Is not Carvin and Carvin is not Kiesel
18:00 Why Pro Musicians needed Carvin and Peavey
22:20 What to pay attention to when a string breaks
26:00 Guitar flippers causing a problem on Reverb
37:50 PRS 594 like a Gibson Sg?
40:40 Guitar flippers live in every town
43:50 Re fretting a PRS
45:27 What is my oldest guitar in my collection?
51:20 No such thing as a perfect guitar, but????
54:00 PRS saws guitars with issues in half?
57:00 Why do all Boss pedals turn on when powered up?
59:00 Keeping gear you do not like because it is cool?
1:04:00 Will Gibson unbrace the Firebird again?
1:08:00 Nathan no longer works at Fender Custom Shop
1:11:00 Low wattage tube amps
1:14:25 My wife and I should have learned more first
1:18:35 Guitar of the week
1:24:00 Fender doesn't own Gretsch how it really works
1:30:10 Sound is turned off
1:31:48 Sounds is back!!!!!!
1:35:20 More Reverb guitar flipping talk
1:37:00 BIG Changes Coming to Guitar Center, CEO Says they want pro musicians
1:45:25 The numbers do not lie
1:48:00 The I do not buy high end guitars online theory
1:50:19 The new in box theory
1:54:00 Vola Guitars, why just sending You Tubers Free guitars doesn't work
1:55:50 The Azz backwards market the NAMM is in.
1:59:50 Can you use electing guitar strings on acoustic?
2:02:00 Relic guitar talk
2:03:30 Why I do no own a Valiant guitar
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@JasonSeesBandMusic Ай бұрын
I once was standing in guitar canter looking at the xlr cable wall. A super hipster sales fellow approached me to ask if he could help me find anything. Sure I said, “I’m looking for a 7 pin XLR cable for my tube condenser microphone.” He said, “ there is no such thing as a 7 pin XLR cable.” I said, “yes their is”. He said “I’ve never seen a 7 pin XLR cable in the whole time I’ve been working here”. Before he could finish his sentence I reached up, grabbed two 7 pin XLR cables and handed one to him and walked off to the register with the other.
@michaelstevenanderson4961 Ай бұрын
It's sounds typical, but I would have still thanked Hunter for his efforts and for finding a job.
@NoSpecificUser-nd6ys Ай бұрын
You like man meat in and around your mouth.
@chadwickhurlburt6529 Ай бұрын
It's good to see that Hunter is making an effort to better himself with employment. He'll get better as he gains experience. You know, his grandmother adores him, alway has.
@sqlb3rn Ай бұрын
I've never heard of a 7 pin xlr cable either, that's a pretty niche example dude
@barbmelle3136 Ай бұрын
I hate when a clerk gives "there is no such thing" rather than "I have not heard of those" I have worked in several shops and never claimed that I knew it all.
@JonClemence Ай бұрын
I can only speak to my experience at my local Guitar Center, but the selection of guitars isn't the issue for me. The biggest issue I have at the store I visit is that (it seems) they put zero time into prepping any electric guitar for sale. Whether new or used, they just take it out of the case and throw it on the wall. All of their used guitars have rusty strings or are dirty/dusty, and the new ones are straight out of the box (high action, out of tune, etc.). Basically, every guitar I pick up feels terrible. Maybe it's too expensive to do this, but if they had someone take a few minutes to give a little TLC to every guitar before it hit the wall, I'd be much more inclined to buy from them. As it is, it just ruins the experience for me.
@MaTTheWish Ай бұрын
Agreed, good point.
@neilpatrickhairless Ай бұрын
It's not the paying the person to do this that doesn't make financial sense to the manager it's paying the person to do it every five minutes that they aren't into
@jeffhurren4034 Ай бұрын
Totally agree. I can't even properly evaluate if a guitar is any good or not
@Bourgeault Ай бұрын
I've purchased many guitars from GC and couldn't agree more. They don't touch their guitars other than to unbox and therefore don't do these sometimes fine instruments justice as they are not set up, not tuned and often have rusty, crappy strings. My experience is that the GC guitar purchase is a crap shoot. If the guitar plays half way decent and sounds good, and I can predict what I think I'll need to do to it to get to play (I'd never have a GC tech touch a guitar I owned), I may buy it, becuase their one very strong redeeming factor is the 45 day, no questions asked, return policy. If I'm not happy, I return the guitar or amp and ask to order one in the box if I still think I want it.
@richiebricker 28 күн бұрын
Must be just your location. Its hard to sell guitars that arent playable or sound good when played
@claudiajay8291 29 күн бұрын
I’m in my 60s . I’m used to being invisible in Guitar Center … sales people don’t approach me … when I approach them … they look surprised that I’m buying something .
@Partybob1 Ай бұрын
You are correct when saying working pros use cheap or sensible instruments. I have pricey stuff but I gig regularly with mostly sub $1k fenders. Most other people I know do too.
@ScottsGuitar Ай бұрын
I gigged a $500 strat for years, and now I gig a ML R9 most of the time. At a certain point I just stopped caring about keeping my nice stuff as case queens. They deserve to live too.
@devilsguitaristmusic Ай бұрын
But you don't usually gig with sub $300 guitars, correct? And you also own $1000+ guitars.
@Partybob1 Ай бұрын
@@devilsguitaristmusic No, this is a simulation
@ScottsGuitar Ай бұрын
@@devilsguitaristmusic I’m not even here
@sentientsonicmachines 29 күн бұрын
I just bought a Music Man for at home. I'll probably play a mid-tier ibanez or used charvel/fender when I play out. Already had a Music Man stolen before and learned that lesson the hard way.
@heyitsandrewcraft Ай бұрын
The things Guitar Center customers do to those guitars is criminal. 😆🤣
@ScottsGuitar Ай бұрын
If GC doesn’t show any care for their instruments why would a customer?
@grappo9481 Ай бұрын
In the times I have gone into a GC, the customers were pretty careful with the guitars but the employees took little to no care handling guitars. I saw one employee take an acoustic off the wall and in the process banged it into three other acoustics. Never looked to see if there was any damage, just walked out of the room.
@wyattqualiana4106 Ай бұрын
I work at Guitar Center as a tech and I can tell you you the decision making process from the top down does not reflect a well cultivated understanding of the reality of the so called “firm” lmao
@badmacbassandbass8118 Ай бұрын
I don't buy from GC unless I go in the store. Never buy online anymore because I don't getnwhat I ordered, or it's been played scratch and dent, not in the original box, things are missing etc. If they want to change how bout just being better at the basics to give customers the confidence they will get what they are paying for.
@lonpollard902 Ай бұрын
I ordered four guitars via Musician's Friends. Two actually shipped from Musician's Friend and were pristine and well packed. The other two shipped from GC and were obviously heavily played, and were damaged in shipping, because they were so poorly packed. Some bubble wrap around a guitar thrown loosely in a box.
@chrisbristow3384 Ай бұрын
Appreciate you mentioning “wages” in your discussions, now and previously. People should be able to make a living making guitars. It’s a luxury for us to sit there and play them.
@stoneysdead689 Ай бұрын
What does that have to do with them deserving a decent wage? We don't have any control over what they make- we simply pay for the guitar- it's up to the company what they pay their employees. And it's up to those employees to stand up for themselves, organize- do whatever you have to do- that's what coal niners, lumber jacks, steel workers, etc. did. They didn't ask the public to spend their money in such a way it made things right- because they knew they couldn't rely on that, the general public is barely making ends meet, they don't have the luxury of using their dollar to make a political statement. I remember being young and trying to get a guitar- if you had of been like "Now save another 200 bucks so you can help the American worker" I would've told you to shove it and went right on and bought that import. Which is what 99% of ppl are going to do- you can never count on patriotism to save you in a situation like this, nor should you. You learn to compete with that import- or you go out of business- that's how it works.
@bitrexgm Ай бұрын
@@stoneysdead689 Simply not spending much on new gear is a political statement of a sort, as there are always a fair number of quality instruments available on the used market - every day another person realizes that there's a point of rapid diminishing returns with respect to money spent on gear as compared to effort invested in other areas, and that the expensive gear they bought new never made them that much better musicians or significantly happier, intrinsically.
@stoneysdead689 Ай бұрын
@@bitrexgm Everyone has their own journey as a musician- some ppl are heavily inspired by gear- others aren't. That said- just because someone is really into gear doesn't mean they can't play well or that they're neglecting other aspects of playing. That's the attitude ppl had back in the 70s and early 80s when musicians would hide their rack systems and whatnot so no one would think they were relying too much on technology. Most ppl have accepted now that good music is good music- they don't really care how it was created. If someone enjoys buying gear and it inspires them- great, have at it. If it doesn't- great- no one is forcing, you.
@mancub1589 3 күн бұрын
Why? Not all jobs and professions allow one to “make a living”. That’s not how macroeconomics works.
@Mark-fo3hx Ай бұрын
What I don’t like about GC is when you order online because the guitar they actually have in the store locally is jacked up in some way and they send you a jacked up guitar from the wall of a different store. When I order online I want new in the box.
@bmg696 Ай бұрын
I have 2 GC's, 30 minutes away in my area. Neither ever have anything in stock that I'm looking for, the amateur sales people could care less, and the guitar selection on hand is used or cheap China guitars. The amp selection is Nil. I'm the type that needs to try gear out before purchasing it, rather than blindly ordering online. I'm fortunate enough that I can afford, within reason, whatever brand and model gear I want, and I actually drive the 8 hours to Sweetwater whenever I want a guitar or amp, where literally everything is in stock to try out and you're treated like a guest, by actual knowledgeable sales professionals.
@hunter37334 Ай бұрын
I can tell you why Guitar Center is failing. I am 60 years old, short and bald. I can go into ANY Guitar Center and walk around for 1/2 hour without being approached by a salesperson. I can literally buy ANYTHING in the store but the salespeople ignore me. Their loss. EDIT- Some keyboard warriors are not getting the point so I will clarify. Sales is about RELATIONSHIPS . If you want to sell something to someone you must engage.A good and properly trained salesperson doesn't wait for a client, they approach.
@JPinBrooklyn Ай бұрын
Exactly this
@TheSavagederek Ай бұрын
Some people don't like pushy salesmen .
@IMPULSOESTATICO Ай бұрын
Most people under 40 don't like sales staff approaching. It's just the way it is.
@stevemc75 Ай бұрын
If that’s what you think the reason is.
@JPinBrooklyn Ай бұрын
@@TheSavagederek True, but there's a big difference between pushy salesperson, and being completely ignored. A few years ago I wanted a GS Mini. I wasn't sure about mahogany vs koa, so I needed to go to 2 separate GC stores to try them both. Walked out of both stores without a guitar. Ended up buying it online, for this specific reason, older person and was not taken seriously as a buyer.
@mancub1589 Ай бұрын
I have 5 GCs within an hour from me and been in all of them and several others across the country when traveling for work. They have been friendly and accommodating. I’m glad they are around.
@mikecorey8370 Ай бұрын
Same here. My store has great people who will give all the help they need. Yeah, there's a couple of no personality youngsters, but they'll learn. G.C. has their issues but I'm tired of the stores being slammed. The people are good. The management team is the problem and it seems they still didn't get it right.
@ScottsGuitar Ай бұрын
@@mikecorey8370it’s owned by ppl that turned it into a debt vehicle and that’s about it. There is no passion at the top to improve it’s just a place to park money for them unfortunately
@johndaugherty4127 3 күн бұрын
Me too!
@skilletlicker9409 Ай бұрын
Carvin and peavey never left me stranded
@eveblack7685 Ай бұрын
I would consider Kissel a professional guitar maker if for no other reasons than price and quality.
@j.powellnetwork Ай бұрын
@52:13 I would also recommend the Yamaha Revstar series as well. Amazing guitars and underrated
@PaulCooksStuff Ай бұрын
Looking forward to Sharpen My Paddleboard on the second channel 😂
@richardm.1868 6 күн бұрын
I hadn't watched this video yet but I was in Guitar Center about 3 weeks ago. I noticed that they placed all the high priced guitars down low where customers could touch, smell, etc. instead of up high out of reach. I thought this was interesting and now I know why. Thanks for the great content.
@leslieperry3001 Ай бұрын
I was a huge Carvin fan in the 80’s . Bought a DC 135 (super strat), a 100w X-100B amp, and a Carvin mixer with huge PA speakers. I still have them all, they sound great, well built. Was a Vai and Holdsworth fan back then . Still am.
@caseylee12 Ай бұрын
I bought my Carvin dc135 2 years ago at a pawn shop for $288 The guy kept calling it a "Caravan" guitar. I made sure not to correct him. Fanatic guitar!
@leslieperry3001 Ай бұрын
Man, you got a great deal !
@lonpollard902 Ай бұрын
I made the mistake in '80 of getting the DC150. A horrible sounding and yet very well constructed guitar. I still have it. It was the first guitar I bought. And I regretted it ever after. The solid maple body, with ebony fretboard, and brass nut, was very shrill sounding. Every guitar I bought or made after that was seeking to avoid ever getting another guitar that sounded at all like that one.
@leslieperry3001 Ай бұрын
@@lonpollard902Maybe drop in some better pick ups. Possible that you got some bad ones. Happens even with even the best of brands.
@lonpollard902 29 күн бұрын
I went through multiple pickups. The guitar itself had zero richness. No woodiness whatsoever. Great sustain. But horrible sound. Everyone who played it hated it. It couldn't get acoustic feedback at all unless directly in front of the speaker, at very high volume. Unplugged it was almost silent. In the very late 90's, my wife at the time got me a Carvin Holdsworth Fat Boy. I told her just: no maple. She got the neck in mahogany, and the top in koa. That is a great sounding guitar. The diametric opposite of the DC150. Someone had sold me a DC 100, very cheap, around '83, and that sounded as bad as the DC150. I've bought guitars new, for less than $200, that sound so much better than the DC150. The DC150 had multiple different pickups at the bridge, as I tried to get better sound out of it. A Kahler trem took a little off the edge off it, but it still sounded horrible. It was the guitar that caused me to stop playing with a pick. Using my fingers was a desperate attempt to take a little shrillness off the top of it. Great construction. Before the trem it had amazing sustain. But there was no hope for the sound of it. I had considered hollowing it out and putting a steel plate on top. Steel would have a woodier sound than that maple.
@BlazonStone Ай бұрын
I played a decent size festival wit ha $150 Harley Benton :) stayed in pretty much tune start to finish because I had set it up properly. A professional guitar is one that stays in tune and plays to your personal preference, and this one does. And I do have way more expensive guitars than that. I just didnt want to fly to the show with my fancy guitars, I wanted to fly with a guitar that doesnt hurt if it gets stolen or lost in transition.
@neilpatrickhairless Ай бұрын
My Uncle plays in a Dead cover band and played a $150 Peavey for years. He makes more money covering other people's songs with a sub $200 bass as a musician than he did when he was travelling the world in the US Naval Band at 17 years old with a $20,000 trombone
@ScottsGuitar Ай бұрын
In a live mix you won’t hear any difference anyways. A lot of ppl (not talking about anyone here) don’t know that tho.
@BlazonStone Ай бұрын
@@ScottsGuitar I dont even care about which guitar I use when recording if its for metal. If it has a humbucker, Im happy. I dont mind much which humbucker. I have different humbuckrs in most guitars and I can use them interchangeable.
@ScottsGuitar Ай бұрын
@@BlazonStone oh yes for metal? You could play 6 strings attached to plywood and get the job done lol. I just use a cheap (still great) old Schecter for any metal recording. I did put fluence moderns in them but that’s about it. Gigs I play today a lot of them aren’t too high gain anymore, and I could still play a $200 squier into a boss katana it’ll still sound just as good as my Murphy lab once it’s gone through front of house. I still gig my ML locally but that’s just cuz I want to beat the crap out of it and give it some life, not for any practical reason lol. Once ur on stage it’s just a tool to get the job done, im focused on more important things at that point. Cheers 🤘
@Scott__C Ай бұрын
@@ScottsGuitar In a recording the difference would be minimal at best if the electronics were equal.
@selloutlabel Ай бұрын
In my GC what i see is the same high end expensive guitars hanging on the wall week after week and the cheap guitars are different EVERY single time. And carvin was awesome in early 2000s. I played a carvin belair 212 at the time had amazing sound. Beast to gig around with though. Heeeavy.
@johnnydswing Ай бұрын
Thanks Phil ! I learned few new things today
@russellives6069 Ай бұрын
The only amp I have been repeatedly complimented in the tone of is my Carvin. Maybe its because they are familiar, but different... and good. If you want a Fender or a Marshall, they aren't it, but they do their thing well.
@Scott__C Ай бұрын
I had a Marshall combo in the 80s and it was so shrill, I never used it. Got a Peavey VTM120 and stopped worrying about what everyone else was using.
@baileywatts1304 Ай бұрын
Another thing about roasted woods that is nice just from an environmental standpoint is not having to spray as much because bugs love getting into wood, especially green wood that is being kept in a big open space to dry out, but the bugs do not find the roasted stuff as appealing and they do not come out of the kilns if they go in there with the slabs of maple. Just something I learned from one of the fellas working in the lumber department at Menards last week.
@Bryan-ct2qm Ай бұрын
Makes sense that high end guitars are selling online. If I am looking to purchase a Custom Shop Strat or Tele, I trust that I'll be getting a great instrument. If I am in the market for a Player, Epiphone, etc. I want to touch it, check intonation and pick the winner.
@richiebricker 28 күн бұрын
Carvin used to make great Pre-amps, we sometimes called it digital distortion. For years now Ive been playing through a "Smarvo" 100w combo (Smarvo is an offshoot of Randall) into a Carvin 4/12 cabinet and I cant imagine having a better tone , It has two dirty channels, but the clean channel is dry and flat and EQ wont help. The only thing that works is to run an external distortion to use on the clean channel
@justusread5722 Ай бұрын
Durable gear is important, the gear being light weight as possible and easy to carry is what I look for. I tell folks at gigs that we don't get paid to play music, we get paid to setup and break down our setup
@kennyg63 Ай бұрын
What products do you find light snd durable? Squier for example?
@justusread5722 Ай бұрын
I don't really worry about guitar weight, more of how bulky the case/bag is. Amps are the issue. An amp that has a great live sound that is easy to carry and maneuver is what I'm always looking for
@kennyg63 Ай бұрын
@@justusread5722 I am a bedroom player that plays standing up and prefer lighter guitars.
@justusread5722 Ай бұрын
Yea I totally get it. Strapping a les paul on and letting it hang for a while is taxing. I'm lucky so far that it doesn't really bother me. I think my mind goes somewhere else when I play guitar and I don't really focus on it lol
@kennyg63 Ай бұрын
@@justusread5722 That is “very cool” !
@k2rocksstl 29 күн бұрын
I played a used one at that box store a few weeks ago and it came ALIVE in My hands! Unplugged! I want one more than ever.
@JoshuaC923 28 күн бұрын
Looking forward to the sharpen my axe👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
@CentaurusRelax314 Ай бұрын
I’ve probably said this before, but, again: *thank you* for the time stamps for individual topics. As much as I like shows like That Pedal Show, for instance, I’m not so starved for talktalk that I’ll watch an hour and a half of random/miscellaneous Q&A.
@classicalthrasher 24 күн бұрын
Love my bass Carvin "combo" amp, a BX600 head with a 1x15 (400 watt.) Back when I bought it straight from Carvin's EBay shop, it was such a steal. Still running, and using it today. "Neutral" yet also nice, the amp has so many EQ options. Can still add another speaker cab for the full 600 wattage. Dreading the day it fails, to be honest. Wish Carvin amps came back-excellent sound, not too expensive, made in US. Thanks so much for explaining their situation.
@fastandfunky 27 күн бұрын
I don't know what's going on at GC right now, but my local store just last week fired all but two of the employees including all of the managers, they retained my friend who has been with them 23 years and another guy, but he says he is not sure that he is safe right now, they pulled people from other stores to temporarily maintain the store.
@BaktaBak3 9 күн бұрын
CEO of GC should read these comments ! ! ! ! 🎸🎸🎸 Appears they have their head(s) in the sand.
@mikeapplegate5845 Ай бұрын
I love the Guitar of the Week segment! Keep up the good work!
@ebandcamp 29 күн бұрын
Car in did something really cool for me once . I had these small plastic monitor speakers I used for band room playback . I hooked them up to my Makie PA sent probably 150 watts through their 75 watt rating ( sounded great before they blew up ). Called Carvin sent them in and they replaced them both for the price of one ! Had A 8 channel mixer I used for drums only to mix into stereo out the PA . Wires adapters . I liked everything. Shame there going away . Buddy had 2 Carvin basses . Swore buy them .
@danbsilen 8 күн бұрын
Phil, you should read the original article in Music Inc. The Guitar World headline quote takes the Guitar Center CEO out of context, and puts two paraphrased sentences next together that changes the gist of what he's saying and seems to be eliciting a lot of rage baiting content on social media. The link to the original is at the top of the GW article. I see the new philosophy in effect at my local GC in California where they've recently added a table where you can try out all their effect pedals and moved expensive guitars down so you can try out everything now. I wasn't even aware of some of the higher end Gibson and Fender models until they made this change, and now they're on my radar and I might buy one in the future since I had a chance to try them in a store.
@howardthrust Ай бұрын
Philip!! Man, you absolutely NAILED the whole current guitar market state with your "connected flow" of comments! The whole spiel should be REQUIRED viewing/listening for ANYONE (Corporate CEOs included)!! Statements by the newly appointed G/C Chief are merely typical "public rhetoric" aimed at justifying their new appointment...nothing more. Got a NOS NAMM Show VOLA from their Reverb Shop: "Custom Shop" quality for
@chrisrussoroos6091 Ай бұрын
GC should hire you as a consultant so they don’t F it up. Not sure you’d want that. Definitely learn from you all of the time. Thanks Phil!
@williamneillgross3926 28 күн бұрын
1:37:07 a little bit in, talking about $300 guitars and serious musicians...I'm not a master by any means but I can play advanced classical repertoire on a bottom of the line Yamaha as well as a top of the line Ramirez. It will be a different experience but with a setup and a little tweaking, the Yamaha is a good instrument for many gigs.
@Boots_McScoots Ай бұрын
I've had a Carvin MTS half stack for eons. Great amp, with its own sound on the cheap. Also, I'm pretty sure the only guitar you can get the Carvin branding on these days is the Jason Becker signature.
@johnasbury3744 29 күн бұрын
You should do a set of videos training us how to do guitar setups I know there's a lot of videos on setups but need some that they would use in a school I'd pay for that class even if it was online
@PatrickGeneLeBlancHardy Ай бұрын
Thanks for sharing @Phil 🎸🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶🎶
@felipecardenas1039 Ай бұрын
I have a guitar center and I had to travel 5 hours to visit music shops that carry higher end amps, cabs and guitars. I’m old school where I prefer feeling and hearing what I’m buying.
@11000038 Ай бұрын
Not really old school. It's about not being too lazy to do the research and to make the effort to really choose the exact thing you want.
@toddhatfield5329 Ай бұрын
DR break for me too! Like, as I'm stringing them. Happened 4 times in a row so I've never used em again.
@rockingirish Ай бұрын
Have a Korean Gretsch and after getting the tuning to stay put it's darker sound sounds good through Katana 50. I have tubes but the boomy makes use of crispy highs
@vanessajazp6341 Ай бұрын
I have a few Boss pedals that DON'T automatically turn on, and others that do. Not sure why the difference.
@BonkeyMucket Ай бұрын
My old Carvin BelAire amp was my favorite amp.
@rusekd Ай бұрын
It was so sad when wildwood closed the physical store in Louisville. They don’t even allow you to come to their new location without an appointment last time I checked. Monkton (amazing local mom and pop) in Broomfield is the place to go play some cool vintage stuff around here these days or go down to Denver and hit up flipside (awesome people and selection).
@greasemonkey568 26 күн бұрын
The Carvin shop was across the street from GC, and next door to the Mesa shop. Being next to the Mesa shop was even worse for Carvin, amp comparison wise. (I bought a Bolt kit from the Carvin shop and a Mark V from the Mesa shop. :) )
@ph1losopher Ай бұрын
I had a Carvin 100W half-stack that I could not get a decent sound out of, and was in a band with a bass player with the Carvin 1kW bass stack that had constant overheating problems. You don't see Carvin amps anywhere anymore, and I think there's a good reason.
@dw7704 Ай бұрын
Something must have changed with Boss over the years I have 5 Boss pedals and only one comes on with the power, but 4 are older ones, and one more recent. Maybe when they changed country of manufacture? I have had that happen with other brands as well.
@user-pq9ji7kt4l Ай бұрын
I LOVE the fact I can browse in GC! I do buy more stuff because I’m allowed to shop and browse. Grabbing a guitar to try without being surrounded by employees is a wonderful thing!
@gcvrsa Ай бұрын
20-25 years ago, Guitar Center had tons of pro level gear easily acessible. But the management of GC was so poor in subsequent years that they went effectively bankrupt, and lost most of their pro level distributorship rights. The only companies that actually stuck with GC were the companies so big that they had no choice, like Fender and Gibson. The smaller and boutique brands that used to sell through GC all abandoned them, for fear they weren't going to get paid if the company went belly up. I stopped shopping at GC a long time ago, because they don't carry anything I'm interested in buying, though I do still stop in occasionally to check for used pro level items that occasionally come in. My local GC used to have the entire Mesa/Boogie line, Warwick, Music Man, and so many more pro level brands, and then they all disappeared during the late 2000s-early 2010s, and I, like so many other serious musicians, stopped going there.
@mrroye 27 күн бұрын
Regarding the pedals starting up when you turn them on, I always start my set up with my amp volume on zero. Plus the first pedal in my guitar chain is my equalizer with the game down to zero just in case one of my connectors to the pedals is shorting out. And if you're playing directly into an interface that should also be started off at 0. How many petals do you have that you just can't click off the few that are on. I have been doing so since 1975. I hate the sound like the old man yelling at the moon, but I don't waste my thoughts on trifling things.
@walterhambrick8705 27 күн бұрын
I think when they do not have a guitar, they should ask each customer what they waanted and why. I recently (last year or so) purchased 2 Gretsch G6422-TG ibkube becayse no stores locally had them. I wanted something to replace my Gretsh 6122 Country Classic (Gentleman) which was becoming too heavy. I needed one to leave at church and an identical one to practice / play at home. The 5422s were a good replcament for the CC as they were hollow body smaller similar to the big one and lightere. Later I purchased 2 Epiphone Hummingbird Pro models, one for church and one at home.
@Longjonsilver2 Ай бұрын
🌕 tanks I like 5-10 min. commercials. After ever 60 /70 sentences. Because I can’t stand over my iPad so I listen to all them..Thx !!
@andrewdobosz3682 Ай бұрын
I put ernie ball regular slinky on my acoustic, the envelopes actually say electric or acoustic guitar strings... although the 3rd is bare they make sets with a wound 3rd string... i just don't like the feel of acoustic strings i also think they wear out alot faster than the electric ones.
@sesa2984 Ай бұрын
Even if I supported giant (inter)national chains, I would never seriously buy a guitar of any value from Guitar Center. At best I go there for a few incidentals and to see what a few guitars look like up close, but I saw a nashville tele deluxe hanging by its tuning peg from the wrong sized wall hanger, and that was about par fo the course about how well taken care of the guitars were. There was a j-45 in the “expensive” acoustic room that had a cracked top due to ridiculously bad humidity regulation. Full price.
@jerrymcdaniel4539 8 күн бұрын
We are going to have to see the pictures of the new recruit in the army.
@Earthshaker1965 21 күн бұрын
You're exactly right Philip. Collectors will not be paying 5K and above for guitars at Guitar Center.
@user-fg4ey3jf1d Ай бұрын
I think there's a wide spread between $300 guitars and the "$6,000 PRS and Gibson Murphy Labs" you talked about. I am a hack guitarist with plenty of money to spend, but the stuff that I consider "high end" is more like $1,000 to $2,000. If they want to stock the walls with American Fender, Gibson, PRS S2, etc, then that's awesome. Some of that stuff goes up to $3,000, but not insanely expensive. It is possible that a 17-23 year old burgeoning rock star could work for a summer and afford what I consider "high end". Does that make sense? If they're talking about going from Pacifica, Tagima, Squier, etc. to the American standard stuff, then let's goooooo! Great channel and great episode once again!
@taplin7616 Ай бұрын
How many serious musicians exist? How can you make a living working in a store? How can you make a living repairing or making guitars? How can you make a living doing music lessons? Very few good positions exist. All the money is on the top tier. Will the bubble ever pop and the whole economy ever tank? Seems like it should, but people keep spending their money? High end guitars I just don’t understand? Retail stores are on borrowed time…Economics is the hardest subject to understand. Reverb, Ebay and even local personal internet ads for guitars are way too high. Guitar market is flooded with too many guitars at high prices yet people keep buying them? When it crashes it won’t recover? Supply and demand 😂
@USMarine75 Ай бұрын
What is the average current discount you can expect at GC for a guitar off the wall? I’m looking at a $1600 guitar. (I like the figuring of it so I’d rather buy this than one online for the right price)
@timbice3909 Ай бұрын
GC in my area of SW Florida is just ok for browsing. To me, their web site is confusing related to inventory available in a particular store. Also, there aren't very many guitar techs at a store. Always, for me, never in a store.
@joemccarthy641 Ай бұрын
I agree with you on musicians not wanting other people to play the guitars they purchase. The last 4 guitars I purchased via Musicians Friend were shipped from Guitar Centers. In 3 cases, the guitars were demos with parts missing. In the 4th case, the guitar was shipped with a piece of bubble wrap over the guitar and an awful piece of rosewood for the fretboard. It looked like someone's return because they were looking for a better piece of rosewood. I have a big parts inventory so I was able to fix the first 3 guitars on my own, and I kept the 4th guitar because after I set it up it's very comfortable to play. It still has the awful, streaky fretboard, but I might do the shoe polish tint trick.
@villageidiot9867 Ай бұрын
They sent me a new Schecter in a Fender box. Couldn't find anything wrong with it though. Not a scuff or scratch. Plays fine. Still it left a bad taste in my mouth if I buy another new guitar it will probably be from Sweetwater. MF & GC I'll still buy pedals and what not.
@kaneo67 Ай бұрын
About the string break-age brands-of course Phil is correct with finding out where it broke etc. But the only strings that break for me now are Elixir nanoweb. They seem to be the weakest strings ever and it is frustrating because even a D string might break randomly which happened recently for me. I wasn't even playing hard at all. Then you have to put another non coated string on so you get your moneys worth of the rest of the coated strings. I am in the category of "i rarely break strings ever" but if I do break one, it is always an Elixir nanoweb. The optiweb are super strong, unbreakable. But I found the best brand of strings now-rotosound
@johnnewton1830 Ай бұрын
I don't really get what you're saying about online pricing information. Reverb has always had that information available and I look at it to price my items or to see about what I should offer. They've always been able to have up to date information if that's what they want. I'm not sure what you're seeing that is different now?
@11000038 Ай бұрын
Agree. I'm not really sure what the point being made was. Economists talk about perfect markets where all buyer and seller are fully informed. We now approach that situation because of the internet. It was never case before.
@ronpopeil7 Ай бұрын
For a PRS guitar that is like an SG - I would go with the S2 McCarty 594 thinline. Thin like an SG, double humbuckers. Really like mine.
@Ovibos5 Ай бұрын
Or a Mira if you can find one used.
@stevemears2555 Ай бұрын
I agree. I also love my McCarty thinline. Many SG vibes plus coil tapping.
@Jay-wk9xj Ай бұрын
My GC in Eastern mass has very few guitars under $300.It's mostly between four hundred and a thousand... Have no idea what this guy is looking at but I would love it if there was more sub three hundred dollar guitars in my local store.... Good luck with High-end sales at this point.When most players know they can get imports of the same quality for much less than domestic...
@robphillips8351 29 күн бұрын
That oven baked maple neck joke was the schiz lol
@fepatton 29 күн бұрын
Re: new in box. I bought a MiM Strat at GC. It was on display and I spent about an hour with it and my Mustang Micro, just getting to know it. It was in perfect shape and even discounted. When I got to the register with it in hand, the guy said, “Let me see if we have one new in the box.” I turned him down - I already knew that I liked the feel, sound and look of this one. I know there’s not much variation in the MiM guitars, but there is some, and I didn’t want to spend another hour with another guitar!
@jonhoward437 Ай бұрын
GC has a custom shop Fender that I go visit in the glassed in "divorce room." It wouldn't even be a temptation if I hadn't laid hands on it. I like having a place to try guitars out, and GC fills that notch.
@glimmertriplet7217 Ай бұрын
I hope the G&L the company provides Phil is a Fallout. Duo Sonic/Mustang type body but HB bridge and P90 neck and not short scale like the Fenders. I have a Tribute but would love to see Phil deep dive a USA model. Very cool guitars!
@gayrodeo Ай бұрын
I realize I am a little jaded now that Phil has taught me how to setup a guitar, but I gotta say the guitars at GC’s in Oregon are literally never looked over and regularly maintained by the staff. They are unplayable. Even a $300 guitar should be given a 2 minute check and tune a couple times a week.
@CraigFlowersMusic Ай бұрын
Since you mentioned phenolic resin in a richlite context, I thought this would be a good place to ask: I have two butterscotch blackguard telecasters, a Pro2 with a plastic guard and a Vintage2 with the old phenolic resin style 5-screw guard, and the plastic one doesn't warp but the resin one doesn't create static pops in my sound or scratch up, so why can't they make a multi-ply pickguard with the outer ply being phenolic resin and plastic layers under that? Is that a bad idea? If there were someone to ask, I would have one built for me.
@ratwynd Ай бұрын
Rare for me to break a string. When I do, it is usually the octave G tuning up a new set on a 12 string. For electric 6 I like the DR Blues or GHS Boomer David Gilmour in 10's.
@samcardone7494 24 күн бұрын
The problem i have is GC looks like an indoor tag sale, the place is always messy and the floors are never clean. It used to look amazing when the first opened.
@johnnolan4312 Ай бұрын
Thanks Phil , another great podcast
@jondonnelly Ай бұрын
"You wipe your socks on it!" 🤣
@brandonanderson2066 Ай бұрын
My gc carries no high end guitars unless it's fender or Gibson. No core prs. No players edition Gretsch. No schecters over 5 bills. No esp. it's definitely a bummer.
@TVsBen Ай бұрын
I only buy online and I mostly buy from Sweetwater specifically because I want to pick the exact guitar I buy when it's a high-end item, and I don't want something that's been played a ton at Guitar Center. I will demo things at GC myself but then I'll go home and order it. I don't care if it's new in box, but I care that it's been beat up.
@robphillips8351 29 күн бұрын
Carvin guitars and amps were what I grew up playing, DC 125, 127, 200 koa, sx 60,100, x60, 100, 100 watt head with br 4-12 cab.. oh yes the neighbors and police loved me lol
@swampcat73 Ай бұрын
Love the Gretch 6118. Classy! I have 4 Gretsch’s-one 6120 built in the Brooklyn factory in 1995 and signed br Fred Gretsch III. The other 3 are electromatics, and all play and sound amazing.
@moosemuseum1853 Ай бұрын
I feel the same way about Guutar Center regarding keyboards. They're just not ge store for me anymore. I have to drive 600miles to go to Perfect Circuit.
@77pearcearrow Ай бұрын
1:44:58 I gig and teach for a living and I use my S2 for teaching and it is beat up since I bought in 2020. Same for my Jazz axe, and I got deal I could not refuse or I would not own it. I have gone through so many import guitars and maxed them out to the point that the repairs and refrets are not worth the cost of the instrument. I'm not sure if I would but a high end PRS or Gibson for work right now.
@r0bophonic Ай бұрын
1:40:42 In my experience pros buy player grade vintage gear for sessions and reliable cheap gear (like Peavey) for gigs
@heymrguitarman7637 Ай бұрын
Man that Gretsch is a beauty. I think the black is wonderful. I own a White Falcon and love it but I'm a sucker for a classy black guitar, it's always been my favourite colour for a guitar
@brianosborne9393 Ай бұрын
It's about damn time.
@stanbarrett677 19 күн бұрын
When it comes to guitars, I like to knows how it feels, in my hand before buying it. If the guitar sounds, and feels amazing in my hand I don't have issues of paying retail, if I feel it's worth it. So I guess I'm not like most who buy guitar on internet before trying. And just because it the same brand doesn't mean I'm going to bond to it, the way I did with the one I tried at the store.
@jamescoffin6171 Ай бұрын
What is the HS Floyd Rose guitar on left screen? Sunburst with maple fretboard.
@PearlJamaholic 25 күн бұрын
Couldn't a syndicate of sellers/shops drive down prices on Reverb? An owner could list an item, have a friend make a a super low offer and accept it. Then swap the cash and guitar back in person, and have other sellers in other states hit the same items. This would keep guitar prices from becoming inflated, and Reverb getting more from sales. They could also do this to drive up prices, then list their stock at retail and it would seem like a discount compared to others' listings.
@jmendi55 Ай бұрын
I was on a job related trip to Denver and played hooky one afternoon and went to Wildwood. The store is so small I drove by it twice. There was virtually NO inventory. I did have a great conversation with the owner and the guys, and they were as nice as could be and even flipped me a free tee-shirt, but those guitars Greg Koch demos were nowhere to be seen. So disappointing
@mikelundquist4596 Ай бұрын
I needed a couple of tunes. So I went to GC. I was not greeted, but no big deal. I looked around for a salesperson. None would make eye contact. So I plugged in a guitar and played as obnoxiously as I could. Nada. I went to a counter and waited behind a family. I was looking the other way and when they were done the sales guy bolted. I was dumbfounded. They had the tunes locked up. I went behind the counter but couldn't get to the tunes. I finally left after about 50 minutes. With no tunes. The next day I went to a small local store and bought some tunes. In and out in less than 10 minutes.
@tpbulle Ай бұрын
Guitar Center- So consider this- I may not buy the higher end guitar I try at Guitar Center- but, I'm playing it to compare types and configurations. How does a D-18 VS. a D28 vs. a Gibson Songwriter sound? Mahogany back and sides vs. Rosewood ? etc... If I can try the "demo guitars" then I can make a choice and order one- not necessarily buy the showroom demo. Make sense?
@TypeoS Ай бұрын
Queston? I just bought a epiphone slash les paul , Victoria goldtop, nice guitar but the neck feels big. As a comparison I have a epiphone jerry cantrell wino and it seems a little thinner. I love the way the slash model sounds but is it just me or is the slash model a different size neck? Kinda gives me cramps.
@johndaugherty4127 3 күн бұрын
It is based on a 1957 Les Paul. I have the exact same guitar, and it isliterally the best Les Paul that I have ever played. I really like the neck. Keep playing it and your hand will adjust.
@TheDrunkenScoundrel Ай бұрын
No offense to Mrs. Gear, Epiphone, Sweetwater, or anyone, but since seeing your Firebird video, there is only one color those should come in. Also: I have G&L ASAT Classic I got on Stupid Deal for $350 and it is at least as good as my USA Charvel and my '89 Strat Plus. Can't wait for that video.
@mrroye 27 күн бұрын
If I ever buy another guitar online again it will not be from guitar center unless I can get it in the box my SE 2408 had so many fingerprints on it and a few blemishes they didn't bother trying to clean it up. I think when you selling something while packing it up you should ask what I want my guitar to arrive looking like this?
@nickalderman5943 Ай бұрын
I bet the "high end" is more like 6-1600. The lessons thing, they actually have extremely qualified teachers, it's like $100/four half hour lessons and students get 20% off. It definitely converts a lot of people, but the lack of inventory and floor models for bnib price is murdering their potential conversion rate. The new ceo is definitely mistaken about his target demographic, but it sounds like he's going the right direction to get people back in the stores and drop tuning all of the guitars
@gkanai1400 Ай бұрын
The CEO should come to Tokyo and visit the Fender Tokyo Flagship store and any of the major music stores, Shimamura, etc. they have hundreds of guitars from a few hundred to a few thousands of dollars all together.
@nicholas372 Ай бұрын
The same thing Reverb has done has happened to vinyl on Discogs. If some rich person pays a crazy amount for a record one time, it permanently shifts the market price of that record for years to come.
@Goofball1184 Күн бұрын
Truth ! Lemmings overboard !!
@poesybeat Ай бұрын
GC in Arlington Heights (Chicago) they locked up all the guitars. I spend about $4000 a year on guitars. If they think I’m going back to that GC, they’re sadly mistaken. New CEO take note. Unlock them or many of us will shop elsewhere.
@hgoruiz Ай бұрын
Regarding the GC part. I understand your point Phil, but what about hobby musicians that just want to get a good guitar to play? Not stuck anymore with 200 usd guitars? And want to TRY that guitar, have options to go and check which guitar he/she bonds with? One can buy pro guitars on line but that’s not proper way to select, to choose a good guitar. I believe that’s a part that we’re missing on the retailers. Down here, I can go to a store and only seeing Chinese low budget guitar.. and I mean cheaper than epiphone’s low budget.. even a Yamaha Revstar standard is hard to check live.. how can we choose and define if that guitar is actually a good buy without trying? By checking videos on KZfaq? It’s not the same. We need a good place to go and try those.. I see the point of the GC CEO, although I concede that maybe we’re not a big part of the market…
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