It’s an easy way for him to make two videos out of one, shits kinda sad

It's not. In fact, shipping batteries overseas can be a hassle due to different import and transportation laws. It's totally sensible to NOT ship that guitar through border customs with battery.

I don't know man, this can totally ruin the experience and the guitar should get a 1 star review. It's today world's logic. 🤷

Imagine that, Glenn baiting being a piece of shit 🤣

He wasted his viewers time with that first video

The guy known for chastising guitarists for not being prepared in the studio wasn't prepared in the studio, lol. I don't understand guitarists who complain about things like setups and batteries on new guitars. The first thing i do when I buy a new guitar is put my strings on it, set it up to my tuning, and take that cheap piece of shit battery out of it that's been sitting in there for god knows how long and replace it with a brand new battery. The last thing I want is my new guitar to cut out on stage or while recording because I was too cheap to put a new battery in it, lol. All of my guitars are passive now anyways, but when I did use active pickups, I would always immediately replace the battery.

That's for 1% of all products, almost every single product requiring a battery supplies the damn battery. I can list more products that include a battery than you can list products that don't.

​@@travisspaulding2222I'll explain the very easy concept, if I'm paying $800+ for a guitar that needs a battery to function I better get a fucking battery because I paid nearly a grand and you sent me a product that wasn't functional without a necessary component you neglected to give me and did i mention I already spent nearly a grand on the guitar for it to not function? That's like selling an amp without the power cable.

He may not have seen the statement, but I bet he's seen the movie. Well Glenn, have you?

@@getshwiftygaming447 You realize that in several countries it is not allowed to send batteries connected to equipment at all and in some countries even sending batteries alone requires the package to be marked and handled as dangerous goods!?! And regarding your comparison to an Amp without cables: Is your Amp working with the cables not inserted into a power source? I don't think so. No complaining about not getting a power source as a "necessary component" here???

I think this is his first solar guitar with active pickups. All his other ones have had passive pickups. So other brands might be able to ship from their countries with batteries, but apparently Spain isn't.

It's likely it's not an issue for many countries, but it's a massive pain for a company to deal with all the different laws in different jurisdictions, so usually companies try to find a one size fits all solution. Something as simple as a 9v battery could quite significantly increase overheads, plus customer confusion with some getting batteries and some not. Plus it's a big potential area for mistakes to happen, like guitars accidentally being shipped with batteries to jurisdictions that require extra paperwork ect, potentially causing holdups with Customs. What electric guitar player doesn't have a supply of batteries? I mean really.

@@Patrick-857 I don't have a supply of battery, but I don't expect batteries from any shipment because of laws, Glen is just being a princess here lol. Pedals are powered by isolated supply and I'm not a fan of anything active. Anyway, batteries are 2 blocks away from my house, it doesn't really matter.

@@nicholasmullins3693the atg has fishmans. Shipped long before this one

like take one out a pedal😂

I like the energizer 9volt lithium

passive ftw

What if you have passive pickups and a 9v PSU for your pedal board?

@greaves1178 one time my wife's hamster ate the wire from my pedals power supply

Running a studio kind of amplifies the need to have batteries on hand though, being prepared for unprepared bands lol.

i think he’s compensating for something! (kidding, love this guy and the channel)

Yeah it's not like it was a mistake, they were up front about it. Honestly Glen is being really precious here and his audience doesn't seem to be on his side here. Also come on, We are all fans of Ola here, and I can't think of a single instance of Ola tearing anyone down or being in any way dishonest. He's always conducted himself with integrity as far as I can tell. Glen is OK, I've been watching him since the beginning, but he sometimes gets it wrong and doubles down. Over the years I think he's definitely hurt his credibility on a number of occasions, and his thing he does was funny back in the day when his videos of him shitting on bass players first got featured on Ultimate Guitar, but it gets old. He shits on his audience pretty often, shits on gear like the Line6 Spider, which is entry level stuff that helps young kids get into guitar and find different sounds so they can better choose the gear that suits them when they upgrade. That's snobbery in my opinion. Ola is the opposite of a snob, he constantly shows you can get a good sound with almost any gear. Same with shitting on the "Red Bean" which was cool to do back then, now that it's legacy gear, people are recognising it for how innovative it actually was, and actually there's a pretty big time session player who used it extensively in the studio. Gear snobs aren't cool. Many of our favourite albums were recorded with crap gear because that's all the band could afford, and they made everyone want to buy that gear. It's just dumb, and unnecessarily negative.

You ain't butthurt! Actually Glen is this time, not acknowledging his own mistake 😁.

😂😂@@riangarianga

Yeah, some bs on Glenn's part for sure. 1 mention would've been suffice, and not docking 2.5 stars. Sandy Vag

wahahahahaaa

Only if you're not a trucker or catholic

Hope they regulate his child of screaming 😂

LOOOL

Unless its in an electric car...

He did say he just ran out of batteries in the last vid. He went to get more and then make the second part. Still feel like he put too much emphasis on something that on the website says that they don't ship with batteries. Ola himself said that they don't ship batteries b/c of country regulations. So it was pretty uncalled for.

he wont admit it because he is such an obtuse person

This was exactly my thought. Batteries are generally considered explosives by the transport/logistics companies and the days of "battery included" are more or less gone.

Man, that's an actual argument 👏

This.

I work in the shipping industry. You can ship batteries IN a product with only a sticker (UN 3481 which must have red hatching). This allows up to a maximum of two batteries. This is a problem when people try to ship EarPods. They have a battery in each ear and one in the charger so can’t be shipped under normal circumstances. You can’t ship a battery that’s loose. So someone would have to fit the battery prior to shipping. It’s maybe that they don’t want to store the guitars with the battery connected. I don’t know at what point QC takes place. If it’s at the time of shipping or when they first arrive in the depot or even when they leave the factory.

Heheheeh, cooome ooon - batteries become dangerous in like - what - 6 to 8 months after expiration date? Or even 8 to 12... And: it's from EU to Canada (I guess...): so it's even less problems

@@poetry_tx I guess you haven't seen the vids of brand new electric cars catching fire? Some instances where this has happened on massive ships. Trouble is, once one vehicle is burning it ignites neighbouring vehicles and then the whole ship gets sunk. Also look up Luton Airport car park fire, a hybrid car battery went up in flames, igniting its neighbours... the whole multi-story car park went up in flames. Battery fires are dangerous and don't need no oxygen because the fire chemically makes its own oxygen. This can also happen with smaller batteries

@@truthtorpedo99 Dude - don't compare 9v battery to high-output lithium-ion batteries, I mean - come on! xxx)

There are indeed restrictions on shipping Lithium-Ion batteries via air cargo -- since 2016.

@@forklessit’s not just lithium batteries. It’s many other kinds too.

Or just different rules for different country before shipping "powered" electronic that doesn't have a OFF switch...

WRONG. I can name 20+ over seas guitar companies that ship with batteries from overseas off the top of my head . schecter, ibanez, jackson... to name a few. @@forkless

​​​@@SplashgameFTWI don't think you understand how the laws work and how those companies actually ship out the guitars. Those brands ship out those guitars differently and don't ship out straight to consumer like Solar does

A 7 would be pretty cool. This reminds me of the old Alexi LTDs that came out almost 20 years ago.

This should be pinned

That's if you order it. We don't know if Glenn ordered this or it was a "free" guitar.

@kanoaikawach in that case it would be more likely that he had received a battery. And Glenn has been doing blind buys for a while

You're absolutely correct.

6505 1992 original with Harley Benton Vertical 2x12

No, that’s still being worked on

Thank you

Yeah but let's be honest they have been out enough to have had more iconic riffs but they don't have much. I'll stick with 6 most of the time

Open a ticket with support at Spectre Digital & they’ll get it sorted

@@SpectreSoundStudios Thanks a lot, I'll do that!

Dude YES!!! My son plays now he is 16. He said to me the other day that he thought it was cool how a lot of the older bands like slayer, early Metallica, etc. use standard tuning’s mostly with an occasional drop day and I try to do that my playing I’m not against seven string, guitars, or a string, guitars or low tuning For me. It’s just something I haven’t needed…. Yet please.