TOO MANY GUITAR SWITCHES AND KNOBS? Or not enough? - Checking out the Alameda Clamshack Deluxe!

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@Chris.Wiley. Ай бұрын

Man, I love all the switches and knobs! I wish there was an import version of this for $1000

@greeniz2k7 Ай бұрын

Videos with you and Mel are an absolute joy! I don't care if there's not much guitar playing, but I would love one of those deluxe models. Then I got to the Don Knotts as Mando part and literal tears 😂... I can never un-imagine that 🤣. Brilliant, every second... the guitar designs, the energy, the bidirectional time traveling soul swapping with Brian, everything

@bassnsax Ай бұрын

As a Long Guitar & Tortoiseshell Pickguard Enthusiasts, the Deep VI is **beautiful**!!! Also, some damn fine bass playing there, Ryan! Don Knotts-Mandolorian would be proud or confused.

@NintenDub Ай бұрын

I love mel..this dudes gunna eventually be appreciated in the guitar making/modding/playing community

@alamedaguitars2455 Ай бұрын

someday I want to be like Sally Fields at the Oscars - you like me, you really like me! :)

@ohmslaw-vh5zm Ай бұрын

Chalk is made of a combination of seashells and baby tooth enamel. The same enamel that coats StringJoy strings. Who are a proud sponsor of this award winning KZfaq channel.

@alamedaguitars2455 Ай бұрын

I hear if they're running low on baby tooth enamel, they spot a few bucks to the tooth fairy, and when she goes to trade for baby teeth, she knocks out a few extra for Big Chalk.

@joeyskar Ай бұрын

Mel laughs like Joaquin Phoenix. A connoisseur of tortoise shell pickguards is officially a tortoisseur. I hope to get one of these one of these days.

@alamedaguitars2455 Ай бұрын

he laughs like me. I learned from Chuck Norris.

@ramencurry6672 Ай бұрын

I listened again. It does kind of sound like a villain in a movie in some ways

@RalphPacheco2 Ай бұрын

Mel is a treasure, keep digging that man up

@riphopfer5816 Ай бұрын

I love everything about these guitars. I just bought my first S-style guitar in nearly 20 years after playing mainly Gretsches and Epiphone, and I wound up purchasing a G&L Legacy HSS, because I wanted a coil-split in the bridge and I wanted the Passive Treble/Bass system (as opposed to traditional Strat tone controls. So-now these things, which I’ve been monitoring narrowly out the corner of my eye, waiting to see what happens with them, have a PTB system as well! In ADDITION to all the other incredible features. It’s now officially the most versatile guitar on the market, bar none. I simply must have one…even if intonating TWO bridges must be a truly obnoxious PITA. Forget experimenting with different string gauges on it. But BESIDES that, everything else is bloody amazing.

@alamedaguitars2455 Ай бұрын

Thanks! FWIW, I do a very basic intonation with the tremolo bridge, mainly to dial in the tension of the string over the roller bridge per string, using the height and forward/backward motion of the trem saddles to optimize the break angle over the roller. It's certainly possible to use the trem saddles to dial in the tone and pitch behind the bridge, but that's too confusing even for me! ;)

@Riffs79 Ай бұрын

Mel's energy is AWESOME!

@alamedaguitars2455 Ай бұрын

THANKS!!! Truly, Ryan just gets me hyped up. Plus I don't get out much. ;)

@MrNatural_OG Ай бұрын

I see a bright future for this young man, Ryan, not so much

@mrNobody100 Ай бұрын

so many switches it's giving me anxiety... but A+++ for creativity....

@alamedaguitars2455 Ай бұрын

How about an A++++ for having a standard model Clam Shack with a volume, tone, rotary, and 5-way switch? A little something for everyone!!! :)

@skaldlouiscyphre2453 Ай бұрын

My guitar has one knob, no switches. I could make due with one switch and no knobs though.

@alamedaguitars2455 Ай бұрын

I like it - it's the guitar design equivalent of haiku!

@joshuaraysummey7679 Ай бұрын

Yo. Best kit ive seen on your channel! Thanks for this!

@onbedoeldekut1515 Ай бұрын

I'm always in the 'never enough' camp. My last build had trple-shot ring mounts, a varitone (with/without a Q-filter) AND the 'Jimmy Page wiring harness. My next will have phase/parallel/series per coils, potential taps for individual coils, obligatory varitone, black ice and a piezo bridge. Not too taxing, then. I've got a drawer full of tiny switches that I'm going to sandwich in-between layers of a pickguard, with the clear middle layer illuminating.

@alamedaguitars2455 Ай бұрын

dude that sounds awesome - I'd love to see some pics!

@windyhollow7869 Ай бұрын

its so cool that you can intonate the strings behind the bridge

@LuisRFeliu Ай бұрын

I love that guy, he's crazy.

@tymime Ай бұрын

It's honestly surprising there aren't more metal bands that use six-string basses. They're actually lower than 8-strings!

@none_remaining Ай бұрын

@33:48 This IS why I came to this video.

@ricksaint2000 Ай бұрын

Mel Rocks!

@jamesonpace726 Ай бұрын

Mr Mel is a helluva cool guy to have as a neighbor....

@alamedaguitars2455 Ай бұрын

I'm remember to tell my neighbors! :)

@markspurgin8225 Ай бұрын

Oh 💩 I missed the live 😮

@alamedaguitars2455 Ай бұрын

don't worry, I missed it too. so maybe we're the cool kids?

@GTdesigner Ай бұрын

I love this guy and his energy, but yeah, too many switches and knobs for me. Love you guys

@person01123 Ай бұрын

You guys are a hoot!

@dangerousdee1959 Ай бұрын

More knobs, more switches!

@alamedaguitars2455 Ай бұрын

be careful what you wish for!

@dangerousdee1959 Ай бұрын

@@alamedaguitars2455 😆 I just saw Steve Vai play his Dragon in Cincinnati.

@lesliefranklin1870 Ай бұрын

Come for the plethora of guitar controls. Stay for ATP and the Kreb Cycle.

@alamedaguitars2455 Ай бұрын

don't forget the Sverdrups!

@mindfield9832 Ай бұрын

I need this!!!

@tymime Ай бұрын

Gen Y kid here, and I understood all the celebrity references (I watched a lot of Looney Tunes, after all)

@alamedaguitars2455 Ай бұрын

Gen X and I learned a lot of pop culture from Looney Tunes, too! Ah, the barber of seville....

@DerpyM_2.0 Ай бұрын

Mel is back!

@cdw9687 Ай бұрын

Honestly didn't even notice a guitar lol

@ousley421 Ай бұрын

Mel is a force to be rectum li....he is a force, thank you guys. Of couse it happens on a day with an important activity...missed the live

@alamedaguitars2455 Ай бұрын

How did you know about my upcoming restaurant idea - "House of Prunes" - where every order is to go, and we love our regular customers!!!

@markhammer643 Ай бұрын

I like options, but no guitar should feel like a combination lock. The user should be able to get to the sounds they want, easily and quickly.

@alamedaguitars2455 Ай бұрын

very good point - that's why I also make a standard model Clam Shack with a volume, tone, rotary and 5-way switch. Actually, maybe I should add a few more switches to the deluxe circuit that may or may not do anything! :)

@markhammer643 Ай бұрын

@@alamedaguitars2455 I find, as well, that there are many "options" whose tonal differences from another option simply vanish, once the amp volume gets turned up, or drive pedal comes on. They're tonal options that exist in theory, but not in practice. I wrote about this in a piece for Craig Anderton's DEVICE newsletter, back in 1979, and I haven't changed my stance since. Maybe you need to add the "producer switch" that Leland Sklar and his studio buddies refer to. The legend is that studio pros might have a do-nothing switch on their guitar or bass. A fussy-n-fickle producer might spend valuable studio time complaining that the tone of a given instrument was a little too much or too little of this or that. The musician would flick the switch and ask "How about now?" and the producer would answer "Perfect".

@TheDrunkenScoundrel Ай бұрын

....and the correct amount of frets.

@alamedaguitars2455 Ай бұрын

I could add an extra one, or maybe half of one, that might be fun! :)

@TheDrunkenScoundrel Ай бұрын

@@alamedaguitars2455 LOL. I always prefer 24. 22 is okay. 21 makes my left eye twitch and gives me one of my special headaches....

@alamedaguitars2455 Ай бұрын

@@TheDrunkenScoundrel Ha!!!!

@tophertaylor68 Ай бұрын

Keep waffling on about pepperoni pickguards.

@alamedaguitars2455 Ай бұрын

well, pepperoni drips grease, not reverb, but it's close, right? :)

@djay6651 Ай бұрын

I feel like 'Clam Shack' has a dirty back story.

@alamedaguitars2455 Ай бұрын

I think I mentioned the origins of the Clam Shack in a previous visit to Ryan's place, but here's a summary. I was in an auto accident in 2017 and lost my ability to put words together. About a week before the accident I was talking to a high school friend about kids getting dick pics, and we noticed there wasn't a proper name for the ladies' version. I proposed "clam gram" and she agreed. So after the accident, the word I was best able to say was clam gram, much to my wife and daughter's amusement. Thankfully I was able to say more before too long. Now I don't know when to shut up. Actually I never did. So that's the dirty part. Now, it's not easy coming up with a name for a guitar that's cool but hasn't already been used. I had a revelation that a) I've never been cool so why try and b) what's not to love about a Clam Shack? Besides, that's more easily marketable than clam gram. Maybe Clamocaster?

@_-_Michael_-_ Ай бұрын

This was like somebody dropped something into my drink, but I’m home alone and it could only be me and that is somehow way more scarry 😂😂😂

@risteardohaodha23 Ай бұрын

I’m watching this home alone too and it definitely feels like someone slipped me something earlier 😂🤪😵‍💫

@TheGhostLad1 Ай бұрын

You two are pure comedy act. Ryan you should team up with Mel more often. Very enjoyable to watch. No there can never be too many switches on a guitar due to the fact that it gives you more tonal options with your pickups. As they say “the more the merrier” lol. Get naked and get your surf on.

@bldallas Ай бұрын

Please tell me those knobs go to 11. But seriously, it has to be easier to learn how to fly a commercial airplane than it is to learn how to control that guitar. I like me some push-pull pots and 4 way Tele switches, but these things have way too many options. I would be paralyzed by over-adjustability.

@alamedaguitars2455 Ай бұрын

They go to 11.11111!!!! Yes, these are complex controls, that's why I also make a standard version with a volume, tone, voice rotary, 5-way switch, and a neck on/off switch. I'll have to figure out how to add a "un-paralyze by over-adjustability" switch. :)

@greendunn1 Ай бұрын

Is that cinnamon toast ken?!?

@marcarcoria7672 Ай бұрын

$2650,????!!!!!! Thats insane.....

@alamedaguitars2455 Ай бұрын

Not sure if the price is insane, as that's up to personal opinion, but I'm confident that in the least I'm insane. So there!

@michaeldmytriw1047 Ай бұрын

If Brian May played surf guitar…

@michaeldmytriw1047 Ай бұрын

He’d play Mr. Waldorf’s beautiful instrument, which based on the layout my require a PhD in Astrophysics to operate

@KingLoopie1 Ай бұрын

Unmount a chalkboard to rinse it?? Pounding erasers was just to teach you which way the wind is blowing or to run backwards while while pounding them if it's not... Apparently... Ryan failed that lesson... 😜

@alamedaguitars2455 Ай бұрын

Also works for upkeep for powdered wigs

@tymime Ай бұрын

Do you ever get copyright IDs for all the brief covers you do?

@60CycleHumcast Ай бұрын

Nope

@alamedaguitars2455 Ай бұрын

@@60CycleHumcast wait, I don't get a performance royality for my rendition of the two Princetons song?!?!?

@ChaelaThompson Ай бұрын

Inside me are 2 wolves, one wants a Tom Delonge starcaster, one wants one of these. And they are both fighting right now

@alamedaguitars2455 Ай бұрын

I told the Delonge wolf that there was something on his shirt, he looked down, I booped him in the nose, and he had the epiphany that he wanted a Clam Shack too. See I solved it for you! :)

@ChaelaThompson Ай бұрын

@@alamedaguitars2455 your genius knows no bounds, like using a vega trem bridge as vibrato tail piece instead of an antiquated bigsby or jazz one. An absolute masterful idea.

@cvanhetkaar96 Ай бұрын

What ? …… No AI builtin in those guitars ? mmmm 🤔

@alamedaguitars2455 Ай бұрын

if by "AI" you mean artifical intelligence, then no. if you mean absurd inferences, then yes!

@ryangilby Ай бұрын

Please no closeups or zoom ins on Brian please. No reason. Not that he’s creepy. Nothing gives me heeb jeebs ever. In fact I like Brian. Please make this channel only closeups of Brian, sir.

@jamesmarkham7489 Ай бұрын

What unmedicated adhd looks like.

@hughschick6847 Ай бұрын

joeyskar or maybe JP stole Mel’s laugh for that role….

@fuckgoogle8661 Ай бұрын

Earache my eye the famous cheech and Chong song would work well on that baritone as a modern heavy take. No one mention korn did that decades ago.

@therewasascene Ай бұрын

Ryan nooooo I wanted to hear the resistance of the hot pickup! :/ he was about to say a ridiculous number after mentioning mosrites being 13k. 18? 🥹

@alamedaguitars2455 Ай бұрын

Someone cares about ohms!!! In the crush position, the hot bridge is about 33K - it really shouldn't sound good at that level of output, but go figure, it does! :)

@therewasascene Ай бұрын

???!!?!?!?!??!?!!?!?!? 🤯 That is absolutely bonkers. The Crush setting is true to its name, then. (Also a standout position for my taste) I knew you’d reply. Thanks, Mel 😌

@alamedaguitars2455 Ай бұрын

@@therewasascene think of Crush kind of like Mongo from Blazing Saddles... :)