DO GUITARISTS DESERVE INNOVATION? – Glowing Monster Guitar – String Mummy – Crank Powered Scare Box
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I mainly play fenders and squiers because everything they make is super easy to mod. Just like you guys said in the episode “if you want a faster neck get an Ibanez”. I just bought an Ibanez shreddy guitar for that exact purpose. For me innovation was just stepping outside my comfort zone and trying another style guitar. Chances are any innovation one company would implement has already been done by another.
Fender: Minor tweaks take naps.
I like the string ball idea!
I have to get around to making a song with just the two pedals I won with mu Adventures Club submission.
I just looked up Swami’s Beach on Google Maps, and I could see the stingray in the water. Weird, huh?
Marketing people talk about innovation and I hear Inigo Montoya's voice going "you keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."
I can appreciate that chartreuse metallic color in that it's different, but it also kind of reminds me of boogers.
Hell yeah to the hellbox. I love it.
I rant about some bands/artists not pushing the envelope enough but I play a Jazzmaster, a guitar from 1958.
I have the Wang 2.5 W amp. Great effects platform w clean to mild distortion on its own w my Tele
Fudgey also stands in for Santa, so if Ryan starts wearing a stocking cap he can be a Carvel treat.
50:50 Alliteration is when successive words have the same first letter or sound (eg. refinement and rest). Consonance is when successive words have the same consonants throughout (eg. pick and puck). Assonance is when words have the same vowels throughout. (eg. pick and hit)
I mean, I'd like a guitar with modern playability and durability features with more "vintage" (whatever that means) tones. That doesn't seem to exist. I like compound or flatter radiuses (radii?), big stainless steel frets, roasted maple necks, locking tuners BUT I *detest* the sound of active pickups (Fishman, EMG), I hate the look of headless guitars or guitars with "blood spatter" finishes, or "metal" looks and names like "Soul Crusher" or "Blood Oath" or "Demon Vengence", and I think the Evertune bridge, however useful it might be, is one of the ugliest things ever. I have yet to find a guitar that has EVERYTHING I want. I know, that's a "me" problem. Just wanted to vent a little. Carry on. 😉
I think the shorts………hey………look………Squirrel……………………………
have ya'll ever used the EHX hum debugger?
My company builds guitars with several significant innovations that VERY few guitarists take advantage of when ordering.
Almost everyone asks for dated, clumsy, hackneyed old-school stuff.
Thankfully we make basses too, bassists love innovation.
The Fishman Fluence pickups are seriously innovative. It’s a totally new type of pickups with variable voicings.
The Variax guitar is another example of innovative technology in guitars.
And although MIDI guitars existed in the 1900s I would say that products like Fishman TriplePlay pushed it forward quite a bit.
Also amp profiling is an innovation of the 21st century that was ground breaking for amp simulation.
Just a few examples.
I explicitly do not like the shorts, or should I say the amount of shorts. One, maybe two, from each podcast is okay, but it seems like my feed is being flooded with them.
The last ad looks like a homemade version of the Apprehension Engine. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzk-l8Gm0MY
27:40 that is cool
this show is the good mythical morning of guitar podcasts
Guitarists are stuck in the past. When you try and do something new they complain it’s not like the way they used to make it 50 years ago.
As a guitar maker I find that annoying. I use carbon fiber and phenolic fretboards and stuff. No reason to try and imitate a vintage guitar. They weren’t made better than new ones.
I'm a Fender dork but I hate their ad campaign. Refinement never rests is ad gold, though, and WAY BETTER represents what's going on, there. I would've respected that, plus, getting a refined Fender appeals to me. Innovative? I'm not with them for innovation, I'm with them for making the violin or sax of electric guitars. I'll shred stick in cyberspace with someone else.
The Stingray bass is serious business, dude…
Answering the title, yes. Guitarist deserve innovation but I can understand how frustrating it is to propose an idea and immediately rejected because it breaks the arbitrary lines of "real guitar".
Some jazz and blues guitarist are guilty of this. But on the other side session guitarist, metal, and shredders in general are more receptive to change.