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👋🏼Did you try the Krozz’s flamger, I love the headroom and versatility of it.👋🏼

nice pickups...almost noiseless

The clarity is defiantly the clincher. The upper prices had a complete and smooth top end and as you said note separation.

Didn't hear any drastic differences

Or just get a decent eq pedal & use it sparingly 🤘🏼

Cool👍The difference is minimal, 16 it sounds warmer and richer

The tone pot and cap is a simple frequency filter, so the cap is still affecting the sound even everything is full on but only less comparing rolling down the tone potentiometer. Say the full-on 500Kohm is giving the signal more impedance for high freq loss vs. 250Kohm or 0ohm. But back to the original topic of the capacitor type, I have no evident how sometimes the tone changes even the readings are exactly the same, but I suspect certain caps tend to have larger or smaller parasitic capacitance to whole circuit, including how close the cap sits to the adjacent cap, pots, the entire electronic cavity, etc.

I got mine today, it already has a spot on my board with a purple patch cable.

Please tell me where you got Flat Eric. I need him.

I agree with your assessment. You can EQ this tone change easily with your amp, and as soon as you put any gain in the mix the difference disappears. Thanks for doing this so I don't have to. :D

While Orange has increased the amount of gain stages on the Rockerverb MK3 amps, they still fall mostly into the more vintage side of the "tonescape" in my view. I think that's actually why they are favoured by some metal players--they offer a much bigger, fuller sound than your typical high mid-heavy, fizzy and scooped amps that everyone else is making these days. Especially in this age of generic and cheap sounding modelers and effects units. If you want a big valve sound today, Orange is on top of the list for your consideration. I personally recently bought an OR30 which is more "vintage voiced" than the Rockerverb by most accounts. There's also the Rocker 15 Terror head which offers the same at a lower wattage and price. Lots of great options from Orange for people seeking that more vintage tone.

Swapping the A2O to an A5UO in my 490R turned it into a different guitar completely. Neck position is much more useable now. It got rid of that typical 490R mud and turned my middle position into an entirely different beast for a 490/498 setup.

New pickups just seem hotter, maybe stronger magnet or more windings.

Outstanding... Epic.... from start to finish just incredible !!! Well done Joe!!! Really really enjoyed this .... 🎸🎸🔥🔥

IMHO it comes down to performance vs cost ratio, if you can afford it why not, if your cranking it out with another guitar, Bass, Drums at 100 db will you hear it? It does look cool though

Excuse me. The definition of alnico 5 is as an ORIENTED magnet, meaning it can only be magnetized in a specific direction. If alnico is not oriented, its either A2, A3, A4. This idea was Tim Shaw's THEORY, but he never provided any proof, and he never was a pickup designer. He is a luthier, not a pickup designer. I talked to four different alnico making companies and asked about non-oriented A5 and they ALL said there is no such thing and never was and they all thought it was a stupid question. So, one of them cast an A5 magnet for me while not being in the magnet charger during melting heat period, he sent it to me, and it had no charge at all and would not charge at all. It doesn't work. I was sent one of these Arnold un-oriented magnets and all they were was A2 magnets and sound like A2 magnets. This is nothing more than marketing hype. What guitar players need to know is that no two magnet companies use the exact same "recipes," and there is no official alloy mix that everyone is using. I buy from many different magnet companies and all their numbered alloys sound different from all the other factories. I have A5 magnets that are warm sounding, and A5 that could break glass from the high treble frequencies. Same for all the other grades. China is where we all get our magnets now and they are super super close to vintage magnets, in fact one of my videos I show both vintage and modern A2 magnets in a real PAF after a complete rewind because the coils were unsalvageable. With eyes closed you can't tell them apart. Vintage magnets aren't magic and don't make vintage sound. I am surprised this disinformation about "non-oriented A5 magnets" is still out there. A5 MEANS ORIENTED, go ask the magnet companies if you don't believe that. LOL.

Oh my god. Tone bender and fuzz face, fuck these boring ass pedals and the basic schmoes that constantly harp on about them

You can use knobs with an allen screw on split shaft pots. You just have to align the screw to be in line with the split so that it doesn't push the two sides of the shaft together.

It may be erroneous to believe that string vibrations (with a relatively short "half life"/decay) can get that large solid body of wood (which is actually two or more pieces of wood) to sympathetically vibrate in any meaningful way, never mind enough to be audible... If anything the mounting systems tested exhibit not differences in transmission but more their resistance to same with feeds the harmonics back through the strings to the pickups... Or something like that 😉😎

Dave might be wrong in this instance conceptually, the contact points are the upper surfaces of the thumbwheels/ABR and the outermost edges of the post threads/ABR, BOTH tenuous transmission surfaces at best for any vibrations... BUT it may be those innocuous imperfections that in fact help make for the vintage sound overall...

Dave might be wrong in this instance conceptually, the contact points are the upper surfaces of the thumbwheels/ABR and the outermost edges of the post threads/ABR, BOTH tenuous transmission surfaces at best for any vibrations... BUT it may be those innocuous imperfections that in fact help make for the vintage sound overall...

Even with shipping to Canada, I got a Fuzz Face clone that is superior to the much more expensive Dunlop Fuzz Face. I cannot get a used one for what Hubcap John charges. 😂

At 8:41 I hear 80s Nintendo sounds lol

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i love this sound

Sounds to me like the thread into wood has more bass. Bassier always sounds better in a comparison. How about they just sell a wood adaptor! Simply glue it in and your set!

The Page sounds much more open.

Count me a UOA5 fan. I’m more of an A2 than an A5 lover to begin with, but find A2 magnets too soft on pick attack (but there are plenty of records cut with them that sound out perfect harmonics). A5 in general is too strident with all kinds of music (my opinion). Your demo seemed to verify that A5 scooped mid and sizzling high end (although I did think the single note stuff at 7.5 guitar vol was better with the A5…but that’s it). Thanks for the time and great demo. How is the rest of the jtm45 e-q’ed?

No difference to me.... But - I thank Joe for posting this so I don't waste time and money. I watched it twice and the second time I didn't look, I only listened.... NO DIFFERENCE.

mullard 950 is my new favorite transistor for this circuit . they dont leak and they fall around 100 hfe . man do they sound great AND ... they are NpN so you can daisy chain power supply .

My 19 classic modded vintage is a bright guitar overall. This is the only thing i havent gone after yet, the bridge was replaced but not with 4 uncles yet.

What mic did you use to record?

very helpful video

What about the saturation control??????

Thank you very much for the very helpful video. I actually did my own a/b test with my Nashville to Faber upgrade and considered installing dowels as well. Looks as if it's easier to tweak a n EQ to come very close. Given there's a drummer nearby who ruins the subtle tone changes of my abr-1 bridge efforts anyway.

👍🏿🤘Great demo as usual and a killer sounding pedal, but as a Tweed guy I prefer the Kingsley’s I have and your demo of the Eggnog has installed some GAS for that in me.

Yes it sems to me as though the breakup is behind the initial notes on on the KT77 whereas the EL34s its more upfront.

Waza better clarity

HEY JOE ; I’M currently going to run a blue & a red in each 212 cab. Though I think I also want to try a speaker cab with 1-12” & 1-10” Alnico speaker in each cabinet.

I know this may sound silly, but My question is ,what's the benchmark to to the classic Gibson les Paul tone? So when comparing all this stuff even with your favourite guitarist is, that even with the same guitar,(Bridge &Tailpiece) amp setup etc, the live tone is still different to say the treated recorded studio tone etc, so what is the benchmark tone? if that makes sense? Its like chasing the wind a bit, there a such minor subtle differences that its almost impossible to hit the holly grail tonal target , which is so subjective anyway in my opinion.😅

The Celestion sounds 100 times better. The Jensen sounds very thin in comparison.

Thanks for the comparison vid, nice job!

According to Johan Segeborn, which is a UA-camr/Greenback expert, the g12h75 was never used in a production Marshall Cabinet. So, except if Jimmy changed his speakers, the chances are that he used the 55hz.

The low end on that amp is insane!

The Cream will only get better as time goes by..

Great demo! And it is so pleasing to hear a gear demo without the inevitable Mayer-Hendrix-Gilmour noodling!

Gibson Custom rules!:)

I prefer PG-102 for the bridge. I'd take either of the two for the front position.

Good demo, Joe! How do these Thro Bak Pickups compare to a Seymour Duncan Custom Shop Pearly Gates or A Whole Lotta Humbucker? Thoughts?

Like a race car, every little component adds up