gibson les paul standard sucks
The USA Les Paul Standard is one of those things many players think is a magic guitar. It's not and no guitar is. What makes a guitar magical is the player and not the guitar itself. Anyone with half a...
View Articlegaming videos on youtube are officially doomed
This has been a long time coming, but YouTube is finally dropping the hammer on gaming videos. I'm not a gamer, but if you watch YouTube with any regularity at all, there is basically no way to avoid...
View Articledrummers do nothing but slow things down
If there is one guy you can do without when recording the band's songs, it's the drummer. I'll begin this by saying that recording a drummer now is actually a whole lot easier compared to how it used...
View Articleafter a month of owning a jazzmaster...
It's been a month (well, very close to a month) since getting the Jazzmaster, and some interesting things have happened, both good and bad. I do truly love the way the Jazzmaster plays. Never in my...
View Articleonly morons "relic" their guitars
The dumbest of the dumb when it comes to guitar building is when people purposely make new stuff look old. I can't think of any other industry other than guitar building that does this intentionally....
View Articlewhich famous model of jazzmaster does the squier model pattern after?
Classic Vibe and Vintage Modified Squier guitars closely follow the designs of famous Fender guitar models, but of course do not replicate them exactly. Certain things are changed for modern playing...
View Articletrying to get a strat tremolo to act like a jazzmaster/jaguar vibrato and...
This is going to be a guitar-nerdy article, but if you're a Strat owner, you'll appreciate this information due to the fact that very few people actually know how to set up a Strat tremolo system...
View Articleyour band sucks
Most bands are really crappy, and it's not just because of mediocre musicians. It's not just lack of talent that makes a band suck, but rather the absolute refusal to do anything that's even remotely...
View Articlebought another linksys wrt54gl
The Linksys WRT54GL (and predecessor WRT54G) are arguably the best damned consumer grade wireless routers that have ever existed. I had one before, and the only reason I stopped using it is because it...
View Articlestuff you didn't know disney owned
I am a Florida resident, and of course Disney World is in this state, which I have been to a few times. The Walt Disney Company is freakin' huge. Colossal. And while they are currently showing positive...
View Articleit's okay to be a bedroom guitarist
There are a lot of kids across the world who got a guitar as a present for Christmas, many with the dreams of being the next big rock star. A lot of these kids will eventually realize that trying to...
View Articlethe 240p club
I have seriously considered (and am still considering) publishing all my future videos in 240p, as in 320x240 resolution. Screw widescreen or anything HD. Why? Because of what I said in the video...
View Articlethe judean people's front
There are times I like to experiment on YouTube just to see how many people don't get a joke. One of my all-time favorite movies is Life of Brian. Brilliant film. But it's old as it was originally...
View Articlelast post for 2013
I was trying to think about something to write for the last post of 2013 here, and my mind goes back to how the internet used to be in the pre-video era. Or to be more specific, pre-YouTube. YouTube...
View Articlethe difference between coil splitting and coil tapping
Short answer: Coil split is cutting signal from multi to single-coil, and coil tap is signal reduction. For a more detailed explanation, watch the above video. For the longest time I thought coil...
View Article"here's a quick video"
Something that's plagued YouTube ever since it started are people who say "here's a quick video." If that is said at the beginning of the video, it is guaranteed the video will be long. The maximum...
View Articledone with facebook
Before I get into personal Facebook profiles, some words about Facebook pages, as in business pages. I had a good run with my FB page but stopped using it completely. Why? Because I prefer YouTube, and...
View Articlewhy i don't make fun of skaters or gamers
An unofficial rule of being a YouTube channel owner is this: Don't make fun of kids. Ever. Just don't do it. If you make a video making fun of kids, nothing good ever comes from that. Not only will a...
View Articlegoogle plussin'
This is not the first time I've tried giving G+ a chance. I've tried to make it work a few times, and all previous attempts failed. What's different now? Two things. My YouTube account is now directly...
View Articledon't be a hoarder
Those who have been following me a while know I've been through a few guitars since 2010. Quite a few of them, actually. But how many guitars do I actually keep? Not many. Right now I have six, with...
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