GuitarTok Talk Reacting to Controversial Guitar Opinions Pt 2

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[00:00:00] Emily: Welcome to get offset. And my name is Emily, and this is the newest edition. The second edition of guitar talk, talk, where I react to the, uh, get the best of, or whatever I’ve deemed the best of, or just something on hashtag guitar. Uh, this week, I’m going to be looking at more controversial guitar opinions on Tik TOK.

[00:00:26] These are as always, uh, or just like last time stitches from the prompt from just us. I don’t know how hijabis, sorry. I’m bad with. I have no idea how that’s supposed to be said. Sorry bud. Sorry, buddy. Uh, if you would like to see more of these, uh, please like comment and subscribe below most importantly, subscribe.

[00:00:53] Uh, if you like, listen to me, talk, check out the podcast. There’s a podcast on iTunes and Spotify, all of those kinds of fun places. Well, enough of that. Please enjoy the rest of the video and check out the previous video. Thank you so much. All right, let’s get this party stared in. Got my LaCroix. I’ve got some, some things pulled up.

[00:01:21] I’ll try to skip ones that I’ve already covered. So, uh, this is a new one. Also

[00:01:28] Tik Tok Person: guitar opinion, guitarists who insist that two BAMS is still sound X amount better than ant modelers are playing

[00:01:35] Emily: a psychological trick on themselves, but it’s not really their fault. Early guitar music that was

[00:01:41] Tik Tok Person: recorded on two BAMS was done.

[00:01:42] So because that was state-of-the-art technology at the time,

[00:01:46] Emily: then when solid-state amps pause to say, the effect he’s doing is kind of distracting. So, so far, he’s saying that if you’re, if you say that tube amps are better, you’re playing a psychological trick on yourself. And so far I agree.

[00:02:04] Tik Tok Person: I just came along.

[00:02:05] They tried to replicate that sound. It didn’t quite sound the same. So the thinking became well, tubes still outperformed transistors, therefore tubes are better. And that way of thinking persists among a lot of people, even though technology has pretty much closed the gap at this point, what’s a controversial.

[00:02:21] Emily: Okay. So he’s saying that. You know, obviously, uh, modelers can, can outperform to vamps or sound about the same. Um, and you know, I do a lot of my demos or have done right now. I, I do the tone master super river with a lot of my demos and I don’t get a ton of complaints about it. I really don’t. Um, sometimes I do, sometimes people will say like a boost or a dirt panel doesn’t sound as good through the Iridium though.

[00:02:51] I had somebody say, um, That what I was using. Didn’t sound good through the Iridium. And then I commented I wasn’t using the Iridium and, uh, no, they said, they said what I was doing. Didn’t sound good. The tone. Massive, because they saw this hone master in the background. I’m like I wasn’t using the tone master.

[00:03:10] I was using the Iridium as was literally stated in the, a header in the video. The title of the video said with the shrine Minerva video on the boost pedal and for the record, I thought it sounded good. I didn’t think I already am. Sounds really, really natural. And I think that you’d be really hard pressed to listen to like music on the radio and say, That person is using a modeler, and this has been the case for decades and in recorded music.

[00:03:39] Um, listen to listen, to pop music and tell me when something is a real kick drum versus a mini kick drum or a sample kick drum. You can’t. And you know what? Just always, literally always say my color is weird. Let me fix it. Just literally always say it’s mini or fake because it almost always is because then it’s hard to record.

[00:04:09] And that’s the thing is that, uh, you, you, you can’t really tell very often. And if you say you can, maybe you can, but probably not. And sometimes, sometimes if it’s an AB and everything else is stripped out, sometimes you can tell. But when it’s in a mix, it’s a lot harder to do. And, uh, so yeah, I agree.

[00:04:33] People are often shocked when I’m like all my demos pretty much are the striving already over the tone master. And they’re like, oh, wow. It sounds good.

[00:04:42] Tik Tok Person: Okay. It’s a controversial guitar opinion. Let’s say these rapid fucking fire. There’s more guitar music in the mainstream now than there has been in fucking decades.

[00:04:49] Even the most mainstream of pop artists are using the sort of guitars. And that’s a fucking good thing. Uh, pedal,

[00:04:56] Emily: you know, Maybe a little bit, maybe it’s getting there. Um, but I actually did have my husband do an analysis pretty like he and I were working on an analysis for an article that didn’t actually happen because I just got really busy with paid assignments that I was just stunned, too busy to pitch my own articles that required a lot of research.

[00:05:19] So I just kind of. We just kind of stopped doing this. We went through the billboard hot 100. Uh, we were going through it year by year, listening to every single track from about, I think started in like, I think that, that the data that we had started about 2003 or 2005, and we were going through a year by year.

[00:05:39] Um, and we actually were seeing a decrease in the number of songs that had a discernible guitar. So I think that maybe now that’s changing a bit, but as of like a year ago, uh, I think that as far as the hot 100 is concerned, that might be demonstrably false.

[00:06:00] Tik Tok Person: Billboards or for fucking nerds,

[00:06:03] Emily: pedal boards or for nerds.

[00:06:06] Okay. I find being a nerd. I’m fine. Being a nerd. If it means that my shit’s just not sprawled on the floor.

[00:06:15] Tik Tok Person: Sweet. Picking his fucking lame.

[00:06:18] Emily: Okay. You know what, you know, as far as talking about things like being lame or for nerds, I think that nothing makes you seem like more of just an asshole than saying something is for nerds or is lame because nothing’s nothing makes you seem more insecure, I should say than saying something as lame or for nerd.

[00:06:41] ’cause uh, honestly like just let people do what they’re doing and this guy’s young. Like he’s, he’s, he’s he, he has lots of shits to give and I’m just kind of out of them. Uh, I don’t care what people do as long as nobody’s getting hurt.

[00:06:56] Tik Tok Person: Uh, pop musicians are better than rock musicians on all fronts.

[00:07:04] Emily: Often because pop musicians, people who are actually musicians in pop music, uh, they often have to learn more about theory. They have to work with other musicians a lot more. Um, they have to work in different genres a lot more frequently. Uh, so yeah, I would agree that they have to be better musicians.

[00:07:23] Because someone can replace them like that. But rock musicians, typically, you’re just working with your own band. You’re working on your own thing and you just have to singularly focusing on that. So for the most part, you don’t have to be as well-rounded as a musician. So yeah, I would agree with that one I’m writing,

[00:07:38] Tik Tok Person: pop hits is not easy.

[00:07:40] It’s so easy. Everyone would do it. And if you can do it so well then fucking do it, do it.

[00:07:46] Emily: Yeah. I mean, it’s not easy.

[00:07:49] Tik Tok Person: Okay.

[00:07:51] Emily: But the thing is a pop hit. The hardest part is really connection. So I think almost a harder part of like having a pop hit is there’s so much at play in having a pop in. It’s not just about the song.

[00:08:05] It’s, it’s the, there’s this whole marketing machine behind it. Obviously it’s a song sucks. It’s never going to connect and. You got nothing, but they’re living a lot of pop songs. They’ve been really, really bad. Um, they just catchy or worms and there’s like, there are formulas, like there are things in pop music that are just like, they’re not, they’re not good, but it’s gonna make it like hit a lot harder things like repetition, their formula, formulaic things in pop music that you can do to manipulate someone in like.

[00:08:35] Into, uh, responding to your song a lot better. Like I said, repetition and, you know, uh, tension and release. Um, and those are the things that you need to understand and know, and that’s part of writing, but you know, there’s a lot of money that goes into a puppet too, but you

[00:08:55] got

[00:08:55] Tik Tok Person: damn pussy gear. Stop

[00:09:00] Emily: fucking seeing things with like these really aggressive dudes on these guitar things last last week was the SMED guy.

[00:09:08] And then the pussy and salt thing. I’m like, you guys got to get, get more creative with your insults. If you have

[00:09:15] Tik Tok Person: your children, your, the culture is just hype beast culture for incell nerds,

[00:09:23] Emily: maybe. I mean, you’re kind of seeing them, like, you’re kind of. Okay. You given off the vibes a little bit, dude, you talking about like, you’re being really aggressive about this.

[00:09:39] Like, I don’t want to insult this guy on a personal level, but he’s like going for the insults a lot. Like the, like, why are you going after all of gear culture? Cause there are obviously pockets of it that are really, really bad. I could, I’m not going to name names. I don’t want them coming at me particular particularly.

[00:09:57] It’s not all bad. It’s just like find the good corners and stay there and you know, the bad corners and avoid them.

[00:10:05] Tik Tok Person: It was going to ruffle some Jimmies. Squires are good guitars. Who’s

[00:10:10] Emily: going to get okay. There was one guy and the SPD guy and the other video, he would get mad at that. But.

[00:10:18] Tik Tok Person: Who’s getting mad at these.

[00:10:19] Like every, I swear, I

[00:10:22] Emily: swear. Most of the time when someone says this is going to meet somebody real man, they give the most like came that’s Hamus of their like opinions is what follows. This is

[00:10:37] Tik Tok Person: going to make somebody

[00:10:37] Emily: real mad scores are good. Actually. Like, come on man. Say something actually like. Like, like, I still think the most like controversial opinion was that like last week’s video was when the guy was like, the reason guitars aren’t in more pop music is because guitar culture is more interested in like showing off then like fit in the music.

[00:10:59] I still think that was the most controversial guitar piggy. And I’ve heard too many

[00:11:03] Tik Tok Person: guitarists focus on things that the general public would never fucking notice. Right? Like, no, one’s going to care that you’re not using what you deem to be the. And string gauge. You’re noticing things.

[00:11:15] Emily: No one cares about your string gauge that’s for you personally.

[00:11:18] That’s why Billy Gibbons plays eights. Cause no, he doesn’t care like Gil. He doesn’t care that other people are thinking, dude, nobody I’m done with those guys. Sorry. What’s a controversial guitar. That was too many opinion.

[00:11:36] Tik Tok Person: Being good at the Qatar is not a replacement for not having a person elevate,

[00:11:43] Emily: being good at guitar is not a replacement for not having a personality.

[00:11:46] I agree with that. Some people will make it hard. Their whole personality muscle then include

[00:11:51] Tik Tok Person: it’s way easier to practice guitar scales that are just practice it. Interesting. Good

[00:11:58] Emily: fucking person. It’s easier to practice guitar skills than it is to be an interesting PR practice. Being an interesting person.

[00:12:07] Tik Tok Person: And these dudes all it. That’s why they spend so much time on Tik TOK, trying to assert their fucking dominance, gives them an outlet to escape their insecurities and hide from the fact that they’re going to fucking die.

[00:12:26] Emily: It’s like these guys don’t take talk. No. And then it gives them a, they they’re on take talk to like high their insecurities and the fact that they’re going to die alone. Whoa. Oh my gosh. This guy is intense. I need

[00:12:37] Tik Tok Person: to be a good fucking guitar player. His compassion, his audio

[00:12:42] Emily: just

[00:12:42] Tik Tok Person: got better empathy, a big heart, and most importantly, a lot of fucking zone.

[00:12:50] What’s a contract.

[00:12:51] Emily: What was, can someone tell me what that last word was? I’m not going to

[00:12:56] Tik Tok Person: poorly a lot of fucking zone. I still

[00:13:00] Emily: can’t. I don’t know. Uh, zinc zinc. Sure. You know? Yeah. It’s easy. It’s like idolize people make their hobbies, their whole personality. I think that’s why there’s such a market for like the kitschy is just, um, guitar related.

[00:13:18] Crap that people can buy. Like I’m looking at you, the key chain that has, that’s like the input Jack with that, with that you can plug into the wall. Like that’s, I hate that thing so much. I hate all the kitchen stuff that you can buy that’s related to guitar stuff. And I don’t think those things are really made for guitarists.

[00:13:42] I’ve said I I’m not the only one who said that, but. I, yeah, I agree with that opinion. You know, I think that it’s never make one thing, your whole personality, cause it makes you impossible to talk to you. It makes you a really boring person. I think that we should all aim to be well rounded people and, uh, we should do that for ourselves.

[00:14:08] And for our loved ones. Um, because I think otherwise life is very boring. There’s no one thing in my life that I just want. And that’s it, you know, I, I feel, I feel really left out when there’s something I can’t talk about it at a party and I make it my goal to learn more about that thing. My band all likes video games.

[00:14:29] So I learned more about video games and play more video games now. And, you know, I really like, um, I used to like to play video games. I started playing guitar and then I stopped playing video games. Now I’m do both,

[00:14:41] Tik Tok Person: still play a lot more guitar. The only people who care, how fast you play or other guitar players, what’s a contract.

[00:14:49] Emily: You know what I actually, maybe, but I still think that lay people, people who don’t play guitar are going to be impressed when you can play fast. I think they’re probably more impressed. I think non guitarists are more impressed when you can play. I think they’re the most impressed, um, because I think re like actual guitar players though, they know how difficult it is to play fast and play fast.

[00:15:12] Well, um, I think they know that that’s not everything in life.

[00:15:18] Tik Tok Person: Vintage gear doesn’t

[00:15:19] Emily: sound better because it’s old when they made those old recordings who sound we enjoy

[00:15:25] Tik Tok Person: the gear was new. I’ll entertain the idea that maybe the manufacturing process might be different than, than. But aging doesn’t really come into play.

[00:15:35] In fact, with regards to things like tuning stability and intonation, there’s better technology. Now what’s a controversial guitar. I wouldn’t say

[00:15:49] Emily: I don’t, I don’t know if it’s a matter of good or better as far as like the vintage gear. I think it’s about. You know, getting that sound that has probably some people would say it hasn’t been replicated properly and that’s kind of what it is, but, you know, I think it was probably maybe the first video in this guitar TalkTalk.

[00:16:21] Now I don’t know how I’m ever going to say that. Right. That, you know, the reason we think modeling is not as good as two BAMS is just because, you know, our we’re fooling ourselves. Um, I, there’s a vibe of mojo. There’s also the thing about, you know, the whole idea of, uh, status and, um, you know, there are only so many of the thing in a world, uh, people, you know, they still like, we humans like to collect things.

[00:16:51] We just, we just do. Most people, you know, there’s something that they like to collect, um, be, uh, guitars or little itty-bitty, little spoons, bobbleheads, uh, you know, trading cards, baseball cards. I think most people have a little bit of something that they like to, you know, collect even just a little bit.

[00:17:14] And I think in most of those spaces, there’s something that’s old and doesn’t make it. You know, is your, is your great grandmother’s cast iron skillet better than a modern cast iron skillet? No, it’s the same technology. Maybe even better technology. You know, my, I have a, of starting skill that I can use on not a gas range and that’s important because they’re not really making houses with the gas range of period anymore.

[00:17:39] Um, so does it make, does that make it better than my great-grandmother’s cast-iron skillet for me? Yeah. Um, But I think people will still, like, there is Sarah, some mojo and you know, a vintage cast, iron skillet or an old car. Uh, so, you know, that’s, that’s how people fail. That’s how people feel. All right.

[00:17:59] Now I got stick.

[00:18:01] Tik Tok Person: Get some more, get you more videos with

[00:18:05] Emily: that guy was

[00:18:07] Tik Tok Person: long. Sound good. There are other controversial guitar opinion. You don’t need a Marshall to sound good. There are other calves and amps that sound great. And possibly even better than a marshal, they were just,

[00:18:22] Emily: I mean, is that controversial?

[00:18:24] Because there are, I think everyone will agree. There are other amplifiers in cabinets that sound good. Even people who like Marshall’s, I think we’ll agree that there are other options.

[00:18:37] Tik Tok Person: It was popular back then because there were the loudest damp at the time. Yeah. What’s a controversial, what’s a controversial, what’s a controversial guitar opinions.

[00:18:46] Emily: Hi, to sit instead of stand while

[00:18:49] Tik Tok Person: I get

[00:18:51] Emily: it is okay. It’s okay to sit in the state instead of standing, I am with you lady cinema hearts. I’m with you. It’s okay to sit. Instead of standing, I do it in practicing. I do it in actual band practice. Sometimes I do. When I’m filming demos, I’ll be doing it later.

[00:19:11] Y’all I stubbed my toe so badly. I’m actually kind of worried. Um, I’m kind of worried. I bruised a bone. I’m not worried I broke a bone, but I can’t really, I can’t really put any pressure on it. Right. Getting old. It’s actually the first, the first other controversial opinion I seen from a woman, A-plus fantastic.

[00:19:33] Tik Tok Person: What’s a controversial guitar opinion. My controversial opinion is that I like Gibson guitars and even more. So I liked them more than fender.

[00:19:44] Emily: That actually has been pretty controversial from all these other controversial opinions. Cause this is the first controversial opinion about Gibson that has not been the Gibson sucks.

[00:19:52] But I think what we can say is not controversial is that this had, I gotten my premier guitar box where this little brand thing is not my style. This is not, that’s not a controversial opinion. I’m wearing a different beanie. This is not

[00:20:04] Tik Tok Person: for me. Sorry, Jenny, I’m gonna get a lot of slander for that on this app.

[00:20:10] What’s a con what’s a controversial, what’s a controversial guitar opinion. The whole speed versus feel thing only exist among lazy musicians or ones with lousy technique. A lot of the time

[00:20:22] Emily: lousy technique.

[00:20:24] Tik Tok Person: Um, S serving the song. It means playing something tricky, less, isn’t more, more is more. And sometimes that’s not enough, more is

[00:20:33] Emily: more.

[00:20:33] And sometimes it’s not enough yet, you know, he’s right. Sometimes more is more sometimes, but sometimes less is more. And I, I think that it just, it really does matter that you have to take it on a song by song basis. But I think that’s so many of us have been in that position where I think that we’ve been all been around guitarists who have erred on the side of doing too much.

[00:21:07] And I think it’s very easy for us to do too much as guitars. We want to be front center, almost center stage. And even I, as someone who doesn’t, who tries not to overplay, I’ve been in positions where I’ve been, you know, playing with somebody. And sh like, they’ll ask me like, Hey, play less. And it’s okay.

[00:21:29] You’re the boss. All right.

[00:21:31] Tik Tok Person: If you complain about other guitars tones on the internet, you’re the reason why guitars don’t get laid anymore?

[00:21:38] Emily: No,

[00:21:39] Tik Tok Person: that’s not. If you’re not

[00:21:44] Emily: getting laid or the reason you’re not getting laid, that’s just, that’s the reason you’re the, you cannot blame anybody else in the world on you not getting lady.

[00:21:54] You are the reason you’re not getting laid guys, gals. You are the reason you’re not getting laid. You need to hear. I am so sorry to be the one to tell you, you know, it’s not about if you’re playing guitar to

[00:22:09] Tik Tok Person: get laid, you’re not playing.

[00:22:11] Emily: That’s a bad reason to play guitar. It’s a bad reason to do most things, you know, I’m sorry.

[00:22:19] Stupid thing. It’s so stupid. I,

[00:22:29] as us do. That’s I guess a joke, but like, I think people still think this are guitarists not getting laid anymore. I also don’t think that’s true.

[00:22:40] Tik Tok Person: Isn’t this a true, this is going to spark some heat rock and roll has been on life support for as long as I’ve been alive and it deserves to be how old do we think he is?

[00:22:54] Emily: 24. That’s my guess. 22.

[00:22:59] Tik Tok Person: He’s a baby. The essence of rock and roll is change innovation and growth. And we, the fans have not cold fed that in the slightest, quite the opposite. There’ve been very few songs that have come out in my entire lifetime that I’ve seen that I’ve seen innovative or interesting at all.

[00:23:17] They all just sound the same. They all follow the formulaic system of how to write a rock and roll song. And they. Also, I’m going to call the guitars here. And this is coming from a dude that loves guitar solos who plays the guitar and loves it. Stop playing long solos. No one wants to hear it. That’s why your John rhe is dying.

[00:23:36] It’s just a masturbatory thing. I’ve looked at how many things I can play. No one cares. No, one’s listened to it. You’re boring. You’re repetitive. And you’re not Jimmy page. You’re not Jimmy Hendricks. You’re not freaking David Gilmore. You suck. I’m sorry. Quit playing long solos.

[00:23:50] Emily: I only miss guys as to the right rock.

[00:23:53] I just don’t dude, listen to listen to better rock music. If you’re only listened to the rock music that’s on the radio. Uh, yeah, you’re probably going to get really bored cause there’s one, not a lot of options and two is bad if you’re listening to some more, like I hate to say underground, underground stuff.

[00:24:13] I think you’re probably going to be a lot more impressed.

[00:24:20] I still think that big thief put out the best rock record of like 2020. So,

[00:24:28] yes. I don’t know. I guess not genres have to change. They have to evolve. They also have to like keep to their roots. So is it, if that guy is like twenty one, twenty two, he was born like 2000. I mean, like rock music, hasn’t been. The four at the forefront of the charts since then. Um, so he was kind of being, he was born around the time that like, uh, like new metal was kind of big and hip hop really took off.

[00:25:02] Uh, like the charts were really dominated by hip hop. Then emo took. Took up a lot of steam, as far as rock based stuff up. There’s a lot of pop punk, which is really fun. Um, and then we look at like 2007 era where there’s like broken social scene scene and vampire weekend and that kind of stuff, kind of like a preppy pot preppy route kind of stuff.

[00:25:28] Like, um, collegiate rock. Uh, what is it? What are they calling that it was very Ivy league crock. I think Ivy league rock, like dude, just fucking listen to shit on Matador records. Like those in the matter of records goes in the beggars group merged sub pop like, oh, this is some stuff that’s not like being pushed by a major label.

[00:25:49] I think you’re probably going to be happier.

[00:25:52] Tik Tok Person: What’s a controversial guitar opinion. Bands are no longer a viable business model in the music. And.

[00:25:59] Emily: He’s not wrong. And I’ve actually seen some of his up videos on that is he’s not wrong. And, you know, labels have been trying to get. Uh, bands to go like break up for forever.

[00:26:13] That’s such like a movie cliche, but it’s true. Um, because let’s let let’s, let’s look at this from a mathematical perspective. You’ll see there’s four people in a band that means those people have to split that money. Four ways. You got just one sole person that’s persons making all the money. So that’s one and making all the creative choices versus having to split that creative and never four ways.

[00:26:39] Uh, you know, it just makes things a lot easier from that, in that those, in those two regards, it makes everything a lot easier. Uh, from the label perspective, they don’t have to like deal with a bunch of egos. They just get the hired guns, they can swap them out. Uh, get different looks for different tours as they see fit.

[00:26:59] Or you think about like, example, oh, sorry. Over here. Prince prince would have a different band every couple of years, depending on the sound of the record, the look for the tour, like, oh, he had his early band. He swapped them out for the revolution. Uh, after parade tour, he wanted different look. So he swapped out the revolution for a new band, the completely different thing.

[00:27:23] He had complete creative control. They’re not to mess around with other people. Now it’s even harder to just have a whole band sustain for a tour even, or a record cycle or anything. God, that’s a lot of money. Like you get an advance from a record label. That’s like what you live on for a year. It’s what you’ve recorded with and is what you have to.

[00:27:48] Plus marketing expenses. Plus every expenses involved in promoting the record before you make a penny. Um, I apologize for the computer sound that just happened. Um, it’s, it’s just, that’s a lot and it, that money goes a lot faster, uh, with a band, it goes a lot slower. It comes back a lot faster when it’s just you.

[00:28:10] Tik Tok Person: Yeah. What’s a controversial guitar opinion. You don’t need an ed stock.

[00:28:20] Emily: Technically, he’s not wrong. I disagree with him a lot.

[00:28:25] Tik Tok Person: Let’s see. Little more. Oh my God. Controversial guitar opinion. Hey guys, Megan. I know I said that was probably the last one, but I liked answer dumb and I don’t ever use them.

[00:28:42] Emily: They’re getting dumber. I.

[00:28:47] You know, I was, I was watching some video or someone was talking about like, um, prop amps on big stages. And someone was like, you go to a local show, you still get relamped, you still real pushed there. And I was like, local musician here. I use a model or stage. You’re not getting a real amp for me. You’re not to real.

[00:29:08] And for some of my band members like, Hey, you see a keyboard player on stage. They’re not using it. See an acoustic downstage. They’re not using an amp. Why the hell should I? You see a basis on stage there? The eyeing that bass. Anyway, the only reason they’re they tell a basis to use an Anbar state, he does have a personal monitoring.

[00:29:28] So I got my, I AM’s for that. Now. Why should I cart around

[00:29:33] Tik Tok Person: extra trash? Screw it.

[00:29:37] Emily: Cheers, buddy. There you go. Over.

[00:29:45] Tik Tok Person: What’s next. What’s a contrast with guitar opinion. If he can’t be a rhythm guitar player, you’re not a professional guitar player. You got to get the

[00:29:53] Emily: basics. If you can’t do the basics. Yeah. Work on your non-dominant hand technique, uh, or work on your shimming hand technique. You’re if you play guitar right hand.

[00:30:10] Work on your right hand technique, or just throw the baby out with the bath

[00:30:14] Tik Tok Person: water. It’s a guitar opinion. The average person does not give a shit about your guitar tone, a $50 amp, a $5,000 amp. It doesn’t matter. They just care how the song makes them feel. And that’s priceless.

[00:30:27] Emily: I’m going to tell him, I’m gonna say, I’m gonna say.

[00:30:30] They’re going to care a little. They will, because if it’s really, really good, if you’re doing something weird, wild, crazy, that is just super cool and super unique. They will poop their pants. They will go like you caught damn what’s that thunder cat song with the, with the two bases and one has an envelope filter with like, it sounds almost like it’s like, God, what does that song?

[00:30:57] I can’t think of it, but like, Any lay person will hear that tone and go, what is that? Even lay people can, will hear like tone sound effects and a cool effect can trigger that. Like, what is that? That wonder that mystery. I believe that that’s a hill I will die on. And if your tone sounds like asked or a $50 amp.

[00:31:25] They’re not going to want to listen to it. Like if the song is really good, I think that can cut through a lot of it for sure. And if it connects with them like that can get passed off stuff like a bad singer or someone who’s not like a great singer, like David Berman from the silver Jews and purple melons.

[00:31:42] Like not a great singer, but his songs were so good. And the production was always so good that a lot of people could get past that. But like there had, there had to be a lot, a lot of other good stuff there and he was still like a great passable singer. And you wrote songs that were really well suited to his voice.

[00:31:59] So if you can write songs that are well suited to your tone, that’s awesome. But man, if your guitar tone is so bad that it makes people’s like ears heard. Like if it’s got a lot of meds and it’s causing like ear fatigue or something like that, no, one’s going to want to listen to it. No matter how good the song is.

[00:32:13] I’m sorry. Like you can’t get past. Like physically hurting people’s ears. But if you can like, get a good enough to tell them what the $50 am.

[00:32:23] Tik Tok Person: Sure. Whatever, what’s a controversial guitar opinion, sweet picking really isn’t that hard. And the only thing I think when you do it for more than a second or two, is how instead of using your time to become a more well-rounded guitarist, you instead learn how to play scales really quickly.

[00:32:34] For the sake of that one guy to Megadeath tee-shirt to the back of every label I’ve ever been to. Thank you and listen to some goddamn Freddie king, please. What’s a contract. He was talking to them. What’s a controversial guitar

[00:32:46] Emily: opinion. Also, I liked how he was holding the guitar and then did not demonstrate what he was talking about.

[00:32:53] Thank you.

[00:32:55] Tik Tok Person: There is nothing wrong with buying a cheap production model guitar and hot writing it and making it better.

[00:33:02] Emily: I think that should be controversial anymore. So if somebody is controversial opinions, aren’t, aren’t controversial. I don’t think, um, I don’t think that anybody with, okay. Okay. I’ll take that.

[00:33:13] I think anybody with like, um, oh God, what’s the word I’m looking for. Anybody who’s secure as a guitarist and a human being, shouldn’t find that controversial. If you’re a really insecure guitarist, maybe you find a lot of these things controversial, but if you’re like living, let live as a guitarist, you do

[00:33:38] Tik Tok Person: you not controversy.

[00:33:43] What’s a controversial guitar opinion. Prince was a more dynamic well-rounded guitarist than 95% of rock and metal guitarists. And this is coming from somebody who’s primarily a metal guitarist. It’s a controversial guitar opinion,

[00:33:57] Emily: not controversial, shouldn’t be controversial, but it probably is. It probably is a little controversial, you know, when you look at some of those.

[00:34:07] Uh, best guitarist lists. Prince is listed pretty low. And I think it’s because he kind of put down as a guitar for a while in his career to like become a B be more of a showman slash performer. Um, and I think he did that to like more attract like a pop audience versus a rock one. It did great for his career.

[00:34:31] It’s phenomenal guitars, but a lot of that, a lot of what he did was very much almost like calisthenics and that’s coming from one of his guitarists. That’s a direct quote from Wendy Melvoin I think. Uh, so, but yeah, just phenomenal. If you only have to do is listen to the intro to when doves cry, some of them listen to just listen to it and be like Jay’s.

[00:34:54] That was fast. Good. Damn.

[00:35:02] Tik Tok Person: Come

[00:35:03] Emily: on with my three princes,

[00:35:07] Tik Tok Person: what’s a controversial guitar opinion.

[00:35:09] Emily: People spend way too much time buying equipment and researching and learning about equipment and not enough time practicing. And I know for a fact, because I used to do this too, and now I noticed that as I’ve gotten better, suddenly

[00:35:20] Tik Tok Person: I feel like my equipment’s gotten better.

[00:35:22] It’s

[00:35:22] Emily: because it’s the

[00:35:23] Tik Tok Person: operator, not the equipment that matters.

[00:35:27] Emily: What did they say in tech, um, error exists between user and keyboard yet, you know? Yeah. You can buy all the, all the toys in the world and they’re not going to make you a better player. Um, and I know that I professionally sell the things I implore people to practice.

[00:35:50] I love practicing. I know not everybody loves practicing. I really do. I love playing guitar. I love just plugging straight into an amp or something and just playing guitar. I’m going to do it later. Going to new ones, videos over when a place for Christmas, he shit very excited about it.

[00:36:10] Tik Tok Person: What’s a controversial guitar active basis or better than passive basis.

[00:36:18] Okay.

[00:36:22] I

[00:36:23] Emily: was hoping for a watt law that guy’s last video is like three minutes long and he didn’t give a why on that one. I don’t have an opinion on that is that controversial. Let me know in the comments,

[00:36:35] Tik Tok Person: beautiful guitar opinion, changing strings with a floating bridge. It’s not hard to do. It should be basic knowledge for every rock or metal guitar player.

[00:36:40] You just don’t want to learn how to do.

[00:36:43] Emily: I feel the same way about restricting a Bigsby and I feel the same way about restringing a vintage style. Tinners it’s not hard. Uh, it can just be a pain in the ass. You want to restring a Bigsby, get a KIBO and a piece of foam, easy breezy. Oops.

[00:37:00] Tik Tok Person: Next what’s a controversial that compressor and your signal chain is just raising the noise floor.

[00:37:06] It’s not doing what you think it’s doing

[00:37:09] Emily: if you’re using it right. Are you using it wrong? Maybe you should use it, right. Maybe you should use it, right.

[00:37:17] Tik Tok Person: What’s a controversial guitar opinion.

[00:37:20] Emily: Using music theory as a crutch destroys your originality and creativity, as far as songwriting goes, and it’s called music theory for a reason, do whatever the

[00:37:28] Tik Tok Person: fuck you want.

[00:37:30] What’s it called? What’s a controversial guitar opinion.

[00:37:34] Emily: Say about that, but I’m like, okay. Yeah. Do whatever you want. I, I only most guitarists know shit about music theory to begin with. So I don’t really understand, I think most guitars, like if you’re playing a, if you’re like it, and I was when I’m like, primarily like in my, like most formal training is like jazz guitarist, even me, it was like, just learn the chord shapes, learn the most.

[00:38:02] It’s fine. You’ll figure it out. You don’t really need to know every little thing about the theory, but the basis is like you got to know the theory, the guitar, even medially, the guards are like Fred down. I don’t care. This is going to be the last one because I’m running in a stamp

[00:38:18] Tik Tok Person: aesthetic is everything and tone.

[00:38:20] Well, more specifically, fidelity is overrated. So

[00:38:23] Emily: many gets not fidelity. Those are different things.

[00:38:28] Tik Tok Person: Paris. I swear here, their tone through their eyes or their wallets or their preconceived notions, rather than using your ears to listen to it. In context, in the context of a live show, or even on a record in the context of a more lush, complicated arrangement, nobody’s really going to be able to tell the difference or even care.

[00:38:48] Uh, I was carrying around my pedal board with all my different pedals around New York city. And I was so worried about all the time that I decided. Yeah, one of these is my only pedalboard and guess what? I started getting more compliments on my tone than before, when I just had the pedalboard and they in my life.

[00:39:03] Emily: I mean, I love, like I have played with the pod go and I think it sounds great also, and there’s probably a lot less that’s potentially going wrong. Um, a lot less, like as far as buffer, maybe, maybe your turn actually does sound better. Do the truck stop and maybe it’s actually just a great improvement upon what your tone was that.

[00:39:22] I don’t know your life, life a

[00:39:24] Tik Tok Person: lot easier too. I mean, that’s huge listeners, your audience. Oh my God. This thousand dollar unit sounds better than my

[00:39:31] Emily: $500 pedal collection. I actually don’t know what his life was. So I shouldn’t say that, but like, I think it’s really weird to say like, oh, this really exp this really luxurious and incredible floorboard unit sounds better than a pedal board.

[00:39:46] I’m like, yes. Sure. I believe that

[00:39:53] Tik Tok Person: all they care about is that you are, have chorus on the guitar when it matters. They don’t care how good it sounds. So turn on the pedal, make it sound good enough. Stop spending so much time tone hunting. I care.

[00:40:04] Emily: I care how my quarter sounds, you know, it’s like. My husband took really long to get ready for something.

[00:40:13] And we relate to something and he said, well, if anybody, if anybody gets mad that we’re late. Like I don’t care. And I was like, no, you don’t get it. I’m mad that we’re late. I’m mad. I’m I am mad at you that we’re late. I don’t know if anyone else is going to be mad, but I am mad and he’s like, So, I mean, like, I care about my town.

[00:40:39] Am I not allowed to care about like, like, I want to have pride in what I do. And also the chorus

[00:40:48] Tik Tok Person: on the line six affects sound

[00:40:51] Emily: really good. I don’t know a point he’s making, it’s not like he’s like pulling out like an Amazon basics unit. I don’t, this is a really like premium unit he’s showing off. It’s a great floorboard unit.

[00:41:08] It’s not like a budget effect.

[00:41:13] Tik Tok Person: I don’t,

[00:41:15] Emily: I don’t understand the point. He thinks he’s making again,

[00:41:18] Tik Tok Person: fiddling with knobs and spend more time playing and practicing. What’s

[00:41:21] Emily: it called? I definitely think we should spend more time playing and practicing, but I, again, I just don’t understand the point that he thinks he’s making in that one.

[00:41:28] Cool.

[00:41:29] Tik Tok Person: So.

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