Red_Label
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A couple of tips for posting gear review videos...
I don't really need to wade through 30 minutes of you pointing at the amp controls and telling me about every one of them to get to your 2 minutes of actual playing. Sure... if there's some special switch or knob that sets your amp model apart from the crowd, point it out. But I don't need it explained to me in slow, excruciating detail that the amp has gain, TMB, presence, MV, standby and power knobs/switches. I can look at the thing and tell that.
Just friggin PLAY the damn thing! And use various gain/EQ settings to show us the dynamic range of the amp -- don't just chug the brootalz for five minutes if your amp is capable of more. If you demonstrate the variety of tones in there, I'll know what the amp is capable of and can figure-out for myself how to get to there from here. Some of these demos remind me of a movie where it spends the whole length of the film developing a plot, but then sloppily wraps the entire movie up in 10 minutes like they ran over budget and had to pull the plug.
Also, if you're recording your amp turned-up even a little bit and you're using a cheap on-board camera/phone mic... the tone and feel of your amp is going to come through the same as a cheap Line 6 or Crate amp.
One more thing... BEFORE you post-up your vid, play your demo for some friends whom you trust to be honest with you. Your basement full of boutique gear isn't going to make up for your lack of ability to play even the simplest of ACDC songs without stopping between chords to reposition your fingers.
We're not all going to put-out Pete Thorn level gear reviews... but it sure would save me a LOT of time if I didn't have to wade through the videos of every short-bus-shut-in with a guitar and internet access. I'd guess that many exabytes of data storage and wasted video viewer's time could be saved by implementation of some of these tips.
Now that I've wasted space and time with my rant... peace out!
I don't really need to wade through 30 minutes of you pointing at the amp controls and telling me about every one of them to get to your 2 minutes of actual playing. Sure... if there's some special switch or knob that sets your amp model apart from the crowd, point it out. But I don't need it explained to me in slow, excruciating detail that the amp has gain, TMB, presence, MV, standby and power knobs/switches. I can look at the thing and tell that.
Just friggin PLAY the damn thing! And use various gain/EQ settings to show us the dynamic range of the amp -- don't just chug the brootalz for five minutes if your amp is capable of more. If you demonstrate the variety of tones in there, I'll know what the amp is capable of and can figure-out for myself how to get to there from here. Some of these demos remind me of a movie where it spends the whole length of the film developing a plot, but then sloppily wraps the entire movie up in 10 minutes like they ran over budget and had to pull the plug.
Also, if you're recording your amp turned-up even a little bit and you're using a cheap on-board camera/phone mic... the tone and feel of your amp is going to come through the same as a cheap Line 6 or Crate amp.
One more thing... BEFORE you post-up your vid, play your demo for some friends whom you trust to be honest with you. Your basement full of boutique gear isn't going to make up for your lack of ability to play even the simplest of ACDC songs without stopping between chords to reposition your fingers.
We're not all going to put-out Pete Thorn level gear reviews... but it sure would save me a LOT of time if I didn't have to wade through the videos of every short-bus-shut-in with a guitar and internet access. I'd guess that many exabytes of data storage and wasted video viewer's time could be saved by implementation of some of these tips.
Now that I've wasted space and time with my rant... peace out!
