why i don’t do gear reviews
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0:00 – Intro
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Originally posted by UCMzy3Ngo3Tp_QJ3NMQyIlOA at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SycYhGDp7N8
Absolutely love this. I had to learn this the hard way unfortunately. I definitely fell down the gear rabbit hole initially. Now all I am focused on is technique and skill development. Very happy with my Blackstar amp and Yamaha Pacifica which sounds amazing. I plan to sell a bunch of the stuff I have now and just get one affordable quality backup guitar in fact, and just keep grinding on getting better. All of the gear stuff is definitely mostly distractions that get in the way of getting better far too often. Also no longer following much gear heavy content anymore, just performance and technique content now.
1-2 quality affordable guitars I like and my reasonably priced good amp with a handful of effects on it and learn, practice, learn, practice, learn, practice is my where my head is at in 2025…. Everything else is focusing on the wrong things that won’t help me get where I want to go, period.
Amen brother
Thanks for dragging me for 5:39. Guess I’ll go practice now.
Your videos are great and this is dead on. Whenever somebody asks me about my gear and what I think about other gear, my eyes glaze over. I'm just not interested in it. I have 3 electric guitars, and shitty acoustic, a lap steel, and a shitty bass. I never churn through gear. The DS-1 I have from 1999 still sounds great and is used in the studio. Gear can be a distraction and you can sound good on any guitar over $500. The tone is in the hands baby!
Make sense.
Your channel is great. It's all about tasty chords and arpeggios. You're one of the best, man. I agree about the gear. When I was coming up in the gigging scene in South London in the 90s I was outplaying every other guitarist with nothing but a cheap ES-335 clone and a basic multi-fx unit. Dudes would be showing up with £1000+ guitars and big rack units and they couldn't step up. And these days even that doesn't matter to me. As long as your playing is tasty, who cares how fast and shreddy you are.
I avoid gear reviews. I've been asked to showcase products and just pass, I don't need the headache. If I love or hate something though, I'll do it for free. 🙂
Excellent video, very deep and usefull
Happy to see you back, mate!
Yeah but I REALLY want this 300$ dark star reverb pedal ????
Yeah, but I see a computer back there with what looks like audio software. Wonder what’s going on there?
I got a 20 year Yamaha kit, have gotten lot of great compliments on the sound, it’s not anything special, but I learned how to tune it for different applications and genres. I learned how to play it for the room i was in..glad someone’s saying it, straight facts.
Funky and wise.
I can't afford thousands of dollars of gear, so I don't deal with it. If a sound interest me (e.g., wah wah), I'll buy a pedal. Otherwise, I stick to the basics.
yep. Naudo doesn't need any gear! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zpogu6wguII&ab_channel=NAUDORDS