What's up everyone? And welcome to Will It Chug?
The critically acclaimed video series
where I take a piece of guitar-related gear up to the test
Will I be able to make it chug?
All for science
The good thing about this video series is that...
It attracts new audience that comes in here and be like...
'What the f*** is this guy talking about?'
'And what the f*** is this guy doing with my favorite piece of gear?'
Well that's the point of Will It Chug? right there
I take things and try to make it chug, you know...
What is metal chugging? It's this.
Today I'm trying out this Danelectro guitar right here
I mean, take a look at this thing
It's a remake of an old cult Danelectro guitar
Made in Korea
Soapbar, old new stock
New Old-Stock soapbar pickups
You have a pau ferro fretboard right there
And it's a maple neck
The center piece of this guitar is poplar
And masonite
On the sides, ok?
And you know, it sounds so...
It's...
It's definitely hollow body, I can hear that
When, you know...
Knocking on the door right here, hello?
Is anyone in there?
But the sides have these... like vinyl going
around them, which I thought was pretty cool actually
And I mean... just the color, man
Take a look at that color right there
And in today's demo, to make this piece of thing chug right here
I'm using a Mesa Boogie Rectifier Badlander
A pretty new amplifier from Mesa Boogie
Going straight into my Mesa with a V30 speaker
That's a Neumann TLM-102 condenser microphone right there
I'm also using a stereo microphone
So, I'm ready for the test
Are there any rockabilly guys out there?
Good, let's do this
Alright, so here we go
Will It Chug?
Start the clock
That is chugging right there
Let's cr- oh the gain is already cranked, ok
I'm in the Crush mode of the Badlander right here, so...
I don't know what happened
But I felt like playing Slayer on a Danelectro blue guitar like this, just saying
Alright, so let's check out the... the controls here
I think this is the volume knob for...
Yeah, for the bridge pickup right there, what's this, then?
Ok, tone
So that's pretty cool, you have the tone knob inside this outer volume knob right here, so...
Neck pickup
And then I think the center is probably a mixture between both
So, with the different volume knobs and tone knobs, you could set...
You know, your own favorite mixed tone
That's actually a pretty chugging tone
But you're getting a lot of noise with these soapbars, man
Shit, we have to drop this sucker
♫ Would you look at me now? ♫
♫ Would you tell I'm a man? ♫
♫ With these scars on my wrists You will prove I'll die again ♫
That's pretty chuggy, man, I like this
Yes
For the sake of it, I guess we have to do some clean
Ok
Ok, can I have a...
Enough cleans, right? Ok, let's go back.
I mean, it's lacking a little bit of output for... to push this thing
So I'm gonna bring in a friend of mine
My good ol' friend, the overdrive
Hello overdrive, how are you doing?
Alright, alright, alright, alright... up here
Ok, ok, ok, ok
Let's do it
Ok...
More gain
There we go
There you go, man
So that's it, that's the Danelectro guitar in Will It Chug?p
Did it chug? Yes.
It did chug, with the help of my good friends Mesa, and overdrives and shit
This guitar is around 500 euros to get
It's actually not that half-bad of a build
for the price, I must say
And it feels great to play
Even though I'm a metal dude, you know...
and this might be more for rockabilly, and punk, and rock and whatever
It... I can play on this thing
I mean, look at the color
Isn't that my type of color right there?
There you go, Will It Chug? for you right there
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