The Best Tones of YouTube

[JasonE]

My band recently did a livestream on YT, where we played for an hour, then did a quick interview. Before we left, they asked us to do a quick "short" and plug the site and the store. Guess which one will get more hits? The damn Short. People's attention span is maybe 3 seconds these days.

You can blame Twitter and TikTok.

 

[MTB1973]

Shawn Tubbs, Michel Nielsen, Pete Thorn. These guys always sound great.

Michael Nielsen is awesome! (the others are too).

 

[V|J]

Go incognito or sign out of Youtube and surf anonymously once.. the videos on the YT homepage are so repulsive, wow.

Cleavage, wrestling, animals, Mr. Beast.

All clickbait junk w/ massive clicks.

I’ll check out duckduckgo as pointed out.
Bing is another search engine that’s so advertisement focused, it’s unreal.

Back to the topic…..

Not the tone so much, but the impact of the playing and the swells in this phone recorded video is immense.

Thomas Dahl is a jazz professor and has won some awards too; he’s from Norway. Not a youtuber though.

 

[State of Epicicity]

My God, I can't believe I hadn't even thought of just browsing YouTube without my account. That absolutely is the ticket. If there's a video I want to bookmark I can always copy the URL to the shitshow version signed in. This is great.

And it's funny, I used DuckDuckGo a few years ago but stopped for some reason. I think it may be time to return. Thanks everyone for contributing your thoughts!

 

[PLX]

I find it completely perplexing that YouTube doesn't recommend many of these channels to me. Instead they recommend either the same few people over and over, then a bunch of the stupidest looking videos that have nothing to do with what I searched for.

Sophie Lloyd keeps showing up in my YouTube feed.

She has two really great tones.

 

[Frodebro]

Not really a YouTuber/reviewer, but Larry Mitchell puts up videos and he is absolutely worth checking out.

 

[Life Eats Life]

I’ll vote LPMojo cuz he don’t polish the moment.
And in his demonstrations, the gear in the signal will speak for themselves if ya give it a precise listen.
Just like you or me gettin’ of work sitting’ down pick up the guitar strum some shit, hit a lick,
fire up the amp and start jammin’.
Reality really is it was it really is and it’s just another amp..
I didn’t my say anyone was B.A.D.either.
The BAD lot Karen….come and get me.

I think we hear more of these Y’Tuber’s set-ups to record, edit & process the sound far more then the amplifier’s naked as a rake’s inherent sound.
But look what we listen to these video’s through.
Not Alpines
Eventually all we’ll know is digital because that’ll be the only way it’s readily available.
Even digital dicks.
So f-it.Get the whip & play Rawhide in A

 

[texhex]

Eddy Lenz
Simon Dorm
Me.

Link to your YT ?

 

[megametal7]

I like sonic drive studios and Euge Valovirta tones.

 

[Baba]

Michael Neilsen for sure. That dude makes me want to buy everything he demos, lol.

Leon Todd as well. I think Leon is like, an alien or something. I don't know how a dude that young can know so much about 70's and 80's music and tone.

 

[Devin]

Sergey Golovin is one of my faves; doesn't hurt that the dude also fucking rips and writes super interesting music (in my opinion)

 

[metropolis_4]

I don’t listen to a lot of YouTube, but I always dig the tones I hear from these guys:

Cory Wong
John Cordy
Paul Davids
Mateus Asato

 

[V|J]

My God, I can't believe I hadn't even thought of just browsing YouTube without my account. That absolutely is the ticket. If there's a video I want to bookmark I can always copy the URL to the shitshow version signed in. This is great.

And it's funny, I used DuckDuckGo a few years ago but stopped for some reason. I think it may be time to return. Thanks everyone for contributing your thoughts!

I only login to my YT account if I want to comment otherwise for all the gear related vids, I watch anonymously because I don’t want it in my feed.

 

[State of Epicicity]

Sergey Golovin is one of my faves; doesn't hurt that the dude also fucking rips and writes super interesting music (in my opinion)

I forgot about that guy. He's truly great.

 

[Devin]

I forgot about that guy. He's truly great.

His trio band he has going on currently is unbelievably good

 

[State of Epicicity]

His trio band he has going on currently is unbelievably good

I found him at the same time I discovered Anton Oparin. I don't even remember his tones, because I'm always picking my jaw off the floor from his playing haha.

 

[JerEvil]

Man Michael Nielsen for sure, Pete Thorn, Shawn Tubbs, those guys always get great all around tones.

Kyle Bull has gotten progressively better tones over his time on his channel and I actually like his content/approach. His vids helped push me over the edge buying my Savage MKII as well as a couple cabs. Plus he’s quick to actually respond if you ask him something.
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Leon Todd seems super nice, good player and he might get a handy just for that accent but fuck me, not once heard a tone from him that got my trigger finger itchy. Well, not totally true, his bid on the PSA1 sounded pretty good. Other than that though…

I’ll also just add, even though I don’t do a lot of content I get some pretty good fuckin’ tones! lol!

 

[Baba]

^^^ I forgot about Pete Thorn and Shawn Tubbs. Definitely at the top, for me.

 

[JerEvil]

^^^ I forgot about Pete Thorn and Shawn Tubbs. Definitely at the top, for me.

Yeah those guys have literally never sounded bad!

 

[hemmelight]

My fave is Guillaume Vrac. He's got the best no-nonsense tones for my taste, recorded well and he's a good / tasteful player as well.
Here's an example covering a lot of different sounds: