00:00 Right, my name's Sam, I'm from a flash in the pan band called The Ard Act.
00:15 We're here at Norva Guitars in Leeds, quite a long established guitar shop, and it mostly
00:19 sells second hand guitars, so that's going to be mint, I can't wait.
00:25 Right mate, let's look at some goddamn guitars.
00:30 I think I'd like to know what the pickups in this sound like.
00:33 Do you mind if I give this one a go?
00:35 Yeah, go on.
00:36 They look like they're going to be like gold foils or something, but they're actually mini
00:38 humbuckers.
00:39 Might just give that a little whirl if that's OK.
00:41 I don't know what the guy's called who redesigned them.
00:43 Sounds like the bass player from The Who.
00:47 I think one of those mental, like what they used to put on in the 60s, zero fret.
01:11 Oh right, what's this about?
01:12 I think it's meant to help with intonation or something, you know, like it's got a fret
01:16 after the...
01:17 Yeah, for sure, for sure, for sure.
01:19 But like no one really does it anymore, like Hofner Guitars, they had that.
01:22 I always find it funny how like the contact points on a guitar, this is often like plastic
01:27 or bone and this is metal.
01:28 Yeah.
01:29 Why is there two different...
01:30 I think it's just the way things evolve, I don't know.
01:34 I think that's quite nice, this.
01:36 Oh yeah.
01:37 They're cheap as hell, these, like.
01:39 Same sort of thing, you know, it's got like an offset trim and that.
01:43 The only thing I would change on it is the middle bit makes them go out of phase.
01:46 So it's like that quack, quack sort of a quacky sound, out of phase sound.
01:53 I do think though that the pickups like the most important thing.
01:56 Oh totally, yeah, it's like all of the sound of the guitar, man.
01:58 All of the sound.
01:59 Having said that, I did get my Rick refretted and I had stainless steel frets put on it.
02:04 I didn't, it's the first time I've had one refretted and it did change the sound, it
02:08 was like tinny and bright, but in a nice way.
02:10 Yeah, see.
02:11 Yeah, see.
02:12 Yeah, cool though.
02:13 I like this.
02:14 Like that should, in my mind, should be like metal or something, chrome, but they've put
02:23 a like three ply white on there.
02:26 String might be a bit different.
02:33 I will play something other than E major.
02:38 These are good guitars.
02:39 I really like the bass versions, have you seen those before?
02:41 Westones, they used to be dead cheap, but they like, they've went up a bit in price
02:44 now.
02:45 No, I don't remember that brand.
02:46 I think like everyone in the 80s had one.
02:48 Really?
02:49 That's lovely.
02:50 In the fingers.
02:51 Yeah, sometimes like when you buy guitars, I think although the pickups, the most important
02:56 part of the sound, how a guitar feels is just important because it's such a physical thing
03:01 playing.
03:02 Let's have a look at a Holley body, because I don't actually own one.
03:05 Yeah?
03:06 That same brand of that guitar that you just had in your hand, this one's really nice.
03:09 Yeah.
03:10 It's funny though, because we buy guitars from Japan, you don't actually ever see these
03:15 like for sale anywhere.
03:16 I think they must have just been, you know, like for the UK market.
03:21 Yeah, these are quite nice.
03:23 It's like a proper through neck one as well.
03:26 It's cool though.
03:27 It's quite heavy.
03:28 Yeah, it's all right.
03:29 I did think the other day that I have sort of played quite light bodied guitars.
03:39 Yeah.
03:40 Like a Noel Gallagher, you know, playing the Gibsons, they've got real heavy bodies.
03:46 Not all of them actually.
03:47 We had a 345 coming here, like a walnut one.
03:50 We didn't actually buy it then, but when I picked it up, I was really surprised because
03:54 before we had a custom shop copy of that and it weighed a tonne, but the real one was like
04:01 nothing.
04:02 I don't know whether because it's so old, you know, like the water or whatever, like
04:05 moisture and stuff.
04:06 But yeah, it felt fragile, but it was like really nice.
04:10 Hey.
04:11 What else should we try?
04:35 This one.
04:36 Yeah, I'll go for that one.
04:38 Come on.
04:39 It's a bit mad, isn't it?
04:40 Yeah, it's a bit negative on the edge.
04:41 Come on.
04:42 It's got a lovely neck, that.
04:43 It's really like narrow this way.
04:44 Oh, wow.
04:45 The shallow on it.
04:46 I find that the different necks make you play different, you know what I mean?
04:51 You'll end up coming up with a different idea because you'll lean to a different shape or
04:55 something.
04:56 Yeah, there's a point right when you start getting sweaty where it gets really rubbish
04:59 and then when you get really sweaty, it's fine again.
05:05 Yeah, in some ways, it gives you a bit of a rest on.
05:28 Yeah, a bit of assistance over there because I was just thinking this lap steel.
05:33 Oh, yeah.
05:34 I think that's an open A, that.
05:35 Oh, is it an open A?
05:36 It didn't sound like it was to me.
05:37 Maybe somebody's changed it.
05:38 Oh, I can hear it now, yeah.
05:39 It's a really weird system.
05:40 I find that a little bit harder to play than just playing like a regular slide guitar.
05:41 It feels like you've got to have it at a different point visually.
05:42 Yeah, I think that's a bit of a shame.
05:43 Yeah, I think that's a bit of a shame.
05:44 Yeah, I think that's a bit of a shame.
05:45 Yeah, I think that's a bit of a shame.
05:46 Yeah, I think that's a bit of a shame.
05:47 Yeah, I think that's a bit of a shame.
05:48 Yeah, I think that's a bit of a shame.
05:49 Yeah, I think that's a bit of a shame.
05:50 Yeah, I think that's a bit of a shame.
06:14 I always think it sounds a bit drunk, doesn't it?
06:32 Thank you for watching Guitar Shopping for Guitar.com.
06:35 We're in Northern Guitars in Leeds.
06:37 I've been Sam.
06:38 I'm Tommy.
06:40 See you later.
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