"I have a thing for quality control" Phil X

[efstop]

But it's all good now

Gibson IS Only Now Good Enough

 

[Peter M]

The guitarist elaborates, “And it’s not me — I could walk in and I could pick up a beautiful Les Paul that looks amazing, but it doesn’t sound very good and it doesn’t feel very good because it wasn’t set up right, because of the quality control, or the lack thereof.”

 

[wildhawk1]

At the one minute and forty second mark he gives this Les Paul a QA check.

Also ....
What kid is saving 4G for a guitar?

 

[rogue3]

At the one minute and forty second mark he gives this Les Paul a QA check.

Also ....
What kid is saving 4G for a guitar?

yup.that vid was 10 years ago. don't know 'bout today...

 

[Nintari]

At the one minute and forty second mark he gives this Les Paul a QA check.

Also ....
What kid is saving 4G for a guitar?

Well, if you worked full time at fifteen dollars an hour, you'd earn (gross) about $2,600 a month. So if a kid really wanted a guitar in that price range, it would only take him about a couple months, tops.

 

[Note Milker]

Cool curly cord too! It looks like he plugged that right into to 120v!!!! Crazy. He sounds good right there, now I have to find more.

 

[musicmaniac]

Woo Hoo!

 

[VictorB]

I can't decide if this guy is a douche bag or just a tool bag.

 

[edro]

Douchettie Tool.... Killer band name....

 

[LtDave32]

Gibson's QC is generally pretty good. But strange things do slip through.

I once had a 2013 SG come in the shop for a neck reset. It had left the factory with a 4.55-degree neck angle.

The bridge was adjusted so high (so the strings would clear the fretboard), you couldn't raise the bridge pup high enough to get hardly any volume. All the way up, it was still a half-inch below the strings. How this left the factory without being caught in the assembly stage, I don't understand.

I removed the neck, added wood to the body mortise and reset the neck to 2.8 degrees.

All good to go after that.

 

[Peter M]

I dismiss him the minute he implies that he finds Les Pauls off the rack that are not set up right because of quality control issues. Really? No chance they were just poorly set up by a store employee?

I never rely on a store set up to judge a guitar. If I see it has potential, I'll take it home, set it up right (for me) and love it for years. Been there done that many times.

 

[edro]

'Set up right' is bullshit anyway.

'Set up right' for WHO? There ain't no magic set up picture that fits everybody. Everybody plays differently. Factory set up is just a common starting point. Bear in mind, you don't know what environments that guitar has been in, from storage at vendor to transport journey to you...any of which can totally fuxor the set up due to temp changes...

I was taught play the frets, not the damn board. I play light. A couple of buds of mine are finger players and never use a pick. It is physically impossible for them to play my guitar and I damn sure can't play their high ass action guitars with baling wire skrangs...

A bassist bud that his idea of fun is transposing jazz sax solos and playing them on bass to kill time, has me do all his basses. His orders are always (with one exception) "set em up for your action....then fuck it up a bit so I can play em.' He says mine play too easy so he overshoots/etc... Anyway, he bought yet another Fender bass, brought it in, and wanted it set up exactly to Fender specs. Exactly. Get out the gauges time... Did it exactly to factory specs to the T....

HIs response after playing it: "That is the damn worst playing piece of shit I've played. Do your set up for all my other basses on it." I did and he was ecstatic with it....

I like to watch the individual play before setting up their guitar or bass... I set up a Tele the other day for a customer that brings all his stuff to us for set ups.... I finished and my tech looked at it and said you can get a little lower on the action. I looked at my teh and said 'Yep. B U T.... Those are flat 11s on that guitar. What does that tell you?." - 'I see it now. He ain't a soloist, just a strummer with flat 11s....' Guy was thrilled with the action when he picked it up... I hated how it played...'for me'.....but tweren't my guitar...

AIn't no perfect to fit everybody's biscuit grabbers... Just ain't...

Some folks will look at board radius vs. saddle radius and miss one great big important dealio.... The damn strings ain't the same diameter...

 

[VictorB]

I dismiss him the minute he implies that he finds Les Pauls off the rack that are not set up right because of quality control issues. Really? No chance they were just poorly set up by a store employee?

I never rely on a store set up to judge a guitar. If I see it has potential, I'll take it home, set it up right and love it for years. Been there done that many times.

And when he went to the Gibson factory, he just didn't walk in, they knew he was coming, so they probably put the best of the best playing guitars in his hands...

And now he endorses Gibson, OF COURSE he's not going to say anything bad and praise the current leadership....

 

[Peter M]

'Set up right' for WHO? There ain't no magic set up picture that fits everybody. Everybody plays differently.

Exactly this. One man's comfort zone is another man's WTF. That's why I learned to do my own set-ups forever ago. No one knows you like yourself.

 

[Grandrune]

I did a short stint as a guitar helper.
If I setup the fiddle how I liked it Mr Rock Star would look at me and say something to the effect of GFYS!
I learned really quick about different strokes for different folks.
When setup right for him it was unplayable for me.