Overrated Or Consistently Diappointing Gear Reviewers / Demos

Bogwhoppit

Heartfeltdawn said:

http://www.tonymckenzie.com/Site/images/pimages/tony2.jpg

Ahhh poor (or should I say wealthy) Tony. A really nice guy and 'his back', did he just say that !

His house reminds me of my nans living room....

Octahedron

Heartfeltdawn said:

http://www.tonymckenzie.com/Site/images/pimages/tony2.jpg

Have a wisdom... Chappers seems like a great guy, a little irritating. But this guy! What a tit. Frying pan on a hughes & kettner head... say what? Ffs.

kelvinburn

Fuzzbox Girl.   I'm already on the internet.  I'm led to believe there is no shortage of partially clothed, hot tattood ladies.  I came here for fuzz and guitar!

randomhandclaps

kelvinburn said:

Fuzzbox Girl.   I'm already on the internet.  I'm led to believe there is no shortage of partially clothed, hot tattood ladies.  I came here for fuzz and guitar!

This is a very good point which I have thought many times before.  More annoying than Fuzz Box Girl herself though is the sycophant "U R AMAZING!!! I WANT TO MARRY YOU COMMENTS!". 

Fuzz Box Girl -

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RocknRollDave

jonnyburgo said:

Without a doubt the bestest is the guy who does the Airline/Eastwood demos RJ Ronquillo.

Wow....! That's f*cking ACE!

LOVE that stuff he's playing at the start!   Will have to save the rest for later, but ...wow. Good call.

bigfuzz

how about we discuss some of the decent demos/reviewers? I'd second the chicago music exchange (some of them), wish they were a bit longer,though..

JohnPerry

bigfuzz said:

how about we discuss some of the decent demos/reviewers? I'd second the chicago music exchange (some of them), wish they were a bit longer,though..

actually yes, forgot them and totally agree. some interesting gear and decent production quality

Heartfeltdawn

kelvinburn said:

Fuzzbox Girl.   I'm already on the internet.  I'm led to believe there is no shortage of partially clothed, hot tattood ladies.  I came here for fuzz and guitar!

Please point out where the number of hot fuzz-inclined ladies outnumbers any number of the following:

-white pale dudes playing reverb heavy instrumental rock with offset guitars. 

-long haired dudes playing horrible solo filled instrumental rock that should have been banned by the start of the 1990's. 

-Wallet-heavy David Gilmour enthusiasts playing blues using expensive TS9 clones. 

Pedal and guitar demos are a sausage zone. 

Heartfeltdawn

randomhandclaps said:

Guitarists in general irrespective of gender -

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Fixed for accuracy. 

xSkarloey

Good: Chicago.Music Xchange, Phil X, PGS Andy, Gak ain't bad either. Podcast is okay and demos short and mostly useful. Nevada music sometims have reasonable vids. Chappers and co alright for some stuff. Greg Koch/ Wildwood is a great player, but he does play the same licks at the expense of perhaps showcasing what each guitar perhaps lends itself better too.
Robert Renman/ Dolphin Street is very good when he does demos.

I generally avoid Gearwire. I was put off years ago by their demo of the Peavey Windsor studio, possibly the worst demo I've seen.

I agree with what folks say about the Greg's Guitars bloke. Very odd that. He must have a tin ear.

monquixote

The Tone King is hopeless. 

Makes everything sound horrible and there is usually loads of nasty buzz. 

Agree that Guitar World Paul just tastelessly shreds everything without really showing you anything about the product.

dindude

Agree, The Tone King is shocking, both annoying and toneless, the man has no idea.

I used to like gearmandude but can't stand his demos now.

DrJazzTap

As someone pointed out on this forum, once you accept that Chappers and the Captain are essentially Top Gear clones it all makes sense.....I don't watch Top Gear or Chappers anymore. Not because I hate them or anything like that. I don't watch them because of the lack of detail, variety and the fact that I just don't really find them funny anymore.

And yes....the ahem "Tone King". A self appointed title perhaps?

Greggs Guitars, I always imagine he has a button on the floor. And when he presses it a cupboard rotates and a silk bed enters the room.

Paul from Guitar world, again nice enough guy. Just a bit guilty of having a clean tone, which isn't clean.

I love Mark from Nstuff, but simply because of his playing

PolarityMan

guitarfishbay said:

PolarityMan said:

The only gear demo's I've ever found remotely useful have been Ola's

I like the whole song playthrough approach though and the fact that it's an ok'ish genre match for me is helpful. The guys demo'ing high gain with ACDC'ish riffs involving chords on the high strings and stuff like that is just a waste of time. That shit's for the crunch channel.

Actually Ola is part of the reason I ended up playing Rectifiers.  Like a lot of people who like metal checking out Ola gear demos has always been a first port of call.  It is like he was the first person on youtube to realise a decently produced demo is more use than 10 minutes of waffling.  

Over time I found that so many of the amps he demos end up sounding very similar though, especially the tighter ones.  He just sounds so much more interesting on a Rectifier IMO, despite it being such a common sound historically for modern metal it just sounds better to me.

It is depressing to me that he has a demo of the same amp I have but sounds at least 8 times better

PolarityMan

More to the point it's like I think I will only even be interested in demo's by someone in marginally the same genre. I mean I don't give a flying monkeys how could a bebop jizz fusion tone you get out of something, it's 100% irrelevant to me. 

I also don't think that really cross genre peeps get the subtleties at time so these guys who demo tons of amps in wither "neutral" or a variety of style I see as a bit worthless.It's like the shitty "metal" rhythm sound you get out of typical shred guitarists or people like guthrie govan. It's liek they have all the sills but have somehow missed the very basics of the genre.

I seriously think it's more use to me to hear open string chugging whilst sweeping the controls then the majority of guitar demos. Ola is an exception because he cover alot of sounds I might actually want to use in songs. I don't know if there's similar guys for other genre's as it's pretty obvious his stuff would be of limited use outside metal but it seems to me like this is the direction to go in.

matt1973

Pete Thorn could make me trade all of my gear for a saw and bow if he demo'd one. Top of the tree for my money.

There are however some very prominent YouTubers that have certainly run their course, Gearmandude's format is very, very stayed and Schnobel's head-to-head demos are a great cure for insomnia. Dull players too - I generally give those guys a miss.

Moltisanti

it's interesting that we seem to have reached the point where this first wave of youtube demo guys is becoming old hat after 6/7 years, now we take youtube for granted as a guitar resource it will be good to see how it evolves moving forward. 

kelvinburn

Moogs Minifooger demos (Troy Van Leuwen etc) get my vote for best current pedal demos

sted

Mere mention of YT and the Chappers hate wagon starts, why? Don't like it? Don't watch it! It's not TGP guys, we don't need to be constantly brow beaten by your opinions, you don't like him, we get it, move on.

I cant bear PGS anymore, love Phil X just because of his OCD mannerisms, Sumner McKane is quality (Musictoyznetwork), as is Mike Hermans (Popintothechemist and Prymaxe Vintage) Gearmanndude lost his allure sometime ago too.

Top of the tree is Pete Thorn for me, definitely setting the benchmark right now.

capo4th

Gotta love a gear demo! The comparison of Captain and Chappers to Top Gear had me in stitches. Nice guys and a useful resource