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Does anyone actually watches Chappers and the captain for gear demo...I see them as a bunch of guys mucking around with lots of gear to play with. For one thing, they are bias as they want to sell the product they are using so from the get go the actualy value of the review goes out the window. Secondly, Chapper's playing style is just ridicuous in terms of showing what the amp or guitar can do, it's like everything gets jumbo together and a mess. And I don't think their recording gear is that great either.
Chicago Music exchange has better gear reviews and demos, but again, it's a but bias. I generally prefer demos from independant people who do comparisons in their own bedroom.
Nothing beats your own demo at a store though.
side note, on the acoustic side, for consistency, The Acoustic Letter guy plays the same tune on every gutiar reviews he does. So if you just listen, you can get a better idea of the sound of the guitar with his reviews, again, he doesn't seem to say anything negative on any of his gear either, there is a lot of "killer this and "killer that" going on.
The white elephant in the room is that no matter how good these demos are, ultimately you are playing it through your PC speakers (for the majority of people) so what it sounds live is not 100% true to what you hear.
www.youtube.com/user/TheToneshack
https://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Tone-Shack/342112489166403?ref=hl
Pete Thorn - just irritatingly tasteful all the time. Great tones, mostly, but he's very much a boutique only kinda guy, though he has recently shown some interest in a couple of boss pedals so I might need to rethink that.
I'd like to see him just let rip, chug some riffs and blast a solo sometime.
It reminds me of Father Ted - "Play the f****** note!"
I'm going to put on hold my new 'youtube' gear test channel - 'Bogs Butchers inside the Box at the Bog lounge'
Though I'm not sure always playing the same things is necessarily a bad idea, you want some kind of consistency to be able to compare across reviews. Yes, do something that shows off what the gear is meant to do, but since it'll depend how you're playing it's good also to have something that lets people hear how it's different to other kit. Not that anything ever sounds the same in the shop as on youtube anyway...