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Solid korina / limba, and tone in spades - a unique and inspiring voice. Totally convincingly aged too.
I can't recommend it enough (he does Vs too!).
edit PS I was going to post a pic - but ran out of patience with the Dropbox method...maybe later...grrrr...
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Be cool if they could actually clone a vintage guitar... but you would have to be careful with it's previous owners DNA :-D
https://youtu.be/s5hF80s1Qgs?t=72
He has two of them at various parts of the video but doesn't explain why (unless I missed something), surely he didn't actually buy two at this price?
YT reviewers seem to be quite commonplace now.
He did a video recently about his house move, and he was wandering around the basement trying to work out where he was going to film, saying here's this tiny room, here's another tiny room... just the basement seemed about three times the size of my flat! He's even got an indoor school gym/basketball court. The garden outside looks big too.
Going back to the guitars, he does some sponsored reviews but most of the time he's still buying stuff himself to "document", then selling it on. And a lot of it's new, so unless Sweetwater give him big discounts it's losing value immediately. If that was me, I'd be losing money on every single sale, it just doesn't seem sustainable - but I guess it must be.
I'm also interested in all the rare Gibson models he goes on about, although I have no intention of collecting any of them. I tend to skip his playing demos though, I've got bored with those bits.
1 - views / ads
2 - sponsors
3 - merchandise
4 - affiliated links
And to make a video generally there are expenses, from the sets, the travelling, the filming equipment, running cost, staff like editors. Take cooking videos, they have to buy all the ingredients. For travelling they have to buy the tickets/hotels. Some videos have much lower expenses like financial advice video where it is mostly time to research and it can generate the most lucrative ads which pays more, like financial institutions ads.
For Trogly, he has the expense of buying guitars, however, unlike travelling or cooking videos, he get to sell the guitars for profit. Even if he loses 10% from the guitar sale, he would still have the income from the video itself. His content is low risk for demonisation unless he plays music that is copyrighted so it's all under his control.
He can easily make 6 mid to high 6 figures annually through YouTube with his numbers + profit from his guitar turnover sales. The rough rule of thumb is for every million views you get £1,000 from ads (give and take a few hundred either side depending on the content). So these guitars, even if he is making 500k a year, would be quite an outlaid for him. They can make a LOT of money, Linus Tech Tips fork out about $80k to buy and make a SOLID 24 carat gold Xbox Controller and made 3 videos out of it to expense it.
I didn't know who Andy of Reverb was, just Googled and yes I have seen a couple of his videos before. Jack at Peach is great, but again no matter how good the demos are I don't think you can really tell that guitar A sounds better than guitar B, or amp C than amp D. They just all sound good.