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Burgs is a great player but now makes everything sound great. Same with Mike Hermans - I watch their demos but I'm always a bit dubious about how marvellous they always sound.
Greg Koch is entertaining, Pete Thorn is a bit too serious, and Rob Chapman is now a bit boring and I'm not a fan of his playing style.
Thanks for posting that.
I am constantly amazed at how accurately he plays everything he records and how he really nails the sounds he trying to recreate.
Dream Job.
He comes across really well, with great feel and professional attitude. They are really well filmed and you really get to hear the tones of the guitars. He helps to show them in their best light.
As as some one mentioned Rob Chapman, I'm sorry to to say I have become really bored with Rob Chapman's playing on the Andertons and YouTube videos over the last 3+ years. Am I allowed to say that?
I have become bored with the consistent shredding and not playing any different genres that may work better with the type of guitars he is demoing.
If it's a shredders guitar then fine as that is the market it is aimed at. But that's a limited market, a bit like the old hot hatch boy racer days, been there done that. You grow out of it eventually, although some don't and it's all a bit odd to see a 30 - 60 year old still trying around in a not hatch.
Another thing that I have grown bored with or puts me off is the 'I own a guitar company' line which he loves to throw in when he can. It just comes across as very smug, like the kid in the playground boasting about his father's big or fast whatever. I just cringe when I hear it now.
From a business perspective if I owned a guitar company I wouldn't be out there demoing and promoting other companies guitars. You don't or didn't see Paul Reed Smith etc out there playing, endorsing and promoting other manufacturers guitars. Business is business.
There's a big difference between specifying, buying, and distributing consignments of guitars to employing, designing and manufacturing them with your own factory.
This is is nothing personal against Rob, I understand he is a very nice guy but I am just offering my own opinion(s) which only matters to me really. I just wonder how many others have found the same thing over time.
Back to the demos at at the end of the day it all comes down to the perspectives of the audience or market, and 'there is no accounting for taste'.
Sorry if if I am coming across a bit grumpy
Can't help feeling it should go in "Other reviews" though ...
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I love checking out Boss demos by these guys and everyone is like, "WOW! How did you get it to sound so good? What are your settings? Are they modded?"
Whereas on a newer, hand made pedal video by them everyone is just like, "wow, that *pedal* sounds so much better than <previous best sounding pedal>.
Let's face it. It is the job of these demonstrators to instil the desire to purchase into us - the potential customers.
PGS Andy's videos are always worth a watch, but only if you're wealthy enough to buy everything he demos
I looked at one Earthquaker Devices pedal for fun (Acapulco Gold) because I knew full well I didn't want, or need it.
Now I do, plus half a dozen other EQD pedals I saw before I managed to close YouTube down.
Max
Edit: Actually I remember the wrong guy, the guy who's playing was pretty good was the other PGS demonstrator,Scotty I think his name is.
https://reverb.com/shop/proguitarshop
https://reverb.com/uk/news/reverb-welcomes-andy-martin-and-the-tone-report
https://reverb.com/uk/news/video-joe-from-reverb-interviews-andy-from-tone-report
Effects for Me & my Monkey YouTube channel Facebook Fretboard's "resident pedal supremo" - mgaw
e.g. this one from 5min on.
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I tend to like the kinds of things he plays.