A new format we've been working on...

littlethoughts

I found the little ident sound between each section a bit annoying. Also I've always pronounced Mesa like may-sa not messer, am I in the minority here?

ThePrettyDamned

littlethoughts;275492" said:

I found the little ident sound between each section a bit annoying. Also I've always pronounced Mesa like may-sa not messer, am I in the minority here?

Same. Half life did that to me.

xSkarloey

I've always said 'maysa' too. Just always assumed it was that what with California having such a large latino influence on everything.

mellowsun

This is great - does this mean that The Vault will be migrating to YouTube sometime soon?

Clearly a lot of work and love has gone into this and it shows. Very high quality and great sound too.

The only thing I'd change is that I'd drop the single coil shootout, as this already features as a standalone video on your channel (or used to, at any rate).

GuitarMonkey

Fretwired said:

@chrisv - I still think I'd chop the big video into smaller chunks and have a YouTube channel that shows them all and links them. You'll then get comments on each demo and people linking to individual videos. It's easier to link a single video on say Facebook with a comment "check out this Les Paul Junior" rather than "check on this Les Paul Junior by scrolling to 35.45" .. just my two cents.

You can of course link directly to any point in a YouTube video.

Single-pickup guitar round up (with Chris Vinnicombe and Neville Marten) 27:04

digitalscream

GuitarMonkey said:

Fretwired said:

chrisv - I still think I'd chop the big video into smaller chunks and have a YouTube channel that shows them all and links them. You'll then get comments on each demo and people linking to individual videos. It's easier to link a single video on say Facebook with a comment "check out this Les Paul Junior" rather than "check on this Les Paul Junior by scrolling to 35.45" .. just my two cents.

You can of course link directly to any point in a YouTube video.

Single-pickup guitar round up (with Chris Vinnicombe and Neville Marten) 27:04

True, but that won't help them with building traffic. To get high search results on YT, you need people to click and watch your videos in the search results - if somebody's searching for a Yamaha acoustic but get a result titled "The Gear Show", they're not going to click it, so the video itself remains buried. If it's split up, then they'll see "Yamaha acoustic roundup", click on it...and job's jobbed.

Lew

When's the Bonamassa special?

mellowsun

Lew said:

When's the Bonamassa special?

That's in next month's mag I think

Ianb62

I watched it, and on the whole I liked it.

The single pickup guitar bit was good - makes me hanker for an esquire again, and the artists bits were ok- though Mr McBride may not be the best salesman for PRS as he seemed underwhelmed.

A show and tell section might be good- with staff, artists, punters bringing along kit that has some meaning to them - rather than a succession of reviews of new drool worthy kit- something that refers to the obsession side of guitarists rather than the gas, gas and more gas

Neil

littlethoughts said:

I found the little ident sound between each section a bit annoying. Also I've always pronounced Mesa like may-sa not messer, am I in the minority here?

No, the correct pronunciation is May-sa.

Saying Messer sounds a bit dim on a magazine video IMO. 

xchrisv

Given that I'm from South Wales not Southern California, I'd feel a bit of a tool pronouncing it 'may-sa', if I'm honest.

It's the Moog conundrum. The correct pronunciation just sounds wrong/jarring in a UK accent, to my ears at least. Maybe I should affect an accent, football commentator-style, when using words that are derived from Spanish. 

EricTheWeary

How do you say Moog other than M - OO - G ?
|)

Can't wait until you get to review an Ibanez / Eebanez / Eebaneez / Eebaneth / Eyebaneez / Eyebaneth...

Lixarto

EricTheWeary said:

How do you say Moog other than M - OO - G ?

It rhymes with "vogue".

EricTheWeary

Lixarto said:

EricTheWeary said:

How do you say Moog other than M - OO - G ?

It rhymes with "vogue".

I would have never guessed.
:bz

xchrisv

EricTheWeary said:

How do you say Moog other than M - OO - G ?
|)

Can't wait until you get to review an Ibanez / Eebanez / Eebaneez / Eebaneth / Eyebaneez / Eyebaneth...

EYE-BAN-EZ every time :-)

Moltisanti

Lew said:

When's the Bonamassa special?Every month

Moltisanti

in Manchester it's pronounced Messo Boogeh

DannyP

A couple of times, I couldn't hear what was being said. When the Welsh bloke was reviewing the Mesa, I couldn't hear him over the playing.

In all, it just seems a bit po-faced and lacking in charisma. In that respect it seemed a bit stiff and dated.

monquixote

I thought it was great, very pro looking and I'm glad you don't feel the need to inject naff humour into it.

Really liked the single pickups guitar section. 

As others have said I think an hour is too long. Maybe half an hour, but released more frequently would be better. 

Also agree with @digitalscream that splitting each section will do more for your discoverability and traffic.

dean2371

i really enjoyed it. Indexing would be helpful