Here’s Why Guitarists Change Their Strings (And Why Some Don't)
22This video documents how the Ibanez RG5121 Prestige sounds before an after a string change. Clean, rhythm and lead tones are demoed using both voice 1 and voice 2 of the Fishman Fluence Modern pickups that came stock in this guitar.
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00:00 Intro
00:37 What strings and tuning
00:45 Not sponsored
Sound Demo
00:57 Inspecting cat
01:01 Old strings neck clean voice 1
01:09 New strings neck clean voice 1
01:16 Old strings neck + bridge clean voice 1
01:25 New strings neck + bridge clean voice 1
01:32 Old strings bridge clean voice 1
01:41 New strings bridge clean voice 1
01:49 Old strings neck clean voice 2
01:57 New strings neck clean voice 2
02:05 Old strings neck + bridge clean voice 2
02:14 New strings neck + bridge clean voice 2
02:21 Old strings bridge clean voice 2
02:30 New strings bridge clean voice 2
02:37 Old strings bridge lead voice 1
02:45 New strings bridge lead voice 1
02:52 Old strings neck + bridge lead voice 1
03:00 New strings neck + bridge lead voice 1
03:07 Old strings neck lead voice 1
03:15 New strings neck lead voice 1
03:22 Old strings bridge lead voice 2
03:30 New strings bridge lead voice 2
03:37 Old strings neck + bridge lead voice 2
03:44 New strings neck + bridge lead voice 2
03:52 Old strings neck lead voice 2
04:00 New strings neck lead voice 2
04:07 Old strings bridge rhythm voice 1
04:22 New strings bridge rhythm voice 1
04:37 Old strings neck + bridge rhythm voice 1
04:52 New strings neck + bridge rhythm voice 1
05:07 Old strings neck rhythm voice 1
05:22 New strings neck rhythm voice 1
05:37 Old strings bridge rhythm voice 2
05:52 New strings bridge rhythm voice 2
06:08 Old strings neck + bridge rhythm voice 2
06:23 New strings neck + bridge rhythm voice 2
06:37 Old strings neck rhythm voice 2
06:52 New strings neck rhythm voice 2
Sound thoughts
07:07 String cat
07:11 Clean tone thoughts
07:42 Lead tone thoughts
08:29 Rhythm tone thoughts
09:01 Guitar break
Overall
09:09 Controller cat
09:14 Old string tuning instability
09:35 Locking tuners
10:05 Easy restring on a fixed bridge vs the floating Lo Pro
10:32 Smooth feel of new strings
10:43 Guitar break
10:50 Does the difference in tone matter?
11:22 Tone is subjective
11:32 Using EQ
12:13 Guitar break
12:17 Bigger difference than before
12:31 What are your thoughts?
12:46 The YouTube things
12:58 Consider checking out my music :)
13:16 Yawn cat