New guitar day for me too, and it's an SG as well!

[Philly Q]

I was just looking at the tokai SG's and saw this:-

http://www.richtonemusic.co.uk/guitars-1/electric-guitars-2/tokai-usg75-electric-guitar-cherry-42.html

How was the SG-75 Philly? If it's as good quality as my ES130, £530 looks pretty good...

The SG-75 was really good.  Construction and playability is exactly the same as the SG-155, but the finish is poly and the hardware and electronics are a bit cheaper (but still absolutely fine).  I'd guess it's a 2 or 3 piece body (couldn't tell under the paint!).

In terms of bang-for-buck, it was better value than the SG-155.   90% as good for less than half the money.  :)

[hunter]

btw Kaz, clips or it didn't happen! :P

I'm on it. Youtoob is being awkward though :shock:

Clip as promised. Two mins to film, a friggin hour to load the damn thing. I'm new to the whole uploading to youtube thing. My camera takes vids in .AVI. Would it be quicker to convert it to MP4 first or something?

Bit of classic AC/DC for you guys

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXDb7K7P9jo

You can hear the potential shine through. SGs are just too cool.

Hey and you don't have too much gain, which is surprising as it's a modeler. Well I always use too much, on modelers anyways but also on amps.

[_tom_]

Sounds really good and "chimey" :) What amp?

As for the video, you can compress it with something like MPEG Streamclip if the file is huge.

[LazyNinja]

Hey and you don't have too much gain, which is surprising as it's a modeler. Well I always use too much, on modelers anyways but also on amps.

Depends on what I play but for crunch I usually go for just about enough gain for it not to sound thin and lifeless. Also, the high gain models on the Boss suck which I was surprised about because I quite like the R-fire model on Cube 60.

Sounds really good and "chimey" :) What amp?

As for the video, you can compress it with something like MPEG Streamclip if the file is huge.

Thanks, it's GT-8 plugged into small active monitors (Samson Studiodock 3i)  :)

That one min clip was about 35MB. Is that big, relatively speaking?

[BigB]

Two NSGD on the same day - you lucky bar-stewards

congrats and enjoy  :D

[38thBeatle]

Congratulations. Looks great and sounds pretty cool too.

[Plexi Ken]

That's one seriously cool guitar, I love the '61s looks but the neck it too thin for me    Excellent clip too, tasteful amount of drive. 2009 was the year of the Telecaster (lots of BKP's got one). Looks like 2010 could be the year of the SG. Maybe we should design a calender (like the Chinese) but swap animals for guitars  :lol:


The upload size of the video only matters so much, YouTube re-compresses as it sees fit. As for the upload video file, this is from YouTube...

We specifically recommend the MPEG4 (Divx, Xvid) format at 640x480 resolution with MP3 audio. Resizing your video to these specifications before uploading will help your clips look better on YouTube

[AndyR]

Another cutie :D

Twelve months ago I would have preferred the look of this one (I likes me cherry anyway), but several months with a Faded special, and I seem to have grown fond of the batwing look...

[lulusg]

Enjoyed the clip very much, Beautiful guitar!! Love SG's!!!

[dave_mc]

sweet :)

i agree about gibson pickups- they're fairly nice for stock pickups (obviously some models are nicer than others, of course). It's the eejits buying the gibson pickups for retrofitting that are the problem, because they think they'll turn their £200 epi into a gibson. Not to mention the fact that gibson pickups are ridiculously expensive.

[FernandoDuarte]

very nice :D