The Guitologist
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Unedited Extended Practice Session

This is a clip that I normally just discard at the end of a project. It's an extended and unedited jam session from which I took all the guitar clips for the recent D'Angelico Double Cut demo. Originally recorded in 4k, the full clip is 16gb large, which explains why I don't usually save these clips once a project is complete. Saving all the clips from these video would mean I'd eat up hard drive space in no time, so I always just delete them. This time, for giggles, I figured I'd reduce this down from 4k to 1080 and upload it here to preserve it. It's just raw camera mic footage, but it's fun to see how much stuff gets discarded when I edit this stuff down. It might also be fun for some of you to see how I usually go about recording demos. As you can see, I just start jamming and see what comes out. Some of it gets used and most of it hits the cutting room floor. This was the first time in about 6 weeks that I had picked up a guitar after my back injury, so it felt really good to play, even though my fingers were KILLING me! Literally, it was like my callouses were almost gone and I was playing with beginner's fingertips again. OUCH!

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Modding a Hiwatt DR504

This is a video response to Tone Priest's question about modding a Hiwatt clone build. If you are a paid member here on Locals and have tech or other questions, I'll be happy to give you a similar video response when I get time! Thanks so much for all your continued support.

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1931 Gibson L1 Extended Jam

This was the full jam session on the Gibson L1 I did recently. As you probably know, I usually will jam for a while on something and then pick a few highlights to show in a final video. A ton of stuff got edited out. It's not all great, but it's not all bad either. I find it kind of soothing, this quiet acoustic stuff. I'm never sure where the mood will take me.

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10 Minute Crash Course in Open Tuning and Open D Licks

I made this quick video the other day for a friend and figured I'd post it here as well. He wants to get started in slide, so I was quickly showing him some open tuning concepts to make the transition to slide a bit easier. Kind of like learning slide without a slide.

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Why Do Billy Gibbons, Brian May, and EVH Have Such Distinctive Tone?

This is probably the most overlooked aspect of your guitar tone hiding right under your nose.

February 12, 2026

What's going on here, fellas? On both these schematics the OT plates get B+ DC like normal through a bridge rectifier but check out how the screens and all the preamp tubes are getting juice. There appears to be a second tap off the secondary of the PT which goes through a choke, has a couple filter caps than straight in. How is this getting rectified???

https://el34world.com/charts/Schematics/files/Univox/Univox1061.pdf

https://el34world.com/charts/Schematics/files/Univox/Univox1086.pdf

New Amp Repair Video...Early Bird Link

Exclusive early bird link for my Locals peeps. Enjoy!

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