How To Make a VOS Gloss Finish | Comment Time #14 | Q&A

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In this episode of Comment Time we discuss making VOS finishes, pedal switchers, 60 cycle hum with single coil pickups, stainless steel frets, removing humbucker covers, etc.
Thanks for all the awesome comments, keep them coming! :)

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Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:20 Intro playing | Tele crunch
00:55 Comment 1 | DIY VOS finish secret
03:16 Playing | LP Jr. FUZZ madness
04:04 Comment 2 | Linear VS audio taper pots
07:00 Playing example of logarithmic pots
08:06 Playing | LP Jr. Hammer-on Lick
08:33 Comment 3 | What can a pedal switcher do?
10:02 Comment 4 | How do I compare pickups?
12:50 Playing | Tele chunky neck pickup
13:19 Comment 5 | Do guitar tweakers have ISSUES?
18:06 Playing | Les Paul low gain groove
18:35 Comment 6 | Do we REALLY need loud amps at all?
20:29 Comment 7 | How to remove pickup covers?
22:22 Comment 8 | Single coils - hum test
25:35 Comment 9 | Do I dislike stainless steel frets?
27:47 Comment 10 | Great high-gain pedals?

Gear used in this video:
(the Bitly links are Thomann affiliate links)

-Fender Telecaster Custom Shop '53 reissue
-Gibson Les Paul CM 2015 - heavily modified (thin nitro refin; Lollar Dog Ear P90; Emerson electronics)

Other gear I use in my videos:

-Barocsi Troublecaster - Custom built T-style guitar with Gretsch Filtertrons
-Barocsi "Frankenstrat" (2000 Fender American Standard body + Warmoth neck)
-Supro Tremolo

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Audio Interface:

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Cheers,
Kris

[lukaslmguitarcorner]

Kris, where do you buy the Micro Mesh pads? Couldn't find a link in the description. Thanks

[Project_]

"I want to impress and inspire myself". This is the healthiest attitude any musician can have.
Cheers Kris!

Ps: Your telly neck tone is just fantastic

Awesome video, as usual. Love Comment Time! And man, every single time you use the honey bee double trouble with the Revv I just can’t believe how good that sounds... absolutely amazing! Of course, the player has a huge impact on that! Lol
Cheers, my friend!

[austinmidwest]

about comment 5, i never understood people getting upset about changes like that. it's your stuff, do what you want to with it

[guitarflyer]

Totally agree Kris! Our own perception is what matters! I’m always tweaking guitars to get that certain sound in my head and the older I get the better I get at creating instruments that I love!

[guterwilli]

In my opinion you're definitely a very great guy...friendly, kindfull and always down to earth...
Your work is really great and filled with a lot of very very good information, always...
It is a pleasure to listen to your statements and vids...
Very good job dude... 👌

[briandevitt]

Quality videos, I always learn something from you Kris.

[lanetacker]

Thanks man I really appreciate it now to make my les paul look like the VOS finish

[PooNinja]

17:53 Preach the truth 🤘🏽. It’s My sound!!! It needs to sound how I want it to, your opinion is noted but I can only hear through my ears so that’s how I set the knobs.



The engineer can set up the DI however he / you want it just as long as I control what I hear during the actual performance.

Question for sometime.
what do you use for a DI signals and or the importance of Having DI tracks when recording, is just splitting my guitar with a mixer and sending it into my DAW unprocessed the same thing as a DI signal???

Have a great week Sir

[rahzark]

Man, your Tele neck pickup is sounding amazing! 👌

[generaaljurgen]

Hi Kris, thanks for the useful info! One question though, did you use circular motion when doing the VOS finish or alternate 90° directions?

[chrisgmurray]

I totally agree, Kris. In the early nineties, I bought a 57 reissue vintage stray.It was used, and someone had put white EMGs in it.I played it and bought it without ever plugging it in, and all these years later I still haven't got around to putting passive p/ups in it.It sounds wonderfull to this day, but I want to hear the variations in the " envelope " of each note ( the active ones still make each pick-stroke the same regardless)Maybe I didn't plug it in because I wanted to hear the guitar, rather than the pick-ups.Thanks for doing these tinkering videos-being the world's least mechanical man, I still manage to do basic set-ups on my electrics and even acoustics.(sorry but my stupid smart phone thinks it knows what I want to write better than I- it always says stray instead of strat)

[marions.]

Exactly! People don’t understand why I don’t plus a guitar in when buying. Feel and acoustic sounds is what is important to me. Most I’m going to rewire or change things anyway. Besides, there’s usually too many guitars being played loud at a guitar shop anyhow!
✌️🎸🎸🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶

[martinopinto]

Yeah Kris, I'd like to see pickups cover removal!

[hakankillberg]

Thanks for a great video. I have a question (reviewed your great video 5 things you should know about amps) about the effectsloop. You said in that video that some amp brands/models also distort the power section and the effectsloop. If you dont want that to hapened how do you then know what brand or models of that brand that dont do that? How do you find out that information/look for or do you have to deepdive into the manual? Is there a rule for this, like more clean amps, distorted or one or more channels? Thanks Kris learn so much from your videos

[camaderrygoat]

Hey Kris, I have an eclipse, lovely single cut guitar... and i was wondering about taking the lacquer off the neck and getting a satin finish on it, much like one of those larry carlton guitars you had a look at on the thomann channel...
The guitar has a mahogany neck and I believe it is more delicate than say, a maple neck...
What are your thoughts?
And is it an expensive procedure? Any idea on the costs. I'd Love to get an idea before I potentially make or break my already fine guitar.. cheers!

[MauricioGarcia-mkbz]

I agree with you. I always play E-guitars unplugged. If I like it. I buy it. Then I decide if I want to mod it or not. Cheers bud.

[stanislavmigra]

Hello Kris, its great how you deal with "not so nice" comments.

Lately I had discovery about amps, after trying Fender Champ style amp (the old one, single ended with only volume pot). Its amazing how it works with pedals and that you can get high headroom clean sound jsut with combination of clean boost and volume pot on guitar. So nice, when things start to work as you imagine.
I was thinking my Marshall DSL15 is good with pedal, but what is possible with old school Champ really surprised me. Good that we live in good PA era, so I dont need more volume, haha.

[leondantas]

Sure, show us the cover removal! Thanks

[thString]

As always, great video, man! :) I really like your content! (And hey! I'm even getting more and more into the pickup-selection and volume-knob territory! :D Playing with low gain and stuff and come up with totally different ideas!) Right now, while noodling around to the video (or even trying to replicate what you play) I recognize AGAIN that you're tuned to Eb. Why is that? Seems to be at least on two of your guitar, if I'm not mistaken. Viele Grüße aus Aachen! Leider echt ne Strecke bis Bamberg, sonst würde ich mal Thomann unsicher machen und auf einen Plausch vorbei schauen. ;) Prost! Markus