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SillyOctpuss

SillyOctpuss

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So in light of the other thread where some of the youtube personalities we can't stand were mentioned let's have a happier thread where we mention the channels we do like.

I'm going to keep mine music related but you can mention any youtube channels you love.

I'll kick it off with

That Pedal Show - I love Dan and Mick. I don't watch every episode as some of the topics just don't interest me but the audio quality is excellent, I like both of their playing and I mostly find them funny. MrsOctpuss got us tickets for the very first TPS Live which was tons of fun with a really small crowd. It was a really great night and we both discovered Joey Landreth at that gig. We've seen him live everytime he's visited the UK since.

Andertons - I actually started watching this once Chappers left. I'll put it on in the background when I'm doing something else. I don't watch every episode just the ones that look interesting.

Pete Thorn - I don't watch it for the gear so much as seeing the guy play. Seems like a really nice guy.

Johan Segeborn - The guys a loon, I love listening to him talk and man he plays some cool gear really really loud.

DK Pedals - Tbh the dude is a bit of a weirdo but the info is good ;)

Guilty pleasure - Doug and Pat Show
I love these old dudes but never recommend them to anyone anymore. Everyone I've told about them can't understand why I watch them. I honestly think they're pretty funny and there's not a lot of other channels to see so many vintage/cool guitars played by the same guy through the same amp.

So anyone else want to go with their list?
 
Trogly's Guitar Show - His show is airs daily and I love his goofy content. He also covers a lot of guitars I would never have heard of otherwise.

Gray Bench Electronics - Killer pedal teardowns and some other content.

Psionic audio - This dude does great amp repair videos. I dont know that much about amp repair or building but I am tryng to absorb some knowledge dropped on these videos. really informative and interesting videos.

Tchiks guitars - Awesome guitar building videos.

mmm thats all i've got for now. I am sure im forgetting someone.
 
Apart from the ones already mentioned here (especially TPS and Andertons), I'd mention Rabea Massaad and Mike Hermans, although they are (together with Pete Thorn and most other people mentioned here) not really useful for determining how good a pedal will be for you, because they make everything sound so great. And I don't think it's any post processing or similar, but they are just great at guitar, and especially in picking what to play with which tones.

I'd also mention Oscillator Devices, although I don't know if they're active anymore, but the best doom metal pedal demos I've heard.

For non music related channels, I don't want to delve deep since this is very much a music related forum, but I'll name Forgotten Weapons if you want to see someone nerd out about guns in a very non-fanatical way, and I love Red Letter Media (especially their Best of the Worst series about shit movies), but they might be bit of an acquired taste.
 
First and foremost DK pedals. I don't need to say any more than that. this is the only gear channel I watch that really matters

I like TPS but rarely watch it these days due to both lack of time and lack of interest. They cover a lot of stuff in just not interested in but I appreciate their approach of "try a bunch of stuff without declaring one thing is better than another"

As others have said, I think Johan Segeborn is great.

I like psionic audio. I like that he's a crank. Plus he likes voxes and vox type amps, and so do I.

I sometimes watch Gray bench but only if it's a pedal I think is cool, which isn't a lot.

Not gear related, but I love Eric Haugen. I watch anything he puts up.

I've outgrown a lot of gear YouTube stuff and there are a ton I can't stand
 
SillyOctpuss said:
DK Pedals - Tbh the dude is a bit of weirdo but the info is good ;)
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Ain't that the whole truth. Sometimes he even drags his kid into it. I watch them all.

I will watch random TPS videos, as something interesting pops up. They are a bit long, but as Will points out, they do a good good of comparison. I generally skip Andertons, but I will cherry pick some. I don't mind Danish Pete.

Five Watt World - a frequent watch at the moment. Mostly for the history of gear. I have yet to see him try to sell you on anything. "Getting the most music with the least gear"

CSGuitars - generally the older "how stuff works" content. He is definitely sponsored now, so a bit more hit or miss.

Most importantly, I like the no-nonsense, probably done with a phone camera, demos from everyone here. I try to subscribe to all of you, so if something new pops up, I make sure to watch.

Semi-gear:
Brad Angove - Mostly for the finishing info I want around finishing guitar kits. He features products and has affiliate links, but seems to be very upfront about it. He even favors my favorite kit company.

Crimson Guitars - Ben is a little weird (maybe fanatical), but his work gives me ideas. I know he has the business that the videos are in service of, but I never get the hard sell feeling.

Scott's Bass Lessons/Bass Buzz/Rich Brown - The Brown'stone - All 3 get some views for technique reasons. I suck and I would like to be better. SBL and Bass Buzz of course wants you to buy in. But I get enough out of it otherwise to deal with it. I much prefer Ian Martin Allison to Scott on SBL though.

Other:
Beau of the Fifth Column - I find his take on current events can be a POV I had not thought of. I dig his push for community building and action, whatever those communities may be. Nobody is going to take care of you better than you and your people.

Jonathan Pie - Satire. A fake journo going on about BS in the UK "to his camera man " while on location.

Pat Finnerty - "Why Does This Song Stink", what more do you need?
 
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cwsquared said:
At that the whole truth. Sometimes he even drags his kid into it. I watch them all.

I will watch random TPS videos, as something interesting pops up. They are a bit long, but as Will points out, they do a good good of comparison. I generally skip Andertons, but I will cherry pick some. I don't mind Danish Pete.

Five Watt World - a frequent watch at the moment. Mostly for the history of gear. I have yet to see him try to sell you on anything. "Getting the most music with the least gear"

CSGuitars - generally the older "how stuff works" content. He is definitely sponsored now, so a bit more hit or miss.

Most importantly, I like the no-nonsense, probably done with a phone camera, demos from everyone here. I try to subscribe to all of you, so if something new pops up, I make sure to watch.

Semi-gear:
Brad Angove - Mostly for the finishing info I want around finishing guitar kits. He features products and has affiliate links, but seems to be very upfront about it. He even favors my favorite kit company.

Crimson Guitars - Ben is a little weird (maybe fanatical), but his work gives me ideas. I know he has the business that the videos are in service of, but I never get the hard sell feeling.

Scott's Bass Lessons/Bass Buzz/Rich Brown - The Brown'stone - All 3 get some views for technique reasons. I suck and I would like to be better. SBL and Bass Buzz of course wants you to buy in. But I get enough out of it otherwise to deal with it. I much prefer Ian Martin Allison to Scott on SBL though.

Other:
Beau of the Fifth Column - I find his take on current events can be a POV I had not thought of. I dig his push for community building and action, whatever those communities may be. Nobody is going to take care of you better than you and your people.

Jonathan Pie - Satire. A fake journo going on about BS in the UK "to his camera man " while on location.

Pat Finnerty - "Why Does This Song Stink", what more do you need?
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Forgot about 5 watt world. When it's good, it's good but he covers a lot of stuff I'm not interested in
 
I’ll break it down into 3 categories: Gear; music & theory; and other stuff.

Gear:
  • Low End Lobster- best bass demo channel imo, and he does some fun upgrade videos
  • RDavidR- I’m not a drummer, but I love his drum gear videos
  • Tim Sway- cool guitar building blogs
  • Daisy Tempest- a young luthier, she has some fun videos
  • Demos in the Dark- what it sounds like
  • Emily Hopkins- very memey and all, but her videos are fun, and I gotta give a shout-out to my fellow Long Islander
  • Hainbach- fun synth stuff

Music/theory:
  • Ben Levin- theory gets weird
  • David Bennett Piano- nothing I don’t know, but his videos are fun enough to watch even still
  • The Midnight Special- old clips from the show. Best source for HQ live footage from the 70s
  • 12 Tone- in depth analysis videos on assorted topics
  • Aimee Nolte Music- if Adam Neely was your favorite middle school teacher
  • Beat Club- like the midnight special, but they have much fewer uploads. Lots of good prog performances from the 70s.
  • Justin Hawkins Rides Again- interesting thoughts on various music topics.


Other:
  • Wesley Treat- he makes cool shit
  • Adam Savage’s Tested- great long-form vlogs on technology and creating
  • Peter Brown- fun with resin and woodturning
  • Alec Steele- cool blacksmithing channel. Liked it more before he moved to the US tho
  • Boylei Hobby Time- cool diorama making videos
  • Carl Jacobson- great woodturning vids
  • Cody’s Lab- channel isn’t active anymore, but he posted really interesting science stuff
  • Nile Red- Weird science
  • Jenny Nicholson- really engaging long-form vlogs on dumb pop culture stuff
  • Robinson Foundry- some interesting experiments with Lost-PLA casting; mixing 3D printing with aluminum/bronze casting
 
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I love Joe Gore's channel, tonefiend. Not active much these days, even though he just uploaded some killer new music including a collaboration with Jim Campilongo, however there are a lot of intriguing videos from the past few years.
Joe also makes killer pedals.



 
Bricksnbeatles said:
I’ll break it down into 3 categories: Gear; music & theory; and other stuff.

Gear:
  • Low End Lobster- best bass demo channel imo, and he does some fun upgrade videos
  • RDavidR- I’m not a drummer, but I love his drum gear videos
  • Tim Sway- cool guitar building blogs
  • Daisy Tempest- a young luthier, she has some fun videos
  • Demos in the Dark- what it sounds like
  • Emily Hopkins- very memey and all, but her videos are fun, and I gotta give a shout-out to my fellow Long Islander
  • Hainbach- fun synth stuff

Music/theory:
  • Ben Levin- theory gets weird
  • David Bennett Piano- nothing I don’t know, but his videos are fun enough to watch even still
  • The Midnight Special- old clips from the show. Best source for HQ live footage from the 70s
  • 12 Tone- in depth analysis videos on assorted topics
  • Aimee Nolte Music- if Adam Neely was your favorite middle school teacher
  • Beat Club- like the midnight special, but they have much fewer uploads. Lots of good prog performances from the 70s.
  • Justin Hawkins Rides Again- interesting thoughts on various music topics.


Other:
  • Wesley Treat- he makes cool shit
  • Adam Savage’s Tested- great long-form vlogs on technology and creating
  • Peter Brown- fun with resin and woodturning
  • Alec Steele- cool blacksmithing channel. Liked it more before he moved to the US tho
  • Boylei Hobby Time- cool diorama making videos
  • Carl Jacobson- great woodturning vids
  • Cody’s Lab- channel isn’t active anymore, but he posted really interesting science stuff
  • Nile Red- Weird science
  • Jenny Nicholson- really engaging long-form vlogs on dumb pop culture stuff
  • Robinson Foundry- some interesting experiments with Lost-PLA casting; mixing 3D printing with aluminum/bronze casting
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I forgot 12Tone. LowEndLobster is a fun watch. Tim Sway reminds me of all those builders out there doing interesting things. I have watched quite a few from Burls Art, Noe Hervas, Tchiks, 3x3Custom - Tamar. Pretty much all the Great Guitar Build-off videos.

Emily Hopkins was a fun watch, but she has really fallen off for me recently. As has Justin Hawkins, but I think he is a casualty of my recent aversion to the loads of reaction videos.
 

Amp stuff:
Psionic Audio
Lyle shows amp repair and complains about the cheap ass construction of most modern amps, but in an amusing (to me) way

Uncle Doug
Amp channel that’s a little more educationally focused than Lyle’s channel

D-Lab
Another amp channel with some DIY projects

Fazio Electric
Yet another amp channel, but from a younger person, working on vintage equipment

Pedal stuff:

Grey Bench Electronics
Cool pedal tear downs, pedal builds, and amp builds

Interesting comparisons of guitar pedals using pink noise and a frequency analyzer, no audio though

Wampler
Coolest guy in the pedal business teaches you about circuits

TPS
Good background noise even if I’m not interested in the current topic.

General guitar playing or gear stuff:

Homeskoolin’ / Tom Bukovac / 501chorusecho
Bukovac is a Nashville studio guy. Has awesome stories and can play like a mf

Justin Ostrander
New to this one. He’s a Nashville studio cat. Gives amp and playing tips.

Puisheen / Mike Adams
Fender related content with offset guitars

Johan Segeborn
Tons of demos of vintage equipment as well as newer equipment aiming for the same sort of vibe. Check the speaker demos

60 Cycle Hum
Possibly the least pretentious guitar youtuber. Usually gives a pretty extensive demo of pedal features and the podcast is fun

Andy Demos / Reverb
It’s Andy Martin.

Gearmanndude
My favorite demo channel. Sadly hasn’t posted in over a year now. Hope he gets back to it again.

Robert Baker
I don’t watch every upload, but I like his guitar playing and he frequently does giveaways. Seems like a really cool guy.

Pete Thorn
Come for the demos, stay for the awesome instrumentals

RJ Ronquillo
Pretty much the same vibe as Pete Thorn’s channel, but a little less metal/shreddy influence (the man can definitely shred though)

Shred with Shifty
Not a channel, but Premier Guitar’s youtube channel hosts Chris Shiflett’s podcast that interviews guitar players and learns famous songs/solos from them.

Pat Finnerty
Reminds me of what youtube used to be before influencers and corporate youtube bs. Mostly “What Makes This Song Stink?” episodes
 
I hesitate to name Tom Bukovac because I don't consider him a youtuber but the guy has chops, gear, stories and an attitude that I appreciate.
His early garage videos will always remain classics, I hope he doesn't evolve his channel too much. The simplicity and rawness are the whole appeal to me.
Not happy about his recent call for a video editor with the promise of little to no money. Screw exploiting young talents just because they love their craft. If you own a 58 burst and dozens of vintage guitars, classic cars and a house with a pool you freaking pay your video editor.

I was an early fan of Eric Haugen. I stopped actively following him when his channel became Hendrix doublestops galore and more of an instructional channel. I always check the videos but they rarely interest me anymore. Cool guy though.

TPS is just great if you want complete rundowns of pedals and I love their enthusiasm. Their Noel Gallagher interview is fantastic. I hope they continue to grow.

Johan Segeborn - I just wanna go to Sweden and play 70s hard rock with the guy. Also the best accent ever.

Anyway this thread has reminded me of how small the internet is in 2023. I literally only visit 3-4 sites, this one being the best. I remember visiting dozens of sites, blogs, repositories and portals back in the day. The internet seemed bigger when I discovered it in 1998 at Bauhaus University in Weimar, on a Silicon Graphics workstation using Netscape Navigator.
 
I didn't forget @jjjimi84 's channel dk pedals. He deserves a separate post because he is one of us.

Dan is just like you and me: he builds pedals, he gets excited and he records a video in his room to talk about them. His videos have buzzes, hums and what not, they sound real. No million dollar oxbox la2a neumann baloney post processing, no purple lights and no (so far) goofy faces in the thumbnails.
 
I'd have to agree with a lot of these, a lot of them are also repetitive (such is YT).

DK pedals is great, I heard there is a deep fake version where he is naked but I haven't found it yet.

My steady favourite is Phil McKnight. I have learned a lot from him and really enjoy his down-to-earth style. He's really honest about the business side of things, not only in the gear industry, but also on making YT videos. I am always asleep for the live stream, but it's always got something interesting for me.
 
cwsquared said:
I forgot 12Tone. LowEndLobster is a fun watch. Tim Sway reminds me of all those builders out there doing interesting things. I have watched quite a few from Burls Art, Noe Hervas, Tchiks, 3x3Custom - Tamar. Pretty much all the Great Guitar Build-off videos.

Emily Hopkins was a fun watch, but she has really fallen off for me recently. As has Justin Hawkins, but I think he is a casualty of my recent aversion to the loads of reaction videos.
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Burps Art, 3x3 are all a lot of fun too! There are plenty I forgot to mention.

Emily I definitely agree on- a bit too ‘sponsored’ these days. I still enjoy watching her videos, but I only watch the videos that seem like they’ll be interesting, and any that are more than 5 minutes, I’ll just skip to the playing. Her and Russ seem like a fun bunch though— seem like the type of people I’d like to hang out with and jam with. We have some mutual friends I believe, so maybe I’d lend them some weird effects they’d be interested in messing around with for a few weeks.

With Justin I avoid his reaction videos, and I only watch every once in a while, but his recent video on alcohol addiction is a worthwhile watch.
 
Bricksnbeatles said:
Burps Art, 3x3 are all a lot of fun too! There are plenty I forgot to mention.
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That seems to be what this thread is good at, reminding me of other good stuff. Then there's the "oh, I need to check that out".
Bricksnbeatles said:
Emily I definitely agree on- a bit too ‘sponsored’ these days. I still enjoy watching her videos, but I only watch the videos that seem like they’ll be interesting, and any that are more than 5 minutes, I’ll just skip to the playing. Her and Russ seem like a fun bunch though— seem like the type of people I’d like to hang out with and jam with. We have some mutual friends I believe, so maybe I’d lend them some weird effects they’d be interested in messing around with for a few weeks.
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Exactly. Good for them getting big enough to catch the sponsors, though.
Bricksnbeatles said:
With Justin... his recent video on alcohol addiction is a worthwhile watch.
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I'll check it out. It popped up in my suggestions.
 
I'm a big Darkness fan, but Justin's uploads were so frequent that I quit watching his videos for a while. I love that guy, but it was like trying to drink from a firehouse and some of the more recent ones have been playing into the clickbait thing.
 
Harry Klippton said:
I've given Tom Bukovac several tries but his videos are literally the most boring thing I've ever seen in my life.
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I've had the same experience. A few people I know love his videos so I just thought I'm not getting it and watched a few more. But I still just don't get it. I think he's a fantastic player but definitely not a channel I want to watch.

I forget who mentioned wampler but I used to really enjoy the chasing tone podcast when it was Brian, Travis and Max. I used to stick that on when I had a long drive, it was one of the first podcasts I would regularly listen to.
 
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