Guitar Tone - Ibanez AGS83bbg vs PRS SE vs Samick AV1 vs Fender Telecaster, Vox Pathfinder 15r

Four guitars, four different tones. The neck pickup was used on each guitar to obtain a rock-jazzy-blues tone. The Ibanez AGS83 is a semi-hollow body guitar with size .011 strings. Very warm clear sound & a very well made guitar. The PRS SE has hot pickups, but the neck pickup has a warm sound and is good for blues/jazz. It is also a very easy guitar to play (very nice neck). The inexpensive Samick AV1 has a set of Epiphone pickups from a Les Paul Standard. The original pickups in the Samick were very poor. The Samick always impresses me, because the build of the guitar is extremely well made. It has a sound like a Les Paul (with the Epiphone pickups). The Fender Telecaster has its own unique classic sound. It is the sound heard on many recordings... always a great guitar to record with. The guitars were played through a VOX Pathfinder 15R which is probably one of the best top five 15watt amps ever made (the sound is so responsive). The sound was recorded through the mic on a video camera placed about five feet away.

Added 2 Oct 2026