Inside the Studio with Eitan Katz: Strings That Sing - Guitar Vlog

hey everybody Welcome to my studio I get asked all the time what kind of guitars do I use how many guitars do I have people ask me how much they cost I don't get into that but I figured I'll bring you in to the studio here and show you my guitar collection okay we got four Martins one Gibson one Fender and one Yamaha this Yamaha is a nylon string guitar the strings are made out of nylon as opposed to the steel acoustic and it's a completely different sound and I use it on a lot of recordings I primarily have this one open in my studio at all times when I'm writing music when I'm you know writing sheet music coming up with ideas and stuff it's just a quick guitar to grab and very unique sound but let me introduce you to this Martin which doesn't really have a name to it there's nothing written inside I even brought it to a shop to find out which what it is and they said it's a custom I didn't buy it as a custom cuz I can't afford a custom them but this guitar my friends was my guitar for many many many years many years of playing I've had the Frets changed like a bunch of times on this cuz I play pretty pretty [Music] aggressively you pay the price because you know if you look at the guitar but this is all beautiful ah look at all these scratches over here I love it a clean guitar is kind of ugly to me unless it's for a good reason as you'll see in a second but uh yeah this was my first Martin that I bought this guitar my friends does not leave the office this is the Martin hd28 I record with it it's the most beautiful sound most beautiful looking guitar I have and uh like I said it's so clean but it's clean because I I don't play it on gigs I don't I don't smash it around this guitar stays in its case and it comes out when I need to so I think you'll find this [Applause] familiar this Martin is the X Series it's missing a string I don't use it that much but I was recording the pure Simka album and I was uh actually in a mixing session in the city and there were a couple of spaces that I had to fill up with acoustic guitar and I didn't have my guitar with me and the studio engineer he had a guitar in his Studio that he lets uh the artists come and play if they need it and this is the guitar that they had what does a person who likes guitars do after he sees one that he likes he buys it so I ordered one I think the next day I've recorded with this it has a really pretty sound I'm not going to play it right now because the strings are probably from 6 years ago and you don't want to hear a guitar with six-year-old strings tell people this is whenever they ask me but it's really Z to my lack of responsibility and this is the I want to be someone who I'm not guitar what would my studio look like without like at your guitar right this is the Fender Strat I I've never played this guitar before on stage and I don't think I've ever recorded with it so why do I have it because how cool is it to have an electric guitar it's pretty cool let me plug it in I'll show you what it sounds [Music] like I don't really know what I'm doing but you know sometimes it's fun this my friends is called the little Martin I think that's actually what it's called I saw this guitar and I thought it was a toy guitar and the people in the store told me no no no this is actually a real guitar it's just it's shaped differently and as you could see I have played The Living Daylights out of this guitar you see the there's no pick guard over here you know the other guitars have a pick guard on them like right here you have this what looks like a really big piece of plastic just to guard the wood from being destroyed like it's destroyed over here but that's the beauty of it I used to play this at gigs and at weddings until someone came up to me and said to me it literally looks like you're playing a toy guitar so I stopped using it uh for events but this one is in my house and the kids play with it as you see yeah completely out of tune that means that my little baby comes over and says oh toys toys toys toys no it's not toys let me tune it up and I can show you how it [Music] sounds not perfect but good [Applause] [Music] enough great Trav of a guitar because it's just it's tiny but I don't really use it on gigs too much the last guitar I would like to share with you is the j45 Gibson guitar as you see it has a strap on it and that should indicate to you that this is the guitar that I use this is the one that I use day in and day out all the gigs all the concerts I came into the store Rudy's music in the city it's like a candy shop for guitars over there it's beautiful store and I said I wanted to buy another Martin cuz that's what I do I go in and I buy Martin and they said said one second let me show you this one and I picked it up and it m sounded like I was I I fell in love with it at first I didn't love the way it looked but then it kind of grew on me and um fun fact the j45 is a very popular guitar and there's a lot of artists in the secular world that use j45 there's a Wikipedia page that's dedicated uh to the artist who play a j45 a bunch of famous names half of them I've heard of half of them I've never heard of but but it's one of those you know famous things now Wikipedia can be edited by anybody right so one of my friends went on Wikipedia and in between all these big fancy names of uh you know musicians he put in Aon cats in there so if you search that page you'll find my name as one of the grand artists who play the j45 for me the guitar that I need for my life performances doesn't it just have to be a guitar that sounds good acoustically and I've recorded a ton most of the stuff that you hear on uh my recordings are this guitar and this guitar right here and the the the Martin D28 this guitar has a wonderful pickup what's a pickup a pickup is the little microphone that you don't see that's inside of the guitar and that you plug in right over here and that it has to have a good microphone to be able to be played in the speakers you know at the concerts so you can have the greatest sounding a guitar but if you don't have the right equipment inside to really project it properly it's uh it's a waste [Music] thank you everybody for joining me while I show you the debt that I'm in guitars that I have the Martin y the fender the Gibson and this is all to serve Hashem at the end of the day what are we doing we're just trying to serve Hashem with what we have and hasm gave us beautiful wood beautiful steel beautiful artists that create these beautiful guitars and we to inspire people using the guitars with beautiful Nim and uh and with a Martin too why not