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00:00Hey, I'm Soccer Mommy, and this is my guitars and me.
00:10I started playing when I was like five or six.
00:13I really wanted to write songs, really, and that was kind of always the thing that drove me with it.
00:24Probably around 16, I think, is when I realized what I leaned towards.
00:30I always liked Stratocasters a lot. That was the first real electric guitar I had, and I always leaned towards that.
00:38Really, every single guitar just feels different, even if it's the exact same type of guitar.
00:43It's just about finding something that feels good for you to play.
00:46Cheap guitars do not necessarily sound bad or feel bad.
00:50This guitar has actually become one of my favorites that I have.
00:54It's just one of these lead threes that I got from Fender.
00:58I put in some new tuners and some different pickups.
01:02The person who sets up my guitars cut this out of some material and made a pickguard out of it.
01:08It's really very pretty. It's kind of holographic.
01:13I've always thought that Fenders feel really good.
01:16I've been playing them since I was pretty young.
01:19They always feel great, so why not make it kind of pretty?
01:23They're Fralin P90s. They're humbucker-sized, but they're actually the same that this has, except these are noiseless.
01:33I think that they're really good live.
01:36They're full, and they kind of give you that feeling that you can get on a record of having multiple guitars going,
01:41compared to a Strat or a Tele or something.
01:49I don't think I had used guitar pedals very much until I was 18.
01:56I wasn't really playing that kind of music when I was younger, I guess.
02:00I do a lot of dreamy, atmospheric stuff, so I like to have some reverbs that can build that background.
02:08Rather than if I'm playing alone.
02:11This is just my little, I'm coming to London and I'm going to play one record store show type of board.
02:18But it gets the job done.
02:27This guy is so beat up. This is a bad one.
02:31They really do look very good with all the scratches on them.
02:35It just looks vintage.
02:39I have another one, it's the same, they have all the same specs, but it's purple, sparkly.
02:52And that one has, where it fades, it's silver underneath it.
02:59This one is very different. I got this because I had the purple one and it's my favorite guitar ever.
03:12And I got this one made because I fly so much and I started getting scared I was going to destroy it.
03:18And it has already gotten very scratched up, so it's the beater version.
03:23This is the Cirrus J is the one it is, and I really like this one.
03:27When I was younger I leaned more towards single coil pickups and stuff.
03:32I wasn't really playing rock music, I was mostly playing jazz standards in school.
03:38So it was a very different sound that I was going for at that point.
03:42They just feel great. The necks feel really good.
03:46As you can see this one has taken a beating, but they stay in tune, they stay intonated.
03:52I picked up one the other day that I hadn't played in months and months and months.
03:57I was like, it's in tune.
03:59I do a lot of alternate tunings too, and I think that's when the intonation can get kind of bad.
04:05You get up the neck and you've got open chords going on and it starts to sound crazy.
04:12They build them to spec, so if there's anything I ever think I want or don't want, I can change it.
04:20Yeah, they're just nice.
04:25The only thing I had to change on it was I had to paint the...
04:28When you're on stage and it's really dark you can't see shit.
04:31So you have to get the little glow in the dark nail polish.
04:34It does the trick right on the dots.
04:36So many guitars have that problem, where as soon as the lights turn blue or something,
04:41and suddenly you can't see anything.
04:44Hey guys, these are my guitars, and thank you for watching.
04:50Peace out.