How Come MY Amp Doesn’t Sound THIS Good? 

What's up everyone? I'm here at Tim's place. >> Welcome, >> Tim. Welcome to uh your house.

[laughter] Welcome to your studio. >> Thank you. It's nice and warm, right? Can't beat that.

>> It is warm. It's actually unusually cold here in Los Angeles. >> Was shocked when I came in last night. >> Probably the coldest coldest night that I've ever experienced here.

>> Coldest night of the year so far. So, you got it. So Tim, you're playing this Paul Reed Smith guitar that you had built for you. Well, how long?

Five years ago or so? >> Yeah, I had it built and I wanted to disguise it. I wanted people to think for the first 5 seconds that maybe it was a less Paul. So I said no birds and uh hopefully that I didn't get in trouble for that, but I'll never know because it was behind the scenes.

And then uh the only bird is here instead of the signature. So, I wanted at least for the first 5 seconds of recognition for this to be uh not a PRS and then people can realize. >> Okay. So, you've been practicing lately.

>> Yep. >> So, what kind of what kind of things are you practicing? >> Well, let me show you. I'm working on my speed.

I've never been that fast a guitar player, but let's see if I can play something moderately fast. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Nice. >> Killer. >> Okay.

Okay. So, so why are you practicing playing fast now? because I have enough time. Well, I don't have enough time, but I feel like I finally have some time to actually get things up to speed and compete with all my buddies who play so fast.

Okay. So, so, uh, I like that you actually play with a track. Why play with a track >> or do you practice without the track and then playing with the track? Because really, it's like actually playing to something is is where the rubber meets the road, so to speak.

For me, it's like being a doctor without a patient. If you're a doctor and you have all your tools there and there's no patient, >> what is there to do? But it's also I always was an ensemble player. And >> for me, that's the whole game.

I mean, ...