Know Your Gear Podcast
The Know Your Gear Podcast is a show for guitar players featuring straight talk about guitars, amps, pedals, and the music industry. Host Phillip McKnight draws on more than 20 years of industry experience to offer honest opinions, gear advice, and behind-the-scenes insight. Episodes answer questions guitar players actually care about and cover everything in between. It is aimed at players looking for practical, no-nonsense gear guidance.
Episodes
Fender CEO Says They Could Have Done This Better
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Do Pickups Matter When Using A Modeler
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Dean Zelinsky Says Eddie Van Halen Made Guitars A Race To The Bottom
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Why Fenders are better now with cheaper parts
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Joe Bonamassa Said He sold a insane amount of guitars
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Returns at all time high as prices are out of control
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The guitar Companies Do Not Understand Us At All
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This Company’s Reaction To My review Is Interesting
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Why cheap guitar brands keep changing their names
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Fender Now Has To Fight Yamaha and Thomann
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The End Of My Pickup Brand. The Best Thing To Happen
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Joe Bonamassa Ditches Tube Amps For Digital & Fake Rhett Shull
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Know Your Gear Podcast June 26th
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Know Your Gear Podcast June 19th
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Fender CEO Finally Responds To Guitar Community
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The Guitar Pricing Scam
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Fender, How We Got Here And Why
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Guitars Are More Expensive & Getting Worse At the Same Time
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Guitar Center CEO Responds To My Criticism
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Fender Demands Everyone To Stop Making Strats Immediately!
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How Guitar Brands Target Kids Vs Older Players
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Why Cheap Guitars Have Better Features Than Expensive Ones
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This EVH guitar is not what you think !!! 
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Another Pedal Co. shrinking its size and going direct
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Fender is ready to fight the cheap amazon guitar market
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Guitar Center CEO Starting A Brand To Rival Gibson And Fender
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The scams and tricks people do when selling or trading guitars
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Why Most Guitar Salesmen Don’t Actually Help You
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Fender Wins Lawsuit To Stop All Strat Copies
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I Survived Buying A Guitar At Guitar Center
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Another Round Of Layoffs At Fender Guitars
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The guitar Secret You Can’t Unsee
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The flaw in the tone is in your hands argument
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People Have Lost Their Minds With Used Guitar Prices
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The Your Not Good Enough For That Guitar Argument
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The Cheap Guitar Companies Are Eating Themselves
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Huge Pop Star Gets PRS SE Signature guitar
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Companies Show Who Really Makes Their Product
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Being asked to leave a Guitar Center
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Another Guitar Brand files Bankruptcy
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Best Selling Used Guitar Pedals In 2025
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Best Selling Guitars On Reverb In 2025
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Worst And Best Guitars Of 2025 Bonus Podcast
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Catching Guitar Companies Lying About Guitar Specs
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Why PRS Is Changing The SE Guitars Again
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Reverb Is Hiding Some Listings From You
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Did Fender’s Affordable Guitar Work Or Backfire
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The Harsh Truth About Selling Your Gear Right Now
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Fender Buys G&L And Changes Already Started
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Another Large Guitar Company does Lay offs
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Know Your Gear Podcast Episode #435
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The Internets Reaction To The 2k PRS SE Guitar
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Nuno Bettencourt Leaves Washburn
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How Brands Keep Retailers From Lowering Prices
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The end of the economy brands
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They Don’t Want Affordable USA Guitars To Come Back
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Whats Going On With Used Guitar Prices
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Boss's New Plug Out Pedal Has Players Divided
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Sweetwater CEO Reacts To The Industry’s Decline
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Another Guitar Brand Closing After 60 years
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What no one tells you about stainless steel frets
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Squier & Epiphone Are No Longer Affordable, So Things Will Change
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The End Of The Iconic Guitars
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Gibson Stops Someone From Selling Their Harley Benton Online
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Cash Grab Products Guitar Players Are Sick Of
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The Most Hated Guitar On The Internet & The Gear Market Is In Free Fall
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PRS Is Now The House John Mayer Built
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Appointment Only Guitar Stores, The End Of Retail?
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Outdated Thoughts On Cheap Guitars
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Another Big Guitar Store Closed, What Is The State Of The Industry
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Behringer Went To Far With The Klon Clone (The Klon Scam)
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Why doesn't Sweetwater and GC have a Harley Benton Type Brand
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The hard opinions on gear in 2025
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The Largest Guitar Retailer Buys A Amp Company / The Used Market Summed up right now
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What Everyone Gets Wrong With Cheap vs expensive guitars
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Fender Buys Reverb The Largest Used Website
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Boss Katana The Best Amp Ever, Fight ME!
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What Reverb Did About The Fraud Guitar / Boutique Guitar Builder Starts Import Line
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The Gibson ES335 Body Shape Is No longer Trademarked
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Why Gibson And Fender Make It Hard To get These Guitars
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