I was about to suggest that question be answered by Glenn Flicker at SpectreSoundStudios. As far as Ola collaborating with your ornery, cantankerous, abusive, lard-ss self, ....bah hahahahaha!! That's the most hilarious thing I've seen on the net in 2023. You could title your collab "Handsome Sweed & the Canadian Troll Beast" LOL
3:17 Ola being a wonderful parent ! There's nothing worse than seeing a parent forcing his child into learning music, it feels like you can only disgust them from music and even art in general if the whole process isn't natural. So, good job I guess !
6:43 Let me help with that snare. You’ll want a steep high pass filter around 80 Hz, it could be different depending on tuning. You want to find just the right range for that “pop” here. Use your ears 👂🏻 AROUND 80 Hz. Leave room for the bass and kick drum down there 👇🏻 120 - 260 Hz is where the body of the snare is going to sit. Boost to give more body, or cut to thin it out. If you hear something “boxy” going on, get in there with your narrow bell curve. 400 - 700 Hz can get muddy, cut this with a medium to wide Q or something to bring more clarity and let guitars come through. Around 800 Hz can have a “tinny” sound, you’ll want to use a narrow bell to reduce this if necessary too. 2000 Hz and around there- is the ATTACK of the snare. The BANG! You’ll want to boost it if it sounds weak or something. If it’s ear piercing, cut it instead. Hope that helps. Note: Remember LDFC Listen Diagnose Fix If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
Wanted to say something like that as well. If the Snare doesn't cut through with the processing at the Snare track alone, you could try to cut the frequencies you enjoy the most on the Snare, there's also the possibility of ducking. Try to look at the EQ of the other instruments like guitar and bass and see if cutting the favourite frequencies of the Snare can be cut narrowed down a little bit without affecting the sound in a bad way. If it does, make the curve less wide or reduce it less. Also don't be afraid of making it pop no matter what. I had to boost some things in mixes by 30db. On my last song some frequencies on the Snare by 12db. Don't boost more than you have to but just enough to make it mighty and cut through.
@@goatsurgeon hell yeah. Mono is an often overlooked tool by beginners. If a mix sounds bad in mono, it's not a good mix. Remembering bad times with my first mixes. "Where are the toms gone? Why is it so dull!? What happened to those cymbals?! What is this crap?!"
I was so happy to hear the approach you take/would take as RE: kids learning instruments. The world seems to be divided into "I ain't gettin' you no guitar" and "I believe every kid should learn an instrument......now GO PRACTICE!" and the kid's needs or desires are not even taken into account. Yours is THE right approach, not just for musical instruments, it's generalizable to any number of parenting questions. Thanks for being good.
This is exactly why I broke down and got me a left handed Solar 7 for myself as a Christmas present.. to help support Ola :). Absolutely love your attitude and humor, just really over all you being a humble better being. Cheers Ola! Many good wishes towards your life and family.- Majin
JEEZUS I remember when your videos didn't involve you talking, but now, best Guitar Personality, it really says A LOT. I am actually so happy for that, for you, I am overwhelmed. I shall continue to support you, Ola. Congratulations. Well-deserved. Thank you, much. WE LOVE YOU!
Hej Ola! I love your videos and I appreciate a lot your natural manner and great jokes with all kinds of stuff, especially how you deal with haters. Since you've introduced a female edition, I would like to post a question for you to eventually include in some of your future FAQs: How do you deal with the lack of motivation to play, if such thing has ever happened to you? I believe that every musician who happened to play for many years, like myself, eventually suffers from this kind of problem and it might be useful for many people if you have any cool Swedish tips on the topic :) Tack så mycket!
Hi Ola ! I have a question. When you record guitars with The Haunted with Jensen, do you have a guitar tone for eachothers or do you use the same tone for all the rythm guitar tracks ? Love your vids ! Cheers from France
The world needs to know about Bell Witch, that band improved my life so freaking much. Can’t thank you enough for shouting out Mirror Reaper :) but Dylan’s big two handed chords can get pretty feccin complicated...playing along accurately may be tough for most beginners as his style is deceptively sophisticated and requires a lot of split coordination
i was in a band with one girl in it. if you're alike and become good friends there should be little problems. it will only get weird if people fall in love, sexual tensions and all. and being in a relationship with a bandmember can create a whole lot of problems too. all of us ended up having relationships outside the band, so it worked out pretty well. what also worked out pretty well was that she was one of the better musicians among us, if she had trailed behind i think there would have been more issues.
I never miss any of your videos, I always watch them with my morning coffee. I have a couple of questions: A) What are your favorite IRs, can you share download/purchase links? B) My focusrite interface makes my guitar sound terrible and thin, what audio interface do you recommend to retain the quality of my guitar sound without taking a mortgage? Skål
Hello Ola, I'm in the market for a new guitar. Will you release a new Solar shape (Dime tribute) guitar? I prefer support Solar than buying another brand.
Hey Ola. On your question about females in bands. I play in a 5 piece Power Metal band in Western Canada (Called Syryn) with a female singer and a female bass player. I think the band dynamics are great and we look out for eachother like brothers and sisters. If anything, it brings out more females to our gigs and our audiences are a big mix now of males & females. I see more women now playing metal nowadays compared to years ago and it's refreshing to the metal scene.
To answer BMWfilmz question, It's great to have a female in a and. But also, there can be a downside. Band members could start to like her or try to get a date or something which isn't a good idea when your in a band. It messes up the band BUT I'm sure there have been bands that had no problem with that. I think it's awesome to have females in bands. Just make sure the guys won't fall in love when you walk in for practice ;)
Hi, Ola! We watch your videos on regular basis, almost since the day 1 (by "we" I mean my wife and I, since this is our band's channel). Love the burps, the humor and the technical advices you provide. Planning on buying at least one of those sweet Solar guitars, as soon as our budget allows us to. Greetings and hugs from Serbian metalheads! \m/
Hey Ola, I wont tell you how to raise your kids when it comes to music but if you dont mind I would like to offer my perspective and I hope you get a chance to read this. I am a guitarist and bassist, picked up bass about when i was 16 or so with little to no prior music experience. In my time playing I have had the opportunity to jam, write, and observe other people my age through school and my early 20's who started not just earlier, but had lessons. The differences between us and the discipline employed through our times playing music is staggering. My dad is a keyboard player and I honestly resent him a little bit for not pushing me towards music earlier because that 8-13 age range is so crucial for learning. In fact, he actually got my brother and I a guitar around when i was 8 or 9, but did nothing to guide us. No books, lessons, nothing. Of course it didnt get touched. Simply having the guitar there was not enough to create the SPARK for me to suddenly become interested but that didnt mean 6 years later I wouldnt become obsessed. Start signing them up for lessons in things so that you can gauge their interest in things. Martial arts, sports, music, whatever. Don't wait for them to chase it because that might not even be how they manifest their interest in things yet. Its not so much as forcing them into things as it is exposing them to it, and that is healthy.
You have no clue how happy it makes me to see a death metal artist win...well any kind of award! Especially when running against a shit load of generic personalities. kudos ola, Cheers 👏 And that Spirited Away shirt tho 😰
For the question about being the only woman in a band. I've been in a band with a female bassplayer, she was just as much part of the band as anyone else, surely communication is a bit different naturally (less blunt) but besides the attraction factor that may or not be present and could become difficult there's no difference.. Bandmembers need to click musically, and that's the most important, if that's the case and you're good and passionate at what you do there's only good times to be had.. :)
Hey Ola! Greetings from India. I think you are amongst the very few artists who is strictly stuck on to playing Metal without giving a crap about the exploring-new-sound shit ( sadly like the new Opeth, you get the point) and I really love that and I'm glad that there's someone that I can look up to. And when it comes to humour, you are like 'PewDiePie of Metal'. Cheers!
thanks for your faqs about the gears , really helps choosing when there is so much stuff on the market , i actally got the revv g3 , the horizon precision drive and the mooer radar for my christmas presents from myself !!
18:00 in case anybody cares. An avarage cpu and cheap usb interface will give you small enough latancy to have fun with plugins. Also USB 2.0 already has plenty of power. If you upgrade, first get a good interface for low latency, then get a good cpu to run crazier plugins.
Talking about Doom... What do you think about the DOOM soundtrack by Mick Gordon? Also do you agree that metal is a little oversatured by slow insanely low tunings and technical riffs? There's almost nothing in between anymore. I miss the groove, what makes your head boppin and really get into it. It all sounds cool but there's not much that makes you move nowadays. That's why we all still love Pantera. The scene focused to much about sounding evil.
You don't need a top of the line newest spec'ed machine to run a DAW lag free. Reaper will show you in real time how much CPU power plugins are using, it's never that much. I think the main thing is have enough RAM and have a decent interface. My main recording rig is a 10+ year old former workstation pieced together from parts my office was getting rid of. It runs plugins fine and records without latency through a Focusrite 6i6 (2nd gen) via USB 2.0 on Windows 7. It's only a Xeon dual core with a 500 GB non-SSD HDD, but it has 12 GB RAM. Back in its day, it was a good machine, but nowadays most cheapos could blow it away.
Ola, question for you next FAQ...when was the last time you played on your Black Cat 7 string, or do you still have it? I'm sure the rest of your subscribers would love to see your guitar collection, any plans on making a video of the 'vault of Ola'? Thank you and happy holidays to you and your family!
Hey there Mr. Englund! Greetings from Finland! I hope you have had a great December so far! Here is an idea. Let your members *BUUUUUURB*... Let your members give you suggestions for the riff of the day (riffs that u don't already know) and then u try to learn them as fast as u can. Maybe you could do this for like once a month or something. Also do you like Finland? Can you say anything in Finnish? Stay Metal my friend \,,/
Hi Ola, just watched all of your FAQ videos in a day and subbed, my question is: What do you think the next biggest leap in music will be? Greetings from the UK!
Hey Ola, what do you think of bowed guitar, playing a guitar with a cello bow? Sigur Rós is a post-rock/ambient Icelandic band that uses this technique exclusively. (If you want to do a reaction to them, I recommend _Kveikur_ live for the bowed guitar show)
I was in a band with 4 guys and 1 girl. It caused tension because when we started getting media attention they ignored me and the rest of the band who wrote the lyrics and songs and focused 100% on her when all she did was do kind of backing singing, interviewed her only etc. So if that girl is reading this and you start to notice the same thing make sure you say "I'm not the only person in the damn band, why are you focusing on me?" rather than letting it inflate your ego. If you don't bring the rest of the band in it won't feel like a team anymore, it'll feel like your band even though it isn't. A band consists of everyone. You have to think about this political crap.
Hey Ola now that we are closing in on the year alot of people are showing their top 20 or 10 releases of the year. So my question is what are your top releases of maybe just release if you haven't listen to enough new stuff. My favorite of the year is Slugdge - Esoteric Malacology.
I had a very good female singer in a band in the early 2000s playing 70s, 80s & 90s hard rock and metal covers. She had a seasoned & powerful voice, but it was weird with her singing songs that had more masculine themes. She adjusted her voice for the songs, but, again, it was just odd at times given the lyrical content. Hope that shed some light into the realm of females in bands.
Afternoon Ola! I stopped playing guitar a few years ago. Lots of issues came together at once. I have decided to get back to playing, what Amp would you recommend for a decent/good metal playing and can do other tones if I feel liek playing a bit of blues or clean? I was very impressed by the Marshall Code 50 you played a few days ago in your Will it Chug series.
EX-Norwegian (left Trondheim at age 7) living in Canada just found your channel. Cool stuff, keep it up bro... your good... for a Swede... HA!!! Daryl A- Bassist for Bastard Black and Cyanide Lullaby.
Ola, I challenge you to make an entire album with the boss katana. It's a challenge that will hopefully test your eq skills to make the songs sound good and getting album worthy tones out of the katana should be a bit of a challenge.
Ola... Doom metal is not "easy". Using fuzz and layered distortion, Building atmosphere, Being aware of the space between notes... being slow is not the only way to play doom. Go listen to confessor. Their drummer is amazing! Also listen to Triptykon. Some of the heaviest songs ever. Also, go listen to Sybreed
I for one find a lot more harder playing at a slow tempo than to play very fast, I have to really feel the beat when playing slow, while I just have to practice and increase tempo for fast licks. Should you be interested, look up Corrupted, a japanese bands that sing spanish lyrics !
I wonder what you think of bands like SepticFlesh or Cattle Decapitation? Don't know if you ever mentioned anything about them before... or like the Slam Metal movement that had a Big Spike (atleast where I lived) Where bands like Ingested and underground-ish bands like Megalodon and Coprocephalic or Ezophagothomia seemed to be talked about more.. what do you think about that? (also, good luck pronouncing them 99% of people I talked to cannot pronounce the last 2) Love the videos!
What up, Ola? What is your opinion on Morbid Angel? If you like them, do you think you can make a tone video for either Covenant or Gateways to Annihilation?
Yo Ola! Luv your stuff ! Can you talk about Dime’s (rest in peace) tuning. If I’m not mistaken he tuned to 430 Hz vs 440hz. Also, Dime loved his herbs, do thou partake?
6:09 - Ola, this just proves what I already knew - that you are a great parent and husband! Indeed - time with your family is the BEST choice! Respect \m/
OLA!!!! IKEA! Hey Ola, my girlfriend and I are sitting in IKEA right now, she turned to me and asked if the Swedes love IKEA as much as we do, if not more in some sort of weird way. As an avid fan of the show and your the only Swede I can think of you are left to answer this! Thanks Alan. (X ;)
Brola! Are you a fan of Amon Amarth and if so, do you have any favorite album of theirs? As fellow Stockholmers I believe they haven't gone under your radar.
FAQ Question Hey Ola, hope you are doing well keep up the great work. I was wondering if you could talk about the neck profiles that you have gone for with the Solar guitar, as in are they compound or the same the whole way through? Also does the whole range have the same neck profile and say nut width? Thanks Chaz
Hey Ola, How are you? there is nothing i love more than play the guitar. No matter what you do, you have always a great guitar tone👍🏼 Can you show me how to get a killer tone out of a Engl Powerball 2 with a Maxon OD 808 X boost? You are a great guy by the way
Hej Ola, i see that the White seven strings, the A2.7 is not longer available in the solar website, is this permanently???? I really want to buy one of them and it will be very sad if gone for ever. (Excuse me for my.... poor english ^^)
Dick Lövgren of Meshuggah also seems to have the same sun tattoo on the right elbow. Putry cool. Question: how do you like your cover songs? A full 100% copy of the song, a small deviation from the song, or a complete rewrite of the song?
Are you familiar with the band Swallow the Sun? They are a death/doom band, faster than Bella which, and much more heavy. Check out the song, Hold this Woe, I think that you may enjoy it.
Love your channel! Best metal channel on UA-cam! Question for you. You clearly love pantera and always play there best riffs. Do you have a least favourite pantera album? Love from Oz
Hey Ola, what's good? Is there a different between a passive and active pickup in terms of cutting through the mix? Is one better than the other or it doesn't really matter? Thank you, keep up the burps.
Hey Ola, i am a solo guitarist planning to record an EP (instrumental mainly guitars think Russian Circles)Should I spring to for tracking in a studio or invest in more gear to record at home (current focusrite scarlet with GarageBand). Thanks! Love the channel and the burps!
G'DAY Ola Mate, Do you have those Australian tour dates yet? And which band was better after the sad Pantera spilt. Damage Plan, Hellyeah or Down. Cheers
I did vote for you ;) !!!! loving your videos more and more ! keep up the burp! I burp all the time too! And really love the 14days guitar challenge, would like more like that :D !
OLA :) . I got a new tube head and well it sounds good if I turn down the mids and highs but if I turn those up past half way it tends to sound like a tin can :(. I plan to change out the pre amp tubes can you tell me what your fav tubes are :). Yay
Hi, Ola! I am buying a gaming chair like yours, but it worries me that the armrests bother me while playing guitar. Should I worry about that or actually it is not a big deal?
Hola Ola, What do you think of MixBus V5? I drink a bottle of Tawney Port the other night and woke up with a full license for it. Ive been a Reason and Ableton user for about 16 years.
I wanted to suggest you to check out Soreption, but I found your comment under their video for The Anti-Present already so I guess you know what's up! I really had to search for their stuff right after seeing them with Revocation, they were so good live that they made their music look easy to play. Cheers from Italy!
Hey Ola I got a question! Watching your challenge videos, do you gonna be making a sweep picking one? Do you like sweep picking? Greetings from México compadre!
Hey Ola! Is there any of the songs you play live with the Haunted that you feel to be "difficult" to play? Or for someone of your level, every song is Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy? Love your videos!
I just saw Bell Witch perform that 90 min song live last week. They arranged seating. :D Anyway, Bell Witch is funeral doom, almost drone metal, doom can be more "fun". Check out Potion, my new favourite.
Hey Ola, what do you think of fanned fret/multiscale guitars? Such as the Ormsby GTR series if you've ever tried/seen those. Cheers from New Zealand! I hope The Haunted come here next year on the Australian tour.
hey Ola! I'd absolutely looove to have a Type V guitar but I'm left handed! Do you think this would be available in the future? Or perhaps a custom shop? Because I'd love to have a floyd rose too! Greetings from Quebec! \m/
Hi Ola! Love your work and your channel. Do you like Behemoth? What album do you like best? My favorite is Demigod... great riffs.. and love guitars tone there.. Would you play some riff from that album (using that kind of tone ;) )? thank you very much. Cheers from Argentina
Hey Ola! Not sure if this has been asked before, but will there ever be a Les Paul or Jazzmaster style Solar guitar? I'd really love to see your take on those classic models. Cheers Ola!
Hey OLA hope you're fine. The Randall Satan amps are out of stock everywhere in Europe, do you know if there will be reassorts ? Or is it now a collector ? Saved for a 1.6 BOP, got it last week and now, can't get the amp :o aaaaaarg !
Two part comment! Well maybe several parts. Gonna get a little greedy here. Love your humor and thinly veiled cockiness (I see past insecurities behind that veil, am I wrong?) but more importantly love your riffing and the avenue you provide for new metal listeners to peak their interest. Question. When writing a song and you want it to modulate to a different central chord, do you have a process for figuring out where you want to go, and how to get into/out of said modulation? Next time Ola reacts, check out Vitalism. A good introduction song would be Pagan Pt. 2. They are from Brazil and they are tighter than Dick’s hatband. Next riff of the day, dare you to try intro to Splintered Visions by Into Eternity. Or if you are too much of a sissy boy for that one, anything from the song Beginning of the End would sate my thirst for Swedish fingertip blood. You strike me as good people. Keep up your plethora of good work. *hugs Ola*
Hi Ola. I saw that You're travelling with heavy multiguitar flightcase. What flightcase You can recommend for safe flight with one guitar, are those ABS cases safe? I want to take my guitar with me but I'm afraid about both guitar and case. Second question, any chance for Solar guitar in SG/Viper shape?
Hello Ola from North Dakota! Question, do you ever plan to release a seven string version of the Solar V series? Or a fanned seven string of any other model? Thanks in advance!
Hey Ola! I saw At The Gates live a few days ago in Macedonia with Heresy and Hardfaced and they sounded great! For a moment I thought I saw you there, but apparently that was ATG's guitarist. I was sad until they started playing. Anyway, I have a few questions! - How are you feeling today? - Opinion on Heresy (thrash from costa rica) and Hardfaced (hardcore from Macedonia)? - Would you ever come to Macedonia with Feared or The Haunted? We kinda are at a shortage of awesome bands visiting us. :c - Maybe do a prog riff of the day? Cheers from Skopje! Keep up the burps!
Thumbs up on the awards . Definitely deserve them. Personally, I'm very happy I found your content. Plan on joining after the holidays. I love you man, no homo
Good morning all subscribers! This one goes out for all the ladies out there!
Congrats! 🍾🎈
all the ladies in the house say , hola ola ! Haha
That question about music and kids was from russian man named Sergey
Hey cOla, what do you think about the band Vitalism? I think they are top of the line progressive metal.
Ah ola you made me spark up my old Amiga to play chaos engine again. Congrats on the awards dude!
Sorry to hear you have such a hard time with mixing drums! Would love to collab on something like that at some point.....
SpectreSoundStudios We the viewers would love to see that! Please make it happen! A video of Glenn and Ola slagging shit off would be great too.
@@maxscardanelli6185 Would love to see that!
Max Scardanelli agreed
yoooooo
I was about to suggest that question be answered by Glenn Flicker at SpectreSoundStudios. As far as Ola collaborating with your ornery, cantankerous, abusive, lard-ss self, ....bah hahahahaha!! That's the most hilarious thing I've seen on the net in 2023. You could title your collab "Handsome Sweed & the Canadian Troll Beast" LOL
3:17 Ola being a wonderful parent ! There's nothing worse than seeing a parent forcing his child into learning music, it feels like you can only disgust them from music and even art in general if the whole process isn't natural.
So, good job I guess !
6:43 Let me help with that snare.
You’ll want a steep high pass filter around 80 Hz, it could be different depending on tuning. You want to find just the right range for that “pop” here. Use your ears 👂🏻 AROUND 80 Hz. Leave room for the bass and kick drum down there 👇🏻
120 - 260 Hz is where the body of the snare is going to sit. Boost to give more body, or cut to thin it out. If you hear something “boxy” going on, get in there with your narrow bell curve.
400 - 700 Hz can get muddy, cut this with a medium to wide Q or something to bring more clarity and let guitars come through.
Around 800 Hz can have a “tinny” sound, you’ll want to use a narrow bell to reduce this if necessary too.
2000 Hz and around there- is the ATTACK of the snare. The BANG! You’ll want to boost it if it sounds weak or something. If it’s ear piercing, cut it instead.
Hope that helps.
Note: Remember LDFC
Listen
Diagnose
Fix
If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
Wanted to say something like that as well. If the Snare doesn't cut through with the processing at the Snare track alone, you could try to cut the frequencies you enjoy the most on the Snare, there's also the possibility of ducking. Try to look at the EQ of the other instruments like guitar and bass and see if cutting the favourite frequencies of the Snare can be cut narrowed down a little bit without affecting the sound in a bad way. If it does, make the curve less wide or reduce it less.
Also don't be afraid of making it pop no matter what. I had to boost some things in mixes by 30db. On my last song some frequencies on the Snare by 12db. Don't boost more than you have to but just enough to make it mighty and cut through.
Marvin Roggon
Mixing in mono would help them get frequencies right
@@goatsurgeon hell yeah. Mono is an often overlooked tool by beginners. If a mix sounds bad in mono, it's not a good mix. Remembering bad times with my first mixes. "Where are the toms gone? Why is it so dull!? What happened to those cymbals?! What is this crap?!"
nah, just use Ezdrummer
Marvin Roggon
It’s important to keep it as simple as possible too, so much is over thought.
I was so happy to hear the approach you take/would take as RE: kids learning instruments. The world seems to be divided into "I ain't gettin' you no guitar" and "I believe every kid should learn an instrument......now GO PRACTICE!" and the kid's needs or desires are not even taken into account. Yours is THE right approach, not just for musical instruments, it's generalizable to any number of parenting questions. Thanks for being good.
This is exactly why I broke down and got me a left handed Solar 7 for myself as a Christmas present.. to help support Ola :). Absolutely love your attitude and humor, just really over all you being a humble better being. Cheers Ola! Many good wishes towards your life and family.- Majin
JEEZUS I remember when your videos didn't involve you talking, but now, best Guitar Personality, it really says A LOT. I am actually so happy for that, for you, I am overwhelmed. I shall continue to support you, Ola. Congratulations. Well-deserved. Thank you, much. WE LOVE YOU!
Hej Ola! I love your videos and I appreciate a lot your natural manner and great jokes with all kinds of stuff, especially how you deal with haters. Since you've introduced a female edition, I would like to post a question for you to eventually include in some of your future FAQs:
How do you deal with the lack of motivation to play, if such thing has ever happened to you?
I believe that every musician who happened to play for many years, like myself, eventually suffers from this kind of problem and it might be useful for many people if you have any cool Swedish tips on the topic :) Tack så mycket!
Hi Ola, I'd like to know your opinion about using a chromebook as a home studio. Thanks!
Hi Ola !
I have a question. When you record guitars with The Haunted with Jensen, do you have a guitar tone for eachothers or do you use the same tone for all the rythm guitar tracks ?
Love your vids ! Cheers from France
D standard is my main tuning of choice as well!
The world needs to know about Bell Witch, that band improved my life so freaking much. Can’t thank you enough for shouting out Mirror Reaper :) but Dylan’s big two handed chords can get pretty feccin complicated...playing along accurately may be tough for most beginners as his style is deceptively sophisticated and requires a lot of split coordination
FAQ - Females Ask Questions.
Dropped the ball there Ola. Should have been FAQ69 for the "all female" version. ;)
No, not 69. The number ladies like is 77. It's like 69, but you get 8 more. 🤣
I was like number 69 on this comment!
Maybe FAQ 69 is where he’ll answer questions regarding the secks.
i was in a band with one girl in it. if you're alike and become good friends there should be little problems. it will only get weird if people fall in love, sexual tensions and all. and being in a relationship with a bandmember can create a whole lot of problems too.
all of us ended up having relationships outside the band, so it worked out pretty well.
what also worked out pretty well was that she was one of the better musicians among us, if she had trailed behind i think there would have been more issues.
I never miss any of your videos, I always watch them with my morning coffee. I have a couple of questions: A) What are your favorite IRs, can you share download/purchase links? B) My focusrite interface makes my guitar sound terrible and thin, what audio interface do you recommend to retain the quality of my guitar sound without taking a mortgage? Skål
Try using a good-quality DI plugged into your interface. I have a Radial JDI, sounds great. Costs as much as your interface though.
Ola respects whamen.
No one can now say Ola does not respekt whamen.
Much respekt. Such Ola. Much wow.
Nobody ever said that...
Isn't it womxn now to remove the man from the term. haha respect
Cats, Coffee & Guitars lolol
Ove Kindvall woooosh
Its wamon, wamon!
Hello Ola, I'm in the market for a new guitar. Will you release a new Solar shape (Dime tribute) guitar?
I prefer support Solar than buying another brand.
Hey Ola. On your question about females in bands. I play in a 5 piece Power Metal band in Western Canada (Called Syryn) with a female singer and a female bass player. I think the band dynamics are great and we look out for eachother like brothers and sisters. If anything, it brings out more females to our gigs and our audiences are a big mix now of males & females. I see more women now playing metal nowadays compared to years ago and it's refreshing to the metal scene.
The FAQs are always so great and entertaining. I usually dont like any kind of FAQ, but i love yours ola. Nice
Morning Ola! What vacation was your favorite? Any special parts of the world?
To answer BMWfilmz question, It's great to have a female in a and. But also, there can be a downside. Band members could start to like her or try to get a date or something which isn't a good idea when your in a band. It messes up the band BUT I'm sure there have been bands that had no problem with that. I think it's awesome to have females in bands. Just make sure the guys won't fall in love when you walk in for practice ;)
Hi, Ola! We watch your videos on regular basis, almost since the day 1 (by "we" I mean my wife and I, since this is our band's channel). Love the burps, the humor and the technical advices you provide. Planning on buying at least one of those sweet Solar guitars, as soon as our budget allows us to. Greetings and hugs from Serbian metalheads! \m/
Hey Ola,
I wont tell you how to raise your kids when it comes to music but if you dont mind I would like to offer my perspective and I hope you get a chance to read this. I am a guitarist and bassist, picked up bass about when i was 16 or so with little to no prior music experience. In my time playing I have had the opportunity to jam, write, and observe other people my age through school and my early 20's who started not just earlier, but had lessons. The differences between us and the discipline employed through our times playing music is staggering. My dad is a keyboard player and I honestly resent him a little bit for not pushing me towards music earlier because that 8-13 age range is so crucial for learning. In fact, he actually got my brother and I a guitar around when i was 8 or 9, but did nothing to guide us. No books, lessons, nothing. Of course it didnt get touched. Simply having the guitar there was not enough to create the SPARK for me to suddenly become interested but that didnt mean 6 years later I wouldnt become obsessed. Start signing them up for lessons in things so that you can gauge their interest in things. Martial arts, sports, music, whatever. Don't wait for them to chase it because that might not even be how they manifest their interest in things yet. Its not so much as forcing them into things as it is exposing them to it, and that is healthy.
You have no clue how happy it makes me to see a death metal artist win...well any kind of award! Especially when running against a shit load of generic personalities. kudos ola, Cheers 👏
And that Spirited Away shirt tho 😰
For the question about being the only woman in a band. I've been in a band with a female bassplayer, she was just as much part of the band as anyone else, surely communication is a bit different naturally (less blunt) but besides the attraction factor that may or not be present and could become difficult there's no difference.. Bandmembers need to click musically, and that's the most important, if that's the case and you're good and passionate at what you do there's only good times to be had.. :)
Hey Ola! Greetings from India. I think you are amongst the very few artists who is strictly stuck on to playing Metal without giving a crap about the exploring-new-sound shit ( sadly like the new Opeth, you get the point) and I really love that and I'm glad that there's someone that I can look up to. And when it comes to humour, you are like 'PewDiePie of Metal'. Cheers!
Always a pleasure to hear Finland mentioned but we're not part of the Scandinavia, only part of the Nordic countries.
thanks for your faqs about the gears , really helps choosing when there is so much stuff on the market , i actally got the revv g3 , the horizon precision drive and the mooer radar for my christmas presents from myself !!
Wow ! Chaos Engine - Amiga.
I must've played that game for like all of ... 10 minutes
Powermonger ftw
+ Elite
18:00 in case anybody cares. An avarage cpu and cheap usb interface will give you small enough latancy to have fun with plugins. Also USB 2.0 already has plenty of power. If you upgrade, first get a good interface for low latency, then get a good cpu to run crazier plugins.
Talking about Doom...
What do you think about the DOOM soundtrack by Mick Gordon? Also do you agree that metal is a little oversatured by slow insanely low tunings and technical riffs? There's almost nothing in between anymore. I miss the groove, what makes your head boppin and really get into it.
It all sounds cool but there's not much that makes you move nowadays. That's why we all still love Pantera. The scene focused to much about sounding evil.
You don't need a top of the line newest spec'ed machine to run a DAW lag free. Reaper will show you in real time how much CPU power plugins are using, it's never that much. I think the main thing is have enough RAM and have a decent interface. My main recording rig is a 10+ year old former workstation pieced together from parts my office was getting rid of. It runs plugins fine and records without latency through a Focusrite 6i6 (2nd gen) via USB 2.0 on Windows 7. It's only a Xeon dual core with a 500 GB non-SSD HDD, but it has 12 GB RAM. Back in its day, it was a good machine, but nowadays most cheapos could blow it away.
Ola, question for you next FAQ...when was the last time you played on your Black Cat 7 string, or do you still have it? I'm sure the rest of your subscribers would love to see your guitar collection, any plans on making a video of the 'vault of Ola'? Thank you and happy holidays to you and your family!
Hey there Mr. Englund! Greetings from Finland! I hope you have had a great December so far!
Here is an idea. Let your members *BUUUUUURB*... Let your members give you suggestions for the riff of the day (riffs that u don't already know) and then u try to learn them as fast as u can. Maybe you could do this for like once a month or something.
Also do you like Finland? Can you say anything in Finnish? Stay Metal my friend \,,/
Hi Ola, just watched all of your FAQ videos in a day and subbed, my question is: What do you think the next biggest leap in music will be? Greetings from the UK!
Hey Ola, what do you think of bowed guitar, playing a guitar with a cello bow? Sigur Rós is a post-rock/ambient Icelandic band that uses this technique exclusively. (If you want to do a reaction to them, I recommend _Kveikur_ live for the bowed guitar show)
I was in a band with 4 guys and 1 girl. It caused tension because when we started getting media attention they ignored me and the rest of the band who wrote the lyrics and songs and focused 100% on her when all she did was do kind of backing singing, interviewed her only etc. So if that girl is reading this and you start to notice the same thing make sure you say "I'm not the only person in the damn band, why are you focusing on me?" rather than letting it inflate your ego. If you don't bring the rest of the band in it won't feel like a team anymore, it'll feel like your band even though it isn't. A band consists of everyone. You have to think about this political crap.
Hey Ola now that we are closing in on the year alot of people are showing their top 20 or 10 releases of the year.
So my question is what are your top releases of maybe just release if you haven't listen to enough new stuff.
My favorite of the year is Slugdge - Esoteric Malacology.
I had a very good female singer in a band in the early 2000s playing 70s, 80s & 90s hard rock and metal covers. She had a seasoned & powerful voice, but it was weird with her singing songs that had more masculine themes. She adjusted her voice for the songs, but, again, it was just odd at times given the lyrical content. Hope that shed some light into the realm of females in bands.
Hello Ola! Now that you've had the chance to try out both the Fortin Nameless Suite and the Fortin NTS Suite, which do you prefer and why?
Afternoon Ola! I stopped playing guitar a few years ago. Lots of issues came together at once. I have decided to get back to playing, what Amp would you recommend for a decent/good metal playing and can do other tones if I feel liek playing a bit of blues or clean? I was very impressed by the Marshall Code 50 you played a few days ago in your Will it Chug series.
EX-Norwegian (left Trondheim at age 7) living in Canada just found your channel. Cool stuff, keep it up bro... your good... for a Swede... HA!!!
Daryl A- Bassist for Bastard Black and Cyanide Lullaby.
Ola, I challenge you to make an entire album with the boss katana. It's a challenge that will hopefully test your eq skills to make the songs sound good and getting album worthy tones out of the katana should be a bit of a challenge.
Ola... Doom metal is not "easy". Using fuzz and layered distortion, Building atmosphere, Being aware of the space between notes... being slow is not the only way to play doom. Go listen to confessor. Their drummer is amazing! Also listen to Triptykon. Some of the heaviest songs ever.
Also, go listen to Sybreed
I for one find a lot more harder playing at a slow tempo than to play very fast, I have to really feel the beat when playing slow, while I just have to practice and increase tempo for fast licks. Should you be interested, look up Corrupted, a japanese bands that sing spanish lyrics !
Yo Ola, what do you think on produce music with an ipad? Do you try it before? Awesome burp btw!!
I wonder what you think of bands like SepticFlesh or Cattle Decapitation? Don't know if you ever mentioned anything about them before...
or like the Slam Metal movement that had a Big Spike (atleast where I lived)
Where bands like Ingested and underground-ish bands like Megalodon and Coprocephalic or Ezophagothomia seemed to be talked about more.. what do you think about that? (also, good luck pronouncing them 99% of people I talked to cannot pronounce the last 2)
Love the videos!
What up, Ola? What is your opinion on Morbid Angel? If you like them, do you think you can make a tone video for either Covenant or Gateways to Annihilation?
Yo Ola! Luv your stuff ! Can you talk about Dime’s (rest in peace) tuning. If I’m not mistaken he tuned to 430
Hz vs 440hz.
Also, Dime loved his herbs, do thou partake?
6:09 - Ola, this just proves what I already knew - that you are a great parent and husband!
Indeed - time with your family is the BEST choice! Respect \m/
What do you think about Wolfheart ? And Cypecore if you ever heard about it ?
OLA!!!! IKEA! Hey Ola, my girlfriend and I are sitting in IKEA right now, she turned to me and asked if the Swedes love IKEA as much as we do, if not more in some sort of weird way. As an avid fan of the show and your the only Swede I can think of you are left to answer this! Thanks Alan. (X ;)
Brola! Are you a fan of Amon Amarth and if so, do you have any favorite album of theirs? As fellow Stockholmers I believe they haven't gone under your radar.
Doom metal; check out Daylight Dies. One of my favorite songs with some sweet guitars & harmonics is All We Had.
FAQ Question
Hey Ola, hope you are doing well keep up the great work.
I was wondering if you could talk about the neck profiles that you have gone for with the Solar guitar, as in are they compound or the same the whole way through? Also does the whole range have the same neck profile and say nut width?
Thanks
Chaz
Hey Ola,
How are you? there is nothing i love more than play the guitar. No matter what you do, you have always a great guitar tone👍🏼 Can you show me how to get a killer tone out of a Engl Powerball 2 with a Maxon OD 808 X boost?
You are a great guy by the way
Hej Ola, i see that the White seven strings, the A2.7 is not longer available in the solar website, is this permanently???? I really want to buy one of them and it will be very sad if gone for ever.
(Excuse me for my.... poor english ^^)
Dick Lövgren of Meshuggah also seems to have the same sun tattoo on the right elbow. Putry cool.
Question: how do you like your cover songs? A full 100% copy of the song, a small deviation from the song, or a complete rewrite of the song?
Are you familiar with the band Swallow the Sun? They are a death/doom band, faster than Bella which, and much more heavy. Check out the song, Hold this Woe, I think that you may enjoy it.
Amazing channel keep up the good work. Do you have US distribution for Solar guitars? Or is ordering through the website the only way to get one?
Love your channel! Best metal channel on UA-cam! Question for you. You clearly love pantera and always play there best riffs. Do you have a least favourite pantera album? Love from Oz
Hey Ola, what's good? Is there a different between a passive and active pickup in terms of cutting through the mix? Is one better than the other or it doesn't really matter? Thank you, keep up the burps.
Hey Ola! What do you prefer for Drop B? The A2.6 Baritone or just the A2.6 with the "standard" scale length?? Thanks, love your vids!
Hey Ola, i am a solo guitarist planning to record an EP (instrumental mainly guitars think Russian Circles)Should
I spring to for tracking in a studio or invest in more gear to record at home (current focusrite scarlet with GarageBand). Thanks! Love the channel and the burps!
G'DAY Ola Mate,
Do you have those Australian tour dates yet?
And which band was better after the sad Pantera spilt. Damage Plan, Hellyeah or Down.
Cheers
For Swedish Riff of the day, can you do Disfear or Anti Cimax?
Ola, what do you think about the band Vitalism? I think they are top of the line progressive metal.
I did vote for you ;) !!!! loving your videos more and more ! keep up the burp! I burp all the time too! And really love the 14days guitar challenge, would like more like that :D !
OLA :) . I got a new tube head and well it sounds good if I turn down the mids and highs but if I turn those up past half way it tends to sound like a tin can :(. I plan to change out the pre amp tubes can you tell me what your fav tubes are :). Yay
Hi, Ola! I am buying a gaming chair like yours, but it worries me that the armrests bother me while playing guitar. Should I worry about that or actually it is not a big deal?
Hola Ola, What do you think of MixBus V5? I drink a bottle of Tawney Port the other night and woke up with a full license for it. Ive been a Reason and Ableton user for about 16 years.
I wanted to suggest you to check out Soreption, but I found your comment under their video for The Anti-Present already so I guess you know what's up! I really had to search for their stuff right after seeing them with Revocation, they were so good live that they made their music look easy to play. Cheers from Italy!
Ola would you ever be able to do a full mix/master tutorial of a short sample song?
Hey Ola I got a question! Watching your challenge videos, do you gonna be making a sweep picking one? Do you like sweep picking? Greetings from México compadre!
Hey Ola! Is there any of the songs you play live with the Haunted that you feel to be "difficult" to play? Or for someone of your level, every song is Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy? Love your videos!
I just saw Bell Witch perform that 90 min song live last week. They arranged seating. :D Anyway, Bell Witch is funeral doom, almost drone metal, doom can be more "fun". Check out Potion, my new favourite.
Hey Ola, what do you think of fanned fret/multiscale guitars? Such as the Ormsby GTR series if you've ever tried/seen those. Cheers from New Zealand! I hope The Haunted come here next year on the Australian tour.
Is the Evertune bridge works well with a Drop A tuning and something like a low A (60)? Can the saddle go way back enough for proper intonation?
Hey Ola. You said you didn't like EMG's. So what is your opinion on passive EMG's like the H4's and the Marty Friedman signatures.
hey Ola! I'd absolutely looove to have a Type V guitar but I'm left handed! Do you think this would be available in the future? Or perhaps a custom shop? Because I'd love to have a floyd rose too! Greetings from Quebec! \m/
Hey Ola, what string gauge and which string brand would you recommend for a drop A seven string guitar ?
Keep up the good vids 👍
11s or 12s
@@christianvollenhoven Thanks
Loving that Pain of Salvation Remedy Lane album you suggested a bit ago in an FAQ. Pretty cool band. Thanks Ola!
Hi Ola! Love your work and your channel. Do you like Behemoth? What album do you like best? My favorite is Demigod... great riffs.. and love guitars tone there.. Would you play some riff from that album (using that kind of tone ;) )? thank you very much. Cheers from Argentina
Hey Ola! Not sure if this has been asked before, but will there ever be a Les Paul or Jazzmaster style Solar guitar? I'd really love to see your take on those classic models. Cheers Ola!
Nice riff of the day, learned the riff a while ago and forgot about it. Now im having so much fun with it again, wonder how i forgot it.
Hey OLA hope you're fine.
The Randall Satan amps are out of stock everywhere in Europe, do you know if there will be reassorts ? Or is it now a collector ? Saved for a 1.6 BOP, got it last week and now, can't get the amp :o aaaaaarg !
Two part comment! Well maybe several parts. Gonna get a little greedy here. Love your humor and thinly veiled cockiness (I see past insecurities behind that veil, am I wrong?) but more importantly love your riffing and the avenue you provide for new metal listeners to peak their interest. Question. When writing a song and you want it to modulate to a different central chord, do you have a process for figuring out where you want to go, and how to get into/out of said modulation?
Next time Ola reacts, check out Vitalism. A good introduction song would be Pagan Pt. 2. They are from Brazil and they are tighter than Dick’s hatband.
Next riff of the day, dare you to try intro to Splintered Visions by Into Eternity. Or if you are too much of a sissy boy for that one, anything from the song Beginning of the End would sate my thirst for Swedish fingertip blood.
You strike me as good people. Keep up your plethora of good work. *hugs Ola*
Hi Ola. I saw that You're travelling with heavy multiguitar flightcase. What flightcase You can recommend for safe flight with one guitar, are those ABS cases safe? I want to take my guitar with me but I'm afraid about both guitar and case. Second question, any chance for Solar guitar in SG/Viper shape?
Any details on the E2.6 and the V2.6 to be released with a floating Floyd Rose bridge?
Pallbearer - Foundations of Burden. Great album. Worth a listen.
Hi Ola ! What do you think , will ax8 pluged actually in line (mixer) on live concert sound good or as well as random cab on the stage ?
Hey Ola, what can you say about a band type o negative? They was awesome
Hello Ola from North Dakota! Question, do you ever plan to release a seven string version of the Solar V series? Or a fanned seven string of any other model? Thanks in advance!
The way Ola mispronounces the word "category" is really kind of adorable.
Hey Ola! I saw At The Gates live a few days ago in Macedonia with Heresy and Hardfaced and they sounded great! For a moment I thought I saw you there, but apparently that was ATG's guitarist. I was sad until they started playing. Anyway, I have a few questions!
- How are you feeling today?
- Opinion on Heresy (thrash from costa rica) and Hardfaced (hardcore from Macedonia)?
- Would you ever come to Macedonia with Feared or The Haunted? We kinda are at a shortage of awesome bands visiting us. :c
- Maybe do a prog riff of the day?
Cheers from Skopje! Keep up the burps!
Hello Ola, I am beginner and I approve your suggestion to play doom metal. Only bad part is tuning guitar to C# for MDB songs :D
Thumbs up on the awards .
Definitely deserve them.
Personally, I'm very happy I found your content.
Plan on joining after the holidays.
I love you man, no homo
What do you think of King Diamond? Andy LaRocque is an absolute beast of a guitar player in my book, especially on the Abigail record.
Do you like Edge of Sanity, Dan Swano stuff??
Hey, Ola. I saw Enterprise Earth on Halloween and their guitarist was playing one of your Strictly 7 sigs. Have you ever listened to them?