We're now entering the Mesa period where Gibson start rereleasing the exact same amps every year just with different shell woods and finishes and calling them shit like "2025 premium series" "2026 Player series" "2027 Exotic series" with no other changes or new models released.
The lack of "character" is what I LOVE about my Lundgren M7! It is completely transparent, articulate, and evenly-voiced, allowing your amp and your technique to do all the work, creating the sound you hear in your head.
Dime got me OBSESSED with 2x15 cabs. I’d go stare at the Warhead stack at Mars Music. Of course they sounded like ass lol. But I now have 2 Marshall 2X15. With EV’s. MONSTERS
There's still nothing better than a good old tube amp with a solid cab. I've got a Marshall DSL1 hooked up to an Orange PPC212 cab with two Celestion Vintage 30s, and it sounds way better than digital modeling without all the complicated settings. The 1-watt Marshall doesn't have any unnecessary knobs. I had switched to modeling a few years ago, but in the end, I came back to this setup.
@@bobrutledge54Yes, it's one of the best and it sounds great. However, it's really heavy, and that's the downside-it's a real hassle to transport. If I had known, I would have gone for the Blackstar St. James cab. Apparently, it's the same quality as the Vintage 30, but much lighter.
The problem with limiting these things to 333 means that they’ll be bought up extremely fast then pumped onto EBay and reverb for triple the price a month later.
Great vid, Ola. Now that you mentioned, I'm pretty sure a lot of us got curious about what amp would sound good with DM guitar (it's also a perfect excuse to teach us how to dial a good chug tone with a guitar loaded with hot pickups)
Ola is correct when talking about a softer pickup into a modern high gain amp. I did the same with a Krankenstein. It absolutely makes sense when you hear it
Ola, Love you and your channel Pixie is so adorable, she fits your family perfectly and the guitar picks is her way of feeling included. Killer tone from that EVH 5150 el34, that strat sounds huge. Great video Ola Thanks for everything you do Cheers
I find it interesting how there's a bit of a resurgence in Dimebag gear at the moment. We're hitting the 20 year mark of his untimely passing. 20 years is usually the nostalgia cycle when it comes to music/pop culture/video games. The kids who grew up with it in their childhood are usually at the point where they have the disposable income to splurge on things that remind them of being young again.
12:18 the Custom 5 TB-14 (or SH-14) is just the best passive humbucker for metal, especially for recordings, tweaking settings and just playing guitar. Suggestions: Custom 5 bridge humbuckers through Fortin Natas
I reckon (going superhot into 5150), that is more cabinet-speaker-mic combination. 5150 never failed me, from tele's lipstick to hot bridges but I use first series of Bugera cab, not "improved one", or Fane pop50 or Boss katana50mk1 connected as cab or ball grinding irs on top of clean signal from attenuators line out. Btw I use mix of sm58 and Marantz mpm 3000 large diaphragm condenser mic, less handy set when on stereo bar but good bang for a buck. Both are very proximity sensitive and I end up with much thinner tone than I would choose for live, however mids are more ripping before they get boxxy and i like to take off bit of low end to uncover mids. For recording I would advice you to start using studio tricks with two angled swapping phases, then eq-ing what you don't like and swapping phase back, just for example. I've noticed you know these tricks but I can't see you got any kinda "your" way you would stick to, usally one rather common mic, no phasing magic and yes, otherwise it introduces more work and often phase misalignment correction in daw but gives you few tracks to mix from one performance and incredible flexibility in post. Depends if you want to get in that rabbit hole but I don't regret I learned and tried a bit cuz with just 3 kinds of speakers, playing with mics and position/angle of 2 much different ones I can achieve a lot of different effects. Getting fluent in this is like to get unlimited cabs and mics, still using only two. You record on your own so I think you need to revise subject you anyway know a lot about. In my opinion you are one who will really benefit from getting geeky about techniques of micking speakers and problem solving/getting creative.
Kind of surprising the Gibson Mustaine sounded like crap through the EVH, while the Charvel Danhage didn’t 🤷♂️ The Charvel has a SD JB in the bridge and the Gibson has the SD Thrash Factor, with is based on the JB Dave used to record Rust in Peace. They should, in theory, sound almost identical 🤔 Edit: in fact, the Thrash Factor’s output is a teeny tiny bit lower than the JB.
I absolutely love my Orange Micro Dark through my Marshall bass cab so I HIGHLY recommend running a Micro Dark through a bass cab and going for a Matt Pike tone 👍 I’d like to hear one through a 1x15 bass cab over a 4x12 if you have that.
OH MY FUCKING GOD, MORE OMC COMING?!!! I really needed something like this to look forward to. I might be bitch-made, but I'm literally almost in tears right now.
Happy Swola Day, my ballsack bros! My vote is Fender Evangelion Tele + Boss Super OD + Marshall JVM + Mesa Oversized 4x12 + SM57/M 160 combo (57 on the cone at 10 o clock, M160 move right of the cone blended as a balancing dark mic to the bright 57) - going for a mid gain tone with some twang in the attack. No Swola Contenders this week?
No-talking Demo Combo Ideas: Fishman/EMG guitar going into a Chug pedal boosting a Mesa Dual Rectifier. Like you did for Rob Barrett but actually mic'd.
The Henrik Danhage Charvel has a Seymour Duncan JB TB-4 Humbucker in the bridge position and a DiMarzio Area 67 DP419CR Humbucker (in single coil format) in the neck position.
Richlite seems like a great product, I'd love to try it. I hope we can see it on more models, and models without Evertune. I'd love a hardtail T series or G series 7 string.
Hey! Speaking about guitar+amp videos, I would love to see video of OG 5150 with guitar that have Bill Lawrence pickup. I aquired guitar with this pickup some time ago and problem is that this combo sounds weird - untill I roll a volume on guitar a bit the attack of pickup is very metallic, overly bright and thin - it becomes normal when volume rolled. I'm realy curious is this common thing or there is something wrong with pickup or else
i got an idea, do a cab shootout, coz the cab shapes the tone probably the most in the chain. I've hardly ever seen anyboody talking about cabs when talking about tone. Always amps and pickups, but cab is one of the biggest piece of the tone.
When I play my really hot pup guitars thru my EVH EL34 50w - gain HAS to come down - ass tone insues if not - but w/ less hot - amp does the “flavour” - agreed! \m/
Other thing with being close to dimebag tone is many amps do that if you use eq in loop. Having one amp and for example Sovtek/EHX big muff Pi with its kinda parametric eq can add nice grit cuz you have fuzz with dry/wet and mids bump you can apply pretty strong cut in frequency you choose. Beside that gain and tone but still added only partially to your chain. Dimebag knew the power of eq. Believe me, you don't really need the Warhead to sound like Dimebag.
Kanonenfieber from Germany uses solar. You should keep up with them in tha news and even try to get noise, the mastermind behind them, in for coffee w ola. I believe he knows English. Thanks, ola. Love you, pix and the old lady
New Dime Warhead amp? Sweet. I had the original. I still have the full stack, but sold the head decades ago. lmao. That amp sucked balls so bad, I'll never forget it. But the cabs rule. Anyone else have a 2x15 guitar cab? I'm loving it. I use Crate solid state at the moment. (Yes, that old p.o.s. you remember). I have a Quilter too, but rarely use it as it's more of a back-up mini head. Perhaps I'll be checking out this amp since I'm still in the School of Dime, and I prefer solid state over tube for eternity. ;)
Can You please release Stephen’s Extended cut with Buzz Fieten system Grover’s but hardtale thru Body satin open pore Washburn Parallaxe ish! lol I Love You Ola! Thanks Man
We're now entering the Mesa period where Gibson start rereleasing the exact same amps every year just with different shell woods and finishes and calling them shit like "2025 premium series" "2026 Player series" "2027 Exotic series" with no other changes or new models released.
So Gibson is the Disney of guitar gear?
@@MarkSDD yup...no innovation...but as long as people keep buying why should they change?
@@NabPunk or the Apple of phones
and charge $10,000 for a head
Mesas are already horribly overpriced and over engineered.
Randall Smith should start a new amp company and call it "Randall"!
Don Randall is Randall amps
In the 2000s, I thought Randall Smith also owned/designed Randall amps. Lol. I was young in age and guitar. lol
My comment was sarcastic, FYI
Nah - Smith 😎
@@kurttrinter8344 he should pay Michael Soldano the millions that he stole from him when he stole the design for the Rectifier preamp.
The riffs in the intro starting at 1:10 were epic.Sounds like Nevermore, Instant head banging.
Very Nevermore-y intro!
You should call Randall Smith and start Solar Amps ASAP.
Excellent idea!!
I'm all for that 😜🤘
First type: the IWC.
Meaning: IT WILL CHUG!
🤘
Solamps... like... uhmm.... ah forget it!
I prefer Richlite fretboards. Glad you made the move!
Same. Been using them on all my recent guitar builds.
I was anti Richlite until i actually got a guitar with Richlite. I think its great stuff.
The lack of "character" is what I LOVE about my Lundgren M7! It is completely transparent, articulate, and evenly-voiced, allowing your amp and your technique to do all the work, creating the sound you hear in your head.
10/10 would find a way to buy a new Warhead amp. Even better if they do the 4x12 and 2x15 stack again.
The 215 is the only thing I'm after
Dime got me OBSESSED with 2x15 cabs. I’d go stare at the Warhead stack at Mars Music. Of course they sounded like ass lol. But I now have 2 Marshall 2X15. With EV’s. MONSTERS
I love your dog....she's so awesome!
Hey Ola. Can't wait to hear what you think of new Nile.
Pix News? Finally spun so fast she caught her own butt? lol
1:18 holy Nevermore, Batman!
@@Boots_McScoots seconded
There's still nothing better than a good old tube amp with a solid cab. I've got a Marshall DSL1 hooked up to an Orange PPC212 cab with two Celestion Vintage 30s, and it sounds way better than digital modeling without all the complicated settings. The 1-watt Marshall doesn't have any unnecessary knobs. I had switched to modeling a few years ago, but in the end, I came back to this setup.
Such a great cab.I have the same one. Properly built and very punchy.
@@bobrutledge54Yes, it's one of the best and it sounds great.
However, it's really heavy, and that's the downside-it's a real hassle to transport.
If I had known, I would have gone for the Blackstar St. James cab.
Apparently, it's the same quality as the Vintage 30, but much lighter.
The problem with limiting these things to 333 means that they’ll be bought up extremely fast then pumped onto EBay and reverb for triple the price a month later.
Mine won't be, trust me. Gear is for playing.
It’ll be higher than triple. I’d expect to see them at at least $3-4k.
@@jessesteel333 only the launch edition is limited
I got one and can’t wait. The link leaked a few minutes early for me 😂
That riff came out of NOWHERE
absolutely
Randall Smith leaving Mesa is the end of that brand.
Wondering what guys like Petrucci will do next.
What a killer Nevermoreesque opening riffage🤘
I’m in transilvania and waiting for the swola premier on a sunny sunday morning🎉
Better wait for the son to make sure Dracula is asleep 😂
@@cihanbasaran2011 do you hunger?
HAPPY SWOLA!! That intro had some major Unearth vibes! AWESOME!!
Great format, thanks to Ola and his fantastic and unmissable news!
Back to the roots indeed :) Combos that I'd recommend: Feared and Any/All Amps haha
Amps and guitars testing! THAT’S THE CONTENT Im all about!! Keep it coming.
Great vid, Ola. Now that you mentioned, I'm pretty sure a lot of us got curious about what amp would sound good with DM guitar (it's also a perfect excuse to teach us how to dial a good chug tone with a guitar loaded with hot pickups)
Galder needs more OMC! So good news! Hope he can collab with Nicholas Barker on future release.
As cool as that would be the last what we heard from Barker was that he was not doing so hot. His health is in bad shape.
I think Nick is done.
Ola when will Malmsten in Coffee with Ola?
Hopefully never
@@Ottophil Hahahaha why 😁
@@mylogifyhe’s insufferable
@@disistheway2010 For me the most insufferable is indeed Ozzy Osbourne.
@@disistheway2010 He used to be for sure. Lately he seems to be a lot more down to earth and humble in the videos I have seen with him.
As far as future ideas, I’d love to hear an Ozzy- No More Tears tone episode!
Miracle Man.
Yoo Congrats for the new release man!
Ola is correct when talking about a softer pickup into a modern high gain amp. I did the same with a Krankenstein. It absolutely makes sense when you hear it
Ola,
Love you and your channel
Pixie is so adorable, she fits your family perfectly and the guitar picks is her way of feeling included. Killer tone from that EVH 5150 el34, that strat sounds huge.
Great video Ola
Thanks for everything you do
Cheers
Coffee with Ola with Karl Sanders would be a treat to watch! \m/
That last riff of the intro gave me Nevermore vibes, Great work!
Glad you still have the ProJect X2 wood edition...Have the exact same one and enjoying every bit of it... 😄
Oh yeah, I'd love to hear one of your 8 string models through the Peavey Invective 120 🔥
So excited!!! Can’t wait to get my album!! Ola and team you rock!!!!!
Richlite is fantastic stuff, the weather works on wood in crazy ways, but richlite is like BRING YO HUMIDITY, I GOT THIS!
Like that euro feel in the melidics
I like your way of playing guitar I can't reach as an old punk. Fanx for being real.
Been waiting so patiently for Chug Project 3, lol! 🤟😎🤘
Oh shit! Your intro bit... So Nevermore vibe to it. Love it! 🤘
I think most people didn't notice that you were yelling at the decibel meter 😂😂😂 I was laughing the entire episode!
Congrats on album sounds great! Hell yeah more old man’s child!
I find it interesting how there's a bit of a resurgence in Dimebag gear at the moment. We're hitting the 20 year mark of his untimely passing. 20 years is usually the nostalgia cycle when it comes to music/pop culture/video games. The kids who grew up with it in their childhood are usually at the point where they have the disposable income to splurge on things that remind them of being young again.
His Washburn signatures and anything even remotely tied to his name have already been over priced for many years at this point.
Ola, you are The riff master 🎸🎸
Drum track rocks, stoked for this swola
12:18 the Custom 5 TB-14 (or SH-14) is just the best passive humbucker for metal, especially for recordings, tweaking settings and just playing guitar. Suggestions: Custom 5 bridge humbuckers through Fortin Natas
I reckon (going superhot into 5150), that is more cabinet-speaker-mic combination. 5150 never failed me, from tele's lipstick to hot bridges but I use first series of Bugera cab, not "improved one", or Fane pop50 or Boss katana50mk1 connected as cab or ball grinding irs on top of clean signal from attenuators line out. Btw I use mix of sm58 and Marantz mpm 3000 large diaphragm condenser mic, less handy set when on stereo bar but good bang for a buck. Both are very proximity sensitive and I end up with much thinner tone than I would choose for live, however mids are more ripping before they get boxxy and i like to take off bit of low end to uncover mids. For recording I would advice you to start using studio tricks with two angled swapping phases, then eq-ing what you don't like and swapping phase back, just for example. I've noticed you know these tricks but I can't see you got any kinda "your" way you would stick to, usally one rather common mic, no phasing magic and yes, otherwise it introduces more work and often phase misalignment correction in daw but gives you few tracks to mix from one performance and incredible flexibility in post. Depends if you want to get in that rabbit hole but I don't regret I learned and tried a bit cuz with just 3 kinds of speakers, playing with mics and position/angle of 2 much different ones I can achieve a lot of different effects. Getting fluent in this is like to get unlimited cabs and mics, still using only two. You record on your own so I think you need to revise subject you anyway know a lot about. In my opinion you are one who will really benefit from getting geeky about techniques of micking speakers and problem solving/getting creative.
Kind of surprising the Gibson Mustaine sounded like crap through the EVH, while the Charvel Danhage didn’t 🤷♂️ The Charvel has a SD JB in the bridge and the Gibson has the SD Thrash Factor, with is based on the JB Dave used to record Rust in Peace. They should, in theory, sound almost identical 🤔
Edit: in fact, the Thrash Factor’s output is a teeny tiny bit lower than the JB.
HELL YEAH! OLA! I can't wait until I can afford to buy your merch. I WILL BUY EVERYTHING! Hahaha! Love you man!
Legends dont die. Left a hell of a Legacy. 🤘🤘
Dimebags WARHEAD! Cmon! Getcha pull mate 🍻 333!
That last riff was fire Ola!
I absolutely love my Orange Micro Dark through my Marshall bass cab so I HIGHLY recommend running a Micro Dark through a bass cab and going for a Matt Pike tone 👍
I’d like to hear one through a 1x15 bass cab over a 4x12 if you have that.
Glad to see Solar can still produce premium guitars under a 1000! That guitar looks killer dude!
OH MY FUCKING GOD, MORE OMC COMING?!!!
I really needed something like this to look forward to. I might be bitch-made, but I'm literally almost in tears right now.
A Roadking through the Fortin cab would be interesting. Pair it with your Steve Vai Universe or any other 7 string you have.
Happy Swola Day, my ballsack bros! My vote is Fender Evangelion Tele + Boss Super OD + Marshall JVM + Mesa Oversized 4x12 + SM57/M 160 combo (57 on the cone at 10 o clock, M160 move right of the cone blended as a balancing dark mic to the bright 57) - going for a mid gain tone with some twang in the attack. No Swola Contenders this week?
Damn, Ola! Even the Cover Art on the new album Chugs! Nice!
I love the T-Shirt change trick.
Hipshot bridges, Richlite fretboards. YES!
Very cool art work on the album cover
Ola you're a fookin riff genius.
No-talking Demo Combo Ideas: Fishman/EMG guitar going into a Chug pedal boosting a Mesa Dual Rectifier. Like you did for Rob Barrett but actually mic'd.
The Henrik Danhage Charvel has a Seymour Duncan JB TB-4 Humbucker in the bridge position
and a DiMarzio Area 67 DP419CR Humbucker (in single coil format) in the neck position.
Richlite seems like a great product, I'd love to try it. I hope we can see it on more models, and models without Evertune. I'd love a hardtail T series or G series 7 string.
That ending riff was siiiiiiiiiick
Ok. This SWOLA RIFF SONG was sick man!!!!
Man I got the hoodie of the shirt your wearing when haunted toured australia like 15 years ago. The shirt version looks sick
New Old Man’s Child🤘🏻🤘🏻
Looking forward to seeing the Warhead on reverb for $2000. Also, r.i.p. Mesa it was a good run.
Maybe you can show some different mic placements and arrangements for the 13:00 section? Great stuff as usual Ola.
Great intro. And yeah that last riff looks like a master of puppets work out or some shit.
Hi dude! We want a Lichtlaerm Prometheus demo!
Have a nice week!
Most of the ola s intros makes me headbang
Hey! Speaking about guitar+amp videos, I would love to see video of OG 5150 with guitar that have Bill Lawrence pickup. I aquired guitar with this pickup some time ago and problem is that this combo sounds weird - untill I roll a volume on guitar a bit the attack of pickup is very metallic, overly bright and thin - it becomes normal when volume rolled. I'm realy curious is this common thing or there is something wrong with pickup or else
Ola, saw Meagdeth last night and I have to say Teemu does an amazing job. I felt like he plays everything note for note.
i got an idea, do a cab shootout, coz the cab shapes the tone probably the most in the chain. I've hardly ever seen anyboody talking about cabs when talking about tone. Always amps and pickups, but cab is one of the biggest piece of the tone.
I want more of the Decibel Yell like last week!
I see that non production dime d100 in white you got sitting there hehe, must enjoy it with the right pedals in that clean channel
love old mans child cheers
HEY OLA ENGLUND MY BROTHER FROM ANOTHER GRANNY..... HOPE ALL WELL.... AND IT WOULD BE AWESOME IF YOU CAME TO FLORIDA.... AND PLAYED
Hey Pix is making merch. Get your chewed guitar picks!! 😆
Dat tone dude!
A true UA-cam Master. & damned good player
More news, Devin Townsend released a new single called PowerNerd.
That was the most Nevermore sounding music I have heard in years!
We need more Ola learns!
we need a special SWOLA208, that's the 4 year mark!
man that intro was sick
Remember the segment Ola tasting Shit? And Jen Majura was lurking and stalking Ola? Aaaaah yes! Memories! Lol
Loving the Swola’s every week man! Where are you getting those neon signs from Ola ?
When I play my really hot pup guitars thru my EVH EL34 50w - gain HAS to come down - ass tone insues if not - but w/ less hot - amp does the “flavour” - agreed! \m/
yes! Old Man's Child back again!
Other thing with being close to dimebag tone is many amps do that if you use eq in loop. Having one amp and for example Sovtek/EHX big muff Pi with its kinda parametric eq can add nice grit cuz you have fuzz with dry/wet and mids bump you can apply pretty strong cut in frequency you choose. Beside that gain and tone but still added only partially to your chain. Dimebag knew the power of eq. Believe me, you don't really need the Warhead to sound like Dimebag.
Love that Charvel!
Kanonenfieber from Germany uses solar. You should keep up with them in tha news and even try to get noise, the mastermind behind them, in for coffee w ola. I believe he knows English. Thanks, ola. Love you, pix and the old lady
You missed the Sunday with Ola I talked about them just recently :D
@@OlaEnglund shit. I'm an idiot. I'll have to go back and watch
Hello from Arizona
New Dime Warhead amp? Sweet. I had the original. I still have the full stack, but sold the head decades ago. lmao. That amp sucked balls so bad, I'll never forget it. But the cabs rule. Anyone else have a 2x15 guitar cab? I'm loving it. I use Crate solid state at the moment. (Yes, that old p.o.s. you remember). I have a Quilter too, but rarely use it as it's more of a back-up mini head. Perhaps I'll be checking out this amp since I'm still in the School of Dime, and I prefer solid state over tube for eternity. ;)
Can You please release Stephen’s Extended cut with Buzz Fieten system Grover’s but hardtale thru Body satin open pore Washburn Parallaxe ish! lol I Love You Ola! Thanks Man
You can get some good, unique picks from your dog. It's a gift. extra action.
very Nevermorish intro riff
Hello Ola,greetings from Spain.