After not playing guitar for 10yrs and just getting back into it I guess I'm an odd man out. I'm a solo artist, wanting to write/record my own music, live in an apartment, don't think I'll be playing live at all... this suits my needs. I don't know why all the hate. Most tonal differences I think are preference between VST's and tones/EQing that suits you as an individual. With all the "blind" test videos, the difference is so subtle that 95% of your non-musician audience won't care or won't hear it. Get what suits your ears yes, but be practical and get gear for your situation and lifestyle. Most of us will never play arenas.
Pretty much in the same boat here. I got myself a copy of Studio One and was kind of disappointed with the Ampire plugin that comes with it so I picked this up to use for my amps and effects. There are definitely "better" amp sims out there but if you're just a hobbyist putting together tracks by yourself at home you can do a lot with this plugin and it doesn't sound bad by any means.
@@robjobse8860 you can say whatever you want, look at how positive grid promote their shit they make it sound like it's the next step of tube emulation.
Until you got to killer satan, I thought the software sucked. You redeemed it. Probably just like every other modeler where the installed presets suck but once you get past the learning curve you can make it sound killer.
Don't Know why, but all the Bias products review from OLA do not give justice to them. I use Bias Fx + Bias Amp 2 and they sound really really good, I use them live (with a RME FIREFACE UC + Line6 FBV usb pedalboard as controller) since some months. I listen the same presets I use in the OLA review and they sounds crap, "pixelate", with no presence, Negative Eq... I try lots of Guitar Plugs (TH-U, Amplitube 4, Mercuriall and so on...) and I I chose and use Bias Fx + Bias Amp 2 as finally Live choice. For me absolute the best in dynamic, sound quality and software UI. I use to play Blues, Pop and light rock John Mayer Style. It Worth the price.
@@FarBeyondMetalz Exactly... I got the "metal package" (don't know the real name :D ) in BIAS 1... there is Olas amp, Keith Merrow, Jeff Loomis... and that's awesome... Not gonna switch to BIAS 2 anytime soon
No matter what I try I can’t get mine to sound anything even close to this it just sounds warm quiet and tinny and it’s not the guitar I’m using is there something I’m doing wrong I’m following the exact video
Probably a late post but try adding a touch of EQ and compression in your DAW. You’ll soon hear a big difference. I do this in Logic using their stock plugins
This video literally is the first video to give me an idea of what the necks on Solar guitars are like. That other angle really gave a good idea of the shape. I wanna buy one of these...trying to sell off a couple other guitars at the moment, but plan on grabbing one of those 7 string explorers.
Sounds like a bunch of 10 year olds who think there spider 5 is the best metal amp out there. Maybe if you listened to it through something other than a phone speaker, and know your shit before you talk shit
Yes. I don't love it, but I have it and I do enjoy getting unnatural sounding guitar tones from it. Good for sparking creativity every now and again and making unique sounding bits.
Such a great bedroom practice tool imo. been using bias fx1 for a couple of years now. I have found heavy sounds can be great but you really need to eq the shit out of your presets and back off the gain to get better note definition. This looks to be similar.
I don't know why all the hate towards Bias FX 2. I might be pretty deaf from all the years of loud music, but some presets sounded pretty damn great to me. Definitely some mix worthy stuff in there!
need to check that out someday, thanks ola! since i got STL Tonality I kinda don't care for metal amp sims anymore since it got me covered so well. Currently waiting for sales for the Dark Glass Suite by Neural :D
Some sounds are stereotype. Like this is the way I a Les Paul humbucker should sound. But here's the thing you can bend the signal anyway you want to make it sound what you feel is a Les Paul. I'm with Ola I like it I want one
Timööö First of all, I havent compared anything with a tube amp. How did you get there man. I’ve been using Bias Fx for a really long time but only for practicing purposes as it doesnt satisfy me to have it on a recording. Besides the reason why most of us here is seeking the ultimate tone, checking new gears along with Ola’s burps. Right? On that personally Bias fx sucks on delivering the quality tone keeping in mind the price range they charge for all the pack bundles. Thats what I think. Moreover, when a new version of a product is released I expect an improvement on the overall quality and experience I get out of it. Bias fx 2 doesn’t seem to deliver it except 1-2 new features which dont excite me. Final point, I guess anybody here having the experience with a tube amp can tell the differrence with bias fx. If you like it, go purchase it. No one is holding you back. But before doing that go check out Fortin’s ding dang.
@@yigitke3 i didnt mean to upset u, I am using Bias fx 1 for recording backing tracks and stuff like that, however for gigs and lead recording i am using am tube amp. I totally agree with u that fx 2 is No improvment to fx 1 and sounds worse than fx1. But I thnik that u can get pretty good tone with bias fx (1) . If I did upset u, sorry . I may made some mistakes (i'm from Germany) Greetings Tim
I've been using various positive grid products for years now, ever since I saw keith merrow's bro 2.0 video. Introduced me to him, and you. I use a tonematched Satan I found on the tone cloud. Love how it sounds.
I've gotten good tones out of Positive Grid software, but not without some serious subtractive EQ to clean up all the gross upper frequency hiss. And now I've gotta pay 199 to upgrade? Yikes. Guess I'm sticking with the UAD Savage 120 for now.
Thank you for the video. I m using FX2 it`s been now like 6 months. It`s really amazing, however when you come to high gain presets you have to EQ everything, as you hear fizz and clips.. I assume that videos on UA-cam don`t show real sounds, most of them are mastered.
Ola! Great playing. I totally appreciate your metal aptitude!! My question: is there any use for BiasFX in any other musical form? Is there a demo anywhere of other tones for blues, pop, country, R&B, Jazz, etc.??
Probably gonna cost $_$ for basically a looper and pickup changer that nobody asked for. Lol new sound engine, sounds the same to me. Let’s face it, this is just bias fx with just a 2 on it and should just be a free update to bias fx.
I use Bias everyday and it sounds great but you have to take in mind 2 things: -Stock cabs are completely shit, you can see in the video when Ola uses their own impulses with the satan and it sounds great. So pay for the Celestion expansion or use your own IRs. -Same for the amps, Bias amp necessary to make your own amps. Its a shame that a good software like that comes this way X)
Because you use Bias everyday, Do you have a solution for crackling and high pitch noise while using the mobile app? I have iphone 8 and griffin guitar connect cable, when I connect everything I get terrible crackling sound. I can get the noise go away if I change the output and the input volume, but then all the beautiful tone goes away so the app is basically unusable. Is it my cable? My settings? Even when the volume knob of my guitar is set to zero, I still hear high pitch feedback noise. I don’t know what to do, please give advice if possible, I really want to use this app. If for example I want to use Marty Friedman’s tone, I have the high pitch noise. I lower the output volume and lower a little bit the input volume, high pitch feedback noise goes away but the beautiful marty’s tone is gone and the tone sounds simple and not full and beautiful any longer.
@@errriss bro bias fx is getting us in a very very good direction.. just recheck your settings.. what audio interface are you using?? It’s most probably your iPhone mic activated somehow that’s picking up noise. Recheck n revert back..
@@kbuss10 I use Bias FX and honestly it's not as bad as used in the video. If you use custom amps made in Bias Amp 2 then it sounds pretty badass. But I also have tried out Guitar Rig V by Kontact. It's a bit confusing at first, but when you get the hang of it, it can sound pretty decent.
@@theoriesabound6711 Having said that, PG have asked me to try the Demo version in W7 and let them know. They haven't ruled out making it W7 compliant in the future. It seems to work, except I'm having trouble with the guitar modeling feature; it could be me though. I'll try again and report back. The looper feature is a winner!!
@@catwaters6686 Cool, I'm definitely interested in knowing if you can get it to work. BTW, right now I'm trying the 15 day trial version of S-Gear. There is no guitar modeling, but the amps and effects sound good. There are some great presets as well.
And i was blaming my audio interface for the sound this software delivers. When you hear it trough headphones alone it's terrible. You have to do some fixes in your DAW when mixing with drums and bass, to get an "ok" sound. At least they offer a refund in 30 days if you don't like it.
Given these dudes so much money already in the past year and they want $199 for me to upgrade. Feel like if I just bought all the other shit, I should get a bigger discount.
C O N S T A N T V A R I A B L E S haha actually I put this comment while I was watching the video , later he mentioned the cloud thing but I was to lazy to delete the comment, thanks tho :)
Hail Ola ! Two things: 1°. I really liked your Camo Shirt. It's amazing 2° Could you, please, "testing shit" with the Boss GT - 100 ? Cuz there are not many videos of this gear going METAL. Cheers !
9:10 I thought you would write "double rekt" or "double rectum" x) 10:20 But you are a lead player! :) 10:30 That clean sound is awesome, I guess you could loop something like that on a 8 bar and then suddenly play lead with the other preset over it, that'd be awesome for a ballad!
If this gonna be a free upgrade for Bias Fx 1 user's I will use it. But this is Positive Grid, and we know this is going to be a separate thing.. Like the Bias Amp 2... Shame on you Positive Grid..
how do you not get any delay when your playing? I noticed with a lot of virtual pedals there's a slight delay because of the computer or software processing it, is there any way to fix that?
I have a competitor called amplitube and it has a setting called ‘buffer’ and if you make that as high as it can be (2048) it’s unplayable because of the latency (the delay between the time you touch the strings and the time you hear the sound) but if you set it as low as it can go (16) the latency is totally imperceptible (to me)
I'm just stoked how easy it must be starting to play guitar now compared to what it was in 1980 for me... I didn't even own an amp for the first two years because all money was spent on the first guitar - an old second hand one, and when I got my first amp it was a really bad one - and since I couldn't afford to buy a distortion pedal I ran the guitar through an old cassette deck to get some cheap ass distortion! When I started buying pedals it was always a gamble because you got what you bought and there was no youtube where you could watch reviews so you ended up with a lot of sucky pedals... Down the line I was able to afford a descent amp and a couple rack effects and was starting to like my sound but the money invested was quite a lot. We learned how to play with what we got though! Today you have access to way better value guitars and the rest is done with a laptop! There are enough demo versions out there of amp & fx software to last you for years and if you want to go the whole distance we're talking max $100 investment for everything there is! You people have it much easier that we had it, trust me on this! I have since long replaced my amps and rack effects with software today and I can do everything with a laptop and I just love the development in this field! I don't have to borrow money from the bank to get that sweet Mark IIC+ & Mark V sound as well as all the other classical hi gain amps - AND it always works! They never break down, blow fuses or having the neighbours complaining because you play too loud since you have the same awesome with just headphones! Amp manufacturers won't be the same in 10 years time and I suspect many of them will go out of business, which is sad, but from a pure sound perspective this is the way forward every day of the week! You don't know how easy you have it today!
Jens Andree agree about 80%. The value in guitars is outstanding now. I dont think the amp makers will go out of business, provided they can roll with the tech.
Question for a noobie to BIAS here. I like to jam along to songs so I want a system that will allow me to download loads of different tones so I can play along and sound like my favorite bands. Is BIAS FX 2 the software for this? Do they have a big data base of user generated tones I can download and use? If so which version of BIAS FX 2 should I buy? I dont want to buy one version and then have to download loads of extras
@@martinkrauser4029 you're not far from truth. You know what differs great and mediocre product? Amount of hassle user experiences while going through menus to get decent results!
@Demondrive exactly! Though i don't think the metal zone is worthy of that quote. I find bias to be a tweakers dream and fun to test ideas in a fast and easy way for a reasonable price. I'll use other products for quality tone though.
@@CreativeMindsAudio that was just way I felt about it's place in the market, few years back everyone were using it and talking about, then appeared new players in ampsims game with better quality products and they lost the race.
@Tristan no, in real life you also have to tweak and find the right cabinet mic angle etc. Here you can load ir files which do that for you. His sounds in that video are not even close to mine, but that is because i have spent more time tweaking it and not only 5min lol
I'm sorry, but this demo does PG no good at all and it really doesn't demonstrate the capabilities of the new software - as we can see from the many negative comments. I use BIAS AMP 2 and BIAS FX, and I get great, realistic blues and classic rock sounds. Ola is a great guitarist but his playing isn't representative of a great many BIAS users. We don't all use down-tuned 7 & 8-string guitars into insanely distorted amps. One of the great strengths of BIAS is the realism of its overdrive sounds, so can we please have a demo which showcases these?
BIAS has never sounded all that good, it got hype when they paid all the UA-camrs to cover it a few years back. It'd never be as well known based on its quality.
How does it compare to a real tube amp? Or will we find out in a few years like the valve state amps, as everything sounds great until compared to a soaring Marshall?
I was a Bias amp fan since maybe his beginning. Then i discovered Mercuriall SS11X plugin. Of course there is less choice but he is so better, for my ears, that i will not use Bias anymore.
76dB burp ... you gotta pump those numbers, those are rookie numbers
yeah like 120 db
😂🤣😂🤣
Anything Ola touches instantly turns into audible gold
08:42 that Cerberus riff is absolutely astonishing. Can't get it out of my head 🤘
riff name?
@@trak201 it's Cerberus, Ola's song
next feature for bias fx3. The “Guitarist” match
After not playing guitar for 10yrs and just getting back into it I guess I'm an odd man out. I'm a solo artist, wanting to write/record my own music, live in an apartment, don't think I'll be playing live at all... this suits my needs. I don't know why all the hate. Most tonal differences I think are preference between VST's and tones/EQing that suits you as an individual. With all the "blind" test videos, the difference is so subtle that 95% of your non-musician audience won't care or won't hear it.
Get what suits your ears yes, but be practical and get gear for your situation and lifestyle. Most of us will never play arenas.
Pretty much in the same boat here. I got myself a copy of Studio One and was kind of disappointed with the Ampire plugin that comes with it so I picked this up to use for my amps and effects. There are definitely "better" amp sims out there but if you're just a hobbyist putting together tracks by yourself at home you can do a lot with this plugin and it doesn't sound bad by any means.
Hell yes i've been waiting for this so long!
Edit: Fortin NTS still sounds better imo
you'r P I L E have Fortin NTS and Nameless, Scuffham S-Gear and they are way better than Bias FX algorithms...
No it doesn`t.
True but u dont get this many effects in the nts suite so
Effects wise this destroys it!
What’s you’r P I L E?
The only thing that would make a BIAS FX 2 better would be a Solar bass playing through it. Just saying.
Awaiting the Solar bass death stare ....
And now you can try it
@@Reject101Personal I have a Sire for sale to make room :)
Ola, love seeing the 7 strings making more of an appearance in your demos. That E series is a gorgeous beast of a guitar
"This product sounds like shit through my mono phone speaker and earbuds" - All the haters.
If you think bias fx 2 sounds good you probable never played a real tube amp
@@robjobse8860 you can say whatever you want, look at how positive grid promote their shit they make it sound like it's the next step of tube emulation.
@@robjobse8860 I don't give a fuck about normal persons I play for me
@@matibf2 You can make INSANELY good tones with bias, you just have to tweak a lot. Obviously it's not going to sound good with default tones.
@@matibf2 It sounds good, not as good as a tube amp, but for $200 you are not getting anything better than this
I find the THU / TH3 much more organic, however, BIAS seems to be better at controlling and concealing sound artifacts
Am I the only one who doesn't like how these Bias programs sound?
nope, i´m with you. it always has that grating 3k spike.
same.
BIAS is an overpriced money-trap. not more, not less
Yea I have bought bias amp 1 long time ago and it's not really suitable for recording. Fine for practicing tho.
Nope.. I think it doesn't sound good at all. You can get better tones with free VSTs and Reaper.
2:26 Positive Grid will use this part for the trailer.
Shit sound! Great vid!
Until you got to killer satan, I thought the software sucked. You redeemed it. Probably just like every other modeler where the installed presets suck but once you get past the learning curve you can make it sound killer.
Ola, you made the Metal zone sound better than most of the bias 2 settings. :D
the placement of the MGS sound was priceless!!!!!
I wanted to find out why was "David Guetta" being suggested when I was looking for metal plugins... :)
Are you serious ? hahaha
mhammed ismaili 😅
Lol
I can't judge the product with only djonk djonk djonk djonk djonk.
So you decided to be disrespectful. If you don't mind the question, what did you get out of that?
@ then don't watch this video. this is a video of him trying it out the way he would do it, not a full review like Glen fricker might do.
@ also he did use the guitar match, you obviously didn't watch the full video...
single tear.
Wish those E type solars had 24 frets. I would own all of them.
Don't Know why, but all the Bias products review from OLA do not give justice to them. I use Bias Fx + Bias Amp 2 and they sound really really good, I use them live (with a RME FIREFACE UC + Line6 FBV usb pedalboard as controller) since some months. I listen the same presets I use in the OLA review and they sounds crap, "pixelate", with no presence, Negative Eq...
I try lots of Guitar Plugs (TH-U, Amplitube 4, Mercuriall and so on...) and I I chose and use Bias Fx + Bias Amp 2 as finally Live choice. For me absolute the best in dynamic, sound quality and software UI. I use to play Blues, Pop and light rock John Mayer Style. It Worth the price.
honestly I'm not really impressed... :/
Well stoppit.
You know what makes a guitar a guitar, a bass.
Me too... I love BIAS but for me BIAS 1 sounds almost the same, if not better
Same. What's the point of having 1,000 amps if they all have the same characteristics with some EQ tweaks.
@@FarBeyondMetalz Exactly... I got the "metal package" (don't know the real name :D ) in BIAS 1... there is Olas amp, Keith Merrow, Jeff Loomis... and that's awesome... Not gonna switch to BIAS 2 anytime soon
Clean hair Ola! 😁
I got Bias Fx 1, it eats too much CPU and I don't like the sound.
Long live Fortin!
No matter what I try I can’t get mine to sound anything even close to this it just sounds warm quiet and tinny and it’s not the guitar I’m using is there something I’m doing wrong I’m following the exact video
I’m having the same problem. I’ve followed the positive grid tutorial to the teeth and it still sounds like shit
Speakers/headphones you using?
Probably a late post but try adding a touch of EQ and compression in your DAW. You’ll soon hear a big difference. I do this in Logic using their stock plugins
Man that clean tone preset you made was really awesome!
This video literally is the first video to give me an idea of what the necks on Solar guitars are like. That other angle really gave a good idea of the shape. I wanna buy one of these...trying to sell off a couple other guitars at the moment, but plan on grabbing one of those 7 string explorers.
To me Bias sounds like crap, and it didn't get any better
Same
Iv tried it twice.. and I just cant get into it ,it just sounds thin.
@@liquor8396 Not only sounds weak but adds a LOT of aliasing to the source signal... sounds like an "mp3 128kbps" with lots o loss
Sounds like elephant diarrhea.
Sounds like a bunch of 10 year olds who think there spider 5 is the best metal amp out there. Maybe if you listened to it through something other than a phone speaker, and know your shit before you talk shit
Am I the only person that love bias fx?
Yes. I don't love it, but I have it and I do enjoy getting unnatural sounding guitar tones from it. Good for sparking creativity every now and again and making unique sounding bits.
Oh my god😂😂😂😂
Such an amazing and hilarious review
Ola, you made my day, I’m serious.
Amazing plugin, as well. Digital age never stops progressing.
Neural DSP's Fortin plugins destroys this. It's night and day fam.
Should I get this or the new Plini plugin from Neural DSP?
As I make all my music on an iPad, Bias FX is all I use for guitar tones. I guess I’ll be watching for this to hit iOS in the near future.
That's a filthy sound. Love it
Such a great bedroom practice tool imo. been using bias fx1 for a couple of years now. I have found heavy sounds can be great but you really need to eq the shit out of your presets and back off the gain to get better note definition. This looks to be similar.
I don't know why all the hate towards Bias FX 2. I might be pretty deaf from all the years of loud music, but some presets sounded pretty damn great to me. Definitely some mix worthy stuff in there!
need to check that out someday, thanks ola! since i got STL Tonality I kinda don't care for metal amp sims anymore since it got me covered so well. Currently waiting for sales for the Dark Glass Suite by Neural :D
Just saw Morbid Angel on Adult Swim's Fishcenter, rocking a green 7-string Solar. Nice!
Some sounds are stereotype. Like this is the way I a Les Paul humbucker should sound. But here's the thing you can bend the signal anyway you want to make it sound what you feel is a Les Paul. I'm with Ola I like it I want one
Sounds as bad as Bias FX 1. Nothing has improved sound quality wise to me.
Can I send u the mp3 or wav or whatever U want from a solo played on a tubeamp and played on bias fx 1 and u tell whats what?
Timööö First of all, I havent compared anything with a tube amp. How did you get there man.
I’ve been using Bias Fx for a really long time but only for practicing purposes as it doesnt satisfy me to have it on a recording. Besides the reason why most of us here is seeking the ultimate tone, checking new gears along with Ola’s burps. Right? On that personally Bias fx sucks on delivering the quality tone keeping in mind the price range they charge for all the pack bundles. Thats what I think. Moreover, when a new version of a product is released I expect an improvement on the overall quality and experience I get out of it. Bias fx 2 doesn’t seem to deliver it except 1-2 new features which dont excite me. Final point, I guess anybody here having the experience with a tube amp can tell the differrence with bias fx. If you like it, go purchase it. No one is holding you back. But before doing that go check out Fortin’s ding dang.
@@yigitke3 i didnt mean to upset u, I am using Bias fx 1 for recording backing tracks and stuff like that, however for gigs and lead recording i am using am tube amp.
I totally agree with u that fx 2 is No improvment to fx 1 and sounds worse than fx1. But I thnik that u can get pretty good tone with bias fx (1) . If I did upset u, sorry .
I may made some mistakes (i'm from Germany)
Greetings Tim
Timööö no man there is nothing to be upset about. I am not a keyboard emo :)
If you enjoy whatever you have then yeah congrats. Cheers.
@@yigitke3 at least some normal person on the Internet haha
Have a good one:)
That guitar match sounded so bad.
I've been using various positive grid products for years now, ever since I saw keith merrow's bro 2.0 video. Introduced me to him, and you.
I use a tonematched Satan I found on the tone cloud. Love how it sounds.
I've gotten good tones out of Positive Grid software, but not without some serious subtractive EQ to clean up all the gross upper frequency hiss. And now I've gotta pay 199 to upgrade? Yikes. Guess I'm sticking with the UAD Savage 120 for now.
Thank you for the video. I m using FX2 it`s been now like 6 months. It`s really amazing, however when you come to high gain presets you have to EQ everything, as you hear fizz and clips.. I assume that videos on UA-cam don`t show real sounds, most of them are mastered.
Ola! Great playing. I totally appreciate your metal aptitude!! My question: is there any use for BiasFX in any other musical form? Is there a demo anywhere of other tones for blues, pop, country, R&B, Jazz, etc.??
22 people accidentally hit thumbs down , must have been staring at ola and got all flummoxed
10:40 Ola releasing its inner Jeff Buckley
Probably gonna cost $_$ for basically a looper and pickup changer that nobody asked for. Lol new sound engine, sounds the same to me. Let’s face it, this is just bias fx with just a 2 on it and should just be a free update to bias fx.
Damn Ola 🤘 Great tones as always!
That guitar modeling section changes the game
Ola, you should have shown the guitar match with a less overdriven tone. It was difficult to hear the difference between them. IMO. Rock on!
I use Bias everyday and it sounds great but you have to take in mind 2 things:
-Stock cabs are completely shit, you can see in the video when Ola uses their own impulses with the satan and it sounds great. So pay for the Celestion expansion or use your own IRs.
-Same for the amps, Bias amp necessary to make your own amps.
Its a shame that a good software like that comes this way X)
Because you use Bias everyday, Do you have a solution
for crackling and high pitch noise while using the mobile app? I have iphone 8 and griffin guitar connect cable, when I connect everything I get terrible crackling sound. I can get the noise go away if I change the output and the input volume, but then all the beautiful tone goes away so the app is basically unusable. Is it my cable? My settings? Even when the volume knob of my guitar is set to zero, I still hear high pitch feedback noise. I don’t know what to do, please give advice if possible, I really want to use this app. If for example I want to use Marty Friedman’s tone, I have the high pitch noise. I lower the output volume and lower a little bit the input volume, high pitch feedback noise goes away but the beautiful marty’s tone is gone and the tone sounds simple and not full and beautiful any longer.
Yeah stock cabs sounds like shit. I just discovered yesterday use IR it will sounds much better.
@@errriss bro bias fx is getting us in a very very good direction.. just recheck your settings.. what audio interface are you using?? It’s most probably your iPhone mic activated somehow that’s picking up noise. Recheck n revert back..
@@pesa9063 now I use Nux mg300 instead
These videos are sweet bro, love how you show everything and go through the tones. Sick Riffs & Diggin' that 2nd guitar view, looks sweet as fuck.
Not a fan of this sound
You can make any sound with bias fx.
Did anyone else notice a bubble in Ola's mouth at 6:30? No? Okay. Keep reading.
tgchan We can even hear it pop.
That guitar match option looks sweet
Ola, pre-ordered this a week or so back - do you know when it's released? Did you get an early copy? Thanks!
21/3/2019, I think, so tomorrow.
Let's try this anyway, because I'm Ola. Classic.
Hella nice tone
Question is: How does it compare to Bias FX 1?
same old bias. no bottom end. too compressed. i was really hoping they jumped up to the big leagues with this one
Which do you recommend?
@@kbuss10 I use Bias FX and honestly it's not as bad as used in the video. If you use custom amps made in Bias Amp 2 then it sounds pretty badass. But I also have tried out Guitar Rig V by Kontact. It's a bit confusing at first, but when you get the hang of it, it can sound pretty decent.
All you PC people out there ... don't forget you'll need W10 to access BIAS FX2 (W7 not welcome!)
Thank you for that info!
@@theoriesabound6711 Having said that, PG have asked me to try the Demo version in W7 and let them know. They haven't ruled out making it W7 compliant in the future. It seems to work, except I'm having trouble with the guitar modeling feature; it could be me though. I'll try again and report back. The looper feature is a winner!!
@@catwaters6686 Cool, I'm definitely interested in knowing if you can get it to work. BTW, right now I'm trying the 15 day trial version of S-Gear. There is no guitar modeling, but the amps and effects sound good. There are some great presets as well.
If Ola can't make it sound good then nobody can
And i was blaming my audio interface for the sound this software delivers. When you hear it trough headphones alone it's terrible. You have to do some fixes in your DAW when mixing with drums and bass, to get an "ok" sound. At least they offer a refund in 30 days if you don't like it.
Love the 7 string, I want one just like it with Lightning and UniKorns battling zombies on it!
Given these dudes so much money already in the past year and they want $199 for me to upgrade. Feel like if I just bought all the other shit, I should get a bigger discount.
Sound like... Pod Farm years ago...
hey ola can you make a video of korn tone and gear?
War time SOUNDS AWESOME and lead tone in 9:54 wet my pants, can you share the preset ?
It's called *Olas Pretending to play Lead*
It's on the cloud, by Ola Englund (obviously). I was just testing it there :)
C O N S T A N T V A R I A B L E S haha actually I put this comment while I was watching the video , later he mentioned the cloud thing but I was to lazy to delete the comment, thanks tho :)
Is it just me or it sounds so weak compared to Fortin NTS?
Hail Ola !
Two things:
1°. I really liked your Camo Shirt. It's amazing
2° Could you, please, "testing shit" with the Boss GT - 100 ? Cuz there are not many videos of this gear going METAL. Cheers !
10:19 into the dead sky by At the gates
Bias 1 and 2 sounds horrible, very nice looking plugin, but it's unusable...
2:24 i've just spitted all of my drink, but it was worth it
That was a tube amp tho'
9:10 I thought you would write "double rekt" or "double rectum" x)
10:20 But you are a lead player! :)
10:30 That clean sound is awesome, I guess you could loop something like that on a 8 bar and then suddenly play lead with the other preset over it, that'd be awesome for a ballad!
Just get audio assault plugins or the free emissary by ignite amps
You have a very unbiased opinion here.
I got lost around 1994, this is quite an advancement from the old racks😟
Yesterday it was 12:30 today it's 3:00 a.m.
I have to stay up really late for these videos
Got a better rhythm tone even on Bias FX for iPad. Just little tricks you have to figure out with it like any modeler
Well, I've downloaded the trial, and Positive Grid gives next to nothing in that trial.
If this gonna be a free upgrade for Bias Fx 1 user's I will use it. But this is Positive Grid, and we know this is going to be a separate thing.. Like the Bias Amp 2... Shame on you Positive Grid..
Huba Kertesz Um... it’s a for profit company. You know to like make money and stuff. Lol.
lol I just bought Bias FX like two months ago when it was on sale
how do you not get any delay when your playing? I noticed with a lot of virtual pedals there's a slight delay because of the computer or software processing it, is there any way to fix that?
I have a competitor called amplitube and it has a setting called ‘buffer’ and if you make that as high as it can be (2048) it’s unplayable because of the latency (the delay between the time you touch the strings and the time you hear the sound) but if you set it as low as it can go (16) the latency is totally imperceptible (to me)
Look at that gorgeous hair
I'm just stoked how easy it must be starting to play guitar now compared to what it was in 1980 for me... I didn't even own an amp for the first two years because all money was spent on the first guitar - an old second hand one, and when I got my first amp it was a really bad one - and since I couldn't afford to buy a distortion pedal I ran the guitar through an old cassette deck to get some cheap ass distortion! When I started buying pedals it was always a gamble because you got what you bought and there was no youtube where you could watch reviews so you ended up with a lot of sucky pedals... Down the line I was able to afford a descent amp and a couple rack effects and was starting to like my sound but the money invested was quite a lot. We learned how to play with what we got though!
Today you have access to way better value guitars and the rest is done with a laptop! There are enough demo versions out there of amp & fx software to last you for years and if you want to go the whole distance we're talking max $100 investment for everything there is! You people have it much easier that we had it, trust me on this!
I have since long replaced my amps and rack effects with software today and I can do everything with a laptop and I just love the development in this field! I don't have to borrow money from the bank to get that sweet Mark IIC+ & Mark V sound as well as all the other classical hi gain amps - AND it always works! They never break down, blow fuses or having the neighbours complaining because you play too loud since you have the same awesome with just headphones!
Amp manufacturers won't be the same in 10 years time and I suspect many of them will go out of business, which is sad, but from a pure sound perspective this is the way forward every day of the week!
You don't know how easy you have it today!
Jens Andree agree about 80%.
The value in guitars is outstanding now.
I dont think the amp makers will go out of business, provided they can roll with the tech.
Equal to Axe FX 3? Perhaps surpasses with higher quality IR loading.
Question for a noobie to BIAS here. I like to jam along to songs so I want a system that will allow me to download loads of different tones so I can play along and sound like my favorite bands. Is BIAS FX 2 the software for this? Do they have a big data base of user generated tones I can download and use? If so which version of BIAS FX 2 should I buy? I dont want to buy one version and then have to download loads of extras
Yes it is what you looking for.
PG is slowly becoming a metalzone of ampsims
you mean "killer good but no one knows how to use it and then talks shit"?
@@martinkrauser4029 you're not far from truth. You know what differs great and mediocre product? Amount of hassle user experiences while going through menus to get decent results!
@Demondrive exactly! Though i don't think the metal zone is worthy of that quote. I find bias to be a tweakers dream and fun to test ideas in a fast and easy way for a reasonable price. I'll use other products for quality tone though.
@@CreativeMindsAudio that was just way I felt about it's place in the market, few years back everyone were using it and talking about, then appeared new players in ampsims game with better quality products and they lost the race.
@Tristan no, in real life you also have to tweak and find the right cabinet mic angle etc. Here you can load ir files which do that for you. His sounds in that video are not even close to mine, but that is because i have spent more time tweaking it and not only 5min lol
Seems like a solid program but better than a tube amp or Kemper Profile amp?
Guitar Pro is all I have, all my tracks were made with it. It's annoying trying to find/make a decent tone. I just give up.
Odin 2
You've tweaked some decent tones out! 6/10
I hope it runs better. The last interface was horribly slow. Whats the meaning behind fancy animations in these softwares.
So true. Even on my gaming pc it was slow as shit.
Im using the emissary plugin with free IRs nowadays anyway though.
bias fx vs bias fx 2 video ASAP!
I'm sorry, but this demo does PG no good at all and it really doesn't demonstrate the capabilities of the new software - as we can see from the many negative comments. I use BIAS AMP 2 and BIAS FX, and I get great, realistic blues and classic rock sounds. Ola is a great guitarist but his playing isn't representative of a great many BIAS users. We don't all use down-tuned 7 & 8-string guitars into insanely distorted amps. One of the great strengths of BIAS is the realism of its overdrive sounds, so can we please have a demo which showcases these?
Sounds pretty terrible. Is the input gain structure set too hot for those pickups? I mean this is obviously not what they actually put out is it?
BIAS has never sounded all that good, it got hype when they paid all the UA-camrs to cover it a few years back. It'd never be as well known based on its quality.
Will this work with Focasrite Scarlet in windows 10
Can confirm this, yes
How does it compare to a real tube amp? Or will we find out in a few years like the valve state amps, as everything sounds great until compared to a soaring Marshall?
2:26 we burped at the same time. It means we love each other in a gay way.
AKV7 😳😳😳
I was a Bias amp fan since maybe his beginning. Then i discovered Mercuriall SS11X plugin. Of course there is less choice but he is so better, for my ears, that i will not use Bias anymore.
Oh yeah ! I have 2 Mercuriall plugins , such a great tones both ..
Why always Thrash / metal demos.Is guitar playing gone so limited these days?