Ola, your contribution to the modern heavy metal community is towering!! Whenever I am buying or thinking in upgrading my gear you are the reference. You provide clear insights of metal usage for current products. Thank you man !!
I have played many pickups and the SH6 is one of the best ones out there. I had the BK Nailbomb and my SH6 destroyed it in the same guitar. Great video and unreal picking hand!!
I like the Distortion over the other Duncans. Keith Merrow's comparison video has done the rounds several times to a lot of luthiers I know. I recently play on a friends Lace DB7 and it slays EVERYTHING. Check them out sometime!
ahh, thanks for the reply.. that is a great explanation between the two pickups... i bought a Dimarzio super distortion pickup in the early 80s and was listening to Maiden, Priest, Loudness, Dio, Ozzy etc.. thrash was still obscure back then. I bought a Jackson RR guitar and had Duncans in them but I am not sure which ones were in there.. and it created a lot of feedback so i took them out and gave them to a guy who started playing guitar. I put in LH-150 pickups from ESP.
Lol hi Ola. You turned out just fine of course. I remember all of these videos from a decade+ ago, and your recording quality was always so many miles ahead of anything else I'd heard on YT at the time, so it's no wonder guitar nerds flocked here. Thanks for so many years of awesomeness
Proud as Hell to have watched your rise to power over the last 3 or 4years. First vid I watched was Victoria Beckham teaching how to compress bass. Classic.
fucking face melting. thanks Ola. buying a pair of these, and I wanted to hear them. totally convinced. great definition in high gain. love your videos sir. always some of the best tones I have heard were on your videos. great ear man.
yes. duncans are on a lever where nothing is objectively better. distortion + sh2 jazz works very well, also works well with a 59 or a sh10 full shred neck version. the most famous duncan combo is sh4 +sh2, but i prefer the sh6 to the sh4 (and to the emg81 as well)
i dont know if that's enough, but he's a full member of one of the most sucessfull death metal bands ever. also he once said that he works with accounting, but i have no idea if this is still valid.
Would like to say thanks to Seymour Duncan for posting this link to me & thanks to you for posting a fantastic review. I'd already ordered this pickup & this just set my mind at ease... I picked the right pup. Thanks
there is no such thing as a "better option". always depends on you, your guitar and your amp. i personally love my full shreds to death. what are you looking for, for what guitar? full shred has more dynamics, more bass and lower mids and a medium to high output with the added warmth of AlNiCo magnets (it's lead tone is incredibly beautiful!), the distortion has more treble and upper midrange, also a hecklot of output. due to ceramic magnets it's tight, but also a bit metallic in the top end.
Ola this sounds so freakin amazing that I've just ordered the SH-6B and I'm replacing my JB SH-4 and not even going to be thinking further for EMG H2B... Never again :D
If you want a similar sounding pickup to the one Ola's using, i would recommend you looking into the Seymor Duncan Full Shreds, or of course the Seymor Duncan Distortions he's showing the the video. Other great sounding pickups for more modern and "djent" sounding metal, would be the 'Bare Knuckle Aftermaths', which i am currently using and loving. The attack and clarity they offer is unmatched, imo
as i said, for metal rhythm playing you won't use the neck pu anyways, and for leads they sound great and defined, even with heavy distortion. tightness isn't really a concern for a neck pu imo, warmth and fullness are much more important. both would be great choices as well.
i remember you were some kind of financial specialist. LOL Ola please tell your own opinion about 2x12 and 4x12 rectifier cabinets through Dual Rectifier head? i do not tour its more for home/rehearsal playing and recording.
just fine, and very similar to this. in neck thru constuction the wings play a rather minor role. basswood is going to cut the treble a bit compared to the ash used here.
since you don't play rythm on the neck pu, go for something versatile and warm sounding. i think the dimarzio air norton is one of the best neck pickups, very good cleans, and a godly lead tone (petrucci used an air norton in the neck position of his ibanet guitars, and you know how fucking awesome his lead tone is) it's bubbly and clear sounding. other than that, i love the full shred neck pickup. i'd personally always use a AlNiCo equipped pickup in the neck position over a ceramic magnet PU
I like it. Technically very good musicianship all around. I'm 49 years old so I have a tough time with anything past drop c sharp, but I liked this. I also like Opeth too.
Hey, Ola,what speakers do you run currently in your 2x12? Is it two Governors or still the mix of Governor and Wizard? Do you find it easier micing a cab with only one type of speaker? Cause I sure as hell find it very difficult to get the right sound with more than one speaker model in the same cab. Very nice song by the way, reminds me of Bolt Thrower with a modern Viking touch. :)
dont know a vid, but the DD way more of a modern metal pickup than the super distortion is. the super distortion is the nr1 iron maiden pickup, and it's made pretty much without changes since '72. more of a classic pickup despite its name (wich has to be looked at in relation to its age). awesome for shred, classic metal (pretty much every NWoBHM guitarist used them), prog etc, but for all out thrash or death the duncan is probably the way to go in this case.
how is the Duncan Dist. in the Neck pos? or do you use something else in the neck? I'm looking for a little more output than the Jazz I currently have in an explorer.
Hello Ola, best for you man, hey, can you tell me what`s the different between: Seymour Duncan Distortion Mayhem and Seymour Duncan Distortion SH6? Thank you so much for your time and very good job with your videos. Hails...!!!
Hey buddy, Seymour Duncan Distortion SH6 is the name of the pickup. The Seymour Duncan Mayhem set consist of 2 pieces of Seymour Duncan Distortion pickups. One to install in the bridge position, another one to install in the neck position. I hope this helps!
Ola, how do you get your focus on your DSLR right? I've tried filming myself playing guitar but the AF seems to be very slow and annoying. What focusing modus do you use on your Nikon?
hey ola when you started playing guitar what did you do to get better??? like exercises, scales, work on right hand speed drills, things like that.. because im self taught and im hitting a plateau man.. im dont very good, but i cant play scales for shit, my single note playing is awful.. but im needing some advice on how to practice stuff.. thanks
btw I noticed you are choosing passive pickups in your last videos, must be a signal from the future for all of us to swipe from EMG's and Blackouts, isn't it?
tough one. both very high out and both very reactive to the woods they're used in. no general comparison possible imo. for mahogany body i'd personally go with the sh6, for alder the x2n.
Honestly, you should be able to run an overdrive and noise gate in front of a 6505 and get an amazing metal tone. Look around on forums and youtube to learn how to get some metal tones out of that amazing amp.
Ola, you really dont need to make all those SUBSCRIBE notes during the video, cause we all are already SUBSCRIBED! :D Great video as usual!! Love from Serbia
Ah! First time I noticed the improper spacing of a pickup and why there are trembuckers. In early shots he shows the bridge pickup and you see the strings aren't aligned because the floyd has wider string spacing than the pickup pole pieces. Things you learn! Anyway, great playing!
keep your eyes out on craiglist/ebay etc. i found my set of full shreds for 50 bucks, bought them without really knowing what to expect, and now i can hardly find any pickups i like more.
Forgive me, I'm new to all this but... would these pups be considered high end? rebuilding my first guitar. Also is there a "golden combo" for this on a strat HH config? Like the EMG 81/85 combo?
I figured you would be doing more videos with your solar 8 now that you got the custom distortion made for it....kind of disappointed with all the 6 string videos
Hi bro, i want to set Sh-6 i the bridge, but i don't sure about neck position. I prefare metal, but play on clean too (sometimes).Can u give me some tips?
Ola, your contribution to the modern heavy metal community is towering!! Whenever I am buying or thinking in upgrading my gear you are the reference. You provide clear insights of metal usage for current products. Thank you man !!
not only the guitar tone but the bass tone is gnarly.
I have played many pickups and the SH6 is one of the best ones out there. I had the BK Nailbomb and my SH6 destroyed it in the same guitar. Great video and unreal picking hand!!
I just slapped some of these onto my Explorer I ordered from SweetWater! Had them install them with an inspection! You are a tastemaker Ola!
Digging this tone Ola!
you wont regret it. the response is sooooo much more diverse than with actives! way more variation possible by just changing your picking a bit.
I like the Distortion over the other Duncans. Keith Merrow's comparison video has done the rounds several times to a lot of luthiers I know. I recently play on a friends Lace DB7 and it slays EVERYTHING. Check them out sometime!
He´s THE METAL GOAT
ahh, thanks for the reply.. that is a great explanation between the two pickups... i bought a Dimarzio super distortion pickup in the early 80s and was listening to Maiden, Priest, Loudness, Dio, Ozzy etc.. thrash was still obscure back then. I bought a Jackson RR guitar and had Duncans in them but I am not sure which ones were in there.. and it created a lot of feedback so i took them out and gave them to a guy who started playing guitar. I put in LH-150 pickups from ESP.
I installed an sh-6B on my Epiphone les paul studio.. It fu=#ing Rocks!
To be fair. The high distortion from your Randall Satan pretty much outweighs the small peculiarities of this pickup.
Best Ola song to date. Love it.
My favorite pickup if I had to choose it’s perfectly versatile for everything in my opinion
I bought SH-6 because Ola uses it all the time, I think I won't be disappointed :)
practically nothing... you need WAY more views than me to actually earn a living. Also I guess Google/UA-cam keeps like 95% of the revenue anyways...
Lol hi Ola. You turned out just fine of course. I remember all of these videos from a decade+ ago, and your recording quality was always so many miles ahead of anything else I'd heard on YT at the time, so it's no wonder guitar nerds flocked here. Thanks for so many years of awesomeness
Ola: This is one of the coolest songs you have uploaded in quite some time!
Ola is like the Deckard Cain of gear. He just wants us to stay a while and listen
Let me identify your loot too while I’m at it…
@@OlaEnglund hahahaha 😂🤘🏻
Proud as Hell to have watched your rise to power over the last 3 or 4years. First vid I watched was Victoria Beckham teaching how to compress bass. Classic.
fucking face melting. thanks Ola. buying a pair of these, and I wanted to hear them. totally convinced. great definition in high gain. love your videos sir. always some of the best tones I have heard were on your videos. great ear man.
Great tone!! I've installed this pickup in my guitar a few weeks ago and I love how it sounds.
yes. duncans are on a lever where nothing is objectively better. distortion + sh2 jazz works very well, also works well with a 59 or a sh10 full shred neck version. the most famous duncan combo is sh4 +sh2, but i prefer the sh6 to the sh4 (and to the emg81 as well)
Man I love the Distortion TB6. Just an awesome pickup. XD
The best rock and metal pickup out there!
i dont know if that's enough, but he's a full member of one of the most sucessfull death metal bands ever. also he once said that he works with accounting, but i have no idea if this is still valid.
Would like to say thanks to Seymour Duncan for posting this link to me & thanks to you for posting a fantastic review. I'd already ordered this pickup & this just set my mind at ease... I picked the right pup. Thanks
I live for this tone
there is no such thing as a "better option". always depends on you, your guitar and your amp. i personally love my full shreds to death. what are you looking for, for what guitar? full shred has more dynamics, more bass and lower mids and a medium to high output with the added warmth of AlNiCo magnets (it's lead tone is incredibly beautiful!), the distortion has more treble and upper midrange, also a hecklot of output. due to ceramic magnets it's tight, but also a bit metallic in the top end.
Ola this sounds so freakin amazing that I've just ordered the SH-6B and I'm replacing my JB SH-4 and not even going to be thinking further for EMG H2B... Never again :D
cpurage hello. Are you happy with it?. Thinking to replace my EMGs with this set (ESP Eclipse in drop A). Is it good for low tunings?
If you want a similar sounding pickup to the one Ola's using, i would recommend you looking into the Seymor Duncan Full Shreds, or of course the Seymor Duncan Distortions he's showing the the video. Other great sounding pickups for more modern and "djent" sounding metal, would be the 'Bare Knuckle Aftermaths', which i am currently using and loving. The attack and clarity they offer is unmatched, imo
today I mix, reamp and tour to make a living...
as i said, for metal rhythm playing you won't use the neck pu anyways, and for leads they sound great and defined, even with heavy distortion. tightness isn't really a concern for a neck pu imo, warmth and fullness are much more important. both would be great choices as well.
so glad i have this pickup in my rg320fm its going to sound killer in C Standard!
i remember you were some kind of financial specialist. LOL
Ola please tell your own opinion about 2x12 and 4x12 rectifier cabinets through Dual Rectifier head?
i do not tour
its more for home/rehearsal playing and recording.
just fine, and very similar to this. in neck thru constuction the wings play a rather minor role. basswood is going to cut the treble a bit compared to the ash used here.
since you don't play rythm on the neck pu, go for something versatile and warm sounding. i think the dimarzio air norton is one of the best neck pickups, very good cleans, and a godly lead tone (petrucci used an air norton in the neck position of his ibanet guitars, and you know how fucking awesome his lead tone is) it's bubbly and clear sounding. other than that, i love the full shred neck pickup. i'd personally always use a AlNiCo equipped pickup in the neck position over a ceramic magnet PU
Is Duncan Distortion versatile? I mean could use it for a Deep Purple, Rainbow, Iron Maiden, Guns 'n Roses. lol. You know versatile.
I have the TB-6 and for the price you just can't go wrong, great for metal.
I like it. Technically very good musicianship all around. I'm 49 years old so I have a tough time with anything past drop c sharp, but I liked this. I also like Opeth too.
Hey, Ola,what speakers do you run currently in your 2x12? Is it two Governors or still the mix of Governor and Wizard? Do you find it easier micing a cab with only one type of speaker? Cause I sure as hell find it very difficult to get the right sound with more than one speaker model in the same cab.
Very nice song by the way, reminds me of Bolt Thrower with a modern Viking touch. :)
dont know a vid, but the DD way more of a modern metal pickup than the super distortion is. the super distortion is the nr1 iron maiden pickup, and it's made pretty much without changes since '72. more of a classic pickup despite its name (wich has to be looked at in relation to its age). awesome for shred, classic metal (pretty much every NWoBHM guitarist used them), prog etc, but for all out thrash or death the duncan is probably the way to go in this case.
how is the Duncan Dist. in the Neck pos? or do you use something else in the neck? I'm looking for a little more output than the Jazz I currently have in an explorer.
This song rocks man. Kinda reminds me a bit of Gojira with a hint of other stuff. NICE.
a little entombed vibe
Your solos have vision!
Hello Ola, best for you man, hey, can you tell me what`s the different between: Seymour Duncan Distortion Mayhem and Seymour Duncan Distortion SH6? Thank you so much for your time and very good job with your videos. Hails...!!!
Hey buddy, Seymour Duncan Distortion SH6 is the name of the pickup. The Seymour Duncan Mayhem set consist of 2 pieces of Seymour Duncan Distortion pickups. One to install in the bridge position, another one to install in the neck position. I hope this helps!
If you want to hear the SH6 Duncan Distortion listen to DAATH. Both players use the same pick up.
does your current job pay the bills? or did your last job pay better?
I take it the distortion is a better option than a full shred?
dude, i must say, Thank you so much for uploading this, I just got this pickup yesterday and you just uploaded this, fucking awesome.
Ola never disappoints.
Ola, how do you get your focus on your DSLR right? I've tried filming myself playing guitar but the AF seems to be very slow and annoying.
What focusing modus do you use on your Nikon?
hey ola when you started playing guitar what did you do to get better??? like exercises, scales, work on right hand speed drills, things like that.. because im self taught and im hitting a plateau man.. im dont very good, but i cant play scales for shit, my single note playing is awful.. but im needing some advice on how to practice stuff.. thanks
btw I noticed you are choosing passive pickups in your last videos, must be a signal from the future for all of us to swipe from EMG's and Blackouts, isn't it?
Sick bends near the end. You have further developed both your riffs and soloing!
Why does it say music by ola englund and it's by bolt thrower???
aghhh dat tone!!!
sick riffing and phrasing!
Buy it? Most software is required purchasing
ola, one question... i do not have the logic pro... which other software do you recommend me in order to record some covers... thanks!
AWESOME!!! Remarkable Composition!!!!!
Is SD Mayhem set same as SD SH6 B/N ? Or.. whats diference?
Killer sound and playing, yeah Ola!
tough one. both very high out and both very reactive to the woods they're used in. no general comparison possible imo. for mahogany body i'd personally go with the sh6, for alder the x2n.
Honestly, you should be able to run an overdrive and noise gate in front of a 6505 and get an amazing metal tone. Look around on forums and youtube to learn how to get some metal tones out of that amazing amp.
Ola, you should take a look at the custom5 if you ever get the chance. It has a massively thick tone which sounds great if used correctly :D
Excellent ola...my only thing is the guitar was mixed a little low...
Gary Foster scooped mids will do that
Badass riffage . Loving that outro riff too man . Killer
Ola, you really dont need to make all those SUBSCRIBE notes during the video, cause we all are already SUBSCRIBED! :D
Great video as usual!!
Love from Serbia
When will you share a project so we can see the settings, eq's, plugins you're using?
That's a really brutal song! Long live death metal!
Great pickups
Ah! First time I noticed the improper spacing of a pickup and why there are trembuckers. In early shots he shows the bridge pickup and you see the strings aren't aligned because the floyd has wider string spacing than the pickup pole pieces. Things you learn! Anyway, great playing!
keep your eyes out on craiglist/ebay etc. i found my set of full shreds for 50 bucks, bought them without really knowing what to expect, and now i can hardly find any pickups i like more.
Ola does the bass parts for these as well, and he uses a pick if I remember.
i think is the Sh-6b!
Just wondering, and you've probably been asked more times than you want to think about, but do you have tabs up anywhere?
after usually playing 7 string guitars does it feel strange to switch to 6 strings? and viceversa? never picked a seven string
Forgive me, I'm new to all this but... would these pups be considered high end? rebuilding my first guitar. Also is there a "golden combo" for this on a strat HH config? Like the EMG 81/85 combo?
regular. trrembucker spacings are only used in the bridge position.
Ola - what do you prefer - a nice seymour duncan metal pickup or a EMG81?
IN FACT IM GOING TO BUY SATAN IN 2013!!!!WILL YOU HELP TO PURCHASE?)))))
Killer Ola!!
Hey what did you use fro drums here? SSD or Metal Foundry? Thanks!
You should make a Duncan JB test video..
thanks bro, just wanted to ask about SD Jazz and 59'. Aren't they too muddy with distortion?
Hey, Ola! if you come pass a Buger 333XL INFINIUM, can you do a video with it? I got one, and I think it sounds killer!
Are this pickups the Mayhem SH-6 Set?
Because I don't find descent videos to hear this ones on clean.
what tuning is ur 6 string in this vid??? thanks
what song?
this pickup have more treble and mids? i looking for one pickup with more treble and mid, and good sustain
Hey man can you do Ancient Curse in your next video? Brutal song and I can't find your only video of that song anymore (the FBM video)
Any new stuff for feared going on? Cd, tour, ect
0:13 are you monitoring with.......Apple earbuds?
I figured you would be doing more videos with your solar 8 now that you got the custom distortion made for it....kind of disappointed with all the 6 string videos
hey ola i was looking around for pickups for my 1989 squier, so passive pickups cuz i'm lazy, what would you reccomend for a metal sound like these?
great job man!! so one question please, in the bridge you have the SD distortion right? and in the neck?
hey ola does the satan have a specifically designed cab that goes with it?
What pick ups are in the neck ola?
I have this and the jazz in my Jackson. Sounds like a fucking beast.
which kind of seymour duncan pickup do you recommend on the neck? trembucker or regular spacing? i mean for the string alignment
Regular spacing.
Hi bro, i want to set Sh-6 i the bridge, but i don't sure about neck position. I prefare metal, but play on clean too (sometimes).Can u give me some tips?
Good old Keith, Keepin it real.