IBANEZ PGM MIKRO - WILL IT CHUG?

Putting the Ibanez PGM Mikro Paul Gilbert guitar to the test! WILL IT CHUG?
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[@OlaEnglund]

Trying out the Ibanez Paul Gilbert Mikro guitar! WILL IT CHUG?

[@torcher1616]

it will.

[@jicklesjingles8134]

Why shouldn't it? 🤔😉 Would have been a great joke if the timer stopped after 1 second 😜

[@legionvad9744]

Please do Nuno signature guitar next. Would love to see your take on it.............

[@leifwinberg4880]

Of course it will. In an ENGL! Will it shred? Yep. Damn, the lessons are paying off?

[@RafKB]

With this setup even my microwave can chug, Bro. 😁

[@bearshark85]

In 6 months, 3/4 scale solar with evertune.

[@ScottBynoe]

Haha ya, keep an eye out in future videos, he'll have one sitting in his rack behind and won't say anything for months and then reveal it was there all this time!

[@brainache555]

i hope so :) maybe 3/4 the price lol

[@AnthonySkunkGreen]

Hahaha facts 😂😂😂

[@ellleigh1216]

I’d buy one lol

[@yrrtum]

I have a Jackson Randy Rhoads Minion with locking tuners and EMG 81/60, it's so much fun

[@notchjohnson2540]

Is it just me or is Ola shredding particularly well today? Maybe because he's been putting extra hours in while working on the album.

[@BovisYg]

Yeah I was just thinking those triplets were extra crispy and quick

[@a-nus]

Short scale guitars are a shredders secret studio weapon

[@jguerrero7033]

Must be the guitar, thing is a little beast -

[@merqury5]

Its the only way a normal human can experience how it is to have as big hands as Paul does.

[@OlaEnglund]

that was my guess as well!

[@RolandDeschain1]

He really does have freaky E.T. fingers.

[@davidm6387]

You might have meant that as a joke, but it's simply correct. I wear medium size gloves, and my reach on this guitar is the same as PG's reach on a normal guitar.

[@merqury5]

@@davidm6387 Yez, Ive seen his and Steves hands, tennis rackets! But petrucci has stubby fingers.

[@CL8ON6]

I shook his hand once and it took a week to get out it 😂😂

[@MayankShenoywassup122333]

And he says he isn’t much of a lead player... Ola, the humble Swede😂😂😂

[@mikeodonnell4781]

Exactly my thoughts too lol

[@stevehawthorn8733]

I too never get why he says he isn't a very good lead player, maybe he's just being humble.I think he's a great lead player

[@davidhurtado2725]

Jantelagen would not allow him to be cocky haha

[@MayankShenoywassup122333]

@@davidhurtado2725 I didn’t know what that was so I googled it and I’m glad I did lmao! We need answers from the man himself I guess😂😂

[@bellasoda]

In the land of Yngwie, you are not a lead player, you just keep your mouth shut and chug. 🤘

[@bteague333]

Suggestion: why not get one of those cheap player packs (guitar, amp, cable) and see if you can get it all to chug together

[@docamosroxie8686]

Into a multi- thousand dollar amp and audio tweaks.....I would say pretty 👍

[@hannesblomqvist8759]

I had an epiphone les paul kind of guitar pack, and it did chug. But did it sound good? No...

[@marcinsz78]

There is a Will it Chug video for a Squire Bullet Strat, and he’s done a bunch of those practice amps too.. I guess just not all together.. but I think you can make anything chug with enough gain :-D

[@dilanobando25]

the amps I have seen on those packs don't have gain lol

[@Hell_Inc]

I mean, with a rig like that even a 20 bucks guitar sounds great

[@madhatter797]

It's funny, cause that's what I got going atm. A 2000€ rig with a 299€ guitar. Sounds great tho lol

[@Hell_Inc]

@@madhatter797 yup. and you're not wrong at all, my friend

[@iLLuzion1st]

ItS tHe ToNe WoOD!?! Lol

[@demnjames4012]

Don't rlly matter wat u use but how u can use it wink

[@Hell_Inc]

@@demnjames4012 lol. no

[@LaineBaker]

Dang Ola your lead playing is evolving a lot and sounding smoooooth, good stuff

[@jicklesjingles8134]

Right! Was my impression as well

[@RichardGarcia93]

Ola has always been able to solo lol

[@thomasd9237]

Others have mentioned this : I'm older now & have hand damage. In my younger days I played Very hard & aggressive with both hands. These minis fix both my issues - they are much easier on my broken hands And you can play lighter, still get great harmonics & they really are a lot of fun :-)

[@nickd3905]

I think you should do a will it chug with a Gretsch White Penguin .

[@StephenDanielAddeo]

I'd like to see him do this with any Gretsch hollow body.

[@Nestorglass]

@@StephenDanielAddeoHollow-body guitars with humbuckers can really bring the chug, would be interesting to see what Ola does with one.

[@madmod]

Firefly 335 copies chug good

[@bipbipletucha]

Yes please!

[@etp4899]

I second this!

[@boomerbassmeme]

Ola having giggle fits tearing it up on a mini Ibanez...all is right with the world! 😊👍

[@taimaishu-nao1922]

Actually, Ola the way around the sudden tuning instability is to put on locking tuners AND run them on 11’s. This applies to ALL the Ibanez Mikro guitars including the Mikro basses, except you’ll run heavier bass strings. I recommend the Grover 406C6 tuners for any of the Mikro guitars except black ones are VERY hard to find and if you do manage to find a set, you’ll pay a premium.

[@councilofgiants1031]

Shorter scale lengths (22.2" in the PGM's case) have their benefits and there are solutions to technical problems like tuning stability. Could also be a possible solution for players who have suffered hand injuries, just have general weakness, or limited stretching? Seems like it could be a useful tool for some folks. :)

[@HairBilly]

what s are those solutions for the tuning stability?

[@Knosferatu]

@@HairBilly Thicker strings tune up. Thats why im getting it fingers X

[@vortex4344]

Idk why but i enjoyed ola's riffs and lead sections more than usual today ❤️

[@SuperFlowback]

I was thinking the same thing

[@Yeoldepube]

His gallop picking is crazy

[@nissenilsson9158]

I own one and it is really good for using while playing in a car. Sitting in the backseat with one of these makes a long drive a lot more enjoyable compared to using a normal scale length guitar.

[@thiscorrosion900]

It beats just having a Martin Backpacker or whatever, that's for sure.

[@MikaTarkela]

My main guitar in drop c is the PGM301 equipped with the Evertune and SD pickups, its sick!

[@tamasc8703]

Gauge?

[@anthonystark9390]

@@tamasc8703 I use 10-46 for D standard and Drop C for my evertune equipped Ibanez (25.5 scale).

[@n1ckn4m3zz4]

@@anthonystark9390 Isn't that basically like strumming spaghetti? Especially the low e in drop c?

[@MikaTarkela]

@@tamasc8703 I'm currently using 10-52 in drop C. I might change the lowest string to 54 but everything feels good to play like this :)

[@anthonystark9390]

@@n1ckn4m3zz4 when I first tried it, yeah it felt really loose. But it doesn't super floppy or anything now. It also helped me not play so tense, it takes more finesse and better technique. I also had an injury to my left hand so fretting .052 strings wears me out pretty fast.

[@jmustang2000]

Ola hear me out. Put an Evertune on it and Solar pickups. That would be killer!

[@matthewgierula5674]

Umm, don't you think that this video is a foreshadowing to a new Solar guitar? When he said that he would hand it off to his son, that was a dead give away. He wants to train him like Ola's dad probably trained or encouraged him.

[@saltpeter7429]

This was what I wanted to get my 6 year old daughter for Christmas. We dont have the money for a new one but I was able to find a used one on CL. I traded a Mackie 12 mixer for it. Good deal, I had found the Mackie in a scrap pile at the dump anyway.(It worked just fine, wealthy people throw away good stuff all the time. Thanks!) So, anyhow, love the little Ibanez Mikro, cant wait to give it to her so she can start rockin! Poor kid try's to play a full size acoustic and can barely hold it flat on her lap. I tought her "satisfaction" by the stones on just the E string between two frets, but being size challenged, she uses her thumb because it is to big to maneuver right. Cant wait for the 25th to hurry up and get here so she can have an actual decent instrument to play!

[@matthewstacy2451]

My 6 year old is getting one for a Christmas present.

[@1112mkt]

How much? In europe?

[@davidhurtado2725]

@@1112mkt around 180 eur

[@1112mkt]

@@davidhurtado2725 thanks 😉

[@EliseoCaporale]

I'm guessing he isn't the one that's going to play it the most lol

[@taimaishu-nao1922]

I recommend installing a set of Grover 406C6 tuners to help with the tuning stability. Remember to use no less than 10’s on it or you’ll have wonky tuning even after a setup.

[@mobilemetal4554]

Ola proves that size doesn’t matter

[@ollydecay7851]

As long as it´s at least 21 inch... yes. ;)

[@srh_reaper835]

Your lead playing has improved so much in the past couple of years, shred on good sir 🤘

[@eddybouh2079]

with this amp, the challenge would be to find a guitar that doesn't chug. even a cheap ass T copy's neck pickup would chug

[@Rluce75]

I would love a high end version of that, if only for the crazy bends and stretches. Mod project idea logged! Thank you Ola! 😊🤘

[@rbtrln]

I was just listening to Get Out of My Yard and then this pops up..

[@drcks]

Ah yes, a perfect guitar for me, a 5' 1" guy.

[@Selzor]

Yikes man that sucks

[@rtomas47]

Im like 5'6 (maybe I still can grow) but I don't have small hands

[@CL8ON6]

Angus Young can do 24.75 and he's 5-2 😉😉

[@howardkisgay3543]

@Virgil Grin I’m pretty sure Randy Rhodes was 5’7 or 5’8, he definitely wasn’t that short tho

[@Jakob_W3Ch4rg3_]

I'm 5'2", and I play a standard 25.5" scale Bullet Strat. Just don't get a baritone.

[@dyland.6106]

My son's 8 and plays a mini Strat. His hands aren't big enough to play a full size and pushing it out of tune isn't an issue. The 3/4 are great to get kids going early.

[@xjunkxyrdxdog89]

For those thinking about getting locking tuners, the stock tuners are slightly under sized, so you'll need to bore out bigger holes for standard tuners.

[@shorty6136]

Next on will it chug?: the Prince symbol guitar

[@taimaishu-nao1922]

You mean the Cloud?! Good luck getting Lewis Hamilton to oblige into letting Ola playing it…

[@shorty6136]

@@taimaishu-nao1922No, The Cloud guitar was after the Prince Symbol guitar. I'm not into British race car drivers.

[@xerodelacroix5552]

Coming back to this video and I still think this might secretly be Ola's favorite guitar.

[@blasphem0]

you quote at 4:40 in about it being funner than imagined has been my sentiment for the mini Jackson awhile now. very functional and fun regardless :P

[@brainache555]

one of the best sounding gear i’ve heard on your channel

[@Oilid]

Thumbs up squad! I just did a review on the MiKro too... hell... the tuning stability is awful! The ENGL Savage is such a beast!

[@remyrising]

On Ibanez model numbers "21" means 2 humbuckers with a hardtail bridge and no pickguard.

[@docsworld1369]

Seriously you make it sound awesome

[@massttrshrdrharmonicminor2002]

Love this! 630 am in California, currently taking a dump while you shred

[@sjaatime]

Hola, Ola. I have two questions for you to ponder. 1 What is the heaviest riff you've ever heard? 2 What makes heavy music "heavy"?

[@benachurch]

Faaaaark I love all those haunted tunes!!! You really should do a haunted live set play through Ola!!! That would be suuuuuper sick!!!! Great video as always bro!! Cheers from Aus mate.🤘🏻🇦🇺🤘🏻

[@BasicDripGuy]

I guest it’s because I don’t know anything about guitars yet but this was absolutely amazing to me ! This guy is a rock star 🤩🎸

[@kyleledrew7919]

I have a 1/4 scale length mini strat done up with full size pickups, bending up 3 whole steps no problem

[@aneilaseyiekeretsu]

Ah what a relief listening to your amazing shreds and rhythms. Spent the last hour watching pedal review videos by a person who plays only three chords and repeats the same thing over all the distortions, overdrives and clean pedals which nearly drove me insane. BTW please make a "Will it Chug" video series on mini and cheap pedals sold in Amazon for some of your not-so-wealthy fans. We would love your valued opinion.

[@KurganNL]

I have one here at home. Tightening the screws on the tuners helped a bit for preventing it to go out of tune fast.

[@TragicMike]

Got one of these for my 7 year old for christmas, he chose it and loves it but yeah tuning is unstable if you are heavy on the strings!

[@metalpuppet5798]

Fun fact. Paul actually plays these guitars live. He explained it when I saw him in a workshop at Guitar Summit. It makes him be able to go from his usual completely fucking insane stretches on normal scale length to even more ridiculous stuff on this one 😂

[@danielsaturnino5715]

I have a mikro gio and found that the nut was a bit high. Setting it up made it better so it wouldnt go sharp. Its really fun to play.

[@MrSomadan]

You should do a Jackson Minion next, my daughter has the Randy Rhoads one and it’s great fun

[@yrrtum]

I love my RR minion

[@MrSomadan]

I’m surprised it’s a great guitar for the money

[@wrigleyx]

yeah good idea testing this short PGM ! you are an insane metal riffer for sure, i would love to see you Ola testing the LTD JH600 Jeff Hanneman great Diamond's playing, i miss him so much, but we have Ola !

[@SleepingLionsProductions]

I actually inherited one of these. This might be my "practice while travelling guitar"

[@nurumen6632]

Ola with this guitar looks like Mick Thomson with his normal guitar lol

[@boobagrx]

I bought my daughter an ibanez mikro guitar a few years back because she is small, but she usually just plays my ibanez because the extra string tension makes it harder for her to play. And I thought it going out of tune was because of the intonation I didn't realize it was just the scale and pressing to hard on the strings.

[@jasonpietrobone4570]

Cool little guitar

[@LordVikingLive]

I've heard it's the factory strings that makes it go out of tune. They don't cut em, they put the whole string on, which makes em slip. And they don't pull on the strings to make em settle either in Indonesia where it is made. Just change strings and it should stay in tune.

[@Bill13257]

Racer X is awesome !!!! Very kewl vid... I was always wondering about that model ibanez... Now I know.. Thank you 🤘🤘🤘

[@boabmatic]

I tried to get my 9 year old one of the Ibanez mikro's for his first guitar but he is an idiot and prefered the fender jazz master mini , I put on 10's on it which helps a lot for the tuning on the 3/4 length guitars (think it should really have 11's on it but didnt want to kill his fingers)

[@DJCD92162095]

Bro, the only way to let your son into Metal, is to let some other kids bullying your son until your son found out that Metal is the method! Get your pull, Dime Brother!

[@MrSippycup]

Can tell that you have leads on your mind at the moment. Ola the shredder!

[@hayno7066]

I've got one of these and found the same thing. You definitely have to tread delicately but that is a good thing to teach you to be light on the strings.

[@666mashby]

I have one for messing about on. It stays in tune better once it's broken in. But it's a great fun guitar.

[@guigui_plays_guitar]

Hey Ola! Great video, as always! Question: when will solar guitars start making amps??? 😏 Keep on the chug! 🤟

[@rockerboy84]

Ola, my friend, you really have improved your lead work! So good!

[@buddhafex]

you should check out the latest TS-9 tubescreamers that have a visible diode or whatever it is inside that you can see. I spoke with Mike Orrigo about them when they came out.

[@roccanto86]

I have a mini jackson js1x randy rhoads minion that I bought at the moment i knew my wife was pregnant. My little son is only 1 year old right now, but maybe one day he will play it, and if he don't, it doesen't matter, i will keep it, because it is so much fun to play that little thing.

[@JosephCee]

That Engl cab is so sick.

[@josed5584]

I remember watching a video where Paul Gilbert talks about this guitar and the main thought behind this model is to play something different and have fun with it. Seems to be working as intended :)

[@flatbaroque4049]

"Hahahahaha shit," is my favorite quote. Always after it surprises you in a good way.

[@JT_Sim_Racer]

love it, i have two sons and gave them both the opportunity with a similar guitar. One ran with it and puts me to shame the other plays the Harmonica, which is rad too. Be so cool to see you and Paul jam, his racer x stuff with your chug. Well it would be very cool.

[@NoCantsAllowed]

I can't imagine a better endorsement of that guitar than the one I just watched. Haha! Good vid, Ola!

[@HermelJaworski]

The great advantage of these short scale guitars is to tune them up!

[@oneangrybirko8439]

I must say Ola your lead guitar lessons are paying off , your on fire rippin in this video

[@edwincrain986]

Sounds pretty awesome on this end so.

[@Metalbass1979]

I have a Mikro bass that I bought for a cheap, beater instrument to take with me to Kenya last year. I fell in love with that sucker! I wish they made a premium version.

[@Reny_btw]

There's a MIJ mini fender jazz bass that has the same scale length

[@Metalbass1979]

@@Reny_btw I've seen the mini P bass but not a mini Jazz..... Being a Jazz bass player since when I started playing, I'd be really curious to play one of those.

[@KaddysJamKave]

Paul Gilbert is the man! But I"m biased because he plays several 80's vintage Ibanez guitars that I own :D Plays? Played? Perhaps not much anymore......

[@bipbipletucha]

Hot damn those lead runs!

[@kyelemoler]

Sounds like the same problem with scalloped fretboard! (BTW love my Malmsteem fender)

[@christopherwalker2097]

That was some killer shred Ola

[@francescoideo9330]

Finally a guitar for those that, unlike mr. Gilbert, don't have 4 middle fingers and a thumb in their hands. Nice!

[@aniketjha3557]

Jackson have also released short scale length guitars. The Rhoads V and Dinky. You might wanna check em out for another video

[@richarddeeble09]

Paul Gilbert uses the micro to do stretches and arpeggios that would be impossible on a regular guitar using alternative tunings. Pretty cool use of equations IMHO

[@RolandDeschain1]

As primarily a bass player my biggest problem when I play six string is hitting the strings too hard. I have a high action and heavy strings but I'm still sending them sharp all the time. But I feel that unless I dig in I won't get much tone out of them.

[@DEE-jk3rb]

You should probably do will it shred too lmao. You're good at lead!

[@ajaynorris3526]

Buying this for myself, been using an old abused strat and honestly the experience will probably be the same, but atleast this will be cooler. (Im getting the normal Mikro model)

[@markmagnani5018]

You are absolutely positively reffing awesome.

[@paperbea]

Love Paul Gilberts guitar lesson videos..

[@kronus513]

When you got "Laughing Ola" throughout the vid, you know the shit's good!

[@ScottyBrockway]

Ola that's good, it will teach you to have a lighter touch will make you play faster when you get used to it.

[@Lordofthewastelsnd420]

Paul Gilbert is a beast Racer X: street lethal is a sick album

[@kotzy210]

maybe use the Billy Gibbons .007 gauge then tune it to high A would help with the intonation.

[@OgamiItto70]

Maybe that's why Randy Rhoads didn't like big, tall frets. Playing those Les Pauls tuned down half a step would cause them to go out of tune too easily. Flatter frets equaled less dissonance...?

[@jeremyptashnyk9545]

Changing the tuners out to Grover mini locking tuners fixes a lot of tuning issues. And stringing with 10’s or 11’s. I love rocking out on these tiny guitars, and I’m 6’4” lol

[@chrispile3878]

A set of 11's will take care of the tuning problem - or simply, lighten up. I have one, it's cool.

[@dmarty3696]

How about Coffee with Paul Gilbert? Do it, make it happen. I've seen Paul play a few times in person with his solo stuff and it's always a good time.

[@fillingsauce7130]

You should try an acoustic to see if it can chug

[@erikretana1744]

Hey, Ola! Today your lead playing was on point!

[@friskthewaffle7672]

That was just friggin too awesome man. I felt like a little kid in a candy store watching this 😂😂 I had as much fun as you did.

[@DeeJay_Rides]

Great video upload on my birthday! Keep on chugging Ola!

[@ezdj]

Might be good to use 11’s, change pickups and locking tuners perhaps…

[@gigaman3]

A more interesting question you could ask is: With this perfectly chuggalicious amp, is there any guitar that will not chug on it?

[@lol-pi1rt]

I bet it could make an acoustic chug

[@gigaman3]

@@lol-pi1rt I want to see Ola do it.

[@evalroach666]

I got a squier classic vibe telly with medium tall frets. Really have to watch my ape grip on that thingy too, I can almost get a 1/2 step out of pushing down too hard. Playing it really improves my touch though.

[@nickteele169]

Im having a hard time getting my son into guitar as well but its up to him

[@murphvienna1]

So glad to see your right thumb back in action! Thinking about a 3/4 to get my son into playing, he has a lot of fun with metal (he just turned 7, it's a good age to start a proper genre). What do your kids think about your work? are they already sick of you playing in the kitchen, do they think your guitars look and sound good?

[@Knosferatu]

3:46 insane riff!!!