SWOLA139 - SELL ALL MY AMPS , HEADLESS SCHECTER, MUSTAINE KRAMERS, HAMMETT VS EMG, WYLDE FROM HELL

[@elasticpancakes]

That intro riff today was particularly nasty this week!

[@onbedoeldekut1515]

I thought he walked it in this week. With a blindfold. Backwards.

[@propanepanda1881]

Ola definitely listened to Forward by Annal Nathrakk at some point

[@Gothguitarist]

Gojira influence for sure

[@TheKingofTheSwing]

Tots bros tots mah goats particular tots bros yeah 👍 😊

[@silverjaw138]

@@Gothguitaristbig time!

[@bliptripmusic]

Ola's dog is so metal he didn't even flinch from that riff. Such a good boy.

[@mistakenintegrity]

So happy to finally see Sylosis starting to get the recognition they have deserved for a decade!

[@Metalbass1979]

That intro was absolutely brutal! It was like Morbid Angel and Dream Theater had an angry love child.

[@BS-cr2mv]

I was just about to comment that it reminds me of Opeth crossed with some thrash metal. Killer tones

[@THEAMYGDALA]

More likely Gojira had a disherited brother

[@beefnacos6258]

Very beginning was definitely gojira with a twist.

[@DEADITEDAN]

One of your best intros for a while! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@monitorlizard9971]

Woke up for my morning coffee and cold plunge and this fool blasting the sickest intro to a video ever as im wiping the crusty sleep from my eyes. Lets goooo! Gonna crush these hills today

[@LambChopper678]

Great answer to the question of the day brother Ola 🤘🏻

[@OlaEnglund]

Hope all is well!

[@lockharthorsburgh8601]

Interesting news re: Josh Middleton. If this means more Sylosis releases, it's good news for his audience. Thanks, Ola. Glad to see that Pix seems to be almost fully recovered.

[@marko_makinen]

I can 100% agree with you on the feel of a real amplifier. I have my QC and ton of NDSP plugins at home but every time I go to our rehearsal place and plug in to my Savage 120 with Precision Drive at front it brings a smile to my face that no digital stuff just can't do.

[@mylogify]

Coffee time with Rick Beato! He's coming to Sweden. 🇸🇪 July 22, in Stockholm, some Arena.

[@rosgrubs1515]

That would be cool

[@jokelord420]

Rick beat off is lame

[@sethgross3904]

@@jokelord420big facts plus tax.

[@mylogify]

Why :P

[@Starch1b2c3d4a]

Lol no

[@johnmccoy5923]

I know you’ve never been a headless guitar guy, and I appreciate the love for classic signature guitars of the 90’s from Dime, Vai, and Petrucci. but I also know you’re a businessman, and given their popularity, I bet you announce a solar headless in the next year or so. And when that happens I’ll order a 7string one with a trem. Also, get Per Nilsson to help with approving the design.

[@thunderbirdbrown3002]

🤘🏿🤘🏿🤘🏿 🤘🏿🤘🏿🤘🏿 🤘🏿🤘🏿🤘🏿😎🎸 Hell yeah Getcha Pull 🥃-CHEERS 🍻

[@MadAlhazred]

Getting an amp you really wanted and saved up for just makes it feel special and the air of mystery and rumors of amps on your wish list just adds something , the instant gratification of having any amp at any time is boring and empty.

[@majorlee1]

Love tube amps!🤘The intro jam was badass! Happy Sunday everyone 😎

[@1Batt]

Ola, I loved the days of the amps in the kitchen!

[@JROD5150]

I enjoy all of the Swolas, but today's was especially great. Great start to a Sunday morning in the U.S.

[@jasonstallworth]

Dude, love that frozen look after the ‘sell my amps’ question 😂🤘

[@mylogify]

😂

[@Hicks-g1m]

That's awesome Ola Rock on

[@thomasalderman2399]

Another great show my friend. You talk about Metal/Hard Rock and guitars and amps. It's my favorite show. Can't wait to get up on Sunday and watch or stay up late. Love it man. Thomas from Ohio,USA

[@thetej1098]

average ohio man 💀

[@Jason31256]

Hello from Australia

[@jfo3000]

OH AACH !!!

[@JonYadonJr]

That intro was amazing!!! 🤘🎸⚡️🔥🔥🔥

[@bottlemanic]

Sylosis literally are the best thrash band in the modern age. The riffs this man churns out are legendary

[@Metalfreak73]

Exactly Ola, I also think it is a great tribute to his friend Dimebag to create a guitar that is very reminiscent of him and then also play live in his tribute band. In a band that keeps his friend's music alive. I love Zakk so much for that too. And he deserves my greatest appreciation. I love You Zakk!!! ❤‍🔥

[@mercedese5507]

I started using EMG 81's back in 1987 when they came into a local music shop. I also put in the pre-amp booster switch.

[@brunosarue]

Awesome as the previous 138 SWOLA!!! Thanks, Ola! By the way, the intro Riff was f*king amazing!!!!

[@tony_potsandpans]

That dark wooden box gift is definitely meant for weed (hence the greenery). Very cool Sunday episode!!

[@protolexis]

This guy weeds

[@sid35gb]

I’m not a fan of active pickups. Never wanted a battery in my guitar because you’re gonna forget about it and at best it’ll be flat when you need it at worst it leaks. The other problem is you can use pedals to shape your sound and have more control and it’s easy to change messing around inside you guitar. Passive pickups for the Metallica sounds get some Seymour Duncan invaders they look and sound metal AF

[@chrishagen7183]

Greets from Greece while on vacation 🏝️🤘

[@xia]

Totally agree that the feeling of instant response from playing by plugging into a tube amp directly still can't be matched by any digital modelers at the moment. Even comparing to the digital modelers that have the lowest latency possible, it still makes a big difference. Matching the responsiveness of a tube amp would be the next big step forward for digital modelers.

[@manosassassin]

Check out Chapman and the captain trying to blindly test the Kemper vs real amps. Chapman couldn't even recognize his own sig amp. To each their own but I don't hear that 'big difference' just like many others don't.

[@sawogolec2286]

Awesome answear for QOTD !

[@rafaelsencine4946]

Happy Sunday mister Ola !!!

[@JohnnyColeMurdockMusic]

I'm with Ola I love the passive pickups!

[@johnnysix7162]

I sold all of my amps, I'm not a professional musician though... I had a Mesa Mark V, Mesa JP2C, Bogner Shiva, Splawn Quick Rod and Friedman PT20. Started playing a Kemper a few months back, pretty much stopped plugging into my tube amps afterwards. I find real amplifiers DO sound better, but the difference is so marginal that I didn't feel like it was enough to warrant having thousands of dollars of amps sitting around. But not everyone has that same opinion or hears the same things, so obviously it's a personal preference.

[@abunai.j]

I feel you on the point about non-digital amps - live amps. I have a handful of plugins that I use when I'm recording - in an apartment, for example, it's very useful. But there are a few important differences I notice when I plug into my Marshall combo. One is that, yes, though it's small, there is definitely a difference in how the amp responds - as you said. The other thing I've noticed after spending a lot of time working with plugins and VSTs is that, yes they're meant to mimic certain amps, but they are often times too neat, too tidy, too... perfect, I guess? It removes all the variables that occur within natural materials - all the physics that are at work during the signal's actualization through the physical tubes, how it resonates in the cabinet, how the speaker moves - sometimes it's a little this way, sometimes it's that way. Sometimes it's not perfect and it sounds a little odd. It reacts to the living world around it, and that lends it an imperfect, organic quality that's easy to miss, but is definitely not present in a plugin where everything is identical at any given moment. It's also important to consider that having all these options at our fingertips takes something away as well. When I was broke as fuck, I scraped together enough money to get a Peavey Bandit, and I used that thing until it blew up. We had to be creative in figuring out how to get what we wanted out of our gear, and that lead to new and interesting ways to doing things - sonically and compositionally. If we always have a specific tool for everything, how does that impact our ability to think laterally, find ideas outside of what we expect in pursuit of what we're after? Something to think on... I feel like they both have their uses, and as musicians, we should use whichever tool gives us the results we're after. But there is absolutely a difference, I agree, and maybe it's cause I'm older(ish...) too, but although I enjoy plugins for their convenience (and so do my neighbors), I'm not in any danger of never using a live amp.

[@mooreoutdoor9841]

That intro needs to be on the next Chug Album! BTW, I really dig listening to the Chug Project! Great Stuff!

[@TarnishedViking.]

Ya ya Wunderbar! 🤘

[@Peck_Bull]

A really good Swola chapter. Thanks one more time, Ola.

[@xerodelacroix5552]

Syn is only using the headless Avenger for one song, it's a 7 string and it seems to have a MIDI out as well as the regular output jack, so my guess is there is some onboard stuff going on that they had to offset the weight of.

[@thunderbirdbrown3002]

Damn, That Warhammer from Hell is awesome 🤘🏿😎

[@jajasniewski]

Really enjoying chug proj 1! Cant wait for chug proj 2!

[@christopherharvey1204]

Yes, Kramer! 👍

[@BradQM]

Thanks for the great start to my sunday! Greetings from The Netherlands yooo

[@alanshaw8563]

The difference between real amplifiers and digital in my opinion, to try and summarize it as simple as possible is this: When you play through an amplifier, you become one with it; one force, one body. there's no separation. With digital stuff on the other hand, this feeling of oneness rarely occurs. Feels like an instant playback of your playing rather than your own true movement being put in motion.

[@javitapia-rivera7417]

Came for that thunderous intro, left after my face melted.

[@JustinSpakable]

Awesome as always. Love the pix coverage

[@StevieHoneycutt-vr8cg]

I love this channel All nobs to the right

[@jonathanross1033]

Quick kudos - Ola you are the hardest working and innovative guy in this industry, thank you for all you do. PS - loving my new Solar as well! Great experience so far! Regarding selling amps, I’m kinda doing the opposite I have bought almost every amp sim (Neural DSP, Tonex, ML sound labs) and they are good for “writing” - but just miss something, some sort of umf and last 5% of the sound I use amp sims to find what amps I want to buy and take them for a test run without going to the store I think the thrill is in actually making the analog tone achieve what you want through different hardware combos (guitars, pedals, amps, effects, etc) Yes it’s way more costly and can be frustrating but learning so much in the process

[@christopherharvey1204]

Kirk Hammet ? Excellent Analysis, Ola ! 🙃

[@felipeturbayr]

Just read from JP announcement that you will be joining the guitar universe! Glad you made it! Please film as much as you can for those not fortunate to be there 😊

[@ibaneztubescreamer]

23:33 lol!! I cant stop laughing at this, holy shit, sounds like a backing track from my old casio keyboard, please have more of this man

[@zackm7432]

It took too much effort for me to have to do another one

[@ibaneztubescreamer]

@@zackm7432 i loved it man, we need more, it's the right kind of flavor for this channel IMO

[@andreyvanakoff9412]

I have a feeling that Metallica struggling all their life of loving Gibsons and using perfect ESPs. Nowadays in a digital world, no matter on pickups, you can get very good sound from almost any rig. Gibson has vibe, ESP has quality, EMG were top in a past for a full analog setups.

[@andrewwernerg]

OMG! The dog playing with metal music is awesome!

[@youbetterforget]

I'm with Ola on the Amp train, however I have recently bought a Solid State Class D pedal amp and it blew my mind:)

[@jasoncrump1886]

Good morning Ola . Out in the country camping and still get my Swola in with my deathwish coffee. Lol

[@wally-001]

I'm with you Ola! The shit sounds great, but it doesn't sound real. Not at all. There's just something about a loud, brutal, obnoxious amplifier pushing all that air 🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@jaia_music]

The one shot of Pix just laying there upside-down was the best! 🤣

[@jeremylewis5806]

I have a Kramer Mustain n I love it

[@timothyruiz4317]

I'm with you Ola, ain't nuttin like plugging into a freaking amp

[@damiendelvallee7256]

The last couple of Sylosis singles are killer... Their tour with Malevolence is 2023's highlight for me

[@Jkoziol72577]

Saw Pantera a couple of weeks ago at welcome to Rockville in Daytona Beach Florida.... They were definitely worth watching you're definitely going to have a blast.

[@erasmomoreno9460]

Brutal! 🤘

[@jesse7852]

Man, I just looked over at my amp collection and realized I was down to two tube amps, an Engl Fireball 25 and a Laney AOR 30. I haven’t gone totally digital , but I do have a fender tone master deluxe which sounds indistinguishable to the real thing at least to me. Ola is right that it’s a great time yo be a guitar player. Everything is out there

[@SkunkDozer]

That intro was especially awesome this week. Def a keeper dude 👏🏽.

[@Paul_Lenard_Ewing]

I saw both the Kramer and Epi V's on the same video and they are shipping from Sweetwater.

[@nj1255]

I love wood picks! I have a couple of ebony picks that I mainly use for playing on my shortscale hollowbody bass, but I also use them whenever I need a pick that has no scratchy string sound at all. I also have a pick made out of bone that is the absolute opposite of the wooden picks. It has a very bright and scratchy sound, which can be really cool as well.

[@gammerslayer3916]

Chewy is the master painter at shecter. So the Dime finishes are as og as possible ❤ Love you Ola❤

[@mr.timebombman2230]

That's why James has the Het Set. It's got the best elements of both active and passive.

[@MrNightmarium]

I approve and support the pix cam

[@Derpadeedooda]

Love your dog!

[@brrblack497]

Nothing like a tube amp!

[@chris_2714]

Opening riff definitely had some Gojira vibes. Awesome 🤘

[@leegollin4417]

You nailed it on passive pups.

[@XiXora]

Looking forward for Mesa to be available in Europe again. Shame the price has gone up a hell of a lot since it was already inflated here though.

[@paulhaullussy8662]

It says "No delivery for 1 item" so you have to buy 6 or 8!

[@alabamaman9100]

Nice Hollow Knight picture on the wall in your home office!

[@kencreten7308]

Sound is sound. Sound is real. Learned expectations may or may not line up with one or another reality.

[@Killcycle]

Awesome intro, insane!

[@Schizmatizmify]

I think the thing with amps vs. plugins that people forget, is that when you are playing digitally, you are playing through a setup as it sounds through a mic. To my knowledge, there are no IRs that capture just the raw response of a speaker as it pushes air straight to your ears - and frankly I'm not sure that's possible. At least not without skipping the capturing step and just making an emulation from scratch. Until then, though, we're stuck capturing IRs with microphones. What we hear out of a digital rig is the sound of an amplifier recorded in a studio, not one sitting in front of your face. I'm convinced that if we can solve that, it will be impossible to distinguish digital from analog by sound alone.

[@tymanngruter1808]

Its sunday, we are all welcome in the church of metal and sound priest Ola, i had more fun than ever in a church!

[@chrisseeley898]

Sweet effin riff!

[@richardwright345]

I dont like headless guitars that much but ive been thinking about one for sitting at the desk might be less bumping and knocking stuff over with the headstock.

[@Galvatron6801]

1:27 fire riff how it comes back in

[@thunderbirdbrown3002]

Duuude..I remember those days Getcha Pull 🥃-CHEERS 🍻

[@jakeeronen7704]

That was sick ass intro riff 😮woke me up proper💥

[@rockysloan3434]

The intro riff!! 🔥🔥🔥

[@Bigkahunas15]

Love the Sylosis shoutout. Absolutely unreal band

[@stug5041]

I love all types of pickups - PAFs, actives, everywhere in between. I wonder if Kirk has tried actives that aren’t EMGs (although I wonder if he’d be allowed to say it…)

[@honigdachs.]

He wouldn't have missed much though, because EMGs do make the best actives. 😋 Which would obviously be the Het Set, the 57/66 and The Super 77 set.

[@MrDhilrd]

Waiting in Oklahoma. Good Day Ola!

[@andrewhinojosa4517]

Love that finish on that guitar 🎸

[@Bombdawgy]

What guitar is in the room when playing with Pix around 12:40

[@onbedoeldekut1515]

I suppose with (unpotted) PAFs the coils will have a potential to loosen and move over time moreso than had they been potted. Even with the addition of something like paraffin wax, there's a possibility of travel, but it's almost inconsequential, the magnet/s and wire don't care if there are minuscule gaps, the string's signal being translated through the coil is moving too fast trying to get to the speaker cone (the only aspect which truly affects the final sound).

[@flogginga_dead_horse4022]

I've been using digital and rack gear since the late 80's but there is still nothing like blasting a huge amp stack

[@mudzera]

I like the news 😮

[@Andromahlius]

For some reason you made me think of Midge Maisel when reading the Hammet pickup article.

[@diabeticmonkey]

OOOOh That new Schecter looks so much like the Ibanez Voyager. I'm interested

[@beefnacos6258]

That last riff was 🔥

[@Koukimonster240]

Been here since under 10k subs ola... ill never forget the amp demo days chasing tone. Im positive you helped so many with tone in the early days

[@Koukimonster240]

I play a solar s1.6pp. One day ill have the funds to become a member and chat Ola. Cant wait keep up the good work.

[@kicksareforribs5156]

I feel like people don't notice the latency because they've never experienced what its like to have 0. Amps just feel easier to play because of that.

[@samuelmartin3640]

I subscribed dude I thought I already did but I got you locked in brother

[@zoltarwizdom6708]

Digital is sounding great and makes recording easier, no doubt, but it doesn’t compare to an amp, cab and pedals. I tried an axefx ii with power amp and I just wasn’t inspired. It was lacking the girth. Option paralysis and infinite tweaking. Since Neural DSP basically is one the same level I sold it all and got a 5150iii, Orange 2x12 and still had money left over for a few pedals. I got some stuff from Neural to cover recording, but all the inspiration and fun happens when I play my real rig. No regrets. Recently got an Orange OR15 for doom tones and I just love it. I’ll never get tired of real amps. Hopefully can save up for a Matamp someday and a Mesa.

[@jasoncrump1886]

Really like the inro riffs. This one is really gangsta homie. Straight out da Swede chugalicious indeed.