Intro and Misha’s supervillain alter-ego: 0:00 Burning Questions: 6:14 Misha’s backward sense of harmony: 11:10 Problem-solving in songwriting: 15:10 Name Those Notes: 16:44 The re-release and return of Bulb: 27:35 Guitar playing from the producer perspective: 30:14 The hardest and easiest thing about playing guitar: 32:22 The most important skill guitar players ignore: 34:34 Writing music starting with a drum groove: 37:02 The problem with drum loops: 40:29 The difference between delay and echo: 42:00 Misha’s dream band: 45:59 Misha’s favorite airplane album: 48:56 Misha’s supervillain advice: 49:39 Today’s guitar villain is Misha Mansoor, a key founder of the beguiling genre of Djent and an overall machine of a guitar player. Misha is the mastermind behind the wall of sound that is the band Periphery, a signature artist of Jackson guitars and BareKnuckle pickups, the founder of the excellent Get Good Drums software, and an avid sports car enthusiast. Misha is also the founder of Horizon Devices, a company featuring some truly spectacular guitar pedals like the Apex PreAmp and Flux Echo, and now, most recently, they’re making guitar strings. With that resume, you better prepare yourself, because it’s time for this episode of Guitar Villains. Subscribe to Guitar Villains on Spotify: spoti.fi/3i8q2xg Subscribe to Guitar Villains on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/3n08vL3 Check out Horizon Devices: bit.ly/2UhDc1u Check out GetGood Drums: bit.ly/35ijkBo Follow Periphery on RU-vid: bit.ly/38BH1Xt
@@ImOnUToob Not the person who posted it but I can see what they're saying - a podcast is more of a freeflowing conversation as opposed to question>answer format.
I've got to say, Misha always seems genuinely excited and engaged during his interviews. He always comes off as a really chill dude who just loves guitar and music.
Misha is probably the most ideal guitar player in my eyes. Dude runs multiple companies and gets hella bread from them, is a signature artist of the best pickups ever made (don't @ me), and has pretty good guitars. It's not like I'm biased because I live in the same city he does. Nope. Not at all.
For me its Rabea Massaad. I think he has the best pickups and playing style as well as humility. I cant wait to hear where his music goes. But Periphery as a whole is on another level.
Recently bought one of the USA models with the new ragnarok set. And all I can say is... this guitar has made me hate the rest of the guitars I’ve played in the past with one or two exceptions. It’s a friggin amazing guitar. And the pickups are rowdy as hell haha.
I’m not even a fan of Periphery, or the whole djent thing, but for whatever reason I love hearing Misha talk. I just like his outlook on music and writing, I guess. Fascinating dude.
Misha's track on Halo 2 Remaster, Follow in Flight, is phenomenal. I have it on my driving playlist on Spotify and listen to it most days going to work.
15:07 Victor Wooten said it best. "Music Theory is a tool and its in the trunk until we need it". No one is jamming to your knowledge theyre jamming to the groove!
“You need to learn music theory so you can play it then forget it.”- I dunno who said this was in a 90’s guitar magazine. Might have been Steve Morse- someone with a column.
Why would either of them want to talk to an extremely average guitarist, who seems to think that having lots of followers makes him some kind of authority on guitar playing? Tyler is a massive tit. No talent whatsoever, and he has always come across as entitled and smug. There are probably thousands of talented guitarists with RU-vid channels who get very little recognition. It sucks. Tyler is a bell-end.
I used to think i wanted to sound like other guitarists. When i started recording it was the beginning of a slow journey to wanting to create my own identity. Periphery made me start to embrace my quirks and write what i only can. 🤘
I love all the villains you’ve had so far, but for me, this one was particularly awesome. The conversation seemed so much more full of substance than what I expected. Misha and yourself, Tyler, are some class acts. At any rate, great content brother.
50:42 "Get Good Hands", The pluggin that emulates the hands of the guitar greats. You can already virtually select your amp head, cab, mic (+placement), effects, pick up type. Now capture the magic of the actual source of tone! *this was Inspired by Fry getting the Robot Devil's hands. Also, great episode of Guitar Villains!
Yes! Misha is the guy that made me want to pickup guitar. Edit: neither of these guys watched battle of gods, resurrection f, or Dragonball super. It’s upsetting 😓
Tonewood does exist but it doesn’t matter. There’s plenty of tonewood tests on the internet for you to try your luck at. You’ll hear a very subtle difference, but VERY subtle, even for woods on the opposite ends of the spectrum.
This was a super cool get together..it was nice to hear what Misha's take was on so many different aspects of the musical processes. As well, the questions you asked were of great relevance and I really appreciated the time you put into that process. I think if I get that Horizon Devices Precision Drive pedal, I will finally sound like Misha.
I feel like Drew and/or Mark from Karnivool would be sick on this. Drew has an incredible villain beard, and Mark looks like a mad scientist, plus there's so few interviews with them that really discuss anything other than gear or their latest album at the time. I'm all for that talk but at the same time it'd be nice to see a deep dive into them as musicians.
Respect to these guys, their contribution to djent for to what they're doing, but if anyone has pioneered djent it's single-handedly Meshuggah, and 25 years ago. No one comes close, and there's never been a more clear-cut line on who invented a subgenre like there could be with other subgenres.
Yup, 💯. Lot of misnomers; “Founder of djent/ggd/periphery/ad nauseam”. Let’s completely ignore Mark Holcomb and Nolly and their contributions to everything to do with Periphery in and outside of the band. Tyler’s hubris has gotten to the point of being annoying.
Nice to hear the mention of left/right handed playing. I am a lefty and I've played left handed for 20 something years and last week, I decided to get a cheap right handed Jackson to teach myself to play right handed. Doing pretty good so far but I tell you, if I wasn't crazy, I'd have given up already. My reason is I'm tired of being upset that no guitar I actually want, besides a Schecter Banshee Mach 6/7, is made in a lefty. I want an orange Misha Mansoor Juggernaut, a John Petrucci Majesty, a Strandberg Boden Prog (in Earth Green, looks awesome). I love this program, man!
Ever since I learned a few of the tunes off of Hail Stan, ACGFAD has been my go to tuning💯💯. Sometimes I’ll even drop the 5th string from C to D or E for a little extra razzle dazzle
From AGCFAD, tune the strings down one semitone and you’re using the same tuning as Architects. Those weird octave tunings are insane amounts of fun and the riffs that can come from them are a blast.
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 this was so great. You seriously do your preparation and are well thought out. Very entertaining to see Misha's reaction to your Questions you definitely impress him haha.
Probably just me, but...Music is win, I've been subscribed for some time, and never been a huge fan. Well, things get better with time. New to me, This Guitar Villians format is awesome. You are a well thought out, great interviewer. This was a great show. I will be tuning in again for sure.
I own Bareknuckle Pickups' Juggernaut set and Aftermath set, both used by Misha. I couldn't ask for anything better. Juggernauts can do almost anything and Aftermaths are perfect for metal and you only run into limitations with it on the very low end frequencies. And the best overdrive pedal I have ever tried is the Precision Drive. It even has a perfectly integrated noise gate in the pedal. I'm convinced everything Misha touches with guitar gear is gold. Haven't tried the preamp yet but trust it's worth it.
I doubt you'll see this, but you're a great interviewer. It's refreshing to see somebody who really tries to keep it exciting and find some more interesting information about people than what usually comes up in normal interviews.
@@massttrshrdrharmonicminor2002 mate what is your guitar model? Is it the RG652AHM? I'm asking coz like mine is the RG370AHMZ and mine only has the ibanez stock quantum pickups which are pretty decent. However, I have not had much experience with a tone zone except for playing a friend's guitar once, in which it felt like an ok pickup. So I'm sorry mate I might not be able to give you an accurate or great view on the tone zone pickup
Yea I can understand, I mean I've heard of people not liking the tone zone and air Norton all that much, and ppl do wish that ibanez would try a few different pickups and combinations. I'm actually a 16 year old from India and my dream guitars are like the ibanez prestige and a music man majesty, but I don't have even nearly enough money to spend so that's one thing. But I was lucky enough to get my current guitar this year only after quite a long wait and I truly love and treasure it more than anything... Btw It would mean the world to me and I would be really grateful if you checked out my channel sir. I just started out recently, and I'm really passionate about guitar... Hope to have my name alongside the guitar greats one day...
@@amitabhkunchey9342 that is awesome, count me in. Honestly my theory is, play every day for about 2 years, that guitar will either be your best friend, or you will know if it is worth keeping. I had a mystery guitar from the pawn shop, it said grant, it was the best. I have a mik Ibz rgt. It gives the prestige a major run for the money. It was 600 US. used good luck in life.
I usually call the AGCFAD tuning the "Bad" tuning (full step down), for two reasons. Firstly, because the first song I learned that used that tuning was The Bad Thing. Secondly, because Soundgarden used a similar tuning on Rusty Cage, but in standard, thus making the bottom three strings BAD. I always thought their might be some correlation here, but clearly not outside of the one I made in my head lol
Using a piano with both hands is essentially playing fully ambidextrously, whearas playing guitar your picking (dominant) hand is doing much harder more precise work.
@@RainytheNB But more often, bass work on piano is done with the left hand, while more melodic and lead stuff is done in the higher registers with the right hand. It'd be cool to see a reverse piano that got lower in pitch as it moved from left to right
Pianos are symmetrical, structurally speaking. Guitars are lopsided, and the left and right hands are doing distinctly different tasks. A different version of this question is interesting though: why aren't there left handed violins? TwoSetViolin explained that the hands do tasks and it doesn't matter someone's handedness. It's interesting that violin doesn't accomodate, but guitar does.
I like where this is headed and love your channel. Occasionally I feel like your moving on to the next question or segment too fast and leaving some good stuff on the table. As you do more interviews I bet you will relax and improvise a little more. Pulling the best guests that's for sure :)
320km in my Murcialago in Vancouver. got caught and still don't drive. this was in 2011 , took up guitar instead with my MM HT7 🤘Thanks for being so inspiring to me
Misha knows more about gear than the manufacturers do a lot of times. I listen to the band for inspiration and euphoria, i listen and watch the interviews for ideas and information.
