Opeth's Mikael Akerfeldt showing off his SYNERGY RIG-Touring with SYNERGY

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Opeth's Mikael Akerfeldt showing of his SYNERGY RIG - Touring with SYNERGY
In the “Touring with Synergy” video series, we visit our artist on tour to talk about their SYNERGY gear. Get the latest insights into what and how they use their all-tube modular amp system.
This Episode we visited Mikael Akerfeldt, guitarist and lead singer of Swedish prog metal giants OPETH, while touring Europe, supporting their latest record “In Causa Venenum”. Listen closely to what he has to say!

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@lorenzobarichello5180 4 года назад

"I usually don't experiment that much." Ahahahahaha, good one Mike

@ax492 3 года назад

"I don't experiment much" unless you consider "experimenting" testing a new rig for the first time in front of 15.000 people :s

@lorenzobarichello5180 3 года назад

@@ax492 I got what he meant about live equipment, but I was relating to the band's musical and experimental change on the last records

@Powerslave271 2 года назад

You totally miss the point

@metalmike1976 2 года назад

@@Powerslave271 naw u did

@reducetheatoms 2 года назад

that's his unconsciousness talking haha... :'DD

@larkstonguesinaspic4814 4 года назад

I love his deadpan dry humour. There's just something very funny about the guy even when he's not trying to be funny.

@FoggySwe 4 года назад

He has the best talk sessions between songs

@nickyounger1368 4 года назад

I totally know what you're talking about. I find myself laughing even when he's being serious

@Andrey-nx6lo 3 года назад

@skabeche81 4 года назад

2:26 Mikael resets with style switching himself

@SuperWeedPower 4 года назад

its an hologram!

@eddieademi 4 года назад

4:25 he couldn’t resist so he did it again

@keomo 3 года назад

@@eddieademi It's when he thinks!! 3:20

@sanbilge Год назад

Yoko Ono killed the real Mikael Åkerfeldt and now we're listening to Michael Äkerfeldt. He says it himself at the beginning.

@TheJML1975 4 года назад

“I feel like I’m a slightly better guitar player, because of it” I love Mikaels dry humour 😏

@fcamiola 2 года назад

This guy is the effing best! Legend. I try other metal bands but just keep coming back to the best....OPETH!

@deadbodybaby1 2 года назад

Lol when other people tell me their favorite bands I’m like oh no but wait till you hear this 😂😂😂

@skydwellingmusic 4 года назад

Old man rock is such a perfect name for that tone.

@majesty1770 3 года назад

or like we say in swedish "gubbrock"

@FanaticDrummer Год назад

Scarfs and adidas, the real secret to his tone

@disco4535 4 года назад

The guitars on the new album sound incredible. Mikael's vocals are amazing as well

@chrisyates1088 2 года назад

MIKAEL AKERFELDT is a living legend of the Legendary metal gods known as OPETH

@BadOmenRGV 4 года назад

Opeth has always had very good production live and in the studio.

@iqless7313 3 года назад

Ghost Reveries (crispier) and Watershed (softer around the edges) have to be two of the most perfect sounding albums.

@fcamiola 2 года назад

The best started with Blackwater when SW got involved. My least favs sound-wise of the newer shit are Sorceress and In Cauda...and guess what - SW was not involved! Great albums though

@daghetto101 Год назад

Morningrise production. 10/10 Raw Satan Demon Metvl

@SLAMSTERDAMN 4 года назад

Excellent vid, I love Opeth, so talented they are! But, that Heaven & Hell t-shirt...🤘!

@KalosPVP 4 года назад

I love how Deliverance is still the closer.

@donniedarkestra7771 4 года назад

The synergy rigs are some of the most interesting things I've seen in a long time

@ericbrewerguitar1499 4 года назад

A buddy of mine started using your modular system and all the preamps sound incredible and nail the tones of the amps they’re designed after. I’m sold and can’t wait to get my hands on the system someday!

@adamwright7954 4 года назад

saw them a few weeks ago in Dallas and the rigs sounded amazing!

@Likeaforest 2 года назад

Your voice is EPIC even when you speak.... EPIC voice 👌 🙌 😎 😍 👏 ❤ 👌

@JavierGarcia-kb1no 4 года назад

Great Video. That's a cool Heaven and Hell t-shirt.

@crazeyjoe 3 года назад

Sounds awesome!!! I agree with Mikael. A simplified rig and yet, the results are the perfect sounds that are needed and desired. The technology today results in what used to be an over complicated nightmare to achieve the same result!

@LarryTaint-qn8pd 4 года назад

Saw Opeth Friday night in Chicago and they sounded great.

@desecrator8979 4 года назад

I was there also. So amazing

@markblaauw4961 Год назад

My world would be a lot more boring without Mikael Åkerfeldt and Opeth.

@1nfeRnaLRaV3n 6 месяцев назад

Tbh im thinking abt it rn and it sounds so true dd😂

@mixedmartialnutrition1746 7 месяцев назад

nice clean and simple setup

@mackermaldrill2656 2 года назад

Not only a great musician, but a great guy.

@sualvariv4841 Год назад

I love this man.

@Capitan_Chaos 4 года назад

I have that heaven and hell shirt from that one tour a while back.

@michaelsnyder1492 4 года назад

Saw them in Ohio a week ago! They sounded superb

@MorGuitarz 9 месяцев назад

Just picked up a Synergy SYN50 and 4 modules... TONE HEAVEN... right next to my favorite Friedman & Bogner amps. Can't wait to get it on stage in a couple weeks. Amazing options we have today... as music itself as a profession, for the most part... is dying. Oh the irony

@garethbull5303 Год назад

Wow, throughout all their music I imagined guitar swaps the whole way through a single song, but it's just electric through and through. Such amazing bridge pickup for those acoustic sounding tones. I may have to look into such an investment myself.

@reducetheatoms 2 года назад

dude is wearing a sabbath t-shirt when he knows he's a legend but still is denial state, he's such a lovely and modest guy

@dan-3268 2 года назад

2:36 - in flames - come clarity almost

@yam9889 4 года назад

Saludos desde argentina 👍

@rigorhead01 4 года назад

The "old man rock" sound is my main tone. Maybe I'm getting to be an old man.

@TheApsodist 3 года назад

Same...used to be a metalhead. Sigh.

@GVLSCH Год назад

I love him

@darrenc8776 4 года назад

Love how he emphasise his surname. You will pronounced it correct haha

@brosephh7130 4 года назад

Darren C haha he purposely says the bastardized American pronunciation

@THERAMMSTEINFAN490 4 года назад

With his first name as well :P its more like "me-call" in Swedish pronounciation. I wont attempt Åkerfeldt.. The phonetics are just too different from the american sounds you can write out :P besides im not fluent in Swedish haha

@apanapandottir205 4 года назад

Haha, especially since it's nowhere close to how it's really pronounced xD

@jontemetal 4 года назад

@@THERAMMSTEINFAN490Just saying "Oh-kerfellt" instead of "Ah-kerfellt" is way closer to the Swedish pronounciation, "Å" is closer to "O" than it is to "A", if that makes sense (swedish myself)

@_nurmi06 Год назад

@@jontemetal that's why the chacacter å is called the "Swedish O" in the finnish language

@mikedegrazia 4 года назад

Nice scarf Mike..

@violentbob Год назад

i just love the skeleton in the background

@Diogolindir 4 года назад

those tones thou

@BP-or2iu 3 года назад

Did he mean he was using a Soldano amp or using a soldano modeling preset on the Synergy? I have no idea how these preamp rack things work.

@DanKuches Год назад

I wondered how you got the acoustic sound 😊

@HanOnkel 3 года назад

You can visually see the soundwaves affecting video recording

@bluesful 10 месяцев назад

What power amp is being used?

@Nickolaars 2 года назад

4:21 ahh man!? Technical problems were such a huge (and entertaining) part of their shows... 😅

@francescovianello262 3 года назад

“So basically I have... a guitar” Yeah bro it’s a PRS custom 24 with Piezo and it costs 4k+$ are you sure it’s JUST “a” guitar?

@gahb4326 2 года назад

Im pretty sure he would sound the same with a Squier

@francescovianello262 2 года назад

@@gahb4326 not sure about that, tone would be entirely different, he would still sound good because he can play tho

@kishortsf 4 года назад

That skeleton deadass staring at him. 💀

@anonymousceleb1148 4 года назад

Around 2 mins 20 or so he has to quickly switch posture through static moulding or something

@THERAMMSTEINFAN490 4 года назад

*"MIchael AHkerfellt"* hahahha

@iqless7313 3 года назад

MYkel ACKerfelt

@gab.lab.martins Год назад

I want his voice.

@andritti 2 года назад

´65 Robin Trower. Nice...

@aterix 4 года назад

Acoustic sound: Anyone know the pedal he was referring to about getting an acoustic sounds ("Boderes")? Any tips on a piezo pickup to get that acoustic sound?

@morganestill 4 года назад

I search and found a photo and he's using the TC Electronic Bodyrez pedal.

@Astral_Wave 4 года назад

Camera shakes when he plays... sweet

@ejRecording 4 года назад

which pedal is the robin trower sound? he said little stomp box

@Steaminlidz 4 года назад

It’s an Electro Harmonix Small Stone, the Nano one.

@joshgulick5006 3 года назад

I always associated Robin Trower with the more Hendrix-y Univibe pedal, but the Small Stone is a Phaser. News to me.

@stormshadow2k 4 года назад

Hmm... But why does he switch through a Fractal box? And a Fractal volume pedal? Synergy is uknown to me, but are they connected to Fractal somehow? Or does the AX8 have a profile of a Synergy amp like Kemper kinda stuff?

@NerveEnd 4 года назад

I think he's using it mainly for reverbs and delays etc. with the amp section bypassed. I believe he says that the main distortion sound is produced with the Synergy Soldano SLO. Maybe he uses the amp profiles for the clean sounds. Pretty impressive that a dude on this level tours with an amp that costs 399 €.

@LeonHaselbach 4 года назад

@@NerveEnd the SLO modul costs about 400€ but you have to buy the preamp section which costs about 470€ with only on slot. Mikael has two preamp moduls which result in over 1500€ for his amp rig (I guess he has some sort of poweramp, too - put that on top). Plus AX8, Cables, Wah, Stomp Box, Volume Pedal... not to mention his guitar. A PRS Custom 24 with piezo costs around 4000€. So he is easily playing a 6 to 7k setup on stage.

@Turbo-D 3 года назад

where is the synergy rig and whats in it? 🤷‍♂️

@norwardradtke1361 2 года назад

Yeah he literally doesn’t say which amp modules he is using

@ThemFuzzyMonsters 4 года назад

Did I blink? Where are the Synergy modules?

@Likeaforest 2 года назад

I'm a bassist so I'll wait for Martin Mendes stuff yeeeeeeeee

@SJA962 2 года назад

bass-amp

@MikaTarkela 4 года назад

Is he using only the effects on the AX8 ?

@viniciusbertucci 4 года назад

I think so. His actual tones come from the Synergy modules.

@TheJasonEstes 4 года назад

He has a separate phaser and a wah as well.

@GothicXlightning Год назад

4:26 to see Mikael been possess by the Twitchy Synergy Demon

@gabrielm.5261 4 года назад

Nice abibas

@VOYAGEUR-YT 4 года назад

What is the third guitar knob for?

@shugo541 4 года назад

probably a tone pot. Not sure on that particular PRS. SG's and Les Pauls for example have 2 volume and 2 tone pots. Or maybe a piezo volume pot since there's 2 inputs. Again, don't know that PRS.

@Astral_Wave 4 года назад

Piezoelectric volume maybe?

@Astral_Wave 4 года назад

Or a blend knob between electric and piezo

@gabifromhell 4 года назад

Volume of the piezo

@rabatzbumm 4 года назад

Show Fredriks rig please!

@matthewtiner7485 4 года назад

M Mustermann check out the rig rundown on the premier guitar channel

@dantahoua 4 года назад

I do not see the song The Garroter on the set list... :(

@gyurko 4 года назад

Hahahahaha

@bruxxy6814 4 года назад

I don't think that'll work without a live orchestra

@dantahoua 4 года назад

@@bruxxy6814 I'm sure it's possible, just different! :)

@lehtokurppa7824 4 года назад

It's my least favourite song from the new album. Im glad it wasn't included. I know people have different opinions but that's mine.

@T-mert 4 года назад

ünlü composerların videoları falan yok diye üzülürüz ya.. işte gelecektekiler üzülmeyecek

@fabiol.9161 2 года назад

Sorry guys but where is the sinergy module? I see the fractal ax8.. Sinergy is the tour name?

@jameskostov9353 4 года назад

3:35 porcupine tree - always never??

@xedasxedas 4 года назад

Next: how to make hand sanetizer

@mikelastname6722 3 года назад

Omg the scarf fad has infected genius metal musicians now! There's no where else for it to go

@sanbilge Год назад

Gotta keep the growlies warm

@ragecandy 4 года назад

For a second there I thought he meant that one band from alexi laiho’s (ex?) girlfriend

@joselito1221 2 года назад

@norwardradtke1361 2 года назад

He doesn’t tell what specific modules he uses for each tone

@funfreq9282 3 года назад

I see nothing Synergy in this rig. To me it looks like an Axe FX AX8 to me.

@Firedownunder26 4 года назад

For some reason I thought he would have had larger feet

@Vor_Tex_Sun 4 года назад

Yeah what a let down :)

@smookey187 4 года назад

😂 😂 Glad I'm not the only one that thought that

@Skoora Год назад

Might be the first rig rundown from a company where they don’t actually show the rig..lol what synergy modules is he using, in what way and how are they going to P.A.? I don’t know, maybe just some basic shit… 🤦‍♂️

@BrandonBames 4 года назад

To the one person that disliked this video: What else were you hoping to get out of this? How did the content of this video not live up to your expectations based on the title and thumbnail? Or did your hand slip on the way to the like button and you're too lazy to change it? TELL ME!

@migueltay2803 4 года назад

*It's the guys from shitty Kemper....

@shatteredsquare 4 года назад

I'm the 2nd dislike. 😅

@pranav3848 4 года назад

Some people just dislike every video just for the sake of disliking

@5urg3x 2 года назад

What's Synergy? I see a Fractal AX8 here...He didn't really show off the actual Synergy tube amps lol.

@LordSummerIsle73 3 года назад

Jesus shows us his holy rig

@jessbian3385 4 года назад

ACKERFELT

@JohnnyOskam 11 месяцев назад

How is this a synergy rig? Looks like he's running an Axe 8?

@Harrysound 4 года назад

Wow he’s actually using stock pickups by the looks of it.

@cassiano378 2 года назад

It's that guy from that 90's porn movie?

@ZenitildeNeto 4 года назад

"I'm a simple man. I dont need a big set." DUDE! U USE A AXYS. You dont need nothing more! hahahaahaha

@Likeaforest 2 года назад

MIKAEL IM FROM ISRAEL AND I LOVE ❤ YOU PLEASE COME AGAIN 💓 TO ISRAEL 🇮🇱 ❤ ♥ ♥ 💖 DON'T FORGET MARTIN 😘 ♥ 😉 ❤ 💙

@linusfotograf 4 года назад

Why don’t you pronounce your name properly? Don’t give in to English

@LeoBassCovers2 4 года назад

I think he says it in a very sarcastic way. Almost nobody will pronounce his name correctly anyway.

@itsvoogle 4 года назад

@@LeoBassCovers2 how is it pronounced? its not how he said it?

@gabifromhell 4 года назад

@@itsvoogle mee-cah-el o-kerfeldt

@daghetto101 Год назад

@@itsvoogleIt's How you read it pretty much. Mi Ka El. Not Maykel. The R is not soft R. It's crunchy R. Å on his surname pronounced like O. But not Round Round Ow. Just an instant O. Mi Ka El o K eR! feldt.

@itsvoogle 4 года назад

I have been butchering this man's name for years....... smfh

@5urg3x 2 года назад

"ACKerfeldt" lol. He mispronounces his own name for English speaking audiences.