Hey brother just got my package of CD's and Vinyl from you today and I just wanted to say I appreciate that you autographed them for me man that's kickass brother. Thanx man.
@@DarkstOfficial I remember back in 88 I left my entire Iron Maiden picture disc collection in a hot car in South Texas, I cried, everything practically melted!
@@bobertdeleon5010 Oh yes I remember those days , how about when it got so hot cassettes used to warp and the glue holding the felt pad would dry up and the pads would fall off! I can't tell you how many times I used to reglue it back on , or split the tape in half and put it in a blank one 🤣
@@OlaEnglund Hi Ola! Can you show us how you record and mix your music intos? They sound amazing. How many guitar tracks do you record? Do you use any plugins on the master track? Thank you. Jason from Australia
Big mistake on mesa boogie's part going to gibson... It's like going to grandpa for guitar lessons to learn metal and makes you learn Coldplay or oasis...
Bradley Hall did a very interesting video on the whole falling in reverse missing laptops thing. It has a title sick of this sh💩 or something like that. But it's an argument in favour of the band.
Dude, that Kirk Windstein guitar is sick. Crowbar is badass. Big fan of the fleur de lis on the fretboard, I was born/lived in Louisiana for 33 years so stuff like that is neat to me. 🤘
I remember seeing him play the prototype when they opened for Sepultura in NOLA back in March. I asked about it on the Discord FAQ's, and on a Sundays with Ola he was like "I cannot confirm nor deny anything..." lol I was so excited to see that guitar with the Fleur de Lis on it too!
What i took from the Jim Lill video is, when people still go on about swapping different Toobz in amps to change the tone. When Glenn Fricker has already eluded to it, the speaker.
As an old backend touring tech, using computers for concerts has been the norm for even classic rock bands, Neil Diamond, Aerosmith, etc etc etc. They aren't always just for music, but lighting, midi changes, video, etc. Paul McCartney used auto tune(with very weird settings). If you've structured your set to use such, it might be hard to switch the production on the fly. That said, always have backups.
I got into this on Finn McKenty's channel. I used to dream 10 years ago of having a band that ran 100% e-drums, guitar/bass modelling, PC's running scene/patch changes, lighting, as much as possible. Good on Falling In Reverse for using tech to their benefit.. they're taking advantage of decades of progression to put on a good show. That said - BACKUPS! Fuck.. I wouldn't leave my house for a tour without a Nuclear Football backup of the entire show handcuffed to my wrist at all times. That's their mistake.
@@creamwobbly You're right. I think Periphery might have had gear lost/stolen years ago, my memory is pretty hazy but I'm sure they just played with what they had. They've also played instrumental gigs when their singer wasn't available.
I play in a band that processes guitars, has automation, lots of playbacks (time-dependent sequenced synths, orchestrations and backing vocals) and yes, we do need the laptop. But wtf, the project is on every macbook in the band as a backup and in the cloud in case EVERYONE loses the laptops, so that there's the last resort of running to a nearby apple store and snapping a laptop, or lending one from the promoter/crew/whatever. Having backups is their responsibility.
And yeah, technically we can go on and play every song of the setlist (even if I, the keyboards player, find a random rental synth, I can sorta manage with 2 sounds), but imagine the giant chorus where guitars play just chords underneath a chunky symphonic orchestra and choir without the latter. It would be just guitars going doo-doo-doo like every other band on the planet.
It's always nice to see everyone properly prepared. And not have everything grind to a halt at a crucial battle of the bands, because the guy with the one laptop with all the backing tracks had to restart his laptop. Because he hadn't properly shut it down in 2 months and only put it to sleep mode for all that time, until the laptop went 'I can't stands no more, f*** this shit I'm out' mode.
Nice video. I felt the new Slipknot album was a bit confused, and this probably makes sense with what Jim said. You can hear the talent, the tones and the passion - but it sounds like some of the flow was rushed.
Idk if it was confused. I thought most of the tracks could use a bit more time in the oven, and I think especially Jim's guitar solo's were affected a lot by this. The track order of the album could have been different. But musically I really liked it. Really cool album and I hope they continue the experimental route. Ola said absolutely nothing about the album other than it was "soft", and he thought The Chapeltown Rag was the best song when I'd say it's easily the worst. There were much harder and better songs than that on the album. Dosen't seem like he listened to any of the album except the first three when from the 5th track and out has some heavy ass shit with lots of cool experimentation
My thoughts on the laptop thing are neutral.. younger bands should have a back up plan for if technology takes a shit. And the older guys be more open to the advantages of implementing all the ways computers can be used as tools. Not only for amp sims, etc. They can run the whole gig. Which, could be good or bad. That's not my argument...
Great take! Personally, I felt Ola glossed over a lot of what actually went on, but I get that in these videos he’s breezing through stuff just to get an idea of what’s going on and it’s not exactly a deep dive. Finn McKenty and Bradly Hall have some good takes on this, too, and go a bit more in depth. I’m just happy to see some of the older rock crowd finally getting some pushback on shit they say, especially Eddie Trunk. I agree that it’s silly that a big band like FIR didn’t have any backup plan for something like this, but the boomers bitching about laptops not being “real” live music is just ignorant. FIR are still playing their instruments (and their musicians are incredible at that!), it’s just some backing tracks and show cues (or whatever else is programmed in there). That’s nothing new in the live music world, even for legacy bands. Not everything has to be a Grateful Dead jam band style improv show. If the fans are satisfied and get their moneys worth then who cares?
Falling in reverse has a lot going on with tracks n such. Plus I assume the laptop controls lighting, instrument effect changes and so on. So... If that is gone and the backup laptop is gone...playing without would just not work.
I saw Jim Lill's video last week, and I really enjoyed it. I have to say that I never heard all these differences in amp and guitar tones, which many people seem to hear. So this video speeks my heart in a certain way 😅
A Dutch metal band called August Life released the first album a few years ago, and I was lucky enough to be part of the recording process, and subsequently played live with them too (until Corona ruined all that). The album is well thought through and very elaborate, especially on lead and backing vocals. We translated that to a live setting with a 5 piece band by filtering out the least necessary sounds, singing the harmonies ourselves (4 out of 5 of us could sing, well covered in that regard), and we amped up the riffs a bit to make it have more impact and cover for one another. We've never had the feeling of losing anything relevant from the album, the live songs definitely have their own energy - which is a back and forth between you and the audience. Plenty people bought the album and saw us live, and their response is always amazing (and seriously appreciated by ourselves of course) The only 2 backing tracks we did use were just samples to use as an intro, but we definitely had nothing more going on as that just felt wrong to us. If that puts me in that (highly offensive) category of "ignorant boomers", as some of those american comments had it, then so the fuck be it.
It all very highly depends on your music. I dont know Falling In Reverse but apparently they use a crap tonne of orchestral stuff and synths live because they are a vital part of their songs. Some commenters here have said that often the orchestra stuff or synths will play on their own in certain sections. This makes a satisfying show impossible without laptops. Also click tracks and the entire light show are not existent without laptops
There’s nothing wrong with needing a laptop. It’s just technology like any other bit of gear. It’s no different to using a Kemper/Helix. But, if you’re going to use laptops maybe put your data in the cloud so you can easily replace any lost/damaged laptops.
My problem with Falling in Reverse...big problem is that there is soooooooo much gear available to artists nowadays that can run their electronic tracks that they don't need to just run it off of a DAW to run it. Or at the very least get someone in the band to run it all from the laptop as your first option and if it fails have everything ready to go to be ran DAWless. Just look at NIN. They do things in such a way to were it primarily DAWless and have never had to cancel a show becuase of a missing computer. They just have more redundancies in place.
The difference is FIR is all about the money. I doubt they refunded the people for their tickets. They took a paid day off. Hopefully people stop listening to that crap.
I like the new slipknot album more than I expected to. I don’t consider it the same band as the band that did the first 4 albums though. There’s not much point comparing it to their old stuff, those days are long over. Their intensity started dropping off after Iowa and was all gone after All Hope Is Gone.
The Devin Townsend Project heavily relies on backing tracks and effects…. The best show I’ve ever heard from them was when that system failed and they just played straight.
Devin Townsend doesn't rap over trap beats 50% of his set 😆 Not exactly a valid comparison. It would be more comparable to a band like linkin park suddenly losing all of their abilities to use a click, samples, or synths. The set would be sub par
@@TheGilmourJones Still depends on what part in your music the digital aspect has. Synths, samples etc etc things that can not be done in any other way than with the bands digital devices (what ever they may be). Bands utilizing that are no less musicians than someone like Devin imo. I have no idea how falling in reverse even sounds, but I am talking about bands using digital elements in general.
@@DaemonDrummer33 You watch any live DT concert and he relies heavily on pre-recorded layered synths and samples. It would greatly affect his show as well.
Great show Ola as always man. That's going to be an interesting riff challenge this week with those drums for 105 for sure 😀🤘🎵🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Have a great rest of the weekend everyone and I may see you you at the SWOLA contenders livestream tomorrow 🙂
Hola Ola! Team no sleep greetings from Mexico! Love your content. Swola definitely a blessing during pandemic lock out. Thanks for being amazing and an inspiration on keeping metal alive and on fire! Lov u bro
Then you would need to programm the whole show multiple times including click tracks, possibly patch changes, maybe the entire light show runs off laptops etc. Thats not worth the effort for a very rare occurance like that.
It is very real and very understandable. The whole show depends on it. Click tracks, lighting, possibly in ear mixes, the entire background texture of every song is gone when there are no samples. The fans paid for the full deal. It is unfair for the fans and the musicians to half arse it.
19:23 that sums up my impression of the album exactly. It's very artsy lots of clean vocals painting that slipknot circus imagery they had going on for the last two or so albums now. Which is fine, I mean they can do whatever they want. Just not 100% what I'm looking for in their catalog. So let's see what the next one brings!
Hi! Very entertaining show once more. Congrats on that and also THANKS for every Sunday morning coffee entertainment. Say, is it a joke I don't get that it's been always Nicholas who is asking the question of the day? ✌🏼
1. That Solar is siiick (high pitch voice) 2. If you require laptops for your live show...fine. But to cancel because of it? Not cool 3. Dream Theater is a music machine. Can't wait to hear new material 4. Never heard of At The Gates band. Must investigate this further. 5. Jim Lill is a friggin' genius. If you haven't subbed, do it when you leave here. 6. If you play extreme metal to pick up chicks...get a life. It ain't happening bro. 7. Brendon Small is a metal machine. That Ghost Horse is just badass. Love it 8. Slipknot is still kicking. Cases of Ensure were consumed on that tour... 9. When Dimebag switched to Krank tube amps, that is the closest tone to a Dual Rectifier. Anything else is not possible. Too much fundamental differences between the two amp types 10. That dog is awesome
People misunderstand, falling in reverse is a genre hopping band. Theyre not a straight rock band, a lot of their songs rely on sections that are nothing but 808s, synths, or orchestras. If all of their songs were purely guitar driven, then it would not be a legitimate excuse. Edit: just because its possible to do a live show without laptops, its not possible to do a falling in reverse show that way. The music would be entirely different. And wouldnt even resemble a shell of what it normally is. I saw falling in reverse in 2016 or 2017, dracula tour. It was an awesome show, and it was definitely way more than just a rock show, it was a metalcore, hip hop, punk, pop rock show driven by stage presence of all members
Great show Ola! New Windstein guitar looks great. Also...really enjoy the new Slipknot album. There are several heavy songs: Hive Mind, Warranty, H377. I'm glad they're not going balls out and adding more melody. Acidic and Medicine for the Dead are great tracks. Have a good week.
That’s what I think Jim Lill’s videos miss - you can make an example riff of two amps/guitars that sound pretty much the same with eq etc but it doesn’t mean the feel and response will be the same, how they react to picking dynamics etc. I find the same with pickup comparisons- they might sound close in the end but feel and response make a big difference to how you play.
Nice looking Epiphone, reminds me of a guitar a guitar I gazed longingly at for weeks in the music store window, an Ibanez iceman, tobacco burst, back in the 90's. Told my friend about it and he bought it instead, the bastard. Maybe you could add some classic vintage guitars like my iceman to your shopping list next time?
Good morning from New England..Imo Gojira have--has the best guitar tone in metal...The new guitar looks hella cool...You forgot to mention Kirk also played in DOWN...✌️🤘
The one thing I'd change about that epiphone is I'd move the strap position from the side body near the neck to the back. I had an epiphone explorer for years and it had a bolt on neck. But one of the bolts was extra long because it also had the strap holder bolted on to the metal plate at the neck/body join. It sat perfectly with my preferred high headstock playing position when I was playing it standing up and influenced how I look at the playing position of every guitar ever since.
NIN uses laptops. I stood by the sound booth one show and watch the crew preform. It was a great show, Trent destroyed the keyboardist gear, and he went after Trent. The Rodies had to grab him and keep him away from Trent. The show was a record release party and they invited Gary Holt to the show so they could recruit him for the tour. They told Gary if he took the job that he couldn't talk to Trent or touch him. If he did any of those things he would be fired. After Gary saw what Trent did to the keyboardist he said no.
Congrats on Crowbar's (Down) guitar player joining Solar Guitars, Crowbar is such an awesome band "Planets Collide, The Burning Sun, and the whole album of Symmetry In Black" is freaking awesome!!! Not only is John Petrucci writing his part of the songs, he is practicing to play them note for note in live concert, inspirational guy. For those guys that want to write more often: The best advice is to not (over) criticize to much your own music and instead just picture that once you add drums, bass, and vocals that your Riff is going to sound f****ing great no matter how lame you think it is.. You can apply this to every instrument or riff you write!! Don't be a "Critic" be a "Songwriter" and remember, just about anything is better than nothing! 👽✌
Next level production from Ola here with all the cams. Anybody else seriously appreciating the chill elevator music in the background? Also I kinda like that Mesa released just cabs. As Glenn Fricker, URM, and others have been pointing out and demonstrating in shootout vids, the cab is probably a bigger tone-shaper than the amp itself, granted the amp meets very basic standards. This release from Mesa could be their company recognizing this fact, that the cab is a serious tone-shaper.
You know... I've watched the Rock in Rio shows and they were all using backing tracks and is sounded like hearing Spotify coming from the stage, even though some bands were incredible like Bieber's "We the Band".
Thank you for the words about the laptop thing. It is easy to understand every point of it. But there is one thing i prefer: the word live! so i make a difference between a programmed multimedia presentation and a live show. it starts already with click tracks. of course it helps holding a band timing tight, when you have some. but it takes away the some part of the uniqueness of a single show, some of the dynamics that comes with the mood, the venue, the audience and so on. for me these factors are more important than a "perfect" presentation. so i would design my whole concert based on this principle. fair enough: if you want big choirs and orchestra and stuff, the cast would be too expensive to have it all the time with you. so using tracks is maybe a sweet compromise then. but many things you can arrange as a live version or add one guy to manage all sampling stuff live to a human-led music. (flexible tempo of course!) the technical solutions for this is existing even for pre-produced tracks. like it is used in musical shows, where a conductor sets the tempo different every night. (and they save a lot of money by decreasing the orchestra casts on and on. 😞)
Also clicks are vital when it comes to music that isnt three chord Pop shit. People want to hear it as close to the studio version as possible. Thats their right. Setting the speed according to the mood of the band is almost never a good thing. So much stuff thats not played to a click sounds rushed.
@@metalpuppet5798 I disagree to some of that. i cannot speak for "people" - but don't they go to a live show with special energy and not to a studio-like presentation? what should be their primal right? don't confound a nice human factor also in terms of tempo with bad playing and missing the "right" tempo, which can vary without being a worse live performance. as a classical music artist i admire when it is moving/breathing a bit. as a former bootleg-rec collector i appreciate the differences. as a fan and listener i very often feel a sudden loss of energy by hearing a band cooling down because the click says so, while the actual energy goes somewhere else. the best tempo can also a bit co-determined by the acoustic of the venue. so many factors that are taken away by following a machine - unless you dont play a mechanic music style that's got to have this.
The thing with the laptop just makes me think of a band like Epica or Nightwish, who have so many instrumental and choral parts that it would have to be an incredibly big production to have all instruments played live. Even with Coen of Epica and Tuomas of Nightwish doing a great job on keys to play a lot of those parts, they can only do so much. A good portion of the drama of the music via backing tracks and the tie-ins with lighting and pyro probably come from a conputer.. though, thinking about it, those two bands are professional enough they would probably just find some way to make it work and play a somewhat reduce their production level for that show. This debacle may just be pointing out how helpful it could be to have a backup plan.
Hey Ola, will there ever be a hard tail version of the Solar models with the Sustainiac pickup? The only Sustainiac equipped hard tail guitars I've seen are a couple of Schecter models. Love your content, Ola!
I can totally respect that a band like Falling in Reverse would 100% need laptops for the show. BUT if you are so dependant, you MUST have backups. In theory, you can have everything in the cloud so if you lose your gear, you can just get new and download everything just as it where. I do this both at work, with my business and with my private stuff aswell and I never worry about losing or dropping a phone or computer. (At least for the data is concerned)
That is absolutely funny as hell !! I played in a thrash band from the 80's and 90's. Only thing we relied upon was an intro tape, everything was all us !! None of these synced tracks and fills !! Band synced ?? Milli Vanilli type crap. Click tracks and crap like that. Pre- programmed music ?? WTF !!
They are allowed to write what ever the hell they want. And if they want to write music with all kinds of orchestral layers, synth parts etc then they should. The only way to do these things live is with laptops. If you dont want to hire an orchestra. Which you do not want because its unpayable for any band that isnt the level of Metallica.
I was an Audio System Tech for one of their shows with Papa Roach this summer and it was pretty tracks heavy lol I also was doing monitors on the B stage of that WIIL festival they were supposed to play at, and it made my life easier because I had a tiny ass stage to do 5 bands so with Jackyl going to the big stage helped alot lollll
I've known fora while he is a solar artist and kinda figured he just super loved then. You shouting him out made me feel super happy. I derive a lot of my influence from down home southern sludge. Fuxk yeah.
On the slipknot thing. It's a bit telling "how much effort" they put into the new record when the first thing Corey and Shawn goes out and talk about at release is that they don't have any legal obligations to roadrunner any more. Why roadrunner is shit can be read about if you google it, but this record is slipknots half-ass'ed 2 weeks notice to roadrunner. There is no telling if it's going to be better or worse down the road as they make records independently. Just hoping for the best.
The Jim Lill video really is amazing. It doesn't really show that amps are unnecessary. But it debunks all of the myths about weird magic chips, tubes and other parts. Like Josh from JHS says: it's not the chip, it's the circuit.
Explorer with string-through-body! I definitely need one of those! Only one pickup and not that useless tone pot. It's almost like if I suggested to make such a guitar... Wait a minute! I did 😁
