We're now entering the Mesa period where Gibson start rereleasing the exact same amps every year just with different shell woods and finishes and calling them shit like "2025 premium series" "2026 Player series" "2027 Exotic series" with no other changes or new models released.
Dime got me OBSESSED with 2x15 cabs. I’d go stare at the Warhead stack at Mars Music. Of course they sounded like ass lol. But I now have 2 Marshall 2X15. With EV’s. MONSTERS
The lack of "character" is what I LOVE about my Lundgren M7! It is completely transparent, articulate, and evenly-voiced, allowing your amp and your technique to do all the work, creating the sound you hear in your head.
The problem with limiting these things to 333 means that they’ll be bought up extremely fast then pumped onto EBay and reverb for triple the price a month later.
There's still nothing better than a good old tube amp with a solid cab. I've got a Marshall DSL1 hooked up to an Orange PPC212 cab with two Celestion Vintage 30s, and it sounds way better than digital modeling without all the complicated settings. The 1-watt Marshall doesn't have any unnecessary knobs. I had switched to modeling a few years ago, but in the end, I came back to this setup.
@@bobrutledge54Yes, it's one of the best and it sounds great. However, it's really heavy, and that's the downside-it's a real hassle to transport. If I had known, I would have gone for the Blackstar St. James cab. Apparently, it's the same quality as the Vintage 30, but much lighter.
Great vid, Ola. Now that you mentioned, I'm pretty sure a lot of us got curious about what amp would sound good with DM guitar (it's also a perfect excuse to teach us how to dial a good chug tone with a guitar loaded with hot pickups)
Ola is correct when talking about a softer pickup into a modern high gain amp. I did the same with a Krankenstein. It absolutely makes sense when you hear it
Kind of surprising the Gibson Mustaine sounded like crap through the EVH, while the Charvel Danhage didn’t 🤷♂️ The Charvel has a SD JB in the bridge and the Gibson has the SD Thrash Factor, with is based on the JB Dave used to record Rust in Peace. They should, in theory, sound almost identical 🤔 Edit: in fact, the Thrash Factor’s output is a teeny tiny bit lower than the JB.
I find it interesting how there's a bit of a resurgence in Dimebag gear at the moment. We're hitting the 20 year mark of his untimely passing. 20 years is usually the nostalgia cycle when it comes to music/pop culture/video games. The kids who grew up with it in their childhood are usually at the point where they have the disposable income to splurge on things that remind them of being young again.
Ola, Love you and your channel Pixie is so adorable, she fits your family perfectly and the guitar picks is her way of feeling included. Killer tone from that EVH 5150 el34, that strat sounds huge. Great video Ola Thanks for everything you do Cheers
I reckon (going superhot into 5150), that is more cabinet-speaker-mic combination. 5150 never failed me, from tele's lipstick to hot bridges but I use first series of Bugera cab, not "improved one", or Fane pop50 or Boss katana50mk1 connected as cab or ball grinding irs on top of clean signal from attenuators line out. Btw I use mix of sm58 and Marantz mpm 3000 large diaphragm condenser mic, less handy set when on stereo bar but good bang for a buck. Both are very proximity sensitive and I end up with much thinner tone than I would choose for live, however mids are more ripping before they get boxxy and i like to take off bit of low end to uncover mids. For recording I would advice you to start using studio tricks with two angled swapping phases, then eq-ing what you don't like and swapping phase back, just for example. I've noticed you know these tricks but I can't see you got any kinda "your" way you would stick to, usally one rather common mic, no phasing magic and yes, otherwise it introduces more work and often phase misalignment correction in daw but gives you few tracks to mix from one performance and incredible flexibility in post. Depends if you want to get in that rabbit hole but I don't regret I learned and tried a bit cuz with just 3 kinds of speakers, playing with mics and position/angle of 2 much different ones I can achieve a lot of different effects. Getting fluent in this is like to get unlimited cabs and mics, still using only two. You record on your own so I think you need to revise subject you anyway know a lot about. In my opinion you are one who will really benefit from getting geeky about techniques of micking speakers and problem solving/getting creative.
Happy Swola Day, my ballsack bros! My vote is Fender Evangelion Tele + Boss Super OD + Marshall JVM + Mesa Oversized 4x12 + SM57/M 160 combo (57 on the cone at 10 o clock, M160 move right of the cone blended as a balancing dark mic to the bright 57) - going for a mid gain tone with some twang in the attack. No Swola Contenders this week?
I absolutely love my Orange Micro Dark through my Marshall bass cab so I HIGHLY recommend running a Micro Dark through a bass cab and going for a Matt Pike tone 👍 I’d like to hear one through a 1x15 bass cab over a 4x12 if you have that.
12:18 the Custom 5 TB-14 (or SH-14) is just the best passive humbucker for metal, especially for recordings, tweaking settings and just playing guitar. Suggestions: Custom 5 bridge humbuckers through Fortin Natas
No-talking Demo Combo Ideas: Fishman/EMG guitar going into a Chug pedal boosting a Mesa Dual Rectifier. Like you did for Rob Barrett but actually mic'd.
The Henrik Danhage Charvel has a Seymour Duncan JB TB-4 Humbucker in the bridge position and a DiMarzio Area 67 DP419CR Humbucker (in single coil format) in the neck position.
OH MY FUCKING GOD, MORE OMC COMING?!!! I really needed something like this to look forward to. I might be bitch-made, but I'm literally almost in tears right now.
Other thing with being close to dimebag tone is many amps do that if you use eq in loop. Having one amp and for example Sovtek/EHX big muff Pi with its kinda parametric eq can add nice grit cuz you have fuzz with dry/wet and mids bump you can apply pretty strong cut in frequency you choose. Beside that gain and tone but still added only partially to your chain. Dimebag knew the power of eq. Believe me, you don't really need the Warhead to sound like Dimebag.
When I play my really hot pup guitars thru my EVH EL34 50w - gain HAS to come down - ass tone insues if not - but w/ less hot - amp does the “flavour” - agreed! \m/
I'm glad Galder is getting OMC back together. Black Seeds on Virgin Soil is one of the eeriest songs I've ever heard. I haven't been a fan of Dimmu since Mustis and Vortex left or whatever. 🤘
Richlite seems like a great product, I'd love to try it. I hope we can see it on more models, and models without Evertune. I'd love a hardtail T series or G series 7 string.
Hey! Speaking about guitar+amp videos, I would love to see video of OG 5150 with guitar that have Bill Lawrence pickup. I aquired guitar with this pickup some time ago and problem is that this combo sounds weird - untill I roll a volume on guitar a bit the attack of pickup is very metallic, overly bright and thin - it becomes normal when volume rolled. I'm realy curious is this common thing or there is something wrong with pickup or else
i got an idea, do a cab shootout, coz the cab shapes the tone probably the most in the chain. I've hardly ever seen anyboody talking about cabs when talking about tone. Always amps and pickups, but cab is one of the biggest piece of the tone.
New Dime Warhead amp? Sweet. I had the original. I still have the full stack, but sold the head decades ago. lmao. That amp sucked balls so bad, I'll never forget it. But the cabs rule. Anyone else have a 2x15 guitar cab? I'm loving it. I use Crate solid state at the moment. (Yes, that old p.o.s. you remember). I have a Quilter too, but rarely use it as it's more of a back-up mini head. Perhaps I'll be checking out this amp since I'm still in the School of Dime, and I prefer solid state over tube for eternity. ;)
We're now entering the Mesa period where Gibson start rereleasing the exact same amps every year just with different shell woods and finishes and calling them shit like "2025 premium series" "2026 Player series" "2027 Exotic series" with no other changes or new models released.
So Gibson is the Disney of guitar gear?
@@MarkSDD yup...no innovation...but as long as people keep buying why should they change?
@@NabPunk or the Apple of phones
and charge $10,000 for a head
Mesas are already horribly overpriced and over engineered.
Randall Smith should start a new amp company and call it "Randall"!
Don Randall is Randall amps
In the 2000s, I thought Randall Smith also owned/designed Randall amps. Lol. I was young in age and guitar. lol
My comment was sarcastic, FYI
Nah - Smith 😎
@@kurttrinter8344 he should pay Michael Soldano the millions that he stole from him when he stole the design for the Rectifier preamp.
You should call Randall Smith and start Solar Amps ASAP.
Excellent idea!!
I'm all for that 😜🤘
First type: the IWC.
Meaning: IT WILL CHUG!
🤘
Solamps... like... uhmm.... ah forget it!
The riffs in the intro starting at 1:10 were epic.Sounds like Nevermore, Instant head banging.
Very Nevermore-y intro!
10/10 would find a way to buy a new Warhead amp. Even better if they do the 4x12 and 2x15 stack again.
The 215 is the only thing I'm after
Dime got me OBSESSED with 2x15 cabs. I’d go stare at the Warhead stack at Mars Music. Of course they sounded like ass lol. But I now have 2 Marshall 2X15. With EV’s. MONSTERS
I prefer Richlite fretboards. Glad you made the move!
Same. Been using them on all my recent guitar builds.
I was anti Richlite until i actually got a guitar with Richlite. I think its great stuff.
The lack of "character" is what I LOVE about my Lundgren M7! It is completely transparent, articulate, and evenly-voiced, allowing your amp and your technique to do all the work, creating the sound you hear in your head.
The problem with limiting these things to 333 means that they’ll be bought up extremely fast then pumped onto EBay and reverb for triple the price a month later.
Mine won't be, trust me. Gear is for playing.
It’ll be higher than triple. I’d expect to see them at at least $3-4k.
@@jessesteel333 only the launch edition is limited
I got one and can’t wait. The link leaked a few minutes early for me 😂
Hey Ola. Can't wait to hear what you think of new Nile.
Pix News? Finally spun so fast she caught her own butt? lol
Randall Smith leaving Mesa is the end of that brand.
Wondering what guys like Petrucci will do next.
There's still nothing better than a good old tube amp with a solid cab. I've got a Marshall DSL1 hooked up to an Orange PPC212 cab with two Celestion Vintage 30s, and it sounds way better than digital modeling without all the complicated settings. The 1-watt Marshall doesn't have any unnecessary knobs. I had switched to modeling a few years ago, but in the end, I came back to this setup.
Such a great cab.I have the same one. Properly built and very punchy.
@@bobrutledge54Yes, it's one of the best and it sounds great.
However, it's really heavy, and that's the downside-it's a real hassle to transport.
If I had known, I would have gone for the Blackstar St. James cab.
Apparently, it's the same quality as the Vintage 30, but much lighter.
1:18 holy Nevermore, Batman!
@@Boots_McScoots seconded
I love your dog....she's so awesome!
That riff came out of NOWHERE
absolutely
Galder needs more OMC! So good news! Hope he can collab with Nicholas Barker on future release.
As cool as that would be the last what we heard from Barker was that he was not doing so hot. His health is in bad shape.
I think Nick is done.
I’m in transilvania and waiting for the swola premier on a sunny sunday morning🎉
Better wait for the son to make sure Dracula is asleep 😂
@@cihanbasaran2011 do you hunger?
Ola when will Malmsten in Coffee with Ola?
Hopefully never
@@Ottophil Hahahaha why 😁
@@mylogifyhe’s insufferable
@@disistheway2010 For me the most insufferable is indeed Ozzy Osbourne.
@@disistheway2010 He used to be for sure. Lately he seems to be a lot more down to earth and humble in the videos I have seen with him.
Great vid, Ola. Now that you mentioned, I'm pretty sure a lot of us got curious about what amp would sound good with DM guitar (it's also a perfect excuse to teach us how to dial a good chug tone with a guitar loaded with hot pickups)
Like that euro feel in the melidics
Great format, thanks to Ola and his fantastic and unmissable news!
What a killer Nevermoreesque opening riffage🤘
Glad you still have the ProJect X2 wood edition...Have the exact same one and enjoying every bit of it... 😄
Back to the roots indeed :) Combos that I'd recommend: Feared and Any/All Amps haha
Amps and guitars testing! THAT’S THE CONTENT Im all about!! Keep it coming.
HAPPY SWOLA!! That intro had some major Unearth vibes! AWESOME!!
Yoo Congrats for the new release man!
Coffee with Ola with Karl Sanders would be a treat to watch! \m/
Ola is correct when talking about a softer pickup into a modern high gain amp. I did the same with a Krankenstein. It absolutely makes sense when you hear it
As far as future ideas, I’d love to hear an Ozzy- No More Tears tone episode!
Miracle Man.
Richlite is fantastic stuff, the weather works on wood in crazy ways, but richlite is like BRING YO HUMIDITY, I GOT THIS!
Oh yeah, I'd love to hear one of your 8 string models through the Peavey Invective 120 🔥
I think most people didn't notice that you were yelling at the decibel meter 😂😂😂 I was laughing the entire episode!
Kind of surprising the Gibson Mustaine sounded like crap through the EVH, while the Charvel Danhage didn’t 🤷♂️ The Charvel has a SD JB in the bridge and the Gibson has the SD Thrash Factor, with is based on the JB Dave used to record Rust in Peace. They should, in theory, sound almost identical 🤔
Edit: in fact, the Thrash Factor’s output is a teeny tiny bit lower than the JB.
Congrats on album sounds great! Hell yeah more old man’s child!
I like your way of playing guitar I can't reach as an old punk. Fanx for being real.
HELL YEAH! OLA! I can't wait until I can afford to buy your merch. I WILL BUY EVERYTHING! Hahaha! Love you man!
I find it interesting how there's a bit of a resurgence in Dimebag gear at the moment. We're hitting the 20 year mark of his untimely passing. 20 years is usually the nostalgia cycle when it comes to music/pop culture/video games. The kids who grew up with it in their childhood are usually at the point where they have the disposable income to splurge on things that remind them of being young again.
His Washburn signatures and anything even remotely tied to his name have already been over priced for many years at this point.
So excited!!! Can’t wait to get my album!! Ola and team you rock!!!!!
That last riff of the intro gave me Nevermore vibes, Great work!
Ola,
Love you and your channel
Pixie is so adorable, she fits your family perfectly and the guitar picks is her way of feeling included. Killer tone from that EVH 5150 el34, that strat sounds huge.
Great video Ola
Thanks for everything you do
Cheers
I reckon (going superhot into 5150), that is more cabinet-speaker-mic combination. 5150 never failed me, from tele's lipstick to hot bridges but I use first series of Bugera cab, not "improved one", or Fane pop50 or Boss katana50mk1 connected as cab or ball grinding irs on top of clean signal from attenuators line out. Btw I use mix of sm58 and Marantz mpm 3000 large diaphragm condenser mic, less handy set when on stereo bar but good bang for a buck. Both are very proximity sensitive and I end up with much thinner tone than I would choose for live, however mids are more ripping before they get boxxy and i like to take off bit of low end to uncover mids. For recording I would advice you to start using studio tricks with two angled swapping phases, then eq-ing what you don't like and swapping phase back, just for example. I've noticed you know these tricks but I can't see you got any kinda "your" way you would stick to, usally one rather common mic, no phasing magic and yes, otherwise it introduces more work and often phase misalignment correction in daw but gives you few tracks to mix from one performance and incredible flexibility in post. Depends if you want to get in that rabbit hole but I don't regret I learned and tried a bit cuz with just 3 kinds of speakers, playing with mics and position/angle of 2 much different ones I can achieve a lot of different effects. Getting fluent in this is like to get unlimited cabs and mics, still using only two. You record on your own so I think you need to revise subject you anyway know a lot about. In my opinion you are one who will really benefit from getting geeky about techniques of micking speakers and problem solving/getting creative.
Been waiting so patiently for Chug Project 3, lol! 🤟😎🤘
Happy Swola Day, my ballsack bros! My vote is Fender Evangelion Tele + Boss Super OD + Marshall JVM + Mesa Oversized 4x12 + SM57/M 160 combo (57 on the cone at 10 o clock, M160 move right of the cone blended as a balancing dark mic to the bright 57) - going for a mid gain tone with some twang in the attack. No Swola Contenders this week?
I absolutely love my Orange Micro Dark through my Marshall bass cab so I HIGHLY recommend running a Micro Dark through a bass cab and going for a Matt Pike tone 👍
I’d like to hear one through a 1x15 bass cab over a 4x12 if you have that.
Oh shit! Your intro bit... So Nevermore vibe to it. Love it! 🤘
Dimebags WARHEAD! Cmon! Getcha pull mate 🍻 333!
Hipshot bridges, Richlite fretboards. YES!
12:18 the Custom 5 TB-14 (or SH-14) is just the best passive humbucker for metal, especially for recordings, tweaking settings and just playing guitar. Suggestions: Custom 5 bridge humbuckers through Fortin Natas
Ola, you are The riff master 🎸🎸
Very cool art work on the album cover
That ending riff was siiiiiiiiiick
No-talking Demo Combo Ideas: Fishman/EMG guitar going into a Chug pedal boosting a Mesa Dual Rectifier. Like you did for Rob Barrett but actually mic'd.
The Henrik Danhage Charvel has a Seymour Duncan JB TB-4 Humbucker in the bridge position
and a DiMarzio Area 67 DP419CR Humbucker (in single coil format) in the neck position.
Legends dont die. Left a hell of a Legacy. 🤘🤘
Drum track rocks, stoked for this swola
Randall Smith didn’t design the Rectifier. Michael Soldano did.
Glad to see Solar can still produce premium guitars under a 1000! That guitar looks killer dude!
Looking forward to seeing the Warhead on reverb for $2000. Also, r.i.p. Mesa it was a good run.
That last riff was fire Ola!
A Roadking through the Fortin cab would be interesting. Pair it with your Steve Vai Universe or any other 7 string you have.
I love the T-Shirt change trick.
More news, Devin Townsend released a new single called PowerNerd.
New Old Man’s Child🤘🏻🤘🏻
HEY OLA ENGLUND MY BROTHER FROM ANOTHER GRANNY..... HOPE ALL WELL.... AND IT WOULD BE AWESOME IF YOU CAME TO FLORIDA.... AND PLAYED
OH MY FUCKING GOD, MORE OMC COMING?!!!
I really needed something like this to look forward to. I might be bitch-made, but I'm literally almost in tears right now.
Ok. This SWOLA RIFF SONG was sick man!!!!
Dat tone dude!
Ola, saw Meagdeth last night and I have to say Teemu does an amazing job. I felt like he plays everything note for note.
Hey Ola can you review the 7 string king v and Rhoads from Jackson guitars
love old mans child cheers
I'm so disappointed I'm awake at this hour when I have to work tomorrow. Oh well!
Other thing with being close to dimebag tone is many amps do that if you use eq in loop. Having one amp and for example Sovtek/EHX big muff Pi with its kinda parametric eq can add nice grit cuz you have fuzz with dry/wet and mids bump you can apply pretty strong cut in frequency you choose. Beside that gain and tone but still added only partially to your chain. Dimebag knew the power of eq. Believe me, you don't really need the Warhead to sound like Dimebag.
When I play my really hot pup guitars thru my EVH EL34 50w - gain HAS to come down - ass tone insues if not - but w/ less hot - amp does the “flavour” - agreed! \m/
Great intro. And yeah that last riff looks like a master of puppets work out or some shit.
Ola you're a fookin riff genius.
I want more of the Decibel Yell like last week!
I'm glad Galder is getting OMC back together. Black Seeds on Virgin Soil is one of the eeriest songs I've ever heard. I haven't been a fan of Dimmu since Mustis and Vortex left or whatever. 🤘
It has been long over due for Old Man's Child to return.
I mean, it's not like Dimmu Borgir has released anything the past 6 years. Looking forward to Old Man's Child as well.
I think dimmu has been stagnant for a LONG time. The last album I really enjoyed was insorti diaboli. So yeah, bring on the old man's child!
@@timothyvonvictory7105 I agree. That was their last good album.
@@timothyvonvictory7105 Once Vortex and Mustis were gone, it was over.
@@diabeticmonkey totally agree. The magik was gone lol
Remember the segment Ola tasting Shit? And Jen Majura was lurking and stalking Ola? Aaaaah yes! Memories! Lol
yes! Old Man's Child back again!
Richlite seems like a great product, I'd love to try it. I hope we can see it on more models, and models without Evertune. I'd love a hardtail T series or G series 7 string.
Maybe the preorder itself with certificates are what's limited
The riff at about 2:00 in the song Red by Leprous is obnoxiously difficult. Way harder than it sounds.
Hey! Speaking about guitar+amp videos, I would love to see video of OG 5150 with guitar that have Bill Lawrence pickup. I aquired guitar with this pickup some time ago and problem is that this combo sounds weird - untill I roll a volume on guitar a bit the attack of pickup is very metallic, overly bright and thin - it becomes normal when volume rolled. I'm realy curious is this common thing or there is something wrong with pickup or else
I see that non production dime d100 in white you got sitting there hehe, must enjoy it with the right pedals in that clean channel
i got an idea, do a cab shootout, coz the cab shapes the tone probably the most in the chain. I've hardly ever seen anyboody talking about cabs when talking about tone. Always amps and pickups, but cab is one of the biggest piece of the tone.
Badcat with Marshall 4x12 with boss od1 in front of amp and your black esp .
We need more Ola learns!
we need a special SWOLA208, that's the 4 year mark!
New Dime Warhead amp? Sweet. I had the original. I still have the full stack, but sold the head decades ago. lmao. That amp sucked balls so bad, I'll never forget it. But the cabs rule. Anyone else have a 2x15 guitar cab? I'm loving it. I use Crate solid state at the moment. (Yes, that old p.o.s. you remember). I have a Quilter too, but rarely use it as it's more of a back-up mini head. Perhaps I'll be checking out this amp since I'm still in the School of Dime, and I prefer solid state over tube for eternity. ;)
Ola! would live to hear you play through a Orange Rockverb 100 or 50 MKiii.
Love that Charvel!
Hi dude! We want a Lichtlaerm Prometheus demo!
Have a nice week!
Old mans child LETS FUCKING GO
@Ola Englund:
Bro, don’t let Pix bites plastic picks, in long term can cause cancer! Not to mention Eddie Van Halen 😢
Hey Pix is making merch. Get your chewed guitar picks!! 😆
very Nevermorish intro riff
Man I got the hoodie of the shirt your wearing when haunted toured australia like 15 years ago. The shirt version looks sick
2:03 the local crackhead at 7/11 trying to show me the worm he found
"ANYWAYS HAVE YOU SEEN THIS COOL WORM I FOUND"