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SWOLA61 - ALEXI LAIHO ESP, NEW OFFICE, QUAD CORTEX, FRACTAL FM9

Another Sunday, but this one feels weird because it's the absolute LAST one recorded at the office... Weird as hell, but really looking forward to my new setup! Today we're talking about my second channel, Quad Cortex, the new Fractal FM9, Alexi Laiho signature ESP guitars, new Animals as Leaders etc. @NeuralDSP @fractalaudiosystems @espguitarsusa Link to my Second Channel Ola Englund 2 https://www.youtube.com/OlaEnglund2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Link to Swola Riffs 1 Compilation: https://olaenglund.com/swolariffs1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SWOLA DRUMS https://www.dropbox.com/s/4om69ys9t576ie0/2021-09-12%20Sunday%20With%20Ola%2061%20Drums%20-%20132bpm.wav?dl=0 SWOLA CONTENDERS 60 EXTENDED VIDEO: http://www.youtube.com/OlaEnglund2 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Spotify Play list: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/43qflzyqKMxgREpUdfiGA6?si=f518de5a17bc4a08 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 0:00 - Intro 3:16 - Sunday with Ola Riff Compilation 4:55 - Second Channel 6:12 - ThaNews 6:23 - RIP Aries Tanto (Burgerkill) 7:08 - New ESP Alexi Laiho 9:13 - Kiko Loureiro Switching to Quad Cortex 10:27 - New Fractal FM-9 12:07 - New Animals As Leaders 13:45 - Sunday with Ola Riff Challenge 19:45 - Spotify Playlist 23:19 - Outro I'm Ola Englund and welcome to my channel. A channel dedicated to guitar related gear with a focus on metal. I also play in the metal bands The Haunted & Feared and run a guitar company https://www.solar-guitars.com My Pages ► My Music - http://www.olaenglundshop.com ► Spotify - http://www.olaenglund.com/starzingerspotify ► Website - http://www.olaenglund.com ► TikTok - https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMdcTBtwX/ ► Twitch - http://www.twitch.tv/olaenglundofficial ► Facebook - http://www.olaenglund.com/facebook ► Instagram - http://www.instagram.com/olaenglund ► Feared - http://www.fearedband.com ► Want to interact more with me? Join My Discord Channel and Become a Youtube Member for VoiceChat and more. Click the Join button above. Link To Discord - https://olaenglund.com/discord ►List of things I use to make my video(affiliated links) https://www.amazon.com/shop/fearedse EDITING: OrionVP

Ola Englund

2 years ago

Yeah What's up everyone? And welcome to Sunday with Ola 61, hello! It's with a very weird feeling... ...that I start this Sunday with Ola Because this is the absolute last Sunday with Ola... At this spot right here, just saying If you saw last week's Metal Morning... You might have heard me and Louise were talking about moving office And we're actually doing that Tomorrow All this shit is going out of here into a new, bigger office How about that? So with that said... Maybe there won't be a Meta
l Morning next Sunday Just, you know, to warn you guys There will be something else Maybe just not a Metal Morning Because we probably won't have been able to set everything up at that time, but... W-we'll make something, ok? Ok? Everything's recording? Great. You're licking? Great. Can I please just show this guitar real quick, look at this, hello? Uh... this is our new S1.6 With Evertune and Fishman pickups Hello? We released this guitar this past Friday And now I'm holding it and playing it i
n this Sunday with Ola, how about that? Welcome, everyone, holy shit We have a lot to cover today, so pay attention, ok? Ok? Play some guitar, man, ok Play Well... First of all... Thank you Alright, our very very first... ...and very important piece of news that we need to talk about Is that this past Thursday... ...I released a new EP What? How did you miss this? Well, it's not because it's a real EP or album, it's... Basically Sunday with Ola Riff Compilation Number 1 How about that? What? Hel
lo? This is my microphone right here, how did you manage to do this? So what I've done is that I put together a bunch of the Sunday with Ola Riff Challenges All of them that was original on my behalf And I've put them together on an album And you can listen to it anywhere you want now All streaming platforms, you know, Spotify, Apple Music and all that You can listen to old classics, like SWOLA 14 Or how about SWOLA 21? Or... SWOLA 29 Remember this one? So basically what's happened is that I've.
.. Did a compilation like this Had it mixed Uploaded it to... Spotify, youtube, everywhere you wanna listen If you wanna listen to these riffs... No solos, no bullshit like that Onlyriffs Only blast beats Yeah Basically it's just all the clips, like 1 minute long In a pile, that you can listen to if you want I just figured, why not just release that shit, man? Just put it out there This obviously riff compilation number one, there's a number two coming At a later point, ok? Cool, huh? I'll put a
link up here and in the description You can go to Spotify and listen to this Also, before we start with the news, I also want to... ...let you guys know about my second channel You know, I had a livestreaming channel on youtube, which had... You know, a fair bit subscribers onto it Where I did like one or two livestreams I recognized that livestreaming is just not my thing At least not to getting a... A steady livestreaming schedule I must say I really really respect and admire the people that
can have a steady schedule of livestreaming, because... It's really stressful At least for me, it's really stressful, so... To everyone out there that is doing a lot of livestreams I applaud you, you guys are amazing, but... Instead of my livestreaming channel, I'm now doing Ola Englund channel number 2 Basically it's another youtube channel where anything goes You know... All my stupid clips I'm gonna try and, you know, engage with the community a lot more I'm gonna talk to you a little bit lat
er in this video how and why If you just want more Ola content, that's the channel to subscribe to Nothing will happen to this first channel It will just go on as normal, ok? But on the other channel I can just upload shit basically So, great Selling myself Let's just head on to the news, I think it's time, we've been talking way too much And the dog is being... I don't even know what the dog is doing The news, everyone And first I'd like to talk a little bit about... ...a very tragic passing La
st Sunday with Ola, I think it was, when I checked out the Spotify playlist I listened to a band called Burgerkill from Indonesia An incredible band that I've heard before, they're sick, like... One of the biggest Indonesian metal bands out there Well, I just got the news a couple of days ago That the founding guitar player Aries Tanto died aged 46, just a couple of days ago And he was the last founding member of the band basically, that... That was still in the band Very weird You know, because
I talked about the band 2 weeks ago and yeah Very tragic and... Very tragic, and makes me very very sad, so... Rest in peace, Aries Tanto And thank you to the instagrammer that let me know about this piece of news, thank you ESP pays tribute to the late Alexi Laiho With 2 new signature guitars Look at this, I mean, these came out about a week ago And I just have to talk about 'em Because I mean, take a look and gander On this right here Look That is f***ing cool, I must say Really f***ing good
looking right there And this is the Ltd... no Wait, ESP Oh this is the... this... Ok, that's the Ltd right there Ltd right there and then there's an ESP obviously, a USA And then we have the E-II version Which is made in Japan It has the single coil in the neck position right there EMG pickups I think that looks great Floyd Rose 1000, Gotoh tuners, ESP strap locks Purple fade satin finish Ok, so these are EMG HZ Which is a EMG passive pickup Ok, with an ESP MM active boost switch, ok, ok, ok Tha
t gives 18 dB worth of boosting I mean, that's... ok, ok, ok, I understand, I understand this And apparently they were making these or designing these Before the passing of Alexi Laiho, so... I've been seeing a lot of the comments on posts about these guitars completely... ...blow up, regarding, you know... Seeing how Alexi has passed and... They shouldn't be making guitars in his name, well... Personally, I think he is inspiring a lot of guitar players And a lot of kids to start playing guitar
Obviously there should be a guitar for sale, just saying I mean, it's one way of keeping the legacy of Alexi Laiho alive, you know? So I don't know... I don't understand what the problem is But people are always gonna be like 'Oh it's all about the money now' No, I mean, it's about keeping the legacy alive too, man There's a lot more to it than that Anyways, I thought these were really f***ing cool Uh... nice tribute And uh... sick-ass guitars, I would love to try one out Another small piece of
news Kiko Loureiro has switched to the Neural DSP Quad Cortex for Megadeth's current tour He switched from Axe FX And he switched to Quad Cortex, which I think is great Because we need more... ...rock players out there playing the Quad Cortex, just saying I mean, the Quad Cortex has had kinda like a rough start with just getting the product out there, I mean, there's just so much competition It's just nice to see that they're getting into it And getting some artists to play their gear Because th
e gear is amazing But you know, it's just a really tough market out there, man, just saying And in this video right here they're checking out the unit Showing a couple of presets So there's obviously a guitar tech in the back, doing all the patch-shifting and changes Also, did you guys see that Kiko was playing a Gibson guitar? Just saying And also, if you just wanna have a really awesome glimpse inside the camp of Megadeth While they're on tour and whatnot You should go follow Kiko's channel,
it's really fun to watch A lot of his content is in... you know, Portuguese But that's ok, there's a lot of content that's in English too, just saying, so... Piece of news Piece of ass, I don't know Speaking of modelers, Fractal released a bigger version of their FM3 Called the FM-9 Now we're really starting to talk about competition, I mean, now... This is basically... The equivalent of the Helix You know, the Helix floorboard And you know, the Kemper Stage Now we're seeing a lot of competition
in this exact range right here And I have the FM3 Very very happy about it, and it's perfectly sized This is a little bit bigger obviously It's... well, double the size And for me personally probably a little bit too big I don't need all the 9 switches But I think it's definitely a step in the right direction for Fractal To release something like this, I mean... Not everyone's gonna carry around a 3-space unit rack You know, the Axe FX 3 And uh... This is just a way better format in my opinion,
for what I'm doing The floorboard is the perfect format right there, because... I mean, if you have an Axe FX and a rack unit, you still need... A way to switch presets and patches, and then you need a floorboard for it, so... If you bring an Axe FX 3, you have to have a floorboard too This is just better Then you just need to bring one unit Great, awesome You know, I'm still working my FM3 for the upcoming Haunted gigs that... ...probably won't happen, at least these ones in September, they're
... I just don't see them happening But you know, I think it's a lot of fun Just sit and tweak your live sound and live tone To perfection basically, it's... It's tons of fun Uh... I wouldn't see myself getting one of these, but... Maybe, I don't know Alright, last but not least Animals As Leaders You know, Tosin Abasi, and Javier Reyes And the drummer I don't know the name of Uh... I should be ashamed of myself, because he's an excellent drummer Uh... they released a new single First one in lik
e 5 or 6 years I think Uh... Monomyth And I thought we would check it out together, because that's what I do on my channel Isn't that the guy from Meshuggah? From the ObZen cover art? That's a thumb right there I have to learn that, someday I also wanna learn this dance Just saying I mean, how do you dance to a solo? I just don't know I guess this is how you do it This is a cool video, I like this I... I think the song is excellent And finally Animals As Leaders are showing us how to dance to th
eir music Animals As Leaders is a really good band to listen to if you're in the car At least for me, I mean... When I'm just sitting in the car, or like if I sit by the computer working Instrumental music is just... It's just the best You don't wanna have lyrics, because lyrics kinda make you think about shit Just saying, that's my little side-note right there And that, my friends, is the news Alright guys, Sunday with Ola Riff Challenge You can download the drums from the intro song that I mad
e there Make your own riffs and you might be featured in the next Sunday with Ola However, listen closely This is where my second channel... ...will come into play The thing about these Sunday with Ola Riff Challenges is that... There's just so many good contributions there And uh... Pix Pixie, come One problem I have with the Sunday with Ola riff challenge And in Sunday with Ola is that... You know, I'm watching 3 of them, which is... you know, moderately awesome But there's so much other talen
ts out there that I think need to be lifted up So... My plan with this second channel and... You know, the channel 'Ola Englund 2' That you can subscribe to, somewhere here My plan is to have more videos of me reacting to you guys Like in the Sunday with Ola Riff Challenge So for instance, now in Sunday with Ola... So I will continue to do these where I check... Like one or three guys out for the Sunday with Ola Riff Challenge every week But... I will do a second video on my other channel Where
I check out more of the contributions every week How about that? So... You know, more people get the chance to be a part of... Uh... you know, one of my videos Just saying That's also what I'm gonna try and do with that channel, just be... A little bit more connected to the audience And maybe check you guys out and your music and whatnot, so... That's why I want you to go there and subscribe to that channel If you want that type of shit, ok? It's just more of me basically, and more of you guys A
nything that doesn't go on my regular channel will go there Like gaming Some... you know, Adventures with Ola, stuff like that Things from the office, just some extra stuff And if you don't want the extra stuff... You don't subscribe to that channel Easy as that Making everyone happy Or something Anyways We're gonna check out some of the riff challenges from last week, ok? This is Jay_Green Alright, see ya Ok Ok, he's using an Ltd guitar Neural DSP, is that... Gojira right there? Gojira plugin.
Alright, interesting, I like this That was Jay_Green, everyone, awesome Ok, what's this? SWOLA60... From deathcovers, a tribute to Death's Spiritual Healing And my first submission... ok, let's check it out Nice He definitely has that Death sound nailed, I must say You know... When I made these drums I definitely did not hear Death, but... Hearing the drums with his riffing right here... It definitely sounds like Death That's f***ing cool He's playing a Stealth too Well done man, that was great
Balash666 let's go Nice Very At The Gates harmonies right there, I like that Oh I didn't see, but he's wearing the cap backwards in one And forward in the other So it's not the same person, smart Balash666 well done, baby He's not my baby, just saying _Domicidal_ oh shit It's Domicidal Covers Oh shit You know what makes me really happy? That you guys are taking these drums and... You're making some really advanced shit over it, man But that's the cool thing about... You know, simple drums, it's
easy to make... Some original shit to it, you know? Nice That's very very nice, man, well done Alright Those were the contenders for Sunday with Ola for this past week But Go to my second channel, there's a video right there Right now, that you can check Where I check out more contributions from this past week Cool, huh? Then I get to, you know, check out more than just 3 How about that? Also, I'm gonna upload a lot of other stuff on that second channel, so... If you just want more Nothing's gon
na change on this channel Go check out Ola Englund 2 It's a great channel Alright I have to check out the Spotify playlist I mean, this is a very awesome segment Where I listen to new music you guys have put in A lot of songs in 'Recommend Me Good Shit' Uh... ok! It's a playlist that I have on Spotify You put in so many songs that it's not possible to put any more into this playlist So I probably have to make another playlist Or just... maybe I'll just... Maybe I'll just... after this one, I'll
delete everything from this And you can go in and let's just start from scratch, how about that? Let's check it out, I'm just gonna go random right here Random shuffle, let's go, what's this? Skid Row Yes F*** yeah, baby Slave to the Grind This is a banger of a song, it's actually a really good album I haven't talked that much about Skid Row, but I guess I should at some point Fuck yeah, next Myrkskog, ok Black metal I mean, I've heard these guys before So I mean, it's not anything new, I need t
o find something new Wolves At The Gate I think I've heard about the band before It's like a name I recognize at least Ok, it's one of these... You know... Modern bands You can hear it in the production, it's just so big It's such big of a production You can hear everything, it's actually kinda cool how much you can hear Very big production... next Nyctophile F*** yeah man, what's this? Incredible My playlist does it again Find some cool-ass shit 'Nyctophile' is a word used for a person who love
s darkness' Shit, ok Oh look at this, Southern California Ok Dude, I dig this a lot, holy shit Ok, next After The burial, ok, I've heard those... next Raven Black We will, we will... rock you! We will, we will... rock you! It's apparently a bigger band, it's from Los Angeles, ok 90 thousand followers Dude, I like this a lot Oh shit they're going on tour They're on tour Very very soon, holy shit F***ing hell, you know... It makes me happy, man, I... I would definitely not have sat down to listen
to this band But now I'm doing it You know, this is great This is great I'm just really happy that this Spotify playlist exists, so I can find new music You know what? I'm gonna put a link to a... Either I'm gonna clear out this Spotify playlist Or do a new one So you can add more music Because this is a lot of fun, I must say Recommend me good shit ok! You can find this Spotify playlist in the description of this video How about that? Guys, that was it for Sunday with Ola today I know it's a li
ttle bit shorter than usual Maybe... and you know... I'm constantly thinking on how to develop Uh... whatever I'm doing and you know, how to move forward in a smart way Most importantly of all, move forward in a way... that keeps me happy about doing my content Which, at the end of the day, is the most important If I like what I'm doing, I think the content becomes better Obviously us moving to a new office is gonna... Uh... you know, spark some life into what I'm doing I'm gonna make the new of
fice my own and you know... Fix with curtains and paint and... Hang the guitars on the wall and you know... Just preparing all of that stuff And that's gonna take some time, so... As I said before, Metal Morning next week might not happen We'll have to see, I'll figure something out So there's something at least, on Sunday But it might not be the normality, let's just say that And I don't know if you can see this, but there's amplifiers everywhere I've already started packing It's a weird feelin
g We've been here for like one and a half years You know, we could either stay for another 2 years Or move to a bigger place That will cost us a little bit less So we decided like 'Ok, let's just f***ing take the jump and...' It sucks to move everything But uh... I think in the long run it's gonna be... It's gonna be a huge success And it's also gonna be a bigger place for my dog to play In her room, just saying Anyway guys, thank you so much for watching Don't forget to subscribe to my second c
hannel There will be more content there If you don't want more content, then... Don't subscribe, ok? It's easy as that. Then you can make a decision, ok... Do I want Ola doing all the guitar shit? Ok, keep subscribing to this channel That you're watching right now Do I want to see Ola do other shit as well? Go to that other channel, ok? How about that? So, thank you so much for watching I hope you guys have a lovely lovely Sunday And I'll see you guys soon, ok? Thank you. Alright, oh shit Ok guy
s, thank you so much for watching Have a great Sunday, bye.

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