Thank you
Welcome to FAQ 151
Welcome uh... welcome
Are you guys ready?
Pluggo, are you ready? Yes, ok.
Let's put you in my lap real quick
This is not very accurate, let's just say that
Ok, first question
EJ Matthews: "Hey Ola, FAQ question:
"During the recording of your new album what plugins did you use for rhythm and for lead parts?
"Does the mixing engineer usually reamp the parts later?
"Or do you prefer your original tone during the recording?
"Take care and be safe.
"Your new single sounds absolutely amazing."
Thank you so much, that's such a nice thing to say
I've been saying it before, but I'm just using the Plini plugin for a lot of things, and...
Usually I have that as well
Just to have a quick sound going in my DAW while I'm recording
But that doesn't mean that that is the end result for the album
I... in this case, you know, Jocke Skog is mixing the album
He will definitely have the last say when it comes to the reamping part of the album
And you know, I want him to do his thing
You know, I have a tone perception for you know...
How I want my rhythm tone to sound like
And then we kinda work together, you know, on that, on how to achieve that, so...
It's something we will do together
When that time comes right there, but...
While I'm tracking and while I'm sitting and recording I'm just using Plini plugins
Because it sounds good out of the box
And you know, I just want something quick while I'm recording
And Plini is delivering
Thank you Plini, you little Plini face
Dakota Merrier HD
"Hi Ola, will there be a Youtuber signature Solar guitar in the future?
"Or are you just gonna make signature guitars for bands that tour the world?"
I got this question and I was thinking about it
We actually do not have a youtuber signature guitar
I think it's for the reason that we haven't really had youtubers playing our guitars
Or big enough youtubers to have a signature guitar at least
So... you know
I don't see a hindrance of having a youtuber having a signature guitar
It just has to be the right guy
And the right guitar
Just saying
Satisfyinguy: "Ola, you're absolutely amazing"
"And I love it when you hit the effects buttons"
"on the little board on your desk, I laugh so many times at it and I don't know why
"As for my question, how many guitars have you got and how many years have you been playing for?"
Ok
So...
You know, as you might know I own a guitar brand
And... if you like count the guitars we have in stock right now...
We probably have 100 guitars or something like that, or 200 or even 300 guitars
So I own 300 guitars
Or something like that, until they get sold
On the Solar Guitars website, solarguitars.com
No, but serious answer...
The guitars I have here I would probably say...
Guitars that are not Solar Guitars
Probably 30 guitars or something like that
I probably have an additional 20 Solar guitars here, so...
I do have a lot of guitars in my studio, but I mean, it is a studio
You know? And an office for guitar playing.
So I mean, I have to have guitars everywhere
But yeah, I probably have...
25 you know, guitars that are not Solar guitars that I really care about, you know...
Guitars I intend to keep
And then I have 20 more Solar guitars
So... and how I've been playing for
I started playing when I was like 13, 1994
It's f***ing 28 years I've been playing guitar
With that said...
It's definitely not me practicing a lot for 28 years
I would probably say I practiced for 5 years
I would say
But the rest has just been me winging and you know, having fun with the guitar
But that's ok too
I mean, there's different... I mean, everyone has their own relationship with the guitar
And that is my type of relationship with the guitar right there
Thank you
El Coyote Wild
"Ola, you start"...
Oh, I'm gonna read this in my Spanish accent by the way
"Ola, you start a "Memories with Ola" series
"you don't forget certain things.
"Love your content, keep it up"
Memories with Ola, well this might actually be a good idea
And I'm trying to think of a good memory
That you might not know about me, but maybe you know...
It would be interesting to hear about
You know, when I was in high school
When I was like probably 15 or 16 years old
Not many people know about this, but I was actually running a porn site
And...
But it was just for a really really short time
I had a friend in my class
Who was a...
A really good internet and code-savvy guy
And he was working with beenz
Beenz was kind of like a currency back in the day
Where you know, you could earn Beenz
And you could buy stuff for your beenz basically
And he told me like...
There was a thing called, you know, banner ads
That were kinda new, you could add banner ads to your website
So I was like...
You know, it would be a little cool to make a little bit of money
You know, I need money, I'm a student, you know I don't really have any money
So I scorched the internet for the best porn images
I mean, this was like, you know...
You didn't really watch porn videos, because there wasn't really any bandwidth for it
But pictures, ok?
So I scorched the internet for the best high quality porn pictures
Of women, like nice women
And then I put it on the site
I think it was like goddamnporn or something like that, that was the name of the site
And I earned money from running this site
Now, I only ran it for like a month and I probably earned like 50 bucks
And then you know, I just... that was it, I...
50 bucks was enough for me and it was a lot of work
You know, keeping the high quality content out there
But...
There you go, there's a little side-note about Ola that you probably didn't expect
But yeah, I did run a porn site
Back when I was 15 / 16 years old
That's... there you go, memories with Ola
DISCONNECTEDEXITSIGN
"Do you have any Feared music in the works?
"I love everything you do, I'm curious is all"
Thank you
I have worked up a fair bit of Feared songs, let me see if I have something here I can play for you
Uh... those need to be all fixed up
And then I have to send it to Kevin
Kevin Talley, the drummer?
Ok, prep to Kevin
I have about...
One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight...
nine, ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen
Fifteen different songs, or song ideas that is
Let me see if I have something I can play
Yeah, there's a bunch of shit here
Mr. Manure... what's that?
Oh shit
That's a Sunday with Ola lick right there
Alright ok, you got this
I mean, so I have a bunch of ideas already, 15 of them
And I'm gonna try and finish them all up
So Kevin can start recording drums and maybe we'll see another Feared album...
... in like 10 years
You know? Good.
David Georges
"Hi Ola, hope you're well, will you go to the Musikmesse 2021?
"Hey, I'm a new member by the way"
Thank you so much, welcome as being a member
Don't forget to connect your Discord to youtube
Because then you'll be able to talk to me and voice chat and all that
I will most definitely not go to Musikmesse 2021 this year
Uh... first of all because there's a pandemic still happening
But also that, you know
I do one show a year and it's probably NAMM
And NAMM has just become more important than Musikmesse
Unfortunately, so...
I'm sorry to say that, but that's just how it is right now
Frankie Shayne
"Hey Ola, I've been a subscriber for years back before you spoke on your videos
"I've considered starting a legit channel
"What are recommendations on video gear, audio gear, mics, and editing software?
"Have you ever considered a video tutorial on a day with Ola creating stuff?"
Thank you so much for being a subscriber for a very very long time
In regards of making a youtube channel...
I mean, all you need is basically this
If you have a good iPhone or you know, smartphone
You can do everything from this
If you don't have any fans, maybe use your smartphone to just film yourself
I mean this... what is this, iPhone 10?
And it... it films in 4K
And it's... you know, it's pretty good
What I would get though
First thing I would get to get good-looking videos
Is a solid lamp
Solid lighting, like this one I have right here
Which is a really big... there's a lot of options out there when it comes to lighting
Maybe a ring light?
Uh... if you're gonna do up and close it's really good
It just amplifies the quality of the video significantly
When you get a ring light or proper light for your situation
And other than that you probably just need a talking microphone
I know that Røde has some microphones that you connect to your iPhone
So you can record your video
And you know, have a lavalier microphone like this, you can sit and talk...
And record yourself, and I think that's an excellent way if you just wanna vlog
Just connect the f***ing lavalier to your phone and film yourself
Isn't that great?
Audio gear... if you're gonna start recording you know, amplifiers and stuff like that
You need an SM58 or an SM57
You need an audio interface, a computer...
I mean, it quickly ramps up...
To something that's a little bit more expensive
But...
You can start off with less expensive stuff
And just you know, build up your channel
And also, if you're starting a youtube channel
Please...
Please don't stop
This is what I see
I see a lot of people are starting youtube channels
And you know, they're supposed to do exactly what you're saying, you know...
Starting a legit channel...
About tutorials and gear and whatnot
And you know, they're so pumped about creating their own channel
And then after a while they stop
Because you know, they just had so high expectations
of an audience watching the stuff
Don't get discouraged...
... by you making video and no one's gonna watch them
You have to put in hours and hours
And so much time at making content
Before you actually build your channel
I mean, it's not like it's like 'Hey I'm gonna start a channel'
And you get a thousand views in the first video
Unless you're super talented or something like that
But that's not how it works, because there's just so many other channels out there
Just don't stop
And also have, you know, realistic expectations that when you start a youtube channel
You're competing with the rest of us, so...
Don't let...
Don't get discouraged if you're not getting any views
Don't get discouraged if you're not getting any views Don't get discouraged if you're not getting any views
You just have to keep at it, ok? Don't stop.
You have to understand...
I have been uploading videos to youtube for almost 11 years now
And you know, I've been doing this almost weekly
You know, since the past 2 or 3 years I'm uploading maybe 2 or 3 videos a week
And that's a lot of content
And you know, I see growth because I've been consistent throughout the years
So, for you to grow a significant audience
You have to be consistent as well
And you know, if you start don't stop, ok?
Don't get discouraged, continue on, please
I beg you
Thank you
Good luck, too.
John Holt: "Hey Ola, appreciate all that you do. Loads of respect brother.
"You seem to balance everything very well, spending family time with kids etc.
"Question: with you having several bandmates and you not touring or recording very often
"do they play in other bands and do other projects? Thank you!
"You need more t-shirt designs" Yes, I agree on that.
Well, the thing with The Haunted for instance is that everyone else in the band has a day job
Most of them at least
And some of the guys, they're also in At The Gates, so I know right now At The Gates have been recording an album
And written an album, so they've been working, you know, with other things
And The Haunted are sort of also writing an album right now, that we're gonna record
So I mean, people just work their regular day jobs and you know, continue with life
And then there's just less touring
We didn't really have, you know, world tours or we didn't do any longer tours before
We kinda stick to doing festivals or you know, week-long tours just... you know, because...
You know, we don't wanna be out on tour for 3 weeks, it's not our thing and you know...
Most of the guys have kids or like you know, dogs and...
And wives and girlfriends, they wanna be home with them
So...
For us and for me personally
Corona hasn't really been that much of a difference
I mean, we had like 5 or 6 gigs that got moved
Or no... maybe like 8 gigs
That got moved and postponed, but...
If you put it in context, 8 days a year...
It's not that much, so I mean...
Didn't really make that big of a difference, just saying
Wade Burgan: "How much time do you spend getting the mics in phase with each other on your In The Room videos?"
Ok, great question
So, In The Room videos that I have, I'll link this series up here
It's a series where I have and demo an amplifier with a lot of different microphones
And you're asking if... you know, how much time I spend in getting the microphones in phase
I actually do not get them in phase with each other
What I pay attention to is every single microphone sounding the best as they can
So I have a different kind of setup for each microphone
And I just try to single out every microphone and make them sound good
And place them where I think they all sound good alone, ok?
But then in Logic, when I have all the microphones engaged...
That's where I line up the signals
Usually before I record a demo I do the claps
You know, it's not for fun that I do the claps
It's actually for syncing
And it's working really well with microphones as well, I clap...
And I get a spike in the audio file
And I can sync all of the microphones to that
And usually they're really really well sync'd
And with that I can mix the microphones
To make something that sounds very very similar to what I'm hearing in the room
That's how I work
I set the different microphones and make them sound good soloed
And then afterwards in Logic, that's where I set the phase, ok?
Bijo Ariapad: "Ola, when you gonna get ahold of the Quad Cortex?"
Thank you
I don't know
No, it's right here, I'm sorry... trying to be funny
Uh... well, it's right here, so I have one
And... not sure if this video is gonna be up before I posted a demo of it
I've been playing around a little bit with the Quad Cortex
But I definitely just scratched the surface of what it can do
But I'm really liking the size
And yeah man
Oh sh-
Shit I didn't see this before, but it says 'Ola Englund' there
That's nice
It's my name by the way, if you didn't know
Yeah, I just don't wanna do anything half-assed
Uh... when it comes to this thing, I really wanna take my time with this
What I like about it is that, you know...
You can tweak a lot... because it has a touchscreen
It's really really simple to tweak all the parameters of this thing
Usually with like Axe FX
You need to plug in and use the editor on a Mac or a PC, but here you...
I mean, because of the touchscreen...
You can... you can basically do everything on this thing, which I really really like
Yeah man, it's really easy
Ambient
Yeah, I mean...
I set this up in like half a minute or something, it's really simple
So yeah, I'm definitely looking forward of deep-diving into this thing
And... yeah
We'll see when I have a video ready, but it's probably gonna take a while, I mean, I don't have any rush with this thing
And... yeah
It's cool, man. I like it.
So there you go
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