Hello everyone and welcome to my FAQ number 49
Just one last FAQ before we get to number 50
How about that? It's amazing.
I would figure I would make number 50 very very special
And I will, but I will also make this one a little bit special too
Instead of answering your questions, I will watch my first FAQ videos
So the interesting part here is to see if I've become a better person
Or if my FAQs are the bomb now.
It's basically me reacting to my old videos.
At least it's not a reaction video for someone else's stupid videos, so ...
It's okay, okay?
Chill out a little bit.
Oh, I forgot to mention but I bought this little dB meter, how cool is that?
When I was at Thomann I saw they had it and it's the most awesome thing ever, I must say.
71, not too bad.
Let's try with the microphone over here
Hey, sexy
It's a good investment for my upcoming amp demos, so I like it very much.
Okay, let's start this thing
I had some really fancy intros going on, that's awesome
"Hi guys, and welcome to my new frequently asked questions video series for my youtube channel"
"Here you will be able to ask me questions"
Cut me some slack, okay? This was my first video, you know?
-Hey Ola, what string gauge are you using ... - String gauge ... sorry.
Okay, what string gauge? Good question, it's what everyone's asking. When was this posted?
30th of June 2016, so about two years ago
And yeah, oh shit. I've been doing this for more than 2 years now, that's amazing.
[...] My 6 string guitars are tuned to standard D ...
- Why do I look so sad? - Standard D ... and whenever I play with Feared
- I just drop the D to a ... - Drop the D
- You heard it first two years ago - For both those tunings I'm using 10 to 52s ...
Oh, I'm way more prepared in this video. Look, I had it in my hand.
Okay ... skip. Can I skip to the next question, please?
To be honest, you know, even though it's a little bit awkward, I'm getting down to point pretty quick
and I do not do that in my latest videos, because I just ramble a lot
Maybe listening to that band that you never gave a chance
Shit, I'm actually giving good advice too.
I'm not making any significant money on advertising my youtube.
I mean, it's a very small part of my total income.
Okay, since two years back, my channel has actually grown a fair fair bit
because I've been just uploading more frequently, I found a new formula, so ...
I'm definitely making more money now on YouTube than I did before
but it's basically because I'm uploading videos way more often
I mean, here back to 2 years ago, I would probably upload one or one every 2 weeks, you know, the most.
So, if you want to get into YouTube, it's all about the continuity or ... what do you call it?
You know, when you just fill your channel with videos all the time
You'll get the viewers going, you'll get the ad revenue going and that's about it, so ...
Maybe they like a song that I wrote for a video
F***, I can't hear my voice.
Hi guys, and welcome to my FAQ number 2, last week went super awesome and I got a lot of new questions
- But be sure ... - Chill a little with the enthusiasm there, Ola.
... Yes
- The most expensive or most ... - Wow, I actually am kind of fit in this video, to be honest
- I mean, when I started with the ... - Where is that T-Shirt? Have I thrown that away?
It was a good T-Shirt.
And then ... I had ...
Yeah, okay, you know what? In the beginning here I was still not used to speaking on camera in general
I mean, it's like you kind of create your relationship with your camera and ...
I must say that making these FAQs has definitely helped me out to just, you know ...
Relax a little and as you can see here with robot Ola
The B ...
You know, he's just ... he's not really comfortable in the situation he is in right now, but ...
Ola, you're gonna get there someday
Around FAQ 30 maybe ...
Hi guys and welcome to my FAQ number-
Hi guys and welcome to my new FAQ 3.
Besides your signature amp, what is your ...
It sounds like I'm f***ing either high or very tired when I'm speaking. Next.
Hey guys and welcome to yet another FAQ video, I think this is number 4.
I knew it was number 4, I just said it, because I wanted to be cool.
I'm still kind of sad.
When was the point where I was kind of like becoming a little happier?
This first special ...
Ugh, sounds like a f***ing moron.
Now I have at least a fire in the background, that's kind of cool
So I'm starting to play around with the format a little bit, it's important
Otters, shit, there it is.
This is where it started, me trying to be funny.
Hey guys, and welcome to yet another ...
Oh shit, I was actually kind of enthusiastic there.
The fact of the day is that six, in Swedish is Sex, which is the same thing as sex
- Shit that's awkward, f***ing hell, okay. - Oh and in the last episode.
Here's my f***ing cup of coffee for you
What do you think about that, you son of a b***?
Oh shit, that's edgy.
Goddamnit, okay, next one.
It's actually easy, I just wanted it so much. I mean, I spent all my free time doing music
I think I actually took a lot of time to you know, answer the questions properly in my earlier videos
and actually trying to help people out. Now I'm just shitposting.
All the questions, I just make them into a meme basically, so ...
I think maybe I should try and go back to this old format a little bit, but no it's not gonna happen. Okay.
I'm still trying to find where I kind of loosened up
We're at my 8th FAQ and I'm really enjoying these and I hope you do too, no irony
What earplugs are you using live?
Oh, this one got a lot of views. It says 'why I hate Iron Maiden' in the title. That was dangerous.
You know, people really wanted to know why I didn't like Iron Maiden ... skip, please.
Hey, not too many views on this one. So maybe this was not as funny as the previous ones.
Well, it sucks for you, but unfortunately ...
I look like a dead body ... like a corpse, I do not have any color in my face
So, still not funny.
Where I was using a big piece of fabric ...
It's kind of nice to see how I'm actually kind of like loosening up after the first FAQ videos
So, that's nice to see that Ola is getting more and more comfortable in making these videos where he's talking
Okay
Hi, I'm Ola Englund and welcome to a new ...
Wow that was impressive
That's where it started folks
- Hey guys and welcome to a new FAQ video, long time ... - Matt Damon ...
Oh, that's the balls T-Shirt, that's an excellent t-shirt. That's funny, Ola being funny.
Now we're in January 2017
Your stupid questions ... your awesome questions.
I think this is the first video where I'm actually filming this format with my screen and all that. Okay.
This actually does not feel that long ago, but it was one and a half years ago
That's actually kind of funny.
This one only has 16000 views, what's up with that?
Hi, I'm Ola Englund, welcome to my FAQ. Question number 1.
It was just basically ...
Per was in my apartment. We didn't have anything to record, I would figure I would just make a video ...
having questions with no speaking, just Per responding with the guitar
I thought it was a good idea at the time ... yeah.
This is more like me now, I feel that ... you know.
If you're wondering why I'm looking up there all the time, it's because I have my-
Here I started using gameplay in the video, look at that, Diablo 2.
- No, that's Diablo 1 ... Cool. - Hi I'm Ola Englund and welcome to my new FAQ video
Sponsored by ... myself.
- Hey Ola ... - Stupid.
"Will you produce an amplifier like the Satan 50?" No, that's never gonna happen.
Have you cons-
But it did happen, right?
It's out now. You can go buy it, pre-order it somewhere, I don't care, just get it. It's over there.
Every single day
Kind of ... And if you're wondering why-
Oh, I'm still awkward. I mean, this is still me, I have not really changed, this is me, this is just me. F***.
Not like in Mass Effect, that was a good game.
Mega Queef Shepard, that's a good name.
"[...] there must be a lot of questions, so you don't need to show those poo ones."
Yeah, people are starting to, you know ...
Have opinions about what I'm doing, it's fine. I just don't care. You know, it's the way it is.
Oh, that's where I had a cat
That was my brother's cat by the way, I was just guarding their cat while they were on vacation
- FAQ video, yay. - Okay, now I'm starting to loosen up for real
Okay, good. It's nice to see.
So now I'm trying to find my absolute first video on my youtube channel
See what it is.
Okay, I've uploaded 761 videos to my channel.
761 videos.
That's a life right there.
So, the first videos I have on my channel were uploaded on the 31st of March 2008
It's actually ... Yeah, it's Feared when we played live, look at this.
2008, this is me, and I'm playing a Dean Cadillac. This is Mario.
Godlike
And obviously there's no light on me what the hell is up with that? I'm the star.
This drummer, good friend of mine, Henrik he's an amazing drummer
But he was left-handed which is a big problem when you want to play live with other bands
because it's just a big, huge pain in the ass to shift the drumkit every time we want to play
So, it's always like we have to shift it before we play and shift it back when we stop playing, so ...
We had a great group, I love that guy
It starts exactly the same
Wow rocking it out. There you go. What am I playing?
Probably an Ibanez.
Look at the audience. One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten.
Nice.
Huge crowd.
Well, I guess we're getting better because more people are coming.
Shit.
This is my first gear video.
ENGL special edition preamp, uploaded 8th of February 2009.
More than 9 years ago.
Shit that was a better sweep than I can pull off right now.
See? I was bringing the broots back in 2009 too.
Yeah, that's cool.
Alright, so as you can see, a lot of things have happened since I started my youtube channel and ...
Obviously when I started my youtube channel I didn't really speak on camera, or anything like that.
It was just not my thing. I've never been a guy that could talk in front of people.
It's just something that I've kind of like learned throughout the way
and as you can see, like the first FAQ video ... I'd done talking videos before, but ...
In the first FAQ video, I was not really comfortable talking in front of people or in front of a camera.
You can definitely see that in the video.
So it's nice to see myself kind of evolving, because you know ...
What you're seeing right now is more of who I am in real life, you know?
In that first FAQ It's like I'm very stuck up and you know, it's very ...
I guess I'm little nervous of just saying the wrong , you know? And just ...
It's very important I keep a good flow going
Nowadays, I just don't care and that's a good thing, because then we ...
You know, you get to see more of how I am when I'm not on camera
So this is a better representative of who I am right now
Even though I had a good community back in the day when I was not talking
I think I've come even closer to you guys now that I've started doing my talking videos and you know it's ...
It's just a lot more fun these days and I'm very happy that I ...
You know, that I picked up YouTube again really like ...
Kicked in a ... 7th gear, I would say.
I love doing all this stuff again. And you know, I love the interaction with you guys.
And so I just want to say thank you so much for staying with me, you know? And ...
I love you guys and your comments and you're amazing, you're saying such nice things about me
And I really appreciate that.
And I'm happy that, you know, I can burp and you can still say that you think I'm awesome.
I'm just trying to show my appreciation here.
Thank you for sticking with me for so long and for all the new subscribers.
Thank you so much, you know? And next week I'll upload my 50th FAQ.
And I'm gonna try and make it a little bit special. So in the meantime, see you next time
Thank you so much for watching. Subscribe, shit. I always forget.