It's time, baby.
SWOLA 98.
SWOLA 100 incoming.
Are you excited for that?
Too easy.
Happy times.
Too happy.
All the birds
and the flowers
are all dead.
The birds are dead.
The flowers too.
What's up everyone? And welcome to Sunday with Ola 98.
Welcome.
We're getting closer and closer into Sunday with Ola 100.
That makes me nervous.
As hell.
Because it's gonna be Sunday with Ola 100, you're--
You guys are probably gonna expect like a pretty amazing show.
That gives me anxiety.
Anyways, have you guys been noticing that I'm using this guitar a lot?
Well, maybe it's because it's f***ing brilliant, you know?
Also, Pix is here.
Look how excited she is.
No, she's just waiting for me to be done, so we can get the f**** out of here.
And throw a stick or two, or a ball.
Hope you guys are having a great Sunday so far.
Thanks for staying here and being a part of the live premiere chat.
Which I believe has become its own thing with the Sunday with Ola, so...
I just wanna say I really appreciate you guys, my members...
All the other regulars, thank you so much for hanging in here with us.
OK? Thank you so much.
You guys are a very important part of the whole chemistry of SWOLA.
Thank you so much for contributing to that.
The news.
So, one piece of news that I found extremely exciting
is that IK Mutlimedia is releasing a new AmpliTube Tonex software.
Now, AmpliTube on its own is a, you know, huge suite
of different, you know, amplifier components and...
It's... it's a guitar plugin.
A complete guitar plugin with a bunch of amps, and you know...
All the effects, all the cabinets, everything
that you would need.
That, on its own, not really that exciting,
because they've been available for a long time.
And I think they're up to like AmpliTube 5 right now.
But now they're releasing this thing called the AmpliTube Tonex software
IK's AI, artificial intelligence.
Have you heard about this, Pix?
Does it matter to you? No.
Uh... but their AI machine modeling lets user model their guitar amps
cabs, or gain pedals
while Tonex lets users turn those models into plugins
that can be shared with the user community.
There it is.
This is something I've been waiting for for a long time.
I mean, we've been able to profile shit into Kempers
and you know, even the Axe FX and the Quad Cortex.
That's great and all.
But now you can do it into a plugin.
I could it into my DAW right here
using a modeled piece of hardware that I own
and use it as a plugin, and I don't have to reamp or anything.
Yes.
That's awesome.
That's awesome news, guys, don't you realize this?
This is great for us.
They made a video modeling a Dual Rectifier.
Obviously, the million dollar question is
how is it gonna sound.
Like, how will it translate a real amplifier
into this modeled sim, or whatever?
At least for metal, in my opinion.
I think all of these platforms that have been available so far
they've done a great job in terms of like clean, and crunch
and you know, some lead tones.
But in the metal aspect
that's usually where you can hear the weirdness happening.
When there's a lot of gain.
Like, how does it react on the low end when you chug
that's the deal breaker right there, so...
I wanna see this comparison, they're capturing the tone right here.
That's... it looks kinda cool, man.
Oh, time-la-- oh, it's a time-lapse, OK, so...
They're not doing it in real time.
Our neural network...
Isn't that t-- Terminator right there?
I wanna hear a thrashing riff.
OK, here we go.
What?
The real amp sounds like shit.
Listen.
That sounds weird as f****.
OK, that tone was not the best I've heard.
I actually think this first clip right here was the best.
Because you hear on the chugging, listen to this.
And then listen to the real one.
I think that sounds... listen to that.
Listen to that chug.
And then you listen to the modeled one.
OK, let's edit this.
To the editor: edit these so we can hear 'em just after each other, OK?
There is definitely something happening right there.
In the chugging department.
And as usual, where modelers are--
Or like modeling amplifiers that model--
You know, profiled amplifiers, that's usually where they kinda fail a little bit.
However, I mean...
This is them doing this on a Dual Rectifier.
I would love to try out this plugin.
And see how it fares.
Dude, if I can get any of amplifiers in as a plugin...
Done deal.
I'm happy.
Just getting like the preamp that I'm modeling on my Quad Cortex for instance,
that I modeled my Engl Powerball preamp.
Dude, if I can get that into a plugin...
Shit, yeah.
So, I don't know about you guys, I thought this was an incredible piece of news
that made didn't explode as much as people wanted
but I'm gonna make it explode, this is insane.
This is great news for us.
Did you see the Commonwealth closing?
What is the Commonwealth?
I don't know what the Commonwealth games [are], but uh--
Apparently it's a big deal that's been happening for a month in Birmingham.
And at the closing of these games,
the Commonwealth games in Birmingham,
Ozzy Osbourne came up and jammed Black Sabbath with Tony Iommi.
Holy shit, can we watch this?
This is definitely gonna demonetize my video, but I don't f**** care.
It's potato quality.
Why is it potato quality?
This is absolutely epic.
They're also playing one of the rarest Black Sabbath songs-
Paranoid, that's great.
That was obvious, obvious sarcasm,
but I think this is awesome, to see Ozzy up, dude.
He's been through...
Hasn't he been through a couple of operations, and surgeries, and shit?
And this is the first time in a long while
that he's up performing.
Something's happening there, but you can't hear him.
It's probably in playback, man,
it's pretty common that it's playback at shows like this.
It's cool as f**** though.
And is this...
You know, hinting a little bit that we might see something Black Sabbath-y coming?
Wouldn't it be amazing if Tony Iommi and Ozzy came back and did a Black Sabbath tour
before any of 'em die?
Oh, shit, I'm...
I'm terribly sorry, I don't...
I really hope he's OK, this...
I hope this is not too early for him getting back.
You know, he seems that he's not completely OK.
But he's happy and smiling.
He's probably been missing this a lot, so it's nice to see.
And it makes me happy, man.
This guy's a f**** legend, and I really hope to see more of this.
Uh... with Tony and Ozzy obviously.
Alright, maybe not a very important piece of news
but I think it's extremely exciting,
because Wacken, you know, the big festival in Germany.
They released their tickets for next year, 2023
and it sells out in six hours.
80,000 tickets.
And they just announced a first round of bands, a couple.
Iron Maiden, Megadeth, Dropkick Murphys, Wardruna, Jinjer, B--
Like, a couple.
But it sells out in six hours.
That's amazing.
Now, why would I feature this? Well...
I feature this, because it just shows that metal is f**** strong as hell right now.
You know...
It's not f**** dying.
People are saying that metal is dying, and the scene is dying.
No.
It's not gonna die, man, it's gonna stick on forever.
And I'm--
It just made me really happy to read this.
And hear about it.
But also, with that, I guess it doesn't matter which bands are playing
because the tickets are already sold out.
So my only bet would be to hope that I will play Wacken
and get to see a bunch of bands.
Anyways, I thought this was a great piece of news, thank you.
Another incredibly awesome piece of news
is that Dream Theater's John Petrucci announces more dates
for his first solo album tour with Mike Portnoy on drums.
Can we please get this to Sweden?
Please, John Petrucci, please come to Sweden and Stockholm.
My home town, Stockholm, can you please come?
And play, so I can hang.
And watch you guys play.
It's f**** Mike Portnoy, man, I love Mike Portnoy.
Oh, shit, I'm mentioned here.
Dude, I didn't know this, but--
It makes me a slight bit proud that people actually...
you know, reference to my work
and my interviews with people.
In a news article.
No, that makes me a little bit happy.
A bit proud.
That means that my bullshit is f**** getting out to people.
That's great.
Please, John, Stockholm.
That's the town I live in.
Stockholm, Sweden.
Thank you, John.
I-I love--
I love you, John, I love you.
Also, another piece of news is that Revocation
one of my favorite modern death metal bands
released a song, the last song on their album
and apparently it features Trevor from Black Dahlia Murder and Corpsegrinder.
And uh...
If you just wanna hear a last little recorded piece from Trevor
there you go, man.
Rest in peace.
I said it before.
But in my opinion, Revocation is one of the better modern death metal bands out there.
I wish them all the success, man
they deserve to be a top contender in the modern death metal community.
In my humble opinion.
Thank you.
OK, last but not least in the news,
we're gonna watch a guy in Pearl Jam
Mike McCready, destroy his guitar.
Because why not?
There was a lot of fuss about this, was it a really expensive guitar or something?
We're assuming this was the 2021 custom shop version of his favorite...
That's a 15,000 dollar guitar, what?
I wanna see this.
Look at that, he's out there rocking in the free world.
And then suddenly he's like 'F**** this song'
'f**** this amplifier', I guess.
'F**** this guitar'.
He's like 'Oh, well'.
'I'm so happy right now, we're having such a good time.'
I'm gonna destroy this guitar.
And this amplifier.
Because why not?
It's a 15,000 dollar guitar, I mean...
I have a couple of extras
in my closet, back home.
There he goes, pushes into the other drumkit as well.
That's... look at the backplate.
Went all the way over here.
I don't know what to say, man.
The guy's a rockstar, let him be a rockstar and smash a guitar.
Uh... I wouldn't smash a guitar
that's 15 grand, but...
He's a rockstar, man, he--
Look at him, look at him go.
That's Mike McGready.
Uh... he destroyed his guitar.
And that, my friends, was the news for the day, thank you so much.
You know what it smells like?
It smells like--
Heeey, Ola Englund, the Swede, hello.
Guitar Of The Week, baby.
What is this guitar for Guitar Of The Week today?
Boom.
It's the American Ultra telecaster.
It looks black, but it's actually brown.
And the pickguard is metallic.
Can you see that? So, it's brushed.
Like this.
For me it's very important that I send all the shit back
because I just don't wanna do sponsored videos for brands.
When I've done the demo, I wanna send it back, OK? That's...
Fair and straight.
Anyways, I was supposed to ship this back.
The problem with Fender is that
they ghost you.
I tried so many times to ship back this guitar
they won't just pick it up.
I really have to go after these guys to have them pick up their shit basically.
So, a lot of stuff, like the Fender Acoustasonic,
it's still in the f**** package in there.
It's just waiting to get picked up.
But anyways, here it is.
And it's actually a very shreddy type of telecaster.
Look at this.
They have the shaved-off heel right there
for faster, quicker access.
and yeah, let's plug it in.
So, something Fender also is doing when they have single coils
is that... I'm not sure exactly what it's called,
this feature, but it's basically...
When you click this button right there,
it has a mode where it makes these two single coil pickups
joined into one humbucker pickup.
Let's give that a shot.
You know what it smells like?
It smells like pee.
I don't know what the f**** tha--
Can you smell?
Smell this.
Smell the frets.
[Joel] I used to work at this elderly home...
[Ola] Shit, so like old people pee?
Why does it smell like old people pee?
You have that nice single coil...
Alright, let's engage this mode
so it will create a big humbucker out of these two single coils.
Check this out.
These are noiseless pickups, by the way, just sa--
There's no noise.
I'm not sure about the... you know...
the dual single coil becoming a humbucker type of pickup.
It still sounds like a single coil to me, man.
But the guitar is cool.
Maybe we should give them another chance
of picking up this guitar.
This is not my guitar.
Why is this even in Guitar Of The Week?
It's not even my guitar, it's Fender's guitar.
Please.
Thank you so much, it's an amazing guitar.
It smells like elderly pee.
F**** terrible.
But it's a great guitar.
Shit.
Guitar Of The Week, yes.
Alright, my friends.
That was Sunday with Ola 98 for you right there.
Remember, if you wanna be a part of the Sunday with Ola Riff Challenge
that happens on my second channel.
You can download the drums in the description of this video.
And you can be a part of that.
We have a livestream happening tomorrow
on my second channel
where we check out you guys being f**** awesome.
Also, I'm very and extremely proud about myself
not mentioning Pantera one single time in this SWOLA.
I deserve a fucking applause for that, OK?
So, me and Pix want to wish you guys a happy, happy Sunday.
We're gonna go out for a walk, throw some sticks, throw a ball maybe.
And maybe you can do the same if you have a dog.
Hello.
I'm Pix, hello, I'm Pix.
Hello, I'm Pix, I'm--
I'm used by Ola's actions.
Don't treat your dog like a prop, like I'm doing.
OK? It's not a prop.
She's my lovely dog.
Look at that face.
Isn't that a lovely face right there?
A lot of people are saying that we look a like.
Maybe that's true.
We have the same nose maybe.
Do we have the same nose?
What? Do we?
Alright guys, thank you so much for watching.
I'll see you tomorrow on the livestream, OK?
Goodbye.