Hello everyone, I'm Ola Englund and welcome to Ola Testing Shit
Today I'm trying out 2 Kiesel guitars
The Aries... oh there it is, Aries 6 and the Hyperdrive 6
Now, the previous NAMM...
Not this year, because this past year there was no NAMM
But the one before it, what was that? 2020, just before the Covid hit.
Usually when I go to NAMM I keep eyeballing the Kiesel booth, because it's... it's, you know...
It's a really nice-looking booth
And whenever I go there, there's always something new to look at
In regards of sick finishes or just sick builds
And this past NAMM when I went there, I talked to Jeff and Chris
And they said like 'Hey man, we should build you a guitar for a video'
And then after that we didn't really talk that much
But then a month back Chris came back to me and said like 'Let's just do it'
'Let me send you 2 guitars to try out'
So they sent me this Hyperdrive and this Aries right here
Let's start with the Aries
This right here is a walnut top right there on a mahogany body
And as you can see on the neck, that's a flamed maple neck right there
Look at that, that looks incredible
We have an ebony fretboard
This is an ebony top
On the headstock right there
Evo Jumbo Gold frets
So they're gold-looking, that's f***ing cool, I must say
You have Kiesel locking tuners right there
Evertune bridge
Kiesel's own pickups right there
Bolt-on construction, ok?
And then we have the Hyperdrive guitar, which is...
...more like a star-figured body shape right there
I mean, take a look at that, that's a flamed maple top
Picked by Jeff Kiesel himself, it said so on the spec-sheet
The neck right here is a 7-piece maple, walnut, and mahogany
I mean, look at that
And it's a neck-through construction right there, as you can see
You have the locking Kiesel tuners right there
This guitar has a Hipshot floating trem
Which are not that common and I haven't played too many of them
Uh... one volume
Switch...
Kiesel pickups...
Roasted maple fretboard, look at that, holy shit
And a flamed maple veneer top up here
Shit...
I mean, look at this
This... this looks really f***ing cool
Ok...
Sounds good man, I'm using my Axe FX 3 right now
The neck on this guitar is...
Very very nice
As you can see it's an oiled neck
So, you have...
And here you have a satin finish on the body and the rest, so there's a slight little edge right here
Neck pickup
Middle position
A little eggy... split
Neck
Nice
Nice, man
Let's plug in the Aries
While I'm playing I feel a smell
It smells...
It smells roasted, man
It's like... it's a little burnt-smelling
It's nice
So this has a 5-way lever-switch, we have the bridge
Split
Middle
Second split
Neck
Nice
For this sound I'm using a Friedman BE on the Axe FX
Shit, I need to add an overdrive I think... Ok, let's do that
Drive...
Ok, now we're chugging
Yeah...
Both these guitars have very similar neck-feeling to them
They're very thin and rounded and...
I think the Aries has a little bit thicker of a neck right there, but...
Both of them feel really good to play
One of the thing that I really appreciate about this guitar is that...
The more you look at them...
...you see these incredible details that are in there, and I mean...
You know it's a very very well-built guitar when you see one
I mean, I don't know if you can take a look at that neck, but look at that
Isn't that beautiful?
Right there, and then you have the flamed maple one right here
I mean, look at that, isn't that nice?
I've heard somewhere that people don't like the Kiesel pickups, but...
I think they sound good
That's a chuggy tone right there, come on
Ok, let's go back to the Hyperdrive, I think...
Even though I like both of these guitars, I think I'm actually sorta preferring this one right here
Yeah man, there you go
Those are the 2 Kiesel guitars right there
The Hyperdrive and the Aries
I think they look and play incredibly awesome, both of them
Even though this is classic and absolutely gorgeous-looking right there
This, I mean, look at this
This thing is a little bit more special, in my opinion
This is a little bit more bare-bones, this Aries right here, but the Hyperdrive is just...
It's just really cool, man
So that's it
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Ok? Thank you, bye.