I have a crate bv120 and I love it. Needs an overdrive though for modern metal. I use a precision drive and play through v30 speakers. Kicks ass. You can get that head for a couple hundred dollars.
@limelight81 Definitely. I checked out his channel and he has some jams and gear demo/reviews as well. When you have a moment, I highly recommend checking out his other stuff.
@@nicholas-fuller Correct! I used a harmonizer with a low and high octave, blended with different wet levels. Also added bass guitar to make one big sound!
Wow! I really wasn't expecting to see my clip on here. Thank you so much for having me on and I'll be sure to dial back the interface. Ive been playing for a long time but i'm still pretty new to computer recording. Love your channel! Rock on! 😁🤘🤘
My favorite part about this series is that you’re not out here just roasting peoples rigs, that they care about, for views. You’re giving genuine, solid advice and you are the absolute goat for that.
You're so right about how important bass is. Once I figured out the direction I needed to go with my bass tone, my songs started sounding so much better.
Thanks for featuring my clip and for all of the input Ola! The microphone is a Peavy PMV 480 small diaphragm condenser. I will definitely take you up on placing it closer to the cone and a quality Overdrive pedal is now on my watch list. And my guitar collection won't be complete until I get a couple Solar's hanging on the wall.
That tone you got would be insanely good for sludge/doom metal or just the more downtempo kinds in general. The dark tone in the right context can be superb
@@HamidKarzai Thanks I appreciate it! I did take Ola's advice and went with an Ibanez TS808 in front of my BB Preamp. Then I discovered I needed a noise gate and went with the EHX Silencer. I'm also using a 2nd mic and blending tones. Been jamming hard and eventually plan to send in another submission once I'm moved into my new place!
Dude with the Blue Voodoo should have some mods done to it. I've actually heard those sound killer with some simple mods. The clean channel is also an incredible pedal platform. A boost and a good distortion into the clean channel destroys the dirt channel.
@Theodore Sebastian I've been looking for a good deal on one. Have been in bands with people that had them. I wanna mod the hell out of it and rehouse it.
Thanks Ola for this episode you choose more with real amp and cabs to show more of needed skill for mixing. Bcs with plugin now everything is sounds good with very few tweaks
Ola, I have been watching a few of your gear testing videos over the last few weeks, but this is the first vid of the Rate my Tone series. I just hit subscribe...this is a cool AF way to connect and get people involved in playing with all kinds of amp/axe/pedal combos. Love this!!! Thank you!!!
I remember your early "metal bass" tutorial, the tone from that video to your current stuff has come light years. A good grindy bass sound in a metal/hard rock mix, really takes things to the next level. Sure, you want some depth and heft to help fill out the bottom end, but that space in the middle you mentioned makes things sound very full. Mad respect to you Ola, for appreciating such important details.
As a bass player I love a good guitar tone. The first, second and fourth clips had really good ones. To get a good bass tone get a good bass like a Fender Precision or a Jazz, new strings and a bass amp like a Ampeg or a strong tube guitar amp on the clean channel. That's it. The tone is in the strings and the bass.
Which mods did you do ? Me I did a sweep, depth and hi cut; really simple mods, but damn makes a crazy nice amp, wouldn't get rid of my 50h for anything, they've beaten out my high end amps for sure lol
@@AlexSpetz You are correct! I used a harmonizer for guitar, low harmony and a tiny bit high octave harmony, and then that bass added and played tightly with the guitar to make one huge tone! :)
@@LaurLindmae Great! I thought it immediately sounded super octavey and huge. Will listen again tomorrow on real speakers but I wasn't following when Ola started talking about the bass tone being too dominant, it sounds like octave backed guitar through and through. Good stuff :D
Ola you definitely must do this into series, very informational stuff we can use to forge a better tone, maybe you can answer to a looot of questions which we may have!
I need to catch up on your videos bc i didnt know about this rate my tone one. Its a great idea. I was blown away recently after buying a guitar from a well known death metal guitarist and sent him a quick clip of me playing after fixing it up. He complimented my tone. Thought he was just too nice but he was being honest.
"That Tone is Rasin Bran. Two scoops in every bowl." I don't know. That analogy just popped in my head watching this vid. Fun time. Would you consider featuring bass guitar here and there?
Love the series dude 👌🏻 awesome tones and great atmosphere is created between a bunch of guys and waamen listen music and great gear. Cool man. Greetings from Valdivia, Chile 🇨🇱
@@cjjams7930 right on man! I live in an apartment and I get great tones from the boss at low volumes. Im lucky though, my neighbors can hear me sometimes but they like it lol
i'd also argue that clipping was not the interface at fault, the katana handles lows like shit, and will do that with any amount of drive minus the brown channel or a select few booster effects.
Hi Ola! One thing you forget to mention when talking about tone is the tuning. A lower tuned guitar will automatically sound fuller, more than a standard tuned or even a sharp tuned guitar. It'd be nice to hear a sharp or standard tune guitar in this section. Cheers from Mexico!
I almost bought a Blue Voodoo a while back to pair with my spare Crate cab. I love how different they are and i think they would sound great mixed with my Bugera 333
Would really enjoy a bass tone and or mix tutorial from you Ola. I know you did one some time back but I think you mentioned at some point that you do it different now.
Vid #3, I have that identical black Rave II series Warlock, with that same weird bridge, which were hugely unpopular lol. Got it new in '91, still have it. My 1st axe
I've got a Boss Katana MkII 50, and I can get some nice metal sound put of it. I'm even playing the Haunted through it and it sound great. Katanas are great for the price. Sure you won't get a tube sound, but you will get a sound that'll make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside. With tone studio your set for tonesand it only cost $350 Max for a brand new one. Or you could go out and buy a $800-%1500 tube head plus a $500 cab, hen you will have to buy your effects pedals and most probably some type of boost that will put another $500-$600. Pretty easy choice if you ask me. Of course if they dramatically dropped the price in tube amps, I'd move to the land of tubey goodness. But until then I'm here in the land of solid state.
What's up Ola, digging it man helping out your followers with only constructive comments Ola says please don't hate keep it positive. I can't play guitar so they all sound good to me 👍
Coming from a bassist... I tend to run 1 channel of very "punk" mid-heavy grind, 1 channel of sub bass to thicken. Guitar goes in between. Granted, I'm making mainly industrial now.
The Satan(/Natas/Thrasher) are my dream amp circuits, along with the JP-IIC(or a real MKIIC+ obviously if I ever even could). Have you tried out Vadim's sims of all three circuits? They're really good. I use them quite a lot, and I honestly love them. I can't afford a real Satan or Thrasher right now, so these hold me over, and with how they sound, I'm perfectly okay with it for now.
Hi, Ola!! First of all, thank you so much for ur kind words about my guitar tone. It really means a loooot man. Alien is a former Brazilian brand. Your buddy Keith Merrow has the 100w version called Evolution. They made a Custom version for him. I'll work on the Bass tone as well. Thank you so much!! Cheers!!!
Hey there Ola, Do we have access to any of your impulse responses? I am going to be getting a Quad Cortex and a Mesa Cab Clone IR and, first! your Starzinger capture from the quad cortex was absolutely phenomenal and second, you did a video a while ago about the Cab Clone IR and I really liked your Mesa 4x12 standard IR......are those accessible to us in any way??? Thank you so much for everything that you do.....
Damn dude ola is sick, I wish I knew half of the shit this dude knows. I mean I can play guitar, decently, and I'm not even saying I'm hella good or anything but I wish this dude could teach me how to record and all that other shit because there is so more than just playing guitar.
The guy with the warlock and the crate sounded 90s death metal af. With some tweaks I think it could sound really nasty in a good way. 🤘Maybe I’m just getting tired of the super polished tight metal tone everyone uses these days.
The super polished processed sound is so not metal. It's like a dude who plucks his eyebrows and manicures his goatee. Not cool. Not metal. The rock equivalent of K-pop.
Hey Ola man, what’s your suggestion for a sick bass pedal that gives that grind we all love? Im using a Darkglass B7K but just keen to see what your favorite is?
Hey Ola...We ( I ) need a Solar E2.6FBB-27 but with 24 frets and a Floyd Rose. There are no explorer style guitars with these options. You need to corner the market man. The closest thing is the Dean zero selects being released later this year but still not a baritone.
Have a great Friday everyone! If you have any tones you want rated put them in the comment section of the video!
nice .. :)
I have a crate bv120 and I love it. Needs an overdrive though for modern metal. I use a precision drive and play through v30 speakers. Kicks ass. You can get that head for a couple hundred dollars.
Crate forstærkere er fantastiske
Thanks for having the Katana, as a lot of us broke dudes have one and it's pretty good.
@@zachary4376 it's a great amp for us poor folk lol. 🤘
Somewhere, someplace, Jason Newsted felt a cold chill and didn't know why.
That dude with the black Les Paul kicks ass! His tone was solid and I absolutely loved those riffs.
Hell yeah, those guitar melodies are so nice.
@@janneranta7373 For sure!
@limelight81 Definitely. I checked out his channel and he has some jams and gear demo/reviews as well. When you have a moment, I highly recommend checking out his other stuff.
Yea he had his tone figured out. I dont think you really find your own legs until that happens.
Totally agree! Great riffs and tone.
“The bass guitar is doing a lot of work in this clip right here”
Lars: I’m going to pretend I didn’t hear that.
'HE FKING LEFT THE BAND'
that sounded kind of like an octave down polyphonic effect to me?
@@nicholas-fuller Correct! I used a harmonizer with a low and high octave, blended with different wet levels. Also added bass guitar to make one big sound!
@@LaurLindmae Nice work!
@@jfo3000 Thanks! :)
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Rate My Tone, burp.
Wow! I really wasn't expecting to see my clip on here. Thank you so much for having me on and I'll be sure to dial back the interface. Ive been playing for a long time but i'm still pretty new to computer recording. Love your channel! Rock on! 😁🤘🤘
A good musician can make cheap equipment sound good. You sounded good to me dude! I’m still struggling with recording also.
Congrats
Alien amps is a Brazilian brand. My bandmate has one; it sounds great!
Unfortunately, i believe they are no longer manufactured
I have two Alien speakers, I really like how they sound.
I have alien evo 6l6
That's correct. I am the band mate and I can confirm.
My favorite part about this series is that you’re not out here just roasting peoples rigs, that they care about, for views. You’re giving genuine, solid advice and you are the absolute goat for that.
You're so right about how important bass is. Once I figured out the direction I needed to go with my bass tone, my songs started sounding so much better.
Thanks for featuring my clip and for all of the input Ola! The microphone is a Peavy PMV 480 small diaphragm condenser. I will definitely take you up on placing it closer to the cone and a quality Overdrive pedal is now on my watch list. And my guitar collection won't be complete until I get a couple Solar's hanging on the wall.
That tone you got would be insanely good for sludge/doom metal or just the more downtempo kinds in general. The dark tone in the right context can be superb
@@TheRemixer05 Thanks I was going for a sludgy tone. Lots of fun to jam that kinda stuff with a good drummer or bass player.
Your tone in this video kicked ass, pure sludgy bliss. Nice collection too
@@HamidKarzai Thanks I appreciate it! I did take Ola's advice and went with an Ibanez TS808 in front of my BB Preamp. Then I discovered I needed a noise gate and went with the EHX Silencer. I'm also using a 2nd mic and blending tones. Been jamming hard and eventually plan to send in another submission once I'm moved into my new place!
Great Chops Dude!!
Dude with the Blue Voodoo should have some mods done to it. I've actually heard those sound killer with some simple mods. The clean channel is also an incredible pedal platform. A boost and a good distortion into the clean channel destroys the dirt channel.
@Theodore Sebastian I've been looking for a good deal on one. Have been in bands with people that had them. I wanna mod the hell out of it and rehouse it.
amazing tones. i love this series
Definitely an awesome series! Ola is a master of metal tone. Let's open up this pit!
We are not worthy! Toxic get your tone on here.
👍🏻
Excellent points about the bass all through the video.
Love your 'silver linings playbook' approach 👍
Yes ! Far better video than the previous one !!!
Great video serie idea in this format, good tips good sound, thank you !
The Alien Amp is a Brazilian Brand
Great to see Alien Amps here! Brazilian handmade amp. I think it's more a 5150 than a recto tone. Great stuff! :)
Tone #1 is the most amazing tone I've ever heard from a Strat plugged into an Oven! 😅
😅
Had the Crate BV for a couple of years and it sounds way better than the video implies. Actually a really great amp
A few years ago in a friend's rehearsal studio i listen to a BLACK Blue Voodoo head and i was stunned by its tone...
The 1st one is reaaally CKY-y, as a song and the tone too. You can tell there is an octaver going on. And the bass just blends in perfectly.
I thought the same thing lol
@@davu9027 u can tell the man has listened to his cky. Listen to Rio Bravo and compare it to this.
Thanks Ola for this episode you choose more with real amp and cabs to show more of needed skill for mixing.
Bcs with plugin now everything is sounds good with very few tweaks
Great series and this video was very cool. I like how Ola doesn't have a bad word for beginner/medium level players. Really encouraging.
7:57 Leonardo Santos is the man !!!!!!!!!!! My friend, he is an awesome tone seeker !
Muito obrigado, meu amigo.
Vc é de outro planeta. Um conhecedor nato deste universo.
Leonardo Santos kicking ass!!
Ola, I have been watching a few of your gear testing videos over the last few weeks, but this is the first vid of the Rate my Tone series. I just hit subscribe...this is a cool AF way to connect and get people involved in playing with all kinds of amp/axe/pedal combos. Love this!!! Thank you!!!
I remember your early "metal bass" tutorial, the tone from that video to your current stuff has come light years. A good grindy bass sound in a metal/hard rock mix, really takes things to the next level. Sure, you want some depth and heft to help fill out the bottom end, but that space in the middle you mentioned makes things sound very full. Mad respect to you Ola, for appreciating such important details.
That tip about running an overdrive in front with the gain all the way down actually helped me get a nicer sound so thanks Ola
As a bass player I love a good guitar tone. The first, second and fourth clips had really good ones. To get a good bass tone get a good bass like a Fender Precision or a Jazz, new strings and a bass amp like a Ampeg or a strong tube guitar amp on the clean channel. That's it. The tone is in the strings and the bass.
Guy was rocking a Halo guitar, haven't seen that in like 12 years, they were like the first cool custom guitar brand I ever seen.
Can’t wait to finish modding my Jet city head so I can try to get Ola’s opinion! So far it sounds like a JCM800 and a 5150 had some evil offspring!
Jet City amps are criminally underrated
Which mods did you do ? Me I did a sweep, depth and hi cut; really simple mods, but damn makes a crazy nice amp, wouldn't get rid of my 50h for anything, they've beaten out my high end amps for sure lol
Leonardo Santos-Don't change a thing brother!!
Thanks Ola! I do think that Bass is a really big part of the overall tone, always!
It's a savage tone for sure - sounded like you had an octave thing going on? Honestly thought that was part of the 'bass' tone
What were you using for the bass tone in this?
@@XGracelessTarnishedX the same Hotone Ampero unit, have to check which amp and Ir, dont remember
@@AlexSpetz You are correct! I used a harmonizer for guitar, low harmony and a tiny bit high octave harmony, and then that bass added and played tightly with the guitar to make one huge tone! :)
@@LaurLindmae Great! I thought it immediately sounded super octavey and huge. Will listen again tomorrow on real speakers but I wasn't following when Ola started talking about the bass tone being too dominant, it sounds like octave backed guitar through and through. Good stuff :D
Ola you definitely must do this into series, very informational stuff we can use to forge a better tone, maybe you can answer to a looot of questions which we may have!
Hey Ola. I just checked out your stuff on Spotify. F'n sweet bro. Love your videos.
I need to catch up on your videos bc i didnt know about this rate my tone one. Its a great idea. I was blown away recently after buying a guitar from a well known death metal guitarist and sent him a quick clip of me playing after fixing it up. He complimented my tone. Thought he was just too nice but he was being honest.
"That Tone is Rasin Bran. Two scoops in every bowl." I don't know. That analogy just popped in my head watching this vid. Fun time. Would you consider featuring bass guitar here and there?
This series is a great idea and I enjoyed. Challenges me to think about things too like bass in the mix.
Great advices!
I’ll send one. I go for a warmer wider tone than you. Would be cool to get your perspective.
Love the series dude 👌🏻 awesome tones and great atmosphere is created between a bunch of guys and waamen listen music and great gear.
Cool man. Greetings from Valdivia, Chile 🇨🇱
Loving the Rate My Tone series!
I realy would like to hear "focus on my face" on your next album
That made me laugh so hard! Lol 🤣🤣🤣
Lol ive got a kitana 50 and an old blue voodoo at home. I love them. I'll have to watch this more after work
Katana is great honestly .......boss tone studio is hard to beat for the price ......I want to upgrade from my 1*12 100w katana to the 2*12
@@cjjams7930 right on man! I live in an apartment and I get great tones from the boss at low volumes. Im lucky though, my neighbors can hear me sometimes but they like it lol
Love this series Ola! Hope they keep coming and thumbs up for all the work you do 🤟
Strat Katana guy reminded me of Slipknots guitar solos, if you added a driving metal backing track and sped him up a bit
Good thought. I had to think about that for a minute. But I get what your saying
It doesn’t hurt that he looks a bit like Jim Root
i'd also argue that clipping was not the interface at fault, the katana handles lows like shit, and will do that with any amount of drive minus the brown channel or a select few booster effects.
Man, what was that first clip, that sounded absolutely killer!
Thanks!!! :)
@@LaurLindmae of course brother 🤘
@limelight81 Thank you dude!!! :)
people should post single chain and then full mix in this series.
Although I follow this channel I am primarily Blues. Good to see that guy with the low end rig jamming. Nice gritty tone.
Thought id mix it up a little since i figured everybody would be sending metal tones lol.
i love the first, awesome tone Laur Lindmae, gg dude
Thank youuu!! :)
@@LaurLindmae awesome singer too new French fan 😉
@@ariake7864 Thanks! Happy you took the time to check out my other videos!:) :)
Hi Ola! One thing you forget to mention when talking about tone is the tuning. A lower tuned guitar will automatically sound fuller, more than a standard tuned or even a sharp tuned guitar. It'd be nice to hear a sharp or standard tune guitar in this section. Cheers from Mexico!
I almost bought a Blue Voodoo a while back to pair with my spare Crate cab. I love how different they are and i think they would sound great mixed with my Bugera 333
last guy i have a boss katana too can make a tin cup sound amazing though!
Would really enjoy a bass tone and or mix tutorial from you Ola. I know you did one some time back but I think you mentioned at some point that you do it different now.
Hi ! I would be super interested about a video explaining how you mic a cab. cheers !
The Alien Monster tone sounded the best IMO.
"This guy's just chillen man"
No idea why this was funny to hear lol.
Have a Metal day Ola 😎🍟
Vid #3, I have that identical black Rave II series Warlock, with that same weird bridge, which were hugely unpopular lol. Got it new in '91, still have it. My 1st axe
Hi Ola! I love your channel! Also, The ink work on your left arm looks fuckin KILLER!
Leo has an amazing tone!
Leo is a good production sound mixer ( recordist). He has good tone.
Yep... That's exactly what I remember Blue Voodoo's sounding like.
I've got a Boss Katana MkII 50, and I can get some nice metal sound put of it. I'm even playing the Haunted through it and it sound great. Katanas are great for the price. Sure you won't get a tube sound, but you will get a sound that'll make you feel all warm and fuzzy inside. With tone studio your set for tonesand it only cost $350 Max for a brand new one. Or you could go out and buy a $800-%1500 tube head plus a $500 cab, hen you will have to buy your effects pedals and most probably some type of boost that will put another $500-$600. Pretty easy choice if you ask me. Of course if they dramatically dropped the price in tube amps, I'd move to the land of tubey goodness. But until then I'm here in the land of solid state.
What's up Ola, digging it man helping out your followers with only constructive comments Ola says please don't hate keep it positive.
I can't play guitar so they all sound good to me 👍
This is a great series, would love to see more.
Send something in.
LOVE THIS NEW SERIES !!
Coming from a bassist... I tend to run 1 channel of very "punk" mid-heavy grind, 1 channel of sub bass to thicken. Guitar goes in between. Granted, I'm making mainly industrial now.
Brazilian Alien is an awesome amp! Unfortunately the owner Ronaldo no longer accept any requests for new amps.
The Satan(/Natas/Thrasher) are my dream amp circuits, along with the JP-IIC(or a real MKIIC+ obviously if I ever even could). Have you tried out Vadim's sims of all three circuits? They're really good. I use them quite a lot, and I honestly love them. I can't afford a real Satan or Thrasher right now, so these hold me over, and with how they sound, I'm perfectly okay with it for now.
my tone is a metalzone with the level knob on ten, gain on zero going into a eye master pedal playing chromatic madness
You need a miku in the loop
Always thought it would be cool if ola still had some of his old poops tones from when he was still learning and walk us through tips to improve
My favorite new series!
Wait... what? A 50 watt SM57? Lol! That's awesome! I bet i have the only one. 😁🤘🤘
Thank you Ola!
I could watch like 100 episodes of this series 🔥
Great series, love to see more :-)
The bass tone is HUGE. My mixes sounded like ass until I bought a MIDI bass plug-in.
Great series. What was the signal chain for #1
Check my video description! :)
08:20 that’s the riff from Some Kind of Monster that they never used for a song.
I wrote this idea for the Rate my tone. I don't know nothing about this some kind of monster riff you mentioned.
They titled it Shadow of The Cross, it never made it out of demo stage but the riff you wrote is pretty much exactly the same.
Hi, Ola!!
First of all, thank you so much for ur kind words about my guitar tone. It really means a loooot man.
Alien is a former Brazilian brand.
Your buddy Keith Merrow has the 100w version called Evolution. They made a Custom version for him.
I'll work on the Bass tone as well.
Thank you so much!!
Cheers!!!
Man, your riffs and the guitar melodies are really good. I'm a sucker for guitar melodies, which is why I love Swedish death metal 😁
@@janneranta7373 Thank you so much. It's really cool to read those kind words.
4:43 thats the best explanation of poorly mixed bass ive ever seen.
Hey there Ola, Do we have access to any of your impulse responses? I am going to be getting a Quad Cortex and a Mesa Cab Clone IR and, first! your Starzinger capture from the quad cortex was absolutely phenomenal and second, you did a video a while ago about the Cab Clone IR and I really liked your Mesa 4x12 standard IR......are those accessible to us in any way??? Thank you so much for everything that you do.....
Damn dude ola is sick, I wish I knew half of the shit this dude knows. I mean I can play guitar, decently, and I'm not even saying I'm hella good or anything but I wish this dude could teach me how to record and all that other shit because there is so more than just playing guitar.
The guy with the warlock and the crate sounded 90s death metal af. With some tweaks I think it could sound really nasty in a good way. 🤘Maybe I’m just getting tired of the super polished tight metal tone everyone uses these days.
The super polished processed sound is so not metal. It's like a dude who plucks his eyebrows and manicures his goatee. Not cool. Not metal. The rock equivalent of K-pop.
Hearing a mix is nice, but would definitely like to hear the raw guitar tones also. More a suggestion for people sending videos.
@limelight81 True. Both would he nice. I believe in the first video, someone had it in the mix, then cut to the raw guitar tone at the end.
A sugar drive into the thick channel of my VOX NT 15 is crazy good tone
I friggin love this.
Please demo a Marshall Code 100 combo. It's one of my favourite amps among the many that I own.
Ola, where did you get that awesome DS Shirt from?
Hey Ola man, what’s your suggestion for a sick bass pedal that gives that grind we all love?
Im using a Darkglass B7K but just keen to see what your favorite is?
You are damn right that bass is important for the mix. How about a series for us annoying bass players? I'd be the greatest fun of that series :)
The first riff reminds me of Rio Bravo by CKY
Hey Oland, Alien Amplifiers is a brazilian brand.
That second halo guitar and randall combo was dirty.
Leonardo Rocks. Love it.
I would really like a VX100 SuperKraken in this series
3:37 The winner in my taste. I wish my gig sounded like that.
How about "Rate My Tone - Digital Edition"? Amps are nice but the new stuff is miraculous.
Hey Ola...We ( I ) need a Solar E2.6FBB-27 but with 24 frets and a Floyd Rose. There are no explorer style guitars with these options. You need to corner the market man. The closest thing is the Dean zero selects being released later this year but still not a baritone.
I'm a simple man. I see "Crate Blue Voodoo" and I'm all in.