if you have ois mooers GE labs is free and rocktone cables are like 30 bucks mate. just need a usb to lightening cable adapter that has a built in headphone output
It’s an exciting idea. Probably a great choice for that dude/dudette that plays solo at a bar or cafe nightly, and just wants one less piece of gear to lug around/setup.
Thanks you always make me feel like chugging. Every video. Long time lurker. You've helped me love guitar more than ever and I've been playing since 1989.
What we really need is a product halfway between this and conventional guitars, midi pickup switching via bluetooth. Something akin to the Widi system, but integrated to switches and pots, so you can have the guitar change pickups or even wiring (parallel/series/coil tap etc) alongside patch changes.
@Lozek this is actually brilliant, have the guitar settings set to presets. I for one am so tired of having to use push pull pots in tandem with footswitches to get my clean single-coil tones
It's not the same. The purpose of the Variax was replicating the resonance curves or responses of several different kinds of guitars, with the idea in mind you only needed to carry one guitar with you. You still need the rest of the gear, though. A famous user is for example Adrian Belew, he has the circuit installed in his Parkers. The purpose of the GTRS system is simulating the whole chain: amp, cab, effects. You wouldn't need anything else, if so you wanted. For example, these guitars are popular among Chinese live streamers who play guitar, but guitar playing isn't the main part of their stream. It simplifies the whole chain. You could say about the Variax that «Gibson already invented it years ago: it was called Varitone». Actually I remember some people said that when the Variax appeared. But the Varitone was also a different concept based on high and low pass filters (which also alter the resonance of the guitar pickup, but the goal of the Variax is way more ambitious). Every invention inspires the next, brick by brick we develop a building.
@@riangariangaEven this concept was already done by Fernandes with the Nomad and Gibson with the Firebird X. The Nomad even had the guitar amp built into the guitar.
@@BrunodeSouzaLino Not the same. Guitars with integrated amps existed since the 1960s, I remember a few Vox ones. Neither Fernandes, nor Gibson were the first. Vox also had guitars with integrated effects. This GTRS goes straight to the interface, with digital amp and cabinet simulation (a proper IR, not an old-school EQ curve), effects and stuff. External DI solutions for guitar existed before (Motown might have had the oldest and most recognised one). This one integrated in the guitar itself is a first, not needing anything else to send its output either to headphones, a sound interface or a PA. It can be controlled with an app, it's a first in our beloved guitar gear world, and it's not brand new as of now: it's been around since 2021.
I want that unit without that guitar. So I can build it into a guitar of my own. This sounds like a useful thing to take to go to a jam session, a band audition or if you want to noodle at home or on the road.
B for the concept, but C - for the execution. It's not terrible, but at least today, it's still better to have a regular guitar and a small practice amp with effects included.
O'la I love what Mooer has been doing for years. Always bringing innovation to musicians and wanna be newbies at prices that aren't insulting. I don't know how they do it?
Cool testing shit Ola👍 U as a solar guitar factory head with another brand guitar in your hands, awesome cool🙏✌ ...mh I love to take a swart solar one for my diezel next time...or should I built the next axt on my own like my last one...who cares? Keep on rock'in 🤘
Wow! Sincerely I think this is amazing! Imagine you started to study and play guitar and have everything with quality in one product! Of course for the majority of people who watches Ola’s this kind off equipment doesn’t make any sense! But for the beginner this is an amazing piece of equipment!
I was trying to work out who the market for this is, and then I realised it’s 100% the Instagram guy who drives around on that mono wheel skateboard whilst shredding. Bro would love this.
Wouldn't you be better off with a normal guitar and a Spark Go or equivalent? A little gimmicky but as a first guitar I guess although quite expensive, especially the premium models.
What's crazy? The Firebird X blows this away from 10 years ago, and I don't even have to continue with the vid to say it. The pickup selector knob was itself a potentiometer, Bluetooth connection to the foot controller with digital effects AND A N A L O G amp models. The control at your fingertips was just...beyond. Who decided to put this on a non-reverse Firebird instead of an LP or SG - or V, or Explorer, ANYTHING - should be flogged. NR Firebirds are just an acquired taste, a standard Reverse would have fared better. Hard to convey how disappointed I was to see it flop. A Gibson rep demo'd it at the Santa Monica Guitar Center, and I just happened to be in the amp room at the time. In case you feel like I'm a fanboi, the rep did NOT like me bringing up Tech 21 when he mentioned analog amp modeling. Major stinkeye, which I returned with a smirk - nothing wrong with copying the greats!
In a world before smartphones, Cort came out with a guitar called the "Effector". This guitar had built-in distortion and effects that was powered by two 9-volt batteries. Of course, the sounds were terrible and the buttons to activate the effects were bad about shorting out.😆
I actually thought it sounded good enough to gig with on my end of TH-cam. Great for a pop/rock cover band or other type of working/wedding/corporate band? Maybe not Metal enough for a Metal gig? I also like the ideas of taking less gear to a gig and shouldn't an electric guitar sound like an electric guitar when you plug it in, just like a keyboard or bass guitar? Keyboardists, bassists and vocalists all plug directly into a full range or PA speaker and the sound is correct. You always need an amp/pre/processor for an electric guitar.
I didn't think it sounded bad, but I don't want another guitar, I just want my Jazzmasters! Can't find a Boss Katana Go anywhere, so in the meantime I have a VOX UK Drive amPlug3 arriving today for my headphone use.
@@corycourtney8923 you can already buy a set of drum sticks which play an invisible virtual drum kit. I suspect a virtual guitar will soon follow. It would look weird on stage!
Those were my thoughts the whole time as well haha. Literally the only benefit, is being able to plug the guitar directly into headphones on the fly, and still have your tones. In a live situation, carrying a modeling amp with you isn’t a big deal.
Guys - what happened to the Shuriken Line6 "smart" guitar? I remember Stevic (from 12 Foot Ninja) showing the whole setup and I am amazed that it didn't make a big influence, as I thought it will.
Before the fall of the Iron Curtain, people in the Eastern Bloc didn't know how things work in the West, that there are stompboxes and preamps and amps with built in distortion and so on. They just listened to shitty quality postcards copied from illegally smuggled in vinyls, and then building overdrives and fuzzes into a guitar, that then gets plugged straight into a tube radio with hifi (for the local standards) columns, trying to replicate what they could hear for as much as possible. It's funny how things made a full circle now that stuff is built into the guitar again and it's being connected line into an FRFR monitor or a computer with proper monitors or something like that, lol.
Anything that requires a mobile app to work is problematic because if the company goes out of business or even just decides to stop supporting the app then you’ve only got until you update your phone far enough that the old app is no longer supported on your device. Then the main draw of the guitar, and the resale price, goes out the window. If they had a Windows/Mac version of the app at least you could feasibly continue to use that for much longer after they stop supporting the software.
Really considering the X1.6C solar guitar. (Carbon black) Just really wish there was way I could play one before buy. Guitar looks and from your demo sounded killer. Didn’t know if there were any stores that have them on floor in the states?
@@adamcogan211haha $1300 plus tax lot of money for a father and husband of three teenage kids. Dad hobbies always last in line 😔. Last guitar I bought brand new was ibanez rg565 back in 91 haha. Still have it
Great for recording and playing at home a little bit. Now if you are going to play a song like Alone Again by Dokken, how do you make those quick switches from clean to high gain?
That's a fear I share, as both my acoustic and my bass require batteries... But at the same time, I've never had a battery die on me in the middle of playing, somehow! (Still gonna rip the circuit out of my bass when I get a passive pickup set - very soon).
This guitar is being raffled away to a TH-cam Member in my discord this coming week!
incredible
@@OlaEnglund in other words ola doesn’t want it
Hey Ola you think you may release more of the Ola sunglasses and maybe even release some Solar sunglasses?
@@watcherzero000 Solar panels!
I need the reverse, an intelligent amp that plays by itself.
That is called playing your stereo. 😉
@@ChaptermasterPedroKantor-kv5yw But this intelligent amp can play Guitar Pro tabs for you!
@@bitdevice Can't you get MIDI playback to do that for you already?
Its called Git Gud
the panic behind "where's the bar? it's over here, okay" was so pure
did I hear an intelli-djent?
Underrated comment
😆
Looks pretty good to me, wow. Show up with just a guitar and your phone? That’ll make that $17 for the night much more palatable.
$17 a night?!?!! You got it easy! I get one peanut butter and jelly sammich for a night. And I have to bring the peanut butter.
you guys are getting paid??
@@AshPrimalDamnation😂😂
if you have ois mooers GE labs is free and rocktone cables are like 30 bucks mate. just need a usb to lightening cable adapter that has a built in headphone output
It’s an exciting idea. Probably a great choice for that dude/dudette that plays solo at a bar or cafe nightly, and just wants one less piece of gear to lug around/setup.
Agreed. In my opinion, this has "coffee shop 4 channel Mackie with 2 Eons on poles" written all over it. Has a very friendly Fender look and tone.
It may be intelligent but is it edible? I want to snack while I noodle.
Uh huh huh..... Hey, Beavis. He said 'noodle.' Uh huh huh.
I believe the headstock is salmon flavor. Technically, I guess anything is edible once. Yeah? lol
Licorice dispenser off the headstock is sold separately
Mhmm noodle 🤤 🍜
He forgot to demo the mini deep fryer that comes in the gig bag 😂
Very clean and clear tones. Very impressive.
Thanks you always make me feel like chugging. Every video. Long time lurker. You've helped me love guitar more than ever and I've been playing since 1989.
What we really need is a product halfway between this and conventional guitars, midi pickup switching via bluetooth. Something akin to the Widi system, but integrated to switches and pots, so you can have the guitar change pickups or even wiring (parallel/series/coil tap etc) alongside patch changes.
@Lozek this is actually brilliant, have the guitar settings set to presets. I for one am so tired of having to use push pull pots in tandem with footswitches to get my clean single-coil tones
It'll happen eventually. Some guitars have a lot of great sounds, but they're so hard to get between fast.
Seymour Duncan Hyperswitch.
@@sammmbear It's unfortunately not Midi compatible, only allows you to do wiring config on the phone app.
A superknob we haven't heard that one before. Thanks Mooer for enriching our lives adding new features to the guitar.
If I get a smart guitar I need it to play my solo for me like cory feldman
You can do that with less than 3 minutes of practice.
That fucking guy lol him and Steven segal should start a band dude
I really think he is passed delusional. I mean he might need to be locked up. He was great at acting in the 80s. He need to let shit go. 😂
Micheal Jackson abused him. That’s the sad part. Probably why he like that.
25 years ago Line 6 made this guitar.
Called a Variax.
I have a few of them.
Even the bridge is the same.
nothing like that at all actually. I have a Variax and it just does pickup and guitar models not effects...
It's not the same. The purpose of the Variax was replicating the resonance curves or responses of several different kinds of guitars, with the idea in mind you only needed to carry one guitar with you. You still need the rest of the gear, though. A famous user is for example Adrian Belew, he has the circuit installed in his Parkers.
The purpose of the GTRS system is simulating the whole chain: amp, cab, effects. You wouldn't need anything else, if so you wanted. For example, these guitars are popular among Chinese live streamers who play guitar, but guitar playing isn't the main part of their stream. It simplifies the whole chain.
You could say about the Variax that «Gibson already invented it years ago: it was called Varitone». Actually I remember some people said that when the Variax appeared. But the Varitone was also a different concept based on high and low pass filters (which also alter the resonance of the guitar pickup, but the goal of the Variax is way more ambitious).
Every invention inspires the next, brick by brick we develop a building.
@@riangariangaEven this concept was already done by Fernandes with the Nomad and Gibson with the Firebird X. The Nomad even had the guitar amp built into the guitar.
@@BrunodeSouzaLino Not the same. Guitars with integrated amps existed since the 1960s, I remember a few Vox ones. Neither Fernandes, nor Gibson were the first. Vox also had guitars with integrated effects.
This GTRS goes straight to the interface, with digital amp and cabinet simulation (a proper IR, not an old-school EQ curve), effects and stuff.
External DI solutions for guitar existed before (Motown might have had the oldest and most recognised one). This one integrated in the guitar itself is a first, not needing anything else to send its output either to headphones, a sound interface or a PA. It can be controlled with an app, it's a first in our beloved guitar gear world, and it's not brand new as of now: it's been around since 2021.
I want that unit without that guitar. So I can build it into a guitar of my own. This sounds like a useful thing to take to go to a jam session, a band audition or if you want to noodle at home or on the road.
@@ChaptermasterPedroKantor-kv5yw Mooer makes a Prime P1 modeler which is basically the same thing but a standalone piece of gear.
@@sbrailo6747 Thanks mate!
B for the concept, but C - for the execution. It's not terrible, but at least today, it's still better to have a regular guitar and a small practice amp with effects included.
O'la I love what Mooer has been doing for years. Always bringing innovation to musicians and wanna be newbies at prices that aren't insulting. I don't know how they do it?
I just pre-ordered a Solar guitar. Coming sometime in October. So hyped.
I did not expect the modern hi-gain to sound that good, damn
So its basically a Spark Guitar? Hell yeah
Cool testing shit Ola👍 U as a solar guitar factory head with another brand guitar in your hands, awesome cool🙏✌ ...mh I love to take a swart solar one for my diezel next time...or should I built the next axt on my own like my last one...who cares? Keep on rock'in 🤘
Wow! Sincerely I think this is amazing! Imagine you started to study and play guitar and have everything with quality in one product! Of course for the majority of people who watches Ola’s this kind off equipment doesn’t make any sense! But for the beginner this is an amazing piece of equipment!
“They’re… IN… the computer?”
Ask Ice T if we have to loop it through Jones, if you please.
I was trying to work out who the market for this is, and then I realised it’s 100% the Instagram guy who drives around on that mono wheel skateboard whilst shredding. Bro would love this.
Ola, went industrial for a bit with that drum machine! Nice! Olastien!!
@4:27 dude, great imitation of slippy from starfox 64
Wouldn't you be better off with a normal guitar and a Spark Go or equivalent? A little gimmicky but as a first guitar I guess although quite expensive, especially the premium models.
Hi Ola, will you collaborate with Delta sometime again? Haven’t seen him for a long time. I enjoyed your collaboration!
I've been wondering what Delta's been up to as well. Perhaps they're on tour with someone?
They just made a pretty cool, more metal oriented guitar as well! So cool!
What's crazy?
The Firebird X blows this away from 10 years ago, and I don't even have to continue with the vid to say it.
The pickup selector knob was itself a potentiometer, Bluetooth connection to the foot controller with digital effects AND A N A L O G amp models. The control at your fingertips was just...beyond.
Who decided to put this on a non-reverse Firebird instead of an LP or SG - or V, or Explorer, ANYTHING - should be flogged.
NR Firebirds are just an acquired taste, a standard Reverse would have fared better.
Hard to convey how disappointed I was to see it flop. A Gibson rep demo'd it at the Santa Monica Guitar Center, and I just happened to be in the amp room at the time.
In case you feel like I'm a fanboi, the rep did NOT like me bringing up Tech 21 when he mentioned analog amp modeling. Major stinkeye, which I returned with a smirk - nothing wrong with copying the greats!
Finally...I've only been saying this since the late 90's..,
Man i’ve been watching you for a long and, every time u say this video isn’t sponsored, i realized you never did a sponsorship at this point what🤯
It's pretty cool, I'd say as long as it can remain a guitar (discontinue the app, ...), it's a compact solution to practice at home maybe
2:05 that's what she said.
Jajajajaja
In a world before smartphones, Cort came out with a guitar called the "Effector". This guitar had built-in distortion and effects that was powered by two 9-volt batteries. Of course, the sounds were terrible and the buttons to activate the effects were bad about shorting out.😆
I actually thought it sounded good enough to gig with on my end of TH-cam. Great for a pop/rock cover band or other type of working/wedding/corporate band? Maybe not Metal enough for a Metal gig? I also like the ideas of taking less gear to a gig and shouldn't an electric guitar sound like an electric guitar when you plug it in, just like a keyboard or bass guitar? Keyboardists, bassists and vocalists all plug directly into a full range or PA speaker and the sound is correct. You always need an amp/pre/processor for an electric guitar.
I didn't think it sounded bad, but I don't want another guitar, I just want my Jazzmasters!
Can't find a Boss Katana Go anywhere, so in the meantime I have a VOX UK Drive amPlug3 arriving today for my headphone use.
Next weeks Swola drums are gonna be the shit!🤘
Each to his own, cheers everyone.
now u need a ola plays other syles segment blues etc very nice
This is the beginning of what we will see in the future. 10 - 15 years, no one will need more than just their guitar for a gig.
@@corycourtney8923 you can already buy a set of drum sticks which play an invisible virtual drum kit. I suspect a virtual guitar will soon follow. It would look weird on stage!
Is it possible to use this as a midi controller as well?
For people playing with a band I don't think it does the thing. But for your average bedroom guitar player this is awesome.
So I am assuming you can plug headphones into the guitar jack and not need anything else if you are traveling and just want to practice?
Sounds good!
It has a nice “spongey” tone to it.
Can't we do this via a modeler already without embedding into guitar?
Those were my thoughts the whole time as well haha. Literally the only benefit, is being able to plug the guitar directly into headphones on the fly, and still have your tones. In a live situation, carrying a modeling amp with you isn’t a big deal.
I think, maybe if it has an option to load custom IRs (I hipe it does) the distorted tones would sound better
Game changer!
Great guitar for a beginner
I hear quite some grungy tones coming out of that thing, reminded me of Alice in Chains and Nirvana in particular.
leaving the tag on he's gonna sell that for sure. lol
Noice honest review, has he ever done a review of rocksmith?🤷♂️😄
Monoooooo?????!!!! What a dealbreaker....
Thanks brother
Tune it, Ola.
I'd be interested to find out if you can boost for leads or switch between 2 presets from the guitar itself without the need for pedals
woodstock 69 that's good setup
I also have a super knob
Guys - what happened to the Shuriken Line6 "smart" guitar? I remember Stevic (from 12 Foot Ninja) showing the whole setup and I am amazed that it didn't make a big influence, as I thought it will.
Before the fall of the Iron Curtain, people in the Eastern Bloc didn't know how things work in the West, that there are stompboxes and preamps and amps with built in distortion and so on. They just listened to shitty quality postcards copied from illegally smuggled in vinyls, and then building overdrives and fuzzes into a guitar, that then gets plugged straight into a tube radio with hifi (for the local standards) columns, trying to replicate what they could hear for as much as possible.
It's funny how things made a full circle now that stuff is built into the guitar again and it's being connected line into an FRFR monitor or a computer with proper monitors or something like that, lol.
Nextgen. Now i can jam anywhere in the forest with my 🎧
You won't need headphones in the forest , if you're playing guitar alone in the forest will anyone hear you? 😄
@@mikeg6666😄👌🏻.
@@mikeg6666 unless I take my amp and a diesel generator to power it, I'm gonna need my headphones or an acoustic
Anything that requires a mobile app to work is problematic because if the company goes out of business or even just decides to stop supporting the app then you’ve only got until you update your phone far enough that the old app is no longer supported on your device.
Then the main draw of the guitar, and the resale price, goes out the window.
If they had a Windows/Mac version of the app at least you could feasibly continue to use that for much longer after they stop supporting the software.
8:14 - Mono?...el mono? El mono bebes la cerveza en la biblioteca? That's the complete extent of my achievements in high school Spanish.
How often do you have to charge your guitar?
"Hey friend, that guitar sounds amazing! Do you think you could give it to me? I would really appreciate it!"
At 8:45 Ola releases his inner Bon Jovi! 😅
Really considering the X1.6C solar guitar. (Carbon black)
Just really wish there was way I could play one before buy. Guitar looks and from your demo sounded killer.
Didn’t know if there were any stores that have them on floor in the states?
Just do it
@@adamcogan211haha $1300 plus tax lot of money for a father and husband of three teenage kids. Dad hobbies always last in line 😔.
Last guitar I bought brand new was ibanez rg565 back in 91 haha. Still have it
Seems really cool. But I have 10 guitars and 7 amps and 3 pedals. Sorry to myself for not needing this guitar 😢
I would like a guitar that you just choose a tuning in a switch, detune, normal, half a step back, whatever
Just use a pedal to do that
culd be that the single 1/4 output is actual a trs so you could get stereo? if you have an insert cable you can test this going into two daw inputs
Hey Buddy ! 🤘
This has been around for a while right?
Yes! They have newer ones as well
@@OlaEnglund the headless models are very good,but the effects are the same ,,based on the mooer ge 150
You're looking hella metal, bruh.
Great for recording and playing at home a little bit. Now if you are going to play a song like Alone Again by Dokken, how do you make those quick switches from clean to high gain?
They have a little midi pedal for switch the preset
@@liviofraschetti4713 OH, thats cool then. They thought of that.
Dont know if i missed it in the video, but does it have the transpose thing like in the Gojira plugin?
Is there a downtuning pitch shifter?
Very cool, but jamstik still blew my mind
Hey Englund can you do Will it chug Orange crush mini?
Vox was making instruments with multiple built-in effects in the '60s
Cort Effector upgrade lol
Hi Ola!
A super knob? Dirk Diggler mode?
when will we get a Will it CHUG! WAY HUGE SWOLLEN PICKLE into a distorted amp?
I'd be worried that thing would run out of battery power halfway through a long set! (Claimed battery life on these things is always fictional!)
That's a fear I share, as both my acoustic and my bass require batteries... But at the same time, I've never had a battery die on me in the middle of playing, somehow! (Still gonna rip the circuit out of my bass when I get a passive pickup set - very soon).
I see them regularly used on 4 or 5-hour long live streams, so fear not.
You can go full on caveman 0:31
*Hits G chord*
The important question here is: does it chug?
Electra was building guitars with onboard f/x in the 70s.
Chris Squire used the electra mpc outlaw on Yes' 1980 album drama...they had effects modules which could be switched out...they were very heavy
You don't need more than a Rockman, ha!
Who needs IRs and all that stuff that appeared later on.
Where to get that Chug Life led?
@@12Jsilva custom neon. not led.
Sick right?
@@someguywithaphone5921 it is!!! I want one to sit on my desk.
I have never seen you playing an acoustic guitar😶🌫️pls do it🫶
good guitar for Phoebe (friends) to play smelly cat on
Good guitar for street performers
Line 6 already did this. Variac
cool guitar
Hey, Ola! Send me a S by Solar! Hahaha just kidding, love your videos.
nice nice, but not a very high top amps yet.. maybe in the future
A good first step, but, a long way to go yet before it's ready for prime time. However I don't own a mobile phone, so, not for me.
This guitar looks suspiciously like the Schecter Nick Johnston guitar.
6:55 nu-metal album when??
Doesn’t sound that bad surprisingly
Hmmmm, nothing for me. But for having fun with this thing, why not.