Hollowbody's are actually great for metal imo. The low end response is great due the natural resonance. I would love to see a company put out a high end hollowbody for metal.
That combo of low output humbuckers with EL34s in a high gain amp is to die for. That *Angel of Death* bit at the end was so close to Kerry's tone probably because of the old style pickups through high gain Model 2210 Marshalls that Kerry had.
Yep, low output passive pickups through a high gain amp is by far my favorite pairing. Tons of dynamic range from the pickups, which makes chugs sound even chunkier when you really dig in, and chords usually sound clearer too
Yeah I totally agree. I acctually love running my crappy Epiphone SG through my hughes and kettner grandmiester. It gets that old metal tone and you can smash out chords if you want. My Schecter sounds heavier ofc but I cant lie I love that old tone
Well, have to say, owning that very guitar, well... The pickups are pretty bloody hot, man. Maybe the 3rd o or 4th highest output in my 20- odd collection... So... Awesome though to find I'm not alone in my thrash hollowbody love!🍀 welcome to see it on my two-bit channel btw, always glad of more metal for company. Ola is the best here on the toobz
@@blacktoothfox677 i own one of these too and i can confirm that is bloody hot, pickup are called Inifinity R, is ceramic and the bridge has 13k output.
I bought this guitar 7-8 years ago as my first own guitar. It served me well for many years and I recorded Metal, Rockabilly and similar stuff with it many times. I did sell it eventually though, but only because I ran out of space lol.
I’ve got an Epiphone Dot that sounds great at high gain. The hollowish body gives a really fat low end and dark tone that works well with gain especially bright pedals that can sound harsh with other guitars.
I loooove my Epi Dot Studio! I don't even have an urge to change the pups. I bought it used for like $250 or something, and I'm pretty sure the value has gone up since I got it in 2014. It's my least expensive guitar, but I love it as much as my most expensive. She's a keeper.
I used to jam on one of these pretty regularly back in the mid-2000's at my local GC. They sound and play great. I am a die hard Jackson fan, but there are several Ibanez's that I really like. I do wish that I had picked one of these up back in the day. Now I have the money, but I don't have the space.
Back in my youth, I was getting into George Thorogood and slide guitar. My parents bought me massive the next step up of the Ibanez Artcore series and to this day I'm still amazed by how well it played and sounded especially considering the price.
I actually hated the stock pickups in this guitar but my grandfather bought me one as a gift going to college so I swapped the tuners, nut, bridge, and pickups for gotohs, a graphtech, a gibson tunamatic, and high output seymour duncans and the thing rips. It's by far my favorite and most sentimental guitar I own, even for metal. Also loved the Blue Sky Edit
@@GettingBentWithBo You have to essentially gut it. Very carefully tie everything to a string and pull the pots and such out of the f hole. The pickups you just screw out of course. After disconnecting them.
I have a guitar from this line and love it. The neck is so easy, and the sound is so rich because of the hollow wings, but controllable because of the solid middle block. It’s a little dark, but you can get over that because of the richness in the tone.
theyve changed the wood over the years tho i think nowadays the neck is nyatoh but the body is called linder or something... the old ones were sapele with mahogany neck idk the fingerboard
i had one of the THICCer versions of this years ago. made of african bu....bab....babinga, balboa, bazinga, whatever wood. i was really impressed with the fit/finish/setup. even sounded decent acoustic
I've been playing my es335 for every style of music that exists. Keep beefy strings on it and even go down to d standard. A lot of heavy bands use pretty standard guitars, it's the amp that really makes the difference
Im planning on buy Epiphone ES335, do it work well on metal? I mean neoclassical music, do your guitar, this video guitar and guitar im gonna buy work the same? Any factor like the pickup and tonewood affect it too, i just want keeping stock set up
No waaaay it's the same I have!! Can't believe it For me it was 270€ the blue one. Fell in love with it on the guitar store... I play it with an Orange Crush pro 120 and an overdrive. I'm a metal player but idk why this is the guitar that inspires me the most Bought it like 3 years ago when I was really into Foo Fighters and still enjoying it
@@rtomas47 I got this amp as a jazz workhorse. Retubing and servicing the one head i already have is enough. And the champion is still loud with a decent clean paired with the Ibanez.
My main guitar for years was an Artcore and it would shred just as good, if not better, than my Iceman at the time... 💀🤘🏻 It was a godsend for dorm life since you can play without an amp.
Funny for me semi hollow body has always been metal. Growing up my dad had a tele and a 335. Since the 335 has humbuckers I always gravitated towards that for chugging. That actually looked cool on you. Ya'lls should release one that is specked for metal.
That was fun and enjoyable, as always :) Good job. The black matt finish seemed so simple yet intriguing when I saw in the shop. Happy you brought this episode to us :)
The Ibanez Artcore semi-hollowbody range is very versatile, and can do any genre, from mellow jazz, to stinky blues, to chug, to clean chilled tones. I have a 2008 AS73T in Transparent Cherry, with tremolo. This matt black looks TERRIFIC for the heavy metal, and all things CHUG. Thanks for a great video.
@@Xplora213 yeah, driving this guitar thru a big amp and cab live is just feedback nightmare lol that's why i have 2 beater Ibanez RGs to play live and keep the hollowbody for recording purposes
The weird different woods are a sapele body, nyatoh neck, and laurel fingerboard. Not sure how your EQ is dialed but this lil guy has a pretty good metal tone for a hollowbody.
All the normal artcore semi-hollows are loaded with medium output ceramic humbuckers. They are perfect with a modern high gain amp. Plus it's fun as hell to play metal on a semi-hollow.
I love that you play clean tones as well. This is the first video I’ve watched the whole way through. You are giving us a great, really in depth review. Thank you. BTW…I just picked up an Artcore and I’m a Southern American Sludge Metal player.
Hey Ola. Just wanted to drop a comment and say how have i never come across you before? Found you last night and must of spent all night watching your videos! Absolutely love your content
I know this is an older post. I loved the sound when I tried the AS53 at my local guitar shop right down the street. I enjoyed the sound but I had a hard time getting comfortable with the neck. It felt cheap to me. But I’m also used to playing a strat. I have an Epiphone Les Paul too and it took a little getting used to but felt more solid compared to the Ibanez. I’m gonna do more research cuz I’m pretty new. That hollow body sound is good stuff.
Would be sweet if Ibanez used that headstock on some other models they have too. I dig it alot man. I'm thinking about getting this for a Doom machine. Really curious how a fuzz pedal would react to the semi hollow body.
Awesome demo, ola. 😎🤘🏻🎸If you ask me.l, it definitely chug. Considering that it’s an Ibanez, it’s bound to chug. Plus Hollow body guitars has a surprisingly heavy sound with high-gained amps. My brother had a hollow body guitar and he tested with distortion and it sounded killer. We were surprised on how mean and heavy it sounded. Also that evh amp sounds awesome. I do like that amp and any peavey Amp like the 5150 and the 6505.
Was that a rif from The Haunted? That Revolver album is an underrated gem. I got to see them live at a little warehouse show in West Virginia on that tour with like 50 people and they slammed. Love that album.
Ibanez Artcore AS53? WILL IT CHUG?
You made it chug at 22 seconds in. Talk about spoilers :D I shall continue watching.
It did, right on the moment when you turned on the overdrive!!
Try to get a D'Angelico Deluxe 175 LE... To chug. 🤭
Better luck next time. It’s all a part of growing older my friend
I apologize in advance, Ola
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I think the real challenge would be to find a guitar that won't chug through a 5150!
Right!!! I think that Danelectro would shatter a small moon through a 5150
Dimebucker in split coil mode in F standard. That’ll do it.
a 2X4 with two nails and a string between them with the condenser mic from an old Ericson phone would chug through that rig.
Exactly
@@alfaalex101 pretty sure you could still make it chug if you wanted to.
Hollowbody's are actually great for metal imo. The low end response is great due the natural resonance. I would love to see a company put out a high end hollowbody for metal.
I've been wanting that for years! Like a thinline ES135, some cool art deco would be rad
They feedback WAAAAY to much to be a metal guitar
@@JMEAUS22 there are ways around it
They do them in black😎 job done.
I have a Chapman ML3 Pro Modern Semi-Hollow and it fucking slaps for metal.
That combo of low output humbuckers with EL34s in a high gain amp is to die for. That *Angel of Death* bit at the end was so close to Kerry's tone probably because of the old style pickups through high gain Model 2210 Marshalls that Kerry had.
Yep, low output passive pickups through a high gain amp is by far my favorite pairing. Tons of dynamic range from the pickups, which makes chugs sound even chunkier when you really dig in, and chords usually sound clearer too
Yeah I totally agree. I acctually love running my crappy Epiphone SG through my hughes and kettner grandmiester. It gets that old metal tone and you can smash out chords if you want. My Schecter sounds heavier ofc but I cant lie I love that old tone
@@christhiele4476truly proof that a good amp is more important than a good guitar
Well, have to say, owning that very guitar, well... The pickups are pretty bloody hot, man.
Maybe the 3rd o or 4th highest output in my 20- odd collection... So...
Awesome though to find I'm not alone in my thrash hollowbody love!🍀 welcome to see it on my two-bit channel btw, always glad of more metal for company.
Ola is the best here on the toobz
@@blacktoothfox677 i own one of these too and i can confirm that is bloody hot, pickup are called Inifinity R, is ceramic and the bridge has 13k output.
Ola's Nirvana cover was better than Puddle of Mudd. Tell me I'm wrong
There are no comments because no one can
Wrong
best cover ive heard yet
My nirvana cover is better than PoM haha
NOT wrong! 👍
I bought this guitar 7-8 years ago as my first own guitar. It served me well for many years and I recorded Metal, Rockabilly and similar stuff with it many times.
I did sell it eventually though, but only because I ran out of space lol.
I’ve got an Epiphone Dot that sounds great at high gain. The hollowish body gives a really fat low end and dark tone that works well with gain especially bright pedals that can sound harsh with other guitars.
I loooove my Epi Dot Studio! I don't even have an urge to change the pups. I bought it used for like $250 or something, and I'm pretty sure the value has gone up since I got it in 2014. It's my least expensive guitar, but I love it as much as my most expensive. She's a keeper.
I used to jam on one of these pretty regularly back in the mid-2000's at my local GC. They sound and play great. I am a die hard Jackson fan, but there are several Ibanez's that I really like. I do wish that I had picked one of these up back in the day. Now I have the money, but I don't have the space.
🤣
Back in my youth, I was getting into George Thorogood and slide guitar. My parents bought me massive the next step up of the Ibanez Artcore series and to this day I'm still amazed by how well it played and sounded especially considering the price.
I actually hated the stock pickups in this guitar but my grandfather bought me one as a gift going to college so I swapped the tuners, nut, bridge, and pickups for gotohs, a graphtech, a gibson tunamatic, and high output seymour duncans and the thing rips. It's by far my favorite and most sentimental guitar I own, even for metal. Also loved the Blue Sky Edit
*feeling emo, might delete*
How exactly do you swap the pots and pickups on this guitar? I don't see any access points for doing so.
@@GettingBentWithBo You have to essentially gut it. Very carefully tie everything to a string and pull the pots and such out of the f hole. The pickups you just screw out of course. After disconnecting them.
@@garryoberholtzer5626 how were you able to do the soldering?
@@GettingBentWithBo I did it outside of the guitar on a slightly damp towel
I have a guitar from this line and love it. The neck is so easy, and the sound is so rich because of the hollow wings, but controllable because of the solid middle block. It’s a little dark, but you can get over that because of the richness in the tone.
I’ll never get tired of that 99 intro riff, I love it so much 🖤
Next: an hollowbody Solar metal guitar
I'll second that
Good idea!
Id play it
A semi-hollow single-cut Solar would be absolutely sick.
Solar doesn’t produce hollow body guitars
It's almost unfair, 5150 can make everything to chug)
1:21
accoustic guitar???
@@ruccy879 it’s not acoustic tho
@@ruccy879 it does with my tennis racket
*Can make everything chug
Dude. I was just playing mine, and this popped up
I have an Ibanez AGS83B semi-hollow that that I bought over 10 years ago, and it has hundreds of hours of chugs on it. It makes me smile.
I play metal with an Ibanez Artcore I got 8 years ago when I was a teenager, sounds awesome
It chugs, and actually sounds pretty damn good. The weird woods are a sapele body, nyatoh neck, and laurel fretboard.
fun fact: sapele is actually in the mahogany family. quite beautiful stuff.
theyve changed the wood over the years tho i think nowadays the neck is nyatoh but the body is called linder or something... the old ones were sapele with mahogany neck idk the fingerboard
99 always be the best post thrash riff in the 00's, change my mind.
i had one of the THICCer versions of this years ago. made of african bu....bab....babinga, balboa, bazinga, whatever wood. i was really impressed with the fit/finish/setup. even sounded decent acoustic
Ola Englund...
Friend-to and helping-out the newbies or those who cant afford $1000 axes!
The MAN!
I have an Artcore from 2010 and It's surprisingly good for metal
Im INDONESIAN!! GLAD TO HEAR it was made in Indonesia!!
i swear i can’t get enough of ola
I've been playing my es335 for every style of music that exists. Keep beefy strings on it and even go down to d standard. A lot of heavy bands use pretty standard guitars, it's the amp that really makes the difference
Im planning on buy Epiphone ES335, do it work well on metal? I mean neoclassical music, do your guitar, this video guitar and guitar im gonna buy work the same? Any factor like the pickup and tonewood affect it too, i just want keeping stock set up
No waaaay it's the same I have!!
Can't believe it
For me it was 270€ the blue one. Fell in love with it on the guitar store...
I play it with an Orange Crush pro 120 and an overdrive. I'm a metal player but idk why this is the guitar that inspires me the most
Bought it like 3 years ago when I was really into Foo Fighters and still enjoying it
I bought a Dean MLX from a guitar store for $100 and it’s easily my favorite guitar. Cost don’t mean a thing for finding the right vibe.
Great guitar I have a similar one. I'd just use a noise gate for feedback. Love it
@@omarsharif927 I should get one too. I've heard they affect the tone but idk if it's something you can really notice
Never ever expected a RHCP cover on will it chug.
It's the second time I heard you playing a song from "one hot minute"!! Great album, I'm guessing you're a fan too!
This guitar doubles for metal and jazz n blues, it looks the part for both and it sounds the part for both.
And considerably good looking. Man!
I love the Ibanez Art Core series. I think they're really versatile.
I have had one for years. Great beater guitar.
I got this guitar and a fender champion100 for my undergrad degree. Its a great rig.
I have the 40 champion great amp.
God, I hate Fender Champion series, worst amp I ever had, but I didnt have many
@@rtomas47 I got this amp as a jazz workhorse. Retubing and servicing the one head i already have is enough.
And the champion is still loud with a decent clean paired with the Ibanez.
@@martinarguelles165 Yea, cleans are not that bad, but every overdrive and distortion sucks
Never thought I'd see Ola playing 99, on a hollow body Ibanez, in the wrong tuning😂
I bought this guitar a month ago aprox. I does not only sound good, it´s neck is very comfortable too. And it´s beautiful.
Damn, I love indonesia product ..
It will chug, in fact it chugs harder than the Jackson minion I figured out.
My Artcore definitely chugs thru my Mesa MK 5/25.
the chug tutorial at 0:20 is one of the most underrated tutorials in youtube. You should really do a complete series!
I got an art core as my main guitar. For heavy and slow sludge metal which is what me and my band play, they are perfect.
Try any cheap guitar/cheap combo amp together and make it chug
love the all black finish, it might be targeted for metal audience that occasionally wants to jump in jazz, or the other way around
or if you like avant-garde music 😂
God, I think 99 is the ultimate song to crush enemy's skulls and drink blood, love it on the 5150
My main guitar for years was an Artcore and it would shred just as good, if not better, than my Iceman at the time... 💀🤘🏻
It was a godsend for dorm life since you can play without an amp.
Funny for me semi hollow body has always been metal. Growing up my dad had a tele and a 335. Since the 335 has humbuckers I always gravitated towards that for chugging. That actually looked cool on you. Ya'lls should release one that is specked for metal.
Same here,My dad had a 335 knock off and it sounded great detuned and distorted...i felt like I knew a secret for a long while.😜
Ben Weinman from the Dillinger Escape Plan has a semi-hollow sig
It sounds super dirty and you can get quite a bit of feedback if you let the chords ring out longer
That was fun and enjoyable, as always :) Good job. The black matt finish seemed so simple yet intriguing when I saw in the shop. Happy you brought this episode to us :)
The Ibanez Artcore semi-hollowbody range is very versatile, and can do any genre, from mellow jazz, to stinky blues, to chug, to clean chilled tones. I have a 2008 AS73T in Transparent Cherry, with tremolo.
This matt black looks TERRIFIC for the heavy metal, and all things CHUG. Thanks for a great video.
dude, i have this same model with an emg 81 pickup in the bridge...it's the best sounding guitar i've ever came across, the chugs just sound soooo big
The hollow bodies are supposed to be the best for tone - just too much feedback 😂 81 sounds crazy 🤘
@@Xplora213 yeah, driving this guitar thru a big amp and cab live is just feedback nightmare lol that's why i have 2 beater Ibanez RGs to play live and keep the hollowbody for recording purposes
I like how you turned up the volume knob to check its acoustic volume.
I got that same guitar for D-standard. Probably the most metal looking semi-hollow you can find.
The single most pointless video series that I consistently watch and love.
I just bought a Jackson js32 Rhoads fsr... I cant wait to pick it up!!
Ibanez always chugs Buddy
This was brilliant
"OH he's plugging into a evh...."
Lol
My man sounds like he just got finished playing the St Anger album. Great work. Great stack.
The weird different woods are a sapele body, nyatoh neck, and laurel fingerboard. Not sure how your EQ is dialed but this lil guy has a pretty good metal tone for a hollowbody.
90% of the tone comes from that EVH amp anyway
All the normal artcore semi-hollows are loaded with medium output ceramic humbuckers. They are perfect with a modern high gain amp. Plus it's fun as hell to play metal on a semi-hollow.
I've been waiting on my 5150 iii 50w head for almost 6 months now... the wait is killing me!!
The best will it chug yet!
Beautiful Guitar!
Very entertaining and good musician. Thank you for the test video.
Holy carp Ola I haven’t heard that chili peppers song in forever!!!!
I got that ibanez...the best guitar for me i think my guitar got a soul...when i play it we became one thing❤
Those semi hollows are great when mixed into a Song
Ola, Eddie Van Halen ALWAYS will save the day.
It's hard to deny that an f hole guitar sounds great for rythm metal.
Wish more test vids were this laid back
I love that you play clean tones as well. This is the first video I’ve watched the whole way through. You are giving us a great, really in depth review. Thank you. BTW…I just picked up an Artcore and I’m a Southern American Sludge Metal player.
Ola switches to the dirty channel chugs heavy af riffs for 3 min
Ola: OHH SHIT IT CHUGS
I had an AS63 in twilight orange and it was the best guitar I’ve ever played
One day ago you make this video i buyt this guitar
The Red sox r chuging. Bad as$ 🦚 . Great show Ola. Thx. I ll get the guitar in pink. Have a happy one.
Yeaaah will it chug is back!
Love from indonesia ola
“I’ll take a saxophone, as long as it is a guitar”.
Another highly entertaining video! Keep up the great work!
3:16 Bleach-era Nirvana + 80s Metallica! Awesome thrash-grunge moment!
That thing sounds awesome!
Thank you Ola 🤛👌👍
ah yes, my favorite ola series
Humbuckers and 5150...but you never know guys 😁you never know
Hey Ola. Just wanted to drop a comment and say how have i never come across you before? Found you last night and must of spent all night watching your videos! Absolutely love your content
This is great! I can watch you and know what to buy my son. Thank you
I had one of these a while back and threw a seymour duncan distortion in it and tuned it to drop A#. it chugged magnificently
Sick tone that guitar
ola made it chug, I will buy this guitar.
Reign in Chug!
🎸🔥🤘 love your channel!
99 is my fave song atm..lol
Lol I love Ola!!!Just good wholesome family entertainment!👍
I think it was a dead giveaway when he had it chugging in intro. Which is good because that is my next guitar
Thanks Ola!
tf man! hahahahaha i burst out laugh at 4:57 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂 Im excited on swola.
pls learn the song hell of fire by lorna shore on swola.. 😃😃
That thing sounds bad ass!
I know this is an older post. I loved the sound when I tried the AS53 at my local guitar shop right down the street. I enjoyed the sound but I had a hard time getting comfortable with the neck. It felt cheap to me. But I’m also used to playing a strat. I have an Epiphone Les Paul too and it took a little getting used to but felt more solid compared to the Ibanez. I’m gonna do more research cuz I’m pretty new. That hollow body sound is good stuff.
My dad has an artcore hollowbody (af55) and it has one of the most comfortable necks I’ve played.
Once i had one of that, and its a nice guitar actually
Would be sweet if Ibanez used that headstock on some other models they have too. I dig it alot man. I'm thinking about getting this for a Doom machine. Really curious how a fuzz pedal would react to the semi hollow body.
Awesome demo, ola. 😎🤘🏻🎸If you ask me.l, it definitely chug. Considering that it’s an Ibanez, it’s bound to chug. Plus Hollow body guitars has a surprisingly heavy sound with high-gained amps. My brother had a hollow body guitar and he tested with distortion and it sounded killer. We were surprised on how mean and heavy it sounded. Also that evh amp sounds awesome. I do like that amp and any peavey Amp like the 5150 and the 6505.
Thanks, Ola!
I wouldn't imagine anyone who like oasis watching this kind of content.
Ibanez has a pink and gold artcore and I HELLA want one!
How’s the feedback? I see anytime you stop you reach for the volume knob. Is it bad?
Was that a rif from The Haunted? That Revolver album is an underrated gem. I got to see them live at a little warehouse show in West Virginia on that tour with like 50 people and they slammed. Love that album.