sirvill wrote:if you don't trust Pete Thorn, then definitely don't trust Ola either, he makes everything sound awesome.
Bahaha fkn Ola. I'm waiting for him to reveal that all his reviews are just him over dubbed with his axe fx patches and an RG350. He seems to get a very similar sound out of everything. Cool though
dayl wrote:Bahaha fkn Ola. I'm waiting for him to reveal that all his reviews are just him over dubbed with his axe fx patches and an RG350. He seems to get a very similar sound out of everything. Cool though
They sound pretty different to me. The key thing is to listen to the gain structure/distortion characteristics than the frequency response. You can mess with the frequency response when mixing but the distortion characteristics remains.
But he pointed out in an interview that a big part of his overall sound are in the drums and the bass. So if he basically uses the same bass tone and drum sound then they all gonna have a similar overall sound.
sirvill wrote:if you don't trust Pete Thorn, then definitely don't trust Ola either, he makes everything sound awesome.
Bahaha fkn Ola. I'm waiting for him to reveal that all his reviews are just him over dubbed with his axe fx patches and an RG350. He seems to get a very similar sound out of everything. Cool though
Expensive pedals through mediocre amps still sound mediocre. Seen too many people with pedalboards full of high end pedals yet still play them through practice amps.
IDK man, I have a Peavey VK 212 which is very mediocre by valve amp standards but my pedals (808, OCD, Big Sky etc etc) sound great through it. On the flipside, I've seen a ridiculous amount of gear nerds on youtube with phenominal gear, amps etc sound like ass.
I dunno I think Ola's demos show you that any reasonable amp in a band context can sound great, it's the toan on their own that is hard to achieve, and to be honest a great toan on it's own often sounds bloody average in a band context....
Slowy wrote:
That's the problem; everything rewarding is just such hard work. Regret takes much less effort.
jeremyb wrote: to be honest a great toan on it's own often sounds bloody average in a band context....
THIS.So many times ive got something that sounds great but is awful "in the shed".Which is why its essential to try the gear in the setting it will be most used in (if you can-muchos gracias to my RS broes for all the apro's over the years)and with you/your setup.
It's not that odd, he's cleverly kept the gain low enough to stay out of the cheap solid state practice amp fizz zone and is using decent pickups (I assume actives).
I have a H&K practice amp that does a great bedroom modern high gain tone, I've recorded it with a bit of EQ and it sounds monster. If I start pushing it it goes from great to awful pretty quickly though.
The older I get, the more disappointed in myself I become.