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It's a ...
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There's a red dot here
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What is that?
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Hey guys, I'm Ola Englund and welcome to my new video
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Gojira is a band that, even though they existed for a good while, are kind of driving their own path in metal
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and my favorite album is definitely The Way Of All Flesh
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The production of that album is just something else
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Like, the guitar tone of the album is crushing
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But if you get into detail and listen to them carefully, they're a bit mushy sounding
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but with the production and how every instrument fits together in the mix, altogether
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It's just an absolutely slaying sounding album
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Huh? Yeah
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This video will be a little different than my previous ones about artists' tones
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because I don't really have that much info on what gear was used on the album The Way Of All Flesh
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From my research, it seems the album was recorded using a Jackson guitar
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that they borrowed from Jackson, loaded with a Seymour Duncan JB pickup
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Today, I'm gonna use this Charvel that I borrowed from my good friend Jensen
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that plays in The Haunted with me
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I borrowed this mainly for the fact that Joe now uses Charvel guitars
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and it also has a JB pickup in it.
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Also, tonewise, they nowadays use EVH amplifiers
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But they've also used 5150s and Rectifiers together in the past
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So, not entirely sure what they used exactly, but seems for ...
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The All Way-- ...
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The Way Of All Flesh, most people claim they used 6505, which is what Peavey later called their 5150s
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But seeing how the album is sounding chunky as hell and the pickup being a more medium output pickup
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I guess they used some kind of overdrive to boost the amplifier.
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I have no idea what type of overdrive.
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For the cover I did together with Delta, check it out here by the way, of Toxic Garbage Island
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I used the Fortin 33 pedal to boost the amp, which resulted in a bit tighter sound than what's on the album
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but for this video, I'm gonna try a couple of different ones
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I have the Fortin 33, I have an Ibanez Tube Screamer TS9, I also have a Horizon Devices Precision Drive
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And in my cover I also use the Solar Guitar E1.6 ETC
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because I didn't have this guitar when I recorded that cover, that's just how it is.
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You just have to live with that.
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Huh?
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Huh?
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Come at me bro.
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Anyway, a lot of talking, let's just go. I'm also using a ZUUL Fortin noise gate in the loop, okay?
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Alright, I think that I'm done and I have sound going
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And this right here is the green channel without any overdrive engaged
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Then red channel
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Engage the Fortin 33 overdrive
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Okay, let's try-
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Let's try the red channel real quick
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Neighbors love me
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It sounds really good
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Let's try another overdrive then
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F*ckface
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A classic TS9, this is made in Japan of course.
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Yes
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It's fine.
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Breathe in ... breathe out ...
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It's fine, I'm happy today.
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I think, right away, this sounds more like on the album
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because the album is kind of like ... Yeah, it's not really that tight sounding
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I mean, it sounds tight altogether, but you know, the actual guitar sound is not super tight
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It's ... this sounds more like what was used on the album
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So, probably they used a classic overdrive pedal like the Tube Screamer or something like that into the amplifier.
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Maybe less gain?
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That's nice, I like that.
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That sounds killer.
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Which sounds best to boost? Green or red? You decide.
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Okay, you decide, I'll wait.
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The only problem I have with this guitar is that the volume knob is so close to my hand
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So, whatever I do I'm always kind of like ...
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like this on the volume knob
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and you know, when it's there I kind of like ...
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I want to try and see if I can turn it all the way up all the time, so I'm not like
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That's kind of cool though, I can do that.
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Which I don't really necessarily need
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Like, it sounds really good, I think there's too much gain going on
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and usually when you mic something up, when you mic up a cabinet, and you listen to it afterwards
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you will hear that you were using too much gain
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but it's not as prominent when you sit next to the amp and play, it just sounds super awesome. So ...
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Usually, when you record something for an album, you don't have to use as much gain as you think maybe
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But I mean, just sitting playing with the amp like this, you know, you just gain it all up
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Okay, let's try the Horizon Devices Precision Drive
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Yeah, I think that out of these overdrive pedals
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I definitely think that the Ibanez Tube Screamer is more true to the actual Gojira album tone to be honest
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And yeah, there you have it.
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It was a lot of fun this video, in the end, after all the problems I had
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And obviously, as always, my picking technique is shining through all of this gear
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So whatever I do and try to ...
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You know, I will never be able to exactly replicate any band or artist as long as I sound like myself
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But I'm still getting, you know, the good vibe here, from the Gojira vibe I would say
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Guys, thank you so much for watching this video.
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