Intro and Misha’s supervillain alter-ego: 0:00 Burning Questions: 6:14 Misha’s backward sense of harmony: 11:10 Problem-solving in songwriting: 15:10 Name Those Notes: 16:44 The re-release and return of Bulb: 27:35 Guitar playing from the producer perspective: 30:14 The hardest and easiest thing about playing guitar: 32:22 The most important skill guitar players ignore: 34:34 Writing music starting with a drum groove: 37:02 The problem with drum loops: 40:29 The difference between delay and echo: 42:00 Misha’s dream band: 45:59 Misha’s favorite airplane album: 48:56 Misha’s supervillain advice: 49:39 Today’s guitar villain is Misha Mansoor, a key founder of the beguiling genre of Djent and an overall machine of a guitar player. Misha is the mastermind behind the wall of sound that is the band Periphery, a signature artist of Jackson guitars and BareKnuckle pickups, the founder of the excellent Get Good Drums software, and an avid sports car enthusiast. Misha is also the founder of Horizon Devices, a company featuring some truly spectacular guitar pedals like the Apex PreAmp and Flux Echo, and now, most recently, they’re making guitar strings. With that resume, you better prepare yourself, because it’s time for this episode of Guitar Villains. Subscribe to Guitar Villains on Spotify: spoti.fi/3i8q2xg Subscribe to Guitar Villains on Apple Podcasts: apple.co/3n08vL3 Check out Horizon Devices: bit.ly/2UhDc1u Check out GetGood Drums: bit.ly/35ijkBo Follow Periphery on KZfaq: bit.ly/38BH1Xt

I've got to say, Misha always seems genuinely excited and engaged during his interviews. He always comes off as a really chill dude who just loves guitar and music.

Misha is probably the most ideal guitar player in my eyes. Dude runs multiple companies and gets hella bread from them, is a signature artist of the best pickups ever made (don't @ me), and has pretty good guitars. It's not like I'm biased because I live in the same city he does. Nope. Not at all.

This podcast is so fulfilling, and such a diverse and radical set of legendary guitarists! Cheers!

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Misha's track on Halo 2 Remaster, Follow in Flight, is phenomenal. I have it on my driving playlist on Spotify and listen to it most days going to work.

15:07 Victor Wooten said it best. "Music Theory is a tool and its in the trunk until we need it". No one is jamming to your knowledge theyre jamming to the groove!

I’m not even a fan of Periphery, or the whole djent thing, but for whatever reason I love hearing Misha talk. I just like his outlook on music and writing, I guess. Fascinating dude.

I would love to see this format with Paul Gilbert or Guthrie Govan

Hey Tyler, you literally started the best guitar podcast of all time. Could the next guitar villian be Tosin Abasi?

I used to think i wanted to sound like other guitarists. When i started recording it was the beginning of a slow journey to wanting to create my own identity. Periphery made me start to embrace my quirks and write what i only can. 🤘

Misha seems like such a down to earth, nice person. Good stuff Tyler!

Misha? I'm here for it and early🤘🏾

Love when he explains burning questions before doing it on every episode

Tonewood does exist but it doesn’t matter. There’s plenty of tonewood tests on the internet for you to try your luck at. You’ll hear a very subtle difference, but VERY subtle, even for woods on the opposite ends of the spectrum.

Yes! Misha is the guy that made me want to pickup guitar. Edit: neither of these guys watched battle of gods, resurrection f, or Dragonball super. It’s upsetting 😓

i've been playing only reptile on guitar for like 3 months now. can't get off of this song. it's like a drug. pls help.

I love all the villains you’ve had so far, but for me, this one was particularly awesome. The conversation seemed so much more full of substance than what I expected. Misha and yourself, Tyler, are some class acts. At any rate, great content brother.

50:42 "Get Good Hands", The pluggin that emulates the hands of the guitar greats. You can already virtually select your amp head, cab, mic (+placement), effects, pick up type. Now capture the magic of the actual source of tone! *this was Inspired by Fry getting the Robot Devil's hands. Also, great episode of Guitar Villains!

This is one of the best podcasts on the internet. Thank you for making it happen.

I listened to Periphery whole day today. Great timing

Really enjoying these, great work! PS. Plini episode!

Misha looks skinnier... Did he just hitting the gym?? if so, I'm waiting for him to become Misha ManSwole 💪💪💪💪💪

Blood Eagle convinced me to try a 7-string, which then re-inspired me to get back into guitar. Thank you Misha.

Respect to these guys, their contribution to djent for to what they're doing, but if anyone has pioneered djent it's single-handedly Meshuggah, and 25 years ago. No one comes close, and there's never been a more clear-cut line on who invented a subgenre like there could be with other subgenres.

When you played and spoke with Victor Wooten on music theory, he had the same concept but said it along the lines of; "Theory is your tool box, you don't drive around with it, you use it when you need it and leave it in the trunk." Seems to be a common theme among my favorite musicians.

Dang, this is a fresh podcast. Love the format!

Guitar Villains: Buckethead? (and if possible, Paul Gilbert)

This was a super cool get together..it was nice to hear what Misha's take was on so many different aspects of the musical processes. As well, the questions you asked were of great relevance and I really appreciated the time you put into that process. I think if I get that Horizon Devices Precision Drive pedal, I will finally sound like Misha.

"Witcher 3, that's pretty obscure" -- Misha Mansoor, 2020

I feel like Drew and/or Mark from Karnivool would be sick on this. Drew has an incredible villain beard, and Mark looks like a mad scientist, plus there's so few interviews with them that really discuss anything other than gear or their latest album at the time. I'm all for that talk but at the same time it'd be nice to see a deep dive into them as musicians.

Nice to hear the mention of left/right handed playing. I am a lefty and I've played left handed for 20 something years and last week, I decided to get a cheap right handed Jackson to teach myself to play right handed. Doing pretty good so far but I tell you, if I wasn't crazy, I'd have given up already. My reason is I'm tired of being upset that no guitar I actually want, besides a Schecter Banshee Mach 6/7, is made in a lefty. I want an orange Misha Mansoor Juggernaut, a John Petrucci Majesty, a Strandberg Boden Prog (in Earth Green, looks awesome). I love this program, man!

Been waiting for this one! You should try to get Per Nilsson of Scar Symmetry and Meshuggah. That guy's a f***ing LEGEND.

Finally someone who mirrors my thoughts exactly. It may not even matter to play guitar left or right handed. You're learning so many new motions, simply having hand dominance may not accelerate your learning or benefit it you anyway at all. It would make an interesting study.

Moments later, Krillin left us behind wearing that armor

My god, 6th episode already

This new series ROCKS!!!

Tyler you're the best interviewer ever! Please keep making this type of videos!

Please do a John Mayer guitar villain. Thank you in advance.

I’m really loving this podcast man, It’s very well done Please try for a Brendon small guitar villains episode !! Much love !!💚💚💚

I am so mad you didnt give him a chance to say what Villian he thought he was!!!!!

Love Misha's honesty and humility - so refreshing from someone so very talented (even if he does not think so)

Effectively a German car... glad you confirmed he meant a Lamborghini... this gives Misha cool points in my book for thinking like that!

I'm a left-handed person that plays normal/right-handed guitar. I feel like it makes more sense for my left hand to do the fretting

"Problem solving" great take on theory, love that POV Misha

Ever since I learned a few of the tunes off of Hail Stan, ACGFAD has been my go to tuning💯💯. Sometimes I’ll even drop the 5th string from C to D or E for a little extra razzle dazzle

These guests you have are really incredible. I love this series!

This was super sick. Super informative without being rigid. Definitely going to catch these when they come out

Thank you for doing it with Misha. Loved this episode

Tylers video's are so well put together. Really enjoyable, keep it up and congratulations, brotha

I always start with a groove, that usually takes me to where I need to go.

Awesome interview, thanks guys!

Dope podcast . Actually content and info too 👌 Misha is top 20 globally on guitar . He's one of this generations guitar heroes(villains) for sure

I do not know what to coment but I know my friends are gonna see this. Music is win keep on rocking !!!

Breeze blew me away when I heard it. Mainly because it was so close to where im trying to take my writing. Great podcast, I thoroughly enjoyed it.

I'm sure I'm not the only one to say this, but Tyler is a really good interviewer. He's respectful, he keeps the focus on the other guy, etc.

I own Bareknuckle Pickups' Juggernaut set and Aftermath set, both used by Misha. I couldn't ask for anything better. Juggernauts can do almost anything and Aftermaths are perfect for metal and you only run into limitations with it on the very low end frequencies. And the best overdrive pedal I have ever tried is the Precision Drive. It even has a perfectly integrated noise gate in the pedal. I'm convinced everything Misha touches with guitar gear is gold. Haven't tried the preamp yet but trust it's worth it.

Really big thank you for this type of podcast! Nice guests and nice topics! Keep on! Greetings from Germany! 🤘🏼🎸

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 this was so great. You seriously do your preparation and are well thought out. Very entertaining to see Misha's reaction to your Questions you definitely impress him haha.

"let's see if I can get it (this guitar) without tripping over" Glad to know I'm not alone..

Another great video 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

Cool hes self taught mr Toto creative people dont need a lot of instruction still love Toto just remembered your Toto episode

Absolutely loving the podcast. Keep it up!

I recently came across periphery (yeah i live under a rock)...and i have been obsessed with periphery IV. This was a great episode

next- kirk/james steve vai yngwie tosin abasi rick graham marty friedman or any other you want! which one?

I doubt you'll see this, but you're a great interviewer. It's refreshing to see somebody who really tries to keep it exciting and find some more interesting information about people than what usually comes up in normal interviews.

Whenever you can work the word cacophony into a sentence it's just awesome!!!

I bet the Tosin interview is coming soon. Would also really love to see an interview with Marty Friedman and Paul Gilbert.

Amazing podcast, Tyler. I'm really enjoying these!

My new fav podcast keep em coming!

Just found this podcast, great now I'm hooked...

" pioneering djent" - Meshuggah has entered the chat

Awesome podcast dude! I am looking forward to the next one!

"Now, back to guitar villains." *Immediately after: ads start playing*

Probably just me, but...Music is win, I've been subscribed for some time, and never been a huge fan. Well, things get better with time. New to me, This Guitar Villians format is awesome. You are a well thought out, great interviewer. This was a great show. I will be tuning in again for sure.

I usually call the AGCFAD tuning the "Bad" tuning (full step down), for two reasons. Firstly, because the first song I learned that used that tuning was The Bad Thing. Secondly, because Soundgarden used a similar tuning on Rusty Cage, but in standard, thus making the bottom three strings BAD. I always thought their might be some correlation here, but clearly not outside of the one I made in my head lol

Damn! This podcast is out of this world!

Misha: *smiling* we never play Zyglrox live anymore. Me: :(

Im glad i got to see Zyglrox live at the Summer Slaughter tour 2012 In my ears it sounded awesome!!!

I can’t help but notice his thought that theory is a problem solver is similar to your other interview with Victor Wooten’s.

Great video Tyler and misha. I can personally vouch for the juggernaut line, absolute machines

Well. It was awesome, good questions, great vibe!!! Thank you

mark holcomb pls

really nice interview

Misha is a fucking musical master. He is really a leading musician in todays trends.

You should get Bill from mastodon on.

I never noticed how weird the concept of left handed guitars is. Why aren't left handed pianos a thing?

"Delays are separate copies of an original signal that reoccur within milliseconds of each other. Echoes are sounds that are delayed far enough in time so that you hear each as a distinct copy of the original sound." -first website from google

Good interview. solid questions and some good fun.

The answer Misha gave to the last question is so good!

love this interview

Misha knows more about gear than the manufacturers do a lot of times. I listen to the band for inspiration and euphoria, i listen and watch the interviews for ideas and information.

Very cool concept.

320km in my Murcialago in Vancouver. got caught and still don't drive. this was in 2011 , took up guitar instead with my MM HT7 🤘Thanks for being so inspiring to me

This is a good one. Nice job. Thank you

i think we can all agree that this podcast has the sickest intro music of any podcast ever

Really enjoyed watching/listening to this and the Tim Henson video. Great series, much cooler than other podcast style guitar related content🤘🏻🔥

Super cool idea for a video

Uau..First John Petrucci and now Misha! Very good content, keep it up man

"My ear sorta makes me cheat." I feel that so much.