Might be super obvious for some, but not for all! This is for you guys, have a great weekend!

I've completely given up on finding band members, so this is basically how I intend to move forward in creating my own music. I very much appreciate all your videos, man!

I could listen to The Haunted riffs all day long

The revv pedal sounded really nice. This is how I record my guitar as well basically. Been playing through an Orange combo and ts9 overdrive through an ir for about a year now.

First time I ever tried to record to a DAW by myself, back in 2005 I think, someone had given me a copy of Sonar to mess with and I definitely plugged my Metal Zone directly into the 1/8 mic input on my computer's sound card. Good times.

I love it when you do stuff Ola

ola your playing is getting better and evolving with every video. it’s great!

Hi Ola, did you know that you can load IR's into the space designer in Logic Pro X? I tried it with a free IR from Celestion. It sounds great! Your channel is wonderful. A carnival of edutainment!

I love how Ola is always showing love to the Revv G3 👌

You have a great weekend too, Ola and family! This a great vid. So many wonderful options. People don't have to wait for big ass awesome amps... they can START RIGHT NOW!

Thank you, Ola! I learn so much from your videos, and you always manage to keep them fun!

Always amazing how much difference it makes to change the impulse response.

I'm using a Diezel VH4-2 pream pedal and it sounds kick ass just plugged in my focusrite Scarlett. No amp needed ! Personal tip : I plug a noise gate pedal just after the pedal and it works perfectly well without changing the tone of the preamp. The Revv G3 and the Friedman sound killer too !

Cool video man. Useful for guitar players on a budget. I tried using the analog pedals to the interface and then the TPA-1 by Ignite Amps that is free and the IR loader. It sound a lot better than most people think. Even better than albums recorded with real amps. Cheers man. See you on next guitar related video or SWOLA.

I'm using a Victory V4 The Kraken for this stuff and it's great. You can get at least Nadir from Ignite for free, it can load 2 IRs at a time. For a little more powerful IR loader Ugritone TrveCab is like 5€ at the moment and it can load up to 8 IRs at the same time, so you can blend IRs for different cabs, mics and mic placements.

Thank you and you also have a good day! I just figured this out about a week ago when I bought my first distorsion pedal ever. That moment was like "Damn, man! all I needed was a freaking pedal!!! If only I knew this earlier when I started playing..."

Thank you Ola ! I'm glad you tried the metal muff this way. If I may, that's the second time you turn down the trebles to compensate for the boost: I would suggest to just put the boost at 38min, that's subtle but no aggressive hiss anymore ;)

i never would have thought of doing this. thank you Ola!

Brilliant! Cheers for this OLA ITB!

awesome video! thank you ola!! i am going to try this out RIGHT NOW!!

Recently discovered the DS-1 is actually really cool as a preamp, would be interesting to see it done this way

The Metal Muff sounded better compared to when it was plugged to an amplifier.

I love my metal zone! I've used it for years and it's never failed me. I'm a sludge player and it brings a wide variety of beef! Lean.. ground.. and chunk!!

I mentioned this on twitter but I'll say it again, thanks Ola for this amazing video! 🤘 This video helped me come up with my rhythm guitar tone for our first album! 🤘

Great new out of the box thinking video Kudos Ola

Hey Ola “god of the riffage” Englund. The setup I use is a metalzone with the transparent amp on logic with a modern British 4x12 cab panned left, and a modern American 4x12 panned right. Full presence and a sm57 centred. Eq at noon on both pedal and cab amp thingy. Mid boost on leads. Sounds badass. Give that a go!

it's a method I often make use of often but simply use a few Two Notes C.A.B. boxes and a few of the dinky yet great Mooer RADAR boxes which take care of the mic'd speaker cab impulse response real-time convolving as well as both featuring power amp modelling which is very useful for turning practically any distortion or other gain-based pedal into a preamp, The Revv G3 is an ideal pedal in the role of a preamp as it nails tight yet crushing modern high-gain sounds with ease as that is what it was built to do. I have a loop switcher with various distortion pedals which get rotated often but the REVV G3 has always stayed, currently have an AmpTweaker TightMetal Pro, Line 6 Uber Metal, Digitech Hardwire TL-2, EHX Nano Metal Muff as its a newish toy, Victory VH4 the Kraken preamp pedal, a DOD Grunge distortion which I get a nice grindcore-suitable high-gain sound from that old beast (the original though, the Digitech variant doesn't sound/feel the same), a Bogner Extasy red channel pedal as well as an EHX IC Big Muff, Boss FZ-2 Hyper Fuzz along with a second Line 6 Uber Metal which feeds into a long discontinued MXR "Hendrix Fuzz System" which isn't used for the fuzz but rather for that horrific foldback octave part of the circuit which with a tight, carved & contoured filth box like the Uber Metal is easily dialled in as this enables me to nail a more responsive but every bit as horrible sounding OTT distorted octave fuzz sound. The main reason being I am very short on physical space therefore I can't use a good chunk of my gear, mainly amp heads & cabs as I usually would which basically forced me to start meddling around to make up for missing out on certain goto sound...I got them available now even though they might not be 1 for 1 identical. The TORPEDO C.A.B.s and RADARs do still get used even with a multi-mic'd amp and cab as well as a DI as it offers me more options/versatility to track with & then when it comes time to mix things down, I have the same type of variety to mix and match thanks to pedals acting as preamplifiers. All the best as always sOLAr fella, some fine sounds as you always achieve and best to all too, cheers! \m/ Dean \m/

Helpful advice and options as usual, thank you!

Why not use a free poweramp sim as well? Like the ignite TPA-1, or free clean channel from Ignite as well. Peeps should try that as well with the pedals, if they find them lacking in some aspect that is.

Reminds me of the video where you told us to try the metal zone pluged straight into the loop receiver of an amp to use it as a preamp, at the end it's the same thing

Love these videos where people are shown that there is no magic with pedals or electronics in general to get a good sound. Most of it is about good filtering. A good way to experiment getting a good sound is using 2 equalizer pedals. One before and one after, lets say, a distortion pedal. Just playing around with the frequencies shaping the sound.

Have a great weekend! you too Ola

I don’t usually use distortion pedal but I’ve preordered the ascendancy pedal from Matt heafy and Corey Beaulieu and I can’t wait to try this bad boy out!

thanks for the info ola I like the metal zone sound i feel you and Colin are the only ones who can make the metal zone awesome

Tack! I have been wondering about similar things for a while but hadn't tested it out yet because I AM LAZY and already get quite good tones. But knowing this is good for when I might need to do this :)

Amazing!... Have a good day Sir... Love the Revv sound....

My day is better now. Thanks Ola!

I'm in love with my MT-2w, of course I use that for preamp. Custom Mode is really great!!

That's what i do for years. I was thinking about buying a Neural DSP plugin, but the tube preamp I use sounds way better and more real. Would be interesting how an old Marshall JMP-1 and/or similar would fair against a new trendy ampsim.

Wow, that metalzone sounds great running this way!

Totally agree! Awesome video!

Yeah! We were at the studio, and a speaker just blowed up. That was just ok, and as a guitarist..we plugged my Ibanez through behringer ultra metal pedal straight to the mixing bord, and it sounded great.

Hola, maybe a but unrelated but great to hear you like the gold color it's also my favorite. Would love to see a gold matte solar(A/AB type) with a floyd. Hope you do more with that sweet gold finish.

Well thanks.. I didn't know I could do that.. good weekend to you too..

Honestly now that I’ve tested this out myself using an MT-2 and a Merciless Distortion with cab sims It honestly sounds better than ANY amp sim

For a good couple of years I was using my Mesa Studio Preamp straight into my UX1 with a v30 cab sim and it sounded crunchy as hell. I know it's not as small and cheap as a pedal, but it's another option if you have a preamp but no power amp and/or want to play at night(like I do), since you don't need a speaker load for them! 👍

That rif for the first like 10 seconds was freaking amazing.

Going to do this with my HM-2 for massive facemelt tone!!

"Ola doing stuff in his office" This is the best segment ever !

Great video as always. I'm waiting for the Ola guide to plugins and guitar SW, the best of the best and the free of the free. For a beginner it is a bit confusing with all this tech. Skipping the investment of an amp is very appealing!

The Abasi Pathos sounded phenomenal! Color me surprised as heck. Listening over my cell phone no headphones, but sounded like it had the most balls, to me. I agree, the top boost on the metal muff was pretty terrible. I love how one can coaxe a very usable tone out of any pedal, how you just proved here. A truck load of irs can be had free too, so badassery is very accessible these days

The finish on the wood of that guitar is so nice from certain angles it looks like candy dark orange paint

Amazing video as always

Been useing the Boss since birth of the pedal...now i mix it with my Moen affects pedal...still sounds the best to me. Great vid Ola...🤘🤘🤘

The Revv pedal sounded amazing!

I feel like you could put the Guv'nor there too. It's probably not the "metal" tone, but it's still a hard clipping distortion which could be used for some grampa heavy metal

Love the Metal Muff for the simple set up. But, EQ into a Pi sounds better, especially for leads.

I use the boss mt2w with using an amp's send and return. It's tone is soooooo good!!

Source Audio UltraWave + EQ2 into power amp into guitar cab. or Tech21 PSA 2.0 (turn off the sansamp) into power amp into guitar cab. The UltraWave has compressor, distortion, LFO, and this is key: 8-band graphic EQ + high and low pass filters; also has envelope, trem, and noise gate. The EQ2 has a tuner. The Source Audio pedals two ins and outs, so many routing options are possible such as stereo or dual mono - which lets you have two different "preamps" for a dual amp rig, or as a two channel preamp... I've used these with different power amps, solid state and tube.

Thanks Ola!

you can emulate tube sag by adding compression between the input and IR. also makes it easier to get a cleaner sound from turning the guitar volume down like on a single channel amp

this also works great into the fx return of an amp with a crap sounding preamp section. completely revitalized my origin 50 head... tried some other power amps and same same. sometimes it's the simplest things, right?!? OLA!!

Where’s the link you said you’d put in the comments, Ola? I’m stoked to try this.

I thought about it to do it that way. But now I definitely do it in the near future.

I just got a Revv G3 a few weeks ago, its amazing.

Hey did you share These impulses? Ive been looking for IRS that work with pedals

Beauty of a vid. Are you hearing the guitar through your speaker monitors there? And it sounds like what we hear?

That Revv sounded fantastic!

That Revv is fucking Sweet! I might wan to try that out on my rig! I notice Ken Susi of Unearth runs that through his rig as well during his live streams.

You know what, Ola... I agree with your comment. Few years ago, I let go ALL my amps: Marshall, Randall, Fender, and Peavey. I was so so so tired hauling amps to every gig and rehearsal. I'm so glad, companies made better pedals. Most of the times, my pedals sound way better than my regular amps. lol.

Never been this early, great stuff Ola.

I play through a shotty pa system with my Tosin Abasi pedal. It sounds awesome

It took me a while to realise that my favourite tones did NOT require power amp simulation. I use Victory V4 tube preamps straight into IR and get the best response.

My fav was the metal muff. It sounded so damn "in your face" while covering a good spectrum to me.

the metal zone will always be a favorite of mine! sick tones ola!

I used to do this back in the day….. Boss DS-1 right into a Tascam Porta One…… yeah….. I’m old as dirt…… lol

Yeah Ola... I also use the same method.. TS9 & Fuzz pedal + I.R to get Chainsaw Sound... Sound Pretty good to me but this method nowdays have a few guitarist cant trust i.r... BTW Congrats Ola And Nice T Solar...

Shout out to the every single video riff again, we love you. 3:03

I recommend the Ibanez SM-7 Smash Box. Old, criminally underrated and very powerful distortion with noise gate.

Ola's such a cool guy!!!🤘👍

Hey Ola! Awesome video! Have you ever considered testing cheap amplifiers like the Marshall MG100 FX for the Will It Chug series? I think ti would be great to see their real capabilities. Keep rocking man!

Good idea. Will try

I got the Friedman be-od delux pedal and love it so much.

2:36 Hard to believe the sound is created without a real amp. I just ordered a regular MT-2 hope it pairs well with my marshall SL-5 and Gibson LP standard

That Revv pedal is simply on another level

holy shit that intro riff was insane

Thanks for this one

Yeah, Friday with Ola!!!🤘🤘🤘

Great vid Ola, thanks! Now i need a good interface..

Hot sh*t dude! That was a little bit of an eye opener, something to think about for the future for sure. Cheers holmes.

its important to know that ALL IMPULSE RESPONSES ARE RECORDED USING A POWER AMP OF SOME KIND INTO A GUITAR CAB. So you really just need a preamp with a tone stack to do all of your gain and shaping, so of course this works. My fave sound rn is a metalzone going into an IR, so i am going to get both a super cheap power amp and an IR cab sim pedal to make a mobile amp setup.

that was very informative. Nice vid

Damn this is sounding tight! Does this work similarly with a standalone amp-sim using a clean channel? IN my case Amplitube 5, since I have no experience/idea how to use a DAW whatsoever lol

Cool videos, what about recording using a Metal Zone and a Tascam dp-008? I know most people use computers but I like the Tascam multi-tracks.

Ola brother, ye are a true champion! Love ye work, CHUG LIFE FOREVER!

This is a good way to get alternate sound for double and quad tracking.

To me it sounded like just driving preamp to IR. You most definately need a power amp to get that extra harmonical layering and thump. Or get power amp simulator also.

I too am looking forward to more segments of "Ola Doing Stuff in his Office". Someone make a title card and print it!

I did this with my Ukulele lmao

That big cab IR of yours is amazing g If you fancy putting it out there, maybe selling an IR pack .. I’d buy it Loads of bottom end 🤪🤪 Thanks oh wise Ola from the Northern Lands ( I’m in the UK or yuk as my kids used to say)