Posts by JohnHuldt

Thank you so much JemDave!

Hey guys. I'm doing my thing on Youtube again. Would love some comments and thoughts about this. Thanks for watching my shenanigans!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB_HGaZVUSQ

I'm using my J gustavsson guitar with a Lundgren M6 in the bridge and playing through a Diezel VH4 profile made by our friend And44 at ThAmpFactory

Ah it was Lenny Breau who came up with it? Now that you say it I think I've heard Tommy actually saying that in an interview... Good call!

Hey folks. I'm at it again. Lemme know whatchall thinking

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzeBTwLBh1Q

Thank you guys so very much for the kind words and taking the time to listen. It really does mean a lot to me

Hey guys. I wrote this song while my mom was in a coma after a heart attack a few years ago. More info in the about box on Youtube if you're interested.

This song shows off the KPA excellent dynamics and "real amp" feeling.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCNLDKeH-3g

Would love to hear your comments

Thanks for taking the time, as always.

John

Haha thanks for all the comments you guys! Btw I forgot to mention I'm using more of Andy's (TheAmpFactory) profiles. Best in the business.

Yes indeed I'm an economy picker. I could never pick like Loomis, Petrucci, Bettencourt and them fellas so I had to figure out another way. Turns out Frank Gambale sat on the answer

And I actually stole that opening lick from Jeff Loomis solo in Enemies of Reality

Thanks so much for watching and commenting. I appreciate it a whole lot!

I used one from TheAmpFactory called A-Deizel VH4 Crunch+TS. I think it's from one of Andy's high gain packages. Thing is a beast. Works great for both solos and rhythm. Cuts like a knife

Haha I hear you on the sweeps man! It's sweep tap scale run rinse and repeat. I'm REALLY trying to get away from all that so I'm happy you took notice

Hey guys. I'm at it again. Solo for a new tune I'm working on with my band. Lots of notes in this one haha.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kuqHsRBZZM

Let me know what you think.

Here I go making video again... Let me know what you think. Profile from TheAmpFactorey (amazing stuff Andy!!!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ApJ5Mei684

Thanks you guys so much for all the kind words and for watching!

Yeah, I did all these arrangements except the first part of Rudolph that I shamelessly stole from Tommy Emmanuel

Hey guys.

I should really stop bombing this forum with non Kemper stuff but what the hell, tis the season and all that. This one is on acoustic guitar, figured I'd share. I'll be demoing for Kemper at NAMM again btw so if you're going, please stop by and say hi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MbxUv6gahlo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKzNXDXE2Xg

Hey guys.

Found another guitar competition (yeah yeah, I know...) that I made a solo for. The usual odd meter/altered scale/chicken picking/metal stuff

I'm actually not using a Kemper on this one (Bogner Shiva, straight in) but you guys are usually kind to me so I figured I'd post it here anyways. Feel free to drop a comment on the Youtube page. Makes me look better haha.

Thanks, as always, for watching

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKzNXDXE2Xg

John

Thank you guys so very much! It's up on Youtube as well now. Thanks a lot for listening and for all your comments!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-epBCu61p8

Hey guys.

My neighbor is a badass composer and every Halloween he takes a heavy metal tune and does something fun with it. This year he did a country version of 4 Horsemen by Metallica. He had intended it as a gypsy jazz version but when I heard it I got some bad Ghost riders in the sky vibes from it so we threw some twangy guitars on it and here's what happened. Would love to hear what you think

https://soundcloud.com/omar-fadel/the-four-horsemen

I'm using a profile from TheAmpFactory's boutique amp pack. Think it was the Cheiftain. Sounds killer, as always. Andy sure knows how to make em sound good

Haha I guess i shot myself in the foot by putting the bar too high for all future solos. Dammit. Back in the shed I go...

Oh man. Try pleasing the internets, not an easy task!

About the much lesser use of every technique on the planet... Well, it's a much shorter solo and I kinda play what I feel is appropriate for the tune (harp harmonics doesn't sit too well on a metal tune for instance) so it's always different. And since it's a "metal god" competition I figured I'd throw a lot of notes in there haha.

About the take not being perfect. You're absolutely right! In the case of the Wampler solo I prerecorded the solo (like 2 bars at a time) and then just played along to that for the video. Kinda like satanic milli vanilli. This one I just played live. One thing is, I try to never use the same licks more than once (within reason) so I'm constantly creating new licks for each solo. And a lot of them are REALLY difficult to play (like most of this Toontrack solo. I might post a tab and you can try it for yourself) so I'm never really playing things I'm comfortable with. So, I can either spend 6 months practicing it or I can put something up that's not perfect (or alternatively, record it and then "mime" to the recording). I went with the live thing this time and I did maybe 10 run through's and this was the one with the least hickups in it.

So, about not really trying... This solo is hard as tits. My technique for sure isn't that good so I can play this stuff and be lax about it. Especially since most every lick in there is a new one to me that I only had been playing with for a couple of days. Heck, I'll post a tab on my facebook page after the weekend so y'all can give it a stab if you want to.

Thanks a lot for playing and caring enough about what I do so you post your comments. I very much appreciate it!

Sometimes, I take a Liberace approach to playing guitar haha. Thanks for watching!

Check out TheAmpFactory.com. They have a ton of REALLY good profiles made on badass boutique amps and low gain stuff. I feel the same way you do. It seems like the metal heads are generally the first to pick up on new technology (since they seem to be less tube purists than say the blues crowd), see line6, AxeFx, Kemper etc. But yeah, check out TAF for their low gain stuff. Very good indeed.

Sometimes too much isn't enough. This is one of those times Would love to hear what you think (even if I'm not using the profiler on this solo, but don't tell anyone haha)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4ublFx3fKE