March 2006

SOURCE: VETTAVILLe.NL

Jake Paland - InVettagation - Part 1... 12-03-2006

For introduction purposes;

Jake Paland, Free lance betatester for Line 6 and professional musician

Jake does some beta testing for Line 6 and got working for them when they opened their new offices in England. Now he's a endorsee. Here's some short info on Jake Paland. Accompanied with a demo from the Studio using PODxt Live and Variax. There's also a live video of a part of the same song. Enjoy.

Thanks go out to Jake Paland, Line 6 and Hans Ligtenberg

Hi Jake, can you tell us how did you got involved with Line 6?

By coincidence really. Vinny. When L6 had just opened their European offices in England and were actually still a very young company I called them up and asked them if they'd be interested in endorsing me since I'd been blown away by what the first Pod could do.

They were really cool and invited me down to meet some of the people, kept my bio and a compilation cd of artists I had played for. A couple of weeks later they called me up and said that they'd like to endorse me but were also wondering if I might be available to play at their
first Frankfurt Musikmesse show. Since then, almost six years ago, I've been playing clinics and guitar shows for them.

How is it working for them?

In one word, exciting ! It never gets boring since you don't know what they'll come up with next. I'm still as excited about new products as I was about the first Pod. In my opinion, Vinny, it's the only amp/guitar company that has actually moved the industry forward in recent years. In the synths market it's for example completely different.

New inventions are almost done on a weekly basis. Just look at a company like Steinberg, inventing vst instruments ! Incredible to have a perfect emulation of an OSCar on your laptop but in the guitar market all you ever get is the 100th new edition of a Strat. It seemed that for years guitar/amp companies tried to reinvent the wheel until Line6 came along and really invented something new and exciting.

If someone would have told me, or you Vinny (laughing), ten years ago that there'll be a digital guitar that models 28 classics and changes tuning when pressing a button or an amp that includes emulations of 74 different amps and cabs...I would not have believed it!

I also did a demo for them with Variax and PODxt Live, here's a part of it.

• Click here if for the PODxt Live and Variax demo by Jake Paland

I've seen you play on different occasions Jake, but why those Synth Pop through modern Electronica to ambient Sci-Fi guitar sounds? What is it that turns you to this kinda music?

The first records I got Vinny, at a very very early age, were 'Visage' by Visage, 'Alive2' by Kiss and 'Replicas' by Gary Numan so I guess my taste was always somewhere between cold electronics and organic guitars. From there it moved to bands like Tears For Fears, Duran Duran, David Bowie and Stevie Ray Vaughan.

Especially with people like Bowie the link between the two extremes is very obvious since he used players like Vaughan and Fripp and on the other hand synths guys like Brian Eno. I've always been more interested in the futuristic side of sounds, no matter if it comes from a synth or a guitar.

For me it's this 'how did he do THAT sound ?' that makes music more interesting and not the amount of notes that are being played. Actually I find pure guitar music quite one dimensional whereas sounds just add more texture and depth.

Maybe comparable to movies against theater where I would always choose the movies (laughing). Maybe I should have become a synth player but guitar just felt more right to me (laughing again). Of course you go through all different kinds of tastes in your carrear but at some point you always go back to your roots and just make them your own. Synth music is just a huge part of what I grew up with.

Source: Vinny / vettaville.nl

Jake Paland - InVettagation - Part 2... 12-03-2006

For introduction purposes;

Jake Paland, Free lance betatester for Line 6 and professional musician

Jake does some beta testing for Line 6 and got working for them when they opened their new offices in England. Now he's a endorsee. Here's some short info on Jake Paland. Accompanied with a demo from the Studio using PODxt Live and Variax. There's also a live video of a part of the same song. Enjoy.

Thanks go out to Jake Paland, Line 6 and Hans Ligtenberg

Since you're working Live on stage with Vetta, tell us how do you connect it?

All you do in a live situation is to place a mic in front of the cab which then goes into the mixing desk. The D.O.'s basically take care of the whole process just without the hassle of placing mic's, having different mic's and so on.

The D.O.'s are perfect to run through a full range speaker system and at least I know how it sounds when it goes into the desk and don't have to worry about tripping over the mic's, moving them accidently and so on. The other main reason is that the quieter the sound onstage the more the mixer can actually do without having to fight instrument volumes bleeding off the stage. It's just a very logic thing I learned over the years.

Unfortunately I haven't tested the third party's D.O.s, but I'm quite happy with what I get from my Vetta. Of course there's always room for improvement and I'm sure it'll get even better in the future but in the end it all comes down to taste and if you can tweek a sound to your liking.

Jake, what system do you use to monitor your sound on stage?

No particular, Vinny. I've learned the hard way when playing clubs in Los Angeles that you have to work and be happy with what you can get monitor-wise. Musicians always have these massive expectations of their monitors but 99% of the time it does NOT sound like a hifi system. Quite frankly Vinny, even if it sounds harsh, you should even be able to play with the worst sound. Next evening it might be exactly the opposite !



Who was your biggest influence(s) for your style guitarplaying

In no particular order: Stevie Ray Vaughan, Eric Johnson, Steve Stevens, Brian Setzer, Warren Cuccurullo, The Edge.

Betatesting, what are you doing and how much time does it involve?

It depends on the stage the product is in. I had for example a very early version of an Acoustic Variax where I went through all models, each possible setting and just playing and working with it and then
writing every little detail down that I think might not be right and email everything back to the development team.



Are you Betatesting every product?

Sometimes I don't have time to test every product and sometimes not all products reach Europe during the beta phase. Since I work freelance I try to get involved with products which I also use or would use here in my studio. The best beta testing in my opinion is actually if you use it in a real life situation over weeks and notjust an hour. This is where you stumble across most bugs and also the ones that are probably not too
obvious and might be overseen in just a 'normal' test.



What guitars do you own and use?

Quite a lot. 15 or 16 I think but my main guitars ( the ones I could not live without ) are three '62 Reissue Fender Japan Strats from the mid 80's and one of the first Steinberger GM4Ts, pre Gibson and also from the mid 80's. I'm a bit of a 'fan' when it comes to old Japanese Strats and Steinbergers. Both get more and more tricky to find and whenever I see a good one I buy it! I also use my Variax 500 quite a bit. It's slightly
customized with a different fretboard and different frets but that's just because of personal taste. For acoustic I either use my trusty old Seagull or the Variax Acoustic, depending on what sound I need.

I know your infamous for your 'shooting' sounds, and have seen you perform it many times, any chance you've wanna share those secrets on how to do it?

Aah, Vinny you old devil, you ain't gonna trick me into it. But as a special favour I've got a video of a demo from last years Frankfurter Messe, that was recorded live, just with a videocamera by a friend of mine. It's not plugged into to the board so their are different noises in there. You can have that one.

It concentrates on what I use and when and not on the things I do on my guitar, allthough you can see that aswell. So if you watch it closely enough maybe you'll get a trick or two from it. I'm using a PODxt Live a Variax and a Line 6 Stompbox Delay Modeler. It's quite a large file so if people are going to download it they'd better rightclick and save, but hey it sure is different. See ya, Vinny. Thanks for dropping by.

• Click here to watch the Jake Paland 'Shooting' demo (.mp4 8,5 MB)
  

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