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InVettagating: Jake Paland - March 2006 page 1

Jake Paland

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

Jake Paland

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.

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