Uploaded April 2013 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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guitarmessenger.com/contest - Guitar Messenger / Per Nilsson guitar solo competition. Judged by Per Nilsson, Jeff Loomis, Ola Englund, & Ralph Santolla. Sponsored by Ibanez, Randall, Recabinet, Seymour Duncan, & Toontrack.


STEP ONE
DOWNLOAD THE CONTEST BACKING TRACK available at Facebook.com/GuitarMessenger.

Give us a LIKE, then click the BACKING TRACK tab next to the LIKES count at the top right to access the audio and transcriptions for the track. This is the solo section from Scar Symmetry's DOMINATION AGENDA.

STEP TWO
RECORD A VIDEO OF YOU PLAYING YOUR ORIGINAL SOLO OVER THE BACKING TRACK.

Be creative and show us what you got! Need some fresh ideas? Why not check out Per Nilsson's SCAR GUITAR instructional DVD for over two hours worth of video and a 50-page tablature booklet? (guitarmessenger.com/store/scarguitar/)

STEP THREE
ENTER YOUR CONTEST SUBMISSION BEFORE MAY 7th, 2013.

You can check out and comment on other entries at promoshq.wildfireapp.com/website/6/contests/318481/voteable_entries?view_entries=1. The contest will be closed for submissions on May 7th, 2013.

STEP FOUR: PUBLIC VOTING (MAY 7 -- 14)
PROMOTE YOUR VIDEO AND GATHER VOTES.

On May 7th 2013, the public voting phase will begin and people can vote for each submission once a day until May 14th, 2013. Promote your video, share it with your friends, and post it on your favorite social networks and forums to gather as many votes as possible. The top voted entries will go on to become the contest finalists!

STEP FIVE: JUDGES PICK WINNERS
WIN AMAZING PRIZES FROM OUR WONDERFUL SPONSORS.

Public voting will be closed on May 14th, 2013 and the top-voted entries will become the finalists. Our all-star jury consisting of PER NILSSON, JEFF LOOMIS, OLA ENGLUND, and RALPH SANTOLLA, will go on to rank the finalists and select five winners, who will be announced around May 18th.

PRIZES
The top 5 winners will receive prizes from our amazing and generous sponsors: Ibanez Guitars, Randall Amplifiers, Recabinet, Toontrack, & Seymour Duncan!




GRAND PRIZE:


IBANEZ 25TH ANNIVERSARY MODEL RG GUITAR
3-piece Wizard III maple neck
Maple fingerboard
DiMarzio Air Nortion S (H) neck
DiMarzio D Activator (H) bridge
Edge-Zero II trem


RANDALL RG13 PEDAL/AMPLIFIER
3 Channel, 1 watt High Gain FET Solid State Guitar Floor- Pedal/Amplifier
Switchable FX Loop
Volume Boost function
External 9v pedal power jack
1/8″ Stereo Media input
Headphone output
Speaker emulated XLR direct output with ground lift and external RGA-13 Power Supply


SEYMOUR DUNCAN PICKUPS
Winner's choice of one set of Seymour Duncan pickups (not including Zephyr, Black Winter, and Custom Shop series).


RECABINET -- SPEAKER CABINET SIMULATOR
20 virtual cabinets, 8 virtual mics
2 internal channels with Kazrog Konsole EQ, voiced for making guitar and bass tracks come alive.
Blend any cabinet and microphone/position combination with 100% phase coherency.
Speaker Dynamics modeling, simulating all of the nonlinear behavior of real guitar speakers.


TOONTRACK -- SUPERIOR DRUMMER 2.0
Superior Drummer 2.0 is the professional drum sampler flagship from Toontrack Music. With its excellent sounding sample-engine, its phenomenal realistic room sounds and its unrivaled extensive feature-list, it truly sets the industry standard in contemporary digital drum production.


TOONTRACK -- THE METAL FOUNDRY SDX
The Metal Foundry SDX™ is an all-new recording with Meshuggah drummer Tomas Haake, featuring seven massive drum kits, spanning 300,000 sound files of raw, single hit drum recordings in the vein of Drumkit From Hell and dfh Superior, covering Hard Rock to Metal, from the early Blues tinged sound of the late 60s to the fragmentation of today's music, from Power through Thrash, Death and Progressive Metal.


TOONTRACK -- EZMIX 2
Following the success of Toontrack's EZmix, the new and completely overhauled EZmix 2 continues to build on the same fundamental idea: having pro-designed effect chains for instruments and channels found in every recording session combined in one powerful mixing tool.


TOONTRACK -- METAL GUITAR GODS EZMIX PACK
Metal Guitar Gods is an expansion pack for EZmix 2, focusing solely on amp and cab simulation presets for guitar and bass. All content was custom designed by four of the most iconic and trendsetting guitarists in metal: Fredrik Thordendal (Meshuggah), Mattias IA Eklundh (Freak Kitchen), Misha "Bulb" Mansoor (Periphery) and Devin Townsend (ex-Strapping Young Lad, The Devin Townsend Project).




SECOND & THIRD PRIZE
Recabinet -- Speaker Cabinet Simulator
Toontrack -- Superior Drummer 2.0
Toontrack -- The Metal Foundry SDX
Toontrack -- EZmix 2
Toontrack -- Metal Guitar Gods EZmix Pack


FOURTH & FIFTH PRIZE
Recabinet -- Speaker Cabinet Simulator
Toontrack -- EZmix 2
Toontrack -- Metal Guitar Gods EZmix Pack