Native Instruments presents: The fourth winner of the Guitar Rig Hero contest 2008! ****** Name: Yves Custeau Located: St-Francois-Xavier-de-Brompton, QC, Canada Musical influences: Malmsteen, Vai, Metallica, Gilmour, Petrucci and a lot more. Background: Self-taught multi-instrument musician for 18 years now, I’ve been involved in the Eastern Townships’ music scene as a musician, soundman and teacher. I also have my studio where I lay down ideas and have 100 songs to date. In 2006, I ranked 3rd place in Montreal’s Guitar Hero(!) battle among 60 guitarists (real guitarists, not the game!) and, in 2000, won 1st place at Victoriaville’s Bud Rock guitar battle. Homepage: www.myspace.com Instruments used in video: Malmsteen Fender Strat and Marc Chicoine custom guitar through Guitar Rig 3, Tama Grandstar drums, Yamaha P-80 piano and Ibanez soundgear recorded and mixed into Logic Pro 8. ****** Check out all top 5 winners here: www.youtube.com
July 21st, 2010 at 10:00 pm
u shoulda one first by a long shot.
July 21st, 2010 at 10:15 pm
this guy is just simply amazing
July 21st, 2010 at 11:13 pm
I think that the Competition was about use of the Rig Itself. I don’t think that the Skill of the player playing the instrument was involved in the judging. But if it was, This guy should have seriously taken the cake.
July 21st, 2010 at 11:26 pm
“one man band”
you have talent. . S 
July 21st, 2010 at 11:38 pm
reminds me of . . well I don’t know
he’s just great
July 22nd, 2010 at 12:22 am
@collinsrodog i think it was about demonstrating looping thats why.
July 22nd, 2010 at 12:30 am
Always nice to be reminded of the late 80s.
July 22nd, 2010 at 1:19 am
What is the bass called?
July 22nd, 2010 at 1:47 am
Our whole album. . . . all done with Guitar Rig. . . much better than this. check it out.
July 22nd, 2010 at 2:46 am
nice tune – I like how he uses different modes to alter the feeling of his playing! is there a chance to get this as mp3? peace
July 22nd, 2010 at 3:32 am
Reminds me of Joe Satriani
July 22nd, 2010 at 3:45 am
keep with piano
July 22nd, 2010 at 4:02 am
This guy is a great player. . . . but the sweep arppegio thing is getting a little played out. After learning how to sweep decently, I quit practicing it simply because it’s over used in music like dragonforce, and has essentially become a type of guitar masturbation to most who do learn to sweep. However, I’ll give him points because he only did a couple of times. Overall, I’d give this guy a 7 out of 10. Great player (better than me). . . but not very original. But this contest wasn’t about skill.
July 22nd, 2010 at 4:58 am
It reminds me a little bit of Iron Maiden
July 22nd, 2010 at 5:11 am
HBK when was young !
July 22nd, 2010 at 5:36 am
Shit. . . Winner – it should have been you man!
July 22nd, 2010 at 6:35 am
7 dislikes? thats too much. This video rips man
July 22nd, 2010 at 6:39 am
use interface?
July 22nd, 2010 at 7:27 am
gets my vote
July 22nd, 2010 at 7:46 am
Drum solo at 3:42!!
July 22nd, 2010 at 8:02 am
This guy knows scales flawless!!!
July 22nd, 2010 at 8:02 am
Idk who judge this but im sure he never played any music whatsoever. . . .
qc people should’ve won (either him or david meshow)
hes fucking handling a malmsteen fender strats and actually playing a song compare to that dude who played each instrument for less than 10 sec, i mean how can u judge him with 10 sec of demonstration compare to him/david who made a 3-4 min song that they composed and wrote
this is fucking #1 though, no doubt, jaymee look like a noob compare to him
July 22nd, 2010 at 8:06 am
wow !! el es realmente bueno ! podria haber estado en un puesto superior.
July 22nd, 2010 at 8:45 am
Dude that was a master peice! Seriously awsome my friend!!!
July 22nd, 2010 at 9:24 am
Je déteste cette façon de monter et baisser le volume après avoir joué. Une technique de pro, sinon!