Was I Wrong about Eddie's Van Halen 1 Pickup? Answers Found in Rare '79 Interview w/EVH!

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  • Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
  • #EVH #VanHalen #seymourduncan
    A follow-up to my guitar centric video about the theory that the pickup used in one of EVH's guitars on the 1987 debut album, Van Halen, was a Seymour Duncan Custom. I now believe that I was most likely incorrect...
    It might be good to watch that video first if you'd like the full context, but this video also stands on it's own I think.
    Here's a link to that previous video:
    • The REAL Pickup Eddie ...
    Pete Thorn's Original Van Halen Pickup Deep Dive: • THE EVH TONE PICKUP DE...

Комментарии • 104

  • @MichaelSorensen-bl3ec
    @MichaelSorensen-bl3ec 9 месяцев назад +18

    Unfortunately you cannot believe 95% of anything Eddie says. Hewas constantly misdirecting everyone to protect his sound.

    • @armandomorenotherevival7827
      @armandomorenotherevival7827 7 месяцев назад +1

      Correct !!! EVh set a trail that he knew everyone would chase. He bs’d a lot in his interviews especially the older interviews.

    • @brookchivell
      @brookchivell 7 месяцев назад

      100% I’ve heard he even used to turn his back to the crowd when he solo’s se people wouldn’t learn his ‘tricks’

    • @MichaelSorensen-bl3ec
      @MichaelSorensen-bl3ec 7 месяцев назад

      @@brookchivell That's true. Prior to the release of the first album he would turn away to hide what he was doing.

    • @gscgold
      @gscgold 5 месяцев назад +1

      plus his giant ego back then..kinda like him saying "Randy Rhoads got everything he did from me" laughable

    • @wally-001
      @wally-001 3 месяца назад

      Absolutely he did. I've said that same thing for years

  • @sleggarri
    @sleggarri 7 месяцев назад +8

    Seymour had said that he didn't meet EVH until the early 80s in a recent interview on Tone Talk. Seymour has great ears. He probably heard Ed's sound and saw photos of his early guitars and made the Duncan Custom as his version of the DiMarzio SD. My own ears tell me that it was probably a Super Distortion used on that first record. My opinion is based in large part by what I heard from Pete Thorn and Dave Friedman's videos on VH 1 tone and their pickup shootout.

    • @MyLifEcademy-sr4hy
      @MyLifEcademy-sr4hy 6 месяцев назад +1

      That shootout was insane!

    • @Disruptor23
      @Disruptor23 4 месяца назад

      I don’t know if it is particularly SD or not but I think it is a Dimarzio pickup. It sounds like a Dimarzio. Smooter mids, looser bass, popping pinch harmonics.

  • @paullebel7268
    @paullebel7268 Год назад +9

    His sound came from his soul

    • @TheFilthLA
      @TheFilthLA  Год назад

      That's the truth

    • @incubus2054
      @incubus2054 10 месяцев назад +1

      I disagree - in terms of the sound of the guitar coming out of the speakers, that's the equipment. His playing comes from him but not his sound. If he was playing a telecaster with a single coil pickup through an amp with no distortion, would the guitar sound be the same as eruption ? No.

    • @TheFilthLA
      @TheFilthLA  10 месяцев назад +1

      @@incubus2054 no but it would still sound great is the point

    • @incubus2054
      @incubus2054 10 месяцев назад

      @@TheFilthLA Absolutely it would - you'd still know it was him.

    • @wizrom3046
      @wizrom3046 10 месяцев назад +1

      But what pickups did his soul have??
      Ceramic or Alnico

  • @kmajor44
    @kmajor44 Год назад +6

    I have a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom and many believe it’s very close to the evh pickup. I really don’t know or care anymore but I love it in the bridge of my early 90’s Ibanez with an original FR.

    • @TheFilthLA
      @TheFilthLA  Год назад +4

      I'll give anyone a 100$ if they can hear the difference between the Custom Custom and the Frankenstein. Those shits are the same. Funny thing is some people (even ones I respect) like the CC and shit on the Frankenstein.
      Guitar people are weird (me too)!

    • @kmajor44
      @kmajor44 Год назад +1

      @@TheFilthLA I honestly think they are the same also. But I won’t argue with those that don’t. At this point in time I am sure there are dozens of pickup makers that can recreate it also…if they haven’t already.

    • @2216sammy
      @2216sammy 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@TheFilthLA The Custom Custom sucks , I tried in in a Les Paul and got rid of it asap.

    • @TheFilthLA
      @TheFilthLA  5 месяцев назад +2

      Oh dude, I cannot think of a WORSE guitar to put a CC in than a Les Paul. That pickup is ONLY any good in a bright sounding guitar. Like an ash body with a maple neck and floyd rose, right. The non-custom Custom is more appropriate in that (though still not right for many).@@2216sammy

  • @angusorvid8840
    @angusorvid8840 Год назад +8

    As a player for almost 40 years who's owned every brand of pickups including most DiMarzio and Duncan models, I can attest that DiMarzios are just as well made as Duncans, and in some cases more well designed when it comes to being free of microphonics. As far as what pickups have better tone, that's really matter of preference. I love the Super Distortion and I love the Custom. I also think the alnico 2 Custom Custom is a superb piece of work, and to my ears the closest in tone and feel to the classic Eddie tone. The classic ceramic Custom SH-5 is a lot tighter than either the alnico 2 Custom Custom or ceramic Super Distortion. So far as DiMarzio having their own version of the 59, that pup is closer to a Seth Lover in that it's made from older methods and components included being DiMarzio's only pickup with no wax potting. Regarding Eddie's tone, I think a lot more of it comes from his fingers and from his amps, speakers, etc. Yes, the pickups factor in, but it's a small part of the picture. I think the alnico 5 Custom-5 is a bad fit if you are going for a classic Eddie tone. It's too bassy and the high end is too harsh. The Custom SH-5 ceramic is just too compressed for an Eddie tone. The Custom Custom SH-11 alnico 2 is the pickup I most recommend. Now, Duncan have also released the '78 which they claim is the best pickup if you are going for the tone of the first three VH albums. Perhaps. I haven't tried it. But it is alnico 2 and I think that mag is a good building block to go in the classic VH direction.

    • @TheFilthLA
      @TheFilthLA  Год назад +2

      It's definitely mostly his hands, there's no question there. Having tried them all, I'm partial to the Custom Custom and '78 myself. I like the tone of the '78, but the extra output in the CC is nice to have.

    • @angusorvid8840
      @angusorvid8840 Год назад +1

      @@TheFilthLA The CC is just perfect for covering all bases when it comes to Eddie's tones. In fact, you can handle the tones of the first four albums and post 1984 VH with a CC. As far as I know the DiMarzio bridge model used in the MM is alnico 2 but based on a JB with an A2 mag that Seymour used to wind for him for his Kramers. Eddie liked one in particular that Larry DiMarzio and Steve Blucher, his pickup designer, cloned. That story is available on the DiMarzio web site. Larry also mentions Eddie using a Super Distortion which he had wax potted. Anyhow, the CC is what I would use for a VH tone. One element of the VH tone is the low end is not muddy but it's not tight either. As VH went on into the post 1984 years you heard less low-end twang in Eddie's rhythm style and string ridding.

    • @TheFilthLA
      @TheFilthLA  11 месяцев назад +2

      The 78 is great. I have a CC on the way replacing the Duncan custom, it’s too bright and tight for VH.
      I love Dimarzio too. The Satchur8 I tried recently is excellent. Might become my go to for mid gain pickups

    • @TheFilthLA
      @TheFilthLA  7 месяцев назад

      Spot on analysis. Frankly, I think there’s a reason Duncan himself used an alnico 2 in the custom custom instead of an alnico 5. I think the Full Shred is supposed to be more or less a custom 5 but tuned for more clarity and less boominess. I’ve never used one but probably not a VH sounds really.
      I agree with you on the CC, however, the ‘78 to me is not only the best for early VH, but in my opinion the best, most harmonically rich PAF for crunchy rock and singing leads out there. If you give it a go, it will not disappoint.
      Thanks for watching.

    • @angusorvid8840
      @angusorvid8840 7 месяцев назад

      I still love the PAF Pro and Fred and Steve's Special for their clarity. The PAF Pro is great for VH tone. @@TheFilthLA

  • @1969Donovan
    @1969Donovan 13 дней назад

    I had thought I heard an interview years ago that Eddie said the pickup in the white and black guitar was a 335 Gibson bridge humbucker, because he was very impressed with Clapton's sound with Cream.

  • @buzzcrushtrendkill
    @buzzcrushtrendkill Год назад +7

    Being that most of VH1 was recorded using his Ibanez Destroyer (every guitar part that didn't have vibrato bar). It could very well be the Maxon Super 70 pickup. Ed purposely sought out Chris Holmes's Ibanez Destroyer to record Women and Children First, after he mucked up his Destroyer. Why would he want to use Chris's if he wasn't looking for the Maxon Super 70 sound?

    • @TheFilthLA
      @TheFilthLA  Год назад

      It could very well be in part because of the pickups but I believe Ed's problem with it that taking out that big a chunk of wood killed a lot of the resonance of guitar and thus that big, fat sound he loved.

    • @buzzcrushtrendkill
      @buzzcrushtrendkill Год назад +1

      @@vincevegas8529 very well could be as Ed was always throwing out red herrings to keep ppl from copying his sound - from the amp "mods" to the unconnected single coil p/u in the Franky neck and the humbucker being a PAF, Super Distortion, SD Custom, Mighty Mite, etc. When in the studio for the early albums it was Maxon Super 70 all along. A topic that will be endlessly discussed.

    • @buzzcrushtrendkill
      @buzzcrushtrendkill Год назад

      @@TheFilthLA Right. The why he sought out Chris Holmes who had the same Ibanez model #2459 to record with.

    • @pensive_
      @pensive_ 3 месяца назад +1

      @@buzzcrushtrendkill There is the proof right there. He did not change pickups on a guitar he borrowed. If the Maxons sucked, then he would not have borrowed it. The Maxons are way better candidates as used on VH1 than "Drunken Designs"

  • @michaelray5023
    @michaelray5023 9 месяцев назад +1

    My theory is that the ‘Brown Sound’ pickup was discovered by accident. Eddie loved PAFs and if you look hard enough, PAFs are not created equal. I think he collected a couple of PAFs that didn’t mean anything to the original owner. There was one pickup in particular that had to be rewound, because 1 coil didn’t work. He might have rewound it himself or someone had rewound the pickup for him. I don’t believe it was Seymour Duncan either, because Duncan still can’t nail the VH1 and 2 brown sound. If you look at the ‘Shark Guitar’ situation, he F’d up the original ‘Brown Sound’ but the pickup was the only thing he could salvage. He had to borrow an Ibanez Destroyer from a buddy to record ‘Women and Children First’ and his friend said when he got it back, the Bridge pickup was removed, and Eddie was on tour by then. The Destroyer was restored with its original pickup and it sounds like Eddie used his own Pickup to try and recreate the original ‘Brown Sound’. Another Theory of mine was that he may have tried to rewind the same PAF to suit the Frankenstrat, but that takes a specialist to achieve. My theory is he made the same mistake with the Shark Guitar situation and F’d up the original ‘Brown Sound’ pickup. Enter Seymour Duncan, Duncan took an original PAF that Eddie had with different specs and made it hotter to suit the Frankenstrat. There was no way, Eddie could recreate the magic he had, and Duncan was as close as he could get to VH 1 and 2. Seymour Duncan would have cloned the original PAF decades ago, but Eddie didn’t like that everyone was trying to make money off his name so I don’t believe Duncan got his hands on the real PAF. There were a lot of ‘EVH’ clones at the time too so Eddie was trying to do everything himself and most likely didn’t trust Duncan. The VH 1 and 2 ‘Brown Sound’ definitely sounds like a Gibson PAF to me.

  • @zandig666
    @zandig666 3 месяца назад +2

    I had a pretty good VH sound using a marshall clone and super distortions of course using a clean boost and great mooer phase i love the buffers in mooer pedals soo far, ive got rid of pedals b4 because of what they did to my tone being in the chain

  • @davidrocha1419
    @davidrocha1419 Месяц назад +1

    I've tried all of the pickups that every one says out there that nail Eddie'ssound, In my opinion my top 3 are the Frankenstein humbucker only 500 made, is my #1, the Seymour Duncan 78 and the Seymour Duncan JB. Regardless, all the pickups have their strengths. I personally found that my SD 78 has the most harmonics out of all of them🤘. The Frankenstein humbucker just nails any VH song, just an amazing pickup. I have an original Dimarzio Super Distortion that I'm going to install and test for a while, and if I'm not happy with it, I'm going to swap the magnet to an alnico 2.

    • @TheFilthLA
      @TheFilthLA  Месяц назад +2

      The 78 is my favorite at the end of the day. JB is fun but the midrange is a mixed blessing.

  • @donsmith5385
    @donsmith5385 11 месяцев назад +1

    EVH used so many pickups, he clearly wanted to keep his discoveries a secret. I owned a Charvel Art Seies EVH, it had the Duncan black back pickup. I really liked it except there was not a lot of brightness to it, I installed a Bill Lawrence L-500 and it had more brightness than the SD, the treble and presence on my amp was maxed out with the SD, I had to back down the treble and presence with the LAWRENCE, so your hands and amp factor in, try everything you may get closer to the sound you want. Just remember EVH was always trying to throw people off his tone, he said he didn’t like using distortion or overdrive pedals but he used eq pedals and tape delays that had preamps, using them to drive the front end of his amp. So you have to read between the lines with what EVH was doing.

    • @TheFilthLA
      @TheFilthLA  11 месяцев назад

      What is the black back? Never heard of it. Isn’t it the Frankenstein in that?

  • @dougmorisoli6482
    @dougmorisoli6482 Год назад +4

    Sounded more like EVH was upset that his name was being used to market the pickup than anything else. SD clearly did work for Ed but that ad is what alienated him from SD. The VH brothers don’t tolerate breach of trust.
    Ed must not have been too put off by Dimarzio since they went on to develop the pickup for the EVH Music Man guitar.

    • @TheFilthLA
      @TheFilthLA  Год назад +1

      I sold a Music Man Axis years ago before I could really even play that well and I've wanted it back ever since, largely because of those pickups. Probably the best hot rock pickups I've played. The bridge is like a JB just made slightly more awesome.

    • @TheFilthLA
      @TheFilthLA  Год назад

      Yes. Although it is worth noting that they clearly made amends at some point. At the moment, I believe SD makes no less than THREE pickups for the EVH brand. Not to mention their own '78. Sounds like they've had their disagreements but ultimately remained friends.

  • @toddjones5186
    @toddjones5186 Год назад +2

    in the 70's Ed added windings with weak A2 magnets. I used a Duncan JB took out the 3 A5 magnets and replaced with a single A2 from an old ES335. It produced a lot of clean presence.

    • @TheFilthLA
      @TheFilthLA  Год назад

      I didn't know there were 3 magnets in the JB. Interesting.

    • @toddjones5186
      @toddjones5186 Год назад

      @@TheFilthLA little bars on the outside of the poles

    • @auntjenifer7774
      @auntjenifer7774 9 месяцев назад +1

      😂 You are talking about the spacers !? There is not 3 magnets inside any JB humbuckers.

  • @MoarBullshit
    @MoarBullshit Год назад +3

    The JB was referred to, briefly, as the "Jeff Beck" pickup when it first hit the market. Jeff didn't like that anymore than Eddie did, hence the rename to "JB" and the reference to harmonics.

    • @TheFilthLA
      @TheFilthLA  Год назад +2

      That's always been such a joke to me. The JB means "Jazzy/Bluesy" is such a crock. I mean, you can play Jazz and Blues with the JB but it so clearly wants to rock. That thing is really pretty hot.

    • @angusorvid8840
      @angusorvid8840 Год назад +1

      But Seymour never got into a spat with Beck like he did with Eddie. Seymour floated the legend that it was designed for Beck, which it was, and used for only a couple tunes on Blow by Blow as far as I know. But he soon drifted towards single coil strats which is pretty much been his mainstay since at least Wired. I think it worked best for where Beck was headed because single coils really pop, especially with finger picking which became Beck's thing after the Blow by Blow era. Beck used a relatively simple set up built around getting all the natural overtones he could just from using his fingers. If he wanted a clean tone he rolled down the volume. He would often use a Rat to give his amps a boost.

  • @pensive_
    @pensive_ 3 месяца назад +2

    And.. Why doesnt SD continue using "Van Halen" in ads for this pickup ??? Did you ask yourself that question ?? Because it was all bunk and apparently Eddie called him and put a stop to the bunk ads. I might still have a copy of that incident saved somewhere.
    Eddie dispelled all this when he told Seymour Duncan to take a hike when the latter tried to commercialize the rewound of one of Eddies many pickups (eddie did not just have 1 pickup you know). Duncan apparently just went ahead and used EVH's name regardless, and Eddie was severely annoyed, and had to call SD up and told him to stop using his name associated with the custom or else.
    Two things stand out. An unscrupulous opportunist, that couldn't care less, and secondly EVH who clearly had no respect or use for that pickup that was rewound anymore else he would have had a different opinion of the incident. He clearly didnt use it extensively and didnt like it after he received it.
    Go read that episode up before you try to make something stick.

  • @VanHalenIsolated
    @VanHalenIsolated Год назад

    There’s lots of pictures of Eddie playing the Destroyer with a chrome/nickel cover, even when he made it the Shark. Pete doesn’t hear it because he falls prey to why every other person has fallen prey in regards to the Variac being at 90V. Eddie did say that 89V was his sweet spot but that is live. Watch Jim Gaustad’s Brown Sound Quests. He makes a good point where he points out that Eddie said that he has had to turn the variac down (in the early days [and studio]) all the way to 60-65V. Of course, again, depending on venue so it can range from 60V to 90V. If you play a Plexi at 90V, you’ll notice that there’s not much of a volume change. Try it at 70V (I always have it here). The volume will decrease significantly. You can lower it to 90V, bias it up there to 50mV a tube, then turn it down without rebiasing .The cold tubes is what gives it that brown, chunky sound. It’s probably uneven per tube but not by much at that level since it’s literally like 2-5mV a tube. It still pumps out a few watts and everyone knows how loud Plexis are, even the Studio Vintage on the 5 watt setting. Jim Gaustad specifically addresses the Super 70 Alnico 8 in this video ruclips.net/video/rghw7UR9pzw/видео.html . He A/B’s a Dimarzio Super Distortion and the Super 70. The Super 70 hits it on the head.

  • @user-ye9li7bp7p
    @user-ye9li7bp7p 3 месяца назад

    I love EVH with DRL. I love the sound, so-called "brown sound", and would I be an idiot to think just the pickup would give me the brown or involved guitar pedals and amp. I am overwhelmed with the EVH sound. I have just one question, what pickup should I buy so I can get close to "Brown Sound", I like the sound of Mighty Mite pickup for Pete Thorn's RUclips video. I'll build my own sound. I would appreciate any of your expert opinions. Thank you.

  • @brandonnelson7489
    @brandonnelson7489 2 месяца назад

    I thought for the longest time that he took the neck pickup out of an old es-335 or am I confusing that with something else?

  • @roadtonever
    @roadtonever 5 месяцев назад +1

    Eddies VH1 sound was a product of studio trickery. Simply put you are not hearing the natural sound of his rig on the album. SD custom might get you closer to that sound, but discusing which pickup defines the album is like asking which spaghetti defines a pizza.

  • @markgrant1302
    @markgrant1302 8 месяцев назад +1

    Keep in mind that Ed hated the sound of his guitar on Van Halen 1... That his sound on that album wasn't the same as his live tone, and that attack and bite that he had, had a lot to do with his hands. I've gotten close to his tone, but then you have to be able to play in that impossibly brilliant way that he did so effortlessly...

  • @allenwebster6329
    @allenwebster6329 Год назад +3

    Not only does the his sound come from the pickup its also the way you fret your notes eddie had very very low action and had a very light touch when he played so that added to his sound as well, it really doesnt matter with the pickups probably if its a high output it sounds good right,i have a couple of wolfgangs and 3 charvel san dimas guitars and a strat of coarse my strat pickups are not hot so to speak but on my charvel they are Duncans which thier output is around 14.5k on the bridge i also have a Ibáñez with a súper distorsión on it my wolfgangs just have the wolfgang pickups which are around 14k as well ,no matter what we try or how many times we change pickups we will never sound like eddie you can have the same guitar as him same amps same settings everything no matter how hard we try no one will ever sound like eddie ,its like chasing a good high we as players will never sound like eddie van halen ,we can go on about pickups he had again its like chasing a good high no one but no one will ever lets say it again ever sound like eddie never ever

    • @TheFilthLA
      @TheFilthLA  Год назад

      You speak the truth here

    • @allenwebster6329
      @allenwebster6329 Год назад

      @@TheFilthLA i wasnt trying to upset you , alot of people go down the eddie van halen rabbit hole so to speak and try and figure out everything and even go to the extreme of getting the same guitar he had in each récord they made even get the same amp set up thier guitars the same even get the same strings as he had , but no matter how hard or how money they spend doing it ,its always the same outcome just cant get his sound ,ive set my action on my wolfgangs to eddie van halen specs and yeah not even close to his tone , i know it drives a person crazy cause they think if they do this or that its gonna make them sound like eddie but again it just wont we work but i guess people enjoy the rabbit hole much like eddie did trying things thats just what we do trying but doing it like he did its purely impossible ,and pickup wise eddie tried tons of pickups im sure ,the pickups he used were the super distorsión one but in reality lets say his had 120 winds on it the next set may have 115 winds one single wind can make a tone difference as well not much but will make a difference, lets say yeah he got one with 120 winds then someone says hey i want Eddies tone they bye the same pickup and thier pickup doesnt have as many winds as his did theres the issue we will never really know unless we keep grinding down the eddie rabbit hole some more , so yeah i try to get as close as possible and move on but anyway stay safe and god bless

    • @TheFilthLA
      @TheFilthLA  Год назад +1

      @@allenwebster6329 you didn’t upset me at all. I say exactly that in my previous video on the subject. I even said it in this one but cut it out for time. Any decent player understands this, but it’s still fun to speculate in the way people like to hot rod cars when it’s really about who’s driving at the end of the day

    • @2DclanSnipingTeam
      @2DclanSnipingTeam 10 месяцев назад

      @@allenwebster6329, A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. Ed's humbucker would have had about 8,000 winds. One wind would make absolutely no sonic difference and could not even be measured on a scope!

  • @NotSoSavage179
    @NotSoSavage179 7 месяцев назад +2

    Guys it’s not that hard. Eddie recorded Van Halen 1 with the Super 70 in the destroyer, ES-335 pickup in the Frankie . Period the end

    • @TheFilthLA
      @TheFilthLA  7 месяцев назад

      I actually think that’s correct

    • @cnilecnile6748
      @cnilecnile6748 6 месяцев назад

      @@TheFilthLA It is. The 335 pickup was a T-top, from the neck. Out of a '65.

  • @Disruptor23
    @Disruptor23 4 месяца назад

    I don’t know if it is particularly SD or not but I think it is a Dimarzio pickup. It sounds like a Dimarzio. Smooter mids, looser bass, popping pinch harmonics.

  • @williamstevens2083
    @williamstevens2083 11 месяцев назад

    I believe it is the mighty mite 1300 from watching all the guys on you tube test a variety of pickups in their video and my personal pick was always the mighty mite

  • @shanedavis3414
    @shanedavis3414 7 месяцев назад

    I have an EVH Frankenstein pickup. I believe they were used on the Chip Ellis $25K replica project. What are the thoughts on the pup and which is it based off of ?

    • @TheFilthLA
      @TheFilthLA  7 месяцев назад

      The Frankenstein pickup is virtually identical to the SD Custom Custom. So the custom with an A2 magnet. I believe they came by that honestly as SD definitely wound some CC’s for Eddie in the 80s for sure. I guess they met to create the ideal pickup for that guitar and basically came back to a classic “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it “ conclusion apparently.
      They may technically have some minor differences but both in terms of their basic specs and (most importantly) in sound those differences are non-existent. I’d challenge anyone to do a blindfold test. I suspect it’s mostly marketing so they can use the EVH and sell it separately.. also, wouldn’t surprise me if they are all made in the custom shop
      Thx for watching

  • @bonzology322
    @bonzology322 4 месяца назад

    Its totally fun and worth going for the essence of ed's early tone, but he used at least 3 different guitars on vh1, the finished product you all base your goals off of went through 2 mics, a 2" ampex tape machine, 2 API pre amps, 2 api eq's, 2 1176 compressors, plate and chamber reverbs, and a mastering generation etc. The sound coming out of the amp(what you all using for your side of the comparison) was nothing like the finished record, listen to the raw tracks of "On fire" released in the past 6 months, though it's still gone through front end chain at least, it sounds like a marshall plexi, most of eds vibe came from him

    • @TheFilthLA
      @TheFilthLA  4 месяца назад

      True story and well said

  • @jeffreyburmeister6775
    @jeffreyburmeister6775 7 месяцев назад

    What does Seymore Duncan say about it? He is is still around.

  • @richardmahan6888
    @richardmahan6888 11 месяцев назад

    I thought it was aDiMarzio pickup that Eddie was useing at the earlyer part of his years .

  • @proton45
    @proton45 3 месяца назад

    EVH was known (back in the day) to have favored the MightyMite 1300. Not the Super Distortion. I believe that I also heard that Duncan had done work for EVH before the 1980s...but it was through EVHs guitar tech. So yes, they dint actually meet until the 80s... even though he HAD done work for him, before they actually met.

    • @TheFilthLA
      @TheFilthLA  3 месяца назад

      Yeah, apparently the 1300 is a copy of the SD. And yes, Duncan rewound one of Ed’s pickups in the late 70s

    • @proton45
      @proton45 25 дней назад

      @@TheFilthLA Actually the 1300 is not exactly a clone. Mighty Mite used a different type of coating on the wire they wrapped around the bobbins. The coating was deigned to melt at a lower temperatures then the bobbins. "Melt" (?), you are no doubt wondering to yourself. Yes, they used to bake the bobbin after winding, and the coating of the wire would adhere to the wires around them and form a type of potting. This also had the effect of making the 1300 more stable and durable. Also, this way of constructing a pickup leads to unique specs on depth of wire wraps and turns around bobbin. The 1300 (to my ears) is brighter then the Dimarzio super Dee's of there era. Back in the day, you would find many guitarist that preferred the Mighty Mite 1300 to the Dimarzio. Calling it a clone, is misleading. Seymour Duncan worked at Mighty Mite before he went solo...and its hard to imagine Duncan just "cloning" another pickup.

  • @mickshalansky4770
    @mickshalansky4770 4 месяца назад

    You ever think its in his hands

    • @TheFilthLA
      @TheFilthLA  4 месяца назад

      It's all in his hands. Still fun to talk about.

  • @WarriorOfGhengisKhan
    @WarriorOfGhengisKhan Год назад

    Alnico 5 was used in 57-60 paf's. 2,4,5 and even 6 have been found in them.

  • @bonzology322
    @bonzology322 4 месяца назад

    Why would Seymour put out the 78 which clearly refrences vh1 if the custom custom is the vh hummy? makes zero sense

    • @TheFilthLA
      @TheFilthLA  4 месяца назад

      Go watch my other VH video on the subject for context. The short story: VH1 was recorded with two different guitars with two different humbuckers

  • @stevenvarner8338
    @stevenvarner8338 Год назад +3

    A lot of guitar players today play Brown- Sound with Brown -Shit talent.
    When I heard EVH for the first time I humbly put down the guitar and switched to bass.
    When I heard EVH play bass guitar for the first, I humbly again switched from bass guitar to being the best commenter I could be.

    • @TheFilthLA
      @TheFilthLA  Год назад +1

      In the words or Clint Eastwood: "A man's got to know his limitations."

    • @auntjenifer7774
      @auntjenifer7774 9 месяцев назад

      ​@@TheFilthLA😂 what movie is that from ? A western movie wasn't it !?

  • @pensive_
    @pensive_ 3 месяца назад +1

    And, You cherry-picked a part of that telephone audio to suit your agenda.
    Here is a transcript of the full Seymour Duncan issue. Basically contradicting your narrative.
    *Eddie in his own words.*
    """There’s another guy too…. See, I’ve rewound my own pickups before, and a guy named Seymour Duncan - you probably know him - I got pissed at him too. He called me up and said, “Can we use your name for a special pickup?” And I said no. Next time I pick up Guitar Player magazine, there’s a special Van Halen model customized Duncan pickup. So I called him up and said, “What the hell’s goin’ on?” So he stopped, finally.
    What a drag.
    It’s just kind of weird, you know.
    You’re just getting exploited.
    Anyway, going back to making ....."""

    • @TheFilthLA
      @TheFilthLA  3 месяца назад

      Oh, my “agenda” aye? Lol. Did you even watch the whole thing? I play all of that.

    • @pensive_
      @pensive_ 3 месяца назад

      @@TheFilthLA Not at all the case, but you really try to put SD in a good light. Read what I posted and see what kind of person it is. It's fine you can associate with who you want. I won't associate with him in any way. Jeff Beck got burned too.

    • @pensive_
      @pensive_ 3 месяца назад

      @@TheFilthLA Nope, you clearly have an agenda trying to cover for SD. Go read what I quoted from the interview and see how much credibility the entire SD/EVH pickup issue carries. Nil. Eddy basically thought he was a snake it seems, and by the transcript quoted it is not far off. Meanwhile you go off into an esotherical fake fantasy about EVH using SD pickups in his main guitar as if it is fact.

  • @hadleymanmusic
    @hadleymanmusic 8 месяцев назад

    I thought it was the ibanez japanese humbucker

  • @colincartmell1440
    @colincartmell1440 Год назад

    Mighty mite 13k super dist clone, ceramic... it is the vh1 tone

  • @stevenvarner8338
    @stevenvarner8338 Год назад +1

    I remember the time when Ted Nugent plugged in to Van Halen's rig on the'79 tour. For some reason Ted thought he could sound like Van Halen playing through Ed's rig.
    You know what it sounded like? Ted Nugent playing through Eddie Van Halen's rig.

  • @JosephBag
    @JosephBag 10 месяцев назад

    My guess for VH1 is the stock Super 70 in the Destroyer and an overwound PAF in the strat. After that, he started using Floyds and his real pickup experimentation began.

  • @dr.stevenpennym.d.3241
    @dr.stevenpennym.d.3241 Год назад +1

    I don’t know what the big deal is about Eddie Van Halen. He was a good guitar player. I can list 25 better guitar players in him.

    • @TheFilthLA
      @TheFilthLA  Год назад +4

      That’s because you have no taste

    • @dr.stevenpennym.d.3241
      @dr.stevenpennym.d.3241 11 месяцев назад

      @@TheFilthLA Troll. I’ve been playing over 50 years and blow him away.

    • @TheFilthLA
      @TheFilthLA  11 месяцев назад +1

      @@dr.stevenpennym.d.3241 then I’m sure I could learn something from you. Surely you’d have links you could share of your virtuoso playing, yeah?

    • @dr.stevenpennym.d.3241
      @dr.stevenpennym.d.3241 11 месяцев назад +1

      @@TheFilthLA we all feed off of each other’s strengths and weaknesses. To this day, I am still learning. I do not have a link to where I am playing because I am a very busy surgeon. Playing guitar allows me to decompress as I am a double board trauma/cardiothoracic surgeon. Playing guitar also helps keep my hands, young and healthy. Playing guitar is a great exercise for many disciplines. Including being a surgeon.

    • @TheFilthLA
      @TheFilthLA  11 месяцев назад +4

      Brother, you haven't been too much of a dick so I'm not going to hammer down too hard. For all I know you're a very nice guy, whose Id comes out on social media. But something is clearly off here. I mean, you have your title in your RUclips handle and you're making comments that add nothing other than to assert your own brilliance to the point which can only be called delusional. It says an awful lot about you, man. I'll leave it at that. I had a person seem to be genuinely harmed by my observations before and I'm not trying to do that here.
      Your pathology probably works for you as a surgeon but I suspect it harms many other aspects of your life significantly. I mean, do you really need MORE affirmation as a man in his 70s? It's odd.
      With your level of arrogance, we both know you would have some sort of sample of your playing online. There's no two ways about it.
      Don't be a dick on my channel by coming in here and shitting on people's heroes. It's low class behavior. Good day, Doc.
      @@dr.stevenpennym.d.3241

  • @jerryjohnson2421
    @jerryjohnson2421 Год назад

    duncan custom is the secret to his side maybe or the duncan custom modified alnico 2 is maybe the secret