So cool! Awesome to see Ozzie’s work finally getting some love and acknowledgment. Amp sounds wicked. Really looking forward to experiments with the DI sound.
Martin - that didn't disappoint. The second you plugged in and turned up to 1 it sounded magic but then as you opened up the gas it turned to sonic heaven. A beautiful piece of amp-craft. Thank you for sharing what is something very special.
Sounds killer! Great playing of course helps! When Friedman called his BE amps "Marsha", Marshall sent him a friendly "quit it" letter! Can't imagine they would like "Marshamello" either.
Nice job on the part of you and the builder. I have had all the gear to do this for years, it is nice to see it all in the amp... One would hope this is what the EVH amp does too...IDK I never bought one...
This is the single best replication of Eddie's tone on the entire internet. I will forever reference back to this from now on. Its like im listening to the isolated VH1 tracks. All the nay sayers are deaf.
Try listening to Mike Himmel’s version here on RUclips of Eruption, light up the sky or atomic punk. He’s the only one who has truly nailed it.. this guy did a great job and came pretty close. The amp does sound incredible tho
Nice work as always, Martin! It's a cool concept. Way back in the early 80s I had a 50 watt / 4 holer with an ohmite load resistor built in. Looking forward to your future deep dives! Signed, your fellow tone chaser on the other side of the Atlantic 😉
Wild! The epiphone sounds very sharp but the other guitar through the other power amp was very smooth and more classic sounding. Impressive amp due to its rear panel features.
The Marshmello sounds amazing, no doubt about that, but I personally prefer your Bray Coco tones. I have a 4550 Deluxe by Bray so I'm a bit partial :D Nevertheless, Ossie makes some GREAT amps/preamps, just slightly different flavors of brown. Could you show us what you do in your DAW exactly? You mentioned the sunset revert by IK, I'd love to hear more details about your mix level, and pan settings.etc. Your greenback only approach is also interesting, as many claim that JBLs are the secret ingredient, but I have to say you nailed it perfectly, so you're probably right about the speakers. Do you use any IRs in the box if you have to use them instead of a real cab? Anything out there that comes close to the cab tone you're getting here? Thank you once again for your great videos! You've got another subscriber for life in me!
When you get your new head replace the stock tubes with JJ e34l power tubes and the preamp tubes to the JJ gold pin 12ax7. It makes a HUGE difference. You will love this head.
I pretty much do this with using my Two Notes Torpedo Captor 8 to drive my stereo section of my board. The stereo outs return to a stereo pair of Two Notes Torpedo Cab M plus IR boxes, which go to PA/console and a stereo power amp and cabs.
@@martinsmith4123 thanks for much for the reply! That pickup sounds unbelievably good. I can't believe it's 2024 and I'm still obsessed with the VH tone
@@martinsmith4123 I know but we all know that corporations tend to be litigious AF. Long as he doesn't put Darth Vader or Mickey Mouse cuz Di$ney will nuke his shop. >:)
I’m new to your channel and just subbed 👍🏻👍🏻. For those of us not familiar with your gear… can you share what that first guitar was? Was that an Ibanez Destroyer? Love it! The sound was killer! And that amp is do die for! 👍🏻👍🏻 Disregard: You answered my question at 17:11 … it’s an Epiphone 😂😂
BTW the VH1 pickup on the Franky was the zebra "Super Stud" Mighty Mite 1800. Good luck finding one though, they stopped making em, but its basically a 1300 with all stud poles.
@@martinsmith4123 Only anecdotal, from people who have seen Ed back in the day during that time, BUT theres pics, u can find online, "Eddie Van Halen sunburst strat zebra" should do it, its not very common so u have to dig a bit, but its there. Supposedly what happened was after VH1 he went back to blackie (b&w) and THAT guitar is the one that got the overwound PAF. THAT guitar does indeed have the PAF from the 335 like he said. Here's what i think : 76-77 Ed is still working out how to make a humbucker-in-a-strat work (chisel angle, position, pickups ect.)He is using one of the strats that he had in his arsenal as a tester (NOT the Boogie Bodies strat). Remember he said he ruined alot of guitars to get it right.What would have been THE pickup to have as a scrappy young player in that time? Dimarzio Super Distortion. Phil Collen who is about the same age as Ed, said he finally got his SD in 1976. So if u are a young hot shot that wants a little extra kick, thats what u got, and there wouldn't have been any reason not to. If u are in CA u got the Mighty Mite. Now imagine Eddie seeing one of the SD clones is called the "Super Stud", lol i mean thats just completely conjecture from me but that makes so much sense when u have the anecdotes AND the pictures of that sunburst with the zebra bucker (u can zoom in on the pickup it looks like pure studs) in that time frame. So he uses that guitar with that pickup cus its what all his heroes and serious players are using, and its his first official album so he wants to make sure everything is nice and easy to play (he has mentioned many times how he wants to make it easier, not harder to play, in regards to guitars/amps) and he is caught up with the SD vibe, BUT, after the dust settles and the record is a big success, he has time to sit down and listen/pick apart his tone and realizes he doesn't like the SD tone, so he goes back to the PAF for VH2 and on. Franky got all the fame, but Sunburst did all the work, imho.
@@martinsmith4123 I think the Sunburst with the 1800 was what was working for him live in the clubs at that time and he didn't put much thought into it until after they recorded the first album. Once he settles on B&W Franky with the PAF, he talks only about that guitar in reference to the first album, because he DID use it for the tour of the album, but leaves out that it was Sunburst that did the strat tracks on it, cus he wants his sound to be associated with an old school PAF. "I dont like Super Distortions, they are too distorted" + he never liked the sound of the first album = he used ceramic SD style for VH1, then switched to PAF after. 1800 MM = VH1. Duncan 78 = PAF as it came to Seymour from Ed. Duncan Custom SH-5 = The PAF as overwound by Duncan and given a smaller ceramic magnet for less output than a Super D but more punch than PAF. Then u have all the official pickups released by Ed later on. The 1800/1300, a Dimarzio SD, Duncan 78, Duncan Custom, Frankenstein Humbucker, are all technically correct i think, just different eras/evolutions. \m/\m/
SPOT ON!!! Does this have vintage 6CA7s, modern 6CA7s, or EL34s in it?? Oh, and Ed was a bullshitter. He had the 50k pot on the mid which bumpped the mids as well as the EQ settings you pointed out. He always tried to deceive people (use Variac, but turn it UP) and unlike other players that would give by teaching, or having training articles in Guitar magazine....Ed did none of that! He was sorta an Introvert!!
By George, he’s done it. Wish this could be made commercially-available. Any chance he would partner with someone to get this into production? I love the fidelity to the VH tones, but other amps can do that, like the Bray 4550. But this one has all the contemporary tech incorporated. Noice.
I wonder why one of the deep pocket companies hasn't built a low variax style amp like this with a built in sep power amp to push it and market it as brown sound , even tho without Eddie driving the bus it's never gonna be complete , great amp development tho would love one
Martin how does this amp differ from the Bray Coco 50? Have you ever tried Kruse Amps Disruption Amp for the Brown Sound? Love the video’s and playing keep them coming!😎👍❤️
I’ve read that Ed used to put a frown face on the eq that he used to put between the amp and the speaker, that would deliver more mid range to the speaker, not sure if it’s true.
The signal from the amp is too hot to put an eq berween amp and cab. You need something to get the signal to line level. Eddie didn’t use any eq but they did post eq-ing in the studio.
@@martinsmith4123 Eddie didn’t start slaving until like 1984 when he started using the H/H power amps. The MXR 6-band eq Eddie had was likely used as a buffer with the Univox echo since it has a very low input impedance. Later he got the Boss 10-babd because of signal loss with long cables. A frown curve eq sounds nothing like Eddie. You get a very nasal almost cocked wah wah tone.
What an AMAZING tone (The GREAT playing helps too!!!!!!!!!!) & every note is clear,fat,sweet & angry at the same time!!!!!!!! I myself have a few (well lots!!) of old mk2 Marshall superlead heads,I prefer the 50 watters & they do it all for me & all you need for more umph is an old Boss DS1 but old Marshall's are great!!!! I have gone back too using 25 watt GREENBACK'S (Celestion) & they just sound great (for a while I was using 75 watt celestion like YJM & they're good too!!!!!) I don't like newer Marshall's but some do!!!! But Martin Smith,your amplifire is good but your playing is 99% the reason for AMAZING tone!!!!!
Ed was such an enigma and so was that "sound".. Listening to the drum overhead mix of eruption makes me question the volume of the VH 1 super lead amp Hardly quiet
How does it attenuate the sound ? Is there a resistive attenuator? Or a reactive att. Built in ? I understand it has a biilt in variac effect, but.is thos what makes it run so quietly ?
Eddie’s tone isn’t just the amp and variac. It’s also some post eq-ing and especially on the first album reverb. Also on the first album he used a 4x12 with a mix of 2 Greenbacks and 2 JBL speakers.
Ah unfortunately none of that is evidence Ed used a JBL to record VH1 although I think in my second video I make compelling case that there is no JBL speaker in the mix.
I get the brown sound with the friedmal JEL 20. On the plexi channel to 10. With a ibanez tube screamer hand wired all to 10. Tone 12:30. Lower the volts to 115-118v. Telecaster with a stacked humbucker. Phased. Thats it sounds great
Question, do you use liner taper pots in your guitars or audio taper? I've been wiring all my guitars with liner cause it just makes sense if your trying to use the volume as your gain adjustment or output adjust. Was just wondering what your opinion is on this.
Great sound! But don't we all know EVH used not only one 100 Watt head, but also the variac AND a graphic EQ to shape and boost his frequency response heavily? Why do it all with the amp all alone? So it wasn't only Ed's Amp that did the brown sound imo.
According to his guitar tech Rudy Leiren he used no eq on VHI. He used it for bad sounding guitars and rental gear. They did some post eq-ing and added the echo chamber. The MXR 6-band eq was most likely only used with his Univox echo since it had a very low input impediance. On VHI he used a cab with a mix of 2 Greenbacks and 2 JBL speakers. He had a mic on one of each and the blended them for the sound.
I think the built-in variac/attenuator is part of that weird slinky sound Eddie has. He used to set his Variac fairly low, and around the 89V mark is where Plexis start to get this swampy, dark attack.
That Amp sounds Incredible…It definitely does sound like “The One”….absolutely VanTastic..
😂😂😂
So cool! Awesome to see Ozzie’s work finally getting some love and acknowledgment. Amp sounds wicked. Really looking forward to experiments with the DI sound.
Ossie really has researched the brown sound in great detail. He's been very generous with his knowledge as well.
Martin - that didn't disappoint. The second you plugged in and turned up to 1 it sounded magic but then as you opened up the gas it turned to sonic heaven. A beautiful piece of amp-craft. Thank you for sharing what is something very special.
Thanks for your kind words Ian 🤘🤘🤘
Sounds killer! Great playing of course helps! When Friedman called his BE amps "Marsha", Marshall sent him a friendly "quit it" letter! Can't imagine they would like "Marshamello" either.
yeah, it's not a production line item so should be ok as a one off! 🤘
@@martinsmith4123 Martin what's your signal path here on this video? Direct out of the amp into?
@@martinsmith4123 Hey Martin. Are you using a real cab when you're slaving into the Suhr or an IR?
New open G trick unlocked! Never thought of that. Thanks, bro.
Well Done Mate ! Nailed it, Tone , Vibe, Swing all set to Stun.
17:46 - That Epiphone with the 70’s in it slaved into that Surh is just such a buttery good sound!
Ossie is brilliant! So glad you picked this "one" up!! Sounds incredible as expected!
Sounds incredible. Nailed my favourite VHII tone. Lovely stuff
Sounds incredible mate
Nice job on the part of you and the builder. I have had all the gear to do this for years, it is nice to see it all in the amp... One would hope this is what the EVH amp does too...IDK I never bought one...
Sounds killer, better than most clone topologies I've heard
Sounds incredible!
Great playing.
I want one !
Wow....even through my crappy Android phone speaker, I can here "The Sound". You definitely made a great investment !😊
Yep. Very, very close to the first two albums. Love it!
Sounded great Martin!!! It's a hell of an amp and Ossie is about as good as they come!!!
This is the single best replication of Eddie's tone on the entire internet. I will forever reference back to this from now on. Its like im listening to the isolated VH1 tracks. All the nay sayers are deaf.
🤘🤘🤘
Dave Bray makes a good 50 wat tube rectifier VH amp sould also
Try listening to Mike Himmel’s version here on RUclips of Eruption, light up the sky or atomic punk. He’s the only one who has truly nailed it.. this guy did a great job and came pretty close. The amp does sound incredible tho
This is fast becoming my favorite RUclips channel. Love this content!
Thank you very much 🤘🤘
@@martinsmith4123 Martin maybe I missed it, can the amp be used in a traditional form just using a real cab? Sounds fantastic.
@@rikshredder thanks man 🤘 yes you can power a cab, the max output would be ok for a moderate band practice I’d say!
@@martinsmith4123 So the tone remains the same even when using a real cab?
@@rikshredder absolutely the tone is all locked in 🤘🤘
Great Job Martin!
Oss- the postman might be ringing more than twice...
Thank you Martin…. 👏🏻♥️
Awesome job Martin eddie is definitely smiling
This amp sounds amazing!
Always fun exploring these guitar tones with you!
Sounds brill, and excellent playing!
Sounds great!! Great playing also!!
Sounds great, Martin!
Sounds absolutely phenomenal!
Why, thank you 🤘🤘
Nice work as always, Martin! It's a cool concept. Way back in the early 80s I had a 50 watt / 4 holer with an ohmite load resistor built in. Looking forward to your future deep dives! Signed, your fellow tone chaser on the other side of the Atlantic 😉
That’s very kind, thankyou! On this side of the pond we could only dream of buying an ohmite load resistor. Keep pumping out the jams brother 🤘🤘🤘
That amp sounds phenomenal!
Well done Martin…sounds fantastic 👍
Killer playing and the amp is incredible.......!!!!
I do think this amp does the job. Great playing examples. Very cool.
So glad I discovered this channel this guy rocks!
Great stuff brother.. Cheers from across the pond...!
Thank you kindly 🤘
Wild! The epiphone sounds very sharp but the other guitar through the other power amp was very smooth and more classic sounding. Impressive amp due to its rear panel features.
The Marshmello sounds amazing, no doubt about that, but I personally prefer your Bray Coco tones. I have a 4550 Deluxe by Bray so I'm a bit partial :D Nevertheless, Ossie makes some GREAT amps/preamps, just slightly different flavors of brown. Could you show us what you do in your DAW exactly? You mentioned the sunset revert by IK, I'd love to hear more details about your mix level, and pan settings.etc. Your greenback only approach is also interesting, as many claim that JBLs are the secret ingredient, but I have to say you nailed it perfectly, so you're probably right about the speakers. Do you use any IRs in the box if you have to use them instead of a real cab? Anything out there that comes close to the cab tone you're getting here? Thank you once again for your great videos! You've got another subscriber for life in me!
Eddy would sould exactly like Eddy on both those amps, my 2 favorite so far. I hope players start fighting there own good music in these amps. 😊
Glorious! Well done Martin🎉
That sounds so awesome. Eddie's Brown Sound will forever remain iconic in rock. At 15:15 Drop Dead Legs! ❤❤❤❤🤘🎸🎸🤘
Wonderful! Great job. Thank you very very much!! ❤
Brilliant. More videos please!
Beautiful sounds!
That's how modern heads should be made. That was nailing the sound. I'm wondering if the bass guitar would fill in the missing bass
Killer! I’m really pumped about getting the SV 20 watt plexi head .. can’t wait love the d see sound of the plexi !
When you get your new head replace the stock tubes with JJ e34l power tubes and the preamp tubes to the JJ gold pin 12ax7. It makes a HUGE difference. You will love this head.
It’s the ONE to me. Ossie nailed it here. Everybody needs one of these amps!!!!
Smart design. I think Ed would approve.
If you throw a phaser in line, it will round off those sharp stringy highs. I always run it in the chain wether its on or off
Really appreciate this. Thanks!
Sounds mega!! Ossie knows his stuff!
Sounds great, good playing, might work on that pick slide tho.
I pretty much do this with using my Two Notes Torpedo Captor 8 to drive my stereo section of my board. The stereo outs return to a stereo pair of Two Notes Torpedo Cab M plus IR boxes, which go to PA/console and a stereo power amp and cabs.
Absolutely awesome sound! Are they standard pickups in the Korina guitar? Great vids on the brown sound 😁
Thank you! The bridge pup is a vintage Ibanez super 70. 🤘🤘
@@martinsmith4123 thanks for much for the reply! That pickup sounds unbelievably good. I can't believe it's 2024 and I'm still obsessed with the VH tone
I want one of these.... simply amazing!
sounds really good man
This amp company seems _really_ intent on a legal battle with Marshall based on those aesthetics!
It’s not a production amp, more of a one off. 🤘
@@martinsmith4123 I know but we all know that corporations tend to be litigious AF. Long as he doesn't put Darth Vader or Mickey Mouse cuz Di$ney will nuke his shop.
>:)
Goddamn!
It has the sizzle that Ed's tone had back then.
I’m new to your channel and just subbed 👍🏻👍🏻. For those of us not familiar with your gear… can you share what that first guitar was? Was that an Ibanez Destroyer? Love it! The sound was killer! And that amp is do die for! 👍🏻👍🏻
Disregard: You answered my question at 17:11 … it’s an Epiphone 😂😂
🤘🤘🤘
BTW the VH1 pickup on the Franky was the zebra "Super Stud" Mighty Mite 1800. Good luck finding one though, they stopped making em, but its basically a 1300 with all stud poles.
This is a contentious point, do you have any evidence for the mighty mite? 🤘🤘
@@martinsmith4123 Only anecdotal, from people who have seen Ed back in the day during that time, BUT theres pics, u can find online, "Eddie Van Halen sunburst strat zebra" should do it, its not very common so u have to dig a bit, but its there. Supposedly what happened was after VH1 he went back to blackie (b&w) and THAT guitar is the one that got the overwound PAF. THAT guitar does indeed have the PAF from the 335 like he said. Here's what i think : 76-77 Ed is still working out how to make a humbucker-in-a-strat work (chisel angle, position, pickups ect.)He is using one of the strats that he had in his arsenal as a tester (NOT the Boogie Bodies strat). Remember he said he ruined alot of guitars to get it right.What would have been THE pickup to have as a scrappy young player in that time? Dimarzio Super Distortion. Phil Collen who is about the same age as Ed, said he finally got his SD in 1976. So if u are a young hot shot that wants a little extra kick, thats what u got, and there wouldn't have been any reason not to. If u are in CA u got the Mighty Mite. Now imagine Eddie seeing one of the SD clones is called the "Super Stud", lol i mean thats just completely conjecture from me but that makes so much sense when u have the anecdotes AND the pictures of that sunburst with the zebra bucker (u can zoom in on the pickup it looks like pure studs) in that time frame. So he uses that guitar with that pickup cus its what all his heroes and serious players are using, and its his first official album so he wants to make sure everything is nice and easy to play (he has mentioned many times how he wants to make it easier, not harder to play, in regards to guitars/amps) and he is caught up with the SD vibe, BUT, after the dust settles and the record is a big success, he has time to sit down and listen/pick apart his tone and realizes he doesn't like the SD tone, so he goes back to the PAF for VH2 and on. Franky got all the fame, but Sunburst did all the work, imho.
@@martinsmith4123 www.strat-talk.com/threads/the-van-halen-strat-what-is-this.504782/page-2
@@martinsmith4123 I think the Sunburst with the 1800 was what was working for him live in the clubs at that time and he didn't put much thought into it until after they recorded the first album. Once he settles on B&W Franky with the PAF, he talks only about that guitar in reference to the first album, because he DID use it for the tour of the album, but leaves out that it was Sunburst that did the strat tracks on it, cus he wants his sound to be associated with an old school PAF. "I dont like Super Distortions, they are too distorted" + he never liked the sound of the first album = he used ceramic SD style for VH1, then switched to PAF after. 1800 MM = VH1. Duncan 78 = PAF as it came to Seymour from Ed. Duncan Custom SH-5 = The PAF as overwound by Duncan and given a smaller ceramic magnet for less output than a Super D but more punch than PAF. Then u have all the official pickups released by Ed later on. The 1800/1300, a Dimarzio SD, Duncan 78, Duncan Custom, Frankenstein Humbucker, are all technically correct i think, just different eras/evolutions. \m/\m/
Absolutely love the idea of this! I wonder if it would be possible to make it in a smaller package like a rack or a pedal or something.
SPOT ON!!!
Does this have vintage 6CA7s, modern 6CA7s, or EL34s in it??
Oh, and Ed was a bullshitter. He had the 50k pot on the mid which bumpped the mids as well as the EQ settings you pointed out. He always tried to deceive people (use Variac, but turn it UP) and unlike other players that would give by teaching, or having training articles in Guitar magazine....Ed did none of that! He was sorta an Introvert!!
So true. Power tube compression
Marsh, yes .... mellow, not always ;) Bloody ripper, mate! Thank you very much once again.
By George, he’s done it. Wish this could be made commercially-available. Any chance he would partner with someone to get this into production? I love the fidelity to the VH tones, but other amps can do that, like the Bray 4550. But this one has all the contemporary tech incorporated. Noice.
Great stuff man 🤟🏼⚡️
Just like a chocolate milkshake only CRUNCHY!!🤌
The marshmallo slaved into the badger is freakin awesome!
Your videos are amazing!
Thank you so much!🤘
I wonder why one of the deep pocket companies hasn't built a low variax style amp like this with a built in sep power amp to push it and market it as brown sound , even tho without Eddie driving the bus it's never gonna be complete , great amp development tho would love one
Yes, so many avenues Ed found are still rarely explored. Thanks 🤘🤘
Marshall + Marshmallows = Hot 🔥 soupy greasy molten sustain. Aaah gotcha! 👍
would have been fun to see the gutz… pull that chassi and take us on a tour of the internals.
Yeah get up in dem gutz 🥵
Martin how does this amp differ from the Bray Coco 50?
Have you ever tried Kruse Amps
Disruption Amp for the Brown
Sound?
Love the video’s and playing keep them coming!😎👍❤️
It’s a little tighter on the bottom end than the Bray and a bit more wild gain! Thank you 🤘🤘
@@martinsmith4123 thanks Martin, love the videos and your playing keep them coming!😊
Sounds awesome!
Man that tone makes me smile
Thank you kindly 🤘🤘🤘
This thing sounds fucking insane. I must own one.
Necessity is the mother of invention
Brown sound , that sounds about right.
Pete Thorn would love to follow your channel!
WOW
That's unreal
The Holy Grail
Also may have missed this. What is the cab and mics used? Or was this direct outs on both amps?
A Marshall greenback cab with two 57’s, one dead on the other with a Landee tilt. Thanks 🤘
I love my Marshmello from Mr. Ahsen. I think I purchased the one he produced just before yours. I purchased it in Dec. of 23. Enjoy!
🤘🤘🤘
WOW!! My jaw is still on the floor!! 😳
Your VH necklace is backwards! 😮 Amp is amazing!
I’ve read that Ed used to put a frown face on the eq that he used to put between the amp and the speaker, that would deliver more mid range to the speaker, not sure if it’s true.
The signal from the amp is too hot to put an eq berween amp and cab. You need something to get the signal to line level. Eddie didn’t use any eq but they did post eq-ing in the studio.
The first head gets reduced to line level to feed the eq before going on to the second head. 🤘🤘
@@martinsmith4123 Eddie didn’t start slaving until like 1984 when he started using the H/H power amps. The MXR 6-band eq Eddie had was likely used as a buffer with the Univox echo since it has a very low input impedance. Later he got the Boss 10-babd because of signal loss with long cables. A frown curve eq sounds nothing like Eddie. You get a very nasal almost cocked wah wah tone.
What an AMAZING tone (The GREAT playing helps too!!!!!!!!!!) & every note is clear,fat,sweet & angry at the same time!!!!!!!!
I myself have a few (well lots!!) of old mk2 Marshall superlead heads,I prefer the 50 watters & they do it all for me & all you need for more umph is an old Boss DS1 but old Marshall's are great!!!!
I have gone back too using 25 watt GREENBACK'S (Celestion) & they just sound great (for a while I was using 75 watt celestion like YJM & they're good too!!!!!) I don't like newer Marshall's but some do!!!!
But Martin Smith,your amplifire is good but your playing is 99% the reason for AMAZING tone!!!!!
Ed was such an enigma and so was that "sound"..
Listening to the drum overhead mix of eruption makes me question the volume of the VH 1 super lead amp
Hardly quiet
Final frontier, destination: brown sound! 🤎
How does it attenuate the sound ? Is there a resistive attenuator? Or a reactive att. Built in ? I understand it has a biilt in variac effect, but.is thos what makes it run so quietly ?
@@soapboxearth2 I could fudge an answer but it might be best to ask the builder Ossie Ahsen at 3 monkeys solderless. 🤘🤘
this is the best EVH sound i’ve ever heard wow, also what’s the song at 18:27?
On Fire.
Eddie’s tone isn’t just the amp and variac. It’s also some post eq-ing and especially on the first album reverb. Also on the first album he used a 4x12 with a mix of 2 Greenbacks and 2 JBL speakers.
Thanks 🤘Any evidence for the JBL’s?
@@martinsmith4123 JBL/Fender D120F
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Ah unfortunately none of that is evidence Ed used a JBL to record VH1 although I think in my second video I make compelling case that there is no JBL speaker in the mix.
Killer 👊👊👊- where to buy ?
Errrrrrrm, how do I get one of these. Class playing aswell! Subscribed BTW!!
Thank you kindly 🤘 hit up Ossie at 3monkeys.com
Where'd you get that "HV" pendant you're wearing? 😎
its a custom Han Halen design 😀
I get the brown sound with the friedmal JEL 20. On the plexi channel to 10. With a ibanez tube screamer hand wired all to 10. Tone 12:30. Lower the volts to 115-118v. Telecaster with a stacked humbucker. Phased. Thats it sounds great
I wonder if Marshall has patened their amps appearance ie the piping and gold/black?? Anyone know?🤔
Question, do you use liner taper pots in your guitars or audio taper? I've been wiring all my guitars with liner cause it just makes sense if your trying to use the volume as your gain adjustment or output adjust. Was just wondering what your opinion is on this.
Hey, I use an audio taper bourns brand 250k in the strat. Same but 500k in the Epi. 🤘🤘🤘
Awesome stuff there...how does someone get to purchase a Marshmello..?
Message Ossie at 3Monkeys
@@martinsmith4123 thankyou
Great sound! But don't we all know EVH used not only one 100 Watt head, but also the variac AND a graphic EQ to shape and boost his frequency response heavily? Why do it all with the amp all alone? So it wasn't only Ed's Amp that did the brown sound imo.
According to his guitar tech Rudy Leiren he used no eq on VHI. He used it for bad sounding guitars and rental gear. They did some post eq-ing and added the echo chamber. The MXR 6-band eq was most likely only used with his Univox echo since it had a very low input impediance. On VHI he used a cab with a mix of 2 Greenbacks and 2 JBL speakers. He had a mic on one of each and the blended them for the sound.
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I think the built-in variac/attenuator is part of that weird slinky sound Eddie has. He used to set his Variac fairly low, and around the 89V mark is where Plexis start to get this swampy, dark attack.
@@bunsenn5064 completely correct. This amp has it built-in 🤘🤘
@martin smith guitar what's your signal chain here on this video? Guitar into...?into...?
Wow now that's a good sounding amp