Best Pick up for EVH tone?

[Aceman]

Re: Best Pick up for EVH tone?

No offense to Ed intended. MAinly Iwas trying to get a rise out of Wicked Lester! That and I was feeling out of the loop - I don't think I've been on this post since page two! :saeek:

 

[Lee_M.]

Re: Best Pick up for EVH tone?

It's always interesting to read the different version's on Ed's pickups, gear, etc.

Love it

Me too. This is the 4,000th thread on this Forume: his gear and pickups. Again, I loving hearing the different interpretations.

 

[psychodave]

Re: Best Pick up for EVH tone?

a friend of mine is a close buddy of EVH's he has known him since they went to high school together.
IF eddie used the custom-custom i was not told that by him?
he insists that VH used a overwound PAF that seymour wound for him from a 61' gibson PAF.
eddie did use a duncan 59 in one kramer guitar.
can you tell me what record(s) did eddie use the custom custom on?

Just a point of interest....any and every 335 p-up from the early 60's I have had the luck of playing, seeing and finding, has been wound to around 9k+ I personally feel Gibson overwound PAF's for these guitars.

 

[WICKED LESTER]

Re: Best Pick up for EVH tone?

No offense to Ed intended. MAinly Iwas trying to get a rise out of Wicked Lester! That and I was feeling out of the loop - I don't think I've been on this post since page two!

hey man you are entilited to your opinion but i know thousands and thousands that would totally disagree with you :laugh2:
as far as getting "a rise" from me i think it is best if i let my wife do that! :dance:

 

[kevlar3000]

Re: Best Pick up for EVH tone?

it was NOT bone stock :smack:
put on ERUPTION and really listen to that tone or the last F# chord in "atomic punk" when that marshall is begging for mercy and THEN try to still tell me it was BONE STOCK!
I now for a fact that it was modded.

the MXR EQ ( upside down frown) and Phaser surely added a bunch of gain. You listen to live boots from that era Halen and you will hear a different sound. The studio and production had a huge amount to do with that tone. Tell me what the mods were? . There were no added pre tubes and no major component changes. The specs of Ed's amp reflect stock values consistant with the 67 amps. A cap here and there, a switch from shared to split cathode can hardly be called mods. A tweak sure, but a mod? no way.

As far as Ed and influence. He changed how the guitar was played, only a handful of players in history can lay claim to that. His credit is 1000 percent deserved. That band changed rock.

 

[WICKED LESTER]

Re: Best Pick up for EVH tone?

As far as Ed and influence. He changed how the guitar was played, only a handful of players in history can lay claim to that. His credit is 1000 percent deserved. That band changed rock.

yeah i agree and ANYONE that wont admit that needs to be bitch slapped :laugh2: