Duncan Custom SH-5 Special Van halen pickup

[Edgecrusher]

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"Ed must be laughing his ass off if he is reading all this stuff. You should hear him play through his line 6! Also how many of you play with a thin pick?
Damn I wish I had a good digital camera back then." --John Suhr

Excellent quote. Too bad the "its in the hands theory" seems to have been long dismissed by Pitbull.

 

[WhooHoo]

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I'm pretty sure Ed does think it's funny and I doubt he would be reading this.

Ed has his style that can go to any guitar even an Acoustic.

Some dudes might be obsessed with Ed's sound on a certain album but Ed's style never really changes from album to album.

If Ed played a ceramic pickup on VH1 and a PAF on VH2 and some dudes prefer Ed's style with a ceramic pickup then that's their call.

Ed, like loads of guitarists has used a lot of different gear over the years and guess what he still plays like Ed on all of the gear.

If someone has a style that is boring then it doesn't matter what gear they use, they are still boring.
A JB, a SD, a 59, a original PAF, a Plexi, a Echoplex, a Phase, a Tubescreamer, a Treble Booster, a latest tone thing will all sound boring if the player is boring.

The best thing to do in music is to try not to be boring to other people, like the audience.

Trying to be a Ed clone is boring.
Learning things from Ed or other players is different if someone uses it for their own playing style which hopefully won't turn out boring.

 

[Ed Hunter]

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"Ed must be laughing his ass off if he is reading all this stuff. You should hear him play through his line 6! Also how many of you play with a thin pick?
Damn I wish I had a good digital camera back then." --John Suhr

yeah i seen a pic of him with a combo. i am sure he smokes on it!:naughty:
and ed didnt use a thin pick back in 77-80 he started that much later.

 

[IanBallard]

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I'm pretty sure Ed does think it's funny and I doubt he would be reading this.

Well, considering the official Van Halen site has not been updated since New Years of 2010 (Dec. 29th 2009 to be exact), I'm guessing Eddie isn't much of a "forumz guy".

 

[IanBallard]

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Apparently he still uses Line 6's. Although he should check out the Fender Mustang. Being a "Fender Endorser" now, maybe they should make an EVH version with his personal presets on it. You know, "This is what I use... while I'm warming up".

 

[jimo]

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Excellent quote. Too bad the "its in the hands theory" seems to have been long dismissed by Pitbull.

It may be "All in the Hands"..but that Granger amp sure get you close enough for the girls I go with!!!

 

[Ed Hunter]

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I seen a charvel order invoice and the guy who was ordering a EVH charvel(black and yellow striped) copy wanted it to have a duncan Van Halen custom model in it. this was dated 1979. i think this is the pu that became the sh5 custom. seymour just dropped the Van Halen part of it's name.

 

[Ed Hunter]

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Ed hunter I agree the duncan custom sh5 was the special van halen pickup.

thanks,i have NO PROOF of course but the timeline and specs make sense.
it has the same basic spec's as the pu eddie was using in the charvel on the first album.

 

[oilpit]

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Ed hunter I agree the duncan custom sh5 was the special van halen pickup.

Hello Nitro/Pitbull, it's nice to see you around again. We really missed you.
:friday:

 

[Barron1]

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Eddie knows what he used. He has become a professional liar

 

[Edgecrusher]

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Eddie knows what he used. He has become a professional liar

Ed doesnt owe it to people to tell them every exact detail of what he did cause it didnt matter. If he himself thought it was the be all end all of guitar tone why did he himself change it. I doubt highly that hes really trying to decieve people I just think to him it doesnt matter so much so he doesnt really care.

 

[IanBallard]

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Jeeez, I barely remember all the **** I've done to my guitar in only a couple years.

 

[WhooHoo]

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Eddie knows what he used. He has become a professional liar

Is Ed supposed to keep a gear diary dating back to 1976?

Give Ed a break.

Ed changed gear a lot in the early years and to remember exactly what he used in what week with all of the gear changes and drinking etc, well.

Some of Ed's interviews can be a bit vague and skip over details but so what, they are only rock interviews and not an inventory of gear used when and why.

Ed was just trying to get the job done at clubs and happened to record VH1 in between playing club dates and experimenting with gear changes.
Ed wasn't perfecting a VH1 tone to use for his whole life otherwise he would be using it now.

 

[ZeroCool]

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What does the "SH" stand for?

 

[Ed Hunter]

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What does the "SH" stand for?

Seymour humbucker

 

[Ed Hunter]

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I had a tone years ago that i thought was IT for me from a laney AOR pro tube,'81 san dimas charvel with duncans and a few outboard pedals that sounded exactly like chriss from savatage on "hail of the mountain king" after playing that tone for a while i switched up, went to marshalls,put dimarzios in the guitar,etc.
anyway point is that i wanted THAT TONE back and bought another laney AOR,replaced the dimarzios with the same duncans i had before and got the same pedals. I could not get that tone again. so even if eddie was to use the SAME gear down to the brand of strings he did back then he would not get that tone again

 

[ZeroCool]

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Seymour humbucker

 

[Barron1]

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Is Ed supposed to keep a gear diary dating back to 1976?

Give Ed a break.

Ed changed gear a lot in the early years and to remember exactly what he used in what week with all of the gear changes and drinking etc, well.

Some of Ed's interviews can be a bit vague and skip over details but so what, they are only rock interviews and not an inventory of gear used when and why.

Ed was just trying to get the job done at clubs and happened to record VH1 in between playing club dates and experimenting with gear changes.
Ed wasn't perfecting a VH1 tone to use for his whole life otherwise he would be using it now.

Don't let Ed fool you. That whole "I forgot what I did yesterday because I was drunk" routine is just part of his rock and roll image. Don't forget Ed is a genius. All geniuses from Edward Van Halen to Mark Zuckerberg all know what they are doing, and at the same time they are decietful.

 

[Ed Hunter]

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Don't let Ed fool you. That whole "I forgot what I did yesterday because I was drunk" routine is just part of his rock and roll image. Don't forget Ed is a genius. All geniuses from Edward Van Halen to Mark Zuckerberg all know what they are doing, and at the same time they are decietful.

I dont know? i really dont think eddie was all that concerned about certain things like what exact pu's were in what guitar.
I say this because he went more by the final results and not so much as what got him there.
I dont think he is BS'ing anyone, he just does not remember every little detail of his gear through the years.
The first album tone is one he was not even very happy with or liked a whole lot, so it is likely he did not worry too much about what pu was in that charvel at the time.
people read his interviews and misinterpret what he actually saying.
when he said "i dont really go for dimarzio pu's" that does not mean he never used them,but he was not all that nuts over them.

 

[pittbull]

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The Seymour Duncan Guitar Player magazine 1979 ad on the "Customized Van halen Pickup" has been found.Go to the Metro amp site and then Eddie van halen section, go to a thread called "Leadguy and whoever is interested".View the ad very carefully.The Seymour Duncan Custom SH-5 was the customized van halen pickup,case closed...............