EVHGUITARS,im sure you have gone to the Metro Amp site,there was a person on that site named Nitro who was extemely knowledgeable about EVH and alot of the questions you are asking,if you look and nitro history on the metro site and the knowledge he gave will help you a great deal,he was banned from that site because he wouldnt take crap from some people(small amount),he was banned because of a member on that site named Marco, a complete idiot,he would call people names and say thing like your stupied and you dont know what your talking about,anyway nitro wouldnt take his **** and defend himself,so instead of banning the idiot who knew nothing the gutless administrator from that site banned nitro and kept the moron(marco)that started the crap,he also started crap with other people on that site this guy(marco)thought he knew everything about EVH but didnt know ****,everything he learned about EVH was due to nitro and some other members,im rambling on here,sorry about that but i did learn alot fron Nitro on that site,i hope this helps you out................