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my wife recently asked me who the greatest rock guitarist was of all time. my response was "before or after Eddie Van Halen"?
How can people spend so much time chasing EVH tone
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my wife recently asked me who the greatest rock guitarist was of all time. my response was "before or after Eddie Van Halen"?
Rex_Rocker
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EVH to me is the greatest guitarist of all time. Period.
I don't chase his tone, but I think people who do have all the justification to do it. It's FANTASTIC. In all its iterations. Arguably, the most memorable and influential tone of all time. At least when it comes to rock music.
I don't chase his tone, but I think people who do have all the justification to do it. It's FANTASTIC. In all its iterations. Arguably, the most memorable and influential tone of all time. At least when it comes to rock music.
ZiggyZipgun
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I'll say this much: any Frankenstrat will look out of place anywhere except your bedroom.
Sirion
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Chistopher
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I have never used a Frankenstrat in the bedroom. Or any guitar for that matter.
Rex_Rocker
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Aceman
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Ace Frehley is my favorite guitar player of all time. KISS is my favorite band of all time. I p[ersonally think Ace Frehley is a mediocre guitar player with a total command of about 10 A pentatonic minor licks and a unique vibrato. My god I hope I play/sound better than that.
Ed has influenced my playing more than I'd like to admit. But let's face it...it really is not that hard of a sound to get, and there are many ways to do it. Anyone here remember V-Holic? He was doing it mostly without
I think the "science" of the EVH sound is an interesting hobby, for those interested in it. Yes - it borders on obsession. But if that's you're thing good for you. I don't care.
This is not 99.9997% pure EVH tone. But remember - I'm a crappy recorder, and I literally didn't try. This is a preset on my Zoom G3N
https://soundcloud.com/acemansdug/r...d&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing
beaubrummels
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The obsession seems to be more with EVH's gear (which is a not-fully-documented mystery, hence the endless chase), the assumption being if you have his gear you'll have his sound also. But even famous artists that came after copped his sound with their own different gear. I'm thinking of Warren DiMartini, George Lynch, Vitto Bratta and others that got that sound and took it in their own direction.
Sirion
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In the end I also think that some achieved greater tones than Eddie. Vito was never quite a tone monster in my book, but George's tones on Wicked Sensation or Warren's tone on Detonator (both enormously underrated records, by the way!) beats any of the EVH tones as far as I'm concerned.
(In the case of George, his experimentation with this school of tones is likely to predate the mass success of VH S/T.)
(In the case of George, his experimentation with this school of tones is likely to predate the mass success of VH S/T.)
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Sirion
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On the now-defunct guitar instruction page JFRocks, I remember Jeff Fiorentino getting very close with a Kramer with a JB going into a Crate solid state amp. It is a great tone, but it is not one that it is very hard to get in the ballpark of, and I suspect that the remaining %s are studio magic that you won't get unless you dig deep into what Ted Templeman was doing at the time.
Securb
One of Jerry's Kids
I would have to agree and throw out Vivian Campbell's Dio tones and stepping away from his typical tone Steve Via on Whitesnake
Aceman
I am your doctor of love!
I never liked Viv's lead tones, much as I never loved Randy's. But the playing was soooo good it just didn't matter.
I wonder if Ed played typical screechy high end Marshall noise if we would have loved him so much?
Chistopher
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I've heard "he said she said" type stuff about how Eddie's early tone actually was screechy high end Marshall noise, but the sound guys did a lot of the heavy lifting getting it to not sound like that on the recording.
Chistopher
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Yeah, all the EVH goobers are using a guitar and an amplifier to try to replicate the sound of a guitar and an amplifier through a microphone into an analog interface being controlled by some really smart people.
Securb
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Aceman
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Agree
JMP/HBE
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