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I always listened to very heavy music. When I heard van halen I was shocked of Ed's sound. Ever since then my tones have drastically change. All the frequencies are clear and has some serious thud!!!!
I’m born in 55 so VH 1 1978 was my summer Lp Riddin my Harley to the beach, “ a drink in my hand & my toes in the sand” I’m 58 now so those being young Lp’s are my happy memories 💙
Thanks Andy for sharing your insights and for playing! I've rethought that EVH era sound since watching. I thought the biggest ingredient was the harmonizer. But the majority seems to be the SDE 3000. Of course, so much of it was in his hands, too.
@@andywoodmusic wholeheartedly agree that the SDE plays a large role in the Van Hagar era guitar. For what its worth, I truly believe that in order to nail the Poundcake tone you need to add the Eventide Harmonizer micropitchshift with an unmodulated -9 cent detune in Left Cab and unmodulated +9 cent uptune in Right Cab. There are countless online forum threads which debate EVH only used the -9 cent detune and those stating he used -9 and +9. I personally use the -9 and +9 in my old Eventide H3000SE. PS - Thanks Andy, for the great music. I had the privilege of meeting you in the Suhr booth at NAMM many years ago, and then saw you jam with Guthrie later that night. It was something I'll never forget.
I’m late to the party on the conversation, but the Hagar years rescued my favorite band! When Dave left, I had just become a VH fan, so I was crushed when Dave left. So when Sammy joined I was thrilled. It was almost like a Who kinda vibe, as Sammy was like a modern day Roger Daltry, and it was less gunslinging, but the songs were just so good. And the FUCK album was just the pinnacle of that era. Andy Johns captured the band brilliantly and really took the sound of the records to the next level.
You have a Great, Great, Great sound and very accurate sound memory memory of Eddy's sound and might need that with my twist as well. Thanks for my memory as well. I was around for VH 1. Running With the Devil was my first memory of that song on my Aunt's stereo cranked up. She was gone.
Andy, simply awesome!!! Thanks for sharing, it totally made my day... I was fortunate enough to see Van Halen twice with Roth (Diver Down & 1984 tours) and seen them with Hagar about 8 times.... Even though I love the early stuff, I prefer the Hagar era. I just feel like the song writing got better and after a while the Roth antics start to get old.... Keep up the great content, greatly appreciate your efforts and the inspiration you provide.... 🙂
Props for the tribute to the late 80s and 90s era VH sound. Right now is the first song i tried to figure out! I really admire your humility although you're in a very high level as a guitarist...Wish you everlasting progress and happiness!
Great video. Did you ever get the rig built with the harmonizer? I have an FM9 rig, wdw, with three FRFRs and it's beastly. I also have real amp wdw rig with the SDE 3000EVH, Micropitch, and a reverb in a parallelizer. EVH 50w stealth is the main tone. Wet cabs are powered by a Powerstage 700. That setup is also amazing.
Andy have you reviewed the Wolfgang specials? Would love you take on them. I have a couple including a MIJ tobacco burst special. Can't make it play as well as you, but seems like a solid instrument. Did hear the gray one with the Skanks. It was hot!
Haha! :D Andy, it's amazing! My tone is nearly exactly the same by accident! And I have TOTALLY different gear. An Ibanez AZ2402 Prestige, a POD HD500 and Yamaha HS8 monitors. On a Rectifier-esque amp model, V30 speakers and a 67 condenser mic simulation (and quite a lot of EQ). It's astounding! You play an A power chord, I play an A power chord and it's like I'm your delay. :D
I plan on using mine when it comes in with all types of Van Halen. All 80s. Music. Pete Thorn said the EVH short delay was like an always on type setting. Looking forward to it!
Hey Andy You Definitely Got The Tone In Your Fingers An Your WDW Setup Amazing Sound An I Have The EVH 5150 Combo I Need Two More An That EVH Pedal But Unfortunately The Wife Would Kill Me One DayI Need Your Setup Thanks
First off, I’m late to the party, I thought I was the only who loved this particular era of Eddie’s tone, For Unlawful Carnage and Balance, you’re older video with the three amps, wet dry wet video was awesome. Do you have a video showing how to play Amsterdam, specifically that chorus, it always sounds like the guitar stumbles into the chorus and I can’t figure it out
my timeline is all screwed up, this is the older of the two videos, I didn't realize that wet dry wet 5150 III video was a month ago and this was 8 months ago. Sorry for the confusion, graveyard schedule will make you miss some things. @@andywoodmusic
First concert, Diver Down. Smoke starts bellowing under the curtain. House music stops, but arena lights stay on. Then Ed just starts ripping asses for about 30 seconds… House music resumes until showtime.
andy please can you recreate the live without a net tone for the axe fx 3 !!! you’ve done the 90s tone - which everyone does , can recreate that 1986 tone please & share it
The day Ed dropped his body I listened to VH3 now it’s my fav. I wish Alex would do a instrumental release of all the Cds. For us, the guitar players. Like those cool isolated tracks with Ed except with Alex and all the rhythm guitar tracks. Why not?
Hi Andy, I love your videos! Any chance, I can ask for help. I have two Kempers one is powered. I also have a Axe Fx ll. How would I go about connecting the Kemper for Dry and Axe for wet to use as a wet dry wet setup? I wish I knew how to use the axe better. Trying to get monster EVH 90’s tones. I also have three Kemper power Kabs or three tube amp setups. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I watch all your videos, thank you for all your work.
This was awesome, thanks for doing this! Just curious, Andy, are you using the IBJ55 picks here? I was looking into purchasing some, and I was curious how well they work for stuff like Van Halen, where there's a lot of pick scrapes. Being that the BlueChip material is so smooth and the IBJ55 is listed as having 'Universal Rounded Bevels' at 1.4mm thickness, is there enough of an edge that you can still produce a pick scrape? Thank you!
Andy we gotta get you Joscho Stephan to hang and jam. He like's the idea, mentioned it to him. Anyways, that was a JOe Biden. Van Halen was huge in the 80's and only got bigger in the 90's. Us 40 year olds didn't quite get it, we weren't there. 90's Van Halen had heart and soul and creativity. What more do you want, right? Stay healthy guy.
Great video, you nailed the tone, what presets you using on the sde3000evh? And of the 4 evh presets which one do you think is for what song or era? Caue i only know of eds 398 798 setting for his rolands. Hope you understand my question
Now you need to get a H90 and a parallizer so that you can mix in the Eventide dtune. You can not run them in series due to phase cancelation so that is what the parallizer is for. HAHA, I see you addressed this in the video, Nevermind lol.
Dang! You started guitar at 17 or 18?! That is VERY LATE considering how great you became. I always thought I started fairly late at 15. There were very little resources when I started, with zero family and not many friends that played any good at the time, and very little online resources back in the mid-2000s. I'm now trying to make up for it with the wealth of resources online/on RU-vid and sites like TrueFire for instance. Of course it's not as easy to extrapolate since when you're older your brain is more or less hard wired already. Gotta make up for the lack of neuroplasticity in older age by stock-piling a ton of stuff.
Sammy was not supposed to be the original singer what BS I'm sorry I gotta say something about that one. Yes, he was on a short list of possible gets early on when Ed was already looking to replace DLR because of his whole thing.
Best tone is the Marshall Plexi Superlead with a Fat Cap with 2 Celestion 25s and 2 JBLs. The Echoplex, phase 90 and Variac with the Frankenstrat which was real a charvel body and neck with s single volume And 1 pick up which he claims was a PaF but he definitely used a hot pickup too like a overwound dimarzio with a 12-14k output vs the 8.3 or so on the Gibson PaF
Van Hagar was Eddie still playing well but the tunes were not like the original VH. On 5150 songs like 5150 and best of both worlds still had a similar recognizable tone and vibe to earlier Van Halen . I had the Ernie Ball Van Halen and that is better than the Peavy Wolfgang. I also had a peavy 5150. The fender EVH gear is better than the Peavy stuff. But that classic EVH Marshall Brown sound is untouchable
