Van Halen 70s 80s Inspired Tone Settings for Yamaha THR30II 

Not claiming perfection here. This is simply a sonic foundation for you guys to build on using the THR Remote app. This is the tone I have been using on the channel for the past 18 months and I am constantly being asked about it so it's about time I shared it.

i think if eddie was still alive he'd very much approve of how amazing this tone sounds :)

Please pause a few seconds and think about the huge legacy Eddie brought to the guitar world. He is gone now but his spirit lives in every chord we perform and every note we touch. RIP Eddie, I miss you man.

The beginning solo, is the solo from the Sammy hagar era. Live without a net video. My favorite one.

Sounds killer! Makes me want to go watch his solo from Live Without a Net for like the millionth time.

Just got my THR10X and I am really digging it. I can’t believe the 5150 that comes out of such a lightweight little box.

Close your eyes and its literally EVH.....your next level brother...you are LITERALLY carrying the torch

4:36 was extremely accurate to the original guitar sound of VH2.

Dance the night away sounded amazing 👏

It sounds so much like Eddie that I couldn’t help but say “whoo whoo” at around 3:46 👏👏

Absolutely killer playing. You have inspired me so much yet again.

Absolutely wonderful. Masterful playing, Cam! 🤘

This is amazing Cameron!!! Very informative, and excellent playing as always!!

Such precision. Cam brother I am so stoked I found your channel.

Thanks brother…you the man! 😎. Loving your channel lately. So fresh and fun. And as always your playing is amazing. Keep it up 👍

One of the best sounds I’ve ever heard come from a Yamaha THR. Keep up the amazing work!

Amazing playing as always, Cameron! Loving the sound!

That tone is dripping with awesome sauce

Never heard anyone else play what u did in the intro and the u killed the tone man🤘🔥

You nailed the ‘83 US festival Eruption solo in your intro demo in both tone and technique! Massive respect my dude I’m loving the videos!

Amazing playing! I actually just bought a thr30ii four weeks ago because of you. Keep up the good work, hopefully one day I could play like you!

Beautiful playing, Cameron. Eddies playing the first few albums with David were magical.

You are one the best guitarist I've ever known, seriously dude.. 😎👍🏻

I just got a Thr ii 2 days ago and I'm so pumped to finally see this video! The thr is easily one of the best sounding amps I've ever played through

Beautiful work Cam! Thank you for your videos! Greetings from Croatia! 🎸💪🏻

Holy crap! Amazing playing and tone. Bought the amp based on your video, Yamaha owes you! Keep the videos coming.

From the moment I bought mine, I'm having such a joy playing guitar again, specially when diving into these kind of tones. This unit really shines in bringing all the sound and timber characteristics we all appreciate in guitar tones, a few tweeks and its ready to rock! Your channel truly inspired me in getting one of these, I can now rock anywhere, whenever I want, without the huge pain in plugging my pc, interface, plug-in so I can rock for a bit. .. It really brought me into that "practice for fun" phase again, which I truly missed. Thank You Cameron, EVH would be so proud of these tones ❤️🤍

It’s a good day when I get a notification from my man cam 🤘🏻 thanks for the video buddy, you’re awesome!!

Mr Cooper, you’re a MONSTER player! That opening riff from Live Without a Net, left me speechless…

Dude you’re a beast, you really got Eddie’s spirit!

Great stuff. Thanks for sharing Cam!

Wow....That tone sounds Awesome !!! Great playing also !👍👍

YOUR tone nails Ed SO GOOD with such a simple setup compared to other vids where they have a peppered peddle board or software and it still doesn't sound right.

Excellent as always Cam 10/10

Absolutely exquisite, Cooper! Another tone I need to dial in! All the Best! 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘👌👌👌👌👌

I hear what you're saying about the early fizz, but you've got it nailed !!! The Holy Grail of tone is at hand.

Hi Cameron! I’m jin from Singapore, thank you so much for doing these videos! I have a Yamaha thr30ii too and I really appreciate your graciousness in sharing these tones with us ☺️ would really appreciate if u could share tones from a variety of artists as well. Keep doing your great work!

Straight vicious! Best eddie van halen sound ive ever heard on youtube! 👍

That was awesome Cameron!

That was awesome 🔥

Wow… this video is a Van Halen Masterclasd thanks Cam 🔥

Dude I gotta say...I watch a lot of guys on RU-vid shredding it up... But you sound the best. You are totally killing it like no one else...

Killed it man! Love it

The search for Brown Sound starts and ends here. Incredible tone, by an incredible player, played on the only production guitars that do justice to EVH's legacy. Charvel. Awesome. Awesome. And more awesome.

Amazing I think I’m gonna have to buy one now!!!

Sick demo

Superb VH style tone and playing. I love it! This is the way to go for this sort of tone rather than getting an old plexi, getting it modded and using a Variac and all that jazz. Eddie never meant to have an archaic path to tone. It's just how it happened. As he found more efficient ways to get his desired tone he went with them. I have no doubt Eddie would have used a THR if they were around in '78.

Amazing !!! Spot ON ...

I think it's the guy playing it that achieves the tone. YOU!

I bypass in amp modeling on my vh settings way more chunkage. Spunds awesome Cameron. Good job

Sounds excellent man. Thinking of getting this amp. Love playing VH stuff and I only have a small room, this should be perfect.

Been debating buying a THR II amp for a while mostly from watching your videos. I pulled the trigger a few weeks ago and am crazy happy about the tones I am getting. Not gonna mention any names but I could not get these kind of tones with paid VST software. I will certainly never have your prowess or style but you have helped me a lot - many thanks! I do wish more people contributed to getting artists tones like you can on with competitors - ie cloud. Nonetheless the tone is disgusting as you would say~👏👍

Ok but let’s be honest it’s the GUITARIST that makes the sound. Awesome amp tone but even better playing.

I recently got my first electric guitar in 2021 from my grandma absolutely loved it you Eddie And prince have inspired me a lot to start learning the thing I’m having trouble with is plucking the strings it frustrates me so bad but I never give up

So I was watching this video on my phone at the same time the isolated guitar to Mean Street was playing on the smartTV. It was pretty awesome how it lined itself up together!!!

Awesome playing and tone. On point with the EVH licks. You should do a demo/review of the 5150III el34 head or combo amp. It would be great to see with your skills and style of playing.

Dude, you don’t know how many times I’ve watched this. You are probably the closest to Eddies style that we have on earth that I know of. It’s insane!!! :0

Hi Cameron great playing and tone as always and thank you for keeping Van Halen alive and relevant for new generations to hear. I was wondering if you could review the EVH shark guitar that was released in 2019 at the NAAM show. Also could you also do an in depth instructional video on how to wire up and solder a single humbucking pickup like Eddie did to his original Frankenstrat? Your high Def high quality videos would offer more clarity then alot of other RU-vidrs. Thanks...Rob

Thanks alot. You just melted my GD face off

Very nice job!

Simply awesome

Recently got a stripped series myself. Nicest guitar I ever put my hands on. I like to plug it into a 5150III 2X12 and it sounds amazing, though I may look at one of these Yamaha's for something a little more neighbor friendly. Great playing Cameron!

Great tone! I have too this amp. Very good tool!

What an amazing intro OMG !

Great sound an playing man 🙌 About the fizz… I realized a little eq does help.

Holy Shit- That intro.... You may say you're not perfect, but that was a flawless and perfect intro. You sounded just like EVH. Reminds me of the Live without a net, New Haven 1986 Solo.

You make the best video and you are a super guitar player

Great tone Cam! My settings are very similar but with a touch of echo

VH would be proud of this 😃

Ha! At first I was doubting you, I'm not gonna lie... but then I realized I had the verb on hall instead of plate. Turns out, it sounds exactly like his tone 😂 Thanks as always!

Goosebumps !!

Sounds awsome

Outstanding you man 🤟🇨🇦🤟

That was bad ass👍👍👍👍👍

Good night everyone!!! Holy s**t!!! I need a lesson on the dives and rises. Just can’t get them to sound right at all. Nice job dude!

Nice bro for sure threw in some live without a net solo in my opinion his best solo ever

I appreciated seeing what "You're no good" looks like to play.

seriously there are many guitarists on youtube who plays evh style but your playing is the most accurate

Great work as always Cameron. It would be great if you could do a THR30ii video on Randy Rhoads tone. Just a thought.

Sounds great, I'm partial to the modern preset myself, your guitars respond very differently than mine at the same settings lol.

I guess you are constantly being asked about it. No wonder, cause the tone is absolutely amazing!!!!! 👍

Cameron, you mastering EVH vibes!!impressed !!! I got the TH10 first release. Do you think it's quiet possible to have that sound ?

No amp other than Eddies modded super lead would get this tone or so i thought…. Because of all the mods on that old marshall such as a 50k mid pot and “fat caps” as such i wouldn’t think it was possibles but you sir have done it, and i applaud you 👏🏻

HA! You must be one of the VanHalenest guitarists on the entire RU-vid if you want to and in this video you definitely do! ... mmm ... no ... you ARE the VanHalenest guitarist on the entire RU-vid! There! Now it feels better! :D

Damn! This sounds so good, these are gonna start out selling the entire 5150 EVH amps!

Love these thr30 how to’s! How about making more videos with Yamaha thr signature sounds? After all you are by far RU-vid’s king of Yamaha thr sounds. How about Paul Gilbert, Jason Becker, Steve Vai, SRV, Andy Timmons, Joe Satriani…etc.

Hey cam, great playing btw. what do you have your volume knob at when your playing on this and on the 90’s settings???

Master!!! Teach me this skill.

Love these vids. Please do a Led Zep tone video for this amp!

Man you caught Eddie's ability and your upward and onward. You should play him in any up coming movie!

Good and sharp harmonics. .

Great!!!

Sounds great. Do you have that amp plugged into a cab? Or is it coming out of monitors? I've been looking at this or the Headrush MX5 to try to get a proper bedroom level amp tone going. The Kemper has some really good profiles but not sure I want to go that far down the modelling rabbit hole yet. Thanks for the tips and great playing! New sub

VH lives!

YOU DA MAN !

Ven halen should do a show with you and Wolfgang....that'd be awesome 🤘🏼😈🤘🏼

Very nice, awesome tone! I’m curios about your playing with a Dsp Neural plugin with same guitar

Damn- you’re a beast

Van halen fans from malaysia♥️🤘🏻

So good Cameron. I’m gonna have to get this amp, sounds amazing. I hate trying to get good tone, I want to plug in and have great tone. Can you use a phase 90 or wah pedal plugged in to this amp?