People forget the level of innovation Eddie achieved. He didn't invent tapping, tremolo picking etc. but he sure did take them and other techniques to a whole new level. Not just a shredder
For many kids my age, Diver Down was the first Van Halen album we were aware of. I didn't get to see them live during their original run with Roth, and it wasn't until I got to see Ed play this song on TV a few years later (probably Live Without A Net) that I even realized this was a guitar. It sounded like a synth! My mind was yet again blown. It's amazing what Ed could do - not only was he innovative on guitar, he wrote great songs. Thanks for going into this, I look forward to the deep dive for the whole Diver Down album (and all their records).
Thank you, Apple O! I really do appreciate it! - I was 13 when I saw them headlining the '79 world tour. It was pretty amazing - life changer for me. I was already playing guitar (9 years old), and a buddy of mine played the first album for me on Thanksgiving Day, 1978. I went on to see them in '81 - Fair Warning - (twice on that tour), then Diver Down, and then 1984...I wouldn't see them again until F.U.C.K and the Balance tours...I was busy playing on the road with my own band '87-'91, so I missed a couple of tours in there.... Don't know that I'm going to do all the records, but I'm working on 1984 and Diver Down right now. They're both similar, and very different at the same time. Diver Down was recorded at Amigo Studios (Warner Brother's), except for Pretty Woman (Sunset Sound) and of course 1984 was recorded at 5150. So, this is going to be a fair amount of work....gimme time. It's coming, but there's a fair amount of head scratching going on here in my studio 😉
@@jegauss Wow, you are a lucky guy to have seen them during the "Van Halen II" and "Fair Warning" tours! No worries, we are patient here. I know it isn't a Roth record, but I think on 5150, Ed was still at his peak. If you could eventually cover that album, it would be cool. But of course Diver Down and 1984 have priority! Thanks again for doing this. Haha, head scratching, eh? When you are stumped, what do you do, start looking at live videos, listening to live shows, scouring interviews, or calling experts? (it would be interesting to see that list!) I'm sure it's fun, because I myself enjoy figuring out Van Halen songs on the guitar.
@@AppleOno Ha! Yeah, I get stumped...that's when I start the trial and error process, and start recording 100s of tracks of tests - pickups, tubes, amp bias, amp configurations, effect configurations, guitars, mic placements and other variables in the recording process. It's a lot! With Sunset Sound, we have a pretty good idea about the gear, the rooms, the mics, etc...Amigo and 5150 studios???? not a clue. Plus, they had a relatively long time to record 1984, so I think there was a lot of experimentation going on with everything involved with that album. Anyway, hopefully, I'll get it figured out...😉
Thanks! I need to figure out where we're going with the whole project...we're talking about re-tooling the VH "cover thing," or just coming out with a whole new thing...there's plenty of VH cover / tribute bands around these days...anyway, you never know. Thanks for watching!
Love it Jim! When I read parrot, I thought it was some special pedal...be a good name for an echo device. He looked right at home with your music! Sound is amazing as usual. Which Eddie clone is that guitar? 5150? I saw you didn't have the older Frankestrat pickup cut-outs. My build is going to be like this without the extra pick up routing.
Hey Doug! We should invent and market "The Screaming Parrot" echo! 😉 That guitar is my 5150 build - I do have the Frankenstein guitar, too (I know, big surprise...) I like them both for different things.
@@doug.heartstringssound I shot these a while ago, but I'm 99.99% sure that it's a Duncan '59. If it't not that, it's a Gibson '57 Classic. But, when I listen to this, and know that guitar and the rig, I'm sure it's the Alnico 5 in the Duncan '59
I feel so ridiculous! I thought the mention of parrot in the description was the name of delay you would be using In the video! I was so focused on watching your hands, It was 20 seconds or so before I saw the bird on your shoulder move! I had to laugh out loud at myself ! I hope everyone finds this as funny as I did😂
Now that's funny! Actually, if it makes you feel any better, you're not the first one to think I was using a "Parrot Delay." We decided we should market one called the "Screaming Parrot Delay." 😉
I've got quite a few of them on youtube (if you haven't checked out my other videos)....I'm working on my next deep dive of the Women and Children First album. Thank you for watching!
Thanks Don! The delay that you hear is part of the wet / dry / wet rig that I'm playing through. The two outside Marshall 4x12 speaker cabinets are the "wet" cabinets. Their delayed / echo signal is coming from a pair of Roland SDE 3000 digital delays. So, on this rig, to answer your question, the delay is running after the amp. I use a Palmer PDI-03 to split the signal so I can run the un-effected signal and the wet signals side by side.
@@jegauss Great work Jim. I always thought Eddie also ran some chorus on this track. Do you agree? And if so, do you suppose it's a separate chorus, or perhaps two delays like you have but -slightly- out of synch? This is probably my favorite of Eddie's solos and you've outdone yourself again.
@@PhpGtr Thanks, P! I think, but I don't know for sure, the chorusing effect that you hear is just the eventide harmonziers doing their "fat detune thing" in the studio - But, I don't know for sure...it's entirely possible that he did use an actual chorus pedal. He did for Pretty Woman, and it's the same album...I know live, he just used the Lexicon PCM 70 - it handled the detune and the delay - I don't know that for sure, but I'm reasonably sure. I've owned a PCM 70 and the sound is pretty unmistakable.
Thank you! Nope - no compressor, just a fair amount of volume - but it's just my usual marshall but I'm playing through the w/d/w setup for the delays and slight detune of the harmonizer.
Keeps you young doesn't it? I jam also, we are probably the same age. I plug into my marshall and jam along to backing tracks we didn't have as teenagers. Just a cassette recorder making our own. Kids these days just don't know how many records we wore out playing the same spot over and over trying to figure out what is being played so we can learn it all by ear. UA-cam has done wonders for people wanting to learn the songs that took us hours and days to figure out.
Amen, John! Yeah, we didn't even really have cassettes yet! I mean, they were around, but mostly, we had records...you had to learn to sing the part to yourself, and find the notes on your guitar (so much better for ear training) - we also didn't have tablature...honestly, not having youtube, tabs, etc...makes you a better player. It trains your ear better, and that's what being a musician is all about, really. It's not about learning the technical details of sweep picking! 😉. But, there's room for everybody...to each, their own!
@@derek9658 Hey Willie, I'm not sure if you watched this particular video : ua-cam.com/video/9MSs4h0NoH8/v-deo.html It's my Brown Sound Quest for Van Halen 1. Atomic Punk happens at 18:30 and On Fire at about 24:40
Yeah, trying to consolidate some short video things, and get them posted on the youtube channel...WACF is coming along well. I've got the tones / guitars and various pickups figured out, so now I'm in the testing / recording / listening back phase - I'm pretty close to making some decisions, and start to actually start shooting the video. Give me a couple more weeks - but I'm closing in on it.
Hi Jim thank you so much for your inspirational lessons and playing. A couple questions if you don't mind. I noticed you prefer the " original" 1959 style heads,would any year of this kind work? (70's, 80's). As for mods you mentioned replcaing the cap in position V2, any other marshall head mods you recommend? The variac set at 87 volts and or 71 volts! I thought the head would disintegrate lol. How do you reduce the volume so your ears aren't fried? I see where you actually pulled tubes. You ever use an attenuator ? Thank you for your help. I appreciate what you're are doing very much.
Hey Thomas! Yes, I much prefer the 1959 style "4-hole" Marshall circuit. I'm not a big fan of master volume amps of any kind. Obviously, there are certain situations where you can't avoid them, but for most of my life, I've "avoided" those situations 😉. You can run the variac down as low as you want, until the tube heaters quit working. And, you'll know when that is - the amp behaves as though you've shut off the power, the sound just slowly fades out. I actually often run my variac down to 66-67 volts. In fact in the Brown Sound Quest - Fair Warning video, I had it running a 67 volts. The amp is still pretty loud, but it fits in nicely, on a stage, with a live drummer. So, I've gotten away with it for years...I'm sure that's what Ed did, too. I think the "90 volt" thing was sort of the "go-to" setting when they talked about it. But, I would guess that it was much, much lower than that. 90 volts doesn't get you much in volume reduction. And, the whole reason Ed used the variac was to reduce the volume of the amp...the added benefit of that was the extra "squish" you get out of a voltage starved amp. As far as what years work for that type of head? I tend to prefer '68 - '70. They were a little warmer, and a little less "gainy." But honestly, if you get one of the reissue amps that you see floating around on ebay and reverb, etc...those are based off of the '68-ish build. I own a couple of them and they sound great. Good luck!
Nice bird! Hey Jim, I saw your appearance on Johnny Beane and I was a little confused with something you had said about amp volume. You had your SLP dimed on WCF and Fair Warning, but on Johnny Beane's stream you say to never dime the amp because it will flub out. I know they do have a lot of gain, and I agree that sometimes it's too much, were those album settings just a rare departure?
I'd have to go back an listen to what I was saying on Johnny Beane's show...but, what I think I might have been saying, may have been about Volume 2 (you can't dime that one without the amp choking) - or it may have been before I discovered that it's ok to use even lower variac settings than I had been using on the first 2 VH videos...it is a tricky thing, you can easily get into the "too much gain / flub / choke" sound if you've got the amp dimed...so, for me, it was the difference in finally getting the right pickup for VH1 and VHII and the right variac settings, and bias settings. But, I've since figured it all out and I can dime the amp for the first 2 albums, too....so again, I'd have to watch it back and see what I was trying to say...but that's my story and I'm sticking to it 😉
@@jegauss Yes I have noticed with my SLP 50wt that is way more gain than I need. I am rarely at 10 on the Vpot. I don't think I told you that I had a JTM50 67' spec made locally by a great amp tech and that does not have the SLP kind of gain, it's a real clean amp that when cranked with my 78' Custom/SD's puts you in Halen land. Also he put a bright cap on it and a shared to split cathode switch which, when engaged gives up more dirt that is tighter and more focused. Of course I'm not using a variac yet, so it's probably nothing close to what you would sign off on. That said these are great tones that I would have never tried had it not been for your vids. PS, I do plan on getting that variac.
*OMG that was awesome Jim. Also what pickups are in that hockey stick head strat an in your Les Paul behind you? Thank you for these videos too, your search for tone is appreciated.*
Thanks Gary! I'm located in Nashville, the rest of the guys are up in Wisconsin...we're sort of on a "hiatus" at this point. There's talk of some up coming shows in Chicago, but at this point, nothing solid.
@@garyarsenault2873 I'd like to think so...we always put "fun" first, and never took ourselves too seriously, but really concentrated on playing the parts as accurately as possible
Hey Chris...I took about 6 months of lessons back in the mid-70s and got taught some of the first position chords, mary had a little lamb, etc...I learned essentially by ear. I've since taught myself a lot of theory, scales, chord theory, and I can read now, but I'm a horrible sight reader. I also rarely (if ever) use tablature...so for me, and especially this Van Halen stuff it's all ear.
I do it with a Roland SDE3000. He did with his Lexicon PCM 70. So my setting is 424 milliseconds, with a 20% feedback rate. And of course, the repeat has to be as loud as the original note.
Thank you! And yes, the audio was meant to be an "in the room" type of audio, so that people can hear what the amp sounds like without professional recording...Thanks for watching!
@@jegauss It's your channel, & you can do what you want, but knowing some base recording techniques can go a long way. Even if you just wanted that room tone, you could still have a mic plugged straight into a field recorder sitting a few feet away from the speakers. The main issue is that your amp was noisy. Maybe it was a cable or a dirty component here or there. Also, is that white Marshall behind you one of the JCM 900's?
@@BaldPerspective I kinda think you missed where I was coming from....you should probably check out my channel and take a look at the Brown Sound Quest series of videos - I assure you, I have more than just a "base knowledge of recording techniques - here's the link for one of them ua-cam.com/video/dsoUDOJFieI/v-deo.html This "in the room" sound was done completely intentionally, noise and all. Marshall Super Leads on 10 hiss - even when they're variac'd down to 68 volts. Also, iphones have built in comp/limiters on the microphone, and tend to "enhance" hum and hiss. Anyway, if you have the time, go check out the series of videos on the VH Brown Sound Quest - you might get a kick out of them. Very accurate, and I've paid attention to some of the most minute details. The white Marshall is a 1959 Super Lead, 35th year anniversary Thank you for watching!
@@jegauss Will def check out your other vids. Sorry to presume you were a novice. Completely forgot most people would have that thing cranked & that's why it'd be noisy lol
@@BaldPerspective No worries whatsoever...I just wanted to point you in the right direction. I normally wouldn't do a poor sound quality video like this, but I've had so many requests, based on those deep dive, Brown Sound Quest videos, asking, "how does it sound in the room, without any fancy mics, studio stuff, etc.....?"
People forget the level of innovation Eddie achieved. He didn't invent tapping, tremolo picking etc. but he sure did take them and other techniques to a whole new level. Not just a shredder
Absolutely! He was extremely creative and a "non-conventional thinker" when it came to guitar.
thank you for keeping eddie's memory alive, jim.
Of course! Thank you for watching!
Awesome, Jim. You're like a cool, guitar-playing Pirate... that really knows how to rock. Aaargh.
Ha! Thank you, Jimmy!
Great stuff! You are an excellent ambassador to the EVH sound. That handsome Sun Conure of yours was a nice touch too. 👍
Thanks BassmanDave! I'll let Mango know you think he's handsome, too! 😉
For many kids my age, Diver Down was the first Van Halen album we were aware of. I didn't get to see them live during their original run with Roth, and it wasn't until I got to see Ed play this song on TV a few years later (probably Live Without A Net) that I even realized this was a guitar. It sounded like a synth! My mind was yet again blown.
It's amazing what Ed could do - not only was he innovative on guitar, he wrote great songs.
Thanks for going into this, I look forward to the deep dive for the whole Diver Down album (and all their records).
Thank you, Apple O! I really do appreciate it! - I was 13 when I saw them headlining the '79 world tour. It was pretty amazing - life changer for me. I was already playing guitar (9 years old), and a buddy of mine played the first album for me on Thanksgiving Day, 1978. I went on to see them in '81 - Fair Warning - (twice on that tour), then Diver Down, and then 1984...I wouldn't see them again until F.U.C.K and the Balance tours...I was busy playing on the road with my own band '87-'91, so I missed a couple of tours in there....
Don't know that I'm going to do all the records, but I'm working on 1984 and Diver Down right now. They're both similar, and very different at the same time. Diver Down was recorded at Amigo Studios (Warner Brother's), except for Pretty Woman (Sunset Sound) and of course 1984 was recorded at 5150. So, this is going to be a fair amount of work....gimme time. It's coming, but there's a fair amount of head scratching going on here in my studio 😉
@@jegauss Wow, you are a lucky guy to have seen them during the "Van Halen II" and "Fair Warning" tours!
No worries, we are patient here. I know it isn't a Roth record, but I think on 5150, Ed was still at his peak. If you could eventually cover that album, it would be cool. But of course Diver Down and 1984 have priority!
Thanks again for doing this. Haha, head scratching, eh? When you are stumped, what do you do, start looking at live videos, listening to live shows, scouring interviews, or calling experts? (it would be interesting to see that list!) I'm sure it's fun, because I myself enjoy figuring out Van Halen songs on the guitar.
@@AppleOno Ha! Yeah, I get stumped...that's when I start the trial and error process, and start recording 100s of tracks of tests - pickups, tubes, amp bias, amp configurations, effect configurations, guitars, mic placements and other variables in the recording process. It's a lot! With Sunset Sound, we have a pretty good idea about the gear, the rooms, the mics, etc...Amigo and 5150 studios???? not a clue. Plus, they had a relatively long time to record 1984, so I think there was a lot of experimentation going on with everything involved with that album. Anyway, hopefully, I'll get it figured out...😉
@@jegauss I have complete faith in you! One can only imagine all the outtakes and unreleased tracks in the vaults at 5150!
Just awesome! Obviously your parrot loves your playing too!
Ha! Thank you!
Fantastic playing!!
Thank you!
Cool bird bro! Jams, always top notch, when can we hear your band? Keep that torch 🔦 lit 🔥 my friend!! 🤘
Thanks! I need to figure out where we're going with the whole project...we're talking about re-tooling the VH "cover thing," or just coming out with a whole new thing...there's plenty of VH cover / tribute bands around these days...anyway, you never know. Thanks for watching!
@@jegauss trib all the way, you got it down my friend. Hard work dedication 💪 show it off.
I used to do this, but all of my volume pots locked up. Ed must have switched them out nightly.
Yeah, back then, before low friction pots, if you played this more than once, you'd trash the pot...
Dude you make me sick with how badass you are!! If I were to close my eyes, I swear to God it was Eddie!!
Thank you, Matthew! Very kind words, there....
Love it Jim! When I read parrot, I thought it was some special pedal...be a good name for an echo device. He looked right at home with your music! Sound is amazing as usual. Which Eddie clone is that guitar? 5150? I saw you didn't have the older Frankestrat pickup cut-outs. My build is going to be like this without the extra pick up routing.
Hey Doug! We should invent and market "The Screaming Parrot" echo! 😉 That guitar is my 5150 build - I do have the Frankenstein guitar, too (I know, big surprise...) I like them both for different things.
@@jegauss love it! The Screaming Parrot, taking echo and delay to a new dimension!
@@jegauss which pickup are you using in this 5150? It's got great sound!
@@doug.heartstringssound I shot these a while ago, but I'm 99.99% sure that it's a Duncan '59. If it't not that, it's a Gibson '57 Classic. But, when I listen to this, and know that guitar and the rig, I'm sure it's the Alnico 5 in the Duncan '59
Ha ha ha! My Sun Conure does the same thing!
Yeah, they are definitely characters!
So good Jim. You make me a better player
Thank you!
I feel so ridiculous! I thought the mention of parrot in the description was the name of delay you would be using In the video! I was so focused on watching your hands, It was 20 seconds or so before I saw the bird on your shoulder move! I had to laugh out loud at myself ! I hope everyone finds this as funny as I did😂
Now that's funny! Actually, if it makes you feel any better, you're not the first one to think I was using a "Parrot Delay." We decided we should market one called the "Screaming Parrot Delay." 😉
Dude, you got a Sun Conure!!! I got two as well! They rock out and bang their heads when I play!
Yeah, mine will tap his foot and sway...or bob his head in time. They're funny!
Argh he has the tone booty😂😂😂. Amazing
Ha! Thank you!
Awesome playing, love your videos, Jim!
Thank you! Very much appreciated
ey make more van halen covers, you are heaving the right gear.... which one do you want to record next 😊
I've got quite a few of them on youtube (if you haven't checked out my other videos)....I'm working on my next deep dive of the Women and Children First album. Thank you for watching!
Bravo Jim! 😀
Thank you!
Wow. Absolutely wonderful Jim! 🤟🏻🤩🔝
Thank you, Luca!
Everything you do is on point man especially the fair warning stuff are you running that delay into the head or is that added to after?
Thanks Don! The delay that you hear is part of the wet / dry / wet rig that I'm playing through. The two outside Marshall 4x12 speaker cabinets are the "wet" cabinets. Their delayed / echo signal is coming from a pair of Roland SDE 3000 digital delays. So, on this rig, to answer your question, the delay is running after the amp. I use a Palmer PDI-03 to split the signal so I can run the un-effected signal and the wet signals side by side.
@@jegauss Great work Jim. I always thought Eddie also ran some chorus on this track. Do you agree? And if so, do you suppose it's a separate chorus, or perhaps two delays like you have but -slightly- out of synch? This is probably my favorite of Eddie's solos and you've outdone yourself again.
@@PhpGtr Thanks, P! I think, but I don't know for sure, the chorusing effect that you hear is just the eventide harmonziers doing their "fat detune thing" in the studio - But, I don't know for sure...it's entirely possible that he did use an actual chorus pedal. He did for Pretty Woman, and it's the same album...I know live, he just used the Lexicon PCM 70 - it handled the detune and the delay - I don't know that for sure, but I'm reasonably sure. I've owned a PCM 70 and the sound is pretty unmistakable.
Fantastic as usual. Are you using a compressor? I'm trying some for playing this. (And the delay in the loop)
Thank you! Nope - no compressor, just a fair amount of volume - but it's just my usual marshall but I'm playing through the w/d/w setup for the delays and slight detune of the harmonizer.
Keeps you young doesn't it? I jam also, we are probably the same age. I plug into my marshall and jam along to backing tracks we didn't have as teenagers. Just a cassette recorder making our own. Kids these days just don't know how many records we wore out playing the same spot over and over trying to figure out what is being played so we can learn it all by ear. UA-cam has done wonders for people wanting to learn the songs that took us hours and days to figure out.
Amen, John! Yeah, we didn't even really have cassettes yet! I mean, they were around, but mostly, we had records...you had to learn to sing the part to yourself, and find the notes on your guitar (so much better for ear training) - we also didn't have tablature...honestly, not having youtube, tabs, etc...makes you a better player. It trains your ear better, and that's what being a musician is all about, really. It's not about learning the technical details of sweep picking! 😉. But, there's room for everybody...to each, their own!
Fantastic Jim !
Cheers 🍷
Thanks so much!
Excellent as usual Jim. Nice and raw with amp buzz. Proper rock.
Thank you, Willie!
@@jegauss Jim is there any chance you might consider doing On Fire and Atomic punk with that wonderful early tone you had on an earlier video.
@@derek9658 Hey Willie, I'm not sure if you watched this particular video : ua-cam.com/video/9MSs4h0NoH8/v-deo.html It's my Brown Sound Quest for Van Halen 1. Atomic Punk happens at 18:30 and On Fire at about 24:40
@@jegauss ah thanks I am catching up on your stuff. Thanks let me check it.
Spot on. Salute!
Thank you!
You're on a roll with these videos this morning. Good stuff👍 How's the WACF video coming along? What's the ETA😎
Yeah, trying to consolidate some short video things, and get them posted on the youtube channel...WACF is coming along well. I've got the tones / guitars and various pickups figured out, so now I'm in the testing / recording / listening back phase - I'm pretty close to making some decisions, and start to actually start shooting the video. Give me a couple more weeks - but I'm closing in on it.
Awesome! Amazing sound!
Thank you, Vladimir!
Hi Jim thank you so much for your inspirational lessons and playing. A couple questions if you don't mind. I noticed you prefer the " original" 1959 style heads,would any year of this kind work? (70's, 80's). As for mods you mentioned replcaing the cap in position V2, any other marshall head mods you recommend? The variac set at 87 volts and or 71 volts! I thought the head would disintegrate lol. How do you reduce the volume so your ears aren't fried? I see where you actually pulled tubes. You ever use an attenuator ? Thank you for your help. I appreciate what you're are doing very much.
Hey Thomas! Yes, I much prefer the 1959 style "4-hole" Marshall circuit. I'm not a big fan of master volume amps of any kind. Obviously, there are certain situations where you can't avoid them, but for most of my life, I've "avoided" those situations 😉. You can run the variac down as low as you want, until the tube heaters quit working. And, you'll know when that is - the amp behaves as though you've shut off the power, the sound just slowly fades out. I actually often run my variac down to 66-67 volts. In fact in the Brown Sound Quest - Fair Warning video, I had it running a 67 volts. The amp is still pretty loud, but it fits in nicely, on a stage, with a live drummer. So, I've gotten away with it for years...I'm sure that's what Ed did, too. I think the "90 volt" thing was sort of the "go-to" setting when they talked about it. But, I would guess that it was much, much lower than that. 90 volts doesn't get you much in volume reduction. And, the whole reason Ed used the variac was to reduce the volume of the amp...the added benefit of that was the extra "squish" you get out of a voltage starved amp.
As far as what years work for that type of head? I tend to prefer '68 - '70. They were a little warmer, and a little less "gainy." But honestly, if you get one of the reissue amps that you see floating around on ebay and reverb, etc...those are based off of the '68-ish build. I own a couple of them and they sound great. Good luck!
Nice bird! Hey Jim, I saw your appearance on Johnny Beane and I was a little confused with something you had said about amp volume. You had your SLP dimed on WCF and Fair Warning, but on Johnny Beane's stream you say to never dime the amp because it will flub out. I know they do have a lot of gain, and I agree that sometimes it's too much, were those album settings just a rare departure?
I'd have to go back an listen to what I was saying on Johnny Beane's show...but, what I think I might have been saying, may have been about Volume 2 (you can't dime that one without the amp choking) - or it may have been before I discovered that it's ok to use even lower variac settings than I had been using on the first 2 VH videos...it is a tricky thing, you can easily get into the "too much gain / flub / choke" sound if you've got the amp dimed...so, for me, it was the difference in finally getting the right pickup for VH1 and VHII and the right variac settings, and bias settings. But, I've since figured it all out and I can dime the amp for the first 2 albums, too....so again, I'd have to watch it back and see what I was trying to say...but that's my story and I'm sticking to it 😉
@@jegauss Yes I have noticed with my SLP 50wt that is way more gain than I need. I am rarely at 10 on the Vpot. I don't think I told you that I had a JTM50 67' spec made locally by a great amp tech and that does not have the SLP kind of gain, it's a real clean amp that when cranked with my 78' Custom/SD's puts you in Halen land. Also he put a bright cap on it and a shared to split cathode switch which, when engaged gives up more dirt that is tighter and more focused.
Of course I'm not using a variac yet, so it's probably nothing close to what you would sign off on. That said these are great tones that I would have never tried had it not been for your vids. PS, I do plan on getting that variac.
*OMG that was awesome Jim. Also what pickups are in that hockey stick head strat an in your Les Paul behind you? Thank you for these videos too, your search for tone is appreciated.*
Thanks Mike! The guitar I'm playing has a Duncan '59, and the Les Paul has the Duncan Seth Lover set in it.
I was hoping the parrot would sing along...
Ha! I was happy that he was being quiet for a change!
It's amazing
Thank you!
Just subscribed. Enjoyed your vids. Where is your band located?
Thanks Gary! I'm located in Nashville, the rest of the guys are up in Wisconsin...we're sort of on a "hiatus" at this point. There's talk of some up coming shows in Chicago, but at this point, nothing solid.
@@jegauss I am in FL. Seemed like a fun band to check out.
@@garyarsenault2873 I'd like to think so...we always put "fun" first, and never took ourselves too seriously, but really concentrated on playing the parts as accurately as possible
Did you learn by ear or reading music?
I'm a drummer, huge Van Halen fan, and I am self taught, so just curious.
Hey Chris...I took about 6 months of lessons back in the mid-70s and got taught some of the first position chords, mary had a little lamb, etc...I learned essentially by ear. I've since taught myself a lot of theory, scales, chord theory, and I can read now, but I'm a horrible sight reader. I also rarely (if ever) use tablature...so for me, and especially this Van Halen stuff it's all ear.
Outstanding.
Thanks!
Wicked deadly.
Thank you!
Parrot is wireless,true bypass,and likely from Amazon 🤪
Ha! If only........true bypass would be nice with that squawk!
Brilliant
Thank you!
that's awesome
Thank you!
But what about doing Pathedral with a Carrot?
I'll see myself out...
Ha!
Amazing
Thank you, Michael!
love it ! lol
Thanks Paul!
Nice
Thanks
Yep, this is good stuff.
Thanks Chris!
Music to preen to
Now that's some good comedy right there, Blake!
Because Panama with parrot would just be a bunch of feathers :)
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Ha! More good comedy! Love it!
Haha. That poor bird...
Can't imagine the SPL pummeling his lil feathers.
I wasn't playing too loud when "we" made this one. He probably wouldn't sit for that!
Awesome
Thank you!
Could we get some VH detune Balance tones?
Possibly...you're hearing a little bit of that tone on this video. It's the pitch detune running on the Lexicon unit.
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Thank you, Andrew!
Eddieosyncrasies!
I like it!
Settings? for the echo?
I do it with a Roland SDE3000. He did with his Lexicon PCM 70. So my setting is 424 milliseconds, with a 20% feedback rate. And of course, the repeat has to be as loud as the original note.
The recording is pretty bad, but your playing is great. That is also a nice bird.
Thank you! And yes, the audio was meant to be an "in the room" type of audio, so that people can hear what the amp sounds like without professional recording...Thanks for watching!
@@jegauss It's your channel, & you can do what you want, but knowing some base recording techniques can go a long way. Even if you just wanted that room tone, you could still have a mic plugged straight into a field recorder sitting a few feet away from the speakers. The main issue is that your amp was noisy. Maybe it was a cable or a dirty component here or there. Also, is that white Marshall behind you one of the JCM 900's?
@@BaldPerspective I kinda think you missed where I was coming from....you should probably check out my channel and take a look at the Brown Sound Quest series of videos - I assure you, I have more than just a "base knowledge of recording techniques - here's the link for one of them ua-cam.com/video/dsoUDOJFieI/v-deo.html This "in the room" sound was done completely intentionally, noise and all. Marshall Super Leads on 10 hiss - even when they're variac'd down to 68 volts. Also, iphones have built in comp/limiters on the microphone, and tend to "enhance" hum and hiss. Anyway, if you have the time, go check out the series of videos on the VH Brown Sound Quest - you might get a kick out of them. Very accurate, and I've paid attention to some of the most minute details.
The white Marshall is a 1959 Super Lead, 35th year anniversary
Thank you for watching!
@@jegauss Will def check out your other vids. Sorry to presume you were a novice. Completely forgot most people would have that thing cranked & that's why it'd be noisy lol
@@BaldPerspective No worries whatsoever...I just wanted to point you in the right direction. I normally wouldn't do a poor sound quality video like this, but I've had so many requests, based on those deep dive, Brown Sound Quest videos, asking, "how does it sound in the room, without any fancy mics, studio stuff, etc.....?"