FX Recipe: Eddie Van Halen Flanger Guitar Effect (Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love)
My take on the EVH brown sound with flanger and delay.
PRS S2 Vela, Strymon Mobius (Flanger), AMT P2, Strymon Timeline (dBucket), Mesa Boogie Express 5:50 Plus.
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Originally posted by UC0F45xJ-x4KrLrE81CE6tXw at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6YEaxyVEoA
Over the years, comments have been made about keeping the flanger on through the whole riff in the final example. This isn't a cover tune I'm doing, it's an (overblown) effects example of something I've used in my own rig. I leave the flanger on so that the effect can be heard for more than a brief second. If you are looking to hear an EVH guitar cover I've done, using a different formula for the sound, try here instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6f3Gcqz668
Whats the name of the software?
don't forget the reverb!!
Why is it so hard for people who make these videos to engage/disengage the flanger on the turn around notes as opposed to leaving it on throughout the whole riff?
The flanger and delay go IN FRONT OF the preamp. AND, the flanger doesn't play through the whole verse, just a few notes in a phrase.
Delay before OD, flanger not on all the time. Delay also seems way too long. How you can listen to the song once and still put the flanger on all the time is beyond me.
Phaser?
nice
As for analog delay guys ( I use tape echo for this and put it before the amp ) put it on 306 ms ! Thank me later !
Chain goes to effect loop or in front of amp?
Eddie always went into his echoplex delay first then into his Marshall. I tried moving the delay to the front of the effects chain and it was much closer to the original sound.
The only thing I would add to that is that you also need a "clean" channel with just the amp on overdrive in the mix. They likely added the effects at the board in one channel. So to simulate what they did in the studio for live play you could use two amps, one with all the effects and the other with just overdrive. Get the right mix between the two amps and I suspect that will get you a lot closer to what you are hearing on the recording. Also a POD amp simulator might get you very close as well with the onboard effects. But I would try two amps. I intend to try that actually.
I think the order of the effects is wrong here. Distortion should be the last one.
The flanger and the verses don’t go together
Wow! You are a natural teacher too! What a CLEAR way to explain things, picture diagram the layout, and give a dang great decent audio performance! All In under 1:09 ???!!! Excellent!! Superb!!!! Now anyone can easily tweak to their own brands if they so choose, or go with these, which I am going to check out. Thank you! Brilliant job.
You can also replace the flanger for a phaser is just finding the right calibration
The flanger should be manually pressed on the last four notes of each measure. (the notes on the thicker strings)
Excellent video Joe, thanks for posting, much appreciated : )
you don't need these boutique pedals to achieve EVH tone.
they are marvelous pedals for sure.
but there are 100s of ways to get it with other pedals.
the 1980 mxr distortion plus with a decent analog delay will nail the 1st and 2nd lp by itself.
what are the settings on the amt p2 if you don't mind me asking
How to set the regeneration in the mobius ? Thz