Van Halen Brown Sound with Same Rig as Eddie — Live 1968 Marshall in Studio
I recently acquired and restored a 1968 Marshall Super Tremolo. I thought I’d try it in my Brown Sound setup. I’m happy. 🙂
Rig:
Boss GE-7 with upgraded opamps substituting for my original 6-Band MXR EQ, which is excessively noisy for some reason
1968 Marshall Super Tremolo (stock configuration with tremolo circuit disabled)
Vintage Sylvania 6CA7 power tubes
VARIAC set to 90V
1967 Celestion 20W G12M Greenback doing most of the work
Vintage JBL D120F adds some lower mids
Shure SM57s
Lindy Fralin Pure PAF humbucker with slight overwind (original PAFs aren’t beefy enough)
Kemper profiles of this rig will be coming soon…
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Originally posted by UCl2AYOXsSdSe1fc7qJ94Waw at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS-5ZgU4i_E
What is this guitar???
sorry to say, but the reverb needs to go to one side and the dry signal to the other
His guitar says poop
I believed he mixed greenbacks with Jbl d-120's in his cabs, sounds good, is the amp gain modded in any way?
Dead on!
Awesome! Sorry about have a really ignorant question because I’m a beginner; Where is the distortion coming from? Thanks in advance.
NICE NICE NICE!!!! Pop a 50k mid pot in that bad boy and I bet you won't be able to tell any difference at all. Still, VERY nice!!!
Surprised you didn't jump the channels.
Tuned in the Key of Ed!
Do you have a video on how you applied your variac? I’ve done some research and saw it’s potentially dangerous for your amp and I wanna do it correctly. I wanna use a variac for my VH tone chase
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It does not sound like Eddie's tone at all….
Just put a 50k pot for the Middle pot. His by either fluke or he had someone do it, it’s a mid boost and you’ll understand once you put it in! ????
RIP EDDIE.
not only a player but an inventor..
A guitarists guitarist.
We salute you.
Great job it sounds just like it!
That’s insanely close- I’ve never heard a better brown sound! It’s a Marshall Super Lead, right?
EVH
Ed was the tone master. He was so good he had 2 different era's of tone and they were both fantastic. A lot of people love the early VH tone the "brown sound". I also like the wet dry wet tone he also came up with from 5150 onward. I think they're both great.
That tone is spot on. I've got a Friedman Vintage Plex coming in a few days. It's based on Dave Friedman's personal '68 Plexi, his favorite amp. He was Eddie's rig builder for awhile. It's got a built in variac that goes down to 90 volts with a toggle switch. I'm pretty excited to get it. Great video thanks for sharing
Sounds indistinguishable, well done. What are you using for reverb? Interesting also that the 57s look to be 6 inches away from the cab instead of right on it
If you don’t mind me asking, what mic pres, post eq (plugins/ hardware?), audio interface did you use for the Tonex profiles here?
Waw the right tone, do you use a power soak?
It's scary how close to the albums this guy's tones are. We're witnessing some kind of savant here.
What effects are used?
sick
Retroking amps makes replicas of the JTM 45 and 1987 amps and you can order the optional neg feedback control.
Years ago, i've seen a almost close setup using a JMC800 series 1959 head, Boss overdrive peal for booster, Rockman attenuatore and HUSH, alesis Quadaverb, BBE Sonic maximizer and a ASA poweramp going thru a 4×12
I love my original 5150 still.
You need a 4 12 inch cab loaded with D120s to pull off the brown sound.
Nice touch at the end, bro ????
No
Hey , new sub here from Quebec !
Nailed it!
nailed it,,,,, but eddie used an Explorer on the first album……………..which later became the shark guitar
Did EVH use an EQ pedal in front of the plexi amplifier for the 1st and 2nd Van Halen albums?
Please ???? make a capture of this and your other rigs to TONEX! I'm sure it'll sale like hot cakes!