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It takes more than guitar straight into a plexi to get enough gain. I took the easy way and bought a xotic sl drive 😊

I believe yourself and Jim Gaustad have this down. Maybe one day Donn will share his side of the story.

Just watched this for the first time, sounds amazing i wasnt looking at the screen at times and to me it sounds bang on. Great video and great playing. What is the clip from 25 secs in. Off to watch the 2nd part.

Holy crap. That tone is tremendous!

Nailed it brother!!

11 months ago and I’ve only just discovered this video. Besides Jim Gaustad, This is the closest I’ve ever heard to the brown sound.

it was in his fingers. even Steve vai said Eddie picked up his guitar and played through vai's rig and it sounded just like Eddie. there is no magic amp or effects, tone is in the fingers.

You should profile that (Quad Cortext, TONEX, Neural Amp Modeler). Take my money, please.

You will never know and the player you need is not around anymore....RIP👑

Dont think it was a Marshall.....

Dude, nice. You must be a producer, and in a badass cover band. Guess

Some pretty sweet bright and woody tone! Love it. I get the impression that what some of us attribute to the top end of the JBL D120's is actually the effect of the Bandmaster in a slave configuration with a Marshall Super Lead. Seems to make sense.

Tone is in your HEAD. Period. That’s where it begins. If it’s not in your head it’s nowhere.

as a kid I always felt I had a good EVH sound with my little bit of gear. "64 Princeton Tux, distortion pedal and an old digitech pedalboard with effects.

Fantastic video with loads of information. In addition to Eddie being a brilliant musician, a big part of him was a curious crazy scientist. Obviously he loved it and never took any aspect of his sound for granted. That's inspiring.

The brown sound was sheer high volume n hands of gods

What he stole from Roy Buchanan

To me, a Marshall is just a copy of a Fender Bassman with a few minor tweaks, so, it stands to reason that when hotrodded a Bassman can be coaxed into doing the same thing as a Marshall. In the end, as related to Eddie's sound, it becomes a game of what frequencies do you let pass through what gain stages and in what order. The sound you got here is NOT ''the'' Brown Sound, but it most definitely is ''a'' Brown Sound, one which Eddie himself would have been interested in and would have used if he had no alternative (say, you opened for VH and he then found that his rig had suffered a catastrophic failure, he would have been like ''Dude, I'm stealing your rig for our set, learn to cope or I'm kicking you in the balls''). There really isn't much difference in what tone stacks that use ax7 do, just when they do it and by how much, when you get them operating fully open. At a certain point it becomes much more about the ease of use and reliability of a specific architecture (brand) than any ''secret sauce''. Eddie knew that and, for whatever reason, he chose the amps that he chose - but he also knew that he could bend a Fender enough to fake a Marshall and vice versa because that is exactly what his amp tech did. My real two cents is I believe that Don Landee was the last 20% (at least) of Eddie's sound. It doesn't take a genius to deduce that there is a reason he never sounded like the albums when playing live until 5150 (once HE was more in control of the difference between live/studio). That, and that alone, speaks volumes about Landee's input. Anyway, great video and discussion of the elements. I think you hit on something that most fundamentalists discount -> the fact that Eddie was capable of much more than the shallow minds who have since attempted to nail him down to just a rodded Plexi.

Awesome.

you can't go from chord 1 to chord 2 in runnin with the devil without moving your hand up two frets. Switching fingers...is not acceptable!! That's not how Eddie played it.

do you think Warren Demartini was aware that he was doing this? He was aware that he copied Eddie...no question...but was he aware that he resolved in major?

Bro, nice job on Hang 'em High!! Such a musical piece on the guitar...really one of my fav's. The solo is just brilliant too.

Killed it...

I really love your vids. The search for the holy grail of tone.

I truly think this channel is going to blow up. It deserves to. You've got the makings of something good

Will the 5150 amps give you the exact Brown Sound?

Really nice job the tone sounds spot on to my ears. great playing too!

Geez that sounds spot on IMO! Great video and really nice playing.

Great job Mate !

As a tone chaser myself, I love videos like this. That said, I think EVH could have played through any guitar and any amp and still sound like EVH.

I have always thought he used small fender deluxe ,princetons crankd wide open for main sound then used marshLls for stage volume also years ago i seen a picture of him clearly setting up a rack mounted princeton or deluxe

I would argue that EVHs rhythmic and harmonic vocab is hugely influenced by Pete Townsend. Particularly the sus 4 chords resolving to the major, plus the who wrote a bunch of their songs in major keys. It's funny that EVH would always sing the praises of EC and JP (whilst always getting in a back handed compliment) but I think Townsends playing influenced him more than anybody.

That amp sounds phenomenal!

it wasn't in any amp, it was in his fingers.

Hang 'em high sounded fantastic!

I only heard Eddie Live two times in my life The first time the better of the two. Like most of us back in the day we would try to modify our Guitars and amps to make them somehow sound better.I heard he used two Alnico and two ceramic magnet speakers in each cab and variac Of course the Magic of his fingers. I only got up to 3:39 here you might say something about this.I can say this back in the 70s My Marshall Major was producing some weird cross frequencies one going up and one going down at the same time. Am thinking maybe I had polarity reversed on one of the speakers.O 6CA7 can take anything you throw at it. Work horse. I am hearing your playing now. I see what you mean about the scooped sound. Almost sounds like a wah wah cocked in the mid. Enjoyed your playing. c]8-)

Best cover I’ve seen so far🔥🔥!! That swing is a real tricky one to master but you pretty much nailed it, great work!

Eddie’s Brown sound was actually green, with little brown M&M’s in the middle.

Would be great to make aa video about your modded 70s strat 😊 Cheers

Never heard it explained that well. Thanks 🙏

Thank You for your research. Finding out about Angus Young and how he used the Shaffer Vega wireless in the studio (Back in Black) and what that did for his sound shows how a few subtle details can be game changers for TONE.

REMEMBER THAT EDEARD WAS A HUGE CLAPTON DISCIPLE AND IF YOU WANT TO HEAR THE TRUE BROWN SOUND ORIGINATOR LISTEN TO CREAM ERA CLAPTON. The brown sound…..

EVH's sound was revolutionary for his time and amazing considering the limited equipment he had. But modern versions of it that improve on it are a little more smooth and less ice picky harsh to the ears. Many of those versions actually improve greatly upon his original sound but nobody wants to admit that because that would be sacrilegious! 🤣🤣🤣 But of course if he had had our current technologies... he would have done much better too.

This was GREAT! Thanks for posting! I slave my amps too.....I use a Suhr Reactive Load to load the amp, and then send a balanced line out to my effects, and then into an Avantone CLA-200 solid state power amp. I like this power amp a lot because it has a "dark" quality to it, like the old '70's mosfet power amps had, like the HH V800. I would love to feed the balanced line out to an EQ to see how I can shape the could differently! Thanks!

You’re getting very close. I think Ossie is right eddie might have slaved the plexi into vox ac30 and bandmasters. In his early days pictures you can see that he always has a vox ac50 sometimes a vox ac30 top boost and a jtm45 close to the plexi. Who knows what entered in the studio that day. However the unmixed version of ATBL proves that the setup had this thick sound without any studio modification. And Who knows how much also did Jose impacted eddies tone. I’m a great partisan of the Jose mods for one reason : the Dlr Steve vai Jose modded amp played by Pete thorn sounds extremely close to eddies sound. I’ve never seen Pete getting this close to the tone.

The up strokes and rhythm is impossible to copy

Love it dude! Totally new information and new approach. I think you nailed it. Add the plate on the right and it's there

Great FEELING man! NICE!

I'm probably the odd guitarists out but I think Ed's best tone was with the block letter Peavey 5150...As soon as my music store got one in the early 90's and I plugged in, I bought it!! Bottom end that will blow your head off!!

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