New EVH Amp?

[fps_dean]

I bet a fiver it sounds like ass yet all the EVH fans still go out and buy it in record numbers...

Like the 5150?  Take a Marshall, add a lot of gain, remove all the balls and anything that resembles balls in any way from the tone, and you have a 5150....

[fps_dean]

Anyone else think the new Eddie tone with the basswood bodies, high output pickups and 6L6 powered amps sounds far worse than his older tone with ash bodies, PAF and 6CA7 powered amp?

Agreed.  His best tone and music was the first album and he's consistently got worse with each release in both departments.

[Johnny Mac]

Anyone else think the new Eddie tone with the basswood bodies, high output pickups and 6L6 powered amps sounds far worse than his older tone with ash bodies, PAF and 6CA7 powered amp?

Agreed.  His best tone and music was the first album and he's consistently got worse with each release in both departments.

Errr, no it didn't mate.

 :roll:

[Kilby]

I'm sure Ed went for the tone he wanted at the time.

I prefer the early tone, but thats just my preference.

Rob...

[FELINEGUITARS]

The new amp which will be made by Fender isnt actually so difficult to use

3 channels - probably clean, drive and lead
Each channel has gain, bass, mid, treble & master volume
Then there are 3 presence controls - one per channel

It is a bit like the Soldano 3 channel preamp in some ways

I think it would be fun if th chanels were clean, plexi and high gain

I think I would rather have a Splawn to be fair

[HTH AMPS]

while I love the tone on VHI, Eddie's tone on the 5150 album is also awesome, same with 1984. Come to think of it, his tone on VHII also rocks - especially on the opening track (You're No Good).



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[rockguitarstar]

I would like to see what the amp is going to sound like.  Hopefully it will be something like clean, plexi and high gain like someone said earlier in the thread but at the same time, he really should just start endorsing splawn and get some VHII's in his guitar.

[gingataff]

Yeah but Splawn and BKP aren't going to pay him as much as Fender and SD

[rockguitarstar]

sure fire hed sound better though, but I think that might have gone out the window sometime after 2000...oh well RIP king of Rock and Roll

[JamesHealey]

why would people buy a piece of gear if they've not heard it on a cd.. so it kinda says to me that eddies going to have recorded with this amp or claimed to have on the porn cds, or release some new VH stuff.

[gingataff]

Krank released the Krankenstein and Dimebag never recorded with it (never played it live either AFAIK). They may just expect people to try it in the shop and like it.
Besides, I think a lot of the popularity of the 5150 amps was due to metal players using them, rather than EVH.

[Bird]

I wouldn't base my opinion on the recorded sound anyway. Going through a Neumann U87/Royer 121 or the shure 57, some nice tube preamps, Neve console, EQ's, De-essers, and other studio processing candy could give you something that's  pretty different from the raw amp sound.   :twisted:

[Eric]

I wouldn't base my opinion on the recorded sound anyway. Going through a Neumann U87/Royer 121 or the shure 57, some nice tube preamps, Neve console, EQ's, De-essers, and other studio processing candy could give you something that's  pretty different from the raw amp sound.   :twisted:

When Ted Templeman stopped producig Van Halen and Donn Landee wasn't around engineering as much Eddie's tone got different. Not bad but different. Producers and engineers can make a world of difference on a record.

[JamesHealey]

I personally think VH should just pull out his old Plexi and Frankenstrat, do a few gigs with DLR, MA and AVH and get it over and done with and stop making the world wait for it :P

[cdwillis]

In the state Ed seems to be in I don't think I'd even care to see it now. :P

Oh yeah and gingataff Dime did use the Krankensteins on that last tour he was on.