Andy Woods builds the ultimate EVH W/D/W with 3 EVH amps...Tutorial included

[harddriver]

 

[Shreddy Mercury]

Andy Woods is one of the baddest dudes on the planet with a guitar in his hands. When I saw him play in Knoxville in Skank Banger I was blown away by his and Ben's intensely ridiculous level of skill. Then I saw him playing some of his country style stuff on YouTube and was blown away.

 

[Nigel]

I’m digging my VH W/D setup. Gotta do at least two amps unless you’ve got another guitar player.

 

[Little B]

That was awesome. Brought a smile to my face just watching it.

 

[alund]

Maybe Andy Woods should have been the choice for the EVH tribute band.

 

[JackBootedThug]

My attention span can’t handle this video….awesome though….

 

[Bash_Man]

An amazing bunch of players.. but man, there are WAY too many effects.. at times it sounds a bit washed up, to be honest.

 

[cobrahead1030]

Seeing this made me start eyeballing power amps for a w/d/w setup.

 

[JohnnyGtar]

Andy Woods is one of the baddest dudes on the planet with a guitar in his hands. When I saw him play in Knoxville in Skank Banger I was blown away by his and Ben's intensely ridiculous level of skill. Then I saw him playing some of his country style stuff on YouTube and was blown away.

I didn't know both guys were in that band. I gotta check it out.

 

[Little B]

I've chased that era of tone with my soldanos and cae 3+ with eventides,etc and got dang scary close before.However,I prefer 2 4x12 cabs for the dry,in between the outside wet 4x12s.
But it's true,once you get it dialed in right it's so hard, almost impossible to go back to boring mono.

 

[cobrahead1030]

Andy Woods is one of the baddest dudes on the planet with a guitar in his hands. When I saw him play in Knoxville in Skank Banger I was blown away by his and Ben's intensely ridiculous level of skill. Then I saw him playing some of his country style stuff on YouTube and was blown away.

I'm only a couple of hours from Knoxville, I really need to make time to go see them one day.

 

[Shreddy Mercury]

I'm only a couple of hours from Knoxville, I really need to make time to go see them one day.

The show is very long, so be prepared for TONS of entertainment. But they put on one helluva show.

 

[jchrisf]

Does W-D-W sound any better than a stereo rig?

 

[TheGreatGreen]

Does W-D-W sound any better than a stereo rig?

Years ago, I temporarily had three Atomic CLR FRFR speakers around my studio that I plugged into my Axe-Fx.

The first thing I did, as you might imagine, was try out a W/D/W setup. It sounded awesome. However, I had the same question as you, so I setup two patches in the Axe-Fx, one had all three cabs setup in W/D/W config, and the other was the same patch but setup with stereo effects and a dry center tone, only using the outer CLR's, no signal at all going to the center one.

There was *literally* zero difference between the two patches. In fact, when I physically moved the center speaker away from the setup, my brain was convinced there was still a center speaker sitting there, thanks to the dry signal being panned center (and the excellent detail and balance of the CLR's).


I think W/D/W setups were designed for two scenarios:

• The first is for non-master volume rigs, or rigs where you turn your master volume high enough that the poweramp of your dry tone starts to clip. For these setups, putting your wet effects through a separate, clean poweramp can really help keep things clear. For example you might not want to put a delay or something in the effects loop of an amp that is blasting so loud that the delays get distorted. With a W/D/W setup, you could crank a plexi in the center and still have your delays come out clean through a separate, more powerful stereo amp that isn't distorting.
• Hobbyists who can walk around their amp setups to hear the "3D-ness" of a W/D/W setup without having to worry about stepping on the toes of band mates, hah.

Having said that, I still use a W/D/W setup at home sometimes just because it's fun and I like the engineering challenge of running it. But if you have a setup that allows to you get the tones you want without distorting the amps that power your speakers, then yeah there's barely any difference at all between a W/D/W and a good stereo setup for most practical uses.

However, if you want to get weird with it, like putting your center speaker relatively close to yourself and setting up your wet cabs physically far away to really exaggerate the effect, then that's probably something you won't be able to 100% replicate with a stereo rig.

 

[Little B]

One of the people quickly in the video explained what and why w/d/w came from and its uses.
Ive toured with 3-4×12 cabs in a w/ d/w setup from 95ish thru to today.I was fortunate enough to get the 3 mics required on stage for it to happen. Nowadays I dnt use that setup as much but sometimes I'll take it to gigs.And I get the same looks and reactions from kids and folks just like Andy's guys in the video. It's awe inspiring for sure.
I'm on my 4th of 5th full blown w/d/w bradshaw rig ,i can't remember exactly how many, lol.But it has to be done right for it to be well,right Lol.Bob himself once told me many years ago that the basic idea and jist of it is to approximate and cop as close and accurately possible what goes on in a studio when splitting wet and dry tracks and keeping everything separated for signal purity.
And it's true,as Andy said,it's almost impossible to " unhear" it after you've played thru it.Its intoxicating for sure.For me it helps me to have 2 dry cabs tho.
Anyways,the main reason behind it was to approximate the studio setup environment.