Ed's best rig (in your opinion)

[geetarmikey]

Not seeing a shout out to the WACF album sound yet which I've always loved!

Later years I really liked the two new Roth tracks from the GH album in terms of another evolution of his sound.

 

[mentoneman]

I'm with ya' on this. Ed somehow got hooked up with Ross Hogarth for tracking (who really pushes Royer Ribbon mics) definitely made it feel like a castrated version of the sound ED was famous for. sad how things can change when, you use a "better mic".

dkot had some cool songs and playing but the tone was totally forgettable

vs early roth + fiery eddie hungry lions era w/landee and templeman at the helm = chef kiss

young EVH gave every song and solo such attitude and made you eager to hear what fascinating technical breakthrough he was going to reveal next.

when he started phoning in the same pentatonic licks over and over again, adding gimmicky use of wah wah (or stolen drill trick from paul gilbert!) to try to keep things interesting instead of innovative creativity, i checked out. that was around 5150 for me.