I finally found out what the pot behind van halen VH1 does (it wasn't a master at all)

I'm may be wrong but @Amp_chaser comes across as this is the "definitive" of what EVH did and that might rub people the wrong way. When the fact is nobody is every going to know exactly what or if he did anything to that amp. And now, all the parties have passed. The rest is just hearsay.

What we do know is that there are plenty of guys who cop EVH tones without modded amps using the same equipment EVH used. And we know several techs ala Dave F. etc... that have been in the amp say there was no mods, and if there had been they had been long removed which just leads back to hearsay.

That said more power to @Amp_chaser if he enjoys doing this, everybody needs a hobby.
Man before affiriming things you don't know because you lack knowledge and research don't affirm things you don't know.
In many big videos centered on evh plexi Dave Friedman said it is just a stock plexi under variac But wait a second :
- In tone talk with Ossie Ahsen Dave says he doesn't know what was going on during VH1 and he says it's possible it was modded.
- Other weird elements because i also rewatch old live stream with him. When asked what was different on eddie amp he says it had weird filtering so filtering was not stock and other small things. He also said his filtering on his amp was 32/32 uf while you can see in the board that the cap was clearly 22/22 or 15/15uf.... way smaller than a 32/32...
- Do you know Dave offers Brown Sound mods to high profile artists or to those who are willing to spend money. Mods that are different from what you usually see.
- I have at Home an amp modded by Van Weelden he came to La to service and repair ed's amp. He copied this circuitry. For a while ed's amp had been turned into something else that's what had been done during the later days. It was the work of josé. That's a complete different mod from the vh1 mod.
- FInal argument : Dave friedman says artists are becoming dumber and dumber with time younger people don't even know how amps, humbuckers amd guitars work... Take a look at this freaking picture of Ed's amp and compare it to a stock amp ? Marshall almost always used the same components on his vintage amps mustard capacitor, the red dye which is the element confirming it is stock disappeared components are non stock and were replaced multiple times way more than needed with usual servicing :

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Now if dave tell you that a cat is a dog and you believe him despite all the proofs we got there i can attest you that he was right when he said that guitar players nowadays are dumber than the old ones... The old guitar players had the metroforums and seeked deeply the mods done to ed's amp they knew it had been done. Unfortunately for them josé mods and pictures of these amps would come online years after that period.

now here are testimonies of guys who really knew eddie personnaly :


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Pete frampton :
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and finally nail in the coffin Zeke clark eddie's second amp tech says : "José Rebuilt Ed's Marshall" :



Not my fault if your brain is not braining the fact that eddie was ultra secretive and even hid himself during his tapping for people not copying him.... Dave was also selling the plex which is a brown sound based plexi but was stock it would have been easier to sell it if he said the brown sound is just a stock plexi...

If you want to troll go troll with people who didn't do their work. I did mine. And a famous modder from california confirmed recently that the main mod i'm using is the right one (not voltacontrol but one of the mods i did to my plexi). This modder/amp builder is very famous in LA and worked with many famous artists including eddie.
 
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First off, I feel what Exo is saying. I'm not sure posting a super-hype, alleged break-through amp history discovery, and then posting blurred out circuits with no additional explanation is accomplishing anything meaningful.

I also agree that the mod could be adjusting the B+ at the added tube. Or in the case of a Super lead without an added tube, it could be at the stock first stage.

Both my OG Jose's have a 12 way rotary switch in the same spot as this "Voltacontrol." But, instead of having 12 different plate resistor values, it takes the B+ from the added tube's plate directly to ground through separate resistors, which lowers the voltage depending on the value of the resistor to ground selected on the switch. Mine are labelled, "PRE AMP. SELECTOR."

It is a 12 way, despite only 8 numbers on the knob.

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Yeah that's exactly what the voltacontrol does reducing b+ and yes it's needed to get that tone. But it will only sound right if you already have the main ingredients right. I have been experimenting with it on my 20w amp not my 100w super lead with all the great mods and it clearly helps with the tone.

For deraps that video just confirms that he probably uses special IR and heavily EQ. In that videos when playing that SV20 he plays perfectly and awesomely but the tone isn't the same at all and not exceptionnal at all : Generic plexi tone...

People should pay attention to what zeke clark said, not believe everything techs who got the amp said (look at the contradictions) and do their own research :



Last thing i can tell you cathodes values are not exactly what we think they are... I noticed that my cathode mod in fact does change their value.
 
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I just imagine a house with a wall of magazine papers ripped out and yarn connecting the important parts like some crazed serial killer. The tone on that album was great, but not even close to the best tone ever and definitely not worth all this conspiracy shit.

The sad thing is that there are a lot of people obsessed (somehow) with his very old outdated tone, and you have solved it after years of methladen studying, and you decide not to share it because you had to work so hard for it?

I am begging you to share it. But not openly. Just with all the morons here that chase that tone so I never see another thread here about this dumb shit
 
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