Still my favorite EVH Tone era....

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Is it true they went back to studio to record some pieces of the right here right now live? I am wondering because there's a clear mistake on eruption and I am wondering if they let it there to sound more "organic"
 
The Right Here Right Now live album was Ed's best tone, yeah. It's kind of an insane thing because it's a live album, but yep.

It's really close though. As far as single tracks go, I have trouble putting anything above Eruption, but as entire albums go, while FUCK gets really close and maybe even better in spots, RHRN wins overall.
 
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I have heard stories that the entire RHRN album was recorded at 5150. Just another album with some audience tracks thrown in and some studio trickery.

There is footage on YT of VH playing Dreams and Won’t Get Fooled Again the studio.
 
SFW said:
I know most people are into the early "brown sound" era of Edwards reign, but the Live Right Here Right Now era is where it is at for me. His tone was just huge. I'm thinking he was using the crunch channel on the 5150 for his rhythms, as there is plenty of gain, but it is not as saturated as the lead channel. But I could be totally off. At any rate... enjoy the king...

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Michael Anthony's vocals were irreplaceable.........:rock:

They were never the same without him.
 
fusedbrain said:
We all got our favorite Van Halen era, but god damn, how can you not listen to the Right Here, Right Now vid, and not think that Sammy has/had one of the best rock and roll voices on the fukkin planet.
Love him or hate him, that fukker can fukkin sing.
The guitar player ain't bad either ...... :LOL:
And yeah, I really dig this era of VH as well.
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I agree with @Nigel, we need to start banning people.
 
Techdeth said:
Live in Australia 1998 . With Gary .Perfect tone
They need to mix and master this show like now
This is tone that shapes metal for the 2000s
Just think Ed started the 80s tone too
He did it TWICE
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Bingo. And excellent point; twice!

I heard his live tone going all the way back to Fair Warning but the VHIII tour is not only the best EVH live tone I have heard but the best live guitar tone I've ever heard of anyone, period.
 
brunocormack said:
Love this era too, it's criminally underrated next to the brown sound. One thing though — the 5150 amp didn't exist yet for FU. That record was the big rack rig: Soldano SLO slaved into Marshalls for the actual gain, Eventide H3000 doing the detune/pitch magic, all of it run through H&H power amps like marvcus said. The 5150 amp didn't show up until Balance in '95. So that huge, processed-but-still-aggressive sound you're hearing is really the SLO's drive wrapped in a ton of stereo rack ambience, not a crunch channel.
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It appears that Ed has his 5150's sometime in 1991. This free Dallas show was 04/12/91 This doesn't exclude the possibly that Ed still used his Marshall's or the SLO at times behind the backline amps until the 5150's were perfected to his ideals.
 
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Techdeth said:
Live in Australia 1998 . With Gary .Perfect tone
They need to mix and master this show like now
This is tone that shapes metal for the 2000s
Just think Ed started the 80s tone too
He did it TWICE
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According to Squarehead the amps used on that tour was the 5150II.
 
The Peavey 5150 final prototype was completed in time for Ed to use for the solos on the FUCK album. He states this in a Guitar World interview in September of 1991. Judgement Day was the last song played on the Kramer 5150 guitar. The bulk of the album was recorded with the EBMM prototypes and a SLO slaved into his Marshall. Dream Another Dream was played through a CAE preamp. The FUCK tour was 5150. He had an entire wall of striped Peavey stacks. I saw VH at the Biloxi Coast Coliseum in the spring of '92 with Alice In Chains as the opener. I stood in the front row right in front of Eddie the whole show. That was a religious experience.

The Balance album is dominantly 5150 with a cameo of the Marshall on the track Big Money. The 5150 II came out around the time that III was released. My college roommate was an engineer at the Peavey Leaksville, MS plant from 95-99 where the Peavey Wolfgang was manufactured.
 
I wonder why he would bother to slave to the SLO into the Marshall power section?
 
SonVolt said:
I wonder why he would bother to slave to the SLO into the Marshall power section?
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I seem to remember from the interview that he felt the Marshall's power amp reacted quicker than the SLO's.
 
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Interesting. I would have assumed the Marshall had more sag than the Soldano.
 
jabps said:
Bingo. And excellent point; twice!

I heard his live tone going all the way back to Fair Warning but the VHIII tour is not only the best EVH live tone I have heard but the best live guitar tone I've ever heard of anyone, period.
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Ya it was incredible !
 
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