Still my favorite EVH Tone era....

SFW

SFW

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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...

 
Nice! I actually happen to have a set of pickups that really promotes this sound.

I did not realize it until after I bought them but this is the sound.

Planet Tone Pound cake humbucker set.

I was ignorant of the song 'Pound Cake' and grabbed them based off of their description alone.

Yep, that's the sound exactly! How funny.
 
If Eddie would have not used that added chorus wet dry effects that he added to when was using the Soldano SLO his sound would be like his early sound because the SLO has that insane drive of his early sound
 
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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Me too. Absolutely 💯. FUCK was their masterpiece.
 
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Music&Chaos said:
Nice! I actually happen to have a set of pickups that really promotes this sound.

I did not realize it until after I bought them but this is the sound.

Planet Tone Pound cake humbucker set.

I was ignorant of the song 'Pound Cake' and grabbed them based off of their description alone.

Yep, that's the sound exactly! How funny.
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The power drill that Ed used on that song got stolen at one point and they could not find a drill to replace because that particular drill was in A.
 
To add onto the pickup thing I mentioned earlier -

I would think the pickups would be part of attaining that sound.

Kinda fat sounding, but with a clear edge, and lots of harmonic content.

The description of kind of saturated but clear....

That's how I would describe the PT set.

That is ran through a Crispy clean Modded blackface style amp.....that can also do crazy versatile OD on its lead channel

I would imagine if I crank these through my Marshall though.....

Didn't intend to end up on this path, but if I am already kinda here, might as well go down the road a bit!
 
That whole album was amazing.

Back then, if you didn’t have a Soldano slaved into a Marshall with the Eventide going out to the H&H power amps, Peavey had the Tubefex and a patch called Browncake that approximated that tone. It was fun to hear and play back in the day, but had no dynamics.

To me, Poundcake, The Dream ls Over, and Pleasure Dome stood out tonally.
 
marvcus said:
That whole album was amazing.

Back then, if you didn’t have a Soldano slaved into a Marshall with the Eventide going out to the H&H power amps, Peavey had the Tubefex and a patch called Browncake that approximated that tone. It was fun to hear and play back in the day, but had no dynamics.

To me, Poundcake, The Dream ls Over, and Pleasure Dome stood out tonally.
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The day that album came out (I was a senior in HS, 91’) and I dropped two hits of pink elephant and listened to it. I met god that day.
 
marvcus said:
That whole album was amazing.

Back then, if you didn’t have a Soldano slaved into a Marshall with the Eventide going out to the H&H power amps, Peavey had the Tubefex and a patch called Browncake that approximated that tone. It was fun to hear and play back in the day, but had no dynamics.

To me, Poundcake, The Dream ls Over, and Pleasure Dome stood out tonally.
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Pleasure Dome is the best song VH ever wrote.
 
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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