Strong hints that Van Halen 1 68 lead was just a slave amp and not the main amp.

[harddriver]

I have listened to the Zeke Clark Steve Rosen interview parts 1 and 2. Judging from his references this interview must have been from around 1986 since he references 5150 songs, Steinberger guitars as just being released.

Using your logic at the time of this interview 1985/86 Mr. Clark was an employee of Van Halen and would have been under an active NDA so he would not be spilling any secrets that weren't already out in the public lexicon from multiple interviews. He just talks about basic things in both of these videos with just enough vagueness that nothing definitive can be derived from these videos.

Yes, I believe it is stock/stockish and every clip posted in this thread including the VH1 room mics clips and early live tour clips support my conclusion as well as all my real world exprience standing in front my 68 Marshall amps and cabs.

 

[Amp_chaser]

I have listened to the Zeke Clark Steve Rosen interview parts 1 and 2. Judging from his references this interview must have been from around 1986 since he references 5150 songs, Steinberger guitars as just being released.

Using your logic at the time of this interview 1985/86 Mr. Clark was an employee of Van Halen and would have been under an active NDA so he would not be spilling any secrets that weren't already out in the public lexicon from multiple interviews. He just talks about basic things in both of these videos with just enough vagueness that nothing definitive can be derived from these videos.

Yes, I believe it is stock/stockish and every clip posted in this thread including the VH1 room mics clips and early live tour clips support my conclusion as well as all my real world exprience standing in front my 68 Marshall amps and cabs.

Perhaps that Zeke spilled out some of the beans but he didn't say what those mods were. He didn't speak about values or any component. Rudy Leiren did the same in the past interview he said there were mods and that there was also a bias mod but he didn't elaborate further.



that's my new josé build that I modded yesterday and it is based on the pictures of a David Lee Roth josé that was stored in his basement.

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Thread 'Sharing José Arredondo Amps guts + one exclusive owned by David Lee Roth'

Sep 26, 2024

Hello guys,

i think people should share what they got from josé arrendondo and that perhaps one day we will get somes clue of what that pot in back of the amp during VH1 and VH2 could be. I know this has been discussed tons of times. But Sharing doesn't hurt and if someone can make good amps out of those pictures why not ?

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Sry for the sloppy playing plus it's not in tune at all however it has the tonal caracteristics.

i believe it just lacks the Ot Transformer mod.

there is no eq except there is only reverb and delay. It just lacks the OT mod.

 

[harddriver]

Just listen to all this gain in 1982.