Anyone here got any old EVH recipe's?

[Roadstar]

I was looking for that know is there a easier way to get the older VH tones witout spending $$$$$$$?

[bob mclaughlin]

Without spending money?? Practice...........

[elcid]

Download the songs?

[David McCarroll]

50 watt Marshall JCM800 half stack, some kind of decent digital delay and a strat with one PAF in it - and play loud!

[ibanezcollector]

PAF
Phase 90
Lots of Reverb(early stuff)
Flanger

Marshall or I know its expensive Soldano


or

PODXT I got a eddie tone nailed.

[jono]

At low volumes, I personally think that the key is to not drive the preamp too hard. I tend to set up the sound that I THINK is how Eddie sounded, and then use the volume knob on the guitar to reduce the strength of the signal reaching the amp.

But yes, a phaser, lots of reverb and even more practice

[erikm5150]

jack daniels and lots of cigs

[RSVampire]

boil your strings and duct tape all your pedals onto a 2x4

[brothersnowgone]

Originally Posted by RSVampire

boil your strings and duct tape all your pedals onto a 2x4

what does boiling your strings do, loosen up the metal so they stretch faster, or something to do with tone?

[timi_h]

eddie used the very early FR bridges, the ones before the fine tuners, so he found out that boiling the strings made them pretty much fully stretched when he put them in the guitar, meaning he had to reach for the allen keys less often!
thats if i remember the magazine article correctly!

[ibanezcollector]

if I recall correctly boiling the strings was a way to revitalize them after they were all gunked up cause money was a issue.

I could be wrong though

[Gex]

I doubt it was the money. Strings are cheap for guitarists. Bassists will do that though, since packs of bass strings are like $30. It lifts up the dried sweat and crud out of the grooves and makes them resonate clearer, so you get a brighter cleaner tone.

I read that it just got rid of the brightness of the new strings, mellowed them out to make them sound like a few days old, instead of the very bright new string jangle.

And a Marshall with the cheap tubes, run wide open.

[brothersnowgone]

I might just try this to see what I get, any idea on how long to boil?

[Entropy]

'til they're Al-Dente?

Seriously though....probably 5-10 minutes...just pull out the low-E string every few minutes and inspect it to see if the windings are clean.

I would imagine you'll see crap floating on the surface too....Ewww. String soup anyone?

[buddroyce]

I'm pretty sure Eddie himself said that he only boield strings because he was too damn cheap to buy new strings and boiling them got rid of the crud on the strings but ended up making them pretty brittle.

(btw, here's some useless EVH info, Ed's very FIRST guitar amp was actually his table cause he couldn't hear the guitar otherwise. He actually even showed the first first thing he learned in an interview with Tak Matsumoto in Japan).

As for old EVH recipes I do recall Eddie using two eq pedals one before the preamp and one after the preamp(both doing some sort of high-mid/low-mid boost). For those who don't know, Ed also used a Variac(something generally used for welding I think that varies the AC) to lower the voltage down to just before the pilot light dies out to drive the tubes cold. Aside from that you know you will need a guitar with a bunch of random stripes.

(booze helps too as everything sounds better when your wasted.. mmm... booze... I could use some right about now...)