😂😂😂

yeah, it's not a production line item so should be ok as a one off! 🤘

@@bunsenn5064 completely correct. This amp has it built-in 🤘🤘

Thanks for your kind words Ian 🤘🤘🤘

🤘🤘🤘

Dave Bray makes a good 50 wat tube rectifier VH amp sould also

Thank you very much 🤘🤘

@@martinsmith4123 Martin maybe I missed it, can the amp be used in a traditional form just using a real cab? Sounds fantastic.

@@rikshredder thanks man 🤘 yes you can power a cab, the max output would be ok for a moderate band practice I’d say!

@@martinsmith4123 So the tone remains the same even when using a real cab?

@@rikshredder absolutely the tone is all locked in 🤘🤘

Oss- the postman might be ringing more than twice...

Thank you Martin…. 👏🏻♥️

Eddy would sould exactly like Eddy on both those amps, my 2 favorite so far. I hope players start fighting there own good music in these amps. 😊

Why, thank you 🤘🤘

That’s very kind, thankyou! On this side of the pond we could only dream of buying an ohmite load resistor. Keep pumping out the jams brother 🤘🤘🤘

When you get your new head replace the stock tubes with JJ e34l power tubes and the preamp tubes to the JJ gold pin 12ax7. It makes a HUGE difference. You will love this head.

This is a contentious point, do you have any evidence for the mighty mite? 🤘🤘

​@@martinsmith4123 Only anecdotal, from people who have seen Ed back in the day during that time, BUT theres pics, u can find online, "Eddie Van Halen sunburst strat zebra" should do it, its not very common so u have to dig a bit, but its there. Supposedly what happened was after VH1 he went back to blackie (b&w) and THAT guitar is the one that got the overwound PAF. THAT guitar does indeed have the PAF from the 335 like he said. Here's what i think : 76-77 Ed is still working out how to make a humbucker-in-a-strat work (chisel angle, position, pickups ect.)He is using one of the strats that he had in his arsenal as a tester (NOT the Boogie Bodies strat). Remember he said he ruined alot of guitars to get it right.What would have been THE pickup to have as a scrappy young player in that time? Dimarzio Super Distortion. Phil Collen who is about the same age as Ed, said he finally got his SD in 1976. So if u are a young hot shot that wants a little extra kick, thats what u got, and there wouldn't have been any reason not to. If u are in CA u got the Mighty Mite. Now imagine Eddie seeing one of the SD clones is called the "Super Stud", lol i mean thats just completely conjecture from me but that makes so much sense when u have the anecdotes AND the pictures of that sunburst with the zebra bucker (u can zoom in on the pickup it looks like pure studs) in that time frame. So he uses that guitar with that pickup cus its what all his heroes and serious players are using, and its his first official album so he wants to make sure everything is nice and easy to play (he has mentioned many times how he wants to make it easier, not harder to play, in regards to guitars/amps) and he is caught up with the SD vibe, BUT, after the dust settles and the record is a big success, he has time to sit down and listen/pick apart his tone and realizes he doesn't like the SD tone, so he goes back to the PAF for VH2 and on. Franky got all the fame, but Sunburst did all the work, imho.

@@martinsmith4123 www.strat-talk.com/threads/the-van-halen-strat-what-is-this.504782/page-2

@@martinsmith4123 I think the Sunburst with the 1800 was what was working for him live in the clubs at that time and he didn't put much thought into it until after they recorded the first album. Once he settles on B&W Franky with the PAF, he talks only about that guitar in reference to the first album, because he DID use it for the tour of the album, but leaves out that it was Sunburst that did the strat tracks on it, cus he wants his sound to be associated with an old school PAF. "I dont like Super Distortions, they are too distorted" + he never liked the sound of the first album = he used ceramic SD style for VH1, then switched to PAF after. 1800 MM = VH1. Duncan 78 = PAF as it came to Seymour from Ed. Duncan Custom SH-5 = The PAF as overwound by Duncan and given a smaller ceramic magnet for less output than a Super D but more punch than PAF. Then u have all the official pickups released by Ed later on. The 1800/1300, a Dimarzio SD, Duncan 78, Duncan Custom, Frankenstein Humbucker, are all technically correct i think, just different eras/evolutions. \m/\m/

Yes, so many avenues Ed found are still rarely explored. Thanks 🤘🤘

Thank you kindly 🤘

The signal from the amp is too hot to put an eq berween amp and cab. You need something to get the signal to line level. Eddie didn’t use any eq but they did post eq-ing in the studio.

The first head gets reduced to line level to feed the eq before going on to the second head. 🤘🤘

@@martinsmith4123 Eddie didn’t start slaving until like 1984 when he started using the H/H power amps. The MXR 6-band eq Eddie had was likely used as a buffer with the Univox echo since it has a very low input impedance. Later he got the Boss 10-babd because of signal loss with long cables. A frown curve eq sounds nothing like Eddie. You get a very nasal almost cocked wah wah tone.

According to his guitar tech Rudy Leiren he used no eq on VHI. He used it for bad sounding guitars and rental gear. They did some post eq-ing and added the echo chamber. The MXR 6-band eq was most likely only used with his Univox echo since it had a very low input impediance. On VHI he used a cab with a mix of 2 Greenbacks and 2 JBL speakers. He had a mic on one of each and the blended them for the sound.

It’s not a production amp, more of a one off. 🤘

@@martinsmith4123 I know but we all know that corporations tend to be litigious AF. Long as he doesn't put Darth Vader or Mickey Mouse cuz Di$ney will nuke his shop. >:)

🤘🤘🤘

Thank you so much!🤘

A Marshall greenback cab with two 57’s, one dead on the other with a Landee tilt. Thanks 🤘

Thanks 🤘Any evidence for the JBL’s?

@@martinsmith4123 JBL/Fender D120F kzfaq.info/get/bejne/e8qmiqR5nLi4YaM.htmlsi=LZgniNz7GpHDYGC-

@@martinsmith4123 kzfaq.info/sun/PL9uwto06FbAzgVlwcRfnJS5OhwHmLVbI_&si=KzPlOx7luCLDcKJe

@@martinsmith4123 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/e8qmiqR5nLi4YaM.htmlsi=tOCmq8pD2z92yj0Y

Ah unfortunately none of that is evidence Ed used a JBL to record VH1 although I think in my second video I make compelling case that there is no JBL speaker in the mix.

On Fire.

🤘🤘🤘

Heya, I wrote that for the video. Thanks for watching 🤘🤘🤘

Thank you! The bridge pup is a vintage Ibanez super 70. 🤘🤘

@@martinsmith4123 thanks for much for the reply! That pickup sounds unbelievably good. I can't believe it's 2024 and I'm still obsessed with the VH tone

It’s a little tighter on the bottom end than the Bray and a bit more wild gain! Thank you 🤘🤘

@@martinsmith4123 thanks Martin, love the videos and your playing keep them coming!😊

Yeah get up in dem gutz 🥵

Thank you kindly 🤘 hit up Ossie at 3monkeys.com

Hey, I use an audio taper bourns brand 250k in the strat. Same but 500k in the Epi. 🤘🤘🤘

Yeah, I think I may have to agree about the gain. It’s a long journey, not a quick trip.

Yes too much gain. Maybe look at some different pups?? Or run it through the Ox Box and see if the mics are adding some gain.... Great playing and production. BTW, are you running this amp at 120v? Does it have taps for 120/220v AC?@@martinsmith4123

When he slaved it into the Suhr it sounded perfect. Not too much, not too little gain.