There is a hell of a lot to be said for actually learning what Ed played as closely as possible and I have learned an awful lot from conversations with wjamflan on this site. I would say that you will get WAY closer to Ed's tone if you actually learn to play the music correctly or as correctly as possible. I honestly believe that someone that actually learns how to play Ed's licks correctly will sound much closer to Eddie's tone on an unplugged guitar than someone who doesn't try to learn how to actually play Eddie's music.jape88 wrote:It's shame the evh sections have lost that magic of getting the tone and ways to do it and have ended up like "who can play like Ed the best" I remember the old days when it was frowned upon to play a long with backing tracks I just hope all the stuff of substance from the past never gets lost if it closes.
But the "learning and discussing how to play Eddie's music" part is an incredibly small part of this site. This is an amp building site and the discussions about how to play the music are way, way off on the backburner.
Of course I know absolutely nothing about amps so I am grateful to those many people on this site that have dedicated themselves to constantly experimenting on how to crack the code of various tones based on the amps and how they relate to guitars and other gear. My hat is completely off to them!