Live Tone - EVH 1982 Cap Center

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Live Tone - EVH 1982 Cap Center

Post by rgalpin » Tue Jun 27, 2017 10:02 am

Best tone ever. Has all the character and detail of the 1984 album - relatively low gain especially when compared to the kind of gain ED uses nowadays. :shock:

You can hear the amp working, you can hear the actual sound of the guitar, and most importantly you can hear THE PLAYER. With a dialed down gain like this you got to play like a BIG BOY. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Hjbb6PdZp0&t=6m19s

Love this!

Enjoy!

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Re: Live Tone - EVH 1982 Cap Center

Post by harddriver » Tue Jun 27, 2017 2:37 pm

I enjoyed that... kinda reminiscent of the Largo 81 tone, clean gain, sheer volume, Ed stated many times he was always searching for sustain not so much for distortion in this Diver Down Era.

Did Ed break a string during ATBL? He recovered it!


The US Festival 83 is also worth revisiting. His tone starts off clean then gets more distorted as the night goes on like he switched amps throughout the night.

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Re: Live Tone - EVH 1982 Cap Center

Post by beaulieu » Thu Jul 06, 2017 2:42 pm

I bet those amps were cranked
69 SuperBass Plexi
12000 Series Bulid
73 1987
68 Nos 50 build
2554 Combo
2550 Silver Jub stack
71 LesPaul Deluxe
68,71,73 4x12

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Re: Live Tone - EVH 1982 Cap Center

Post by awangotango » Tue Jul 18, 2017 11:52 pm

https://youtu.be/-Hjbb6PdZp0?t=1030


that's some pretty dry tone, even for ed's standards. I'd guess he was ruinning the same effects as usual jsut that the recording may not have picked them up? or maybe he was experimenting with a drier tone that night. either way, think of a modern player trying to play with this dry/low to med gain tone and picking so clean? devolution is real and we aer living it. thank god for vinyl and vhs to preserve !



still that old boot from london '78 mentioned here many moons ago, its in the woody thread somewhere, was my fav live tone. which is odd beccause i favor his drier 1984 tones but havent heard a live show from that era that seemed to capture that samie/suimilar amp tone he got on the record...anyone know of good 83/4 boots thta capture the clean spank he got out of the amp that record?

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