Fact
Think of all this true bypass, get the buffers out of the signal path of the FX, short as possible hi-fi neat cables, capacitance treble roll off worrys, and all the other 80-90's rack freak rig mojo stuff has actually been counterproductive in a way to getting this tone. All the wrong approach really when you look at it.
Doesn't sound like Ed was too overly worried about alot of it and used most of it to his advantage. I mean look at the pics-people at Huge Racks Inc scoff at the mess of cable runs he had.
The move has always been toward less noise and top fidelity-not so really if you look at the VH1 rig

Look at Eric Johnsons mess of cable-he uses that extra cable length to warm and roll off the sound and tone. Eric spends hours trying all these absurd configurations and cable lengths and goes with what just sounds best-not what should theoretically sound good.
Must be Ed did the same thing in a way then.
Curly cords any one???
