
Ad with Eddie

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Ha! I've been saying this for years! Finally! Ed prefered the JB "wind"! Seymour also said it. Though at times he's a little vague and I can't blame him. He's trying to sell pickups. He usually drops the wind part and talks Ed and the JB. Or that he rewound pickups for Ed. I also say the pickup in the Kramer 5150 is a '59 with the JB wind.bmf5150 wrote:They guy who designed the peavey Wolfgang told me that the pickup that was in the original Frankenstein was a Gibson re wound by Seymour Duncan to a JB specs,he also said one of the coils was shorted out.
Absolutely correct. Production model Kramer specs had absolutely zero to do with what Eddie used during the Kramer era, and the things he used during the Kramer era had nothing to do with what he used in previous eras.Megaro wrote:Eddie was not using production Kramer items.
Hey jnew! You're correct. The one furthest from the bridge. The bobbin usually associated with the slugs. It has to be wound hot as well (>8k) and positioned very close to the strings.jnew wrote:Maybe I missed it but, which coil is the active one. The one furthest from the bridge?
According to Landee, the cab was mic'd the same way for the first six albums (i.e. SM57 close mic'd on the cap edge) and a second ambient mic. I hear the brown sound sizzle up to the point where he began using those damn Soldanos.garbeaj wrote:the word "sizzle" means something different to everyone I suppose.
Where did you get this quote from Landee from? Please post a link! I've never heard that before...it would be great to hear Landee discuss anything.johnnybgood wrote:According to Landee, the cab was mic'd the same way for the first six albums (i.e. SM57 close mic'd on the cap edge) and a second ambient mic. I hear the brown sound sizzle up to the point where he began using those damn Soldanos.garbeaj wrote:the word "sizzle" means something different to everyone I suppose.
Hah-hah! I gotcha man...one thing we do agree on is that he lost the plot after 0U812!jnew wrote:The brown sound is only a term people use to describe EVH. From that point, it's up for interpretation. VH I, VH II, etc.
As far as sizzle (again, a term used quite loosely) I would have to disagree that it's only on VH I. VH I just has the hottest signal and most gain on some of the songs. Not all of them. That amp's sizzle is quite clear on all his early stuff. Listen past the production. VH II, is produced in a very warm and more intimate way but the amp still fries. And WACF? That's one best examples of sizzle in his tone. But again, this is my interpretation of sizzle. Fair Warning's Mean Street open G chord, Push Comes To Shove solo, So This is Love, all perfect examples of that amp frying bacon.
Ok...there weren't any direct quotes from Donn himself about the mic placement. That last link doesn't work...was that a direct quote from Landee?johnnybgoood wrote:Regarding mic'ing techniques for Van Halen...
Van Halen Rising Launch Party Ted Templeman FULL Interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjblv1A6jHI#t=7m33s
"Ed's sound was pretty much there...we had to ask him to rip the screen away from the amp to get the mic right next to the speaker."
http://www.hennemusic.com/2013/12/van-h ... about.html
"we didn't use very many tracks at all. Alex's drums were probably cut using only four mics total. Even when we moved over to Ed's 5150 studio, we still did the entire band on 16-track and had room left over at the end. You just don't need a lot of tracks to get a great sound."
http://www.premierguitar.com/articles/s ... e-miking-1
"Donn Landee, used to get approached by fans asking him how he recorded Eddie’s trademark guitar tone. He had to admit that he used a cheap SM57 mic on a Marshall cabinet."
http://www.guitarworld.com/eddie-van-ha ... 50-studios
"I have to give all of the credit to Donn. His approach to everything was genius. I used the same Marshall amp to record the first six Van Halen albums, but my guitar sound on each album is different. The drum sounds are different too. That was all Donn. He is a man-child genius."
http://www.veoh.com/watch/v65193220X4meZhCH
Pensado's Place - George Saer Episode 25
32:40
"Ed likes to have one kind'a close and then one a little further back in the room. And if you have to you flip the phase in...it was about getting that one direct sound off that cabinet. Ed can make anything sound good. An SM57, a 421, a C12."