Okay guys I'm here to stir things up a bit! I'm very happy to see so many people into Eddie's sound be it Brown or the high gain sound he made on the Sammy albums (why did you go there Ed?).
I realise that recording guitar, no make that even playing guitar and getting that great holy grail of sounds is tough (especially if you live in an appartment or semi), but some of you have great gear which will, when set up correctly give you awsome tone and yet you still insist on using Amp Modelling.
I'm not a luddite, far from it I design shit like that, but if you have the real thing and you play in a band, spend some time with your gear and learn how to get the best out of it.
Eddie used FX brilliantly, just listen to the range of different reverbs, delays and modulations, they were coupled with great clean an overdriven tones (notice I didn't say distorted, no hi gain amp please, that's a Marshall at full tilt not a fuzz box). The mans obvious talent helped, but he was also a great
guitar tech and it resulted in making some of the good songs
Van Halen wrote into great songs. Don't forget about the real thing, music should be live!
Well that's my rant over, what do you say?
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