And now, ladies and gentlemen :
EDDIE VAN HALEN
Voici le matériel utilisé sur les premières tournées. Genre 78-79 (albums VH I et II) :
1) Le pédalier
2) Le marshall
3)
4) echo + eq
5) Le rack d'amplis
6) Le pédalier
Et quelques infos pour comprendre tout çà :
"I have lots (of amps), but they're mostly Marshalls. Tube amps. They've been customized and have voltage generators hooked up to them."
"The cabinets are also by Marshall, and I use 6 of them. They're grouped in threes, and one set is for a spare. Of the three stacks, the bottom three are the ones I use, and the 3 top halves are the backup. If you wanna know why I use the bottoms, it's so my ears aren't destroyed. Of course I use earplugs."
"Of the six cabs, two cabs have two Celestions-- which normally come with Marshalls--and two JBLs--four speakers each (cab). The other four cabs have four Celestions each. The Celestions for dirty, and the JBLs for cleaner sounds. So with that combination, they blend together to get a kick ass sound. On stage of course, eveything is cranked (all the way up).
Then, nothing new, some (apparently incorrect)comments on his variac (turning up) and how they found the clean/dirty speaker mix interesting, and how maybe that related to his later stereo setup with center dry+L/R efx. One interesting comment about how there are some bootleg recordings where it sounds as if the amp blew up. Then lists his old efx. rig (MXR stuff), and a bit of speculation about the "1" and "2" boxes. "E.D. Von Halen" (some guy from a VH tribute band) speculates that the "1" box was probably a switcher for the MXR EQ, since that model didn't come equipped with a footswitch. And the Echoplex footswitches are already visible and accounted for. He isn't sure what the "2" box is, but guesses that they were send/return switches of some kind or amp switchers. Asked what else he thought was interesting, he says, "the Phase 90 knob setting can't be right". "He must have had it up to 10 O'Clock when he used them. But if you mess with the inside--on a Phase 90, if you turn the internal trim pot, you can change the oscillating frquency. But even if you turn it to get a stronger effect, it still doesn't go far enough to the strength of the effect on EVH's early stuff. If you listen to early bootlegs, the phase effect is pretty strong. So possibly, some of the resistors inside may have been changed." EVH'S statements at the time remarked that instead of using the Phase 90 as a modulation effect, he was using it as more of a treble booster for solos.
On Van Halen's second Japan tour in '79, there weren't any apparent changes in the effects rig, but he brought a larger scale amp/cabinet system. "This time we brought the exact same sound and lighting system as we used in the States. It's probably at least five times as big."
"My rig is mostly the same as last year ('78 ), but the speaker cabinets are different. They were designed by myself and Rudy Leiren, my guitar tech and built by Flagg Systems. They have 12 inch Celestions in a closed cab so they're like Marshalls, but they're built with considerations to cartage and ease of wiring, so they're great for touring with."
"The heads (pic P-5) are Marshall, but the internals are pretty different. Me and Rudy customized them doing this and that. By using the amps in various combinations, we can go from 50 to 1,200 watts of power."
"The effects are as before. MXR Flanger, MXR Phase 90, two Maestro Echoplex footswitches on stage, and a couple more (efx?) in the racks the amp heads are in. The Boss graphic EQ (GE-10), the main Echoplex, and a customized fuzz box, and a back-up Flanger are all stock, but the ones on stage were worked on by Rudy (pic P-6). (from a 1978 "Young Guitar" magazine interview).
J'ai trouvé ça sur le forum :
http://www.eddievanhalen.com/c(...)oard=
Pour ceux que ça intéresse.
