Man that kicked ass. He plays with authority. Right hand and left hand really digging in. There are a lot of great players who have much lighter touches with both hands and are probably way more efficient, but when you play like Deraps is above, the attitude and excitement is heard in the tone.
I believe you need the $79 EVH pack and then you need to spend $100 for Tonex Max which is the software. I purchased just the Van Halen pack and could open it and play it, but every 10 seconds you get the loud static sound that some companies do when you are trying out a demo of their product...
I know a lot of people love Graham Bonnett's voice. I have never been a fan. When he sings in his higher register he always sounds like he is straining to hit those notes. I don't mean just the high notes, I mean that whole upper register.
I have had issues running my guitar direct into the front HZ input on my Apollo with it peaking the hell out of the input with just medium output pickups. In reading up on it there seems to be a lot of people who experience this and complaints about how the HZ instrument input is designed on the...
Dunlop Flow .73mm. I was a Tortex Jazz 1.14 guy forever, probably 30 years and then went down to a .88. Once I tried the Flow .73 I am finished looking. It has the most perfect click sound it makes while striking the string. I love that percussive click. Some guys don't want any pick sound but...
No goop. No drama. No missing amps back then.
Mark is not an electrical engineer. What he is is a fantastic guitar player with a really killer, aggressive attack and he has a phenomenal ear and can dial in an amp in seconds. None of those skills are taught in engineering school.
Before I come...
I used to sit with Mark in his living room while he modded my amp. This would have been in the late 90's or very early 2000's. It was like $250 or so for the mods I wanted which were basically the Low Gain Jose. A modded amp of his was $800-1200 depending on if it was a later amp or an old Super...