Van Halen 1982 Soundboards

Cool clips. Was interesting to hear what sounds like Fuzz when playing Cathedral and turning the volume up. Makes me wonder if he is using a little bit of fuzz in his signal as his tone is a bit softer sounding...kinda like what a fuzz pedal adds.
 
Damn. Where the heck did these come from? Possibly the best sounding boards of the Dave era so far. Thanks for the heads up, grabbed the FLACS from the Trader’s Den. Good stuff.
Now…. who’s got those 1981 soundboards?
 
CliffHydro said:
Now…. who’s got those 1981 soundboards?
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That's the holy grail!

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psychodave said:
Cool clips. Was interesting to hear what sounds like Fuzz when playing Cathedral and turning the volume up. Makes me wonder if he is using a little bit of fuzz in his signal as his tone is a bit softer sounding...kinda like what a fuzz pedal adds.
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Nope. That’s just amp hiss.
 
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From the era of Ed where he stated in interviews he was looking for maximum sustain from his amps not distortion........I believe the these clips prove that out...Give the US festival clips a listen Ed's amps start off clean and by the end of the show they sound like VH1 almost like they had to switch amps during the show or something was happening to the amp.

According to Dave Friedman Ed was still slaving to other Superleads in 81/82/83 as the H&H didn't come along until around 83/84 and then he met Bob Bradshaw in 85/86.

David Friedman

Well here is what i was told by Rudy Leiren his long time tech. This was just last week. His setup was flanger phaser echoplex amp. His main 100 watt was used on everything. The bias was turned all the way up and the variac was set to 91v. into only 1 cab. There is a pic of the early days with a 50 watt and a vox. He told me the 50 was a back up to the 100 and the vox was a last ditch back up. He often borrowed amps for his back ups. In fact he told me a story that at a party they were playing ed blew a fuse in his main amp and did not have a backup and had to rum home to get a fuse while the band was playing. After this he always made sure he had a backup. Now Rudy said the eq pedal was used only for certain guitars or sometimes when he used rental gear that sounded bad. Also the univox echo was patched in by hand for eruption only and then was taken out of the chain after. Later there was another cab on Mike side that was driven from another amp they used a splitter to do this. As time went on more cabs where used and so where more amps. The amps would only drive one cab though. Now he did say ed was always trying shit but would always come back to this set up. This info follows everything ed has ever said to me personally. Also when 84 hit he changed his set up to H&H power amps and some different effects etc. He still used a cab off the head though no load resister. The Load resister came for the 5150 tour.

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The slaving system was only for live use.

Bob Bradshaw was not involved until 1985/1986 with the 5150 tour and around 1984 it was Rudy doing the cab as a load with the H&H power amps and also the switching was by Flag systems.

This all got replaced by the Bob Bradshaw load resistor and H&H's and the Bob Bradshaw switching system, around 1985/1986.

http://forum.metropoulos.net/viewtopic.php?t=29116
 
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I like Van Halen, I really do. I like what Eddie did for guitar in the 70s and 80s, I really do. But goddamn, can we just not let the man die and new secret, never before seen stuff just stop coming out constantly? Holy shit man, it's getting really old.
 
jb44 said:
Here's the guitar101 link to get direct download of the lossless FLAC files for: Oct 26, 1982.

Credit goes to ByTorX1 who has been releasing uncirculated VH soundboards on thetradersden, via bittorrent
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Can’t really tell because the volumes are slightly different between the shows soundboard recordings. Is October 26 the best (recorded) one sonically?
 
So, I d/L a lot of this stuff from soulseek.
But, I’m new to Guitar101.

What’s the difference between ‘Lossless Audio’ and ‘Lossy Audio’ sections on there? 🤔
 
SQUAREHEAD said:
So, I d/L a lot of this stuff from soulseek.
But, I’m new to Guitar101.

What’s the difference between ‘Lossless Audio’ and ‘Lossy Audio’ sections on there? 🤔
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SQUAREHEAD said:
So, I d/L a lot of this stuff from soulseek.
But, I’m new to Guitar101.

What’s the difference between ‘Lossless Audio’ and ‘Lossy Audio’ sections on there? 🤔
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Lossless is the best available quality, usually FLAC files that are the same quality as wav format.
Lossy is compressed MP3s. Your best bet is to download FLACs when they're available and make your own MP3 files if you need something smaller and more portable.
 
SQUAREHEAD said:
So, I d/L a lot of this stuff from soulseek.
But, I’m new to Guitar101.

What’s the difference between ‘Lossless Audio’ and ‘Lossy Audio’ sections on there? 🤔
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Conversion to compressed mp3 from uncompressed, WAV audio files, cuts out a bunch of frequencies, especially at the higher frequency end. Original posters of the raw transfers typically include checksums & sample spectrograms to show the audio file's source is from a WAV & not an mp3 file.

The posted VH soundboards are raw transfers from the master soundboard tapes so the bootleg music sellers haven't corrupted the files with excessive eq-ing or "re-mastering" which these sellers are known to do so they later can sell the "Platinum"/"Definitive" or whatever bs marketing terminology they use.

There's also the Oct 22 & 24th soundboards on Guitar101 & thetradersden. Volumes are not very loud but can be boosted with audio editing software - GoldWave, Audacity or similar. IMO, when increasing dBs or any kind of audio manipulation for a whole concert, it's best to join the tracks into a single wav file, modulate, then split into individual songs/tracks afterwards.
 
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