Mystery Knob on Back of Ed's Amp Was FET ?!?!?

311splawndude said:
5150 studio had been built yet. It was built in ___________.




I have absolutely no idea but do we know for a fact that all he had that night was the head and cab? There could have been shit behind the curtain :dunno:


True, but also by that time he was not toting anything besides coke. What I mean was, he was not physically carry his gear around so it doesn't really matter how big or cumbersome it was. If Ed wanted it there he just had to snap his fingers. :dunno:
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I dunno, the level of trust you need to have in someone (or group) to handle this, and when you do have these kind of people it's not at a drop of the hat. They are only working full time during a tour, but not being paid to stand around until Letterman calls off tour.

I think ultimately Ed wanted to simplify his rig, he wanted to be "unchained" :hys:
 
311splawndude said:
PS: I forgot how toward the end David Letterman asks Ed if DLR drives him crazy :LOL: Ed holds his guitar up almost in an attempt to block the laughter. At that point in time DLR would have just departed the band. April 1, 1985 IIRC.
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Dave officially left the band in August of ‘85, possibly July
 
PLX said:
He must have taken all the tone secrets with him, because Ed's tone went to shit after he left.

:rolleyes:
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LOL . In Steve Rosen’s book that came out about a year ago he has recorded interviews with Ed . Ed was gonna hang in there with Dave until the day before Sammy came over for their first jam together in summer of ‘85
 
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Kapo_Polenton said:
Watched this afternoon, a good listen.
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Apparently, he's had custom would transformers made for that amp - designed so that the amp can operate with no load.

He says the pre-amp section is completely stock.

Going to start asking some of the amp guys I know, how this works.
 
hammered said:
Dave officially left the band in August of ‘85, possibly July
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Fair enough. I know it was announced on April 1 as sort of an April Fools joke. Rolling Stone announced it in August (in mag print?), but I'm not sure anyone but them (the band) know the actual date date. For a long time each party blamed the other. Was he fired or did he quit. My guess is that from Feb of that year until August they slowly broke up as they realized they had different goals. Ed wanted a break from touring and David wanted to do his solo thing and movies. Or something like that.
 
311splawndude said:
Fair enough. I know it was announced on April 1 as sort of an April Fools joke. Rolling Stone announced it in August (in mag print?), but I'm not sure anyone but them (the band) know the actual date date. For a long time each party blamed the other. Was he fired or did he quit. My guess is that from Feb of that year until August they slowly broke up as they realized they had different goals. Ed wanted a break from touring and David wanted to do his solo thing and movies. Or something like that.
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This book will give you Ed’s side of the story , the timeline and not just the split but everything Van Halen
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The other takeaway from the Dave interview is that he is coming out with a " vintage" line. So his own version of a plexi with built in variac etc... in other words, A Suhr 69. But now we are talking... I'd still likely just get a Ceriatone and an external Variac for a 3rd of the price of what that amp will be but that's besides the point..
 
PLX said:
You don't want a purely resistive load - perfectly flat resonant "curve" - compresses the shit outta the tone.

:poop:
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I have used a 16 ohm 400 watt purely resistive load to load down my variaced 68 Ed spec Metro build in the pics earlier in the thread, I then tapped the line out using a Suhr Iso Line out from the 68's other speaker jack which then fed the low input of my 1972 Marshall Super lead (set up exactly the way Robin L described) as the power amp, the 1972 Marshall then was driving two Marshall cabs with Scumback M75 Pre-rola coned speaker but these were 65 watt's a pieces( I should have just gotten the 25 watters, but oh well, I now prefer 55HZ 12H-30's and all my Sucmbacks have been sold. All effects were up front of the 68 Plexi including the delays which are coming from two Ibanez echomachines one set to 100ms one repeat and the other set to 300-400 ms one repeat I find these old do a great job emulating my old EP3 echoplex which I had for a long time and recently sold.

Maybe the 20ohm load is more ideal but I don't recall hearing the amp as over compressed at all but you be the judge.... here is what I got. This was recorded in the room 2011 with a Zoom recorder all live recording no studio added effects at all.


 
harddriver said:
Maybe the 20ohm load is more ideal but I don't recall hearing the amp as over compressed at all but you be the judge....
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I'm just going off my own experiences with building resistive, then reactive loads and playing thru them and recording them - going back and listening to clips and contrasting/comparing the two types of loads.

FRFR speakers are always going to be best.

ymmv. Offer void in Montana and Maui.
 
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