I am not a musician – can someone please explain Edward Van Halen’s “brown sound” in layman’s terms
Posted by on 16th November 2008 in Blues
Jim asked:
Can someone please translate the following Wikipedia definition of Eddie Van Halen’s brown sound into layman’s terms?
Can someone please translate the following Wikipedia definition of Eddie Van Halen’s brown sound into layman’s terms?
“Van Halen achieved his distinctive tone by using a stock 100-watt Marshall amp, a Variac to lower the voltage of the amp to get high gain distortion at lower volumes, and a “Frankenstrat” guitar Van Halen constructed using a vintage Gibson humbucker pickup rewound by Seymour Duncan.”
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November 18th, 2008 at 8:12 pm
It’s the sound he makes when crapping.
November 21st, 2008 at 1:18 pm
basicaly he used bits and pieces of old guitars and tweaked his amp and pedals until he found a sound that he saw as unique