Vintage Guitar Outlet Blog » Marshall Amp http://vintageguitaroutlet.com/blog Everything Vintage Guitars Tue, 07 Feb 2012 07:20:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 I am not a musician – can someone please explain Edward Van Halen’s “brown sound” in layman’s terms http://vintageguitaroutlet.com/blog/2008/11/i-am-not-a-musician-can-someone-please-explain-edward-van-halens-brown-sound-in-laymans-terms/ http://vintageguitaroutlet.com/blog/2008/11/i-am-not-a-musician-can-someone-please-explain-edward-van-halens-brown-sound-in-laymans-terms/#comments Sun, 16 Nov 2008 01:54:30 +0000 http://vintageguitaroutlet.com/blog/2008/11/i-am-not-a-musician-can-someone-please-explain-edward-van-halens-brown-sound-in-laymans-terms/ vintage gibson guitars
Jim asked:


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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