Just my old patch, tweaked to accommodate fw11.03! sounds and feels even better now, enjoy
DOWNLOAD PATCH HERE: Axe-Change - Download Preset - EVH Brown Sound - by RoccoPezzin
Great sound. As you played through their catalogue including more recent tunes, the thought occurred to me - most of the tone comes from the player's fingers. You are able to play much of the songs with the same attack as the original, and it is therefore believable. Eddie's gear started changing when the money started flowing in, so his sound was very different beginning with Women and Children first, IMHO. But your sound clips sounded awesome because of your faithfulness to the playing/performance of the originals, not just the Fractal's ability to cover the VanHalenesque tone.
All things considered, I thought this patch best handled the Van Halen 2 sounds. It might have been the same gear, and some of the basic tracks may or may not have been recorded during the same sessions as Van Halen 1, but simply did not make it onto the first album? The tones between the two albums are very close, but not quite identical, to my ears. I also thought this patch covered the stuff from 1984 very well. But I seem to recall by then Eddie was using stuff being wired by Soldano into load boxes, and then reamplified by solid state high wattage power amps. The tone on 1984 is more mid-rangy and far less gain than on VH I or VH II.
Although most consider VHI as the holy grail of his tones, I'm actually partial to Women and Children first and Fair Warning - much darker and thumpier....but I don't know if he was using a different main head by then, or if the difference is cabinets/mics/eq/studio engineering......
This would be a great time for a VH historian to jump in and bring me up to speed.
GREAT JOB on the patch and totally excellent job on playing all those great tunes - they bring back a lot of good memories!
