His MXR setting was: first 3 knobs at around 11.30, last knob all the way up. It would always be the first pedal in the signal chain. He simply stepped on the button, turning it on and off at certain moments, and he got just such an up and down effect. "I might fine-tune the speed a little to match it to the tempo of the song, like on “Unchained” where the sweep goes perfectly with the riff. I was just goofing off and experimenting. It wouldn’t have sounded good to use the flanger all the way through. The riff just needed a little bit here and there. It’s a cool, tasty little tidbit that I threw in there to draw attention to the riff." - Eddie Van Halen Nice video!
@Gma7788
2 ай бұрын
They didn't have buttons back then. It's not on the vinyl record. You weren't born. You've never seen or heard the original vinyl record. There's at least 6 original vinyl records. They're all different. If you haven't heard all 6, then you don't know what you're talking about.
@yevhenfedorets6509
2 ай бұрын
@@Gma7788 Okay, but sorry, the vintage MXR Flanger 117 has a button. He pressed it at certain moments in the song.
@tanneryordan
2 ай бұрын
@@Gma7788 what the hell are you talking about? 70’s MXR flangers had buttons, and you can literally watch ed turn it off and on in the 1978 live footage. this is easily searchable…
@jamiegustkey2573
5 ай бұрын
@ 4:01 - that has to be one of my favorite Ed tones EVER! Just that intro sound…. Its 🍫👍🏻
@jonathangreen4833
5 ай бұрын
So damn good!!!
@heyjarrod
5 ай бұрын
Great stuff! Sounds like it was somewhere in between the third and the fifth, when you were trying that out towards the end. Whichever one you switched to second, and said, ‘that wasn’t much of a difference.’ That tone I actually thought was pretty close. Something was causing the tone to be fizzy, a little bit of beehive. Kind of like when I first got a guitar as a kid, and plugged it straight into the home stereo system-that Lo-Fi buzz, ha ha. I know that’s not the Marshmallow, because those sound awesome. I think you said you were using maybe some kind of Octavia, when you were referring to an octāve. As opposed to when you were talking about an ‘octave.’ Anyway, great stuff!
@MontourR
5 ай бұрын
for the hear about it later intro, Ed used a strat for that chimey effect, also try setting the flanger first 3 nobs at 11 oclock and the last nob at 5 oclock.
@tanneryordan
5 ай бұрын
I believe ossie is getting confused with the dry track that was released a few months ago. You hear the clean strat tone, and the distorted tone happening at the same time, which ossie believes is 2 signals coming from the same take. In reality, ed tracked the intro with the frankenstein or whatever, and then OVERDUBBED the direct-into-board second-position strat sound on top, removing the original frankenstein intro. Pretty common practice.
@MontourR
5 ай бұрын
@@tanneryordanyeah it’s 100% overdubbed. He is right though about the flanger possibly being in the control rooms.
@tanneryordan
5 ай бұрын
@@MontourR but why? what is pointing to the flanger being meticulously set by someone else?
@MontourR
5 ай бұрын
@@tanneryordan that’s why I said possibly. The reason being that Ed always ran his amps all the way up and if you ever threw a flanger in front of an over driven 100 watt Marshall, it’s completely uncontrollable. So they had to have done something to keep the flanger at line level.
@tanneryordan
5 ай бұрын
@@MontourR I don’t think that it’s fair to say “uncontrollable”. Plenty of guys have done it right here on youtube. Specifically Jim Gaustad who’s running his marshalls at ear splitting levels. I believe that he had his MXR’s slightly modified for better sound, but it’s still unclear what mods were implemented. It’s unlikely that they “boosted” like ed claimed, rather the opposite. but that’s something ed would say in early interviews; opposite things of what he did. “He also puts little things inside my MXR stuff-like permanent gain controls that boost when 1 kick them on. I don't even know what they're called. They reduce noise and boost the signals.”
@rikshredder
5 ай бұрын
YESSS!!! The flanger mystery! That seems like a good possibility that someone else controlled the sweep time!
@tanneryordan
5 ай бұрын
what is the mystery? I've heard dozens of people do it right. If you aren't getting it to sound right, you either have the settings wrong, or you don't have an original 70's MXR flanger, which is a bit different than the modern ones. I don't really get it
@Gma7788
2 ай бұрын
Wrong. It's just a quirk of the mxr circuit. I live on the other side of the planet and I can match the sweep effect to. You turn it off and it seems to start up again at that location. They could slow the tape and speed it up but the pedal does seem to do this.
@PatrickFlynnMusic
5 ай бұрын
Great video as usual 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
@Gma7788
2 ай бұрын
Wrong.
@JockeLundgrenTV
5 ай бұрын
Another excellent video and content. Thanks for all the time you put into this for all of us. Rock ON!! 🙋🏻♂️
@Gma7788
2 ай бұрын
Wrong.
@JimmyDevere
5 ай бұрын
Just guessing, but Aphex?
@Gma7788
2 ай бұрын
No. This is all problems that are associated with computer amplification and don't exist in the real world or on other formats. Your computer invents these sounds in the process of amplifying the program. These things don't happen on the vinyl record. You've just wasted your time and ours. I've been forced to report you to the authorities for misleading the public. If you listen closely to the CD 💿 version you'll hear the band sounds flat and it's as if they're playing behind a thick plastic layer. You DON'T listen closely to recordings on computers cause they amplify notes in reverse order. You concentrate on the peaks not the valleys. The things you're pointing out are just faults associated with your computer 🖥. They don't exist in other versions/ formats.
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