....even though it's creator has never come close to doing anything like it since, and the creator himself has moved far away from the style and equipment that got him there. The actual impetus and devices used to create VH tone are shrouded in lies, myth, mystery, and great debate worldwide.
I can totally understand how shit like that happens just by looking at my own guitar/amp odyssey over the years.
You just end up trying different things, different settings, different gear, and it's aways in small increments....I mean, I don't think any player goes out and dumps his entire rig for something 180 degrees in the opposite direction.
We are all always "tweaking"...and I'm sure EVH was/is no different. I think by the time his signature "tone" became the stuff of myth and legend, he had already moved away from it enough that it was hard nailing it again.
It could have have been one stupid setting of one knob....or a combination of a dozen micro-settings.
Fuck...I keep all kinds of notes when I record, I mean, mic positions, which pickup, where all the knobs were set....and I still can't always duplicate it 100% when it's something I did 5 years ago.
You can record today, leave everything in its place and just turn off the lights...and you come back tomorrow and it sounds different.
So yeah....that EVH tone was a moment in time. You can find the same kind of moment-in-time shit from Page, Clapton, Beck...etc.
