Secrets to Eddie Van Halen's "Brown Sound"

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This is an old video, I know. I'm gonna make a new one soon, but, thanks for giving me almost 10,000 views! A lot of you have been asking me "Well hey, how do you do it?" And here you go. These are my personal settings for the Peavey Vypyr 75 amp (although they should work with other models, except the 15) and this is how I achieve the Brown Sound. I'm sorry for the low sound, turn up your speakers.

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• Eddie van halen
• van halen
• brown sound
• brown
• kramer
• frankenstrat
• evh
• marshall
• super lead
• plexi
• amp
• fender
• ibanez
• stratocaster

[coltsuperocean10]

..you really should shoot your hairdresser!! he is making you look like a proper fuckin dickhead.

[PJHAIGHT]

@coltsuperocean10 The only dickhead I see right now is you, with your irrelevant-ass commentary on my video. Gol' blimey me trousa snake's aroused mate. Go call a bobby and have him bring his lorry

[PJHAIGHT]

@NapoleanXV Step 1: Come up with a joke that's actually funny.

Enjoy the video.

[NapoleanXV]

step 1: poop on your guitar.

Enjoy your brown sound

[rfd73]

Ey buddy...actually I think you have a good technique, and even if it does not sounds the same as the brown sound it sounds really cool for an amp like yours, despite of what some "dumb fucks" say about your video, I see people here that might not even know how to play the guitar just throwing shitty comments...keep rocking

[rfd73]

@hazor777 You are right...but still sounds make a big difference...listen to this guy's technique is not bad...

[Theo80126]

Love it. Thanks for posting!

[hazor777]

Everyone cab analyze the coveted fucking "Brown Sound" for eons to come, but the truth is Eddie's "Brown Sound" mostly comes from his hands and hours & hours of practice.Once the hands are in sync, basically most high gain amps and a humbucker equipped guitar (even a good rail pickup will suffice) - and THAT is the "secret"!!

[andrewmoran357]

@PJHAIGHT - that was a funny comeback -good video by the way - coltsuperocean10 probably dont have any hair so hes not only jealous of your guitar stuff but of your hair too

[mapleaxslinger125]

Secrets to setting my peavy vyper so it will sound like evh's brown sound.Actually it sounds good but maybe cranking your volume up then using a noise gate will gett the full vibe at home .Actually i use a vox vt20plus and it has a 5150 amp stting and i crank the shit out of it. It's got a noise gate all the amps modern and old for 169.99.TRY ONE A GC .

[PutItAway101]

@NicksVids25 Actually there's more to it than that. Eddie cranked a plexi into a dummy load that produced a line-level output ( basically using a plexi as a distortion pedal) and ran that through a power amp, and the producer did some crazy stuff to it with e.q. and reverb. Apparently the tone in the room was quite different to what they got onto the record, and didn't actually sound that great.

[PJHAIGHT]

@dman44032 Sorry, can't afford one right now.