PsychoCid wrote: ↑Mon Aug 03, 2020 9:47 pm
Rollin Hand wrote: ↑Mon Aug 03, 2020 9:43 pm
PsychoCid wrote: ↑Mon Aug 03, 2020 7:33 pmt
The second one sounds like ADKOT album but with better tone. Btw maybe an unpopular opinion... I think Wolfgang's are tone killers. Not killer tone monsters, but tone killers.
In the second clip he's playing a Ripley, which would have a Bartolini pickup. And yet it still sounds like that scratchy half dying guitar sound. His amp was just ridiculous magic, I suppose.
I dunno, my Wolfgangs sound pretty good to me. I also love the necks. The problem is, many want that big, warm-yet-mean sound Ed got on the early albums, and they don't do that easily.
That said, over on the Halen.com forums when they existed, I heard recordings of a VH cover band doing MeanStreet. The guy used a Peavey Wolfgang Special and
nailed the tone. His amp?
A Marshall Valvestate head. Yeah.
Of course the new Wolfgangs are very bright. Someone once told me that a hot wound A2 pickup would be all mids and really bright. Yep, that's the Wolfgang. Add in the very bright and fizzy 5150III amps, and that sound ain't brown.
I just chalk it up as Ed is doing something different now. Remember: 1984 was 36 years ago.
Precisely zero of my Peavey, Fender or custom Wolf's have been tone monsters. I don't have faith in the platform. It's also less comfortable than a Strat or Pacer body, even though it still beats a Les Paul.
The Wolfies with no maple top are particularly blah. But I was surprised to find -- the Wolfgang guys on Facebook don't respect the EVH wolf either. They tell people, just get the Peavey they are better. And, my opinion is that's true.
It's also not about the brown sound. It's just a poorly equiped and designed guitar. Maybe the $5000 ones are better?
The neck carve however. Even though it's just a rip off of the 5150 which is a refinement of the Ibanez Destroyer. The neck carve, Ed got right. But only with the Peavey sized frets, not the fender vintage junk
I have played one of the USA EVH Wolfgangs from the early tuns and....well, at $3200 at the time it wasn't worth the money. Harmonics leapt out of the guitar, but the smaller frets are NOT my thing. One can get close-enough performance out of the Wolfgang Special. Or out of the Standard which is a crazy good value -- the first time I played one, it was leaps and bounds ahead of the other ones I played that were at a similar price point.
EVH vs Peavey,well, they are different animals. I prefer the EVH neck carve. It feels thinner and more speed friendly. Softer edges too.
As for hardware, I have no problems with what they offer. I put a regular sized brass block on my standard, so the only difference between rhat one and the Korean OFRS is the saddles. The block made enough of a difference. I am unlikely to carve up the body to go bigger. A cosmo black OFR is not out of the question though.
That said, I also think a Strat is more comfy than my Peavey, especially sitting. The Standard has a firearm and belly cut, so it is golden.
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