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Unlocking Eddie Van Halen’s Guitar Tone with his Engineer Ross Hogarth

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ABOUT THIS VIDEO

In this episode, super engineer Ross Hogarth reveals all the details about how he recorded Eddie Van Halen's Guitar Tone using 2 different microphones, how he created a 2 channel version of Eddie's mono sound, why Wolfgang joined the band, how Eddie created distortion, Eddie's favorite EFX pedals and what it takes to get the best drum sounds…and the love between two brothers that glued Van Halen together!

00:00 Intro
00:39 Eddie's Guitar Solos
02:18 Eddie played One Guitar Part
03:50 How Don Landee turned a Mono Guitar into Stereo
05:37 How Ross Hogarth transformed Eddie's Sound with double mic techniques
09:07 Custom Designed Ribbon microphones that can withstand high sound pressure levels
12:35 How Ross Split and Spread out Eddie's sound even more
15:05 Summarizing Eddie's Sound
16:02 Eddie and Alex performed intuitively
17:17 When Wolfgang Van Halen joined the band
19:36 How Eddie created distortion & EFX tones
21:55 No 2nd guitar part
22:32 How to get the best Drum Tones
26:35 The Van Halen Connection: Love

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ABOUT ANTHONY

Anthony's musical touch as both composer and performer is connected with some of the most influential creative minds over the last 40 years. He’s composed and conducted original orchestral scores for over 80 feature films including Young Guns , Internal Affairs , The Man From Elysian Fields , 15 Minutes and Planes, Trains & Automobiles , been commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic for his symphonic work "In the Family Way", written over one thousand TV commercials in a myriad of musical styles, co-founded Levels Audio Post (LA's premiere post production facility) and performed and arranged on big-box-office films and influential hit records such as Michael Jackson's Thriller .

His extensive work as a young arranger, orchestrator and performer for Quincy Jones , Jack Nitzsche , Lamont Dozier , Arthur Rubenstein and Giorgio Moroder was vital in launching his own career. His early years pioneering modular analog synthesizers along with his wide-ranging music scholarship positioned Anthony at the center of the music technology revolution. He attended the University of Southern California School of Music as a piano and composition major.

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20 Comments

@nihil1 2 years ago

People might complain about how better things were "back then", but I feel so fortunate to live in this time when we can easily get videos like these you've been making. Thank you so much!

@riangarianga 2 years ago

A half an hour interview that felt like just 5 minutes, that's how good it was! Pure gold, thank you so much 🙏

@_fig.8 2 years ago

it’s incredibly generous of you to provide these episodes free of charge. such insightful stories!

@edmundkudey7153 2 years ago

You are spot on….as a father and fan of Eddie’s craft I knew once his son joined the band on bass that it was Eddie’s dream to play with his son and he knew his time was limited due to his ongoing battle with cancer, so we should all be happy for Eddie to have lived long enough to experience the joy of playing with his son.

@han1075 2 years ago

Great interview. EVH was a true genius. There will never be another. RIP Ed.

@bonzology322 4 months ago

Eddie is still ahead of his time and his greatness isn’t fully recognized

@TKO-rf5no 2 years ago

Ed was a true genius and innovator!

@ericajohnson7535 2 years ago

Beato has some serious competition with this amazing content!

@clydeviegas 2 years ago

Triple platinum content! Thank you Anthony 🙏🏼

@zoomzoom3950 2 years ago

that Moog in the background...and it's on...

😍

@famachris 2 years ago

One of the best RIP Eddie videos ever. Love the refreshed take on Eddie’s sound - now truly Browm.

@Race-Bannon1 2 years ago

The word Ross was searching for to describe Ed and Alex’s relationship would best be described as “organic”

@sharethealoha 1 year ago

Great interview Anthony. Have been friends with Ross for years...one of my favorite humans on planet earth.....and it was really fun to hear him talk about the craft and his interaction with VH. I hate to sound like an old dude but not many left with Ross's knowledge and experience when it comes to recording...and life:)

@pyjama9556 2 years ago (edited)

Thank you Anthony, I’m so glad we got to hear more from Ross about his great knowledge and techniques aswell as how do you then present that to the artist respectfully.
Also what a treat that this was about Van Halen! Loved Ross take on Eddie working with his son, just beautiful!❤

Loved hearing about Jim Keltner too, his work over the years is amazing I particularly loved his involvement in the Little Village project!❤

Again I also have to thank you for being one of the only presenters and authors who understands letting the guest express their stories fully without interruption or being interrupted midway through a sentence.

Would love to hear you interview Harold Faltermeyer at some point, two great keyboard wizards just having a chat!

My best to you and thanks again!

@floridamusician9219 2 years ago

Thanks Anthony for putting this together and BIG thanks to Ross for sharing his knowledge and interactions with VH.

@davidhornbeckmusic7487 2 years ago

Thank you for this interview @anthonymarinellimusic ! I’m a guitar player but for decades have told my drummer friends exactly what Mr Hogarth is saying about John Bonham, it was the technique, all in the wrists. Bonham’s tone wasn’t from bashing but appropriately attacking each instrument in the kit to maximize resonance.

His comments on multi micing/amping Eddie were very cool.

Great work sir!

@nyanates 2 years ago

VH had a lot of very talented folks on their team. This guy was one of them. How can he remember all this after so many years? Wow! Thanks for this interview.

@youWoNtLikeMe04 2 years ago

The story I had read was that Ed was driving a car with a blown speaker, so he was only hearing the wet effects of his guitar. That upset him, that then lead to how he developed his glorious wet/dry/wet sound.

@mayps1637 2 years ago

I really love van halen ❤❤❤

@Joshua-q4p6x 2 years ago

As a dad that got my kids interested in music, bringing in Wolf was a no brainer. I LOVE Michael Anthony! But to play with my kid, are you serious, dream come true.