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Originally Posted by stuartj
There is a gun player round my way whose band did a stadium tour opening for Van Halen in the 90s. I read his comment in a discussion on the "Brown Sound" where he came out with this gem...."I played thru Ed's stadium rig, and guess what? I just sounded like me."
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There are many versions of that story. Ed's old Brown Sound comes from a very special 12000 series '68 100w Plexi. There were many like it, but he got one of the good ones.
Their quality control was always iffy, but when you got a good one, there was nothing like it. I built a clone of that amp and it's really close in tone. Now, if I could just play like he does. That Soldano in the first clip I posted cost 4-5x as much and, IMHO, doesn't sound nearly as good.