My thoughts on the EBMM EVH

[nobozos]

I like the Silhouettes too, would probably be my second choice of an EBMM to get.

I prefer DiMarzios to just about any other pickup. I found the pickups in the Wolfgang to be high output, which is great for harmonics and sustain, but lacking tone compared to the DiMarzios in the Axis/EVH. Nothing really wrong with the tone of the Wolfgang pickups, I just prefer the Axis pickups tone.
Wolfgang pickups to me are more well suited for someone who is going to be playing Death Metal throught a Mesa Triple-Rectifier.

As far as amps go, I just recently got a 5150 Combo Amp, and I really like it. I used to have a Marshall JCM 900 combo amp, but I was never really happy with the gain structure. I was having to put a Tube Screamer on my amp to get the gain I wanted. That is definately not a problem with the 5150 Combo. My lead Pre setting is about 4.5 and my rythym Pre setting is about 6. Any more than that and I have to be standing in another room to keep my pickups from feeding back through the amp.

My next step for an amp will probably be a Germino head. My lead guitar player got one, and the thing just smokes. It is a tone monster. I think he said he paid $1500 for it new. Blockhead makes some killer amps too, but the one I would get costs about $2500 bucks, so unless I hit the little lotto sometime soon, I'll be playing my 5150 Combo for a while.

Before the Marshall, I had an old Fender Band-Master amp. You couldn't get distortion out of it for ****, but it was a great sounding amp. I think it was a 1964 model. It was a hand-me-down from my uncle. Didn't even have reverb, it had vibrato.
It was a head sitting on a 2x12 cabinet. Great amp for a Jazz or Blues player. It just didn't suit my style of music.

 

[ebb soul]

It's easy to 'improve' something if someone's laid the groundwork for you, but if peavey did they did and if they didn't -they could have, but it's hard for me to tell..

 

[slukather]

HI l'm new to this forum,

I just wanted to add my 2 cents.

If you guys in the U.S. pay $2100 for a Peavey Wolfgang, l think you are getting cheated, l own 2, the peavey Special costed me $1500, and my Peavey Standard Costed me $1900. (Thats in Australian Money). Compared to The ebmm EVH, which used to go for $4500(new). I'm not saying l don't like ebmm guitars, l own a LUKE, and it's one of the greatest guitars l've ever played, l want to get a ebmm, l think here in Australia they are going for around $6000-$7000(second Hand).

I understand that people have their own opition, but l think Peavey make some great equipment, i know peavey has some $300 guitars, but not every beginner can spend a couple thosand dollars on a guitar. I used to think that Peavey made some terrible equipment, but l went out and tried some of there equipment, and in my opition l think there equipment rocked. Their classic series, the triple x, 5150 series etc etc etc, they are fantasic. Considering l used to play Marshall, which l will never go back to. But because l don't like Marshall, it doesn't mean they are no good.

Then comes my views about eddie van halens move from ebmm to peavey. If it comes down to money why he made the move, then thats fine with me, (try to bear with me) its like a job, if you get offered more money doing the some work, but working for someone else, you would take the job. And l don't think that there would be anyone that would disagree with me.

Anyway, the reason for this post is not to offend anyone or to say ebmm equipment is terrible, they aren't, and so isn't peavey, there is alot of equipment out there that is fantastic, there is some equipment that is terrible. Some fantastic equipment l've played though is homemade equipment, with no brand, it's all down to the individual. I think Frank Zappa said it best "shut up and play your guitar.

Cheers

 

[Estin]

i don't know, i always said that signature gear just pisses me off. i'd never want some artists name on my gear. i played both the evh and the axis i think the axis is better. i don't think enough people have small enough hands in this world to manage the evh's neck. i was never into solo's or 80's marshall treble gain either so maybe thats another reason i can't dig it. i use my axis for rythm of modern metal. bottom line is i feel the evh and the axis are too different guitars. everyone seems to argue like the axis is a replacement for the evh, and whats better new or original? i think theirs been too many changes for the better to consider the axis a "replacment" maybe more of evolution if anything. i've always just been too busy worrying about my playing rather than an artists playing or what their doing or thinking at the time. just me though.

 

[hbucker]

Hey, I meant to ask....Pickup wise....do you prefer the dimarzios or the peavey's in the EVH's



UGO

You weren't asking me but I'll give my 2 cents on this.

For straight high gain playing I like the DiMarzios better. They cut through with a lot of warmth, definition and less fuzzz. I don't like fuzzzzzzzz. I find that these pickups sound great for other styles but aren't as versatile as the Wolfgang pickups.

Yes, the Wolfgang pickups are hotter and even distort a little at full volume but running them with the volume pot at about 7 or 8 gives a very nice clean and driven tone. Turning them up gives you extra juice for solos or just more distortion if you want it. IMO these pickups aren't as good for high gain stuff but are better than the EVH/DiMarzios for a wider variety of music from Country to Top 40 and Rock.

Generally speaking the "EVH sound" has always been compared on some level to a cross between a Strat and a Les Paul tonally. I'd say the EVH/Axis pickups are closer to the Les Paul Warmth and the Wolfgang pickups have more of the Strat bight. I'm glad I own both becuase both have their strong points.

Of course these are general comments but I find them to be fairly accurate. Your results may vary;-)

 

[slukather]

I'd have to agree with you hbucker, l prefer Dimarzio pups. The Wolfgangs are a high output pickup, and l prefer the Dimarzio PAF. I have a Wolfgang special, didn't really like the sound of it, but l fixed that by putting a tone control on it, it's a more rounded sound now.

Just out of curiousity, what type of amp do you play through hbucker?

Cheers

 

[hbucker]

I'd have to agree with you hbucker, l prefer Dimarzio pups. The Wolfgangs are a high output pickup, and l prefer the Dimarzio PAF. I have a Wolfgang special, didn't really like the sound of it, but l fixed that by putting a tone control on it, it's a more rounded sound now.

Just out of curiousity, what type of amp do you play through hbucker?

Cheers

hey slukather,

My main amp is a PV Classic 100 which I play through a Traynor 410 cab. It sounds quite good. Depending on how much versatility/convenience I need, I also have a Yamaha DG-Stomp preamp that I run through the "effects in" on either my Classic or on a 112 PV Bandit for smaller occasions. The DG through either setup also sounds very good. It makes that 13 year old Bandit sound better than many 112 tube amps I've played.

Honestly, I love all of my guitars. My favorite tends to be the one I'm playing at any given time. The fact that they are different doesn't bother me. For pure useable high gain tone to drool over I love my EVH. The harmonics just leap off of the neck My Wolf Special has an amazing variety of tones for a 2 humbucker guitar simply by turning the volume knob. I also split the coils on my Wolf Standart HT so I get a good variety out of that as well. Each has it's strengths and weaknesses which is why it's interesting to own more than one guitar.

I've said it on several boards, if you you can live without a Floyd, the Axis Super Sport may just be the best of all worlds. It's a dynamite little package.

 

[slukather]

hbucker, I love those PV Classic series amp, they rock, i played through a classic 30 at my local guitar store, and it just blow me away, the sound the volume you can get out of those things.

I have a PV Wolfgang Special, PV Wolfgang Standard Stop Tail Peice, A EBMM LUKE, and a copy of an EBMM EVH, some body and wood, l put a dimarzio PAF in the bridge and a Tone Zone in the Bridge, and a custom neck and different head stock. THe guts of my gear is a PV 5150ii and 5150 Cabinet, a boss ME-8 effect processor, (which l'm getting rid off, and replacing with stomp boxes. My main axe would probably be my LUKE, by as you said it depends which one l have in my hand.

Keep Rockin

 

[slukather]

hbucker, I love those PV Classic series amp, they rock, i played through a classic 30 at my local guitar store, and it just blow me away, the sound the volume you can get out of those things.

I have a PV Wolfgang Special, PV Wolfgang Standard Stop Tail Peice, A EBMM LUKE, and a copy of an EBMM EVH, some body and wood, l put a dimarzio PAF in the bridge and a Tone Zone in the Bridge, and a custom neck and different head stock. THe guts of my gear is a PV 5150ii and 5150 Cabinet, a boss ME-8 effect processor, (which l'm getting rid off, and replacing with stomp boxes. My main axe would probably be my LUKE, by as you said it depends which one l have in my hand.

Keep Rockin