When does ‘brown’ guitar tone get too brown? Dropping voltage to get the EVH sound

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Eddie Van Halen used a Variac to get his legendary ‘Brown Sound’ – by dialling down the voltage of his Marshall Plexi heads he started a quest for rock tones still followed by players to this day. When is brown sound too, well, brown? We love Johan Segeborn and his crazy YouTube channel. Why? Because […]

Jacques Pedals Bête Noire – Classic Plexi tones plus modulation = Van Halen?

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The new Jacques Pedals Bête Noire pedal combines natural distortion and analogue phasing modulation into one pedal. Part of their professional effect pedals range handmade in France, this latest unit looks very interesting indeed. Jacques Pedals Bête Noire Over the years Jacques Pedals has made loads of cool boutique effects pedals and I’ve owned loads of them myself […]