Eddie Van Halen’s Brown Sound | Does a Variac Actually Change an Amp's Tone?

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In this video, I talk about doing some light modifications to my 50 watt Plexi and compare the effects of a Variac and different biases on the amp. The backing tracks used are the actual tracks from Van Halen minus the guitar part.
The amp is a Build Your Own Clone (BYOC) Brit 50 kit amp going into a Marshall 1960A Cabinet loaded with Celestion Greenbacks. For further details on the signal chain, watch the video.
The song playing in the background is my song Hell On Earth.

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0:00 Intro/Atomic Punk
1:15 Atomic Punk Isolated Guitar
1:52 The Amp
2:36 The Guitar
2:59 The Pedals
3:27 The Cab/Mics/Post Processing
3:53 Comparisons Intro/Biasing
4:47 Voltmeter/My Wall Voltage is Actually 110V
5:22 Feel Your Love Tonight Solo
5:57 Feel Your Love Tonight Solo Isolated Guitar
6:29 The Amp's Stock Tone
7:57 Different Voltages With the Same Bias
8:26 Different Bias Settings With the Same Voltage
9:08 Turning the Variac in Real Time
10:07 Closing

Видео Eddie Van Halen’s Brown Sound | Does a Variac Actually Change an Amp's Tone? канала Joe Juliano