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Eddie Van Halen Talks Building the Frankenstein, Honing the 5150 and EVH Gear
- 6stringmerc 10y agoFortunately this seems to be quite focused on talking gear and that sort of thing, not talking about music opinions or current events. To me it makes it a better article: >So a lot of it came out of solving problems? “Yeah, a lot of it was through necessity and just mistakes. A lot of accidents. Like the one-pickup thing wasn’t intentional. I just didn’t know how to wire it back up to the five-position toggle switch, it was just too complicated! & this one: >“Then I went ‘Ding! I wonder what’ll happen if I hook my main amp up to the light dimmer in the house?!’ Of course, I blew out all the fuses in the house because I wired it backwards, but once I figured it out, I went down to an electronics store and asked ‘Do you guys sell an industrial type of variable voltage regulator?’ and they go ‘Yeah, here you go!’ It was called a Variac. Gems like that really seem to align with the hacker ethos of diving in sometimes and still being ignorant enough to have room to learn over time.