Formula 1 Īll teams in racing have various modes and settings that they switch to depending on the necessary strategy of the race. Controls included a "Decade Switch" that went up to 11. Gibson Les Paul guitars with low- impedance pickups were outfitted with special controls designed by Les Paul himself.
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During a trial run with a reporter from Popular Mechanics aboard, a C&O engineer expressed his dissatisfaction with a local speed limit of 75 miles per hour (121 km/h), noting that he would "Sure like to be able to pull it back to eleven!" : 110, 252 The locomotive's cruising speed was 70 miles per hour (113 km/h), at which point the throttle was on "seven". The locomotive's throttle included eleven settings, ranging from one (idling) to eleven (full speed). In 1947, the Baldwin Locomotive Works and the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway introduced the Chesapeake and Ohio class M-1 steam turbine locomotive. The use of "11" as a maximum pre-dates This Is Spinal Tap by almost forty years.
Believing that this numbering increases the highest volume of the amp, he explains, "It's one louder, isn't it?" When Marty asks why not simply make the 10 setting louder, Nigel hesitates before responding blankly again, " These go to eleven." Other instances Prior examples Ĭ&O's No. 500 first went "up to 11" in 1947. While Nigel is showing Marty his Marshall guitar amplifiers, he points out a selection whose control knobs all have a highest setting of eleven, unlike standard amplifiers whose volume settings are typically numbered from 0 to 10. In this scene, Nigel gives the rockumentary's director, Marty DiBergi, played by Rob Reiner, a tour of his stage equipment. The phrase was coined in a scene from the 1984 mockumentary/ rockumentary This Is Spinal Tap by the character Nigel Tufnel, played by Christopher Guest. 1 Original scene from This Is Spinal Tap.Of course, learning to play the guitar before spending 15K for a duplicate brown sound rig is the icing on the cake but not really necessary these days, if you pay any attention to modern FM rock radio. Naturally, a set of pre-1970 Thames-Ditton-Surrey Celestion 25 watt speakers would help, just a little. And you'd have to have those big Ohmite resistors overloading the output. This information is helpful for someone trying to copy the EVH tone, but since the guy's front-end amplifier input sensitivity is going to vary from amp to amp, even if he had a picture of Ed's Marshall settings to go with it you'd still have to play with the tone section of the amp in order to dial in in just right. Look at that cluster fuck of a pedal board, well no board, just cluster of wires and pedals.I'm guessing the bag is hiding the Univox tape delay used for "Eruption."Īll the photo shows is what's obvious to the ear: a scooped-out midrange, with the treble range boosted higher than the low-end but no shot of the amp tone setting which I'd guess was full-up, since Marshall tone controls are a passive filter network anyways. It's amazing he sounded as good as he did. I'm sorry to be tight on this, but it has taken me a lot of time and effort to come by these settings. These settings are for the personal use of this purchaser only and not to be sold, traded, given away or shared, ever, in any way. There's no reason to have Eddie's EQ w/out his precise settings! These settings did NOT come from some blurry picture from across the stage, or the smallest part of some tiny black and white photo - they came from a real, up-close, actual photograph of Eddie's Boss GE-10 Equalizer. After years of searching I finally found one very old actual photograph that clearly shows all of Eddie's setting on his GE-10, UP CLOSE! Then I carefully graphed those settings. I have done a LOT of research on Eddie's gear. This auction is for a sheet of paper only! No GE-10 is included!Įddie Van Halen's EXACT Boss GE-10 Equalizer settingsĮDDIE'S EXACT SETTINGS FOR ALL FADERS just like EDDIE VAN HALEN used to get his Brown Sound!
$199 and it is all yours! Ha ha ha, *sigh*.ĮXACT! VAN HALEN SETTINGS FOR BOSS GE-10 EQUALIZER!! EQ - eBay (item 300337395830 end time Aug-16-09 18:21:52 PDT)