EVH shared split and picking style

[awangotango]

Those of you who are into the shared/split evh debate.....when you compare these two, do you alter your playing style accordingly? In terms of pick pressure, angle etc. Because i would imagine eddie would have adjusted to each differently.

[rockstah]

Those of you who are into the shared/split evh debate.....when you compare these two, do you alter your playing style accordingly? In terms of pick pressure, angle etc. Because i would imagine eddie would have adjusted to each differently.

any player that can play would do this automatically for sure - but any sound will make for a playing style to be easier or harder if you know what i mean. thats where the comparison comes in to play between the two, shared or split.

[awangotango]

I feel that shared forces me to have a little more touch, whereas split allows me to really dig in with confidence. So in that sense, split is 'easier', but requires more of me in terms of emotion, to express something. Shared maybe has a little more expression naturally, and maybe 'easier' in that sense. I agree that a player 'automatically' adjusts to each to mazimize what they want to express, or can express with each. They both have limitations, which i naturally try to reduce, and focus on the strenghts of each when i play. A plexi is the most versatile amp imo, but each can also be a fickle little bitch and just wants to be played certain ways, and i have to give in, to get the best tone out of it.

[rockstah]

I feel that shared forces me to have a little more touch, whereas split allows me to really dig in with confidence. So in that sense, split is 'easier', but requires more of me in terms of emotion, to express something. Shared maybe has a little more expression naturally, and maybe 'easier' in that sense. I agree that a player 'automatically' adjusts to each to mazimize what they want to express, or can express with each. They both have limitations, which i naturally try to reduce, and focus on the strenghts of each when i play. A plexi is the most versatile amp imo, but each can also be a fickle little bitch and just wants to be played certain ways, and i have to give in, to get the best tone out of it.

agreed a plexi is a real mans amp - its gives no more or less than what you put into it. or pull out out of it anyway.

[awangotango]

sometimes you gotta put more in, and for some amps, you gotta pull more out. People talk of how one day a certain amp kills and the next it's a dog. While voltage from the wall matters, i think it's the player/person who is changing and throwing a wrench into the equation. My 'state' each time i play can be different. The best tone appears, in my personal experience, when i am in tune with a particular amp. I usually find this by wandering around the neck and messing with the picking hand until i find a voice from the amp that feels right. Then i can feel free to trust myself to really let go and play, because i know it will sound 'right'. The bigger the sweet spot, the more i love the thing. Some amps, i just can't get a vibe from, but a properly setup marshall or any tube amp for that matter, will always have a good vibe somewhere inside that i can grab onto and use. Sometimes it's a matter of exploiting the 'bad' qualities and make it sound 'right'. A loose amp, jtm 45 or low filtered plexi for example, can sound really 'off in the wrong hands. There's real danger zones on the neck and in picking style that need to be avoided. Same goes for super tight amps like a post 69 superlead. This is the exaggerated difference of shared/split, which is more subtle, but similar.

[rockstah]

sometimes you gotta put more in, and for some amps, you gotta pull more out. People talk of how one day a certain amp kills and the next it's a dog. While voltage from the wall matters, i think it's the player/person who is changing and throwing a wrench into the equation. My 'state' each time i play can be different. The best tone appears, in my personal experience, when i am in tune with a particular amp. I usually find this by wandering around the neck and messing with the picking hand until i find a voice from the amp that feels right. Then i can feel free to trust myself to really let go and play, because i know it will sound 'right'. The bigger the sweet spot, the more i love the thing. Some amps, i just can't get a vibe from, but a properly setup marshall or any tube amp for that matter, will always have a good vibe somewhere inside that i can grab onto and use. Sometimes it's a matter of exploiting the 'bad' qualities and make it sound 'right'. A loose amp, jtm 45 or low filtered plexi for example, can sound really 'off in the wrong hands. There's real danger zones on the neck and in picking style that need to be avoided. Same goes for super tight amps like a post 69 superlead. This is the exaggerated difference of shared/split, which is more subtle, but similar.

+1 it all adds up to if you play it like you mean it it will come across - finding that door is for sure up to the individual.

[mightymike]

My playing has adjusted. At first I did not like shared, now I do.
What did the trick was when I was waiting on a part for my #1 amp that was down, then it forced me to play another amp, that I didn't like initialy.
It was literaly getting cob webs. It was my JTM 45/100.
Can you belive that?

During that time I tweaked it further, and now it's possibly my favorite amp. Even over my 12000, and it's shared. But now I know how to use it.
And boy does it sing with swells of Feedback. wow.

It's a whole different style of playing. I feel like a new door has been opened for me, and it has improved my playing.

I think Split covers up mistakes, where Shared your naked.
But when you're on with shared, it's the best imho.

Ask me in 6 months, I may feel different, because I'm am constantly experimenting. But for now I'm shared....with V2 boost