“You Don't Come Into a Van Halen Record and Tell Eddie, ‘This Is How We're Going to Do It’”: Why Eddie Van Halen Didn’t Double-Track His Guitars

“You don't come into a Van Halen record and tell Eddie, ‘This is how we're going to do it’”: Why Eddie Van Halen didn’t double-track his guitars

Recording engineer Ross Hogarth recalls working with the late guitar icon and helping him broaden his sound on A Different Kind of Truth

“He would play the part with all these nuances and squeals. On its own, it was perfect.” Why didn't Eddie Van Halen double-track his guitars? Recording engineer Ross Hogarth explains how he worked with the virtuoso

Hogarth broke an unspoken rule to make way for tonal play time. The results paid off in spades