Eddie Van Halen

Use as backup guitar for 5150. Also featured on Panama music video, the guitar now is given to his son Wolfgang.

In this photo of Eddie with his guitar collection you can see a cherry Dean V near the bottom left corner.

at 1967 of the official evh timeline it says that eddies first guitar was a teisco del ray

Eddie used this guitar when performing “Spanked” live during the time he used Music Man guitars. The top portion of the guitar served as a 6-string bass, and the bottom was a regular guitar.

Eddie Van Halen is pictured with the EVH Wolfgang Special Striped Series guitar in a user-uploaded photo from Vhnd.

Eddie Van Halen is associated with the EVH Striped Series Shark guitar, a replica of the iconic Ibanez Destroyer "Shark," as featured on the official EVH Gear website.

I think he said "Whoa, a f***ing little Les Paul!" He definitely was smiling. He was tickled. He loved it, and immediately took it out the case and tried it. He hustled us all to venue to run it through his rig, and there backstage, he bought that one, and contracted me to make him another one. Manager brings in a briefcase full of cash - literally full - and pays for the bulk of it in cash. Immediately his tech removes my strap buttons and whacks in big eye-bolts with a mallet to go with Ed’s low-tech “Tractor Supply Store” looking strap hooks. I could hear the wood crackling and little chips of nitrocellulose snapping off as he cranked the eye-bolts in using a big screwdriver like it was a tire iron. That was a quick lesson in Ed’s favoring function over form.

I should mention, the first of Eddie’s LP’s (#13) contained a small battery operated practice amp & speaker - it was on when the volume knob was pulled, and bypassed when the knob was pushed down. Valerie Bertinelli, Eddie’s wife at the time, said he loved it and “practically took it in the shower with him.” I think that was the only mini I made with an amp & speaker in it. That’s going to be a key feature of the reissue line I’m thinking of doing. It’s a lot of fun to tote around a small electric guitar that you can hear when you play it. (Duh.)

In this photo EVH can clearly be seen with 2 Maestro EP3 Echoplex tape delays. Eddie was known to favor the EP3 for delay throughout the 70s and into the 80s.

Eddie had come up with a cool new riff on a Minimoog synthesizer and shared it with Templeman and Roth. Soon after, the pair hijacked Eddie’s synth composition for “Dancing in the Streets,” a cover song that Van Halen disliked. In the end, Van Halen told Guitar World, “Ted and Dave were happy -- and I wasn’t.”

In this very rare video, Eddie Van Halen can be seen playing "Amsterdam" in 1985 with customized Charvel San Dimas.

From Bobby Cedro, senior engineer at Dunlop, manufacturers of Eddie's original "Holy Grail" Cry Baby from which this pedal is directly cloned: "This wah wah is real special to me because I had the good fortune of working with Eddie in developing this wah... the interesting thing about this pedal is actually its inspiration... it had an inductor which was selected for a nice, rich, low-end sound... but when we tried to replicate it... when we measured the pot, through years of playing, Ed wore out the middle of that pot, and it gave it a whole new different response... I had that remade, got that same selected inductor, and those two things coupled in gives you the voice of Eddie Van Halen's pedal, and he loved it. He's all, "that's it"!"

Premier Guitar's third photo of Van Halen's setup at Bridgestone Arena in 2012: "Eddieys [sic] two main racks feature (top) a Furman power conditioner/light source..." In this case, the power conditioner can be identified as the PL-PLUS C.

According to Premier Guitar, Eddie's set at the Bridgestone Arena in 2012 features a "pair of trusty Roland SDE-3000 delays".

In this music video for "Can't Stop Lovin' You" Eddie can be seen playing his Signature Music Man. :48s is the best shot of this guitar.

Eddie was seen playing this guitar on The Downtown Sessions DVD released in 2012. A couple of clips are available on Vimeo, including the cover of Kink’s “You Really Got Me”.

Eddie Van Halen uses EVH Premium Quality Guitar Strings (09-42), as noted on GroundGuitar's comprehensive gear guide.

In this Instagram picture, Eddie playing Telecoustic with his son Wolfgang.

In this photo from Vhnd, Eddie Van Halen's guitar collection is displayed, featuring a Kramer Baretta hanging in his studio.

Eddie Van Halen used the iconic "Eruption '78" guitar, a version of his famous "Frankenstrat," during the recording of the band's debut album. This guitar is featured in a user-uploaded photo from 1978, showcasing its significance in his early career.

His signature Steinberger 5150 has two EMG 85.

A famous replica Circle guitar used by Eddie Van Halen during 2015 tour made by EVH.

In the photo titled "edwithripley.jpg" from Vintagekramer, Eddie Van Halen is shown with his custom-made Ripley guitar.

This scan of a Keyboard magazine feature mentions Eddie Van Halen using two Oberheim OB-8 synths onstage instead of his Oberheim OB-Xa:

When we were getting ready to tour [for the 1984 album], I went out to buy four or five OB-Xas, because you need backups in case something breaks down. That's when I found out they didn't make the OB-Xa anymore. I didn't even know they made the OB-8, but I got a couple of them instead and tried to reprogram them. Now I only use my own programs.

Eddie Van Halen on using the OB-8 live for the solo on "Jump":

I have to play it on the keyboard. On the record the Oberheim plays a single-note line under the guitar solo. Mike can play it, but I can't switch from the guitar to the OB-8 to play the keyboard section that comes after, so I'm stuck with playing it on the keyboard, even though I don't like doing it that way. I've been jumping around playing guitar all night long, then all of a sudden I've got to stand still and try to do a solo on the keyboard. I'm not good that that... yet.

In this article, Eddie Van Halen mentions using a Prophet-10 synthesizer to write "Jump". Eventually he had problems with the fuses blowing out whenever he got the sound he wanted on the right hand section of the keyboard that he had to get an Oberheim OB-Xa instead to get the same result.

On one of the collectible covers of Guitar World for February 2009, Eddie Van Halen can be seen with a Tobacco Burst version of the Wolfgang Special guitar.

This particular version of the guitar can also be seen on the cover of Guitar Player's 2011 Holiday issue: http://www.guitarplayer.com/holiday2011

Expanding the band's sound for OU812, Van Halen looked to digital synthesisers to brighten up the 'fat analogue' sound of previous releases.

http://www.guitarworld.com/eddie-van-halen-how-he-created-his-signature-sound-using-mxrs-phase-90-and-flanger-pedals

Obviously, I liked the Phase 90, so when MXR came out with the Flanger, I said, What the hell? I loved their stuff. Their pedals are built like a brick shit house, and they make great sounds, so I started putzing around with the Flanger too. I always use the same setting for everything, from the intro to “And the Cradle Will Rock…” to “Unchained,” with the exception of the setting I used on the intro to “Outta Love Again” and “Bullethead.”

I set the three knobs on the left between 11 o’clock or 11:30, and the last knob on the right [regeneration] is all the way up. I might fine-tune the speed a little to match it to the tempo of the song, like on “Unchained” where the sweep goes perfectly with the riff. I was just goofing off and experimenting. It wouldn’t have sounded good to use the flanger all the way through. The riff just needed a little bit here and there. It’s a cool, tasty little tidbit that I threw in there to draw attention to the riff.

Only two of these guitar were ever made for Eddie – one in red, and one in yellow, both featuring stripe decals. 

A Roland DC 30 can be seen in Eddie Van Halen's effects rack.

"Effects: A Roland DC30; an original Jimi Hendrix Fuzz Face purchased from Dan Martin sometimes between 1982 and 1984; a Roland Echo box used during live performances of 'Hot for Teacher' a Roland SDE-3000 Delay; a Rockman Smart Gate used for recording; a Boss OC-2 Octave; Boss SD-1 Overdrive; a Lexicon PCM-70 used for live performances of 'Cathedral.'"

— The Van Halen Encyclopedia by C.J. Chivers, 2nd Edition