Eddie Van Halen

Eddie Van Halen's wildly iconic black-with-yellow stripes Strat-style guitar made its official debut on the cover of the 1979 album Van Halen II.

This guitar was used by Eddie Van Halen on the ’82/’83 Van Halen world tour, and is based on the legendary “5150” guitar that he built himself at the Kramer factory.

This humbucker also used in Eruption '78 guitar

From the site of Dunlop, the manufacturers of both the original Cry Baby and the Eddie Van Halen Signature Wah: "The EVH Wah was developed after intensive design collaboration with the legendary guitarist, Eddie Van Halen. Early on in the process, Eddie handed over his “Holy Grail” Cry Baby—a standard Cry Baby customized in the early Nineties with a more vocal-like, High Q inductor and a wider frequency sweep..."

This suggests that the current (vividly yellow) EVH model is not the exact pedal that Eddie Van Halen used, but rather a 'standard Cry Baby' that was modified to suit Eddie's needs and dubbed the "Holy Grail".

"5150!!! pic.twitter.com/kBajDjNhkm" (Eddie is referring to his 5150III line of amplifiers and cabinets, both of which feature in this photo.)

Premier Guitar wrote this beneath the second photo of Van Halen's 2012 performance setup at the Bridgestone Arena: "His pedalboard features[...] a Whirlwind A/B box (top right)[...]"

This picture features Eddie Van Halen's Mando Bass.

This is a custom made purple Kramer Pacer with stripes from his guitar collection.

Eddie used this guitar specifically because of the TransTrem system, on songs such as ‘Get Up’ and ‘Summer Nights’ for the 5150 album released in 1986. 

In this picture, you can see Eddie playing Custom VH1 Frankenstrat by Charvel

Eddie Van Halen uses EVH Premium Strings 9-46, as shown in the image from Google.

Eddie Van Halen is associated with the EVH Striped Series 5150, a guitar modeled after his iconic "Kramer 5150," which he played extensively from the 5150 tour through the OU812 tour. This connection is highlighted by EVH Gear.

Eddie used this guitar back in ’78 while Van Halen was in the studio, you can see the guitar in the picture below

In this video Edward's keyboard tech shows some of the synthesizers that he used during the OU812 tour. Included are 2 Roland D-50's. (Mentioned around 13:30) A Roland D-50 can also be seen in a photograph from the July 1988 issue of Keyboard World magazine, which showcases Edwards keyboard arsenal.

Premier Guitar captioned the second photo of Van Halen's 2012 performance at the Bridgestone Arena: "His pedalboard features[...] an RJM MasterMind MIDI footcontroller (bottom middle)[...]"

Premier Guitar's third photo of Van Halen's setup at Bridgestone Arena in 2012: "Eddieys [sic] two main racks feature[...] a Coleman Audio GT6 (for fast switching between wireless packs on different guitars)[...]"

Eddie Van Halen used a variety of synthesisers on the album OU812, including the SQ Prophet VS.

35 years after Van Halen's incredible debut album, MXR celebrates by releasing a Limited Edition version of the EVH Wah Pedal. The Eddie Van Halen Signature Wah 35th Anniversary edition boasts the distinctive red, black and white stripes of Eddie Van Halen's Frankenstein guitar.

Limited edition in celebration of Ed's 1978 debut Hand painted stripes Numbered certificate of authenticity

Made after studying Eddie's own wah pedal.

The EVH95 Signature Crybaby Wah Pedal is a member of the celebrated EVH Signature Series that was developed after intensive design collaboration with the legendary guitarist Eddie Van Halen.

Early on in the process, Eddie handed over his "Holy Grail" Crybaby-a standard Crybaby customized in the early Nineties with a more vocal-like, High Q inductor and a wider frequency sweep. Amazingly, Dunlop found that over the years Eddie's unique wah style, which uses mostly the middle range of the effect pedal's action, had carved his own curve into the pot's resistive element, making the middle range even more defined and increased the low end sweep.

Dunlop's clones of the worn-in pot and hand-selected inductor give the EVH-95 the same "Holy Grail" feel and tone, and it's true hardwire bypass, dual bright blue bypass LEDs, and graphics based on the black and yellow-striped guitar featured on Van Halen II round out this EVH-approved Crybaby Wah Pedal with a voice and look all its own.

More than 21000 guitar effects pedals from more than 3600 brands: http://www.effectsdatabase.com/model/dunlop/crybaby/evh95/se

Eddie Van Halen is associated with the EVH® Striped Series guitar, as highlighted on the EVH Gear website. https://youtube.com/shorts/dWZqIxdrmNw?si=inf2ZqkQ3fhiVvMG

Eddie Van Halen had a signature guitar with Charvel, the EVH Art Series, prior to the introduction of the EVH Striped Series. This is evidenced by a user-uploaded photo on Ampproject.

In this Keyboard magazine article, Eddie Van Halen mentions having a Prophet-5 synth. Here's what Eddie had to say about the Prophets:

I actually had a Prophet-5 years ago, but for some reason those things don't like me. I swear to God, I went through five of them, and whenever I got the sound I liked out of them, they started smoking. They burned up! I went through about three Prophets before I finally decided we just weren't going to work together. That's when I got the [Oberheim] OB-Xa.

On one of the four collectible covers for Guitar World's February 2009 issue, Eddie is seen with the Vintage White model of the Wolfgang USA guitar.

On Dec 19 2011, bidding began on a 1999 Wolfgang Translucent Cherry guitar donated by Eddie to Drop In The Bucket. This was one of the first guitars produced under the Wolfgang moniker. Bidding ended on January 19, 2012.

Image provided by a press release regarding the same listing: http://www.guitaraficionado.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/evh-gtr-in-case-660-80.jpg

From Premier Guitar's third photo of Van Halen's setup at Bridgestone Arena in 2012: "Eddieys [sic] two main racks feature[...] a Shure UA845 wireless antenna unit."

During Van Halen's 2012 tour, Ed uses this Global Voltage Regulator with the input voltage at 119 and output current at 5.7

During Van Halen's 2012 tour, Eddie used this power conditioner to augment his voltage regulator, the Furman P-3600 AR G.

This is sold from EVH's website, and he is seen with it in his live performances as well as this interview.

EVH Gear release a famous Eddie Van Halen 'Frankenstein' during NAMM 2020

Used for "Sunday Afternoon in the Park", as showcased in this January 9, 2015 Instagram post by his son Wolfgang.

Sunday Afternoon on a Friday #FairWarning

I really don’t remember. That was all Donn, although Donn never added any flanging or phasing to my guitar. I think I may have used a little MXR Phase 90 on that. I played through the Eventide Harmonizer all the time back then, but I used it mostly to split my guitar signal so it came out of both sides.