“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

Eddie Van Halen.

When Ross Hogarth stepped into the hallowed halls of Eddie Van Halen’s 5150 studios to work on A Different Kind of Truth, he held one golden rule in mind, and very quickly learned the quirks of the shredder’s recording process.

“You don't come into a Van Halen record and tell Eddie, ‘Well, here, this is how we're going to do it,’” he tells the Agartha Podcast. “You come into Ed's world, and you see what he's doing.”