Adrian Vandenberg joined Whitesnake in 1987 just as John Sykes was leaving, contributing the "Here I Go Again (US version)" solo and other Whitesnake material. Per Vandenberg's own MusicPlayers.com interview, his documented Whitesnake rig was modified Marshall 100W JCM2240's and 50W Super Leads going through Celestion 4x12's. The interview does NOT name the modder. Amp Panel #12 (February 2026, ~[114:41]) places Vandenberg in the broader Jose-mod conversation, but the specific Jose-vs-other-modder attribution for Vandenberg's amps is not publicly documented in primary-source interviews. Treat the "Jose-mod user" framing as panel-side speculation rather than confirmed provenance.
(A note on the chassis number: "JCM2240" doesn't match Marshall's standard JCM800 model-code naming convention, but the number appears verbatim across Vandenberg's own interview and multiple corroborating rig-rundown sources, so it's preserved here rather than assumed to be a transcription error for JCM800 2203/2204.)
This is brief panel-side attribution rather than a deep-dive teardown — the specific chassis-year, mod-recipe details, modder identity, and discography-mapping of Vandenberg's modified Marshalls are not publicly documented in the same detail as Sykes's 1987 / 4-input chassis or EVH #12301.
Adjacency to Sykes: Vandenberg and Sykes overlapped in Whitesnake (Sykes left 1986, Vandenberg joined 1987). The "1987" album includes work from both eras. Both ran modified Marshalls in their lead-guitar voice, and the band's tonal language under David Coverdale during this period leaned on the broader hot-rodded-Marshall vocabulary that the Jose canon helped define.
JMIL surface area: flag as "documented modified-Marshall rig but not Jose-confirmed and not deeply teardown'd" — the Sykes-1987 preset is the closest JMIL approximation by family resemblance. Players chasing specifically Vandenberg's "Here I Go Again" lead tone (vs Sykes's "Still of the Night") can use the same preset with slightly less diode-shelf (or no diodes — Vandenberg's tone is less obviously diode-compressed than Sykes's).