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Hails Guys, iwant to know your opinions about the gain, tone range and loudness of this tube head.
also.. if you have any soundclips of it, please post the links here or PM me
i appreciate
HAILS AND THANK´S
J.P

Well yes it is just a re-badged 5150... As for gain/loudness, it has enough to kill a large dog from 40 feet away! Anything past 2 oclock on the gain setting it turns to fuzzy and mushy sounding for me. And the clean channel is some what limited in its tonal range, doesnt sound that lively to me, bit quot;plainquot; sounding.

That being said for the money you could pick up an older 5150 its good money value, and if you put a noise gate in front off the amp and dial it in correctly you can get some wild yet controlable distorted tones from this beast.

No clips, but I've played a 5150 on many many occaisions. ****ing amazing amps! Perfect midrange, and they just sit perfectly in a band mix. Plenty of gain, tons of clarity, and a great brown crunch sound.

One more thing, my old 5150 went through output tubes like no other amp i have ever owned! You can tell when this happens the sound goes thinner and scatchy sounding. Also with a drop in power.

DON´T YOU HAVE ANY SOUNCLIPS OF YOUR OLD 5150?
I DIDN´T understand your last post


Originally Posted by WITH FULL DISTORTIONDON´T YOU HAVE ANY SOUNCLIPS OF YOUR OLD 5150?
I DIDN´T understand your last post

Sorry i sold my 5150 years and years ago, no sound clips sorry.

I pushed my head really hard and it just ended up blowing output tubes quite fast, couple of sets a year.... from what i hear its a common thing with the 5150.

Sorry, didnt mean blowing whole sets as such, usual one sometimes two tubes, but when that happened i replaced all for output tubes with a matched quartet.

Ahhhhhhhh now i understand
thank´s
Q

BUT I STILL WANT aclip of a 5150
the real deal
extreme metal !
lots of distortion
i can´t beieve anyone here can´t get one for me

Have you tried listening to any of the Van Halen albums from For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge to Van Halen III?

hUM nO ERIK, I GUESS he uses too much effects like reverb and other processing and it gets difficult to hear just the amp´s distortion as i want
plus, i need some metal riffage !
Q

Ok, well, listen to two songs of Balance. Big Fat Money and Aftershock. Sure, there's some chorus but the sound isn't that much different without it. On Van Halen III, Fire in the Hole is killer. I used to own one of the first run of 5150's too. Great amp and I wish I didn't get rid of it.

WFD, this isnt full out brutal riffage, but it's a good rep of what the amp can do!

from : localhost/www.spectresound.ca/sound/TS9 test.mp3

from : localhost/is a lil bit I did with my old combo. Low gain input, just messing a bit. I dug the amp but have since found amps I like better. This is meant to show the more subtle side of the amp.

Kev,

what was your overall opinion of those amps?

At the Ted Nugent concert I went to, he was using 5150's and the gain sounded really damn high, MUCH higher than he was using on his albums. It sounds insane, not sure if its metaly tho, to my ears it sounded like just a great hard rock tone, Ala judas priest or Van halen.

I think a 6505 would be better for ya WFD!


Originally Posted by MephisAt the Ted Nugent concert I went to, he was using 5150's and the gain sounded really damn high, MUCH higher than he was using on his albums. It sounds insane, not sure if its metaly tho, to my ears it sounded like just a great hard rock tone, Ala judas priest or Van halen.

I think a 6505 would be better for ya WFD!Just so you know...the 5150 and the 6505 are the same amp...


Originally Posted by MephisI think a 6505 would be better for ya WFD!

Yeah, you're insane. They're the same exact thing.

Thank´s guys, i´m downloading it RIGHT NOW.

thank´s kevlar and all
and thank´s DSS666 for the clip man
those ibanez ts realy smooth out the tone
i liked it
ineed to ****ing test a 5150 really
Q:/

Yeah, TS9's and EMG's are what really make metal tones, IMO. The EMG's give it insane sustain and clarity, while the TS9's make them sit a bit better in a mix, saturates the sound more so you can lower gain, which increases clarity and decreases noise, as well as giving it a killer low end and mid sound.