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Peavey 5150 Head

Tube Guitar Amp Head from Peavey belonging to the 5150 series

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Published on 08/03/03 at 09:51
Peavey 5150 head was designed in collaboration with Eddie Van Halen (he also uses on most of these albums). This is a 120W all-tube head that costs about € 1200 depending on the store where you bought it.

To look sober enough (all black) This head is a perfect finish and seems robust. A grid on the back reveals 2 large transformers (power supply + output) and lamps. Little touches: the power cord can be wrapped around two small hook for that purpose. On the front is written in large letters 5150 white. The knobs are shaped "arrow" as the vintage amp (I like). In short it's nice and well finished.
The 120W of the beast are generated by four 6L6, the preamp is in turn by 5 12AX7 driver. The front panel has two inputs (normal and high) to fit the output level of the different guitars. Then the gain of the clean channel it has two switches (Bright and crunch) respectively for added shine to her and get her a crunch (ie + saturated).
Boosted channel has its own gain knob, but the EQ (equalization: a serious one medium, one acute) is common to the two channels.
Each channel has a volume called Rhythm Master Post (for the clean channel and crunch) and Lead Post (for full).
The EQ is supported by a presence control (for acute) and resonance (for serious). These parameters are changing the way work of HP (speaker!) Then the effectiveness of these adjustments depends on the HP that is used.
Finally come the start of inter and stand-by (for lamps!)

The back of the head has 2 speaker outputs with impedance switch, an effects loop, and the entry for the Footswitch. The footswitch're talking about, it is a bit light and make a little cheap compared to the quality of the head (the same footswitch that the series Transtube peavey home ....)

UTILIZATION

Too bad there is only one EQ ...
Otherwise it is easy to use.

SOUNDS

Both say it's not immediately make an amp for jazz or variétoche (although it could). It is an amp to play loud and saturated! 120 W are there is no doubt!

The clean channel sounds not too bad (it is not the strong point of the beast), but it tends to be a bit messy: it saturates slightly even when the gain very low (of 3). If not for the blues a little dirty is pretty good but no way to have sounds very clean and crystal to Dire Straits or other ... When one starts the switch ca crunch even more saturated. The color and texture of the sound reminds us once again that it is a tube amp. The grain is really good well-balanced, all that is necessary. EQ let well enough to work even if the sound settings of presence and resonance are not as effective as the channel saturated.

The Distortion channel (called LEAD) is it really enjoyable ... (Lol). The base saturation is high and can not be reduced by lowering the volume of the guitar. And attention, it is not a saturation Cheap: it's true, good, full of warmth, compression and harmonic.
The resonance is fully usable on that channel and helps in the manufacture of the large metal & Co. ca frankly hard! Y has more gain than you'll ever need in your life as a guitarist (even for a Death metallers!)
Well, there is still a lot of steam but which has seen a high gain amp without blowing ... (A small Hush (Noise Reduction Rocktron home!) Will do.
In short saturated sound excellent!

8 / 10 in total because of the clean sounds if 9 / 10 just to heavy distortion

OVERALL OPINION

There are ways to find good prices for OCCAZ for metalheads it's worth it.
A grain of her a little more dirty than the mesa, but very good all the same (different).
It's good stuff strong and powerful.