5150 Iconic EL34 Available (Clips!)

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Sounds absolutely killer. Not sure Jason can make an amp sound bad though. Kinda like Ola. We thinking this replaces the 5153?
 
Braden717 said:
Sounds absolutely killer. Not sure Jason can make an amp sound bad though. Kinda like Ola. We thinking this replaces the 5153?
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I think it could hold its own against them all except the stealth 50/100 variants. Those are nuts.
 
crwnedblasphemy said:
So these don't have a blue channel? Just green and red correct?
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Correct. However, the Green Channel's two modes sound pretty different from each other, same with the two Red modes. It's almost like the Iconic is a 4 channel amp, but all four "channels" share a single tonestack and you can only footswitch between two sounds at a time.

LP Freak said:
Green is the new blue
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Hah pretty much.
 
Word is that something about the EL34 Iconic's preamp is voiced in a "more vintage" way than the 6L6 version.
Is there any truth to that? I'd be curious to hear them A/B'd to see if that's true.

edit: looks like @Bad.Seed goes over that in his video. Warmer top end, more balanced overall, easier to EQ. That's cool.
 
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I have not been interested in any new amp for a long time but man this sounds killer, both clips. and at that price point jeez!!!!!
 
OldGtrGuy said:
Yeah that sounds sick. I just got a 3120 yesterday. Not mad but if I waited 1 day I'd probably have order this :LOL:
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The 3120 will probably eat it's lunch. Throw some KT77's in there, a Tungsol in V1, a 5751 in V2, and you're rockin. Good tubes and biased right will light that Peavey up!
 
napalmdeath said:
The 3120 will probably eat it's lunch. Throw some KT77's in there, a Tungsol in V1, a 5751 in V2, and you're rockin. Good tubes and biased right will light that Peavey up!
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I literally just put a tung sol in V1 before I saw this :lol:

Been messing with tubes today (these tubes are a BITCH to get to and get in and out)

Definitely some weird results. In fact to my ears the tung sol was the only tube in V1 out of 4 different tubes that resulted in a noticeable difference and it was not for the better, at least for my tastes. It was a but cleaner which is good but the distortion dropped noticeably which I can't have.

What was more interesting though. I went to V4 because I like a Sovtek LPS typically....V4 gave me more of a noticeable change than V1. Ended up with Chinese B in V1 and JJ's for the rest.

The amp came with Ruby EL34BSTR which is pretty cool. Never tried KT77 though I will keep that in mind.

In any case, way off topic.

I think this was one of Kyle's best demos and I really like the new Iconic based on this video.
 
Racerxrated said:
Had both Stealth 100w. Returned them after a few weeks. The Iconic I heard/played was a better sounding/feeling amp, IMO.
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The one iconic I played was indeed fun to play but it doesn’t hold a candle to the stealth IMO. I’d take an iconic over the other various wattages and variants though.
 
On my shitty headphones it almost has a solid state tone to it... which isnt a bad thing 👀
 
glpg80 said:
The one iconic I played was indeed fun to play but it doesn’t hold a candle to the stealth IMO. I’d take an iconic over the other various wattages and variants though.
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OldGtrGuy said:
Kind of had the same experience. I've only played one and it was not in my own surroundings. My good friend has one and swears by it though.
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They are cool amps, the 5153s and good values for the features, tone but there's just something about those amps I don't care for.....can't put my finger on it exactly. I call it a 'plastic-like' tone but not sure that describes super well lol.
 
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