EVH 5150 Iconic EL34 NEW

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Just seen this EVH 5150 Iconic EL34 NEW looks bad ass…..
 

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James brown said it’s been tweaked in the preamp to sound slightly more vintage as well. So it’s not just a power tube bias circuit and heater supply change.

I’m hoping it’s not an amp that can only do brown sound Van Halen and stays a metal amp.
 
glpg80 said:
James brown said it’s been tweaked in the preamp to sound slightly more vintage as well. So it’s not just a power tube bias circuit and heater supply change.

I’m hoping it’s not an amp that can only do brown sound Van Halen and stays a metal amp.
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Agree
 
glpg80 said:
James brown said it’s been tweaked in the preamp to sound slightly more vintage as well. So it’s not just a power tube bias circuit and heater supply change.

I’m hoping it’s not an amp that can only do brown sound Van Halen and stays a metal amp.
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Was there ever a 5150 made that didn’t have exuberant amounts of gain? :LOL:
 
LP Freak said:
I agree. It just blows my mind that these weren’t a huge success. I play mine right next to all the big boys and it easily stands toe to toe
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Do we know it wasn't a huge success? They seem pretty popular to me.
 
LP Freak said:
Was there ever a 5150 made that didn’t have exuberant amounts of gain? :LOL:
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What most people dont know is on the originals if you insert an empty patch cable in the low gain input while plugged into the high gain input you can get even more gain. You just turn the gain knob down to get a different flavor to the gain.(y)
 
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glpg80 said:
James brown said it’s been tweaked in the preamp to sound slightly more vintage as well. So it’s not just a power tube bias circuit and heater supply change.

I’m hoping it’s not an amp that can only do brown sound Van Halen and stays a metal amp.
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Source?
 
psychodave said:
What most people dont know is on the originals if you insert an empty parch cable in the low gain input while plugged into the high gain input you can get even more gain. You just turn the gain knob down to get a different flavor to the gain.(y)
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What?
 
LP Freak said:
I agree. It just blows my mind that these weren’t a huge success. I play mine right next to all the big boys and it easily stands toe to toe
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+1, my Iconic 40 is my most used amp. My 101b, Savage and Sabot are great but the Iconic just sounds great anywhere you put the dials. Cleans even give my Deluxe Reverb a run for their money.
 
glpg80 said:
A lot of the original clips were forced to be done with the matching cab which is a complete failure. The amp really never recovered from the bad reviews once they were paired with proper speakers and cabinets.
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This. Everyones first impression was of the clips with the complete garbage matching cabinets that had garbage speakers in them.

Apparently they sound great with big kid speakers - I've not played one, but I've heard clips and they sound very much like the standard 5150 series from what I can tell, with a better clean channel

It's kind of mind blowing, if their cheap asses loaded the cabs with Chinese v30s or one of the various v30s copies, or literally ANY decent speaker, I think the iconic would have flown off the shelves

It's actually kind of mind blowing how stupid big corporations can be
 
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