EVH5150iii EL34 50W Green Channel - what is the dealio?

GearGasms

GearGasms

Doctor Love
I don't hear a lot of talk about how good the Green channel is or isn't on the EVH 5150III EL34 50watt amp. Maybe it's because the name of the amp is long and clunky, kind of like an Ibanez guitar model number and no one wants to say it or type it over and over again? Or is it because most of us don't really know what it is that we want out of a "clean" channel, myself included? So let's take the green channel of thissy here EVH amp and see if it's beauty or beast, throw some pedals at it, and see what kind of gain it's capable of. Oh, and it's also a few weeks before my buddies Park Kingery and Truck Driver Shawn's new company, TDSFX are taking their brand new Sekhmet OD pedal to NAMM for the first time! So I used that as one of my pedals and tossed in a tongue in (butt) cheek in-content "ad".
Have a great weekend and Celebrate Mediocrity!
alan

 
Here's what I think of green clean channels:


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I actually dig the dimed vol and gain breakup of the green channel on the EVH amps. Cool classic rock tones to be had. But, the blue channel on the OG 5153 is better for that stuff to be honest.
 
RaceU4her said:
I’ve never even tried the green channel on mine, or my recto, my iic+ I don’t even know if it has a clean channel.. yeah I’ve not played the clean channel on most of my amps lol
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That's hilarious. I did bring up that most ppl don't buy this amp to play Fonzie music. All apologies to the Fonz. I mean, he's cool and all.
 
I find the green channel to be quite nice on my 100 watt 5105 III Stealth. However, no one buys this amp line for the clean channel.
 
SFW said:
I find the green channel to be quite nice on my 100 watt 5105 III Stealth. However, no one buys this amp line for the clean channel.
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Yeah that's my thinking and I'm sure it will be reflected in the views but I thought it was worth looking at. And since I bought this thing full retail if I could make 3 videos that triples my money up to $60 so that's a little back in my pocket, lol.
 
GearGasms said:
Yeah that's my thinking and I'm sure it will be reflected in the views but I thought it was worth looking at. And since I bought this thing full retail if I could make 3 videos that triples my money up to $60 so that's a little back in my pocket, lol.
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I hear ya. I actually find that the Green channel can be very glassy and nice if you dial it in that way. Which I laugh at, because I've basically played a single channel amp for so long that I rarely switch channels when I have a channel switching amp...lol!
 
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