BurningRome
Well-Known Member
I don't know that the Peavey 5150/6505 smokes the Kraken honestly. The Kraken has an element of tonal quality the 6505 doesn't offer. I've already mentioned the downsides to the Kraken which is the immense amount of feedback squeal even on the lowest power settings, as mentioned though swapping out the V1 pre which is a 12AX7 for a low gain pre helps and leaves enough gain on tap.
What I personally am not liking about the kraken is that it has the thing going where it almost sounds like a constant clean boost is on, I understand both channels are gain channels but they're just edgier than I'd like, atleast to channel one.
As a person who loves what the kraken offers which is 50W with absolutely quality tone and gain on channel two I think there needs to be serious consideration to just investing channel 1 into a purely clean channel and investigating how to eliminate the channel 2 squeal with out having to tube swap, honestly the squeal is there after the tube swap but you have to be pretty high on gain to get it at that point.
For the price of these amps I think these are fair criticism and honestly no one wants a high end amp that has a channel, in this case channel 1 based off a JCM900...just being honest.
Not trying to complain even though it sounds like I am, it's something I hope gets attention because I am interested in the victory line now, I want to see other offerings in the small packaging that hover in the 50W range as they grow as a company.
What I personally am not liking about the kraken is that it has the thing going where it almost sounds like a constant clean boost is on, I understand both channels are gain channels but they're just edgier than I'd like, atleast to channel one.
As a person who loves what the kraken offers which is 50W with absolutely quality tone and gain on channel two I think there needs to be serious consideration to just investing channel 1 into a purely clean channel and investigating how to eliminate the channel 2 squeal with out having to tube swap, honestly the squeal is there after the tube swap but you have to be pretty high on gain to get it at that point.
For the price of these amps I think these are fair criticism and honestly no one wants a high end amp that has a channel, in this case channel 1 based off a JCM900...just being honest.
Not trying to complain even though it sounds like I am, it's something I hope gets attention because I am interested in the victory line now, I want to see other offerings in the small packaging that hover in the 50W range as they grow as a company.
