Ricky_Gallows
lyketotallybrashdude
throw a slight reverb on the clean and its butter...
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lyke buttah
throw a slight reverb on the clean and its butter...
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I can't see a 5150III NOT getting just as aggresively brutal w/ the same settings - but I've never plugged into one, or heard them both in the same place. I have heard a 5150III live (darkest hour) and hot damn it sounded GOOD.
The EVH is what the 5150 SHOULD have been.
Go EVH.
It's Whitechapel approvedhahaha
but in all honesty the EVH is a better version of the 6505 in my opinion. I used to love the 6505 and still do, but it's dull and lifeless compare to the EVH. The EVH has more attack and dynamic to the gain structure. Sounds really tight and percusive. Has just as much low end as well, nice and punchy. Plus if you play clean, the clean channel on the EVH is in another world compared to the 6505 since the EVH is made by Fender.
Says he who is using an original 5150 to track his new album
I like the 6505+ personally, it's got the grit of the 6505 and the smoothness of the 5150III without having too much of either quality. Awesome for rhythm and lead.
The 5150III is probably a better amp, but it's tone just isn't for me. Don't get me wrong, it's awesome, but it doesn't have that grit that you get with the +.
I'm always a bit (well, okay A LOT) skeptical of clips that show an amps tone by itself and not in a full band/mix context.
When I saw Whitechapel live on the 25th of Feb, when riffs just involving one guitar were playing, even through the 5150 head and Mesa Boogie Recto cab is sounded pretty average, but BAM, when the rest of the band came in complete with 2 other guitarists, bass player and drums my face was totally melted off clean.
The beauty of a 5150 is how well it works in the mix even if by itself it doesn't sound too impressive