Hey guys,
it's been a while since I contributed anything useful to this forum, and I've also not been that active over the last year, so i don't know how many of these threads allready existed or not. But it can never harm to have one more I suppose
So one of my best friends FINALLY got his EVH50w, after having to wait for it like 4 months, cause they had problems with the delivery.
I invited him over to our rehearsal space, so we could do a little comparison between it and my 6505+ through my Mesa OS.
We spend a little bit too much time noodling around, switching between the heads, so it didn't leave as much time micing up as I wished, but the mic position was nice enough I think. But the EVH is just SO much fun to play, it's unreal. CH3 is so fucking übertight, couldn't believe it. Other channels rock as well, but 3 is were it's at for me.
Also amazing how low you can keep the volume and it still kicks ass, not used to that with my peavey
Compared to the 6505+ I feel like the EVH is a lot more "modern" voiced. It has a lot less mids, even with them pretty high and through the middy Oversize it's not nearly as middy as the peavey. Hard to get the same honky bite, but instead of that it has very smooth and juicy palm mutes. Also the highs and himids are different, not as strong as on the 6505+, and a lot smoother highs with less fizz. But in a mix they sound more similar than I thought they would.
Anyway, I currently don't have a reamp box, so I just went straight into the amps with my buddies freshly restrung EC401. No TS on both clips, cause I didn't really feel the need for on the evh, so I also left it for the peavey.
Dialing in the amps in the same way was a bit challanging, and I could have gotten closer, especially with the mids, but I was a bit in a hurry and it allready sounded close enough in the room. More difference in the mics then, but eh you get the idea. Dialing them in with same settings would have been totally pointless, cause the knobs on the evh work different. Really useable differnt actually, especially mids and presence, compared to the peavey.
So here are the clips, just 2 simple riffs recorded to the click, programmed drums and recorded bass afterwards. I also put together a little zip with the backingtrack and the guitars, so you can hear and try out for yourself.
Only HP/LP on the guits in those clips.
Both same mic position, Mesa OS with one 57. Fairly standard
EVH 50w
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3961577/Mixes/EVH 50 W Test/Mago_EVH50W_raw.mp3
6505+
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3961577/Mixes/EVH 50 W Test/Mago_6505+_raw.mp3
Package with backing track and guitar files
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3961577/Mixes/EVH 50 W Test/EVH50W Testfiles.zip
My buddy also bought the matching EVH 1x12 Cab (celestion heritage speaker), but that one didnt turn out so well. really just throwing the mic in front of it, and we didnt have tools at hand to put down the evh logo, cause its exactly in the middle of the speaker. That clip is in the zip, but its not really a good representation for the cab. It sounds really nice in the room, but I think we may have had too much volume on this take.
it's been a while since I contributed anything useful to this forum, and I've also not been that active over the last year, so i don't know how many of these threads allready existed or not. But it can never harm to have one more I suppose
So one of my best friends FINALLY got his EVH50w, after having to wait for it like 4 months, cause they had problems with the delivery.
I invited him over to our rehearsal space, so we could do a little comparison between it and my 6505+ through my Mesa OS.
We spend a little bit too much time noodling around, switching between the heads, so it didn't leave as much time micing up as I wished, but the mic position was nice enough I think. But the EVH is just SO much fun to play, it's unreal. CH3 is so fucking übertight, couldn't believe it. Other channels rock as well, but 3 is were it's at for me.
Also amazing how low you can keep the volume and it still kicks ass, not used to that with my peavey
Compared to the 6505+ I feel like the EVH is a lot more "modern" voiced. It has a lot less mids, even with them pretty high and through the middy Oversize it's not nearly as middy as the peavey. Hard to get the same honky bite, but instead of that it has very smooth and juicy palm mutes. Also the highs and himids are different, not as strong as on the 6505+, and a lot smoother highs with less fizz. But in a mix they sound more similar than I thought they would.
Anyway, I currently don't have a reamp box, so I just went straight into the amps with my buddies freshly restrung EC401. No TS on both clips, cause I didn't really feel the need for on the evh, so I also left it for the peavey.
Dialing in the amps in the same way was a bit challanging, and I could have gotten closer, especially with the mids, but I was a bit in a hurry and it allready sounded close enough in the room. More difference in the mics then, but eh you get the idea. Dialing them in with same settings would have been totally pointless, cause the knobs on the evh work different. Really useable differnt actually, especially mids and presence, compared to the peavey.
So here are the clips, just 2 simple riffs recorded to the click, programmed drums and recorded bass afterwards. I also put together a little zip with the backingtrack and the guitars, so you can hear and try out for yourself.
Only HP/LP on the guits in those clips.
Both same mic position, Mesa OS with one 57. Fairly standard
EVH 50w
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3961577/Mixes/EVH 50 W Test/Mago_EVH50W_raw.mp3
6505+
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3961577/Mixes/EVH 50 W Test/Mago_6505+_raw.mp3
Package with backing track and guitar files
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3961577/Mixes/EVH 50 W Test/EVH50W Testfiles.zip
My buddy also bought the matching EVH 1x12 Cab (celestion heritage speaker), but that one didnt turn out so well. really just throwing the mic in front of it, and we didnt have tools at hand to put down the evh logo, cause its exactly in the middle of the speaker. That clip is in the zip, but its not really a good representation for the cab. It sounds really nice in the room, but I think we may have had too much volume on this take.
