Went to my local music store and my buddy tells me they just got the new 5150 III in. (i have a pic but from my cell but i'm waiting for the email to get to me, i'll post it when i get it.) $2000usd for the head and $1500 for the cab.
Details:
No master volume, No Reverb ( i hate this setup myself)
All 3 channels have Gain, Bass, Mid, Treble. with 3 presence controls by themselves on the far right. power and standby are on the back
uke:
and the speaker jack on the cab is at the bottom (???) which seems silly because you need a lot longer speaker cable than normal.
I started with all the eq's at 1/2 and tweeked from there.
Ch1 had a really nice pristine clean sound with enough gain to get a good bluesy tone. very nice, not muddy at all. (sparkle-y comes to mind)
Ch2 was my favorite though it didn't have enough gain for metal. (IMO if you hit it with a pedal for more gain it it might be godly.) to my ears it had some Boogie-ish upper mids that i liked. it was still very a little too clean for me even with the gain all the way up.
Ch3 was definately a Marshall based tone, lots of gain. kind of boomy though, i had to turn the bass down to 2-3 ish to get rid of the "woofiness". i was playing an set neck, mahgany bodied Ibanez in standard!
On another note the store has sold 3 of the EVH guitars (at $25,000 a peice!). i was told that one of the buyers played the axe thru the 5150 III and it sounded just like the early VH stuff.
So that my report.
later
Details:
No master volume, No Reverb ( i hate this setup myself)
All 3 channels have Gain, Bass, Mid, Treble. with 3 presence controls by themselves on the far right. power and standby are on the back
uke: and the speaker jack on the cab is at the bottom (???) which seems silly because you need a lot longer speaker cable than normal.
I started with all the eq's at 1/2 and tweeked from there.
Ch1 had a really nice pristine clean sound with enough gain to get a good bluesy tone. very nice, not muddy at all. (sparkle-y comes to mind)
Ch2 was my favorite though it didn't have enough gain for metal. (IMO if you hit it with a pedal for more gain it it might be godly.) to my ears it had some Boogie-ish upper mids that i liked. it was still very a little too clean for me even with the gain all the way up.
Ch3 was definately a Marshall based tone, lots of gain. kind of boomy though, i had to turn the bass down to 2-3 ish to get rid of the "woofiness". i was playing an set neck, mahgany bodied Ibanez in standard!
On another note the store has sold 3 of the EVH guitars (at $25,000 a peice!). i was told that one of the buyers played the axe thru the 5150 III and it sounded just like the early VH stuff.
So that my report.
later
