Greg_L wrote: ↑Fri Oct 20, 2017 10:37 pm
I have played with a lot of them. My buddy Chris rips on them when we go running around. He likes them. I think they're okay. Good quality, way too much gain for me, but they seem to be pretty good. They started out as the Peavey 5150, remember those? Then that deal ended and Peavey relabeled it the 6505. Then Fender picked it up and now it's the "EVH" series. They're all basically the same amp.
The name is misleading though. They
do not have the "EVH sound". If you're looking for vintage Eddie/Marshall "brown sound", that amp aint it. It's just a good general high-gain rock/metal amp.
Cool dude, I was pretty sure you'd messed with 'em...Yeah I know how that amp started, then ended up at Fender...
And yeah, I already know the brown sound ain't gonna be in the EVH amps...You held my hand & walked me through a bunch of that 3-4 years ago...That's when I bought the Chupa...I originally was gonna buy an Orange OR15, then changed my mind & was gonna get a hand built, one-off custom 10 or 15 watt clone from GR amps, but ran into the Chupa...You were a big help with that stuff, & whether you know it or not, you played a big part in the amp I chose to buy...
The "real" brown sound is basically just a super lead cranked, with some sort of boost hitting the input...I've read he used an echoplex for that...On top of the cranked SLP & a boost, I'm pretty sure there's a lot of studio trickery with that tone too...If we were able to go back to 1978 (or whenever) & listen to just the guitar>boost>amp, it'd be your normal kerrang those amps do so well...
Honestly, it's hard to say what that fucker used, even though he's one of the top 5 players on my list, you can't believe anything he says because he's full completely of shit...
I'm not really looking for that tone dude, just wanted to know what you thought about the 50w EVH head...Not sure it's gonna happen, but this is a pretty good deal, & would be kinda hard to pass on...It's almost as good a deal as the head & cabinet I got a while back...