New Peavey 6505 II and Original 92

[Mongillo19]

BL is pretty much dead silent.

Dare I say the BL is a fantastic mix between digital and physical? I had one for a little bit and while it was fantastic, I was expecting something akin to a traditional Dual Rec (dumb I know, if I want a dual rec, get a dual rec).

 

[Elric]

It’s objective fact that the Balance tone was the best EVH tone ever recorded, next to Live: Right Here Right Now.

It's VH1 and Fair Warning for me. Those tones are untouchable.

The Hagar era stuff is fun and anything EVH is superb... but Balance et al are nowhere near as raw and aggressive to me. They do not reach out out of the speaker and rip heads off like VH1 did. VH1 was like "Good Lord, WTF is this?"

So, tonewise those early ones are in my archetypes along with some others... Balance, F*, the rest are cool but not iconic to me, personally.

 

[DrewJD82]

It's VH1 and Fair Warning for me. Those tones are untouchable.

The Hagar era stuff is fun and anything EVH is superb... but Balance et al are nowhere near as raw and aggressive to me. They do not reach out out of the speaker and rip heads off like VH1 did. VH1 was like "Good Lord, WTF is this?"

So, tonewise those early ones are in my archetypes along with some others... Balance, F*, the rest are cool but not iconic to me, personally.

I'd definitely say VH1-era tones are the iconic ones. I just heavily prefer the Balance-era tone. It's also right when I got into VH, which plays a big part of that. And that's really the only distorted/micropitched tone I like. Not a big fan of a chorus sound on any other distorted guitars, can't stand it when Petrucci does it, but it worked with what Ed was doing because he wasn't playin' f*ckin' metal tryin' to sound like Alex Lifeson.

 

[Riffraff]

Got mine (old one). It was a $25 salvage.
My 2nd iconic Peavey gear score that I got for 25 bucks. The other was my RockMaster preamp. Total basket case. I had to replace every relay in it.

The 6505+ was assumed dead and sold for parts. When I opened it up I immediately saw the problem.

One of the connectors for the ribbon cable that connects the preamp board to the power amp board fried and took out the filament circuit. I pulled the cable, checked the header pins, reflowed the one that got hot then hardwired the boards together with hookup wire and it was good to go. I really like this amp. It's a great sounding rock amp.

 

[Orvillain]

As the forum left handed Brit guy (self appointed, fuck you) I'd like to apologize for Nick Bowcott and his left handed Brit Guy thing.


But actually, that sounds fucking sickkkkkkk.

 

[Alex Kenivel]

Can't listen rn but can see the demo guy is that fool who did a Catalyst demo. That was the first time I've seen/heard him. Everything he touches sounds like bees.

 

[DrewJD82]

As long as it's not that dude Paul from Guitar World demo'ing stuff, I'm generally ok with it.

 

[James Freeman]

What in the world is wrong with Peavey (in general), and are they going to make these amps available or not?

 

[JiveTurkey]

What in the world is wrong with Peavey (in general), and are they going to make these amps available or not?

This is why your post on this in your dream amp thread had me

 

[paisleywookiee]

What in the world is wrong with Peavey (in general), and are they going to make these amps available or not?

Who knows? Technically, my buddy’s shop is a dealer. But we’ve not seen shit from them on these heads.

 

[KHAAAAAAANNNNNNN!!!!!!!!]

Saw them in Oslo in 1993 when he was all 5150 and Music Man, it was insanely good. And some dude managed to sneak in a decent camera and film the whole thing too:
One of the best videos from that era you can find on YT. You can really hear how massive his sound was.

GOD DAMN THEY WERE A ROCK MACHINE LIVE!!!!!!!!!

Sammy could deliver some cheese sometimes, but fuck me if he couldn't bring it live.

 

[James Freeman]

Still no Peavey amps on Thomann... wtf is going on?

 

[greatmutah]

No idea. Had it wishlisted on Sweetwater and it got pulled from my list by them.

 

[James Freeman]

PEAVEY, where TF are you?
I want to buy your amps.

 

[Tanax]

When I wrote to Thomann a long time ago (1-2 years?), they said that they had too many returns and quality issues with Peavey and that that was why they removed them from their catalog. They were unsure at the time if they would bring them back.

 

[bikescene]

Running into this thread and others, I’m kind of GASing for a 6505 1992. I’ve read some differing opinions on recent Peavey reliability.

Most posts I’ve read say that the MIC stuff is as solid as the old stuff. But I’ve seen some nonspecific references to recent QC issues. Does anyone have experience with the relaunched amps?

 

[James Freeman]

@MirrorProfiles As an owner of a big collection of amps, what is your experience with the 5150 and where does it sit sonically in comparison to it's "twins" the Soldano and the Rectifier?
I could just compare in the AxeFx3 but I want your first hand experience as an audio engineer.

 

[MirrorProfiles]

@MirrorProfiles As an owner of a big collection of amps, what is your experience with the 5150 and where does it sit sonically in comparison to it's "twins" the Soldano and the Rectifier?
I could just compare in the AxeFx3 but I want your first hand experience as an audio engineer.

It’s definitely in the family, the front panel of a 5150 is such a giveaway to its inspiration (2 channels, bright switch on crunch/clean channel).

I personally find SLO’s to be somewhat congested and a bit more “crunchy” sounding, 5150 and Rectifier have a more modern and aggressive gain. Recto is more of an all singing, all dancing flagship amp, distinct channels with EQ, various modes, wider range of tones.

SLO feels more caveman, it’s the closest to a modded 800 out of the 3. Wouldn’t say it has a wide range of tones, you set it up how you like and that’s the tone. 5150 can maybe do a bit more, the clean can be more sterile (but better than it gets credit for), crunch channel is very good, and lead has tons of gain.

5150 is maybe a good middle ground, at some settings it can be similarish to a recto, albeit without the huge low end.

You might be surprised with a Recto, Vintage mode is a more typical poweramp behaviour and can coax some tighter sounds than Red Modern mode that everyone associates with Rectifiers.

SLO=classic rock
Rectifier=rock amp that can do metal
5150=metal amp that can do rock

 

[James Freeman]

As I research I find that the Green crunch mode boosted was the more recorded one.
In Flames and Machine Head used the green channel with a tubescreamer.

Regarding the clean channel, I don't see anyone (on youtube) using the Normal input to get cleaner cleans, but everyone's poopooing the cleans using the High input, a conundrom.

I need to give all the Rectifier models another try, the sound was so unfamiliar to me that I did not bother too much, same with the SLO.

Another thing, looking at the schematic of the SLO and the og 5150 it's very clear that the 5150 started its life as a clone of the SLO and then refined. I like the history part of it too, the Tone-Talk episode with James Brown is now a classic in itself, I've listened to it more thanonce.

 

[JiveTurkey]

There is no clean channel.