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  • 5150/6505 owners

    Would you say those amps capture or is similar to a hotrodded Marshall tone? I'm trying to find a small tube amp that can capture 80s tones (Extreme, Skid Row, etc) with the ability to push it into metal territory (Ozzy, maybe Rammstein with a pedal if needed).
    'Without music life would be a mistake'.

    Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

  • #2
    Re: 5150/6505 owners

    How about Jet City?

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    • #3
      Re: 5150/6505 owners

      I like them don't get me wrong, but for not much money the 6505 has a lot more features I was after like attenuation, headphone jack, reverb etc...
      'Without music life would be a mistake'.

      Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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      • #4
        Re: 5150/6505 owners

        Fair play, they are more versatile.

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        • #5
          Re: 5150/6505 owners

          They are sort of descended from a 'rod Marshall sound, but the execution is still quite different. There is massively more body, punch and grit, more 'modern' flavour and feel. I don't mean that with '80s chops, gutar touch and suitable gain they can't produce something like that, they are just not '80s by nature.

          My best bet would be a cheap but awesome RnR workhorse Origin 20 head with a dedicated booster pedal. Also, the mini Peavey 6505MH or the EVH LBX heads are worth checking. Or a tiny power amp and an AMT S1 / S2 preamp pedal that is voiced after the king of the era Soldano SLO100 head - but that's a whole different story.
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          • #6
            Re: 5150/6505 owners

            Originally posted by NecroPolo View Post
            ...the mini Peavey 6505MH or the EVH LBX heads are worth checking.
            Yeah, I'm currently looking at the 6505 MH. As I live in an apartment I need to be able to tone it down now and then, so the switchable attenuation and headphone jack is a plus. Reverb and having a dedicated clean channel also helps (though I'm assuming the clean isn't great by Fender standards). Of course, none of that matters if the tone isn't there!
            'Without music life would be a mistake'.

            Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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            • #7
              Re: 5150/6505 owners

              Originally posted by Seraphial View Post
              ...(though I'm assuming the clean isn't great by Fender standards)...
              "Almost functional" is what comes to my mind in a head-to-head comparison with the cleans of a good Fender amp

              It's definitely not made for this.
              Wackor
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              NecroPolo
              Diabolus in Musica
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              Book of Shadows
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              • #8
                Re: 5150/6505 owners

                Check out the DSL20H or the DSL1R.
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                • #9
                  Re: 5150/6505 owners

                  Laney Ironheart may be worth a look.

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                  • #10
                    Re: 5150/6505 owners

                    I’d suggest looking at the Blackstar Venue series, maybe the HT-20.

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                    • #11
                      Re: 5150/6505 owners

                      . . . we all prefer differant sounds and hear things very differantly from one another . . . but i will take THIS sound (95% of the time) over any hotrodded Marshall tone.

                      Black Stone Cherry with " mannish boy / hoochie coochie man " Live - October, 2009 - Germany - Rockpalast * re-uploaded this video after account deletion......
                      Tele, SG, LP Jr, '76 Ibanez Artist & Tokai LS92 + FUZZ boxes into a '66 AB165 Bassman & 2X12 (55Hz Greenbacks) / '73 Orange OR120 & 2X12 (V30 & SwampThang) / Orange Thunderverb 50 & PPC212 / Marshall Vintage Modern 50 & 2X12 Genz Benz g-Flex / Laney Klipp / Laney AOR Pro Tube 100


                      "...it's a tree with a microphone" - Leslie West

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                      • #12
                        Re: 5150/6505 owners

                        I will take this over any DSL/TSL (Marshall's ''hot rod amps'').

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                        Tele, SG, LP Jr, '76 Ibanez Artist & Tokai LS92 + FUZZ boxes into a '66 AB165 Bassman & 2X12 (55Hz Greenbacks) / '73 Orange OR120 & 2X12 (V30 & SwampThang) / Orange Thunderverb 50 & PPC212 / Marshall Vintage Modern 50 & 2X12 Genz Benz g-Flex / Laney Klipp / Laney AOR Pro Tube 100


                        "...it's a tree with a microphone" - Leslie West

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