5150 OD vs Palladium

[Arwin]

Re: 5150 OD vs Palladium

I tried to get the 5150 to work for me through a clean Fenderish style amp and no dice for me. Same issue with the high end ^. Still itching to try the Palladium. I couldn't get the mids dialed well with the 5150 either. YMMV.

Undone, one of my favorite aspects of the Palladium is how much control you have over the high end: between the presence knob, treble knob, and the upper reaches of the sweepable mids you have a lot of opportunity to fine-tune and sculpt the sound. Also because the eq is active and not a passive roll-off you can get about as extreme as you want if you are fighting an especially dark sounding cab or stage

[Undone]

Re: 5150 OD vs Palladium

That's not helping my ever present GAS mister...

[punchlinechar]

Re: 5150 OD vs Palladium

To my ears the 5150 OD is a little spongier, and feels good, but has this crispy treble thing I couldn't dial out.

The Palladium is a little more dry, with more air and depth, and can get a wider variety of tones.

They both sound good, but I would go with the Palladium personally, especially if you're gonna use the Power Stage - it really shines in that application.

Obviously I'm a little biased though.

Have you run it into a tube amp? I think it'd be cool to have a DSL and then do a AB setup where I could select which preamp is active. I could put my wah and pickup booster before the splitter too...

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[jeremy]

Re: 5150 OD vs Palladium

ive only run mine into a tube amp and it sounds great

[Riley]

Re: 5150 OD vs Palladium

Palladium sounds great run into the front end of a tube amp - when we were voicing it we tested it with a variety of amps, including the clean channel on a Dual Rec, JCM 2000, and 5150 II (and compared it to the dirty channel on these amps as well). At home I use Palladium with a little Fender Princeton, which sounds surprisingly good.