Peavey 6505+ 112

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spleenharvester

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As title, found one for the price of £250~. I play Nirvana, Foo Fighters and Alice In Chains mostly, and will be using it at home (with volume quite low, obviously) and practicing with a band. I know it's a bit on the dirty side for it but might it be worth trying? I've listened to some clips and it sounds pretty fantastic to me.

Currently using a rather underwhelming Valvetronix VT40+, guitar isn't really too relevant because it's being upgraded soon anyway.

I've had the best part of £300 saved up for a new amp for several months now and it's frustrating me!!

Cheers
 
Re: Peavey 6505+ 112

Since it's a tube amp, you may not get the best tones from it at low volumes without an attenuator.

That said, it's on my wishlist.
 
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I imagine it would still be better than my poor-by-comparison VT40+ at lower volumes surely? I'd be more than happy buying an attenuator if I needed to.

I've never actually played a full tube amp before :p

I'm just a bit worried it'll be a bit too dirty for the kinda music I play reading around, but it sounds pretty great from all the soundclips I've heard. (Would be great if more of them weren't just shredding though!)

Also valves are about a year old.

Cheers!
 
Re: Peavey 6505+ 112

Do it. Cantrell owns a 5150 (which is the precursor to the 6505 (same amp just renamed after Van Halen left Peavey)) and used it on his first solo album. Dave Grohl uses a Masa Double Rectifier (which is by no means a clean amp) and Cobain used a couple Mesas through Marshall cabs. You won't be disappointed if you use the 6505+ (which has an extra power tube so that the clean channel doesn't breakup as easily).
 
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tonello said:
Do it. Cantrell owns a 5150 (which is the precursor to the 6505 (same amp just renamed after Van Halen left Peavey)) and used it on his first solo album. Dave Grohl uses a Masa Double Rectifier (which is by no means a clean amp) and Cobain used a couple Mesas through Marshall cabs. You won't be disappointed if you use the 6505+ (which has an extra power tube so that the clean channel doesn't breakup as easily).
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Extra power tube for the clean channel? What you smokin?

The 6505 is a nice amp has a pretty modern voice it can do mid gain stuff ok but really does high gain better you will probably find it worlds better than the vox. Side note attenuators dont make a tube amp bedroom amps they allow you to run a tube amp slightly harder to get power amp distortion at more reasonable levels but its far from bedroom levels if you crank the attenuator down so that its bedroom friendly it sounds like pewp and you might as well just use the master volume.
 
Re: Peavey 6505+ 112

Loved mine when I had it, just was a little too loud for my place....Ended up selling it and getting a Dark Terror.....
 
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Edgecrusher said:
Extra power tube for the clean channel? What you smokin?
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You have to put more power into the preamp to get breakup. It keeps the cleans cleaner longer. I know it shouldn't make sense, but once you hear it, it does.
 
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tonello said:
You have to put more power into the preamp to get breakup. It keeps the cleans cleaner longer. I know it shouldn't make sense, but once you hear it, it does.
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Lol man, that's some funny ****

The 6505+ has an extra PREAMP tube so that it can have seperate eq controls for each channel. You can't just stick an extra power tube in an amp like this - it'd have to be an extra 2 because 6L6's work in pairs (generally speaking) IIRC.
 
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tonello said:
You have to put more power into the preamp to get breakup. It keeps the cleans cleaner longer. I know it shouldn't make sense, but once you hear it, it does.
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Thats some funny shiz. I mean pure gold. The reason the 6505+ stays cleaner longer than a 5150 is cause they reduced the number of gain stages. Any extra "power" into the preamp will make it clip sooner. But I get the feeling that I'm spinning my wheels trying to explain it to you.
 
Re: Peavey 6505+ 112

Plated one in GC the other night for about 30 mins waiting on BTMN.

I think you will find it has quite a range of decent to way better than decent sounds.

And yeah - it's a 5150 basically. I really think that amp is "my sound" not that I have one...

And it is effing big.
 
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I played one, I liked it, but didn't like the size since I was downsizing from Marshalls and Carvins with 2x12, and was looking for something better for home use that could be cranked when needed.

That's why I got the 5150 III 50 watt with 2 1x12's stacked on top of each other. Uses less fo a footprint (I was also considering a Mesa Mark V). Problem is the EVH ends up costing twice as more, but if you don't mind the size, weight, the 6505+ 112 is a greta amp for the money. I was able to turn the gain town, plug in a tele and get Rolling Stones tones when tweaked properly.
 
Re: Peavey 6505+ 112

I have found running a tubescreamer with the gain all the way down and the volume up helps with the 6505 at low volumes (heck I also like it at higher volume). Also eventually you may consider upgrading the speaker or just getting a 2x12 extension cab for it. The stock speaker is not too great and honestly a 2x12 suits the 6505 much better anyways.
 
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I am not a Peavey guy or a high-gain guy but I really like the 6505 amps...

It will work just fine for the style of music you're talking about.
 
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It looks to me like they basically kept the head portion the same size and built a one speaker cab under it. I think it might be killer to extract the 12" and put 2 10's in there!
 
Re: Peavey 6505+ 112

I haven't played the 112, but have been told that it is NOT the one you should be buying. Apparently these differ from their bigger sibling and the heads - components, and thus tone, as well as country of manufacture. It's the only one of the 5150/6505 line that's not made in the USA. Of course, you can get quality manufacture overseas, etc etc - but the fact that only ONE of the line is made overseas says a little bit to me.
 
Re: Peavey 6505+ 112

tonello said:
You have to put more power into the preamp to get breakup. It keeps the cleans cleaner longer. I know it shouldn't make sense, but once you hear it, it does.
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Yeah... that's not really right...

But anyway this amp sounds like it is worth a spin for £250. Worst case scenario, you don't like it and you sell it for an instant profit.
 
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