2/19/2024 0 Comments BIAS AMP 2 5150for recording pull your mid range down and when playing shows turn it all the way to get your amp to cut through the drums and bass. now the lead channel i pretty much have everything all the way up, i love lots of gain! pull the pre back alittle if your not using some kind of noise supressor. i found this to be the cleanest sound for recording and playing shows. the clean channel on my amp breaks up alot i have my pre turned down to about 2 and the gain around 5 or 6 and the bass treb and mids are down to about 2. as far as tubes well its all trial and error and all depends on what sound your looking for. pretty much anything with the vintage 30s will make the amp sound good. sounds ok but my other guitar player runs his 5150 II with a mesa cab and i personally think it sounds better and louder. i also bought a used 5150 cab straight front. i like having the 2 seperate eq's but i use my amp for playing shows. One of those sort of stories many of us have about being naieve about what we had starting out.Īll depends on what your doing with the amp. I see your Hiwatt logo, my first real amp was a 70's Hiwatt 2x12 50 watt combo, at the time I was in to heavy music so I ruined the stock tone with a boss distortion pedal cranked up, but that amp could stay clean all the way turned up, to the point I had to walk to the end of a hall with a 30 foot guitar cord to not get feedback and it would shake things off the wall but still be clean. He is selling a matching cab also, the set is around 1000 for the half stack, being almost new I am guessing that is not a bad price. You see there is one available up here for 500 bucks that has been retubed, but there is the sort that has the signature on it for 650-700, but has only been turned on about 5times during its life. My cousins husband that is a sound engineer however likes them, knowing the only difference in the lettering is a HUGE help for me. A friend of mine owned a 5150 combo and then spent money on it and still did not like it and sold it. His use of Mullard is tantamount to blasphemy.Thank you very much for the explaination. I prefer JJ KT77's to the OG russkie but the OG russkie by leaps and bounds to the newer tig-weld "product." This is perhaps the origin of Mike Matthew's tube name game. They are two completely different sounding specimens with the same name. I believe this is why some people love them, and some people hate them. HiFi guys compare the legit ones to real Mullards. They do not sound the same! Chatter suggests once Gorbachev got in, they sold the tooling to the Chinese and quality went down. The newer ones have black lettering and tig welds instead of tab in slot construction on the plates, which are darker with the real ones being lighter. That's the real Russian military version of which the silver letter Sovteks are rebrands. If you're gonna go Sovtek, get the earlier production that have silver writing and just say "5881/6L6WGC SOVTEK USSR," or better yet get early 80's and older 6P3S-E wafer base. My old guitar player had them in his 5150 and he sounded killer recorded, live and in the jam space. ![]() They will absolutely do the job though and were also used in Rectos. ![]() The Shuguangs that replaced them sound great, just not next-level like the OG real deal. That's what came in the block letter 5150's and why they sound different. ![]() If you want full EVH tone, get Sylvania 6CA7's.
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