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Today's question.
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Question of the day.
I got this 5150 Iconic a while ago
and it seems like I'm spending a lot of time trying to dial it in.
Is there any, like, overdrive pedals you'd recommend me get?
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Thank you for the question.
And nice guitar, my bro.
So, I'm gonna try and help you out.
Today I have the 5150 Iconic right here,
I've loaded up a couple of pedals
and I'm gonna tell you why I've loaded up these particular pedals right here.
The EVH 5150 Iconic is a great metal amplifier for the price.
And you can get some really sick-ass metal tones from it.
And you have a Burn boost option.
It has a lot of gain.
But as you work up the gain,
it gets more and more full-sounding
and not really that tight.
There's a lot of low end that needs to be tightened up, in my opinion.
Tone is obviously very subjective,
so today I'm gonna show you how I would go about
adding an overdrive or something similar to this head right here.
Since the EVH 5150 is very modern-sounding,
and it already has the gain,
I would be a little careful with what you add as an overdrive.
It probably just needs a slight, slight push
to make a little bit tighter.
Because it is indeed very tight on its own.
But you might wanna tighten it up a little bit.
So, check this out.
I brought out the TS-9 here, one of my favorite overdrives that I usually--
You know, I couple it with a lot of amplifiers.
Just, it works really good.
Let me show you how it sounds with the Iconic.
Gonna turn down the gain a little bit.
I mean, that sounds to me chunky as hell.
That's a lot of gain, I would probably...
...drop the guitar pick on the floor.
I would probably use the second channel without the Burn option put in, so...
Now, it does sound very good with the TS-9.
But since the amplifiers is already sort of modern-sounding,
adding just a slight, slight push would probably be enough.
That's why I brought out this equalizer right here.
Because with the equalizer you can pinpoint and boost certain frequencies
or even, like, pull back and reduce some frequencies.
So I think in this case the equalizer is perfect for this setup.
Check this out.
This is a Boss GE-7 equalizer.
If you want just a volume boost, you raise the level.
Right there.
But since we're getting so much lows and low-mid type of distortion...
I would start by cutting the lower frequencies.
Check this out.
Immediately, it tightened up the whole distortion.
Listen to this, without the equalizer.
With.
That's just the start of it.
If you wanna boost the mids, get a little bit more djenty-style,
you can do that as well in here, so...
Or something like that.
Let's try and boost the highs.
Getting more and more Meshuggah-like with this.
Holy shit, this is noisy, by the way.
That's a noisy pedal.
Not as noisy.
So, if I were you, I would just get an equalizer pedal
to couple with your 5150
to tighten up that low end a little bit.
I think it sounds kickass like this.
So there you go, hope that works out for you.
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