Please Respong, the new video series
where I'm dedicating one video for your questions.
First question.
"Ola, Mesa Boogie Badlander or EVH 5150 IIIs?"
Excellent question.
Which one do I prefer?
I have right here the Mesa Badlander
and the EVH 5150 IIIs EL34.
I have them both connected to this Mesa cabinet with an amp switcher up here.
So I can go back and forth.
I'm gonna play through the amplifiers,
and I'll let you know what I think about them, OK?
As you can hear,
the EVH does sound a little bit more modern
than the Badlander.
First initial thoughts about this two heads.
Obviously, the Badlander is a rectifier circuit,
which is not known for being a super modern-sounding amplifier.
The EVH is a 5150, basically,
and is way more modern, way more aggressive,
and just way more saturated and tight.
For a modern metal distortion, I would probably go with the EVH 5150 III
before the Badlander.
The third channel is definitely way more sounding
than the Crush channel on the Badlander.
And also something I'm missing in between the two amplifiers
is that I'm missing a Depth control on the Badlander.
I have way more control over my cabinet on the EVH
with the Resonance on the back and all that.
But they do share the low mid, high and Presence here at the front.
I'm just lacking a Depth knob or a Resonance knob on the Badlander.
Badlander.
EVH.
Rectifiers respond really well with a classic overdrive
like the Tube Screamer 808, for instance.
So, let's try that out.
Dialing down the gain on both amplifiers.
So, to answer your question,
which one of these do I prefer?
It really depends on the application.
I love the Rectifier type of tone.
And it just gives you a lot of room to work with
any type of overdrive in it
to really kinda shape your own tone.
You could have a Tube-Screamer-like overdrive in it
and it's very classic 90s metal.
Or you could use a more modern-sounding,
more shaping type of filter.
And you can get a completely different type of modern metal tone
out of a Rectifier or a Badlander.
So, for a boosted metal tone, I would pick the Badlander.
However, if you want to have a complete package with just plug and play,
the EVH is definitely the way to go.
I imagine the EVH being a little bit less expensive
than the Mesa Boogie Badlander.
Hope that answers your question.
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