What's up everyone? And welcome to Ola Testing Shit.
Today I'm trying out the new 5150 Iconic from EVH
Let's start by peeling off this bullshit
Great
How about this? Rhaaa.
It's really, like, a lot better now
This is the latest EVH amplifier
The latest collaboration between James Brown
The initial designer of the Peavey 5150
And uh... EVH
They pulled together to create this
Right here I have a half-stack
But there's a combo, I made a video of a combo a little earlier
It's a 2-channel amplifier, 80 watts
And it resembles the original Peavey 5150 a lot
Just by taking a fair look at it like this
But it's fit into the modern era
Where it has a noise gate
And also a Burn option, because everyone just wants to see the world burn
So why not just have a f***ing button right there
Telling the people and the world to burn
You can set it to full power, which is 80 watts
Or a quarter of 80... what is a quarter of 80?
20?
You have channel 1 and channel 2
Channel 2 has a noise gate on it, OK?
And it has some sort of reverb right there
I think it's like a... a spring... spring reverb
This is a Solar guitar tuned to drop C
Because I wanna chug some metal on this baby right here
Let's start on channel 1
That's pretty chuggy, we have an overdrive kicked in right now
It also... you know...
The Green channel is supposed to be clean
Beautiful, but you know...
Overdrive
And already at this point right here, on the Green channel
I think it sounds phenomenal
Alright, let's go to channel 2
And already there's a shit ton more gain happening
Dial it down
It's incredibly tight, man
I have the noise gate set to maximum right here
And there's still a little bit of hum
Well, watch this
It's gone
It's back
It's gone
Back
Gone
Back
Gone
Back, gone, back, gone
It's because the guitar is very close to the transformers
This is one of the cool things about James Brown, it's that...
He's been really active on people's youtube videos and...
You know, explain the process a little bit and it's very nice, and...
I mentioned this in my past video that...
The noise gate wasn't really removing all of the noise
Well, it's basically because I'm sitting right next to the amplifier
And my guitar is really close to the transformers of the amplifier
But...
If I move over here it's gone
OK?
And how often do you sit this close to the amplifier?
This is just for the purpose of the demo
Otherwise I would be f***ing here, man, like...
Babyyy
It's really... chug tone, right now
OK, let's dial up the gain even more
I mean, that's just more gain than you will ever need, but let's just go for max
And then there are the people that just want to see the world burn
And want more gain, well... push 'Burn', then
Check this out
Burn is like a boost
But I think a lot of people are expecting it to be more like a...
You know, a 'Tube Screamer' type of boost
But it's more of a... it's just another gain stage, basically
That's why it's just...
I'm just trying to find the position where the gate works really well
I mean, obviously at this point it's maxed out on gain
There's not gonna be too many noise gates being able to handle this
And I'm still very close to the amplifier and the amplifier is loud as f***
Also, I noticed this
Beside the 2 volumes, you have a Boost
Little boosty McBoost-face
This is something that is foot-switchable, so I can boost for like a solo, for instance
Neat function for people that like leading
Alright, so let's dial the EQ a little bit
Something I'm noticing here is that...
You know, how I set it up right now is pretty similar to how I would set up a Peavey 5150
Bass around here, mid around like 11 o'clock
And highs about like 1 o'clock
Pretty similar, I must say
Then you have resonance and presence
You have to be a little careful with the presence right there
It's very aggressive, man, check this out
There's a lot happening between 11 o'clock and 1 o'clock
I think it sounds good
Alright, let's try the FX Loop
Shit, yeah
I mean, let's go full-on gain
OK
The reverb
OK
I don't think the reverb is necessarily adding that much as a feature
In this case, I would more likely use a separate reverb for this
Alright, let's go back to channel Green
There's a nice bite to the Green channel
That I really really enjoy
Unfortunately, the noise gate is not active on the Green channel
Which is... a little bit sad, but you know...
OK
I'm just not sure which channel I like the best I like both
People are probably gonna ask me to put in an overdrive into this thing
So I'm going to get an overdrive for this thing
Give me a second
I mean, if you can shave off a little bit of that gain
I believe a lot of people would be happy
It is on
Even though you might not think so, but it is on
I promise
Chuggy... OK, Green channel
Not too shabby, actually
It's taking the overdrive really well, I must say
OK, if we 'Burn' this...
Interesting...
So there you go, it takes an overdrive really well too, man
So there you go, that's the EVH 5150 Iconic for you right there
I think it sounds badass
Is it gonna change the world? Definitely not.
Is it the best amplifier ever made?
Definitely not
But it is really kickass
And it's for a pretty kickass price too
So there's not anything surprising with the amplifier in my opinion
It's a lot fun to play, it's very enjoyable
And you can get it for a good price, and...
If you're a fan of the 5150...
This is the shit, man
I think it's a really good alternative to the big EVH 5150 amplifiers
That go for almost double the price of this
Maybe I should explain the signal path, but...
Basically it's a guitar going into this rig
That's a Neumann TLM 102 microphone over there
I have a stereo microphone over there
I mixed the 2 to make some sort of a combined sound
A lot of people are saying that I post-process a lot
I just mix 2 microphones, basically, that's...
That's the amount of post-processing you're getting from me
Anyways, guys, thank you so much for watching this little video
Like and subscribe, and I'll see you next time
Goodbye