Peavey 5150 212

Everyone knows.

SD JB Pickup in a Yammie AES620
CHANGED TUBES TO EUROTUBES JJ LOW GAIN OPTION
AND ALL RATINGS ARE BASED ON THIS. WE ALL KNOW WHAT A STOCK 5150 SOUNDS LIKE SO HERE IT IS WITH THE JJ LOW GAIN TUBES.
First, the gain is way more controlled and yes it is LESS but in a rich creamy smooth way with gobs of control and overtones. Pre gain at 10 is similar to what it was like on 5-6 in stock trim at lower volumes but crank the post with pre on 7-9 and drive the 6L6s and WOW! this thing is an even bigger more controllable MONSTER of tone. I've had Marshalls, Mesas, VHT to name a few and with a 5150 4X12 cab under it, this combo BLOWS EVERYTHING ELSE I'VE HAD AWAY!!! No shit! Get a cab under it and some JJ tubes from Bob at Eurotubes (which ever gain option you like) and it will be all you have been searching for.....low gain tubes gives creamy blues to rippin' metal....

Built like a tank.

No dealings yet.

Stock it works well for those who are working on finding their tone.
With JJ tubes, you'll wonder why you have spent so much looking for that sound up until now.

I recently bought a peavey 5150 2x12 combo and it is an all tube 60 watt combo amp with great distortion and reverb. This amp can play mostly any style of music but it surpasses good quality in music with distortion with low end. There is an effects loop and a speaker output. This thing totally blows away in power and i dont know why people buy the half stack this thing is so damn loud.

This thing is an absolute beast. I took a chance buying this amp because i play all styles of music from Clapton to Slayer, and im only 15 years old and i saved all summer for this so if it didnt work out i was screwed. Well im glad i bought this bad boy. It plays my styles and more. The distortion takes a while to find your sweet spot but once you find it it kicks some ass. For extral low end take off the back speaker cover. The clean is awesome with the pre gain rythm low and the post gain high. So sweet. With the distortion high it makes quite a hiss so put a noise gate in the effects loop to take most of the hiss out. I am actually still trying to find some good settrings for drop tuning songs like atreyu, killswitch engage, shadows fall and other shit like that. if someone could e-mail me i would love it.

I acually just got the amp a week ago and i got it used so apperantly it can hold up this long. Just use the standby switch before powering on and off for longer tube life. I would definatly take this thing lone ranger to a gig.

Havent contacted peavey although their site isn't very helpful since van halen and peavey's partnership bvroke up and this amp is now the 6505 but the manual is on the internet as well as a sweet site with some settings for this amp www.wolfgangregistry.com

I've been playing for about 7 years now and im fifteen so thats like 50% of my life. I run my gibson flying v with stock humbuckers even though im looking into a pair of emg 81's. i use a crybaby wah and the boss noise suppressor.I love this amp all around. although i do wish it had a clean channel by itself because the rythm sounds so good distorted and the lead channel cant get very clean. I still love this amp in every aspect. I fit were stolen i would have bno choice but to hunt the thief down force his head in front of the speakers and turn this all the way up and blaze out angel of death by slayer while i watch his brains splatter on the wall. I think i just found my new best friend and it is such a deal everyone should own one.

2 channels, "rhythm" and "lead". the rhythm (clean) channel has 2 extra switches, one is bright and the other is crunch. it has ya standard eq type setup plus reverb, resonance and presence. it also has a hi gain and low gain input. it is fitted with 12ax7's and 2 6L6 valves. I believe its a mid 90's amp.

I use a les paul special and i play metal and prog type stuff like incubus. to be honest if you are playing anything remotely heavy this amp is all you will need. get rid of ya distortion pedals too cuz this thing is PHAT. it is ridiculously loud. i used to play through a 100w laney head and 4x12 cab and this thing blows it to shit. if you value your ears you wont turn this thing up past half volume. now this thing doesn't get rave reviews for its clean channel but if you are thinking of buying this then im guessing you dont care too much about clean channels. if you want a clean channel go buy a fender or a vox. however i dont mind the clean channel that much on it, i think it is much better than most people give it credit for. also this thing is a little bit on the noisy side but it is such a high gain amp that i guess it is to be expected. good choice of valves should remedy that problem.

the only backup i would recommend on this thing is health insurance because it is stupidly loud and weighs the same as the eiffel tower. this thing is as sturdy as a tank and i have nearly given myself a hernia on several occasions trying to lift it. the simple answer would be to have handles fitted on the side but i aint got round to it yet. i cant see this thing breaking unless someone dropped a large planet on it.

well it hasnt broken on me so i havent had to deal with peavey yet.

ive been playin about 4 years now but i used to work in a guitar shop so i have fiddled with a hell of a lot of gear and i can honestly say i have never seen a combo like this. it dumps on jcm2000 combos and mesa combos. i actually chose it over a mesa rocket. if i had to replace it, i would only buy the same again. It looks sexy, it sounds sexy. Buy it.

i dunnno the exact year of my amp but it has the EVH signature. I play mostly metal and some blues. It has enough versatility for me in this regard, seeing as tho im not too keen on the classic blues tone.

i run it through an ibanez rg with active EMG pickups. Im really dsiapointed with the combo version of this amp overall. i bought it and tried and tried as much time and effort i put into it, i could never coax the right tone from this thing. I was very specifically looking for that brutal early In Flames/At The gates kind of distortion. it was always too.....clear. like the distortion was TOO tight. I guess i would attribute it to teh fact that the combos are biased hotter than the heads.

A few months later i just bit the bullet, sold the damn thing and put down the money for the half stack. The half stack had all the tone this combo was missing. If u want a 5150 and ur looking for a specific tone, go all out and get the head or dont even bother. The head blows this away in terms of tone, power and gain.

I am not sure exactly what the exact year of manufacture is. Sometime in the late 1990's. The amp is two channels, rhythm and lead. The rhythm channel has a bright switch for boosting the high end at low gain settings and a crunch switch for boosting the gain structure, giving you the option of a second drivin channel. Both channels share the same three band EQ. The amp has global reverb, presence and resonance. 60 Watts, enough power to carry most rooms and any stage. I like the lower watt tube amps. I like to be able to push the tubes without making everyones ears bleed. I rear controls are pretty straight forward. Effects send and return, footswitch jack and extention speaker jack. Over all most of what you need and nothing you don't.

My primay guitar is a 1998 Les Paul Studio with stock pickups. I also play a 1983 Carvin CM130 loaded with Seymour Duncan 59's. Setting this amp up as a dual gain amplifier, all I can say is that I love the amp. With the rhythm channel set up with the crunch switch engage gain set from 8 to 10 and the lead set up with the gain set to 6 or 8, this is the ultimate rock and roll amplifier. The drawback is that it is very difficult to get this amp to "clean up". If you play music requiring good clean work, especially chording, this amp won't do it. Believe me I have tried tirelessly. As far as noise, yeah it has some hiss. More gain, more hiss. Every high gain amp has hissing, there is no way to get around it.

It's a tube amp you need to be ready for maintance. I have gigged with it without a backup. Four or more hours of solid rockin. I been lucky in that I have never blown a tube during a gig. But I have blown them in practice. I always carry a full set of tubes with me at gigs and several spare fuses. I have never had anything other problems other than tubes. The amp is built like a rock. It weighs a ton and is constructed of heavy plywood. I believe this amp could last many years of hard use on the road. Peavey did a great job with the tubes also. The preamp tube are housed inside retainer tubes and the power tubes have good spring clips.

I have never had service done. So far in my career I have been able to take care of all of my problems. But I have sent many email to customer service. Customer service has always answered all of my questions promptly and completely.

I've been playing guitar for about 25 years. I played in several bar and club bands during that time. If it were lost or stolen I wouldn't replace it. Only because I would pursue a three channel tube amp without shared EQs. If Peavey would add seperate EQs to the channels this would be the ultimate rock and roll amp.

two channels, clean(called rhythm) and lead, has bright and crunch switches. reverb, resonance and presence control. 3 band EQ. pre and post gain controls for both channels. I wish it had more reverb. and an good clean channel would be a great additional feature...

This amp was designed for hardrock/metal. the main feature of this amp is the lead channel. rhythm channel is just an added feature which isnt anything that great. it sucks actually. peavey added it for cosmetic reasons, coz it would be more marketable. the lead gain channal has so much gain, its almost crazy. i'm not surprised coz eddie is crazy. lol. it sounds great though. sounds like a marshall to my ears thats really pushed to its limits like what you hear on van halen's first album. awesome tube saturation even at very low volumes. this amp works equally well for metal, it gave a fucking ballsy metal tone. very brutal i've ever heard. I havent tried the mesa rectifier but i've heard that the mesa recto is a muddy amp. th3 5150 aint muddy at all. most of the rhythm playing intricacies come through clearly. i think dimebag darrell should check out this amp, sounds fit for his style and not solid state (his amps sound like buzzsaw garbage). no cleans sounds here (it wasnt meant to do that)

great amp for metal/rock. its the best at what it does i think, which is hard rock and metal.

This is a follow up to the review I posted earlier when I first received my 5150 combo. My issues with the amp to begin with were the thin low end and the harsh noise that the amp produces. Since then I have found a few things I would like to pass along to others.

The first thing I would suggest to do is to take the back off of the cabinet. I really do prefer the sound of the combo with the back off since it seems to help with the low end, or at least a lower volumes it does. The main improvement that I would suggest is to look up Eurotubes.com and check out the full retube kits that Bob has to offer. After reading a few other reviews about Eurotubes I thought I would check them out for myself and do some research and I'm extremely happy I did. After reading the entire site I decided to check out the tubes Bob had to offer and decided on purchasing the high gain retube kit for the 5150 combo (approximately $85 with S&H). After plugging these tubes in this amp really reaches it's full potential. The hiss from the amp is reduced to a hum, much much quieter than before, even on the lead channel. The tone is much more refined, less muddy and just awesome. Plus I did notice an increase in the gain of the amp, which is what I was after. Finally, with the balanced ECC83S in the phase inverter socket this amp truly sings out every note, before some where quieter than others. The power tubes are matched to tight tolerances and are the correct rating to get the bias just right, they sound excellent with great lows. Do yourself a favor and check this out, it's more than worth it.

Just fine so far, no problems

Haven't had to deal with them.

If something were to happen to this amp now, I would definitely get another one, or get the head version and modify it the way that Bob at Eurotubes did. I cannot get enough of this amp now and I think that it sounds as good as or better than it's much higher priced competitors.

Everybody knows this.

I have a jap strat with holygrails and a 91'prs ce24 fitted with seymoure duncans. This Amp Has alot of gain, abit too much in fact. With the strat as it has lower output ( noiseless as well ) clean sounds are average. nothing beats a twin reverb. Rythm channel provides a much tighter and focus chug gain at 7-8 w/the crunch switch on. Lead channel has a irritating hiss even at low volumes, present with single coil or humbucker guitars. Gain will never hold definition after 6-7.Could be the china tubes. EXTREMELY LOUD. EXTREMELY GOOD DISTORTION. PERFECT FOR METAL AND ROCK. you will need to noodle with the settings and eq abit. but once you're set . you will be killing most plant life and small animals within a 20m radius of your amp.

i enjoy playing various genres- speedmetal/neoclassical metal/bossa/funk/Rock/blues(who doesnt play blues..?)/jazz
i play as much clean as i do dirty. This amp's clean channel will satisfy most people. but if you really want the best of both worlds. Get a twin reverb and A/B it with your 5150. *drool*

its REAlly REALLY heavy.took 2 guys to carry it up a flight of stairs into my room. i will be installing casters to ease the movement of this amp. Lightning stuck my home the first day i played it. Could be Gods way of warning me about the destructive gain of this amp. I stuck a finger in the air , cursed loudly... and bought new fuses. Jammed a power chord and the tree infront of my house burst out in flames killing a few children.

never dealt with them. Not like "customer support" means anything nowadays. they dont "really" want to help you. they just want you to buy their stuff.

been playing for 6 years. my first tube amp. if it were stolen which is unlikely as this amp weighs like a cow. i would probably buy another amp. probably a lower wattage one. this one is abit loud. it would be cool if they came with Attenuators... then it would be perfect. i tried a marshall jcm900 , mesa dual rect and the line6 flextoneIII head. initially wanted the flextoneIII , but the 5150 is just too kickass not to have.

I won't go through the specs since they are all over. The amp is very versatile for me. I can get both good clean and over the top distortion sounds. I'm in to playing music similar to Tool and I get all the sounds necessary out of this amp. It could have a second set of controls to allow settings for each channel, but with an EQ it's not a very big deal. This amp is very powerful and loud. I accidently got to close and thought my ears weren't going to stop ringing.

I think the sounds on this amp are very good, and it's tremendously loud. I can get a really nice and warm clean sound (has a little to do with the EQ) by keeping the rhythm pre amp setting around 1.5 and then adjusting the post control to the desired level. I'm not sure why everyone says the channel cannot get clean. Could cause I like my hearing and don't play it at extreme volumes. Distortion is what this amp is known for and it delivers, it can really kick it out. However, I did think the amp sounded thin and really didn't have the low end response like I had heard about with the closed back cabinet. I ended up taking the back off and I think it helped the low end tremendously. The only reason I didn' give the amp a 10 is because it does have a whole hiss and noise. I haven't changed the tubes yet, but that's the next step. Then I'm planning on trying a MXR smart gate. I hear that the combos came from the factory with flaws, so I might try to have that fixed if the tubes don't improve it much. Just FYI, I use a ESP EC 1000 Deluxe with EMG 81's, through a morley wah, and a MXR Kerry King 10 band EQ.

Can't say a whole lot about this yet, haven't had the amp to long yet. Construction seems pretty rigorous, don't expect to have any problems.

Going to check in on the flaws and see if there's any help from them as to how to fix them. They've been good any other time I had to deal with them.

I've been playing for almost 10 years now, off and on. I've had a Laney half stack and a Hughes & Kettner Attax (great amp). I wanted a mesa (of course), but didn't think I could convince my wife of the price tag. I'm extremely happy with this purchase and would look to replace it if something happened to it. The sounds are great out of this amp, but I could really do without all the extra noise. It's a tremendous value, get a lot of sound for a lot less money.

The gain on this combo is definitley all that is needed if you are pursuing heavy music. Wouldn't recommend this amo to someone if they are looking for blues sounds at high volumes, yes this is amo very loud but for metal nothing else.

Clean channel is not very good, I have a fender deville, that is what clean is about !!!! I didn't buy this amp for clean though, I brought it to play loud metal solos, which it does fine
VERY IMPORTANT HERE.... THE LEADS WILL SOUND HARSH AND UNPLEASANT, I LEARNED THIS AS SOON AS I STARTED TO PLAY. THE STCK TUBES SUCK IN THING. I HAD THE TUBES CHANGED TO GIVE ME A WARM SOUND AND STILL RETAIN THAT LEVEL OF GAIN, NOW IT SOUNDS WAY WAY BETTER, SEE FOR YOURSELF, LEADS ARE NOT SMOOTH AT ALL CHANGE THE TUBES!! IF IT WEREN'T FOR THE SHIT TUBES I WOULD GIVE IT A TEN, BUT BECAUSE OF THIS REASON I AM GIVING A 8 NOTE.. THE PEAVEY XXX DOES HAVE A WARM TONE TO IT, SAVE YOURSELF THE TIME, AND GET A XXX BUT BE PREPARED TO HAVE AN AMP NOT AS LOUD AS THE 5150 THATS WHY I STAYED WITH THE 5150.... IT'S LOUD AND NOW ITS SMOOTH !!!!

VERY RELIABLE SO FAR

NEVER DELT WITH

GOOD AMP OVERALL
ONE MORE TIME FOR THOSE WHO DIDN'T LISTEN
CHANGE THE TUBES
CHANGE THE TUBES
CHANGE THE TUBES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!