Peavey 5150 4x12 Cabinet

it's a cab. it sounds good and its got wheels for easy moveing. its built like a brick shithouse, and its 2 jacks for distortion and clean tones, but you can use just the distortion and the clean channel on your amp and it'll sound fine.

i'll be straight up honest about my 5150. the ONLY other cabs i like more are DIEZEL or a maybe a tricked out Marshall. thats it. i play mostly metal(thrash, speed, whatever) and this cab sounds insane. the guitars i use are a 1986 GIBSON EXPLORER and a JACKSON KING V. both have hums but the jackson has a screamin deamon that is very hot and the cab sounds killer with it. i use primarily a PEAVEY TRANSTUBE SUPREME head, METAL ZONE, and a CRYBABY wah. i also on occasion use my buddy's MARSHALL VALVESTATE head without a METAL ZONE (thats a different review though). it suits my musical style very well. its not very noisy. it looks cool and sounds mean as hell. the clean sounds good with very little breakup at high volumes. the palm muting shakes my house. its great. and for those of you that say this cab "farts", its called an "EQ". adjust it.

built strong

never had to deal with them, and hopefully wont have to.

had the cab for a couple monthes and i love it. i'll only trade it for a DIEZEL. i tried randall, boogie, marshall, crate blue voodoo. this rocks em.

solid/strong/attractive casters and a jack

i play a 90s fender tele semi hollow. Best set up ive ever owned, money is not the issue.ive tried them all and the 5150 cab gets right to the spot. hey peavey sucks but this thing slaaammms big time.

so far so good

so far so good

i think i will be using this for a while

Holy shit. this cab is bad ass. Im running a Les Paul Classic and Prs Custom 22 through an all tube Peavey Ultra Plus head into 2 5150 Straight Cabnets. The sound is absolutely huge. Even with one cabnet the sound is huge. I only took one cabnet into the studio with me and the sound was amazing. We were even thinking about taking some of the bass out of my guitar because it was covering up the bass player. I dont understand the other reviews that said that this cabnet "farts" when loud. Im not a big eddie fan nor did I care too much for the 5150 head but this cabnet simply rocks!!!!!

Built like a brick Shithouse!!

Never dealt with them

Like I said before This cab is the shit. My sound is as good as if not better than a Mesa dual recto. And for the price you really cant go wrong with this cabnet

The cab I played through was used but in good condition at Guitar Center. In their "Loud Lounge" which if you don't know is a room with big loud amps that you can crank as loud as you want, they had a Mesa Boogie Triple Rectifier half-stack, and also this 5150 cab in the room. I thought "oh boy, a Triple Rectifier--I've gotta try it out". I picked out a Paul Reed Smith CE 22 and a Gibson Les Paul Classic to try the amp out with.

I put both guitars in Drop D. First I played the Mesa through the 5150 cab and WOW! I had the volume up about halfway and if you know the Mesa Triple Rectifier, that is very, very, very, loud. The cab had no problems handling the power (contrary to what some reviewers below observed). The bass was awesome and palm muting would definitely kill a small animal had it been unfortunate enough to have been nearby. After playing for awhile on the Peavey cab and adjusting the EQ knobs on the Mesa, I decided to switch to the Mesa 4x12 cab. I did and began to play--and was shocked. The sound changed completely. It sounded like the gain knob had been turned down and the bass had been turned down as well. I moved knobs and tried both guitars--truly a disappointment. I couldn't believe that the Peavey cab would be so much better than the Mesa one! But now that I think about it, that makes sense. I own a 5150 head (and a lousy Crate 4x12 soon to be replaced by the 5150 cab), and it is, in my opinion, better than the Mesa head. The people at Peavey must know what they are doing! Oh, and I also decided I will be buying a Les Paul Classic when I can afford it. I liked it better than the PRS.

It's a speaker cab.

I at time assumed Peavey was junk because that is what I have heard many people say. But the 5150 amp and matching cab are totally awesome. I would not pick any other amp except for possibly some $2000 or more amp I have not played and could never afford. So the 5150 is it for me. The cab is great!

this cab is 300 watts and has one input and one xlr input. it has strong casters. but it didn't get a 10 because it's vocied to eddy van halens spec's but thats is fine with me.

it has good bottom end and good top end but some people say it farts out which i have not heard yet so i gave this cab on sounds a 10

it has strong casters the speakers look like there mounted in there pretty good it hasn't quit on me yet so it gets a 10 on rliability.

i asked them some questions before and they responded fast so i'm going to have to give them a 10

i don't think i would trade this cab for anything it's awesome i have heard marshalls and crates and i still love this cab

300 watts RMS, one input as well as xlr, has good all around sound

I play it with a hamer phantom custom and the 5150 head and the sound is awesome. I've also just recently found the secret to the cab for playing with a lot of bass. If you're 5150 cab is rattling at all for parts with a whole lot of bass (example phaser switching octaves) take apart the back of the cab, there's a piece of wood that comes out right about in the center....put a screw through the back panel into that piece of wood and you're problems will be fixed.

I gig with this cabinet multiple times a week and i've never had a problem with it, it takes the abuse i give it and always comes back for more. I totally depend on this cab and recommend it to anyone who needs a good cab.

I've never had to deal with the company

I've been playing this half stack for about a year and haven't had any problems with it, if i had to buy it again i would. Even the bands around here are trading in their mesa/boogie dual and triple rectifiers to get the 5150. The only addition i'd make is a possible mesa/boogie 4x12" recto cab to make it a full stack.

I bought this used and I've been so happy with it. It blows away any Marshall cab I've ever owned, with the exception of the Valvestate 130 watt 4x12, pretty damn good bottom end from that.

I use my 5150-II head through it with a Gibson Gothic Explorer and the sound is amazingly killer. I've never been happier with my gear.

Just bought it so I don't know.

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I've been playing over 17 years and this rocks my world unlike any Marshall, Crate, Fender, or other Peavey amp I've ever had.

I dunno what year this cab was made. It's got 4x12 speakers and I think it's rated at 16 ohms.

It's not too heavy, and seems a bit smaller than a Marshall. The casters are acceptable, but nothing incredible. Ha ha, that guy got ripped off at $450. I got this badass for $200 dollars, and I'm picking another one up soon for $250.

It's loud.

I'm using it with the 5150 head, and I'm pretty sure this is the meant-to-be setup for that head, along with another 5150 cab. Rokkin like Dokken, biatch.

The only thing that pisses me off is the fact that the cabinet tends to fart when you have a lot of bass. Solution? Use less bass and use less resonance. Seemed to fix the problem when I was using this cab with an Ultra Plus, it still works wonders for the 5150 sound.

Beaten all to hell, and it's still good. So good that I want another. Inexpensive to boot, but I really don't think this cab is what you're looking for unless you're using it with a Peavey amplifier of some sort.

Do you really care what I have to say?

Of course not.

If you have a 5150 or Ultra Plus, buy this cabinet. If not, get a Marshall.

$200 for a 4x12 that sounds great. $200....hahahaha, you guys got shafted.

i got my 5150 last summer (99') it can handle 300 watts at 16 ohms. It has one input and an xlr output. It is not a stereo cabinet. what else could it have? It's a fricken cabinet.

This cabinet is pretty good. I play a mesa/boogie double rectifier and a hohner blonde guitar. i also use a Danelectro fab tone sometimes. This cabinet is peavy, which sucks the major shit, although this cabinet is pretty descent. I have played my friends marshall w/ my head, and my cab sounds a lot better! it is a hell of a lot more defined. playing through the marshall on clean tone sounded like I had a two year old pair of strings on my guitar. I have one problem with it. When i really crank my mesa up loud the 4 12" shefields can't handle it, and they start to fart, and sound really undefined. It pisses me off. At semi-loud volumes it sounds pretty good though. IF YOU ARE LOOKING FOR A CABINET THAT DOESN'T SOUND LIKE SHIT AT HIGH VOLUMES THIS ISN'T THE CABINET FOR YOU. Its voiced to eddie van halens specifications too, this may be a turn off to some people. it will probably sound best with a 5150 head, considering it was voiced for it. ive also heard the 5150 head sucks the major shit too. I don't know though, I've never played it. I am selling my cabinet to either get a mesa/boogie 3/4 closed back cabinet. This cab handles 360 watts and has four 90 watt celestion speakers; It shreds. Or a recto cabinet, which is meant to be matched with the double or triple rectifier.

ya its reliable. its never broken. just sounds like shit at really high volumes.

Never dealt w/ peavy, the scumbags.

its ok. just the sounding like shit at high volumes factor pisses me off. I don't really recommend it.

4 12" Sheffield speakers, 300 watts rms, one line in and one xlr output. Oh yeah, and four junky casters.

I picked this cab up as a replacement for my old garbage crate 4x12 when it blew. What a difference. I could use this cab forever. Lots of bass, lots of definition, handles anything and everything I throw at it. Distortion screams, clean sounds are crystal clear. I like it.
I put a Marshall JCM 900 100-watt head through it with a processor and all kinds of other crap, and it sounds great.

I bought it used but in pretty good condition. The cabinetry is solid and heavy duty; the tolex has its usual rips and tears, but what the hell. I have the same complaint about the casters as everyone else who wrote a review here. They suck. I'm going to replace them this weekend. Sonically though, I don't really worry about it blowing out or anything.

Never dealt with them, bought it used so no warranty.

I've been playing for eight years. I would definitely buy this cabinet again unless I could afford an 800 dollar Mesa Boogie. This is by far the best cabinet I've ever heard for the money, and it actually sounds better than a lot of more expensive cabs like Marshall. Sounds a thousand times better than my old Crate cabinet. The other guitarist in my band has a 5150 cab too; he is just as happy with his as I am with mine.