Re: Should I buy this amp?
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2014 10:54 am
Yeah -- here's the thing on all this. The prices are great. If you have the funds you should buy it. I think misterstomach was saying how much he liked the 5150 for Blackened stuff and I can totally see that working really well. No pedals. Just straight into the 5150 and tweaking to make it sound like Varg in some Norwegian forest.misterstomach wrote:regardless of what you think of them, that's a hell of a good price for that setup. 5150's in good shape sell for $600 all the time. and you rarely see those mesa's for much less than 500. those cabs sound great. if you don't have a 4x12, that's a great way to go. if you don't like the head, you could always flip it and easily do pretty well. hell, you could flip the whole setup and do pretty well. you really can't lose.
for what it's worth, i had a 5150 for years and i think it's a good high gain head. loud as hell. gets a lot better with good tube choices too. i have no gas for one anymore, but i had my time in the sun with one and it served me really well.
When it comes to that typical metalcore/death metal sound you get out of the 5150... well I can't stand it. I went to a really sweet fest this summer and it was a lot of shared gear and/or bands using 5150s. I just really didn't care for the sound of it.
This, on the other hand....whiskey_face wrote:i would buy it to flip it towards 2 vtm 120 halfstacks.
