Salut les gars,
Alors, hier soir nous avons fait un p'tit teste entre mon 5150 et le 5150 II d'un ami. Le test ces fait avec l'aide d'un THD HotPlate, question de pouvoir monter le son de l'ampli et avoir une bonne saturation de tube... aussi le fait que mes voisins aimerait pas entendre des Riff de Slayer,
Pantera jouer a pleine force!!! Malheureusement, j'ai pas pus faire de clip sur se petit showdown, j'ai bien essayer avec ma camera numérique mais j'ai eu un drôle son... alors non utilisable.
Voici les instrument que nous avons utiliser pour ce petit test....
Guitare :
Ibanez RG 370
Pick up: Gibson 500T bridge et Ibanez Stock neck
Dean MLF SlimeDime
Pick up: Dimebucker bridge et Dimarzio PAF Pro neck
Cable:
Instrument : Digiflex Tourflex
Haut-Parleur: Planet Waves
Cab:
VHT 4x12 Fatbottom.
Tube:
5150 :
Powertube : JJ's 6L6GC
preamp: Un Sovtek dans le V4 et la balance du Electro-Harmonix.
5150 II:
Pwertube: 3x Groove Tube, 1x Sovtek 6L6
Preamp: Electro-Harmonix.
ISP Decimator ProrackG (avec stereo mod)
Power Attenuator:
THD Hotplate 16ohms.
Bière:
Sleeman Silver Creek (une caisse de 12)
Nous avons commencer avec le 5150 II.
Voici le setting de l'ampli était utiliser (même setting sur les 2 5150).
Rhy pre : 5
Lead Pre: 7
EQ : low 6 , mid 2 - 3, high 7
Rhy post: 4
Lead Post: entre 4 et 8 une (montée graduelle)
Reso: 4 - 6
Presence: 7 - 8
Les settings du THD:
-16db, brighht: on , deep: on , bulbs : on.
Le volume placer entre 9hr et 10hr (plus ou moins).
Je vais écrire ceci en anglais si sa vous ne dérange pas... j'ai un peut de misère avec certain terme en français. Alors si quelqu'un pourrait le traduire s.v.p. aller y!! Et si ceci cause un problème, vraiment désolée, vous pouvez le delete.
Test:
The 5150 II,
The II was the first one to get gigged up... We used the Dean SlimeDime to start things off. At a first listen, the amp sounded great. It sounded nice and tight, the gain was good and still clear enough for us to hear the difference between each notes. Because of the Dimebucker, the sound was a little hars but it still had a certain quality to it that was enjoyable. We tried to set the amp on a "set and forget" setting for this test but we had to adjust the low’s on the 5150 II to beef it up a little… So we raised the the low's to 7 and that sounded great!! I started playing some older classic's like Pantera's Shedding Skin, and Pshyco Holiday... then went into Slayer's Black Magic and Season to feel the difference in rhythm playing. Dio's Last in Line and Dont talk also came into the mix. The amp responded great... harmonics just shined through, palm mutes where nice and chunky and the VHT cab responded with out a problem!! And going through a few leads on the same channel & same settings with the PAF just flowed… very mellow/lush tone. Sounded very full. The Ibanez responded in a similar way but the Gibson 500T sounded fuller and richer sounding bridge pick up and this would actually be a killer pickup on a Dean!
The 5150,
We started out with the Ibanez this time, same tracks listed above... And this is where we both sat back and looked at each other amazed… The 5150 was so much more aggressive, tighter, had a lot more low end and more responsive than the II. This was a different beast overall… night and day! We actually had to roll the Low’s back down because the sound was overtaken by bass. The VHT cab was handling the lows and bass perfectly but we didn’t want to tweak the rest of the eq so we rolled the lows back and voila. We played the same riff’s we did before so we can judge it and the 5150 was winning this one hands down. So we pulled out a set of Sovtek 6L6WXT tubes and installed them into the 5150 II and this changed the overall tonality of the amp. It was almost on the same level as the 5150 loaded with its JJ’s. The gain had increased, tightness improved, it had slightly more low end to it but overall it sounded darker… almost like if there was a thin blanket pulled over the cab. It sounded, good but the JJ’s had a little more bite to them. So the tubes helped the 5150 II in a BIG way. We then put the JJ’s in his 5150 II and that gave a closer sound to the 5150. But we still found the 5150 had a little extra growl or something to it. When we plugged in the Dean the tone was crisper… being that the Dimebucker as more output the amp felt hard to control! frippin awesome!!
We also compared the 5150’s with and without the THD unit set at lower volume levels and we noticed that the THD added a little fizz to the overall sound. Nothing bad, just a little chainsaw type of fizz… some like this some don’t. I really didn’t care because I loved the overall tone the 5150 had.
So the tubes played a big role in here… the Sovteks brought the II back to life. The GT’s where about 2 to 3 years old and did some gigging but nothing massive according to him. Maybe 45 hours of play time on them.
BTW, Here’s a picture of the 5150 II’s GrooveTubes glowing crazy blue while the amps Lead Post was set at 6 and the THD’s volume at 3 o’clock.!! And my 5150's new look... Pretty frippin sweet!!
