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Peavy 5150 - Good, bad, Worth $300?
Posted: Sat Jan 29, 2011 5:46 pm
by alwittlich
Guy wants to sell me one for $300. Missing one power tube. Haven't tried it out yet. Is it worth my time. Kind of looking for an amp to A/B with my 50W Metro plexi clone for a clean, or maybe it will be the dirty. Any thoughts?
Thanks
Re: Peavy 5150 - Good, bad, Worth $300?
Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2011 4:39 pm
by demonufo
Don't like them myself but for $300 in whatever condition.
Re: Peavy 5150 - Good, bad, Worth $300?
Posted: Sun Jan 30, 2011 6:25 pm
by SteadyEddie
Heard the clean wasn't too good. But for $300 bucks! I'd drop the cash on it, it might make a good backup head. Or practice room head, or whatever. People spend more money nowadays on pedals. I've never looked at the schematic but there's gotta be some good mods for it.
Re: Peavy 5150 - Good, bad, Worth $300?
Posted: Mon Jan 31, 2011 9:18 pm
by Funky Hunky
300, Hell yeah. Wont do clean. Very high gain but it has glass in it so you can work with it.
Re: Peavy 5150 - Good, bad, Worth $300?
Posted: Thu Feb 03, 2011 5:19 pm
by Rich_D
If it's the original series head, expect to have to re-bias it to warm it up. For some reason it is arctic cold from the factory. It was the #1 complaint about the amp. Most people are much happier with it after it's warmed up.
Re: Peavy 5150 - Good, bad, Worth $300?
Posted: Fri Feb 04, 2011 10:38 am
by vanhalen5150
For $300 take it. You couldnt buy the tubes in it for that.
Re: Peavy 5150 - Good, bad, Worth $300?
Posted: Mon Feb 07, 2011 10:30 pm
by alwittlich
Thanks guys, I may see if he still has it. I really need a cab more though, but thanks for the input.
Re: Peavy 5150 - Good, bad, Worth $300?
Posted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 6:57 pm
by Maverick
alwittlich wrote:Guy wants to sell me one for $300. Missing one power tube. Haven't tried it out yet. Is it worth my time. Kind of looking for an amp to A/B with my 50W Metro plexi clone for a clean, or maybe it will be the dirty. Any thoughts?
Thanks
Yeah, I would grab it for that, If it works and They are KILLER SLAVE AMPS, Run your metro dry which you typically do and use a load box or if you have FXloop, use the send to the front-end of th 5150 set on rythm channel boost off cranked alittle and throw in a lexicon (detune) in the loop and you are in Big Tone land"!