Versatile enough and toneful enough for Edward Van Halen

The EVH 5150 III HD is a professional all-tube amplifier head that was developed to meet the exacting specifications of Edward Van Halen, one of the true living legends of rock guitar. The 5150III™ amp head's flexible feature set allows creation of tones from clean to crunch to full-out distortion, inspiring limitless artistic expression. Truly roadworthy, EVH® amp heads feature no-compromise construction promising peak performance for years to come. Available in black or ivory.

Order today and play like Eddie.

EVH 5150 III HD Guitar Amp Head Specifications:

• COVERING: Textured vinyl covering (black or ivory), EVH® striped metal grille
• WEIGHT: 55 lbs. (25 kg)
• DIMENSIONS:
• Height 10.25" (26 cm)
• Width: 29.75" (75.5 cm)
• Depth: 11.5" (29.3 cm)
• OUTPUT: 100 watts RMS
• TUBES: Four 6L6 output tubes, eight 12AX7 preamp tubes
• SHIPPING WEIGHT: 60 lbs. (27.2 kg) including packaging
• INTRODUCED: July 1, 2007
• FOOTSWITCH: Four-button footswitch included (P/N 007-0926-000)

EVH 5150 III HD Guitar Amp Head

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Great Amp

Posted by Zeppelin Addict on Feb 1, 2009

Experience w/product: I have used it

Reviewer's Background: Hobbyist

Reviewer's Play Style: Classic Rock, Blues, Metal

I played one of these a little bit, and WOW! This is a top quality amp! Nice gain structure, and when you play this one, copared to the other 5150s, you notice that the quality on this one is greater than previous models, as EVH now works with fender. There was a huge difference, and this is a great amp.

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Tone Tone TONE!

Posted by Johnny Roxx from Las Vegas, NV on Dec 18, 2008

Experience w/product: I have heard about it

Reviewer's Background: Active Musician

Reviewer's Play Style: Hard rock

I've owned countless Marshall's, Peavey 5150's/6505s, Carvins etc. etc. The EVH 5150 III is the best tube amp I've ever heard. Channel one has a nice clean tone, channel 2 is the early 1978-1980 EVH tone, Channel 3 has the Fair Warning tone and more..... I've read some reviews where people say that channel 2 lacks gain?? Hmmm, you do need a decent guitar to project your tone and also good pickups. Channel 2 is about TONE and sustain, not fuzzy distortion. I set my gain control at 2pm and it works more than fine (nice punchy plexi tone) and leaves headroom to add more if needed. Channel 3 I use for leads and boosting the signal above the mix. Can't say enough about this head. I've had it for a year without any issues and gig every week. The best tone ever! Ya gotta have an ear for dialing amps in to make this amp shine to it's full potential.. The user settings are pretty close and I suggest using them. If the amp doesn't sound good with those settings you need to get a better guitar..

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My ears are bleeding!

Posted by GTO1968 from Illinois on Dec 15, 2008

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Active Musician

Reviewer's Play Style: Metal

Finally after a long search I have found the perfect amp! Iv'e had them all and never found the tube metal sound I was looking for until now! This amp is a tone searchers dream right out of the box! Just by playing it for 10 minutes I was overwhelmed by just the recommended settings they give you in the manual. I like the kind of 80's metal sound and now I have it! I recommend you try this amp and I guarantee you will like it, and if you don't, you must be tone deaf! What are you waiting for, stop reading this and buy it!!

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Fender can't handle it

Posted by Keiry M. from Sioux Fall, SD on Nov 26, 2008

Experience w/product: I have used it

Reviewer's Background: Hobbyist

Reviewer's Play Style: Progressive, Hard Rock

The 5150 series has been said to be an one trick pony, and the original block letter Peavey did it well. I tried this amp out in a local store and it lost most of its VH characteristics while sounded like another high gain cookie cutter. If you want to sound like the classic EVH do not even aim this way; try the original first. If you want a high gain amp that would do metal and rock, cheaper amps are as good fit as this one.

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Perfect

Posted by DarthChen731 from New York City on Sep 6, 2008

Experience w/product: I have used it

Reviewer's Background: Active Musician

Reviewer's Play Style: Classic Rock, Prog Rock, etc.

This head is perfect. There is not a single sound that you can't conjure out of this head. It's just plain perfect. Once I get some more munnies I'm bringing this home.

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