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Originally Posted by ts31966
The 5150 III is the quietest high gain amp I have tried without a noise gate. That is it's greatest strength. There are alot of great sounding high gain amps but they also have alot of noise.
My goal with the EVH 5150 III is to make it sound even better. It does sound great out of the box. But your whole guitar signal goes through your tubes. Each different tube has a unique sound and characteristics.
Every product that you buy that is mass produced will never have the best components in it. I am just trying to find the best tubes that will make it sound its best.
My favorite tone is Van Halen's tone on all the albums with David Lee Roth. I know to get that tone a better purchase would have been a mojove amp but I want to get it out of my 5150 III.
I might still buy a mojove amp also though.
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Did you buy a tester? I use the high silicone bands on both my pre and power tubes. No, you can't put one on V1 and still use the RF shield. The bands are a must for combo amps, not so much for heads ( a lot less vibrations).
Mathematically, trying to come up with the perfect eight tube combination could take you well into next year. That's a lot of tweaking. It took me about a month per amp to get the tubes in that sounded good. Then along comes some monster high gain NOS tubes and it changed my way of thinking ASAP. I realized that a strong 7025 followed by a stronger 12AX7 is the way to make all three channels of my TSL kick ass. V3 and V4 are good tubes, but they only have to be average in strength, say 85 to 90 per cent. V1 is riding about 95 and V2 is 105 to 125, you know insane high gain.
I just spent a lot of time testing and rating tubes and I found that I had six 7025's still left and two of them are screamers running past 100 per cent. I have six, BP Raytheon's that I won on Ebay that are all super high gain tubes. Once they get here I will test them for accuracy.
I hope you have great success getting tubes into your EVH. I guess it will just take a little time and a schematic.
Marty