• Eddie's experience is your bonus...

  
  As reviewed by William Brice on 12/7/2012

  MOI BUENO, This amp is simply the finest amp money can buy. It has been thorougly road tested and R & D's by Eddie for almost 2 years...on the road. The Fender engineers gave Van Halen exactly what he thought a great power amp should be. All three channels have their specific niche and go way beyond your expectations. Channel one is actually Bell and Chimey clean. Channel two is pure Eddie; and channel three is Eddie's sound on steroids. The controls are beautiful and function with a high qualtiy feel; the pedal for switching is silent and rock solid. The front grille alone weighs about 2 pounds...Schumacher proprietary transformers; JJ tubes; tube driven effects loop performs beauifully and is foot switchable...what more could you want. When you get yours be sure and have the bias checked, you can do it yourself with some care & experience and a tube socket Bias Probe...chassis comes out easy as apple pie and the bias pot is clearly discernible(purple)...they tend to come biased from the factory a little cold whereas mine was only biased at 20 milliamps; the JJ tubes can easily be biased to at least 32 which is out of crossover distortion and into a great "sweet spot".The amp sounds even more alive and present with the higher Bias of the stock 4 JJ power tubes. My guitar player with 30 years experience playing with pro skill fell in love with the 5150iii amp. You will be amazed by this amp...just buy one...you will never look back. Thanks Eddie Van Halen & Thanks Fender. I also placed 2 JJ gold pin tubes in V1 & V8...awesome. P.S. Eurotubes is a great source for tubes and information about easy and proper biasing...great guys. And thanks GC.

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• versitality at its best, MONSTER TONE

  
  As reviewed by Francisco Gonzalez on 7/16/2012

  After buying all different kind of amps,i realized that i wasnt happy with my overall tone at all, and that means that none of them could give me " the perfect tone" i was searching for, so i end up solding all of them which wasnt a bad idea, after a few weeks testing amp demos on youtube, i found this amp, what i like about it was not just the clean channel, the red ( 3 ) channel too its simply amazing,TIGHT and cleanely saturated , so i start messing around on the internet for a while and i found that this amp is not even builted by peavey, is built by FENDER which is awesome,(super quality products), 2 days before that, i placed my order for this amp, and now i got this monster at home, ever since i bought this amp i cant get enough of it, i highly recommend this amp to any different kind of player, jazz guitar players to metal/hardcore players cause is worth every penny, dont waste your time playing thorugh amps that need tube screamers and stuff, this one dont need ANY PEDAL to get a good high gain sound. ( remember to get the evh cab too or a cab loaded with celestion vintage 30 like mine so your tone will be great, good amps need good cabs )

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• Right out of the box

  
  As reviewed by Anthony Robichaud on 11/15/2007

  I've had 30th anniversary 3 channel amps for years and when the new EVH came out I read the Guitar world article and thought, This has been done before, it's called the 30th anniversary Marshall head. Last month I had an opportunity to test drive this EVH half stack ( at low volume ) and it blew my mind and made me sad because it meant that I would have to sell all my gear; and I did. I just sold 3 Marshall heads and 4 Marshall cabinets. Your wasting your time with any other amp. If you play any kind of rock to Metal stop wasting your time and get this Head and Cabinet. The specs are the same as what I used to have, but they are not the same at all. This is what Marshall should have done; I know that Eddie took everything he ever used and heard to put this together, but this is a new product. The gain doesn't get oversaturated and the Tone just gets better and better. The clean channel can be a gain channel as well. It's not overpriced, cause you'll never need anything else. The biggest decision I had to make was the Color; I chose an Ivory full stack. I won't get it for 3 weeks and I can't wait. It'll be Christmas no matter what day it gets here. Thanks Eddie and EVH, Fender and Whomever else. Dr. Tone

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