Peavey 6505 Plus Guitar Amp Head

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Finally found "that sound"

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by Jish (tourmented7@yahoo.com) 5/21/2007 12:26:40 AM

Musical Experience: Active musician
Style of music: Metal
Hometown Flint, Michigan

I had always read that these amps were brutal for metal but never got the chance to check one out. I have to say this amp is everything I always wanted. My B-52 had that standard "saturated" sound and I was always looking for something with some bite. This amp scores 100%. I’m playing it through the AT100 cab that I have and it sounds mean. I easily leave the other guitarists Peavey Valveking in the dust. Sounds great with my 7 strings. One thing that blows my mind is that I only have to set the gain at 5-6 and its more than heavy enough for the heaviest of metal music. Also at that gain setting and cranked up the amp is nice and quiet and I usually can just leave my noise gate off. It came stock with Ruby 6L6s which is great but the 12AX7s in mine were Sovtek which I’m not to keen on as they are usually cheap and unreliable. I would have rather had the JJs or Electro-Harmonix that also come stock. The amp does sound amazing even with the Sovteks though.

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Nastiest Head of all time

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by Goobz 5/13/2007 7:22:37 PM

Musical Experience: Active Musician
Style of music: Metal/Death/Hardcore
Hometown SJ

Let me start out by saying I’ve played a good amount of guitar heads in my time. I've owned a Marshall DSL, and I’ve used just about every "high gain" head there is to try. No amp has pleased me as much as the 6505+. My friend owns a Mesa Triple and I would still take the 6505+ over it. It is a great head. But, this head isn't for the blues, jazz, rock and roll, or anything quiet and mellow. This is a loud nasty head. Great Clean channel, amazing lead channel. The presence and resonance allow sculpting the perfect tone to suite your heaviest needs.

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