"[8] In 2004, Peavey and Eddie Van Halen parted ways, with Eddie taking the 5150 brand name with him. The fire broke out on the truck at about 1:20 p.m. at the intersection of South Brea Canyon Road and Golden Springs Drive, according to a Los Angeles County Fire Department dispatcher. Use the button below to let us know you are a real customer, and we'll send you on your way Jeff was real happy with the JJ Electronic 6L6s and ECC83s that we loaded his amp with, but we, felt the amp could be improved with a bias mod. [16][dead link], In April 2014, Peavey Electronics Corporation was fined US$225,000 (equivalent to $257,544.98 in 2021) by the FCC for violating the digital device laws by not notating required labeling and marketing statements in their owner manuals. They for the most part have never read or studied any of the classic tube manuals but most of, them will be very quick to say, "Bias? If. The 2 ohm load rating is very stable (this amp actually operates at less than 2 ohms), enabling the use of multiple mix and match speaker systems to improve acoustic efficiency and sound stage options. Or $42/month for 36 months. V1 handles the input stage. So closing this with Bobs favorite Confucius quote seems appropriate. These are not cheap amps and the bias is SO easy to set accurately that you owe it to yourself, your amp and your tone to, do it right! The Peavey Wolfgang was discontinued in 2004. These are all fixed bias amps and need warmer grades of tubes to sound good. Sweetwater Sound, 5501 U.S. Hwy 30 W, Fort Wayne, IN 46818 Get Directions | Phone Hours | Store Hours, If you have any questions, please call us at (800) 222-4700, Peavey 6505 1992 Original 120W 2-channel Tube Head, Peavey 6505 Mini Head 20/5/1-watt Tube Head, Peavey 212-6 50-Watt Mono/25-Watt Stereo 2x12 inch Cabinet, Peavey 6505 II 4 x 12-inch Straight Cabinet, Peavey 6505 II 4 x 12-inch Slanted Cabinet, Peavey 6505 412 240-watt 4x12" Straight Cabinet, Peavey 6505 II 120W 2-channel Tube Head with 240-watt 4x12 Cabinet, Peavey 6505 212 Mini Stack 20-watt Tube Head with 2x12" Cabinet, Peavey 6505 112 Mini Stack 20-watt Tube Head with 1x12" Cabinet, Peavey 6505 Mini Head 20/5/1-watt Tube Head with 25-watt 1x12 Cabinet. The Presence control works in the same manner, boosting the high frequencies. Each channel has separate EQ as well as separate power amp controls (Resonance and Presence) and separate preamp controls (Pre and Post Gain), giving players more control and flexibility. It simply does not have the low end grunt and raw sound that the original had. There was the Deuce-VT the Mace's little brother, and a Classic VT. your own risk!! On the front panel, the Channel Select Switch allows selection of the Rhythm or Lead Channel, each with LED active indicators. Well this amp has been played, about every other day now since 2000 and it gets ridden VERY hard and all the components other than the bias circuit including the 100 ohm, screen grid resisters and transformers are stock so this is testament that it's not so much the value of the screen grid resisters, it's whether or not. Peavey 6505 1992 Original 120W 2-channel Tube Head. The CS series amplifiers (mainly the CS800) are some of the most used amplifiers in the world, and among Peavey's best selling products. It's very much like the Fender Pro Jr. Bob purchased a Weber AlNico P10N for his C20 (he paid more for the, Weber than he paid for the C20!) Spin 'round carousel when your horse isn't screwed in. warranty tubes to players who use the test points to bias these amps! The 6505 II offers an output power of 120W(rms) into 16, 8, or 4 ohms, with a speaker Impedance Selector switch located on the rear panel. The earliest model Bandits had a power rating of 50 watts RMS into an 8 ohm speaker. The Radial Pro Series were Peavey's high end drum line. Special financing options exist if you use your Sweetwater card. Only one tank was still leaking as of 6 p.m. When the Weber arrived he realized it wouldn't fit! Jeff said yes! The flagship 1000 model consisted of a radial bridge that took all the mounting stresses, and a 3-ply thin maple shell to enhance the resonance. The only thing necessary to install these is to clip the, rather useless tube retainers from the two outside sockets so the big bases on the KT88's will fit. Prices exclude shipping and tax/VAT/GST. Products are manufactured mainly in China and the United States, and are distributed to 136 different countries. In July of 1999 Bob tubed a 5150 for a local guy named Jeff Miesen, better known as Jeffytune on the Peavey forum. The amp will blow up!" Switchable post-EQ effects loop. In stock trim a 5150 is well into clipping at 100 watts. Love this. The Vypyr 60 and Vypyr 120 amps as well as the Vypyr 120 head feature 12AX7 and 6L6GC tubes. Studying the original design, Peaveys engineers identified some items that had drifted, in particular one of the most important components the output transformer. The Peavey 5150 is an all-tube guitar amp that has been in production since 1991. They are inherently noisy, and the stock tubes are not anything special. [13] Peavey Electronics, citing global competitive pressures, partially closed down the same plant featured in the episode. Its the Combo. Stick for me Ethanb08 No one in particular Join date: Dec 2008 110 IQ #1 I've been looking into retubing my 6505+, mostly the preamp, I'm just trying to. Its only weak point is that the preamp and power amp modules are installed in the chipboard cabinet with lack of electromagnetic shielding, resulting in a need to physically separate the amp head from bass pickups and speakers. The 5150 has gained popularity[citation needed] with modern hard rock, hardcore punk and metal bands and guitarists due to its large amount of distortion. So if youre looking for a tech to bias your amp. or even blocked browser cookies. With the bias set to 45 volts at the factory test points the bias went way down to a very acceptable 37mA. An update 10/09/07 We just measured the bias on a XXX in the EL34 mode and with the bias set at 42 volts using the factory test points (Peavey, recommends 42.5) the bias was a whopping 57mA which is over 100% of dissipation! The 6505 II offers an output power of 120W (rms) into 16, 8, or 4 ohms, with a speaker Impedance Selector switch located on the rear panel. As you can see by the bias meters on the left even very hot 6L6GC's only pull about 10 milliamps of plate current where they should be pulling, The KT88's are pulling about 32mA ( the right bias meter ) where they should be pulling about 60mA. The favorite combination was a pair, of JJ E34Ls in the center sockets set at plate current draw of 44mA and a pair of JJ KT88s drawing 65mA in the outer sockets. Peavey 6505+ 2x Peavey 5150 4x12 Line 6 Pod xt live rjm rg-16 Ibanez TS-9 Ibanez Prestige s5470f Ibanez Jem 555 Ibanez 7-String PRS SE Standard Classic30inCincy Member Posts: 31315 Joined: Fri Sep 12, 2008 8:10 pm Location: The Mountain Retreat [Cincinnati Ohio] Re: Tubes for 6505+ by Classic30inCincy Mon Mar 23, 2009 5:56 pm ps it says on a plate 03 so im assuming 2003?the pre amp tubes are jj the top of one of them has a red tint to it the otheres are darker. Before the episode aired, the creator of Undercover Boss issued an unprecedented statement indicating something "unfortunate happened after filming". The power rating has gradually increased over time, and current model Bandits are rated at 80 watts RMS into 8 ohms, and 100 watts RMS into 4 ohms. and whats the reasoning behind putting a differnt tube in that and using jj in the other 5? You probably don't need new power tubes. The amp is still creating smiles and running strong! Exclusive deals, delivered straight to your inbox. A truck carrying hydrogen tubes caught fire and sent gas leaking, forcing about 500 people to evacuate in Diamond Bar. Tubes of course have a wide variation of "random-ness", but that has been my personal experience. The 5150 series was preceded by the VTM-60/VTM-120 amps, among the first "non-hotrodded" amps. You are using an out of date browser. In the mid-1990s, the Bandit was used to introduce Peavey's proprietary TransTube circuitry, a solid-state technology aimed at emulating the sound of tube amplifiers. The Bandit amplifiers were introduced in 1980 and remain in production today (2020). They have swung a deal with JJ and a lot of the new JSX, amps are coming straight from the factory with JJ EL34's. Peavey re-introduced the Wolfgang as the HP2 during the 2017 Summer NAMM show. Peavey has started to use some of the JJ Electronic tubes and later JSX amps have been showing up with the JJ EL34's and even a few JJ. 2023: The Year Epiphone Became Unaffordable. Now for all you, guys who do this and then ask us if you should switch back to the 6L6 mode the answer is NO, NO, NO!!! clean and crunch channels; guitar > V1 (one half) > V6 > V3 > V4 > Power Tubes. promptly called Jeff to come get his amp. IM deff more worried about quality then price.I would like the best sound I can get. As far as the bias goes they are the same. Rhythm channel: pre-/post-gain, bright and crunch switches. This is a great retube set for metal players of all types for the Peavey 6505 Plus Head tube amp. The offset tube is the phase inverter, V5. We tube hundreds of Marshall, Mesa, Laney, Ampeg, Crate, Engl, Bogner, Carvin, Gibson, Hughes & Kettner, Orange, Rivera, Traynor and VHT amps just to name a few and none of these. Start by swapping the 12AX7's around. Then we turned the bias down to a cold 20mA and the voltage at the test points read 48 volts. usually pretty happy with the 5150 heads in stock trim, but players looking for warmth and anything near a decent clean tone will be left wanting. and quickly move on to the next tech because they obviously know nothing about tube amps. Then switch the amp back into the play mode and the bias will jump up from about 20mA, to about 35mA and you will have plenty of adjustment to get even the coldest 6L6's biased properly. The MKIV Bass Amp head unit, introduced in 1981, offers a range of functions. If you're moving up from a solid state amp to a tube amp then the VK is a nice stepping stone on your way up. The KT77's really shine in both the XXX and the JSX amps filling in the, low end nicely while supplying a rich and harmonically complex mid. The channels share EQ, lush reverb and an effects loop. A fire . ", You can find a page Bob wrote years ago about, The XXX, 3120 and JSX amps are quite similar with the JSX having a stronger mid and voiced differently in the high end. The small tubes are numbered from the end of the chassis: V 1-2-5-3-4. . If your looking for Pawn shop treasures make sure you keep your eyes open for the discontinued Rockmaster preamps and the little Classic 20. [12], The VT series was also popular in the late 1970s to early 1980s. Use our extensive knowledge, experience and customer feedback to select re-tube packages that will work great in your tube amp. How to change tubes - Peavey 6505+ - YouTube 0:00 / 19:01 How to change tubes - Peavey 6505+ 45,296 views Mar 12, 2016 www.jakepitts.com www.getmeanfitness.com Dislike Share Save Jake. The bottom end is extended and very tight and the breakup is oh so smooth! looks like Roc8995 has got you covered, but on the 120w heads they are laid out differently. Bob has one of each of these in his collection. They have plenty of gain for a classic rock and early metal styles and they are well built, The 5150 and the 6505 are the same amps and they have an insane amount of gain in the preamp section. Here is a bit of information from August 2007: Here is the latest on the screen grid resister problems with the XXX and now the JSX amps. The overall difference was subtle but noticeable over a stock JSX. For the Preamp, either go all JJ's or one Tung Sol in V1 and the rest JJ's (12AX7). A continuation of the 30th-anniversary celebration of the 6505 Series, the 6505 II was designed to stay true to the key design components of the original, while offering functional upgrades for an improved performance. So he had to take off the, bell cover and remove the speaker board from the amp and saw off 3/8" from the bottom of it to drop the speaker down. Five 12AX7 preamp tubes and four 6L6GC power amp tubes. How old is my Peavey amp? For you 5150 players who want to venture into integrated Quad territory without doing a bias mod, we have you covered! In production from 1994 until 2002, it consisted of the RBS-1 prototypes, radial pro 1000, 750/751, and 500/501 models. A Crunch Select Switch and Bright Switch are available for the Rhythm channel. In 2009, Peavey Electronics Corp. filed two lawsuits against various companies under Behringer/Music Group umbrella for patent infringement, federal and common law trademark infringement, false designation of origin, trademark dilution and unfair competition. As we mentioned above we had a pair of, Voodoo modded JSX heads in (pictured below) and the difference seemed to be that they were a little tighter in general than a stock JSX and the, definition was better in the mid and upper mid range which is what we expected from the Mercury Magnetics output tranny compared to the stock, unit. The Classic 20 is a, gem for a small cheap combo. Now the EL84's clear the, magnet by 1/8". We like them set at 40 to 42mA per tube. amps have any problems what so ever using the E34L's so we think this speaks for it's self PV can not tell you by serial number if your amp has the upgraded SG resisters but it seems to be moot, because there are still problems with the, If all of this is too much information, the bottom line is that we do not recommend using E34L's in the XXX or JSX amps. The Peavey 6505 Series is outstanding for metal. which pre is v1? This Integrated quads are plug and play, we repeat PLUG AND PLAY!! V1 is farthest away, V2 is the next one, etc. The power tubes while running just under 500 plate volts are only drawing about 10 to 12 milliamps of plate current. The fire department plans to fill the cylinders with inert gas. You will burn up your tubes with all but the coldest grades of, EL34's or KT77's. 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