Love both Amptweakers and Peavey 6505 and Classic 30... but not so much their speakers. I A/B/C'd the 4x12 cabinet that goes with the 6505, to a Marshall and Laney 4x12 and the Peavey came out sounding "cardboardy and hars broken" against smooth drive in Marshall and stone clean hard Laney. A loud clean Marshall Plexi, as sound source.
i love the 5150-II 2X12 combo amplifier with the sheffield speakers and a swirl RG 7 string with Blaze bridge and Blaze custom or blaze II in middle and blaze neck in the neck thats 3 humbuckers with a custom pickguard and routing and bridge sound protection between the bridge pickup and tremelo. Well that setup was awesome even without a tube screamer. Although i would recommend if you have an amp tweaker: is to get two , and run one into this 6505+'s FX loop and one in front of the amplifier and to change the speakers and pickups and mics to whatever you like with it. then build your FX board separate with a midi foot controller. This setup is great for live, gig, home recording, studio recording, playing in a room , or basement , or outside, even out at somebody's farm. :o)
I use a 6505+ to play out with. I'm gonna have to try balancing in that DI sound along with my S57 I use to mic the cab. The Amptweaker was interesting and sounded pretty close. Great video as always Robert!
I just bought a 5150 Iconic 40 watt 1x12 combo about a month ago and I really like it especially now that the speaker is broken in it sounds really good! I also have an Amptweaker Tight Metal ST that I bought a few years ago and I’ve never really liked it to much. Seems like I can’t ever get a tone out of it that I like, I’ve tried it on several amps boosted it with a TS9 and it always sounds just ok but not great.
This makes for a good impression - thank you - but you might kill me for saying this (after all your hard work), but the better comparison would have been to run the Amptweaker into the effects return of the Peavey 6505 and then switching between the two preamps (4CM), running into the same power amp and speaker (and if you want, but not necessary, into the same IR/output of the 6505). Then set up one or three killer tones on the amp and see if you can match them with the Amptweaker. ;)
I bought a parts kit of the coupe 72 off of a guy on EBay and sourced a power & output transformer from heyboer and classictone. Got a couple of original kustom speakers from the 1970s. Just have to construct a box now
On the last NAMM show James Brown before he left Amptweaker showed off what I am sure was at least an early prototype of the recent EVH Iconic 5150. It did indeed sounded like your pedal. I believe the new Iconic is technically a hybrid. It has enough power and preamp tubes for clean but not for all the dirt without some J-FETS helping out. No big deal, the dirt part of an actual Dumble is a modified Tube Screamer.
Just the other day I went to a Blues Jam. A friend needed help getting his bass amp up a flight of stairs. I helped out carrying his amp head. Boy that son of a bitch weighed a ton.
Seemed to me that the 65 0 5 had a little bit more low in than the amp tweaker pedal. But the pedal version seems seems a bit more convenient plus at the end of the day I really don't think you're gonna notice a big difference at least not the average person. Yes eyebrows are facia hair.l
The Pedal is probably one of the best Distortion units i have ever heard. All sounded good to me. cant go wrong with any. The Sheffield speakers to me are to bright sounding. I swapped mine for one of the new Eminence DV-77 speakers. great video Robert. I think if i was recording direct i would use the pedal
@@RobertWJackson are you running it through the FX loop of the 6505+ and through the speakers? its basically an awesome pre amp and pedal in front of amp, if it were me , i would be using two through the 6505+ then recording the speakers with microphones front and back in a big 4x12 or enlarged sealed closed sound speaker box. thats one amp tweaker in the fx loop as a pre amp , and one in front of the amplifier like a tube screamer. in a 2x12 100w combo amp.
The gain sounds really close between the amp and the pedal pedal which is an achievement in itself. I think both sound alright but the eq on the pedal is more sculpting. Eyebrows are facial hair. They’re on your face, right? Lol
I thought it would be about The Godfather of Soul, soul brother number one, Mr. more more more, the man who wrote please please me, the engineer of the night train, the hardest working man in show business, but not that James Brown. That’s OK. I feel good.
Wow the Original Tight Metal Pro! Are You selling it? ;) I’m also Interested in the tube Art preamp, never figured those out! Awesome Video. Both Excellent! Lastly unless I missed a review, could You tell Me about the Damage Control Dual Tube vacuum distortion pedals and if they are any good?
For a fair comp. It would both have to be D.I. OUT. It’s the same other than that, the D.I. Will always have more highs.put your fingers in your ears on the Peavey. Then out on the pedal for example. Less sound difference. Fingers mute the highs.
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Must be something wrong with my headphones, they both sound like my POS Honeytone Mini Amp that I got as a joke. Not impressed. And CC DeVille is awesome. I thought he wasn’t any good, until I tried learning his stuff. Yup, I was wrong.
YES!!! I am the viewer who asked for this :) THANK YOU!
The 6505 DI sounded sort of “lo-if”, like an AM radio. The others sounded good.
The only thing he ever designed I didn’t really like was the XXX, (even if own and like my dual rect). James Brown is a legend
They both sounded good. I have the same combo but I swapped the speaker with a v30. I love Peaveys. Even their solid state stuff is great.
Love both Amptweakers and Peavey 6505 and Classic 30... but not so much their speakers.
I A/B/C'd the 4x12 cabinet that goes with the 6505, to a Marshall and Laney 4x12 and the Peavey came out sounding "cardboardy and hars broken" against smooth drive in Marshall and stone clean hard Laney. A loud clean Marshall Plexi, as sound source.
i love the 5150-II 2X12 combo amplifier with the sheffield speakers and a swirl RG 7 string with Blaze bridge and Blaze custom or blaze II in middle and blaze neck in the neck thats 3 humbuckers with a custom pickguard and routing and bridge sound protection between the bridge pickup and tremelo. Well that setup was awesome even without a tube screamer.
Although i would recommend if you have an amp tweaker: is to get two , and run one into this 6505+'s FX loop and one in front of the amplifier and to change the speakers and pickups and mics to whatever you like with it. then build your FX board separate with a midi foot controller. This setup is great for live, gig, home recording, studio recording, playing in a room , or basement , or outside, even out at somebody's farm. :o)
I use a 6505+ to play out with. I'm gonna have to try balancing in that DI sound along with my S57 I use to mic the cab. The Amptweaker was interesting and sounded pretty close. Great video as always Robert!
Definitely same Flavor, but the amp itself has the mids and life that set it apart from the tight metal box.
Thx Robert this was really cool. That is really close, but the 6505 sounds fuller. If it was not side by side one might not notice the difference.
I just bought a 5150 Iconic 40 watt 1x12 combo about a month ago and I really like it especially now that the speaker is broken in it sounds really good! I also have an Amptweaker Tight Metal ST that I bought a few years ago and I’ve never really liked it to much. Seems like I can’t ever get a tone out of it that I like, I’ve tried it on several amps boosted it with a TS9 and it always sounds just ok but not great.
This makes for a good impression - thank you - but you might kill me for saying this (after all your hard work), but the better comparison would have been to run the Amptweaker into the effects return of the Peavey 6505 and then switching between the two preamps (4CM), running into the same power amp and speaker (and if you want, but not necessary, into the same IR/output of the 6505). Then set up one or three killer tones on the amp and see if you can match them with the Amptweaker. ;)
That’s pretty much what I did. I just used a mic preamp on the interface and an IR instead of the power amp section of the Peavey combo.
I have a James Brown design Kustom 72 Coupe amp that was built in Cincinnati. That too is a great amp!
I bought a parts kit of the coupe 72 off of a guy on EBay and sourced a power & output transformer from heyboer and classictone. Got a couple of original kustom speakers from the 1970s. Just have to construct a box now
On the last NAMM show James Brown before he left Amptweaker showed off what I am sure was at least an early prototype of the recent EVH Iconic 5150. It did indeed sounded like your pedal. I believe the new Iconic is technically a hybrid. It has enough power and preamp tubes for clean but not for all the dirt without some J-FETS helping out. No big deal, the dirt part of an actual Dumble is a modified Tube Screamer.
Just the other day I went to a Blues Jam. A friend needed help getting his bass amp up a flight of stairs. I helped out carrying his amp head. Boy that son of a bitch weighed a ton.
Seemed to me that the 65 0 5 had a little bit more low in than the amp tweaker pedal. But the pedal version seems seems a bit more convenient plus at the end of the day I really don't think you're gonna notice a big difference at least not the average person. Yes eyebrows are facia hair.l
The Pedal is probably one of the best Distortion units i have ever heard. All sounded good to me. cant go wrong with any. The Sheffield speakers to me are to bright sounding. I swapped mine for one of the new Eminence DV-77 speakers. great video Robert. I think if i was recording direct i would use the pedal
This is actually the first time I’ve gotten a good recorded sound out of the Tight Metal Pro. It’s actually been kind of tricky to record with.
@@RobertWJackson are you running it through the FX loop of the 6505+ and through the speakers? its basically an awesome pre amp and pedal in front of amp, if it were me , i would be using two through the 6505+ then recording the speakers with microphones front and back in a big 4x12 or enlarged sealed closed sound speaker box. thats one amp tweaker in the fx loop as a pre amp , and one in front of the amplifier like a tube screamer. in a 2x12 100w combo amp.
No, running it into the same amp that I’m comparing it against would defeat the purpose. I ran it direct into my interface with an IR on the back end.
The amptwerker is a cross of the ampeg vh150 and the 5150.
I don’t think it sounds anything like an Ampeg. LOL
@@RobertWJackson Mark Kloeppel of Misery index helped James brown develop this guitar pedal and those are the two amps that it's based off of. Lol.
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The gain sounds really close between the amp and the pedal pedal which is an achievement in itself. I think both sound alright but the eq on the pedal is more sculpting.
Eyebrows are facial hair. They’re on your face, right? Lol
interesting comparison thanks for presenting this info
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I thought it would be about The Godfather of Soul, soul brother number one, Mr. more more more, the man who wrote please please me, the engineer of the night train, the hardest working man in show business, but not that James Brown. That’s OK. I feel good.
I have a kustom Hv 100 that was said to be designed by James as well have you ever used one
Love on the Rocks!!!!
Right record, but wrong track. This is Look But You Can’t Touch. LOL
Its win win but I still prefer my 6534+
Crap I don't want it now.I have a 6505 and a Peavey classic 100 from 92
They both sound great but gotta say the 6505 sounds a little fatter
Wow the Original Tight Metal Pro! Are You selling it? ;) I’m also Interested in the tube Art preamp, never figured those out! Awesome Video. Both Excellent! Lastly unless I missed a review, could You tell Me about the Damage Control Dual Tube vacuum distortion pedals and if they are any good?
Why would I sell it? It’s LITERALLY my favorite pedal.
For a fair comp. It would both have to be D.I. OUT. It’s the same other than that, the D.I. Will always have more highs.put your fingers in your ears on the Peavey. Then out on the pedal for example. Less sound difference. Fingers mute the highs.
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If your on a diet, why would you go out for mexican food ? Are you on a SEE FOOD DIET ?
I make sure and eat plenty of both. LOL
@@RobertWJackson New intro joke.
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Must be something wrong with my headphones, they both sound like my POS Honeytone Mini Amp that I got as a joke. Not impressed. And CC DeVille is awesome. I thought he wasn’t any good, until I tried learning his stuff. Yup, I was wrong.
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