Diavlo 45H or 5153 50 .....

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I love both amps. Blue channel on the VH is awesome!

The Davilo has a huge bouncy clean and a great boosted gain channel! Non boosted its a bit flabby! But for the money...you can't go wrong with either one!
 
the thing about the evh is you can gig withought a boost so switching between channels does not require any programming.
 
EVH for me all day long. The diavlo was cool but I think the EVH brings more to the table.
 
Just to be clear here, the boost on the 45 is on the amp…you don't need an OD/boost pedal. It is also foot switchable.

The bottom end on the 45 with the onboard boost engaged is very tight. Zero flub whatsoever.

 
killertone":oxq0w7ge said:
Just to be clear here, the boost on the 45 is on the amp…you don't need an OD/boost pedal. It is also foot switchable.

The bottom end on the 45 with the onboard boost engaged is very tight. Zero flub whatsoever.

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I've owned them both, and they are each great amps. But there are some differences.

The 5153 50w has a decent clean, and the crunch goes up to very distorted. About the only sound I couldn't get out of it was a great classic rock crunch. The high gain channel is very heavy and gets nice and thick. Prolly too thick for use with a band, but it sounds VERY nice at home, and will give you endless hours of tone smiles. But the volume jump between clean and crunch make it unusable for me as a gigging amp. But that's just a gigging issue.

The Diavlo has great cleans, a nice (very usable) crunch channel, and the onboard boost takes it into that distinctive Fortin modern high gain. There's just nothing else like it. You can set the channel levels at unity gain, so it works great for a gigging amp. The gainiest settings aren't super thick like the 5153, but they are huge and still cut through. It offers a bigger range of usable tones than the EVH, and if you happen to love that great Fortin kerang, there's nowhere else to get it.
 
I had the 100 watt Diavlo and honestly it wasn't really close..the 5153 50 would kill it. But I have heard that the 45 is a bit of a different animal than the 100. The 5153 clean and red channels are very good, the randall clean is nice but for me a boost was needed to tighten the gain channel up. None needed for the 5153. Put it this way..I had to run an eq in the loop to get it into 5153 territory IMO. But again, maybe the 45 watt Diavlo is different...
 
The 5153 sounds great alone, but when I played it with the band ,it just didn't cut through well. Like above, it doesn't do classic rock very good at all unless you use an OD on the clean, but the volume jump from clean to the next channel is drastic. My other guitar players Fender Twin with OCD buried me no matter what I tried. I have no experience with the Randall.
 
Yeah, it was frustrating to say the least. I have a Splawn Quick Rod now and have zero issues cutting through.
 
First, what is your reason for considering the 5150III 50w over the 100w? If its because of size or price than ok, but if it is because you think the 100w is too much power than reconsider it. It sounds great at low volumes, just as good if not better than the 50w.

If you can't get the EVH to cut in a band mix you're doing something wrong with the EQ. First, channel 2 cuts extremely well, channel 3 not so much. You have to crank the mids, I run mine around 2-3:00 in a band setting. If you need more gain and/or sustain, then add a boost. It takes TS pedals very well.
 
I always play with the mids at least 2-3:00. The only thing I didn't try was the matching cab, but I did try a V30 cab, G12T75 cab, and an Eminence Legend cab. I will say that we don't play very heavy ,and I think that the lower gain settings are just not meant to be with the 5153. It was fine if I ran my OD's into the clean ,but as soon as hit the gain channels it just kind of got lost.
 
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