EVH 5150 iii mini - 50 watt - ROLL CALL

[squank]

Right here.

Have had it for a few months now. It sounds great. I just wish the ch1 and ch2 volumes matched.

 

[nevusofota]

Right here.

Have had it for a few months now. It sounds great. I just wish the ch1 and ch2 volumes matched.

If you go midi this won't be an issue

 

[chameleon2112]

Love mine. It does everything I need an amp to do and it sounds awesome!

Did you already have the WGS speakers in your Mesa cab when you picked up your EVH50 or did you start out with different speakers?

I changed them way before I got the 5153 50 watt. I had an Orange AD30 and didn't care for the V30s with it. I do like them with the 5153 so much that I don't feel the urge to change them at all

I am wanting to change speakers in my G-Flex cab. I don't really want to mix though. What do you think would be a better match for the 5153 50 watt, Reapers or Green Berets?

 

[itsallinmyh3ad]

Right here.

Have had it for a few months now. It sounds great. I just wish the ch1 and ch2 volumes matched.

If you go midi this won't be an issue

Im a complete noob to midi. How would I go about to using the head with my Line 6 M9? Do I need a midi controller or something?

 

[mystixboi]

i'm not as familiar with the m9, but i do know that it has a midi out. just use a 5 pin cable from the midi out to the midi in of the 5150 iii.

once you get it set up, you should be able to control everything from the m9.

 

[nevusofota]

Right here.

Have had it for a few months now. It sounds great. I just wish the ch1 and ch2 volumes matched.

If you go midi this won't be an issue

Im a complete noob to midi. How would I go about to using the head with my Line 6 M9? Do I need a midi controller or something?

Midi is basically very simple. It can get very complex with large set-ups where many pieces of equipment are changing with one click of a footswitch.

Midi is made up of 2 things, midi Channel #'s (NOT amp channels) and control changes #'s (CC's).

Midi Channel #'s are given to each piece of gear that you want to control with a midi program change (i.e. one preset on the M9)

a "CC" # is given to what command you want to tell that specific piece of equipment to do. CC stands for control command.

In your case you would have each preset on your M9 send a midi message that consist of a midi Channel # (remember, not your amp channel) and a CC# (this WILL correlate to you're amps channels)

So, you could make the 5153's midi channel on the M9 be #1 and you will send a CC# (lets use #1 to correlate to the amps channel 1). So everytime you hit this preset on the M9, the M9 knows to send the CC #1 (to put the amp on the clean, or green, channel) on midi channel 1 (which correlates to the 5153).

If you want to jump to the red channel 3 on the amp you would make another preset on your M9 to send a CC# (say CC #3 to correlate to the red channel on the amp). You would stll use midi channel #1 on this M9 preset because you want to make sure the M9 sends this CC to the EVH. Every preset on your M9 will send to the same single midi channel (#1) because you are only changing one piece of gear (the EVH). The CC# will change with each M9 preset to correlate to the desired amp channel.

Now, what you have to do is read the EVH manual about how to make the EVH "learn" the midi channel # and the CC#'s your M9 is sending it. This is pretty straightforward in the manual.

I am by far NOT a midi expert but I was in the same boat as you about 5 years ago. Hope this helps and doesn't confuse you more

 

[jmgman69]

Let me help you. Sounds great!

DUDE!!! That sounds really good!!!!

 

[itsallinmyh3ad]

Right here.

Have had it for a few months now. It sounds great. I just wish the ch1 and ch2 volumes matched.

If you go midi this won't be an issue

Im a complete noob to midi. How would I go about to using the head with my Line 6 M9? Do I need a midi controller or something?

Midi is basically very simple. It can get very complex with large set-ups where many pieces of equipment are changing with one click of a footswitch.

Midi is made up of 2 things, midi Channel #'s (NOT amp channels) and control changes #'s (CC's).

Midi Channel #'s are given to each piece of gear that you want to control with a midi program change (i.e. one preset on the M9)

a "CC" # is given to what command you want to tell that specific piece of equipment to do. CC stands for control command.

In your case you would have each preset on your M9 send a midi message that consist of a midi Channel # (remember, not your amp channel) and a CC# (this WILL correlate to you're amps channels)

So, you could make the 5153's midi channel on the M9 be #1 and you will send a CC# (lets use #1 to correlate to the amps channel 1). So everytime you hit this preset on the M9, the M9 knows to send the CC #1 (to put the amp on the clean, or green, channel) on midi channel 1 (which correlates to the 5153).

If you want to jump to the red channel 3 on the amp you would make another preset on your M9 to send a CC# (say CC #3 to correlate to the red channel on the amp). You would stll use midi channel #1 on this M9 preset because you want to make sure the M9 sends this CC to the EVH. Every preset on your M9 will send to the same single midi channel (#1) because you are only changing one piece of gear (the EVH). The CC# will change with each M9 preset to correlate to the desired amp channel.

Now, what you have to do is read the EVH manual about how to make the EVH "learn" the midi channel # and the CC#'s your M9 is sending it. This is pretty straightforward in the manual.

I am by far NOT a midi expert but I was in the same boat as you about 5 years ago. Hope this helps and doesn't confuse you more

Awesome! Thanks so much. I'm going to be buying a MIDI cable this week and see if I can get this running.

 

[Orbis_Mortis]

Love mine. It does everything I need an amp to do and it sounds awesome!

Did you already have the WGS speakers in your Mesa cab when you picked up your EVH50 or did you start out with different speakers?

I changed them way before I got the 5153 50 watt. I had an Orange AD30 and didn't care for the V30s with it. I do like them with the 5153 so much that I don't feel the urge to change them at all

I am wanting to change speakers in my G-Flex cab. I don't really want to mix though. What do you think would be a better match for the 5153 50 watt, Reapers or Green Berets?

It just all depends what sound you're going for but I would definitely tend to lean towards the green beret (green back).

 

[nwright]

I need to get into the MIDI thing with mine...But even after reading the manual and everything, I'm still lost, lol.

Anyway, I grabbed my wife's camera and took a few pics a couple weeks ago:

 

[Orbis_Mortis]

Sweet Pics!!

 

[squank]

Sweet Pics!!

Yea, it looks like it's huge and outside in a thunderstorm.

 

[dfrattaroli]

I have to ask: What kind of camera is that?

 

[mystixboi]

I need to get into the MIDI thing with mine...But even after reading the manual and everything, I'm still lost, lol.

Anyway, I grabbed my wife's camera and took a few pics a couple weeks ago:

I spent about an hour working on midi with mine. I finally got it working. It's a pita but worth it. What do you have as a midi controller?

 

[nwright]

I dont have a MIDI controller at all. If I were to pursue that avenue, I'd buy something like a floor unit like a POD HD or the M9 or something.

As for the camera, it's a Canon T2i with the el cheapo Canon 1.8 50mm lens (i.e. the "nifty fifty") paired with one of my wife's backgrounds and her photo lights.

 

[squank]

As for the camera, it's a Canon T2i with the el cheapo Canon 1.8 50mm lens (i.e. the "nifty fifty") paired with one of my wife's backgrounds and her photo lights.

The lighting is everything...

Nice job.

 

[Stramm8]

I've gone midi!!!!!

My EVH 5150 iii mini has midi capabilities. I've been using my Line 6 Pod XT Live for effects. It sounds great, but it's a pain to press one button to get a delay, and then another button for chorus and then another button to change the channel. I went to GC this morning and bought a midi cable... after about 30 min on tinkering, I packed up the Pedaltrain and I was left with just the XT Live and amp.

Here are the 4 channels I created:

Channel 1 - heavy rock rhythm with just a tad of delay... calls up channel 3 on the amp... tons of gain

Channel 2 - marshall-type setting on steroids with a tad of delay... calls up channel 2 on the amp... not as much gain, but enough to throw some flames!!!!!

Channel 3 - clean with delay/reverb... i also have the ability to add a bit of chorus using the mod pedal on the xt live... the clean is never fully clean since the gain and eq is shared with channel 2, but it's ok if i roll back the volume of the guitar. channel 1 of the amp is used.

Channel 4 - calls up channel 3 of the amp with a level boost and bit of delay... chorus can be added too.

Channels 1, 2 and 4 all have the noise gate.

I love it!!!!

Are you running your pod xt live with the 4 cable method. I found one locally cheap and would love to ditch the pedals, put some delay in the loop and control the amp channels

 

[mystixboi]

I've gone midi!!!!!

My EVH 5150 iii mini has midi capabilities. I've been using my Line 6 Pod XT Live for effects. It sounds great, but it's a pain to press one button to get a delay, and then another button for chorus and then another button to change the channel. I went to GC this morning and bought a midi cable... after about 30 min on tinkering, I packed up the Pedaltrain and I was left with just the XT Live and amp.

Here are the 4 channels I created:

Channel 1 - heavy rock rhythm with just a tad of delay... calls up channel 3 on the amp... tons of gain

Channel 2 - marshall-type setting on steroids with a tad of delay... calls up channel 2 on the amp... not as much gain, but enough to throw some flames!!!!!

Channel 3 - clean with delay/reverb... i also have the ability to add a bit of chorus using the mod pedal on the xt live... the clean is never fully clean since the gain and eq is shared with channel 2, but it's ok if i roll back the volume of the guitar. channel 1 of the amp is used.

Channel 4 - calls up channel 3 of the amp with a level boost and bit of delay... chorus can be added too.

Channels 1, 2 and 4 all have the noise gate.

I love it!!!!

Are you running your pod xt live with the 4 cable method. I found one locally cheap and would love to ditch the pedals, put some delay in the loop and control the amp channels

yeah... exactly how i am doing it. i have the xt live in the efx loop and just a 5 pin midi cable from EVH to XT Live

 

[itsallinmyh3ad]

My 5150 mini died. Lead channel won't work at all. The other 2 work fine. Gonna return it.

 

[nevusofota]

My 5150 mini died. Lead channel won't work at all. The other 2 work fine. Gonna return it.

Most likely a preamp tube. You may just want to try popping in a new tube because the wait for another may be months.

You could go here and talk directly to Howard Kaplan (the guy who engineers EVH amps) about the issue. He frequents this thread constantly.
https://www.thegearpage.net/board/showth ... ?t=1052359