EVH Iconic, short WDW test

[acev]

Just messing with some settings on the Iconic head - small wet dry wet setup, with some stereo Chorus and delay applied, room sound. Volume at 2, Once you hit volume 3 (out of 10) starts to punch nicely. Amp is slightly boosted by King of clone, by 68 pedals. For the price the Iconic is a pretty awesome amp, had it for a few years now.

Anyway, what do you think of the sound ?

 

[romanianreaper]

Man that sounded sick! Definitely a nice wide sound with some good chugging.

 

[Gitfiddler]

sounds great!

 

[The~Kid]

Sounds amazing OP *_*

 

[TheGreatGreen]

Sounds killer man. Great snarl / sass in that playing too.

btw what's the deal with that custom fretboard inlay?

 

[LP Freak]

I’ve been saying all along that these are killer amps. Never understood why they never really took off

 

[angelspade]

Sounds KILLER...The 5150 Iconic is a ridiculously good value (especially used) in my opinion.

 

[angelspade]

I’ve been saying all along that these are killer amps. Never understood why they never really took off

I think they are selling pretty well actually...

 

[IHateRap]

Sounds good to me. I probably have enough stuff around here to mess around with a w/d/w thing. I've never tried. What are you using?

 

[harddriver]

Amp sounds great. It sounds more open and less compressed than a 50 watt EVH 5153 amp.

 

[Jakem]

Sounded great!

 

[Alpha Stryke]

Beastly -

 

[errrrrl]

Nice!

 

[acev]

Sounds killer man. Great snarl / sass in that playing too.

btw what's the deal with that custom fretboard inlay?

Thanks - its a 2006 PRS 20th Ann Singlecut !

 

[acev]

Amp sounds great. It sounds more open and less compressed than a 50 watt EVH 5153 amp.

Correct, I had both, 5153 seems more compressed even with lower gain setting. Despite the lower price (and different design), Iconic is no less of an amp than 5153.

 

[acev]

Sounds good to me. I probably have enough stuff around here to mess around with a w/d/w thing. I've never tried. What are you using?

I use amp to Engl 2x12 cab as main dry, then Bray LO-1 line out to effects and power amp, which powers two 1x12 wet cabs. When it comes to effects its a little more complicated if you are adding a mixer (which I am), so you can have the fx in parallel and also mix in the dry in the wet cabs, If needed.

 

[tjnx]

sounds great! looks like a lot of fun

 

[Alpha Stryke]

Phenominal. Thats a whole lotta wang -------

 

[GreatRedDragon]

When I was amp shopping a couple years back I was surprised by how much more I liked the Iconic than the regular 5153. It felt much more open and Marshall-y without the crazy compression that bugged me on the 5153. The dealbreaker for me was not being able to remotely switch between Clean and Overdrive modes on Channel 1.

 

[LP Freak]

When I was amp shopping a couple years back I was surprised by how much more I liked the Iconic than the regular 5153. It felt much more open and Marshall-y without the crazy compression that bugged me on the 5153. The dealbreaker for me was not being able to remotely switch between Clean and Overdrive modes on Channel 1.

I agree. I would’ve been happy with just a clean channel and a blue channel. I prefer to boost the blue channel over using the red channel.