How to imrpove the 5150 without modding?

  • Thread starter Thread starter smucarolina
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MXR 10 band EQ in the loop. I like the amp without it, but it wasn't until I got the EQ that I truly loved it. It seems to take an EQ better than just about any amp I've tried as well.

Edit: also, toss a Tung Sol in v1. And I've tried a lot of tubes with this amp, and it just seems to love Mesa/Ruby power tubes for whatever reason.
 
Bro...help us help you lol. For real tho, the right combo of volume, pickups, and speakers, and its a solid combo, modded or not...my other guitarist records and tours with a metal band on victory records and uses a 5150II, emg loaded ibanez sz, and a mesa cab. I think he still uses his decimator, but that's it...
 
i'd vote for a c26 and c22 mod off the bat...huge differences..esp if you put the mod on a switch.
otherwise, you're limited basically to boosting and eq'ing in the loop, or pre-input eq.
 
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