EVH 5150 ICONIC Demo- EVH AND 80’S TONES 

Thank you so much for doing this video. I have been an EVH fan since I was 15. And when this came out everyone was doing the djent and chugging stuff and I said to myself “ok I don’t play that stuff this is not an amp I want”. Thank you for showing it is great for the stuff I like to do which is 80s stuff. So I may reconsider it

Thank you for this! I mostly play 80’s hard rock and wrote this amp off because all the demos I’ve seen so far is just people chugging and playing heavy down tuned modern metal stuff on it. It’s gotten a bit tiring honestly. Your demo was refreshing to hear. I’m gonna try to check it out in person now, really liked the sounds you got. Good to see it nails the 80’s hard rock sounds. Subbing for the awesome playing and funny commentary. Cheers!

My man!! Ripping it up 80's style like a boss. You nailed it, great for 80' great for 2022 just a great head for the money

Excellent tones and playing brother! I have been watching all of Ola, Euge And Kyle’s 5150 videos and this is the closest to how I intend to use the amp and it sounds killer! Eddie, our lord and savior blessed us one last time before he moved on. Keep up the great work bro!

Hey guys! Forgot to mention my signal chain was the head straight into my engl 2x12 with v30 and mic'd with sm57. Not boosts or anything. Just some reverb and delay in fx loop.

Excellent demo! You make it sound so sick. Nice to see a sick 80’s metal/shred demo of the amp. I really love the green channel for a heavy high gain tone more than the red channel. It breathes a little better while still having a lot of clarity, even with the gain cranked.

Great video bro i just saw this ! I have had this amp for 2 years no problems .🎶🎵🎸⚡️

Nailed it! this is what I expected this amp to do. One of the best demos yet. Killer Riffs excellent playing , good job my man!

Finally, Somebody is putting it through its paces!

I just picked one up a few days ago after trying it out at the music store. I immediately loved the sound from it !!! I can't wait to jam at band practice with this on Thurs along with my 4x12 Marshall 1960A cab. Dude - great video and killer chops on those guitars !!! Nice gear you have !!!

Played the 5150 Iconic today! It sounds awesome! Will post more with it soon!

Excellent tones and playing brother! I have been watching all of Ola, Euge And Kyle’s 5150 videos and this is the closest to how I intend to use the amp and it sounds killer! Eddie, our lord and savior blessed us one last time before he moved on. Keep up the great work bro! Ordered a black one right after watching this lol

I think this demo makes it sound nice! Good EVH tones! Great 80s tones!

Best video and Best playing I’ve heard you do to date! Killer demo brother! 🤘

80's the best decade

I have one and absolutely love it. You are right nothing on the market today comes close to this at this price range and it seems to be very durable and well made. Great video!

excellent. sounds great no matter what price. so many great features.

Cool demo! I’m looking HARD at getting this amp when it becomes more available. I bought the original Peavey 5150 (yep, the block letter) when it first came out. Then I bought the Peavey 5150 II when that came out. Now I own an EVH 5150 III 50 watt head, 2nd model with the dual knobs for the green and blue channel. (My fave amp so far) Can you tell by my amps choices since 1992 that I am an Eddie fan? 😂 For those complaining about the preamp being a hybrid solid state and tube design, I say this. QUITCHERBITCHIN! Because the first thing these nu-metallers (or whatever they’re called) do with their all tube preamp amp is slap a solid state overdrive pedal in front of it to get the tone they want. 😂🤣 I guess an Iconic is now in my very near future!

Great demo! The boost also adds a fixed amount of input stage gain boost as well. I like using the boost with the Boost Volume fully counterclockwise on channel 1.

I think this amp sounds great in every demo I've heard, and here it sounds great as well. GUITARRRRRRR! Good job buddy 💪

Love mine, I used to have a Peavey 5150 2x12, and sold it about 10 years ago. This reminds me of a cross between EVH’s early stuff, but can pull in the Sammy era tones all in one, I’m really digging it! Great video, and screw all of the chuggers, EVH wasn’t a chuggers anyway!

THANK YOU!!!! as an 80s player i loooooongg for something like this- every demo is chug chug death metal- ENOUGH ALREADY!!!! you made me want one- and now theyre $999 lol

Sounds killer, and you are so right - '80's and '90's EVH type tones all day! Even with that tone-sucking power attenuator (I had one, kills the highs), it sounds awesome!

Great sounding demo! I think it's funny when people talk about only 2 tubes and comparing to amps that have 5 tubes. Of course, of those 5 tubes, usually one is going to be a phase inverter, you'll have a couple of cathode followers for fx send and return, which leaves what... 2 tubes for gain staging (which is 4 stages of gain). It's almost like they don't even know what amps actually do. :)

Best review of this amp RU-vid to date

Thank you! I don’t need to say anything else, you said it all.

Thank you so much for doing this video!!! As you've said .... as much as I might like to chugga chugga every once in a while; that's not what my playing is nor is the reason for the amp. IT was nice to hear some better tones. ..... great playing btw

This is a great amp for anyone that's not already a 5150 owner. The 80 watts down to 20watts switch is super cool and I think the amp covers a lot of good tones.

I really love your revue of this amp and love how ya blast all the haters. I have this amp and it's the most versatile amp I own.

Im 58.owned em all. Sounds like this amp will blow the shit out of any other amp for 80"s tones. Impressive!

Killer demo! And one of the best EVH Iconic demos on RU-vid. So I went to GC on Thursday evening with no intention to buy an amp. The white 5150 Iconic head and cab caught my eye. Plugged into it for about 15 mins, and was super impressed. When I got home, started watching the RU-vid reviews and found your video amongst others. Friday, I ordered the head from AMS and it was delivered this afternoon, running it through my 25 yr old JCM 800 cabinet. No regrets with this one. Great channel and looking forward to more videos! 🤘👍🎸

Nice job! I picked up the 5150 Iconic 112 a couple weeks ago. It’s a super versatile guitar amp from crystal cleans to monstrous crunch.

I Just love the warmth of tubes! Outstanding tones.....

Man that Red Channel on Burn sounds amazing with the Frankenstrat 👌

Great playing Gregg, this was a tasty demo. Did it justice.

THANK YOU!! This video was probably the best one I've seen on iconic EVH that I recently purchased!! You NAILED THE SETTINGS ON GREEN CHANNEL!! I have been dialing back and forth a thousand times between green and red to get the tone I had in my Head!!! The green channel is where it's at for that unbelievable awesome,BEST POSSIBLE tone every in history "in my opinion" I watched and set dials on green channel to what you showed and that's it for me🤘🤘🤘🤘🔥🔥🔥🔥 KEEP IT UP MY GUITAR 🎸🎸 PLAYING BROTHA 🤘✌️✌️🤸🤸🤸

I really like this amp, I was lucky to get it as soon as sweetwater got them in. I get great tones for anything I want to play and takes pedals well.

Awesome amp I got mines on Christmas Eve and I love it !!! I have prs and invective

Also I love that it has two preamp tubes last overall cost of maintenance in the long run. Especially to somebody new getting into the tube amps who may not quite know the expense of having to buy tubes. Also arguably hopefully it has way less preamp noise. Unlike those evh heads that have an ungodly amount of pre amp noise. So with a good gate out front and one in the loop it should be dead silent

Sounds great! Nice job!

I’m going to be the first to hear it! Swweeeeet! You’re right! It is very a very dialed in amp! Great video!!

Mate, I have had the best time with your intro 🤣🤣🤣. I agree with you, this amp is wicked. I have it and it’s a beast.

For that 'in your face' tone from the 80s this really nails it. You mentioned in an earlier video the EVH bridge pickup is amazing and it really is. Nice demo! 👍

That’s exactly what I’m searching for! You’re the first who spot my needs. Thank you so much! I will subscribe to your channel! ☺️🤘🎸

Man , that’s some smokin tone ..!!! Well done brother…. 😎👍

Green channel boosted is where it's at! All 80s tones!

Perfect amp for anything in my opinion.. the best overall amp I have owned.. iv been through a lot! Great demo 🤘🤘

Great video and impressions of the chugga guys, 1 guy put out 4 videos whining and never actually had the amp in his possession just played it in a store. For some reason youtube pushed mostly metal videos to the top. Thanks for showing what the amp was actually made to do.

OMG! The definition and clarity of notes is SICK! Great for those who like to, u know, use more than just the Low-E and A strings.

Sounds great. The cork sniffers don't know what they are talking about. This amp sounds amazing.

My hat off to you young man ; so far you are one of the few who really understand this amp.

Damn it man! I wish I can get this right now but can't play guitar since my biceps injured :/ great demo dude!

I was totally gonna buy one until you told us there was no fizz knob. What the hell man? Lol. I’ll joking aside that’s the best demo I’ve seen yet!

Lmao "the book of face" that's great...hey,I'm poor so I love the amp.sounds great!!!

Excellent demo/test drive!! Thanks !!

DAMN!! It sounds incredible, but then again I’ve seen you play in person, and everything you play sounds incredible. You could take an 80’s Gorilla 15 watt SS amp and make it sound good. This demo seals the deal I’m going to have to get one. Thanks as always for being to voice of reason on new gear!!

Your playing rocks! You made the amp sing…great job

The red channel honestly gave me slash vibes

Sweet demo bro! Awesome playing ⚡️

I do both styles! I got a combo and I love it. What's really fun is that I can get the caveman chugs on my Universe but still bring it back to the green OD channel for sweet leads and 80s style riffs on the 6 string guitars (hell the UV can do it too though). I love this thing.

I think its a great amp, and its kind of amazing to be able to basically buy a Block Letter 5150 NIB for a grand. I'm currently running a Boogie Duel Recto, and love my tone, but, there's definitely something about that block letter tightness I'd like to have. Cheers, great clip.

God this is the most heavenly sounding amp. Eddie was a genius and an innovator when it came not just to playing but also to the tech side of things.

I think this would be great for some punchy grindy '80s punk tones

I love how you're imitating Louis Torres 🤣🤣🤣 great video of a great amp!

I just got my combo last night . Haven’t had time to mess with it fully . Sounds really good . Ill compare it to my 50w el and see the difference . I like the combo as it’s easier to move around . And unfortunately I still sound like me . Lol

Watching again. I heard "morning after"... Awesome!

It's simple...it's a classic Amp. And whoever doesn't understand it it's not for him. Great tones man.🤘🏻👌🏻

Love the tones... Im gonna have to buy one

Awesome video, man!!! Cheers.

great demo! I recently bought this amp and love it. thanks for the tip on the green channel with OD on 7 for that classic EVH tone quick question, do you keep the amp at full wattage (80) or dialed back at 20% with the accentuator/variac feature. Thanks brother Mike in NJ

I dig the iconic...makes me thankful i still have my peavey 5150 combo though

I was watching this video again but I like the way that you hit a pinch harmonic, wait and then you do the bend/vibrato.

Lol ...Loving the impression of the naysayers. Straight up truth review. Thank you.

Absolutely brilliant thank you

And thanks for the tasty riffs and licks

sounds good.

Great video and playing by the way bro

I definitely heard Alexi Laiho's solo from Bed of Razors in there, a thumbs up for you sir.

Rockin chippy his demo was really good too so now I can add yours to the list. There's one other one some guy doing the brown sound really good playing sounds good too but his was a little generic sounding. I hate that the head shells made of MDF though

Nice riffs Gregg! This amp is definitely better than what the naysayers are saying.

I love my evh iconic! I put a boss OD-1 in front of this amp and it shreds!

It seems like the Iconic hits all the bells and whistles you would want if you were going for that kind of 80's heavy kind of tone, and for the money, how could you go wrong? I'm going for the combo as my next amp, just for the idea of having a 'grab and go kind' of set up. My days of hauling full or even half stacks are long over. Great demo as always my friend!

I got one before Christmas, dead quiet with a Rocktron Hush in the loop.

I have a Crap load of Amps from Marshall to Laney and then some but I'm looking for a Power amp in a Pedal but I don't want to spend a bunch $$$$ and it must have as nice a Clean as possible. Reason being I can find any worthy Demos on line that show the Clean side of said Pedals they seem to only show videos where they run Drive and Distortion through IR's instead of going directly into a Cab. I know of Seymour Duncan and Quilter but is there any that you have heard that fit the bill? And yes they must take Pedals well. Thanks!

Sounds fine to me. I'd buy one, but I've already got my 5150 tones covered with several other amps. But... I would not hesitate to buy this if I needed another 5150. And for beginners, getting their first real amp... damn lucky bastards. I had to start with a gorilla combo amp back in 1991, and it was terrible. Lol

damn, what a sound!!

Ironically the better chug amp is the Stealth. This is just meant to be more versatile FWIW.

This is actually funny I have played the Legacy VL100 for years and i hated the two and didn't feel I needed the extra gain stage of the Legacy 3 and this Iconic is basically the same thing and i bought it after the tone and sounds i could get from it .. I see videos of people saying they would rather have this or its good for the price point but these people don't own one and probably won't own either of the amps they talk about but i bought mine because it can thump, it can play 80's it can play Nu-metal and at the end of the day this is just such a great amp i had to have the Iconic instead of the 6505+ that i was waiting for .. Cool video but at the end of the day you can get great tone and volume out of this amp and it has some even still amazing power at 1/4 power so the moral of my story is I never wanted a EVH and was going to go with the Peavey version from the 6505+ but i am very glad I didn't because this beast is stage ready at 1/4 power ....Enjoy yours if you can everyone , I am thinking of buying another one... LMMFAO

I like the sound. Do you feel inspired when playing it? When I first played the original Peavey 5150, I felt it in my gut! It made my playing sound better then it was. I got this feeling with a Road King, and a Carvin V3 (correct me if I’m wrong on the Carvin model). There where other more expensive amps I’ve played, but wasn’t inspired by the sound. This is all relative, but I think you know what I’m talking about. Compare it to the Peavey, and the more expensive EVH 5150. Please let me know. This is interesting.

Hell yes it is!!! Gr8 demo M8.. That kicked ass. You're the best 👌 bro. What speaker cab?? 🔊

Gotta love that high fizz feature 🍻🥤

Nice job 👍! I own one and agree with you 🤘🤘🎵🎵 fantastic tone out of this beast of an amp! And for under $1,000?? There's nothing better out there

Just a quick question Greg, I was looking at voodoo eruption pickup and it seams like the company is not around anymore and also how did you get the pickup to fit because on the Wolfgang you need the pickup to have rounded corners and triangular legs to fit in ????

What's the riff at 7:20? That sounds really cool. I like the quick slide in there. Gives it a cool sound.

Why did the 80's have to end? WHY ?!?!?!?!?!

So I just picked up a PRS Archon Mk2 50 watt. Awesome amp...BUT I think I might be better off with the Iconic. I felt I had to really push the Archon and max the gain out to get to that modern metal sound I was looking for.

Sounds awesome

Will you do a video on how guitarist use their mouths when playing? Almost like they are mouthing the tones they are expressing? Thanks for the great videos

FK YEAH 🤘🏻

so the demo shows there are 6 different distinct tones the head can make, but it seems we can't footswitch all these? only boost and green/red channel?