The Peavey 5150 (OG) Model Thread

volkan said:
Firstly i should buy one of it then become enough rich to get second one and the last that it has to be a judgement day to ship for you even though you will never get that package so.
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Dom Mcsweeney said:
Btw...it would be cool to have Kazrog's Ampcraft 1992 in this comparison if you have it? ($15 on sale right now I believe).
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Maybe it would.

I considered Shane a friend from the Sneap forum days but I got booted off his beta team and unfriended on facebook for bringing up that Ampcraft 1992 had a fixed master volume model (rather than a model that behaves accurately across the full range). Apparently it's fixed at 4 because thats where it sounds best and anything else isn't as good. Except I dont like it that high so.....

Not even a message from him when he did that. So can't really take it seriously after that. Apparently they were going to add a full poweramp model later but not sure if it ever happened.
 
MirrorProfiles said:
Maybe it would.

I considered Shane a friend from the Sneap forum days but I got booted off his beta team and unfriended on facebook for bringing up that Ampcraft 1992 had a fixed master volume model (rather than a model that behaves accurately across the full range). Apparently it's fixed at 4 because thats where it sounds best and anything else isn't as good. Except I dont like it that high so.....

Not even a message from him when he did that. So can't really take it seriously after that. Apparently they were going to add a full poweramp model later but not sure if it ever happened.
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lmao, what a wuss.
 
MirrorProfiles said:
Helix Invective added to OP. Can't add more than 10 attachments so settings used are here. Better or worse than the stock 5150?
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To answer that question, I like the Invective better (and think it sounds a little more accurate for palm mutes/gain character in the comparison here), but reserve the right to change that whenever either one or both become Agoura models.
 
Invective seems a bit too high gain for me versus the Helix 5150 - the palm mutes/in between chugs are noticeably different.
 
@MirrorProfiles Thank you for adding the Helix Invective model. I think it sounds really good. With slightly less gain, it could probably be the model that sounds closest to the real 5150. However, it does apparently need some more extreme settings.

Back in the day, Kazrog's Thermionik was, alongside TSE's X50 (which I liked even more), the hot stuff when it came to amp emulations and far superior to anything better-known companies were offering at the time. It's a real shame that neither of them were developed further. Ampcraft 1992, on the other hand, did not appeal to me at all.
 
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TheTrueZoltan! said:
@MirrorProfiles Thank you for adding the Helix Invective model. I think it sounds really good. With slightly less gain, it could probably be the model that sounds closest to the real 5150. However, it does apparently need some more extreme settings.

Back in the day, Kazrog's Thermionik was, alongside TSE's X50 (which I liked even more), the hot stuff when it came to amp emulations and far superior to anything better-known companies were offering at the time. It's a real shame that neither of them were developed further. Ampcraft 1992, on the other hand, did not appeal to me at all.
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TSE x50 was the first amp plugin I paid for back in the day lol - it was LePou before that.
 
TheTrueZoltan! said:
@MirrorProfiles Thank you for adding the Helix Invective model. I think it sounds really good. With slightly less gain, it could probably be the model that sounds closest to the real 5150. However, it does apparently need some more extreme settings.
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You're welcome. Yeah I do like the model. The main reason I don't like it is that Post volume control adds in a huge variable in this kinds of comparisons and it gets way more fiddly to dial in. There's already enough of a battle with the MV, and it just kind of multiplies it. I think for dialling in tones in a normal context I'd go for it over the stock 5150, but I also dont mind the original model. Gets the job done.
TheTrueZoltan! said:
Ampcraft 1992, on the other hand, did not appeal to me at all.
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Yeah the GUI drove me nuts to use it. Loads of bad fonts, small text, tiny areas to click. Just needed outsourcing to a professional. It's a competitive world and the bar is pretty high these days. Whenever there are bullshit hoops to jump through that make things annoying to use, I'll just overlook them

Dez said:
TSE x50 was the first amp plugin I paid for back in the day lol - it was LePou before that.
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Yeah same here, although tbh, I always struggled to get a tone I liked from it. Probably user error thinking back to it. I also remember using Podfarm and Revalver a bit back then, which I thought was pretty good. Tried Revalver again more recently and it wasn't pretty.
 
MirrorProfiles said:
[...] I also remember using Podfarm and Revalver a bit back then, which I thought was pretty good. Tried Revalver again more recently and it wasn't pretty.
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Yes, I also used ReValver quite often. The 6505+ model was... well... quite usable for its time. And I really enjoyed using the Hartke bass amp model. But my goodness, that software has aged badly.
 
MirrorProfiles said:
Maybe it would.

I considered Shane a friend from the Sneap forum days but I got booted off his beta team and unfriended on facebook for bringing up that Ampcraft 1992 had a fixed master volume model (rather than a model that behaves accurately across the full range). Apparently it's fixed at 4 because thats where it sounds best and anything else isn't as good. Except I dont like it that high so.....

Not even a message from him when he did that. So can't really take it seriously after that. Apparently they were going to add a full poweramp model later but not sure if it ever happened.
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Eeeek, sorry I didn't realise this had happened.
That's a bit shit.
 
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