5150 III Specs

[indeedido]

Found this interesting for what it is worth. this guy listed one for sale on ebay. Looks like they are MIM. Made in Mexico!!!


http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...6104&rd=1&rd=1

Q: IS THAT - MADE IN MEXICO - ON THE BOX? Jun-25-07
A: I believe it does, but I can't tell for sure because of the stickers. I can't imagine this suprises anyone? Fender’s "state-of-the-art" amplifier manufacturing facility in Ensenada, Mexico. Gracious del la interesto.

[Nitro Express]

Originally posted by indeedido
Found some interesting pics of the inside of the amp..... If I have to pull the chasis out to change the preamp tubes, what a pain that would be. Seems an odd design.

I liked how Peavey horizontally mounted the preamp tubes under a plate that could be removed without pulling the amp chassis out of the box. On these high gain amps, preamp tubes make a huge differnence in tone and the way Peavey did it you could experiment and tweek it or change a bad tube. Peavey also uses sepparate circuit boards for the pre amp tubes, EQ section, and Power amp. If a board does go bad it can be replaced. Looks like Fender has done a simular thing having everything linked with ribbon wire.

Looks like the standby and power switches are on the back. That sucks. They had to do it to make room for all of the knobs the thing uses. Who in the hell is going to use the clean channel anyways? The 5150II basically put clean and rythum (crunch) together on the same EQ circuit. This eliminated some knobs and allowed the switches to be on the front of the amp. No ressonance control.

I don't know. Looks like a decent amp but I think the price is too high.

[Nitro Express]

Looks like special EVH ediction 25 watt greenbacks. What's the difference between those and the regular greenbacks? A sticker and the price?