5150III EL34

The EVH 5150 III EL34 goes into the 50W version. There are now stacked control knobs in there for some dedicated control & not shared outlets. Hope it's offered in the lunch box make. We can wait. 

PRS: Archon 25W

Third amp update in 3 days... but here it is- PRS' Archon amp offered in a 25W combo. Many other manufacturers have included an attenuator option & PRS does the same, letting you switch this down to 13W should the need arises. The manufacturer included a 12" Celestion G12-75T in there so the distortion intent is clear.

Headstrong 2

The EVH 5150III does not need any pedal reinforcements as long as distortion goes but I'd like to mess with conventions, if that's what happened earlier today. I plugged in EHX's East River Drive into the amp in series so the pedal sends its driven signals to the amp before everything gets processed & heard through the driver. 

In the crunch channel, the pedal's effect is such that it brought the intensity up, if I may, to the levels offered by the lead channel. However, the voicing has the pedal additives to it, meaning, I could hear the East River Drive ringing in there so it's not just the amp roaring. Letting the pedal influence the lead channel is a case of downright distortion overdose, there's way too much on offer but that's how it is with some of us, we want to go past that limit just for discovery's sake. Due to the nature of the lead channel's distortion, the pedal is reduced to a boost function at best, very little could be heard in terms of the pedal's isolated performance but we don't invest in the 5150III to hear pedals, do we?