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Peavey 6505 Plus Guitar Amplifier HeadThe Peavey 6505 Plus Guitar Amp Head features six 12AX7 preamp tubes and four 6L6GC power amp tubes, with presence and resonance controls and three-band EQ for taming their notorious tone.
Peavey proudly introduces its 6505 Series guitar amplifiers, named in celebration of Peavey's first 40 years, 1965 to 2005. The 6505 is also the relaunch of the 5150 Series, the immensely popular amplifiers Peavey designed with Edward Van Halen.
While known as the 5150, these amps became the undisputed go-to guitar amps for scores of rock, hardcore and metal bands due to their raw tone, relentless power and road-proven reliability. The 6505 is still the unquestionable choice for an ever-expanding list of endorsers, including 3 Doors Down, Ted Nugent, Atreyu, Steve Morse, In Flames, Arch Enemy, Visqueen, God Forbid, HIMSA, Darkest Hour, Sworn Enemy, Unearth and many more.
Peavey 6505 Plus Guitar Amp Head Features
- Two distinct tube channels with footswitch control
- LED "active" indicators for each channel
- Bright switch for Rhythm channel
- Crunch switch on Rhythm channel with footswitch control
- Separate equalizer sections for each channel
- Separate power amp controls (Resonance and Presence) for each channel
- Separate preamp controls (Pre and Post Gain) for each channel
- Standby power switch
- Bias test points on rear panel
- Effects loop with footswitch control
- 1/4 inch Preamp output jack
- Speaker impedance selection switch (4, 8, 16 ohm)
- Two parallel 1/4" speaker output jacks
- 120 watts output power
- Metal three button footswitch with detachable 25-foot cable
Peavey 6505 Plus Specifications
POWER AMPLIFICATION
SECTION
- RATED POWER AND LOAD: 120 W RMS into 16, 8, or 4 ohms
- POWER @ CLIPPING (Typically @ 5% THD, 1 kHz, 120 V AC line): 130 W RMS into 16, 8, or 4 ohms
(Bias must be reduced to measure.)
- FREQUENCY RESPONSE: +0, -3 dB, 50 Hz to 20 kHz @ 100 W
RMS into 8 ohms
- HUM AND NOISE: Greater than 75 dB below rated power
- POWER AMP EQ:
- Active Presence: +10 dB @ 2 kHz
- Active Resonance: +10 dB @ cabinet resonant frequency
- POWER CONSUMPTION (Domestic): 400 watts 50/60 Hz, 120 V AC
- TUBE COMPLEMENT: Six x 12AX7 preamp tubes (1 for clean/crunch, 3 for Lead, 1 for
EFX and 1 phase splitter
4-6L6GC
PREAMP SECTION
The following specs are measured @ 1 kHz with the controls preset as follows:
Low and High EQ @ 10
Mid EQ @ 0
Bright out
Lead and Rhythm Posts @ 10
Presence and Resonance @ 0 dB
Nominal levels with Pre Gains @ 5
Minimum levels with Pre Gains @ 10
- PREAMP INPUT: Impedance: Very high Z, 470K ohms
- Lead Channel (with channel select in):
- Nominal Input Level: -60 dBV, 1 mV RMS
- Minimum Input Level: -76 dBV,
.15 mV RMS
- Clean Channel (with channel select out):
- Nominal Input Level: -30 dBV, 30 mV RMS
- Minimum Input Level: -34 dBV,
20 mV RMS
- Maximum Input Level: 0 dBV,
1.0 V RMS
(Subtract 24 dB with Crunch switch in.)
EFFECTS SEND
- Load Impedance: 47 k ohms or greater
- Nominal Output: -10 dBV, 300 mV RMS
EFFECTS RETURN
- Impedance: Very High Z, 470 k ohms
- Designed Level: -10 dBV, 300 mV RMS
PREAMP OUT
- Load Impedance: 47 k ohms or greater
- Nominal Output: +10 dBV, 3 V RMS
REMOTE FOOTSWITCH
- Special 3-button unit with LED indicators (supplied)
- Channel select and effects loop
SYSTEM HUM AND NOISE @ NOMINAL LEVEL (clean channel):
(20 Hz to 20 kHz unweighted)
- Greater than 63 dB below rated power
EQUALIZATION
- Custom Low, Mid, and High passive type EQ
- Push Bright (Rhythm Channel only): +6 dB @ 2 kHz
- Push Crunch (Rhythm Channel only): Increases gain
DIMENSIONS (H x W x D)
- 10" x 26.625" x 11.75" (25.4 cm x 67.6 cm x 29.8 cm)
WEIGHT
Features and specifications subject to change without notice.
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 7 people rated this item  | Kevin Foster - Saint To Slave from Kaufman, TX | | blackshirt_bluejeans@yahoo.com | | Overall Ranking: | | Overall:
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| | | Subject: | Broke Musician Buys 1200$ Amp | | Quality:
| It's built very well. Solid as a rock. | | Reliability:
| I've only had it for a few days. Still 100% | | Overall:
| This thing will melt your face off. Better than Marshall and Mesa. You don't just pay for a name with Peavey. | | Playability and Feel:
| Controls are very simple and easy to use. Knobs are very sensitive, endless tone possiblities. You don't have to turn it from 1 to 5 before you hear a difference. It's more like 1 to 1.25 to start shaping tone drastically. | | Tone:
| FACE MELTING.I've never been satisfied with straight off the head distortion. I'm running stereo through a cheap B-52 LS 4x12 cab. It's very professional sounding if that makes sense. It made my tried and true distortion pedal useless. I play metal. It's the perfect amp for me. The clean tone you get on the rythm channel is very thin, but if you keep the pre-gain on 0 and hit the crunch button you get a very warm clean tone that is crisp and clear as a bell. | | Finish:
| It's a cool lookin' amp, but the white on the faceplate and the 6505+ logo is about a quarter of the brightness as it is on the display pic above. It's kinda dark and hidden behind the metal mesh. No biggie though. | | Action:
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| Semi-Pro | | Do you own this product?:
| Yes | | Date submitted:
| 4-25-09 | |
| | Shane Chandler from Bloomington, IN | | Overall Ranking: | | Overall:
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|  | | Subject: | Amazing amp. Amazing. | | Quality:
| This thing is a beast. I've got one that I've had a couple weeks and it's taken going back and forth from my house to my band's practice space. My friend's got one he's had for quite some time (only because he had the money before me) and he's used it for shows and it's held up as well as any amp should. This amp's tone doesn't change after hours of playing as some amps I've played. Very well made amp. The only thing that sucks is the clean tone, which I will get to later in the tone section. | | Reliability:
| As I said before, both my 6505+ and my friends 6505+ have both stood up to whatever we need them too so far. | | Overall:
| I love this amp. I've wanted one for a few years now and all of my talking about this amp and playing them at music stores got my friend to buy one too. If you play anything, not just metal, this amp will suit you. It's very versatile and you can get YOUR sound out of it with just a little tweaking and you don't even have to spend twice the amount on...you know who. | | Playability and Feel:
| Responds very well to picking nuances. Has great sound and is exactly what I was looking for. The clean could be set up cleaner but being as I play prog/tech death, this thing is perfect for me. Occasionally you get a pop switching from Lead to Rhythm, but almost any high gain amp has that same thing happen. | | Tone:
| The Lead is phenomenal. Any sound you want, you got. Rhythm...eh...as everyone else says, clean is pretty dirty. That's why I gave it a 4 on tone. BUT!!!! there is a biasing adjusment knob that you can set the bias a little warmer to get better clean tones and better lead tones even. I've read around on the internet about why the 6505+ is set to such a cold bias and apparently its to find the happy medium between tube life and tone. If you set the bias up warmer then you will have to change tube's a little sooner. Now that doesn't mean every few weeks. Just maybe a month sooner. So it is definitely something to look into. And there is also a resistor swap mod to make the adjustment knob have more of a sweep, but don't do that until your warranty is expired. | | Finish:
| It's got a traditional look, not too furious looking or anything. It's kinda like a sleeper. This amp doesn't NEED to look awesome to know it sounds awesome...unlike you know who. | | Action:
| All knobs were set to 0. Perfect because if you slowly rotate each knob up until you get to the sound you want then you don't have to mess around with already adjusted settings. | | Skill Level:
| Semi-Pro | | Do you own this product?:
| Yes, I do own this amp. | | Date submitted:
| January 20, 2009 |
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