I have a 5150 head and i am not sure to go with either a 4X12 mesa slant cab or a 4x12 vht cabinet

i play in a really heavy metal band, and am looking for a cab that has great low end but still punchy.

sorry if my descriptions suck.

thanks for the time

Let your ears be the judge. Have you tried both cabs?

ive tried the mesa and it sounds good....the vht fatbottom is just a bit harder to get my hands on just to test it out

i've heard a couple of store salesmen say "use the 5150 head not with the 5150 cabinet." And maybe i'm wrong but i think for a while that's what Joe Satriani was doing. I'd go for the Mesa...

I use the head and the cab, however i replaced 2 of the speakers with celestion vintage 30's and it has much better tone now.

I have a Mesa .50 Caliber+ combo and I was looking for a heavy metal cab to go with it. I tried everything in the stores and I came to the conclusion that I would go with a Peavey 6505 cabinet (same speakers, same construction, just the "newer" model of the 5150) and I have loved it ever since. It has four Sheffield 1200 speakers. IMO these are some of the best speakers ever.

Whether you are playing clean or down right melt face kind of stuff, the harmonic balance of these cabs is untouchable.

Screw Celestions Vintage 30's and Jensens.

These Sheffields don't need to be "broken in." They always sound great.

A lot of Peavey products just don't sound good to me, but this cab just does it for me. It makes me want to fill the cup.

I've ran a 200W L11 head through the 6505 and it reproduces cleassic tones well too.

I'm telling you man, try a 6505. Mesa cabs are great, but you're paying for the name mainly. They have a certain rigidity (if that's the best way to describe my ears) and they don't breathe and punch like the 6505.

Either the 5150 or a 6505 is a great choice. I have the newer version of the cab so I don't know if there was some change that they made to the newer cabs versus the 5150. It's probably like a new emblem or something.

Go try one and tell us what you think!

BTW I don't know if you know, but the 5150 and later, the 6505, are the choice of Eddie Van Halen and customized to his taste.

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BTW I don't know if you know, but the 5150 and later, the 6505, are the choice of Eddie Van Halen and customized to his taste.

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