Peavey 6505 MH: Mini-Compact Tube-Driven Tone, Guitar Amp with Legendary Tone, Modern Tech and Portability
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Style: Amp
Features
- 2x EL84 power tubes and 3x12AX7/ECC83 preamp tubes
- Two footswitchable channels with 3-band EQ
- Footswitchable crunch on Rhythm channel, reverb, and buffered effects loop
- Tube Status indication (T.S.I.) circuit
- MSDI Output with XLR and ground lift switch
- USB output
- Speaker defeat switch
- Attenuator switch for 20 watts, 5 watts, or 1 watt output power
- Footswitch included
- Impedance switch for 16 or 8ohm cabinets
Description
Peavey's 6505 MH mini tube amp head packs all the tonal tenacity that the 6505 series is known for, and it's got what it takes to be a gig-worthy guitar amp, too. You'll never have to worry about showing up to a gig with bad power tubes, because the Tube Status Indicator tells you how they're doing at a glance. Send your tone directly to the PA system with the Mic Simulated Direct Interface, with a speaker defeat switch to turn off your cabinet for lower stage volume (or for silent practice with headphones). And with foot switchable channels, crunch, reverb, and effects loop, you've got all the flexibility you need with the Peavey 6505 MH.
Brand: Peavey
Color: Black
Compatible Devices: Guitar
Material: Wood
Output Wattage: 5 Watts
Item Weight: 15 pounds
Product Dimensions: 10.4 x 16.7 x 9.6 inches
Item model number: 6505MH
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer: No
Date First Available: June 9, 2015
Color Name: Black
Compatible Devices: Guitar
Connector Type: USB, XLR
Speaker Amplification Type: Active
Material Type: Wood
Musical Style: rock
Output Wattage: 5 Watts
Power Source: Corded Electric
Wattage: 20 watts
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This is hands down the best mini-head for classic rock. IMO, it is a loud 20 watts that you can gig with in a 3-piece. I used to own a 20W Mesa Boogie Subway Rocket and this is as loud as that, and I gigged fine with a loud 5 piece (rhythm, lead, bass, drums, keyboard). Of course, you can always mic it if your band is too loud. As for the tone, it's is AWESOME. People complain about the clean channel (rhythm) not being Fender, of course not—nothing beats a blackface reverb clean, but it's great as it is. Just keep the pre-gain 12 noon and under, and at 20 watts you have some nice headroom. I like the crunch switch in the clean channel, which adds touch sensitive break up, which is perfect for classic rock and blues. There's also a switch for a Marshall voicing on the rhythm channel, which does a good job of imitation. So for your jazz, blues, and classic rock, the rhythm channel is where you'll live. Now where the amp shines, of course, is the lead channel. Distortion up the wazoo to play ANY style of metal. I won't review that channel because others have already done so. But the lead channel is EXCELLENT. Best metal amp ever. In summary, the Peavey 6505MH is a Jack of All Trades, MASTER OF ALL amp. Get it. Get a good cabinet though. If you play metal you'll want something like the 1x12 closed back Mesa-Boogie Rectifier cabinet, which adds more punch to the mids and bass (I'm assuming you play metal). That cabinet is way heavier than the head, which weighs almost nothing. Before I leave, I have to give Kudos to Amazon Fulfillment. Previous to this amp, I ordered from 3rd party music stores, and TWO AMPS IN A ROW were damaged on arrival. These 3rd party clowns didn't pack the amp well, unlike Amazon, which double boxed the amp. This is The Amp™ to get for practice, home, recording and occasional gigging. 110% recommended.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2017 by ProfessorF
I don't get why everyone loves it so much. I returned mine, I have a Blackstar tube half stack and the overdrive channel just sounds terrible to me. I'm wanting a good metal tone tone straight from the amp, without having to use amp sims and pedals. This did not do it for me. I currently get good metal tones from a Spark 2 which I run straight into the clean channel of the Blackstar and it works great. I just wanted to see if there was something better. I've tried the Line 6 Pod Go and it's metal tones were terrible also. I'll stay with the Spark amp sims until I find something better.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 9, 2025 by Mark
Rythm channel crunch disengaged: Very good clean sounds. Did not expect it to be this good. Its a real proper clean sound. Very sweet sounding. Readily breaks up (smoothly) with high input signals but quickly and easily turns to semi-prestine clean with just rolling down guitar volume or gain knob or even selecting a low output pickup. Perfect for clean rock verses or with use with drive pedals. Rythm channel in crunch mode: Starts of as a slightly crunchy tweedy kinda blues overdrive, all the way to being a proper high gain solo lead tone, superb for solos of Satriani/Iron Maiden/Malmsteen/Judas Priest/Insert 80s rock solo here. In the middle gain position however it goes from sounding like a well defined crunchy rythm (think Scorpions "rock you like a hurricane" ) to clean with just your guitar volune knob. Incidentally this mid gain position turns pretty clean on crunch button disengaged and on my middle sigle coil pickup. and is very crunchy and overdriven on crunch button engaged (perfect for rythm) on my neck/bridge humbucker. Without changing volumes on guitar. The lead channel has TONES of gain. Gain for miles. Even with gain nob on 2-3 its has enough gain for van halen/satch/via/Yngwie solos. It always has sooo much gain. If you turn the gain up it changes the feel and tone, the gain is so high all the time that the gain knob is more of a tone shaping feature than an actual measure of gain. This amp does VERY heavy metal really well but it's not a heavy metal amp per say. All the youtube videos, no one shows you the exceptionally sweet bluesy, classic rock, hard rock and plain old-school metal (not death metal) this amp can do with excellence. Finally its VERY easy to get a good ton out of this amp, 1 watt really works loud and clear for home, but turn it to 20 watts.. on 20 watts its freakin LOUD.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 3, 2016 by Reem Albannaw
The amp has overheating problems. According to Peavey is a problem with the design. They are trying to solve the problem, but until they get it, you are buying a hot lottery
Reviewed in the United States on January 25, 2017 by santiago ribadeneira
I can't stop playing on this. I made the mistake of thinking the more watts the better for a tube amp. This is wrong! I come from a 25 year run of Peavey TransTube amps; Solid State tube emulators, that are really good, but they aren't tube amps. I can put the volume at 1 or 11, and it is still the same, just louder. Actual tube amps need to be driven high and hard in order to saturate them, and give the same distortion that a good solid state does at a low volume. So the 6505+ 100w combo amp that I bought a few months ago was a bad idea for a living room guitarist. I quickly realized that putting the volume at 2 blows the neighbors away, but still doesn't power the tubes enough. For playing gigs, it's great, but...A 20-40w head is what is needed for my every day needs. I bought this after a friend bought one, and I got to a try before I buy. I quickly decided on the buy. He has it on 16ohm with a splitter to two 2x12 Marshall and Orange cabs, and it powers them well. I have (2) 4x12 Marshall cabs, but I don't have a splitter, so I'm running it at 8ohms through the top angled cab. I have only had the chance to push the volume to 3, but even that sounded great. Skynyrd, Cream, Zeppelin. Palm mutes were a little dampened, but once I get the setup to where it can go full volume, that will get better. I will probably put my Digitech RP7 on this head, so I can put the compressor and delay on it for Satriani stuff, and drop the Delay for old-school Metallica and Pantera.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 23, 2017 by Dave A