EVH 5150 Series Standard Electric Guitar - Ice Blue Metallic with Ebony Fingerboard Reviews
The EVH 5150 Standard was built for high performance. But what did you expect? It was designed by Edward Van Halen himself! The 5150 Standard's basswood body yields a growling, mid-forward tone that pairs perfectly with its muscular Wolfgang Alnico II humbuckers. Thanks to a graphite-reinforced, quartersawn maple neck, you'll enjoy rock-solid stability, while a compound-radius ebony fingerboard enables exceptional speed and comfort. Designed to his exact specifications and intentionally positioned against the body, the dive-bomb-only D-Tuna-equipped Floyd Rose lets you mimic Eddie’s signature trem work with ease, along with giving you instant access to Drop D tuning. The EVH 5150 Standard has a kill switch for mind-blowing stutter effects and a low-friction volume pot for super-smooth swells. The eye-catching black hardware and matching hockey stick headstock add the perfect final aesthetic touches to this shining machine.
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Highest Rated Reviews
Awesome guitar!
Great guitar - the neck is super smooth and fast, and the flatter radius makes playing up and down the neck a breeze. Beware about the pickups, however... I took out the stock pickups to put some EMGs in, and I had to rout out a bit more wood to get them to fit. The current rout fits the rounded stock pickups perfectly, but makes replacing with the more square EMG pickups a bit more difficult
Love it
Sounds great, plays great. Hard to stay in but working that out. Did i say love it
Absolutely amazing!
I use this for a RATM cover band (Tom Morello's toggle switch is too complicated for me), and it's really great. I even use this outside of the cover band. Pickups are great, low action helps me shred, even when I'm not shredding. And the killswitch is great. You really don't know how good it feels to divebomb and then use the kill switch to stutter the effects.
EVH 5150 Ice Blue Well Built Guitar
So I bought this guitar not to try and be like EVH but because I liked the specs (graphite-reinforced quartersawn maple neck, ebony fretboard, three-way toggle, basswood body, etc) and I am not disappointed. First the fretwork is well done with nice polished frets and smooth fret ends. The ebony fingerboard has rolled edges and is nice and smooth which makes it easy to move around. I love those two things right out of the gate. The pickups are more versatile than I expected. I can get a wide range of sounds and feel from them. They are also clear and articulate all the notes without being muddy. The nice smooth arm contour is great as well and makes the guitar very comfortable to play. The Floyd Rose and Kill Switch are nice to have for playing around but I really just like the build quality of the guitar more than anything. It just sounds great and is rock solid. The only two things I would call out are the fretboard cream dot inlays which are so plain they almost look cheap. Some abalone dots would have looked cool on this metallic blue guitar. Also, the jack plate is just a square piece of metal slapped on the guitar but really doesn't fit that well. It sort of stands out like a sore thumb. Would have been easy to put a more contoured jack plate on there so not sure why they didn't to that. Minor things that don't affect playability at all - just things they could upgrade on a $ guitar. Overall I love this guitar very much for the things that really matter. I see this guitar lasting a long time and I would recommend it to anyone looking for a good guitar in this price range. I also paid to have Sweetwater set it up prior to shipping and boy did they do a great job. It was perfect upon arrival and after some very slight tuning I was up and running. Thanks to Luthier Patrick B. for doing a fantastic job on setup.
EVH 5150 Ice Blue Metallic
This guitar is fantastic. I had never played an EVH guitar before, but it had the specs that I was looking for so I went ahead with the purchase. The stand out to me is the playability and sound. I've played guitar for nearly 40 years and have had many of the top brands. The pickups are the best I've ever played (my previous standard set up was a Seymour Duncan JB and '59 combo). If you're a fan of fast playing and great sounding guitars, give this one a go. My sales rep Andy was extremely helpful and as always the service at Sweetwater is second to none.
Ice Blue 5150 Standard
Easily worth the money I paid for it. Actually a pretty awesome guitar. If I was going to improve on this it would be to replace the Floyd 1000 with an original and 86 the D-Tuna, that is what I plan on doing in the future. No complaints at all with this purchase except no candy lol, Sweetwater was professional as always and easy to deal with.
If you are looking at one of these I would say go for it. Looks great and plays great.
Love this guitar.
Great tuning stability. Neck is superb. EVH Wolfgang pickups sound great overdriven or clean. This guitar has become one of my favorites.
