EVH unveils two 5150 “blast from the past” models – with both throwback and modernised features
EVH has launched two new 5150 Series models, the DX and DX QM (quilted maple), which blend both throwback and modernised features together.
The DX offers a modified Strat-style basswood body with a deeper upper body curve. While the striped original had a single humbucking bridge pickup only, this new version comes with a HH pickup configuration and also has a lower bout kill switch.
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These models also offer a graphite-reinforced bolt-on quartersawn baked maple neck with a modified “C” profile, 12”-16” compound radius baked maple fingerboard with 22 jumbo frets and black dot inlay, plus a hand-rubbed satin urethane back finish, heel-mount truss rod adjustment wheel, and a “hockey stick” headstock decorated with the EVH logo decal.
Its custom designed EVH Wolfgang Alnico 2 humbucking pickup configuration is controlled by a three-way toggle switch. The bridge pickup delivers punch and articulation with sweet sustain and thick chunky rhythms in a perfectly balanced EQ curve, according to the EVH brand, while the neck pickup serves up “no-nonsense, balls to the wall overdrive and endless sustain without skimping on articulate cleans when the volume is rolled down”.
The DX is completed by an EVH-branded top-mount Floyd Rose bridge and locking tailpiece with fine tuners for each string, plus a patented EVH D-Tuna for switching back and forth from drop-D to standard tuning.
The DX is available in Black or Candy Apple Red Metallic, while the DX QM comes in Pacific Drift (blue) or Limeade Zest (a green into yellow ombre).
The MSRP for the 5150 Series DX is £1099 / €1299 and the 5150 Series DX QM is £1249 / €1449. Find out more via EVH.
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