Evh 5150 III 15W LBX Top

This little beast is way more that any guitar player need in the GAIN aspect. Only the blue (crunch) channel is enough to obtain a decent metal tone. And once you switch to the red channel: the apocalypse begin! lots of gain to shape an incredible metal and rock tone. Is a bit hard to handle it at the beginning, but once you tweak a little bit the pots, you can obtain great results.
The effects loop works wonders. I use it with a POD HD Desktop and you can combine the great distorted valve tone from the amp with all the effects. JUST AWESOME.
The only negative thing that I could think now is the lack of a clean channel. It could be a way better product if EVH just put a clean and a high gain channel. Still an awesome product. Ideal to play in your room, but you can play along with a drummer on a rehearsal o gig without any problem. Another cool feature is the possibility to switch to 1/4 or FULL POWER mode. Ideal to play on low volume (room, practice..) without lose saturation on the signal.