Good for travel
"This is great if you are traveling and need to hear your electric guitar. It is small and doesn't take up much space. It is not super loud so it won't disturb neighboring rooms at a hotel, and it has a headphone jack if you need to keep really quiet.
I was using a guitar with humbuckers while trying out this amp.
The clean channel sounds pretty good. The tone control has a very small range and does not make significantly noticeable differences in sound. With the guitar selector switch set to both pickups, the clean sound was pleasant to my ears. Bridge and neck selected sounded not bad, as well.
The drive channel is not that great, but that is to be expected with a tiny solid state amp. I found that it sounded a little better with the tone on zero and the drive control on maximum.
Reverb would be a nice addition to this amp. The sound is very dry, but that is mostly noticeable on the drive channel. The clean channel could live without it.
The sound through headphones was pretty good, maybe a bit better than the speakers. I didn't try the bluetooth, and I don't know if I will. Maybe some day.
Overall, this will be going with me when I travel for work and take a guitar to pass the time."
Dissapointing
"I was looking forward to this one. Checking the order status to see when it would be delivered. I dug my old guitar out of the closet and dusted it off, excited to impress my kids with my super cool shredding skills. I ordered a two pack of fresh ten foot 1/4" guitar cords and drifted off into daydream land. Reliving the glory days back in my youth. Upstairs at Mac's house, jamming with the band. Ah yes, these kids were going to be blown away at just how cool Dad is.
The box arrived in the mail and I tore it open excitedly. The cord wouldn't come in for another day so I had some time to check this thing out and figure out how it worked. After all, it was also a bluetooth speaker so I could always use it out in the garage to play some music or listen to the game. I plugged it in and let it charge for a while. A couple of hours later I picked it up and started messing with it. I couldn't get it to turn on and figured it might need more charging so I left it on the charger for a couple more hours. I came back to it and it still wouldn't turn on. I checked the box to see if there was a manual. Maybe I was missing something. Nope. No manual. So I started pressing the buttons to see if maybe I had to change the mode or something. Finally the power light came on when I turned it off. Yes, that's right, the on/off switch is wired in backwards. Well, that sucks but it is turned on now so maybe that will just be a mild inconvenience. I pushed in the button to switch on bluetooth mode. The light doesn't come on but it makes a noise. Great, the bluetooth light doesn't work. Still not the worst thing in the world. It was pretty easy to connect to bluetooth though. Came right up in the menu and paired up easily. Ok, here we go. My troubles were over and it was time to get going. I started playing some music and that seemed to work fine. The sounds quality wasn't the best and it was pretty quiet but I'm not an audiophile and I was just gonna use it in the garage so whatever. I'm trying to stay positive at this point.
The next day, my cord comes in and I'm pretty excited to try it out. I grab all the stuff, sit on the couch and get ready to rock out. Plug everything in, turn on the speaker, crank the volume, and give the strings a good whack. Nothing. Ok, let me check all the knobs and buttons. I spend several minutes, alternating between button presses and strumming. Then, knob adjustments and strumming. Nothing is working. Nothing is coming out of the speaker at all. I'm losing faith here. Maybe there is something wrong with the guitar. It has been a while. I screw with it for a minute and then move on to the cord, unplugging the guitar, then the speaker. Plugging them back in, switching the cord around cause maybe it will fit better that way. I try out the other cord that was in the package. At one point I brush against the guitar while I'm unplugging it and I hear a noise for a split second. I mess with it for a bit and come to figure out that if I hold it about three quarters of the way in and press it down, it works. I can't do any more than strum because you can't really play very well with one hand. At least, I can't. I'm coming to accept what I've known would really happen from when I first tried it out yesterday. It sucks. The distortion doesn't sound great and the clean is barely even audible. I mean, I was holding and strumming a guitar, holding the plug in at just the right angle, and turning knobs at the same time with 2 hands so maybe I didn't get the best representation of the audio from it but who knows. I can't imagine it would be that great since everything else was so dissapointing.
Maybe I just got a bad one or something. It was only $30 so I guess I shouldn't have expected anything too awesome. It doesn't look super terrible. Maybe I can just put it on the shelf as a little piece of decor. I don't know, but now I have to find some other way to impress my kids."
