Boss Katana Mini

As guitar player, a small practice amp is a must when a time and space was limited. Check a bunch of review on this guy, but yeah, sometimes reviewer like to exaggerating thing, so im actually 70% convince. I had to try it since its sounds good, but will i like it?. Yes, i super like it.

Pros-
-As one of reviewer says, it really is worlds biggest smaller amp.
-Speaker sounds fantastic. It really does
-Simple feature but all you needed (im a demanded guy actually, Tone knob only doesnt satisfy me, minimum must have 3-band EQ.
-That JC CLEAN, that Boss pedal CRUNCH, that saturated BROWN channel. Happy happy me.
-Its loud enough, and speaker sim does sounds great.
-Take pedals really well, even mfx unit.
-Feather weight, easy to carry around.
-The most important for me, yeah, it does handle 7-strings like a boss.

Cons-
-Plastic all around (well built though)

Basically, if you need a great practice amp. This amp is a great choice. Especially if you're seven stringers like me..For the price, its unbeatable. I've already try bunch of small practice amps mind you..

I have heard a lot about Katana's, so I gave this guy a try when I was looking for a practice amp for a small apartment. I was a great surprise!! I could not be more happy. It has a really nice clear sound, and great volume. But what surprised me it was the overdriven sounds. For low volumes, it truly delivers a nice round warm overdriven sound, that makes you enjoy practicing. Its really simple to use, and even have some on-board effects for even more fun while playing.

Pros:
-Quality of construction: Well manufacturer, clear connections, and very robust, yet lightweight.
-The size: Very portable, fits on a drawer, an can run on batteries.
-The sound: Amazing sounds!!. I had other practice amps, and even when the clean sound are good, the overdrives are usually, well, not enjoyable . However, this one delivers a great and playable overdriven sound, at lower volumes. I have valve amps, so I am very "picky" for the overdrive sounds, and this ones delivers . Obviously in the context of a practice amp.

Cons:
- I enjoy playing so much, that I wish it would have extra effects like the bigger brothers =)

To get some context of my overdriven preferences, I like rock and heavy rock, but I am not into a really heavy overdriven sound . I had played mostly Marshall JCM. I have not use the amp with external pedals, live overdrives or other distortion, so I could not made a comment on that.

If you were sad before that you can't take your electric guitar with you to camping and play Master of Puppets to other campers this is solution for you :)

For me it is a toy, which plays much better than I would except from the toy of that size. I am using it mainly in my house when I want to play not in the room where my standard amp is standing (i.e. in my son's room when I am putting him to sleep, this amp is perfect for this purpose).

I gave 4 stars for quality because this amp is made 100% out of plastic; solid, hard but still plastic. I also give 4 stars for sound (if you take into account the size of the amp and how it plays than it should be 6 stars).

5 stars for features because in this size you have 3 channels and build in reverb

Perfect as a second small amp to play with during night, rosting turkey in the oven, putting your kid to sleep or simply for practicing your scales. Also if you are just starting your trip with a guitar and you are not sure if this is for you. I recommend

This is a little beast. I took it out of the box thinking that something was a-miss... It weighs nothing. Then, while I was putting the batteries in (yes, it's battery powered, but you can also buy a power supply, which I did), I was chuckling like a little kid. It reminded me of a toy train or something.

Finally I plugged in the guitar, turned few knobs, did the clean test, not bad at all, turned few other knobs, put it in crunch and... WHAM! Then switched to brown and... KaBOOM!

Seriously, this is certainly a practice amp, but it is a super fun practice amp.

PROS:
- sounds good in every mode. The delay is a bit of a gimmick, but I did not play with it too much. EQ is ok.
- the plastic does not look cheap.

CONS:
- cannot think of any at this price and for what it is: a practice amp.

Maybe the best portable amplifier. Not sure though haven't tried many.

Anyway, it weighs just as a feather. Really. Any tiny little pedal is way heavier than this. And it has 7w power. No joke with that, i plaied in a friend's garage with that; he was using a 30w marshall or something like that and I only had to put the volume at it's top and equalize a little bit. It doesn't lose much of the sound quality.

Maybe the only little problem is that when the batteries are low it really loses efficiency and sound bad. It doesn't have the best durability either, i think that 10 hours with batteries, but hell, for it's power and quality 10 hours of playing without charging it is perrfect. And if you want more durability you can plug it to the electricity if you're at home.

In conclusion, you have a portable rocking machine for a really small price. It has a couple effects and two different distorsions. You can put pedals with it and sounds better than some bad-ass quality 10w amplifiers. If you wanna play outside, put it in your backpack or even in your guitar gigbag.