Boss Katana Mini vs Fender Blues Junior IV

I'm actually in the process of developing a step-by-step course on how to use every feature of this amp and as soon as it's ready, I'll post a link fo...

Also, a steel-reinforced handle, to endure years of touring. And Also, white ivory knobs that are easier to see while you're on stage. Now, let's take...

This amps not super loud, but it's the perfect little amp if you're going to take to a friend's place and just have a jam. this would do the job easil...

I decided to get the Hot Rod DeVille 410, basically a big brother to the Princeton tube amp: Four 10 inch speakers instead of one, more watts, more controls, but still compact enough that one could carry it around if need be. This is a wonderful amp. For in-house practice I can't even turn the volume more than halfway up without making my ears hurt. The dials allow some very fine sculpting of generated sounds, but if you don't want to let the inner sound engineer spend too much time on the dashboard, just zero the effects and play it straight with limited volume and basic equalization

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And because of it's 15W output power, it's loud enough to gig with but it still allows you to get great tones at lower volumes, either in the studio o...

I bought the Boss Katana Mini more recently, not to compare with the Blackstar, necessarily, but for something a bit different. The Boss Katana Mini is billed as 7 watts, and I think much of that is in the 'brown' channel, which is noticeably louder than the other two channels, the clean channel and the crunch channel. Bottom line, I really like the clean channel here, but I'm underwhelmed by the crunch and 'brown' channels, which sound ordinary to my ears. They sound flat, the bass is a bit dull, and the gain doesn't have much of an edge to it

This amp is incredibly well built and I had far greater expectations for it having been a fan of the hot rod deluxe and the blues junior models but I was highly let down by the tone of this amp. The best way to describe it is that it doesn’t sound like a fender amp or a vintage amp. When I plugged in I tried to dial a good tone for the amp or even a neutral tone but It turned out to be a difficult task and when I finally got a tone dialed that was decent for the amp it was flat and when I tried to crank it up and play a tone a little more classic to the amp, I found that the tone was muddy. Pedals are a must for this guitar and the money is better spent elsewhere

You will want a quality power supply or a lot of batteries for this unit as the cheap lightweight psu's will introduce hiss on the high gain settings. The boss brand psu should be ok. My "onespot" psu was not clean enough and it made hiss. Oddly enough, the psu that came with my nux mighty light is very quiet on the Katana

I Found that you can push that bass without getting into that mud territory and that can really determine again whether it sounds like you're playing ...

The volume is perfect for the amp's purpose. Half way up on the brown channel and my wife and daughter had to talk loudly to each other to be heard. I seriously doubt that you will find a better tone for the price. I would love hear this amp on a recording verses some high dollar stuff

so I get a little loud and play and you can. you can get it. add a volume where you can get even some crunch without pedals to play some like blues ro...

With both speakers connected the Fly is significantly louder. What’s most important to me however is that the Fly is a much more musical sounding amp. I also like the fact that with the Fly I can choose between the super compact single amp or both speakers when traveling. With the Boss you’re stuck with the one size which is about the same as the 2 speaker combo of the Fly

We're going to start off with some tone here in a minute, talk about it, hear it a lot of different ways and stay tuned to the very end when I am goin...