![]() How does it sound? Well, the “Lead” and “Brown” settings (brown is for Marshall’s iconic brown sound popularized by Eddie Van Halen) can provide some serious high-gain tones. Also, for further tweaking and direct recording, you can use the USB connection and the BOSS Tone Studio software. In the same vein, the company added five of their world-class effects to the amp which you can control from the screen-less top-mounted control panel. Moving on to the sounds, the 5 amp characters (made with state-of-the-art digital modeling) offer you a variation button for a total of 10 amp styles. Also, you can use it as a power amp (bypassing the processing and preamp sections), in stereo with another Katana, or even as a head by plugging in an extra cabinet. Yes, with 50 watts you’re more than set to take “your” sound from your bedroom to the stage. To begin with, it is a 50-watt amp with a 12-inch speaker, which makes it a great amp for your bedroom and beyond. Yes, there’s a ton of good news about this new iteration of the amp that’s on its way to becoming a classic. The Boss Katana amplifier is the evolution of an already ground-breaking amplifier. ![]() Steve Vai what size speaker they play 90% of the time. If you don’t want to take my word for it, ask any rock n roll guitar God, such as Slash, Angus Young, or even Mr. Well, that’s the main reason why Marshall cabinets are known as 4x12s. For example, a guitar amplifier with a 12” speaker will always be more focused on the middle frequencies than one with an 8” or 10” speaker. Speakers come in different sizes and that affects the way they sound. Moreover, there even are examples on the list that can be sitting on top of your desk (once you remove all your Star Wars paraphernalia, of course). Well, this was a big part of my selection because I went after the amps that could fit into the corner or could sit comfortably on top of that pile of dirty clothes waiting for laundry to happen. Unless you live in a mansion, usually bedroom-friendly practice amps need to occupy little space and translate every inch into metal fun. So, the amps you will see on this list are perfect examples of amps that sound good (AKA tight bass, crunchy mids, and singing highs) when used at bedroom levels. Yet, we used it in a different way because we looked for amps that sound good at a low volume. Using the word “volume” and the word “bedroom” in the same line usually means someone is telling you to lower it because you’re sharing your house and don’t want to ruin your family’s harmony. This is because some small amps only offer an “overdrive channel” which is a souped-up clean setting that’s good for some heavy blues and rock and roll but can’t get you anywhere near Randy Rhoads or Dimebag Darrell.Īll the amps you’ll find on our list have tested positive for metal. Yes, it was a lot of fun but it was also an indication of how much “metal material” we could get out of the amp. One of the first things I did when I got to a new amp was to crank the volume and the gain all the way up to 10.
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