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I had the 100 combo, it did sound pretty good, but cranked I wasn’t so sure. Great for the price but ultimately I’d rather use my Princeton, 18 watter or something like a HRD. The Boss is cheaper and not in competiotion with any of those amps, so it’s no slight on it.
Sold mine, haven’t looked back, but nice to know I could always pick one up for not much if I needed. Switching back to a valve amp, I was like, ‘yeahhh, that’s it!!!!!!!’
Didn't know it was scaleable TBH but that 1/2 watt setting sounds just the business for home stuff.
What puts me off the Katana Mini, apart from owning a Katana 50, a Fly and two ID Cores (I'm merely a home player, that is literally all I ever need), is the fact it is actually rather pricey.
It costs £90 but you need a £20 PSU for it, so it is actually £110 for a functioning amp if you don't want it totally portable, or still £30 more than the Fly 3 with extra speaker and PSU! If you want a battery amp, and the Fly 3 is comparable for £40 less...
Crucially, it is only £60-70 less than a Katana 50.
You will feel less foolish if you don't buy exactly the same amp again, the 100 should sound bigger than the 50, and if your mate gets too big for his boots you should have 3dB more headroom with which to repay the compliment .
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It sounds better than the Fly IMO, although it is still obviously a small, plastic bodied item.
Edit: actually I think the Fly sounds better across the board... the brown setting on the Katana Mini is a right laugh though.
Since I bought my Katana 100W combo I haven't touched any other amp or effects.
How does the Katana sound through headphones?
It's not a gorgeous-sounding amp which will make all else redundant, unless your current valve amps are a Blues Junior and a Champion 600 obviously
I have had two valve amps break down at a gig since 1979 and both were caused by my own teenage ignorance and neglect, so I don't need an immensely complex digital amp for the sake of reliability, in fact I'm more concerned about needing back up for my Katana than I was about my previous gigging amps.
I have about five grands worth (original rrp) of redundant digital gear from the last 20 years in my attic. Current resale value? Absolutely nowt.
The Katana sounds good, is light and breathtakingly cheap, but perversely my 50s-tech amps are way more future proof IMO.
As @JayGee says, it's a useful tool, but it's also immense fun.
I tend towards my little ID Core 10 for phones however as the jack is positioned better and you don't need an adapter.
The lack of a tuner is a bit of an oversight, even a basic tuner would mean that you would only have to take the guitar and amp. Now you need a tuner + batteries/power supply
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Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after youUltimately not as repairable as wires and tubes with your soldering iron in the garage of course, but then less likely to go wrong in the first place.
That said I can foresee a time when some of the parts used in even the most basic hand-wired valve amps become hard to get, especially high-voltage electrolytic caps, if valve amps do go out of general production. Unlikely in the next ten years, but who knows after that… some of the tipping points are remarkably fast once a new technology overtakes an old one - two I can think of are film cameras and CRT monitors.
I wouldn't worry too much though, since as long as the amp has been designed well it *shouldn't* break at all - there are many analogue solid-state amps that are thirty or forty years old which still work fine and have never had a single part replaced. (Although electrolytic caps are finally becoming an issue for them, too.)
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein