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My Trading Feedback | You Bring The Band
Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after youFor home use I had to do this...
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...which made it sound great at home.
It still sounded bloody awful at gigs though, in fact the bloke I sold mine told moved it on the morning after his first gig with it.
Nature of the beast I'm afraid, it's the best practice amp I've ever owned, I just don't need one.
My Trading Feedback | You Bring The Band
Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after youIf you need to connect to a computer to change the settings to get it to sound good, then something is seriously wrong.
My Trading Feedback | You Bring The Band
Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after youI watched well recorded videos with the EQ controls set at noon, dialled mine in the same at home and it's horrific. I'm in my 50s, so Christ knows what it must be like with a 20 year old's hearing.
I've now had two 100w and a 50w Katana combo in my house at the same time as five different valve heads and a Princeton and I can't get anything else to sound as bright as a Katana.
It's not me, it's the amp, it sounds tiny. Those Global EQ tweaks I posted are ridiculous (and, I suspect, bullshit). You would never cut those frequencies by that amount on a real parametric EQ.
As I posted at tedious length in my own thread I did get mine to sound good, but it was so venue-dependent I just gave up and went back to plug and play valve heads.
I actually miss it to be fair - it's a great tool, and if I had the space and money to throw away on landfill products I would have kept it as a rehearsal amp.
I probably wouldn't gig this amp though, I would never expect a tiny (in dimension) open back amp with a cheap speaker and probably cheap cabinet construction to project my tone with the depth and clarity I'd want to rely on to fill a pub/club. Maybe the issue here is in expectation - I bought my Katana as a practice/home amp, not a gigging amp. Happy to take it into rehearsal for 90% of the time but when I want gig tone I'd use something bigger.
*There is another expectation issue here. When I say great at home I mean something that has a nice 'feel' to it at TV volumes. I do not play loud at home in the slightest, (I'm getting rid of my Marshall SL5 because even at 1w I can't get it over 1) I should probably use something even smaller like but my issue with practice amps has always been in the feel and I think the Katana *feels* great at low volumes... It's still a little fizzy but it responds well to my dynamics.
Its part of the amps functionality so i don’t see it as a shortfall.
I dont own one but have played through the 100w a lot and it’s s decent amp.
I liked mine at home, but not so much when in the rehearsal room. It was too big for a home practise amp so I moved it on.
I wouldn't say it sounded thin or tinny, just a bit harsh when pushed.
Having sold mine, I didn't really think telling everybody I thought it was shite would have been helpful. It's a versatile budget practise amp that sounds better than many other budget practise amps. I was also conscious that I'd not given the speaker long to break in and I'd not tweaked loads with the software to address it.
I think sometimes it's just best to move on without declaring something is shite when loads of people own them and still enjoy them.
is it crazy how saying sentences backwards creates backwards sentences saying how crazy it is?