You cannot use the USB connection for this reason. In order to play some songs through the speakers of this amp by using your PC/Mac, you have to connect it through the aux-in connection of the amp. Therefore, turning on/off the effects can become really annoying, since you have to turn the knobs to (de)activate the effects. It doesn't support a decent footswitch controller as its big brother 100W does. So if you want to connect external pedals, you have to connect them in front of the amp, which may/will result in unwanted sound effects in certain situations. The USB connection is very useful when you want to record your guitar without any microphones.Ĭons: (These are cons that are expected and they are no reason to affect the rating.) It is loud enough if you use it in 50W mode (for bedroom usage, 0.5W is also great!). The speaker sounds good in all settings. On top of that, there are lots of modulation and FX options that you can play with. Now, this is where the modeling happens! Clever guys at Boss came up with digital processing algorithms to replicate the sound of very famous pedals (Muff Fuzz, Rat, DS-1, etc.). Then there are the effects, which can be controlled/adjusted with Boss Tone Studio. The crunch is my favorite, it just adds the right amount of crunchiness, such that the pedal effects that come after still sound fantastic! I rarely use Lead and Brown channels, even though I play metal %40 of the time. The clean channel is great, with a little bit of reverb, your licks sound fantastic. The amp types/channels (Clean, Crunch, Lead, and Brown) do what they are supposed to do! I mainly use the clean and crunch channels. It has its own characteristics as an amp. This is not a modeling amp! In other words, it does not try to replicate the sound of a Marshall, a Fender, a Vox, an Orange, etc. After I bought this one, I ended up using it more than my Marshall and Fender amps! ![]() Before purchasing this one, I tried other practice amps but I wasn't satisfied. I bought this amp at the beginning of 2020 (so the beginning of the pandemic) since I needed an amp that I can use at home, without waking up my neighbors. Dimensions (W x D x H): 470 x 238 x 398 mm.USB connection for recording and changing effect settings (matching USB cable: art.Connectivity for up to two footswitches or an expression pedal.Updated Boss Tone Studio sound customization software with over 60 different Boss effects, channel and global EQs, customisable routing and more (free on ).Controls: Amp Type, Gain, Volume, Bass, Middle, Treble, Booster / Mod, Delay / FX, Reverb, Master & Power Control, Sounds.Power Control (0.5 / 25/50 watts) for full amp sound at any volume.Power amp input for the use of multi-effects devices.2 Memory locations for amplifiers and effects settings plus panel setting.5 Independent effects: Booster, Mod, FX, Delay and Reverb - 3 of them can be used simultaneously.5 Amplifier types: Clean, Crunch, Lead, Brown & Acoustic.Embrace it! You'll be looking for a Fuzz Face soon. ![]() This is all part of the experience of our hobby. Even humbuckers, if they're wound hot, will be noisy. If you put a loop pedal in front of the amp, any changes you make on the amp will affect the loop and whatever you're playing over the loop. So you can put a looper pedal in the FX loop and change amp settings between loop and playing. Some pickups like single coils and P90's are much noisier and harder to control. This let's you put pedals after the modelling section of the Katana. When you turn the selector down to clean, you turn the volume all the way up, which is just amplifying the noise floor of the amp. So yes you're going to hear noise when your not playing. The first hum you're getting in your video, you have the selector at crunch, or brown, which is the highest gain stages of the amp. That won't stop the noise, but you can't dial anything in without being plugged in. ![]() Remember that a lot of the tones we like to hear are over saturated tubes that are breaking up, harmonics and all kinds of "noises" that we amplify and need to learn to tame.įirst, do what therealfrogman mentioned and plug your guitar in. I think you have no real problem, just inexperience at this point.
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