BOSS Ktn-Mini Katana Portable Guitar Amplifier, A Compact, Go-Anywhere Amp That Runs On Batteries – Rich, Full Sound
Serious Rock DNA Forged Into A Compact, Battery-powered amp
BOSS Katana amps have received accolades from guitarists everywhere for their fantastic sound and feel, onboard effects, and great value. Now, the Katana-Mini makes serious Katana tone accessible in a small, go-anywhere amp that runs on batteries. Offering sound quality that far exceeds other amps in its class, this miniature powerhouse features an authentic multi-stage analogue gain circuit for big, expressive sound, plus a traditional analogue EQ and an onboard tape-style delay. Ultra-compact and travel-ready, the Katana-Mini delivers inspiring Katana tone anywhere you want to play.
- Great Katana tone in a highly portable amp
- Rich, full sound that far exceeds other amps in its class
- Authentic multi-stage analog gain circuit and three-band analog tone stack
- Three versatile amp types: Brown, Crunch, and Clean
- Built-in tape-style delay for warm ambience
- Aux input for jamming with music from a smartphone
- Phones/recording output with cabinet voicing
- Runs on six AA-size batteries or optional AC adapter
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Specially Designed for Top-Quality SoundUnlike typical small, battery-powered guitar amps that offer so-so sound quality, the Katana-Mini produces big, full tone that inspires you to plug in and play for hours at a time. BOSS’s comprehensive design approach includes a custom speaker, advanced hardware, refined circuitry, and special component selection, which all work together to produce maximum sound quality in a minimum footprint. The amp also incorporates BOSS’s decades of research in energy efficient design, providing class-defying power and punch from only six AA-size batteries. | Inspiring Tones, Ready to RockThe Katana-Mini’s all-analogue input circuitry includes multiple gain stages that drive three classic sound settings, offering the same cascaded gain approach found in high-end amp designs. This is what gives the Katana-Mini its satisfying tone and quick, interactive feel, with distortion that’s easily controlled with input volume and picking strength. Inspired by BOSS’s flagship Waza amp, the Katana-Mini’s Brown setting delivers expressive, high-gain tones rich with harmonics, perfect for heavy riffs and soaring solos. Crunch provides overdrive that’s ideal for rock rhythms and bluesy leads, while Clean offers up crisp, sparkling tones with punchy dynamic response. | Analogue Tone Stack and Onboard DelayIn contrast to the limited EQs found in other small amps, the Katana-Mini comes equipped with a genuine three-band analogue tone stack. This provides natural sound shaping via familiar bass, mid, and treble controls, just like the tone stack in a full-size stage amp. In addition, you can enhance your sound further with the Katana-Mini’s cool tape-style delay. Using the dedicated time and level knobs, it’s simple to dial in everything from subtle reverb-like ambience to long, warm delay repeats. | Jam at Home or Grab and GoThanks to the Katana-Mini’s advanced-yet-compact design, you can plug into serious guitar tone any time and any place. Weighing just under three pounds, it sits easily on a tabletop or shelf at home. And with the integrated handle and battery operation, it’s easy and convenient to grab the amp and play anywhere you want, indoors or out. With the aux input, you can even plug in your smartphone and jam along with your personal music library or tracks streamed from the web. And for private practice and recording situations, you’ll want to take advantage of the phones/recording output, which features special cabinet voicing for real mic’d amp tone. |
| Weight: | 1.5 kg |
| Dimensions: | 30.48 x 25.4 x 25.4 cm; 1.5 Kilograms |
| Model: | KTN-MINI |
| Batteries Included: | 4 AA batteries required. (included) |
This little amp sounds fantastic for what it is. Most of my practice time is later at night once the kid goes to sleep so it’s nice to be able to play at super low volumes as to not bother anyone else in the house but still get a great sound from it. I have a beautiful hand-wired Victoria 5112 but honestly play through the Katana mini more lately.
I loved this amp. It’s so small yet so powerful and sounds amazing. If you are on a budget this is the only choice.
Si trajera el cable, estara genial.!!!
Aun as es un excelente producto.!!
“Roland” spends most of his time (pretty much) right in front of me, sitting on my coffee table in the living room. As I always have a guitar within reach, it’s a simple case of “plug in, press on” and away we go: No more excuses for not practising then!
Personally, I like the overdriven sound. To all intents and purposes (i.e., practising) little Roland is ideal. As a Bluetooth speaker he’s fine and he kicks out a volume which is quite sufficient for a living room setting (and has to be turned down at night). However, if you find your Roland is not loud enough, might I suggest that you try something similar to the following:
Yesterday, I decided to connect little Roland’s headphone output (3.5mm stereo jack) to the auxiliary input on one of my amps (a Hartke TX6oo bass head, delivering 4ooW RMS through 2 of 2 1o” 25oW Ashdown bass cabinets). Later, I also connected it to a small, basic, unbranded (2 1ooW) stereo PA system fed by a Behringer Xenyx o8o2 compact mixer (headphone out – as above – to a stereo line-in strip on the desk).
In both cases, the results were, actually, just as I expected. Both “systems” were “flat” in terms of their EQ, etc., no FX were used, so little Roland just got loud, very loud, impressively loud.
However, that’s the point: Through my PA and/or a bass stack, the sound quality was pristine and most definitely good enough to rehearse with. In fact, back in the 7os, Roland and I might well have played a few gigs. All you need is an amplifier with (preferably) an auxiliary input – although it’s all line level stuff really – or a standard mixing desk with PA, and you can make enough noise with the little Roland to get yourself arrested… Maybe not such a great idea after all, but you get the general idea, right?
I tried this on my acoustic as well as my electric, amazing!
Uno piccolo amplificatore con un ottimo suono diventa un compagno insostituibile per chi ha poco spazio in casa o deve suonare senza disturbare i vicini.
Pu essere portato al parco per ascoltare musica dal telefono o pattinare ed entra nello zaino !
Occhio al carica batterie. Consiglio quello l’originale e molto costoso perch ne ho preso uno economico ed MOLTO rumoroso in cassa, dovr pertanto a malincuore effettuare un secondo acquisto .
Grande mancanza non aver aggiunto una batteria al litio interna ed aver escluso il carica batterie per contenere il prezzo.
Toccher prendere un set di pile ricaricabili.
Ottimo acquisto per suono e versatilit che incoraggiano l’utilizzo frequente .
Consigliato
I live in a smaller home and this little amp lets you practice and play on your own without having to lug out a big amp. It sounds great wit 3 setting for (clean, crunch and brown) whatever sound you looking for. I even pulled out an overdrive pedal to try and it works great. You can plug in your computer or phone and play along with any song or backing track. Additionally you can also use headphones for playing privately. You can use batteries but I bought the power adaptor for it. Overall it does exactly what I wanted it for and its a great value for the price.
If you want a practice amp than go for it. Best for metal lover. Awesome clean tone and distortion and you can chug on it.
This amp has only one CON, that is;
You need to buy an adapter seperately or 6 AA
rechargeablee battery.
I know the size info was in the description, but I had pictured it a little bit bigger. The sound quality is worth about $99, which is what I paid. It will probably work ok for “on the porch” amplification – still deciding whether to keep it or pay more for better sound.
Me encanto su tono, a pesar de ser pequeo te da para ensayar sin molestar a nadie.
Creo que es un amplificador que todo guitarrista debera de tener para ejercitar y mejorar tcnica, tal vez lo nico que le reprochara es que no inclua el eliminador, pero sin duda vale cada centavo.
Great sound quality from a lovely lightweight and compact amp.
The Katana Mini is everything I was looking for in a practice amp. Firstly I am a huge fan of Boss products using the ME80 MFX pedal and having the Katana 50 as my main amp. But with a baby on the way I have had to relenquish my practice room for baby rockers and as such needed an alternative (and quieter) option. The Katana Mini does this. First the volume is great for such a small unit. The battery power is fantastic for being able to take from room to room or seat to seat. No wires bar the guitar cable makes things far easier. The quality of sound is outstanding too. Being able to get the quality of sound out of something this size is a dream and the cabinet voiced headphone jack is great too for late night practicing.
Lleg cuatro das antes, el empaque no me termina de convencer, pero el estado del amplificador es perfecto. Lo que no te dicen es que usa un juego de 6 bateras AA (mismas que vienen incluidas pero de todos modos). Yo estoy empezando y me parece muy sencillo de usar, tiene buena potencia pero la suficiente para no molestar a los vecinos. Por el precio me parece un muy buen producto.
This thing is nuts. It’s amazing the sound you can get out of a tiny three inch speaker. If you’re looking for a great practice amp period, this is a great choice. If you’re on the fence, you’ll be glad you got it. The size is just a bonus. Anywhere I can take a guitar, I can take this. Wish I had it on my last vacation! It’s also a great speaker to play music out of if you have an aux cord!
The only downsides are that it doesn’t come with the power adapter (I’d recommend just getting it), and that it can be a little bit buzzy on the brown setting, but it’s only audible when you’re not playing anything, and I think most guitarists are quick enough with their volume knobs that it really is a non issue, especially considering how good everything else about it is. Truly great sound.
Wanted a small portable amp because lugging my AC30 around the house can be a pain. Very pleased with this one. Tone’s pretty good although I haven’t tried my pedal board on it yet. Comes supplied with 6 AA batteries but I bought a power supply for it too. Wind it up and it’s surprisingly loud, but sounds good turned down too. Has my wife’s favourite feature, a headphone socket.
By using full range speakers rather than guitar speakers this little amp sounds great! It’s quiet enough to play at night but can be loud enough to irritate the neighbours.
Incredible amp. Really nice sound and surprisingly loud too. Doesn’t feel cheap.
It has clean crunch and gain that caters for all types of players.
Small and user-friendly for home use. Great sound for my bedroom when quiet is needed.
Note this was going for 81 new from Amazon itself when I got it. My value-for-money score is based on that; it looks like marketplace prices have got silly since.
better sound than a fender mustang. for the price good purchase !!
Sound is amazing. Love the built in delay. Super loud!
I have Fender HSS squeir and there is no hum no buzz or earthing sound! Impressive!
And yes it’s quite loud for the size!!
The sound is awesome but when you turn to clean from crunch… the sound goes low
Necesitaba un amplificador para practicar en casa. Tengo otros amplificadores, pero son muy ruidosos porque mi espacio es pequeo, an los de 15W. Me gustan mucho los canales del ampli (sobre todo, los de distorsin); tambin lo us con pedales y suena bastante bien an con un volumen bajo. Encuentro bastante til el que tenga un control de medios (casi no hay amplis de prctica con esta caracterstica) y el delay puede usarse como un reverb ligero (otra buena prestacin). Lo recomiendo ampliamante para quien necesita un amplificador de calidad y de baja potencia.
More great stuff from them super clever Boss dudes.
If you want an inexpensive practice amp that sounds much bigger than it is, this is it.
I’d give it 5 stars if it had fake spring reverb, it doesn’t. but it has delay, which I guess can be made to sound a bit like reverb with some fiddling.
Still for the price you can’t contain-ah the Kantana. Amazing!
After nearly a year of using this I feel well placed to leave a review of what I think. As a guitar teacher this is a fantastic product, it allows me to take an electric guitar to my students’ houses without needing a massive rig and it takes seconds to set up.
Anyone that is learning to play should get one of these as their practice amp, it sounds better than you’d expect something this small to sound and it has some additional effects such as two different overdrives and delay.
I’d like to have a little more low end but for the money and how convenient it is I really can’t have any complaints.
Great little amp. Ac power adaptor would have been nice but works well with batteries.
Great Bluetooth speaker. Would be improved by having a louder ‘clean’ guitar input. The volume does improve with the gain control but distortion can be a problem.
Nevertheless a good product.
J’ai pris cet ampli pour jou uniquement la maison mais il pourrait mettre sur place bien des amplis plus encombrant.
Son sympa on peut pass du clean au crunch puis mtal donc jou peu prs tt.
Il se pose n importe o et ne prend pas de place peu faire mme sympa en dco.
Je ne regrette pas mon achat.
Dommage qu il ne soit pas vendu avec l adaptateur d office et le mieux encore aurait t de pouvoir le plugger sur le 220v direc
Boss are just amazing – great little speaker, bt would be an ace addition, to keep wires to a minimum. The only other thing would be a way to control the “aux in” levels, to balance a classic play along session. However my whole guitar collection sound great through it and it’s so very portable!
This is definitely the best mini amp out there it doesn’t sound tinny like the others but remember it ain’t anywhere near as good as a full size amp. All the mini amps are like 1 out of 10 this one would be great 2/10 and the normal boss katana 10/10. Excellent if you really need a travelling amp or something small outside. It’s small and very ligh
Wow… don’t let the size of this thing put you off. Yes, it looks like a toy I’d give one of my boys for Xmas – try this, if you get any good I’ll buy you a real one. Most definitely not the case. This little thing defies physics. How does such a tiny package produce such a full sound? It must be magic! Superb, just what you’d expect from Boss.
I wanted a tiny amp that I could use while I’m just sitting around on the couch instead of going into the other room with the big amp and everything. Works perfectly for that. Not super loud but it doesn’t need to be. Sounds good and doesn’t scare the cat out of the room. Has a delay on it which is pretty cool. Would like if it had a reverb but if you use a really short delay with a low level it kinda sounds reverb-y. Anyways, since I’ve gotten it, I’ve spent a lot more time playing with my guitars than I did before because it makes it so convenient. Good get.
Despite my wife’s claims to the contrary, I honestly can’t think of a better portable battery-powered device that offers more gratification and good vibrations. An essential companion to while away a quiet evening.
This is a beast of an amp
It has a a great distortion ,crunch and a decent clean channel if you cut the gain accordingly .
For 7W it’s very noisy.
I’ve recently ventured into the world of electric violins and wanted a little amp to experiment with different effects. I was totally blown away by this amp! I was a little worried when I picked up the box and felt how light it was but my worries melted away when I plugged it in.
It was really easy to set up (just plug and play) and produced a really nice clean sound with my violin (Hidersine HEV3). Setting the delay time to zero and the level to max seems to give a nice “reverby” type sound and the delay itself is really nice.
I’m going to have a lot of fun with this! It’s definitely load enough for practicing at home and has a headphone jack in the back for quiet practice too.
I didn’t purchase this from Amazon. Normally, the amp doesn’t come with a power supply (other than AA batteries) so if you want to plug this into the main you will have to buy the AC plug separately.
This began my quest for the perfect practice amp… after trying about 5 others, I finally found this jewel. Here’s why I love it:
1. It’s the perfect size and weight. It’s small enough that you can set it pretty much anywhere (your desk, coffee table, on the couch beside you, etc). But it’s heavy and big enough that it does not tip over and it feels like a “real” amp. Although it is quite small.
2. It has the perfect amount of tone control for a practice amp. Gain and master volume with Clean, crunch, and brown settings and with bass, mids, and treble controls. Add to that the delay settings and it’s perfect. Not too many things to waist your time fiddling with – but just enough so you can quickly dial in a perfect and great tone for whatever you are trying to play.
3. It has the perfect volume. Many of the small practice amps still need to be pretty loud to sound good. This little guy sounds awesome at low volume. I can sit in my office (a bed room) And jam heavy tones headphone free, and no one in the house can hear me!
4. It works great with batteries and that makes it very portable.
5. You can use a power supply (not included) when convenient to save battery money.
Now for a couple of things to be aware of:
1. It does not come with a power supply, you’ll have to buy one separately (9v 500ma aka .5a with a negative center). I found one on Amazon for 12 bucks.
2. It does come with a set of AA batteries, and I used it all day with just the batteries and they still seam fine. I’m not sure yet how many days they’ll last though…
3. This amp probably could not be used for a full band practice IMO. The sound is just not big enough for that.
It if your looking for the perfect individual practice amp at a great price… look no further. This thing is awesome.
Great sound.
Lightweight.
Really impressed.
Big amps usually need a little volume to sound good. This one sounds great at low volume, perfect for playing in my office when the kids are sleeping or my wife thinks I’m working.
Really impressive tone and crunch for such a small amp.
At this price, it’s unbeatable.
I grabbed mine for less from Amz Warehouse and spent the whole first night I had with it messing around on it. For the money and the size/convenience, I’m shocked how good it is. Spend some time dialling it in and you can get some very decent tones from it. If you want something to take out into the garden while you’re quarantined, this is perfect! I have also have a slightly bigger THR10. For my ears, the Boss is probably better at crunchy sounds and the THR10 is better at clean sounds
Nice and small practice amp, I had already few others before (micro cube, vox mini5 etc) they were all good, but this one is the most adorable and extremely portable. Its lacking some advanced options that other 2 have,but this one have the best overdrive and sound amazing for its size.
I love this thing, it’s really made me practice a lot more, as it’s so easy to play amped up now. The amps always on standby and as soon as you pick up the guitar the wireless plug turns the amp on. When you put it down, after a min the amp goes back on standby. Saves a lot of cables running around the living room too.
Only down side I’d say is that if you want to run the amp off battery it doesn’t last that long, but still a great buy.
Great little amp playing mostly on clean channel great sound good value for money.
I needed a bedroom practice amp for my son and took a chance on this after reading favourable reviews. It sounds great. It’s tight, it’s loud and takes up no space at all. I would’ve loved something like this some 30 odd years ago. I plan to ‘borrow’ it from time to time to record with, to mic-up where I can’t have things too loud but need the response. If you are looking for a bedroom practice amp. I wouldn’t hesitate.
For a small amp it sounds decent. But…I have the Blackstar already and wanted something even smaller for traveling light. This amp is about 50% larger than the Blackstar and sounds no better (or not much better). It also costs almost twice as much, not that it was the main issue for me.
So the main reason I’m writing this review is to let people know it’s true dimensions are 7″ x 9″ x 4.5″ (you could remove the fixed hard handle and save a little on height). But it’s not even close to the listed size of 4.21″ x 2.68″ x 3.66″. So if you were hoping it would be smaller than the Blackstar it’s not, but if size doesn’t matter then it might be right for you.
Best product I’ve bought in ages. Such a great sound out of such a small amp. Fits nicely on the bedside locker so I can just leave it there to plug in and play whenever. Sound is very good too. Needless to say, it’s for the bedroom guitarist but works perfectly for me
Great little practice amp with excellent sound for a tiny box.
Authentic clean or overdriven sounds with delay for practice at low volume.
Je cherchais, comme beaucoup, un petit ampli portable, simple d’utilisation, et qui me permette de prendre ma guitare lorsque cela me chante, sans avoir brancher tout le pedal-board, attendre que les lampes soit chaudes, m’installer mon poste habituel etc…
J’ai choisi celui-ci aprs pas mal de recherches pour les raisons suivantes:
Dj la marque connue et reconnue qui, si elle ne garantie pas forcment le meilleur, assure au moins du srieux au niveau recherche et dveloppement et fabrication.
Ensuite j’ai t particulirement sduit par deux choses; le rcepteur RF qui permet une liaison sans fil de la guitare, et la possibilit de mler la fonction d’enceinte Bluetooth a celle d’ampli.
En ce qui concerne la liaison sans fil, c’est gnial; la transmission fonctionne parfaitement, mme assez loin du rcepteur, j’ai mme test un tage diffrent, le systme se met en veille aprs quelques minutes lorsqu’on pose la guitare, pour se rallumer automatiquement ds qu’on la reprend.
Pour ce qui est du mix guitare / enceinte c’est tout fait satisfaisant, cela permet de jouer sur des morceaux ou backing tracks, en pouvant grer les volumes, et les sons produits sont tout fait corrects, part quelques faiblesses au niveau guitare mais rien de rdhibitoire pour s’amuser ou s’entraner.
Le son global, mme s’il n’tait pas dcisif dans mon choix, est tout fait correcte, la multitude d’effets proposs suffit trouver son bonheur quel que soit le style de jeu, et tout est grable depuis l’application dont l’interface est trs bien faite.
Pour l’utilisation en enceinte Bluetooth, c’est plutt pas mal, le son est puissant, pas trop mal dfini, on est quand mme loin d’une Bose ou des excellentes Marshall comme la Stockwell, mais l’intrt n’est pas l.
Globalement je suis enchant de mon achat, j’attrape maintenant ma guitare lectrique ds que l’envie m’en prend, et je n’ai pas grand chose reprocher ce KATANA-AIR, part quelques connexions/dconnexions Bluetooth rcalcitrantes et parfois une lgre saturation dans les sons guitare mais il faut reconnatre que je n’ai pas fait beaucoup d’efforts pour effectuer les rglages.
En rsum que du plaisir !
Great sound from a little box ideal for a practice amp as it’s super portable and runs on 6 AA batteries.
Does it Djent? No but you can have alot of fun with it.
Best in its class or the Roland micro cube
The amp side is just about OK. Good for amplifying a Martin Acoustic however just OK with the Fender Tele. The PRS is not really the guitar for this but again it depends what you are looking for. I plugged in a Boss GT-1 with the PRS but the amp couldn’t really handle the effects and the sound wasn’t great. Adjusting the settings on the GT-1 might improve things but I’ll stick to the Blackstar ID Core with the PRS and the GT-1.
In summary, I paid 115 (was 179 originally and now up at about 150) and i’m happy with this nifty bit of kit however I recognise it’s limitations. Kudos to Roland for the attempt and it would seem Marshall have missed a trick in now mass producing really good Bluetooth speakers without a guitar function – amps are their core business after all. Marshall’s version of this is a dedicated bluetooth amp at nearly 400 so you pays your money and makes your choice, hence Know What You Want.
This thing is an awesome little amp for practice. I cannot believe the tone that comes out of this little box. It’s not very loud which is great for late night or apartment practice plus it runs on a wall outlet power supply (sold seperately) or batteries so you can take it literally anywhere. I have it on the end table in the living room so I can noodle & compose late at night without disturbing my girlfriend. Very nice clean tone. Good crunch tone with classic bite. Killer full out distortion tone. The little box screams! Very pleased with this purchase.
This was a gift for my dad, he says it’s a brilliant little amp, with great sound quality.
Sounds really good for the size. A perfect practice amp.
Clear sound and loud enough for a home practice amp. The wireless jack is a really good feature and charges quite quickly. Takes a while to get familiar with all the presets which can be further controlled on the iPhone app. You can balance levels playing along with songs via your phone using Bluetooth quite nicely with the master control. There are some nice effects – flange, wah, sustain etc. that sound quite digitised at times but not that all noticeable really. Overall its quite lightweight, compact and worth the 330 in my opinion. ***Note that the plug supplied with the unit isn’t a 3 pin UK plug but a 2 pin euro one which I had to buy separately. Amazon were happy enough to refund the cost of this though.
Great small practice amp to use in the living room, kitchen, bedroom, bathroom etc..
Some small issues in the midi function disconnecting when I try to input too much data through the app via bluetooth. Have to be slow when changing tones or will 100% disconnect bluetooth (which can be frustrating to reconnect)
In all I rate the overall volume, tone, and versatility of this little amp. The product is brilliant – the app however lacks functionality and practicality. Bluetooth audio function has some latency issues, but wont make a difference if you just want to stick on a track and jam or practice over.
In all I wouldn’t reconsider purchasing this amp, it’s actually very good for its size. Little bit pricey for the tone available (I really like a sharp distortion) but is definitely worth a purchase. It’s a strong buy, honestly!!
So I asked for this as a Christmas present. I wanted a portable amp that I can just plug my guitar into. I was making do with my iRig and a speaker wire to a portable speaker. Which is ok but it became slightly frustrating with all the wires.
I have to say that I am absolutely blown away with this little amp. You can get a beautiful rich clean tone. And the distortion tones are truly impressive from such a small amp.
Where as other micro amps can sound tinny, the only way to describe the tone from this amp is similar to that of a full size amp.
As for the volume: this little beast puts out a surprising amount. It’s more that adequate for bedroom/couch jamming.
The line in feature is great. This allows you to plug a line out from your phone/MP3 player and jam along with your favourite tracks.
The tape delay effect adds some colour to your leads lines and works very well indeed
In conclusion this is a fantastic little price of kit. It’s not a toy by any means. So if you’re looking for a portable, high quality practice amp that’s affordable, then I’d highly recommend the Boss Katana Mini
Great little amp that packs a punch with excellent sound quality.
Would be better if power supply was included though.
Also handy for running my iPad through to listen to you tube etc. Of course it sounds a bit tinny and waspish wh3n distorting, but the clean sounds are not entirely unpleasant, and with delay on tap, it’s makes for hours of good fun.
Can’t comment on battery life as I’m running this with power supply.
A perfectly good tool for serious musicians to practice with……this is not a toy. Highly recommended.
Amazing product. Great little practice amp, this is not a toy amp. Highly recommend this product.
Bought this little guy to replace a Vox Amplug that broke on me and was intending just to use it with headphones for quiet practice. However, I am blown away by how good it sounds through the tiny speaker. Its sounds way better than I thought it could and it’s so convenient to just sit anywhere and play with out needing a power socket. For comparison I also own a Katana 100 and an Orange Terror. This thing is great. Well played Boss, well played.
What a great little amp! Bought it to travel and found it to be very portable. Sound quality is also very good. Super good value for money.
Absolutely spot on what I wanted just plug and play plenty loud enough for what I need it for great for short practice sessions and louder than I was expecting and doesn’t sound rubbish when it’s tuned up like a lot of battery amps really happy with i
Amp sounds great but would’ve been 5 stars if it was shipped with a UK plug rather than a foreign one!
No idea how Boss managed to make this – it’s a brilliant practice amp and surprisingly loud!
Bought this mini amp to take away with me. Blown away just now loud it is. Also the tones you can get from this practice amp are nice. I’m not comparing this to a normal sized amp. I highly rate this. Battery life has been longer then I expected. They said 9 hours I’ve used it more then that before batteries start going.
Works really well. Lasts longer then expected with batteries. Super light weight and great sound for the money.
Speaker was very good it could be louder and and candy charging and handy to carry
And value for money
Perfect for living in a flat where even playing an 8″ speaker amplifier was too loud! This solved that, and sound’s good for practising! Happy days!
great little amp with a big sound you wont be disappointed
Powerful for it’s size tried an electric guitar, a bass, and a accoustic, good sound.
Where this thing shines is it’s brown channel and clean channel. The crunch channel leaves much to be desired in my opinion. It’s just light overdrive and lacks sizzle. The clean channel is absolute crystal clear sqeaky clean. Beautiful. Now, the brown channel is very un-clean. Its freaking fantastic. It has that saturated classic metal sound. It makes leads sing and palm mutes growl and chug. It makes me very happy 🙂 Doesnt sound great through headphones though. But the amp does goes very quiet.
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. Multi effects units sound great through the clean channel with gain set at about 10:00 or 11.
I definitely recommend this to new guitarists or any player looking for a small (cheap) portable amp to play on the couch or backyard or whatever. People that bought this expecting it to soung like a $5000 cranked tube head are delusional. For $100, it’s not professional level amplification, but it’s not a disposable toy either… Just buy one and have fun!
A small lightweight practice amp, Boss quality and expertise. Great sounds can be achieved within the settings, it even has a built-in delay. I’d recommend buying a mains adaptor, although you can still get a few hours from good batteries.
Fifteen year old son extremely pleased with this and has friends who have the bigger version who say the sound quality is just as good. Highly recommend
I bought this because I wanted to practice with my pedal board without having to set up my 4×12 and head, and it’s been absolutely great so far. I play both spacey blues and very heavy modern metal, and this amp does everything I want. The clean setting sounds great with my pedals, the “brown” setting has huge gain, and there’s always plenty of headroom. Also, for an amp running on AA batteries it can get incredibly loud. I never turn the volume past 12 o’clock. The speaker emulation is great too, I could imagine patching the output into a PA and playing a whole show like that. Definitely recommend picking up the power adapter to save batteries when you’re at home.
Loving everything about this..easy to dial in great sounds…sooooo portable. Surprised by battery life.
Comme il utilise des piles, il est trs portable .. bien que je ne sache pas si mes voisins ont vraiment besoin d’entendre mes tentatives pour obtenir les bons accords.
Ceci est le premier apm que je possde et il est parfait pour mes besoins. Il existe une varit de combinaisons de sons disponibles, telles que le marron qui donne ce beau son flou et grunge, tout au long du son pur. J’aime aussi le contrle du temps. Malheureusement, je ne peux pas remonter dans le temps et apprendre jouer quand j’tais plus jeune, mais cela vous donne un son d’cho trs cool.
Une fois mon jeu amlior, je voudrais essayer la version sans fil
I read the various reviews on this little guy and figured it had a 50/50 shoot of being acceptable.
Ive played it with my Schecter USA California custom, My 1970 Les Paul studio, and my most recent acquisition PRS.
I couldn’t be more surprised at how awesome it sounds for what it is. In my case a bedroom practice amp. I thought I was going to be disappointed by the lack of reverb , but basically the “tape delay” is a reverb and little else, so that was great. playing with the gain settings and rolling back or forth a bit on the guitar I was actuallly able to find a sweet spot that it felt like it wanted to {but not quite obviously} resonate like my 5150.
All in all I give this little guy a major 5 stars as a bedroom practice/noodling around amp.
Excellent sound – don’t know how the batteries will last as they are still going!
just brilliant. so much better than the amp that came with my guitar. superb sound so portable. love it love it love it.
But sometime, you need something small, lightweight and convenient when moving to another room for a bit of sneaky practice, rather than lumping the substantial Fender about.
The reviews of the Boss unit are very good, so I thought it worth a go – and I must admit I’m gobsmacked!
Despite being so small and lightweight, the sound quality is amazing. Clean, crunch and more distorted “brown” setting give great variation. I have a Strat, a Gibson and a Jazz Ibanez and they all sound good.
Nice reverb as well by the way. Highly recommended.
My so says its light and portable. Good sound for price.
Amazing sound quality and size is convenient to carry around.
This little amp is ideal if you want something you can play through
at night without aggravating the neighbours or you just want to take
it with you on holiday, no it isn’t loud but it can give you some nice
sounds, from nice melodic cleans to over driven rock.
The delay can be adjusted to give you a respectable reverb sound to
fill out those clean chords or arpeggios.
All in all a nice little practice amp.
I was looking for a small amp to take to home lessons ….. this little amp does all i wanted and more ! the delay and Heavy Distortion / Brown Setting give so many extra tone options, plus the Adapter/ Battery feature is Brilliant.
good battery life, sounds way better than any other combo I’ve ever used, delay is tasty, its actually quite loud, more than loud enough for a bedroom, this amp makes me feel a lot like Zeus the god of thunder and can be wielded to defeat enemies with ease, buy this you cucumber!
This little amp sounds very good for the size. It’s louder than the Blackstar (over twice the wattage). The “clean/crunch/brown” switch gives a nice range of tones and it’s got bass/mid and treble controls and a delay function.
Compared the Blackstar
Louder
More or less same build quality
Slightly larger but not much, weighs nothing even with batteries
Has a carrying handle (none on the blackstar)
Slightly more versatile range of sounds, but in terms of quality, to my ear, little or no difference.
It’s a nice little amp which I will use for living room or bedroom practice. I have a larger Vox, which sounds better but doesn’t get used much.
Objectively, a very good, small, light portable practice amp. Probably not worth twice the cost of the Blackstar Fly 3 though (43 versus 84).
Obviously this doesn’t have massive amounts of effects on board, but it gives lovely clean tones, great dirty tones and excellent delay, there is a switch to select clean, crunch or brown, you then alter the settings using the volume, gain, bass, middle, treble, time and level controls. All of the settings are excellent and no matter what your preferred tone is, you will find it on this amp.
There is an audio input to attach a microphone or allowing you to play a jam track, drum app track or favourite song to play along with from a phone or mp3 player, this input is totally unaffected by any of the controls on the amp, even the volume which is altered using the phone/mp3 players own controls.
There is an output for headphones or recording device i.e. pc, laptop, voice recorder.
It is light and compact and can be carried anywhere when used on batteries, 6x AA batteries required. I haven’t changed mine yet since purchasing this amp and it’s used daily.
Das Gert selber hlt was die Werbung verspricht. Ich benutze den Verstrker mit dem elektrischen Cello NS Design CR5 mit aktivem Tonabnehmer. Obwohl im Handbuch und der BOSS-Website davor gewarnt wird, dass es bei aktiven Tonabnehmern Probleme mit dem kabellosen Funk Transmitter geben kann (in desem Fall msste man eben doch ein Kabel verwenden), funktioniert es mit diesem E-Cello bestens. Damit erffnet sich mit diesem E-Cello ein neues Experimentierfeld mit fast endlosen Kombinationsmglichkeiten der Amps und den BOSS-Effekten. Fr die Bhne nicht wirklich gedacht (zur Not aber mglich, da Ausgang vorhanden), aber fr zu Hause laut genug. Auch kann man im Clean-Modus und moderater Einstellung dann mit dem E-Cello zusammen mit unplugged akustischen Instrumenten spielen. Natrlich klingt ein Holz-Cello anders, und ein gutes Holz-Cello besser, aber mit diesem kompakten Setup kann man das NS E-Collo und diesen Verstrker im Flugzeug mitnehmen, ohne Flightcase bzw. einen extra Sitz buchen zu mssen. Somit hat man neben den ganzen E-Effekten auch ein akkustisch klingendes Reise-Cello zur Verfgung. Und da ich ein 5-satiges NS mit high E habe, kann ich dieses Instrument so auch akkustisch verwenden. Das NS mit low F wrde das Gert im Bass-Bereich wohl an seine Grenzen bringen, man merkt schon dass die C-Saite eigentlich das Limit fr dieses kleine Gehuse darstellt.
Ideal zum ben, Experimentieren und zum jammen mit E-Cello in Akkustig-Bands.
I like it so much I’ll be investing it it’s big brother, the Katana Air as soon as it’s available.
This mini amp is fantastic, it gives such great sound, is incredibly light and the batteries last for so long ! i use it mainly for small rehearsals with band mates and holds its own in a small room environment.
Bought as a gift for my guitarist husband and he says the sound is really fantastic.
Mind you I’m apparently on the “L’il Wayne pretending to be a rock star” guitarist level and he is, truthfully, a talented wee bugger.
So my opinion may not mean much.
Spot on delivery just before Xmas and at a good price
Fantastic . Amazing sound for its size . Good battery life and takes pedals or processors competently