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JJ makes their own tubes. They aren’t a “rebranded” brand. Made in Slovakia. One of 3 remaining tube manufacturers left in the world. Russia and China are the only other countries still producing tubes.

I can assure you that there's nothing to hate about this amp. People compare these to Blues Jrs, and many (including myself) think they sound even better. They have loads of headroom, and take pedals well too. $240 well spent, though mine was only $175 used.

I just received mine, direct from Monoprice. $279.00 + tax, free shipping. Ordered 3/1/22 and received 3/7/22 via Fedex. Came double boxed and unharmed. I had ordered from Amazon for $9.99 (while waiting for the amp) and received a set of Kaish vintage "aged white" chicken head knobs to replace the amazing CHEAP-ASS plastic knobs that came on the amp. HUGE improvement in quality, and they look great!! The amp came with 1 JJ 12AX7 preamp tube and 2 other unknown preamp tube as well as two "no-name" EL84 power tubes. I replaced the preamp tubes with 3 JJ 5751's and the power tubes with 2 JJ EL84's. The speaker it came with is a surprisingly nice sounding 50 watt / 16 ohm Celestion "Type A." ($109 on Sweetwater) As a 71 year old ex-rocker turned blues player, I enjoy the sound of this amp.

Steve after having my SR15's for over a year and a half I just tried setting the amp like you did in the video with the Volume on 10 and gradually increased the gain to see how much clean headroom I could get with no effects. Well I was sitting too close to my amp and accidentally bumped the gain up too high and just about blew my ears out. OK so turned my guitar vol off got about 10' away with the amp Volume on 9 and the Gain just below 2 I found lots of very loud clean headroom. Then found a very usable headroom range with Gain between 1 and 3 and the Volume on 9. Going to try it at a jam today running the main Volume very high and the Gain low, then put my pedals in .... So basically setting the amp up like your demo I found headroom I didn't know existed. Thank you...

i got mine at guitar center used for $200 and I love it! It really blew me away, especially when I put an EQ through the effects loop. With just the eq and the on board gain I was able to get amazing overdrive. Very bassy, smooth when I turned the tone down, and when I cranked the bass is shook the house even on the low power mode. Get a really great response on low power mode without having the neighbors hate me. Very happy with this amp for major chugging, and its super crispy clean tones are nice too. It's also not very heavy. and it feels very solid, like it will last a long time. I can't wait to try the 50 watt head they make, might be amazing.

This is the perfect "shady bar gig" amp.

Play mine every day and I love it. I couldn't justify paying $500+ for a big brand amp with the same features.

I have an older version of this amp with no name Chinese tubes and the old reverb tank. The tubes are just fine. I did upgrade the reverb tank and it’s great now. The Celestron 70/80 gets a bad rap sometimes but with a few hours of break in it sounds good. For the real techies, the circuit is identical to a Laney Cub. Great amp, not just a great amp for the money.

Sounds killer maxed out. Great job!

That’s a very well balanced sounding amp!

Great demo. I like how this amp looks.

JJ Tesla tubes are Slovakian, and really the set in that amp is sold for over a third of the price of this amp. I am baffled by the price of this, because it is likely less expensive than the sum of the components!

Love mine. I got it for 150 used and it sometimes has issues with grounding, but I still love it. The cheap cab kind of rattles in a cool way when cranked

I have two of these. One has the stock speaker, while the other has an Eminence Legend. Both have a Mesa 12AT7 in V1, and the one with the Eminence speaker has Tung-Sol EL84's. Both sound fantastic, but very different now. The speaker swap gave the one amp a very Fender-y vibe, while the other one retains more of a British Marshall/Vox vibe. The effects loop in these is excellent for delay, chorus, and flanger pedals, but I usually run both in stereo through the front end off my pedalboard, and use an MXR distortion pedal or a Behringer VT999 for gain, as well as a Klon clone for boost. Fantastic little amps. Loud, warm, full-sounding, hard to beat at three times the price.

Love your tempo and video work, from all the reviews, top job sir , super review! Greatings from Belgium Good MoJo .

Sounds excellent. Ready for the studio. I've had my finger on the trigger for a long time, thinking about buying one. Just haven't quite pulled it yet.

Good job reviewing the amp!

It sounds decent clean, a little too crispy at higher gain, but I'm not a fan of EL84s at higher gain settings. It's good to see smaller amps are coming out with full size 6L6 & EL34s more and more. I work on amps about 90% of the time, but for over a decade i repaired guitars. I used a 15W Egnater Tweaker on my bench for years first to test the guitars and later for when i was building OD/Distortion and Fuzz pedals. I wanted to make sure that a pedal sounded good whether it was run into a Fender, Marshall, Vox, etc. The switchable tone stack was convenient because i didn't have to run them through a bunch of amps. The Egnaters were really popular when they first came out but you don't see them as much, which i think kind of baffles me. I bought the Tweaker when it first came out. There were a few design issues that i think they worked out, namely the buffered effects loop. Whatever the impedance was, it didn't with with everything; namely analog delays. If you ran pedals for dirt you were fine but if you used the amps gain, when you kicked on the delay you'd chop the high end right off. I know they would install a switch that would adjust it from line to instrument level, but you had to ship it to them and it was a hassle. The Rebel 20 was that same. That said though, to this day i find it to be probably the best pedal platform out there, especially if you're not interested in spending $1400+ for some of the newer amps that are specifically designed for pedals. If you use the "AIAB" type overdrives like DLS, Pkexidrives, Zendrive and other Marshall, Fender, Dumble voiced ODs, the switchable tone stack REALLY let's you get that most out of the pedal. What i found to be even more useful though was the power section. The Rebels 20 and 30 come with both 6V6 & EL84's. So 6V6 will give you that softer attack that a Fender Tweed has, with a bit of sag and compression that sounds so good for blues. Or you go with the EL84s that have a more prominent top end and tighter bass with a bit of a scooped midrange that's really forgiving and able to handle more gain without getting woofy. You can blend the 2 which gives you quite a bit more headroom, but can be lowered from 20 (or 30 with the Rebel 30) down to 1. I honestly don't know Egnater hasn't released the Rebel as a stand alone power amp. I think a 20 or 30W power amp that can use 6V6 & EL84s, and power scaling that can drop to 1W would be extremely popular, especially if you could buy it for $400-500. Especially with so many people using amp modelers and pedal amps these days. It really makes no sense, i think he'd corner the market, i mean there's the Mesa boogie 20W tube power amp and that's about it unless you go to 50W+. The Tweaker though is actually even more versatile, though not as convenient. I find it's power amp to be an even bigger draw for me than the Preamp, and most people who own them don't take advantage of it and many aren't even aware of it. They come with just 6V6s, but you can use any power tube in there: 6V6 & EL84, but also full size 6L6 & EL34s. You don't have to bias them or anything like that, just pop out the 6V6 and put in other tubes. I used it with 6L6s for a long time, and it definitely gave it that bigger bottom end that Class A amps really lack. They do need to make the cabinet different though because i had to take the grill off the top of the head that acts as a vent for the heat, the full size tubes just won't fit with it on. For $250 though these amps sound pretty good. I imagine they can be modified to make them better, though i haven't seen the insides so i don't know how easy or difficult they might be to work on. The Fender MIM Hot Rod series were a nightmare to work on. Between that vertical PCB, the cheap plastic control pots that were hard mounted to the board and the whole layout just sucked. You had to remove the nut and washers on every pot and switch. Then you had to go in the back, unscrew the board, disconnect all the wires and slip your hand into the amp so you could get behind it, then had to gently flex the PCB and kind of rock it back and forth to get it release so you could pull it out. I honestly don't know how i was able to work on so many and not break something.

Uncle Larry T-shirt is worth a thumbs up. Good review, too!

I thought the amp sounds good, for the money, reason I chose to comment is mainly because I really like the way that you demonstrated it, Great job! Nice guitar playing as well🍻

This thing is crunchy! In a good way. And sounds nice clean even if there isn't loads of headroom. Not a problem for me. Bet it does take pedals well. Nice demo

Just getting back into playing guitar and this is my first tube amp. I really like it. Did an open mic and the guitar guys were asking about it. Thanks for the video, been looking for ways to get this amp to give different tones. Maybe it's because it's my first, but I love the look lol

man that things rockin

I own 2 of these that I use in tandem, individually if I want to travel light. The more I run them as the tubes burn in the sound seems to get better. Having a Tone control as well as Bass Mid and Treble, the Tone nob totally changes how the sweep of the other controls react. I like the Tone on about 9 with the other tone controls generally somewhere between 3 and 5. Basically the more I play with the whole Tone section the more versatile it seems. I have been using the SR15 (Monoprice Stage Right 15 watt) for well over a year now coming from the Marshall world I am very impressed. Also I should mention that all of my guitars have P90's and I use a Tech 21 RK5.. The SR15 is not brittle clean like a Fender but probably more in line with a Vox. Having the opportunity to play loud out doors with my SR15's, they scream with out getting too muddy or losing your notes. In addition they tune down for the living room very easily.. Appearance is the most common complaint from other reviews number 1 is the chrome control panel, followed by the grill then the tolex color. Also note that SR15 (Stage Right 15) is the Monoprice Brand for the US which also produces the same amp as a HB15 (Harley Benton 15) in Europe. The only drawback to the SR15 is not being able to try them out in a US store, but for 249 I think its a killer amp and worth the risk..

I got this from Monoprice about 2.5 years ago and it's my most-played amp, bar none. It's like a 15W Fender Blues Jr. clone and it sounds fantastic. I use the FX loop with my HX Effects and everything is wonderful. It's a beautiful pairing and very simple setup.

I LOVE this amp. Got mine a couple of yrs ago and swapped out the tubes w JJ's and the 70/80 with a Warehouse Reaper which really fattens up the tone w a nice firm bottom end. It's a great pedal platform and one of the most versatile amps I've ever owned. Like everyone else I have a lot of gear, including some small amps, but nothing really does classic Marshall tones in a small amp like this thing does. It's allegedly a copy of the Laney Cub but I've played through those and this doesn't sound anything like it - it's way better IMO. I use an older version of the Wampler Pinnacle dist through it. A bridge humbucker w an A2 magnet run through that version of the Pinnacle in front of this amp, along w JJ's and the right speaker, absolutely nails those sweet, organic 1970's crunchy JMP tones. If you run a well made clean boost through the effects loop, you can get some really fat cleans when you bypass your dist pedal. It's takes a little tweaking between the master and gain as you go back and forth between engaging the dist pedal vs bypassing it and engaging the clean boost but once you get the hang of it, it's like having 3 amps in one.

Great review buddy!!

Love the shirt, dude!

10:26 Midnight train to Memphis! I love when I get to hear riffs from my favorite songs on gear I'm looking at. Really gives you a good idea of what it's capable of.

Best review on this amp so far. I realize there's different levels of players, if someone is just starting out they need info and guidance its good to get demos from someone about the same skill level. Usually when I'm researching an amp, guitar, etc. I've learned to check out dozens of videos because of poor mic'ing, bad room acoustics, or the person doing the demo sounds like they're inside the first 6 months of guitar lessons or self taught. They know 3 chords, and how to use them. Hey, they can play ANY song in 3 chords or less. I don't need another amp, but your demo has me getting itchy to get this one. It sounded highly usable.

Man, that Les Paul really sings through this amp! I've had my eye on one of these for a while. I was torn between buying one of these or a Blues Junior. The extra features on the Monoprice did it for me, but I live in Mexico and this particular model of Monoprice is hard to find, so if you want one you have to import it from the States. I saw these going up in price and out of stock at Amazon, so started looking at used Blues Juniors, almost closed a deal for one. Then one day I found a used/returned one at Amazon going for cheaper than retail price and pulled the trigger. I should get it over here in a couple of weeks and can't wait!

I bought the 5 watt version when they first came out, a few years ago. I had planned on building my own tube amp, until I priced the materials. I got my 5 watt for just under $100. It would've cost me 2 to 3 times that to build the same amp. I've been using mine every day in a 12'x12' practice studio and it's plenty loud enough and sounds great. I love it! If it ever goes bad, I want to get the 15 watt version.👍😎🎸🎶

I have a small, personal home studio in my very small apt. For me, this is worth checking out. I can always sell it if it doesn't make the grade.

Its nice to hear this amp with a decent guitar 🙂👍🇬🇧

Not bad for a cheap tube amp! Sounds decent, and your playing is awesome as well! Keep on ROCKIN' my friend!🤘😠🤘♥️🎸🎼

Love the Home Skoolin' tee! :)

Really cool. It could be interesting to see how the helix would work into the fx loop return of that amp. Might be an interesting option.

This amp breaks up much more than mine at low gain using my LP guitar ! However i put a Gold Lion genalex 12ax7 in V1 and this seems to be the cascade overdriven tone tube as V1a triode drives V2b triode into breakup but is a higher gain tube than most ! V2 is EQ gain recovery and reverb ! V3 is the phase inverter and i use a sovtek 12ax7LPS long plate tube and is a awesome PI tube in all amps ! I checked my SR 15 watt amp bias and the jj el84 tubes had plate volts at 297 and this calls for 28 milliamp bias maximum 70% dissipation amd mine was set at 21.7 so i left the amp as is because it sounds great ! Good demo !

Very nice sound!

I have JJ tubes in my rebuilt marshall jcm 2000 50w never had a problem with them. But it is a solid amp with a brand new up to date board revision. It was clean good looking head i bought it faulty and decided it was good enough to rebuild for my own collection.

Good review Steve

Sounds a lot like my Laney Cub 15, good demo 👍

Hey Steve, I watched your video again after some activity today on my comment from a few months ago. These little amps do sound good. (I wish they'd redesign the look however). I am also on a mission to possibly get a Fender Princeton Reverb, but they're a lot more expensive. I even considered by the Princeton reverb kit so I could wind up with a hand wired version. I may still buy a kit, but need to get some rewiring done on my studio, so that's my priority right now...But super nice job on this video and putting the amp through its paces with a few guitars. Be well. Phil NYC Area

Great video

I've had this and the little 5 watt for a few months. As compared to the others I have, They're the most family friendly and I think they sound really good. They take pedals really well too.

I just got one of these. Upon turning it on, it blew a preamp tube. Off to guitar center. I was going to change them out anyway. Get it up an running and it works okay, but seems to lack warmth in the low mids. The tone controls are very subtle. I use a mxr 6 band eq always on out of the effects loop to boost 200 and 400hz. I'm kinda feeling a little buyer's remorse. Still keeping an eye out for a nice old peavey...

I have had this amp for a couple years So good Cant beat it for the price

I think this little amp sounded fantastic. I plan to buy one ASAP.

Sounds great! The tone knob controls the frequency of the mids while the mid knob controls the volume of the mids. Like a 1 band parametric eq.

Hook it to a 2x12 Celestion vertical cabinet from Harley Benton (Thomann), it is perfect to put this amp on the top and you'll love it.

Another great review of this amp. Thanks Steve! The 1W setting gets very loud, so I am not able to crank up the gain inside my house, but maybe with heavy ear plugs. Haha!

Great video! You put the lil bugger through its paces! I’ve got the 5 and 15 watt and find myself playing it more than my Fender blues Jr. loved the first guitar you played, what material is the fretboard? Keep up the videos. I’m following you and look forward to the info.

Sounds good👍

I use JJ'S in all my amps, they are Great Tubes or Valves

The Seventy/80 speaker seems to get a bad rap but I actually like them. They’re a fairly neutral speaker but similar in some ways to a Classic Lead 80 which is one of my favorite speakers. They’re OEM in a lot of budget tube amps and I think a lot of people swap them before they have time to break in.

Cool. Thanks!

Haven't finished watching yet as I have had one for years now. Only thing I changed was the Verb to a 3 spring model. I got mine on sale for $179. It's a nice amp and is basically a Laney Cub 12. Check out more of the newer amps from Monoprice. I also own a few Vox and fenders. I will do a profile soon with the Kemper.

Squier telecasters sound killer through these amps 👍.

I have had one since June 2020, these amps are a steal. It is basically a blues Jr clone, circuit wise. Build quality is decent. Tone wise, it kills.

I got one for 199.00 on sale a month ago. As soon as I got the email I immediately bought it. It’s well worth the price. I’m totally satisfied with it.

If I could I'd have two of these. This would be a make a great stereo rig with a small footprint at a great price point. The features for the price are really good. .... The look... I like it

I purchased 4 of the original amplifiers with the GA TV front cabinet. Fine amps.

I like the sound of it for sure the color would take some getting used to though but really it looks ok ,I have a kramer striker and I just bought one of those blackstar id core amps well it's the id core 40 head and I have a peavey cabinet with 2 10s my bnb rig sounds pretty good but I do like the sound your amp produces it's like old time saturation I love it just a gritty come get ya sound the les paul sounded the best with the humbuckers yeah I may have to try one I like it

JJ are very good tubes. Made in Slovakia. I use heaps of them and never had a single bad one. They make standard tubes which are very good and some enhanced that are even better.

I bought one of these amps a year ago. Works well except the reverb. I have to turn it all the way up and still just get a tiny bit. Thanks for the nice demo.

That sounds pretty good!

I got mine for $225. Cheap enough to mod. I installed a matched pair of Tung-Sol EL84, and 3 Tung-Sol gold pin 12AX7 tubes, Belton medium decay 3 spring reverb tank and finally a WGS Reaper speaker. The Amp sounds amazing!!

Buy from whichever reseller offers free return shipping, as UPS tends to destroy these. The MDFB doesn't hold the heavy speaker and a drop can rip it loose into the tubes . . . So, free shipping for returns is essential. The Tolex is barely glued on . . . removing the guts and putting a hot glue gun or other powerful adhesive, a strong contact cement . . . you need to 'finish' building the cabinet. Otherwise, knowing how to adjust the bias is a good maintenance skill. The spring reverb is pretty good . . . it can be upgraded easily.

good review! Best review so far. Missing my dt770 pros by the way, killed the plug. Not having a replaceable cable is a bit of a killer once you do kill them. Had to go AKG for replacements. Still think I'm going for a Fender champ-reverb or whatever it is. Better tweed clean sound. Despite digital hall reverb. But pretty good on the monoprice or Harley Benton in Europe for 240 eruos! In fact amazing. Just too bad no clean tones past 1.5. Great and awesome for rock and blues though.

I’d like to hear it with that Amazon 335 looking guitar. Your guitars are definitely getting the absolute best out of that amp for sure!

sounded good

I gig with mine, sounds great, I bought it as a sceptic, but really like it.

sound really good to my ears... tight and warm tone...these are the kind of sound I'm looking for. It is too cheap to compare to other Tube Amps

Wait. You have a Helix, a Stomp, a beautiful wife and you DON'T use an effects loop??? I'm just going to have to bang my head against my guitar. Better yet, I'm going to send Richie Castellano over...

Bought one a few weeks ago to upgrade from a junky practice amp. Have been satisfied with it. Threw a distortion pedal on and I think I honestly like the amp distortion better. Great value for the price. I had unmarked tubes though.

Got mine at $200... I thought it was a mistake, it’s as good as the Artist Tweed knock off of the Fender Blues Junior which was $360. It’s still a good buy.

Well ain’t that a luvly jubbly tone. I agree though, not crazy about the styling.

Thanks for another great review. I’ve had one of these for a couple years, and I like it, but I’m ready to tweak. I’ve read through hundreds of comments. Is there a consolidated list of best mods (speaker, reverb, tubes)? Have you made any changes?

Iput a Mercury Magnetics output transformer in my amp. It livened it up nicely

it looks great, that's the best part of it..

Got mine a little over a year ago on sale for $200.00. Came with cheap un-branded tubes. I put in some old JJ's I had lying around and it made a tremendous difference. Took out a lot of hiss and brittleness. Love the amp and can't really say anything negative about it.

Great Review ! This seems like a Nice little amp ... How does it compare to Fender CHAMP or PRINCETON REVERB ? Thanks !

I really was hoping to hear your opinion. Another video perhaps? Also, since you're using a reactive load box, you should try it with a Celestion Greenback.

I have started gigging with this amp, 15 watts. Just bought another one. I mic it through the PA at most gigs. The overdrive is phenomenal. It's a solid little amp, don't worry about the aesthetics. I think there is a semantics issue with the face plate. Give it a chance, In my opinion it kicks the Blues Junior's ass. I have several tweed Fenders, this amp does a great job for the price and is much easier to haul to gigs.

I love this amp had it a year now ! Got it for 200 and it's gold :) I'm may try pimping with new brand tubes and mabey try new speaker cones :)

I love mine, especially since I don't want to spend & 1200.00 on a tube amp. Awesome tutorial on the tones Thanks. Really helped a lot. Especially going from clean to dirty without pedals. And The attenuator on this amp is awesome. But mine didn't come with jjs :( i put a jj in the first tube slot?

Solid review. I would spend the extra $150 and get the Bugera v22.

It actually sounds really good with the reverb dimed

Good to know that electric guitar players have a choice on a budget between solid state/ modelling/ and Valve! I bet an alnico Jensen would make it sound even better !

That Les Paul is stunning.

These are actually decent amps. You can also get them with EL-84 tubes. some of the older ones had different tubes. You want the el-84 version if you buy one.

I play this amp daily. I went crazy and put an alnico blue celestion (costs more than the amp). Great deal all around.

Sound decent enough for the living room. Its looks banish it to the cellar though. The upshot: If you have no money, you can still rock out.

Sounds best for single coil to me but thr humbuckers sounds good too really thinking about getting one for myself 🤘👍🤯😯😎

For that kind of money its totally worth it. I would get it but you know, wife. Great review. Subscribed

I bought one about five years ago, which still plays great. I paid a hundred ninety-nine dollars for it worth every penny and sounds better than most six to seven hundred dollar amps

Having had both, this is just the former Laney Cub, which was great, and this is too.

Great reverb. But I prefer to see how the amp feedback response is with single coil pick ups. The other major function is how close the amp can mimc a bass guitar. I often look at bass amps wondering if any can duplicate this tube sound for a regular guitar (with maybe less pre-amp sound). overall I give this %91 rating even without trying to melt the tubes.

I like mine. It has great Rock-a-Billy tones.