@@someotherguy5935 There were some good SS amps in the early 80s, but none I could afford!. Horrible things with "distortion" knobs that sounded like square wave oscillators! I was lucky enough to stumble across a Lab Series L7 in a pawnshop for $210, things changed for me that day. Wish I still had it. Still have a Randall RG80-12, it's pretty decent...but again, out my 1980 price range!

@@socallars3748 I got a Randall rg150 at a pawn shop for 60 bucks in 97. Best amp I ever owned for metal and high gain.

@@aaronhiggs I've got an old Randall RG80-112SC that I picked up (broken) for $50 and spent a few hours fixing. It definitely nails that 80s metal sound. Loud as hell too.

@@socallars3748 Randall’s only have 1 setting. Loud lol.

​@@socallars3748Fender made some nice solid states during the Rivera years, but they were as expensive then as a reissue fender tube amp would be today if adjusting for inflation...but they were built on another level from any of the transistor trash being made today, and use better components than most of the tube amps fender makes today...most younger people don't know that just like tube shortage/expense sparking the drive to make great modellers now, the original manufacturers of tubes were stopping production in the late 70s/early 80s so amp makers wanted to offer quality solid state alternatives...part of why they wanted Paul Rivera onboard was his success designing solid state amps for yamaha, though he didn't actually have a hand in designing the circuits for the fender solid states, he just signed off on them if they met his design goals

How about for the money though?

Right-to-repair is a serious issue that needs at least as much attention as climate change gets. Thanks for bringing it up here.

I'm obsessed with real tube amps And I absolutely love my boss katana! Sounds great

@@luxuriousfir I really like my boss katana for recording. I've got two microphones I've been trying to figure out on my deluxe reverb but the sound on the katana is so easy to eq perfectly for whatever I'm doing

And?

Usb sockets cost cents and its not hard to solder wire to the circuit board if they dont fit like the old one. The problem with Blackstars (and all other cheap tube amps) is the tubes get hot and crack the board. Just find the break and bridge it. Job done.. Your local tech sounds lazy and obviously prefers the simplicity of point to point vintage amps. Dont we all really though?..

I got one of these too and I love it but you're right it's a little loud for the house but every once in awhile you guys got to cut loose you know the old saying if it's too loud you're too old even though once in awhile it gets too loud 🤘

@@bear5141 I am Old Man 73 I have KTN Mini! Lol. I love the delay too!

would you say the tone in those 2x12s are better in low volumes?, Im trying to decide between single and double for home just mainly concerned about the fullness of tone than anything else, heard someone say the double speakers sound muddy at lower volumes

I don't believe that they're making amps on purpose that break. They do however cut corners with components, and is priced accordingly. Unfortunately, this type of business is very wasteful, and is one of the things that are destroying our planet.

Sorry, but we've made victims out of ourselves. Want a product that's endlessly fixable and will last for decades? Spend £1k on a handwired valve amp. Want something to enjoy and play with a decent sound while barely opening your wallet? Buy a Katana. If you buy cheap don't expect it to last a lifetime. And if you buy digital, don't expect a fix - cost of benchtime so often is more than the product

That's a silly attitude. There's no way to build an affordable, programmable amp like this, that has tons of built in effects, with easily repairable through hole components. It would be massive, weigh a ton and cost a fortune. You can either have cheap, high tech digital gear or you can have repairable gear. You can't have both.

Yeah Im not buyin any new Fender amps either; all the Champion series have issues and non-repairable...I do have 4 Fender Frontman 10Gs for home use, they seem to work OK!😣

Boss sold a million Katana's. How many had problems out of a million? I bought the head back when they first came out. Mine still works great. You seen inside one of those expensive TUBE amps lately? Huge printed circuit-boards mounted component-side down! You think those things are any easier to work on? And they cost a fortune. Those tube amps generate a LOT of heat. Heat is bad for electronics. Katana runs cool! I could buy four or five Katana heads for the price of one 100w tube amp head.

When I could repair a Line 6 it was usually that main encoder that scrolls through the banks of presets. That is like changing out a pot. Jacks also go bad or get broken. The Class D amp boards? When those go bad, chuck it. I have not seen the SHARC processor chips go bad.

Line 6s are so cheap second hand, think mine went for £40

The Fender Bassbreaker amp is a regular tube amp, but it's impossible to repair because of the way it's built.

@@nedim_guitar - it's not 'impossible to repair' or even close to the hassle of a Katana. A bit more labour intensive and bit of a pain to disassemble yes (as it has multiple circuit boards 'folded' together for a more compact layout); but it uses standard components not the surface mount variety in the Katana, and Fender provide spare parts plus a full guide/schematic to authorised techs. To be fair though, I only know because I've been thinking of a new Fender amp - maybe a Princeton - and I ran a few questions about reliability, etc past the amp tech who does work for a guitar store a friend works at!

@@NFMorley I'm curious what amp you've found that is more reliable?

Racist

@@user-zv7lm8uk7h HAHAHAHAHaaaaAhaaaHAaaa!!! I bet you see them everywhere, huh? In the shadows, bushes, rear-view mirrors, sock drawers.........yeah..it fills your life.

the amp is made in Malaysia.......

@@Africoz2 Malaysia it is.....around the world in 9min. 19sec.

They are what they are. Price is right, I guess.

I’m glad I watched this I don’t want a disposable amp.

And if it's not, I don't get paid for the work. No thank you. Some amps I decline.

@@PsionicAudio 👍👍

I was just about to add the same comment. "It's an Ex katana... Pining for the Japanese Fjords"...I spit my coffee out when he said it.

Awesome! Would you mind sharing your preset?

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I'm obsessed with tube amps...with that being said, I absolutely love my boss katana MK2 100. Great sounding powerful, affordable workingman's amp. Boss hit it out of the park with this one.

But is it ethical to keep chucking these amps in a landfill? A tube amp can keep running with minimal parts repairs for 70 years or more.

@@joeltunnah We're still killing each other for no reason in the 21st century and you're worried about a few amps in the landfill? I think we have bigger concerns.

@dudebroguymate right, so we should just go back to throwing our lunch wrappers and cans out the car window on the highway too... because "we have bigger concerns".

@@joeltunnah Yes, the earth will die because you threw a plastic bag out the window.

Is there an effects loop? You could use something like a graphic EQ pedal (or even a passive pot) in the loop, and turn it _down,_ then use the amp knobs normally.

@@ParaBellum2024 yes there's an FX loop. Thanks for the suggestion, I'm going to make a passive pot pedal in series to lower the volume. I appreciate it

Not that kind of hum. Output section failure hum.

I bet he fixed it and sold it on. 😂

Nah, about the same. Official policy is board replacement, no field service. Good as long as they stock the boards.