Harley Benton HB-15GXD JamBox

I bought this little amp for home practice and I mostly play metal stuff.
It really broke my heart.
Its a really great sounding amp. But not on all the channels “presets”
So here are my thoughts after playing on it for a week and trying out all the channels and trying to tweak the tone knob to get a good sound.
•Clean channels 10/10 omg they sound amazing, with a little delay or reverb and it sounds even better.
•tube screamer channel: 2/10 its just meh
•blues: 8/10 sounds good
Crunch: 5/10 not good. Not good sounds shallow and distant not full.
•Lead: 10/10 sounds full and great for soloing
•Rhythm: 5/10 again, it sounds shallow, distant and not good. Its really weird, like the amp is capable of sounding full. But I don’t know why these channels don’t.
•metal 6/10 same as the rhythm channel. It doesn’t sound full.
Now the effects
•Delay: 100/10 omg its great.
•Reverb: 100/10 just fabulous
• other effects: didn’t try them so I can’t really say
The drum beats were good too
So in conclusion, if you looking for an amp to play clean on. THIS IS THE ONE
Or if you don’t really care if it sounds full or not then go for it. Really great amp that had potential. Only if the metal channel sounded good it would have been a killer amp!

Någorlunda OK förstärkare för övning på låg volym.

Förstärkarsimuleringarna är av skiftande kvalitet där de två rena ljuden funkade någorlunda OK mina öron. Tyvärr så skorrade högtalaren när man kom ned på de djupa strängarna. Lät annars OK i mellanregistret och upp...

De inbyggda effekterna är av relativt dålig kvalitet och går inte att editera i nivåer vilket gör dem rätt oanvändbara då de är alltför högt inställda.

Idéen med en inbyggd trummaskin är bra men jag saknade bra jazz och latingrooves.

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Returnerade förstärkaren efter en vecka och köpte istället en Roland Cube 10 GX.

I bought this as a practice amp for my daughter. I am super satisfied. It has some great practice features (sounds good at low volume, has a built in drum machine), Side by side with a more expensive and larger amp it wouldn't sound as good but there are no compromises in this one that would hurt her practice.

If you want an small amp for home practice, you can't go past this.

Here's some things it doesn't have that may be deal breakers for you
1) No Line out or usb interface (it does have a headphone out)
2) No effect loop
3) Will not be loud enough for band use

Otherwise it sounds great to my old ears, and this is the important bit, at LOW VOLUME. Yes my tube head sitting on a 2x12 cab sounds better, but only for 5 minutes until my neighbours call the police.

There are 8 amp models(JC Clean, Clean , Tube Screamer, Blues, Crunch, Lead, Rythm, and Metal ) and they all sound satisfying. there are 6 effects on two knobs - Delay/Reverb, and Chorus/Flanger/Phaser/Tremolo - with a bit or trial and error there are few tones you won't be able to simulate.

Best of all (it was actually the feature that made me get it) for practice it has a drum machine with 36 patterns in it. So you can jam to a drummer which in my mind is a great practice tool.
And as an added bonus it is tiny and light. You could bring it with in a backpack without any trouble.

Small cheap bedroom practice amp? Get this one.