@@TylerJohnstonGuitar Or, you know, just try hooking it up to a much larger speaker. That transformed my 15 W solitstate practice amp into something stage-ready
I had to pause this video so that I could go listen to Fuego. I've been on a Flamenco/Latin kick for the last year, and this one is definitely up my alley. Very awesome - keep 'em coming.
Definitely the Joyo, with a strong second to the Blackstar. I tried out all the Fender battery-powered amps, and almost all of them sucked. The best one is actually the little Deluxe. I learned a couple of tricks to get it sounding relatively good. For distortion, turn the tone control completely to the right, it reduces the fartiness. Second, place the amp on its face on the floor or on the bed, sounds much better. For me the best practise amp hands down is the BOSS Katana Mini. Good clean, and the Brown setting can be dialed in to a great metal crunch sound.
at first i want orange mini, but the local guitar store recomended that joyo amp (ma-10e) after try it i very impressed for a cheap amp (around 50$) in my country (indonesia) meanwhile the orange mini cost around $80, joyo is so underated brand, their pedal perfomance also kicking above their price,you should also try their pedals more over the vintage series.
Haha! When I read that review someone posted about their amp catching fire, I kept holding my breath each time a new amp was tried, scared that one of them was going to burst into flames! Haha! Glad to see that didn't happen! 💖
@@Peyote1312 No. All I'm saying is just simply that one of the speakers thankfully didn't catch on fire when he was filming. He posted that review to show what's happened to other people, and how bad the speakers can be. Nowhere, anywhere, did he say that's what happened to him. He puts out awesome music, and works his ass off to deliver amazing content! Don't be so negative towards him! He's a great guy, and deserves so much better than that!
Dunno what could possibly catch on fire these days. Back in the real early days when Dick Dale was pushing his amps hard, sure, it happened. But Fender gave him redesigned amps pretty shortly after that, so unless you have footage from his first few concerts at some time in the late 1950s or something like that, you're probably not going to see it.
Cool, now there just needs to be a website linking to YT vids and interrupting ads with other ads = true adception. I'm astounded that advertisers seem to think, that that is a good idea.
I used to have an Orange Mini amp and yeah, I wasn't that impressed, either. After seeing Jules Conroy and Tyler Larson both being sponsored by Positive Grid, I gave the Spark Mini a shot and it's been my go to ever since, especially since my Fender halfstack is starting to show its age. I will say, I was impressed by that Joyo. Wasn't expecting it to sound as big as it did.
the Chinese have really stepped up their quality game. It used to be you couldn't get any decent music gear from there. Now they are making decent guitars and electronics. You just gotta look around a little and see what other people have experienced before you buy.
I own a blackstar debut 15, yeah distorted tone isnt great, no small amp has been great on that for me, but I use it as a pedal platform and for me is super good, I really enjoy the clean tones and the more simple "Isf" kinda tone knob. Love the video!
For a while I was ampless so I used a multi fx box with a wire running through from it's headphones jack into a bluetooth speakers line in and it was a better option than lot of these.
I used to practice outside with my Honeytone amp, the same one you reviewed. I swear it was louder than my much bigger Vox Rhythm 5. Was on a farm, so it didn't annoy anyone. Got some positive responses from people driving by in their cars though. Thing was loud. That Joyo amp sounded really cool, I've enjoyed their other products, cheap but surprisingly good.
I actually use the crush mini quite often. The biggest strength it has is the 8 ohm output jack. That’s where the REAL magic is as plugging into an external speaker cabinet makes it sound amazing. My main setup is the amp connected to a karaoke speaker right now lol
I have the Orange . It's a handy practice tool , it's main benefit is that you can hook it up to a bigger cab , where it sounds pretty good . I used to own the Marshall with the double cab so like a mini full stack and it sounds much better than the half stack . My daughter has the red Marshall half stack . Ok none of them are great , but they are useful in their own right , for travel or just practice on the fly or in a limited space .
The mini Marshall & Fender, and even the Orange, are really more novelty items. When I first saw them they were more reasonably priced, but then they shot up in price where the novelty is not worth it to me, but I know some who are good with them for the novelty
Best use for a tiny amp like this I ever heard was splitting your signal chain to go into your regular amp and one of these then using the tiny amp for more easily controlled feedback.
yup they are the best mini amps! I have the Spark (Go) and the tones are endless with the app/interface and I am an absolute tone snob when it comes to distortion.
I'm not sure if you've checked out the little tiny, spark go amp? It's smaller than my hand lol. But for what it is, wow!! It's loud, It's clear, it can be set up in absolutely amazing ways! It's an amp, a pedal, blue tooth speaker, I'm still discovering. And I'm not very tech savvy. If I can do it, anyone can! Lol. Thanks for your videos. Entertaining, educational, and you're a great guitarist!!
I have a Spark Go as well and the app/interface to create your tones is awesome! I'm a pretty big tone snob and i'm dialing some tight balanced distortion with ease.
Loved it! For cheap practice distortion, there's also the so called Amplugs that are basically amps without a speaker, that output to headphones... You should also give some of those a try... They're usually under 50$ I believe and that would make a nice video too!
Hi Bernth, Cool video, great side by side comparisons... I am interested in your thought on the Positive Grid Spark and the Spark mini amps. You should do a review on those if you get the opportunity. Thx, Genesis
That HB would be a great workbench amp! For the size and the prize it’s perfect for if you’re rewiring pickups or building a pedal board and you need to check that things work. Heck with the size, you could even bring it to gigs just to use for troubleshooting.
Got here after hearing it on spotify My first reaction was like what did he experiment with this time Just had to check it out immediately And once again we have another amazing single by bernth🔥🔥
I like the Fender. I have one (for about ten years now) and I would use it to teach with in my guitar class. It is a very simple amp circuit and the tone can be shaped very easily with the amp and guitar controls. Great review by the way. The Blackstar at the beginning and Joyo I think would be the best for a practice amp for someone starting out. They sound great.
the Joyo surprised me the most, I think I might actually buy one. Ive heard a lot of those in person before and was expecting as much here. I will say for the Orange, I heard one of those being demoed (I worked at Guitar Center) and for what it is, it sounded killer across the store. I love Orange stuff.
The Blackstar looks and sounds great. The Flamma is very impressive. I used to have one of those Orange amps. It was the earlier version, and I don't know if they've changed it, but the headphone output was way too loud. I also used to have one of the Marshalls. I thought it was pretty good for what it is. I'm very surprised by the last one.
I STILL SHRED! That said, my Harly Benton 10W open back practice amp sounds pretty good... probably because I don't use the built-in effects (didn't even try them) but run them through a Boss multi effect pedal.
I used the Honeytone one for quite a while for on the go! It's a lot louder than what youd expected! I also used to have a Zoom 505II pedal that i ran with it. I 100% recommended it!
Thanks for the video! I remember when the blackstar fly first came out (the first good nano combo amp, though I didn't know it at the time). The other guitarist in the band I was in tried it as a joke...we both had wtf, this sounds pretty good faces on...I grabbed a mini crush and we A/B'd it in guitar center....we both walked out with a Fly.
i ordered an electric guitar and as a begginer i bought with it the harley benton MA-5 miniamp bc my budget is low. thanks for the review i needed to see that
You should try the boss katana mini it's not the loudest amp but great sounding for both clean to metal and decent delay though I wish they had more delay in the mix
Orange Crush Mini can be run at 12V, in this case the clean tone is less hot. Also it has AUX line input. The guitar can be plugged there through a buffer or active bypass pedal to get the cleanest tone.
The orange crush mini sounds like a proper amp if you use the speaker out and connect it to good quality cab. I put mine through a 12" speaker and it sounds great.
Some of these really tiny amps are actually quite popular with guitar techs because you can mount them to a work box and use to check that everything on a guitar works correctly, often on batteries. I see the Marshall one most of the time, but never used for overdrive. Any tiny battery-powered amp with a high-impedance input would work, it doesn't have to sound good. Certainly wish there was a low-pass filter on a couple of those amps though.
I have a Yamaha THR-10. I can get some pretty good sounds out of that thing. I have it set up next to my bed, so it's handy when you get any ideas. I also have the Danelectro Honey and the Orange Crush. Neither row my boat, but as a few have said, the Orange sounds okay through a cab. Must give it a try.
I swear by the Spark Go with headphones or out to another amps return, as the 2 inch speaker can't cut it. Better tones than anything else in that price range, smaller, and 8 hour rechargeable battery. Need to try feeding it to my Homeytone now...
The smaller the speaker the worse they are in my opinion. Especially as the volume is raised and gain is raised. They are practice amps so youll only get so much goodness out of them. But someone like yourself can make them all sound great!
I had the fender tweed really nice look. That’s it. Blackstar is not bad. Orange is disappointing I tried one at a guitar shop. The yoyo sounds pretty good. I have as mini amp a Boss Katana Mini. And never looked back
I can recommend the Laney mini amps. At least for practice and line in usage. Haven't actually used mine through its speakers yet, so not sure how compares to others. But the overdrive do sound great imo. I think Laney and Blackstar might be making the best sounding mini amps. And Boss with their Katana mini of course.
Should be possible nowadays to have a small board with an amp sim and a small solid state amp to produce acceptable distortion sounds. Quite disappointing to see these amps having the same "quality" like 10 years ago.
Nice playing. When $100 amp does one good enough tone it could be just what you need, in particular with a headphone socket 😃 Got a badly reviewed Origin 5c that I find sounds a lot better than the higher regarded DSL-1 (same speaker 😅).
To be honest, none of them sound bad for practicing, except Fender. The oddest and far best practice Amp is the Lekato Guitar Plug Amp Pa-1: Just a Plugin direct into the guitar with a headphone out, convolution(!) model amps (and YES you can upload your own models), USB and bluetooth connection (so you can play to your tracks on your smartphone).
I happen to be very very happy with my HB Pro Series guitar. Granted, I had a friend who's the son af a luthier go over it setup-wise, but he was amazed at how little he had to do. HB was the only one willing to sell me a 24 fret HSH guitar within my budget, and having tried a lot of the entry level "proper name brand" guitars I think people who buy those are getting ripped off on the "brand tax". So compared to that kind of competition I would say "Haley Benton - You get 50% more than you pay for" :P
Indeed! I just got a HB pedalboard with a built-in power supply and the quality is spot on. It handles my germanium transistor pedal like a boss =very good isolation.@@andersjjensen
The JOYO is the best! They're doing great things. I have a mini head-amp from Joyo (the ZoMBie) that has 1 valve and it's a kind of MESA clone. It's very small and it has a lot of volume and a really good "modern" sound.
I personally loved the black star as an all around great sounding amp. I also think that the honey tone would be a great blues amplifier. And for a third pick I’d go with the Harley Benton because of the cost to sound ratio, if that’s such a thing😂
This was such a fun video, thanks Bernth! ^^ Here are some challenges that I generated throughout the video, I hope these inspire you! + Make A Black Metal song with Orange/ Marshall/ Harley Benton Amp + Make a Song that sounds like every beginner guitarist's first original song with the most "cheap-sounding" guitar amps from this video, with very simple and even sloppy playing and obviously you need to include the drums from the Flamma Drum Machine! :D Maybe you can have a contrast section where everything is extremely well played/ well written/ flashy shredding/ great produced, etc. + The Flamma with it's variety of effects (plus the drum machine) could make a full song of it's own?
I never get all the negative reviews for these kind of cheap amps unless they're completely useless, and they clearly are not. They're not meant to be used to make professional recordings or play for a crowd, they're meant for practicing or just noodling around at home without pissing off the neighbors. And for that, any amp that you just showed off has a good enough tone. The one with the suction cup is awesome for taking a cheap guitar camping too. And I love it when they come with effects, so you don't have to mess around with pedals. Nowadays, if you don't have the funds for a high quality rig, it's awesome to see you can still get something decent for cheap. Because it's worse if you can't afford to get any rig at all.
I would love to see Bernth do some type of a collaboration with Max Ostro. That would be one amazing song, if not a song a jam would be amazing as well.
When the Marshall first came out I saw it demo'd at a guitar show in London and they plugged it in to the power amp stage of a much bigger head and from there into a 4x12 and it sounded awesome. But the first models had the input gain stage from the then current Marshall solid state amp. Can't remember whether it was mosfet or jfet. They changed it shortly afterwards and I always regretted not buying one of the originals. I did buy one of the ones Bernth got, but basically as a toy.
8:42 I use this Joyo amp and I love it even tho something it sounds kinda rough..it's the only one that I found that I can afford right now and I bought it for Rm104 (24$)
If you're just starting out and just want to practice by yourself and record , you may go for an audiointerface which is cheap and you can get many free amps with cool effects and features.
I have a debut 15 by Black Star. I got it for $49.99 which was an absolute steal. It is quite a bit better than the debut 10 and well worth the extra little bit of money.
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Check out my new song 'Fuego' here: bit.ly/3ujOl7g
Added you to my Spotify list, really liked the top two songs! Lovely arrangements and dream-like tones.
aight bet
The material of the old amp you said was plastic is probably Bakelite … which is very 30s-50s
this mini amps its compatible with bass guitar or not?
i wish you tried the katana air , great amp i think
Just shows a great player can make anything sound good for the most part. For clean tones anyway cheap distortion appears to be a lost cause.
Clean channel + cheap pedals is the way to go. Much better than the amp distortion.
@@TylerJohnstonGuitar Or, you know, just try hooking it up to a much larger speaker.
That transformed my 15 W solitstate practice amp into something stage-ready
@@ichbrauchmehrkaffee5785you just gotta make sure the ohms of the speaker match the output of the amp. But really what's the point?
Small amps don't do any good justice for guitar effect pedals.
Black metal: *am I a joke to you*
I had to pause this video so that I could go listen to Fuego. I've been on a Flamenco/Latin kick for the last year, and this one is definitely up my alley. Very awesome - keep 'em coming.
Thanks for listening 🤘
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I actually liked the blackstar one. Loved the new hairstyle too.
when I first saw the blackstar I almost cried because it's the same one I have, but I'm glad you liked it because it's pretty good imo!!
Definitely the Joyo, with a strong second to the Blackstar.
I tried out all the Fender battery-powered amps, and almost all of them sucked. The best one is actually the little Deluxe. I learned a couple of tricks to get it sounding relatively good. For distortion, turn the tone control completely to the right, it reduces the fartiness. Second, place the amp on its face on the floor or on the bed, sounds much better.
For me the best practise amp hands down is the BOSS Katana Mini. Good clean, and the Brown setting can be dialed in to a great metal crunch sound.
at first i want orange mini, but the local guitar store recomended that joyo amp (ma-10e) after try it i very impressed for a cheap amp (around 50$) in my country (indonesia) meanwhile the orange mini cost around $80, joyo is so underated brand, their pedal perfomance also kicking above their price,you should also try their pedals more over the vintage series.
Bruh, in Russia that joyo costs ~3000 rub (~30 usd)
I got a Blackstar like that in your testing, and I really love it. I'm not a pro and I can't stand loud volumes so it's really great for me.
Haha! When I read that review someone posted about their amp catching fire, I kept holding my breath each time a new amp was tried, scared that one of them was going to burst into flames! Haha! Glad to see that didn't happen! 💖
So in other words. Clickbait.
@@Peyote1312 No. All I'm saying is just simply that one of the speakers thankfully didn't catch on fire when he was filming. He posted that review to show what's happened to other people, and how bad the speakers can be. Nowhere, anywhere, did he say that's what happened to him. He puts out awesome music, and works his ass off to deliver amazing content! Don't be so negative towards him! He's a great guy, and deserves so much better than that!
Dunno what could possibly catch on fire these days. Back in the real early days when Dick Dale was pushing his amps hard, sure, it happened. But Fender gave him redesigned amps pretty shortly after that, so unless you have footage from his first few concerts at some time in the late 1950s or something like that, you're probably not going to see it.
Every one of these are PERFECT for a black metal album.
Hilariously, youtube decided to drop an ad right in the middle of the "sponsor" section. Way to go youtube...
Cool, now there just needs to be a website linking to YT vids and interrupting ads with other ads = true adception.
I'm astounded that advertisers seem to think, that that is a good idea.
I used to have an Orange Mini amp and yeah, I wasn't that impressed, either. After seeing Jules Conroy and Tyler Larson both being sponsored by Positive Grid, I gave the Spark Mini a shot and it's been my go to ever since, especially since my Fender halfstack is starting to show its age. I will say, I was impressed by that Joyo. Wasn't expecting it to sound as big as it did.
I love Joyo the most.
It has for a small Amp this size a beautiful overdriven sound,something like my own Joyo Jackman.
the Chinese have really stepped up their quality game. It used to be you couldn't get any decent music gear from there. Now they are making decent guitars and electronics. You just gotta look around a little and see what other people have experienced before you buy.
I own a blackstar debut 15, yeah distorted tone isnt great, no small amp has been great on that for me, but I use it as a pedal platform and for me is super good, I really enjoy the clean tones and the more simple "Isf" kinda tone knob. Love the video!
For a while I was ampless so I used a multi fx box with a wire running through from it's headphones jack into a bluetooth speakers line in and it was a better option than lot of these.
I used to practice outside with my Honeytone amp, the same one you reviewed. I swear it was louder than my much bigger Vox Rhythm 5. Was on a farm, so it didn't annoy anyone. Got some positive responses from people driving by in their cars though. Thing was loud. That Joyo amp sounded really cool, I've enjoyed their other products, cheap but surprisingly good.
I actually use the crush mini quite often.
The biggest strength it has is the 8 ohm output jack. That’s where the REAL magic is as plugging into an external speaker cabinet makes it sound amazing.
My main setup is the amp connected to a karaoke speaker right now lol
Hi have the Blackstar Fly 3. Not the best sounding ever, but super useful and very fun to play (and it doesn't catch on fire!)
I have the Orange . It's a handy practice tool , it's main benefit is that you can hook it up to a bigger cab , where it sounds pretty good . I used to own the Marshall with the double cab so like a mini full stack and it sounds much better than the half stack . My daughter has the red Marshall half stack . Ok none of them are great , but they are useful in their own right , for travel or just practice on the fly or in a limited space .
Perfect thanks. I lost it at 5:20 ("if you have an underground black metal band")😄
Connect that Orange mini to a 1x12 or 2x12 and watch it really come alive, especially if you boost it with a Boss SD1.
I suspect most of them will sound infinitely better with a proper cab - it's almost always the tiny speakers that are holding these amps back.
Blackstar was kind of nice! Keep up the good work Bernth!! 😊 new hair style for your black metal project 😜
The mini Marshall & Fender, and even the Orange, are really more novelty items.
When I first saw them they were more reasonably priced, but then they shot up in price where the novelty is not worth it to me, but I know some who are good with them for the novelty
Best use for a tiny amp like this I ever heard was splitting your signal chain to go into your regular amp and one of these then using the tiny amp for more easily controlled feedback.
Amazing input but the spark amp mini and go are worth a review so much 🤘🏻😎
yup they are the best mini amps! I have the Spark (Go) and the tones are endless with the app/interface and I am an absolute tone snob when it comes to distortion.
I'm not sure if you've checked out the little tiny, spark go amp? It's smaller than my hand lol. But for what it is, wow!! It's loud, It's clear, it can be set up in absolutely amazing ways! It's an amp, a pedal, blue tooth speaker, I'm still discovering. And I'm not very tech savvy. If I can do it, anyone can! Lol. Thanks for your videos. Entertaining, educational, and you're a great guitarist!!
I have a Spark Go as well and the app/interface to create your tones is awesome! I'm a pretty big tone snob and i'm dialing some tight balanced distortion with ease.
Loved it! For cheap practice distortion, there's also the so called Amplugs that are basically amps without a speaker, that output to headphones... You should also give some of those a try... They're usually under 50$ I believe and that would make a nice video too!
Hi Bernth, Cool video, great side by side comparisons... I am interested in your thought on the Positive Grid Spark and the Spark mini amps. You should do a review on those if you get the opportunity.
Thx,
Genesis
That HB would be a great workbench amp! For the size and the prize it’s perfect for if you’re rewiring pickups or building a pedal board and you need to check that things work.
Heck with the size, you could even bring it to gigs just to use for troubleshooting.
Got here after hearing it on spotify
My first reaction was like what did he experiment with this time
Just had to check it out immediately
And once again we have another amazing single by bernth🔥🔥
I like the Fender. I have one (for about ten years now) and I would use it to teach with in my guitar class. It is a very simple amp circuit and the tone can be shaped very easily with the amp and guitar controls. Great review by the way. The Blackstar at the beginning and Joyo I think would be the best for a practice amp for someone starting out. They sound great.
the Joyo surprised me the most, I think I might actually buy one. Ive heard a lot of those in person before and was expecting as much here. I will say for the Orange, I heard one of those being demoed (I worked at Guitar Center) and for what it is, it sounded killer across the store. I love Orange stuff.
blackstar amp sounds good
Yes! That was my favourite.
I have a blackstar and its great, very versatile
Clean tone did at least
The harley benton amp at the end sounds way better than the marshall one in my opinion
It's a bit fizzy, but way more present. Definitely sounds better.
The Blackstar looks and sounds great. The Flamma is very impressive. I used to have one of those Orange amps. It was the earlier version, and I don't know if they've changed it, but the headphone output was way too loud. I also used to have one of the Marshalls. I thought it was pretty good for what it is. I'm very surprised by the last one.
I STILL SHRED!
That said, my Harly Benton 10W open back practice amp sounds pretty good... probably because I don't use the built-in effects (didn't even try them) but run them through a Boss multi effect pedal.
Completly off topic but I really like your new hair ❤
I do, too! The half black/half white or bleached blonde is an awesome look! 🖤🤍
11:08 My DreamTheater sence emerged instantly
As an AliExpress afficionado yes, I've often heard about Flamma before. They make cool pedals.
Thanks for showing us this comparison. The Blackstar made it for me!
I used the Honeytone one for quite a while for on the go! It's a lot louder than what youd expected! I also used to have a Zoom 505II pedal that i ran with it.
I 100% recommended it!
Thanks for the video! I remember when the blackstar fly first came out (the first good nano combo amp, though I didn't know it at the time). The other guitarist in the band I was in tried it as a joke...we both had wtf, this sounds pretty good faces on...I grabbed a mini crush and we A/B'd it in guitar center....we both walked out with a Fly.
i ordered an electric guitar and as a begginer i bought with it the harley benton MA-5 miniamp bc my budget is low. thanks for the review i needed to see that
You should try the boss katana mini it's not the loudest amp but great sounding for both clean to metal and decent delay though I wish they had more delay in the mix
I love this, and I love your hair man!!!!
I bought the Boss Katana mini and i am so happy with it. With all the functions it has and being small. It sounds amazing for its price and size.
I got the fender one a long time ago. Disaster. Got a Spark GO a couple months later. Best thing ever.
Orange Crush Mini can be run at 12V, in this case the clean tone is less hot. Also it has AUX line input. The guitar can be plugged there through a buffer or active bypass pedal to get the cleanest tone.
The orange crush mini sounds like a proper amp if you use the speaker out and connect it to good quality cab. I put mine through a 12" speaker and it sounds great.
That defeats the purpose of a mini practice amp though.
I use a Danelectro Honeytone as a amp for playing blues harmonica. It's very good amp, small and have warm, vintage tone.
8:35 " I hope there is something inside " just killed me 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I love Joyo! 😊 Well, I love their line of pedal clones such as the Extreme Metal/Muff 👍🏻
The fly 3 from blackstar is pretty sick I wish it was in this video
Some of these really tiny amps are actually quite popular with guitar techs because you can mount them to a work box and use to check that everything on a guitar works correctly, often on batteries. I see the Marshall one most of the time, but never used for overdrive. Any tiny battery-powered amp with a high-impedance input would work, it doesn't have to sound good. Certainly wish there was a low-pass filter on a couple of those amps though.
I'd be interested to hear your take on the gtrs ptnr using the gtrs guitar or pedal to use their built in effects, it handles the effects pretty well.
I have a Yamaha THR-10. I can get some pretty good sounds out of that thing. I have it set up next to my bed, so it's handy when you get any ideas. I also have the Danelectro Honey and the Orange Crush. Neither row my boat, but as a few have said, the Orange sounds okay through a cab. Must give it a try.
5:14 This sounds EXACTLY like the Pagan Altar - Judgment of the Dead tone.
Wow! you got really good at guitar really fast! I hope you still play your harp in future videos though ❤
I swear by the Spark Go with headphones or out to another amps return, as the 2 inch speaker can't cut it. Better tones than anything else in that price range, smaller, and 8 hour rechargeable battery. Need to try feeding it to my Homeytone now...
cool video, but who's fender?
The smaller the speaker the worse they are in my opinion.
Especially as the volume is raised and gain is raised.
They are practice amps so youll only get so much goodness out of them.
But someone like yourself can make them all sound great!
Really like the editing/ comment notes
This was great and all... but the real question is, "how do they sound under water?" 😜
I have a Blackstar Fly 3 mini ampp. For this size of 3 watt and price i can honestly recommend it, especially for travel. Nice delay also and EQ
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I had the fender tweed really nice look. That’s it. Blackstar is not bad. Orange is disappointing I tried one at a guitar shop. The yoyo sounds pretty good. I have as mini amp a Boss Katana Mini. And never looked back
That blackstar and the joyo were the ones that I liked the most!
I can recommend the Laney mini amps. At least for practice and line in usage. Haven't actually used mine through its speakers yet, so not sure how compares to others. But the overdrive do sound great imo.
I think Laney and Blackstar might be making the best sounding mini amps. And
Boss with their Katana mini of course.
Let me at those amps. I can make them sound terrible
Should be possible nowadays to have a small board with an amp sim and a small solid state amp to produce acceptable distortion sounds. Quite disappointing to see these amps having the same "quality" like 10 years ago.
That clean tone has very major diablo vibes
Nice Video and interesting ! Thank / BTW I bought recently a Marshall 40 DSL ... still getting it
Very cool comparisons! However, "Fuego" probably would set these all on fuego...
0:38
Hey man, look at me rocking now, I'm on a VIDEOOOOO
You should make a video on the Blackstar all by itself. You can get some insane clean tones as you mentioned.
Nice playing.
When $100 amp does one good enough tone it could be just what you need, in particular with a headphone socket 😃
Got a badly reviewed Origin 5c that I find sounds a lot better than the higher regarded DSL-1 (same speaker 😅).
Awesome Video The Favorite is the joyo Greetings Pirmin
To be honest, none of them sound bad for practicing, except Fender.
The oddest and far best practice Amp is the Lekato Guitar Plug Amp Pa-1: Just a Plugin direct into the guitar with a headphone out, convolution(!) model amps (and YES you can upload your own models), USB and bluetooth connection (so you can play to your tracks on your smartphone).
You just dropped the perfect slogan for HB.
“Harley Benton - not that bad”
I happen to be very very happy with my HB Pro Series guitar. Granted, I had a friend who's the son af a luthier go over it setup-wise, but he was amazed at how little he had to do. HB was the only one willing to sell me a 24 fret HSH guitar within my budget, and having tried a lot of the entry level "proper name brand" guitars I think people who buy those are getting ripped off on the "brand tax".
So compared to that kind of competition I would say "Haley Benton - You get 50% more than you pay for" :P
Indeed! I just got a HB pedalboard with a built-in power supply and the quality is spot on. It handles my germanium transistor pedal like a boss =very good isolation.@@andersjjensen
The JOYO is the best! They're doing great things. I have a mini head-amp from Joyo (the ZoMBie) that has 1 valve and it's a kind of MESA clone. It's very small and it has a lot of volume and a really good "modern" sound.
Nice Giger S dude, sweet guitar (i love ibanez S)
love that sweater! Where did you buy it?
I personally loved the black star as an all around great sounding amp. I also think that the honey tone would be a great blues amplifier. And for a third pick I’d go with the Harley Benton because of the cost to sound ratio, if that’s such a thing😂
That's all well and good, but can we all just appreciate how nice your jumper is?
This was such a fun video, thanks Bernth! ^^
Here are some challenges that I generated throughout the video, I hope these inspire you!
+ Make A Black Metal song with Orange/ Marshall/ Harley Benton Amp
+ Make a Song that sounds like every beginner guitarist's first original song with the most "cheap-sounding" guitar amps from this video, with very simple and even sloppy playing and obviously you need to include the drums from the Flamma Drum Machine! :D Maybe you can have a contrast section where everything is extremely well played/ well written/ flashy shredding/ great produced, etc.
+ The Flamma with it's variety of effects (plus the drum machine) could make a full song of it's own?
You made it no sponsor man, everytime you come in an ad I hear through the full ad. Congrats man!
I never get all the negative reviews for these kind of cheap amps unless they're completely useless, and they clearly are not.
They're not meant to be used to make professional recordings or play for a crowd, they're meant for practicing or just noodling around at home without pissing off the neighbors.
And for that, any amp that you just showed off has a good enough tone.
The one with the suction cup is awesome for taking a cheap guitar camping too.
And I love it when they come with effects, so you don't have to mess around with pedals.
Nowadays, if you don't have the funds for a high quality rig, it's awesome to see you can still get something decent for cheap.
Because it's worse if you can't afford to get any rig at all.
I'd like to know the battery life on the suction cup one. Very cool portable amp.
Now record a song where all these amps are used somewhere in the song!
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AMPLIFIED!!!
I have the Joyo bass amp and it actually sounds really good for being so small. And you can plug aux into it!
I would love to see Bernth do some type of a collaboration with Max Ostro. That would be one amazing song, if not a song a jam would be amazing as well.
i learned to play on an rg120 like that guitar. black body/maple fretboard. kinda like the old jeff loomis schecter sigs too. cool guitars
When the Marshall first came out I saw it demo'd at a guitar show in London and they plugged it in to the power amp stage of a much bigger head and from there into a 4x12 and it sounded awesome. But the first models had the input gain stage from the then current Marshall solid state amp. Can't remember whether it was mosfet or jfet. They changed it shortly afterwards and I always regretted not buying one of the originals. I did buy one of the ones Bernth got, but basically as a toy.
There's a few videos of people doing a speaker out mod on the one that Bernth got and it sounds pretty decent even with the small power amp it has.
8:42 I use this Joyo amp and I love it even tho something it sounds kinda rough..it's the only one that I found that I can afford right now and I bought it for Rm104 (24$)
I feel like if you did a everlong cover it would Sound awesome
I love your hair!
If you're just starting out and just want to practice by yourself and record , you may go for an audiointerface which is cheap and you can get many free amps with cool effects and features.
.. or, a Cube Baby and a pair of headphones. This will all (with your guitar) fit in a gig bag.
@@chriswilliams1096 yeah
love the new look!
the orange crush mini has a surprising sound when plugged on a bigger speaker
I have a debut 15 by Black Star. I got it for $49.99 which was an absolute steal. It is quite a bit better than the debut 10 and well worth the extra little bit of money.