Now that the Katana honeymoon period is over.........

Telejester

......any regrets ?

Anybody sold theirs because it didnt work out ?

Musicman20

Nope! Love it!!!

sweepy

Not at all, the 50w is a cracking little amp, mine is going nowhere

usedtobe

I'm still mulling over the idea of getting one. I don't need it, but it doesn't stop me wanting..

darthed1981

I can understand they are not for everyone, if you are out to spend 2k on a big gigging rig it wouldnt be appropriate.

Mine wipes the floor with the other home practise amps ive tried though!

midlifecrisis

im tempted to get the 100 1by12 for gigging but im not sure if its up to it. i presently use a laney vc30 212 which is more than loud enough but im finding it big and heavy and fancy a lighter alternative, the katana 100 is half the weight.

Nikko

Mine is definitely a keeper. Absolutely loved it from the moment I plugged it in, and after the speaker had been broken in properly it  just got better.

Marktigere1

midlifecrisis said:

im tempted to get the 100 1by12 for gigging but im not sure if its up to it. i presently use a laney vc30 212 which is more than loud enough but im finding it big and heavy and fancy a lighter alternative, the katana 100 is half the weight.

My Son uses his 100 watter in his band.

With drum kit, keyboards and a loud bassist he has only used 50W setting.  

They are not a loud band though and to date have not played any large gig yet.

Sounds very good to me and he has not asked to borrow either of my valve amps........................yet

Just try one.

menamestom

Sold my100.  Good solid clean and slight breakup sounds, got a bit harsh with the gain wound up.  The effects implementation was too limiting to replace everything but to be fair, a great amp for the money.  I liked the clean setting with a bit of pedal drive, I could have worked with that but it used one of the effect slots up.

I may have kept the 50, just because it's smaller for home use.

7/10 for me, very good, it did nothing wrong, but I wasn't blown away like some.

midlifecrisis

Ironicallyim not really interested in the effects, I'd wantto use it clean and get my drives and effectsfrom my zoom g3, or am I being daft? 

usedtobe

I only really use overdrive. No other effects at all. Mainly look for a good clean sound in an amp...

thomasw88

usedtobe said:

I only really use overdrive. No other effects at all. Mainly look for a good clean sound in an amp...

got to say that I've been reallly really impressed with my quilter pro block so far.  Sounds fecking awesome, and takes pedals a treat.  little bit more expensive than the katana obviously but  by far the best solid state amp solution I've tried by a mile.

beowulf

I only tend to use the chorus and delay effects. I don't like the booster sounds at all I have to be honest (don't sound very smooth or balanced), and I don't like what the gain knob does past about 12 o'clock either. So I use my Boss OD-3 for overdriven sounds. 

As a KT100 1x12 owner, if I was to reflect on the 'honeymoon period', I guess I would say the hype was perhaps a tad strong, but I'm still pleased with the purchase. 

DulcetJones

I'm still loving my 50.   No issues at all.   I rigged up a DIY  footswitch to use the channel option and can toggle between whatever two settings I want, currently using a default chorus/reverb on one channel and octave divider on the the other.    Later I'm going to see if I can dial in a tremolo manually that I can override back to the the presets easily, there's just one section of a song I would like to try it with.  Otherwise all I have for pedals is distortion and a volume pedal. 

cbilly22

I had a 100w combo, used it for a few gigs which it handled brilliantly. I then had one of those great ideas and sold it locally. Unsurprisingly I have another one now and love it, especially since I figured out that you could tinker with the send and return levels to have the loop button on the footswitch act as a clean volume boost, so I now just use the GA-FC switch and a wah live. I use the lead channel set about half way for a Marshall crunch sound which you can clean up with the guitar volume and hit the aforementioned switch for solos. Then have a phaser, univibe or chorus on one button, delays, tap, and reverb on the others. Only ever use it in the effects mode live as opposed to patch mode, but often faff around at home with the computer based editor thingy when I want to jam along with particular things. Fancy playing the solo from Time? pull up a Floyd type patch, that sort of thing.

It's small, light, sounds ace, is easy to dial in, sounds good through headphones, plays nicely with recording stuff and is only as complicated as you want to make it. It lets me play more guitar more easily and that's really what I want.

tony99

I'm not sure what to do with the octave setting,

whatever I try to do with it just sounds like the old theme tune from Grange Hill

cbilly22

tony99 said:

I'm not sure what to do with the octave setting,

whatever I try to do with it just sounds like the old theme tune from Grange Hill

I defy anyone who has read this not to hum that tune all day.

tony99

cbilly22 said:

tony99 said:

I'm not sure what to do with the octave setting,

whatever I try to do with it just sounds like the old theme tune from Grange Hill

I defy anyone who has read this not to hum that tune all day.

a true classic

darthed1981

tony99 said:

cbilly22 said:

tony99 said:

I'm not sure what to do with the octave setting,

whatever I try to do with it just sounds like the old theme tune from Grange Hill

I defy anyone who has read this not to hum that tune all day.

a true classic

I kind of want to play it on guitar now if the Katana can nail the "tone"

DulcetJones

tony99 said:

I'm not sure what to do with the octave setting,

whatever I try to do with it just sounds like the old theme tune from Grange Hill

I use it in one song my band wrote where I play a sort of "shadow bass line" through most of the song.  I leave it on for the solo, it takes on a kind of 12 string "8 Miles High" thing on the higher notes.   I play a solo in about 90% of our songs so anything I can do to give it variety without ten pedals is great. 

tony99

DulcetJones said:

tony99 said:

I'm not sure what to do with the octave setting,

whatever I try to do with it just sounds like the old theme tune from Grange Hill

I use it in one song my band wrote where I play a sort of "shadow bass line" through most of the song.  I leave it on for the solo, it takes on a kind of 12 string "8 Miles High" thing on the higher notes.   I play a solo in about 90% of our songs so anything I can do to give it variety without ten pedals is great. 

oh well that sounds good, I can sort of hear the point of it on the lower strings but on the higher it sounds a little strange

the clean is nice too but I do have to have my guitar vol max'd to get it which is a shame really

lots of interesting things to explore though, and I've yet to deploy my flanger !!!