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2. It would be inconvenient as I'd have to take it to an amp tech and pay for the work, and
3. I shouldn't have to..Boss should have included one!
2. Doubt you'd need to if you can solder, it would just be a new jack probably
3. Agreed, that part is pretty stupid, but not something that should be a deal breaker
What would happen if I fit an 8-ohm speaker? Would it mean the amp doesn't have the same amount of volume or would it hurt the amp?
Horses for courses here. Point 1 - if you want to use more than two presets on the amp you need the footswitch. If not, you don't. I use mine on the clean channel and use pedals for everything so I don't need the footswitch. So it's not vital by any means, only if you want to use three or more amp presets. Another valid way to use it would be leave it in one of the gainy channels, clean up with the volume control and use a boost for solos. Still the Boss footswitch isn't required.
Point 2 - having to lug another cab would completely defeat the object of a small light amp in the first place. The 50 definitely doesn't need a speaker out, although maybe the 100 could do with one. But that's why they made a head. There's four options in the Katana range, I don't think Boss can be faulted for offering limited choices.
If you're filling a room with just the amp and you need to go really loud, yes I agree more speakers are better. If you're getting mic'd up (which happens 100% of time time except for tiny venues in my experience), it's irrelevant because they only mic one driver anyway. What sort of gigs are you playing that you need to go really loud but they're not micing up the amp? These days an amp is essentially just a tone generating device and a monitor so the guitarist can hear what they're playing, and the sound man decides how much air will be pushed.
Plenty, imho..
In the case above, you've actually got eight choices (2x channels, plus each pedal on its own, plus both pedals together). More than enough for most practical purposes. I use the clean channel with three overdrives in various combinations which gives loads of options without having to change anything on the amp.
I seem to have said this quite a few times now on various Katana threads, but I don't mind saying it again . I have the 50, and absolutely love it. It does everything I need.
Its great for home use as it can be used on the 0.5watt setting, without deterioration of tone/effects etc by way of keeping the master volume maxed out, and using the other volume knob for..well..volume.
I go to a jam night once, sometimes twice per week, and use it on the 50watt setting on the clean channel and a Zoom G3XN unit in the front. It takes the Zoom fantastically well, and is more than adequate volume wise in the mix with the rest of the guys. Drummer, other guitarist and bass player.
Best £169 ive spent in a long while.
The only thing that could be considered a problem is if you want to go back into panel mode you have to press the button on the top of the amp. The footswitch will pull it out of panel mode but not put it back. If it's in between songs then it's no problem to press one button!
Although my preference for guitar is a valve amp, I've had a good run on Roland amps (same as Boss I suppose) and solid state amps and currently use and love a Roland Bass Cube and I've had a Micro Cube since they came out and like it for what it is and lined out, I use it as my acoustic preamp. I've also had and gigged a Roland Cube 60 for many years and that delivered and it's currently serving my guitarist in our Ska band very well and I've not had any reliability issues. Based on what I've heard today, this amp tops the guitar Cubes, the Vox Valvetronix, old Session Amps and smaller Yamaha THR amps.
Thoughts:
- Sadly omitted on this model are a Line Out and Extension Speaker Out but come on? £169 for all this and the ability to access many more fx make it fantastic value.
Anyway, need to get back to playing it, which I can at 8.45pm without disturbing anyone, to see if this still continues to put a smile on my faceOne to audition folks and I'd look at the 100w for a few quid more and the additional volume and features if you wanted to gig this but as I said, it sounds pretty loud and others have gigged it and say it keeps up with a drummer. If not quite there for you, mic it up.
They're very impressive.
@Legionreturns has the 100W and he seems to love it.
Does the lowest power setting go down to 25w? I can't remember?
My 50w had a 25w setting and that was fine at home, it just meant keeping the channel volume lower. It's better to run the master volume maxed out, for some mythical reason that only BOSS seem to know about but it works.
When I was in the shop buying my 50, I found the size of the 100w 1x12 combo very easy to carry and would be fine to live with at home. The 50w I owned was positively small so the 100w 1x12 combo was just 'Normal' 1x12 combo size to my eyes.
For the money you can't really go wrong either.
Your input here would be very valid as you're returning to playing electrics after quite some time away from it all ?
What's your impression of the 50w Katana?
The 100w has 100/50/0.5
I'm not convinced on the scaling though to be honest. I think the 0.5 is still very loud if you crank it and I've used it with a drummer.
Definitely the best approach is to have the master set on full then adjust the channel volume to suit. The only drawback to this is if you're jamming with a baking track in the aux as that uses master volume. You have to adjust the volume with your other device our it's just too loud.
I have the footswitch which I think is only for the 100w and upwards, and I have a volume pedal connected to that for adjusting on the fly when you change settings or channels, or for when I turn a pedal on or off. Works very well for me.
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Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after youYou'd only need the effects loop for a looping pedal if you're using the on-board effects.
I've done loads of looping and never used/needed an effects loop, having said that my drives and delay are coming from pedals, not the amp.