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I'm still using mine (at home), very happy with it.
I think that some people felt they didn't cut it live and went back to valves, others are still gigging them.
I also think that quite a few people who bought them as a replacement for their primary amp seem to have shifted them on, or moved them to backup status.
Bottom line is: it is very practical and great value for money -is it as good as your valve amp and preferred pedal board -not a chance.
As a home or quiet rehearsal amp I think they're fantastic, and only sold mine because I'd spent so much on the whole amp/footswitch/cover I wanted to recoup some of the cost before it lost any more resale value.
For your requirements? Go for it, they're excellent.
The problems start when you turn them up louder, they thin out very quickly and go a bit fizzy.
I mainly set mine up for the classic smashing pumpkins Siamese dream sound and I love it.
Its a great bit of kit and being a 2x12, you loose a bit on the easily portable side but as you raise the volume to raise roof, it still sounds huge.
Like all these ‘do anything’ amps, most of it sounds awful to me. There is a great clean, crunch and dirty sound in there though and used lightly, the effects are
workable too.
I do understand a few people have lost faith in them but I think that's a sort of expectation thing and people like P90fool who have very specific jobs for them and in that they have come up short but as a straight forward amp for me they hit the spot nice enough cleans , crunch and drive with a few effects make it easy to dial in.
Still the most useful piece of music kit I’ve bought in 20 years or so...
Many other amps can do one or more of these things better than the Katana, but none of them can do it all!
There seem to be a lot of people selling on the 50s, but many of those have upgraded to the 100w variants. You rarely see a second hand head or 212 for sale, people are keeping them.
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Great sounds, simple to use and really portable. No digital business or patches and all that lark, just good old fashioned analogue circuits and channel switching.
I took it to a practice last week and was expecting the shine to come off a bit in a band situation, especially as it only has a 10” speaker. But it sounded really good, I was very impressed.
That said, I tend to use Vox AC models as my core sound (with a high gain model for ch.2) and have liked earlier VT generations, so I also have my eye on the Adio for practicality reasons, and will now add these AV ones to the demo list too, thanks!