Crate GX15

It has 2 channels cl/over, 3 way eq (low, mid, high), annoying channel select button. quiet.

I use a Washburn WG-248 and i play death, this was my first amp the I learned on. The clean channel sucks after mid way, the overdrive channel is ok. It sounds better with a high quality distortion pedal. Its a good amp for learning though.

I would never gig with it. The sound isnt good enough. and it is kinda bad about breaking out sometimes, when i play on my other amp, that never happens, so I know its the amp.

havent dealt with them.

been playing a year, and will only use it for practicing at low volumes.

basic featured solid state amp single channel used in room single 8" speaker.

i am being very generous here, this little git has the boom of a little girl. If u stick any FX pedal into it which may add bass the amp cant handle s*it. i play alot differnet music from metal to the occasional pop tune an it can handle things like the beatles n the verve but try an play korn or anythin like that then is farts at u an cuts out the sound makin u turn down the bass.

i havent had it a year an it still works fine though. it is quite tough althouhg i wud of prevered it to hav a bak on it.

dunno

i havent even bin playin a year but i can tell when somet sounds good an this little turd doesnt go the extra mile an get somet decent if ure serious.

bought this in 1985' as a mini practice amp.
when you compare it to other amps for $79.99 new it shines.
great for small rehearsals so small it almost goes in your pocket :-)
I would never gig out with it.

its like 12 watts rms and I get decent tones from this little sucker
in spite of what it is. I have jammed with guys that cant believe this little box creates so much tone. 8" speaker...
sounds great for what it is.
Compare it to its peers.... size and price and it rates a 10.

I have done everything to this amp for 17 years and its like new.
Once again I would never gig with it.

never dealt with them.
It came with a 5 year warranty and it could have been 17 yeras and they still would have never heard from me.

I have been playing for 25+ years, I own many guitars and amps all superior to this little crate in every way imaginable and I know not to judge a $79.99 crate GX-15 against a amp that costs much much more. When you gain that perspective this amp rates well. Just the fact it still like new after 17 years it should rate a 10 and Because of its size and portability,features,price and sound I give it a solid 10

- Clean and overdrive channels with gain controls.
- Low, mid, and high tone controls.
- Headphone jack and line out jack.
- This amp is pretty versatile for a practice amp, especially one so cheap. I would probably buy the model with the reverb if I could go back in time but it's ok. One feature it could use is a pedal to switch to overdrive or at least make it easier to switch than to press an incredibly small button.

I have been using it with an Ibanez RG-220. I've been playing for a few years, but am really quite the begginner. I play mostly classic rock tunes and attempt some newer indie stuff. I play mostly on the clean channel because the overdrive sounds best turned way up and I don't want to piss off the neighbors. The clean channel is really clear and at the lowest volume I can barely tell it's on. With the overdrive on and it turned way up the distortion is really interesting with a lot going on. The sound is better than I expected.

I won't be gigging in the foreseable future since I'm not a good player - but I would like to use a larger amp so I could have room to play with it. As far as contruction though - this amp COULD NOT BE BUILT ANY BETTER. This thing is tough and just reeks of quality contruction. I've had it for a over two years now and it is still just like new. As long as you don't purposefully wreak havoc on this amp or do something stupid it will last longer than you ever expected.

I never dealt with Crate and am not sure what the warranty was.

If it were stolen or lost I think I would buy another one at this point in time. I would rather the one with the reverb though. I had only bought this amp because it was so cheap at Guitar Center and it sounded same or better than other similar amps. I now think that I made a good decision that day to choose this amp. By the way, all my ratings are based on the price/size category of this amp and are not comparing this amp to anything obviously out of it's class.

12 watts solid state combo with one 8" speaker (4 ohms). Two channels (Clean and Overdrive) with shared EQ settings, no way to connect a footswitch, which is the biggest problem I have with the features of this amp. Headphone out, speaker out for external speaker.
Not much features, low power, but hey, it's a cheap practice amp, so what can you expect (except for a footswitch connecter maybe)?

This thing was my first amp. When I got it, I compared it to the Peavey Rage 158, which costs about the same as the Crate, but the Crate sounds far better.
Now, it's a bit difficult for me to rate the sound of this amp, cause now I play through a Line6 Flextone II (1x12"), which of course sounds so much better, but then again, it also costs much more, so it wouldn't be fair to compare the Crate to that. So I base my final rating on how good this amp is compared to other amps in the same price range.

When I started playing, I used a Yamaha ERG-121 guitar, which I still use, but now I have the stock humbuckers replaced by DiMarzios (AirZone in the bridge position, AirClassic in the neck position).
I haven't used the Crate since a long time, but today I played through it again, just for the fun of it, and decided to note down my impressions.

The sound, which I used when I started (bass on 3, mids on 3, treble on 8, gain on 8, levels at about 4) sounded absolutely crap to my newly developed taste now, but after a bit of playing around, I found that a setting like bass on 5, mids on 10, treble on 5, gain on 7 and, what's most important, levels much higher (6 at least) sounds much better. Most people say that you shouldn't push this amp too far couse it then starts to "break up", but that's exactly what gives some life to the otherwise very static solid state sound.

The Clean channel is nicely clean and stays so until a level of 8. With the right pickups, it can even have a bit of shimmering in the tone, but as this is a transistor combo, the sound isn't really lively enough to sound good (on an all-amps-scale).

The Overdrive also sounds very static until you push it far enough to make the power amp crackle, which adds a lot of life to the sound. There's enough gain for all situations, no need for a distortion pedal at all (and it wouldn't sound any better, I tried the Boss and Danelectro pedals through the clean channel of this amp at a shop and they didn't even match the Crate's own Overdrive).

Overall, the sound of this amp is very "narrow", which can be attributed to the small cab with an 8" speaker. I didn't try it with an external speaker, but I guess that should make things a lot better (but on the other hand, if you invest in a real cab, then better also get a real amp).

The sound of this amp is pretty versatile, which is important for a practice amp. You can easily dial in just about any tone you want, it will never sound right, but always gives you enough of an idea of that sound to match the songs you practice. Today e.g. I played Metallica's "Nothing Else Matters" (both fingerstyle part and solo), Led Zeppelins "Stairway to heaven" (again, fingerstyle, picking, solo), "Defy you" and "She's got issues" by The Offspring, "Back In Black" by AC/DC among others through it, just to give you an idea how flexible it is (but as I said, it never sounded right, just close enough for practicing). I also think that it's very important for beginners not to have to many knobs to turn, cause you should concentrate on your playing and not on creating great sounds (so a Flextone would be exactly wrong for a beginner, but it's great as the next step up, when you already know, how to practice).

It's not loud enough for playing together with a band for practice really (although I did in the beginning when we founded the band), and you won't ever want to gig with it (not only because it's far to silent, but also because you would have to be ashamed because of the sound). But it's definitively loud enough for practicing at home and will even be able to blow away your ears, if just you sit close enough to it (which doen't mean to have your ear on the front cloth, but rather 1 meter away).

The amp itself is pretty solid (I even dropped it once from 1 meter height and it still works), but the reason why I only give it a 5 is that the handle got loose after just a few month (and I didn't even carry it extensively with that handle) and couldn't be fixed, which really shouldn't happen.

Never dealt with them.

So overall, on an all-amps-scale this thing absolutely sucks and would at most get 1 out of 10 points from me, but this wouldn't be fair really, cause if you compare it to the other amps in the same price range, the Crate really outshines them all.

It's basically the best beginners practice you can get, because as I said, it's not really helpful to have too many things you can play around with on your amp when you start playing guitar. The biggest drawback (even as a beginners practice amp), though, is the lack of a footswitch connector (and you wouldn't really want to invest in a distortion pedal, which cost nearly half of the amp itself).

Great for beginners, but if you practice hard, don't expect to be satisfied for more than half a year, then you will want to take a step up and either get a modelling amp (like I did), or if you have some more money to spend, a real tube amp. On the other hand it wouldn't really be clever to invest in such an amp, when you just begin, because you never know, if you stay with playing guitar at that point of time.
If you have never played electric guitar before and want to start playing, get this amp NOW, if you have any experience in playing guitar, DON'T EVER get this amp.

My GX-15 was made in 1996, or atleast the speaker was. The amp is 12+ watts of solid state power. Which is enough power for solo practicing, but try to keep up with drums and your toast. It has 2 non foot switchable channels, clean and overdrive. no effects loop, head phone jack, external speaker jack, no reverb or effects. It has your basic starter amp features

I play a yamaha pacifica with 2 single coils and a humbucker in the bridge positionthrough a tuner, then a wah wah pedal, then a snarling dog american tube simulator, then through an ibanez distortion pedal. The clean channel is standable, though if you use humbukcers the tone is extremely flat and the lack of reverb doesn't help. the overdrive channel is pretty unusable because it operates at lower dbs then the clean channel. it sounds like your sound is muffeled.

this amp has never broken down on me, but try to drive a 2x 12 via the external speaker jack, and the sound starts fading, so i unplugged the cab and the speaker in the amp sounded rather muddy and low. it let it cool for a few hours and played it again and sounded fine. I woul not gig with this amp due to its power and tone but it won't break downdruing practice

i bought the amp used when i started playing and so it had no transferable warranty. therefore i haven't dealt with CRATE

I hate the amps tone and power. i bought it because i just started playing and needed a cheap amp. i have been playing for maybe 7 months now. i also have an epiphone studio 10, a crate gfx112, a few mics, and a feneder hotrod deluxe. if stolen or lost my keyboardist wouldn't ahve an amp, but i would not replace. instead i would buy the Vintager GM110 30w anolog modeling amp made by behringer. but now i'm working on getting a fender 65 twin reverb

Mine was made in or around 92. This is not the most versitile amp in the world...but for at home it's great. It's got plenty of power to get yer practicing done. This amp is totally solid state so if yer looking for a tube....go get one.

I always use mine with a Strat for semi-blues tones. This thing has an amazing clean sound...the reverb is awesome. The overdrive is pretty noisy...a commom problem for all Crate solid states. You can get a really good alt. rock sound out of this amp. If yer into the Seattle thing it's perfect.

I've had this amp for almost ten years now and I still play on it alot. Sure I've got others at this point, but it's still fun to mess around with it. Brings back lots of memories. It's never broke on me before. I used to play in a garage band with it and it could be heard easily over the drums and vocals. I used to play it extensively at 7 or 8 on the volume.

never dealt with them.

I've been playing a long time and I still use it from time to time. If it were stolen I'd probably blow it off and never get another one....but just because it's too small to gig with. Plus, once I discovered tube amps I rarely touch solid states for live stuff. Look people, this is a cheap amp...but it's been good for me. I was young when I got it because of the money factor. Yer not gonna get monster tone from something this small...simple as that. But it is fun to jam on in yer house.It's unreasonable to think it's gonna sound like a stack!! Crate is very good about making stuff young players and people on a budget can afford. But that being the case you can't expect it to sound like a Marshall stack.

I GOT IT IN 98.IT HAD ALL THE BASICS OF A FIRST,I PLAY ANY THING FROM PUNK TO BLUES.IT HAS ONE CHANNEL,HEADPHONE JACKS AND OVERDRIVE, FEATURE WISE IT HAS EVERY THING YOU WHOULD NEED TO LEARN.IT IS WAY TO SMALL TO EVER USE TO GIG

I PERSONLY HAVE A CRUISE SINGLE COLL IT SUCKS BUT ITS CHEAP FIRST, BESIDES THAT I HAVE USED MOST POPULAR GUITARS LES PAULS,STRATS,AND SG.
THIS AMP RELLY SUCKS FOR ANY STYLE YOU PLAY. LARGE PLACES ARENT AS BAD BUT IN SMALL ROOMS IT MAKES A VERY HIGH SHARP SOUND.ON CLEAN I WHOULD GET A WEIRD VOODOO WOBLE IN THE SPEAKER AND WITH OVERDRIVE IT SOUNDED LIKE A TV GETING BAD RESEPTION BASICLY THE SOUND OUT OF IT SUCKED

I WOULD NEVER TAKE THIS AMP TO A GIG IT IS VERY UNRELIABIL. IT HAD BROKEN SEVERAL TIMES THE LAST STRAW WAS WENE IT STATED SMOKEING

I NEVER NEEDED TO CALL THE COMPANY FOR HELP DURING THE 90 DAY WARRANTY IT NEVER BROKE. I WAS NOT ABLE TO FIND AN AUTHORIZED SERVICE CENTER FOR CRATE SO I HAD A GUITAR SHOP I TOOK LESSONS AT FIX IT FOR CHEAP.

I HAVE BEEN PLAYING 4 YEARS AND FOR THE PAST 3 I USE A RACK WITH A CARVIN CAB,IF I HAD LOST IT I WOULD MORE THAN LIKELY GO TO A SMALL MARSHALL,IF ALL YOU WANT IS A BOX THAT MAKES SOUND FOR CHEAP GET IT,
BUT IF YOU WANT A QULITY AMP GET ANYTHING ELSE BECAUSE ITS MORE THAN LIKELY BETTER "HATEING IS STILL HATE BUT WENE IT COMES TO CRATE HATEING IS GREAT"

this has pretty much beginner features: basic eq, gain settings, thats it.

i play a yamaha pacifica through it and it sounds OK. you just have to mess around with the EQ to your liking. i have the low on 10, mid on 5, and high on 7. the gain is on 8. that pretty much makes the best possible sound that can come from this POS.

very reliable. the black tolex will start spliting where the screws are. no biggie. i replaced the tolex with duct tape. looks mighty nice now.

ive never had to call them up so i dont know.

The bottom line is that this amp is good for the beginner but, nothing more. dont expect to get marshall sound out of the little box. if it were stolen i wouldnt really care. i compared this to the fender frontman and this was better. this is probably the best amp in its class.

2 channels, little button to switch them (a pain), one 8 incher inside, solidstate

Using an epiphone les paul standard with it. I play mostly classic rock and that kind of stuff. This thing is horrible, unless you like distortion that has no tone. I'm not saying is sucks next to a Marshall or a Boogie (it does but...), I'm saying it just plain sucks. Horrible distortion that sends me into convulsing fits on the ground while frothing green stuff seeps from my mouth. Yes, it's that bad. Clean is ok but too muffly. I thought it was cool when I was a beginner. I think I finally heard a Marshall though and now this thing doesn't impress me. Either that or I messed it up some how.

Ripped the tolex I thought was tough. I have to frickin fidget with the input every 5 seconds. I have to have the cable dangling half in and half out.

Don't wanna deal with the people who made such a horrible machine...

I have another Crate which I like much better. If it were stolen, I wouldn't notice except when i go to prop my feet on it while watching tv, my trusty Crate foot rest won't be there. It does make a pretty good foot rest. I also go out in the garden and produce horrible sounds which scare away pesky animals. Sometimes I let little kids in the neighborhood use it for a base in baseball. Overall this things sounds are hideous, but its a good household object every family needs.

three band eq, distortion switch, not that complicated. I've taken the amp to rehearsals and it's been loud enogh to deal. I kind of get afraid when turned up past halfway, but for eighty bucks, I couldn't be happier

I use a DS-1 with a single coil pickup. If I can't complain about noise then all you 13 year-old wannabe poser f'up slipknot guitar idiots need to shut up. Clean is awsome for such a small package. THE AMP ONLY COSTS $80. IF YOU WANT A HALF-STACK SAVE YOUR FUGGING ALLOWANCES AND BUY THE HALF-STACK

I've had this amp for about three years now. I've gigged with it (with speaker a attachment) and it still works. Everything I've played that is crate has seemed very well built.

I'm going to preface this by saying anyone who hasn't graduated third grade shouldn't be reviewing anything. Anyone who has a problem with this amp needs to pull their heads out of their nether regions. Those of you who are dissapointed because you didn't get a half-stack for eighty dollars need to shut up. If you don't like the distortion, buy a pedal. If you don't like the clean sound, buy a reverb pedal. Shut the hell up. Quit bitchin'cause your amp sucks. Turn the amp down and learn how to play first...

Pretty simple amp distortion channel clean Channel, get's the job done, much better then my old Fernandez POS (piece of S***).

The amp has a nice crisp clean setting goes up really loud and does not distort when loud. Distortion is not bad it's a pain to turn on when playing, you have to pause and hit the tiny little button on the amp.

I've never had one problem with it and probably never will great litle amp

I've been playing for 7 years I just use this to fool around with I also have a Trace Elliot Super Tramp For my gigs. Overall a great practice amp. Buy it if you have the money.

good for the price, fine practice amp, but nothing more

The distortion can get out some punk sounds for the size, and you can play a little Blink 182 on it. The clean channle is crappy, but that's cause I play a Fender Power Chorus.

I've beat this thing into the ground and it still plays, and it was used!! Don't ask me how this thing stays together, cause I have no clue.

don't know, always fixed it myself [or got dad to do it]

fine for a beginner, but then go with a DX100H or something big with a load of power.

I play mostly rock and blues. This amp does quite well for its size and quality. It has two channels, clean and overdrive. The button to switch between them is kind of small, but when I'm using a practice amp anyway, I'm just practicing, or more likely, writing on it, so I don't need to switch conveniently all that much with it. I wish I had gotten the one with reverb, since it's not much more, but I didn't. It has plenty of power for pissing around in the bedroom and writing things. If I turn it up and use a distortion pedal, it'd probably be plenty to get me arrested. The Flexwave emulation is good for solid state, but I'll still probably upgrade to a tube amp eventually. For what I use it for, though, it's really quite a nice amp.

I use Epiphone guitars, a strat-copy and a Dot, and both sound great on it. It does fairly well for my musical style. I kind of overlay it with pedals and only occasionally use it straight, but when I do, the clean channel has some nice gain on mid volume levels to just saturated tones, and the gain on the overdriven channel is plenty scathing to my ears (in a positive way). It buzzes a little bit, but most amps do, really. I can get lots of different sounds from it, which is always a good thing from a practice amp. The clean channel gets slightly saturated at high volumes, but pleasantly, ending off where the overdrive channel begins. The distortion, at full blast, is a fine kick in the teeth.

It's very dependable, it's solid state, they tend to be. It's also fairly light on the components. There's not a whole lot in there to mess up. It's never broken down on me, and I've punished it like crazy, by hauling it all over creation and exposing it to the elements. If I were ever to be in a situation to use it in a gig (I'd hope not. I'd rather something with a bit more power), I'd feel alright using it without a backup. I don't think it'd break down on me.

haven't tried it. Got it used, never sent in the warranty.

I've been playing for four years. This was my first amp, and I still play on it from time to time. I've had a vintage 70s Fender twin reverb, a Dean, a no-name tube amp, and some others, and while those have great sounds, this one is the one I started on. It's a comfort thing. But it does have a nice sound, really. If it were stolen, I'd be pissed off majorly, since I like it, but then I'd probably invest in something with reverb and some edgier distortion on it. I chose it because it was the cheapest one at the store when I bought it, but it turns out, I got more than my money's worth, I think.

It would be better if you had a footswitch between channels

I use the cheapest POS wannabe strat there is, and i get great sounds. I listen to alot of metal, and I can play anything on it and it sounds great as long as you have a separate effect pedal(BOSS DS-1). It makes a pretty nice sound on the Overdrive channel at 5 and the distortion all the way up on the pedal.

Never had any problems

The best practice amp you can get!

I wish this amp was just a little bigger. Like 20 watts would be perfect. I read some people say that it's worthless for gigs, and band practices, but I disagree. I used it for a couple of large hall gigs. It's not that complicated. YOU PUT A PA MIC IN FRONT FO IT!!! It sounds great during practice. My drummer would drown it out if I didn't know how to ajust the settings, and put it at a frequency contray to the drums.

I am using an Epiphone Les Paul. FOr Beatlish type stuff the standard distortion is good, but I often find I use other distortions. The clean channel is great. Its the most crisp clear sounding thing I've heard in a combo amp.

I have had it for more than fopur years, and I think it's starting to go. I may be wrong. I could just be my cords, but I have replaced them a few times. Overall no major problems. It never stopped working.

nope

I've been playing for 8 years, and Ive had this for 4. it's a great amp for it's price. if I had more money I would but a bigger version of the same amp. A GX-50 perhaps.

2 chans: clean and overdrive. Equalizer, low,mid,high, 1 level for each channel. 8inch speaker. The power suplly cord could be longer.
The channel switch could also be bigger, if you want to switch between clean and overdrive, get a pedal. The headphone jack is a good idea since i live in a apartment building. Power is ok i guess if i play without a drummer, if so you cant hear me even at fuill level. But its enough for practice or room. Not very versatile cant get much different tone or dist effect.

im currently using a Stage fat strat shitty guitar with unknown REALLY cheap pickups so i may not be getting the best out of that amp.
The clean channel is okay at low level and with more highs than lows, when i crank it up i have to use distortion because all i hear is a mud like sound. The overdrive chan is way better but there is no intermediate: if its not at 8.5 or more its clean. The tone and dist are comparable to pop rock. Since i mostly play nu metal like korn or slipknot and some pearl jam i switch to .11-.52 strings. Thats the best thing i ever did, i get a full rich sound from the amp when i eliminate mids. IF you play with distortion you can achieve good sounds but forget the clean chan ..

ive owned it for 4 years now and i had no problem with it at all. THe sound is the same except when i crank it up, im afraid it'll blow so i dont really play real loud. It aslo screech alot without dist. But in all, its very reliable. I dont gig yet but i definitly wouldn't use it on a gig, not enough power and i wouldnt even get trough the intro of any songs by slipknot without exploding

Ive never dealt with Crate. It came with a 5 years warranty from the vendor (2 from Crate i think. Since the vendor is not a authorized dealer anymore i hope to find one if something ever happens...

Overall its not a bad amp. IF you dont crank it up you can get good sounds out of it. But as i said forget the clean chan, play with overdrive at 4 or 5 its much better. it satisfy my needs for now but since im getting a Ibanez RG and a pedal im considering upgrading my amp as well. im sure the sounds gonna be much better with that guitar. if it were stolen id probably get some other better models
Overall its a good practice amp but not for gigs...

2 channels, overdrive and clean. Low, mid and high eq-switches. Speaker and headphone out. Nothing special, just basic practice amp features...

Crap. The sound is muddy and unclear, some people may like that but I don't. The overdrive sucks too (I have always used an effects pedal for that instead).

I guess it's very reliable. I have had mine for over two years now and it haven't let me down yet. I have had keyboards, guitar and bass connected to it at once at full volyme, and it still works fine.

Never had any technical problems with it yet.

It's cheap, and you can tell that by the sound. It would be a great practice/home amp if the sound would be better/more clear. I have tried to tweak the eq settings but the sound is still muddy and unclear.

But if you are a beginner and don't have that mutch money, then it could be somewhat good. It's cheap, small and has basic features as eq, overdrive/distortion etc. Before I bought my 100w amp I tried to use it at my bands practice, but it was worthless. There isn't enough power in it to play with a band or on stage, it's best to use it home for practice etc. But then you could acctually buy a smaller 10w or a mini-amp with good sound and for less money.

2 channels, Clean and distorted. Headphone jack, basic tone and volume controls. Nothing special, but all the necessities are there. Read the other reviews for more information

I play lots of metal and some nostalgic classic rock on an Ibanez GRX-45. Decent sound, good, cunchy, thick distortion on the humbucker. Nice clean sound on the top single-coil, almost acoustic sounding. Sounds kind of messy during distortion solos, however.

Seems pretty solid, although I've never really abused it. I try to take care of my equipment as much as possible because anything can break.

Never had to deal with Customer Support

overall it's a good little practice amp. I didnt get a chance to compare it to other practice amps, as it was a christmas present, but It works for me. I wouldnt use it for a gig simply because it's not powerful enough. I tired it one or twice for a band practice and the drums and bass absolutly drown it out, but thats due to the fact that this little amp wasnt designed for performances. If it was stolen I'd probably buy the GX-15R with reverb controls, but overall it's a good amp for 100 bucks.

This amp has 2 channels (Overdrive and Clean), one 8 inch speaker and nothing else. Bare bones, down to playing amp (the way I love it). The features are useable and good.....nice amp features over all for a combo.

Great! This was my first amp! I loved and love it! The sound is good for bedroom use, thats what I use it for. I bought a Fender Princeton (BIG MISTAKE) to play bigger rooms and band practice, but I still use this one for practice. Good clean and very crunchy distortion. The Clean distorts at around 8, which is normal, but not annoyong and the amp looses all distortion when the gain is not on 10.......

VERY! I've had it for 4 years! Great amp! Its fallen, been kicked, knocked over and even had coke spilled on it! This thing has earned its stripes!

Never dealed with em....

GREAT! Good for practice and fucking around! Nice amp!

My Soon, but not Current setup now is a......

Crate VC6112 All Tube Combo
Fender Tex Mex Strat

2 Chan clean and overdrive. NO REVERB

Gibson LP Custom and 79 Strat with EMG SA's. Play rock, metal and some jazz. I bought this because the distortion in the store sounded good for a practice amp but when I got home it was just so so. I have a POD 2 going into the clean channel and this amp can't handle the lows without the POS speaker on the verge of jumping out. Turn the bass and mid all the way down along with volume and it's ok for practice. I hear others saying they gig with this thing??? I can't imagine that.

Had this about 6 years now. Not problems. Keeps on going.

2 channels, 1 overdriven and 1 clean with a line out and headphone jackabout 15 watts solid state amp. This is strictly a small bedroom, camping, living room, sun deck, very portable pratice amp. Don't ever on your life expect to play any gigs with a low power solid state amp. It's called a pratice amp for a reason.

69 Gibson SG with P-90 pickups. I play anything and everthing.

Has never broken. Very tough a have a toddler who like's to fiddle with it, play with all the knobs and stick things in it.

14 years, I own a '67 (tube, like duh)fender deluxe reverb. I love the sustain in this amp that you can pracitce anything through it from open chords to two handed tapping all without a distortion pedal. It is very compact and I use for in the bedroom and infront of the T.V. for when I don't want to drag my fender out of the basement.

12 watts...Two channels...Shared EQ. I guess those are pretty standard features on a practice amp. Then again at 12 watts does it even classify as a practice amp? This thing isnt loud at all. I tried practicing with it once....

Ive actually used a few guitars thru this p.o.s. First off an ESP M-155. Then another ESP this time an EX-350. Also Ive used a Fender standard strat and a cheap Les Paul copy thru it. Basically they all sound like garbage clean. It just sounded flat to me but hey what do I know Im just some punk kid. OH yea and dont expect to play louder than maybe five. After that it starts to break up. Its awful. The overdrive channel is alright though. If you set it up right you can get an OK hard rock sound. Only OK though. Its really noisey and you cant really crank it or it gets all nasty on you.

Alright heres what I dont understand. I thought solid state amps were supposed to be these super reliable MACHINES. Maybe I have really really bad luck with amps I dunno. Well at band practice one day I had to bring this hunk of junk along cause the amp I usually use isnt mine and well wasnt available. ANYWAY. I plugged in and turned it up. Trying desperatly to over power my drummers MUFFLED set. It worked alright for maybe an hour and then it just died. Does anyone know why? Its not the speaker thats fine. ALL the bastard does now is hiss and buzz. Anyway I wouldnt suggest turning the gain and volume on the overdrive channel to ten for any length of time or you might fry it like I did.

Alright not quite loud enough to be a good practice amp and the clean channel blows asshole. Distortions only OK. Dont even think about buying this or any other Crate similar to this one. Even as a practice amp this thing cant measure up to a Fender Frontman or a Marshall MG series.

Basic practice amp. As such, features are limited - which is a good thing. Practice amps are for practicing, not fiddling with.

I'm on vacation and brought my guitar to practice with. Turned out I was invited to play with a group while I was here. The only amp available for me to use is this Crate GX15. My reveiw is based on my experience with it.
I was pleasantly surprised. I expected pathetic performance but found otherwise. Sweet overdrive and warm clean sounds. My guitar is a hybrid (godin LGX-SA) and capable of both strat and Les Paul sounds. My guitar sounded good through this little puppy. Yeah, it's no tube amp but for a crappy little practice amp, who woulda though? Ok, so it only has an 8" speaker. I put a mike in front of it and put over the mains. No problem. Plenty loud enough.

who knows. it's solid state. probabley reliable.

Like I say, I was impressed. I expected a lot less performance than what I got. I consider it a good value for a practice amp. I wouldn't get it for any other purpose though.

ajem... ehhh. 2 channels, 1 overdriven and 1 clean with a line out and headphone jack(nothing out of the ordinary), about 15 watts (sometimes I think it has about 100 watts!!!) it's a practice, solid state amp; nothing more.

I have a Yamaha SE200 with 3 single colis(very rare and old guitar, but I love that guitar!!) connected to a zoom 505-2,> Ibanez CS-9 chorus,> Crate amp. I play anything I heard and like its a bit noise but, what the hell, anything that has dist is a bit noisy. I think this amp its in the middle of the sound caracteristics of a mesa amp and a marshall. the clean sound produces warm sound, not as good as the clasic tube amp, but, hey it's a $100 am. the overdrive channel is some times good for some power chords, but for those warm solos, the amp produces a very thin and weak dist. one thing about this: the amp is very loud, so if you will use it at high volume levels, make shure you use a external speaker!!! I can't believe it!!! even at 1/4 of the level (cln ch) a peavy speaker was almost exploding!!! another thing I don't like: when a chord is falling into silence, the sound starts to crack!!!...

this thing is very dependable... I sometimes use it as a chair. is a tank.

don't know

about 2 years playing, if stolen, buy something better..., although it is a fantastic value to a novice guitarrist, I know when a dist sounds good.