Crate GX15

this is an update to a previous review, recently.

i'm liking it more as i use it more though i have discovered with the volume on 10 it sounds very ugly. clean is horrid - chords fart when turned past 5 - possibly speaker (probably).
Tone i've matched
Santana - Smooth (Boogies, Marshall, fender)
Hendrix - fire, little wing (Fender, GT, Matshall, whatever else)
incubus - all (Trem O Verb)
System of a Down - all (Triple recto)
TooL - all (Triple recto, Diezel, Marshall)
Rage Against the Machine - all (Marshall)
Staind - all (Marshall)

To my ears they match perfectly. I have good ears but not good money, or else I would by a Trem o Verb or Diezel - yummy!

if you are willing to spend some time with it, you'll get whatever tone ya want. but then again why would someone spend time with something they don't like - unless they have to.

I mainly play the blues and this amp is pretty good for that, though the overdrive when used at maximum is pretty hard to handle. It's clean tone is nice, but could use a little reverb in my opinion. This practice amp has, besides the input, a jack for headphones and for an extra speaker, but it doesn't really work with anything other than another 15 watter. I've used this amp for about 4 years straight, just practice, and it holds up pretty good. Some of the knobs, like for the bass, treble, and middle are missing, but have been replaced with some retro knobs (not permanent).

I mainly go for double humbuckers, which is on my Harmony and my Les Paul copy, but I do have Cort Strat-copy that has a humbucking bridge. This amp is good with the humbuckers because, in my opinion it accentuates that creamy sound associated with them, but I like to turn everything to zero and leave the treble on ten to get a real raunchy, muddy sound. When I do this with the Harmony, it could almost sound like Townshend on LIVE AT LEEDS, just with 15-watts. I consider myself a blues player, and this amp does help with the raunchy stuff, but it kind of lacks on the softer playing. I discovered at least 10 different tones, but I only really got them from messing with the bass, treble, mid switches. HAVE FUN DISCOVERING YOUR OWN!!! The clean channel needs a lot more reverb, it sounds kind of flat and non-resonant. The distortion is just intolerable. You have to watch out with this. The feedback is relentless and you can barely get a clear note in, but who the hell's going for clean here.

I've never had any problems with this amp as a practice amp. I doubt if it would be good for gigs, but I can play for hours at a time without any problems (ie crackles, buzz, breakoffs). The amp has been good to me, all I've ever done to it was let it get a little dusty!

I've only been playing seriously for about 4 years, and this as been my amp for all of that. I am trying to sell this to get something a little bit more powerful. If I could possibly make a trade let me know, but I'm not trading for another practice amp, this would be like a few bucks off a 100-watter. I think this was the best amp I could start out with, it is great for starting guitar players, because it has a lot of options, for a starter, on it (bass, treble, distortion) and is would help a lot in the development of a starting players style.

who cares when this piece of crap was made. 12 watts into a 1x8 speaker. two channels(distortion and clean. well, duh) and both channels share the eq. DONT BUY THIS PIECE OF CRAP!

I use an Ibanez rx-20 with emg's in it. this amp,..well, it basically sucks Janet Reno hard. distortion sucks at high volume, clean just sucks anyway. just get $300 and buy a Line 6 POD

jesus. i threw this thing out my window and it didnt die. i have kicked it and it didnt die. very dependable, but it is 12 watts, so dont gig with the thing

never dealt with them

good god. if you want a beginners amp, dont get it. dont be a cheap skate and pay the extra $20 and get a fender.

two channels, unfortunately not foot switchable, but it is a beginner amp. no effects not even reverb, darn. lovely headphone jack. blew me out of the water as far as power, but maybe I shouldn't play in the bathtub. super portable wish all the "better" stuff I have now was as portable as that little amp.

Ibanez rg270 yeah,nice'n'crunchy, used to add marshall bluesbreaker peadal for extra sweetness, nice metal sound just not through that 8-inch speaker

very dependable, it would be the backup. never broken but took it apart anyways

If stolen something like it would be ok

It has 3 little equalizer knobs, to master volume knobs, and a little button that makes distortion happen.

I use an Ibanez RX-40 Crapmaster Plus, and it sounds fine on the amplifier. I play a style of music known as "tabs that are easily found on the internet," and the GX-15 suits me pretty well... I play in my dorm room, so I didn't want anything loud (it's only 12W)... The distortion is thick, and the clean is quite nice. However the speaker can't support bass at high levels. It starts making an unpleasant farting noise.

It hasn't chipped or broken, but when I plugged my roomate's bass into a bass amp, and then plugged THAT into the GX-15 (I did that because the Crate has more low end than my $10 Rogue does), some chip inside blew up. So don't do that. Other than that it's swell.

I went and got it fixed after the bass incedent and didn't pay a dime thanks to the warantee. They fixed it good.

I've been playing for about a year, and this amp is perfect for beginners like me. It has nice distortion, and gets loud enough to make your dog wince when he walks to close to speaker. So, if you're a pro or something, don't by this as a practice amp. If you're a beginner, I highly recommend it.

I've found rat tirds with more features. they have been covered below

This is the first amp i ever bought. I purchased it about 9 years ago. It has a terrible clean sound. May as well plug your guitar in to a radio shack stereo. The overdrive sounds like a mix between overdrive and fuzz. That gives it a really muddy low end and the speaker doesnt help. If you are looking at this as a gift for a beggining guitar player spend the extra $25 and buy one of the small fender or ibanez amps.

This is the funniest thing about this amp. Crate made one of the worst sounding amps in the gx15, but it is very reliable. It has fallen down a flight of stairs (I may have pushed it) I tried to kill this thing when i was younger, but to no avail. It's like that big bully in school. It taunts you and laughs at you, and you can't kill it no matter how hard you try

If you only have a hundred to spend there are other amps out there for just a bit more and they all sound better.

it says in all the other columns.......

I use a Samick with one hum. and two singles it sounds decent for a samick but I still it. I guess it suits my style ok.I get lots of radio interference when in overdrive no matter what I do and it feeds back if you turn it up. It has terrible distortion but the clean sounds amazing until you turn it up past 7 or 8.

I've totally gutted this thing many times just because of sheer boredom and it still works like new, it holds up excellently

never dealt with them, nor do I care to, if it ever did break (doubtful) then I would pitch it. The warrenty is 5 years on the electronics and 1 on the speaker, good warrenty

I haven't been playing long but I can see that this amp sucks, I would never replace this amp, I the distortion , and I crate they suck

1x8in speaker, 15w, 3-band universal EQ, volume for Overdrive and Clean channels, ext. spk. jack, headphone jack, power switch (ooohhh aaahhh). Many amps have much more, but for an amp only about a foot in width it has enough.

I use a Fernandez LE-2 which I would rather have than a Fender any day and I have been able to get every sound I wanted from it. I can get exclusive Rage a TooL sounds. I've even found settings for seperate songs in conjunction with which pickups I'm using (which are 3 single coils). It's not hard at all to get the sound I want. I've also been able to get that Limp Bizkit sound (though I hate them). Its reasonably loud for its size, but it doesn't make too much of a difference when going from 5-8 or so on the volume. Never use clean channel, I would just mute it in a certain way to get a nice "clean" sound on the overdrive - If I ever wanna play clean I just use my acoustic. Once I started turning the volume and gain past 6 it feedbacks REALLY easily which sucks. There is pleanty of noise (which could partially be due to the fact that I can see one of those towers (that supposedly warn or prevent planes from getting to close to ground) from my house). The single coils don't give me any noticeacle hum (which could be because it is drowned out by the main hiss and radio chatter).

No problems with it ever.

never called em.

As a practice amp it depends on the player. A newbie could easily be satisfied, but a seasoned tube-junky would typically reject it. I personally think there are much better practice amps out there (Vox, Marshall, specifically) and those are around 20-50 dollas more. I think I have used it to its full potential and am ready to buy a new amp (I've had it for more than 3 years).

Clean, Overdrive, Equalizer, Headphone Jack, Output Speaker Jack. That's it. Not real complicated, not too bad. Don't need a footswich, I run through a processor and controll everyting from there. Set it on clean and go from there. NOt bad for $80.

Pretty good overdrive channel. The thing that shines through everything is the clean channel. Beautiful. It can go pretty high before distorting, (7-8) Distortion is pretty disappointing, I don't need to use it though.

It's a damn tank. I'm a big guy and use it for a stool all the time.

I dunno.

Excellent for a practice amp. I run it through a huge P.A. system with a 600 watt power amp thanks to the line out. It pulls through.

They're all listed below. Not many.

This amp sounds terrible. I know the price is small, but I knew it sucked when I had it, and I was assured of how terrible the tone was when I got a Marshall tube amp. I hated the thing. No consistency with tone. But it was only 70 and a first amp.

I hate Crate overall. They are not professional. The amp was terrible, terrible, terrible. To get a certain tone, I could only get "near", with my Marshall, I have the tone. But there is a huge price difference. Tone is all that matters.

This amp is 15-20 watts. Several different styles of this amp were produced. Basically, it has a built in overdrive, a headphone jack, and a speaker jack out. It's pretty limited.

The overdrive effect is great, especially considering how small of an amp it is. And despite it's rebuke, I really like the volume and bass tones it puts out (of course, I don't use the original speaker).
This is the loudest 15W amp I have. Nice metal sounds.
But then there is the hissing sound that it puts out whenever you try to plug a stack/cabnet to it. It is unplayable. It also feedbacks pretty easily.

The jack input is loose and the controls are cheap plastic. I blew out the original speaker and had it replaced with a much better 8 incher. This is a practice amp, don't expect any more from it.

I play using a Crate Electra. I've tried other guitars through this amp and it just can't get anything close to great out of it. But for the price I didn't really expect to. But it's a good backup practice amp for my Roland DAC-15 (35W). I love to connect this crate to the roland and together they crank out an awesome sound that can make you deaf.

It's got input. It's got output. There's even some EQ and distortion. Otherwise it ain't got much (not even a freakin' pedal). I bought it at a pawn shop about 3 years ago.

I play R&R, ragtime, blues, folk (and just about anything else) with a '50's Silvertone Meteor hollow-body with 3 humbuckers; this little bastard clips everything at any level. I thought maybe just the driver sucked, and ripped the actual amplifier out of its cabinet and installed it in an old ammo case to drive a "14 Heath speaker. Now it just sucks louder. The distortion's fine, I guess - sounds distorted to me. The EQ is OK, but anything above 5 distorts too badly to be useful.

I've dropped it, thrown it, gutted it, I could probably burn it and the damned thing would keep pumping out its distorted noise. I've used it as a bass amp (with the Heath driver) at gigs, and it actually sounded OK. It didn't break anyway.

If it broke, I wouldn't waste the money to call them.

I'll probably keep it in case I wind up playing street corners for loose change; I'm sure it could take it. It looks freakin' cool in it's ammo case, anyway. I'm buying an old Ampeg B25b to replace it. If nothing else, I've learned to never waste my money on a cheap crap amp again.

just your basic practice amp two channels...abot all you can exspect in this price range

if you have a cheap guitar its noisy as hell..my friends squire pics up mexican radio stations..but its no problem for me and my fernandes with active pickups...the distortions beter than most at this price..i tried a kustom,rocktron,and peavy and this had the better overall sound quality

this is my second crate ive never had problem with them..im runing a zoom 1010 through it an it sounds like the speaker will pop but after several months it hasnt

never had to deal with them..but local stores dont seem to have any problem with honoring the warrany..from what ive heard

ive been playing for over 15 years and just bought this to replace a g60gt that was stolen.i bought it for the price..its about all you can expect out of a practice amp...im running a zoom 1010 through it so it sounds fine to me..its enough to get you bye til you get the money for a bigger amp..ill be replacing it with a gfx212 this month

It is a small practice amp, 2 channels, headphone jack, 3 band eq, ext. speaker out, 12 plus watts and an 8 inch speaker. You cant get more out of a practice amp, so it serves its purpose well.

I use an Epiphone SG400 and the clean is really nice accually. The distortion is noisy (bad epi pickups) but sounds surprisingly well. If you put the bass on 10, mid at 0, and treb at 6-7 you can get a great hardcore/metal sound (well for a practice amp anyway) The clean distorts at about 8, and the distortion cant go past 7 for fewar of horrible horrible feedback

Its solid state, its crate, nuff said

cant say

Id say it is a GREAT first amp. I got it to satisfy my need for an amp before i get a half stack ( i just got a job, im saving) Ive been playing for 5 years and it is the best little amp ive heard. For the price you CANT go wrong

Made in 1998. It's your basic, el-cheapo practice amp; sooner or later, you'll outgrow it no questions asked.

It sounds better than the little Peaveys, but the old Fender 15-watters blow it away all afternoon. For $100 new, what do you expect?

This thing doesn't really get the sound that I wanted on clean, and the distortion just sucks compared to a decent stompbox. It doesn't get very loud (I think the 12 watts is optimistic), and doesn't push much air.

Still, if you're poor, it's better than one of the cheap 9v-powered beasts, even if the speaker will start getting static-y after a few months.

It's a Crate; no matter how much you hate it, it just won't die. I remember my last Crate amp before the GX15 (some 80s equivalent to this one), and it made an admirable extra seat at parties, and no matter who sat on it, what stairs it got kicked down, or who tried to be rock god on it, it never quite died.

No idea; I haven't ever managed to kill one.

It's a cheap, American practice amp. It doesn't do Marshall, it doesn't sound like a Fender, and the main selling point is that it isn't a Peavey.

It sits in my closet just in case my real amp dies, but I don't expect to need it any time soon.

1999. has a pretty basic tone, good for the basics of any music i guess except metal. two channels clean and distortion with a button to change them (no footpedal). it has a headphone jack and a jack to hook it up to a bigger amp. i never use overdrive cuz i got a Boss PW-2 Power Driver (great pedal) plus the overdrive on it sucks. I use it for practice thats what its for. there is definately not enough power or controls for me cuz i like metal and this thing gets really weak sounding at anything near a high volume. its a solid state.

I use a Fender Squier Standard Fat Strat but am getting an Ibanez RG270 soon. i will need a new amp too for some good heavy loud music. the clean channel gets a bit distorted at high volumes. the distortion sucks on this thing so bad, don't even get me started.

this thing is good for practising but u might destroy it if u used it for a gig or something plus everybody would hate u if u did that. (thats just not right!) never broken on me though, sounds broken at high volumes (i hate that!)

i've been playing for 3 months and this thing has been good for me but its time to move on (to a fender champion 30, princton 65, or deluxe 90 i hope). if it were stolen or lost i wouldn't get it again unless i was completely broke. this thing is a good beginner amp or practice amp. for the money, very good.

It has ok eq, a really crystal clean clear, clean channell, has a metal head's overdrive channell its good for a solid state practice amp.

I used it through two guitars, a alvarez ae200cs equuipped with humbuckers, and a american standard strat, with the alvarez, it was quiet, even at high volumes, with the strat, it hums only a little bit the over drives can be for begginers blues, or for a metal head

sure you can depend on this amp, Ive abused it, in rain, school bus, loud volumes, everything, it still works as if it were new

Ive never had to deal with crate on repairs, But they are friendly people, Ive ordered catalogs, got manuals and info, and located a footswitch.

This is a great amp, for practice, or if youre a begginner , it is really reliable

Hmmm...I think this amp was made in 1998, I know it was made in the US. It is a solid state 12 watt amp with an 8 inch speaker, no reverb, three mode eq, overdrive channel, headphone jack, ext speaker plug in (why the hell would you use that on an amp this big?).
It is not made for being full of features, it's just a dinky little practice amp that they want the begginning players to buy, and it works. It's exactly what a first time player needs...so I'm going to give it an 8 for features, it would be nice for it to have reverb, I think the do have one with reverb, but why should there be a difference?

I got this amp about a year ago, I play through it with a Mexican Tele, mainly on the lead pickup...I play hard rock (like Aerosmith and Led Zeppelin), also classic rock (Stones, Beatles, ya know), blues (SRV, Allman Brothers, all kinds of stuff) and a lot of other styles, Jazz and stuff. Basically the sound isn't killer but it has taken me a year to figure that out, because I was a semi-novice player then, I have been playing guitar for four years, three years on an acoustic and then last year I started on electric. Now I know what a real amp should sound like, and i am probably going to ditch this, but it is a great amp for anybody who is starting out because it is so easy to figure out and the distortion is pretty good (for a solid state).
By now I don't LIKE any of the sounds, because I am getting a Mesa Boogie which is AWESOME, but the sounds are pretty good, although the clean channel is pretty much crap, it's all sharp and edgy, I am trying to practice rambling man, by the Allman Bros. and it just sounds like shit, so I have to play with distortion turned way down.
To me, now, the sound is crappy, but to someone who is looking for a first time amp, it wouldn't be that bad, so maybe like a 6

I've never played live with it, I have been playing live with my friends Mesa Boogie, and a Lone Star strat that I anm trying out from my uncle and I like that setup, throw in a tube screamer, a wah-wah pedal, and you are pretty much set...but I think you couldn't really play live with it because it is so small..but will probably live forever in your basement, where it will probably stay...so no opinion because, you can't use it live

nope,haven't had to use it, but they don't have a phone number easily handy so I couldn't call them when I wanted to find out about what was wrong one time when I thought the amp was going to blow up, was just something wrong with the power that day, but needless to say I wasn't able to get throught to there customer service because I don't even KNOW IF IT FREAKIN EXISTS!!!

I've been playing for 4 years, and I am playing to soon own a Lonestar strat, and a Hot Rod Deluxe tube amp or one of the Boogie amps, but I'm not sure, I have about a thousand to spend, so I need to start getting some equipment because I am start playing in a band
Anyway, the product is good for a begginer, very good, but get something else if you want a good practice amp, like the Blues Junior by fender, that is a nice amp, like 300 bucks I think

This amp is really easy to use, has 2 channels, overdrive and clean. It has a headphone and external jack on it.

I use a Washburn BT-2 straight into this amp and it just doesn't cut it. This amps distortion is weaker than hell. I like to play alot of metal and this amp can't even come close. It is more like a dirty blues sound when you have the overdrive all the way up. The clean channel really sucks and distorts at 3.

This thing will never break and wouldn't use it at a gig if there was a gig.

Never delt with them.

This amp is definently not made for playing metal or anything like that on it, it is more of a blues amp, the DOD grunge pedal sounded better than this thing and that really sucks.

15 watt, solid-state, 3-band equalizer, two channels (clean & overdrive), headphones & speaker jack. It has a button on the amp to switch channels but no footswitch
very limited and unpowerful but that's what every practice amp is so that's why it's okay.

I use a fender strat (3 single coil pickups). Its overdrive channel is rather weak and fuzzy and it does squeal a bit at high levels of output so i recommend getting a distortion pedal to overcome that problem. I don't really have a problem with the clean channel.
Sound quality has dropped a lot after two years of solo practices and a year of band practice. it's not loud enough to be heard over drums

Crate amps are built like tanks but I've been using mine very heavily so the sound quality has gone down quite a bit. I would never use it at a gig (even at a small one) cos it just can't handle heavy usage.
the amp is a practice amp and i only recommend it for that use.

Never dealt with them

I've been playing for about 3 years and i guess this is an okay practice amp. it served me well for a few years. If I lost it i wouldn't buy another cos i'm already trying to replace it with something bigger. I would try to find a cheap one or something else that can withstand frequent rehersals.

Clean/overdrive switch, and that's it really! 15Watts A footswitch can be fitted, but the circuit has to be changed. Find a decent guitar shop who'll do it for you - it'll be worth it!

Excellent! The best hard-rock distortion you can get for a small amp. Clean channel is fine, but try plugging it up to a PA or large speaker system, that's when this little baby comes into a league all of its own! The sound is brilliant and immense!

Sturdly built, survives gigging and jamming well. No problems so far.

Never had to.

An excellent start out amp, for those who wanna rock! The king of all practise amps, definitely!
I'm serious, i cant understand all the others who hate it - are you rubbish guitar players or something... remember a bad workman always blames his tools!!
only kidding chaps.
If you find it second hand, and you want to play hard rock / metal stuff, pick it up immediately!!!

12 watt practice amp with 8" speaker, no footswitch which is a pain For the price of a pedal, what do you expect?? I think it delievers well as a practice amp.

After looking around for a cheap practice amp <$150, this was the best buy I found. It was a very nice clean tone right out of the amp until it is turned up past 6 or so. I use my RP-1 for clean sounds and it is very nice. The distortion is not as bad as everyone says. I have a Metal zone and use a nice Kramer guitar and cant seem to get a better sound using the pedal. I can get some better sounds using the RP-1 though. I am very happy with this amp. It is more your fingers than the guitar and amp and this amp puts out a standard rock sound that is noisy at times if the gain is too high or if the amp is idle. It is only a practice amp, but is perfect solution for my apartment. I got tired of wearing headphones and trying to play Van Halen. Dont even try to compare this to a real amp as this the the cheapest Crate they had at the Crate dealer. I havent had a chance yet to turn this amp up super loud, but i keep it on 2.5/3 and it is loud enough for me to start worry about the apartment neighbors (middle floor). The amp has good string definiton and is not mushy although the distortion can be chunky instead of smooth if the gain is too low. THE HEADPHONE JACK SUCKS!!! I cannot get a good sound at all from the jack using good Sony and awia headphones, but from the speaker I am happy. I have been playing for awile and liked this amp enough to buy it because of the sounds. Flex tube technology sounds great, as I played other practice amps that had no personality, this one has a voice and doesnt sound like a solid-state turd.

Looks very reliable. Great warranty.

Dont know yet..

I have a Wolfgang Special and a Kramer Nightswan and a RP-1 and Metal Zone and a Fender Blues Deluxe. The Fender is too loud to play, in fact it is almost new condition as it is too loud. I was tried of playing through my rockman and headphones from the RP_1 and bought the Crate. Anyone is a fool to spend more than $150 on a practise amp. You can get a awesome amp like 5150 head for around $400 on the net. But if you want to practice and work on your skills, then the amp doesnt matter as much as getting a good basic rock sound which this amp delivers. This amps distorts and does things my main Fender amp cant do, so this is worth the $100 I paid. i am happy. Needs a footswitch. I thought the non reverb amp sounded better and want worth the extra 20-30 dollars.

this amp was made in 92. dont expect to use it on a gig. its a nice practice amp. its good for punk and crap like that but if you wanna play anything good blues or anything it will sound average. it has 2 channels, no footswitch, no fx loop, it has a headphone jack. 1 8inch speaker with 12+ watts

im using an ephiphone g-400 custom (3 humbuckers) and a zoom 505 pedal. it gets noisy w/out the pedal after about 5 on clean and 8 on distortion. the clean distorts around 7. the distortion is weak as hell but i dont use it.

it is a good practice amp for sitting up in your room and just playing by yourself. your an idiot if you use it at a gig cause it doesnt get very lout at all. ive never had any problems with it

never had to deal with them cause its pretty reliable.

its not bad. if your looking for a good practice amp this one is ok. i have a fender princeton 112 that i use for gigs (its too loud for practice). i probably wouldnt buy it again if it got stolen. its better than a fender frontman 15. i wish it got louder and didnt distort. bottom line -- its ok for just practicing.

Amp made in 1990. It's great for plying all kind of styles, I play rock, blues and some heavier rock and it works perfectly. It has only one channel, with a basic overdrive distorion that is pretty good for playing any style since it has level and gain knobs. I wish it had a foot controler for the distorion but it's ok since I don't use it very often. I use him in rehearsels, for practicing and gigs in small places, but I could use it in any other gig, it has a really loud sound! It's considered to be a practice kind of amp (only because of its size), it's solid state, mono with a 8' Crate Custom Speaker, and it's in the manual that it is a 17 watt amp but in the back says 30, and its not the power consume!

I use two models I had made where I live: a strat with strat-similar pickups and another PRS body/Gibson Hawk neck with two DiMarzio pickups (Super Distortion and PFL). It sounds great with both of them, I plug my guitars on a Digitech RP6 before the amp obviously and i set the amp's volume on 7 and the RP6's main on 3 it is loud as hell! And very clean sound! It doesn't get messed up even when I put it both on 7, it still sounds like a clean tele jazz.

I used it on a few gigs with a medium-high volume set and it never let me down. I never had to play more than one gig at a night, so my experience it's not that big. I have it since 1991 and I never had to send it for repair or anything. I wouldn't use it on a gig for more than 300 people without a backup.

Never needed.

I've been playing guitar for about 7 years now, it's my first and my only amp, I wouldn't buy it again if stolen, but I would certanily buy another (more powerful this time) amp from Crate. I love it's clean lound sound, I think it's the first thing to check on an amp. One again, I wish it had a foot controler for the distortion and an Effects Loop input, so I could use the RP's preamp only. I compare it to a 30 watt Marshall, same features and the Crate just blowed the Marshall away, 'cause it has a cleaner, louder sound and it was cheaper! By the way, I bought here in Brazil, so in US i must be around 100 bucks or something. If you're looking for a practice and rehearsel amp , this could be the one. There's no problem using it on a full band rehearsel it's loud enought.

2 channels, headphone jack ect... One EQ so it sucks.

I use a Jackson KingV with EMG pickups and play mostly metal. Its noisy at all volumes and settings. You cant get any sounds that are even close to average. My acustic guitar is way louder than this crap. The distortion is weaker than my grandma. Petals make this thing sound even worse cause after about volume 1 it gets to the point where you think its going to blow up.

It will never break

i dont know

First of all the guy who steals this amp has to be a complete moron. If I caught him I would thank him. I got a Crate Blue Voodoo BV-120 head and a 412 cab with celestions now and its AWESOME. Its probably safe to say this is the worst amp in the world. Wait a minute , those samick craps are even worse. This thing SUCKS. DONT GET IT!!!!!