Danelectro HT-30 Honeytone

I would tell you what i wished it had except I knew exactly what i was getting when I bought...Hey it only cost me 15 bucks used.
It is what it is... a great little practice amp...some cheap parts but sounds good

Good clean sound if volume is 1/2 or below...don't care for the distortion but I don'r care for the distortion on any amp but a tube amp...Even with a tube amp I usally use my POD....Speaking of which..it makes this little amp ROCK!!!!! a blackface model with a little slapback delay and reverb and man you are in rockabilly heaven!

You won't believe it but I actually have a little gig I do on Monday nights that I use this amp with my Taylor T5....Kind of funny using a 50 dollar amp with a 3ooo dollar T5 Koa...But honest, It really works. It is crowd of about 30 people..(volunteer work) Doesn't need to be loud..but it is a perfect fit for that particular project...I have tons of equipment but I get a blast out of showing up with this little amp and Mic-ing it thru the pa on bigger gigs...Yes the input and headphone jack are part plastic so NO...I would never take this to a gig without a backup.

I wouldn't even bother at this price....I'd just buy another one or buy a 15 watt line-6 if something were to ever happen to it.

Been playing semi-pro for over 30 years...Have used tons of different stuff...I would say that if you have a spot for a little practice amp and not too much money this is a fun investment...Just don't buy it expecting to get a fender or marshall stack and you won't be disappointed.

No features. It's 40 bucks! The overdrive is very very bad. It's feature is it's light weight.

The distortion is abominable. I use it with the drive on zero at all times. It has a surprisingly nice little sound clean though. If you can sound good with no effects at all, then you can play. You can really hear the sound of the individual guitar with this amp. It's particularly nice with a jazz guitar. Oh, by the way, I've used it with a Digitech RP 200, and it's unbelievable. Jimi in a can!

Works fine.

I've been playing 35 years. I have a variety of different guitars, including all the standards (strat, LP, 335). I also have had several amps. My main amp for the last 25 yrears has been a Mesa. It would now be called a mark 1, but when I got it Meas basically tricked them up any way you wanted. It weighs 64 pounds, The Honeytone weighs about 8 lbs. I can handle 8 lbs. It's great. I take it everywhere. Throw it in the trunk. My little portable set up is the Honeytone and a Fender Musicmaster with a Bill Lawrence dual blade pickup, which weighs about 5 lbs. This little set up sounds quite nice. It balances beautifully with acoustic instruments. I never use the 64 lb Mesa. This is the best 40 bucks I ever spent on gear. The best thing about is that since it's so convenient, I'm playing a lot more. I'm so into the smallness thing, I'm considereing a Tech 21 trademark 10, but all I really want is a little reverb and I'm not sure it's worth the difference.

Well, here's the problem: the HT-30 line-in phono jack has plastic threads. OK, it's a low cost practice amp. The trouble is, the nut which attaches to those threads not only keeps the line-in jack in place but also keeps the entire amplifier printed circuit card in place. So if those threads strip (and my son's did, after about 2 weeks) not only can't you plug in you guitar, but the whole PCB falls into the casing.

I'd love to say that I exchanged it under warranty, but of course my boy promptly lost his receipt (he's 14, what can I say?). So it was off to Radio Shack to find something with metal threads that might possibly do the trick. We came close. We'll have to rig it, but at least it will teach my son how to use a soldering iron - a requisite skill if electric guitar is going to be your hobby.

Basic "pleather" covered practice amp with three knobs (tone, overdrive, volume), input, headphone jack. A line out would be nice, as would reverb, but it's 40 bucks, so I can't ask for much more than what the honeytone's got.

I'm using it with a humbucking fender toronado, the amp produces some decent tones, most notably at a lower volume. The clean sounds start to break up after the volume is turned halfway. The distortion is okay, and the volume gets loud enough to have your neighbors complain. Starts to feedback pretty heavily if the overdrive is cranked. My only complaint is a bizarre squelching that I get when played through headphones with the overdrive on. I don't know if this is feedback, a defect, or what, but it's annoying. The amp sounds much better without headphones.

Seems solid. Besides, if it breaks it's worth buying another one.

It's a practice amp, and shouldn't be expected to sound like anything except a 10-watt practice amp. If you want a small amp that sounds phenomonal, then look at a fender pro junior. Of course, those are 200 dollars more. But I am happy to own this and will gladly buy it again. I don't know how Danelectro has been putting out such good stuff for so little dinero, they own the budget market right now, and I look forward to seeing what they come out with next. It's not the best amp I've ever played through, but the 1-watt Marshall and Fender practice amps are the same price, and the Dano slaughters them.

This is a new practice amp from Danelectro which is not the same as the little Honeytone battery amp. It is a 15 watt AC powered amp with IIRC an eight inch speaker.

It is small and basic. There are three controls - Overdrive, Level (volume), and Tone. An On-Off switch and a headphone jack complete the features.

The cabinet is open-backed with what appears to be a real leather handle on top. It's made in China.

I have only had this amp for a day but it's fairly easy to exhaust the range of tones that it produces. The tone control appears to be a passive treble cut (like the tone controls on guitars). The clean channel (or rather, playing the amp with the overdrive control set at zero) produces a reasonable undistorted sound at the kind of volumes you'd want to use in your house.

Turning up the overdrive control increases the volume significantly and this tends to make the speaker cone distort. At reasonable volumes the distortion works OK.

There is a constant hiss that doesn't vary with volume or tone settings. It is around midway between unimportant and annoying. I would imagine you'd get used to it fairly quickly. There's no hum, and very little proximity effect (i.e. odd sounds when your guitar is too close to the amp).

As far as I'm concerned this amp has four sounds - either distorted or not, and with either bass tone or treble tone. It comes with a booklet which has a number of sample control settings, but if you try them you'll see that they all fall into one of the four categories with only minor differences.

This means that you'll depend on your guitar for tonal changes and if you have one tone control or worse still, one pickup, you'd better like the sound the amp makes.

That said, the sound of this amp is not bad given its price. It is certainly not lame-sounding, but plenty of other amps can do what the Honeytone does and more - but then they cost much more.

I tried this with my guitars which have a range of pickups. I have a Squier strat with a fake Bill Lawrence stacked humbucker blade at the bridge, a De Armond M65C (like Les Paul) with a Seymour Duncan JB in the bridge position, and a 20-year-old Hondo Explorer replica with stock pickups.

The Honeytone doesn't make all guitars sound alike, but the versatility of the amp isn't great.

I guess it's what you'd expect from a practice amp aimed at presumably young players - enough treble to make your guitars wail, enough distortion to satisfy most styles, and the ability to produce too much distortion (i.e. plain awful-sounding).

I could imagine that this would be a much more versatile amp with active treble and bass controls and a speaker that could handle the overdrive when you crank it, but for the price it does better than you'd hope.

I guess I'm spoiled because I usually use a Line 6 POD through a 75-watt keyboard amp with a 15 inch speaker and a horn. I wasn't expecting the Honeytone to sound anything like that, and the Danelectro was much more trebley. I tried the POD through the Honeytone and although there were clear distinctions between the amp models, the lack of bass was very evident.

So, if it's at all possible, listen to this amp before you buy, because if you don't like the sound you can't change it to any degree.

Obviously I can't make a judgement here. I can say that the amp seemed solidly constructed. Nothing appeared flimsly.

Right now this amp is in the trunk of my car ready to go back to Guitar Center. I bought it on a whim, and in the cold light of day I realized that it didn't really fit in with my plans. I guess I was hoping that this might be a viable alternative to dragging around the heavy keyboard amp with my POD, but the lack of versatility means that's not worthwhile.

However, for the target market it does better than I'd expected. If you are on a very tight budget the Honeytone will not disappoint, in that the sound is in the ballpark. Guitar Center had some Fender Frontman 15s which sounded similar, but I expect they would have a wider range of tones. However, they cost $80 against the Honeytone's $50.

But it isn't versatile. The sound is adequate but won't take your breath away. It's loud enough to get cries of "turn that noise down," but it makes the speaker distort too easily.

However, if you're in the market for this kind of amp, give it a try. You may just find that it suits you, and at the price it's a steal.