Danelectro HoneyTone Mini Amp

pretty simple little amp volume tone gain with a headphone out and a 2 inch speaker. battery powered or can use a wallwart.
not a whole lot to say about the features i gave it a 9 because it has every thing a amp this size needs.

wow this is a hard one to answer if you use it as a head phone amp its great. if you play through the 2 inch speaker turned down playing clean ok when turned up it goes to crap. i installed a 1/4 jack and hooked it to a 1 10 cab i had laying around sounds great through that. (i highly recomend trying that)

now all that being said we are talking about a 20 dollar amp its not gonna hold up next to the cheapest tube amp but i do like it a lot better than say a fender frontman 15. great for practice.

no problems yet.

never delt with them

if you want a good little practics amp like me and you dont need a lot of effects or bs its great but like i said the internal speaker leaves room for improvement.

I just got one of these brand new (2009) after borrowing one from my mom (who uses it clean to amplify a harmonica), and playing it for awhile. It has a great classic rock/blues tone, with distortion adjustable via a small knob. It has the basic volume/power knob and a tone knob. Just take it easy on the volume level for playing clean, otherwise it WILL distort.

I've been playing my hot-rodded MIM Strat (outfitted with Lace Sensor Hot Golds) through this thing and the combination of that guitar and this amp sounds great. Once upon a time, as a teenager starting out playing, I once loved to play with the distortion up on max, but now in my 20's I find myself not using nearly that amount of distortion or just playing clean altogether, and this little amp suits me well for my current playing habits. Like I said before though, when playing clean, just watch the volume level because it WILL distort if too high. I compensate for this by having the amp volume (clean) up to max, but having the guitar's volume up midway, so when you want distortion, just max out the guitar's volume knob and BAM! A little trick for alternating between clean and dirty without a pedal or turning the distortion knob on the amp.

I wouldn't use this amp for gigs (maybe for solo sidewalk busking) or playing in a band since it's a small, low-powered amp, but for playing around the house, excellent. I currently find myself using this amp more than my "land-line" Fender amp (aka one you plug into an electrical outlet).

Haven't had to deal with customer support, so can't say.

If this amp were lost, stolen or broken, I would easily be compelled to replace it (about $20 at Guitar Center you can't really go wrong). I find it a great amp for a compact, 9v powered machine. Just be sure to watch your volume levels or find a way to compensate to avoid clean channel distortion, and it's very solid.

Simple 1W solid state amp, with only 2 inch speaker as its main feature. It has volume, tone and overdrive knobs, headphone out, 9V battery PP3 and 9V centre negative AC to DC adaptor connectors. It has retro styled plastic chassis, metal belt clip, and tiny leather handle. Available in aqua, burgundy or yellow colour, but it seems aqua is the most popular one. Overall its rather light, but there are no loose parts, and whole amp feels solid. 1W of power is just right for practicing at home, perfect for people who live in flats. Despite small speaker sound character limitations a separate overdrive knob actualy adds a bit versatility when compared to other portable amps. It is definitly made for blues and old rock, so when you are moving around those styles, it seems like best option in its range.

Im using it with single coil pickups only, primarily for blues and old rock. 2 inch speaker construction allows it for a very boxy and noisy sound. Normaly you wouldnt like that, but this amp makes it his trademark for those who search for it. It sounds like an old tape or radio recording, which make even clean settings charactericaly distorted. Suprisingly playing with knobs gives a lot of interesing sounds, but keep in mind it will always be a noisy box. It also adds some kind of echo, which makes it even more characteristic. Perfect for playing with slide. Headphone out has no speaker emulation, but since we talk about already distorted sound it isnt much of issue. The only problem I found is actualy powering it with adaptor. Since its made for usage with standard 9V effect adaptors it lack grounding, and so when used that way it produces typical hum which disappears when strings or some metal parts of guitar are touched. Overall its very hard to rate sound quality of this thing as either 1 or 10 would be true. Its designed to reproduce a certain poor quality sounds, and it does it well. If you are looking for them, its 10.

Cant say anything about it. Feels solid, but still its just a molded plastic. Dont throw it around, and it should be fine.

Havent dealt with them. I like their image, but their website could be better.

Normaly Im practicing on 5W tube Peavey NanoValve amp, but its way too lound for using it in flat, so 1W solid state does the job. Not that it was the main reason I obtained it for. It is for that very characteristic, full of noises sound. There is nothing like it, and I must say of all the gear I owned or used, this small thing gave me the most fun. If something would happen to it I will definitly get another one. And its cheap too.

I don't know anything about this amp. BUT! I bought this as a birthday present for the singer/guitarist in my band.. When she saw it she absolutley adored it.. My girlfriend saw it, and she said that it looks so cute she wishes she had one. So, I guess chicks dig the design of this amp. So, if you got a lady guitarist in your life, get this.. It DOES look "cute", and it looks alot better than the clear non-descript Dean Markley amp and the cigarette box amp, and a hell of alot cheaper then those Marshall and Fender mini-amps, and does the same job..

What do you really want in an amp like this? To be able to play in a band with it? Hell, no.. But if you were in your bedroom or watching TV it sure beats using electricty noodling around, or coming up with new song ideas..

For the $20 price tag, how could you go wrong? if it dies, just buy another one.. If you can't afford to, then get a better job or don't buy a few six packs...

Who knows.. I have never had, or known of Dano equipment to stop working unless you mistreat it, which it is on you, buddy..

nice price for a neat present or just to noodle around on.

Probably this year. It is extremely versatile in the styles I play. I play mostly a mix of classic metal(Deep Purple, etc.) and black metal and it can sound from prestine clean to crunch to near screech with the tweak of the volume and gain knobs. the features i wish it had would be echo/reverb thats featured on the headphone amp but other than that it does its job well.

The distortion is pretty brutal for a small practice amp. the guitar I am using is the Dean Vendetta Xm( the cheapo model everyone talks bad about)and pretty soon a Titan guitar. As far as being noisy it produces alot of feedback on high volume and gain settings but it does not bother me too much.

I can highly depend on this amp for to go playing situations and for practice, as opposed to the Dean Markley mini amp that broke down two weeks after I bought it.

Never dealt with them but seems to be very reliable nevertheless.

if stolen, I would buy another one in a heartbeat. It shines in comparison to the Dean markley and johnson mini amps i have had in the past year or so. i have owned 2 dean markleys, a johnson mini amp and a marshall ms 4(the double mini stack) and only the marshall can compare in value and reliability to the dano mini amp. A fantastic deal.

For a mini amp the fact there is any echo is pretty cool, the distortion has a gain adjustment (seperate from the volume control), which is nice at this price! There is also a dedicated Line out, so you can use it as a preamp to a bigger system if you like the tone that much, or you could plug it into your hifi/computer speakers like I have been...

Oh, can't forget my favourite thing: I got a branded 'Danelectro' battery and headphones included in the price! I haven't found an electrical item with the 'batteries included' sticker EVER! Not counting things including posh rechargeables like mobiles...

Personally I love it! Considering I paid just shy of ??20 for it I ain't complaining. You get a lovely vintage distortion, which sounds great banging out White Stripes and Led Zeppelin, and if you stick the tone control(s) down and switch to the neck pick-up then Kyuss sounds as good as you're gonna get without overdriving a decent quality (??200+) Bass amp!

However, if you play mostly Offspring/ACDC kinda sounds then don't come near, I like to have a bit of a punky fun session every now and then, so I'm planning on buying a mini Marshall, as that's your best option for that kinda sound.

The echo is a nice touch, and if you're like me and get the urge to sound like you're playing in a big, empty barn once in a while it's just what you've been looking for! The clean channel is cool too, tho I'd save the battery and turn it off for that!

Well I've only had it 3 weeks or so, but so far it seems fairly sturdy, obviously it is only made of plastic and so kicking it would be bad... having said that, kicking ??2000 worth of amp ain't gonna domuch good either! (specially if you kick the speaker...). As it's only meant to be a practice amp, no I wouldn't gig with it, unless I couldn'tget the sound I wanted any other way, in which case I reckon it would do the job fine.

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I've been playing for 5 years or so now, my last amp I purchased was an epiphone valve juinor, which got a pathetic amount of play before I had to move to the land of no electricity :'( Can't wait to get to Uni and a power socket! I've been playing my Ibanez JS100 through the honeytone, and it's making me fall back in love with it...

I'm giving it a 10/10 because for what you're paying you get a whole lotta amp! ??20 gets you a perfectly use-able practice amp, which goes to reasonable volume levels (full volume made my ears hurt a bit), and good battery life (haven't played for extended periods of time yet, still getting used to the electric after nearly 6 months enforced acoustic only!)

If it vanished from my life I would go straight back to the eBay shop I got it from and get another! Although like I said above I do intend to get a mini Marshall so I can play a wider variety of sounds.

Simply put: If you want a vintage distortion sound for under ??20 buy this amp now!

Everything you'd reasonably expect in a micro-amp- On-off/volume, tone and drive. Frankly, if you're expecting much more from a product that is just a cheap cheerful travel companion then you've probably forgotten to take the medication again eh?

It'll take a 9 volt battery (buy rechargeables) has a "big" in jack for your guitar lead and a "little" out jack for your headphones. I've taken it abroad with my home-made travel guitar and regularly sit on the sofa and plug my Washburn W165 into it for a bit of tv watching noodling. Perfect. It's a 9 easily because it has everything its competitors have yet I can't quite get excited enough about a micro-amp in order to stretch to a 10.

The sound I completely love. I'm surprised to see some of the comments here but I suppose, like design, colour etc, sound is a subjective thing and there is no single "right" sound out there. Suffice to say I play this thing cleanly about 25% of the time and with varying amounts of overdrive the rest. The overdrive is where it really shines for me. My fave setting twinned with my Seymour Duncan humbuckers on my Washburn Idol is about half volume, tone backed off to about 75% and overdrive hovering around halfway. This delivers superb Black Keys/ Wolfmother style warm dirty blues tones. If you're unsure how this wounds then check out the Black Keys on youtube. The sound has warmth, strength and some interesting break up to the tone as well as being responsive to the hard/softness of your play. Love it. With my self-made mahogany single coil guitar I need to work things harder with more volume and close-to-maximum overdrive to get back into dirty blues land. At maximum volume it can rattle a bit- they all can. If it ever annoys me enough then I'll put some dabs of glue on various parts to solve it.

The previous owner managed (somehow) to snap the "E" off of the Honeytone label. The thing has had a hard life and, being plastic is quite scratched up. Short of making it out of metal or kryptonite I consider that all par for the course.
My one big gripe with the thing is the 9 volt battery compartment. It seems too large for the UK batteries I'm putting into it. Consequently the thing rattles around and generally makes poor contact with the + and - contact points. I've been wedging some card behind the base of the 9 volt to remedy this but recently took the thing apart and pulled forward the contact points for a more permanent fix. It's fine now but this small annoyance loses my "Honeyton" a few points.

Never dealt with them, therefore unfair to comment.

I grabbed an ebay bargain of a Marshall MS2 micro amp recently which I'm going to pull apart and mount inside my travel guitar for an all in one solution. As you can probably guess, I prefer the Danelectro offering to the Marshall and so the little MS2 is the one going under the knife. As I said before, these things are subjective, but I personally love the overdriven sound of the honeytone, particularly with humbuckers. Clean it's, well, clean and will do for such a small little thing. If you want to do any sort of public playing then you need to get yourself a bigger practice amp starting at about 15 watts. Considering the Honeyton(e) is A. not designed for gigging and B. a tiny fraction of that wattage then I think it's a real little champ and does all you could ask of it

Pretty simple amp, sounds pretty wimpy as is.
But, I took the back cover off, drilled a 3/8" hole in the lower side of the amp, installed a 1/4" speaker jack (with internal speaker defeat, so that the internal speaker is 'unhooked' when an external speaker is plugged in). Now it's got a REAL feature (that it should have come with originally), I can plug it into any 8ohm guitar cabinet! The jack-part is about $5 at radio shack, I soldered the existing speaker wires to the new speaker jack, and added two 3" wires from the speaker jack to the existing speaker, -easy-easy mod.

Pretty good clean tones, takes pedals well. Not so good distortion. Volume is adequate for practice, and pretty loud for a battery powered amp. Running this through a V30 in a closed back cab makes all the difference.

I haven't had if very long, so I can't really speak about it's reliability.

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I've been playing about 20 years, I own about 5 tube amps (a couple real neat-o vintage amps), and 15 guitars. I typically go for a clean to slightly warm Fender type tone, and then add a distortion pedal, and often a delay, -no other effects.
I highly recommend this easy mod, it sounds like a real amp now! All you need is a soldering iron (plus flux and solder), a phillips screwdriver, and a 3/8" drill bit.

Bought this amp broken in a pawn shop for $2. Took it home and replaced the 9V battery clips with a nice snap connector, and after some Dremel tool work it went easily back together.

I play harp, and this thing has some very nice tone and distortion control for my old Shure bullet mic. Really loud for the 2W or so it puts out. It has Volume, Tone, and ODrive knobs that give a surprising amount of variation in the tone.

I've just started breaking the surface with this thing.. I haven't found preferred settings yet, but have found several nice combinations. LOUD for its size.

Well, i bought it broken. Based on what I saw, I think a lot of the "broken" examples of this amp are not the electronics, but a really poorly executed battery compartment.

I've been playing harp for a couple years, and play through a variety of amps old and new. I read some reviews of this thing and happened to see it for $20 at the pawn shop, and when it tested bad, offered them $2. For the $35 or so it would take to get a new one, I would replace it, I think.

To be honest. I was shocked at how reliable this amp was. Yeah its a little scratchy but so are some of the more expensive models out there so I won't complain. The overdrive option is really cool because it actually sounds like one. Plus I connected a pedal or two to it and it took it with no problem. For a mini amp it sure took its share of beating. I went from alternative to metal then blues to hardcore and it took it all. Danelectro you guys got my vote on this one.

I used my epiphone les paul jr and it was an awesome combination. It can really throw down the rock especially if you hook it up with pedals. And it was surprisingly less noisy than some acutal amps. It was very versatile. And it worked well at maximum volume with excellent quality. And the overdrive really blended well with the range of tone.

It was definetly something I could rely on. I would take it to a gig if my amp blew out. And to this day it hasn't broken down.

I've been playing guitar for twelve years now. Guitarwise I own-
epiphone les paul jr
carlo robelli semi-hollow

pedals-FAB-flange/metal-the original crybaby wah-Danelectro-frenchtoast

Amp-crate

Features are typical of a battery powered "toy" travel amp. Included are On/Volume, Tone, and O.Drive controls. I have a "mini amp fetich" so I had to buy it. The box stated that it is "louder than other battery amps," and it is. The choice of the engineers to place the 1/4" input on the top of the unit was foolish. The amp tends to fall over all too often. I think I will mod this and make the present input jack a "speaker out" jack and add a new input jack on the back toward the bottom of the unit.

This little amp sounds like a little plastic amp. Frankly, you can't be too critical, after all it is basically a toy or novelty.
The available clean volume is quite good compared to other 9 volt circuits. The overdrive is pretty awful and I avoid it. I play blues, soul, funk, and twang...so that nasty transistor distortion is pure evil.
The case or its contents tend to vibrate at certain frequencies. I suggest opening up the case and hot gluing the pc board and battery leads to avoid noise.

This thing is build pretty well but I wish it were made of more substantial materials. Maybe MDF or pressboard would improve it overall, but likely increase the cost. I have owned several portable battery amps including the $50. Fender Mini Twin which sounded awful....but looked great. It would be nice to take this circuit and put it in the Fender....Then you might have something!

No comment. Never dealt with them.

I would rate this pretty high considering what it is and what it is intended for. It's a great thing to have in your gig back or case...especially when traveling. If you need something on the road to get your "guit" fix, it is perfect. The volume is exceptional compared to other mini amps. If you are able, I suggest adding a speaker out jack. I hooked up a 8" Jensen Vintage and the amp sounded suprisingly robust. I also copied the circuit and I am planning to duplicate it on a breadboard, play with some mods, and build a custom version. (I know what you're thinking...."get a life") Hey, we all need a hobbie.

For what I want it for, it is sufficient.

For what I want it for it is sufficient.

I have found the Honeytone amp extremely unreliable.. and Danelectro also very unreliable. I have purchased two of these little amps and within two weeks both have stopped working. I have tried in vane to get anyone connected with Danelectro to commumicate with me about them and I got no responses what so ever... The few humans that I did talk to kept telling me to contact other people... and I never got any satisfaction what so ever. I am highly suspicious of the Danelectro company now. The amp was great for the price, the sound quality, and the size, but if it only works a few hours, it is not worth buying. I might change my opinion of them if Danelectro would send me one that works... and keeps working. I have know others who have had them work for them for years.. and have had other friends who said that they have had the same experience as I... with the Honeytone and with Danelectro. What gives with this company?

Danelectro is impossible to deal with, if you have a problem with one of their products... at least, I have tried unsuccessfully for quite a while to get some one in the company to stand behind the little Honeytone amp that I bought from them ...that stopped working within two weeks. The few humans that I did speak with shuttled me off to other humans... and no one could give me any real information. The outfit must be full of mentally challenged people.

If the Honeytone amp worked... I would give it a 10 for what it is and what it can do... but since in my experience they are extremely unreliable and the company is extremely unwilling to stand behind the product... I would give it a zero.

I really don't know when the amp was made, but I am guessing that it was manufactured in the mid-nineties. Anyway I like to play blues and some modern rock, and this amp seems okay with me. Its made of plastic, but I really dont mind because I know that I will never have an impulse to damage it. It has 3 nobs: tone, overdrive and of course the volume control. It doesn't have any built-in effects other than overdrive, but I have never known any other mini amps with other effects.It comes with a battery compartment (battery power supply), and an AC adapter. It also has a belt clip at the back. Very versatile indeed!

I have a silvertone guitar with normal pickups (the ones with the coiled pickups). It suits my type of music pretty well (which is blues and rock and Jazz ect.). I almost always use my headphones with the amp because I hate to diminish the battery power. I remember the first time I played my guitar through this amp and I remember being suprised at how loud this amp could go. On the box it says louder than most mini amps, well it is.

The tone works pretty well, it has a wide range.

The only thing bad about the amp is the distortion. Im not talking about how much distortion, Im talking about the quality of it.

When you have the gain up high and the volume down low, you have a very buzzy and rough sound. But if you turn the volume up, you will hear a more mettalic sound. In addition,it can distort esily

The amp still sounds great as it is, but I can't give it a 10.

I really wouldn't use it in a perfromance, because its just not loud enough for one, and it distorts too easily. I would use it for private purposes, or for travelling. I bought this so that I could travel with it.

I got a one year warranty. Not bad.

I am an advanced guitar player and I have been playing for 3 years.
I also own a Pearl River Classical guitar,a silevertone elctrical guitar, SmartIIIs Silvertone amp, and an Ibanez DE7 (delay echo pedal).

If this gadget were stolen or lost, I would definetly buy another one because of the low price and I need an amp for travelling.

What I like about the amp:

1 It is cheap and has a high enough quality.
2 It is loud and has plenty of distortion (quantity wise)
3 It has two different power supplies
4 It has a belt clip.
5 It has never broken down
6 It is perfect for travelling

What I dislike about it:
The overdrive and the fact that it buzzes at low volume levels.

I compared this to marshall mini amps. I bought this one because of the cost. (Its a lot cheaper than the Marshall amp).

I cant really wish it had more or better feature, but I would wish it had better distortion.

IF YOU NOTICE THAT THE AMP SOUNDS MORE FUZZY OVERTIME, ITS LIKELY BECUASE OF THE POWER SUPPLY. Not all amps sound exactly the same, some sound better than others.

Get the amp, its worth it!

Not sure when it was made, but I've had it for several years. I guess I'd be classified as a classic rock or maybe folk-rock kinda guy, and the HoneyTone is okay for that. I think it would work for "My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)." It might even fly for "Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)" if nobody had paid big money to hear you play it. Fuzzzzzzzzz.
Its best feature might be its portability. Mine (in its original box) shares space in a small nylon bag with a metronome, Rocktek Flanger, 10' cable, Rogue toolkit, and a bunch of miscellaneous small stuff.
It has enough power for around the house (haven't tried it with headphones yet), probably enough to scare the dog and/or cat, but not enough to annoy our nearest neighbor, even with the windows open.

Okay for its size and price. I use it when I want something a little louder and/or grittier than the usual sound of my old Yamaha FG-230 twelve-string. (The Yamaha came with a DeArmond pickup across the sound hole.) I've also tried it with a Johnson JS-050-? "Mini Strat."
When cranked up, yeah, it does kinda sound "like a bee in a tin," but that's not necessarily a bad thing. I've run the flanger through it, which was kinda fun. The Munchkins go to Woodstock. 8-D
Next scheduled experiment: PAiA Hot Lyx Sustain and the HoneyTone.

I don't think I'd gig with it. (I wouldn't want to have to try and make money as a busker, but it might work for that.) It's great for wearing around the house on the belt clip, though.
No electrical/mechanical problems noted, even though I let my younger stepson use it a couple of years ago. (He and his brother think all volume knobs should be set at pain threshold.)
I think it's still on the same battery I installed after the supplied one croaked.

Not needed yet, but then again, my inquiry to Danelectro about a Nifty Fifty amp on 02/28/05 received a "canned" reply that said "Currently our exciting product line up no longer includes guitars, amps or accessories at this time" and "We can't answer email questions at this time."
Alrighty, then.

I've had that Yamaha for close to thirty years now, and never had an amp until the Honeytone. I'm now getting into guitar (and bass) more and more, but don't think of myself as an "active musician" (yet). I did try a few open mic nights 12-15 years ago, and might do that again some day.

"Anything else you'd like to share?"
Thanks, Ham, for the tip on the line-out circuit. In rummaging through the parts drawer at RadShack, I noticed they had two types of switched ?" jacks. I went for the normally-open one, their 274-312B. I hope I guessed right. If it ends up sounding like a Howler monkey being beaten with a clown's *right* shoe (or more likely, like one that's asleep), I'll know I got it wrong.
Yeah, I'd probably get another if this one were lost or stolen.

mini practice amp, volume, tone gain control, headphone jack, that's it. what do i want for ? 29,-?
i use it at home.

i play fender mex telecaster, fat mex strat (stock pickups), ibanez pf 200 (old les paul copy) with gibson 498t in bridge and dimarzio the fred in neck position, ibanez artcore 75t semiaccoustic with (nice) "duncan designed" pickups.
i play a lot of styles. this thing has a lot of sounds from twangy clean to overdrive, surprisingly versatile.
considering size and prize the possibilities are amazing, therefore the 10

i have another mini amp from the eighties - it's CRAP. you just have to look at it sharply to make it fall to the floor and break
this one is much tighter. i wouldn't drop it though - it's plastic.

gigging with this thing? well, maybe for busking - it would certainly do the job but you'd need some replacement batteries!

no idea about danelectro

it's new, so no repair was necessary so far.

i have a warranty - but the ebay shop i bought it from is so chaotic i wouldn't want to deal with them again

i play for 32 years
my electric axes are listed above. i also have a classic yamaha, a hohner arbor precicion bass, a fender mandolin and a noname banjo.
i have a old accoustic 50w amp which is stored under my desk. i only play at home with my vox pathfinder.
other gear i use: pod II, behringer bass-vamp, boss 1180cd digi studio, boss dr.rhythm 676

if it were lost i'd buy this thing again, i love it! it has nice warm sounds, no 12" sound of course!
what should i hate about a 29 euro thingy that sounds sweet???! it's not a marshall but then it doesn't get me thrown out of my flat!

i can compare it to a crap mini amp by a company named "guide". it's like day and night though the guide was double the price of the honeytone ten years ago!
top buy, nice for playing a few licks now and then.
i'm happy with it as it is

sounds pretty buzzy if played trough the little speaker at too high a volume, but plugged through a bigger speaker with a discman to car cassette adapter plugged in the headphone outlet and played in a normal stereo system tape deck , or plain headphones, i was really impressed... especially for a thing this inexpensive...
but who cares... i dont think it was made to be all out on the sound with that little speaker anyways... and you can still get pretty good tone out of it also so....

didnt own it long it long enough... 3 weeks...

it seems to be a little fragile though... i wouldnt throw down the stairs it or drop it too often

BATTERY POWER: 9.6V REFILLABLE



this thing drains out 9V batteries within about 3 hours so if you dont want to spend a fortune on these and are not the type to play with it through the AC adapter, i suggest getting rechargeable 9.6V batteries that work just as regular duracells...
why 9.6V? cause regular rechargeable 9V only have 8.4V or somn` but the 9.6 works at 9, 9.1 ...

Features? Hah. Actually, what's there is very useful. Vol, Tone, Gain. Lacked an ext speaker output which I added. That would have been worth paying for. Uses up 9v batteries quick, works great on an ac adapter. I don't use it for a headphone amp but it's serviceable.

If you don't add an external speaker jack you won't know what sound this thing makes. It's raunchy as hell with the little 3" factory speaker buzzing away in that plastic case. I added an external speaker jack (cheap part at Radio Shack). I've driven PA cabs with this and it sounds amazingly good. I also have small speaker I made with a heavy duty fullrange car speaker and that's great for jams with your acoustic friends. Another suggestion - try this with your Tube Screamer... you will find a whole extra range of tones by backing the gain/dist down on the Honeytone and playing with the TS. With the stock speaker, this is a 4 or 5 (hate that tinny buzzing) but with an external speaker you can get 7 or 8.

Not a brick house. Occasionally used since 1998. the battery power connection stopped working, but should be easy to fix. Don't drop them, they're not made to take the shock. The battery compartment has a cheapy foam shim to hold the battery against the terminals... this is pretty poor design. But hey, for $30, whaddaya expect?

Who knows?

If you need a battery powered amp and don't need something crankin' like a Crate Taxi, this is surprisingly loud and satisfying through a decent speaker. Definitely add the external speaker jack. If anyone has a schematic that they'd like to share, email me.

Volume, tone, and overdrive. It's not like they're going to fit treble, bass, and midrange controls on an amp this size! The overdrive control is a nice touch not usually found on this size amps, and is useful for switching between clean and distorted sounds.

It varies a bit, but most of the time I get a really nice raw but warm distortion out of it. Sometimes it sounds cheap and spitty, but usually not. You're not going to get jazz tones, and the distortion's probably not intense enough for metal, but I play punk, blues/R&B-based stuff, and psychedelia, so it's just right for that.
I mainly use it with a Gibson SG or '62 Melody Maker, but also have a Tele and a Danelectro DC-59 reissue. A little bit of reverb or slapback echo does wonders.
I also play baritone guitar through it, but it can't really reproduce the lowest bass notes. It doesn't fry out with them, though. For baritone, it sounds a lot better with a cleaner sound.
I use it for practicing in my apartment, especially in the wee hours, and travel.

I've had a couple of these that died, either mysteriously or after being dropped a couple times. Amps in this class generally don't have much longevity.

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I've owned several battery "baby amps" (Marshall, Fender, Rok-Bug) and this one is definitely the best. I'm on my third one now.

OK, this is really a follow up to Chippy the Monkey who gave some bad advice to that Victor guy. Sure you could just get a 1/8" to 1/4" adapter, however this would just create a bigger headphone socket and NOT a line out. If you want a line out, buy a $1 mono Sw Jack from Rat Shack, (they look like the normal mono jacks but have 3 solder tabs and a switch touching the tip) then do the following:
1.) Open the back of the amp, and solder a 2" wire from the black wire's (-ve) tab on the speaker to the sleeve tab on the jack. (leave the black wire connected)
2.) Unsolder the red wire (+ve) from the speaker and connect it to the tip's tab on the jack.
3.) Solder a 2" wire from the Switch's tab on the jack to the red wire's tab on the speaker
4.) Drill a hole (around 10mm) straight through the back of the amp where it says made in China CE, push the jack through and screw on the nut/washer.

Then you will have a proper 8 Ohm line out, capable of driving a 4x12 cabinet to volumes louder than a Howler monkey being beaten by a clown's left shoe.

It is a $30 excellent practice amp. You can get some fantastic tones from this baby, some are worth recording.

For $30, fuck me!

With the line out mod, well you have a much louder practice amp with some good tones, none really worth recording, but $30, fuck me!

Seems tough enough

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I recommend every one do the line out mod, it is easy, doesn't alter the looks of the amp and gives it a bit more versitility.

This is the best $30 amp Ive seen.

Just a quick followup on my review below. My Honeytone had (apparently) blown out after a few years and a couple of falls. Last night I opened it up and saw a point where the circuit board trace was cracked, right next to the connector for external 9V DC power input. (I think it was left hanging from the external power supply once after a fall.) A touch of solder and it's back in operation! Looking at the circuit and knowing a little about these IC power amp chips, I think it should be hard to actually blow out.

Seriously, this is a really nice mini practice amp. Only one channel and no bass control, but why would you want one with a 2" (3"?) speaker? The best thing about it is the overdrive. Turn it up a little and it subtly brightens your sound, turn it up more and you get a real nice blazing distortion.

The clean sound is limited -- you can't get any kind of bass out of such a tiny speaker. Sounds ok on the bridge humbucker, but don't expect to get a full acoustic sound out of it. Like said above, the overdrive is very effective and goes from subtle to a nice distortion tone. Only thing is be careful not to overdrive the input or you get a hashy clipping sound: turn your guitar's vol knob down if you have humbuckers and turn the amp's vol knob up to compensate. Also, I prefer using a 9V wall adapter with it.

I had to stick a shim in the battery compartment to make sure the battery touched the contacts. More reliable to use a wall adapter. Amp finally stopped working after 4 years and a few drops. But for $30 bucks you can replace it instead of servicing it. I ended up buying a Guitar Research/Mega VL-10 from Sam Ash instead, for $10 more. The VL10 has actual bass and goes a lot louder. It's decent clean, but the overdrive on the Honeytone was much much better.

I've been playing about 5 years and used it with various single-coil and humbucker guitars and was always happy with it. I wish Danelectro made a wall-powered version with a 5" speaker and maybe 5 watts power. But if you want a tiny, battery-powered practice amp, this is as good as it gets.

I've been playing for 30 years. I've played through Bogner, Dr. Z, Blackface, Matchless, Marshall, Mesa, etc... NOTHING touches the tone of this amp. It's so versatile that you can spend weeks dialing in a different tones and never hear the same sound twice. One watt gives you miles of clean headroom(think polytone), but once you turn up the gain, it's over! It screams like a banshee in the dead of winter. If I were dying alone on a cold mountain, this would be the amp I used to serenade myself to deaths door. I use it in the studio, live, and as a friend for my guitar to confide in. If Jesus were alive, he would use this amp.

If it were stolen or lost, I would die. If there was a way I could legally marry this amp, I would. There are things I'd like to share about this amp, but they're too personal, so I won't mention them here.

OLD BLUES! Actually, I'm just writing this in response to that Victor guy who posted one saying he wants to find a way to use it line out. Go to Radioshack, buy an adaptor which changes any 1/8 inch to a quarter inch, plug 1/8 inch into headphone jack and then run that into a patch cord and into the PA. Unless of course you don't want to spend a whole $4 on the adaptor.

I have a PRS Santana SE, one of the fantastic originals, not the new, sucky version, and I get a tone kind of like Brian May's when he used that little half watt Deacy. It's goin on my next record, somehow.

Unless a fat guy sits on it and it goes up his butt (something that's never been said about an amp before), it should be fine.

I DON"T KNOW, leave me alone

I play and it sounds like a bat eating a rat. Marshall Valvestate, PRS, and I record through a toaster that I wired with plutonium. My duck is named Norman.

Features? For this price? Tone and gain controls are a bonus already. Headphone line out comes in pretty handy but can be quite a mess with all the cables esp if you're using a 9V adaptor. I use it in my congested campus hostel accomodation where noise pollution is a serious issue and even then sometimes my neighbours get to groove along with me.

All the nu-metal/punk/emo/rapcore/craprock/metalheadz out there are not going to like this amp at all because it sounds like crap for anything other than real downhome blues. Think Muddy Waters / Elmore James / Hound Dog Taylor slide with lots of cheapo transistor crunch, recording hiss and compression. No creamy tube distortion ala SRV or sweet singing tone like BB King, just some damned grouchy sounding "Woke up this morning still stuck in the cotton fields" kinda growl. It's gonna take some serious mojo to get a decent sound out of this guy but once you nail it it's there. I play a Gibson BluesHawk and with tone all up, just a few degrees on the gain and volume as the surroundings permit. Ahhhh...slide heaven.
Yeah yeah I know playing a Gibson guitar through a SGD$50 amp yadda yadda blah blah blah...at least I know how to get the tone I want while the rest of the gearheads go through their mesa-boogies and marshalls.

I'm seriously considering bringing this to my next jam session and miking it up and if it goes well who knows? It could see some real gigging action...but all that's a huge if. Had to spray the pots once but apart from that this guy's pretty tough. Been dropped a couple of times with no scratches to show for it. I sure wouldn't do that with a tube 2x12 combo.

zilch

Been playing blues for 6-7 yrs using a Gibson BluesHawk and a Cort ES335 copy as my blues axes. Amp-wise I'm stuck on a tweed Pro Junior which does an excellent job for blues (can get some good biting slide tone too but not as primitive as described above). I love the fact that this little thing is so simple and yet can still churn out decent (to my ears) tone. The Marshall mini-stacks seemed to be less value for money vibe and dollar wise. One thing I wish it had was a line out so I can hook it up to a larger speaker or something. Probably the folks down at Danelectro never expected anyone to find gig-able tone out of this little bugger. Maybe I'll get down to it once I obtain the knowhow.

If your lifelong ambition is to play like Steve Vai or Malmsteen or Satch and your dream axe is a flourescent glow-in-the-dark Ibanez with a Floyd Rose then you'd do best to pass on this one. And good luck on your next tapping solo extravaganza.

For those of you who play some serious metal(slide) on metal(strings) stuff you'd want to give this guy a go. You might just be surprised...shocked even.

Just 3 knobs w/ a mini headphone out that I think can be also used as a line out if you use a mini to 1/4" adaptor. Great for outdoor playing in the park, street begging etc. Plenty of punch w/ Radio Shack 9v adaptor.

Been using it w/ my Aguave blue "tequilacaster" loaded w/ graphtech nut & saddles, SD Hotrails w/ push/pull to split the rails. I mostly play old Led Zepp, ZZ Top, Classic Rock styles & it really gives me exactly what the Dr ordered. Can actually get that controlled feedback thing going nicely. Been playing since 1970's and have been through Twin Reverbs, Boogies, SF Champs. Never had such fun for so little $$$

Have not taken it to gig but I'm certain it would not really cut it even if miked to the PA. Only had it for a few days but I'm certain it will last longer than $30 bucks in my pocket would otherwise.

Haven't had any experience w/ the Danelectro folks so I really can't comment here.

Been playing for 26 yrs I also have a Line 6 Spyder 112 & a SF Champ that needs to be worked on. If the Honeytone was lost or stolen I'd get my lazy ass back down to Guitar Center & get another one quick. Real no brainer!!

I hope this isn't too technical, but I want to put in my two cent's worth. I'm a guitarist for over 30 years, in a band, and am also an electrical engineer (day job) and attempted to "fix" this amp at my cousin's request (he had bought one for his son to use for practice) because he said it was "cutting out". It was doing this because it had drained the battery and it would emit sound, battery voltage would drop, and it would die until battery voltage came back. Anyway I looked over the circuit and decided I'd designed better audio circuitry back in college. This thing pulls MUCHO current - I used a regulated Rasdio Shack 9V 300 mA wall adapter which put out over 11V when not connected, it drooped to a little over 7 volts, indicating large current draw (I will measure it at some point and get back on this). The internal circuitry only has about 3V of headroom at 7V supply, so if you use humbuckers it will quickly cause the input preamp to clip, and NOT musically - that's what the famous "buzzing" is, folks! If you want some more headroom and a better sound (albeit with the chance of damging the little power amp IC inside!) do what I'm gonne do - get a big (500mA to 1A) regulated 12V adapter from Radio Shack, the circuitry will run at 12V and the higher current capability of the adapter will keep the voltage from drooping (which incidentally is called "sag" tube amps, however it acts as sort of a compressor for tube amps due to their soft clip characteristics but causes hard clipping in solid-state amps). Single-coils sound better because they have lower output and will not drive the preamp to hard clip as easily. Sucker's case buzzes like a bee as well, maybe some hot glue...Anyway, that's my two cent's worth...

I'm a simple man. Light Distortion and Clean are the only two sounds I need. Because it is so light it falls over easily, but I just prop it up against something. I can't really think of any other features I would need in a practice amp. The AC adapter is worth it for $10 because the amp seems to be louder when plugged into the wall, and you'll otherwise go through $10 worth of 9V batteries pretty quickly.

I play rock/folk/country/blues with a Les Paul. The clean sound isn't the cleanest, but it's acceptable. If you have both the gain and the volume up it buzzes loudly, so I would advise playing with the volume on your guitar all the way up and the volume on the amp pretty low to minimize the droning buzz. The distortion is a nice mellow honey sound that suits me well. If you're into punk or hard rock/metal you might not care for it. It is plenty loud for just practicing in my house -- if I really want to blast it I can hook it up to my home stereo system via the headphone jack. I also don't mind hooking it up directly to my computer to record stuff for posterity. Since I don't play in a band or live, this is the only amp I really need. I give it a 7 because of the buzzing, and I have no frame of reference because I have never tried any other similar kind of amp.

I've only had it for a couple weeks and it hasn't broken yet. Since it is plastic I would be careful travelling with it. I kept the box for such purposes.

I've never dealt with the company. I don't own any other Danelectro products. They gave me a warranty card, but I can't find a serial number anywhere, so I haven't sent it in.

Seriously, for such a minor, inexpensive product I don't think the quality differs too much from brand to brand. For what it's worth, though, I have heard great things about a similar product from VOX at about the same price. I bought this one because they didn't carry the VOX at my local guitar store and I didn't think it was worth the wait and the shipping cost to order one online. A buddy of mine had a Fender (or Squire) mini amp that I last heard about 7 years ago, but it was very tinny if I remember correctly. I was impressed by the sound quality from this thing.

Small, about 4.5" wide, 5" tall, and 2 3/4" deep with a Leather Strap Handle that looks cool, but is useless to use. Aqua colored with Chrome colored Grill and 3 Chrome colored Knobs that control Volume/Off, Tone, and Gain. It also has a Red LED Power Indicator, a 1/4" Input Jack, an 1/8" Headphone Jack, a Belt Clip, and a Handy Little Booklet with suggested amp settings.

Runs on 9 volts via a battery, or through its Power Adapter Jack, to produce 1 Watt of high shrieking power to drive the 3" Speaker.

Oh yeah, a 9-volt Battery came with it too.
(See my review of the battery in the Effects Section for more details about the power it provided.)

Sounds great and crappy all at the same time. The handy little booklet gives some setting suggestions. When you follow them, you'll notice the distinct difference in the different sounds this amp is capable of producing. But some of the sounds are just the same sounds from a different page with the controls just slightly different, so it is not as versatile as one might think. I noticed that this amp works best with 'strat' style single coil pickups. It is ok with P-90 pickups, but it doesn't sound so good when used with humbuckers. For the most part it has a very tinny and plastic sound. The plastic casing makes as much noise as the speaker does. These sounds tend to clash with the sound of the humbuckers but not the single coils. The small speaker just breaks apart and starts to crackle and shriek when overdriven. Feedback and hum is excessive especially when the speaker falls over. It was not really designed to be used as a tabletop amp because the guitar cord plugs into the top and topples it over. You can get a clean sound out if it, but it tends to be a bit thin. If overdrive is what you like, well this has plenty of it. When the battery gets low and you're playing hard, the sound will start to cut out. This also makes the power light dim.

Not very reliable. It consumes batteries like a fish drinks water. You're much better off with a power adapter. As its power gets low, the sound cuts in and out on you. As I stated earlier, it's not designed to be used in its upright position without falling over and humming, but if you are going to use a power adapter with it, then you are going to have to use it as a table top model. You can't very well walk around with it hooked to your belt and plugged into the wall with a six foot power cord holding you back.

I do not use the headphone feature because the headphone jack was poorly installed. The jack came loose from the circuit board and caused the amp to not function at all. I disassembled it (voiding the warranty I'm sure) and reattached it properly. It was upon reassemble that I discovered why it was broken in the first place. There is simply not enough room to assemble the unit without pushing the jack to one side. Once in place it fits fine. When I attempt to use the headphone jack, simply pushing on it can cause the sound to cut out, so I just leave it alone.

I've never dealt with the company, but other seem to have nice things to say about them. I don't remember what the warranty was.

List price: $39.00. I paid $29.00 at Guitar Center.

I originally bought this amp so I could test some homemade harmonica pickups/mics. At best it can only be used as a remote speaker for that type of application because a harmonica plays louder naturally than this amp can be turned up to without massive feedback.

I have since tested it with various guitars in order to try to appreciate this little wonder. Although you can get some interesting sound out of it, I would only use it in the most desperate of situations but then again I'd most likely be playing an acoustic guitar in those settings.

It is so cool looking and unique sounding that I try very hard to find a place for it in my array of equipment. I could always use it as a practice amp but my Pockit Rockit sounds so much better. I've been thing of cannibalizing it in putting in into a homemade travel guitar.

It's to cute to give it a poor overall rating, but trust me, it's not that good overall either.

Features? In a 30 dollar battery-powered amp? come on...volume, tone, gain. Headphone jack, ac jack.

I play several old 60's "sears catalog" type electric guitars and also have an old kay acoustic with a soundhole pickup. I bought this thing hoping to do some street busking with it...I doubt that's gonna happen, instead of "Honeytone" they should call this "Chainsaw tone". Doesn't have much to offer by way of clean sounds and I was rather disappointed when I first got this (but it was cheap so I wasn't too troubled...). After I tinkered around with it a bit though, I discovered that, while too nasty for the average street busker, this little monster does crank out some good sounds. It definitely is treble heavy, I use my neck/bass pickups on all of my guitars and still get a lot of high end and not much low. Heavier strings and tuning down a bit will give you a bit more bottom. This thing is capable of some nasty, MEAN, sustaining distortion. Not death metal type stuff, just wicked balls out overdriven blues or rock or whatever. Easy to get that snarling "Hound Dog Taylor" sound and worth the price for that alone. Like I say, for a tiny, plastic amp, this thing is LOUD. Seriously. A bit noisy with these old single coils but nothing out of the ordinary. Oh, this is great for getting that dirty, overdriven harmonica sound too. I'm thinking of using this for recording some harp as I've always found it hard to get
a good overdriven blues harp sound without also getting a lot of unwanted noise and/or feedback. This does the job very well. I'm giving this fairly high marks in this category. It seems a little unfair to compare a $30 battery-powered amp to fenders and marshalls but on the other hand it can nail some good sounds at volume levels that won't have the neighbors calling the cops (again...).

Haven't had it long enough to tell.

I've been playing for about 10 years, have a few old tube amps. This doesn't really compare with those in terms of overall sound yet there are some sounds I can get out of this little beast that I can't get out of the old tube amps. I wish it had less high end bite but it's only a 4 inch speaker. If this were lost or stolen, I'd definitely consider getting another, if only for the good harmonica sounds I can get out of it. great art deco looks too.

3 knobs: volume, tone and gain. A plug for a 9 volt adapter which I never use, a 4" speaker, a tiny leather handle, a cream colored plastic enclosure and probably some cheap PC board and miniature transformer inside. Solid state. More than enough features for a $30 practice amp.

I couldn't believe how good this thing sounds!
I'm no slouch when it comes to treating myself to mondo expensive gear to get good tone. I've got a $4000+ tweed 1960 Fender Bassman and a 1969 50 watt Marshall, I have no idea how much that thing is worth now.
For 30 bucks this little POS Danelectro can dish out some GOOD tone. Where it shines is in the overdrive department. Playing my '58 reissue Historic Les Paul, I can get some raunchy rock 'n roll sounds out of this thing. Depending on how you set the gain, it's perfect for playing along to Cream, early Jeff Beck and even Elmore James records. And I can ape those sounds fairly well, considering it's coming out of a cheap solid state amp with a tiny 4" speaker. It's a low-fi sound for sure, but that's what makes it fun. It's pretty loud for such a tiny thing.
The only stipulation is it can lose some top end if you crank the volume and gain all the way.

It's plastic, don't drop it!

For what it's worth this thing rules. It's not very versatile but for that swampy, overdriven, low-fi sound, it's hard to beat!

Brand new Mini Amp from Danelectro. Features? No, not really. It has an On/Off/Volume wheel, tone, and overdrive wheels. Top also has jack and a red LED. Side has 1/8" jack and a 9V DC jack, but runs with 9V batteries as well. Cool looking White, Maroon, and Silver Looks. And last but not least, a tilt back stand.

Same as Amp in Bag, but without the bag

After 15 minutes of trying, I finally found a setting that was not distorted. DO NOT BUY THIS AMP FOR A CLEAN SOUND! It does not suit my usual sparkly clean sound, but is great for distortion. On/Volume wheel is equal to distortion gain. Tone knob doesn't doesn't do much, just adds a tad of treble. Rattles a bit a higher volume.

Solid plastic. Will not break unless abused

Never talked personally, but they seem to be quick about e-mail. Nice Website

It does what I bought it for: stay in my case so I can play my strat anywhere

? 1 input, 1 volume, 1 tone, 1 gain, headphone out, 9V adapter, 3 inch speacker, in a vintage styled amp. Size about 5 x 5 inches, by 3 inches deep.
? Rated a 9 due to problems with the 9V jack not properly aligned with the "amp" casing. Other than that a ten.

? With a little playing around, you can acheive a wide variety of sounds and tones. Comes with a little guide for help in getting different sounds.
? Sounds good clean, and can get you a nice "Crazy Horse" sound.

? Dependable for what it's intenetions are: practice amp for travelling.
? Also great for the new musician, who needs to learn guitar before spending monry on bigger, better equipment.
? Have had the amp for about 3 weeks, has held up thus far.

? No need to call (yet) hopefully, there won't be.

? Get it for traveling, practicing and/or learning.
? Don't record off/from it ...unless you'd like to try something new.
? Worth replacing, for it's cost, what it was designed for and it's convenience.
? Personally, I love it. I can get every tone I want from it, with knob adjustments on my guitar (Gibson Les Paul - 57 reissue - used)
? Usually play through a Roland 30W Chorus/EQ Combo.
? Great price and great versatility.
? Just get one, to have one ...even just to look at the cute little bugger.

This amp is great for playing everywhere,but eats batteries.However the look and sound are great.With other effects included ,this could cover my expectations on a windy afternoon

I use a home made spanish guitar with steel strings,and a Innuendo.This is enough for me for practising too.The clean sound has no color but it gives a good volume output; the gain has not a good distortion,so I use it just a little to add character.

I have been using it for a year,and it hasn`t failed.You can run it with batteries or an adaptor without a problem.

No support needed

I wouldn't hesitate in buying another if stolen.The cool look and a great sound at this price is hard to find.Besides I like the retro look of the aqua color.

Year 2000, Danelectro Honeytone Battery Amp. Red in Color. When I bought this amp I was living in a Studio Apt. I have odd hours, I wanted a amp I could practice on, and with paperthin walls wouldn't disturb anyone. This single channel amp solid state amp was just what I was looking for. It really doesn't sound bad and the looks of it made me want it, even if I never used it either. It's a straight ahead amp. I do use a power adaptor, so battery usage doesn't matter. It looks Cool and sounds very good for a small plastic amp

I play a lot of styles. I wish I could get a tad more volume on the clean setting. I use single coil guitars, I own a bevy of Fender and Danelectro guitars. I like the tone of it for practice, but some players won't really like the sound...I do, great for 3 am playing. The distorion is actually quite good, For a joke I took it to a gig, set it on a table and miked it for a blues number, it sounded killer over the PA. The distortion is not heavy metal style, but more of a small amp cranked all the way. No Reverb...DUH!! LOL

I've had mine over a year. I actually did gig with it for a Eric Clapton song. It's never given me any trouble. This amp is so cute the looks give it a 10 for me

1 year warranty. Dealt with Danelectro with another matter, fast and friendly response. Amp has never failed me.

I've been playing 28 years, I needed a tiny amp for the studio apt I was living in. It fit the bill, was made well, works great, and the tone was really good for a small plastic amp. I bought it mainly becase I had Danelectro Guitars and was impressed with them, HAD to get an amp. I would replace in a heartbeat if I lost it

Tone, Volume, and Gain. I've also got a Little Smokey Amp, which runs off 9v battery, and the Honeytone is, needless to say, much more dynamic. I'd give this one a higher marking, but I find the top-mounted jack to be very inconvenient, and a little unwieldy when playing while the amp is sitting on a table or something.

I run either a Strat or an Epiphone Zephyr Blues Deluxe through a Dan Echo and an Ibanez Tube Screamer Turbo. The little amp's overdrive is very convincing for a solid-state, especially for a 9v practice amp. It'll kick out plenty of jams at a good level of volume.

It's plastic, so it's delicate. If it broke, I'd probably just plunk down another $30 for a new one. I wouldn't go around abusing it, and

Never dealt with Dano.

I've been playing for 8 years, and a lot of times I find practice amps that are either way too expensive, or sound crappy or feel cheap. This is a pretty good little amp. Given, Danelectro isn't known for their top-end gear, but hey, for $30, just try to find a better amp.

It should have internal batteries with option to add them.
I mean c'mon, o bought 8.4 V battery ( REFILL 1000x times )
and i hardly get whe same sound and LIFE out of that DANELECTRO,
as i get it when i use an ADAPTER.
I am asking for suggestions. Is it possible to open it and
add something inside or to use 2 8.4V Refilling bateries at the same time ( PARARELL CONECTION ) for more POWER?
What i figured out is that if i used PLUG with plastic casing, MONO,
Honeytone danelectro worked OK and long enough,
but anytime i used STEREO JACK or FULL METAL COVERED MONO JACK with
8.4 V battery ( for refilling )
or 9 V batery ( standard, not extra powered ),
It went to dying out and passing out just after a few minutes.
I knew i payed to much for this:
54$ for Danelectro + cable + micphone?
all right, i did it in turkey and they know how to SET up the price.

I don't like the noise which comes out when you set it to high at
tone and gain.
It's not easy to set maximum and to avoid having feedback.
What i don't like is a lot of feedback at some settings,
The problem is also that
IT DOESNT HAVE STANDARD GUITAR CABLE OUT,
the connection for headphones is hardly usefull.
When i conected my danelectro honeytone to the mixtable
i got 2 maximum blasts out of big speakers, ( main speakers )
and i desided not to use that feature anymore.

2nd problem is that it's almost impossible to MIKE this amp
on stage to get a sound in the main sound system from that
green box. I think the power is soo low that mike just cant
"get it" and deliver it to PA.

I think i had only 2 times of " ALL RIGHT " use at jam session
from this AMP. And i tried like 6 or 9 times to use it.
WHat i like taht it's small and noisy enough to be usefull in small places. Does it have tubes? I don't think so, i mean that noise at higher gain, it sais there are transistors and not tubes in it.
I like it with AC/DC adapter but with bateries it's a waste or
your time,
well, good advice:
USE :. MIKE, MONO CABLE WITH PLASTC ON ANYTHING which is not used for transmition of sound, even on the conector,
don't use FULL METAL BODIES JACKS AND DONT USE STEREO CONNECTORS,
caouse it takes power from your bateries.
About bateries: Refillable bateries at "8.4 V "aren't good to use,
i mean they behave like very good nonrefillable ones after they go in dying part of thir life,
Just use HIgh QUALITY bateries or try to get somehing like a
little heavier SOURCE of energy ( Mini CAR ACCUMULATOR with enough capacity and correct voltage (9 V + some more would be all right (0.3V)

Question to you costumer support,
how can i solve the problem with using 8.4 V batteries ( refillable)
and what transmittable source of energy do you suggest,
how long last's the waranty, and
what cables ( MONO; STEREO, what microphone, ( IMPEDANCE ( OHMS),
and what type of specter should the mic have? like is the :CARDIOID type OK ? I know it's not cause it makes a lot of FEEDBACK if i coup it with my hands, when i'd like to play couped ( HARMONICA! ).
I hope you will be as i signed:
redharp@email.com
blueharp@email.si

I have it 12-7=5 months.
I'd buy Something else, like messa boogie or soemthing like that,
or an amp with internal batteries, working for 5 hours,
I like the shape and hard sound at all settings almost to max,
used with low cost hadphones, cause they don't make feedback that much.
I chosed this one, cause i got the info on the net that it is
ne of the best at mini amps.
Internal batteries and option to add them some more,
BIgger output and not a headphone output,
STEREO AND MON JACK COMPATIBILITY WITHOUT EXTRA LOOS OF POWER ON battery with stereo JACKS
Well, i think on one jam i heard it all right and
people in a diameter of 2 to 3 meters heard it :-)

Oh, the PAINT!
It's getting aaway on the edges.
Why don't you make nonpainted ones?
and the knobs are sometimes hard to turn around
and there should be some mars on the knobs and on the case
so users could write down their settings.
Take care,
RObert
Oh, my first recording, which i published on that page
www.mp3.com/blueharp
was recorded thru this amp. I like it's sound.

I bought this amp brand new for only $25. It has volume, gain, and overdrive. It's small, plastic, and runs off a 9 volt battery (or adapter). It looks retro (the catalog says it's aqua but it's more of a mint green).

I have a cheap strat copy (chinese) and an Epi LP custom. It sounds pretty cool on both of them (for what it is). If I paid more for it, the rating would be lower. But for the price, it sounds awesome. Like others have said, it doesn't have much clean headroom - but I just use while I'm sitting in the living room - it's plenty loud for that. If I need volume, I can hook my guitar up to a "real" amp. It gets a decent bluesy sound with the gain turned down.

Don't know for sure since I just got it. I hear the batteries don't last long - we'll see.

Don't know.

I've only been playing for a few months (still learning and have a long way to go). That's one reason I'm buying this type of amp. If I lost it, I'd get another one (it's only $25!). Awesome amp for the price.

Mine was made in 2001. It's versatile. It's loud as heck, and suits my playing style. Unfortunately, there's no reverb, no efx loop, no line out for a mixing board, and only one tone control. Only has a 3" speaker. Has a belt clip for street/sidewalk gigs.I have the old greenish colored one.

I was immediately disappointed; When I first got it home I set it on the floor next to my Mesa Boogie Rectifier combo & 4x12. It was a tough call, but I'd have to say the Mesa's a little louder and sounds better, plus it has more channels. The Dano gets real distorted, and screams, yodels, and wails. It can also clean up nicely for jazz and Fender stuff.

I gig with this amp often. That is, in my livingroom in front of the mirror. It's actually a few steps up from air guitar, which I admit, I indulge in on a regular basis. It has held up quite well, although I recommend that if you gig with it as often as I do, you should consider buying the DC power supply. Also, stock up on extra tubes just incase. Hasn't broke down yet.

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It's a cool little combo amp that won't break your back carrying it around town, and even has a nice leather carry strap for this purpose. It fits in the trunk of your car, or pickup, or van with enough room left over for all that McDonald's garbage that accumulates between gigs. I'd definately buy one again, as it's the coolest battery-powered combo ever!

This is the mini amp that runs on the 9 volt batteries.It has volume tone and a gain(?)knob.I do not use the gain knob to get a distortion(I HATE that word!!)sound because of the size of the speaker,I mean c,mon,distortion??Please.I use it for one specific purpose,and that's it.It's not a versitile little amp but it sounds perfect for how Iuse it.

This is how it's put to use:I have an old beater acoustic that is tuned for slide(open G) and I put a Woody pick-up in the hole.I plug into the honey tone and I can get a cool sound for delta style slide playing that kinda sounds like a dirty acoustic guitar sound of popular blues records from the 40's and 50's kind of vibe,ya know??Do ya know the kind of tone I'm talking about?That dirty acoustic tone from an early Muddy Waters record should give ya an idea.I do some street buskin' and I saw alot of buskers that never get heard over constant traffic and pedestrian chatter and OTHER buskers too.This amp has solved the problem for me and I have people lookin' across the street and over the cars, to see where the slide is comin' from!!

The battery don't last that long.I can get about 3 hours of good solid sound and then,it's time to break out the spare battery out of the guitar case.The LED kinda tells ya too because it starts to blink in and out and the sound is very DEAD!Other than that, it has been kicked and dropped and scrapped!Mine still works so far.

Never spoke to 'em.

I'm not a "beginner" and I've got other great gear that is more "Pro" kind a quality,but I was bored one day,got the Honeytone,went buskin' for fun and I made some good cash.I met some cool people and other cool buskers/musicians.It's a simple little amp that is fun to play slide through and sounds good.Others walking by notice the tone and I got good reactions and compliments on the sound of that thing.I can only hope that all the "bad" aspects of street busking(drunks,bad playing etc...)DO NOT start playing into amps.Imagine walkin' down the Ave and hearing a bunch of Black Sabbath riffs played on acoustic guitars into little amps?!?!Ya gotta think about how this amp should be used to get the maximum TONE from it's tiny little speaker.If it's tweeked right,I seemed to have found a use for it that compliments its structure and size.

I have a 2001 Honeytone. It's a perfect little amp for taking along on trips, playing in the bedroom or back of the office at low volume, can be played with headphones if so desired, runs for hours on a 9V battery or constantly with a "wall wart," and it sounds really good. What more could I ask for? I end up using it as much or more than my bigger amps because it's so handy.

I've read some of the earlier comments about the amp's alleged lack of different tones. Either Danelectro's heard the criticisms and fixed the problems, the amps are variable in quality, or somebody's impossible to please. Or maybe they haven't gotten the hang of adjusting a volume and gain knob that interact. Mine's got a sweet clean tone that's not 100% clean; it really sounds tubelike. With the gain turned up the distortion increases smoothly till it makes a crunchy, metal distortion. I usually run mine somewhere in the middle. Sounds great for blues. For what it is, a 1 watt solid state miniamp in a plastic cabinet with a 2 1/2" speaker, it's incredible! It has no right to sound this good!

Obviously it's not a gig amp. (It'd be kind of cool to set it up where it could be seen and mike it through the PA, though.) I've had no problems with it though it's taken a 4 foot fall to the floor.

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I can't stick this little amp in my shirt pocket, and I can't drive a 4x12 cab with it. Who cares? For its market niche, a little portable amp, it's perfect. Actually, with the AC adapter I'd be perfectly happy with it as my sole amp for home practice use.

To reiterate, this is NOT the little amp that comes with the Danelectro 50's style gig bag, it's the little table topper that comes in Bergundy, Aqua, and Yellow colors. I have the Aqua and Yellow ones. For whut it is, it's cool.

Well, yeah, I mean a Mesa-Boogie it AIN'T, right? But it gets me some ok sounds for screwing around. For those of you who can't get the clean sound, here's how: with the back of the amp facing you, (the input jack on the left), set the controls like this: O.D.-9:00, Tone-12:00, Volume-12:00. I find this gets a good clean sound with most of my guitars. Doesn't put out much volume, but if you need more volume, simply go to your local place of employment, earn 5 times the cost of this amp, and buy a louder amp, see? Oh- and if the sound dies, replace the battery! If it's still dead, exchange it, duh! I think it beats all other 9-volt amps.

I've had two for 4 months now. Niether has failed me.

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These amp's. are cool. If you want a tiny battery-powered amp to noodle around with, get one of these!

1 watt, retro styling, volume, tone, and drive contols, single 1/4" input with headphone jack, runs on a 9V battery.

I tried the amp out with a U.S. made Fender Stratocaster. An audible clean sound was impossible to attain as tweaking the volume past the 1 or 2 position produced a pronounced, cold distortion. Distortion was harsh and something in the amp was buzzing and rattling at higher volumes.

During that first test drive, the amp began to break up and cut out repeatedly. I stuck it back in the box and took it back to Guitar Center the following day. I had the extra satisfaction on ripping the Goth loser sales guy a new one when he ignored me rather than refund my $.

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A piece of crap. I have been very satisfied with Dano's effect pedals over the years, but the Honeytone was a disaster.

This is a plastic cased mini amp, which runs on a single 9 volt battery or an AC adaptor (not included). It has a single 2 1/2 inch speaker inside, as well as a headphone jack for private practice. On top, there is a single input for guitar and three knobs, labeled on/off/vol., tone, and drive. You can use the vol. and drive knobs to adjust the distortion and overall volume. There is only one channel. There's also a red LED to indicate power on, which also tells you when the battery is getting low (it dims out when you hit a chord). The whole package is wrapped up in a cool retro styled case, and looks something like a '50's table radio. There's even a real leather strap handle (which is too small to use), and a belt clip (which you can use). Mine is painted (yes, painted, not just molded in color) in a really cool seafoam green, just like a '57 Nash Rambler. too much! Rating reflects this "coolness" vibe as well as actual features, and is only in comparison with other mini amps.

I usually play either a Les Paul or a Telecaster, although I have several guitars. There's not very much clean headroom in this amp. By the time you have it loud enough to hear it, there's already some distortion present. Cranked way up, there's plenty of gain and distortion on tap. It's also pretty loud for 1 watt. Given the lack of clean headroom and the miniscule speaker, it really sounds pretty good. You can clip it to you belt and dance around the yard playing ZZ Top riffs while the neighbors wonder if you've gone crazy. You can get cool controlled feedback with it too. Battery life is short and will depend on how loud you play. When the battery goes, the amp starts cutting in and out without warning, so I recommend getting an AC adaptor if you plan on using it a lot.

Just the other day, I discovered an even better use for the amp. It works really well for slide. I plugged my acoustic/electric into it and cracked the vol. knob until it just began to break up, just enough to balance with the unamplified guitar level. Whoa mama! Instant delta blues territory. The amp adds just the right amount of punch, sustain and "grit" for wicked slide work. Perfect for channeling Robert Johnson or Elmore James. Blended with an acoustic guitar, it adds a bluesy, low-tech feel to slide guitar. Because of this, I'll have to rate it a little higher than I would otherwise.

I got the amp as a gift for Christmas. I don't really have enough hours on it to judge reliability. Several of the reviewers below have had their amps die on them, so I guess there are some concerns.
Mine is working so far, so I can't make a judgement here.

I haven't dealt with the company, personally, but they seem pretty cool. They sent a cute little "owners manual" with the amp, which showed several sample settings, which sound pretty similar. I think there was a warranty card, too, but I can't remember. If mine dies, I'll probably just get another, or maybe not. Heck, it's only $30.

I've been playing for 34 years and should be a lot better than I probably am. I am embarrassed to admit how much I probably have spent on gear over the years. I got this amp as a Christmas gift. As such, it's sort of cool, in a low-tech, 78 rpm kind of way. I guess that this amp would be useful if I traveled around a lot, wanted to practice, and didn't want to lug an amp everywhere. Maybe it's best use for me is as a "tone boost" for playing acoustic slide. If you have an acoustic with a pickup, give it a try. Even when I'm not using it, it looks kind of cool just sitting on the tv, sort of like some art deco knickknack. I guess that might make it worth 30 bucks.

Whelp, I've been scoping this little sucker out for a week or two and finally sold the horse to buy it. Read all the features in the previous reviews. For a battery amp, I'll give it a 9, and that's in comparison to others in its class.

I play this little amp through my Mexican Tele (Tequilacastor). I have, or have had, the Epiphone Mini-Tweed, the Fender Mini-Twin, and the Marshall Micro-Amp. They all have their good and bad points, but I think the Fender one's the worst, because it gives radio stations and squeels at high-gain settings. The Marshall's good if you want balls-out battery-powered distortion. The Epiphone is one of the top two best (in tweed or black), because it gives good clean and dirty sounds. The Danelectro then, compared to the Epiphone (EP-1 model), is a bit mellower (not as bright or brittle), and a tad louder. I like both, but the Dano has a bit smoother sound. By this I mean on low or high gain. The Dano is not much larger than half the size of the Epi also, so it fits in my case. The Dano, however, is super-freakin' at high gain settings, compared to the Epi; you get alot of that ssshhhiiihhhkkk sound , where the Epi is probally the quietest of the whole lot. I think I prefer the Dano though, 'cause I don't use alot of high gain, prefering to get some Jazz bits and cleaner stuff from it. I think it does this well. But, if you think that a 9- volt battery is ever gonna give you any real volume, you can just plan on going the next step right now, for a Fender Frontman 15. But, that's also around $100. For what I use it for, I'm glad I bought it! I bought the cream-colored one, perhaps I'll also get the retro-green!

Pretty reliable I think, but what- are you gonna play out with the damned thing? Marshall Micro's break the input jack way too easily when they fall off the table, and they can't be easilt fixed. These seem MUCH more hardy. And, like the other reviewers say, "if you break it, just buy anither".

I'm in a Pop-Rock type band, doing mostly covers in clubs on the weekends. My bass player and I get together once a week to work on writing new originals. So, for this particular occasion I bring my cheap Mexican Tele with a tweed gig-bag to his house, but I don't want to be lugging a combo amp also. Since we do not write songs using much volume, I looked into this little amp because it was small enough to fit in my gig-bag's main pouch, and I figured it would be loud enough for chewing on some chord structures. This little amp is worth every penny I paid. Infact, I'm going to buy all three colors! I have Strats and Les Pauls, and play seriously, but for a bitchin' little practice amp, the Dano can't be beat!

Great mini amp. I bought it a Guitar Center a couple months ago. It's got a volume control, tone (doesn't make a difference in your sound), and an overdrive control. It's pretty loud and you can use its headphone jack for when you don't want people to hear you screwing up when you practice. I use it at school in lunch and when my friends come to my period, I can unplug it to play for them. The knobs on have dots that don't even seem to stand for level they are at. One great feature I found was the red light when you turn it on. This is great for seeing if you turned it off when you are done playing and take your guitar jack out. Also, when the amp is crapping out, you can tell because of the light.

The overdrive really doesn't do death metal distortion, but it gives a great rock sound. The clean channel only works if you pick softly at medium volumes. Even fingerpicking with the amp cranked all the way up to the max produces a distortion-tinged sound. Still don't know if tone even makes a difference in the sound. In the manual it gives you settings for the amp, but most of them really aren't different from one another.

Works great except when the battery is really low. When you plug in with the headphone, it still works. But when you play it w/o the jack, it has a constant popping sound. The volume will go from low to high, then a pop. The volume will shut off and it will repeat the volume rise. Just change your battery. This also happened when the battery was slightly out of place when some idiot knocked it over. I was amazed that it still worked. The plastic case really protects it well.

Pretty good amp. Wish it had a clean setting that worked. It looks vintage. If you break it somehow (it is incredibly sturdy), just buy a new one. They are worth it.

I paid nine dollars for this brandspankin new at the guitar center in denver and it`s worth it.The stange thing was is they had a bunch of green ones on a table marked sale , then they had a bunch more for $29 ,go figure. I just bought a new Dano U3 at this same guitarcenter for $119 and they had two more for the same price with out a flaw on them. Guitar center isnt the greatest music store but when they want to get rid of somthing they sure sell it cheap.For nine dollars this is quite possibly the best mini amp in the world.Don`t ever hardly use it but it makes me smile just looking at it.That woth nine bucks

bunch of stuff: tone, volume, gain, headphone port, a useless leather handle, and belt clip. what really sucks is that there is no official clean channel. its clean until you turn the volume knob up halfway and it crackles and its all "vintage" distortion from there.

going straight through the speaker it sucks. it sounds all muffled and overall really bad. what more can you expect from a plastic amp that size? anyway, listening to it through headphones sounds good. i also hooked up these ghetto-rigged computer speakers i housed in a cardboard box through the headphone port and it sounds pretty decent. also the presets in the instruction manual all sound the same- just the same crappy distortion, it just depends on how muffled you want it to sound.

no problems yet, everytime i think i did something to screw it up it still plays as good as ever (which never was very good). i dont think it will last too long, but its holdin up.

never had to deal with them

overall, for 30$, its a pretty good buy. its really really cheap, but its also portable. i should have spent a little more to get a practice amp. for now its holding me off pretty well until i get a marshall.

This amp was a 1998. It has controls for volume, tone, and distortion. Very Simple. I Mainley bought it because none of my amps with distortion fit in my backpack at school.

This amp sounds the same wih any guitar. It sounds great with headphones but loud and crazy without. This amp sounds like a lawnmower when you run a bass through it. Which i Think is cool.

It was 2 years before this thing blew up. I used it at school religiously as a hallway musician. the thing that killed it was the lack of a channel button control, I blew all the knobs and circuts up from overuse, which was well over what I payed for it in use.

Who needs customer support on this cheap, simple little thing.

It' kicks ass. i remember playing Cheech and Chongs "Earache in my Eye" on this thing with my Jag-stang and had all my friends and lady friends lauging along with me while I did it. It's dead no so I'll have to get another one.

This is a mini-amp, suitable only for practicing. It can be powered with a 9-volt or an AC adapter. I got it because I practice at school and I didn't want to lug a real amp up and down three flights of stairs to the practice room every day. It is surprisingly loud for its size, has one channel with variable overdrive, a headphone jack, and a beltclip (for all those times when you need to walk around while practicing). It would be better if it had dedicated clean and lead channels. I practice rock, blues, and jazz, and it sounds about the same for all of them, regardless of setting (it comes with a booklet that shows a dozen possible settings--but in reality you get two choices: loud and distorted or soft and slightly overdriven.

It has volume, tone, and overdrive knobs which control its single channel. It can be surprisingly loud and crunchy for its size, and has a decent overdrive tone. The plastic casing tends to rattle at high volumes, and it's almost impossible to get a truly "clean" sound out of it. The speaker, though loud, is crappy, and you can get way better sound if you use it with headphones. Practically any other instrument will drown it out, so don't plan on jamming with this puppy. It's a practice amp only.

So far, no problems other than the rattling.

Never dealt with them.

I've played for years and I think this amp is a pretty good bargain if all you want is a super-portable practice amp. I toss it in my bag and use it with my Strat whenever I practice. What it lacks in tone and power it makes up for in portability, price, and convenience. Most low-end practice amps are $100 and sound bad, whereas this little guy is 1/3 the cost and sounds about the same, and its easy to carry around. I haven't tried the other mini-amps (Marshall and Fender make minis), but this one is probably as good as those, and it's cheaper.

This amp came from the year 1998 and i found it very very useful in all the styles of music i play. I play funk jazz and rock or anything in between. It works wonderful to practice late at night with or without headphones when you're worried that somebodies gonna scream at you for playing so late. I like how much the tone changes from one end of the tone nob to the other. i usually set it dead center. the drive on it is quite beutiful up to about halfway then it gets kinda gross. Mostly i use it as a preamp going into my larger also solid state amp. I hate solid state but can't afford a new amp so if i use the honeytone as a pre-amp and set the overdrive just barely on and when you play loudley you get that very sweet tube-like overdrive.
I have also used it on a Fender Rhodes keyboard and it sound pretty good for practicing and stuff too.

I play with a really old Dano Silvertone i think its about a '62 with two single coil dimarzio pickups.(the same pickups as on the new Rickenbackers). It gives me the really trebely sound i want for funk and the really warm sound i need for Jazz. The distortion is good at low levels but i'm not a huge fan of huge distortion of any kind so don't care to much about my oppinion.
of course alone it still sounds small but better than any amp in its catagory that i've ever heard.

It is very dependable. since it is so light quite often i walk away with my guitar and i come to the end of my chord and it comes crashing down off the top of my other amps. On time it broke and i emailed Danelectro and they said send it back and we'll send you a new one. Fortunately i took it apart and was able to fix it myself. its farlely simple inside and a real no brainer to fix most of the time.

Like i said above they said send it back and we'll give you a new one. They said the same thing when i thought my Daddy-O overdrive pedal died.(the power supply quit)

very good for its price and size and very fun to play woth late at night. I've got alot better at guitar because of its ability to use headphones late at night.
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