Kustom KGA-10

Been covered already

it is a practice amp, so the distorition and tone give you a few options but you're not going to get a lot of depth or variety to the sound.

mine has busted twice (even after repair) and this was wiht minor use. the quality and reliability is mucuh much lower than I expected - even for a cheap practice amp

Kustom is terrible. Didn't even return my kindly worded email.

I've been playing for a few years but drumming semi-pro for much longer.

I don't reccomend. It is not good value for dollar. Mine may have been a lemon but the low revies all around suggest get something else.

Ok, it's a ten watt solid state amp, I know it's not meant to be all singing, all dancing....but it is all lacking.

Input
Headphone jack
Volume
Tone
Gain
Gain switch.

The Overdrive is pretty terrible, even by solid state standards. It's all fizzy and....I got pedal as soon as I knew what they were.

The Tone is also bad. It doesn't seem to do anything.

Volume?
It works, but I play this in the bdedroom, a very small bedroom and it still doesn't get my parents telling me to turn it down.

6 inch speaker.

The knobs are also loose, hence one is missing.

OOOKkk,

Clean, this amp is perfectly acceptable. Very bright, and clear.

As I said, the Overdrive switch is useless.

It's nowhere near loud enough to gig with, but that's not it's purpose, and jamming is hard.

However, despite all this, noise is minimal...odd.

It's breaking on me as I write.

It randomly cuts out on me, and everytime I play I note it crackles.

As I said, it's not a gigging amp due to spec, but even if it was capable, I wouldn't dare.

Know Idea, as I blagged this for free.

(I know, gift horses and that. I am greatful, but it's time I moved on)

Basically, it's ready for scrap.

I would get rock and roll on it's sorry a**e, but it's one solid lump of plastic, and it's wouldn't do it any harm.

If it were stolen, I would roll around on the floor laughing.

Like I said, I got it for free from a guy that owed me a favour, and from that perspective, it gets a ten out of ten for value, but it needs to go.


Someone sell me their Vox Cambridge 30R?

I am deeple ashamed of myself people (see below)... I opened this thing up and found out that the speaker coil was burned up (surprised :D ). I heavily underated a piece of equipment because it was defective. Ill do a small re-review for this thing for the sake of justice.

actually hooked up to an 2x12 cabinet this thing has quite an amazing sound. Lets say it rocks. It has this quite good sounding crunch when being eased on the gain. The clean is nice but not better then any other practise amp out there. When the gain is turned up really high the sound goes to hell. If you are expecting smooth dynamic distortion here, forget it. I enjoyed jamming with this little thing though after the major repairs. Lets say you get alot for the small price. Ohw and it is very loud. EAR shattering loud. Maybe a little bit too loud if you want to practise at home ;) Now it goes for 7. I did not compare with the big stacks that would be unfair.

Surprised the speaker burnd up??!! after what I did to this thing

AHAHAHAHAH Ive tried it out. Fix it yourself. It took it too myself. I was personaly treated. Even received a home made cup of coffee. I was allowed to watch the repairs. I was allowed to choose and... It was cheap horribly cheap ;)

Read below After some repairs this thing doesn't sound too bad at all. Good apractise amp for bargain money. You will get bored of the sound after lets say 3 years though. Once that time comes get yourself a real tube amp

I allready tried to post a serious review before on this amp but somehow it never got posted. At first I didn't want to review this thing but I got annoyed by the fact that people are giving raving 10s and 9s. I hope that a beginner can decide better after I'm finished with writing this.
Ok this amp is extremely limited but on the other hand for its price, a real bargain. It came with a rip of stratocaster from a friend of mine wich I costum painted for him. So he left the guitar and amp at my home for about 3 weeks. I offcourse got courious how this thing plays feels and sounds. It's got, input, phone jacket, volume, gain, tone (tone???). Thats right no active eq. That would reuce the cost with about 10 euro's ;)
It is (surprised !!) solid and yes I love tubes but I also do own solid state amps wich I love. You see solid state is small reliable and cheap. Small speaker rated for 35 watts max (unkown brand). The clipping is done via transistor overdrive wich is very uncommon for practice amps (most of the times clipping is done with the help of diodes shunt to ground). On the other hand you cannot go wrong since there are not too many buttons to turn at. O yeah I almost forgot to mention the second boost channel, it's useless anyway.
Small and very light. Easy to transport and firmly built.

I'm affraid the amp fails in this aspect. Lets say that I've tried about as everything to get a decent usuable sound out of this thing. On its own this thing has the most sterile clean i've ever heard but I can imagine that a very,very,very good guitar would sound good but I don't think a $$$$$ guitar owner will use this thing would he ;)
The overdrive is nearly as nonexsistent. It is a fly attracting buzzzz with absolutely no tone. You can forget about gain sustain and NO it will never ever pick up your harmonics. I tried cranking the power amp on this thing and to soften the tone by using the "very famous" blanket wrapping method. But cranking the power amp turns the sound to shit. If you are looking for this things distortion just take an old walkman plug your guitar in and use its overdrive through the 5mv input of your home stereo ( its cheaper you know). Now I offcourse tried to trow my Digitech GNX-1 in front wich btw has amazing high gain distortion and it turned my amazing distortion to shit too. The thing will start generation of a horrible ear shattering feedback when you slam a pedal in front. Propably there are two things to blame here.
a. The speaker is so crap that even the best amp in the world starts sounding like crap.
b. The transistors used inside this thing are having the worst electronic characteristics that is known to mankind!
Anyways I don't think this thing can give you something that can be called a decent sound. For just 30 more you can get a real good sounding practice amp. I don't know the amp market too well right now but this thing falls into the worst sound category.

Ok this is the most bizarre amp i've ever seen!!!
The amp has been.
a. Trown from a flat building.
b. Drown in a canal
c. kicked, football played, slammed with a baseball bat, used as a stool and table for beer (and the beer felt all over it)
d. Played for 6 hours on full volume
e. Overdriven with 6 pedals in font for about 3 hours.
f. connected with the headphone out on a 100 watt pedal killer amp!
g. stabbed with a screwdriver
h. trown out of my car window
i. and a couple of abuses with cables adapters variacs guitars, pedals.
It survived everything!!!! Maybe this amp has been designed for Nu metal kids that trash everything to pieces. BUt you get the message. If you dare to question this things quality you are a dork.

Who needs costumer support on a thing that can survive a horrible nuclear holocaust. After 2 milion years aliens will ask themself what that black box is drifting in the lava of the sun. Once they fish it out of there theyll power it on and start laughing at how cheap our distortion was. We then would be written out through history as being the largest moron race in the universe. I hope a marshall will survive the destruction of mankind so that the aliens start respecting us for being the best guitar people in the universe.

Time flies and it has been 11 years ago since Ive started dedicating my life on playing that thing we all call the guitar (sometimes I regret it when I see the malmsteem movies). Anyways my amp and guitar collection is very limited since I can't spend $$$$$$ on all the equipment. I just simply built everything myself. Now I can imagine that when the thief comes to my house he can choose. Marshall JCM-800 on steroids, Ibanez valbee (check my overrated review :S ), Aria pro 2 guitar, lots of cables, A firefly amp, digitech GNX-1 and this abomination to the human kind. If he chooses the kustom he will get his justice when he turns the thing on at home. His wife will leave him. His son will commit suicide and all the insects that are hated by the human kind will come flying over at his house. Then his neighbours will call the police because they can't stand the sound and he will get jailed for life because his neighbours died in the meantime. Don't steal this amp it is plane suicide. Ohw and ask mom 20 euros more and buy yourself a serious practice amp. It is not the worst thing Ive heard though. TRY a gorrila. It turns this thing to a proffesional amp.

Good, VERY small practice amplifier. Overdrive and clean channel. Gain, Voice and Volume knobs. Only weights like 9 pounds. :P Very easy to use. Right now the amp is in my closet and I'm not really using it.

Epiphone Les Paul Standard > Boss TU-2 > Noss NS-2 > Peavey Bandit 112

Very low quality amplifier but hey what do you expect from a little 10 watt thing.

Haha... well, it's not broken cuz it's like all in one piece.

Wouldn't suprise me if it would break when I drop it off my bed thought.

Worthless... I tried to email them twice and didn't get anything.

I've been playing for 2 years and I bought this with my first guitar in a small package (The amp is worth $100 new I guess). If it were stolen I wouldn't give a damn. It's in my closet and I don't plan to use it really... Maybe my friend will buy it for practising vocals I'm not sure.

Don't use it other than for pratice.

OKAY, first off, you do indeed get what you pay for!!! I picked this little beauty up for $30, new, you can't go wrong for that. You also have to remember what this little guy is ment for, noodling around in your bedroom, living room, office...ect. I can bring it to a house party play and sing over top of it without any problems. It is LIGHT and can be carted around VERY easily. 3 Knobs (Gain, Voice Volume) 2 channel (clean, overdrive), nice litle amp.

It DOES NOT compare to me 66 Fender Super Reverb, or Marshall AVT50, but hey it cost $30! How can you rate it compared to those 2??? But to other TINY amps....

For the size of this thing it sounds pretty good, I was actually quite amazed with the range of sound as I played with it. The clean is AWSOME, and it crunches up nicely.

Like I said above...it does what it does, don't expect miracles, you can't compare it to a big stack or even a decent combo...but it ain't too bad for its size.

Punches above its weight class!!!(but not much)

Had it for a week....it's not a gigging amp, and I paid $30 of it...enough said.

It's a little bed room buster, won't wake the neigbors, but will ring your ears in a small room. As TINY practice amps go it sounds great. It won't beat a VOX AD15VT, for versatility, but for the sounds it can create it does pretty well, and for a fraction of the price.

For the price I got this thing, I am LAUGHING!!!! And loving it!!!

blah, blah

practice amp, you don't get these for sound quality..

My busted way too quickly. Starting maing funny noises, which went away, then came back and kaput (just as the warranty expired - do you belive it)! And I'm pretty careful with all my gear by the way and it had extremely low hours too, so I it was the amp's poor quality build.

THE WORST EVER. REALLY. I very nicely emailed the customer service department for their help. WHAT DEPARTMENT? No response from them. Even after a follow up email, and then another email to HHI (Kustom's holding company)- I got no response. Not even an acknowledgement. That's pathetic. These guys are just selling junk and making a quick buck!

If it was stolen, I would be a happier man. I think I'm going to take it apart and use it to re-learn soldering!

All the features and specs have been listed many times.

One thing that a lot of people miss in the negative reviews is that this is strictly a bedroom amp. Nobody is pretending its going to be used on gigs, but for a starter or even experienced player, it's pretty useful to keep around.

The things that make this amp worth keeping around are:
1. It has a headphone jack, which my other amp (Peavey Bandit 112)doesnt have.
2. It is small enough to fit in a backpack but loud enough to play with people (not a drummer unless he is brushing).
3. The distortion, which I think sounds awesome, and it surprisingly versatile. Between the gain and voice dials you can create an amazing amount of different sounds. Yes the highest level of gain creates a bit of extra humming and noise, but you even at 3/4 it doesn't and it still gives you plenty of overdrive.

This thing came in a makeshift starter pack with a crappy Strat copy, which I used for the first year I had it. Since then I have used it with a Fender Stratocaster, and also with a bottlecap pickup for my acoustic.

I play blues, rock, punk, classic rock, country, all kinds of different stuff. As I said before, its got some nice overdrive that is really easy to play around with.

It doesn't make too much unwanted noise, and when it does its easy to adjust.

I never use this amp to play very loudly, it's only for playing around in my bedroom, so I can't comment on the speaker.

I use the thing as a footrest when I'm not playing, and it holds up fine in that respect too. The colouring on the front is coming off but I really couldn't care less.

As for gigging, anyone who has ever seen this amp knows how ridiculous that notion is.

No idea

I've been playing for about 2 years. I just made a big move with my other gear, and now I have a Satin Stratocaster and a Peavey Bandit.

If it were stolen or lost, I'd look for it or something comparable. I like having it because the bandit is just insanely loud and sensitive. I can turn this thing on at 4:00am and fiddle around a bit, headphones or not. It has a nice sound and best of all it was dirt cheap.

Bottom line: you get what you pay for, so people shouldn't be so critical of an amp that is tiny and less than $50.

This amp is has 15 watts, distortion/clean switch, headphone jack, and three knobs: volume, distortion and voice. You get what you pay for in most respects. it is only 15 watts, with only 1 voice knob. how much can you get from that? youd be suprised. although its not very versitile, it works. it has a pretty solid construction, i mean for a bedroom amp. i rented this amp, but now have bought my own amp. it is the only amp i rented for somewhere around 6 months, and about once a month, sometimes more i gigged with my compadre as a second guitar. it lasts.

I am also renting a tradition guitar of some sort. i dont know the certain type but its strat style with a humbucker bridge. Iv switched around to a lot of different music. blues, jazz, classic rock sound and as of late ska all fall within the realm. i havent become a tone freak with this guitar because theres not much to adjust. if you want tone variation your most likely going to have to rely on the different pickups and tone on your guitar. for a 15 watt amp though, it does get pretty good sound. pretty damn good, that is, for distortion. distortion gets a nice fuzzy sound and thats what i mainly used it on. the clean however, needs some work. it distorts very easily and gets a harsh sort of sound, not a good smooth clean like id like. its amazing though how the single know on this thing can change it from a tube-ish sound(nothing like a real tube) to a heavy metal sound. for a single knob its pretty impressive.

this thing, as i said before gets as reliable as a bedroom amp can. the first amp i rented i broke from driving too hard. iv toted this thing all over the place and havent had any problems. solid construction.

never crossed that bridge.

iv been playing for somewhere around 2 years solely on this amp. i hate it by know and a peavey bandit's on its way in the mail. its a reliable, solid amp and is a bargain for what the price is, i think around 50 bucks. i got tired of it really fast though becasue its the only amp i have. if it were stolen, the only reason id try to find the person who stole it is to ridicule them.

this is a very basic amp, i use it for bedroom use as my laney stck is far too big to set up for a quick play. It has 2 chanels lead and rythem, plus reverb. I use it for playing blues based rock, so both cannels are used. I also use the line out to plug straight into my computer for recording. his doesnt have all he features you could imagine, but what do you expect for #50, BARGAIN!!

Im using a music man axis sport with p90's. It sounds awsome, obviousely no contest if ou compared to a more expensive amp however after working in musc shops this is the best sounding 10 watt practice amp i have ever heard. Its versitile, you can pley anything from very clean to over the top distortion, t it has an amasing crunch sound in the gains mid range.

I have no problems as yet.

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I havebeen playin for 9 years i own a music man axis sport and a takamine. Also a laney tt50H with Marshall 1912 cabs. If neede i would definately replace this item. This amp is not going tho be a world lader, however for #50 i would recomend this to anyone who was sarting out or wanted a cheap and cheerfull amp for home use or recording! Please note this is a new Kutom amp, not their really crappy old ones. It seems someone has pulled their finger out.