Kustom KGA-10

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.

It has a "voice" button, which is some sort of equalizer. Turn in to the middle and it 'hollows' out your sound. Great for punk. It also has an overdrive button and volume of course. It's enough for a amp this size.

I'm using this with a Stagg Telecaster (1 single coil and 1 lipstick coil). The sound is pretty good. I've also tried an Inbanez SG on it, with Dimarzio humbucker pickups. This amp definately sounds better with humbuckers.

I was quite suprised how loud this little guy is. If you turn it up to 10, hold your horses. The sound quality starts to suffer is you go above 7, especially the clean channel. The gain channel is pretty damn good. This amp has tons of sustain too, i mean like whoa.

For an amp this size, the sound is impressive.

I've used this amp for a couple of years without any problems. I played alot with it on 10, never caused trouble either. Untill my asshole friend put his bass on it and fucked up the speaker. I'm gonna get a new one of these. I love it.

Never had to contact them.

Great practice and beginner amp. You get a great value for money on this one.

volume voice gain clean/distortion switch very basic it does the job it was intended for.

crap on clean okay on distortion can get varied styles out of it. i play music like green day and blink 182 so it is just the job.

hasnt broke yet

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the amp does what it was meant for. i bought it when i first started playing guitar about a year ago and i bought it because i wanted distiortion and that is what i do with it. i have recently bought a 1960's impact valve head (60 watt) and a set of skytec 300 watt rms pa speakers i now run the kustom through the head and cabs and dont sound half bad but in getting a behringer 300 watt bass head for live gigging as bass is my first instrument. does the job what more do you want.

2 channels (clean, overdrive), gain, master volume and "voice" control. Extremely basic, only good as a starting off amp.

Back when I started to play guitar about 4-5 years ago, I didn't care much. I just wanted to play some metal. I didn't actually start to play my guitar properly till about a year ago, and now I know how bad it sounds.

In the begining, on the cheap crap strat copy by encore that came with it, it sounded good. But now it sounds terrible. The overdrived channel brings up a huge amount of hiss, thats on a low volume (as my room is only small, I dont need it on full whack). It sound crap on full volume too. The clean channel is fair though.

It is actually built well, although after 3 years the amp will start farting, dying and poping.

Well, now I'm a fairly experienced guitarist, although entirely self taught and only play metal (thrash, speed and heavy). I originally thought that this amp was great. But now looking back at it I think its shite. As I said earlier, its only good for a starting amp.

I think anyone should only keep this amp for 3 years max, and then move on to a new one, a Marshall maybe. However I am getting a new amp around october time, I've been looking at the Laney HCM/MXD 30, Marshall MG30DFX and the recent Alesis Spitfire 30 (which I actually like the sound of the most. out of those 2 huge amp names)

very basic, has a clean and distorted channel, voice to tweak the distortion sound. i play blues rock.

i've used it with an epiphone g400 and it sounded like crap. the clean channel is weak and tinny. the distortion sound is terrible and all variations of the 'voice' knob will still give a flat boring sound that will cause listening fatigue very quickly. the little speaker is too crappy to handle the 10 watt amp and so it gets a little extra ugly distortion when it's turned up loud.

well i wouldn't use it at all at a gig. the amp didn't break down when i was using it. however after playing with it at high volumes for a while it seemed to get finicky. high volume also isn't all that high.

never dealt with the customer service.

nobody should pay money to get this amp.

I was given this amp brand new as a gift in 2002. I guess at first i thought it sounded alright, but now i know the sound quality is a POS. Not many features at all, just overdrive and clean channels, and a tone/voice knob.

I have a few guitars but everyone of them sounds like crap running through this amp. (i use a fender strat, gibson sg and an ibanez). There's a lot of noisy high-end stuff and the clean channel is whinny. The distortion on this amp is a little weird, almost too distorted (not in a good way at all) and sounds synthesized. personally i dont really like that tone.

Gigging? really? Hahaha. This amp is quickly drowned out by normal drumming and the first time i tried to turn it up all the way the speaker farted and died. I had to replace it with a good quality speaker (cant remember brand) but at least now i dont have to worry abuot blowing it again.

Never talked to them.

I've been playing for about five years, and right now i'm playing through a Marshall mg100hdfx head into a AVT412 cabinet, and a boss PW-10 pedal (best freakin pedal ever, by the way). If this amp were stolen, i'd laugh at whoever took it and then forget about it. I have more fun playing through my Marshall mini Ms-4.

This amp is as basic as they come. Volume, drive, voice (tone) push-button switches for power & overdrive. The drive pot only works once the overdrive switch is depressed. There's a jack for headphones with a speaker defeat. The one I've got came with a starter kit complete with a truly naff Strat rip-off, but it was adequate for learning the guitar. I bought it from those purveyors of fine musical instruments Argos PLC about 3 years ago. I 'spose this does what it needs to do at the price (I've seen them retail at #45), but a proper 3 band EQ would be useful 'cos you can't mix bass & treble when you've only got one pot. It's 10 watts is adequate for bedroom guitar and entirely moot for headphone use, so no problems with that. No tubes here, obviously, but nobody will be listening anyway (you ain't gonna be gigging with this baby!)

I'm using the Strat-ish that came with the kit, an Epiphone Les Paul standard & recently an Epiphone Zephyr Regent archtop acoustic which is fitted with a single humbucker at the neck. I play anything from Beatles to modern indie rock (quite badly), but rarely use this amp now since I've moved on first to a Kramer K15R & then to a Laney VC50 (serious stuff, that) so I haven't used it for about 2 years other than trying it out with the new guitars. The clean tone is most definitely sheeite - the archtop sounds awful through it, but the drive is pretty decent for such a small speaker (probably 'cos it's a Celestion). It's pretty hissy at high overdrive, and you have to watch where your leads/power packs are sitting 'cos they interfere with the circuitry & create hum. The clean channel starts to distort if you're using humbuckers at anything above 7 on the volume. So far as variety of sound goes, there isn't much apart from when you're using overdrive with single coils, when the difference on the "voice" control is quite noticeable. You get quite a nice grungy grunt using the neck pick up with the tone rolled off on the Strat, and a fairly decent mellow tone with humbuckers and the voice control on high. For feedback, I need to wind everything up and stand at the side, unless I use the archtop when you can get feedback started with a decent fart. Just don't try to play anything musical.

Not much problem here as there's so little to go wrong & the cabinet's as thick as a full size 4 x 12 - I think you could probably drop it from upstairs and only get a scuff. Having said that, the power & gain buttons are a bit flimsy. Switching over to gain once the button popped off & nearly shot up my nose. I glued it back on.

Never dealt with the manufacturers. I don't speak Cantonese.

I've only been at it 3 years but I've ramped up the quality of equipment fairly quickly. I've got a Boss GT3 digital effects floor unit which I can plug 'phones into directly, so don't use the amps unless I'm jamming or rehearsing, in which case it's the Kramer or the Laney. I wouldn't miss the Kustom, but that's not to say it's not competent for the end of the market it's aimed at. I reckon they sell a lot of these at Christmas for all those 12 year old boys who fancy themselves as an axe-man. Keep rattling the bedroom windows, but get yerself an amp with a 3 band EQ & a reverb - it's all you'll need to find out if you can really do it.

Gain, Voice, Volume knobs. Headphone jack. Clean/overdrive switch. For the price about all you could expect

I have a Zion strat, a Fender (mex) Tele, and an Ovation on the electric side of my inventory and all sound great on it. I can get decent clean or decent distortion. If you're looking for the sound of a $500 Marshall go pay $500, but if you want a DECENT practice bedroom amp, look no further.

Not for gigging at all, but definitely seems well constructed. How heavy duty does it have to be to sit in your bedroom?

No idea.

I agree with most of the posts that it has a good distortion/overdrive sound. The hum at high volume is minimal and judging from the equipment that most of the posts mention I'd guess that any problems here are from lack of shielding on their guitars. Most of the reviewers here complain about the clean sound, and I frankly disagree. I play everything from country and cowpunk to metal and 60s and my Tele can coax some sweet clean tones out of this little box. Bottom line: for $45 you can't compare it to a Fender Twin Reverb, however, for $45 this is a good practice amp.

Volume, overdrive, gain, tone, on, and a headphone out are the only things on this amp. The headphone does cut sound to the speaker, which I'm sure is good for practicing. It's only 10w.

I pretty much just played it at home and later I ran through it to another amp so I had more distortion practicing with a punk-ish band. Played one small gig like that. When I let the speaker actually make noise, it was pretty powerful. Not loud enough to gig with, but good enough to practice loudly with. It was a little on the quiet side when used alone playing with drums and bass, but actually not that bad.

I used it with a Fender Fat Strat and played it always distorted and always through the humbucker, so everything I say is based on that. Distortion is actually pretty good on this little amp. It does hum a lot when you turn the gain up high, but while you're playing it doesn't really matter.

It was pretty good for the pop-punk and various harder punk I played with it. I don't know how it would be with other musical styles, especially ones played without distortion. I suspect metal and nu-metal would sound kind of crappy, but I'm not sure.

I never played clean for more than about 2 minutes. Once, I was messing around with the different controls, and a friend said "That sounds really country" when I switched it to clean. I don't think the clean channel is very good, but I'm not the person to ask.

For me, the sound was great.

I didn't exactly abuse this amp, but it got knocked around a bit and traveled with me and was still fine. Pretty dependable, I think. Never did anything weird or died on me.

never needed it

I've been playing about 3 years and this was the first amp I owned. It was stolen this summer and I plan to replace it with a larger combo, but if I needed something small I would probably get another of these. Lately, I've been playing a bass stack which is interesting. I don't recommend it.

I liked that this amp was so compact - I carried it in my suitcase while traveling several times. I almost wish it was a little heavier, because if you walk to far away while you're still plugged in and holding your guitar, it pulls over.

Overall, this amp is definitely worth $50 and served me well. If you play punky stuff and are looking for a little practice amp, I highly recommend this one.

This amp doesn't have much in the way of features...Volume, Gain, Voice (Tone), a headphone jack and a switch to change channels (overdrive/clean)

I use this with a crap strat copy and an Epiphone SG. The clean sound is not very good, and not that loud either. The overdreive, however, is quite good. There's buzzing at whatever volume if you put the gain at max. Nice and loud though, and since I play hard rock/metal, this channel is all I use (either that, or the cleran with a few effects)

It doesn't have much variety of sounds, which isn't good.

THis doesn't have a warranty. I don't think it needs one! THis amp is very tough, considering the treatment it gets from me.

THis is the only amp I have, although I *have* managed to connect it to a good set of speakers, and now it's LOUD. I sometimes use a Korg AX1G on the clean channel.