Kustom KGA-10

unsure when made. play christian rock/metal, heavy metal.
2 channels ,clean and overdrive switch. input and headphone jack, volume, gain, and voice? controls. easy carry leather handle. Use it mainly as a jam amp for the bedroom so the 10 watt/30 peak output is just fine. paid $80 new.

right now I play through a Davison LP copy (installed vintage Wilkinson PAF's and might replace wiring and pots, just to say that I own CTS pots).The clean channel is like liquid joy, sharp and pristine. The overdrive needs to be played with considering the "voice" control which for lack of better description of it's function, is to say it adds BITE to whatever you are playing, and yes after tweaking the "voice" up, with volume set at half (use your guitar's volume) and gain set to 3/4 and an awesome (close to Marshall) distortion is possible. Follow my settings and you wont be sorry. If on clean channel the "voice" adds depth, so turn up the volume (and your guitars) and play some nice country and western music or turn the voice down and experience a case of the blues (music).

If I was gigging at present no, unless I could mic it up, run it through an external pre-amp and into the boards then to the speakers, it could work. Several people have left bad reviews but mine has survived being around my autistic child. Everything is tight, wiring sheilded and very professional. have had no problems. For those who left a bad review are you sure you did not actually purchase a Hong Kong backroom knock-off? Mine is as solid as you would expect from a company like Kustom.

never had a problem so why would I bother them. I think warranty was one year (its been three I think).

played off and on since grade school. I would definately get another if need/want arose. Reverb would have been nice on this but overall cant complain. The best feature I would venture say it the "voice" control. Play around with this control first, figure out the depth and bite it can add, then once this is fiqured out it should be no problem setting your personal settings to get the sound you are looking for.

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!!!

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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.

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.

Nothing else you don't have to know, but the specifications. Those reads on down of the side.

It hasn't so much of features. But it can produce much different style sound. I'm sure I keep it atleast a practice amp.

I use a strat-copy named "excel" (it's just a cover name of some company). That guitar is peace of shit! I'm fucking pissed of with the guitar. But the amp that came with the guitar... Oh yeah, that something different :).

Those who wrote those reviews on down are right; clean channel is the weakest link of the amp. But but, alltough I don't play so much on clean. 90% of my playing is through the distortion. That sound good.

The amp is louder than hell! I can't believe my eyes (and ears) when I first time turned the fuckin' volume to the max! It rock's the earth. :)

Well, to be honest, I gave it 7. It's not the best, but it has much better gain than crate gx-15r!

It sounds much better with humbucker than single-coil.

It hasn't ever do anything wrong. Allways do what I command it to do!

I hasn't need warranty. And I will not need it!

I have playing with this amp since last christmas. If it were stolen, I would buy same amp, or bigger (depends on money).

10-Fantastic value, for that price!

I brought this amp in 2002.
It is a 10 watt practice amp but gets as loud a a 15 watt.
It has Switchable overdrive plus gain and voice controls for the overdrive. IT DOES NOT HAVE AN EQUALIZER!!!!

The clean sound is ABSOULUTE SH*T and to make things worse it has no equalizer. The Overdrive is very good and you can mess around with the Gain and Voice controls to get everything from rock to metal.

I have had no problems with it at all.

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A good choice for a beginner or someone looking for a half decent practice amp.

Volume,Gain,voice,overdrivebutton,headphoneinput. what can you expect its a practice amp

It sounds Awesome(if you keep it of clean channel), I play heavy rock stuff and it handles it fine.Its got a bright sound that annoys me a bit but oh well it was cheap.It loud as to!

This amp is solid as i've droped a couple of times andstill its going i don't know if i could break without trying.

Theve got a webpage

I have been playing for almost 1 year if l this amp was stolen i would not by another(or any 10 watt)I love its dirty sound but whish clean was a bit cleaner

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I wrote the latest review for this thing, and forgot to mention something.. I put this amp on the clean for the first time recently.. and it is HORRIBLE clean. It sounds tinny, and weak. The volume is pathetic. If you like clean, don't touch this amp. It's HORRIBLE clean.

Volume/Tone/Gain controls
10 watts
overdrive switch
headphones out

Limited on the features, but it's cheap.

Actually, this thing surprised me, I was looking for a nice cheap amp to haul around with me, and for $50 didn't expect much. This thing actually has a descent range of metally ballsy distortions, some (not much) low end, and can get loud enough to fill a room. Although in my opinion it's a little too hummy on overdrive. I play a cheapo lotus les paul special copy, and a mexicano fat strat through it. The lotus sounds like ass through it, but it's an ass like guitar, the strat sounds pretty good. For $50 it's pretty decent.

Oh and I forgot, this thing has MAJOR sustain, best sustain I've ever seen on any amp under $200.

Seems well built. I don't tend to kick the shit out of my stuff.. so you know.

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Nice cheap amp, buy it for the kids.

Made in 2000, Channel Switching, Headphones, Gain, Voice and Volume controls. Best small practice amp I have played through for under $100. Would be cool if it had some reverb but that would be asking to much for the price of $49. This amp can cover all types of rock. ALL OF THESE RATINGS ARE BASED ON THE FACT THAT IT WAS $49

I am using a EVH Ernie Ball Musicman, American Standard Strat, ESP, and Yamaha with this amp and it is amazing how much tone is in the little thing. All have dual humbuckers except for the Fender. The louder you turn it the more it sounds like a tube amp. I don't know if this is normal but my gain knob has like an 11 position on it. When you turn the gain past the highest mark even at low volume it starts to whistle and is very sensitive. That is the only time it is ever overly noisy except for the normal full gain hiss. "I have a 5150 stack if you want to talk about noise look no farther" Has great bass and a great clean channel for its size.

Too soon to tell have only logged about 5 hard hours on it. Was very surprised that there were no rattles and all the screws were tight (can you tell I owned a Crate practice amp before this one?). At least on mine it looks like they paid attention to details, can't find any flaws. Hate to use the word gig with this amp, it would be a comedy show but if you put a mike in front of the thing why wouldn't it work for a gig. 3 year warranty

Never talked to Kustom but I purchased it from Musician's Friend and added their $9 warranty which covers everything on the amp for 1 year past its normal warranty. That makes 4 years of abuse...

A very nice amp for a beginner or even a portable for a more expreienced player. The main reason I got the thing was it does not sound as small as it is, has great tone, great distortion for something you can pick up with 2 fingers and throw in the car.

Kustom KGA10, made in 1999 in China. Simple controls volume, voice and gain with a distortion switch. Headphone jack, 6.5" speaker round out the features. Could use a 2 or 3 band EQ but hey $49.

I play a LP copy and a custom whatchamcallit(suber s body, 2 HB,Jackson neck)and a few acoustic electrics. This amp sounds incredible. The distortion isn't very good but show me a good amp distrtion!! It has a very clean and solid sound for an amp of this size. I have had Crate and Fender Twin amps in the past and this little box sounds better clean. It is only a practice amp though, but it has good volume for 10 watts. The distortion has only a mild OD effect. I played every amp in the store in the $40 to $60 range. The Gorilla was terrible, The Johnson was ok and we need to sensor the comments for the Hondo. Have to go with an 8 because the OD sucks.

The case is very sturdy. I have played with it 2 to 3 hours straight with no let down. Comes with 3 year warranty but doubt that I'll ever need it. I'll give a nine since I've only had it acouple of months.

Nver had to deal with the company. This is the same company that makes BC Rich guitars and in the past their support has been respectable. Again 3 year warranty. I may go for one of the 65 watt combos next.

I have been playing for over 20 years. In a small practice amp there is no other one that comes close to the quality and sound of this amp except for the horrible OD. If stolen I would go for the KGA16 for $20 more just for the EQ and Celestion speaker. Gorilla id supposed to be king of the practice amps, NOT!! The whole Kustom line was new this year, can't wait to try a Tuck & Roll full stack!!

gain... voice... overdrive (distortion)... volume... On/Off button...

emmm... good.. pretty loud for a tiny small amp

Its not a bad amp... its only good for practicing... BUT one major problem which i experienced with this amp... i had it for about a month and when i had it playing for more than one hour or so suddenly this wissing noise (or what ever you call it) came across... i dont know what is causing it... it isn't from my guitar neither the cables because i have checked my guitar and cables with other amps... the noise is still there even when i have the "overdrive" button (distortion) on... so if you dont want to have an annoying noise on your amp whenever you are playing, DONT buy this... (one thig: i dont know if this problem has happened in any other KGA-10 Kustom amps... cause i dont know anyone else who has one so i could check...) save your money and buy a better amp! and not kustom... (even though i still have it and still use it! ;))

never dealt with the company... i did try to get it repaired by the reseller i bought it from... but i actually forgot about it since the reseller was miles away...

It is a 10-watt solid state practice amp.It is got overdrive,headphone jack,three knobs:volume,gain(for overdrive) and voice(tone,that is what it really is.Very good for 50 dollars.

Now,I use a cheap Strat copy with this amp,and it sounds ok.It does'n sound excellent clean,but it might be my cheap guitar.....I don't like the overdrive much,but it is useble....The area,where it is excells however is distortion.I use Rogue dst-5 with it...Awesome....It screams like hell.If you use an overdrive at the same time the sound is just wonderful....It also could get very loud,I played through it in my school's lunchroom (could easily fit over 150 people) and it is got more than enough volume for a gig there...If only it sounded better clean....I recall the distortion sound and just gotta give it a high grade...

I've had it for 4-5 month already,nothing so far...
The jack which connects amp with a power supply cord got a little loose and sometimes (after not using it for a while)I got to move it a little before the ON light ignites,no big deal.Seems solid.Once When I was coming back from a practice session of our band I slammed it pretty hard on the bus(I had four beers behorehand:))Nothing happened to it.

never dealt and hopefully never will.

here is the thing.I bought it because I got tired of acoustics and was broke at that time.Otherwise,throw in another 50 and get a Vox Pathfinder....It is better....But if 50 is all you got,get this one.It is wprth the money,it is just the whole idea about an amp for 50 bucks.
P.S.It is really not heavy and easy to carry....Our bass guitarist is going thruogh hell,dragging around his Crate BFX-15

This 10 watt solid state combo amp looks similar to Kustom's KLA 10, and is pretty barren of features even for a practice amp. Three knobs: Gain, Voice, and Volume. There is an overdrive feature that is totally unusable even for bedroom jamming. Headphone jack too. The best feature: a power off button.

This thing only cost $50, but I've heard better sounds out of those handheld sized mini amps. Quite often if you play the e and B together with distortion or overdrive, it will bleed together and sound like a whistle. The clean channel will distort at about 6 on the volume. Unfortunately, the thing sounds like crap no matter what you use with it. You could buy the best guitar and pedal and it would still sound like crap. The overdrive is muddy and sounds like...ass. That's the only way I can really think of to describe it.

Well, I guess this is one area where it excels. No matter what evil torment I subject it to (and I have done some nasty things to it), it still keeps its original crappy tone without 'crapping out'. (please excuse the pun)

I haven't dealt with customer support. If there was a problem with it I'd probably just use it as a footrest.

It may seem I'm being pretty harsh on this thing considering that it's a 10 watt solid state combo amp, but really, this thing isn't even worth $50. Save up a little more for a good practice amp (maybe about $50 more) or just get a cheaper mini amp. The sounds this thing makes are not very musical at all. If it were stolen I would be pissed that I wasn't able to resale it to some unsuspecting person for $25. In my opinion this amp is a total waste of money even for a beginner.