Park G10

Mid 90's Korean made

Shame its not the one with reverb, but I'll find one of those sooner or later...

Plenty of poke for around the house, perfect for practice.
Features have been mentioned before.

Very good sound for a small budget amp, can do clean, a VERY decent cruch and can go ballistic too. Thanx to those 2 cascading gain controls, very nifty feature. Sounds good with my vintage The Paul and my Squier tele. Suitable for all types of music, I play mostly rocky stuff. Takes effects well.

Not noisy at all.

Bought it secondhand, its old now, but looks as good as new and functions flawlessly. The pots are notoriously dodgy, but all is fine on mine.

Nicely built, sturdy little thing. Should bode well for the future.

No idea.

This little amps keeps amazing me and my mates too, it's a shitty little Park, but hey, it sounds the bizz for such a small amp! NOT to be confused with the indian - made efforts produced today, the korean ones are in a different league.
I bought it for silly money off a guy who was emigrating, he just wanted to get rid, so i bagged myself the bargain of the year.
I MUST find the reverb version, it will be my quest, my mission.

I also use a vintage Roland Bolt 30 hybrid combo and an Epiphone valve junior head. Effects are Tech 21 and Boss.

If you find one in decent nick going cheap ( and they generally do ) , buy it. it's a very handy 10 watter to have sitting around, and the sounds are there, believe it or not.

small sold state practice amp. master volume, 2 cascading gain controls, treble/mid/bass. quite simple. unfortunately, only a single channel. still, we're not really going to be using this to gig with, are we? no reverb, either. quite low wattage. only just enough to satisfy even bedroomers on totally clean. the stock speaker is like polystyrene. i replaced mine with a more heavy duty one that i found in an old pioneer hi-fi cab.

this amp is surprisingly versatile. totally clean is left hand gain control in the middle, with the right hand one turned all the way down. then you use the master for overall volume. this may sound strange, but in this mode, it is good as an amplifier for other things. i use it as a sound system for the PC. since it is so easy to move around, being only small.

the dual cascading gains are a huge benefit. at full whack, they give a sustaining fuzz like tone. and if you combine this with the bass turned all the way down, treble and mid all the way up, then you have an alt rock lo-fi kind of tone. if you then put the bass and treble all the way up, with the mid all the way down, then you have metal.

for totally clean, do as mentioned up at the top of this paragraph. but don't expect much volume. in actual fact, this amp can kind of emulate a tube amp, somewhat. turn the master volume all the way up, then turn the right hand gain all the way down. then use the left hand gain as a master volume. as you turn up, it breaks up. it's almost a 'my first toy tube amp' kind of think going on, if you do this. quite fun to drive it up. combine this with bass all the way up and treble/mid halfway, and we've got a really nice bluesy rock kind of tone.

as i said, i replaced the speaker. the one i put in gave it a lot more bottom end. much more full. an upgrade in this department would be good, if you could find one or have one given to you. doesn't have to be anything special. as the stock one is very cheap. so virtually anything out of most decent pre 80's hi-fis will do.

i've had this a very long time. christmas '95, to be precise. never had anything go wrong with it at all. it's been used all the time, since i use it as an amp for my PC. and was used a lot with guitar at full blast too

i have a much louder tube amp now. but i'll keep this. and i sometimes use it for low volume practices. since the tube amp only sounds good when loud, imo.

The G-10 could use a good spring reverb, but I believe that is all it is lacking.

I found this amp in my garage. It belonged to my wife during a passing (I think I'll play guitar) phase. And I never gave it a passing thought, no way it could sound as good as my line 6. Wrong!
This little thing sounds phenomenal when pushed, try turning the two gain knobs to 12 o clock all the eq knobs at full and the master volume to 2 o clock or higher and you will get an amazingly dynamic AC/DC like overdrive. The harder you hit it the crunchier it gets. This little guy also takes to pedals (distortion and effects) amazingly well, in fact if you wanna play heavy metal you'll need a good distortion to step outta ZZ Top/ The Who territory cause the two gains turned all the way up doesn't sound too great.

solid state that sounds this good is a win win situation!

Never dealt with Marshall, never had to!

This is THE only amp in my practice room right now. I've fallen in love with this diminuitive monster. my les paul and my pedal board love it! Marshall is the only company who cares enough to make sure that even their tiny little practice amps have their name on it and should sound good. This amp is proof of solid state done right.

The amp is pretty simple. It's a small practice amp with corner guards that could sustain a small nuclear blast. Just 1 input, with 2 gains, master volume and 3 EQ (bass middle treble). It's pretty light on the features, but 2 gains can give a good range of tones.

I have a Double Fat Strat and an Explorer, so I'm always using a humbucker. Basically, you can't beat the distortion on this small amp. With the two gain knobs, you can go from a slight crunch to superfuzz to bass overdrive (with the bass turned up of course). But distortion is it. There is no clean channel, you simply have to turn the gain down, which makes the amp a lot quiter and looses tonal range. Bottom line: if you play with distortion all the time, then this practice amp is perfect, if you need clean, find someting else. I'd give it a 10 for distortion and 2 for clean...

I bought this amp new when I was in the 7th grade. I just turned 23 and it's still kickin. It's been kicked, knocked over, and moved thousands of miles accross the country. Not a scratch and still sounds the same as the day I bought it. Like I said before: I don't think Ginsu could cut through those corner guards.

Never delt with them.

I've been playing for 10 years now. I just upgraded practice amps to a Fender 112, because I'm playing a lot more clean guitar than I used to. If it were stolen, I would hunt down that person down since the amp carries a lot of sentimental value (first amp and all). The distortion is fantastic, it can take a beating and still rock your socks off, but you can't play clean and loud. I only paid $80 for it back in 1993, so the value is great.

Not sure when it was made, early-mid 90's I think, Park being a subsidiary of Marshall. Basically a very simple 10w solid-state practise combo reminiscient of a mini-Marshall. It only has one channel, but this sports two gain knobs, 3-band EQ (bass,mids,treble) and a master volume knob. One input socket and one headphone jack.

Like many amps this size and age, it does not pack reverb, but as a previous reviewer said, two gains make up for that and I will detail that later. The body is quite solid and it was obviously contructed well. Features a carry handle and detachable AC power plug.

For what it is intended to be, a simple practise amp, it has all the necessary requirements. A line/speaker out would of been good though, but no complaints.

I use this amp with either an ES-335 replica or a Squire Strat running through a Boss RV-2, BD-2 and DS-1. The amp handles single coil pickups and humbuckers nicely, though I'm a fan of the latter. I have to say that this has to be one of the most tonally variable practise combos I have ever used and I put that down to one thing: the twin gains.

Gain 1 produces a slight overdrive, raising the volume more, whilst Gain 2 is a harsher distorted sound, shredding the tone on higher settings. Combine this with my BD-2 (for crunch/slight overdrive/volume boost) and DS-1 (all out distortion) and you've got hundreds of potential combinations.

I play a mix of rhythm and lead in a prog/alt-rock band, influenced by everything from Nirvana to The White Stripes. This amp smokes! It does the Seattle grunge sound but easily skips into a bluesier tone with a few tweaks. It's also quite a loud little beast and I wager it would be easy enough to use over a drummer at practise provided it was elevated.

The clean sound is a bit less remarkable, but I never play clean-clean anyway. With my 335 copy I get a nice full sound from the humbuckers, and almost tube-like overdrive on a decent volume. I've had about four or five practise amps and this one beats them all.

I wouldn't gig with this thing, but if it had a speaker out, I'd be interested to see how it sounded running off a speaker cab, maybe a pair of, or even a single 12".

Looks like it's in great nick for its age.

No warranty, purchased third or fourth hand.

Been playing 7 or so years, seriously in bands over last two. I've got an NZ-made 50w tube head that I run through a 2x12 cab for gigging, the Park is just for bedroom use. I've had something like four or five practise amps ranging from Peavey, Vox, Ashton etc but this is my favorite one to date, because it's got the most "rock" tone of them all i.e. it sounds almost Marshall, because it basically is.

I was turned on to this amp by a bandmate who had one and he got an amazing tone from it, though he was using a Danelectro Fab-Tone and the most suberb Squire Telecaster I've ever played, it coudl rival a real Fender for playability and sound. The best feature on this amp is the twin gains, so much variety in overdrive.

The G10 Mark II which replaced this was nowhere near as good an amp, have played through one and this one beats it hands down. If you want a good bedroom blaster with a bit of variety (will play just about everything, save really heavy metal or thrash), look out for one of these - they should retail for around $50US, which is something like $85NZ.

I've had this amp for about 10 years, and bought it based on a Guitar Player magazine recommendation for a good practice amp. There's not too many features--it gets a real good clean sound (as long as you don't get too loud), and a really good "grunge/metal" distorted sound (again, not too loud). No channel switching, so what you dial in is what you get. A headphone jack comes in handy when you have to be real quiet.

For a tiny practice amp, this thing rocks! I played a Sheraton Epiphone (with Gibson Classic '57s) through it on a clean setting, and it's amazing what 10 watts and an 8" speaker can sound like. It's really a lot better sounding than you might thing by looking at it. The distorted tones sound great, too, if a little "fake." But then again, we're talking about a $70 practice amp.

10 years and no problems, but I don't use it alot, and never gig with it (of course--it's a 10 watt practice amp!)

I've been playing guitar 15 years and have a small music store in my basement. This is my smallest amp (and my only solid state, by the way). I have mostly Fender and Musicman amps, ranging from a 4 watt Vibrochamp to a pair of 130 watt Musicman combos(one all tube, one hybrid), and quite a few in between. If it was stolen, I wouldn't replace it, because I really don't need it. But for a tiny practice amp, it ROCKS. It's also a decent harp amp--I use it as a backup to my '73 Princeton Reverb when I gig out playing harp. Not that it is a true replacement to the Princeton, but you could gig with it if it were miked--it sounds fine!

Small beginner solid state practice bedroom amp.
Has 2 gain knobs (what on earth for, I wonder) and tone control.
Just the one channel, this thing is pretty basic. Does have headphone out, so for real a bedroom amp.
I wish my mom got me the G10R (same thing + reverb) but I wasn't complaining at the time.
This was my first ever guitar amp. My mom bought me this when I was 17, together with a beginner guitar.

I'm putting a 7, because for a beginner amp, this thing is OK, feature-wise.

I had a no-brand Strat-copy (it had a "The Beast" decal on the headstock, scary, huh?). This guitar has three single coil no brand pickups.
Since at that time I had not yet developed "my" style, i was playing just anything on it. This was mostly scales for practicing and some beginner Jimi H. chords. The amp did alright, as I remember. It was kinda loud but not too loud, and mostly distorted. I can't remember ever getting a good clean sound from this baby.
The amp isn't noisy at all, unless you turn up both gains and volume and stand too close with the guitar. It wasn't really quiet either when turned up, but just a slight buzz.
The amp has an OK overdrive sound and an OK distorted sound. The clean is pretty bad.
Overall it was pretty bad, when compared to my current amp.. But that wouldn't be fair. I'm giving it a 6.

I don't see me gigging with this. Ever.
It hasn't broken down, though the potmeters started crackling like mad. My brother has the same amp and his pots are OK. Maybe just the dust i put out..
When I was bored and tried to clean the pots, I might have zapped something though I don't know how. It just buzzes really loudly now...

Overall, when you don't fiddle with it, it'll be fine. My brother's still works and I suppose mine would too, if I hadn't f*cked it up.

Never dealt with Park/Marshall.
I had the pots cleaned out when the warranty ran out, and the shop did it for free, which was really cool because I was 18 and broke at that time. Thank you, Big One, Zwolle, Netherlands.

I've been playing for 10 years now. This amp did what it had to do, it sparked my creativity and got me into playing guitar. Thank you, amp. I am truely grateful for that.
Since then, I have ofcourse replaced this amp with something big and loud. I went from the Park G10 to a JCM900 1x12 combo to a H&K Tube50 to a Bluesbreaker RI. The latter rocks. My. Socks. Yes. The other amps I sold, but this one was still going strong in the bedroom, so I never bothered selling it. Now it is collecting dust in the attic. Poor thing.
Since it was a present from my mother, I never compared it to anything. We just got the cheapest one. This was it.

Overall rating is a 7. It's this high because it has served me well, considering it is a beginner amp. It is this low because it is no more than that, a beginner amp. You get what you see, though, so that's alright.

Dunno when this was made - the other guitarist in the band I play in owns it. From memory it's got two gains, low, mid, hi and a volume. No reverb but the two gains make up for that in my opinion. No channel switching - but it's a small practice amp.

The other guitarist plays through a stock squier telecaster through a danelectro fabtone. Dunno what this is like for clean sounds but for a slighty overdriven sound I've never seen better in a little amp. Goes bloody loud for its size too. I was blown away when I first heard him playing it - it sounded better than the junky Yorkville Stage 90 I owned at the time. I guess it doesn't do a lot of sounds - hence the 7, but what it does do it does very well for a solid state.

I've never heard him say it has broken down. Chances are he would have turfed it if it had. Pots are clean. Dunno if you'd really gig with this.

No idea.

Considering I've seen these around here for NZ$90 (probably about US$55) it's a complete bargain for a learner amp. This thing can be heard above our drummer at practice as long as you lean it back or sit it on a chair.

This is a MORE POWER review.

Being poor and electrically inclined, i decided to mod the thing,as I cannot sell it.

If you can solder this is very easy. In addition to soldering gear, you will need a TL072 chip and chip socket and a TDA2050,with a slightly larger heatsink being advisable. I'm assuming that if you wanted to do this you'ld know enough for me not to have to go into too much detail.

Step1: Remove the god awful JRC4558 [ask any technician what they'd really rather use]from IC1. Solder in chip socket.Place TL072 chip in socket.
Step2: Undo heatsink mount and unsolder the Park's TDA 2030.Replace this with TDA 2050.Replace heatsink and make sure heatsink not is contacting anything..other than the chip.

This mod will also,obviously, apply to MOST amps/devices fitted with a JRC4558 and a 5 Pin Power amp (LM1875/TDA 2030/TDA2003,etc).
In my experience a lot of basic practice amps are fitted with these chips...Marshalls,Vox,Park,Rhino,Fender..the list goes on.

You will thank me. Due to the better performance of the TL and the higher output power of the 2050 the preamp can give a wide range of tone from Fendery clean and also get up into THE TONALITY of a Marshall stack..allowing for the fact that it's a tiny solid state amp.

I'm giving it an 8 as you can get other amps at a similar price [all Parks will be secondhand by now] which have a better sound,but,if you can pick up a G10R for #20-30 and do this to it,you'ld knock the socks off an MG15,which I've played a few times as well.

It's one of the best small SS amps I've heard and certainly THE BEST "10" watt..talking of which the TDA running into the original speaker at 12v should produce approx 14 to 18 Watts RMS.

A speaker change would be needed for full tilt use and a bigger heatsink..

Gain 1 used on its own gets the blues tones up to slight breakup and gain 2 brings in the ZZ Top,Zep,Metallica.

Overall background noise is down and the picking dynamics are better..do not expect it to change into an AC30 though.

Best #6 I've ever spent,apart from on Prophylactics.

Watts generate heat,but,as the new chips are far better spec than the old, I do not forsee any problems..

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Playing 20 or so years,had this 9yrs,Have lots of Gear from top spec companies.This is a good little amp. I'd put this up against an MG15 or similar.

I'd just like to publicly curse a few companies who still use RC4558s instead of better chips.You know who you are,SS amps are enough of a compromise before yer start putting low spec components in..

I blame Ibanez for that damn Pedal and all that talk about whether a JRC4558"D" is better than a JRC4558..PLEASE..GET A CLUE> Use a better chip to start with> To use a bad analogy the response of the 4558 is like a car with a 750cc engine and the TL series like a 2 litre,ie, The TL "picks up" better and doesn't leave a nasty mishmash of background noise behind.

..and the horse you rode in on..

The amp now rates 8 to 9 all round as I do have tube amps,but,this is still a fine practice amp.

its only a practice amp...so not too concerend that its not loaded with features...dunno when it was made, but for the #10 it cost me, good value for money either way! i play rock indie stuff with a les paul, and found this amp sounds top for what i do! im gonna be using it for recording lead guitar parts for my band's tunes...thus lack of output isnt so important as a good sound.

like i said before, im using it with a les paul with standard pick ups and get on fine with it....just building a start so it'll be interesting to see what happens when i start playing with that one. it can be a little noisy with the gain settings on full, but theres an easy solution : turn them down! theres more than enough distortion anyway...i absolutely LOVE the sound this puppy gives out - top marks!

havent had it break down in the 3 days ive had it...so far so good! the pots could use a little attention, but i was expecting this as per the #10 price i paid for it.

not yet...

if something happened to this baby, ive got a yamaha amp i used to use for recording...but i wouldnt, no way. i love this amp to bits!