HOTONEHeart Attack Mini Guitar Amplifier Head, 5 Watt

I'm building a small combo just for fun summer project; this amp was recommended by friend. The very 1st youtube review, guy with ALOT of followers, is super negative; he totally slams this amp. He hooks it up to a 4x12 cabinet to test 🤦‍♂️I found a review vid where someone put the time effort into getting the most out of this amp and its really really great for the size and solid state. When you consider the price thats even better.This amp is a two-trick pony; clean, and crunch. In my opinion that's it; the super high distortion doesn't sound good at all. BUT... the clean and crunch sound ridiculously good for what this amp is, AND it takes OD pedals extremely well! I'm going to pair this with an eminence 6.5" driver in an open back cab that i'm building. When i tested it i hooked it up to celestion 12T-100 and eminence "special design" (for fender); both 1x12 open back cabs.When trying pedals i had it going direct to board and out through studio monitors. Clean with verb and delay is fantastic (for what the amp is) thru fx loop. At one point with klon clone and SC strat, probably an hour just jammin; sounds really good. Surprisingly decent guitar vol rolloff response for a modeler imo.Personally i like OD into input; not through fx loop. But i did test and i think most people would think its fine.This doesn't compare to an actual tube amp. If you want a tube amp then get one.I don't know who this is marketed toward (probably people way younger than me); i guess it might be useful on the floor board, but i just don't know how.

I love it! This little beast is perfect for practice. I’m using professional headphones and the sound is great. I streamed drum tracks through my iPad and was able to mix with the iPad volume and gain control.It’s a great practice tool (I can play plugged in without bugging the family!). AND I plugged it into a 2x10 4ohm cabinet and it pushed that too!! 5w won’t blow the ceiling off but it can be heard!Pros:SIZE: It’s the size of a guitar pedal! Hand in pic for scale. Now instead of a huge amp on the floor, I have this on my bookcase.TONE: the eq works great!SOUND: clear and I can tell the difference from bass to bass.AUX IN & HEADPHONE JACK: 3.5mm! No adaptors necessary!Cons:Size: gets crowded quick with all the cables, and the knobs are small, so if you have thick fingers, be aware!A little “hissy”, but that could be my cable, house wiring, or any myriad of reasons.Cord: a little short, but it is a grounded 18v adaptor and it’s pretty compact.Side note- product picture has tan knobs and mine were black. A little nit-picky, but I do like the tan.Summary: if you want a compact practice amp that has great tone, this is great!! I showed it to my friend who’s a pro bass player and he ordered one too. Great features, great sound, great price. I don’t think you’ll be disappointed!

I have a small home studio and I wanted to have the ability to swap out amp tones without having to lug out a big head or a combo. i needed to be able to plug into my I/O and on to my DAW.I like heavy bass tones and wanted something that would be clean but deep with an option to overdrive like tubes might. Digital often sounds lacking to me and before the days of digital we tried to get that tube sound with solid state. Rectifiers took the place of tubes and had much of the warmth of tubes and could be made more portable, lighter, and cheaper, even with shipping from Japan! That’s what we have here, solid state, and while it’s not tubes, it’s also not digital.The Thunder bass amp has good tone, simple operation, converts to line impedance (via the headphone output), is capable of driving a decent speaker cabinet and sounds pretty damned descent while doing so.I currently own this and The British Vox clone they make and i would highly recommend each of them. I myself will be purchasing others that they also make.great for rehearsal, apt dwellers, studios with limited space, pretty much anywhere you might use a practice amp. i could see this being a viable option for small club gigs also. It’s only 5 watts but honestly you don’t always need more. this will still make your wife or mom tell you to turn it down.