Was curious to see what an amp at this price would be like. Well. Betting there isn't another one at this price that would come close. Amp is well constructed and looks good too. And yes it is plenty loud for what it is intended to be. Overdrive feature is nice....would be most excellent if it had a little reverb but feel guilty even saying that. For way less than dinner and cocktails you get a kick ass little amp.

When I saw this "Stage Right" on sale I became intrigued. I studied the specs and it had all of the characteristics that could possibly make it adequate for amplified Blues Harmonica. The frequency range was in the right range 70 Hz to 10KHz that's close to a harmonica's dynamic range of about 50 to 5000 kHz. The other factor was that it had 2 channels, one clean and the other was an overdrive channel. it also came with a 1x8" speaker of unknown origin but that's not what's important; it's the size of the speaker that's important.

This little amp is a dry amp, it has no effects save for an "overdrive" channel with a gain control and volume knobs for attenuation. I was surprised at the raunchiness and punchiness of the compression I was getting with the "overdrive" channel switched in and the gain turned up to just a hair over 2. The volume had to be raised to about 10 however in order to get the amp to clip as you have to get a good airtight seal on the mic, you're using in order to overdrive the mic element so that amp would clip. Once you do that the amp comes to life it has that compressed gravely crunchy "Little Walter" sound that every Blues harp player wants.

But be careful if your cupping hand technique is faulty you will get feedback. You have to create and airtight seal around your mic. Having a line out is great because being a 20-Watt amp it only puts out max 20 Watts RMS. That makes it possible via the line out to go through a PA mixing board and do small club gigs. All in all, not a bad $60 bucks spent on a "Blues Harp Amp". You can always add pedals to the amp to get effects and all that but me I'm not a pedal guy. I only have one; the "Harp Break" Pedal by Lone Wolf Productions and I'm going to try that with the "clean" channel and see what I get out of it. My guess is that I'll gain some overhead and reduced feedback and maybe a slightly muffled crunch and breakup which is actually a good thing. This little amp for a Harp Player is not a bad deal at all.

Works well for low output practice . Hey it is what it is. I keep it low and clean and mic it up. Then works well. Glad I bought it.

Great amp at a great price ... Love the sound and price point.

Great little amp for the price

Can?t beat the Price. Bought one for Church and One for my Classroom.

Good little practice amp so far. Does what it needs to do for the money and a young lady learning how to play Freebird.

Very nice and sturdy amp. 20W is plenty loud. The only negative I would say about this amp is the overdrive is over amplified? Not sure what the correct term is, but I barely set it to 3 on a scale from 1-10 and it sounds overpowered already. Obviously you can adjust for it, so not a big deal.

Overall, bought it as a combo and it is definitely worth the buy.

The amps circuitry is very nice tonally, however its speaker and 3 band eq need improvement. if you get this amp, know that the speaker is too bassy and high pitches are awful.

so if you replace the speaker and play around alot with the eq till its acceptable. its a nice tone overall.

cabinet construction is solid.

gets loud if you want.

good beginner amp or for others with the speaker upgrade.

I put a jensen special design in mine, nice tones.

Nice quality and clarity.