I can’t EQ these things to sound good for what I’m wanting. Total mud. So I’ll just buy a baritone guitar lol

I’ve been a fan of boss Katana for 3 years or so. It’s a great practice tool and bang for your buck for entry level to semi pro. The cleans kind of suck without deep editing but it has a great sound profile. I have yet to gig with one but the new Gen 3 (just ordered )I feel is going to be a tool I’ll gig with or take to jams. The more we go quiet stage the more it doesn’t matter if you have tube or digital. Just whatever works for you and your situation.

The katana is only digital trash in the literal sense that they will become e waste because they cannot be repaired. They’re made like disposable consumer electronics not like tools people keep for life like a tube amp. This is part of why I think the Katana head is their best offering. You’re not gonna be keeping this thing forever because it’ll almost certainly break eventually. So you only have to replace half your amp not the whole amp+cab. It’s pretty undeniable at this point they sound great.

I recently acquired a jet js400 and must admit that it has one of the most comfortable necks I’ve ever played. The pickups on their lower models, like the 300,400 and through to the 500 models, I believe, have ceramic pickups, which can be a little microphonic, but as you demonstrate,sound really good. Sire guitars feel like an upmarket version of the Jet range, particularly when comparing the S7 models, but as you mention, they are well over twice the price. The one thing I must admit though, is that the quality of the guitars on offer £ for£ these days, far exceeds anything that was available, 10,20,30, or even 40 years ago!. Please keep up the good work with your no nonsense reviews and amazing dexterity, GB

Boss Katana 100 speaker didn’t do it for me - Gen 3 sounded better. Either would suffice for gigging.

How are you going to do a full-length review of a guitar, and not put a link to it in the description?😮

I have the Artist mk ii combo. Sold my Fender tube amps and went through Orange, Blackstar etc! Boss is the most reliable,easy to use great sounding amp I’ve owned. Agree that if you just use the panel on the amp it’s less distracting than other modellers (PG Spark) and I spend more time playing than tinkering! It’s now my go to (only) amp and does everything well!

Beatles forever❤❤❤❤

What should be better Boss me-90 or Nux mg-30?

I love JNC’s playing, he’s a supremely talented guitarist. But every time I look at YT there’s yet another video from him that seems to be about the most random of subjects. It’s really starting to feel like this YT channel has descended to the ranks of those that exist purely to push out content and get as many viewers as possible. You’re better than that!

If you want to be a gear snob, then of course a popular solid state solution like the Katana is going to raise your eyebrows, but if you were to run a Fender Deluxe reverb alongside a Katana 100 watt cabinet model behind a curtain and have the Clean setting and green light reverb on your Katana you would be hard pressed to hear much difference: same headroom, same glassy clean tones. It all depends on how willing you are to live with the Katana and get to know its quirks, but you have a wonderful usable and practical amp in this Katana, that is the truth. They actually came up with something guitar players can use in any setting.

I have a JS 800 (the reliced Strat) and had to replace tuners and bridge saddles and the pickup selector which broke I don’t consider it a good deal

but for the price point, you can get into gibsons line up...

Nobody listening will care if its got tubes in it or not

Nothing wrong with digital Tonex Kemper Player and Cortex are all great examples of 2024 tech so why does the Boss sound like something from 2010.

I've never heard anyone say that...even tube snobs...they go out and buy one..lol

I have two Gen 2 artists...Im using them for my outside Stereos in a w/d/w...whats my center dry? It's so good,,, I've been really pleased....my center is Blackstar Amped 3. I thought I'd go with the Gen3 Artist when its released but I'm chuffed to bits with the Amped 3, its just really, really good.

I have the MK2 50 with the Dual Wield speaker adaptor(£25 on eBay), so I can run in it into my Zilla cab with V30’s, or run in as standard for that added versatility. I love the thing! I created my own Twin Clean Sneaky Amp patch recently and it sounds great. I have been down the rabbit hole of buying expensive pedals and amps, and I think to myself, is it really worth it? Especially when the Katana sounds so good in its own right, and the versatility of the amp is pretty mind blowing when you think about it. No, it’s not digital trash, give your head a wobble.

I heard a guitarist use one of these live on the same stage that I had just come off of, and I can tell you, it was one of the worst guitar tones I’ve ever heard in my life, and there was no helping it. Fine for the bedroom, terrible on stage.

I used to teach in-person lessons at a store and often used a 50w Katana. I was perfectly happy with its mid-gain and clean tones but I had a hard time dialing the high-gain tones how I like. If I made a tight rhythm sound the high-end would always be harsher/fizzier than I wanted. It just doesn't sound like my markV25 head (few other amps do), but I wouldn't expect it to at a fraction of the price. That being said, I could get by with a katana live in a pinch and I don't think many would notice. Both will sound good if I play good, and sound bad if I play bad. Also, you mentioned GAMMA amps. I played one of those for lessons a bit too and loved the simplicity, plus it sounded great for what it is.

PLAYER POLL. Ok you’re no longer just a bedroom guitarist. First band gigging once a week playing covers from 70’s to modern era rock. You have no gear but you can choose one of the following options, which do you choose? 1: 4 new guitars from the low to mid level range of Squier and Epiphone, standard gig bags. A new 50 watt Katana and floor controller. 2: Choice of 1 secondhand USA made guitar built after 2010 a few dings but in perfect working order with original hard case. Strat or Tele or Gibson LP. A secondhand Fender Deluxe Reverb reissue and $300 USD of secondhand pedals. 3: You spend it all on new tattoos.

Compared to peavey rage & other cheap practice amps when I was coming up I would have killed for an amp like this

Paul McCartney was talking about them years ago :)

I recently came into some cash and bought two Gibson sg’s. A sg special with p90’s and a 60’s tribute model. Sunk 2500 bucks into those. I got them because I bought an Ibanez at 120 sg copy for 200 bucks and loved it… a month later and the Gibsons are being returned. Branding is BS. Go to a store and pick up every damn guitar in your budget that you have some interest in. You never know what you’ll bond with until you pick it up.

I've got the 1st gen Katana head and it's going on 8 years now of being my favorite amp. Just got done playing it for about an hour and couldn't be happier with it. It's hands down the best $200 I ever spent.

First, amazing playing! 🙌 And to me, hands down, the Fender! Man those player series are awesome! It’s hard to believe. I have a few hi end strats and other guitars and I got a player series and I freaking LOVE that thing. Mine is a two pieces alder body in sunburst and maple neck. The neck is super comfortable and the pickups sound great. Just put locking tuners and upgraded the bridge. I’m even thinking on installing an ilitch silent circuit. That’s how much I like it. Thanks for the video!

I HAD to bought 2. The blue tele and the HSS Strat in olympic white. For the money, I'm still trying to figure out if If I'm going to buy the regular Strat in sunburst.

who says??? who cares - everyone has there likes/dislikes

Digital Trash..... Tell that to all the Kemper Profiler users. Oh and any effects pedal for that matter.

People who still think the Katana is trash should go check The Studio Rats channel where Paul gets the Katana to sound like several of their more expensive and heavier amps. And he asks, "Is that amp really worth 3,000 quid more than the Katana?"

One of the best Tele’s available.

You have said avoid the 59 because the neck is chunky at 13;05 but the title say 58, so which is fatter?

Digital trash? No. High quality amplifier? Yes.

I have an '09 first run left handed Ibanez JS 1200L. Absolutely love it. John, you should one of the hardtail Ibanez JS models

Yess i want this preset , how can i buy for helix floor

stellar playing man.

Can't make everyone happy. Let them play what they want. They don't have to buy it. IMHO they are missing out.

Looking for an affordable relic strat to modify, if yiu get chancw i wiuld love to hear what you think about yhe Vintage icon V6H

Are those presets in the Gumroad folder? I just can seem to find them? Anyone? Thnx!!

What do you mean by "set your audio interface to minimum"? You mean "0"? You mean "something less than 0"? I usually play through a Neural DSP Quad Cortex live, using an ESP Burnt Tiger guitar that has a single, Seymour Duncan double humbucker. So following the companies previous advice, I typically have my Input set to around +10 for that guitar, and even higher for some of my other guitars that have weaker pickups. I am uncertain as to what your saying by set your Input to minimum

I’ve got more compliments on my sound from “ digital trash” than tube amps

Trying to find this song transcription in your patreon. Hope it is there!

You went to project music and show a screenshot of gear for music. Whats all that about

crikey this kid can play the guitar

I dont think anyone had ever said that in fact the Katanas are well known to be an excellent sounding relatively affordable amp...

Marshall's problem is the same as Fender's... they now build "tube" amps that look like a desktop computer inside. Full of flimsy ribbon cable, surface mounted components, transistors everywhere, half sized pcb mounted control pots, etc etc. It's cheap junk, and they're charging premium prices and banking on the consumer buying the name brand and being too dumb to know what's inside. I build my own amps. Get a Champ kit if you're starting out.

A comparison with a Roland JC-40 and analog drive pedals would be interesting

These are some of the best tones I've heard on the channel. Between this and the pro reverb you've got some stellar tones.

Out of aggravation & fed up with being fed up, I went from a GT Core to an HX Stomp. I was happy (even w/the usual learning curve frustration). After 2 months, I wish I'd not gotten rid of my Core & I'm working on a plan to cop another one. I can't express how stupid I feel every time I look at the confusing color scheme on the Stomp interface & editor. Those damn ugly glowing flying saucers under the footswitches! Gag. Coming from the old school days of mainframe computers, i love & understood Boss's reason for their display. The Stomp's colors are ridiculous; it's kindergarten level appeal at best. And it's the reason for the ridiculous high power requirements for helix stuff. All the different colors are not intuitive, it's downright silly. I hope Boss doesn't switch to the GX interface on everything going forward, unless of course the user can change the color back to the way the GT Core looks. I don't need 5000 amps & 50,000 effects pedal models. Frick!! I'm so tired of this Stomp: I went from a tool to a toy.

The only people hating on the Boss Katana are the tube snobs. They hate Katana because they know it sounds great, it's affordable, and it doesn't have tubes. That's why they hate it.