5MM 2.5-watt Guitar Amplifier Pedal Review

Amp in a pedal

This baby rivals my tube amps! Starts off clean with head room then becomes crunchy at 9 o'clock….. and loud! I use a 5 watt power attenuator with it. Normal is dark, but not overly so…..bright adds some bite and gain. Bought for at home practice, but I believe this can be used for band practice or a small gig. 70s gain in the neighborhood of KIZZ or Thin Lizzy for 70 bucks!

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Perfect size

This is a loud little amp, perfect size for my practice room, I don't have to keep my 100w amp head on the lowest possible volume.. still can only use this at 1/4 to 1/2 volume, I didn't think 2.5w was that loud. Sounds good with my pedals and effx board. Fits right on the pedalboard.. Happy.

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Works great with multi effects pedal preamp simulation

I bought this pedal to hook up my Firehawk FX directly to my Princeton's speaker and simulate using other amplifiers with my it. It works great since it lets me bypass the preamp on the Princeton and I can get more true to life amp simulations and is plenty loud. I tend to use normal mode the most since the Jensen C10R speaker is already really bright but overall, I'm very pleased… read more with this power amp.

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Nice sound very small foot print

I needed small amp to power a second speaker for a clean sound, this amp was cheaper then a replacement transformer for my old amp. It sounds pretty good real quite.

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2.5 Watts Of Excellent Tone

As stated in my title this Electro Harmonix 5mm pedal has tube like tone and feel. I did run it by itself for just a moment before I plugged into a Metal Muff into a Holy Grail Neo reverb pedal into the 5mm and it sounds amazing..putting the Metal Muffs distortion knob at 3pm and the volume full on turning the 5mm's volume to about 9am the sound comes on and it gets loud quick.… read more The single notes are round and juicy and chords retain their clarity and have a lot of punch, during palm muting it doesn't get muddy and pushes the single 12" Celestion G12T-75 hard and not flubby,lots of punch and growl. I did try another distortion pedal,a Modtone High Gainer in place of the Metal Muff and the results were close to what I described with the Metal Muff..switching to my stock EVH 2-12" speaker cabinet with and running the 2 distortion pedals with the same settings I was able to crank the volume to about halfway and I was surprised at how this 2.5 watt pedal really pushed the speakers for maximum tone and the feel of the strings is very lively..just sweet sounding. I mainly play higher gain distortion so I don't really have much to say about just using the pedal by itself but for a brief moment before I kicked on the distortion pedals the volume and sound was nice and clean.. I can recommend this pedal if needing a pedal board rig to play at home or carry it around with you,it has a good amount of volume,even for just 2.5 watts. To finish off here I couldn't get this gear without the help on my sales rep Shaka Dhladhla ext #1667..I have been with Shaka as my sales rep for 2+ years now and he is an awesome person to deal with..he is up to date with lots of good info on the gear I need and always follows up with my purchase(s) and makes sure that I am happy with my new gear and if any problems ever arise to let him know and he will take care of anything quick and professionally,and I can't ask for a better person to deal with !

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