AmpMan Modern 50-watt Guitar Amplifier Pedal Review

The best non tube amp I've ever used.

I have an H&K Grandmaster 36 with the Shogun Mod as my main amp. I just started using this when out and I can say that most times, I cant tell the difference. This little thing is creamy, responsive and even in tone. That spirit mojo whatever it is works. This will be my gigging amp now. It is really truly is an outstanding little amp.

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The Standard of mini amplifier.

I was looking mini amp heads by Friedman, Bogner, and Diezel, then decided to look at the H&K Ampman. Those mini amps demos sound amazing but I liked how this came with 2 channels, Redbox DI, and a Noisegate built in. I choosed the modern because that was the high gain tones I was looking for. Amp tones are subjective but this amp can pretty much cover most high gain sounds of those… read more mini amps and more. I can dial in "Plexi" to "Modern High Gain" in spades by tweaking tone controls and using the very usable built in boost switch. Channel 1 can cover a spectrum of clean sounds and breaks up nice when pushed, It took my JHS Bonsai well. There is too many features to mention beyond this but I have no regrets choosing this over the mini amp heads. I threw in my Keeley Omni reverb in the FX Loop and I was set. I left off half a star due to no reverb or delay, that would've made this un-touchable.

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I love this amp

I've been using this amp for two months and I love its sounds. Talking about features: - RedBox: it's amazing! I can have the more modern cabinet sounds that I really like, and I can have the more classical cabinet sounds to play songs from KISS, Led Zeppelin, AC DC, etc. - FX Loop: I've plugged my phaser and reber in this loop. They've never sound better. Those effects are clearer… read more now. - Two channel switch: amazing idea. Switching from a more silent to a more crunch signal is quite simple, and the quality of the drive in the metal channel makes me in doubt if I should continue using my distortion pedals or not. - The headphone output is excellent when I just want to sit on the floor and practice. Not big deal. Just the headphone, amp and guitar. - The boost pedal is great. It gives me the right volume for solos. - Having the possibility of using the RedBox output or the cabinet output makes me think about getting a Hughes & Kettner cabinet in future. - This amp gives the possibility to play more modern and classical sounds. - The size of this amp is right what I was looking for. It fits in my pedalboard. I have no doubt that this amp will be a constant in my setup for many year. - It's very easy to record using this pedal: I have it connected to my interface from the RedBox output. Easy. And great quality of signal.

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Hughes & Kettner AmpMan 50-watt Floor Amplifier - Modern

Delivery: Flawless, in less than 2 days. Subjective sound quality: Since I have 2 additional different Hughes & Kettner amps (in a slightly higher price range) and the Boss Katana MkII amp (slightly cheaper than the AmpMan 50), herewith their subjective sonic comparison, while playing through a 4x12 cabinet with two Electro-Voice EVM12L Zakk Wylde Black Label (300 watts) and two… read more Celestion Neo 250 Copperback (250 watts) speakers [Sonic Scale: 0 – somewhat vomitogenic sounds such as, for example, many 'dirty sounds' produced by various PRS Sonzera amps; 10 – sounds that are almost impossible to improve; 9-to-1 – sounds that are possible to improve and as the 'assessment number' drops below 3, you probably should not listen to those sounds too much shortly after you've eaten something]: Sound quality: Clean High-gain/Dirty Hughes & Kettner GrandMeister 10 10 Deluxe 40 Hughes & Kettner Black Spirit 200 8-9 9-10 Hughes & Kettner AmpMan 50 7 8-9 Boss Katana Head MkII 8-9 8-9 100-watt Guitar Amp Head Conclusions: If the price of this Chinese-made AmpMan 50 was the same as that of the Boss Katana Head MkII, I would give it 4.5 stars. It sounds pretty decent, although not as good as its more expensive Hughes & Kettner "cousins," which is understandable. I have been playing the 2 more expensive Hughes & Kettner "cousins" (mentioned above) very frequently for quite a long period of time with absolutely no problem [both of them being in the 5-star category, while my custom-made one-off Carol-Ann amp being a 6-star amp :)]. If this AmpMan 50 turns out to be as reliable as the GrandMeister Deluxe 40 or Black Spirit 200, then it probably deserves 4.5 stars. In the past, I bought numerous Chinese-made amps and effects (just to try them, because they were so cheap), but frequently, they lasted only "days or weeks," proving that they were not cheap for nothing…

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