Guitar Amplifiers > Engel Guitar Amplifiers

Advantages: Tone, Functions, Portability
Disadvantages: looks... Only cause I like retro

Heres an amp that can simply do it all and do it all simply. Front of amp.. 1 input, Clean channel Knob, Bright switch, Lead pre-amp gain, Bass, Middle, treble, Lead presence, Reverb, Lead Volume, Gain Hi/Low, Clean/Lead Selector, Master Volume, Standby, Power. Back of amp..Footswitch Port(mulifunctional, Footswitch input 1Clean/Lead Hi/Low Gain, Footswitch input 2 Reverb/VLS, FX snd and return, FX level, Speaker out 8 ohm 16 ohm, ground lift, ...
...sound that crunches up nicely with the gain button on. the Lead chanel can be hi or low gain giving modern and vintage overdrives and distortions. The spring reverb is as good as any fender i have owned. Rated at 50 watts all valve, its plenty loud enough for most applications. Controllability... with the custom footswitch any combination of setting can be achieved at the push of a button but these are expensive. I use 2x 2way footswitches that ... Read review

Advantages: Good bang for buck
Disadvantages: Effects are pretty poor and overall sound isn't great.

Not the greatest amp, althought it does the job. I was sold this when I was shown it by a sales rep in my local music store. It seemed awesome at the time I was just wowed over by the guys skill more than anything. Anyway got it home and was pretty happy with it. For a 15W amp its LOUD, really loud for its price and size and for that I give it credit. When I started to get a bit more into my guitar and I wanted to try get specific sounds out the ...
...and unauthentic and the flange, phaser and tremolo effects are pretty poor. Sure it's nice for an amp this price and size to have all these effects, but they are not great. The amp looks pretty good and is built durably I would say. All in all its a pretty good and loud amp for its price, but don't expect anything amazing from it. ... Read review

Advantages: Portable, oher uses
Disadvantages: Poor OD Channel

This amp has got 1 volume, 1 tone and one Off/Clean/OD knob. It has a single input at the front and a headphone out on the side. As stated above it has a clean and an overdrive channel, the latter being much louder. I mainly use this amp when I'm playing in the garden or outside. I also use it as an iPod speaker thanks to a patch cable and a jack adapter. I play too many styles to mention and it handles about half of them. One feature I wish this ...
...be very weak. I use this amp with a Harley Benton superstrat or with an Epiphone LP 100. As mentioned with a bit of coaxing it can cope with some of the styles I play. The distortion is not brutal enough unless it is cranked which leads to quite a lot of unwanted fizz. When either of the channels is over about half the start to break up and distort, this adds some crunch to the clean channel and a bit too much fizz to the OD channel. So far nothing ... Read review

Advantages: Cheap and loud
Disadvantages: lacks a real something, uninspiring tone

...awesome. It didn't recreate the marshall tone of my heroes. It didn't have any edge. This amp is fine for a beginner. When you can just about play something, any sound is good enough. But i bet as you get better, this amp will soon because tiresome, because it doesn't highlight your technique. Presonally, I would buy something like a Line 6 Spider, a Roland Cube 30, and i would try the Marshall Hybrid AVT 20, to see if it fits the bill. A fine beginners ... Read review

Advantages: Awsome tone in a small package
Disadvantages: volume jumps between channels

I love this amp. It just works, and works brilliantly. I bought it as a step up from my Marshall MG30DFX, and this is a vastly superior amplifier. This amp is the most versatile amp i think you'll ever encounter. It does thrash, death metal, blues, rock, shred, clean, anything. It also has a nice range of effects, which are brilliant and go from subtle to mind bending. The construction of this amp is also exemplary. The control nobs feel solid, the ...
...easy to read. The cabinet itself appears to be made from plywood, and sounds fine for an amp of this price. This amp works brilliantly with my LP, my strat and my SG, i love it. If there is one problem with this amp, it is the volme fluctuation when going from channel to channel. I have a nice set up on 'Crunch', i switch to 'Insane' for my solo, and it kills every dog in a 10 mile radius, and pisses of te neighbours to boot. Also, the preset effects ... Read review