Well, I got this amp to play just jazz stuff on because my 75 watt line6 wasn't the best for that sort of thing. It sounds great for jazz, very warm and thick, but if you set your guitar up right it can be dark and mellow too. But I was surprised by the versatility--if turn the volume up, you can get a pretty sweet blues tone, but that's the problem! I can't play jazz at a loud volume because it comes out distorted! But the 2 input jacks even it out though. The extra one is a cool little bonus if you want to jam with friends but you've only got one amp. This amp is very portable and the great thing for me is the simplicity! I'm telling you I can't get over it 1 knob! I'm used to messing around with solid states for up to 30 minutes before I get the tone I want. But this takes no screwing around. Overall it's a great buy--portable, has great tone, and simple.

same as fender champ 600, has a crappy 6v6 made in china, russian 12ax7, crappy speaker, replaced speaker with a weber 7oz AlNiCo speaker, put a old RCA 6v6GT and a telefunken 12ax7 in and wow a good amp. you can get by with just changing the speaker and the 6v6, all current made 6v6's are crap, get a NOS or a used tested tube. but for about $85 dollars more you can make it a good little amp with great tones for recording

As people have already stated the Gretch is a great amp for the price. It has essentially the same circuit as the fender champ 600, and now is cheaper after fender raised the prices. My only complaint is that the amp gets muddy when you crank up the volume. This is remedied by swapping out the stock speaker for an after market one by Ted Weber. This speaker makes the highs sparkle, and really cleans up the low end. Perfect amp for apartment/shared house settings. I'd pick this amp over the similarly priced solid states because im of the opine that its better to get one great sound out of an amp, instead of many mediocre ones.

I wanted a tube amp suitable for practicing with at home, I was initially going to buy a Fender Champion 600 but they werent available at the time, I bought this one instead and dont regret doing so, this is a really great amplifier.

Ok, heres the deal, if you arent a good guitar player and you use a guitar that doesnt sound very good this amplifier will do nothing to hide those shortcomings, Line6 or Roland make amplifiers for those guitar players, this one is a tube amp with a really simple signal path, there is no onboard eq or reverb and it doesnt do high gain crunch unless you put some kind of distortion pedal in front of it.

But what it does do is sound really great, using my Les Paul and no pedals and cranking the amp to the point where its just starting to break up I get a beautiful tone with just a hint of compression from the tubes, also the range of different sounds I get from this amplifier by merely switching between pickups and using the volume/tone knobs on the guitar is amazing.

Im not too keen on the way this amplifier distorts at full volume but if I need distortion I will just use an overdrive pedal anyway, I havent gotten around to replacing the tubes yet but im sure it will sound even better with some new/old tubes.

Until I bought this amp I had been using a Roland Microcube at home and while I like that amp for certain things there is no comparison between that amp and this one, the Microcube is just a toy, this is the real deal!

I was pleasantly surprised by this little amp when I tried it at a store. It's got a real sweet and warm tube tone and it's got plenty of volume on tap. I was surprised to find I didn't need to go much more than a third of the way up. I had a Washburn HB30 plugged in, and with no EQ on or in front of it, it sounded alright, if a little flat. I ran it through a demo chain of Boss effects (particularly their equalizer pedal), and boosted the top end and then it came to life. It had a lot of sparkle and chime. If I had the money to spare for a practice amp, I'd certainly consider this one.