HOTONEMojo Diamond Mini Guitar Amplifier Head, 5 Watt

Update 02222024 - Replacement took a while to ship via Amazon for some reason. Same version as the first one. Works fine and can drive my 1x12 and 2x12 cabinets with plenty of volume for home use. Now I have a set of 4 of these, which is what I wanted.Original Review - I own 3 other versions of this little amp and they are all working well and a lot of fun to play with. Some folks complain about not being able to see the labels for the knobs. Just like in the military, I just made up a short sentence to help keep these straigt. Left to right it is Good Boys Must Trust Violet. That's your gain, bass, middle, treble and volume. All four of my amps have the same control layout so it works for all of them.Back to this amp. Unfortunately, this one arrived defective right out of the box. Upon powering up the unit, the output slowly decreased in volume until it was completely dead. Power light remained on and the guitar and speaker cables were swapped out and it was still dead. Even tried some of my other 1x12 cabs and still nothing. The original cables worked fine with my other amps. Returned it and asked for a replacement. Aslo, I made the mistake of running my finger across the vents on this thing and it actually cut my finger. These little slots are very sharp so be careful how you handle it. The unit is actually heavy enough to stay in place as long as you don't yank on the guitar cable.The defective unit was sold by Magma Strings and has the black knobs and black handles. The replacement from the same seller shows the cream knobs and chrome handles in those pictures. Haven't received the replacement yet, so not sure what version I will get. Doesn't really matter as long as it works. The original purchase was shipped with Amazon Prime and arrived pretty quick. They are advertised as shipping Amazon Prime 2 day on this site, but my replacement is taking weeks (shipping with Amazon) so not sure why that is. Once the replacement arrives and I have time to test it, I'll come back and update this review.

I'm building a small combo just for fun summer project; this amp was recommended by friend. The very 1st youtube review, guy with ALOT of followers, is super negative; he totally slams this amp. He hooks it up to a 4x12 cabinet to test 🤦‍♂️I found a review vid where someone put the time effort into getting the most out of this amp and its really really great for the size and solid state. When you consider the price thats even better.This amp is a two-trick pony; clean, and crunch. In my opinion that's it; the super high distortion doesn't sound good at all. BUT... the clean and crunch sound ridiculously good for what this amp is, AND it takes OD pedals extremely well! I'm going to pair this with an eminence 6.5" driver in an open back cab that i'm building. When i tested it i hooked it up to celestion 12T-100 and eminence "special design" (for fender); both 1x12 open back cabs.When trying pedals i had it going direct to board and out through studio monitors. Clean with verb and delay is fantastic (for what the amp is) thru fx loop. At one point with klon clone and SC strat, probably an hour just jammin; sounds really good. Surprisingly decent guitar vol rolloff response for a modeler imo.Personally i like OD into input; not through fx loop. But i did test and i think most people would think its fine.This doesn't compare to an actual tube amp. If you want a tube amp then get one.I don't know who this is marketed toward (probably people way younger than me); i guess it might be useful on the floor board, but i just don't know how.

I have a small home studio and I wanted to have the ability to swap out amp tones without having to lug out a big head or a combo. i needed to be able to plug into my I/O and on to my DAW.I like heavy bass tones and wanted something that would be clean but deep with an option to overdrive like tubes might. Digital often sounds lacking to me and before the days of digital we tried to get that tube sound with solid state. Rectifiers took the place of tubes and had much of the warmth of tubes and could be made more portable, lighter, and cheaper, even with shipping from Japan! That’s what we have here, solid state, and while it’s not tubes, it’s also not digital.The Thunder bass amp has good tone, simple operation, converts to line impedance (via the headphone output), is capable of driving a decent speaker cabinet and sounds pretty damned descent while doing so.I currently own this and The British Vox clone they make and i would highly recommend each of them. I myself will be purchasing others that they also make.great for rehearsal, apt dwellers, studios with limited space, pretty much anywhere you might use a practice amp. i could see this being a viable option for small club gigs also. It’s only 5 watts but honestly you don’t always need more. this will still make your wife or mom tell you to turn it down.

Me encantó, no puedo creer lo bien que suena y el tamaño tan compacto que tiene, es del tamaño de un pedal de efectos pero se escucha increíble, tal vez no al 100% como un SVT pero creo que sí un 90%.Los materiales y la fabricación en general se sienten de calidad, la carcasa es metálica y las perillas no se sienten endebles sino todo lo contrario, esperaba algo muy inferior en este apartado, gratamente sorprendido.El único problema que tiene es que al encenderlo suena un clic a un volumen bastante alto aunque tenga el volumen y la ganancia a 0, pero es algo a lo que te acosumbras rápidamente. Fuera de ese detalle me parece un gran producto, espero que su vida útil sea aceptable también.

Prise électrique non compatible en France. Je dois acheter un adaptateur. Très déçu. J’aurais du être plus vigilant mais l’annonce de précisait rien ...

Fabulous little amp. The 'Ampeg' sound clearly comes from an internal EQ preset, which is not an issue - it can be tuned easily. Very impressed by the general quality, it's very well built with excellent quality buttons and pots, connectors etc. In fact it's pretty heavy for its small size :)Perfect for headphone practice also, vast improvement over an Amplug sound-wise. I no longer bother to plug my Hartke head when at home - it drives perfectly well my GK NEO 112, and lets you control much better the volume at low level, for the neighbors :)

Tiene un filtro paso alto Fijo que va bien para guitarras pero me hubiese gustado que el corte estuviese más elevado como 13k y no 10kEl sonido es el esperado, el ecualizador es demasiado abrasivo no tan musical

Love this little unit, its at the center of my rig, surrounded by pedals. Its built well and works great. The 3-band EQ is really good and has a lot of range. With EQ at noon, it sounds like a purposeful balance. The drive/gain is 80% useless however. It really cannot clip/distort by itself, and trying to boost it into distortion has not worked for me either. Instead, the gain seems to mostly add saturation and tightness to the EQ. Sometimes I like that, and other times I'm convinced it sounds better with the gain really low. A major selling point of these Hotone mini amps is the FX loop out back. The loop works perfectly for me, however, two things worth knowing here: 1) the "volume" knob is a post preamp booster, not a power amp dimmer. So the volume knob has no impact on the signal returning from the FX loop. (similar to a "non-master volume" amp.) and 2) when the preamp is not distorting the signal, there is basically no need for an FX loop. The whole preamp portion of this unit is effectively just a 3-band EQ with boost. I've been using mine for a couple months now and still happy, but soon I'm upgrading to a separate EQ/preamp and separate 20W power amp. Lastly, I'll mention that the Hotone is capably of being very loud. I'm not sure about matching a rock drummer, but certainly louder than I can use in a house by myself. And to clarify what I tried to explain above - this is a totally clean amp with no dirt/crunch/clipping/distortion. But its good :)