Monoprice 1x10 Guitar Combo Amplifier - Black, 40-Watt, Spring Reverb, 10-Inch 4-Ohm Speaker, High & Low Inputs, Headphone Output - Stage Right Series

The Monoprice Stage Right 40 watt amp was everything I expected for a $99 amp and a bit more. It has a great sound for the price point. It seems to be well-made. The overdrive/distortion is reasonably good but since I have four pedals it's kinda academic. I was able to turn it up pretty high in clean-tone (without pedals) before breaking up some. Again, for the price, a great loud/good tone practice amp. The spring reverb works pretty well and can be well-controlled-it sounds a heck of a lot better than another amp I once had that created it electronically. A minor peeve: I can hear a teeny bit of reverb in whatever I'm playing with the reverb turned off. I'm running two of my pedals straight into the high input jack and the other two (an equalizer and pre-amp/tube modeler) into the Fx send and return jacks. That really cleaned up and sharpened the total sound. The other two pedals are compress/sustain and a morpher. I then ran a line out to a 15 watt Fender amp to split out some of the bass separately. The MP SR amp drives the smaller amp very well with no issues. I hear just a smidgen of hiss at low volumes with or without the Fender amp. The Fender had zero hiss on its own. Overall, I'm very satisfied. Monoprice: consider adding an XLR input and output. I think people would pay a bit more for that feature.Update 11-21-2021: I'm still loving it. I see the price has gone up (hasn't everything?) but it would still be great at that price. Lots of learning curve for two months has ironed out a bunch of sound issues that weren't this amp's fault (like maybe my playing.) The fx circuit and spring reverb (I stopped noticing the slight reverb with the control turned down, or maybe it healed itself) are worth the price! I'm considering a Celestion or other speaker upgrade down the road. Moving pedals around and doing different things with line in/out took care of a bit of the hiss. It's now liveable. You cannot go wrong!

I am really amazed by the quality of this econo-amp. Has excellent features for the price. Two inputs for active or passive inputs, multiple output options, pedal rig loop on the back, reverb on the main channel, and an overdrive distortion. Very intuitive controls and as a super fun little detail, the volumes go to 11 (spinal tap reference). Just a really snarky little fun detail on a very high quality amp for the money (shockingly good rig considering the price). I bought one to run through my live gig rig, and think I will buy another to have as my practice home amp. Time will tell on longevity but initial usage (played about ten hours on it so far) shows it to be a great little amp. Highly recommend.

I like the equalization options and the overdrive was a nice touch. You can crank it to 11. It is full of input/output ports galore, which is was why I got it. There's a ton you can do with it.The volume is good it can get very loud, but the sound easily becomes too muddled. It's like it has a low quality speaker that can't handle the power. What gives?Seriously, it's a starter amp type sound, which was disappointing. For example, the bass isn't powerful but more just "muffles" the sound than deliver any bass. For that, I' just go to my Vypyr and get loud but professional amp sounds.At best, if you play metal, to get good sound you'll have to tweak away at fx pedals to help balance it out. It will take some work to make it somewhat passable.However, the low input wss particularly awesome. The sounds are more subdued, cleaner, and handles better at high volume. The high input can get raspy, in contrast.Pretty cool.Separately, as an amp for other things, it's a good deal. I can easily plug in one of my keyboards while feeding in recordings or a mic, or other instrument, and feed it out into another amp if I wanted.Amp is good size and not too heavy, seems sturdy. Notably mesh over speakers seems wavy cheap. Someone mwntiomed their's caught smoke. I smelt something but it wasnt hot but more of new amp smell breaking it in. If that changes I'll update review.Overall, good deal for price, but too bad speaker quality wasn,'t better, but just maybe my opinion, my snazzy Peavey amp might have spoiled me.

I would recommend this for anyone looking for an entry amp who doesn’t need a katana but wants the flexibility of learning how to use different effects and need an affordable amp that will deliver good clean sound.Use your budget on fx rather than an unnecessarily expensive practice amp.This is built like my practice fender champ 112 deluxe down to the spring box, but just a little sibling version.The 10” speaker is the smallest I’d recommend for a practice amp to get a fuller range of lower frequencies from clean tones you can get from your guitar or backing music, and this monoprice amp certainly delivers even though it’s no celestion speaker. You won’t get the same fullness of sound from fender frontman 8” even though it’s about the same price.Didn’t care for the drive or spring reverb, but I’m using this with a multi effects unit for practice anyway and super happy with how I can set the amp to a clean neutral and calibrate my effects to get the tone I want without having to fight with the amp.The effects loop is a plus at this price range if you need it for a special looping situation or something.Note: it’s very quiet. If there’s a buzz, there’s tons more sources of buzz to figure out: noisy single coil pickup, halogen lights nearby, dirty a/c. Isn’t necessarily the Amps fault, so test the same set up with a different amp to make sure you didn’t get a dud.Super happy with the purchase.