Overall Rating
(132)
Trusted Customer
/ Jul 1st 2020
Superb value amp, very versatile with great sound.
Mr M Bowden
/ Jan 18th 2020
Just play with the boos kantana great practise amp and in the studio worked well
darren webster
/ Jan 16th 2020
The katana 50 amp is awesome 😁
Mr Laurence Cole
/ Jan 14th 2020
It's as good as the hype
Mr John Ogilvie
/ Jan 6th 2020
Best value for money amp on market
Trusted Customer
/ Jan 5th 2020
Excellent
Trusted Customer
/ Dec 12th 2019
Excellent
Pieter Mortin
/ Nov 27th 2019
Great value and fantastic sounding amo
Mr David Roberts
/ Nov 23rd 2019
It really sounds great and you can get any tone you want.
Mr shaun garner
/ Nov 9th 2019
Great amp with lots of features.
Trusted Customer
/ Oct 18th 2019
Played just about every small practice amp going . Finally one that actually sounds great .
Trusted Customer
/ Oct 9th 2019
Sounds great and gives a variety of tones with minimal effort. An upgrade over my first amp and well worth it.
Trusted Customer
/ Oct 9th 2019
Sounds amazing, my son loves it and his guitar teacher is envious
Richard Barter
/ Sep 30th 2019
Brilliant amp for any household player who wants lots of different sounds without the need for numerous pedals. Incredible value for money too and looks smart
Mr R Wilcockson
/ Sep 29th 2019
Excellent
Mr Aaron Flint
/ Sep 15th 2019
Great, versatile amp with built in effects. Hard to beat for the price range. Packs alot of punch in a compact design.
Mr. Ian Williams
/ Sep 10th 2019
Excellent
Trusted Customer
/ Sep 9th 2019
Excellent
Mr Connor Baker
/ Sep 7th 2019
Small but loud and has some great tones
El Gringo
/ Sep 7th 2019
So far ( about a week or so ) it sounds incredibly versatile - and, kept up with our drummer at our Pub gig on HALF power. (25W). I've installed a Fender HRD modelling patch and, playing the two next to each other for a while, the response is pretty similar the tone is pretty similar and given they have very different speakers and cabinets, for me it sounds close enough..
Trusted Customer
/ Aug 27th 2019
Excellent
Trusted Customer
/ Aug 23rd 2019
Spent a long time searching online reviews of amps and kept coming back to this one. It hasn’t disappointed, great range of features including a 0.5amp setting for late night practice. The ability to load tone patches from the internet is a great asset, even if I can’t play like Hendrix at least I can sound like him!
Mr Nicholas Goddard
/ Aug 16th 2019
Top amp really good and easy to use
Mr Martin Holmes
/ Aug 9th 2019
Lives up to the hype and its reputation. For the money this is such a versatile amp. Perfect for home use.
Mr David Sremac
/ Aug 8th 2019
Great tone and you can go as loud as you want to!
Michael Hamilton
/ Jul 23rd 2019
Excellent
Mr Daniele Poletto
/ Jul 16th 2019
Very good amp with great sound and easy tonuse
Mr David MacIntyre
/ Jul 8th 2019
Yet another 5* review for this ripper of an amp. Just love it
Trusted Customer
/ Jul 7th 2019
Excellent practice amp. I believe you can gig with it too. Built in effects very useful. I have been able to use it at conversation volume levels which is one of the reasons I bought it. Best sounding practice amp I have ever owned.
Mr C Gordon
/ Jul 5th 2019
Excellent
Trusted Customer
/ Jul 4th 2019
My son gave me a demonstration of the amp on his birthday. He was highly delighted with all the effects and couldn’t be more pleased with the amp.
Mr Stephen Taylor
/ Jul 1st 2019
Absolutely brilliant ,you can get virtually any tone you wish well worth trying
Mr Alan Stone
/ Jun 28th 2019
It does everything it says on the tin
What a piece of equipment
Mr. Alan Brindley
/ Jun 25th 2019
Good sound just need a compatible footswitch now
Trusted Customer
/ Jun 17th 2019
Great amp in every way form practice on headphones to rehearsals and gigs.
Mr Graham Powell
/ Jun 13th 2019
Wonderful, as good as I'd expected.
Mr Richard Brown
/ Jun 8th 2019
Fantastic piece of kit makes my music sound terrific.
Mr J Richardson
/ May 5th 2019
Excellent
Mr Frank Symonds
/ May 4th 2019
As an upgrade to my existing amps gives a great range of sounds and lets me create even more!!
Trusted Customer
/ May 2nd 2019
GREAT AMP AT A GREAT PRICE CAN NOT FAULT IT IN ANY WAY
Mr Robert Lester
/ May 1st 2019
Sound quality good and plenty of sound effects
Mr STEPHEN MCDONNELL
/ Apr 25th 2019
Absolute beast of an amp, versatile with great tone and dont be fooled by the 50 watts.... this thing is LOUD.
Trusted Customer
/ Apr 25th 2019
Excellent
Chris Barrett
/ Apr 19th 2019
Great Amp for Rehearsal, Home Practice, and for plugging in youtube backing tracks and Headphones in the small hours.
Trusted Customer
/ Apr 15th 2019
Excellent
Mr Chris Dawe
/ Apr 15th 2019
Great, versatile combo, perfect for getting a quick useable sound at home.
Mr William Foley
/ Apr 1st 2019
Excellent
John Thompson
/ Mar 30th 2019
Great amp with 58 pedals built in. If I really love a pedal I can buy it knowing it is going to sound good e.g. BOSS blues driver. Works well on low volume in 0.5 watt setting.
Mr. John Channing
/ Mar 21st 2019
Superb sounding combo, very versatile, you can save upto five different sounds with the 4 presets you can save and if you don't use a saved sound you have the normal amp settings as a fifth tone variation, love this amp, inspiring !! :)
Mr. Adam McQueen
/ Feb 23rd 2019
exceptional customer service
Mr. adam beech
/ Feb 23rd 2019
Amazing, should have purchased it sooner
Trusted Customer
/ Feb 7th 2019
Excellent
Trusted Customer
/ Feb 4th 2019
Grandson delighted with it.
Mr Gary Allington
/ Feb 1st 2019
Awesome amp for the money. No need to consider anything else in modelling amps. The Variable wattage is priceless for home use - ot had this on anything except 0.5 watt yet, and it's plenty loaud enough!
Mr K Gillam
/ Jan 30th 2019
The more I play with this amp the more impressed I am. Friends have also been impressed with it as well. Plenty loud...... just ask the wife! It is also 2/3 the weight of my previous amp, needful with advancing years :-(
Trusted Customer
/ Jan 30th 2019
Great amp. Having a lot of fun playing with all the different settings
Mr Mark Shepherd
/ Jan 24th 2019
Great advice as a great amp
Mr. Gearoid Maguire
/ Jan 23rd 2019
I needed something versatile, light weight and that could sound good at bedroom level. I watched most videos on YouTube (sometimes twice). I must say I was not expecting the quality of the sound to be as good as it is, especially for the price! Most importantly, I was in a real rut before, but now I can plug in and go with whatever style I fancy and it is all sound great... amp wise. I have yet to plug it in to my PC and have an in depth play with it. For now, I am thoroughly enjoying enjoying playing again. Cheers.
Trusted Customer
/ Jan 14th 2019
Brilliant amp, dont think about it just buy it!
Mr Tony Martin
/ Jan 11th 2019
Researched this product extensively and also online, particularly through the YouTube reviews. Great solid state powerful guitar amplifier.... great tonal qualities with many effects. Easy to transport.
All in all, a superb amp.
Mr Adam Watson
/ Dec 27th 2018
Excellent
Mrs Donna Armstrong
/ Jan 7th 2019
Excellent
Trusted Customer
/ Jan 6th 2019
Excellent
Mrs Caroline Brookmyre
/ Jan 4th 2019
Very helpful staff and easy to use website
Mr Benjamin Connor
/ Jan 3rd 2019
Excellent
Trusted Customer
/ Jan 2nd 2019
For the cost this amp delivers a great sound , as a plug and play it is very easy to use and extremely versatile , not used the tone studio yet so cannot comment on that aspect.
Mr Albert Foster
/ Jan 2nd 2019
I had seen this amp reviewed online and it seems to be a good purchase. I am a beginner so a lot of the features are lost on me, but maybe in the future....
Mr Michael John Ellis
/ Jan 2nd 2019
Sounds great and has so many features I haven't got round to using them all yet, Arrived on time and was packed securely. I'm very pleased with this purchase.
Julie peake
/ Dec 26th 2018
Excellent
Mr Neal Page
/ Dec 23rd 2018
Excellent
Mr David Curran
/ Dec 14th 2018
An amazing amp for the price, I am very happy with it and have not even begun to fully explore its impressive range of features yet. For around 200 euro, you really can't go wrong with the Boss Katana 50.
Mr Peter Walker
/ Dec 13th 2018
Sets a new practice amp benchmark.
Peter Norton
/ Dec 2nd 2018
Excellent
Trusted Customer
/ Nov 26th 2018
Such a huge step up from my 15 year old Fender bedroom amp. Perfect for a small home, and having lots of fun with the Tone Studio and direct recording to my PC. Also allows for silent playing using the headphone slot, and plug your phone in to play backing tracks at the same time. Huge amount of functionality for the price.
Mr Glen Wood
/ Nov 17th 2018
The price is phenomenal but it’s the tone that is 5star
Trusted Customer
/ Nov 17th 2018
Excellent amp for the money
Mr S Creedy
/ Nov 13th 2018
Great amp. Versatile in terms of effects and output.
Mr Michael Cannon
/ Nov 5th 2018
Great service and came in perfect condition. Awesome, cheers!
Mr Nigel Downey
/ Nov 2nd 2018
Very versatile amp at a great price.
Trusted Customer
/ Oct 18th 2018
67 y old new at the game what can I say?
Mr Ben Seagrave
/ Oct 31st 2018
Excellent amp for beginners all the way up to advanced users!
Mr Andre Jaques
/ Oct 24th 2018
Great for its price! Does what ever you want, it's a little beast. Great sound and quality. The effects are great!
Trusted Customer
/ Oct 20th 2018
Great sound and lots to explore.
Mr Thomas Carter
/ Oct 17th 2018
This amp is the best amp I have ever played. It is so versatile but the treble can be overpowering even when on very little . Has a very nice dynamic response to your playing and is giggable.
Mr Simon Cain
/ Oct 15th 2018
Learnt guitar quite a few years ago, then life gets in the way, but now hitting that middle age mark thought I'd try to be a rock god again. I'd seen the reviews of the Boss Katana in magazines and it sounded good, however searching though youtube I found Andersons review by Chappers and the Capt, didn't know who they were but the review was brilliant, funny and sold me on the Katana for my needs. I could play as badly as I do without the whole shop hearing me !. Now for the Katana, my music time was the 80's rock Eddie Van Halen, Steve Vai and everyone else, but I struggled with lessons and practice as when I went home to my peavy amp it didn't sound like anyone, I had no effects, God I wish I had the katana then, if you're a beginner now you are so lucky with this amp, you can make it sound like anyone, which is one reason you want to play guitar right ?. The effects straight out of the box as superb and are easy to pick up quickly. I haven't delved into the area when you can program your own sequence of effects on a pc and upload them for you own personal sounds, but from what I've read seems pretty simple. The volume is a key thing being a bedroom guitarist, the 2.5W setting sold it for me and even that seems loud. I've tried the 25 & 50 W settings and they blown the roof off and you notice more clarity in the sound at the louder settings. What else? It's light to move around, clever design elements with the knobs on the top mean no neck bending or scrabbling on the floor to see and change settings and the leg that angle the amp upwards. Oh and the price, it's stupidly cheap, especially for a beginner, I would say they could sell it at double and it's still a bargain and it's not a taster to get you hooked to buy the more expensive ones the 100W version is also a great price. All throughout this I've said it's great for a beginner and it is, it will give you confidence with the sounds and allow you to understand how effects work, having said that I'm sure gig guitarist at small level would love it's versatility and weight. I'm in love with it and now off to put white tape in my guitar and pretend to be EVH ! Beginners buy it, anyone else buy it for a practice amp.
John Howard
/ Oct 1st 2018
Excellent
Mr Simon Ives
/ Oct 13th 2018
Wow, just, wow.
This amp cannot be recommended highly enough. Fantastic quality of sound, diverse enough to be used at home for practice and on stage will go up against even the most animalistic of drummers.
Mr D Hallett
/ Oct 14th 2018
Great amp - small, light, powerful, cheap, very flexible and sounds good. What more could you ask?
Mr. Colin Howard
/ Oct 14th 2018
When I first got the amp I wasn’t very impressed. I struggled to get the sound I wanted but when I plugged it in to the tone studio and adjusted the global EQ the thing came alive. As I only use it at home it didn’t sound great in a bedroom but by adjusting the eq it’s a whole different beast now. Excellent cleans and extremely pleased with the high gain sounds. Really enjoy playing it. Tempted to get another one and hook them up using a pedal with a stereo out. Well done Boss.
Mr Bernard Honey
/ Oct 13th 2018
Excellent
Mr Tom Farmery
/ Oct 9th 2018
Excellent
Mr. john Hodgson
/ Oct 7th 2018
its a great amp thats got everything
Mr David James
/ Oct 4th 2018
Outstanding Amplifier great range of sounds can't stop experimenting with the variation of sounds.
Niall Robinson
/ Oct 4th 2018
Excellent
Trusted Customer
/ Oct 3rd 2018
Great sounding amp for the price.
Trusted Customer
/ Oct 1st 2018
It gives all the sounds I could possibly ever want, you can change plenty of settings on it for a 50w combo at such a good price I couldn’t possibly think of a flaw
Mr Macsicza Gabor
/ Sep 30th 2018
Love this thing.
I've been using a peavey valveking for a year now.
But this amp is way better in every aspect imo
Mr. Ian Wilson
/ Sep 30th 2018
Light and portable with a decent sound.
Trusted Customer
/ Sep 29th 2018
Its my first amp so getting used to it but it does everything I want and its a really good price.
Trusted Customer
/ Sep 27th 2018
Excellent
Neill Montgomery
/ Sep 27th 2018
Great sounding amp that is light weight, portable and a great grab and go amp for the gigging guitarist.
Mr David Robson
/ Sep 24th 2018
Excellent
Mr Clifford Knock
/ Sep 22nd 2018
Excellent
Trusted Customer
/ Sep 21st 2018
Excellent
Mr C Berrie
/ Sep 20th 2018
Excellent tool straight from the box with lots more to explore.
Mr Kieran Blacker
/ Sep 20th 2018
What an amp! If you are thinking about getting one of these just get it! I was using the Boss Katana mini but upgraded the 50 and what a difference! Great sounds, great tones and easy to use!
Mr Mike Dunkerley
/ Sep 17th 2018
Great value all round combo amplifier. As a practice amp, this does it all. Unlike some products I have tried, the tone does not disappoint. Partnered with the software, gives you amazing flexibility of tone and effects at a bargain price.
Trusted Customer
/ Sep 17th 2018
For the money I found this to be an amazing amp, great sounds obtainable from the control panel, or delve deeper into the Boss software and sculpt the tone further.
Tony Hiatt
/ Sep 16th 2018
Excellent
Damon Barker
/ Sep 14th 2018
Superb amp with a massive range of tones and great value for money too. Nothing else comes close.
Trusted Customer
/ Sep 14th 2018
Great for home use and the three volume settings can stop you rattling the windows
Mr Tim Reed
/ Sep 13th 2018
Excellent
Luke Bartey
/ Sep 13th 2018
Great amp. Great tones at low price
Trusted Customer
/ Sep 11th 2018
Just what I needed, and loud enough.
Ben Lumley
/ Sep 10th 2018
Excellent
Mr Mark Hopkins
/ Sep 1st 2018
Perfect for home use which means my neighbors are happy
Mr A Tolkien
/ Aug 29th 2018
The sound from this amp is great. There are loads of different settings for any guitarist to tinker with. Good value for money. A must have for any guitarist.
Mr Christopher Houghton
/ Aug 23rd 2018
If you're in the market for a cheap amp that sounds good then this is a brilliant option. I've used it with both my Les Paul and my Strat and I
love it. Also, If you connect it to a PC or a Laptop via USB you can use the Boss Tone Studio software to modify the effects to get the tone you're looking for. It's loaded with loads of superb Boss effects which all work as you would expect. You also have 3 settings for power 0.5w/25w/50w so you can use the 0.5 setting so not to upset the neighbours. This model doesn't have the effects loop that it's bigger brother has and it has 2 tone channels compared to 4 in the bigger amp but that wasn't important to me. I don't think I would use this for gigging but the 100w version would more than likely be suitable for small/medium gigs. For the price it's a no-brainer.
Mr D Johnston
/ Aug 19th 2018
It is very good but having trouble with the software download
Mr Mark Waddington
/ Jul 28th 2018
I am a beginner guitarist and had been using a Roland Cube 10gx. I wanted something with more options but also an amp that would give me good tones at low volume. The Cube seemed to have 2 settings - too loud or not loud enough. The Katana 50 is amazing, perfect for what I need and TONNES of options. Haven't downloaded the app yet and that'll offer even more.
Mr S Edmunds
/ Jul 21st 2018
AWESOME!!! Must have for anyone who just wants to play at home.
Mr Alex Bates
/ Jul 9th 2018
It performs as I was told it would - to my limited knowledge the amp is great
Mr. Arthur Davis
/ Jun 28th 2018
At first I was uncertian that this was going to be satisfactory but after some work, including downloading a number of patches from internet posters I was able to find the sounds I was seeking for both humbucker and single coil electric guitar use. The acoustic amp model works very well with my hybrid guitar. Thus this amp fully meets my needs for both types of pickup on this guitar as well as my other electric guitars.
Trusted Customer
/ May 23rd 2018
A very powerful amp with lots of options and a great sound.
Mr Rich Sallnow
/ Feb 24th 2018
Really nice bit of kit!!!!
Trusted Customer
/ Feb 19th 2018
With WIN 7 & WIN 8.1 easily downloaded the Katana USB driver for Windows & (the recently up-dated) BOSS Tone Studio software & manual (need to have Adobe-Air installed to download Tone Studio zip-files). BOSS advise that USB3 must be backwardly compat with USB2 protocols.
Seaching the Livesets on the BOSS Support website, found 7 for the Katana 50 amp, offering a total of 60+ tones to choose from - covering Blues, Metal, Rock, Jazz, Captain Beefheart, etc. OK, the tones with Katana 50 don't sound exactly like the video demos on the website, but this would also depend on your pickups and playing style, etc.
However, as you can see the settings used for any tone with BOSS Tone Studio, you can modify them to suit your guitar and playing style, then save them with your own filename. There are now 4 channels for saving your own tones on the Katana 50 amp.
Finally - there's no Midi interface with Katana 50, so if that's needed, go for the next model up.
Mr Oreste Bianchi
/ Feb 6th 2018
Niente da aggiungere alle 5 stelle, miglior amplificatore a transistor mai avuto durante la mia lunga carriera ormai più che quarantennale
Trusted Customer
/ Oct 12th 2017
Great value amp giving quality punchy sound. 50 w enough for drummer to ask for it to be turned down!!!!! Good acoustic amp as well!!! Just what I needed.
Mr D Ryan
/ Sep 5th 2017
Having tried the 100 watt version of the Katana..Which is Very Good I Plumped for the 50 watt Amp for home use....Although the Clean, Crunch, Lead and Brown pre-sets are all very Good I have been using the Acoustic Setting the Most. Both my Electro Acoustic have taken on a new lease of life with this amp to such an extent that I rarely use my Marshall acoustic amp anymore, Being a Boss Amp all the effects are Brilliant.. I have actually used This amp in a small venue and was asked by the drummer to turn it down.Ha ha ****** Drummers I Did'nt by the way...So If you are in the market for a sub £200 amp add this to your list of try outs....For a digital amp you get a lot of bang for your bucks
Mr P Webber
/ Aug 13th 2017
The perfect amp for me.
I could not ask for more.
Trusted Customer
/ Aug 2nd 2017
Superb value for the money. Much better than expected. I use this via my Helix and the many combinations available coupled with the PC editing app means I can get some great tones out of this.
The amp on its own is great, especially the cleans with a touch of effects.
The power options make it very usable in the home, then change the power output to suit the gig/rehearsal later!
Very light as well which makes a nice change from my other heavy amp.
Trusted Customer
/ Jul 8th 2017
Bought as a practice amp and staggeringly good considering the price.
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