Hotone Captain Sunset High Gain Guitar Amp Head 5 Watts Class AB Amplifier with CAB SIM Phones/Line Output

Before I bought this, I did research. I watched video reviews about this specific model as well as other Hotone Nano amps. I went with this one based on price and the fact that it was intended to "sound like" a Soldano. I knew it was small, heard many people say it's really small, and still when I opened the box I thought "wow, that is really small." I don't know how close it sounds to a Soldano, but it sounds pretty good for the price range. As others noted, there is pretty much no clean sound with this. I had the gain all the way off and it was still a little distorted/breaking up with a moderate output humbucker. But the distortion is not the typical "white noise fuzz through a towel" sound you get from many budget modeling amps, it sounds a lot better; the harmonics are distinct, and the break-up is response to how you play. The EQ controls seem to all do what they're supposed to; they're smooth and the change in tone correlates well with rotation of the knobs. It's going to get a lot of use.

Really cool sound. Nice buttery distortion. Wish that it had a second channel for clean. It's loud but, not loud enough to play with a drummer.

Great little recording amp/practice amp. Currently using for practice w/o a cabinet paired, using headphones and this amp offers features that rival other combos in this range. Sounds good but do note that there is no dedicated “clean” channel, I think they offer another product for that. Otherwise, it offers some great tone.

So far very pleased with a sound this little amplifier can produce it may not be 100% Soldano but the modeling these days is quite impressive

Cheap muddy sound. No definition unless the treble is cranked and then it sounds somehow worse.

First off . I am floored by this little unit . To get the most out of this unit is to plug a cable into the effects send in the back of this unit into the effects return on your combo amp or your aux in jack providing that you are using a solid state amp. It will get as loud as your power amp inside your combo will allow. I can plus this into my 100 watt amp this way and I get 100 watts. The effects send on this little unit is just a signal , it will not hurt anything if you into a combo effects return of aux jack if it's a solid state amp. Now for the fun stuff. I have this unit for now plugged into the aux jack of my bass amp. It roars . It always stay a little distorted even with the gain all the way down but that's fine with me. I am running my pedals into front input on this momster and it sounds amazing . I tried it with the gain all the way down for clean tone and it's a little dirty but for jamming it's perfect still. With the gain all the way up it sounds awesome too , nice and heavy , plenty of distortion and gain to play metal. Here's the kicker . With the gain all way up , turned on my distortion pedals to test them one at a time with the gain all the way up on the Hotone and the sound that comes out of this is shockingly great. It totally saturates my sound and makes my pedals sound even meaner than before . This thing is a steal.

Sounds good, buzzing I cant live with.

More than enough power to drive 10" 50 watt speaker in cab . I bought high gain version, but I'm still able to get a good clean tone by turning down gain all the way, I bought mine before the price hike, ie at £30 , so for me a very good buy

Quand je l'ai reçu il manquait l'alimentation 18 volts

Premesso che Soldano ha una mini head in catalogo, ma questa costa decisamente meno e 5 w valvolari in casa sono piu' che sufficenti...simulazione piu che decente del timbro SLO,sfruttando l'uscita send puo' essere collegato direttamente all' input del canale clean o nel return di un amplificatore,collegato ad una cassa regola in automatico se il cono e' da 4/8/16 ohm ,nel suo target di " testatina" consigliata almeno una 2x12, ma usando plug f/f e power cable si sfrutta il cono dell' ampli,ovviamente l'ampli deve avere presa jack staccabile dal finale. Sconsigliato l'uso diretto in cuffia,troppo potente e stancante ,4 stelle per rapporto qualita' prezzo ci stanno egregiamente

Despite its small frame, this amp really delivers epic sounds. Perfect for a travel/practice/gig set-up. High gain is the name of the game for this amp and it does not disappoint! Surprisngly it even powers a Marshall 4x12 cab at a gig level volume. I think I may buy of the others in the range. Enjoy the gain!