BOSS Katana 50 VS Peavey Classic 50

THE RESULTS ARE IN! https://youtu.be/lRnzn_qKbDc

I preferred A. I own a Katana 50 and its genuinely impressive amp. I think Boss really did well simulating a cranked amp with how the master volume and power control works. Turn up the master, and use the power control to find the volume you need. It sounds just as good at .5 watt as it does a 50 watts. Its also dirt cheap.

I love the AB blind test. It attacks our myths, our guitar correctness right at the very core. Thanks. Fine job.

Both together in stereo is my favorite, really awesome.

Amp "A"!sounds really good! I was pleased to find out it was, what I thought it was. I bought a MINT 2012 at a local pawn shop for $350 and I swear it can sound like a Marshall when need be. A really great amp, a little bit on the heavy side, but more than makes up for it in "Tone". Thanks for putting this together. I wanted to get the Katana for a little home practice amp, but there's no need now, as I can use amp "A" on the clean channel with a distortion box for low volume stuff and it sounds great!

I may have missed it, but what type of guitar did you use (pickups?) and did you use any pedals in front of the Peavey? Or did you simply just plug a guitar cable into the Peavey?

Made my mind up this week,ordered the 100w Katana And an Eminence Swampy as a backup incase I choose o upgrade the speaker.

kc collette which is which Loopie?

Hi, i have the C50 410 as well. May i know your eq settings please?

Amp B is the Peavey Classic Considering buying it can you confirm I’m right?

Play both through the same cab. I have a Katana Artist, Peavey Classic 50 head amp, and the Classic 4X10 cab. I love the Katana because I can do much with it. I can send the output to the 4X10, and it sounds just as great as the Peavey Classic 50 head.

Oy Ryan, I've got an old Mace and a Classic 2x12. It sounds like you were using Automix on the Classic. ( Like, on mine the footswitch allows you to drive channel a into b. Gives it a Van Halen'ish kind of taste. Are you, and do you know of the feature I'm referring to ?

I'm kind of surprised how close the numbers are right now. Where are all those tone experts at?

Nice demo. I have owned a Peavey classic 50 2x12 for several years now. It's over of the best amps in the world. I just bought a katana 50... but there was no clean room whatsoever so I returned it and bought a katana 100... and there is a night and day difference in clean tone headroom...waaaay better. It's hard to compare the Peavy to the katana because the Peavy is so much bigger and had two speakers... so you will obviously get way more bass and warmth. With that said the Katana 100 is mind-blowing good for a small, light, portable amp... that shockingly sounds like a real tube amp. Now that is if you use external analog effects and overdrive. The internal katana overdrive sounds terrible fizz. Some of the other effects aren't bad...the delay is thin sounding next to let's say an mcr carbon copy. But when I run my analog effects through this amp they sound exceptional. I actually dig the overdrive on this smaller amp because it's very punchy and focused... maybe more than on my peavy which had a wider more open sound. If I had to choose between the two amps I would take the Peavy... especially for live... but the katana is shockingly good and does sound like the real deal... again just has smaller cabinet and only one speaker vs the two in the Peavy. I did play the Katana side by side against several smaller tube amps and I liked the Katana better than most of them... which is why I bought it. I thought the Katana was a joke and would no way sound like real tube... but it does... again if you use external analog overdrive and effects...

Amp 'B' sounded like a hi-fi pretending to be a tube amp. The stereo sound was pretty neat though.

Just bought the peavy classic 50 410 them tubes do something to my soul! It has that "it" factor that these solid state and modelers just don't have

I like both. One is a bit brighter. Both sound very close as far as definition. For the price I am sticking to Katana. Plus the brown sound and all the other great features.

The Peavey sounds astounding. Settings? Channel?

How much do you suppose the speaker (at the mic) contributes to the sonic footprint? I can hear a "full range" woofiness (but not flabbiness) in the Katana videos of yours I've listened to so far. But I think, when accounting for the speaker, the Katana probably gets really close.

Amp "B" I think is the Peavey but it's hard to tell with the compression on youtube. I really liked the sound best whem you played both together. I wish I could play as sloppy as you. Blues On....