GX15 Review

The GX15 was designed to be the perfect practice/home studio amp. Light and powerful, this amp offers beginners all of the essential tone to begin their musical voyage.

Features:	10
Sound:	6
Reliability:	6
Impression:	6
Overall rating:	7
Users rating:	4.8
Comments:	11

overall: 7

Reviewed by: unregistered, on september 08, 2005

Features: The GX15 was designed to be the perfect practice/home studio amp. Light and powerful, this amp offers beginners all of the essential tone to begin their musical voyage. Comes with a Five Year Limited Warranty.

- Crate 8" speaker
- 15 watt RMS guitar amp
- FlexWave Evolution Five preamp
- Two channel
- Headphone jack
- External speaker jack
- Measurements: 13" x 13.5" x 8.25"
- 15 lbs. // 10

Sound: It's ok. Nothing spectacular. I played on my friend Marshall amp, which was the Marshall equivalent of this amp. Way better. This amp buzzes really loud with distortion on. It's nasty, and not in a good way. // 6

Reliability & Durability: // 6

Impression: I play mostly hard rock, and blues, and it works aight for that, but a Marshall amp is much better. If it was stolen, I would get something different. // 6

Comments

[ilootin]

This amp is so bad, i got it as a first amp and it has a really bad buzz when on high levels, the distortion on high levels just sounds like total $h*t, so awful!

[guitardude033]

i had a yamaha amp GA-10 and compared to this amp the crate gx15 rocks

[evolutionised]

clean sounds average, but the distortion sucks. since i generally use it with effects (so the distortion channel isnt used) it's alright for me.

my previous yamaha was way better.

[OpposingForce]

I have this amp it was my first amp and its a piece of crap. Im about ready to replace it ... thinkin of a Crate GX15

[OpposingForce]

Crate GX15 - sorry I meant Roland Cube 60 lol typos

[OttovanZanten]

Sound: It's ok. Nothing spectacular. I played on my friend Marshall amp, which was the Marshall equivalent of this amp. Way better. This amp buzzes really loud with distortion on. It's nasty, and not in a good way. // 6


Marshall MG series?
THIS IS WORSE????? HOW THE HELL did they manage to make anything worse then the MG series

(Opposing Force, Those Cubes are good, they have boss effects built in )

[OttovanZanten]

hm.. thinkin of buying one.. i got a bigger crate, wich i lopve (G160XL) but i need something to take with me to the band :P how is this clean? I use my digitech hot head for distortion.. how does this sound?

[Cobalt Blue]

This was my first amp too. it was pretty crappy. I traded it to my friend for a crappy snare drum and 10 bucks.

it didn't sound half bad when I ran my fuzz face and crybaby through it though.

[Cleric33]

This was my first amp, although now i use a fender princeton 650. I love this amp, I have an Ibanez SZ520 with EMG 81/60 pickups. The distortion sounds awesome from such a small amp, its almost identical to the distortion from a fender amp, or a Boss DS1 pedal. The clean sound is very bad though. I highly recomend it for a practise amp

[Mitchell?]

Anyone know how many ohms the external speaker jack on this amp?

I know it sucks, but I'm getting a Valve Junior and was wondering if I could buy the cab first, and use this with it until I got the Valve Junior head.

[Mitchell?]

My Fender Frontman 15 watt bass amp (solid state) has better cleans than this.

Not to mention the distortion sounds like a load of shit.