Monoprice 611502 Mini Headphone Amplifier for Guitar, Tube Overdrive"

I will start with the cons - just to get them out of the way. This device is a little noisy, you should raise the volume on the guitar and lower the volume on the amp. The tone is a little dirty - if you like clean tone. Even with the gain at a minimum it is not clean. construction is just a little flimsy - without the batteries the battery case won't stay in place, once you put the batteries in the amp it's OK. You should go to monoprice.com and compare this mini amp to its siblings. The pros - this amp is amazing, I've never had a headphone amp before, so maybe they're all like this.You forget about the noise level as soon as you start playing and never think about it again. As soon as I got it, 24 hours ago I could not put it down, I just wanted to play more and more. There is another input - where I plug my ipod / phone with a metronome or music and it allows me to improve my rhythm. The amp sticks to the bottom of the guitar where it is plugged in - and just stays in place and out of the way. You can get your headphones cord either behind you (on your back) or between the guitar and your body and it is completely out of the way. The tone is pleasant (at least to me). You can play with your guitar tone and the amp tone to get what you want - and because it comes through so clear it allows you to practice gentle picking. I really like it as a practice amp. I am just sorry I did not buy this earlier.

If you're like me, and just wanted a portable and easy to use amp for the go, this is perfect. When I went to college I needed something small to power my bass. The other mini-amps were about 3-4 times the price of this thing, and I ended up buying this.The sound quality is OK. Its not nearly as good, but I mean, its good enough to where you can't really tell with apple earpods, but you're definitely going to notice if you're running a pair of AKGs or something.Construction is cheap plastic, but still solid and durable.If you want a cheap plug and play amp that wont take up any space, this is it for you.

if you’re looking for an inexpensive way to get some distortion out of your guitar without being loud, this is a good way to go. It’s far from perfect, but for under twelve bucks, it’s not a waste of money.Clean - sounds like it has a slight chorus effect all the time. The clean is clean, but chorused.Dirt - although it’s distortion, it’s a very thin sounding distortion. It sounds almost exactly like and Orange Micro Terror, when using the headphone out.When you use this, the last thing you should do is put in your earphones. It will make a loud pop when turned on or plugged into the guitar jack.Build - it’s plastic, but like anything else plastic, if you take care of it, it’ll be fine. The power switch feels solid, the gain, tone and volume dials feel well seated. The jack is tight and has a good fit in both my Tele and LP. On this piece, the aux works well. I had one before that the music coming in was very muffled and warbly. I tried 2 different male to male 3.5mm cables thinking the cable was bad but it was the amp. Monoprice sent me a replacement right away. Great customer service! Second amp aux works great. There is gain noise when turning up the dirt and volume, but that’s normal.For the price, I like this headphone amp. I’ve never compared it to the Vox but I used to have a Pocket Rock-It a long time ago. Sound quality and on/off popping noise are the same. For the price, Monoprice customer service and what it is, I’d buy it again.

I have 3 other amps. This one is by far the worst. The sound is terrible. When you aren't plucking, there is serious feedback no matter how you change the volume, tone, etc. it is always there in the background. I checked my other 3 amps in the same instrument (tenor ukulele), and this always had a feedback. I tried to replace it, but the seller doesn't allow replacements. I tried returning it, but the seller doesn't allow returns. Instead it sends you to a troubleshooting section, which I did. Then it asks you to go to the manufacturer for suggestions, which I did...but it offered no help. Finally had to appeal to Amazon customer service and they were able to refund me. Within the listing, it doesn't state "no returns, no refunds, no replacements". Terrible. Avoid avoid avoid.

Seriously? For $10 and change you can throw this little gem in your guitar case and rock-out wherever you like. So far I've just plugged it into my Martin acoustic (active Pizo pick-up) and it transformed it into a lead shredding axe! I have the "tube overdrive" model, and it's tone ranges from edge of break-up clean (but it does not do a true clean sound) to a juicy compressed over-driven tube sound. Great sustain (due to the compression) and I was even able to coax some pinch harmonics out of it.I also have an electric with humbuckers at the office that's my "silent" guitar - BB-King's Epiphone "Lucile" model. I'll update this review after I give it spin. Can't speak to durability yet - but the VOX headphone amps are constructed out of the same plastic, but with a pivoting input jack that looks like trouble in the long term if you ask me.Of course the VOX look cooler - much cooler - but are they really worth 4 times this little gem? Judging by the YouTube demos I've seen, no. This sounds great to my ears. It's definitely analog, not digital - just a miniature overdriven SS Amp with some reverb / delay from what I can tell...Get it.

Does what it advertises, but it has intermittent noise (static) issues. Sometimes I can press on the enclosure and the noise will sound different or stop. Excellent idea however. I use it to practice bass in my apartment without disturbing the ladies downstairs. I may have to pony up and buy a better one from another brand.