New Boss Katana 100W 1X12 Amp.

[DrNomis_44]

There are plenty of online retailers in AUS that sell D'Adarrio's in bulk. Not sure why you went overseas. With the current condition of the AUD/USD and shipping, the domestic prices are pretty reasonable (from the right seller).

Also, it would take a whole lot more than dead strings to keep me from playing!

Ah, it's only cause I already had the strings in my wishlist, and I had been meaning to order them for a long time.

To be honest, I didn't know I could order them online within Australia.....*cue epic face-palm moment*....Doh!!!!!

It's a bit late now, Stewmac have shipped my order.

[DrNomis_44]

A unit of meowsurement, surely?

I think the coolness-meowsurement of the cats is off the scale, since they are my roadies and they bag all the chicks and groupies, I'm just left to deal with all the lawsuits, bad contracts, etc, etc, etc.

[OliSam]

Hey guys.

I am a plus 1 for the katana.

I flipped the ac30 for a katana 50 (the first one not the one with the two “down arrows”) and i am super happy with it.

The vox needed to be loud to sound good. The katana sounds unreal at any volume. But, of course it sounds best dialled in at 11.

Ive had a few solid state amps and was never fully happy with them. So i went for the vox. Thinking that the magic of tubes would get me the sound i would fall in love with. But it didn’t really.

Then i got the katana. And it really does tick all the boxes (for me. IMHO)

I will stick with this one for a while…


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[DrNomis_44]

I'm supposed to be getting another parcel delivered today, hopefully it's the special cover I ordered for my new Boss Katana 100 MkII amp, so, I'm going to have to stay alert today, cause I'm not sure when the delivery-person will be turning-up.


Woohoo!!!.....The special cover I ordered for my new Boss Katana 100 MkII amp just arrived in the post, that's everything I ordered online now.

My cat, Holly, is doing her regular routine customs-inspection, she found nothing suspicious so I guess I can go-ahead and open the parcel now.


The new special cover fits perfectly, looks real professional now.

[DrNomis_44]

I just did some quick googling to compare the weight of my Marshall MA100C amp with the weight of my brand-new Boss Katana 100 MkII, here are the results, which speak for themselves:


Marshall MA100C 2 X 12 100W Valve Amplifier:

Weight: 62.6 LBs, 28.39488 Kgs.

Boss Katana 100 MkII 1 X 12 100W Solid-State Digital Modelling Amplifier:

Weight: 33 LBs, 14.9685 Kgs.

Difference in weight: 13.42638 Kgs.


It's obvious that the Katana is going to hurt my back a lot less when lugging it to and from gigs.


Last time I weighed myself, I weighed about 60 Kgs, usually a person should be strong enough to be able to lift their own weight, I am just able to do one chin-up on a horizontal bar, and I am just able to carry my Marshall MA100C amp a short distance by it's carry-handle, hopefully I won't get any more sore backs and shoulders this year.

[Rammsteiner]

Hi,

I am getting a used but, in reality brand a new Hughes & Kettner Black Spirit 200 Head
I am sucker for H&K Amps, I like the features and especially the clean sound. Looking forward with the sagging knob to get nice “on the edge of breakup” sounds

will compare it against the Katana.. should arrive on Tuesday!

cheers
Dominik

[DrNomis_44]

Update:

Well, last night I played my very first live-jam gig with my brand-new Katana 100 MkII guitar amp, and what can I say....it sounds HUGE!....I had the amp power-switch set to the 50W setting, and the master volume set to half-way, and the amp sounded Big and Fat, I was fully expecting my Fender Mexican Telecaster to sound a bit thin through it, but no, it sounded very fat and beefy like I was playing through a Marshall stack, something that doesn't normally happen with single-coil pickups, most likely it was because I had put 46-10 gauge strings on my Mexican Tele, anyway, the amp sounded very loud and fat, it easily cut-through the live band mix, and sounded great, I got off-stage with a big grin on my face....the Hype Is Real....Boss nailed it with their Katana series of amps.


I've decided that this amp is definitely a keeper for sure.

[DrNomis_44]

Just started having some problems with my Boss Katana amp, here's what happens.....


* I switch the power switch on.

* The Led indicators on the control panel light briefly, and then go out.

* I get no audio output from the amp.

* I try switching the power switch of and then on.

* Finally after switching the power switch off and then on again several times in a row, the amp powers-up normally and it produces sound.

This problem has happened twice in a row, the first time it happened the amp emitted a loud screeching noise, then powered-up normally but the sound was really bad with horrible digital distortion.....does this sound familiar to anyone?

[Simon Barden]

Could be a loose ribbon cable, or it could be a dying PSU.

Whatever it is, best to take it back under warranty.

You might want to watch this.

[NGCbuilder]

HI,

I was just having a look through the forums and I have been thinking about getting a Katana Myself. I am a qualified Electronics tech (I haven't worked in the industry for a while), and from what you described, as a rough guess it sounds to me like something is failing in the switch-mode power supply in the amp. I have come across the problem in the past in numerous devices in which cycling the power quickly has resolved the issue temporarily, and it is often caused by capacitors going bad, which is a pretty common problem in modern power supplies; they are incredibly efficient, but not as durable or reliable as an old school linear supply.

Is the amp still under Warranty? If so, send it back for repair, as this isn't the type of thing that can easily be fixed at home. Power supplies like this can be incredibly dangerous to work on if you don't know exactly what you are doing. Even if it isn't covered, it is still more than likely worth fixing, and Boss Australia should be able to direct you to somebody who can carry out the repairs for you.

best of luck with it

Nathan