The Best Guitar Amplifiers of the HARLEY brand

I can’t believe how bloody loud this thing is, wholly overkill for me on so many levels. Highly recommend as a beginner amp 11/10

I’ve been told to always set volume on max for tuning purposes, I accidentally hit the G string and my heart almost jumped out of my rib-cage. I’ve been told this is normal and that 20W isn’t even that much

I’ve also been told I *need* to buy a combo for practice and I have to say I agree (even though initially I agreed only reluctantly), but I can see this thing could work at a small club concert, you can probably juice out that much out of this. I can even see this being a good backup solution in case your main amp is MIA

Aside from the loudness the What-Brand Chinesium speaker this ships with isn’t exactly an audophile’s dream. I should clarify, the sound is great, for 60 euros it’s, I mean, I couldn’t imagine this level of quality 10, 20 years ago at this price level. Still you should know, anything through the aux input is going to sound dulled? ie. not bad, but not great either

Guitar sounds great of course, I mean great as in unexpectedly good for transistor. I actually greatly prefer the *actual sound* through headphones/an external speaker over aux cable. The difference is noticeable even for an amateur like me

I keep the volume knob at 1-2-4 at most, and strangely I prefer the clean sound. I intuitively believed that if you’re gonna have a cheap speaker then distorted sound would sound better since you know… it’s distorted and the nuances of the sound are lost. But this didn’t turn out to be true in the real world and clean sound has much more "body", it feels more plentiful and vibrant. Remember kids, keep your gain low. Signed: someone who is not an expert

EQ works differently than I expected, but I’ve been told this is exactly how these things ought to work so yeah

Let’s quickly address points made by other reviewers:
– build quality is… I just can’t give it all of the stars without feeling like lying. It’s amazing for the price. The logo is very well machined. It will probably last I don’t know, let’s say 10 years. But just… 5% more effort would make this combo look and feel so much better, dare I say premium even. There was one bolt that wasn’t fully tightened. This might’ve happened during travel, but then I’m afraid what kind of travel conditions this was in. Also on the back there’s a strange black paint applied? I don’t know if this is normal, you’ll see if you buy it, I’m neutral towards it
– the two buttons and all knobs are good quality, the lines below are slightly misaligned though and it’s triggering the perfectionist nerves in me. Just very *slightly* so, just barely [screaming inside]. I think these are the same knobs from the higher-end models
– the jack seems to be good enough to last a lot of connecting in/out
– handle feels goood, I approve
– reverb sounds amazing except for positions 5 through 9.5-ish. Still you probably should stick to 1-3-4 anyway. 9.5-10 sounds good

pros:
-very low price: it costs like going once to local restaurant with your girlfriend
-pretty good quality
-very loud: I usually play at 30% loudness. I guess you can take it to local pub concert, etc.
-The eq is nice

cons:
-Mine came a little bit scratched
-The spring reverb is very strange. If you play at a big volume, and turn the reverb bigger than 60% percent, it starts to make a very loud noise which go louder and louder, until you turn off the effect at all. First time it happened I thought I destroyed the combo. You don’t imagine how loud that was
-Strange sound quality when playing in headphones. That is because the combo doesn’t have a cabinet simulator. So playing in headphones doesn’t make any sense.
-Also the aux cable quality is very very bad. The sound is very bad, it doesn’t have any bass and middle freqs. Also when nothing is playing it makes a very loud noise. So connecting an aux cable for practicing or just listening to music also doesn’t make any sense.

In conclusion I can say that if you are a beginner totally buy it! But if you want something serious, buy a combo like Fender, that has digital effects. They are called Modelling combos. Buy something like Fender Mustang LT50.
But from my opinion, the best option is buying a sound card. I bought Behringer Umc204HD. But if you want a sound card, you will have to know at least the basics of a DAW (reaper, cubase, reaper), or you can download different soft(Bias fx2, Guitar Rig 5). Also you need to have a good pc, and some speakers or studio monitors

I use this HB 10 G Combo Amp mainly in my house and I am very pleased about it. Mostly I like the options available on it, the fact that it has a port for headphones but also a port for connecting an iPod or phone or an MP3 player.
The sound that comes from it is quite clean, it has some buzz but only at the highest gain level which not too many, I think, will use.
The HB 10 G Combo Amp is built really good and can take some ruff handling, in case it is somehow necessary. I traveled with it a lot and never had any issues even if unfortunately was bumped to surfaces sometimes.
The weight it’s just 4.2 kg or 9.2 pounds and even though it seems to have a bit of weight, the weight is distributed in such a way that it is really easy to be handled by hand from one place to another.
Pros: The sound is so diverse using all the modes on the HB 10 G Combo Amp
The weight, being distributed nicely
The great variety of options available, to turn almost any sound you want on it (for a beginner)
The sturdiness being such a small, yet full of options Amp.
The Cons: Not enough options to change the sound and tone for a Pro guitar player.
Buzzing when the Amp Gain dial is turned at it’s maximum level.
Overall I really like this Amp and I recommend it to any guitar beginner that I am sure will use this Amp, until will learn to play the guitar almost a t a Pro level.
I didn’t try too much the MP3 function too much, but until now I have been really amazed of the possibility to use this function on such a cheap Amp and it all works great.

Last year I started playing guitar and bought a Fender starter kit. I was not very happy with my Fender products so last week I bought this amp. I am very happy with it. The sound is great for a beginner. Ofcourse it can be better but it’s only 40€. There’s many options for your guitar, like a lot of distortion or just the acoustic sound, and there’ many options for something inbetween, so you can play whatever genre you want! What i really love is that it’s very small: I’ve put it on my desk and it’s extremely convienent for in my bedroom. It’s great that you can put both your headphones in and music player.Great for practicing without bothering the family. The handling is very easy: I love the simplicity of this amp. And it can go very loud as well, if you’d want to! Love it.

40 watts is, quite simply, a lot of power; I’ve never been able to set the volume to this thing above 6 without fear of deafening myself.
Build quality is 4/5 , as plugging anything in to the dedicated AUX IN port for backing track play results in horrible buzzing and insanely loud popping noises. This was tested across several different aux cables and portable devices.
Other than that, the amp itself is very solidly built, and can definitely take a few knocks. The overdrive channel feature is a bit rubbish, but the clean channel is great. EQ controls are good.

Another note : This is very useful to bring to parties as a speaker. Simply make sure you’re set to the clean channel, set the volume low (1 or 2 out of 10), and use an adapter to connect the 3.5mm jack from your phone to the regular guitar input jack. Many friends have commented on how great the sound is playing back party playlists, and the best part is that you can go from listening to music to playing it, with just an electric guitar and an aux, with the same amp. Very versatile.

The sound quality is really good and it is even loud enough to play in a band! Assuming the drum machine is not that machine like 😉
The equalizer is sensitive and can be adjusted precisely. The overdrive channel ranges from crunch to distortion.
The built in reverb is also a nice feature, witch thickens the sound. Good for surf music.
This amp is also very good for playing at home. It has an extra audio jacket for headphones. You can also plug in another box, good for monitoring or whatever you want to do. All in all i would strongly recommend this one for beginners.

This amp has two channels. The channel 1 is good for crunch, It is relatively easy to get good tones out of it as long as it is set loud.

The secon channel is only good as a clean amp or a pedal platform. The gain sounds bad, but takes pedals greatly, thanks to the celestion speaker.

The included reverb is surprisingly good too. But this is NOT an amp for home use. This is loud.

There are some nice features such as option for footswitch, external speaker and fx-loop, but i think the sound suffers from the price with all these features.

The basic sound (all 12’o clock) sounds very bass, so you have to turn treble all the way up or bass down to get a nice ‘clangy’ sound. Other than that the gain sounds terrible and as soon as you crank up the volume above ca.15% the amp starts buzzing and humming.

Personally I would lay down a few more bucks and buy a katana or something. I hope i helped some people with this.

For the price this thing cannot be beat.
It’s a great little amp for bedroom practice, practice with your band, and I think it can handle small gigs no problem, if there was any gigs these days, you know. It handles playing with a drummer no sweat. It’s feature packed to the brim, it’s cheap, it sounds great, it looks cool, it’s small and easy to carry – what else do you want it to do, make coffee for you?

Enough of that, though. There’s enough praise being sung to this amp, so I’ll concentrate on the negatives instead.

– First, the build quality begs the question of whether or not this thing can handle the live work. That tiny power transformer can barely manage the load and gets really hot really fast, all that heat coupled with the heat off the tubes cooks the PCB and its SMD components. So far so good though.
– The power tubes are biased cold, or so I’ve heard, and I’m not sure that I’m allowed to open the guts and set it right with the bias pot without losing the warranty.
– The stock speaker leaves a lot to be desired. There’s this harsh top end to it, which cannot be EQed out by the tonestack. But throwing a, say, used Greenback in would improve the sound drastically.
– A few days ago the amp began to oscillate, I’ve swapped V3 for V1 and vice versa, and it’s fine again. Guess the noname V1 tube has gone bad in two months of use, but it pulls the phase inverter duty well enough for now. That helped with the hum, too, there’s less of it now. Looks like I’m buying new 12AX7s. The power tubes are Russian-made 6p14p, no complaints here.
– The reverb wire goes through the hole in the chassis without a grommet, the edges of that hole are sharp and can cut into the insulation. That’s easy enough to fix tho.
– The power cable is very short, a meter or so in length, and if you want to swap it for another, it’s time to reach for your soldering iron. Guess these IEC C14 sockets cost a fortune. Still, it’s a very minor issue, trivial to get around.
– There’s no standby switch. Big deal.

I think I’ve covered everything negative that I know about this amp. And there’s not that much of it, especially considering the amount of positives to it. A good buy, this amp rocks.

First I ordered a B-stock TUBE15, but alas on the way here it was heavily damaged during transport. Thomann however attended and fixed this problem correctly, so a few days later I received a beautiful new amp, nicely packed two times, and the bounced one was picked up direcly. Nice work Thomann Freunde!!

For this kind of money, building a 12 inch A-quality Seventy 80 Britpop speaker in an almost perfectly refined multiple tube combo, including a spring reverb?

Someone either made a calculation mistake or certainly knows his way around the world how to make a good deal come to us, being the happy customer.

The knobs do their good work, especially the extra Tone possibily is a brilliant feature to get your setting right plugging in various guitars with various pickups, from a Danelectro 59 NOS, a Jimi 69 strat, a Micawber Tele, a Fender FMT, and a very fat Gibson SG, they all sound great on this convincing whitish tube amp with the black front panel and his red eye.

Also my pedalboard works fabulous on the send and return connections in the back of this rather light combo contraption, our beneficiary must have been saving a few coins there, for a 12 inch combo with a very loud mouth in the lowest price range that is.
For loud she certainly is, and also sharp like a razor.
I read on the internet in a Sweetwater review on the Seventy 80 speaker that he considered way too sharp, but in my humble opinion that is the whole purpose of a good amp. If you buy a Mesa Boogie combo e.g., which b.t.w.costs tenfold this one here, you will find that the Mesa Boys are putting all their knowlegde & effort in their products to especially pump the clearest and sharpest tone thinkable out of their amps, as compact and as loud as they can achieve.

And then, there was…… this TUBE15….from Harley Benton….

Get one while you can!
Great work you Harley Benton & Thomann guys!

Don’t miss the beautiful review on YouTube that Dave Simpson made for us all on this amp…..AMAZING!

Thanks for reading, I’m off to my Tuby Tuesday to play…

With the AC power (by Thoman) the ground noise is very very very loud. Works onli with battery

This Amplifier worked OK when I tried it but was not suitable for the purpose I got it for.

I bought this as a practice amp for my daughter. I am super satisfied. It has some great practice features (sounds good at low volume, has a built in drum machine), Side by side with a more expensive and larger amp it wouldn’t sound as good but there are no compromises in this one that would hurt her practice.

If you want an small amp for home practice, you can’t go past this.

Here’s some things it doesn’t have that may be deal breakers for you
1) No Line out or usb interface (it does have a headphone out)
2) No effect loop
3) Will not be loud enough for band use

Otherwise it sounds great to my old ears, and this is the important bit, at LOW VOLUME. Yes my tube head sitting on a 2×12 cab sounds better, but only for 5 minutes until my neighbours call the police.

There are 8 amp models(JC Clean, Clean , Tube Screamer, Blues, Crunch, Lead, Rythm, and Metal ) and they all sound satisfying. there are 6 effects on two knobs – Delay/Reverb, and Chorus/Flanger/Phaser/Tremolo – with a bit or trial and error there are few tones you won’t be able to simulate.

Best of all (it was actually the feature that made me get it) for practice it has a drum machine with 36 patterns in it. So you can jam to a drummer which in my mind is a great practice tool.
And as an added bonus it is tiny and light. You could bring it with in a backpack without any trouble.

Small cheap bedroom practice amp? Get this one.

Good for the price – especially for practice.
Great features and lots of them as well, but of a mid-low quality.
Do not expect too much.
However, if you are a beginner or only need a practice amp to carry arround, it is okay.