Well I came back to see if my review was posted, and I'm happy to see it is, I just have to say this little amp is getting beat up in here by most. As far as noise goes, its not noise, its a very peaceful sounding hum, you don't even hear it till the volume is turned to 10 o'clock. HELLO people this is a tube amp, a very small tube amp, with just a tiny speaker, if you think your going to grind out Pantera on this little amp you don't know how to buy gear. The person who buys this amp is happy playing at low volumes, you know using it as a Practice Amp, or maybe miked in a recording studio, or like me using it as a bedroom practice amp. It really cracks me up when someone purchases a small amp like this then writes a review saying its stinks compared to my friends Marshall stack, well I'm not here to ruffle anyone's feathers. All I know is, I play a Fender strat, I hooked up a Big MUFF, and I'm getting some really nice tone from this gem of an amp, its a cool little amp, just don't expect it to do what a 100 watt tube head and a 4x12 cabinet can do. You don't buy a silver car if you always wanted a red one, Good evening all. MJA.

I played this amp at my GC, and it sounds like a $120 amp would. For a tube amp, it's cold, harsh, and generally displeasing. Its character improves as you turn up the volume (then again, what tube amp's character doesn't?). It sounds AWFUL with humbuckers. Better with single coils. I played a Mexi Tele through it and an Epi Les Paul Studio.So why am I rating this thing so highly? I submit that this amp could sound really good. For the extra money it costs to get a good speaker and some better tubes, I bet you could have a decent sounding low-wattage tube amp for about $200. Don't ever expect it to sound like a boutique recording amp, but with some improvements, I would expect it to surprise you. It's a project amp more than anything.

First off let me say I would normally not purchase a guitar amp without reverb, a small amp like this with a 8 in. speaker needs alittle depth and character, I realize leaving the reverb out will keep the price down and I'm sure thats what Epiphone did, but this small problem is easily remedied. Let me begin by saying the pictures on line and in catalogs do not do this amp justice it is very well made, pleasing to the eye and has some real weight behind it, I'm very fussy when it comes to equipment, when I first saw this amp I was amazed at how Epiphone could sell it for so little money, Nice Job. this amp plays very loud and very quiet, most important it loves stomp boxes, and thats a very good thing, As I mentioned earlier I do like my effects, I'm not really into that dry sound tubes or no tubes, so what I did was run a cable from my ROLAND MICRO CUBE...record-out to the input on the Valve Junior, then from my strat to a wah-pedal then to a BOSS DS-1 then into my IBANEZ Tube Screamer, from there to the MICRO CUBES input, in other words your using the MICRO CUBE as your effects center now you have your different amp models, your effects and your reverb and delays plus a tone control and gain control, What does this all mean, it means you've taken a nice little tube amp and gave it a real VIBE, like I said the potential was there just had to bring it out, Let me wrap this up by saying this amp is for practice and maybe small venues, I keep it next to my audio equipment so I can play along with my CD's (trying to learn some of E.Clapton and J.Pages early licks) metal heads might still be looking more toward Marshall or Crate, more power and a bigger speaker, and I like that too so in the future I'll be adding an 1x12 extension cabinet and most likely a BOSS Metal-Zone pedal, then I'll have all bases covered, If you want bigger and better plus effects look at the other two offerings from Epiphone, I tried them to, the single 10 in. tube combo was very sweet and hard to pass up for just a little over $200.00, Epiphone has done there homework and made tube amps affordable for all of us guitar players, I give the new series of tube amps a two thumbs up.

Simplicity itself, like early guitar amps: A single volume control, one Sovtek 12AX7 preamp tube, one Sovtek EL84 power tube. Period. Perfect. This amp provides GREAT TUBE TONE at a super price. It is incredibly loud for only 5 watts due to it's class A circuitry. The only drawback to this amp is the Epiphone speaker that comes with the amp. It breaks up way to early (not in a good way). I guess for the price Epiphone had to compromise somewhere. I think they picked the right spot to do so. I replaced the stock speaker with a Jensen P8R and now I can crank it up much more before it starts to break up (in a good way). If you like the vintage "champ" sound but don't have the $$$ to shell out for a vintage amp, get one of these little beauties. Who needs vintage when they make stuff like this new? It's the most amp you're gonna get for your money, new or used.

Some of the people in here who review the hum instead of the amp may have gotten one of the "old" versions that don't have the DC filament upgrade. If you get is a 2006 model or newer, you're good to go and you'll hear no more hum than any single-ended class A tube amp offers.