I have an Ibanez RG320QS, and play mostly rock and metal, and this amp can do both perfectly. On the clean channel, it sounds very good, almost acoustic-sounding sometimes. With the overdrive, it does hard rock very well. On the hot channel, theres an a button to switch to the "X Mode", which tightens up the lower sounds. I seriously doubt you'd ever need a distortion pedal for this thing. The hot channel alone has some great distortion, but I was really impressed when kicked in the "X Mode". My friends bass sounds perfect through it as well.

This amp has the clean channel, overdrive you can switch on for the clean channel, the hot channel, and the "X Mode" on the hot channel, which switches to a different preamp. The only other things you might need or want are a wah pedal and a delay pedal. Each channel has its own set of dials.

This is extremely easy to use, three buttons, a power switch and 2 sets of dials for each channel.

This is extremely well made, all 71 lbs of it. It doesn't have metal corners, but very thick plastic ones instead. Cosmetically, I think that's a good thing, and they work just as well as metal ones do for protecting the amp. It's been knocked around quite a bit, and theres one mark, and no change in performance.

This amp should sell for much more than it's priced at. I wasn't as impressed with a $600 Fender tube amp as I was with this.

I haven't had to deal with this, but it's Ibanez, so I imagine I wouldn't have any problems.

It looks great, which is an added bonus to the incredible sound of it.

Active Musician, begining to record

Rock, Metal

You can play the blues but this amp prefers you play the metal. The hot channel has excellent distortion and enough ways to tweek the sound, that you can get any metal sound you want. I love mine.

2 footswitch jacks on the back let you turn on/off the overdrive, reverb, x, and the channels. Midrange sweep, overdrive, x, and hue, along with active independent eq's allow you to sound any way your like it. Even the clean channel has a drive knob.

Small learning curve. But its easy to figure out even before reading the owners manual. i can get clean, overdrive, 80's distortion, 90's distortion, and even make it muddy like a mesa.

Seems like a high quality unit. Looks good just sitting there. No worries on my end.

For $350 bucks and 150 watts. Its a metal guitarists dream.

No support needed

I've been trading gear off and on for over 2 years and I'm keeping this one for a long while.

Hobbyist

Anything and everything

It sounds great and is plenty loud. I used in a concert the other night, and everyone said I was heard fine. The clean channel is great, and the hot channel has amazing distortion.

It didn't come with anything, but a footswitch pedal would've bee nice, but that's ok. It's easy to use, and it looks great.

It's very easy to use.

It's pretty sturdy, and I can depend it.

I think this is worth more than they are selling it for. It's that good!

I'm not sure, I haven't had to call the company because I haven't had any problems so far.

Super Sexy! :) It looks way better than it does in the pictures.

Active Musician

Classic Rock

Professional musician

Metal

First off the sound this amp puts out is amazing, that is of course after you break it in. The crunch from this amp rattles my bones, although it does take awhile to get the sound tuned up on the EQ. This amp can put out the crunchy low distortions while at the same eq setting can sing beatuifully on highs with a harmonic type sound plus along with the reverb just makes it 10 times better. The x mode and overdrive working simultaniously is a metal gods miracle you would have to witness it for yourself.

The acoustic channel could have been better doesnt have that warm tone like a true acoustic, but i really dont use it. I would say the best feature of this amp is the massive amount of power, the solid state construction, X/Hot channel, and how it looks. One thing i wish it came with was 2x12" Celestion speakers instead of the ones that it comes with.

I gave it a 8 because getting used to the eq for the hot channel takes some know-how to dial in the right sound because the mid range has two dials and they coincide so its a little confusing but once you got that down its pretty easy to understand.

If you want quality here is a piece of advice, this amp is meant to take a beating to hell and back, so do the right thing and buy it new, if you buy it used chances are someone already played the hell out of it. Shop smart. This thing brand new out of the box is very intimidating its about 6 times the size of your average microwave. As for height if you stacked two two liter bottles on top of each other thats the height. Very sturdy construction found no loose parts, just a little blemish from the cardboard box but was easily rubbed off with my finger. Built like a tank and weights like one too it feels like 70lbs dead weight so nothing is moving around its all solid. Plus the handle strap is flawless which is very important dont want that failing on you. One more thing make sure you check the on off switch before you plug it in because mine was flipped on straight out of the box overall a perfect solid construction

Absolutely worth the money hands down

Never had to call them im guessing really good.

The sex appeal? I would sleep with it, its freaking sexy. Don't believe me? buy it yourself i dare you. Every outside feature is very intimidating, your friends will catch themselves continuously looking over at it even when its not in use. Very high quality build.

2 yr Intermediate Guitarist

Metal,Hardcore Metal,Death Metal.

It's definatly loud enough. I bought it as a practise amp so I wouldn't have to use my JSX. Works for practise, I can't see me using it live by itself. I think what I'm gunna do is buy a channel selector dealio and use the Ibanez for cleans, and dirty cleans, keep the JSX in Crunch and Ultra.

Very simply laid out which is good. However, since its not loaded with effects, its very easy to make the layout simple. Seperate reverbs are nice though. Thing seemes frigin tough.

Your aren't gunna get confused using this like I said before. I'm not a big fan of the mid sweep control. Never have been. I realize it serves a purpose, but perhaps instead of a sweep, there could be scoop and no scoop as a button. Graphic EQ would also be nice, be it a gratuity.

Its a TANK. done.

Rediculous price. If your looking around on the market like you need something that can do the job without breaking your wallet, this would be a good idea.

No idea what service is like. Tanks don't break to much.

Silver and Black always looks like its gunna kick your ass.

Active Musician

Melodic Rock/Metal

tight distortion,bluesy crunch,clean clean,ton of tone adjustment

requires two pedals to control everything on amp only comes with one,but if you're looking for straight minimal hassle this is a great amp

a little tweak here and there dial it in

seems durable enough,but then again you don't want to drop any amp out of a truck

for the price it rocks,good solid state

don't know

hell i bought it

hobbyist

if I like it I play it

I have a ibanez tbx 150 it has lots of bottom end and distortion i run it through a 4 12 cab loaded with celestions it just just not dial in at a good brightness i wish i never bought this amp good for rythem death metal but like i said my marshall 100 watt hdfx makes this ibanez peice of junk sound terrible. sorry ibanez im selling this amp or trading it you make good guitars but your amp lame man

no accesories just terrible sound

the mid button is confusing

its made well but the circutry inside is lame

guitarist over 30 years

everything

i tries marshall fender twin reverbs peavey vyper series valve king combo and this thing smokes em all.from clean to srtaight up mayhem this is the amp you want to buy i have the 2 12 combo and i love it i can even drown out my buddy's drum set lol

great features reverd hue overdrive x mode which is like face melter od

very easy to use and create those signature sounds with without a foot pedal i have a digitech rp 150 and barely use it it cant match the distortion on this amp

very high quality the only thing ive had a problem with is the xlr input it broke cuz its plastic but i glued it back and works great they will replace it too on my warrenty but i cant live 2 to 3 weeks without it

nothing compares point blank you find a better amp at that price then talk to me

great service at hoshino usa they were willing to do whatever it took to fix my amp

this guitar amp is amazing i played with me Gibson SG and i like to play rock and boy did it sound nice not just with the destortion it had one of the best clean sounding sounds ever (my opinion)

this is a great amp the only thing that i didn't like was that i had to tune it up and it took a lil' bit but it was awesome when i was playing !!

It was superrr easy tuning the amp up i mean it was great there wasn't all these nombs like a marshall but it was super easy tuning and it was so nice wen i did get it tuned up

this prodect is a amazingly built amp and it is the most reliable amp ever ! this amp is a perfect road amp and awesome practice heck !! it is good amp in any witch way !!!!!!

i half to say for this price it seems like you are stealing it !!

The 1st time i needed help with this amp well wait i never need help with this idom !!!

the min. i saw this i was like that is what i want then wen i played on it i was like holy crap i want it now !!