Monoprice 1x10 Guitar Combo Amplifier - Black, 40-Watt, Spring Reverb, 10-Inch 4-Ohm Speaker, High & Low Inputs, Headphone Output - Stage Right Series

The Monoprice Stage Right 40 watt amp was everything I expected for a $99 amp and a bit more. It has a great sound for the price point. It seems to be well-made. The overdrive/distortion is reasonably good but since I have four pedals it's kinda academic. I was able to turn it up pretty high in clean-tone (without pedals) before breaking up some. Again, for the price, a great loud/good tone practice amp. The spring reverb works pretty well and can be well-controlled-it sounds a heck of a lot better than another amp I once had that created it electronically. A minor peeve: I can hear a teeny bit of reverb in whatever I'm playing with the reverb turned off. I'm running two of my pedals straight into the high input jack and the other two (an equalizer and pre-amp/tube modeler) into the Fx send and return jacks. That really cleaned up and sharpened the total sound. The other two pedals are compress/sustain and a morpher. I then ran a line out to a 15 watt Fender amp to split out some of the bass separately. The MP SR amp drives the smaller amp very well with no issues. I hear just a smidgen of hiss at low volumes with or without the Fender amp. The Fender had zero hiss on its own. Overall, I'm very satisfied. Monoprice: consider adding an XLR input and output. I think people would pay a bit more for that feature. Update 11-21-2021: I'm still loving it. I see the price has gone up (hasn't everything?) but it would still be great at that price. Lots of learning curve for two months has ironed out a bunch of sound issues that weren't this amp's fault (like maybe my playing.) The fx circuit and spring reverb (I stopped noticing the slight reverb with the control turned down, or maybe it healed itself) are worth the price! I'm considering a Celestion or other speaker upgrade down the road. Moving pedals around and doing different things with line in/out took care of a bit of the hiss. It's now liveable. You cannot go wrong!

I have owned at least 7 guitar amplifiers, several effects pedals, and 9 guitars. Over the years I have been looking for the right combination to give me the sound I was looking for. Today, it's this 40 watt masterpiece you've aptly named STAGE RIGHT. It's a powerhouse with real spring reverb. Combined with my DOD Gunslinger and my Jackson JS32T Kelly... it totally rocks. For the money it's the best. The stock distortion is descent... but I prefer the tone of my Gunslinger. It chugs bigtime. It's VERY LOUD! Compared to amps I've owned in the past... this sounds the best for a solid state. The clean side is very tube esque. The reverb is something I've wanted for a while now. It's real spring reverb... and not that digital reverb sounds bad... but nothing compares to a spring. I love this amp and I'm glad I bought it. It even has a line out jack (bonus) An external speaker jack (that when hooked to my Jensen speaker... it sounds crisp and even louder) The factory speaker on mine is just as good. I get a metal style without paying a fortune to get it. If I had a $1200.00 Solar guitar... I'm 100 % sure that it would sound great on this little amp. There is enough punch in the volume that you can hear it a football field away. I highly recommend this to beginners and pros. It's a good price for what it delivers. As for the body construction... it's what I'd expect for an amp at this price... but the guts is where it counts and it's got em. Monoprice... thank you... and to Amazon... many thanks for making this available to a guitar player who just wants to have just what I need for the sound I aspire to achieve. I am very satisfied with this lil' beast of an amp.

I like the equalization options and the overdrive was a nice touch. You can crank it to 11. It is full of input/output ports galore, which is was why I got it. There's a ton you can do with it. The volume is good it can get very loud, but the sound easily becomes too muddled. It's like it has a low quality speaker that can't handle the power. What gives? Seriously, it's a starter amp type sound, which was disappointing. For example, the bass isn't powerful but more just "muffles" the sound than deliver any bass. For that, I' just go to my Vypyr and get loud but professional amp sounds. At best, if you play metal, to get good sound you'll have to tweak away at fx pedals to help balance it out. It will take some work to make it somewhat passable. However, the low input wss particularly awesome. The sounds are more subdued, cleaner, and handles better at high volume. The high input can get raspy, in contrast. Pretty cool. Separately, as an amp for other things, it's a good deal. I can easily plug in one of my keyboards while feeding in recordings or a mic, or other instrument, and feed it out into another amp if I wanted. Amp is good size and not too heavy, seems sturdy. Notably mesh over speakers seems wavy cheap. Someone mwntiomed their's caught smoke. I smelt something but it wasnt hot but more of new amp smell breaking it in. If that changes I'll update review. Overall, good deal for price, but too bad speaker quality wasn,'t better, but just maybe my opinion, my snazzy Peavey amp might have spoiled me.

I am really amazed by the quality of this econo-amp. Has excellent features for the price. Two inputs for active or passive inputs, multiple output options, pedal rig loop on the back, reverb on the main channel, and an overdrive distortion. Very intuitive controls and as a super fun little detail, the volumes go to 11 (spinal tap reference). Just a really snarky little fun detail on a very high quality amp for the money (shockingly good rig considering the price). I bought one to run through my live gig rig, and think I will buy another to have as my practice home amp. Time will tell on longevity but initial usage (played about ten hours on it so far) shows it to be a great little amp. Highly recommend.

This thing every bit of 40 watts . Not one of those bogus 20 watt amps advertised as a 40 watt . It can get extremely loud. You can probably keep up with a drummer with it but I haven't tried it like that . It's has nice clear clean tone and takes to my pedals very well. The speaker can handle a good amount of bass . I set my main distortion with a good dose of low end and there isn't even a hint of the speaker misbehaving. This is probably the best 40 watt amps that you will see under $200.

1st of all I have been playing guitar since 2005 and own many solid state and tube amps from many different companies. I bought this amp after reading some good reviews on Amazon. I wanted a smaller combo amp so I could just grab & go to my 1st cousins house (another guitarist) for some living room fun practicing. I liked how it had an effects loop and speaker out features. I was so hopeful that this was going to work for me. When I opened the box, everything arrived fine and in working condition. I plugged in one of my guitars and the clean channel was decent, but something just seemed a little off in the sound. I could never find a sweet spot in the tone settings to my liking. I had to turn the bass all the way up as the sound was super thin sounding. I had to turn the mids and tremble down much because there was a weird brittle sound in the mid to upper range. I then tried the overdrive distortion button and I immediately did not like that sound. Very fizzy with that same weird brittle sound as I was getting in the clean channel. The reverb was actually pretty decent, it sounded fine to me. I then tried a couple of pedals I own and I was able to get a decent clean and distortion sound out of the amp. However, I could never get rid of that mid high brittle sound. I tried several different guitars and still same problem with the sound. So, I thought maybe the OEM 10" speaker just needs to be broke in and figured that might be the problem to the sound. I hooked this amp to an external 1x12 cab that I own with a very nice Eminence speaker in it. The sound was warmer and had more clarity. However, I still couldn't get rid of that weird upper mid brittle sound. Although it wasn't as pronounced, but it was still there. No way to get rid of that strange artifact sound. I said, 'Nope' this is not for me. I re-boxed and sending it back today. Sound is subjective to each person, and this amp sound was not for me. It is too bad as I loved the features of this amp and hoped it worked out for me. I think I will buy a used Peavy Vypr 12" combo amp as I have heard them before and they actually sound good for a solid state amp. Not the best sounding, but will work for my needs and they sound much better than this amp that I am sending back. A used Peavey isn't much more that the cost of this amp that I tried to like. My ears just didn't like the overall sound. I wanted this amp to work out for me as it had the effects loop and speaker out option to it as the Peavey Vypr doesn't have those features. But this Mono Price, amp doesn't sound good to me.

If this amp had Vox or Fender on the faceplate it would get a lot more love online. It easily outclasses the now discontinued Pathfinder 15 or the Frontman 25. More power, real spring reverb, effects loop and reasonable price all make this a better choice than hunting down a used version of the name brand amps. Just be sure to break in the speaker before passing judgement on the sound. Mine needed about 25 hours of transient heavy music into the auxiliary input to smooth out. After maybe 5 hours of Return To Forever, Junior Brown and Emerson, Lake and Palmer I could hear a marked improvement. Be patient. For such a cheap amp this is a very capable piece of gear. It's a 10 inch speaker in a small cabinet, so forget about heavy metal chugging. And note that this is the newer model with the single input, not the older high and low version. The one input is not a problem. I have used single coils, P-90s, humbuckers, piezos and even the faux Ricky toasters into this amp with very good results. If you can't get a decent sound out of this amp it's not the amp's fault, it's your expectations.

I am very disappointment. I was looking for a replacement for my Peavy Studio pro 40 and found this amp on Amazon. It had tons of great reviews so I decided to try it. I got it today and took it out of the box with excitement only to have my expectations destroyed. This amp is horrible. It sounds tinny and muted no matter how you adjust it. It sounded horrible with pedals no matter if you used the effects loop feature or if you ran them straight into the input. The volume level wasn't even and when playing some notes, you could barely hear it and then all of a sudden it would get loud. I bought a little Pyle amp about 6 months ago because I needed a second amp to leave at church for Sunday worship and now it is my primary amp as this new one is going back to Amazon tomorrow. The Pyle amp is much better but only has an 8 inch speaker. I was hoping to get a decent cheap amp with a 10 inch speaker but now I am left to keep looking.