JOYO Mini Guitar Amp 5W Portable - Rechargeable Bluetooth Combo Amplifier with Built-in Effects (Clean, Overdrive, Distortion, Reverb) Compact Practice Amp for Electric Guitar Plug in, Black (JA-05G)

I just got it an hour ago, and right out of the box I plugged it into my Ibanez 6 string. and it works beautifully. The sound is wonderful (For what it is) If you compare this to a more expensive amp you are cheating yourself out of a good product, because you will think it is not as good.For $30 this is a great travel/practice amp. You can get great clean/overdrive/crunchy tone out of it. It connects with my phone and I was able to play some backing tracks on Spotify from my phone to jam to.I personally love it! Will it replace my main amp? NO! But it is not supposed to, this can be bought for pennies and works straight out of the box with no setup. This is great for your 8 year old's first practice amp. Even at full volume, while the sound was clear and nice to me, my wife was able to watch television in the next room, without problem.You can use it while charging, so during long jam/practice sessions, when the battery eventually dies. You can just plug it in and continue playing. I have not had it long enough to comment on the battery life, but every other aspect of it I love so far, and I give it that 5 star rating honestly.My two criticisms are small ones. First of all, it rolls around in the output port of the guitar, as you move or shift its weight, it does not stay still. I worry about breaking it on something as it sticks out from the guitar very far. But even still it is only $30 to replace it if it does. It would be nice to have a mounting bracket (Sell it separately to not increase the price of the unit) But a simple 3d printed bracket to clip it to the body of the guitar better would be something I would buy.The additional 6.5mm adapter that came with it makes no sense, and I am not sure what it is for, and it is not mentioned in the owners manual at all. I thought it would attach to give some more space between the unit and the guitar if you wanted that. But it does not.The unit also comes with Bluetooth functionality, very cool as I said you can plug it into the guitar, connect it to your phone, and then play music or a backing track from your phone to play guitar along to. Or if you just want a small portable speaker to play music from your phone with, it will do that. The owners manual, shows you just propping the amp up on the connection adapter, like a kick-stand. However Guitar people will not want to do that as it can damage that adapter and cause an unwanted buzz or other unwanted sounds. So you could 3d print a small plastic cover to clip onto it, so when you use it as a kick-stand the metal of the adapter is protected from scratches.Do those things and I would give it 10 stars. I would buy three or four more of them to keep in various places like my gig bag, or my friends house where I jam and practice a lot.This is a good product, that is worth the 5 stars and the $30 already. Those two additions would make it way better.

The tiniest amp and it works great!My son built an electric guitar 🎸 in wood shop so I knew an amp was in our future. I wasn’t sure if this would be a passing fad so I wasn’t about to spend a lot on a standard amp. This works well, obviously it’s easily portable. He will use it several times before I pull it off his guitar and charge it, so probably 3-4 hours of use which is pretty good battery life. I know that he plays around with the controls but in general I can’t give an opinion on the different options or on the sound quality like some audiophiles might. It sounds good to me, my son is getting better and I can tell when he’s hit a wrong note on an old Metallica song.This is a great starting amp for someone just learning. My son will sit outside on the patio and practice, brought it to school to play with friends, took it camping… it’s portability and ease of use is a bonus, and the price was right.

It is a good practice amp. Mine came pre-charged last a long time pretty durable. The tone sounds good, but the tone kind of sounds plasticky like in a little bit cheap but it’s good for your money

Why did you pick this product vs others?:Works great for practice at talking/acoustic guitar volumes. Battery lasts a long time, clean and over drive sound quite solid for the size of the speaker. Distortion peaks the speaker at just about any volume. But again at the size, form factor and price you can't go wrong with this for a plug and play personal practice amp.

For $24, you can't expect too much. The sound works, It's portable, and has a rechargeable battery. The sound is ok. It lacks low end and distorts easily when overdriven, but again, it's $24. The clean+reverb and overdrive+reverb really aren't bad, but the distortion setting is ugly. The reverb really helps out the first two sounds. But does this work for noodling around on the couch with out dealing with wires, or maybe even playing along with another quiet instrument like a digital piano? Yes, and it's worth it.However, there are real issues if you're fine with a lackluster sound. Something unavoidable is if you turn the speaker towards you, it's then playing straight into the pickups. This causes tons of feedback on the distortion setting and makes it near unplayable. If you're a metal head wanting to dirty tones, this isn't for you.The other issues are just poor design decisions that wouldn't impact price. First, as another reviewer pointed out, the fit in a strat style guitar is bad. I have a G&L Comanche with a strat like body, and the plug just barely fits in the front facing jack on the guitar. They could have extended the jack just a few mm and it would have been so much better. I took away a star for thatMy biggest issue is that when the amp is turned on and NOT connected to blutooth, the blue LED blinks. Why??? It's so annoying. I'm trying to play and there's this small blinking light in the corner of my eye. It's distracting and such a stupid design. The blinking supposedly stops if you connect it to a blutooth device, but I don't want to do that. I just want to plug it into the guitar and play and not have to connect anything else, but now there's a blinking light. Can they update the firmware with this somehow???I was about to send it back but then I covered the LED with electrical tape. It's mostly hidden the blinking, but I know it's there.Ultimately I'll keep this thing because it's cheap and I'll actually use it. It even sounds pretty good with my Fender Acoustasonic! Yes, a $24 amp plug sounds good with a $2000 guitar. But why does the LED need to blink at all??? just change the color when connected to blutooth instead.

This is cool and fun because I don’t have to bust out my amp looking for an outlet and unravel cables. Messing with the effects is cool, reminds me of a line 6 amp with the clean/crunch/insane effects. It can get pretty loud.