mylittleeye's Pignose Pedalboard

Beginners will be drawn to the whistles and bells of modern portable digital modelling amps but Pro's will appreciate the pignose's zen like simplicity and the warmth of it's old school analogue transistor circuitry. The Pignose is now my go-to portable amp despite the fact that I already have the popular Roland Microcube and Vox DA-5. Besides my guitar, I primarily use the pignose for filthy Chicago style harmonica, which my digital amps just can't seem to process without nasty dissonant overtones. The pignose handles the crazy harmonica signal waveform effortlessly, and delivers a presentable harmonica honk directly from my Bottle o Blues harmonica mic. Distortion is controlled by balancing the ratio between the mic (input) volume, and amp (output) volume, just as with guitar. It also plays well with my preferred effects pedals; another reason to choose it over the generic built in effects of modern portables. A final bonus is that the Bottle o Blues stows neatly inside the case along with 5 harmonicas and a 2 meter instrument cable.

My other amps may go to market but this little piggy will stay at home!

It did a 3 star job for what I wanted. T̶o̶g̶e̶t̶h̶e̶r̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶m̶y̶ ̶p̶i̶g̶n̶o̶s̶e̶ ̶i̶t̶'̶s̶ ̶m̶y̶ ̶m̶o̶s̶t̶ ̶p̶o̶r̶t̶a̶b̶l̶e̶ ̶g̶u̶i̶t̶a̶r̶ ̶r̶i̶g̶. [Update - I've since replaced it with a Zoom MS-50G - a vastly more versatile tone machine (no drum section tho)] My expectations were never going to be high for this little device. It looks and feels like a toy but I figured a pignose wouldn't demand high fidelity effects. They've proven to be a very compatible match. The PockRock brings to my old school no frills Pignose some of the whistles and bells commonly found in today's practice amps. I tend to just use it for a touch of reverb but it also offers chorus and tremolo and a few other sounds I never use; phaser or flanger (who does?). I don't use its distortion since the pignose is such a monster but the drum machine gets some use as a fancy metronome for guitar exercises.

I have both a Roland Microcube and VOX DA5 which may sound 'better' but my Pig & P̶o̶c̶k̶R̶o̶c̶k̶ [Zoom Multistomp] make for a smaller, lighter combo.

One thing to watch out for. It comes with a power pack and that's fine for use at home. Otherwise however It's powered by two AAA batteries which are barely adequate. A handful of rechargeables will be required for any prolonged use away from a power socket. Half an hour or so is typical battery life - very lame! Even so it gets me by; I don't demand too much of it and it delivers what I need.