Pignose Reviews

I'll use this occasionally for smaller gigs I don't feel like lugging my AC30 to.

Not sure if it's just nostalgia or what but I love the Pignose. Portable, super colored sound, super fun to dial in the drive-yeah, it's just fun but also entirely practical to use in the studio-re-amping whatever. It's just a lil' box of fun. I still buy batteries from Costco in bulk. Awesome & possibility maybe an under used piece lately of my collection.

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!

portable has a distinct sound and takes a beating

Nothing to say ... plug a guitar in crank up the button and you understand what I mean