It’s well designed with a reassuringly sturdy handle, corner protectors, chunky knobs inspire confidence, even the screws look solid.

Everything is constructed tidily, with not a glitch to be seen. The BOSS logo with the Katana Logo looks great, it’s rubbery rather than plastic and doesn’t look cheap at all. Nothing is superfluous, it’s tiny and it’s light. It’s clean-looking, modern, business-like, no-nonsense. You can even change the whole character of your amp’s tone with the detailed Global EQ.įirst impressions couldn’t be better. to augment or boost your live tone? You’ve got it. BOSS Katana 50 Review – Power Control, Channels and Effects. Intuitive, well thought out, simple and useful. 0.5 W for home, 50 W for ultimate headroom live and 25 W if you wish to beef things up a bit live. All present and correct, although the BOSS Katana 50 lacks the presence control of the 100, I’ve never missed it. Just tweak your settings and when you’re happy, hold down the channel button you wish to assign your tone to. This, of course, allows you to save and recall your favourite tone settings and is handled in the most intuitive way imaginable. The Katana 50 includes 2 banks of 2 channels, (2 banks of 4 channels on the BOSS Katana 100) plus a ‘panel’ channel (current knob settings). Still, with all that and 5 channels (Acoustic, Clean, Crunch, Lead and Brown), you can have a LOT of fun practising at home.

In other words, you’ll be able to boost your LOW-MIDS level, but you won’t be able to save the tone setting. the Parametric EQ will let you alter the frequency gain, but will auto-assign the level after you save.

Some of the FX parameters aren’t writeable, e.g.

Any sort of meaningful tweaking must be done in BOSS TONE STUDIO, and for that, you need to hook up your laptop/PC.

you can’t apply a MOD effect to the Reverb patch if you’d require an additional MOD.

Further to that, those 3 slots restrict the types of FX you can assign to them, e.g.

You only get to use 3 of them at once, assigned to just three ‘slots’ BOOST/MOD, Delay/FX and Reverb.

Every BOSS effect you could ever imagine, all the overdrives, distortions, even the newer TERA echo etc, all in the box. The BOSS Katana 50 has an almost embarrassing array of features. Legendary versatility? BOSS Katana 50 Review – Amp Models and EQ.

The Golden Age of the Video Game Arcade.

it’s culture, and of course not forgetting it’s magnificent food! It’s been a long time, some things have been forgotten, but hopefully you’ll enjoy what’s left. In 2015, I finally decided to put down in writing all the experiences encountered on my journey, not least my admiration for India, it’s people. A trip that affected my outlook on life, views on my country and my attitude towards others of all backgrounds.

Goa: A Lesson in Life Back in August 2006 I visited Goa, India.

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