Value guitar amp. Compares to the Fender Rumble 15/25/40 watt series, the Champion 20/40 series, perhaps also the Fender Frontman 10G 10 watt (completely enclosed cabinet product) as an open back cabinet. There are no pre-programmed voice profiles or Functions. In that regard, it's a higher wattage and feature rich version of the 10-15 watt Fender & similar guitar store brand units that lack overdrive & reverb. Those competitors that do have overdrive & reverb lack 60 watts of power of the PYLE. Where profiles & functions do apply, the PYLE lacks the Champion's 20/40 watt units profiles & functions, yet delivers on 60 watts vs 20/40 watts. I think if one is going after profiles & functions, the Champion, as well as the Mustang series base models are what you're looking for. It's a practice amp and maybe small gathering gigging amp. The speaker is an 8" size.There is a hum to it, it has 2 input jacks for low & high input (guitar output pickups are either active & passive styles of pickups). Since it's a retro classic style cabinet, that's part of it's character.Volume control gets 5 stars, it's loud and relatively responsive.Sound Quality gets 4 stars, the hum in overdrive is the 1 star detractor.Light Weight gets 5 stars, if my scale is accurate this one goes 17.5 lbs.Edit: Just bought a short scale bass guitar (June 2022), the amp seems quite capable of pulling double duty as guitar & bass amp. The Bass amp is better used with the clean channel. This amp has held up fine for 3 years of daily use at home volume levels.

After reading the reviews, I was skeptical about buying the amp. I bought a cheaper used version, and I am amazed by the quality of this amp. It does have a strange smell to it, and no serial number is present on the back of the amp either. It definitely packs a lot of power despite it being short in size. I bought it to replace an amp I had been using, but wanted one with more power. I would highly recommend this amp for someone who wants a good guitar amp that does not want to pay $200-$300 for one with similar wattage.The sound is clear, and does not produce any noticeable hum as I had seen in other reviews. Well worth the money, if Amazon ever gets the 120 watt version back in stock, I will order that one as well.

Updated 4/17/2015:I read the reviews before buying this and decided to take a chance. Have messed with it for several days now and can report that various issues in most reviews are accurate, but if used with a good source the amp seems to work quite well. Here's some detail:1) Hum. Yes - if you drive it from a very high impedance source, it has noticeable hum. But even the Fender Mustang 1 V2 has similar comments from some users. I'm guessing this is at least partly due to how exposed the wiring is in whatever guitar/etc you're using. For source impedances below about 1K Ohm, the hum is virtually gone. For example, I used a midrange Electrovoice mic and it works perfectly. Also worked fine with an electric guitar that had normal (unamped) pickups.2) Smell. Yes - there was a noticeable smell from the glue/etc when I opened it, but it dissipated quite quickly and I don't find it significant now.3) Good sound overall. YES. Seems to work nicely as a vocal amp, where the tone controls ("equalizer") do what they should. While it is not a replacement for a good receiver with high-cost speakers for making your ipod louder, it seems more than adequate for a vocal amp. Sounded fine with a guitar as well, but a) I am not a guitarist, and b) it doesn't have the "voices" that competing amps do. So its probably going to come down to a tradeoff - do you want a bit more power, or more refined tone/sound options.4) Volume. Very good. It claims 60 Watts and my initial measurements suggest this is a reasonably accurate number for the _peak_ output (measured about 2.5A peak into the (assumed) 8 Ohm speaker. Soundwise, it is very loud before it clips, so the speaker in the case is decently efficient too. But as other reviewers noted, this is not enough for some (larger) stage environments. It's a 60 (ish) Watt amp. And no - it is not a class D design. It's a normal linear amp.5) Fidelity. Good. If you set the bass all the way up and the treble and midrange at about 10 to 20% (close to all the way down), the amp itself is reasonably flat from about 100 Hz to over 20 kHz. But it rolls off a lot below that. 20 Hz signals fed to it appeared to be maybe 20 dB down - and it doesn't sound anything like my home receiver and EPI speakers on music recordings with lots of bass. In its defense - it is a guitar amp...6) Effects. Has a basic reverb with up to a few hundred ms delay. Acts like a simple one-tap echo, which is fine. Both delay and "depth" adjustments work well. For what its worth, the reverb is implemented with a PT2399 integrated circuit which itself has good specs.7) Imperfections and oddities. Yes, it has some. The hum is definitely there when the cord is not plugged into a guitar or mic. It might have been less had it been built with a three-prong plug and/or had better shielding. But nothing can prevent hum from a poorly shielded source. It may also squeal some, depending on how exposed the cable is. Kind of weird. I can understand the hum, but squeal is unexpected. But both went away when the source was plugged in (except for normal feedback issue when using a mic of course). The 3-band equalizer controls work reasonably well (especially on vocals), but are pretty strange in that the freq response is not flat at mid setting. The main strangeness though is that if you turn down all three controls, the sound stops! So there's some kind of parallel summing of the frequency bands being done I think, rather than the typical series processing found in entertainment amps.In summary - the unit I got is loud and worked fine. The sound effects are not as refined or adjustable as something like a Fender amp - but you get somewhat higher wattage here and a reverb that is quite simple and effective. I actually wanted a simple amp and reverb, so I'm happy. (A fun thing to do is adjust the delay while the thing is echoing. It changes the clock frequency in the delay IC and this results in neat sounding frequency shifts :-)Overall, I think this amp is worth the money. But consider the more refined Fender unit if you don't need 60 Watts and plan to play mostly guitar. For vocals, this one might be better. Personal taste to a large extent seems important in deciding either issue...

im 58. Been playing guitar most of my life. I just received my Pylepro 60 watt amp. I find the amp is sturdy and very well made. The sound is real good. I think the problem with most negative reviews is this: gain/overdrive. This amp is not made for excessive gain/overdrive. I play Country and Gospel. All I use is a little reverb. You can't take a amp like this and think it's going to perform like a $1,000 amp. I am very satisfied with my purchase. I have a telecaster and a Oscar Schmidt acoustic/electric, they both sound great . I give this amp 4.5 stars only because I noticed that the power cord doesn't have a ground terminal. If PylePro would put a power cord with ground terminal , that would eliminate a lot of him, which my amp doesn't have. Great amp, can't go wrong, highly recommend this amp.

I've had this for about three years. I'll concur with a number of the reviews of the 60w.Pros: VERY loud, great value, great looking cabinet, easy to use controls (I do not like amps with more effects -- just get pedals.)Cons: has a little hum as noted in many reviews. The plug is two prong only and I've wondered if converting it to a grounded plug and grounding the entire unit might help.Overall I think this is the best buy in amps going. If you have around $100 to spend, buy the 60w unit and an 8 inch 8ohm Jensen speaker. Swap the speaker and you'll have a super and powerful amp for half of what you need to spend to get something comparable from one of the big names in amps.

great amplifier

Lo he utilizado poco ya que no tengo mucho tiempo con el, pero verifique sus reseñas y por la promoción en precio y especificaciones se me hizo muy bueno. Ha funcionado muy bien.

Great amp. Only been using it at home so far and haven't turned volume passed 2 yet. I would imagine at full, we are moving into Spinal Tap territory.

I don't as a rule do reviews - but this one is worth doing for sure.I doubt very much that you will get better value for your money.All kinds of power for a small amp.It has added trick things for better sound and different applications.Two thumbs up!!

je ne suis q'un débutant de 71 ans,je trouve tres bien son look rétro et le son n'est pas si mal apres quelques ajustement,par contre il n'y a pas de livret d'instructions,ni de ground sur la connection.