HOTONENano Legacy British Invasion 5-Watt Compact Guitar Amp Head with 3-Band EQ

The Hotone British Invasion has that classic jangly sparkle that we all know so well. Plugged it into a mini cabinet and it has plenty of power for a practice session. Mic it and run it through a PA, it sounds great, too. Unbelievable value…Lots of possibilities just varying tone controls and gain + effects loop is something that even higher priced amps don’t always have. Buy this… you won’t regret it.

I got it next day, I plugged it on not a Peavey 210 bass cab, 16ohm. It's not loud, but it sounds great, it sounds creamy.not high gain but nice. It eq is pretty dynamic. It has s very responsive to all my pedals. I ordered an Orange 8x10 cab...if it's half as good I will be happy.

Use it to drive a Wangs 10" Celection Cabinet, loud more than enough for home practice. Before this, I had a Mooer Baby Bomb 30, its too powerful, too loud for home practice. For this British Invasion, set the gain at 9'oclock, had beautiful clean tone with my Epiphone Les Paul standard. Tuen to 12 o'clock and up, those rock sound like I hear from radio in my teenager. I can use a phone to play in evening. As some commends said it has noise issue, I tried push to max volume and gain, no noticeble noise.

I am astonished at the tone and volume that this little amp generates. The British Invasion model does well to imitate the Vox sound. I use mine on top of an early 1960s 2x10" Fender Tremolux cabinet. It is loud enough for band rehearsal and has a sparkle when clean and an assertive growl when the gain is pushed up. I tested this one against the Purple Wind version of the pedal that models a Marshall. I found that pedal to get to crunch too quickly without as much clean tone at a decent volume. The British Invasion version has plenty of usable clean tones and takes pedals well. Based on this experience, I am now very curious about the version that channels the early Fender Tweeds.

5 watts is plenty loud for a small room, even for some smaller clubs. i use theirs through a fender 2x12 and through a car in 4x4x12, depending on what i’m trying to accomplish. this has a effects loop, headphones out, sold out, and they all are sturdy and hold up well in this we’ll built useful amp. record into your daw using the headphone out, i use mine into a good cab sim and then to my I/O into my DAW.pedals used in the signal chain work as well if not better at some points than the effects loop, but it’s what you want and how you want it. this is not a Vox amp and don’t expect it to be, but in the right cabinet or through a good can simulator, this sounds really good right up to the part where breakup begins. once you hit the breakup it definitely sounds has as you keep pushing it; this the need for a cab or a good simulator. i like this amp, and for a small studio setup, or small clubs with a descent house, or mic system and it really is a very serviceable amp. now it’s not tubes, and as far as i can tell it is solid state as it says it is and is not just a digital attempt at saturation. This is one of those times when i will post an image, basically cuz it’s easy and it shows i really do like this. just don’t gain it up too much and you’ll be really happy with it, it has that British 70’s early 80’s sound to it. now, it does sound a bit more vox than marshall or sound city in color, but it just tilts to it and demos not truly chapter the nuances of a box, but again, i like this. see my pic, i own a few of them, of which i am pleased with them all!!!

cannot say enough good things about this little head! I'm just blown away but the tone. the gain is ver nice and tube-like, and it takes pedals extremely well. It is now my back up in case my main rig goes down, and I would have no problems with the tones.

It saturates pretty fast, so don't get this model if you want to have clean sound, also you have to memorize what each knob does because its impossible to read them when playing.

Fantastic tones from the little amp. It seems quite versatile while always having that Vox chime and grit going on in the tone. It sounds great using the line out through headphones or a pair of PC speakers and sounds ever better through my Fender 4x12 cabinet! Can't go wrong for the money. Mine has none of the noise problems I've seen written about. I'm running it off of a Furman rack power conditioner though so maybe these just need clean power?

veramente buono. suona bene al di là del prezzo. ottima costruzione. versatile. incredibile. ha ingresso aux in e loop effetti. bravi.

Un peu sceptique au début je me suis décidé à acheter cette petite tête d'ampli je ne suis vraiment pas déçu. Ayant déjà joué avec une Gibson SG de 1974 sur un C15 et sur un AC30 je dois avouer que le résultat est bluffant. je conseille vivement cet achat à ceux qui n'ont pas le budget pour investir dans un beau Vox de la belle époque

this thing blows my mind.. I heard a lot of good.. and some bad reviews but honestly this is more than I expected.firstly addressing the hum:its there.. but at 75% or "3 o'clock" its un-noticeable.. and that is plenty volume.for me this now sits on my pedalboard like a squid with the FX loop filled. *I did notice digital noise in my fx loop coming from my zoom g3 but thats modded so I blame that.. as soon as I added another pedal in the FX loop a boss eq it seemed better grounded and the noise was gone**I play church music but this thing hits small stage levels great and I always played mic'd and in the mis so it works great.the tone is phenomenal. I love big mids and this delivers from left to right I run T45% M65% B50% / G75% V75%this gives me a great tone with a Tele with some buckers I might roll off the bass and bring the trebel back but I am happya donner small blues driver in front of this gives it a good kick in the pants andI threw some reverb and delay through the loop and love playing this thing..a bit of a volume roll off and mid p/u position cleans it right off and this thing plays dynamically unlike "digital" vox models I have tried (trying to keep it cheap) and is much better than my old Ashdown FA 40 WATT tube amp (I hated the dark dreary tone of that thing)conclusion:I most commonly play a vintage Fender twin reverbs, and some other crazy gear (mesa, orange, vox ext.) as a friend of mine is a bit of a gear whore becuase I could borrow away :). but I have to say the pure price to tone to this thing is incomparable and I will be getting another to run stereo (maybe a purple wind or Fender Clone) cause. I wil add a photo if I can remember this weekend.

自分の使い方では普通にいいです。AMT D2をプリアンプとして使用。このアンプのリターンに挿し、マーシャルの12×4キャビへ。自宅練習からスタジオ、ライブまで使えそうです。本来のアンプヘッドBRITISH INVASIONとしてはあまりつかっていないのでよくわかりません。笑余談ですが D2は普通にギターアンプのインプットに挿すとクリーンと歪みを切り替える度にボコッと音がします。これが解消されなければ使い物になりませんのでセンドリターンが付いているものを探していました。

There are many reviews and demos on youtube of this product so I do suggest you check them out as hearing it is the best way to assess it. I am lucky enough to have a Celestion 10 inch 30 watt Greenback to play it though and it is fab! Takes pedals well too (I only use delay / reverb) and is plenty loud enough in my front room to play along with to backing tracks through the aux in. Simply brillaint sounds , very flexible, solidly built piece of kit. It is the centre of my home recording setup now, love it.