I thought I'd encourage my son to play guitar. He's only 4 & 1/2, and my only aim was to get him something that he can get his hands on when he wants, plug in and make some noise.
A few month back, I saw a 3/4 size guitar, pretty much mint, for £10.50 (no idea why the 50 pence???) and bought it without haggling. It was handed over to me by a very shy spotty teenager, who did a good job of trying to cross sell his college books despite me being 40..... bless!!!
Now my son needed an amp..... and I didn't want to get him a small SS piece of crap. I did have a newer Marshall 15w practice amp in trade a while back, but not worth keeping, sold it quickly.
The next best 5w amp I tried after my AD5 was an epi valve junior.
Found a V3 model, where they sorted the buzz out, and the speaker is decent too ( eminence lady luck), and won that auction. Really nice amp, but a bit loud I must say..... (I should have known!!!!)
So I set about finding a blackstar HT1R. 1w, has EQ (or the ISF, essentially the same thing as the Thunderverb, TH or darl terror shape knob, but in reverse) and (underwhelming) reverb. Still very loud at 1w when maxed out!!!
In a straight tone fight, the epi is the much better amp..... but the blackstar can't go as loud and that's the one I keep for my son with the health of his ears in mind.
He was so happy anyway!
Here's the little rocker:
I'll be selling the epi valve junior though, as even if better, it won't be practical for him. I have no real need for it, so no point in keeping it.
By the way, both the blackstar and the epi take a new life through a PPC212!!!
