Boss’s Katana series amps have become favorites with guitarists looking for lightweight, durable and affordable amplifiers that offer the sound, feel and response of classic tube amps while delivering useful features like onboard tuners and effects.
The company's popular Katana-Mini put the best aspects of its big brothers into a compact, battery-powered amp designed for players of electric guitar, acoustic guitar and bass
Now comes the Katana-Mini X, the latest amp in the Boss series, providing the acclaimed Katana tones in a fun and inspiring amp for daily practice and jamming.
Katana-Mini X builds on the features of Katana-Mini with six versatile analog sound options, two simultaneous effects and a robust cabinet for a bigger and fuller guitar experience. Additional enhancements — including an onboard tuner, internal rechargeable battery and Bluetooth for streaming music from a smartphone — add convenience and greater utility.
Boss have equipped the Katana-Mini X with a multi-stage analog gain circuit that gives the amp an impressive level of detail and depth. Combined with the amp’s wood cabinet and custom five-inch speaker, the analog circuit delivers a full response and satisfying tone that belie the amp’s size.
In terms of tone, the Katana-Mini X has something for everyone. Boss’s Tube Logic replicates the tonal characteristics and feel of a tube amplifier to provide full-bodied sounds for every genre, including high-gain solo and tight metal rhythm tones imbued with saturation and harmonic complexity. The Katana-Mini X amps are all derived from the Katana series and include Clean, Crunch, and Brown, each of which is available with a tonal variation accessible from a panel switch. The variations include an uncolored clean sound that's ideal for use with acoustic-electric guitar or bass.
As an added convenience, you can also access those tones through the headphone jack, which boasts cabinet simulation and stereo effects.
The forward-facing front-panel controls include the familiar analog bass/mid/treble tone stack, and MOD/FX and REV/DLY that deliver a range of Boss effects while making fast sound tweaks possible via single-knob controls that adjust multiple parameters at once. Both sections can be used simultaneously, allowing guitarists to combine effects, such as tremolo and spring reverb, phaser and delay, and more.
The Boss Katana-Mini X will be available for purchase at authorized U.S. Boss retailers in December for $149.99. To learn more about the Katana-Mini X Guitar Amplifier, visit boss.info.
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