VALETON Guitar Headphone Amplifier Multi Effects Pocket Rechargeable Mini Practice Amplifier Rushead Max (Include 2 Additional Guitar Picks)

I picked this up since I live in an apartment and am a beginner on the guitar. I have an inexpensive guitar to learn on that also came with a small amp. I really don't use the amp, even though it has a headphone jack. I'd prefer to use something like this since it's extremely portable.This thing gives you a lot of effects in one small package. For a beginner, it's pretty much perfect. Clean sound, overdrive, distortion, flanger, delay, and others...all in this little thing. Plug it into your guitar jack, plug your headphones into it, and have fun playing around with different sounds. It is USB rechargeable as well, and has a good battery life.For those who want to know...yes, it fits into a Stratocaster jack (I have a Strat copy). Although, it does take up a bit of room over the body. If you don't want to be accidentally hitting it with your hand or tremelo arm, get a short cord extension for that kind of jack, and find a way to hook it onto your strap...or get a long extension so you can set it on top of something nearby while you're playing.

The clean tone is great. The gain tone is fizzy, but I kind of expected that. If you play with the gain knob and the tone knob you can get an acceptable moderate gain tone. I play 80s style so moderate gain is good for me.The onboard effects sound better than expected - not exactly pedal quality, but usable for practice.Most of these plug-in headphone units are one-trick ponies with no effects, so I shouldn't complain.Because the basic clean tone is very good, a good drive unit in front of the input like a Tube Screamer would probably make a world of difference. All in all a nice little unit that with some tweaking could give you at least close to what you are looking for

I can’t actually verbalize how much utility this has and how worth the money it is. I can literally walk around the house and practice and this helps so much more than being confined to a designated practice spot. I can literally set up anywhere anytime! Sometimes when heading to a lesson or to a friend’s house I’ll take a portable speaker and plug it into this and I have a usable practice amp. The sound quality is better than most and there’s a lot of diversity in tones and effects for what it is. Build quality is decent nothing to complain about a month into it.Would make a perfect gift idea imo.

You will not believe how much is packed into this headphone amplifier five hours of lithium battery time charged up by USB cable three different amplifiers six wonderful effects that sound awesome through any headphones or earbuds fits all guitars even a Stratocaster. Trust me for this money, you cannot find anything better on the market this one rocks take it anywhere with you on the go.

Alright. We know this won’t compete with tube amps or ultra nice pedal boards but transport yourself back to your first week of strumming E chords and faking an F chord. Nobody (including myself) wanted to hear that and this gives the perfect device for enough audio feedback of places to improve while also inspiring progress.Controls are all responsive and do what you’d expect. Gain and volume seem to be nearly identical on all but the clean channel. Delay and reverb all function nice enough for a practice unit. No audiophile perfect tap tempo stuff, but you get a feel for what’s possible. Modulations are all really nice and at moderate values for depth and rate. Blend is controlled by the mod knob. Then the switch for the three modes is nicely executed. Clean was very clean and distortion reminded me of a rat pedal. Overdrive was probably closest to a DS1 or TS808.Only nitpicky complaints: micro usb instead of usb c, not a bendable input jack (no issue on a strat as shown), bringing tone up seems to add some noise to the circuit (less than 60 cycle hum) and is not Bluetooth.For 40, this far exceeds the abilities of vox mini amps.

The device itself is quite good especially for the price and the applications are pretty fun as I can seamlessly use it with synths for when I feel like playing keys instead. Being able to practice during the unholiest hours of the night without disturbing anyone is a game changer. Not getting the guitar picks that come with the order seems to be a reoccurring problem though.

Great sound and product. Be careful with active pickups. If your battery is low, it can cause the sound to cut out, but that’s not the devices fault.

Re-chargeable battery will not hold charge.