All user reviews of 4/5 for the Crate GX15

This is my first guitar amplifier. I bought this amp at Musician's Friend for $80. I searched for an amp not too big.

It's very light and pretty much portable. I carry it around and jam with my friends with it. It can get pretty distorted. The clean channel is good. You can set your low's, mid's, and high's and get a lot of different sounds. It's a good practice amp, where you can play it at night and not disturb the neighbors.

Too much feedback, after volume 4. I can't really level with my drummer with it. Well, what do you expect from a small 12 watt amp?

Excellent construction. I dropped it many times on concrete floor,..not a scratch! It is very durable.

Need a small, compact practice amp? Don't wanna disturb the neighbors? Got a tight budget? Well this is the amp for you. You play in a band? You do small gigs? Don't bother.

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My friend bought it long time ago for ~$200, and recently I had to repair it.

Very good clean sound. Drive channel gives a perfect tone, a bit old-style, but it is the best I've ever heard from 15-Wt amp. Works good with most drive pedals, although a bit fuzzy. It has adequate volume and the bass is ok - like always, the best sound is obtained with the volume set near to half maximum level.

Crate 15 and 20Wt amps has 2 basic disadvantages. 1-power amps and speakers usually get out of order 2-tone and volume pots aren't reliable. Maybe amps with these disadvantages are specially chosen for exporting to Russia 8-)

Like all cheap amps this one has hum and noise, though in most situations they are unaudible. The speaker has a little bit more treble than I'd like it to have. Reverb unit isn't somethig very good, like any other cheap spring reverb unit.


Like I mentioned it has problems with power amp and speaker. Assembly quality sometimes is awful - for example, speaker is never centered to its hole. I've even seen an amp mounted with only 3 screws.

If you're lucky you may choose an amp with no disadvantages I mentioned above. If so then you'll own the best sounding 15Wt amp. Marshall practice amps are much more reliable but they have much worse tone, especially for the drive channel.

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I bought it off my neighbor for 40$, though they run for about $80.

Good practice amp. Versatile. Good clean tone. Plenty of noise capability.

The onboard distortion stinks! Get a stomp box. I ahve an Ibanez DS7 tonelok and it rocks!

Very durrable. I've beat the heck out of the thing and it still sounds great!

I love this amp. I custom enclosed the back of mine and the bass response is cool. People are constantly surprised at its power and tone. Though the onboard distortion is not recomended. I give it a four because its power beats out the distortion problem.

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This was my first guitar amp that my dad bought for me when I was 12. We got it at Michael's Music in Freeport, NY for $100.

It's light and I can carry it around with me when I go to camp. It's just loud enough to jam with your friends, but it can be quiet enough to practice at home late at night.

The overdrive isn't that great, and the feedback is really bad sometimes.

It's a sturdy lil' 12 watt amp, great for the guitarist just starting out.

I think that I payed about $20 too much for it, other than that, it's a good little amp. If you want something to just mess around with, it's great, but if you want something loud, definitely get a louder amp.

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I got this as a first guitar amplifier at Micheal's Music (Freeport, NY) for $100.

I like how it can be quiet enough to practice late at night, but it can also be loud enough to jam with friends.

The speaker isn't the best and can be a little noisy at times, but other than that I have nothing bad to say about the amp.

It only weighs 15 pounds. It has an 8" speaker with a 12+ watt RMS. It has a headphone jack if you don't want to wake anybody up at night or want to play to yourself. It also has a speaker jack so you can hook it up to something more powerful. It has an overdrive button on it as well. It's made in the USA.

It's a good practice amp, great for beginners or anybody that just wants a little amp to practice at home with.

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