All user reviews for the Harley Benton GA5

Amp lamps (1 Pramp and 1 output) 5w between, volume, Tone on / off and that's it ... D'after the literature supplied with, the copied circuit Champs Fender amps and other lamps "to study" of the 50s.
Finishing without blemish, it is a little larger than what is expected for power (the size of a Fender Pro Junior). But gives more space to the sound.

USE

Two rglages, zero chance to be wrong ...

SONORITS

The sound is well-typed lamps, and there is no breath or hum. It remains clear almost until it stops (slightly crunchy after the First half if using powerful microphones). The are the 5w but no more (or it must boost enters with a pedal).
The rglage of tonality is of little use: serious cuts zero, then normal without progressiveness.
The sound is round and warm, the lack of ESG rverb not at all. But lacks a bit of presence even when, and with the neck pickup is pretty smothered (I mostly tried with Strato Fender Highway, the desti- nations most recently, great).
Without pedal it works very well with the pickup of a Strato or better yet a Tele: well presented without excesses perfect aggressiveness.
For more crystalline sounds an equalizer is required (Behringer pedal, max 23 euros). And we obtain the beautiful, well fenderiennes rhythmic, always dynamic and roundness of lamps: it holds the comparison with my Blues Junior.
For distortion sounds we keep (or not) the equalizer and added his pedal distortion / overdrive prefers a: Ibanez TS9 is perfect. Or any pedal according to your tastes, like the Fender tube amp addition, Behringer copy (again!) TO800 40 euros or Ovredrive OD100 / Distortion 25 euros are perfect.

NOTICE GLOBAL

After a few hours of testing I think I would keep it if I had no other lights or as a second amp amp (but I dj of "second amp").
It is obvious that this price it's a bargain, it sounds better I got the Ibanez (dry) and I do not know the Epiphone and nouvau Peavey (but most of cotent double) ...
The interest of his round is that you can modify it as describes above. While a sound is too dry rcuprer more complicated.
Buy it if you just want to sound blues with microphones easel, otherwise do not play without the pedals voked above, they give it for 2 balls all that lacks an amp for galer more expensive ...

5w lamp, pure class A!
Between jack
1 volume knob and a tonestack.
This is the same as the Epiphone Valve Junior (found on the printed circuit of the amp).

Change brings: a gain knob (very large), a 3-band EQ + booster acute.
Multiple changes of some condos and resistances (see reason in "tricks") + soon change output transformer.

USE

Over-simple setup ... a manual? or?
Son? No it was the problem in the original configuration, we get a clear sound very clean, but you have to push the bottom volume to saturate the beast. Hence the interest of adding a gain knob, to saturate low volume.

SONORITS

Frankly it's the slap !! Once the mods MADE, we get a sound very pleasant, a crunch die and maximum saturation of the lamp sound old rocker! Sharp attacks, very little breath, a clarity in the treble winded .. but in severe (hence changing the output transformer).
Coupled a Proco Rat, it sounds!
I'm not good guitarist, but nothing that I can produce sounds that make me want to play Seriously!

I play with a Fender Telecaster apartment, nothing to bring down the windows, but intertdcupl with mods. (Low volume saturation)
Why not add a third lamp? (See prsents advice on the internet and in the AF forum)


NOTICE GLOBAL

I use modified for two weeks and it is pure happiness, we will see with the change of the transformer but I will still win it (especially in severe that for now its low point).
This amp dvoilera his character with mods that we bring to it
88 Thomann, go ahead! dropoff Window

Combo two lamps
clean finish (the tweed hp is the same as the 30 classic old school!)
5 watt
December 1 in AX7 preamp
el 84 in an amplification

The appearance is rather cute and inspires confidence

a volume a tone that is useless and bringing more confusion than anything else on Neofiti

8 hp in 4 ohm

UTILIZATION

I am writing this post to calm the angry beast on the forums!
This amp is nice but not for everyone let me explain:

It is perfectly suited to the game room or home studio to see lil coffee config without acoustic drum light (impossible to cover even a feeble battery!
It's not a vintage fender field far away!

Regarding eq is catastrophic it should be set to 0 as it is out
The amp is perfect if you have an overdrive (overdrive belcat effective and cheap)
that will push him and have a gain and if you have a reverb or delay ptite
you will enjoy the cheap
Not bad for those who also have a preamp (analog or digital line typed 6 v ToneLab amp)

However for those who hope to live without his lights or preamp pedal go your way!

SOUNDS

The interest of GA5 is to adjust the volume between 13 and 15 hours to cut the tone and make the volume and eq on your or your preamp overdrive and there you will have a cute lil amp that will give you bcp well pleased with lamps

Be careful though it is upstream (pedal or preamp) something that has a good capacity for equalization because the sound is very dull

The dynamics is correct but it neither a field nor a blues junior is not messing around anyway

I repeat myself but it's still super mat

OVERALL OPINION

Conclusion a nice all-tube amp very very crude still require a little investment (+ reverb pedal) to take full advantage

For those who do not have the dough and are looking for a lamp for 100 euros and no more behringer gm 110 is the most bcp Polivalente it will even play with a small battery

ciaoo

100% lamp - not a single transistor! Circuit clone of the Epiphone Valve Junior

5 watts in pure class A

Basic connection - between a jack - 1 x 4 ohms HP

Volume 1 and tonalitbr />
Mine comes with a 12AX7EH Electro Harmonix Sovtek EL84 and

Mainly lack of outlets 8 and 16 ohms

UTILIZATION

Hardly simple to use - no need to understand the manual!
One branch, one goes forward the sound and music

Beware the Tone is not really a! This is a filter that cuts low frequencies more or less bass. So do not expect to radically change the color with sound.
But we will not complain, the Valve Junior with this amp is a clone, do not even possde!

SOUNDS

The most important thing for an amp, the sound!

Amp of non modifibr />
This is clearly orient vintage - it trsmdium hot stamp. The sound is clean with a Start up to about 13h knob. APRS apart crunch gradually with increasing volume. A base saturation, but we gain more volume.
Originally it is much of the good old rock and blues - but limit these styles ...
However, the addition of an EQ allows you to vary the color tone. The definition and dynamics are correct but nothing more. Not a pet blast or buzz.
In résumé: a good little bluesy sound good lamp. But my hand got in too fast and it's not empty crunch to get crystal-clear sound.

Amp with modification "Fender"

For about ten euros if you know soldering, you can "Fenderizer" your GA5.
And it works REALLY! For modif see link below or tips:


With this change + change by Telefunken EL84 is like night and day.
I really feel good to play on a Fender lamp. Dfine is, warm and dynamic. And I finally can be crystal-clear sound. Clean the volume is much higher - pushing the same shot below the threshold of saturation. What can I say except that the sound is excellent and rivals in terms of sound quality with amps that they are not worth 100 ... Compar a little amp prs equivalent, the Fender Pro Junior, the modified GA5 is suprieur. The modified GA5 Dfine is more crystal-clear and dynamic. The GA5 is just a bit less powerful than the Fender.
I also added a handy rglage gain.

Branch of a 4x12 cabinet Ibanez - Yes you read correctly, a 4x12 "! Is even better. Suprieure Diffusion good and a lot more safe. Unbelievable that this amp as well arrives driver like a 4x12 c 'silent a small bowl!

Question power compartment of the transistor, it is well worth a 25-watt ...
I put 8 / 10 because the amp sounds pretty unmodified original - but nothing special. Modified is different

OVERALL OPINION

I've had three days. I t dballage to some of its sound dull and not at all hyper dynamic lamp Class But I t surprised by the volume that is saturated in my opinion sufficient to keep a drummer too nag. As for finishing, it is excellent for this price - guaranteed vintage look!

So I started in the modification of this amp. Looking for a more typical Fender, the original did not have ...
So Premire thing diffrent test lamps. Winning combination for me and 12AX7EH Telefunken EL84. Then pass by my store to buy some electronic components. Let a dozen components for ten euros and 2 hours of work by going there alone. I do not regret at all that change. For obtaining a good quality amp with such a small mod is well worth going out and slamming the soldering iron 10 by calling. Moreover, for those that have INTERESTED, there are mods Vox and Marshall among others. They are as simple couraging!

To conclude:
If you only play Blues / Jazz, the original amp for you. But it is better prvoir its modification ds purchase. Only after that the amp is modified rvle.

The GA5 is an all-tube amp delivers 5 watts of power.
- An Electro-Harmonix 12AX7 preamp in (enclosed by a cover shield) is a super light with a lot of gain, personal love.
- 1 Sovtek EL84 power "basic" I will soon change because I think it gives a loud dull, I think I will update when I get it changed.

2 pushbuttons:
- Volume: ben to adjust the volume! Starting at cruncher from 13H to my TV.
- Tone: allows you to add more or less bass sound.

1 input jack (AC would be better!) And a 4 ohm speaker output already connected to the hp original (unknown?)

The finishes are great for this price (€ 99) and gives it a '50s look of the amp! I love.

Super trim and not a single transistor, all for € 99 it's worth a 10!

UTILIZATION

2 buttons, setup could not be more simple!
I get my TV with super bluesy sounds (micro neck), although rock and twangy with the micro bridge.
A real tube sound! But lacks dynamic (hard funk).
The manual of a sheet, is more than enough.

SOUNDS

I use this amp with a tele lite ash (very good for that matter) and an ibanez GSA60 (a fatstrat ibanisée), all with a delay and a RAT2 behringer DD400.
Otherwise I play mainly U2, the Stones and a little bit of Queen (it's hard with a TV!).
This amp meets the great twang of my TV, great for the Stones!
It supports quite well the saturation due to my rat.
Its clear you can get super arpeggios like the intro to Sunday Bloody Sunday or to Where the streets have no name with a hint of delay.
The volume knob past 12 o'clock you can get a clear and crunchy just by varying the attack with the tab!

However the sounds are very dull and it lacks dynamics.

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for more than three months, I love the look and finish great for its price.
This amp is probably better than all the transistors in its price range.
That, in my opinion the best value out there.

It goes ... a boost

UTILIZATION

One down ... ad-boost

SOUNDS

Excellent ... guitars with passive, active and even my bass is going
but happiness

OVERALL OPINION

The only point I would make is that because of the intrt bte is pushing corner may need to be a tour of everything that vibrates, remove the plate with her first name, eliminate the vibrations of the fist, some collages and another to have fewer bzzzzoing. Otherwise ... I think it will turn over all my other amps!
I just use it as a group and I have not had the opportunity to push back often ...

5 amp lamp Watts. Between a jack output jack for hp.
2 knobs for volume and one for each EQ.

This amp is a clone of the Epiphone Valve Junior "amliorquot, a knob of suplmentaire Tone.

Unfortunately this second button is the origin of all the problem of this amp (see audio below), for further improving our amp he eats all the dynamics, volume, CRUCH finally in a word the whole sound. Indeed the components of this "tone stack" are so bad as it asks why he put this knob.

Rest assured the change is couraging a host of reality show on TF1, I make myself even Russian when I hit a circuit for the first time in my life.

UTILIZATION

An IQ of 12 is sufficient for use of this amp. Even an incubator to use it (well, beware that you still do not tap it starts, you never know).
As for the sound after changing its essential you get a beautiful trs easily.

How can I explain in a simple words. Well, if we turn to the right increases the volume and the saturation level, if one turns to the left is the opposite, the volume and saturation fall. It should therefore be able to reconaitre his right to his left, the level of a military marching or a cheerleader.

Manuel! What manual?

SOUNDS

The problem is that I read in all directions that it was a clone of the Valve Junior. But this is not true completemnt, the tone knob masacre completemnt the sound of this amp.

Basically I would have thought that adding a rglage I have the same and better, but this is such a Tonnal rotten dung it all.
So I opened the machine and unplug the knob of Tonnal and replaced it with a resistance of 1.5ko. So the more you have nothing to do again a valve junior.

Moreover, the hp is not a weber as the Valve Jr, you are advised to change it.

By A has thousands of pages that are on the net and forums notament on this excellent site to improve your amp.

After the horrible dbarass EQ of the amp, you buy a small pedal of equations (in behringer for example) and your amp will become as versatile as any amp a lot more. Your exact bluffing is much better than it Equalise any setting amp bored so why build an integrated circuit in the amp??

Finally it must not exaggerate either, if the equalization can sculpt the sound is still labeled vintage. Basically a sound more Keith Richards in the first half of the race of the volume knob, it is more APRS in the records of LedZeppiens see Bleck Sabbath Paranoid when pushed to its limits. Therefore forget the modern sounds of Steve Vai and co.

So for the Rock's true no problem if you want to do, however, the tapping three hands like "chuis guitarist fastest and cleanest in the world" go something else. Here's all about sounds and hot brands.

On these great sounding pedals on this amp (and therefore may possibly be utilisble in neo-machine-speed-metal trash-with the right pedal of death that kills, but frankly I know it's not my thing, I So do not try.)

OVERALL OPINION

In fact I bought this amp last August and his having nothing do with the sound of a valve junior, I sent home Thomann to see what was not right. It made me a self adjustable bias that made the sound even more rotten APRS what I have done them the amp to ask them to send me a new one.

Upon receipt of the 2nd I couraging than ever this amp does cruncher like its big brother, and got a reason.

Yet once in a while I was on the forums of GA5 to try to find an explanation of the difference between the two fraternal twins.

There are 15 days Bingo! I came across a post that indicates that in fact it is the tone that the parasite. So I followed the instruction to detach the layer of tone stack and replace it with a resistance of 1.5ko (do not ask me what I used to know anything but at least it works damn well). I plugged the amp a bit worried because in my COMPETENCE Electone s'arrtaient so far in changing the batteries in my pedals trying not plant me in the polarity (yes I know c is not rocket science, it is to say ...).

And, miracle was all his income through a small bit of silicon iron legs.

I am considering also the master of a Fast Fashion volume I want to run from the ralisations.

As is this amp is much worse than the Valve Jr., and once performed replacement hp you'll pay roughly the same price as the epiphone. But good as it is much more beautiful with her blond Tolex was worth it.

I also chang lamps for JJ EL84 and a 12AX7 Mini Watt of the 50 found in rubbish bins in my building (thank you to the involuntary ordinator swung the old useless crap lying around at home) and clarify the sound much.

Résumé in this amp is excellent (APRS modif course) if you want a vintage sound and you have a superb sound for less money than a lot of pedals.

Finally, I!

It's all lights, that's why I wanted it!
It's going out of 5 watt bulbs: what to spend the walls of buildings but nothing to add sound to a room.
A low input impedance (from diagram) An output HP, a HP 4 Ohms.
A volume, a Bass EQ (high-cut, low pass, it's up to)

UTILIZATION

There's no simpler.
It immediately sounds pretty clean. Or modified without pedal, impossible to really cruncher or saturate. on the other hand, what dynamics! I finally understand how to play in tapping! It's simple: you touch the guitar: it sounds! I had never played on a tube amp, what strikes me is the sensitivity to the game, it brings inspiration immediately!
on the other hand can not imagine having a killer or a guitar hero: That's not it either. (Whatever that ... after amendment, to be seen ...).
My bass has never sounded better too! It's almost better than the guitar! Dynamics made really sound the slap! Even with old strings.
The pickups in single pass more I find, be it with the guitar or bass.
The manual we warn against the risk of electrocution, period. It's pretty confused about the ignition bypass the amp: There is an automatic timeout of 15s before playing.

SOUNDS

The sound is very typical, or rather, not versatile home, I hope to change that with some modifications.
The have tried it with a telecaster copy SSH and low J / P.
There are some noise inside the HP, which still sounds "boxy".
There is much more serious and less acute VOX my office. I have not tried other HP.
For cons, I realize that the tone color depends more on the cabinet that the amp puts it: My little Crate Powerblock it does finally come out not so bad: only lack the dynamics and "inspiration" (I definitely prefer the term "heat").

OVERALL OPINION

I have since yesterday, I will change the mind if I pass out the kustomiser. I found a Philips EL84 in the attic, which come from a radio receiver / turntable tube. I can not wait to test it.
€ 100 in toto for the power it has, that's fine.
The experience, I would have opened the beast, and I would say I would do if this choice.

Well, for the color beige, must love anyway!