Henriksen "The Bud" Guitar Amp

One of the guys I gig with has "the Bud"...after working with him on a job, I decided to get rid of my old and very expensive and 37 lb. amp and to buy a Bud! Best sounding, best giging amp for smaller venues that I've ever used in my fourty years of playing.

I have no personal experience with this Henriksen amp. It may be a fine product. The elusive yet all important "sound quality " may be stellar and make it worth the price. In my experience: a small, portable, loud, reliable, good sounding amp is the ZT Lunchbox. It has fewer features; it's also less expensive.

I don't mean to undermine everything you just said but I'm going to undermine everything you just said. I have no foul intentions but I can't allow you to blindly lie in my face as a guitarist of 15 years. I think you'd be surprised how loud a Fender amp can get and still be crystal clean. I have a USA Hot Rod Deluxe 40W 1x12 and I can't even turn it past 1 and that is gigging volume. That's volume efficiency. Yes, it's heavy. Yes, it's a stadium amp. Yes, it's cheaper. I won't go citing the massive list of Jazz artists that use Fender amps because it would encompass this entire post, but you get the picture. A 15W Bassbreaker wouldn't just be louder, clean, because of any misconception in wattage discrepancy, it would be louder because it has a larger, more efficient speaker. A 12" ceramic magnet Celestion V-Type none the less, that speaker on its own is $100, the Eminence Beta 6.5" speaker found in this amp is only $60 of the cost, again making me question where the money actually goes in this amp. The speaker in this amp is not a guitar voiced speaker, it is a speaker you would find in an Active PA system as a Bass or Midrange driver. But don't listen to me on that, here's the spec sheet. http://www.eminence.com/speakers/speaker-detail/?model=Beta_6A Also, the alternatives use Valves, which means you get a beautiful, dynamic harmonic response. This is something solid state amps can not do. Not gonna lie, I don't need to own either amp to say that this wouldn't even come close to the volume of the 15W Bassbreaker, clean, purely based on the speaker size. I've played enough small speakers to know. This is an amp aimed directly at the small-gigs-only Jazz artists with more money than sense, it was a fad started at last years Spring NAMM show and it didn't catch on. This is not the only amp in this category that didn't catch on and is 'on sale' now. If I was a Jazz artist and I was going for beautiful cleans for small gigs, I'd be going with the all-new for this year Roland 'JC-40' Stereo Jazz Chorus 2x10" 40W. Yes, Roland brought it back. It's a better amp in all regards bar portability. If you want something that does this job of being a perfectly clean representation of what you are producing, do yourself a favour and buy a small active PA, because that's all this is. Sorry.