Fender Greta Amp Review

The Fender Greta Amp is a tabletop guitar amp designed to look like a vintage radio while producing clean tones through a 4" speaker. Kevin Pereira and Matt Mira review the Fender amp for its official Gadget Pr0n rating.

What You Need To Know

• The Fender Greta amp is a tube amp in the form of a vintage tabletop radio, which looks pretty cool.
• The front and back are wood panels painted bright red, while the top and sides are gold finished metal for increased shielding.
• The front features the speaker, volume and tone controls and a Vu meter.
• Vu stands for volume unit and when the meter is in use, an LED lights up and the analog needle moves from clean to overload.
• The meter doesn’t read peaks of volume but just kind of averages everything out.
• The amp sounded really good.
• The specially designed 4" speaker has two control knobs for volume and tone.
• It's not the loudest thing in the world but we did get some nice sounds out of it.
• We were impressed with its clean tone.
• If you turn the tone knob up, you get a much more crunchy tone.
• This amp not only plugs into your guitar but also has an auxiliary port.
• Music didn't sound too bad out of the speaker.
• It's no iPod dock but it's a nice bonus to have with this great amp.
• You are getting mono output on this.
• We actually took the top off to look inside and sure enough, there were tiny glowing vacuum tubes.
• The sound is warm and very much tube sounding.
• The cleaner the recording, the warmer it sounded on here.

Price

• $199

Rating

• 5 Seals of Approval. (How do we rate gadgets?)
• This amp produces great sound for its size.
• It's one of the coolest amps we've ever seen.
• The auxiliary port is a great bonus and makes this more than just a guitar amp.

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