Hotone Binary Amp Modeling Amplifier Simulation Guitar Effects Pedal

The sound profiles are fantastic. I’ve run it though multiple electrics, bass, and acoustic with success. Whether direct into the PA or through my amplifier’s cleanest channel running as a preamp (no effects loop, but tested as a bypass in the aux as well as the regular input) it was a slight hiss. Likely unnoticeable in a mix but don’t expect it to be a replacement for any of the higher end preamp options.I got a good deal on it so I have no regrets but if it were at the full $100+ retail price I would have returned it.

A cool little pedal with a few annoyances. First, it has 16 guitar amp models. However, it only has 10 presets in 2 banks of 5. This means you have to decide which 6 amp models you don't want easy access to. Also, there are no bass amp models. This could have been a home run if they had given it 20 amp models including a few bass models along with some bass cabinet emulations and increased it to 4 banks of 5 so you could directly access them all. My first bass amp was a mid-70's silverface Fender Bassman 10, the 50 Watt tube combo with 4-10's. This models the '59 Bassman so it doesn't really recreate the bass tone I was after there. However, I can get some very nice bass tones from the Twin Reverb, Orange AD30 and the Legendary Jazz Clean amp (Roland JC120) if I turn off the speaker emulation. Of course, I bought this primarily for the guitar amp models but as I'm primarily a bass player, I was hoping for more in that area. The guitar amp models are very good and there's a huge difference between the straight models vs engaging the speaker simulations which are good enough that I'm not fiending after an IR cabinet simulator. I wish there was a Dumble-like model. Before purchasing this, I was considering the Vox Silk Drive which IS Dumble-like. My issue with that and all the pedals in that series are that there's no effects loop which meant having to add your time-based effects (reverb, delay, phase, etc.) before the distortion if you wanted to use it as a preamp which is less than ideal. One of the uses I have in mind for this is to go directly into a power amp (Hughes & Kettner CF-100). Fortunately, the Hotone DOES have an effects loop so all is well on that front. At full retail, I would have passed but when discounted, I'm very happy. Hotone's bullet list of all the features states: 9V DC Power Supply. This gives the impression that it's included but it's not.