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I sold my MKI Katana Artist last Fall and spent a few months toying around with Neural DSP's incredible plug-ins through my computer in an attempt to preserve space in my now dual-purpose home office/practice room which is being shared with my wife during the day for work-from-home purposes.
Unfortunately, I have continually struggled to get a clean signal through my computer/interface and there was definitely something missing in terms of having a live amp in the room, even though my speakers/monitors are definitely decent substitutes most of the time. Plus, my niece has been coming over on the weekends to practice guitar with a neighbor's kid and my one-computer setup doesn't handle 2 guitars simultaneously very well.
Well, a local deal came up on a MKII Katana 100 that I couldn't pass up...so I didn't
Man...these are just killer values and the MKII fixes just about every complaint (all minor) that I had about the MKI aside from keeping the controls on top. This is the second Katana 100 I've owned and it's just a great all-around amp for most uses. The MKI Artist was like sexy icing on a great tasting cake, but the MKII improvements (additional amp models/voicings, concentric controls for effects, etc) on this KTN-100 make it really hard to justify upgrading to the newest Artist just for the Waza speaker and front-mounted controls. Plus, the slightly smaller cab of the 100 feels a lot less intrusive in my currently limited space.
I've been touting the virtues of the Katana as an ideal practice amp upgrade to one of my neighbors for more than a year. I finally invited him over to check out this MKII 100 and he immediately went out and picked up a MKII 50W version that same day!
Between the Katana and the Neural stuff, I'll be content until I have room for another proper head/cab setup at some point.
Unfortunately, I have continually struggled to get a clean signal through my computer/interface and there was definitely something missing in terms of having a live amp in the room, even though my speakers/monitors are definitely decent substitutes most of the time. Plus, my niece has been coming over on the weekends to practice guitar with a neighbor's kid and my one-computer setup doesn't handle 2 guitars simultaneously very well.
Well, a local deal came up on a MKII Katana 100 that I couldn't pass up...so I didn't
Man...these are just killer values and the MKII fixes just about every complaint (all minor) that I had about the MKI aside from keeping the controls on top. This is the second Katana 100 I've owned and it's just a great all-around amp for most uses. The MKI Artist was like sexy icing on a great tasting cake, but the MKII improvements (additional amp models/voicings, concentric controls for effects, etc) on this KTN-100 make it really hard to justify upgrading to the newest Artist just for the Waza speaker and front-mounted controls. Plus, the slightly smaller cab of the 100 feels a lot less intrusive in my currently limited space.
I've been touting the virtues of the Katana as an ideal practice amp upgrade to one of my neighbors for more than a year. I finally invited him over to check out this MKII 100 and he immediately went out and picked up a MKII 50W version that same day!
Between the Katana and the Neural stuff, I'll be content until I have room for another proper head/cab setup at some point.
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