I settled for just the faceplate settings. At the end, he offers back end Tone Bank settings if you fill out a form and send him your email address, etc. It may be of interest to check out this video by Jens Larsen on youtube called, "Great Jazz Tone on a $250 Amp?", in which he plays around with an electric guitar and shows specific suggested settings for the Katana. I still need to determine if my amp has abnormal noise levels: the tech told me that hum and hiss is a 'feature' to emulate tube amps! I contacted Fender support, and the suggestion was to turn the master volume all the way up, then use the channel's volume and gain to adjust. However, my particular amp has unacceptable hum and hiss when the volume is turned up or the watts setting is turned up. I can get good tones from it, particularly on the clean or crunch settings.
I'm not sure if it's all cabinet/speaker or if there's some different magic in the amp models, but it's night and day.I've got the same amp, the Katana 100 Mk II, used for a Fender 5-string electric mando, the FM-60E, so the signal is from a single-coil electric guitar-style pick up. On the Kat 50 I had to turn the treble down and boost the bass. Its a great little amp but the channel switching is a little. I also didn't really touch the EQ on the Artist from the clean to lead, still with a bit of bass cut and treble boost. I bought a Boss Katana 50 as a backup amp recently when my 18 Watt combo started playing up. The Artist had the fuller low end and still had bite. Again I had swapped the Kat 50 speaker for the Celestion V-Type which was already smoother, but the tone was just awful. The Katana Artist still had a balanced tone where the Katana 50 was thin, buzzy, and harsh. On the lead channel, it was like two completely different amps. The Katana Artist had a similar tone but without quite as much of a mid push and a fuller low end. The Katana 50 had a nice clear tone without harshness although it didn't have as much fullness in the lows. On the cleans, they were both pretty good and not far off between them. I did a quick A/B comparison between the Katana 50 and the Katana Artist. Also want to tinker around with running the HX Stomp in the loop for effects only. And I think the Katana might work as good or better than any of those for everything I do outside of recording.ĭefinitely need to return the Katana 50 and might pickup the matching footswitch to see how I like that.
Seriously, I went through half a dozen OD/drive pedals, several different modelers, three sets of studio monitors, a dozen or more headphones, etc. Now a caveat that I'm playing at bedroom volumes at home, so definitely not saying it's the end all be all amp, but the fact it compares favorably to this mountain of gear that I have at home is just throwing me for a loop. With way less tweaking and no option paralysis. Which is now causing my head to spin a bit, because I have like $5,000 worth of modelers and pedals but the $450 Katana Artist sounds basically as good, running through the same cabinet. Then I found if you set it to edge of breakup and the Booster to the front end, you get a a really nice modded Marshall sound. The Crunch channel is really versatile, going from clean to edge of breakup to a medium crunch tone. It has a little more weight behind it and is just zero fuss to get at the sound. Then I spent a couple hours running the Axe FX 3 into the Power Amp In.and I still kind of like just the Katana by itself.
I spent a couple hours trying different pedals into the front of the Katana Artist, and honestly I prefer the Katana by itself.
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