Monoprice 1x10 Guitar Combo Amplifier - Black 40-Watt, Spring Reverb, 10-Inch 4-Ohm Speaker, High & Low Inputs, Headphone Output - Stage Right Series

I have owned at least 7 guitar amplifiers, several effects pedals, and 9 guitars. Over the years I have been looking for the right combination to give me the sound I was looking for. Today, it's this 40 watt masterpiece you've aptly named STAGE RIGHT. It's a powerhouse with real spring reverb. Combined with my DOD Gunslinger and my Jackson JS32T Kelly... it totally rocks. For the money it's the best. The stock distortion is descent... but I prefer the tone of my Gunslinger. It chugs bigtime. It's VERY LOUD! Compared to amps I've owned in the past... this sounds the best for a solid state. The clean side is very tube esque. The reverb is something I've wanted for a while now. It's real spring reverb... and not that digital reverb sounds bad... but nothing compares to a spring. I love this amp and I'm glad I bought it. It even has a line out jack (bonus) An external speaker jack (that when hooked to my Jensen speaker... it sounds crisp and even louder) The factory speaker on mine is just as good. I get a metal style without paying a fortune to get it. If I had a $1200.00 Solar guitar... I'm 100 % sure that it would sound great on this little amp. There is enough punch in the volume that you can hear it a football field away. I highly recommend this to beginners and pros. It's a good price for what it delivers. As for the body construction... it's what I'd expect for an amp at this price... but the guts is where it counts and it's got em. Monoprice... thank you... and to Amazon... many thanks for making this available to a guitar player who just wants to have just what I need for the sound I aspire to achieve. I am very satisfied with this lil' beast of an amp.

The Monoprice Stage Right 40 watt amp was everything I expected for a $99 amp and a bit more. It has a great sound for the price point. It seems to be well-made. The overdrive/distortion is reasonably good but since I have four pedals it's kinda academic. I was able to turn it up pretty high in clean-tone (without pedals) before breaking up some. Again, for the price, a great loud/good tone practice amp. The spring reverb works pretty well and can be well-controlled-it sounds a heck of a lot better than another amp I once had that created it electronically. A minor peeve: I can hear a teeny bit of reverb in whatever I'm playing with the reverb turned off. I'm running two of my pedals straight into the high input jack and the other two (an equalizer and pre-amp/tube modeler) into the Fx send and return jacks. That really cleaned up and sharpened the total sound. The other two pedals are compress/sustain and a morpher. I then ran a line out to a 15 watt Fender amp to split out some of the bass separately. The MP SR amp drives the smaller amp very well with no issues. I hear just a smidgen of hiss at low volumes with or without the Fender amp. The Fender had zero hiss on its own. Overall, I'm very satisfied. Monoprice: consider adding an XLR input and output. I think people would pay a bit more for that feature. Update 11-21-2021: I'm still loving it. I see the price has gone up (hasn't everything?) but it would still be great at that price. Lots of learning curve for two months has ironed out a bunch of sound issues that weren't this amp's fault (like maybe my playing.) The fx circuit and spring reverb (I stopped noticing the slight reverb with the control turned down, or maybe it healed itself) are worth the price! I'm considering a Celestion or other speaker upgrade down the road. Moving pedals around and doing different things with line in/out took care of a bit of the hiss. It's now liveable. You cannot go wrong!

Monoprice 1x10 Guitar Combo Amplifier - Black, 40-Watt April 20, 2026 Short & To The Point Review The amp works as it should with a spring reverb that actually works. Moderately loud for practice (and maybe small gigs) and has other features such as Aux, Headphone, FX Send/Return, Footswitch and external speaker. The Line Output is noisy and unusable. Despite the Line issue, it’s a good purchase and punches above its weight. See pix. Long & Rambling Review I purchased this amp last November 2025. I’ve been buying and enjoying different guitar amplifiers for the last 6 months and have reviewed 5 of them so far on my dime. I have a mix of 15 amps including tube heads and solid-state combo amplifiers. I test and play each unit without pedals to see what the amp actually does. In the approximately $120 price range of this Monoprice amp, this one is the amp to beat so far. I paid $99 for mine on sale. The ‘Clean’ channel is fine, the ‘Overdrive’ channel is adequate also. Cranked up, I can get some satisfying feedback if I want to. The spring reverb effect actually works unlike some other amps in this price range where you can crank the knob all you want and no reverb. Same with feedback if that’s your thing. I hooked the Line output to an Orange Crush 20W amp and ran both. The Line output is an unbalanced signal, and I got noise from one amp to the other. I put a quality audio cable I use for recording and hooked it up through a Zoom UAC-232 interface on my recording computer. Still a noisy channel so I would NOT recommend recording or hooking this unit up to other amplifiers. I believe that the noise is internally generated. Use a microphone in front of the speaker to record. A balanced XLR output should be here instead like Monoprice’s bass amp or fix this output on the next generation. I have a Spark 2 that has L/R outputs, and I have hooked up amps that way on it. I’ve also run a Spark Mini into a 100W tube head. Nice to know that you can do this if needed, which you can’t do with this Monoprice amplifier. About power output. Most manufacturers post peak power output (or some other non-standard value) instead of the standard RMS output that used to be required. Even RMS won’t necessarily indicate how loud an amplifier is because of the efficiency and impedance of the speakers connected to the amp. I’ve refurbished consumer to professional grade audio gear and have sold units all over the world. Some tests of the amps include dummy 100W 8-ohm loads on the speaker outputs to make adjustments without blowing your eardrums out. So, all I was doing on the outputs on those units was heating a resistor with no sound out. Same with a speaker. Some are efficient and are louder than those that are not. Sometimes the speaker coil (or the output section) is getting heated more than the speaker is pushing air. There are other ways to rate SPL (sound pressure level) but most wouldn’t understand the readings so manufacturers push watts. Some reviewers replaced the speaker with a higher quality unit and reported the sound was better than using the original speaker. That’s fine but the speaker used for this conversion is $70 to put into a $120 guitar amp pushing the price towards $200. If you feel that way, look at units in that price range. I have an Orange Crush 20W unit and it’s better sounding than this one and about as loud but it’s $180 on up. My 5W Epiphone tube amp blows both of them away in loudness and quality of sound, but it was $280 and they don’t make them anymore. Bottom line for me is that the speaker inside this amp is very capable for what it is and I have no intention of changing it. I had never heard of Monoprice before purchasing this amp and am pleasantly surprised at the breadth and width of their product offerings. I’m eyeing a 30W tube head/speaker enclosure that I will purchase next time when it’s on sale. Retired Military Aerospace and Industrial Manufacturing Engineer

If this amp had Vox or Fender on the faceplate it would get a lot more love online. It easily outclasses the now discontinued Pathfinder 15 or the Frontman 25. More power, real spring reverb, effects loop and reasonable price all make this a better choice than hunting down a used version of the name brand amps. Just be sure to break in the speaker before passing judgement on the sound. Mine needed about 25 hours of transient heavy music into the auxiliary input to smooth out. After maybe 5 hours of Return To Forever, Junior Brown and Emerson, Lake and Palmer I could hear a marked improvement. Be patient. For such a cheap amp this is a very capable piece of gear. It's a 10 inch speaker in a small cabinet, so forget about heavy metal chugging. And note that this is the newer model with the single input, not the older high and low version. The one input is not a problem. I have used single coils, P-90s, humbuckers, piezos and even the faux Ricky toasters into this amp with very good results. If you can't get a decent sound out of this amp it's not the amp's fault, it's your expectations.

This has been a great practice amp. I also use it on stage at my church where I run the headphone out into my iRig for additional effects and noise suppression. Without any sort of noise filter, the amp tends to feed a lot of noise into the PA system, which isn’t good with the in ear monitors. If I had the option, it would probably work better to have the iRig on the built in effects loop on the amp and use a microphone in front of the amp for the PA system (maybe someday I’ll see if the AV team will try that). For practice, I love having the built-in FX loop - lets me experiment with lots of different set-ups for tone. I also like the built-in spring reverb. It sounds fine on it’s own, and gives me another layer of analog vs digital tone shaping to play with.

1st of all I have been playing guitar since 2005 and own many solid state and tube amps from many different companies. I bought this amp after reading some good reviews on Amazon. I wanted a smaller combo amp so I could just grab & go to my 1st cousins house (another guitarist) for some living room fun practicing. I liked how it had an effects loop and speaker out features. I was so hopeful that this was going to work for me. When I opened the box, everything arrived fine and in working condition. I plugged in one of my guitars and the clean channel was decent, but something just seemed a little off in the sound. I could never find a sweet spot in the tone settings to my liking. I had to turn the bass all the way up as the sound was super thin sounding. I had to turn the mids and tremble down much because there was a weird brittle sound in the mid to upper range. I then tried the overdrive distortion button and I immediately did not like that sound. Very fizzy with that same weird brittle sound as I was getting in the clean channel. The reverb was actually pretty decent, it sounded fine to me. I then tried a couple of pedals I own and I was able to get a decent clean and distortion sound out of the amp. However, I could never get rid of that mid high brittle sound. I tried several different guitars and still same problem with the sound. So, I thought maybe the OEM 10" speaker just needs to be broke in and figured that might be the problem to the sound. I hooked this amp to an external 1x12 cab that I own with a very nice Eminence speaker in it. The sound was warmer and had more clarity. However, I still couldn't get rid of that weird upper mid brittle sound. Although it wasn't as pronounced, but it was still there. No way to get rid of that strange artifact sound. I said, 'Nope' this is not for me. I re-boxed and sending it back today. Sound is subjective to each person, and this amp sound was not for me. It is too bad as I loved the features of this amp and hoped it worked out for me. I think I will buy a used Peavy Vypr 12" combo amp as I have heard them before and they actually sound good for a solid state amp. Not the best sounding, but will work for my needs and they sound much better than this amp that I am sending back. A used Peavey isn't much more that the cost of this amp that I tried to like. My ears just didn't like the overall sound. I wanted this amp to work out for me as it had the effects loop and speaker out option to it as the Peavey Vypr doesn't have those features. But this Mono Price, amp doesn't sound good to me.

I am really amazed by the quality of this econo-amp. Has excellent features for the price. Two inputs for active or passive inputs, multiple output options, pedal rig loop on the back, reverb on the main channel, and an overdrive distortion. Very intuitive controls and as a super fun little detail, the volumes go to 11 (spinal tap reference). Just a really snarky little fun detail on a very high quality amp for the money (shockingly good rig considering the price). I bought one to run through my live gig rig, and think I will buy another to have as my practice home amp. Time will tell on longevity but initial usage (played about ten hours on it so far) shows it to be a great little amp. Highly recommend.

The Monoprice 40watt Amplifier is an excellent value. For the price, you're not going to find a better amp. My first time turning it on ended up being a riff session for a while. The clean channel with the spring reverb had no problem getting some great surf tones. The overdrive channel is typical for a solid state amp, it's serviceable. With good use of your guitar's volume knob, you can get some decent dirty tones. Running a distortion into the clean channel is my method of choice. For a solid state amp, this is the best deal going. Why pay for a brand name when you don't have to? I've been playing 30 years and played all kinds of amps and this amp is comparable to any of it's type I've used. It's not a tube amp and it doesn't try to be. It does what it does and does it well. The competition will sell you an equivalent with 20watts and an 8" speaker. For the same price, you get 40watts and a 10" speaker. I'm going to take a guess and say if you upgraded the speaker to a Jensen or Celestion, you 'd be upgrading this amps tonal capabilities, especially if you like driving a speaker hard to get good tones. Vintage and classic amp designs sound great not just because of tubes, but because of speaker choice. The speaker is one of the most important links in the chain. So, for the price of this amp and a replacement speaker and you'd still come in cheaper than the competition and have an amp that's just as good. Fender's newer Champ models have more effects choices, but I prefer a spring reverb. And that's actually the primary reason I made the choice for the Monoprice. The amp has an effects loop, which gives you more options for your signal chain. Overall, a great value. For the beginner or anybody needing a practice amp. I'm very pleased with my purchase.

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Llegó un día antes de la fecha estimada, bien embalado, y todo en orden, su sonido es muy bueno fiel y potente, sí es funcional para escenarios pequeños, ampliamente recomendable, ahora sólo espero qué sea muy durable y tenga una larga vida ..!

Although I haven't used it more than maybe 10 hours in total, I can comment on a few things. First of all, the sound is excellent and the speaker is very powerful. It's easy to customize your own sound and the added reverb effect is a nice bonus. Construction and fit/finish are not "perfect", but that's about the only problem I have with the amp. There were extra import charges for bringing an item this large into Canada, which was not made clear to me when I purchased it. However, this is an excellent product at a fraction of the price you'd pay for the competition. Highly recommended.

works great

La verdad por el precio me sorprendió bastante, la distorsión no es muy buena, pero si tienes pedales se defiende bastante bien. La potencia es perfecta para ensayos en lugares cerrados, y perfectamente se escucha aún con un baterista muy ruidoso.