Danelectro Honeytone N-10 Guitar Mini Amp, Aqua

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Product Specifications

Great clean and overdrive tones
Leather handle
Belt clip
Headphone jack
Color: Aqua

Product Description

Color:Aqua The Danelctro Honey Tone N-10 Guitar Mini Amp cranks like a little hot rod has a great clean or overdriven sound. The Honey Tone amp also boasts a real leather handle, belt clip, headphone jack, Volume, Tone, and Overdrive controls. The Honey Tone N-10 amp is powered by 9-volt battery (included) or a Dan electro DA-1 adapter.

Product Reviews

Of course it is small - it does say MINI AMP in the description. Works fine with a bass

Runs on a 9v - which IS included. Nice.Can be powered by an adapter - which is NOT included. Not so nice but for the price I’m not surprised. I have plenty of adapters laying around.It is SMALL - one may even say TINY. This is to be expected - it is a MINI amp. How small? I uploaded a picture of it next to a full size Gibson.The description says it comes with a belt clip - this is a very good indication that it is very diminutive in size. How big of amp can the average person comfortably carry on their belt?I bought this for a practice amp (meaning: not loud, not meant to play louder than drums). It works great with my daughter’s ³⁄₄ bass. Small package, decent sound for its price.It has a headphone jack - perfect so my daughter can practice and hear the tones while the rest of us do our thing.It does not have an instrument or mic cable - I don’t expect it to and neither should you. If you’re new to music or shopping for someone else, know that it is uncommon for amps to include these types of cables. They may be included in kits or starter packages but that is not what this is.Set your expectations appropriately for a mini amp and I expect you will be as pleased as I am with this. Whether it’s plugged into the wall or not, you just can’t expect big performance out of an amp that runs on a 9v battery.This does not go to 11. But I like it just fine.

Well built fun mini good value

At $20, i considered this along the lines of those 3-channel r/c helicopters, little engineering marvels priced so low as to almost demand to be purchased. And for $20 it delivers. It is what it is though, an (almost) toy mini-amp, weighs nothing, with a belt buckle clip on the back making the thing fully mobile/portable under battery power ( one 9-volt included) or a/c adapter (not included). Volume-wise the Honeytone punches above its weight when all three control knobs go to 11 and there’s enough volume and variable tones for recreational hobbyists putzing around the house, garage or coffee shop, but not enough power to play with a fully amped up electric band unless it was the weepy emo acoustic set. My Gibson sg, Fender Mustang and Taylor big baby all sound great through it. One button controls volume, another more or less controls tone and the third knob more or less provides some overdrive. $20. That’s a beer and a pretzel at a ball game. Definitely worth the price.

Small, but packs a punch

Wow, this thing was a lot smaller than I thought it would be. I knew it would be small, but it could fit in my mailbox…..Not that that’s a bad thing. Just makes it that much more portable.It may be small, but it packs a punch. I can’t believe how loud this thing gets.I purchased the aqua color along with Fender Squier® Mini Stratocaster® Electric Guitar, Pink, Rosewood Fretboard and Danelectro Honeytone N-10 Guitar Mini Amp, Aqua. I must say they look very pretty together.I love the retro style. I could unhook the guitar cable from it and have it displayed on a shelf and it would still look great.The only con is that it doesn’t include an AC adapter. It takes one 9-volt battery (which is already in the compartment wrapped in plastic - so don’t miss that when unpacking).For the quality, the price can’t be beat.

Great for use with many instruments, can be connected to other speaker systems

Bought a red one then the green one. Not just for guitar, and with the right jack/adapter it can connect to almost any speaker system. I use it mainly with harmonicas, ukuleles and a bass uke (mini bass). The bass uke is so quiet acoustically that some low notes can hardly be heard; this amp makes it much louder but it can’t make it sound very low, instead it makes it sound kinda fuzzy but in a good way, if I tweak the overdrive and tone knobs just right it’ll sound a little like Mark Sandman playing a tritar, not a bad thing at all, at any rate worth the $20 just for use with the bass alone. Harmonicas sound very good, clean or dirty, very loud. Ukuleles all sound great, again either clean or with some overdrive crunch. Have also had good results with lap steel guitar, harp and kalimba, the latter two using a (cheap) $10 pickup. I even ran a Stylophone through it and got interesting results. It has a headphone jack which is way more useful than just a way to listen quietly to your instrument. If you have a (cheap) 3.5mm to 3.5mm cord (normal headphone pinplugs on both ends) you can plug this into just about anything that accepts an mp3 player, be it your home or car stereo or whatever and then have better sound. I plug mine into a Bose Soundlink 2 bluetooth speaker (not cheap); it has an AUX input to wire sound in without bluetooth. The Soundlink is much louder and dynamic than the HoneyTones (the mini bass actually sounds good and low) and everything is still battery powered. For an older system like my vintage Sony receiver with original Advent loudspeakers I use a 3.5mm to RCA plug adapter (cheap), really really loud, low and clean (use caution if you do this, otherwise you can blow out your stereo’s amp or speakers). Still not done. If you have 2 HoneyTones (and why not, they’re so CHEAP) you can use both at once with a single instrument, all you need is a guitar cable splitter (cheap). I like to use both HoneyTones with a ukulele, one amp so crunchy I can’t make out the melody anymore and one amp so clean that I can, this sounds great and is also pretty loud. You can’t turn the HoneyTones’ volume up to 10 and expect good results, about 80% up is the limit and then it distorts badly. The problems with short battery life and sound cutting in and out are the same problem: you have to use a good battery like Duracell or Eveready (the supplied Danelectro battery looks spiffy but lasts 5 minutes). When the sound cuts in and out that battery’s fried. If you connect to some other audio system you reduce battery usage greatly as the amp is essentially only playing headphones then. Could use the a/c adapter but it hums as you turn up the volume, and it also takes some of the fun out these amps; I like to just grab one or both and maybe a ukulele, sit on the patio, plug in the guitar cable (not supplied but cheap), flip on the switch and go. Like alot of people, I got this amp even though I already have a much better one (Fender Frontman 15g), but the HoneyTones are just way too useful, cool, easy to use and too much fun, use them more than the Fender now. See YouTube videos: “Ukulele Robot / (Caramel Concert Uke and 2 HoneyTone Mini-Amps)”, 7 videos.

Amazing for the size/cost

Amazing for the size/cost. It is a practice amp, and is perfect for that job. Very small - just about 6”x6”x3” or so (check the details above), small enough to fit in…

Four Stars

Nice little practice amplifier.

Shame. Shame. Shame.

Don’t buy it! This amp cuts out REGULARLY. New cord, new instrument, new amp, and it’s cutting out every time you strum too loudly, unless the volume on the instrument or amp is…