Squier Review: SP-10

History:

Purchase: I bought this amp along with my first guitar - a Yamaha Pacifica - for about £40. I got it from Gamlins Music Centre in Newport, South Wales. I bought it because I was a complete beginner at this point with no previous guitar experience. I just needed something to practice with, and this was the cheapest I could get.

What I Like About This Squier SP-10: Well...its cheap, and portable...and its got a little handle on the top of it to help you carry it. I have ran out of things I like.

What I Do NOT Like About The Squier SP-10: It was great when I was completely clueless about guitars and amps about 1 and a half years ago...but now it has gotten to a point where I realise its not just me that sounds bad, its the amp as well. You have a choice of a clean sound, or a really crunchy distorted sound that really does sound bad. You get alot of awful feedback and you can barely change anything about the sound you get because you have just two controls - treble and bass. Makes all guitars sound unwell, and sometimes the power switch on my amp fails to turn on at all! If you can sound good through this amp then you'll sound amazing on anything of better quality!

Squier SP-10 Quality Rating: Its a little black box, but to be fair it is built strongly. Outward construction is good, but sometimes when I have tried to use this amp it does not turn on, and then I have to push the plug cable inside it a bit more to try and fix it. Its great for people who dont know anything about amps (like me not so long ago), but for everyone else its not going to be popular.

Review Summary: Sounds terrible, but is the cheapskates choice. I advise you to get a Marshall MG10CDR or MG15CDR instead (which I hoped for at the store, but they had none in stock, so I settled for this..). Avoid.

Rating of this Squier product: 2

This Squier SP-10 Guitar Amplifiers Review Submitted By: Simon

Review Date: 2004-05-19