Boss Katana Original and Official Irrational Love and Hate Thread™

[dbagchee]

Ordering a KatCab to go with my MK2 50w so I can link it to an ext. cab, hoping to gig with this but will need more time in the rehearsal room seeing if it cuts it when cranked. The built in gain is meh, but I'll be using gain pedals anyways.

I do like layering delay with a tad of reverb and just having that on all the time, as we're a post-punk vibed band. Will have to see.

I got one of the KatCabs for my Catalyst. It’s nice to be able to run into some closed back cabs!

 

[Alonious_Monk]

I got one of the KatCabs for my Catalyst. It’s nice to be able to run into some closed back cabs!

I have the Harley Benton 1x12 V30, so looking forward to hearing that.

As I'm in the UK instead of the KatCab, it's actually the Dual Wield by FiveCats, but same concept.

 

[krb813]

I'm running a Gen 3 Katana Artist Head with a Mesa 2x12 Rectifier cab. It sounds great. I'm real happy with that setup.

 

[Alex Kenivel]

I'm debating on whether I should get a Mk2 or Gen 3 Artist Head (the naming scheme is ). I kinda want to have it for my next gig instead of just the combo.

Is the Gen 3 a major improvement over the Mk2? Used Mk2 prices look pretty good and I'd probably sell some unused gear for a Gen 3.

I have a short list of things drawing me to the Gen 3 but wanted to hear from you guys who have actual experience with any of the following:

Bluetooth editor for on the fly deep EQ adjustment (would be cool for global EQ changes and such. A Mk2 alternative would be to use a USB cable and Katana Librarian in my phone. ).
The Resonance control (does it do anything substantial or useful? I could see using this instead of needing global EQ at all).
Bloom control (does it make a difference in stiffness of the preamp models?)

 

[timbuck3]

I'm debating on whether I should get a Mk2 or Gen 3 Artist Head (the naming scheme is ). I kinda want to have it for my next gig instead of just the combo.

Is the Gen 3 a major improvement over the Mk2? Used Mk2 prices look pretty good and I'd probably sell some unused gear for a Gen 3.

I have a short list of things drawing me to the Gen 3 but wanted to hear from you guys who have actual experience with any of the following:

Bluetooth editor for on the fly deep EQ adjustment (would be cool for global EQ changes and such. A Mk2 alternative would be to use a USB cable and Katana Librarian in my phone. ).
The Resonance control (does it do anything substantial or useful? I could see using this instead of needing global EQ at all).
Bloom control (does it make a difference in stiffness of the preamp models?)

I think the GEN three artist sounds amazing. I have a GEN two 100 W 212 that sounds really good but I think a few things on the artist sound better like the speaker and the bloom button and the sounds are tweaked a little bit nicer I think but not like night and day compared to the GEN two kind of like the helix versus the helix XL

 

[Alex Kenivel]

I think the GEN three artist sounds amazing. I have a GEN two 100 W 212 that sounds really good but I think a few things on the artist sound better like the speaker and the bloom button and the sounds are tweaked a little bit nicer I think but not like night and day compared to the GEN two kind of like the helix versus the helix XL

I spent some time running my 100w Mk2 combo into my 2x12 w/ GBs powered by my TC BAM200 using the stereo expand and then putting the combo on Standby.

While it did sound good through the 2x12, it felt as stiff as it usually does which doesn't matter much to me in the heat of a jam or a gig, but sitting by myself playing is apparent.

Does the Bloom help in this regard at all? I watched the Guitar Geek's comparison video a few times but couldn't determine much from it from the sound samples.

 

[timbuck3]

I spent some time running my 100w Mk2 combo into my 2x12 w/ GBs powered by my TC BAM200 using the stereo expand and then putting the combo on Standby.

While it did sound good through the 2x12, it felt as stiff as it usually does which doesn't matter much to me in the heat of a jam or a gig, but sitting by myself playing is apparent.

Does the Bloom help in this regard at all? I watched the Guitar Geek's comparison video a few times but couldn't determine much from it from the sound samples.

Bloom for me seems to make the dynamics sound better. I leave it on all the time… whatever it does, it sure seems to make it sound better but then again I play the artist third generation so the speaker helps as well

 

[Alex Kenivel]

I decided to get a used Gen 3 non-artist Head from GC with what looks like the Bluetooth adapter already installed. Hopefully it ships out today. I like the smaller size and can live with some app tinkering instead of knobs for resonance and such.

As much as I want to play my Axe 3, I also don't want to drag it to punk shows.