American TrueTone : sturdy and really sounds like my Fender amp,

For £25 I wasn't expecting this to be anything like as good quality as it is. The sound is perfect through my PA. I have tried it with my Gretsch 5122 and Fender Telecaster. I have a Turbosound IP1000 which has a very wide frequency range. I am using this with a Harley Benson Acoustic Simulator Pedal which spits the "acoustic" output to the mixer desk (then the PA) and then the Electric guitar signal goes into a Boss BD overdrive, into the Harley Benton American preamp and then out of this into an Electro Harmonix Electric Mistress (chorus flanger) a Joyo Delay and then into the mixer and into the PA. the settings on the mixer are effectively neutral.

I have had many effects set ups before and have had mixed (actually invariably terrible) results plugging a guitar straight into a PA. Partly due to poor monitoring but mainly because the sound has been horrible. The more complex the simulator the worse the sound. I bought a Line6 PodHD500 for the multieffects and amp sims. In the end I had to buy a Fender HotRod Deluxe III amp as I could NOT get a decent sound out of any preamp / amp sim. So believe me I wasn't expecting much from this one. But I am blown away by it. I am actually looking forward to gigging it.