HoTone Mojo Attack Pedal Amp

Great pedal amp

I bought Mojo Attack because I got tired of carrying around a heavy amp and I didn't want to spend too much money for a preamp/modeler. I have to say that in general, I am very satisfied with the purchase. Here are the pros and cons ...

PROS:

- Great size for a decent sized pedalboard

- Good build quality

- Lots of great features (two channels, boost, reverb, fx loop, line and direct output, cab simulation)

- Good sounding cab simulation

CONS:

- The EQ is a bit weird. The knobs can feel somewhat unresponsive, so be prepared to spend some time finding the sweet spot.

- Reverb is ok, not really great

- Direct output has pretty high gain, meaning it can easily clip the interface or DAW

In general, I think this is a great pedal amp. Definitely worth the buy, if you're looking for easy-to-use, feature packed preamp.

OUTSTANDING value for money! LOWEST noise ever!

Like with all amps and preamps I need an additional EQ (or two) but then the clean sound of this little amp is VERY good (about as good as several other TUBE preamps/amps and far best of all of the dozens of none-tube preamps/amps I ever used and had). In contrast with many other recent class-D amps, this one does not need/have a cooling fan (and no cooling fan noise, at all). Crunch sounds are less convincing. Lead sounds can sing well, but rather narrow range of sounds. Reverb is quite fine for a built-in one (but, of course, most external reverb units mostly are far better). For what I mostly need (clean, noise-free, just a hint of reverb) it is VERY GOOD. Really, jazz players do not need more than this unit and an additional EQ (I use MXR)... oh, yes, and maybe also a guitar and speaker cabinet (closed back, please).

One trick pony

It has a very nice clean channel and reverb. Distortion is tight, but very dark sounding, you have to dime treble to make it sound good. It has enough gain, but its never fizzy like on many solid state amps (it emulates tube amp).

I used it with 1x12 cabinet loaded with eminence swamp thang and it's super loud. Enough power to play with a drummer. It looks very nice, it's light and all the switches have nice weight (feels very well made).

+build quality

+tube-like sound

+loud

+small size and low weight

-limited tone options