Hughes&Kettner ERA 2 Wood Reviews

Loud but not for everyone

I have to break with majority opinion here - this box is the VW Golf of acoustic amps, it can be loud and aggressive, but it's not for everyone and certainly not for me. It worked relatively OK with LR Baggs preamp (although still not half as loud as I'd expect from a 400 W beast) but was a total disaster with K&K Mini Western, I nearly lost hearing adjusting the notch button to cancel piercing noise and various little hums. Lot of adjustment drowned the natural voicing, too. I immediately plugged the guitars back to my Marshall acoustic amp which at half the price performed surprisingly much better. Maybe less natural, but handled the piezo with ease. I guess this can work well with Taylor type guitars with equipped with good preamps, for church setting, small gigs etc but I found it disappointing and absolutely despised the cheap volume buttons that made plastic Marshall knobs look expensive and compromised the overall wooden, otherwise natural look of the thing. Return.

Excellent

Lovely, so much better than my Behringer

Best Acoustic Amp I've ever heard.

Great amp. Maybe a bit pricey, but in my opinion worth every euro.

Sounds awesome for both vocals and all kinds of stringed instruments. I use acoustic guitars, mandolin, ukulele, ukulele-bass and more on it.

For solo gigging it has all i need.

I use a stand to get the sound out to the back, and then it can be a bit difficult to adjust the settings. The pegs for adjusting is pointing up, and the markings are written to be read when you lean over it. But that's the only drawback I can come up with.

I love it, and so does everyone who has heard me use it.