PRS MT 15 Amp

Great sounding little amp

Such a huge sounding amp. The cleans are the best I've heard from a high gain amp. Fender-y but if you pull the treble boost it adds a certain warmth to the tone (almost into vox territory). The lead channel sounds amazing. Thick distortion. It is kind of dark by nature but the presence knob works great to remedy that. Truly great. Having read all the comments about noise I can say that they are exaggerated. You can hear a tiny bit of hum with pedals in the fx loop but you have to put your ear next to the cab in absolute silence. Even then you can get rid of 90% of it moving around the cables. Overall a great sounding amp for a great price

The 15 Watt amp from hell!

Can’t get any better than this! I live in an apartment and I use the half power 7 watts, playing at 1% volume! This amp is a beast with gain from hell and clean coming from paradise. Must buy! I had to wait for a month or so but it deserves it!

AMAZING!

This is my first tube amp. After extensive searching I decided to buy this one and I really don't regret it. Beautiful and monstrous sound: precious cleans especially with single coils and devastating distortion with active pickups. I use it with my EC-1000 (EMG 81/60) and my Hesu cab. Very happy with this purchase!

Thicc Sound, loud volume

I will keep it simple, this beast is not for the faint of heart, it’s 15w but feels like a traditional big amp, more like 50w.

Great modern distortion but my amp was faulty, it would buzz like a refrigerator even at stand by, has to return it.

And yes it’s more than loud enough to gig

It's a metal machine.

It sounds like a metal machine. It sounds more deeper and darker than Marshall DSL100 and also less than Soldano amp. The clear tone is very clear and bright. Recommend for rock and metal musician.

Straight forward high gain lunchbox amp

Of all the lunchbox amps I have seen, the MT15 just has exactly what I need on the tone department - crystal clear cleans and thick saturated high gain. Also the fact that it has 2 6l6 power tubes makes it sound like a full sized amp (they have changed the power tube to 5881 now and Tremonti said it actually made it sound better in an interview). I got this in 2020 (when it had 6l6) and writing this review now because we all have a honeymoon period with our gears where everything is a solid ten when it's new.

Tone-wise, it's all I need - good cleans and thick leads. I won't even complain it does not have reverb or any other bells and whistles like other amps in it's price range are offering because it's tone justified the price. It's a straight forward amp and you can always get a good tone with a few turns on the knobs.

Regarding build-quality there are a few issues:

The fx loop is a bit noisy, courtesy of high gain pre amp tube (12AX7) on the fx loop circuit. The remedy is to change the preamp tube of the fx loop to a lower gain tube like 12AU7 but I can live without changing it.

The master volume taper is not linear but a sudden jump at around 8 O'clock.

And lastly, my unit had a buzzy chassis. The base is a metal plate screw to the body and it can rattle at higher volumes. However, it's an easy fix by stuffing foam underneath.

Other than these three issues, I have absolutely no reason not to love this amp. It gives good tones, handles pedal like a champ, and achieve bedroom level volume without sounding too thin.

Well, modern metal and rock tunes just became affordable

Incredibly loud for a 15W. I would not hesitate to gig with it in a club without PA. But, that's not even the remarkable thing. The cleans are sweet and the high gain is so modern, it's impossible to make it sound bad.

Clean and Loud but not well designed

Pros:

-Channel lighting - cool. Blue for Clean. Red for Lead. Very easy to see what channel you are on.

-Clean Channel is very Clean. But nothing more (see cons below)

-Very loud for 15w.

Cons:

-Clean Channel is ONLY Clean. Nice, but nothing more. No way to get more out of it without external pedals.

-Lead Channel is ONLY Metal, or more Metal. Nice, but no way to back off the gain, even if it is barely turned up. Can't dial anything else in.

-FX Loop is very dirty/noisy. Unusable. Not used.

-Knob configuration is terrible. For example, Master is NOT the master for the amp. It is ONLY the main for the Lead channel. And it is on the opposite end of the amp from the Lead section. Very confusing layout. Not a logical layout. Poor design.

-Handle doesn't collapse so it is not possible to stack anything.. Metal handle is always up. What is that about? Poor design.

-Soft case/Gig bag that was included is useless. No space for anything except the amp. Not even its own power cable and/or footswitch. Throw it into the bin.

Final: I would not recommend this amp. Poor design and layout and feels cheep. Not a flexible amp. It is loud for 15w and is usable for practice with a full band with the right cabinet.

Monster Amp for the price

First the Clean channel: is amazing, you would not believe how loud this 15w gets and stays clean. It does have a boost feature which makes the clean channel crunchy, if you use the single coil guitars it makes them really pop.

The Gain channel: I think on this amp the pedals for distortion is not need. It has more gain that you will ever need and it has amazing articulation. Notes are clear even on a lot of gain.

The footswitch is awesome to have, the look of it is subjective but I do like how it looks even the lights look good in the stage or in the dark.

The only "problem" is that the volume pot on the lead channel is very sensitive.

Other than this I would recommend it, if you have an option do try it in a shop, you will be surprise how loud it gets and how great it sounds. Do remember get a great cab to get the most of the amp! Speakers and cabs are really important!

Probably the best amplifier for the price quality ...

I live in Russia, everyone has heard about our mail, but this is the third order in a month, which comes ideal and in just 8-9 days ...

As for the "little devil".

Minuses:

1) Noisy loop, critically loud backgrounds at home volume.

2) 7-15 watts is more of a publicity gimmick that doesn't make it quieter for home use. (it would be better to make a general volume control for two channels)

3) This is where the cons end, this is just a great amplifier for the money !!!!!!!

The clean channel is as transparent as a baby's tear, and it is good friends with my OCD and Ibanez, and other pedals sound good in the clean channel (and sound terrible in the loop). It can be quiet enough to play with your wife sleeping in the next room at night. Pedals are essentially the only way to get crunch at low volumes.

As for the lead channel, it is VERY VERY loud, you do not need a heating pad, rather you need a fire extinguisher for this channel, a huge supply of gain, and even at its high values ​​the sound remains dense and readable. I tested it through a cabinet 2x12 celestion vintage 30 16 ohm on a Les Paul with 496r - 498t, stratocaster with Dimarzio HS2 and Blue Velvet, Amarok with EMG Retro Active, Stratocaster with Seymour Duncan JB and SH-6 - sounds great on different power pickups , a sound with hints of mesa boogie, which does not try to copy it, but has its own character. Don't look for easy crunch without pedals here.

As for the volume, I do not think that this amplifier is suitable for playing in an apartment building with the volume knob raised above 1 mm, IT IS VERY LOUD (the minimum volume of the lead channel is no different from the minimum volume of mesa boogie dual rectifier mods 100w solo head) !! ! But I also would not use an attenuator, it is quite possible to try to catch the volume at the minimum, which will be better than the same volume with an attenuator, and will allow you to play in the evening! And for the night there is a clean channel and pedals, there is a loadbox and impulses. And attenuators are probably needed by amplifiers that need to swing the output (like Fender), here it is not required IMHO and will not give anything!

Bottom line: I am very pleased with this amplifier, it is quite universal for home, rehearsals and probably live performances !!! And the backlit trick is just bombing!

P.S. If you turn on a clean channel, then standby and wait 15 seconds, then there will be no click when turned off. At least that's how it works for me.