Harmony H605 - Can a 5 Watt amp ACTUALLY SOUND GOOD?
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
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Harmony has been teasing the prototypes of these amps at NAMM for years, they look beautiful but now that I have one how does it sound? Tune in to find out and drop your own opinions in the comments section.
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What is your affinity for these ugly-ass guitars? I know this is supposed to be an amp review video but that guitar looks like a gold-plated, shit shovel from Walmart.
You sound boring.
Everyone should only play Telecasters, so sayeth the guitar-gods. All heretics will be PURGED!
Shit shovel from Walmart ahahahah
Looks like the first electric guitar I ever played back in '66.
@@60CycleHumcast If you grew up when I did, and actually had to learn on some of these now "collectible" 60s and 70s retro guitars, you might not be saying this - lol. You make great videos, dude. Sometimes I just don't get the fascination with these ugly, Teisco-looking guitars. I guess they're more "hipster" for this old, boring fart. LOL :)
Back in the early ‘60’s, when amps were only tubes, I bought a little 5 watt amp from a friend who was upgrading to a WEM ( Watkins electric music) combo. It had an 8”” speaker and I played my very early Vox guitar (one single coil pickup) through it at full volume. It sounded glorious, but I needed to be louder so I sold it. I wish I had it now.....
I had a WEM ac30 copy yrs ago, it weighed 3 tons and kept blowing fuses but sounded great, swapped it for a lighter, dependable Carlsboro that sounded awful - durrrrr
Wow - That Amp produces some of the most musical and useful tones I've heard! It sounded like whatever you dialed in, you were in the sweet spot. Kudos to the sound engineers and designers at Harmony. This is the kind of Amp that would inspire me, and make me more creative. The clarity and balance were perfect, as we're the overdriven tones.
The Amp didn't have its "own characteristic" tone. It made ever tone sound great - exactly what I want and like. That's what gives me the freedom to create without limitations.
I can easily see it becoming your number one Amp. Excellent review and demo. Great work Harmony! 👍😎
Single ended amps aren't short on Bass. Crappy speakers are short on Bass. Crappy transformers are short on Bass. This has a good speaker and a good transformer. For over $500 it certainly should.
I have to respectfully disagree. Those Italian-made Jensens are poor excuses for a Jensen speaker. They sound nothing like the originals and are considered to be bright, shrill and harsh in almost any circuit
By far the best 5-watter I've ever heard! I really hope Thomann starts selling these in Europe soon.
"Edge of crispy" - love it!
Cool amps, TY!
I love the idea of a 5w with all the controls. Good idea. The 20w is sweet too...
There’s been so many lead guitar parts recorded on Champs and vibro Champs among other little 5 watt tube amps including those like Brian Mays made from a tube radio. I put a 1/4” input on the old Philco radio and phonograph my grandparents bought in the 50’s and play through it and it sounded great.
Man - you are all so BRIGHT GOLDEN together... hahaha... I don't comment, much, mate, but am a UK fan of your videos. Just taking this opportunity to wish you all the very best. You do a damn good job treading the fine-line of authenticity and commercialism without ever once seeming fake, or a shill, or blustering the opinions of vanity.
I'm a 30+ year, 8 hour-a-day player, so I can count on my own opinion a little bit; ALWAYS appreciate yours, Bucko!
Happiness and Health to you and yours!
- New Forest, England, United Kingdom
love the growl that comes from the boost
The 20 watt for $650 seams really interesting
I’ve got a harmony H400A from the mid 60s. It only has a volume and a tone, but it’s got an original 8 in Jensen speaker, and it’s the best clean sound I’ve ever heard.
I can't believe this vid is 2yrs old! I also can't believe that you're the only person to take a deep dive on this amp!
I had been looking for a 5 watt amp & saw this amp in a magazine ad & started to my research. Unfortunately there was only one deep dive video. Fortunately it was you that did it & for that thank you.
I ordered this amp back in August & should finally be on my doorstep in two weeks.
Again thank you for this review. Your exploration of what it can do gave me the green light to purchase this amp.
Keep up the great work!!
Was it worth it? I'm having trouble finding this amp in stock, and I've seen a few bad reviews.
@@drtm1718 F no! Zzsounds kept moving the time table from September to late October & now they're not selling them. I wrote Harmony & they gave me a standard ambiguous answer. Finally I saw a store that said they'll be stocked in April.
I haven't seen any bad reviews on the amp would you tell me where to find them?
@@barnaclestval On guitar center's website. They're out of stock there too. All they have is a few used ones.
"You've heard about Class-A amplifiers, what about Class-E amplifiers?" This is why we all are subscribed.
I know looks are always subjective but to my eyes that’s a good looking amp.
This will be a great recording amp for so many people, but i feel like putting a load box in and making it a head would make it even better for that task
I won't go under 10" and tens are definitely my favorites for baritones. An ampeg fridge with a baritone in drop G sounds MASSIVE.
It sounds really good! Smaller speakers have a nice punchy sound, especially 10" which I love!
I find that low wattage with a really small speaker can be incredible. I have a filmosound at 8 watts pumped through an original built-in 6" oval alnico speaker. When I crank that thing it completely overwhelms the speaker and the sound is like the voice of angels. You want authentic Heartbreaker sound for $200? Find a filmosound at an estate sale, plug in a Squire Tele, and it's the cheapest way to meet god you can find.
@@robotsongs Cool. An oval speaker distorts by itself supposedly, but it must do it in a good way.
Thank you for trying out so many different sounds with it. Excelent demo!
we’ve had this conversation 500,000 times. yes, it’s just not that loud
I don't know, my class 5 is pretty damn loud
no you mean lower headroom. still loud af
前進します Omg yeah, my bad had a fever all day😭😭 I actually prefer smaller amps as long as they’re all tube. My valve jr into the only cabinet i have rn (rumble 410) and i get complaints if i really push it, the early breakup is literally why i saved myself $300 buying one over a blues jr; my friends’ sweet spot is somewhere between “hearing loss” and “nerve damage.” Allll that said tho, any all-tube amp is gonna shake the walls
For what you get that’s a crazy price and sounds fantastic!
I wish they had these in the UK! It has all the features I'm after. Reverb, attenuator and line out. Do you know of any other amps that can do all this? It's also pretty!
With it cranked it definitely has that Led Zeppelin 1 and Led Zeppelin II sound to it.
I think he used a cranked Gretsch amp for those albums but im not sure. I have a 1963 Gretsch 6156 playboy, sounds so good!!!
He also used Supro amps though I'm not sure when he started using them
@@mindfall82 Page used modified Supros on Zep I and II. He also had Rickenbacker Transonic amps at one time during that period. The dirty, overdriven tone are the Supro amps.
I want this amp! Definitely outperforms my Burgera V5 with an 8" speaker. Although I only paid $60 for it, so I can't really complain.
Dude I changed the tubes and cone and it cleaned up a lot on my Bugera but now I’m gon’ get that 20watt! Or a Pro Reverb.
I have a v5 but I've always felt it was a bit too dark for me. I upgraded the tubes to JJ ones and the speaker to a celestion one, but I'm definitely in need of more volume. I pre ordered the h620 cause I has everything I need and can't wait it
I just bought one of these.
Sounds beautiful, Ryan! Thanks for a great review. I wouldn't have known to check these out.
Such 5w goodness that it rocked me to sleep. That is money well spent for a low wattage amp. 👍
I love low wattage amps. They have a vibe
They record well.
I now want to start a boutique amp company named Class E amps.
do it, I'd buy from you
Great review Ryan. Finally a low wattage amp with all the features. Sounds very good! Very impressed with it. Put it on my wish list.
Very impressive little amp for sure, but the 20 watt with a 12 inch speaker looks like the real winner imho. The 20 watts for only $100 more gives you a decent amount of headroom as a pedal platform, and enough punch to use at smaller gigs. Plus, you still have the attenuator for low volume practice.
Ryan, I know what you mean-Last Century, I bought a 10 Watt Ibanez Amp (IBZ10 for much less than $100) and although it doesn't have all the features of the Harmony H605, it does have Input Jacks for the Guitar and Headphones, 3-Band Graphic Equalizer (with the Heading: Equalization), A Boost Button and Gain Contol (with the Heading: Overdrive) and finally, A Master Volume Control. Well worth the money!
Ohhh baby might have to get this amp!!
My ‘65 Valco/Airline 62-9022a kills. A tweed Champ mixed with the Valco/Supro tone. Not the best for pristine cleans, but the breakup is great and it sounds like gold in recordings.
Great Review! Someone in my area is selling one of these and I was not aware it even existed. I really liked the opening surf-y thing. That was really cool. Also, I like that gold Harmony guitar although I see there are some strong opinions to the contrary.
Hi Ryan! One thing to mention is tha the amps look they are built for the US market, so 120V. Watch out buying in a country with 240V!
As usual, a great review. This is a very cool sounding & versatile amp, but you forgot to mention the price. I checked the Harmony site and at around $550 it also seems like a nicely priced amp as well. I love low-watt amps, I might have to put this on my want list.
I didn't know the price when I filmed it. Sorry.
@@60CycleHumcast No problem. I wouldn't have known about this amp if not for your review.
I can’t believe how tight it stayed with the baritone. Very impressive.
Great demo Ryan !
I have a 25w Fender that is bulky, heavy, and a bit too loud so I want something I can carry with one hand without lugging it, and uses AC Power (three prong) not batteries so I don't have a reason to not practise. The amp I currently have (in case someone wishes to know) is the Fender Frontman 25R.
Pffffft, they can sound great!! Glad you pointed it out cause a lot of folks don't realize it
Blown away by the tone and the price. Finally.
Sounds great - would love a quick shootout between this and the Harmony 8418 if you still have it. I like mine a lot, but this seems maybe more useful and still good looking enough to keep out when guests come over
I'm betting good money it's the 6L6GC that gives it that massive headroom. Mostly, you see 6V6s and EL84s in single ended amps lower than ten watts. That's insane that it has all those controls.
I'm also guessing the Push pull Gain knob is a negative feedback control which also helps it stay cleaner and offers more headroom. Damned nice feature and well thought out amp.
Trinity has an amp kit I'm soon to build that can either utilise a 6V6 or 6L6GC as well, and they suggest to go the 6L6 route if you wanna play gigs with it.
Wipe Out sounded great on the Gretsch! Nice amp! 👍
great informative video... Love the tone of the amp! Love your Retro Guitar!!! Something different for a change
I have the H620 and can attest that it's an amazing amp with insane versatility and features that I've yet to see anywhere near this price range! Go Harmony :-) And their guitars are made side by side with Heritage Guitars in the old Gibson factory in Kalamazoo, MI - I've been there so these them in production. Some incredible workmanship and decades of craftsmanship in that place!
I love that gold plated shovel
Love this demo and that amp!! Thanks for such a great review. Btw, what's the guitar you used in the opening??
22:35 don’t try to hide the fact that you just played the inspector gadget theme song 😂
I've got a 1959-60 Gibson Skylark GA-5 which is amazingly loud for 5W. Volume at about 2/3 and it's Neil Young/Crazy Horse time.
Great video! I’m a bit late, I wouldn’t have guessed that was an 8” speaker, very nice! Im frustrated Sweetwater isn’t carrying the amps but they do the guitars somehow so I can’t hear them in person.
I’ve got a Harmony 8418 reissue 5 watt hand wired amp for $399 new. It’s got a tube rectifier and alnico speaker and sounds the stuff. This one looks cool beans.
Hate to admit but you got a chuckle out of me with the Class-E comment. :)
Thanks for the review! How would you compare this to the Supro Delta King 10? Both 5 watts, 10" speaker vs 8" but around the same price point. By the way, I really dig the gold guitar played at the opening of the review, same one you play in the Playing with it's Food video.
I’d say the boost could also substitute as fuzz pedal with the gain and master volume up.
I keep forgetting its 8in until you remind us. Folks not playing anything less than a 12in is missing out. I used to gig all the time with 10s and they really punched through the live mix without having to be loud. Give it a whirl!
I like the low gain sound of this amp, but maybe if you changed the preamp tubes to low gain, it would give it more clean headroom.
I'm buying one next week. 550$. It's going in between the Supro and Silvertone twin twelve at home. I love the Asthetics of these amps.
For my portable low wattage needs I have an ENGL Gigmaster 15H. Because it is pretty clean, takes pedals well, loop, mid boost and power scaling plus silent recording. And you get that authentic high-gain tone. Years ago it was kind of hard to find a decent reliable small tube amp with these features at a fair price point. It does vintage, it does modern. Precisely kind of what bums me out on amps like these. Very narrow use. Low to medium gain maybe but I can just stick an OD pedal in front of the input to get there, whereas these kind of amps max out on medium gain tones. Pretty limited in that perspective. You probably remember the low watt tube amp hype from a few years back? It's cool but limited. This is a slightly better version of that trend.
One of my first amp was a 6 watt silver faced champ. I had to put it on the book shelf next to my head so i could hear it over drums
I love 10" speakers, but the large cabinet gives more dimension and girth to the 8" speaker, like with tweed Princeton amps which used an 8" speaker like the champ, but sounded much bigger because of the bigger cabinet. The 8" speaker is good for home use or recording, and with two speaker outs you can easily run it through a larger speaker. I would love to hear it through a cabinet with a Celestion blue, a low wattage speaker with high sensitivity, so it would be loud. Hearing it through anything with a larger speaker would be helpful, if you have something around the shop to make a video with.......?
Good point, the tweed vibrolux and the tremolux were considered holy grail amps for tone. Fender over built blank 5E3 cabs and had hundreds of tweed PRO cabs that the cab that held a 15". Leo said put the 10" into the 12" cab and the 12" into the 15" cabs just to get rid of dead stock!
Bought the 20 watt version and LOVE it!
How is the tremolo on that?
It looks huge for a 5watt amp. How does it compare to the Monoprice 5w? I bought the Monoprice 15 and love it!!!!!
I own the mono price 5 watt and the harmony…..this I’m sorry to say makes the mono price sound like a toy. Of coarse it’s $400 more!
Hey man! LOVE the sound of this amp!! I know this video has been out for a while but I was thinking of getting this amp just for bedroom playing. It seems like this would do the job well! I know you stuck a fuzz in front of it, but just wanted to know how it would take drive pedals in the front? The effects loop on a 5w amp is insanely cool!
What is good for me can be bad for others and vice versa.
End of the day if we're happy with it then yes it can be good. Very good, even.
If there is not a compilation video of all of your laughing, I'm going to be disappointed. I like your content, but I love your laugh lol 😂
That amp rocks! Sweet playing, too.
I love smaller speakers because the amps are lighter due to smaller magnets. I'm an old person (43) and appreciate anything that's gonna save the back and shoulders. :D
I don't like the total lack of overdriven tones, though. It might have a couple of 12AX7 speakers, but with the gain cranked all the way it's only juuuuust starting to get gritty. Maybe with hotter humbuckers it could get where I want it to be, but meh. That's a great "gain on 6" tone but not a maxed out one.
I don't need an EVH 5150 or anything, but I like it when the heaviest gain is more than I want, so I can pull it back just a tad. This never quite makes it for me.
Very surprised at how much I liked the sound of this under that mic, especially when you ran that tele through it. When you do these sorts of reviews, I wish you'd use a common microphone like an SM57. It would be much easier to gauge for ourselves if we already knew the character of the mic. The baritone with the fuzz dialed back also sounded cool. Very 60s.
In the early days I used a 57 but always had to make major eq tweaks to get the recording similar to how it sounded in room. Eventually a studio engineer friend recommended the cascade fathead and it’s been my go to amp demo mic since. Besides a slight high pass filter to take out the extreme rumbly lows I pretty much nothing to the audio in post because the mic captures amps nearly identical to how I hear them in room. Which is really my ultimate goal.
could you please do a comparison of the Danelectro Fab Fuzz and the Behringer Super Fuzz?
Hey man. I’m digging this amp for home use. It sounds a lot bigger in videos. Does it sound like that in person.
Yeah it sounds nice and full if you dial it in that way. Like I said in the video this will never be an all the way clean amp, but if you like edge of breakup at bedroom levels it’s a good choice.
@@60CycleHumcast sweet. I don’t care about clean. I want edge of breakup all the time. I’ve just never played a GOOD amp with an 8inch speaker. I automatically think of the tinny crate/fender starter amps that come in beginner packs.
@@60CycleHumcast also thanks for replying. Too many RUclipsrs will not reply to questions.
You got me with "class-e".
Stupid youtube posting comments on the wrong video, I was commenting on one video and autoplay swapped it to this video, then placed my comment here. Anyway, nice amp sound :P
Lol no worries
I want to see inside! PCB I bet. If it has 8" ohm tap 10" or 12" would sound great.
I would’ve purchased this over the Supro Delta King 5w amp. Same price. Oh well.
Damn Ryan, you know how to sell an amp. "That's stupid. Full sonic destruction. [looks to camera] At a very comfortable volume..." 😂
Okay, sold. Want one.
I was about to by the Supro King 10 with reverb and now this has caught me eye. Any comparisons?
Is there enough space to swap speakers, or would there be something in the way? For other 8in speakers like a Weber or WGS.
Never heard a better sounding 5 watter. It sounds as good as a dumble.
love it! wonder how that 8" speaker would sound in a 57 Champ - Jensen P8R, 8” 16Ω
I just got a 57 champ as well!
Hey Ryan! On the off-chance you see this, how does it compare to a fender amp in terms of tone? I'm looking for a fender style tube amp and this is marginally more affordable then a fender. And very Class-E indeed...
any idea when these are going to be available? I dont see them anywhere
A Swart space tone reverb is 5 watts and sure sounds great.
18:26: Well said... 😁
Cheers 🍻
"Edge of crispy" I look for that. Cool amp.
Hey, how's the noisefloor in the room? Apologies if you cover this in the second half of the video, which I haven't bothered to watch.
10 inch speakers are my preferred, but 8 inch will do.
Ryan, do you own a treble booster? They can work wonders on a mildly flubby amp like that.
Jam sounded great!!!
That's a nice looking amp 🤔👍
Ok I want one!
Dang. With the gain and master both dimed and a decent bit of bass, you can almost get a thick kind of stoner thing going on.
keith williams would like a word with you
OT
Might just be me
But this guy is the Adam Savage of guitar gear
The laugh at least is dead on 😁
From your video the attenuator sounds pretty good (the same but quieter!). I remember the only amp I owned that had a built-in attenuator/power scaler (the 4 watt Vox tube amp) sounded incredibly wimpy when attenuated. Has the technology gotten that much better? Or is it just implemented in a better way?
Could just be implementation. There's a few different common ways that brands will attenuate an amp, and each can have its pros and cons. - steve
@@60CycleHumcast who is steve?
@@tothefinlandstation Steve is in the 60 Cycle podcast
Of course it can!!
Nissssssssssssssssssce 🍻
I have tried and tried to like 8” speaker amps.. without success. Ymmv.
@@santafemikez9694 peavey JSX, fender vibro champ, vox pathfinder to name 3 off the top. I’m fine w 10”. Love my Princeton Reverb.
@@santafemikez9694 funny you mention speaker change. G10 Greenback is my next mod for it