This is the smaller brother of the Tonemaster Twin Reverb now used by Robbo. To be honest, I got it to satisfy my curiosity as to whether Fender really have got this right, or not. These days, my need is for an amp which works well for me playing blues with the band, both lead and rhythm when I'm singing. And, of course, a good Shads sound for playing at home.
I have found the Katana to be incredibly versatile when used with the GA-FC foot panel, and tweaked with Tone Studio, and it has easily met my band requirements, together with some acceptable Shads noises used with an H&C echo machine. So, tough competition for the Fender.
It's lighter than the Katana 100 1x12 by some way, no doubt due to the light weight pine cabinet and the Jensen Neodymium speaker. No heavy particle board here, it is very easily carried and lifted with one hand. The valve amp it emulates is rated at 22 watts, but this, like the Twin Reverb has a Class D digital power amp rated at 100 watts. It has two channels, Normal, and Vibrato, each with two inputs each with different sensitivity to to give more or less clean headroom. And each channel has a different voice; Normal is slightly darker. Both channels have Vol, Treble and Bass, with extra controls on the Vibrato channel for Reverb and what I would call tremelo...
So... to the meat. It sounds and feels just like a valve amp. Surprisingly, the Normal channel input 2 offers the best Shadows tone; better than I have been able to achieve with my Katana, and the Vibrato channel gives me wonderful stratty tones under volume 5, and great blues tones at higher settings which clean up using my guitar volume control. And of course, using the output control on the back, you can go from 0.2 watts to 22 watts in 5 stages. The tone controls are super effective as are Reverb and Vibrato... In short, it behaves like the real thing.
In summary, it's a winner. I paid £795 for mine - including a cover. A great deal when compared with the valve version, and less than half the weight. And if you want simplicity in comparison to the Katana, this is it. Recommended.