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Coz the Shroom · 08-21-2014, 08:41 AM

I wanna do street/park/protest performances and I asked my wife to get me a battery powered guitar amp for my birthday-- and not too expensive. Ideally, it would be cool if I could get one that would be loud enough for her to accompany me on a stripped down drum kit (snare, floor tom, hi hat).
I have a 10 watt danelecrtro honeytone and it is a pretty cool amp, but it uses a 9 volt battery that runs out way too fast, and is barely loud enough to get my guitar audible on the street.
I figure the pignose hog 20 has twice as much wattage, so it might be louder, and moreso for the pignose hog 30, both of which use a plug in rechargable battery pack which I like, like like!
There are youtube demos of the hog 20, but you can't judge volume from a video and the damned thing was miked on one video anyway!
Does anyone have any experience with these and can set me strait ? The pignose hog 30 is $40 more than the hog 20, but if the hog 20 is barely loud enough for what I want, should I spend the extra dough and get the hog 30? Or do they both suck?

08-21-2014, 08:41 AM	#1 (permalink)
Coz the Shroom Groupie Join Date: Oct 2011 Location: in the mountains 7,000 feet high Posts: 34	small battery amp for busking-- pignose hog 20 ok? I wanna do street/park/protest performances and I asked my wife to get me a battery powered guitar amp for my birthday-- and not too expensive. Ideally, it would be cool if I could get one that would be loud enough for her to accompany me on a stripped down drum kit (snare, floor tom, hi hat). I have a 10 watt danelecrtro honeytone and it is a pretty cool amp, but it uses a 9 volt battery that runs out way too fast, and is barely loud enough to get my guitar audible on the street. I figure the pignose hog 20 has twice as much wattage, so it might be louder, and moreso for the pignose hog 30, both of which use a plug in rechargable battery pack which I like, like like! There are youtube demos of the hog 20, but you can't judge volume from a video and the damned thing was miked on one video anyway! Does anyone have any experience with these and can set me strait ? The pignose hog 30 is $40 more than the hog 20, but if the hog 20 is barely loud enough for what I want, should I spend the extra dough and get the hog 30? Or do they both suck?