This is a very good amp, I did not expect what I got for it being such a good price. This amp really vibrates the eardrums and has a rich clean setting with a nice grungy overdrive for a solid state.

I have been able to get a 45 watt reading out of it and it still sounded decent, so the speaker is of good quality. Has a decent bass power, not as powerful as a bass amp of course but still a good bit.

I played guitar for more than 10 years and tried several amplifiers. For some obscure reason, amplifiers are very expensive. I mean, for what you get at the end, they are really, very very expensive, and If you would like to start playing electric guitar in a band and you are not a neurosurgeon, and would like to actually hear your own guitar over the dam drums, the expensive common brands offer your extreme prices for tiny amplifiers. The ridiculous 10-15 watts amplifiers are almost useless in real life.

Pyle-pro 60 watt amplifier is the perfect starter-amplifier for who wants to be present at gigs with friends and actually hear his own guitar in the middle of the chaos made by the usual overexcited drummer.
The speaker is solid, middle-sized, and powerful; the distortion is not great, but you can buy a $25 distortion/overdrive pedal on amazon and the amplifier will sound better than an overpriced common brands.

I honestly can't believe I got this amp for that price. As it sits next to me now I can tell you it is definitely the best value for the price. Perfect for just about any venue. Loud. Great effects. High and low outputs. My only regret is that I didn't get the bigger version with the effects presets.

I received this item twice, and unfortunately had to return it each time due to serious defects. There are no serial numbers or manufacture dates stamped, so it's hard to tell if it's a bad batch, or what.

The ove all design is acceptable, but a little strange. There is a push button to enable the "overdrive" mode, which makes the gain and secondary volume knobs active, bypassing the main volume. Most amps have gain as a global option, so this is a bit odd. It would have made more sense to make the overdrive mode trigger by a foot pedal. Additionally, the back compartment is open, exposing the back of the speaker. Many amps are sealed in back, so this may bother some people as it would be easier to damage the unit in transport. Lastly, the forward facing knobs and inputs could also be damaged when the product is moved, especially the jacks as a plugged in cable will protrude out of the front while in use. A much nicer design, in my opinion, is to have the knobs and input/outputs recessed, facing upward.

The first time I received this item, there was a loud persistent HUM, even when nothing was plugged it. It should be made clear that this is NOT due to a ground loop, as it did it when behind an isolation transformer. The HUM was from the device itself. Second, one of the adjustable knobs did not turn properly, and would get stuck. It would also make a static/interference sound while rotated. The item was banged a round a bit in its box when I got it, so the front panel piece had detached, but I was able to push it back in. I don't know if it is supposed to be screwed in or have glue, it might not.

The second time I received this item, all of the knobs turned and there was only a very slight HUM which is normal and acceptable. However, the bass knob was not responsive at all. While the knob would turn, it produced no effect - and the bass could not be adjusted. Since it was stuck on a low setting, this pretty much prevented the EQ from working at all, as well as lowering the volume output of the device by some 75% (assuming i set all of the other knobs to 15-20% to match up with the unresponsive bass knob).

I assume the item has poor quality control, since I had problems with knobs both times not working properly. I would suggest looking at another item that costs a bit more but performs much better. A good example would be Fender Mustang I V2 20-Watt 1x8-Inch Combo Electric Guitar Amplifier

Updated 4/17/2015:

I read the reviews before buying this and decided to take a chance. Have messed with it for several days now and can report that various issues in most reviews are accurate, but if used with a good source the amp seems to work quite well. Here's some detail:

1) Hum. Yes - if you drive it from a very high impedance source, it has noticeable hum. But even the Fender Mustang 1 V2 has similar comments from some users. I'm guessing this is at least partly due to how exposed the wiring is in whatever guitar/etc you're using. For source impedances below about 1K Ohm, the hum is virtually gone. For example, I used a midrange Electrovoice mic and it works perfectly. Also worked fine with an electric guitar that had normal (unamped) pickups.

2) Smell. Yes - there was a noticeable smell from the glue/etc when I opened it, but it dissipated quite quickly and I don't find it significant now.

3) Good sound overall. YES. Seems to work nicely as a vocal amp, where the tone controls ("equalizer") do what they should. While it is not a replacement for a good receiver with high-cost speakers for making your ipod louder, it seems more than adequate for a vocal amp. Sounded fine with a guitar as well, but a) I am not a guitarist, and b) it doesn't have the "voices" that competing amps do. So its probably going to come down to a tradeoff - do you want a bit more power, or more refined tone/sound options.

4) Volume. Very good. It claims 60 Watts and my initial measurements suggest this is a reasonably accurate number for the _peak_ output (measured about 2.5A peak into the (assumed) 8 Ohm speaker. Soundwise, it is very loud before it clips, so the speaker in the case is decently efficient too. But as other reviewers noted, this is not enough for some (larger) stage environments. It's a 60 (ish) Watt amp. And no - it is not a class D design. It's a normal linear amp.

5) Fidelity. Good. If you set the bass all the way up and the treble and midrange at about 10 to 20% (close to all the way down), the amp itself is reasonably flat from about 100 Hz to over 20 kHz. But it rolls off a lot below that. 20 Hz signals fed to it appeared to be maybe 20 dB down - and it doesn't sound anything like my home receiver and EPI speakers on music recordings with lots of bass. In its defense - it is a guitar amp...

6) Effects. Has a basic reverb with up to a few hundred ms delay. Acts like a simple one-tap echo, which is fine. Both delay and "depth" adjustments work well. For what its worth, the reverb is implemented with a PT2399 integrated circuit which itself has good specs.

7) Imperfections and oddities. Yes, it has some. The hum is definitely there when the cord is not plugged into a guitar or mic. It might have been less had it been built with a three-prong plug and/or had better shielding. But nothing can prevent hum from a poorly shielded source. It may also squeal some, depending on how exposed the cable is. Kind of weird. I can understand the hum, but squeal is unexpected. But both went away when the source was plugged in (except for normal feedback issue when using a mic of course). The 3-band equalizer controls work reasonably well (especially on vocals), but are pretty strange in that the freq response is not flat at mid setting. The main strangeness though is that if you turn down all three controls, the sound stops! So there's some kind of parallel summing of the frequency bands being done I think, rather than the typical series processing found in entertainment amps.

In summary - the unit I got is loud and worked fine. The sound effects are not as refined or adjustable as something like a Fender amp - but you get somewhat higher wattage here and a reverb that is quite simple and effective. I actually wanted a simple amp and reverb, so I'm happy. (A fun thing to do is adjust the delay while the thing is echoing. It changes the clock frequency in the delay IC and this results in neat sounding frequency shifts :-)

Overall, I think this amp is worth the money. But consider the more refined Fender unit if you don't need 60 Watts and plan to play mostly guitar. For vocals, this one might be better. Personal taste to a large extent seems important in deciding either issue...