Yeah tell me about it, when I plugged in my phone for the first time yesterday, made me jump! A few swears words came out. When I get a chance I will see if it gets loud enough to be used in a band setting as a monitor. Earlier during practice, I used my drop pedal down to BEAD, the Vox handled it really well. I quite like the overall tones out of it, definitely warm tube tones, which is what it was designed for.