I bought the Fortin 'Sigil' lunch box head years ago. It's a great sounding little amp, to my ear as good or better than the other lunch box style amps out there. A few months later, I saw a bunch of posts about when you put the amp in 'Standby' mode, you can still hear guitar signal coming thru. Went out and tested mine. Yeah, with my guitar volume full open, you can faintly hear a tiny bit of signal trying to eeek thru. Roll the guitars volume down to halfway or lower,,,nothing, quite as a church mouse. Some people here were bashing the build quality, Fortin quality control is slipping, and the like. I just didn't get it. The amp was $1200 if I remember. Yes, a little pricey, but mine sounded very good, gobs of high gain on channel 2, and a very useable semi-broken up tone when dime-ing channel 1's volume and using its Gain knob as volume. Fx loop very transparent. For a very small lunchbox amp, I thought it was very good.
Anyway, maybe I got a good one, not sure. I guess being able to hear any guitar signal at all when the amp is on standby is a deal breaker for some. I just didn't get it. It's a great grab and go little high gain amp. Can't speak for anything else Fortin really, just the Sigil. Mines a keeper.
