What a great looking and sounding head and cab. We’re pretty blessed as musicians this day and age with all the great products we have available to us.
I don't consider myself a "fanboy" but Blackstar are magnificent ba****ds for sure. I have 6 amps, and 3 are Blackstar....and now I'm about to make that 7/4.
I'm currently 5/4 and I must admit the Studio 10 series and this would tempt me to add 4 more if I could afford it. I'm guessing there will be a 6L6 HT Metal 20 as well which I'm sure will also be tempting.
I've been on my live tone search for about 5 years and I keep coming back to Blackstar. I've tried Marshall, Mesa, EVH, Peavey etc but I've come back to a stereo Series One setup (45 212 and 10AE 112 ). Nothing else has had the same amount of body without sounding boomy. This sounds awesome though too.
This Blackstar sounds great and Chapman played it properly to show off the unique tones of the amp. Quite a bit different, boutique-ee with guts. Useful. Well done all!
HT - high tension was the old term for high voltage, particularly the plate supply in valve amp schematics was labelled H/T.... in Britain, anyway. I think in the US it was B+.
9:38 into this video and I'm fairly certain that after years of searching, I believe I've found THE amp. Its got pristine, beautiful cleans and enough versatility within a very controlled and precise overdrive to give me everything. Anyone who owns one of these beauties, please share any extra knowledge or warnings you may have with me
Just purchased one of these awesome for blues and rock.Even in 2watt mode lucky to hit 25% on the master volume in the house.God knows what 20watts sounds like full hammer.Dont think the house would survive. Great amp well done blackstar.Love it yee haa.
Just got a Fly 3 setup for Christmas It sounds great for its size, whether you use one or both speakers; and running my laptop through the speakers is excellent too.
Excellent video as always! Also, would it be possible to make a video loudness comparison between a 20 or 40 watt solid state amp vs a 5 or 20 watt tube/valve amp? Would like to see a side by side comparison between the two types of amps on their loudness (and other features such as clarity and tone etc). Thanks!
Guys, HT is for "Hybryd Technology" for they use diodes for more clipping stages in the Drive section (like the Marshall JCM800 2210 or the JCM600 or the JCM900 High Gain & Dual Reverb)
I don't hear a tonal difference when switching the power section and the emulated out sounds really good. Really nice looking, too. Great job Blackstar!
The most important quality an amp must have is a pleasing clean sound. There are many ways to achieve distortion,but the first step is a good clean sound .This is where Blackstar amps are missing something.The low strings lack girth and presence,and the overall effect is somehow artificial and thin compared to the premier clean amps like Fender Twin and Dual Showman,and the original HiWatts.Even the Music Man amps with hybrid preamps had a superior clean tone to the supposed all tube Blackstar (bit of a misnomer).They have all the bells and whistles and no beef.
The Blackstar Infinite Shape Feature (ISF), on the one side it's meant to be a British sound, the other, all American, in between is obviously a mix of the two. IMHO, Blacktar's HT Stage 100 can't be beaten (for us mere mortals, living on a living wage) and can be picked up second hand for a quite reasonable price. It's 7 valve monster and you can get any sound you like with it.
I love that amp, Blackstar is consistently producing great evolutions of the amp! Banana’s are fruits, banana plant (tree) is a herb (leaf stalk “stem”), watermelon is the fruit with seeds inside and a member of the gourd plant family. Rob is funny, I hope it’s because he’s stoned!
The footswitch voice control is the one thing that I thought was missing from my 1st gen venue 40. The vintage clean channel is absolutely great to abuse with a boost/drive pedal.
Ooh I like this a lot. I didn't already have a peavey classic 20 mostly filling this spot in my collection I would be very tempted. It did sound a lot better with the humbuckers though.
No matter what the guitar is, in Rob‘s hands everything feels like a RG, even if it is al Tele. When he picks up the Ghost Fret, I can hear crackling. Did you hear this from the amp or is it just the recording?
I am a combo guy. So between the HT 20 Blackstar or the DSL 20 watt combo. I will be getting the Blackstar HT 20. Which I think sounds so much better both clean and overdrive sounds. Just M.O.
The head sounds more "neutral" than the MKI version. The MKI had an arguably weird 'cocked wah' tone. I sold my MKI but would consider this MKII for sure.
How's the production quality compared to the original HT series? I have an early HT60 soloist 1x12 that has genuinely spent more time being repaired than it has being played. Sounds great when it works though tbf
Great explanation of the ISF feature using Prince Harry and bride. Now I'll never be able to get that image out of my mind when I look at my LT Dual pedal.
Ok, cool video as always, but what do you think of this amp next to the original HT20 ? I have the first version of the HT20 Head with a Blackstar Cabinet, and I would like to know the main upgrades between the old version and this one ? Thank you !
nah, only if its like a small to posssibly medium small coffee shop with maybe 20 to 40 people, obviously more if you have it with a mic on the cab, its designed for small gigs or practices otherwise. Though if you wanted, you could plug the di into the house system.
Chappers, watermelon is a fruit, just like you! It has internal seeds...just like apples, oranges, grapes, cherries, squashes, tomatoes, peppers, etc...
One of the new super duper top secrets things is a Mk II HT-5, right? Surely, it's the only HT model that hasn't been given a makeover now that the HT-20's been reincarnated!
My ht 20 is kind of fizzy and it's the old combo with the controls on the front. These ht 20s sound better but they are still fizzy just like the original ht 20. The clean tone is a bit brighter and less muddy. The overdrive channel is less muddy and is also brighter but still fizzy. EL34s don't really shine until they are put in a 40-watt or more power section.
The Celestion Seventy 80s in that cab are lame. I had them both in a Marshall MX212AR and a Blackstar HT Club 40 MK II. I regret selling my Blackstar combo; all it really needed was a speaker upgrade.
They list it coming with a Celestion 70 but it comes w a Blackstar designed speaker , I find the old 20 was bigger and better this is like a hybrid 5 watt the dirty is voiced very well a speaker upgrade should help
