![]() (The company was founded by former Marshall R&D alum Ian Robinson and Bruce Keir, along with a handful of their colleagues.) And controlling the Blackstar is somewhat reminiscent of controlling classic Marshalls as opposed to today's fancier ones. Blackstar's front panel seems to be built by guitar players with a similar mindset. In the throes of sweaty onstage inspiration, the last thing I want to do is count knobs or worse, study the front panel of a complicated combo before tweaking something that I feel needs it. ![]() Still, I would much rather carry my footswitch and power cable in my gig bag then deal with the flabbiness that can occur with open backs at low and medium output levels. ![]() The speaker portion of the amp is essentially a sealed cabinet, giving the amp lots of focus and spank, and a tightly controlled bottom-end that may border on too tight at lower volumes. The Light/Dark switch turns on or off the reverb's high frequency damping, and a single knob on the front panel controls the reverb amount. The back panel also has a Light/Dark switch for the amp's digital reverb, which, in my mind, is the right place for such a feature. The amp also worked fine with my standard two-channel footswitch-one switch managed the amp's two channels, the other, reverb on/off. There is also a footswitch jack and included two-button footswitch. On the back side you'll find the usual complement of jacks, including an FX Loop with a +4/-10 dbv switch, speaker-emulated output, and three powered speaker outs: 16 Ohm for the internal Celestion or an external 16 Ohm cab, and two additional powered outs that can be used with a single 8 Ohm cab (without the internal speaker), two 16 Ohm cabs, or one external 16 Ohm cab along with the internal 16 Ohm speaker. A 12" Celestion lies under the black and white grille. The black Tolex is tight and thick for road use the external hardware is likewise rugged, giving the amp a somewhat vintage look. The amp feels and looks rugged and road-ready. Plug in your guitar and tweak a few knobs, and you quickly realize that the Blackstar HT Club 40 is much, much more. Powered by two ECC83 and two E元4 tubes, it is, by appearances and a glance at the data sheet, your standard mid-range valve combo minus the digital doodads amp makers tend to stuff into products at this price point. ![]() Of the Venue series, Blackstar sent us the HT Club 40 for review. For a small company, their product line is fairly diverse-products range from their hand-crafted Artisan Series, the big and bold Series One amplifiers and their highly popular (at least in Europe) and somewhat pricey HT tube pedals to their affordable, but feature-rich, HT Venue series combo amps. UK-based Blackstar Amplification has been making big, loud waves with their recent entry into the US market. Download Example 4 Ch1 ClassA/B Tone rolloffĭownload Example 5 Ch1 ClassA/B Tone 12 o'clockĭownload Example 6 Ch2 ISF 12 o' clock gain 3 o'clockĭownload Example 7 Ch2 ISF 12 o' clock gain 3 o'clock (neck HB)ĭownload Example 9 Ch2 ISF full UK gain 3'oclockĭownload Example 10 Ch2 ISF full USA gain 3'oclockĬlips recorded with Ibanez Saber, mic'd with Shure SM57 into Cubase 5 ![]()
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