Any fans of the Blackstar HT series around here?
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SirJackdeFuzz
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Re: Any fans of the Blackstar HT series around here?
More people left both Vox & Marshall (so i was told) and started this accident, called Albion Amplification.
More people left both Vox & Marshall (so i was told) and started this accident, called Albion Amplification.
Rockstar216
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Re: Any fans of the Blackstar HT series around here?
Never heard of Albion.
Never heard of Albion.
SirJackdeFuzz
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Mad-Max
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Re: Any fans of the Blackstar HT series around here?
Why do I feel like this is a backwards way to market an amp? hmmm...
Why do I feel like this is a backwards way to market an amp? hmmm...
SirJackdeFuzz
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Re: Any fans of the Blackstar HT series around here?
Seriously - i tested three valve amps in this line, and they sound even more generic than the King Of Generic sounding amps, the 1st gen Peavey Valve King.
Seriously - i tested three valve amps in this line, and they sound even more generic than the King Of Generic sounding amps, the 1st gen Peavey Valve King.
Phantasmagoria
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Re: Any fans of the Blackstar HT series around here?
I've played the HT-5 & HT-20 & they're great for medium gain/80's/classic metal tones. Don't really care how they get their tone..they just sound pretty cool.
I've played the HT-5 & HT-20 & they're great for medium gain/80's/classic metal tones. Don't really care how they get their tone..they just sound pretty cool.
Empty Pockets
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I was not impressed and didn't really dig the Albion I played. Features that sound cool when you read them out loud to your friends, then you sit down with it and it's like... okay cool let's go back to the Orange, Vox and Fender section.
Like I said... Blackstars sound cool... concerns about clipping diodes are kind of funny to me... JCM800's and 900's used clipping diodes... People don't go ****ting their pants calling them "hybrid amps"... Lots of people just want an amp that does very clean cleans and very distorted distortion and the Blackstar HTs give you that at a price point that is hard to argue with...
People who are all "GRR **** CLIPPING DIODES IN THIS $500 AMP" should buy, you know, one of the numerous vintage amps you can easily buy for $500 every single day of the week if you know how to operate a web browser.
If you don't like the modern high-gain sound those diodes give you, you should buy a new amp from Jet City, or a newer Marshall DSL, or any one of a plethora of great-sounding, totally-useful tube amplifiers that the world is currently offering you.
If you WANT a great clean channel, a modern high-gain channel, and you don't want to spend a lot of money, a Blackstar HT is at least as good as the Marshall DSL or Peavey 6505 it's competing with.
But you should save your money and buy an Orange. Or something vintage. Or whatever the **** you want, who the **** cares, nobody is going to hear your ****ty music anyway. *******.
I was not impressed and didn't really dig the Albion I played. Features that sound cool when you read them out loud to your friends, then you sit down with it and it's like... okay cool let's go back to the Orange, Vox and Fender section.
Like I said... Blackstars sound cool... concerns about clipping diodes are kind of funny to me... JCM800's and 900's used clipping diodes... People don't go ****ting their pants calling them "hybrid amps"... Lots of people just want an amp that does very clean cleans and very distorted distortion and the Blackstar HTs give you that at a price point that is hard to argue with...
People who are all "GRR **** CLIPPING DIODES IN THIS $500 AMP" should buy, you know, one of the numerous vintage amps you can easily buy for $500 every single day of the week if you know how to operate a web browser.
If you don't like the modern high-gain sound those diodes give you, you should buy a new amp from Jet City, or a newer Marshall DSL, or any one of a plethora of great-sounding, totally-useful tube amplifiers that the world is currently offering you.
If you WANT a great clean channel, a modern high-gain channel, and you don't want to spend a lot of money, a Blackstar HT is at least as good as the Marshall DSL or Peavey 6505 it's competing with.
But you should save your money and buy an Orange. Or something vintage. Or whatever the **** you want, who the **** cares, nobody is going to hear your ****ty music anyway. *******.
Empty Pockets
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Re: Any fans of the Blackstar HT series around here?
I am a Marshall and Orange player. I do rehearse with an HT 20 Combo. 2 things I did that providing immediate improvement was to change that god awful Celestion 50 speaker and replace the tubes. I went with a WGS Invader with JJ's.
Clean Channel - Not Fender clean but very good when coupled with an EQ pedal. Cuts like a knife.
Dirty Channel - Modern voiced gain which rubs the vintage guys the wrong way. Has way more gain than one would ever need. I set my gain very low and will use an EQ or clean boost when needed. I am a hardcore tube guy but accept this amp with diodes as I use it for rehearsal and rarely gig with it. I am interested in the 20W Jet City so may sell this one to fund it.
I am a Marshall and Orange player. I do rehearse with an HT 20 Combo. 2 things I did that providing immediate improvement was to change that god awful Celestion 50 speaker and replace the tubes. I went with a WGS Invader with JJ's.
Clean Channel - Not Fender clean but very good when coupled with an EQ pedal. Cuts like a knife.
Dirty Channel - Modern voiced gain which rubs the vintage guys the wrong way. Has way more gain than one would ever need. I set my gain very low and will use an EQ or clean boost when needed. I am a hardcore tube guy but accept this amp with diodes as I use it for rehearsal and rarely gig with it. I am interested in the 20W Jet City so may sell this one to fund it.
IM4Tone
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Re: Any fans of the Blackstar HT series around here?
Yep, If there's a worse speaker than the Rocket 50, I haven't found it yet.
Drunken Bowling
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Re: Any fans of the Blackstar HT series around here?
I loved the HT5 at one point. However, the more I played through it, the more I craved a Mesa or a UK made Marshall.
I loved the HT5 at one point. However, the more I played through it, the more I craved a Mesa or a UK made Marshall.
Re: Any fans of the Blackstar HT series around here?
i had one for a short time. at first i thought it was awesome. then i didn't.
my issues were:
1. for a 40W amp, it was not loud at all. speaker efficiency is low, which is part of it. the clean channel was way louder than the gain channel, too, which also drove me nuts. i know this is common, but i think it's entirely counterproductive when you factor in the amount of compression on a gain channel...click from clean to gain and you just get lost.
2. tone control on the clean channel - i want at least bass, mid, treble. i didn't think it would be a problem for me, but it became one.
3. cocked wah tone in the drive section that was really difficult to un-hear once you hear it.
overall i thought the feature set and tones were ok, but i couldn't get over the above issues.
i had one for a short time. at first i thought it was awesome. then i didn't.
my issues were:
1. for a 40W amp, it was not loud at all. speaker efficiency is low, which is part of it. the clean channel was way louder than the gain channel, too, which also drove me nuts. i know this is common, but i think it's entirely counterproductive when you factor in the amount of compression on a gain channel...click from clean to gain and you just get lost.
2. tone control on the clean channel - i want at least bass, mid, treble. i didn't think it would be a problem for me, but it became one.
3. cocked wah tone in the drive section that was really difficult to un-hear once you hear it.
overall i thought the feature set and tones were ok, but i couldn't get over the above issues.
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Funkfingers
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Re: Any fans of the Blackstar HT series around here?
I still have my modified HT-5H and 110 cab mini stack. I go through phases of loving it then hating it. A NOS Mullard ECC83 improved matters. So did an Eminence loudspeaker. (Some of the Chinese components are seriously crappy.) The Emulated DI output is handy for domestic recording. Suits some guitars very much better than others.
I still have my modified HT-5H and 110 cab mini stack. I go through phases of loving it then hating it. A NOS Mullard ECC83 improved matters. So did an Eminence loudspeaker. (Some of the Chinese components are seriously crappy.) The Emulated DI output is handy for domestic recording. Suits some guitars very much better than others.
Rockstar216
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Re: Any fans of the Blackstar HT series around here?
Number two and three I could believe that but number one just doesn't sound right. I can make my clean channel louder if I want it that way but the Gain channel can get very loud. Mine is able to keep up with a 50 watt half stack and not break a sweat.
Number two and three I could believe that but number one just doesn't sound right. I can make my clean channel louder if I want it that way but the Gain channel can get very loud. Mine is able to keep up with a 50 watt half stack and not break a sweat.
Re: Any fans of the Blackstar HT series around here?
interesting...there's no way my ht40 would keep up with my mesa F30 or my classic 30, for that matter. i didn't have any issues with the amp, functionally, but maybe there was a tube issue that i didn't know about...i did some tube rolling, too...
if the gain channel on yours is loud enough to hang, you must have gotten a good one!
imho there are far better amps in the same price range, especially if looking at used stuff.
just my .02.
interesting...there's no way my ht40 would keep up with my mesa F30 or my classic 30, for that matter. i didn't have any issues with the amp, functionally, but maybe there was a tube issue that i didn't know about...i did some tube rolling, too...
if the gain channel on yours is loud enough to hang, you must have gotten a good one!
imho there are far better amps in the same price range, especially if looking at used stuff.
just my .02.
Inder_Cine_Mann
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Re: Any fans of the Blackstar HT series around here?
I have played the HT60w 1x12, 2x12, and HT5 and hated em. Couldn't get the gain to sound right. It always sounded off.
That being said, some of the sounds that other people get out of Blackstars, sound killer.
I have played the HT60w 1x12, 2x12, and HT5 and hated em. Couldn't get the gain to sound right. It always sounded off.
That being said, some of the sounds that other people get out of Blackstars, sound killer.
