Blackstar ID:CORE V4 - Snazzy New Upgrades For One Of The Greatest Small Amps Around!

[@jamesoglover]

Anyone else here to enjoy Dagan's indulgences, and see the amp demo as a bonus? Rock on!

[@JudgeFredd]

More than enough for my playing level ! No need more.

[@Rocktalk101]

I own the !.D core suger skull 10 and the I.D. core 20 V3 and they are amazing amps and sound amazing such great practice amps!

[@danloki78]

Went into pmt Romford to buy a katana mini, tried it was horrendous buzzing, gain noise on quite. Tried the v4 and for a bit more y get more and a nice 1w mode which for me is ideal As a returning player and somone who has had a blackstar cab and head, this is now perfect for me.

[@pablotope3070]

There's room for both for sure- I can't just can't crank a full 100 watt tube amp at home so I second the notion for a lower watt practice solition at home.

[@alexdenton6586]

I just bought it and can't wait to get it in the mail. These kinds of modeling amps are perfect because they have a headphone output that I can connect to my big JBL PartyBox 310. And an amp that is already excellent becomes absolutely incredible when connected to the right speaker system. When I feel like it and want to play with something light, I can unplug it and use the amp alone. And the Blackstar Architect software is really excellent-intuitive, well-designed where it needs to be, simple, and so on. I still keep a tube amp with a 2x12 cab for when I want to change things up and need a big, full sound, but I stick with modeling amps because there's no need for big amps nowadays. I even have the little Positive Grid Spark Go.

[@moinm007]

exactly where i am now. can't wait

[@alexdenton6586]

@@moinm007 what amp you bought ?

[@moinm007]

@@alexdenton6586 id core 10 v4

[@moinm007]

@@alexdenton6586 id core 10 v4

[@moinm007]

@@alexdenton6586 id core 10 v4

[@iloveaviation-burgerclub-a8145]

Well, here is some kinda different perspective. I am used to rigs and huge tube amps. But i wanted to have an outdoor off grid amp that does a moderate sound and is portable. So I ended up with the 10W Core v4. I opened it, put in some AGM 7,2Ah battery, two voltage regulators delivering 10V for the amp and 2x 9V for auxillary supply to plug in a looper and a pedal board. I simply exchanged the back handle to a plate with 2x 5,5x2,1 sockets, a socket for charging and a main switch for the battery. I can just p,ug in the adapter to play delivered with the amp (it is a switching socket already installed!), 10h or more on battery, can charge it while using the adapter, can use my complete pedal stomper board out in the green and thanks to wireless modules no cable but a little one for 9V supply involved. Well, doing this guitar stuff since 1992 and if one gave me this in the 90s I'd have thought aliens built this when I was messing around with a Huges&Kettner Attax 80 Trebble machine 😂. This is sure no amp for serious rehersal in a band room or going life. I mean, well, look at it. But for this use it is absolutely brilliant. It has now an added BlueTooth module to just use it as speaker or play along with music. The ID core v4 10w is nice but somehow I made it genius. You can just put it in the green and fire up some crowd. And no roaie or big eletric mess involved. I love it. Edit. It takes as well my electric axe but also works pretty amazing with my travelling axe accoustic with micpic. Sure, for a plaing pleasure and a stomach massaging tone a Diezl is better than that. But as always with any product it depends on what you use it for. You don't want to play a Diezl at 4x12 on good sounding levels while your family is watching TV I bet... or carry this one with you daily in your RV. And to drop it in the sand and dirt at the lake you won't be smart buying a Katana everybody is hyping.

[@Eyewitnesslife]

Fantastic video Dagan. How would you compare the 40 to the Katana or Catalyst?

[@jamescreswell9037]

Dagan probably won't get around to answering you, so from an owner and user, those amps are in a totally different price and purpose category. This is a superlative feature laden home studio practice amp at a killer price point which doesn't pretend to be anything else.

[@anthonyangelis1094]

👍👍❤️❤️🎸🎸yes!!!! LOVE ID CORE AMPS! V4 is here!!

[@anthonyangelis1094]

Love your new guitar!

[@arnabchakraborty7188]

Does Fender Mustang LT25 has this feature like blackstar ,where I can plug the amp to my phone and use the camera app to record guitar audio and video at the same time?

[@PeterMossUkulele]

Great video - Thanks. One question I have please? With the mod/delay/Rev can you have all 3 running simultaneously like the Katana? - The reason for asking was I almost purchased a Line 6 Catalyst and although it appears to have quite a range of effects, it appears you can only have one of them running at once. Pls correct me if I'm wrong. Thanks.

[@jamescreswell9037]

Yes you can. From 4 of each type (12 effects in total), you can select 3 different type effects simultaneously. 1 from Modulation, 1 from Delay. 1 From Reverb.

[@PeterMossUkulele]

Just what I wanted to hear - Thank you so much. I subscribed to you today. @@jamescreswell9037

[@manelalentorn]

ID core v4 40 or Boss katana MKii 50? Great playing as always! And great video too!

[@johnlcyborg]

ID Core is better for playing/recording at home. Boss Katana is better for live playing.

[@jamesneville441]

Amazing video as always dude. Wonder if it's worth trading in my V2

[@jamescreswell9037]

Depends if you want full Architect featureset access. Not sure where the V2 sits in that regard, although like my V1 I think its DSP hardware hails from the Insider featureset era. It's totally compatible with Architect, but Architect featureset limited. Because I use my ID:Core 40 so much, I picked up a second in a V3 about 18 months ago at a too good to refuse price predominantly out of curiosity AND for full Architect featureset availability. It has a different DSP to V1. Whether the new features and access to all the features of Architect upgrading from the V2 are worth it to you is the answer to your question. They aren't to me from V3, or V1 for all practical purposes. I still use my V1 (& V3) almost every day as my preferred studio/home practice amps.

[@Lolyeah283]

What are the new features (except 1 watt mode) from its predecessor?

[@bjornvanoijen3290]

Still happy with your new guitar?

[@owenraymond5243]

Hey Dagan and PMT along with a new electric guitar, I have just brought this amp! However my cable isn't all that snug, is there any cable you would recommend?

[@bungobaorfeo8397]

Whats the difference between v3 and v4?

[@Mr.Sister]

USB-C, power soak, and from what I can tell from some comparison videos, some of the channels have been revoiced, which you may or may not like.

[@kawai922]

Hey whats the new pickups on the iceman?

[@DaganWilkin]

A vintage Bill Lawrence L500XL 👍

[@DaganWilkin]

The neck pickup is stock. The bridge sounds amazing stock, but for what I’m gonna use it for it needed a bit more bite!

[@Mitch-6-Strings]

How does the base sound on this when connected to you phone / Tv?

[@briantate692]

That iceman suits you bud

[@keithgreener1272]

What is the riff you’re playing at the start?

[@derekjohnson5720]

All the valve snobs 😂😂 I've owned both valve and digital amps. Vox ac 15, Marshall dsl 40cr, Fender blues jnr, Boss Katana 100mk2, Blackstar Silverline 100w. If your a bedroom player and wanting a amp for in the house go with a Katana or Silverline. Valve amps sound amazing when cranked but no good for the neighbours. Playing clean either sounds epic. Cranked digital amps still sound good but not as good as valve. You can hear it's a processed sound and often fizzy when cranked. Here's the thing though. When your doing a gig your audience dosent give a flying fuck about what amp your using, what brand it is, if it valve or ss. They dont even give a shit about what guitar your playing. They just want to hear use perform and have a right good time a good dance and singalong. I currently have a Katana mk2 100. Can jam away in the house without upsetting the neighbours and take it to gig with. No need for any pedals or nonsense just my footswitch and saved patches. I once sent a vid to my pal of me jamming a new song I'd written on my guitar through a Katana the day i bought it(he didn't know i had it). He replied that tune sounds mint bud, we will have to turn that into a song for the band. Your Dsl sounds sweet what pedal where you using. When I txt him it was a Katana on the crunch channel, I got a Katana. He came straight over to my house for a shot and was blown away. He actually thought i was using my dsl 40 and he us a valve head 😂😂😂

[@millermonsterair]

i think guitar amps sound like crap for anything other than guitars. even the spark 40, i think sounds HORRIBLE when im using it as a bluetooth speaker for youtube or whatever, but sounds good for its size as a guitar amp. same thing with all the modeling amps that i have come acorss. heck, even the Joyo Bantamps hooked up to a 1x12, 2x12 or 4x12 sounds TERRIBLE when im using it to run music through on youtube, or wherever, but they sound INCREDIBLE for the money as a guitar amp... i dont think there will ever be an amp that sounds good as a guitar amp and as a bluetooth speaker or whatever, to just listen to music or movies through. i do not think itll ever be possible..... the spark 40 isnt as bad as it used to be, but its still not good. even when i use my marshall as50d and plug mp3 into it too, so i can jam along, the mp3 sounds absolutely atrocious, but as far as guitar, it sounds freaking amazing and is by far the best sounding acoustic guitar amp i have EVER heard and i am SO happy i snagged one new before they stopped making them.

[@jamescreswell9037]

Have you actually tried the ID:Cores for this? They have FULL RANGE x2 STEREO speakers which makes all the difference when listening to music. Unfortunately that same technical config is also responsible for the hiss many complain about when turned on with the volume high with a guitar plugged in but inactive. As a 40W practice amp it doesn't bother me as you can't hear it when playing, and the room filling full wide stereo sound in a practice amp is the pro for that con. But it's there on voicings with the noisegate turned off by default, which is all other than OD1 & OD2.

[@millermonsterair]

@@jamescreswell9037 yes. i have. imo, it sounds like GARBAGE for that.. they do, however, sound AMAZING as guitar amps, for the money and you get some cool features with them too.

[@yeoldefoxeh254]

Not worth the upped price for the tiny new things compared to v3.

[@crappyfellow]

What does the footswitch control?

[@TomClarkSouthLondon]

It scroll the sound effects

[@raphael5f547]

does anyone have any idea how it fares compared to the v3 ????? im looking to buy but im on a budget. the v3 is almost 5k (inr that would be about 50~60 usd) cheaper than v4. should i get it or is the v4 really just better

[@doctorwithaguitar4895]

Hey bro. Did u buy it? I am looking for options to buy a guitar amp. This would be my first every electric guitar and amp combo

[@raphael5f547]

​@@doctorwithaguitar4895 yeah I bought the V4 as the v3 ran out of stock. It's a pretty good combo amp if you ask me with the usb connectivity and the software experience. I too am pretty much new to the electric guitar scene but to me , personally it sounds really good. I would recommend you to get it.

[@michaelwisnewski]

class D? bugera 5w class A is less than $200

[@BillyBlaze7]

got mine for $130. woohoo

[@jaladorpescador]

No me gusta porque el tono solo lo puedes modificar conectándolo a Windows y mac y no para android

[@dansmith543]

I just wish Blackstar would release a new amp rather than keep releasing versions of the same amp, still no Bluetooth for streaming music?. You can get the nux mighty air for the same price as the 10watt version which blows this away, has stereo speakers, wireless receiver, Bluetooth, phone app for editing. I just think Blackstar are way behind with the times.

[@jamescreswell9037]

When you have a successful working wheel, why reinvent it? I'd suggest Blackstar marketing have done their homework, and determined BT is low on the list of the average person's must haves. It'd probably be easily enough implemented in the ID:Cores technically, but increase the price in what is already a cut-throat competitive amplifier segment. Low latency BT can be added to the amp through a multitude of third party devices plugged into the port. I've done it. Cable will always be more reliable and superior, and of course the latest iterations (V3 &V4) support TRRS. ID:Core as is sits fine with me. I've bought two over the past 6 years, which of course works for Blackstar as a brand associative loss leader as among others (a couple of Fenders) it has incited me to buy two large Blackstar combos as well as a couple of Fly 3s during that time as well.

[@MrDeBisschop]

You have the ID:BEAM and fly 3 for that. Fly 3 now has a charge version with battery

[@geraldkeating7997]

Can no one play guitar today without distortion on 12, what is wrong with playing music today, I am sure some of these reviewers could have the talent to play some decent songs.

[@TheSoundofForgetting]

Digital amps will never replace valve/Tube amps! They can throw all the built in effects they want but they will never sound like a Valve/Tube! I don’t know what it is about this generation and everything digital… they have no idea what they are losing and will in time.

[@timjenkins502]

But they are replacing them, in a mix and live settings you cannot tell nor nobody cares, its just the way it is

[@PMTVUK]

They're not made to replace them, they're made to live as an 'all in one' portable amp solution alongside them. Blackstar and other amp makers are still cranking out tonnes of awesome full valve amps, they aren't going anywhere soon! 🤘

[@jessetate9701]

Tube amps needs to go down in price pushing out a 999. For the new Blackstar 40clube or 1200 for the st James is crazy why not make them 30 bucks

[@jimmcdougall9973]

RIP Van Winkel. While you were sleeping digital replaced tube amps over ten years ago. Guitarists are starting to walk a lot straighter, not have to lug around 100 watt stacks. I own tube amps, but they are gathering dust. I also own a Helix, a Kemper, a Quad Cortex and a Fractal unit. Kemper’s Liquid Profiling and the Kemper Kab makes them my favourite and indistinguishable from a tube amp, and how long have Kemper been around?

[@BrandonEht]

I have a Marshall SC20 head (JCM 800) and it sounds fucking awesome! But it’s way too loud to play at home. Thank god for this era of great sounding digital gear