Blackstar's new FLAGSHIP High Gain Amplifier is.....

[@UseTheSupeRsonic]

Always had mad respect and love for the Series One. I had the 100watter in 2020 and it did phenomenal modded Marshall tones on Super Crunch and Soldano style tones on OD1/2. Highly recommended amps

[@supersonicnomad8437]

Bro. That was THEE SICKEST intro I think I've ever heard! Damn! I've had a few Blackstars, a Club 40, ID core 10 & 20 watters. But nothing of this level. I'd REALLY like to have this head. It's the tone I've been looking for. Brutalize on! \m/

[@27retrodaze]

Leave my grandma's bank acct alone... Ill never leave a video before its over ever again... 😂 Nice work, KB. I really love the look of it. Simple, yet metal af.

[@Edika12]

First of all, this sounds great. Nice mid gain sounds and really aggressive metal sounds. At least on the recording, it seems it'll cut through well while sounding big! I had the Series One 200. It had a lot of gain but not much saturation na compression. The low end was fuzzy and boosts helped but not that much. The crunch channel has a super crunch mode that actually sounded better for metal that OD1 and 2. I now have the S1 1046L6 which is the MKI 6L6 model. It sounds a lot better than the S1 200 for metal. The Super Crunch mode has even more gain. And while I like the OD1 and 2 better, the Super Crunch still sounds better for rhythm. OD1 and 2 are also more fussy with guitars and pickups, while the Super Crunch is less picky. Great amp that can cover a lot of ground. If the MKII gets more popular, it'll be interesting to see a comparison with the S1 1046l6 to hear the differences!

[@ItalianAvalanche]

Blackstar Series One is a sick amp. I’ve been using one in metallic hardcore band and it sounds sick and has great features. The DPR is really clutch when the sound tech wants you to lower your volume. The selectable impedance is very nice. Overall a great modern amp with well-executed modern features.

[@blakeanderson7906]

I have never played a blackstar and i have heard so many people say that blackstar is crap but this doesn't sound that bad. I don't know shit, so who knows, but i would rock it.

[@JohnWiku]

Definitely sounds less crappy than it ever did 😂😂😂

[@CalanReichel]

they break and are near impossible to fix. They have always sounded ok

[@belligerentamateur]

Luckily this one has a double sided pcb and can actually be repaired!

[@joefh1985]

I’ve played a few at rehearsal spaces, and seen local bands that used them and I’ve always thought they sounded pretty decent, so I don’t think your ears are ‘wrong’. I can’t speak to the reliability issues, but they are worth trying out.

[@jamesrouse3466]

My Blackstar HT Venue Stage 60 Mk II 2×12 combo sounds pretty decent, but it certainly can't hold a candle to my ENGL Fireball 100 half stack. On another note, Kyle should definitely demo the new Blackstar St. James 100 for us. The price tag has me shook, though... $2,499.99 for the 2×12 combo and $1899.99 for the head... that puts it withing range of a new ENGL Fireball 100 head and a new Mesa Dual Rectifier head.

[@redtwox9708]

Diggin' the "Totally Not Poison's Fallen Angel" riff. Good stuff. Thanks for the review.

[@mikekashouty516]

I thought I was the only one who ever knew 🤣

[@The_Bass_Stunters]

I’m have an old school Blackstar HT100 had it completely gone through with all Tung Sol EL34 and 12AX7s and BRO!!!!! I get every tone you can imagine!! Amazing amp!!! Not sure why they get hate?

[@chrisdover8507]

This sounds like it would record really well. Need one for studio I reckon.

[@krustdogg131]

This amp does nu metal very well, but actually really like the openness on the crunch channel with heritage. Also that intro riff was killer

[@signal_rr]

Sounds pretty good!

[@s.e.n3264]

All my grandparents are already dead. But I'm staying anyway because I live for the Belligerence!

[@patrickshannon4516]

WOW that sounds really good has a ton of gain...

[@Qwik14]

Compare it with the HT Stage 100 MK3

[@1thess523]

I got a HT 50Mkii, it's nice and tight with my Tele and an OD pedal but with my Epiphone Les Paul Standard with a DiMarzio Super Distortion Bridge it's kinda thick. I play skate and pop punk so I don't need belligerent gain but I do like a tight sounding amp, just saw a demo on the Walrus Fundamental Drive and I think that might help from the demos I've seen.

[@PhyrestorM13]

"Brutalize it with my belligerently bad guitar playing" you crack me up Kyle 😂

[@davidscafidi]

sounds rad right off the bat

[@CosmicDiamond999]

Intro tone was pretty dope.

[@RedCGhost]

HT5 was my first tube amp technically, as im older now I dont really gel with it but i keep it for nostalgia, definitely dark and the mids are in an odd spot

[@resington]

When the plugin is out I'll try that.

[@cblizard6850]

I like blackstar

[@TheOtherJohnBrowne]

This looks like a sick amp! Wouldn't mind having one of those

[@personalacc290]

After hearing a Coheed riff, this became my favorite guitar channel.

[@Smittz]

Was thinking about getting a 27" Balaguer made, do you like them? How do they compare from any other $1500-3000 american made guitar?

[@Creature1009]

I have one, it’s on par with Ibanez prestige, high end Jackson concept series guitars. Very high quality and even their proprietary pickups sound awesome

[@neighbourhoodmusician]

I love Series One amps. They're ludicrously cheap on the used market (like $300) but totally awesome for any kind of hard rock/metal stuff. I've had several over the years. The thing is, with this new one, I honestly can't see what they've changed, like at all. It's a lot of money for a nebulously 'revoiced' preamp section. Especially when Blackstar refuses to actually say what these circuit tweaks are or do.

[@MysticArchmage]

Not a fan of the sound TBH. I would pick a used 5150 / 6505 any day.

[@maraudermusic2714]

The black EX guitar for Drop C, what guitar is that!?? Love that thing!

[@jszot1985]

Those are some crunchy mids.. spicy 🔥

[@TheTwistedChristian]

I love it! I'm gonna have to add it to my wish list, which has 3,842 items in it. lol

[@travisschuster4676]

When I saw the descendants a few months back Steve edgerton was using a series one. The original one. And I think the other time I saw him he was using a 100 watt HT.

[@off6848]

The drop C black explorer sound reminds me of old In Flames

[@BaritoneGoatStudio]

I thought the St. James 6L6 was a pretty solid amp when I had it. They have 100 watt version now. This one sounds similar to the 2nd gain channel on that. I think Blackstar amps do well with boost pedals and they have dialed in the mix of SS clipping circuits and tubes in their preamps. The pedigree of Marshall amps coming through and seeming to improve upon what is available from Marshall these days.

[@KHGuitarFreak1988]

Not sure why, but it reminds me quite a bit of the ENGL E530 preamp tones :D

[@1Thess312]

I just checked at Blackstar's website & they've issued a recall on some amps

[@samizdat113]

Miss you Gam Gam 😢

[@TheToecutter69]

New St.James model also. Would like you to review that too👍 🤘🏼🤘🏼

[@doctoribanez]

Sounds great

[@SenseiKreese]

Do the new St James 100w. Test out the reactive load and cab sim in it, dying to know what it's like, considering it.

[@GabrielMateo-rb8mf]

The marshall cab with the greenbacks sound so punch more muddy and ooze

[@scotttower5115]

I'm always curious as to what the amplifier sounds like with the 412 it was designed and voiced for. Does blackstar make a 4x12 for this model? And by the way the Mesa makes everything sound good lol in my humble opinion

[@timmattisson1318]

nice All out war riff at 15:00

[@TheZombiedna]

Grandma said that 50 bucks was for my christmas present of socks and underwear.... how dare you!!!!

[@DeeplySceptical]

I had a Series One 100 and also the 200 watt version but couldn't warm up to them. I thought they were anaemic and lacked depth. The recordings in this video tells me it's still the case. The other issue is build quality and resell value. For the price these things command new, they're just not on the level in my opinion.

[@saltpeter7429]

I have an HT club 40 mark 1. I bought it used about a year ago. The stock speaker wasnt that hot so I put a celestion gk-75 in it. So far so good. The negative I have read online concerns the nature of repairs. Apparently they are not tech friendly? This is the general consensus concerning the ht series as I recall. So I will rock it until it burns out.

[@brettphillips2309]

I like blackstar sound. What I don’t like is the dependability and customer service on blackstars end. I have the new Blackstar mkiii and got it in March or April this year from samash and it has problems already. And it doesn’t have heavy usage. Just home jamming. That leads me to the next thing I don’t like about blackstar. Contacted them about my amp and they got back to me weeks later and told me to take it to a korg authorized repair shop and that’s nowhere near me. I’d have to ship it to them and that’s nowhere near would costs 100s of dollars. So my amp is under warranty but I can’t get it fixed or looked at because I can’t afford to get it to a place to be fixed . Now I had a prs mt 15 and it had problems and prs paid for shipping there and back and fixed it in a day. So there’s that.

[@LateNightYinzer]

What kind of problems? Is it solved just by swapping tubes? Could be a simple fix if it's just crappy tubes.

[@brettphillips2309]

@ if I plug anything into the effects loop, I will lose sound completely. Also when I am playing an not using the effects loop, the front power lights will act like it’s powering down and volume will drop and then it goes back to normal. And now the amp has a lot noise also now. And it should be having these issues. It’s less than a year old and really doesn’t have that much playing time on it.

[@LateNightYinzer]

@@brettphillips2309 Oh.. That could be a lot of things..

[@TheDeedeeFiles]

Awesome

[@brucegasiorowski8957]

I was like…is this one sped up????

[@totalbullion5882]

Sounds sick but so does the price 😂

[@samizdat113]

The emulated output is yuck. But a decent sound guy can help it out with EQ.

[@shawnbeaghan9809]

The old S104 models sound better than the S100 model.

[@Simple5.0]

I like the ht line more. I don’t like any part of this amp and I thought I would love it.

[@bread6085]

Still don’t get the hate for blackstar they sound great based off what I’ve tried/heard

[@Folk661]

Sounds great. Very JvM esq

[@mazklassa9338]

There's something almost too tame about the gain structure of this attractive looking chassis. Like there's too much compression across the frequencies. 🤔

[@samizdat113]

@9:20 Hell yeah

[@samizdat113]

EMG 81 > everything else

[@21stcenturymetal31]

Heard nato was looking for a signal (mos). I think you might qualify

[@mikekashouty516]

What does fluff think? 👀

[@RyanCowley_]

Does anyone know who makes that matte black swamp ash explorer?

[@patriknessboLemoran]

this or mesa roadster?

[@riverstone5994]

I’d be keen on this as a cheaper alternative to the mainstream amps but it’s more $$ than like an orange or something lol wth

[@Bsaunders17]

Eh. Sounds pretty good but I’m not buying it for $2k. You can get a brand new rockerverb 100 or any other amp that isn’t slapped together in china next to amps that are sold on temu for like 300 more dollars.

[@Bret_Sanor]

My tech won't even work on a Blackstar because they're built so cheaply. They are junk. When he is not building/repairing amps he's touring. He knows what is good. Just a word of caution for anyone who is considering buying one.

[@samizdat113]

Shouldn't it be an International Shaping Filter? It's not really infinite.

[@bryanburke500]

Ehh,..For 2k? I'll take my PRS Archon 50 mkii for 1k all day long, but thats just me.

[@chopperdeath]

Who needs 200 watts?

[@GregSobek]

First! Great amp!

[@andrewbecker3700]

I think you should build yourself an OZZY like throne to sit in/on, that looks like a massive grain of salt. That way you don't have to keep saying it every episode. Everyone will know where your coming from. Ha, ha! Best gimmick yet. Pay me later. Peace!

[@off6848]

So a clear cube?

[@ronnywebster7391]

My grandma's dead, so it's not like she needs the money

[@BR-kj3fp]

Gonna be a no dawg for me dog. Where’s the bass?

[@putontheseglasses8809]

My dead grandma has a bank account?

[@JamesRussle365]

Didnt hear a single difference with the different pickups. Only heard a difference with the Marshall.

[@belligerentamateur]

Glad I don’t have your ears

[@Jenvión]

Hello three commenters

[@Gruppe_11]

Not my cup of tea😢