Jared James Nichols Plugs Into St. James for the First Time | Blackstar

Mr BLUESPOWER himself Jared James Nichols dropped by Sound Emporium in Nashville TN to try out the new St. James ultra-lightweight valve amps. Here was his reaction.
Answering calls from guitarists everywhere for a valve amplifier that is truly lightweight and portable, Blackstar delivers the most advanced, innovative and best-sounding 50 Watt valve amps in the world.
Available in a classic EL34 design and a higher gain 6L6 model, these amps are simple to use, but highly versatile. Developed after months of forensic examination of vintage and modern valve amps, the intuitive two channel set-up delivers our best ever cleans and overdrives without com-promise.
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[@g_giac]

I just saw Jared in concert (12/2023) and he was using the EL34 head and it sounded incredible. Now here I am shopping around for the EL34 head because of him.

[@sethbramble284]

Absolutely incredible tone

[@user-cg7dg7uv8f]

Never even heard of Jared James Nichols before, but I was trying out amps recently and thought the his signature 20 watt combo sounded great. Terrific clean tones.

[@jamesdavid7099]

Jared James is a cosmic freak from the land of guitar heroes.

[@michaelgarcia2050]

Yep. I got a Blackstar amp and a P90 guitar because of him - both sound great but he's the perfect example of the "tone is in the fingers" thing because I sound nothing like him playing that gear.

[@paulya1269]

JJNs hands sure bring out the best from this amp!

[@birage9885]

I'm a jazz fusion guitar player. Would love to see/hear a pro fusion guitar player demo one of these. These amps sound pretty nice.

[@anthonygonzalez8684]

Have an Blackstar with EL34s love it. I love the 6L6 a bit more for clean vintage tones in the likes of Mesa Fillmores or Tweeds. Great tones Blackstar.

[@fistchips]

Dig it!!

[@kebotrans]

So I have a lot of amps. A lot of higher end amps. This amp I got is the head and 2x12 in 6L6 version. It is really great for the price point. I have one gripe. With all the technology built into this amp, it is a total bumble that you added a 9volt plug to the cabinet to light the logo, but did not include power from the head unit to accommodate it. That is a total engineering bumble to not have that included in such a design. Love the amp. You did a great job with the design, but that was a total miscue.

[@Blackstaramps]

Thank you for your feedback! our users feedback is paramount to us, so its certainly something which shall be fed back to our R & D team 🙏🖤

[@jessetate9701]

6l6 all the way!!!

[@Blackstaramps]

🤘

[@vetteal]

JJN tu mets tous le monde d'accord ,je pense que tu pourrais faire sonner même un violon💪🤛👏

[@MarshallAmpMan]

why didn't he demo a combo?

[@ck2music712]

Man, that's NOWHERE even in the ballpark, or even the STATE of "clean"...

[@michaelgarcia2050]

"Clean" is in the eye of the beholder. That's clean to me.

[@ck2music712]

The "CLEAN" channel? Man, he just lost me and ALL the other Country Chicken Pickers/Jazz/Rockabilly Cats less than 2 minutes in... He's proven what? That it's a 100 watt Marshall, LoL? I wanted to like this amp, LoL...

[@joshsinclair1796]

I’m sure when he had it sounding that gainy it was ridiculously loud

[@rhllnm]

Listen to Elliot Easton's review of the combo with a tele.

[@rogerbiggerstaff3293]

You realize that you can set the gain lower than he did, right?

[@bradleyshuppert3393]

Has his own Blackstar Signature Amp……. And is playing this….. Blackstar Blasphemy….

[@thelongvirtuesignal8551]

You're not supposed to to dial it in like that.

[@michaelgarcia2050]

Why not? That's what knobs are for, to make it sound how you personally like it.

[@thelongvirtuesignal8551]

@@michaelgarcia2050 Wrong.

[@alexdenton6586]

Can’t stand tube amps , they’re way too heavy , music should be fun , not suffering of my body and soul

[@stratmagic6893]

The whole design idea behind these amps is that they use a different technology which obviates the need for a heavy transformer. These amps are half the weight of a regular tube amp.

[@milkandmeat]

What?

[@classicrockrebelslosangele5776]

@@milkandmeat he/him probably still wears a mask too

[@davidbrucemusicvideo]

@@classicrockrebelslosangele5776Bahahahahahaha!!! Great comment!

[@peteyoung7665]

Yeah they are not for wimps.