Supro Black Magick Guitar Combo Amplifier with Guns N' Roses Guitarist Richard Fortus

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Guns N' Roses guitarist Richard Fortus offers a deeper dive of the Supro Black Magick Tube Guitar Combo Amplifier.
Black Magick, a recreation of one of rock and roll’s holy-grail amplifiers, is an all-tube, high-gain blues machine that hearkens back to the dimensions, cosmetics and circuitry of the Supro amps from 1959, just like the one donated by Jimmy Page to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Museum. In tribute to this legendary and extensively modified combo, Supro's engineers used the cabinet dimensions from a '59 Supro 2x10 and replaced the baffle with a 1x12, arming the 25-watt combo with a custom, British-voiced speaker specially developed for the Black Magick amp.
The preamp found in the Black Magick features two channels wired in parallel, with independent volume controls and a single, shared tone control. The vintage-correct front-end topology of the original 1959 Supro combos has been streamlined in the Black Magick, with automatic linking of channels 1 and 2 when using only the first input jack. This flexible arrangement provides double the gain when used with one instrument and also allows for two instruments to share the same Black Magick or for the use of an A/B/Y box to achieve channel-switching on the fly.
With more gain on tap than any other Supro reissue, Black Magick absolutely rips for heavy blues and classic rock guitar styles. This amp’s traditional, cathode-biased “Class-A” power section uses 6973 tubes to achieve the instantly recognizable midrange grind and phenomenal touch dynamics that define the Supro sound. A complete range of tones from warm cleans to heavy distortion can be accessed by simply adjusting the volume knob on your instrument. The signature Supro power tube tremolo adds footswitchable depth and dimension to this historic rock and roll machine.

[@andrewwalker2824]

incredible guitarist..prefer Richard to slash or any previous GNR member. Humble and a pro...love his stuff...

[@ArielsSmartyPants]

Best amp I've heard in the last 20 years, wicked :)

[@spanishsweetsoul890]

Agree, sounds like hell, there's everything I love in it crunch def just as dirty mmmhhh and creamy as well

[@chrislestermusic]

I’m still blown away that this guy is 52. Well done. Love his playing too.

[@GamersHiro]

Still got that classic sounding, awesome!.

[@12166971]

Incredible sound from his fingers. Great guitarist

[@jdl2180]

Why does he even need an amp are a guitar?

[@lancefraijo8585]

Thank you Richard Fortus, loving those Amps and guitars

[@tourettesguy3858]

Man, the amp sounds so smooth and responsive.... like guitar resonates well and breaths tru the amp

[@AuntAlnico4]

Supro and Gretsch ! Prime time potent pair !

[@semojo1]

Sweet tube chime. Class A amp so you chew up tubes more often but the sound is worth it. I like it better than the Vox AC 30

[@RoccoPezzin]

sounds great!

[@WilliamKroupaJr.]

Very nice!!!! Rock on, my friend!

[@yerzaat]

One more thing: this Supro amp gives you the sound that is very,very similar to the sound you get when you put Fender Bassman tubes head on Messa Boogie cabinet 4x12 with EV speakers in the bottom and Celection speakers on the top of the cabinet. And that combination was Izzy Stradlin set up while he was in GnR, and still he often uses it. Not to mention the hollow-body guitar moment in the whole story. Fortus had to have a white one :) Nice from him, showing appreciation and respect towards Izzy Stradlin's aproach and way of playing; the essence of Guns n Roses. Also, at the end of the day, rhythm guitar must sound like that in order to Slash gets his sound in the sound picture of the band ;) yes, all Slash's rhythm guitarists had a same sound..Izzy-like sound :)

[@yerzaat]

He plays solo guitar's partiture from Shuffle it All by Izzy Stradlin. Why? Time will tell

[@kentuckybourbonfade4264]

that's a great sound!

[@gcarboni1]

It's to see that Richard Fortus play an Izzy's song :)

[@yerzaat]

First he plays "Shuffle it all" and right after that "Starlight

[@bryanlemeilleurtexas]

Mic'd up with an EV RE20? Seems like MF and GNR would have better gear to really show off the tonality and color of the amp. But what do I know...

[@a.michaelpadilla844]

anyone know what song he is playing @ 0.20?

[@packoo]

Izzy Stradlin & The Ju Ju Hounds "Shuffle It All"

[@spanishsweetsoul890]

No it's not Izzy, it sounds very Stonish anyway, Woodish I guess, pretty shure it's a Ron Wood song

[@pieter7487]

I think the first thing he played is Best Of It by The Dead Daisies.

[@packoo]

Izzy Stradlin & The Ju Ju Hounds "Shuffle It All"

[@TheRicokilla]

Don't be sold by the amp or guitar kids.. Be sold by his fingers. That's the price there...

[@JammLighting]

He shall go for hire. Slash is coming back for his spot.

[@Beizeiten78]

Dude, they play together already. Unless Izzy comes back, he's probably not going anywhere. I saw GNR in Detroit and he and Slash rock well together. He never had Slash's spot.

[@antonellaore2630]

😍😍😍😍😍😍😘

[@krispatel1]

Sounds farty and harsh at the same time. How is that even possible?

[@PedrodeFarias]

2 preamps in parallel. it's in the video description. Man, it's hot!

[@MRay-zj4ro]

I don't know what to say...there are no words.

[@krispatel1]

+Coco Mandrake I've just listened to it again through shure se535's instead of my bose headphones and it sounds so much better. I'd like to hear it in person but there aren't any dealers near me

[@MRay-zj4ro]

Hehe...it's all personal tastes anyway. I love this sound to death though! Best to you, man!

[@utoobia]

Hard to say with demo vids like these, but I'm not liking the tone either. Not sure about his axe's contribution to it. It lacks midrange, and harmonic complexity. But will check ot out in person soon.

[@Lina-gt7tk]

Using a Izzy's song to sell an amp? really? u gotta be kidding

[@packoo]

At first I thought "how cheezy" but now I think it is a nod to Izzy in the face of Axl and Slash

[@nchlsdg8598]

no, thats definetly make the best of it by his own band (dead daisies)

[@johnanderson60]

Shuffle It All by Izzy...

[@spanishsweetsoul890]

I don't think so, It's a Ron Wood riff, I'm pretty shure of it but I can't remember the name of the song, maybe a Faces song ... it's a good trivia anyway ?

[@carguy3460]

That's basically every Hendrix song (and artist afterwards) you've ever heard. Very common rhythm and chords.