Blackstar Venue Series HT Club 50 50W Tube Guitar Amp Head
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A versatile head with advanced tone-shaping capabilities and reverb.
The Blackstar Venue Series HT Club 50 50W Tube Guitar Amp Head offers the same feature set as the HT Club 40 combo in a versatile head format. This two channel head is equally at home in the rehearsal room, studio or club size venue. With the patented ISF control and clean or overdrive channels ranging from 'classic crunch' to 'super saturated lead' the HT Club 50 head truly is the ultimate amp for the gigging guitarist.
The HT Club 50 is a highly versatile amplifier suited to a wide range of playing styles and situations.
The Clean Channel has two modes, ‘boutique’ and ‘modern’ and its own Tone control provides a wide range of clean tones. The Voice switch reconfigures both the preamplifier voicing and gain structure, and the power amplifier damping, to reproduce either ringing Class A Performance in the ‘boutique’ mode, or very clean and tight Class AB tones in the ‘modern’ setting.
The Overdrive Channel has its own EQ section and a Voice switch which allows the character of the channel to be changed, providing a wide variety of overdriven tones. The channel is characterised by a tone which is high in gain, but lacks any of the detached top-end ‘fizz’ often found in similar designs. This is a result of unique preamplifier and power amplifier shaping techniques, which also benefit the player in the way the overdrive cleans up beautifully as the guitar volume is reduced. Even at the most extreme settings, the overdrive channel remains natural sounding.
The patented ISF (Infinite Shape Feature) control is unique to Blackstar Amplification and represents a major step forward in tone shaping flexibility. The ISF control shifts the response of the three control tone stack between a US type response at one end, and at the other a UK type response. Importantly, in between the two extremes lie an infinite number of alternative tone choices that would be otherwise unavailable.
The HT Club 50 also features a completely natural sounding digital reverb, which is musical on both clean and crunch tones and raises the benchmark for guitar amplifier specific reverb design. A Dark/Bright switch allows the overall reverb characteristics to be modified to suit different tastes and playing styles.
Features
- Versatile head with dual channels and reverb
- Boutique or Modern voice settings
- Individual Tone controls for each channel
- Patented ISF tone shaping flexibility
Find the sound that's in your head. Order today.
Venue Series HT Club 50 50W Tube Guitar Amp Head Specifications:
- 50 Watt valve head
- 2xECC83, 2xEL34
- Two footswitchable channels
- Enhanced tone controls
- Patented Infinite Shape Feature (ISF)
- Clean voice switch
- Overdrive voice switch
- Master volume
- Digital reverb with Dark/Bright switch
- Speaker emulated output
- Effects loop
- 2-way footswitch included
- Cool vintage styling
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Comments about Blackstar Venue Series HT Club 50 50W Tube Guitar Amp Head:
Honestly, the tubes are a huge part of any amp's capability to produce your tone, and not every player has the desire, knowledge, and tools to play bench tech and invest the hours required to learn...safely. With the right selections here, you literally have a vintage Marshall Plexi, with the ability to approximate VOX AC30 clean tones; this is a fantastic mix of sounds and a capability I am not really aware of in any other major brand of amp. Hughes and Kettner Statesman 50 is the absolute closest, lacks some of the gain, and will cost you another $200 or so. I had the 20W Studio model for a couple of months, and while the sound was excellent, it dd not have the clean headroom to push a 2X12 in my venue. These ex-Marshall alumni who are designing the Blackstar product line are some of the same people who have brought us benchmark amp products for years; without the shackles on them as to what their products have to sound like, we are getting to see some "outside of the box" ways to produce our tone(s) and thoroughly enjoy the journey that effort should be.
The Infinite Shape Feature to create more of a blend capability between British EL84 Class A "sounds" and American 6L6GC/GE tone is useful, but another reviewer had commented that the tone becomes a bit too dark on the far end of the British side, and I would agree. Nonetheless this is a nice and useful feature. Ditto for the reverb "voice" switch from bright to dark, which I have never seen in a comparable amp. Having a master tone stack, with separate volume and gain controls for the clean and drive channels is a terrific setup. Metal toggle switches for power on and standby, nice tolex covering with gold piping in the front like a vintage DSL or Plexi; speaker connections of almost any normal variation you would need, and a great sounding parallel effects loop. Nice buckstiched black leather handle on vintage chrome mounts. I had an excellent vinyl cover with piping made for about $4 it would have been nice to have some thin nylon version included with their logo, a la Fender, but......!
Even though the HT Venue Series are supposed to be budget line, I can't see why this product series wouldn't last under fire of gigging with some reasonable care and a decent ATA case. My ONLY complaint in this particular category is Blackstar's selection of TAD 12AX7WA preamp and EL34B-STR/6CA7 power tubes. These tubes, made in China by Shuguang, are just fair in my opinion for overall sound quality, and the brand has a bit of a history with reliability. On the other hand, Orange and Marshall are now putting them into their current products, and feel the new gold plated grid and heavy glass on the power tubes gives improvement in this area. Especially if you want to obtain some VOX-like clean chimey tones, you're gonna have to get rid of these. Ditto if you are a high gain artist, the 12AX7WA's are lower microphonically, but this comes at the expense of gain. Put a set of JJ or Tung Sol 12AX7's, and a pair of Tung Sol or Mullard EL34B(both from the New Sensor plant in Russia)power tubes in and get ready to rock! Korean manufacture of English design; fit and finish of all elements, components, wiring, and cabinetry was perfect. Excellent ventilation on top and back.
A 50W all tube head will drive nearly any half stack of 4X12's to performance levels in small auditoriums. This amp is named the Club 50, and is absolutely perfect for venues up to about 300 or so. For this quality of tone, at this price level, the amp is a steal.....buy one! You cannot touch the level of performance in a comparable Marshall or Fender product without spending over $1000.
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