Blackstar HT Studio 20 Combo Guitar Amp

The Blackstar HT Studio 20 guitar combo amplifier is the enhanced version of the hugely successful and widely lauded HT-5 amp. With the extra power on offer the HT Studio 20 can cope with with a variety of situations from home, rehearsal, or recording studio use. The preamplifier section on the HT20 Combo has been designed with purity of tone as a priority. The voicing of the preamp has been painstakingly sculpted and paried with the EL34 power amp stage which is cathode biased the player has the capability to shape beautifully creamy and rich valve tones alongside the Celestion 12" speaker. The Blackstar Amps HT Studio 20 is perfect for the player looking for an amp to cover home, studio and rehearsal duties. Clean Channel: Styled on 'Boutique' type amp voicing, the clean channel gives the player a delightfully broad spectrum of timbre to experiment with and the Class A type design offer those lovely ringing tones commonly associated with amps of this type. The dedicated tone control on the clean channel takes the tone from a rich and deep sound right up to bright and shimmering. The Blackstar Amps HT-20 Overdrive Channel: This channel has been developed to offer High Gain tones but to produce these while being devoid of the 'fizzing' which many competitor products create as a consequence. This is made possible because special 'tone shaping' strategies have been instituted which not only alleviate some of the less desirable side effects but also augment the player's tonal options, since the sound cleans up massively as the volume of the playing is dropped. Nevertheless even at 'flat out' settings, the Overdrive Channel retains a beautifully natural tonal range at all times The HT Studio 20 Overdrive Channel also has its own highly flexible EQ section providing a variety of overdriven tones ISF (Infinite Shape Feature) is a Patent-Applied-For feature specially developed and owned by Blackstar Amplification which is the basis of the leap forward which their amps allow in the moulding and sculpting of sonic output. With almost every player wanting to be able to access tones from the sonic palette of the classic US and UK amps, the ISF alters the tonal characteristics of the three tone controls in the EQ section from US type at one end of the scale to UK type at the other. Sweeping between these extremes allows a huge amount of experimentation and choice that would otherwise be impossible. The HT Studio 20 has been fiendishly designed to allow the user to drive the preamp or power amp stage, or at the extremes actually drive both. The fantastically rich tones available from the cathode biased EL34 based power amp stage gives the player an amazing palette of sound to enjoy. Form a light crunch that softens back to totally clean as you turn down the volume of your guitar to an utterly flat out high gain distortion that combo amp handles the lot The days of the honky sounding spring reverbs in proper valve amplifiers is now over as the HT Studio 20 comprises a specially developed Digital Reverb which raises the bar for reverbs in amps and is voiced for guitar and is extremely natural sounding. With musicality the primary concern, the reverb is equally as good with the pure clean sounds of the Clean Channel or the crunchy tones of the Overdrive Channel