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Blackstar Series One 100 Head Guitar Amp

£1,229.00

Blackstar Series One 100 Head Guitar Amp

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The Blackstar Series One 100 guitar amp head is a deadly serious, no messing about true all valve 100 watt beast capable of powering a twin 4x12" stack at the biggest of gigs and then it can be taken home, switched down to 10 watts and used as a home rehearsal or studio recording work horse while still getting that pure raw tone but at more manageable levels. The new Industry Standard 100w EL34 based amp head is here! The Blackstar Amps S1 100 head is the pace setter for both clean and overdriven guitar sound. Twin channels but with four modes all accessible from the included 4-way footswitch, all running through the Blackstar ISF tone shaping with the Super Crunch feature being the deadly icing on the cake. Take everything down a level by utilising the DPR knob which alters the power amp stage from 100 watt output to a more neighbour friendly 10 watts (still pretty loud though!) this allows the Series One amps to be used in massive settings and also much more modest venues. Happy to let your keyboard player or mix engineer to take over control of your amp? Then let the Blackstar Series One be switched from the in-built Midi input. Just get on and concentrate on your playing. The other option is to connect a Midi multi-effect into the effects loop and let the multi-effects board control the channel and mode switching all from one single patch switch (specific implementation of this feature with depend on the particular effects board you have connected) 50 years of guitar amp designs have been torn apart, analysed, enjoyed and learned from to inform the design engineers of the Series One amps. Each and every element of the amp from pre-amp through to speaker output have been thoroughly considered and refined using all this past knowledge meaning the player has all the best from the past with the reliability and controllability from the very latest technology all at their fingertips/ Clean Channel has 2 modes, Bright and Warm emulation the tones available from both Class A or the mildly edgey Class AB type. Overdrive Channel has 2 further modes. Crunch which takes the overdrive from a tasty and smooth soft distortion right up to really flat out contemporary rhythm sounds. Super Crunch takes the levels of distortion the very maximum with a wide range of tone still possible even at this high level of overdrive. The overdrive 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 Take a trip from the UK all the way to the US! Blackstar Amplifier's own unique tone shaping system ISF (Infinite Shape Feature, patent applied for) gives you a single control to alter the response on the entire tone system in the Series One. At one end you have typical UK amp sound, at the other US amp tone, in between you can choose any blend between the two. Another unique Patent-Applied-For Blackstar innovation DPR (Dynamic Power Reduction) is incorporated into the Series One amps. DPR reduces the power of the output stage from full power (100W) down to 10% of maximum (10W) and any power output in between. This means that the full tonal depth of the EL34 power amplifier can be enjoyed at any volume, making the S1-100 ideal for recording, smaller gigs and even home practice use. Working in conjunction with the power amplifier voltages, this method of power reduction suffers none of the loss in tone of other power reduction systems.

Product Details

  • 100 Watt head with built-in DPR power reduction :
  • 3 x ECC83, 1 x ECC82, 4 x EL34 valves:
  • 2 channels and 4 modes (footswitchable) :
  • Clean channel with Warm (Plexi) and Bright (Class A) type modes :
  • Overdrive channel with Crunch and Super Crunch modes:
  • ISF equipped tone control section :
  • Presence and Resonance controls:
  • Master Volume:
  • Series effects loop :
  • MIDI switching:
  • Speaker emulated output:
  • 4-way footswitch included :