Blackstar HT-5 Metal demo

[Niamorg1007]

Bleed for Me!

[RoyvanRikken]

Can you post the settings of your amp in this soundclip ?

[Pandanobear]

Can you fight drums with it?

[KhammettJpageAsmith]

how loud can this amp go? anyone and everyone please.

[DualityKid]

@KhammettJpageAsmith I have the mini stack version, they go quite loud depending on your cab, i just use mine in my room and i dig the volume it puts out. Plus,it also depends on your setup. But yes... it is LOUD

[KhammettJpageAsmith]

@DualityKid cheers man for the help

[incipio241]

i have this head , what were the settings you use for this sound?

[redsfan293]

Does this amp sound good at low bedroom volumes?

[givemeajackson]

@redsfan293 thats what it's built for.

[johannardox]

blacklabel society sound!

[redsfan293]

@johannardox Fuck yeah SDMF!

[b4zii12]

ehh.. Gibson goth?... i know gibson owns Epiphone etc. but Gibson doesnt make goth explorers right? i'd say this is an epiphone explorer goth

[cowboy66757]

@b4zii12 It's a Gibson goth, dude. They were produced years ago. some time before the introduction of the Epishit Goth Failsplorer.

[metalheadblues]

Great tone.

[aris17561]

hey man this is a great tone... is it possible to play with this amp in studio with drums , 2nd guitarist and bassist ? is it loud enough ?

[taxo]

@aris17561 IMHO the 20w version'd be more suitable for this.

[butterknucklez]

woooooooooooow a mark v?!

[FE1261]

@Milo9 do u know if the ht-5 combo sounds the same as the one you are using??

[taxo]

@FE1261 speakers within blackstar cabs are weird...try another cab man

[AdamSvard]

whats the price on this awesome thing?



[bEsTiAnLPFaN4evah]

your usin the randall right?

[MrArgiee]

any pedals?/

[medude6652]

first riff-bleed for me :) awesome demo man

[KhammettJpageAsmith]

how loud can you get it to go?

[BlueDinkyShredder]

great demo man!

can you share settings?

do you put any pedals in front of the amp?

[WhyMeWhyYou22]

hey mate, i was wondering if you can use just the head and record straight into cubase through an audio interface (in my case maudio fast track pro and cubase 5 as my recording software) i so wanna buy this little beast

[WhyMeWhyYou22]

BLACK LABEL SOCIETY \m/

[GibsonTick]

This is NOT a hybrid amp people, check the website, it's all tube. Great playing by the way, nice vid. I got to try one of these recently and now I'm torn between this and the Vox Night Train.

[givemeajackson]

@GibsonTick it has ic's in the preamp who just amplify the signal for more gain. not a big difference in tone compared to a full tube amp, if it's even noticeable, but that amount of gain would be impossible with just one preamp tube. they of course call it all tube, cause it has a tube power- and preamp. and all tube sells better than hybrid

[AlexilMetalhead]

is it a gibson or an epiphone?

[TMetalFromHell]

how many watts does the cabinets have?

[icezydrift]

2x12? It's sound sick man!!! getting one soon.

[josiek96]

does the half stack have the same overdrive?

[bouggi123]

nice tone, how many watt this amp have?

[Milo9]

@bouggi123 5

[crazyguitardude666]

is this amp worth £320 and how are you getting that much metal out of a blackstar ?

[SnopElsker]

@crazyguitardude666 when you crank it over a certain level, the tone starts to change and the ubes start to work more :)

[LessthanJake14]

Sexy as hell.

[Warrenwicked96]

that sounds like disaster,im sorry not trying to be rude,the orange definitely beat this head

[Velixo]

@Warrenwicked96 i hope ur joking O.o

[savannahalex]

@Warrenwicked96

Disagree. I can't think of an orange that can do metal like the Blackstar amps can.

[alapunk13]

what cab did you use?

[rockingrugger]

black label society?

[Lordgout]

@rockingrugger Bleed for me

[rockingrugger]

@Lordgout thought it sounded familiar ;)

[Lordgout]

Now thats a metal rhythm tone!!

[Milo9]

Gibson Goth

[JandTRockBand2]

Epiphone Goth 1958 Explorer?

[quinnmyster]

Sounds just like my friend's 20 watt Egnater, of course won't get as loud, but the tone is like identical (at least with the EQing you've done with it)

[TheMetalGuy01]

lol u probably dont need a ts808 to boost it anyway

[nunofrg]

are you using any kind of pedal? do you consider this amp to be a good metal amp?

[GuitarmanIeuan]

Do I need to get some new cabs? The ones that came with it don't sound like any of the videos!!

[Milo9]

EDIT - It's not plugged in because I can see it on top of the Blackstar

[Milo9]

The TS808 is not plugged in :)

[nmthrashmetal]

whats the point in a 5 watt amp? i dont get it

[AlTheKiller7]

@nmthrashmetal So you can crank the valves without going deaf

[nmthrashmetal]

@AlTheKiller7 oh yeah so can you jam one of these suckers live with a band?

[AlTheKiller7]

@nmthrashmetal It all depends ahhaa, it is doable. I have done a few gigs with mine, the hardest one was an outdoor garden party, it struggled a little but just about managed, you can easly mic it up to the p.a tho, for the price the tone is unbeatable :)

[caardo91]

@nmthrashmetal it's useful il you're playing in a apartment and neighbours are going to kill you if you're too loud! you can also get nice crunch sound with low volume..

[richardlpalmer]

@nmthrashmetal Well, unless you can crank a higher wattage amp you're not going to get the full sound characteristics out of the thing like you probably want.

To get the valves red, sizzling hot you have to crank it. Probably anything above 20 watts (in a tube amp) is going to be so loud when cranked that most people will never turn it up high enough to get the tubes red hot -- they'll never get to hear the full potential of a big amp.

But a 5, 10 or 20 watt amp is doable.

[nunofrg]

@nmthrashmetal to have it in a room. makes all the sense in the world.

[dudewhosaysarrh]

@nmthrashmetal its good for practising and recording, especially if you are a tube purist and want that crancked tube tone without turning your house into rubble, If you want to do that, buy a blackstar series one 200 with a KT 88 power amp stage and 200 watts output that is definetely going to rock the neighbourhood - literally.

[theshyguitarist]

I see a couple of pedals up top. Which one is helping you get that tone?

[Gaza880]

what aare your settings! i have this amp and cant get this kinda tone!!! please tell me your settings! :)

[DavidBenjaminTV]

is that a epiphone goth explorer??

[TosserJMF]

How loud is the amp?

I have a similar Randall Cabinet that I plug a Peavey 6505 into. I'm looking to get a smaller amp for practice at home at quiter volume. I'm thinking possibly to get that head and just plug it into my Randall as you do.

[Geetarfrik]

Epic ponytail

[fridgeslayer94]

Can you run another amp into the Fx lopp in of the blackstar and use it as the power amp? And therefore play a 50 watt head at bedroomlevel?

[zxkevkop]

Sounds great.

I also think the slight mud you hear comes from the pickups in your epiphone

[LovingTheFooFighters]

The people who don't believe he can get this sound out of a Blackstar HT5, it actually can, I own the Blackstar HT5 by myself, the amp has loads of gain!

[hiitsmcjosh]

Can it do this godly metal tone out f the box or do you need a boost for it?

[creepychris11]

You can definitely get that much distortion out of any amp regardless the preamp tube amount. Tubes are not the source of the distortion in high gain amps. It's in the circuit design!!! Case in point- A fender twin has two preamp tubes but is clean as clean can be. My orange tiny terror has two preamp tubes but I can put a jcm 800 to shame with my distortion!!! Or better yet... explain how amp companies get deadly amounts of gain out of solid state amps.

[FiveseveNp90]

@creepychris11 study some basic electronics and you'll se "how".

Also, don't say "gain" when you mean "distortion" (saturation).

[creepychris11]

@FiveseveNp90  First- Do'nt tell me what to say. I'm not your child. Second- The fact that you're trying to correct me in telling me to be word specific and then providing a second option for your own word is fucking hilarious! Third- You still have'nt explained how solid state amps can have high levels of gain/distortion/saturation with no tubes in them.

[FiveseveNp90]

@creepychris11 It's quite simple, you see:

1. Study linguistics to find out what a synonym is.

2. Study electronics to find out how thermionic valves and transistors work, and how and why one would push them into saturation (aesthetics also helps here).

I don't get my kicks out of telling people what to say but it's important to use the right terminology where context demands it. You wouldn't cross the street on the red light just because you have the right to call it green, would you?

[MetalMike767]

What amp settings are you using?

[mrmakaveli864]

is this a good bathroom amp

[GerbsUK]

Nice, BLS ;D Looking at getting this (in the HT-5S mini-stack)...

Would you reccomend it?

[econgblues626]

there is now way that the amp has no OD pedal in front that's pushing it.

[iBdavid]

is this straight amp overdrive? jw

[maximall111]

black label society!

[Zhorellski]

It does sound like you some overdrive pedal infront of the lead channel right?

[cast390]

I tried this amp out at GC and it sounded nothing like this.Are you using any pedals?If not it sounds really good compared to what I played in GC

[kamikazimonk1987]

Its going threw a 2x12 not 1x10s so you will get a louder fuller sound from it! its the Cabs thats the problems with the blackstars and not the Amps!

[Sick1982]

Hi! Are you also not really satisfied with the amount of low end from this amp? Especially if I use a distortion pedal on the clean channel, it looks like all low end is gone :-/

[Hallman88]

love that you have a mesa sitting there but still use the blackstar. you should run them together and see the tone you get.

[antoine1994]

bleed for me?

[yeeeeeeeoman]

is that tone just the head or have you got any pedals or anything?

[dfinch10]

the tone coming out of that little amp is godly. i want one now

[AllGuitarAllMetal]

Went and played at guitar center yesterday and was a little dissapointed. It doesnt get loud like i wanted and actually turned out not that much better than my solid state peavey 15W amp lol.

Just gonna get a line 6 spider valve tube amp

[torturesofthedamned]

that shit sounds bonkers comin' out of that 2/12

[MyEverConstantSmile]

Is it going through that Mesa or the randall?

[Milo9]

Blackstar into the Randall 2x12.

[DigitalVirus]

i'm getting this lil amp. question is will it work good with a boogie rec 2x12?

[DuncanDonuts3]

Did I just a hear Zakk Wylde'ish 'WOOEHAOOAHEOA'

HEH

Nice work mate!

[81giorikas]

celstion 80's in the randall meaning classic lead 80's or somethinhg else? how much did the cab cost???pretty good!!!

[hobbesismycat]

I really recommend it. The only thing I was disappointed about was getting a good solo setting. It can do metal just fine but I'm going to get a BB Preamp to fill out the sound for solos.

[GylleneOstSkor]

i hope you guys are joking... the HT-5 is a all-tube amp

[ILikeJuice]

No it's not. It has a solid state diode clipping circuit in the preamp. Plus, the effects loop is not tube powered. Do you honestly think you can get that much distortion out of a 12AX7 and a 12BH7? A 12BH7 is very close to a 12AU7 (the lowest gain preamp tube around.)

[66Titan66]

I contacted Blackstar and corresponded with an engineer and he assured me that all clipping of the signal in the Blackstar HT-5 is only done in the tube section of the amp. So, while op-amps do amplify the signal to an extent, the clipping and most of the amplification is done through the tube section. So, while some SS components are in the signal path the amp doesn't do any clipping through it. That is a strong point, IMO.

[ILikeJuice]

Why would they put a clipping circuit into an amp if they're not going to use it to clip the signal?

[66Titan66]

ask them. all i know is it doesnt clip it

[EMGlespaulMESA]

@66Titan66 so is this amp a tube amp, a hybrod or a solid state amp? how can it be all tube if it doesnt even have a power tube (eg: an el84). i just5 got this amp and love it either way, i am just curios

[66Titan66]

Go to ultimate-guitar (its a website) and look for the "Blackstar HT-5 Owners Thread". They'll answer your questions far better than i can.

[KoolKluxKlan666]

Tube amp, don't listen to that retarded idiot. Loads of amps use clipping for their gain, like some of the mesas.

Lots of hybrids are just cheap scams and people who buy into that shit are fucking spastics.

IT DOES HAVE A POWER TUBE

[welcomehome99]

@EMGlespaulMESA

It does

1 Preamp tube

1 Power amp tube

Solid state rectification

Clipping all done by the tubes tho

[hardrockin69]

@EMGlespaulMESA

I bought this amp and traced out the circuit. There's a solid state opamp and diodes before the 12AX7 that produce gain and distortion. There's also a solid state phase splitter between the 12AX7 and the 12BH7. It's a mixture of solid state and tubes, therefore it's considered a hybrid amp. If you like the sound then it doesn't matter what it is, but for those who care, it's a hybrid amp.

[FusionHelsinki]

It's definitely a hybrid. It uses one 12ax7 in the preamp and one 12bh7 dual triode in a class AB push pull power amp config. Anyhow, I expect that the preamp valve is preceeded by a solid state stage before the valve in OD channel. Also the phase inverter and the FX loop would be done with transistors.

Of course there could be some diode clipping going on also. but why should any of this matter as long as the amp sounds good.

[majick59]

I don't think you can really call this a hybrid amp.

According to Blackstar the opamps do not provide any clipping. All the distortion comes from that one preamp tube. I found that hard to believe, but that's straight from one of the Blackstar amp engineers.

Anyway, this amp is totally awesome... hybrid or not.

[FusionHelsinki]

Well, technically the amp has a hybrid pre (The input amplifier is an opamp, drivind the tube) into a hybrid power amp (the phase inverter being a solid state). So even without clipping diodes HT-5 will always have hybrid operation. This however is just technical babbling since the amp seems to perforn remarkably well.

PS: Even amps like Dumble ODS use transistor input drivers. Sometimes they can work BETTER (some cahode followers, rvrb drivers) than tubes. Big diff. is that tubes od WAY better

[MetalClosey]

@GylleneOstSkor It has a hybrid preamp, I think a solid state gain stage and phase inverter.

[nickdohle]

The guys saying that the Blackstar is a Hybrid amp little idea what theyre talking about. Do some research guys

[silentrageze]

It's not, there is an op-amp in the preamp stage that delivers a lot of the gain, but that's not important, what's important is that it sounds great at low volume.

[hardrockin69]

Well, I did some research. I bought an HT-5, opened it up and traced out the circuit. It uses an opamp and diodes for gain and distortion in the preamp before the 12AX7 and a solid state phase-splitter to drive the 12HB7 tube. I think that means it's a "hybrid" amp (combination solid state and tube).

[ILikeJuice]

Haha. Why don't you do your research. You can't get THAT much gain out of 2 preamp tubes. Come on.

[Milo9]

I may have been boosting it slightly with a TS-808 I can't remember.

[ILikeJuice]

No no what I meant was that this amplifier gets a very respectable amount of distortion by itself, yet there are only two preamp tubes in it. There is no possible way to get THAT much gain out of it with just the two preamp tubes alone. Not only that, but people have mentioned numerous times that there is a diode clipping circuit in here. This wasn't even directed towards you in any way. Great video anyhow! Haha. We'd love to see more!

[66Titan66]

So, is the Blackstar a hybrid? I say it isn't in the "traditional" sense. Yes, the Blackstar does have some solid state components (op-amps) in the signal path. However, the solid state components DO NOT PROVIDE ANY CLIPPING. All signal clipping done by the Blackstar HT5 is done in the tube section and most of that is done in the preamp tube section.

[66Titan66]

Either way, the Blackstar doesn't clip the signal in the solid state components. All clipping is done by the tubes (mainly the preamp tube).

[MrFoxyFoxy59]

@Milo9 That mint green pedal does look an awful lot like some sort of TS , doesn't it? :/

[66Titan66]

First of all, in my experience, a hybrid amp is one with a solid state preamp that provides some clipping with a tube power section. Many Peavey amps were made like this including the 160W, ear splitting, Marshall squashing Peavey Mace and the Peavey Heritage VTX series. Those amps had some great tone and were extremely loud. Certainly, too loud for most musicians but we loved them and the Marshall stacks in our bedrooms anyway when I was a kid.

[66Titan66]

The Blackstar doesn't have a SS gain type of tone. It sounds like what it is: a tube amp with a tube preamp clipping the signal.

[66Titan66]

I'll bet many people have solid state components in their signal chain while using the Rebel, Mesa's, Marshalls, etc. As soon as you connect a compressor, a clean boost, a chorus, an EQ, or just about any pedal made today, you have solid state components in the signal path. If you use an OD pedal, you have solid state components (diodes or transistors, etc.) clipping the signal that's being amplified by your "all tube" amp.

[LovingTheFooFighters]

@ILikeJuice, it can, I own the HT5 by myself, great amp for Metallica like stuff, and others.

[ILikeJuice]

@LovingTheFooFighters I'm not questioning the amount of gain. I've played through one. They do have plenty of gain. The thing is, it's not just the 2 preamp tubes that are giving it all that gain. There are other solid state culprits involved. Also, one of the preamp tubes is being used as a power tube. So the distortion is coming from a diode clipping circuit in the preamp along with the one preamp tube.

[HeatMaster22]

@LovingTheFooFighters

What settings do you use for Metallica stuff?

I messed with one at GC and I just couldn't find "it".

[jcallseven]

i would seriously consider buying this amp if i could get a rammstein , machinehead , stone sour style of sound. is that possible?

[emgduncanman]

i think the fact that i can actually hear the pick hitting the strings because he is so close to the camera throws me off a bit. kinda makes it sound like the amp has a weird attack. haha

[madmoe70]

I'm thinking about getting a Blackstar. Can you tell me if you are using any pedals? Thanks.

[15viceandvirtues]

that sounds surprisingly metal....

seems like an awesome practice amp or small gig amp!!

[christiancastro1971]

Unfortunately the Blackstar HT-5 is a hybrid amp - not an all-tube amp.

[Nick184]

What is it that makes it a hybrid amp?

Just cos all the places i've seen it for sale advertise it as 'all tube' and isn't that fraud or something if it's a hybrid?

[christiancastro1971]

It is not fraud. But it is because hybrid mixing valve with diode for the distortion, simple. The manufacturer's Web site there is nothing about it and the manufacturer does not answer my messages. If you find something, show me.

But it is an excellent amp. I have one.

[Sick1982]

it sounds very nice except the palmmute lacks power in my opinion. But I would anyway, since I have a good Damage Control pedal to cover this dimension :D

[ColorSeepage]

What song is that?

[notuern]

Black Label Society - Bleed For Me

[Reptarawr]

with this can u get like more distortion

and more edger tone with this?

[BlueBarrier782]

settings?

[willworkformoney69]

is this the mini stack?? im thinking about getting this...is this sound coming straigh from the amp??

[Milo9]

It's just the head.

the cab is a Randall 2x12 with Celestion 80s.

[basssungwoo]

DUDE

I love it

is it loud enough  to hear or drums?

[christhekiwi12]

sadly not, you only have the choice of hear and drums, hear or drums is out of the question, If there is a question. If you looking for an amp you that you can hear or drums you might want to look at a 67 fender penis amp.

[basssungwoo]

Oh thanks!!

BUt i actually meant to say "is it loud enough to hear ON drums"

[notuern]

Ive heard from pretty reliable sources that if you run it into an really airtight 4*12 it actually does get loud enough to rehearse with.

[Nestorcuba26]

hey a escuchado a "difonia" (band hardcoremade in Peru) se parece mucho xD

[CrazyDiamond1968]

I bet once you play one you discover it sounds exactly like a Roland Cube. Video sound is a bad bad way to judge an amps tone.

[Milo9]

Except it doesn't sound like a cube :)

Cube's are great though.

[punkdude543]

buy an a/b pedal. play this with your mark IV. that would sound beautifulllll.

[dragonguitarist36]

thats a bad little amp...

[mechanicalbullninjas]

suk dik muda fuka!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Donmaiden666]

SDMF!!!

Awesome amp

[Ohjay94]

What are you playing in this clip? Sounds awfull familiar..

Awesome little things that Blackstar by the way

[Nutsaur]

Bleed For Me - Black Label ain't it?

[Milo9]

Yup

[Wes919]

OMG and it has two channels as well. This thing is the sex.

[Wes919]

That's a pretty thick tone for a little 5 watt amp. I never thought I'd see the day you could get that kind of sound out of a 5 watt amp without a pedal. I totally want one now.

[Nigeltheginger1]

Nice work man

Can you get that tone out of it at bedroom levels or would you need an attenuator?

[Milo9]

This IS bedroom levels!

[Nigeltheginger1]

sweet

i'm so getting one

cheers, man :D

[liaserethguitarist12]

zakk wylde

[maxlamenace987654321]

sick tone! Can you jam with a four piece band with it?

[Audsk8er]

What speakers are in the Randall?

[professorlessor]

Wow! I was looking at these amps and now I'm pretty much sold. Are you running into that Randall cab in the back? How are the Blackstar cabs, have you tried them?

[Milo9]

The Blackstar Artisan cabs are awesome :) Not a big fan of the HT-5 Ministack cabs though; I don't like 10" speakers.

[crow516]

I so wish I could get this head.

freakin awesome tone.

[tojwonkle]

awesome tone!

did you use a noise gate/supressor? The amp seems to run extremely quietly otherwise!

[Milo9]

No noise gate, just straight in.

[bassist13]

Holy cow, I think my Shure SLX can wait. That was amazing.

[andythrash]

BLS! Great amp man, the tone is really good!

[Trizeaumique]

Bad Seed, yeah !

[8ulls3y3]

I'm getting more excited every minute, just a great tone even for metal. I'll have the ht-5 in my grasp in a few days... can't wait.

[pylyo]

hi.

how much is the volume dialed on this video?

tnx

[Milo9]

About 1.5 - 2.

Would