 This is the Artist Series by Blackstar. We're going to start out with a 15 watt. It comes in a 15 watt and a 30. And they're both amazing, and they're both really, you know, they have the same features, but they both sound so different, and it's just different tones and different power, kind of in the same little awesome package. So we're going to start out with a 15 watt, and we're going to start, it's a two-channel amp, and the first channel is the best in simplicity. It's literally volume and tone, and I'm going to show you that right now. What I love about this amp, too, is pre-amp, you just go straight to the power tubes. You don't even use it in the first channel, which just gives you a very clear, just clarity that is hard to get in some other amps of the same nature. So here we go. And as you can hear, it's pretty crunchy. Now, the cool thing is there's reverb, so if you want to bring it up another level, I'm going to kick in a low reverb. As you can hear, that drastically changes things, which is for the better, which a lot of people think that a lot of small amps are kind of one-trick ponies, and these kind of break that mold, which is really nice. And the reverb is very deep, which I love. It's great, too. It's not just a blues amp, it's not just a rock amp. You can do a lot of indie and cool, you know. It's clear, it's fat, it's awesome. We're going to move on to channel two, which is more of like a normal channel now, with bass, middle, treble, and it's got a little bit more gain. It's cascading into more of your lead sounds, more modern rock, which is great, and we're going to get into it. So, yeah, I'm going to kick on a little reverb, give you a little taste of that. And honestly, this is 15 watts, but the greatest part is if you're playing smaller clubs, studio sessions, it's the perfect size where you can actually crank it up to get all the sound and all the tone out really easily, which is perfect so you don't have to deal with having your high-tube amp and then in order to get a great tone, you have to crank it up, which I love in this smaller package. So basically, right now I'm going to play a little one of my songs called Gone, and I'm just going to run through the amp. We're going to start at the Simple Clean channel, and we're going to make it all the way into the gain stage. So check this out. Total clean, here we go. Very touch-sensitive, so you can roll back and do rhythms easily. I'm going to add a little reverb. It adds a whole other dimension to the playing that's very nice. Now we're going to move into channel 2, kicking in for a pre-chorus or a chorus. It's very nice. Straight into number 2. As I said with the dynamics, you can really use your guitar to kind of control the tone more than the amp controlling you. So we're still in channel 2, but you back off you get that great clarity. What I did is I put a delay pedal simply just right in the front of the amp, and I'm just going to kick that in and show you how transparent that is to add another quality. Here for a solo, straight up. So really, that's a 15-watt combo amp, and if I can count I had just with the amp alone, that's like six different tones between the two channels, which is pretty awesome. We don't have much time, but I really want to get into this next amp, which is like the Big Brother. It's the 30-watt version. And although it has the same features, same kind of controls, it packs much more of a punch. You know, if you're playing mid-sized to even big venues, which is really great. And I've been using one personally since before they even came out, and putting it through the paces and it rips. So let's do it. By the way, these amps are really, really light. They're like less than 50 pounds, which is really good on the back because a lot of my other kind of tube amps I was lugging around Europe the past year dislocated my shoulder at least. And these ones are super light, super easy to handle. So here's the 30-watt, and we're going to start the same way. We're going to just roll through the channels. We're going to start with clean with nothing. So here's a clean channel. And right now that volume is at about four. So as you can tell, you can really push it up and bring it a little more. Here's just giving it a little bit more volume. It starts to break up and get that really natural sound. Add a little reverb. Really nice blues jazz tone. Yes. Now we're going to move on to channel two. And here once again is more of the gain stage with your standard bass, mid, and treble. And this one breaks up really nicely. We got the walls shaking. And what I did, which I never do, is I'm using the effects loop. And I've always been scared of them as a player because I didn't know if they really worked right. And the guys insisted that I tried the effects loop. So I did reluctantly, but it actually sounds really, really good. It's really transparent, which I was really stoked about. And right now I just have a simple boost overdrive pedal, MXR. And I'm going to show you the differences, kicking that in and off and the difference in the tone and actually the way that it reacts with the guitar and the amp. The biggest thing for me is I would always lose tone with it. And this one I don't. And I'm kind of blown away by it still, really, that it is still transparent enough. So what we're going to do now is I'm going to play a little bit of a heavier kind of Nam rocked song. Where you actually like shred and stuff. And if I can shred. And we're going to play around with some tones. We're going to start once again on the clean channel and work our way through. Here we go. So once again on that clean channel you still get a good amount of break up, which is really nice. Check this out. A reverb in. Channel 2, a little bit more gain, like I said. Here we go. So as you can see, a lot of tone in a little box. And even I was surprised. The greatest little tube combo amps I've ever had the chance to play. And one last thing. This little guy is $7.99 on the street and $10.99 for the 30 watt. And they're worth every penny. I hope you enjoyed it. Have a good day.