 Hello everybody good evening and welcome to tonight's webcast from North Hampton black stars HQ I'm Steve the product trainer with black star and tonight We've got some stuff to show you with the ID series Mainly the ID 260 which I have here and also we've got an ID core setup now What we're going to look at tonight is there's been a recent firmware and software update for the insider software And the firmware on the amplifier has been turned into super wide stereo Capabilities now if you don't know what that is Earlier on this year. We released a product called ID core which is Behind me here. It was a small range of amplifiers and there was three in the range and they featured super wide stereo Now if that sounds like a little bit of a gimmick and you've not tried these you need to get into your stores to try them They sound amazing. They give you the Essence that you're surrounded by the effects and the delays and the reverbs Almost as if you're in a stadium and for such a small inexpensive product It really sets a new bar for home practice amplifiers Recently we did hear of a very very popular guitar hero actually actually purchasing one of the ID cores for his tour on The bus just to jam with to play music through the speakers are stereo So each each amplifier has two speakers and it's full range flat response So it sounds great for audio and we'll look at that in a bit. So the ID range Which is the bigger brother and the more professional digital range that we do Consists of a 15 watt a 30 watt right up to the 60 watts the 2 by 12 to 60 here And then we have a 60 head and 100 head as well, which is more for the live application now the ID series didn't have super wide stereo, but Recently because of the reaction To that 3d type sound and everybody blowing their minds around the world The guys here at Blackstar have been very very clever and working very hard to achieve it in these amps now I must stress The only amplifier physically that has the capabilities of super wide stereo in person when you try it when you gig with it Is the ID 2 by 12 the ID 260 the other amplifiers do have the super wide stereo facility But it's only available from the USB output for recording or the emulated line out for direct recording or direct into a mixer So you do have those capabilities there even on the 15 watt, which is amazing now I've set up about four patches on here. So I'm going to do a little bit of playing And it really is a very inspirational sound I've been obviously obviously for my job product training. I watch a lot of online videos and YouTube clips and Gear rundowns from artists and some of my favorite guitarists myself like you guys and girls, but More recently, I've seen stuff where people are talking a lot about the digital side of things and That's that can be quite expensive for the working Musician not all of us have got thousands and thousands of pounds to spend on that kind of gear But the ID series is in that same ballpark You can profile the amplifiers if you know their history. For example, if you don't if you're not familiar with the amps We've got six power tubes to choose from and we've got six voices and using black stars Patent ISF feature where you can shape the American or or British tone stack. You can really create Anything from history. If you know the valve that was in there and the six Power tubes that are on there. The choices are the most used most obvious things like 6R6, EL-84, EL-34 Even some intricate stuff like 6P6 and KT-66 Which you don't see that much of these days But it's a really interesting prospect To be able to go out to a gig You can use a MIDI controller on these so it's a pro in that sense But also we do an FS10 foot switch which you can use which is an optional extra boot Which is quite inexpensive and you can have all your presets on the floor a chromatic tuner You can store on the fly as well While you're at a show and you can change banks and patches as you would expect So I've got patches one to four set up. So let's just play around with my first patch and what I've done here is Just get quite a nice clean tone, but Quite ambient just to play around with some blues and some some slow picking and stuff now You can probably hopefully see we've got a couple of mics in front of the ID 260 here And that's picking up the super wide stereo sound so for best results if you're watching on YouTube at a later point Welcome if you're watching live now, maybe use some headphones or crank those stereo Monitors if you're using them, which will give you the best experience. So let's let's do some playing and this is a rather nice clean tone Lovely sound very inspirational to play around with that and just being next to the amplifier really Feels like you're in the stadium atmosphere. It surrounds you The the effects don't sound like they're coming from the two cones if you will And it really the amplifier is such a beautiful thing to play. It's very transparent Very natural if you fire just just play softly Really reacts to the way you feel, you know, if you want to play harder it really comes through that way So on to another sound This is my second patch, which is a very kind of similar tone as right as far as effects go But I've added some delay and this is really where the super wide stereo comes into effect the most I think So for now, I'm just gonna just mute my Reverb for the moment. So all you can hear is the delay and hopefully you'll get that really nice super wide stereo sound Reverb off then so Minimal in the mix It's astonishing. You need to hear this so get into your stores and try them So, let's just add the reverb back I just added a little bit more gain and it kind of put me in mind of a very subtle kind of Jeff Beck sound Which inspired me a few weeks ago just to try and learn that style Nobody's ever gonna get close to Jeff, of course, but that kind of subtle Overdrive with some nice ambient stuff coming on Really nice inspirational tone there just to work around with that Jeff Beck feel Mistakes are free remember, especially when it's live like this, but you know, you get that really nice Cursive sound very useful The next sound I've done Let's see Nice kind of multi-tap delay So to get that really nice kind of So kind of the edge style sound you can get some really nice kind of If you play the same time as a lick that will fit the tempo you can get some really interesting things going on there But having that super wide stereo included is just astonishing for feel as a guitarist, you know Really quite cool The second sorry the fourth patch I've done is more of a kind of garage style punk sound So I've used a room reverb Even in such a small studio room like this, it really feels like you're in a garage Sounds great for that old-school kind of really cool man. It's a great punk sound and Same rules apply as everything else. You've probably seen on the net about ID series You can store up to 128 presets. That means 128 profiles of the your favorite amps Amps that you design as well. For example, you could have a really high gain sound with a very very compressed 6v6 Power tube That would normally only appear in a small American combo So you can really get some versatile things going on and really create the sound in your head that you're after for the recording or the live show More recently, I've gone on to the insider Community and created some newer patches I did a whole bunch of patches that are up there and if you search for black star product trainer You should find all of my patches and they've had thousands of downloads, which is really really cool And there's all sorts of stuff on there but more recently I've looked a little bit closer to some of our Indoor C's who have used our gear and are using black star live And they've used it in the past and it was really an interesting journey to kind of Look into some of the biggest hits and their songs and just get the lick down Try and match the amplifier that they would have been using and get that kind of tone and it's worked really really well It was quite a nice journey. I'm just going to show you a few now and scroll through on the on the laptop here Just bear with me a second and I'll see what crops up So we've got something like The very very cool cat Mr. Huey Morgan. I hope you're watching brother. Hey, hey So I've done like a patch called fun loving criminals if you want to search for it. This is the vibe I was going for So bear with me a second I'm just gonna get my FS 10 into effects mode and this will allow me to turn the tremolo that I've set on the patch on And off so if I just play I But simply I can Just turn it off like that. It's a really really nice tremolo Track see if you recognize it Cigar in there as well if you want, you know the song let's look at Some other stuff we've done so Steve Craddock good old Steve Craddock fellow Brummie like myself I've called the patch ocean color scene steves a massive fan and used artisan for a long long time with weller as well But a really nice big EL 84 tone So you get that real feel of that classic ocean color scene sound, you know That's kind of cool. I was happy with that one Let's see. What else we've got here Richie Sambora 80s guitar hero. I've called it Sambora when wet so it really looks at that kind of 80s 90s period of Sambora's tone That's really big delay there to kind of carry those big guitars. So is through What else we've got here? Tesla mr. Frank Hannon again another kind of 80s guy, but a real nice subtle series one type sound that he's currently using with Tesla To back it off and do some clean Great tone I saw those guys at download 2014 and that was really cool moments I love the band years ago, but that really big 80s kind of rock smooth distortion Mr. Gaskooms from Supergrass if I remember the lick a couple of weeks ago I did these patches so I I learned the licks at the time, but We are young we are free that kind of sound But check them out there's tons of stuff on there and I've recently uploaded so just look for black star product trainer Or look for those some of some of those patches I've just mentioned and you'll find me there, but there's some really interesting tones and they're all free of course the insider software Let's you have a log in on the online community and you can share and download patches for free as well as download official artist patches as well For example, let me show you something that I downloaded from mr. Tommy Henrickson is Alice Cooper's guitar player As well as the lovely neater, but this is kind of one that the schools out is done You know Downloaded that learnt the lick the intro lick anyway, and it was it was there So yeah, make sure you check them out and Please be aware that all the amplifiers that we have do constantly need to be looked at as regards firmware and software updates If you go into a store tomorrow, and I haven't got there yet I can't be everywhere at the same time and haven't updated the amp You might try an ID 260 and it might not quite be super wide stereo yet So that's important for you guys to know as well And I'll try and get everywhere I can in the UK especially And if any staff guys are watching any guys that work in stores Make sure you get insider on a laptop in the store on your own laptop And make sure the amps are up to date because it's really important to get those features across to people Because it really is a new level this amplifier was fantastic before it's even more fantastic now with the super wide stereo feature Okay, so Let me just show you briefly the the FS 10 Really sturdy unit Very very cheap for a night you for the cost of a night out less than night out You can get a really sturdy solid pedal to use with your ID series You can use a midi board as well as I mentioned earlier connected by a single jack to the rear of the amp This will give you your patch mode chromatic tuner all the rest of the stuff we discussed earlier. Very cool Okay, so onto the ID series the core You can probably see we've got my iPad here Now you can download an application on the iPad called garage band you've probably heard of it more than likely If you pay for the full version, which I think it's around about five five pounds In British sterling you get all the really clever Smart instruments so you get things like smart guitar smart bass smart drums importantly so you get a whole ton of drums to choose from and you can simply Select a kit that you like the sound of roll the dice And it will give you some different styles and you can copy and paste those parts Do some fills and you can instantly get a very very quick drum pattern to record with now Recently we did an experiment here at Blackstar By using the camera connection kit which gives the iPad a USB so my iPad at the moment has got the lightning connection Into the USB out there, which I've connected into the ID amplifier. So that's as easy as that is We've currently using the emulated line out as well, which will be the headphones out Just so you guys get a really good Imagery of the sound of what's going on. So if I just open garage band I've already pre-loaded a drum track Which I'll show you briefly Hopefully we'll get some some level Yes, that is coming from this small amplifier that sound They're amazing. You got to go to check them out and this is where super wide stereo Was born and now it's in the the big brother So I've selected a brief small drum pattern and this evening we're going to attempt to just jam over it and try and record Something I've got a couple of ideas that I want to I want to lay down. So we'll see how it goes But it's only a small small segment. So let me just show you the drum sound that I chose just to jam along with Nice and easy just a standard kind of rock rhythm if you like I'm going to choose One of my presets you can store up to six presets on ID core. I've got a really nice kind of ambient ambient sound there So I'm going to record with that first. I think Idea so we need to select a new recording tracks, which I'm going to do now Bear with me a moment Audio recorder, I'm going to select it to stereo. So we get the full range the amp and Then we're ready to go. So I'm just going to track some things to what happens That went pretty well just a little idea that I had so let's make sure it's down and it's it's happy with it And this is how easy is to just listen back through your core amp I'm going to choose a different preset now something with a little bit more crunch We need to select another track now. It's nice and easy. Just Open up another audio recorder Again select stereo So I've got my tone ready now. We're going to record along Okay, so I was happy with that just a couple of chord changes Now I'm going to play something over the top. Hopefully a bit of a lead break and we'll see what we can come up with So again, we need to add a new track This is all coming through the ID core garage band. Remember garage bands only around about five pounds lesson lesson some fishing chips and the ID core is very inexpensive for a small practice amp, but The super wide stereo the recording facilities the insider software Start to think about that and how much you know, you get a lot for your money Okay, so again select stereo so you want to hear how good the amp sounds and Let's get a little tone So I'm happy with that and we'll see what we can come up with lead-wise Let's listen to a full mix that was good enough good enough for rock and roll And we can get all the track up and Let's see how it sounds what we've recorded in the moment tonight. Okay, so I don't know about that last bit But certainly the rest sounded pretty musical to me. It was just a little idea. I put down So this is capable, you know a very very low-cost to get some demos down and some ideas So look into it. It's a really really great bit of fun to have So that's really it for this evening. Thank you very much for tuning in And if you're watching on YouTube at a later point remember to follow us on all the usual social media channels Subscribe to the YouTube channel to find out all up to the information Twitter Facebook Instagram and all the usual things if you need any help any further advice as regarding black star amps, whether it's our HT range of pedals right through to Artisan you can email me on steve.marks at blackstaramps.com And also if you want to just a general inquiry, it's inquiries at blackstaramps.com So we're going to leave you with a really new exclusive Product that is coming out for November and you don't need to be a guitarist to benefit from it So I'll leave you with that and we'll see you next time. Thank you very much for watching Keep it loud keep using amplifiers and write some new music and bring new bands out and keep rocking and rolling Cheers. Thank you