 Hey everybody, I'm Vince Gill. Just having a good time checking out some cool new amps. Hello, my name is Laura Jermits. Devin Gelfillion. Sather Vaden. Claire Dunn. Sam Johnson. Justin Eason. Michael Carter. Kenny Greenberg. Max Brown. Lace Vaughn Johnson. Colby Thompson. I'm in Nashville, Tennessee, and we're checking out some Blackstar amps. Is this legal? This is cool, man. That's fucking light. Ooh, okay. Oh wow. Oh, that's nice. Shut up. It's so light! That's insane. No, no. Any time I pick up in half, I'm just like ready. I'm ready for it. Oh yeah, it's pretty nice. Glad I didn't work out today. Oh man. That's nothing. Oh my gosh. Yeah, that's a cheat code right there. Oh my god. That's amazing. How is it that light? What the... That literally is a lunchbox. Like, lunchbox size head, and it feels like a lunchbox. No weight to that. You've never had pimento cheese? I don't think so. Dude, you're missing out. Let's start with the 2 watt, I guess. All right. Right now it's on the 50 watt mode. And the way how I have the EQs set up right now. A lot of amplifiers, especially on 50 watt, would sound really harsh and brittle. And this is not the case at all, which is positive. And this is on 50. And that's the 2. Oh, we're still on 2 watts. It's kind of cool that you can get that. That's the 50 watt. Yeah, I could do with that sound right there. Is that 2 watts or 22? 2. 2 watts. That's more 30. And then it goes down to 2. Man, that's awesome. Crunchy. I really love the crunch on the distortion on this amp. Tuning an option? No, I'm kidding. You prefer it to be in tune? Oh, that's the other channel. It's really good. You know, if I had one, I might be playing 2 watts a lot. Like, that's 2 watts just all the way up on channel 1. You've got the 2 watt mode, which tames this, uh, tames the output of this. But I like the sag. I'm interested to try the sag feature on this, especially because you were saying it adds a little bit more compression. Oh, yeah, that, that's... Yep, that's, that's how I would run that, for sure. That sounds, that plays great, feels there. And honestly, I have the EQs almost at noon. I think I have a, yeah, just a little bit less on the bass and a little boost on the treble. A little bit more of a modern clean, I think. Super woofy. That's awesome. Okay, hold on, let's turn that a little bit down. It's really nice. It's really cool. I'd love to hear this on a big stage and just get that. It's got all that vintage woof that I love, but it's super clear. It's got a lot of clarity. Go to channel 2. Let's see what channel 2 sounds like. Bites. It's got a bite, man. Yeah, a lot of sustain. I'm trying to gain all the way up. Yeah. And then there's a boost too. That's almost so crazy that there's even more than that. Well, one thing's for sure, you don't need any more overdrive with these amps. They, they pump, man. Wow, this is cool, man. It's got some kind of like, it's got a growl to it that I really like. And then if you don't want that, you can just take the, the bass down a bit, which is kind of nice. Sick. I like the reverb too. It's nice because you can get a really, you can get a great chug out of this amp without it feeling like, I don't know, some amps you plug into, you just want it to be super clean when you're chugging. And this is really nice, but it's got a growl to it. That, I'd have got no pedals. So sometimes you have to use pedal like that a lot. Yeah, that's cool. She's warming up to me. Starts to glisten now. I know. Well, it's a guitar will do it to you. So will an amp. It'll make you play it like they want it to be played. Always been that way. Okay. So this is the EL34 version of the same head. So much richness and that familiar EL34 rattle that I love. It doesn't have as much gain, but the way I would use this, it doesn't need to have it. Although it's not, it's not sure. It's just a different flavor. And if you keep this one dialed back, this is a great kind of alternative. Yeah, those two together would be just probably one of my favorite guitar sounds ever here. Hear how that was got a little more sustained to sustain. I like that. It sings a little bit more. That's my kind of clean to me. My kind of clean is not clean. Basically, that's awesome, man. Wow. They're awesome. Do they really are that is putting out a wall of noise to for 50 Watts for sure. You really hear hear it on this when you hit that. Yeah. It doesn't get as distorted as the other one does. It might be with the gain. You might have to turn the gain up. I like it. I'm seeing kind of like it now. It does the cleanup really good. Great. Is it fun to play? Yeah. This is really fun to play. Dude, this thing sounds insane. Yeah, that sag channel is ridiculous. Goodness gracious. When are you guys cooking over there in England? Good God, I've never been a guy that's played like dual channel amps and man, I'm getting my mind changed a little bit over here. Like it's it's hard to say no that overdrive channel. Like it's it's high gain. Yeah, but it's it's got like that that cut and still like tasteful warmth. Like it's it's it's not a metal amp. You know, it's it's not like that monitor. It's like almost it's hard to describe other than it just responds here playing so well and makes you just want to make you want to keep picking up the guitar and just playing things. Just see where else you can go, you know, man, just like a really nice breakup for 6L6 is feel like I have like a ton of control over. I don't know. It's a huge range of tonal capabilities for 6L6 amp. You know what I mean? It really does like accomplish. I can't imagine needing more overdrive than that or more distortion than that. You know, again, I'm really I'm really impressed with how just how warm these clean channels are. Um, yeah, I was getting some plexi vibes from this. I mean, this is kind of ideally like basically sounds just like what my clean clean channel is modeled after. Just out of the gate. I mean, would I spend two seconds twisting knobs? You know, I'm brought the mids up a little bit and that's really it. I mean, just even out of assuming out of the box, you know, everything at noon. This is great. Wow. That second channel is that has a lot of body to it and a lot of character. Like the mid range on that is just so prominent. I it's very warm as well. Like I the amount of punch that's coming out of it is like I I'm almost speech almost speechless on how these things are sounding that boost is almost that's awesome. These must be spring tank reverbs like real ones. No, that's digital. Feels awesome. I like the reverb because it's some reverbs on amps like you love and some you don't. I really like that one. It's it's it's got the roominess it needs, but it's not too roomy and it's got the what's the word I'm looking for the length of the reverb I like to. Yeah, it's got a sparkle to it. Yeah, but you don't get on a lot of amps. You said it's a digital reverb, right? I guess it's really cool. This is just it sounds like a classic spring verb. It does. I'm a you know, I'm a soul guy so I need I need a clean like beautiful sexy reverb and and all of these guys have that which I was very much craving. I don't even know which one is better. I mean it passed the test usually I have trouble with this guitar being too bright, but I mean, I don't even have the tone rolled off or anything. It's just beautiful sick super sick. This amp has enough push where like usually I'm searching for that extra edge. This has the extra edge and I'm not blowing smoke. I seriously mean it like that tone right there is like so good they react really really well and if anyone knows me they know I'm more of like a P90 reaction but playing this less Paul like it already has that breath to it and has a little bit more of an openness. And when I hit the notes it's instant and they bloom really nice. There's something about the bloom especially on this that it's like the more you push it it doesn't kind of feed into itself and actually blooms out which is really sick usually an amp like this you'd think it would just collapse you know you'd hit it and it just kind of dump in but this is this is a badass amp. I feel like I could probably take that thing and go play any gig anywhere right now. It's that good. I'm all about vibe and feel and that makes me want to play it. That's really cool. That's sick. How do I get one? You know a guy. Yeah I would I would say the tones these amps are so versatile you know I love Jimi Hendrix. I love to jump into the rock and roll world. So having the clean and having some dirty gritty nasty crunchy distortion is exactly what I need. So these are awesome with that. I dig it. I think the this this line of Black Star amps. I think the logo looks fantastic for one. I love the the backlit logo. I love the font just aesthetically it looks really inviting and then I think that these are extremely usable amps. You have the 6L6 version and a combo and a head and and cab and then you've got the EL34 for your more British voice stuff and I mean you if you could run one of each and you wouldn't need another amplifier. You know and I think having the options of it in a combo and a head and cabinet just gives players you know just that more options. It's I don't know. I just like it a lot after playing them. I mean they remind me of so many they just remind me of a great amp. They are a great amp to me. They go country real quick in my opinion. So can I get one of these. Okay. Hell yeah. Yeah man these things are killer great weight and I just can't get over how good it sounds. I almost would say if I had to make a choice today I would say I like Channel 2 of that and I like Channel 1 of that but I don't dislike Channel 1 on that. Fuck I wish I had an hour to sit here and mess with the damn thing. I wouldn't need another amp if I was playing one of these you know and I I could see myself really leaving my overdrive distortion pedals at home with this. The reverb sounds great. There's two channels plus a boost or a voicing depending on which one you plugged into and man the clean sound is beautiful. Having the IR out too is huge for me. You know I drag a universal audio aux box to most of my gigs so that I can do speaker simulation get a direct line out and I'd leave it at home with this you know that'd be huge for me. You guys are going to tell me when these come out right. Yeah I don't really I really have no harsh criticism my friend I'm sorry I don't know if that's what you wanted anyhow I mean aesthetically I like them both I like vintage looking stuff I mean all my 60 slant cabs have the like the sort of tweed whatever it's called so I aesthetically I like this a lot this is exactly where my eyes go is something like this you know like running two or three of these and then like you know a B or like one two three or some combination of you know. But I mean they sound great I mean the selections in here fucking awesome so lightweight sounds great has all these actually both of them have an amazing high gain tone they have the feel of a vintage. And then you also get the flexibility of being able to play silently and actually be able to mess with the cabinets of what can be going through I'm sold. I think I need to go home and mess with my finances so when these come out I can get me get me one of them can I have one please like what do I got to do. You have any you have any higher positions at Blackstar because I could I'll be down.