 The Artist Series takes the sonic DNA and boutique tone from Artisan with the added modern twist for flexibility. The Artist 15 and Artist 30 both set a new standard for tone and simplicity. At the heart of the Artist Series lies a unique power amplifier design that harnesses the tonal qualities of the revered 6L6 valve. The Blackstar design team behind the original Artisan have very carefully distilled that original heritage and have created an amplifier without standard dynamics or only associated with the USA 6L6 design. Whilst adding the chime and shimmer of a classic British Class A amplifier. In addition, the feature set includes two ECC83s for our preamp section and two 6L6s in the power amp stage. Whilst Celestion V type speakers bring the noise, each channel can be set to either a clean channel or a classic overdrive channel. With the emphasis on simplicity and sonic purity, every feature has been refined to allow the musician total freedom in shaping their own sound. Channel 1's stripped down design is simplicity itself. The volume and tone controls offer just the right amount of adjustment on the drive level and the treble frequencies to drive the power amp beautifully. Here the emphasis is on signal integrity. The nuances of your guitar, pedal and playing style will cut through with awesome clarity. Channel 2 offers a new level of clean and crunch flexibility. This channel features Blackstar's patent ISF control, so you as the player have the widest possible variation in tone available. The artist is the perfect clean platform to build your pedal board around. As with all Blackstar products, reliability is paramount and the artist range has been subject to countless hours of endurance testing both in the lab and in live performance. This means you can rely on the artist night after night in the most demanding gig environments. The flexibility, tone and quality are delivered with visual elegance, worthy of the world's greatest stages and performers. From the metallic thread in the classic paper fret to the embossed Blackstar detail on the luxury carrying strap, nothing has been left to chance in delivering the artist amplifiers from Blackstar. A new classic.