[Comments] Latest Comments from Ultimate-Guitar.Com. en-us Copyright 1998-2013 Ultimate-Guitar.Com. All rights reserved. http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/guitar_amplifiers/blackstar/ht-1r/index.html webmaster@ultimate-guitar.com Wed, 09 Mar 2011 02:58:00 -0500 Fri, 22 Mar 2013 21:20:50 -0400 60 Ultimate-Guitar.Com http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/img/logo_rss.gif http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/ 144 44 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/guitar_amplifiers/blackstar/ht-1r/index.html#u_1 POSTED: 03/09/2011 06:08am]]> Comments Wed, 09 Mar 2011 06:08:42 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/guitar_amplifiers/blackstar/ht-1r/index.html#u_2 I am trying to save for one ASAP

cheers.....Dave
POSTED: 03/09/2011 07:06am]]> Comments Wed, 09 Mar 2011 07:06:13 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/guitar_amplifiers/blackstar/ht-1r/index.html#u_3
POSTED: 03/09/2011 07:42am]]> Comments Wed, 09 Mar 2011 07:42:58 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/guitar_amplifiers/blackstar/ht-1r/index.html#u_4 POSTED: 03/09/2011 08:39am]]> Comments Wed, 09 Mar 2011 08:39:24 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/guitar_amplifiers/blackstar/ht-1r/index.html#u_5 POSTED: 03/09/2011 09:44am]]> Comments Wed, 09 Mar 2011 09:44:00 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/guitar_amplifiers/blackstar/ht-1r/index.html#u_6 POSTED: 03/09/2011 09:49am]]> Comments Wed, 09 Mar 2011 09:49:16 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/guitar_amplifiers/blackstar/ht-1r/index.html#u_7 POSTED: 03/09/2011 10:14am]]> Comments Wed, 09 Mar 2011 10:14:50 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/guitar_amplifiers/blackstar/ht-1r/index.html#u_8 Danslash wrote:

Yeah i played the 40w Venue series blackstar all tube in the store, and wow!! Even the guitar tech there said marshall should watch these guys they are making some serious shit!!!

Kinda disagree with ya there dude. I bought a Blackstar 60 Watt Venue Combo a couple of months ago and sent it back within 3 days, couldn't get a good distortion sound out of it, had no crunch at all. Incidently, I bought a Marshall JVM 50 Watt Combo instead and think it's so much better than the Blackstar. Just my opinion of course, but the Marshall is FAR more versatile.
POSTED: 03/09/2011 11:46am]]> Comments Wed, 09 Mar 2011 11:46:03 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/guitar_amplifiers/blackstar/ht-1r/index.html#u_9 POSTED: 03/09/2011 12:04pm]]> Comments Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:04:44 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/guitar_amplifiers/blackstar/ht-1r/index.html#u_10 CharvelDude94 wrote:

Danslash wrote:

Yeah i played the 40w Venue series blackstar all tube in the store, and wow!! Even the guitar tech there said marshall should watch these guys they are making some serious shit!!!

Kinda disagree with ya there dude. I bought a Blackstar 60 Watt Venue Combo a couple of months ago and sent it back within 3 days, couldn't get a good distortion sound out of it, had no crunch at all. Incidently, I bought a Marshall JVM 50 Watt Combo instead and think it's so much better than the Blackstar. Just my opinion of course, but the Marshall is FAR more versatile.

i had this problem, rung blackstar up and talked to them, lower the channel volumes ALL the way down, and boost the master volume... the crunch is unbelievable!
POSTED: 03/09/2011 12:14pm]]> Comments Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:14:35 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/guitar_amplifiers/blackstar/ht-1r/index.html#u_11 POSTED: 03/09/2011 12:46pm]]> Comments Wed, 09 Mar 2011 12:46:13 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/guitar_amplifiers/blackstar/ht-1r/index.html#u_12 POSTED: 03/09/2011 02:06pm]]> Comments Wed, 09 Mar 2011 14:06:41 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/guitar_amplifiers/blackstar/ht-1r/index.html#u_13 POSTED: 03/09/2011 02:30pm]]> Comments Wed, 09 Mar 2011 14:30:29 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/guitar_amplifiers/blackstar/ht-1r/index.html#u_14 CharvelDude94 wrote:

Danslash wrote:

Yeah i played the 40w Venue series blackstar all tube in the store, and wow!! Even the guitar tech there said marshall should watch these guys they are making some serious shit!!!

Kinda disagree with ya there dude. I bought a Blackstar 60 Watt Venue Combo a couple of months ago and sent it back within 3 days, couldn't get a good distortion sound out of it, had no crunch at all. Incidently, I bought a Marshall JVM 50 Watt Combo instead and think it's so much better than the Blackstar. Just my opinion of course, but the Marshall is FAR more versatile.

I have the stage 60 and it took me a lot of messing around to get a good tone out of it, the knobs act in kinda weird ways but you can get some great distortion out of it.
POSTED: 03/09/2011 05:43pm]]> Comments Wed, 09 Mar 2011 17:43:35 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/guitar_amplifiers/blackstar/ht-1r/index.html#u_15 POSTED: 03/09/2011 07:50pm]]> Comments Wed, 09 Mar 2011 19:50:01 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/guitar_amplifiers/blackstar/ht-1r/index.html#u_16 it has that touch of class you get in a Marshall amp, in design wise and sound terms, its really up there with them, having tried in the shop both a 100W Mg Marshall SS, and a Blackstar 40w tube amp.

the review looses all credibility at that point.

POSTED: 03/09/2011 11:31pm]]> Comments Wed, 09 Mar 2011 23:31:58 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/guitar_amplifiers/blackstar/ht-1r/index.html#u_17 theogonia777 :
the review looses all credibility at that point.
Your complaint loses all credibility at that point.
POSTED: 03/10/2011 12:08am]]> Comments Thu, 10 Mar 2011 00:08:49 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/guitar_amplifiers/blackstar/ht-1r/index.html#u_18 not an All-Tube Signal Path. Some pretty obvious clipping diodes in the schematic. Only way a 1-watt amp can have as much gain as the HT-1 does.

Therefore it's actually a hybrid. Just a particularly... odd type of hybrid. The HT-5 does the same to a certain degree.
POSTED: 03/10/2011 12:47am]]> Comments Thu, 10 Mar 2011 00:47:44 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/guitar_amplifiers/blackstar/ht-1r/index.html#u_19

GUS g Playing one of these!!!!
POSTED: 03/11/2011 06:50am]]> Comments Fri, 11 Mar 2011 06:50:41 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/guitar_amplifiers/blackstar/ht-1r/index.html#u_20
Anyway anyone wanna check GUS G playing this amp, you tube "gus g ht"
POSTED: 03/11/2011 07:04am]]> Comments Fri, 11 Mar 2011 07:04:55 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/guitar_amplifiers/blackstar/ht-1r/index.html#u_21 i loved the combo , but i like the mini stack even better!!!
POSTED: 03/16/2011 07:23pm]]> Comments Wed, 16 Mar 2011 19:23:05 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/guitar_amplifiers/blackstar/ht-1r/index.html#u_22
Nice full cleans, you can really push the tubes on the clean channel for a nice real crunchy overdrive. The distortion channel also gets nice and heavy so it can do classic metal and thrash metal nicely.

I think a cab would really let it open up. I got the HT-1, and the internal speaker does the job, better than what I had but it's obviously not going to keep up with heavy riffs in drop C with tons of bass and gain through it. However, the HT-1 can be used as a head and is one of the cheapest entry points into valves.

It's also more than loud enough for home. I just cranked it the first day and my right ear was squealing all night XD. The cleans don't go very loud, not a lot of breakup there, usable for the bedroom though as long as others aren't making too much noise nearby, but overdriven it can cause some damage.

The materials, feel and look of it all suggest solid quality. Better than you'd expect for the money, and the thing's heavier than it looks.

So yeah in short... need a practice amp for harder rock, but sick of all the all you can eat digital stuff? Want something that sounds natural and has it's own unique tone? Want a fun little toy? Then it's worth a look.

Full review after I've had a chance to get to know it a bit more.
POSTED: 05/03/2011 07:13am]]> Comments Tue, 03 May 2011 07:13:04 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/guitar_amplifiers/blackstar/ht-1r/index.html#u_23 POSTED: 05/11/2011 12:28pm]]> Comments Wed, 11 May 2011 12:28:13 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/guitar_amplifiers/blackstar/ht-1r/index.html#u_24 anyone know if this amp can do metallica black album sound without pedals

No. How would you scoop the mids?
POSTED: 07/09/2011 02:14am]]> Comments Sat, 09 Jul 2011 02:14:36 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/guitar_amplifiers/blackstar/ht-1r/index.html#u_25
Still want to try it through a cab to see how much of a difference it makes but it's loud distorted.

If you do a lot of clean stuff or want something that can take pedals a bit better, the HT-5 might be a better look, but it's significantly more expensive and you may have more options at that price point.

As a practice amp, the HT1 sounds great.
POSTED: 07/12/2011 11:18pm]]> Comments Tue, 12 Jul 2011 23:18:44 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/guitar_amplifiers/blackstar/ht-1r/index.html#u_26 POSTED: 07/14/2011 01:45am]]> Comments Thu, 14 Jul 2011 01:45:10 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/guitar_amplifiers/blackstar/ht-1r/index.html#u_27
POSTED: 07/26/2011 03:55am]]> Comments Tue, 26 Jul 2011 03:55:25 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/guitar_amplifiers/blackstar/ht-1r/index.html#u_28
POSTED: 08/02/2011 12:50am]]> Comments Tue, 02 Aug 2011 00:50:44 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/guitar_amplifiers/blackstar/ht-1r/index.html#u_29 POSTED: 09/06/2011 10:55pm]]> Comments Tue, 06 Sep 2011 22:55:31 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/guitar_amplifiers/blackstar/ht-1r/index.html#u_30 drawnacrol wrote:

Great review, I'm eager to try out one of these, I'm always dissapointed when I try recording line-out on amps but I've heard great things about this amp
the line out one these sucks like all line outs, but apart from that, it's truly awesome.
POSTED: 11/18/2011 03:20pm]]> Comments Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:20:24 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/guitar_amplifiers/blackstar/ht-1r/index.html#u_31 POSTED: 03/20/2012 02:57pm]]> Comments Tue, 20 Mar 2012 14:57:22 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/guitar_amplifiers/blackstar/ht-1r/index.html#u_32 the "entry level amp" is not fixed, but "trashed" and replaced with a new one. weeks later I recieved my second new amp. The reverb was non-functional. I had been in touch with Bruce Kier, head engineer, Blackstar Amplification twice before getting the second bad amp. When I e-mailed Blackstar about the
failure of their "automated end of line quality checkwith regerds to my non-functional reverb, there was, and has been no reply since. After almost 2 months I received my third new amp. When I got it home,
after my dealer assured me that they hjad checked this one out themselves, I noticed a "clunk' when I set it down. i could hear and feel something large and loose on the inside. I figured this time that some Chinese assembler had left a wrench or some other tool on the oinside. Silly me ! The speaker was attached by only one of the 4 threaded studs. The one that was attached was only tightened down half of the way. There were no signs of any lost nuts for tyhe other three studs. How that speaker got banged around in shipping without puncturing the cone I'll never know. This time I told myself screw the warranty, and I fixed the damned thing myself. The speaker mounts to cheap fiber board
and was a bitch to work with. I used plenty of glue and screw. Beware if you take the back/control panel off. Besides the 9 screws in the back, there are two hidden screws. They go through the handle bracket, closest to the back of the amp. I did notice that iinstead of the cheap Sovteks that were in the first two amps, they had switched to TADS. Now the only problem is that the clean channel has less than half of the volume as the high gain channel. This amp made
amp of the year(NAMM). Entry level ? I paid $300.00 for the first one. Even an "entry level" Chevrolet is expected to function, not to mention be fully assembled. I would bet the amp that made amp of the year was a real special pick. I couldn't believe the Chinese assembler or inspector signed his name to the one with the "dangling" speaker.It was sold to me as a "tube amp". I know enough to have realized that it was a hybrid. Yea, "hybrid". Two tubes and...1 X 28 pin I.C.,(un-identifiable by it's numbers), 7 x 8 pin
un-marked I.C.'s, small signal transistors, and 2 X STK 830 power transistors(which I haven't been able to find out squat about. That ain't just to run the reverb and the I.S.F. OH, I almost forgot. When I opened the third amp up, the 12ax7 was not but barely plugged in. The bail was not fastened and i can't believe that the tube didn't arc at the socket when tested. That's if they did test it, which I wouldn't care to bet on. I'm going to dump the "bomb" waiting to blow, and build an all tube MOD 102 kit that uses all tubes. It
'll be hand wired without the Oriental touch. Class A,
S.E., cathode biased, 12axy pre-amp and EL-84 output.
Cost is $250.00. The Blackstar folks should be ashamed.
I can see anybody making a lemon, but one customer getting three in a row, and having an amp approximately one half of the year is crap. My review.....Buyer Beware. If you are a praying man.....

POSTED: 08/02/2012 11:38pm]]> Comments Thu, 02 Aug 2012 23:38:46 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/guitar_amplifiers/blackstar/ht-1r/index.html#u_33
cheers
POSTED: 08/12/2012 09:46pm]]> Comments Sun, 12 Aug 2012 21:46:30 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/guitar_amplifiers/blackstar/ht-1r/index.html#u_34 POSTED: 09/15/2012 03:33pm]]> Comments Sat, 15 Sep 2012 15:33:24 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/guitar_amplifiers/blackstar/ht-1r/index.html#u_35 POSTED: 11/06/2012 04:04am]]> Comments Tue, 06 Nov 2012 04:04:49 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/guitar_amplifiers/blackstar/ht-1r/index.html#u_36 POSTED: 12/01/2012 09:37am]]> Comments Sat, 01 Dec 2012 09:37:27 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/guitar_amplifiers/blackstar/ht-1r/index.html#u_37 POSTED: 12/12/2012 05:44pm]]> Comments Wed, 12 Dec 2012 17:44:21 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/guitar_amplifiers/blackstar/ht-1r/index.html#u_38
POSTED: 12/28/2012 12:40pm]]> Comments Fri, 28 Dec 2012 12:40:21 -0500 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/guitar_amplifiers/blackstar/ht-1r/index.html#u_39 POSTED: 03/22/2013 09:20pm]]> Comments Fri, 22 Mar 2013 21:20:50 -0400