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Blackstar Amplification HT-5H
Eladan Eladan
Published on 05/01/10 at 09:44
All-tube amp head (some say it is not possible, I know, I know not enough)
-5w
-2 Channels (clean and overdrive)
3-band EQ + ISF
-Headphones
-Effects loop
Footswitch-

UTILIZATION

It is an amp head, the branch there and a guitar input jack on the speaker and it works: P
No handling complex, use the most banal.

SOUNDS

I use a Laney cabinet (LX412A) and an ESP MH-50
On the sound, the big point is the lamplight, shining sound much more than most of the heads I've tried with this price range.
ISF function is fulfilling its role and to switch dramatically from its very British to American sound to it and vice.
It can go from funk sound enough to metallica type sound without much too much on the settings.

There are two flaws for my taste:
-It lacks a bit of fat saturation mesa type (although it comes close when you push the gain in U.S. position, it falls a little east of the Atlantic is too bad ...)
The effects loop-which tends to compress the sound a bit.

OVERALL OPINION

◦ For how long have you been using it?
I use it for two months

◦ Did you try many other models before getting this one?
I tried just about everything in this price range for two days in paris with purchase

◦ What thing do you like most/least about it?
the more heat it generates
minimum, the compression effects loop
the "no coment" the little cable to the footswitch ...

◦ What is your opinion about the value for the price?
Hard to beat

◦ Knowing what you know now, would you make the same choice? ...
I think I would take a slightly more powerful model in the hope that some defects noticed on this head are corrected:)
+ Any lamp head
+ Clarity of sound
+ Function ISF
+ Headphones (which lets you use your head without speaker)
- The ISF works less well when you push the gain
- Compression level footswitch