It's here! NAD!

[Eric]

Well???

 

[FrankenFretter]

 

[FrankenFretter]

 

[FrankenFretter]

Okay, I'm starting to feel guilty for keeping Eric up past his bedtime. It's a Blackstar HT-5! Whoo hooo! My apologies to Jason; I had already ordered this before you mentioned getting one. I didn't mean to steal your thunder.

By the way, I got this from the "Used" section of MF. Looks like it's a factory blem; the carrying handle has a slight "cut" in it. Not bad at all. I love factory blems!

 

[Eric]

Whoa, congrats! I tried one of them recently and liked it a lot.

 

[FrankenFretter]

Thanks, Eric. I really like it so far. I've got it running through my 1 x 12 Epi VJ cab, but I think I'll migrate it over to the 2 x 12 where the Night Train is sitting now. Yes, the Night Train has been dethroned for the moment.

Impressions so far from playing for about 45 minutes; the tone controls are WAY more responsive than my Night Train's. The Infinite Shape Feature, which is meant to shift the tone between British and American is pretty sweet. So far, I like it about in the middle, but slightly toward the UK side. The clean channel, as I expected, sounds really "sweet", but there's not a whole lot of clean headroom. It sounds best with alnico pickup guitars and the volume turned down a bit on the guitar itself. Diming the gain on the OD brings out the beast, and it sounds mean as hell. It doesn't sound like my Marshall, though. It might be the speaker, or just the fact that it hasn't broken in yet, but I still think the Marshall is king of high-gain.

Tomorrow I'm going to try using a jumper between the effects loop in and out, and see if that makes a difference. Might try some pedals in front of it, too.

 

[Spudman]

Oooo! Toob amph!! Sweet. :dance

Congrats. Those are pretty nice from what I hear.

 

[MAXIFUNK]

SWEET!!!!!! Can not wait to hear how your honeymoon period goes and the pros and cons of the amp.

 

[sunvalleylaw]

Nice! I was going to say the 5 Watt Blackheart Little Giant. I was kinda close in a way I guess.

 

[oldguy]

Congrats!

I bet that'll sound great turned up to 11..........!!!

 

[duhvoodooman]

Nice! Quite a range of tones in those little beasts, I understand. And an effects loop--very useful!

 

[bcdon]

So how are you digging your new amph?

 

[FrankenFretter]

So how are you digging your new amph?

I'm liking it a lot, Don. It seems to be more versatile tonewise than the Night Train. I did spend some time on the NT last night, after changing the power tubes. Might be just the power of suggestion, but it seems to sound throatier. They're both really great amphs!

 

[marnold]

If they wouldn't have raised the price on those, I would have one and wouldn't have known about the Jet City. I played the little mini-stack with two cabs and liked it a lot.

 

[NWBasser]

My apologies to Jason; I had already ordered this before you mentioned getting one. I didn't mean to steal your thunder.

I'm not certain that I'll get one yet.

I've been eyeing this:


http://www.avatarspeakers.com/

The TB153 bass cab.