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Introduction
Thank you for purchasing this Blackstar HT METAL amplifier. Like all our products,
this amp is the result of countless hours of painstaking Research and Development
by our world-class design team. Based in Northampton (UK), the Blackstar team
are all experienced musicians themselves and the sole aim of the development
process is to provide guitarists with products which are the ultimate tools for self-
expression.
All Blackstar products are subjected to extensive laboratory and road testing to
ensure that they are truly uncompromising in terms of reliability, quality and above
all TONE.
If you like what you hear and want to find out more about the Blackstar range of
products please visit our website at www.blackstaramps.com
Thanks!
The Blackstar Team
Features
The HT METAL valve amplifier equips you with everything you need to deliver a huge
range of tones, from crystalline cleans to bone crushing, ultra high gain filth.
The Clean Channel has two modes - ‘boutique’ and ‘modern’ - and its own Bass
and Treble tone controls, providing the widest possible range of clean tones. The
Voice switch reconfigures both the preamplifier voicing and gain structure, and also
the power amplifier damping to reproduce either ringing Class A performance in the
‘boutique’ mode, or very clean and tight Class AB tones in the ‘modern’ setting.
The HT METAL has two overdrive/distortion channels which share a common EQ
section providing a broad palette of overdriven metal tones.
The overdrive channels are characterised by a tone which is high in gain, but lacks
any of the detached top-end ‘fizz’ often found in similar designs. This is a result
of unique preamplifier and power amplifier shaping techniques. Even at the most
extreme settings, the overdrive channels remain natural sounding.
The patented ISF (Infinite Shape Feature) control is unique to Blackstar Amplification
and represents a major step forward in tone shaping flexibility. The ISF control shifts
the response of the three control tone stack taking you from classic British heavy
metal to modern US scooped high gain. Importantly, in between the two extremes
lie an infinite number of alternative tone choices.
The amplifier also features a completely natural sounding digital reverb, which is
outstandingly musical on both clean and crunch tones and raises the benchmark for
guitar amplifier specific reverb design. A Dark/Bright switch allows the overall reverb
characteristics to be modified to suit different tastes.
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