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Rating And Reviews: Blackstar HT-1RH Amp Head

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"Great practice amp for bedroom rockstars." submitted March 3, 2011

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Music Style: Rock, Metal
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Sound: Great overdriven tones at low volumes. Only complaint it that the amp has a slight hum or noise. Once you are playing you don't notice it, but if you take a break it will hum. My Blackheart Killer Ant is quiet. Feature: A one watt head with a clean and a(push button)overdrive channel, reverb, headphone jack, and a CD/mp3 input jack. Lots of features for a one watt tube amp. ISF know to go from American amps to British amps in no time. My other amp is Blackheart Killer Ant which has only a volume knob. Love it but it's limited to changing up the sound without pedals. If I could ask for one extra feature it would be the option to add a footswith for the overdrive channel. Ease of Use: Very easy to dial in a good sound. Quality: Well built and solid as a tank. Value: Well worth it to me. I love my Killer Ant one watt head, but it is nice having the HT-1hr because of the options. Manufacturer Support: I had ordered the HT-1HR after watching several youtube videos and reading up on it. I found out (from the blackstar site and online manual) after ordering that it only supports 8ohm output. Bummer I thought because I wanted to use a 16ohm cab I had. When I got the amp the back of it said 4-16ohm output. I was confused. I emailed Blackstar and called Korg(USA Blackstar support). Korg answered my questions that I was good to go with cabs 4-16ohms. Blackstar replied 2 days later. The manual and site should be updated but I got my answer from support. The Wow Factor: Awesome amp! I'm a guitarist for fun and hobby. The HT-1hr give me that rockstar looking amp in an apartment. I don't need and cannot use a 100 watt Marshal.I do perfer tube amps and now I can get that sound of a stack at levels that won't get me evicted. Overall: I have had the killer ant for over a year now. Love it. I'm in a long distance relationship and wanted to split my killer stack up; take the BH head and one cab to my gf's house and use the other cab and with the HT-1hr at my place. Eventually I'll get the Blackstar cabs to go with this. This is not for playing with a band its for us guys that want to be rockstars in our bedrooms.
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"great tone, great sounding reverb" submitted May 19, 2012

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Overall: just bought it. My goal - a great sounding low wattage amp to add to my multi-amp setup primarily for studio use. It fits the bill for sure, and complements the sound of the Tiny Terror beautifully (and other amps in my setup nicely too). Tone - If I take one amp with me (plus a cab) to jams and small gigs, this could turn out superceding the Tiny Terror which is currently my favourite. But if possible I would like to bring both and run them in my stereo recto 4x12. Low wattage tone - people sometimes think they should use a small cab but these amps really kill through at least a 2x12 and preferably a nice broken in 4x12 w/ V30s! Sound - Articulation and definition are excellent, the "EQ" is far more useful than I imagined it would be (sounded kinda gimmicky but it really does what it says), and the reverb is incredible sounding - something that was missing from my existing bare-bones rig (I don't use many effects). Sweet blooming tone, batman! I've only had it for a few days but I know tone and better, I know the tone I love, this contributes to my rig very nicely. I think it would be a great amp for a person who wants to practice or do jams, with some good features that make it a really interesting practice amp...many small practice amps fall so short in the tone department...this is great big tube tone with breakup at small volumes. I don't know how much of the signal path is digital vs. tube but whatever it is, it sounds full and thick, not buzzy like many other amps I've tried (even bigger ones). Great value and great tone.
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