Blackstar HT40
40 tube watts with Blackstar's ISF voicing — sweeps from American punch to British crunch.
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The Twin for headroom, the Marshall for crunch, the AC30 for chime — over 60 amps and cabinets from Fender, Marshall, Mesa/Boogie, Vox, Peavey, and Orange, each serviced and stage-ready. Add to your quote, or call and tell us the tone.
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40 tube watts with Blackstar's ISF voicing — sweeps from American punch to British crunch.
The 100-watt red-knob Twin — massive clean headroom and a surprisingly mean drive channel. Two in the fleet.
The silverface-styled Deluxe with a modified Bassman tone stack — a little looser, a little friendlier to pedals.
The tweed that started it all — the '59 Bassman reissue with four 10s, as happy under a Strat as a harmonica mic. Two in the fleet.
40 tube watts of warm Fender clean with a usable drive channel. A session workhorse — two in the fleet.
The Blues Deluxe's bigger brother with a pair of 12s — more headroom, more air. Two in the fleet.
60 tube watts through four 10s — tweed-voiced punch that fills a room without a mic. Three in the fleet.
The refined Blues Junior — tighter low end, smoother reverb, still one-hand portable. Two in the fleet.
The most recorded amp in history, arguably — 22 watts of blackface chime that breaks up right where you want it. Six in the fleet, because every rider asks.
40 watts, one 12, three channels — the club standard that shows up on every backline list. Four in the fleet.
60 watts with two 12s — Hot Rod grind with extra headroom for bigger rooms. Four in the fleet.
The 4x10 DeVille — Fender punch with a tweed-style speaker complement. Four in the fleet.
12 watts of pure studio magic — the amp engineers ask for by name. Three in the fleet.
45 watts through four 10s — the blues bandstand classic with shimmering blackface top end. Two in the fleet.
The clean machine — 85 watts of blackface headroom that takes every pedal you throw at it. Seven in the fleet, and they still book out.
The vintage silverface Twin — the real deal for sessions chasing that era. Four in the fleet.
35 watts, two 10s — the middle ground between a Deluxe and a Super, with lush vibrato.
Two channels from glassy clean to full roar — the 100-watt DSL that covers whole set lists. Four in the fleet.
The triple-channel TSL — clean, crunch, and lead on tap at 100 watts. Two in the fleet.
The sound of the '80s stage — the 50-watt JCM800 head that defined British crunch. Two in the fleet.
The 100-watt 4100 dual reverb — the JCM900 that toured the world. Three in the fleet.
The 50-watt JCM900 — hot-rodded Marshall gain with master-volume control.
The high-gain SLX — extra preamp stage for saturated leads without losing the Marshall bark.
The modern Marshall — 50 watts, two channels, three modes each, from vintage crunch to contemporary high gain.
The modern high-gain benchmark — the Dual Rectifier chunk that defined a generation of heavy records.
150 watts of Rectifier — more headroom, more low end, for the biggest stages and the heaviest tunings.
30 class-A watts of British grind in a 2x12 combo — the Orange sound without the full stack.
50 tube watts with a tweed soul — the sleeper amp that covers blues, country, and rock dates.
The pedal steel standard — clean, loud, and voiced for steel. Country sessions know it on sight.
The updated Nashville — more power and refinement for steel and clean electric work.
The jazz guitarist's amp — warm, dark, and clean at any volume. The sound of a hundred jazz records.
Trace Elliot's acoustic combo — clean, feedback-resistant amplification for acoustic guitar dates.
The bigger Trace acoustic — 200 watts of transparent power for acoustic acts on larger stages.
The Vox chime — 30 watts of Top Boost jangle that made the British Invasion. Two in the fleet.
The slant-front 4x12 under half the famous rigs in rock history. Pairs with any of our heads.
The straight-front 1960B — the bottom half of the full stack, tighter and punchier than the slant.
The oversized Mesa 4x12 — the tight, huge cabinet the Rectifiers were voiced through.
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