I’ve been looking for a high gain 100 watter. Enter the Blackstar HT Stage 100 Mk III…

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Blackstar HT Stage 100 Mk III 100 watt Tube Amplifier Head

You’d be surprised how many records are coming out of this town with high gain rock tones from Mesa Boogie or Diezel amps. I have always faked those sounds with a cranked Bassman, which is AMAZING, but not the same. I have planned on getting a higher gain 100watter for a long time. It’s a tool I’ve been missing. So I was happy when Blackstar reached out with an opportunity to check out their new 100w head. For me to demo ANY gear, it has to be something that I'm actually going to use in my day job of playing on songs for other people. So here's why I'm going to be taking this amp to sessions here in Nashville. This demo is in 3 parts:

Part 1: Playing through various settings
Part 2: Using it in a song for a stereo double
Part 3: Checking out the direct recording CabRig feature

I love it. It just kills that tight, high wattage, high gain rock thing. I don't have anything else that really does that. The cleans sound great, and the direct CabRig modeling sounds killer. Thanks, Blackstar!

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CHAPTERS:

0:00 Welcome, I have never owned a 100watter before
1:40 PART 1: Playing starts here with my old ’55 Tele
2:50 Let’s check out the gain channel!
3:47 2nd voice of gain channel
6:19 The knob/switch layout is highly intuitive
7:37 This resonance control is fantastic
9:38 It's the ISF knob!! (NOT ISP)
11:00 I am impressed with ease with which I can dial in great sounds
12:30 Brief discussion of rear panel controls
13:12 PART 2: How does it sound using a Les Paul in a track???
15:26 Let’s talk about STEREO DOUBLES when recording guitar parts…
17:25 PART 3: This amp has really great cab modeling?!
19:13 Let’s turn the Mercury7 off and use the amp’s verb
19:50 Gain channel direct tones!
20:41 Wah EQ boost? Very cool!
21:30 Now I’m just having fun with it
22:33 Back to clean verby R&B guitar
23:28 Back to the gain channel…
23:57 Let’s check out the other speaker models
27:02 Let’s wrap this up
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