Blackstar Silverline

BluesLover

I was about to buy a Blackstar
 ID15TVP for home use because size and controls on the front were exactly right for me, when prices started to get discounted. I thought perhaps a mk2 version is coming so I'll wait and see.

https://www.thegearpage.net/board/index.php?threads/new-blackstar-silverline-amps.2085664/

FAIL !! controls are now on the top.

ICBM

This is something that massively pisses me off too.

Top-mounted controls had become more or less extinct by the 80s - they were restricted to vintage relics like Vox AC30s and occasionally practice amps - all modern, professional-quality amps had them on the front.

Now somehow they have become fashionable again...

KrisGee

It could've been worse - head could have them on top too

longjaw

Links are now on Music Radar and the Blackstar site.
https://www.blackstaramps.com/uk/ranges/ht-20r-mkii
I see the cabs are loaded with Celestion Seventy-eighties - a thoroughly underwhelming choice.

ICBM

longjaw said:

I see the cabs are loaded with Celestion Seventy-eighties - a thoroughly underwhelming choice.

Edit - it appears that this was wrong and they are in fact using V-Types, which are far better.

57Deluxe

is just me?? but Blackstar started out really interesting and soon escalated into marketeering endless products rather than building a dedicated user base based upon a quality of tone and performance

StefB

Still no effects loop either.

Grumpyrocker

StefB said:

Still no effects loop either.

The bigger ones do have an effects loop. The aux in/phone out are dual purpose and can be switched to FX loop. This was confirmed in the Andertons video. Also the bigger ones have MIDI and Blackstar says it has a new midi controller coming soon.

longi

longjaw said:

Links are now on Music Radar and the Blackstar site.
https://www.blackstaramps.com/uk/ranges/ht-20r-mkii
I see the cabs are loaded with Celestion Seventy-eighties - a thoroughly underwhelming choice.

Nope, it looks like the amps have the V type speakers installed as does the 2x12 cab.

Daiganzen

Beyond the aesthetic choices. From the videos I watched they sounded Ok. the cleans sound good but they didn't really go all in on the driven sounds, plus i would like to know how well they handle pedals either in the front or in the loop.  I feel like these amps could be good competition to the Boss next tone series

digitalscream

longjaw said:

Links are now on Music Radar and the Blackstar site.
https://www.blackstaramps.com/uk/ranges/ht-20r-mkii
I see the cabs are loaded with Celestion Seventy-eighties - a thoroughly underwhelming choice.

That's the HT-20, from a totally different range

impmann

V type speakers chaps.

Confirmed  - even on the diddy one.

DiscoStu

Yeah, definitely V-type speakers:

https://www.blackstaramps.com/uk/ranges/silverline

ICBM

impmann said:

V type speakers chaps.

Confirmed  - even on the diddy one.

Excellent! Bean-counters lose after all .

darthed1981

Yeah look like nice V-type speakers.

Bit pricey though - competing with Katana.... by costing over £300 more.

TBF though, they are probably seeing the nuTube (Edit, not nu-tube, Nextone) amps more as their price point (Boss sold some...right?)

Sound good in Andertons demo though -

KrisGee

£449 for a 100w head seems a good deal.

grungebob

They sound good but I’d be interested in the touch dynamics. Never played a digital amp yet that gets the dynamics right for the clean to slight grit tones. 

YellowLedBetterMan

Sound decent to my ears. As always though, I'd want to play one in person as that's where I always notice the "faults" of digital, so to speak.

longi

I wonder how much difference there is between these and the regular TVP's? I like the regular TVP's. The feature set is the same except for the speakers.

DartmoorHedgehog

impmann said:

V type speakers chaps.

Confirmed  - even on the diddy one.

Is that a Ken Dodd signature model?

longi

darthed1981 said:

Yeah look like nice V-type speakers.

Bit pricey though - competing with Katana.... by costing over £300 more.

TBF though, they are probably seeing the nuTube (Edit, not nu-tube, Nextone) amps more as their price point (Boss sold some...right?)

Sound good in Andertons demo though.

They do sound good in the video. I like what I'm hearing.