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A tip with these amps is to put something in the loop that raise the level, whole nicer sound when you do that. I use a GT10 and even with no effects, only signal gain it makes a huge difference
I knew putting a boost in the FX loop of the HT-20 was said to be a good idea, best if it can be a few dB at 2-3kHz I understand. I have not heard of a similar practice with the Five but since is uses pretty much the same MOSFET PI, makes sense. And yes, even though the amp only just manages a fairly clean 5 watts, because it is push-pull, fixed biased it can put out a rather dirty 10 watts!
Dave.
I had the ht dual and ht metal pedals (which, like a fool, I sold) and to be honest if you like the blackstar sounds, and have the dollars, you'd be better off getting a decent budget amp and a ht dual. The ht dual absolutely gets the same tones, but also allows you a third tone in the amp itself.
Perhaps it would have benefited from an eq or boost in the loop but I wound up using a ht pedal I to a peavey bandit for a long, long time and was very happy.
The original Five used the G10N-40, a 95dB/W/mtr speaker. Many people, including some reviewers who should have had enough technical smarts to know better, complained that it did not have enough 'clean headroom'. It was FIVE watts ffs!
Most folks know that ~30W into a 100dBish speaker is needed as the minimum for cleans in decent sized pub and bigger venues, 50W and up.The Five r has a 12" 'custom designed by Blackstar' speaker in it, don't have the speccs but I bet no hotter than 98dB/W/mtr.
Since its inception (which spawned a myriad 5W coat tail jumpers) the amplifier has been highly praised and vilified in some ratio people will decide depending on their personal view/ opinion. I don't know the current situation but for many years, B's could not produce them fast enough so they must have been doing something right!
Perhaps because in almost all aspects save power output, size and weight it 'looks' like a 'proper' guitar amplifier*, full tone controls, switchable clean/OD channels, multi Z speaker jacks, FX loop (with the then almost never seen, two OP levels) people forgot about the power restriction and thought they had a 'Twin' they could take to gigs on a bike!?
*Five watters at that time had just Volume and top chop and were single ended OP stages and a bit hummy.
Dave.