Thoughts on Blackstar?

[craig_mccann]

Well I thought I'd check out the 6505+ combo when its released here and i have the money for it. Going by UG recommendations they recon the 6505 is able to sound good at bedroom levels and the combo for me is a much better size as in dimentions, plus its less wattage than the head.

[Herbie the Rad Dorklift]

I think they're fantastic little amps.

Check out some vids: Click

However, I just bought some new pickups, so mine needs to go (Having 2 other amps doesn't help either haha)! PM me if you're interested :)

Also... I gigged with mine. Through a 4x12, mic it up and play it on 10...absolutely brilliant! I'm talking 3-400 capacity places too.

[craig_mccann]

Na thinking the Peavey is a better option for me, even tho its louder lol.

I had actually come across your videos a while back when i first started looking for demos of the HT5.

[MDV]

UG recommendations :lol:

Good one!

[Afghan Dave]

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[Dmoney]

a 6505 sounds good at bedroom levels??

[MDV]

a 6505 sounds good at bedroom levels??

But UG said so.

Its like taking advice from a bunch of teenagers that have never played the thing

Wait

It IS taking advice from a bunch of teenagers that have never played the thing.

Unless the 6505 combo is in fact not a 6505, but a new and very different design of amp, it will not sound good at bedroom levels.

If you want ok tone (and its just ok, mind) at bedroom levels from a 50-100W valve amp that can do metal, try an engl thunder or screamer.

And stop listening to UG!

They arent all idiots, but there are way too many of them there and if youre something of a neophyte yourself youre going to get your head filled with cr@p by people that have no clue.

10 minutes in UG later and in 3 random threads theres a guy that wants to record guitar with the shiteeest soundcards known to man, and wants to know which is better, another that started a thread asking if his strings would be OK in a lower tuning, rather than just tune them lower and decide for himself, someone in the same thread that has trouble with 'alternative' picking with slack strings, someone that doesnt know the difference between a noise gate and noise suppressor (the clue is in the name) and by this point I had to leave. More ignorance and n00bishness there in 10 minutes than you see here in a year.

Youre here now, we'll sort you out.

[MDV]

$%&# it, I'm going back to UG for a bit. The lulz are priceless, and there are some decent folk there (identifiable if you already know some of your onions).

Maybe, if I can save just one n00b from buying a 6505 for home practice, it will have been worth it....wish me luck boys, I'm going in....

[Afghan Dave]

....More ignorance and n00bishness there in 10 minutes than you see here in a year.

F**k you MDV, I'm trying my best... :? :lol:

[Dmoney]

maybe the 6505 combo is cool if you use an attenuator...

you know...

one of those you can get on ebay that sits in the FX lOOP... no no no, not just a pot in a box. An Attenuator!


the 6505 is 120watts aint it. ive not had a bedroom level amp for ages. I used to use a Marshall VS100 head to jam through so i wasn't burning power valves. But now im ignorant and i just play loud. haha.

a 6505 (and ive owned the head) is not the way to go, AT ALL, you'll have a real problem getting it to be quiet. you'll be running with the volume below 1, and anything over that will jump in sound level so much you'll have to spend 6 hours tweaking the volume knob to get the sound level right, and then at the end of it, it'll sound terrible.

[BigK]

a 6505 sounds good at bedroom levels??

Unless the 6505 combo is in fact not a 6505, but a new and very different design of amp, it will not sound good at bedroom levels.

If you want ok tone (and its just ok, mind) at bedroom levels from a 50-100W valve amp that can do metal, try an engl thunder or screamer.

And stop listening to UG!

+1 I had a thunder 50 Combo and it was great for metal & hard rock. for the really high-gain stuff a little boost helped to tighten things up a little but that was more personal taste than required. really good crunch/ lower gain sounds and good cleans. it could be a little lacking in the bass department with the stock vintage 30 but i put in a g12k-100 on board it was brutal (it also reduced the volume slightly dude to the g12k not being as sensitive as the v30 so allowing me to turn the volume up a little more).
 And it did sound relatively good at low volumes although there was a big volume jump around 1.25. However i used an mxr 10 band eq in the loop to act as a channel volume control (and slight eqing) so i could crank the power amp a little more which worked rather well.

I have also played on a 6505 and at low volumes it was horrible and the cleans/crunch were nowhere near as good as the engl.

[BigK]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ENGL-Thunder-50-Watt-Head-E325-Z3-Footswitch_W0QQitemZ250558057049QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_MusicalInstr_Amplifiers_RL?hash=item3a566c8a59

something like that with a framus 2x12 from thomman for £250 and your laughing (that was the setup i had before I got my powerball)

[_tom_]

I had a HT5 and it was ok for metal. Didn't have enough low end though, really.

[juansolo]

I have an HT5 head and a Martamp 1x12 with a H100 in it. Bass it has, lots of it, most of that is coming from the H100. The only change I've made is that I swapped the pre-tube to an RFT which makes it crunchier (I also stuck a Mullard in the power side but ended up going back to the stock tube). It really responds to different speakers too, sounding surprisingly shite with some, and awesome with others. The best all rounder being a Mesa C90 (which I've yet to track down cheaply enough). I still stand by that for the money, it's pretty much untouchable, responds well to pedals too. I've got a G-Sharp in the FX loop for reverb and wotnot. Works well.

[MDV]

I had a HT5 and it was ok for metal. Didn't have enough low end though, really.

I found its low end just fine for purpose actually.

And you should know what I'm like by now about low end :lol: