Blackstar HT-5C 5w Tube Combo

5W Tube Combo without Reverb

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Easily our best selling tube combo of the past few years, the Blackstar HT-5 gets an update for 2011 to the Blackstar HT-5C. This amazing little combo now has a clean channel tone control, a new 12" inch speaker instead of 10", state of the art speaker emulated output and an MP3 / Line in socket for jamming. Please note - the HT-5C is the version of the HT-5 without reverb. If you want reverb on the amp, check out the HT-5R.

Complete with a channel-switching footswitch the HT-5C is the small tube amp that sounds huge. A few years ago tube amps weren't available on this kind of budget. Now, with the HT-5C, they excel themselves with features and sweet tube sound to die for whether you need a shimmering clean or fat, searing drives.

Here's what Blackstar say about the Blackstar HT-5C

When the original HT-5 was launched in 2008 it quickly became one of the most successful studio and practice amps ever designed. Packing all the great tone and ionnovative features of the award winning HT valve pedals into a two channel, goot switchable valve amp format with a unique push-pull power amp design it was an instant classic.

Due to popular demand 2011 sees this groundbreaking amp re-launches and improved with a whole host of new features:

  • Dedicated Tone control on the Clean Channel providing even greater tonal flexibility over the HT-5R's shimmering cleans.
  • 12" Blackbird 50 Watt speaker, custom designed by Blackstar
  • State-of-the-art enhanced speaker emulated ouput for perfectly capturing valve tone to tape or disk
  • Stereo MP3/Line Input perfect for practice
  • The speaker emulated output can now be used at the same time as the internal speaker/extension cab, providing headphone free monitoring or the choice to blend a mic'd speaker and emulated signal together for unrivaled usability when recording at home or in the studio.

HT-5C Combo Features

  • Innovative 5 Watt valve combo
  • 1x ECC83 and 1x12BH7
  • Unique push pull power amp design
  • Award winning HT Pedal preamp
  • Two footswitchable channels
  • 12" Blackbird 50 custom designed speaker
  • Enhanced tone controls
  • Patent-applied-for Infinite Shape Feature (ISF)
  • Fully equipped for studio or practice
  • Speaker emulated output with 1x12 or 4x12 voicing
  • Effects loop with effects level switch
  • Footswitch included
  • Cool vintage styling
  • Stereo MP3/Line Input
 
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    The box is solid and well made with steel corner covers, and should take quite a beating.

    It also has a good strong handle which should hold up a long long time, very portable.

    The in-house 12" speaker is perfectly adequate, but you can drive any cabinet you like with 8 and 16 ohm choice.

    Very versatile connections - effects loop switchable either -10 or +4 levels, headphone out, emulated speaker out.

    I'm not sure how useful the line level input is. It also comes with a foot switch. There's nothing left out.

    The overdrive channel is magnificent over the range from clean to completely overdriven.

    The tube harmonic distortion is very rich, you can really make this amp scream!

    Even better, you can make it scream at a volume level about as quiet as the unamplified guitar.

    If you crank it up, this little 5 watt amp is also surprisingly loud.

    The clean channel has only a basic tone control but also sounds sublime. This is the only weak point on this amp, but there isn't enough space on this small box to put any more.

    However, the presence of the effects loop allows for external tone control, so this isn't a serious drawback.

    The amp circuitry is absolutely quiet.

    The "Infinite Shape Feature" is an interesting passive equalization circuit.

    You can read about in UK Patent Application GB 2446188 A.

    It simply varies the amp's centre attenuation frequency in the filter network without any effect on the signal amplitude.

    It does work well, and shifts the overall tone characteristic of the amp in the way they claim.

    This essentially gives you a stack of different amp tones in one box.

    This amp sounds great and most importantly if you have neighbours, it sounds great even at the quietest volume.

    It's hard to believe that such a fantastic sounding combo amp can come in such a small box, but they've done it.

    Ewan > read review

    The box is solid and well made with steel corner covers, and should take quite a beating.

    It also has a good strong handle which should hold up a long long time, very portable.

    The in-house 12" speaker is perfectly adequate, but you can drive any cabinet you like with 8 and 16 ohm choice.

    Very versatile connections - effects loop switchable either -10 or +4 levels, headphone out, emulated speaker out.

    I'm not sure how useful the line level input is. It also comes with a foot switch. There's nothing left out.

    The overdrive channel is magnificent over the range from clean to completely overdriven.

    The tube harmonic distortion is very rich, you can really make this amp scream!

    Even better, you can make it scream at a volume level about as quiet as the unamplified guitar.

    If you crank it up, this little 5 watt amp is also surprisingly loud.

    The clean channel has only a basic tone control but also sounds sublime. This is the only weak point on this amp, but there isn't enough space on this small box to put any more.

    However, the presence of the effects loop allows for external tone control, so this isn't a serious drawback.

    The amp circuitry is absolutely quiet.

    The "Infinite Shape Feature" is an interesting passive equalization circuit.

    You can read about in UK Patent Application GB 2446188 A.

    It simply varies the amp's centre attenuation frequency in the filter network without any effect on the signal amplitude.

    It does work well, and shifts the overall tone characteristic of the amp in the way they claim.

    This essentially gives you a stack of different amp tones in one box.

    This amp sounds great and most importantly if you have neighbours, it sounds great even at the quietest volume.

    It's hard to believe that such a fantastic sounding combo amp can come in such a small box, but they've done it.

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    The new re-vamped HT-5 has new circuiotry added over the old type, this allows it to be very flexible with other equipment. It allows the amp to be channel switched via other equipment such as effects processors or foot controllers with an amp channel switch. this is because the amp now has latching instead of the original momentary type switching. It also has a tone control on the clean channel with allows for the needed variation of tone. The emulated output is stereo and can be plugged directly into the PA this is one of the best sounding direct sounds I have heard, it also includes the effects in the mix if you are using them. It has an effects loop to include a processor if you want a pro sound using time-based effect, this is where you can put them and it wont change your tone, not even when you change to the over-drive channel, I love this amp and I own two for stereo use. Very light to carry around and now has a 12 inch speaker instead of the original 10 inch. Blackstar knew what they were doing when they built this amp and because of it's size it's very easy to get a great OD sound at relatively low volumes, you can mic it up, plug it in the PA etc, a brilliant practice amp too, you can plug in headphones and either have the sound coming out of the speaker or not by using the standby switch. 10 out of 10 to Blackstar. Thanks - Barry

    Barry > read review

    The new re-vamped HT-5 has new circuiotry added over the old type, this allows it to be very flexible with other equipment. It allows the amp to be channel switched via other equipment such as effects processors or foot controllers with an amp channel switch. this is because the amp now has latching instead of the original momentary type switching. It also has a tone control on the clean channel with allows for the needed variation of tone. The emulated output is stereo and can be plugged directly into the PA this is one of the best sounding direct sounds I have heard, it also includes the effects in the mix if you are using them. It has an effects loop to include a processor if you want a pro sound using time-based effect, this is where you can put them and it wont change your tone, not even when you change to the over-drive channel, I love this amp and I own two for stereo use. Very light to carry around and now has a 12 inch speaker instead of the original 10 inch. Blackstar knew what they were doing when they built this amp and because of it's size it's very easy to get a great OD sound at relatively low volumes, you can mic it up, plug it in the PA etc, a brilliant practice amp too, you can plug in headphones and either have the sound coming out of the speaker or not by using the standby switch. 10 out of 10 to Blackstar. Thanks - Barry