Blackstar Announce HT Venue Series MkII – New and Improved Pro-level Valve Amps

After more than 3 years of intensive R&D and market research, Blackstar are proud to release the stunning next generation of the well recieved HT Venue series valve amplifiers.

HT Venue MkII takes the award-winning line and elevates it to a new level, endevouring to add every major enhancement that guitarists have requested; resulting in a massively flexible feature set that is still intuitive and musician-friendly. They’re promising a few distinct improvements across the range: new and improved clean channel, richer and more responsive overdrives, all modes are now footswitchable, Power Reduction feature to turn down to 10% of the amp’s rated power, professional level USB recording output and new features including footswitchable boost on all channels, XLR recording DI output and a newly designed in-house studio quality reverb.

HT STAGE 60 112 MKII

The HT Stage 60 112 MkII guitar amp’s selected duet of EL34s deliver 60W of glorious valve power through two high quality Celestion speakers, making for a combo that will deliver every night, even in the most testing live environment. The ’boutique’ style clean channel is extremely versatile with two modes – ‘British Class-A’ and ‘dynamic US’. Each of the two ISF equipped overdrive channels allows a further two modes. The Power Reduction feature allows further flexibility, by allowing the guitarist to attenuate to 10 percent of the 60 watts of power also making the HT Stage 60 MkII perfect for the home and studio use.

• Innovative 60 Watt valve combo
• 2 x ECC83 and 2 x EL34 valves
• Three footswitchable channels
• Six footswitchable voices
• Boutique clean channel with expanded tone controls
• Two high gain overdrive channels
• Patented Infinite Shape Feature (ISF)
• Power Reduction down to 10% of full Wattage
• Presence, Resonance, Master Volume
• Digital Reverb with Dark/Light switch
• Speaker Emulated output with 1×12/4×12 voicing
• Effects loop with effects level switch
• USB for recording
• 1×12” Celestion speaker
• Foot controller included

The HT Stage 60 MKII is also available in in a 212 configuration.

HT CLUB 50 MKII

The HT Club 50 MkII offers the same feature set as the HT Club 40 MkII combo in a compact, portable head format. This two channel and 4 voice head with its Power Reduction feature is equally at home in the rehearsal room, studio or club size venue. With the patented ISF control, clean and overdrive channels ranging from ‘classic crunch’ to ‘super saturated lead’ the HT Club 50 head truly is the ultimate amp for the gigging guitarist.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/4″][vc_column_text]

• Innovative 50 Watt valve head
• 2 x ECC83 and 2 x EL34 valves
• Two footswitchable channels
• Four footswitchable voices
• Boutique clean channel with expanded tone controls
• High gain overdrive channel
• Patented Infinite Shape Feature (ISF)
• Power Reduction down to 10% of full Wattage
• Master Volume
• Digital Reverb with Dark/Light switch
• Speaker Emulated output with 1×12/4×12 voicing
• Effects loop with effects level switch
• USB for recording
• Foot controller included

HT CLUB 40 MKII

Equipped with 2 channels and 4 footswitchable voices the HT Club 40 MkII is the ideal gigging valve amp for club sized venues. The 40W EL34 driven power amplifier has groundbreaking clean punch and dynamics with expanded tone controls that will easily cut through in a full band situation. Switching to the amazing ISF equipped overdrive channel accesses a further two modes – ‘classic crunch’ and ‘super saturated lead’. The Power Reduction feature allows further flexibility, by allowing the guitarist to attenuate to 10 percent of the 40 watts of power, also making the HT Club 40 MkII perfect for the home and studio use.

• Innovative 40 Watt valve combo
• 2 x ECC83 and 2 x EL34 valves
• Two footswitchable channels
• Four footswitchable voices
• Boutique clean channel with expanded tone controls
• High gain overdrive channel
• Patented Infinite Shape Feature (ISF)
• Power Reduction down to 10% of full Wattage
• Master Volume
• Digital Reverb with Dark/Light switch
• Speaker Emulated output with 1×12/4×12 voicing
• Effects loop with effects level switch
• USB for recording
• 1×12” Celestion speaker
• Foot controller included

HT STAGE 100 MKII

The flagship HT Stage 100 MkII guitar amp head uses a quartet of selected EL34 power valves to deliver 100W of British dynamics with 3 channels offering 6 voices for amazing tonal versatility. The ’boutique’ style clean channel has two modes – ‘British Class A’ and ‘dynamic US’. Each of the two ISF equipped overdrive channels accesses a further two modes. From the studio to the stage the HT Stage 100 MkII is the ultimate amp delivering ground-breaking cleans, rich full overdrives and offering maximum control and flexibility.

For HT Stage MKII cabinets, visit the Blackstar website here.

• Innovative 100 Watt valve head
• 2 x ECC83 and 4 x EL34 valves
• Three footswitchable channels
• Six footswitchable voices
• Boutique clean channel with expanded tone controls
• Two high gain overdrive channels
• Patented Infinite Shape Feature (ISF)
• Power Reduction down to 10% of full Wattage
• Presence, Resonance, Master Volume
• Digital Reverb with Dark/Light switch
• Speaker Emulated output with 1×12/4×12 voicing
• Effects loop with effects level switch
• USB for recording
• Foot controller included