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    BLACKSTAR

    Sep 20, 2022 4 minutes

    IT’S A SAFE bet that tube-powered guitar amps won’t go out of style with guitar players anytime soon, but if there’s one thing that drives players to find acceptable alternatives to tube technology, it’s the weight. By nature tube amps are heavy, and for the most part people have just accepted it as fact that nothing can be done about it. But what if someone came up with an all-tube amp that weighed about as much as a typical solid-state rig?

    SPECIFICATIONS

    Blackstar St. James 6L6 Combo

    CONTACT blackstaramps.com PRICE $1,299

    CHANNELS Two

    Volume 1, gain II, volume II, bass, middle, treble, reverb. Gain II select switch, gain II voice switch, power switch

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