Blackstar HT Stage 100 MK III - 100W Guitar Amp Head w/ 3 Channels

At Blackstar, we are all musicians and understand the importance of great tone, whether for practicing at home or on stage. Based in Northampton, England, with over 100 years combined experience in guitar amplification design and production, we are totally committed to providing you with the ultimate tools for self-expression. We believe our unique and patented innovations will take you a step closer to realising the ‘sound in your head’. "WELCOME TO THE CHURCH OF DISTORTION." - GUS G. Ozzy Osbourne/Firewind POLAR is THE audio interface that is specially designed to enhance your guitar DI signal in a way that brings back the coveted feel and response of playing through a real valve guitar amplifier. POLAR is equipped with FET instrument inputs, providing ultra-low noise and high headroom for the best sonic foundation for your guitar tone. “Enhance” restores the touch, feel, and response of playing through a real amp. We innovate in all we do to give musicians the ultimate tools for self-expression. In 2004, four friends, all bandmates, were looking for a new challenge. Having worked together for years at the highest levels of the amp designing industry, their dream was to create new and innovative guitar amplifiers and pedals that would be the ultimate tools for self expression. Meticulously engineered at Blackstar HQ in Northampton England, our products are the result of the team’s 50+ years of collective experience at the highest levels of amplifier design and production. Now available in this limited Snakeskin covering, the flagship HT Stage 100 MK III 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. Blackstar’s patented ISF (Infinite Shape Feature) control shifts the response of the three control tone stack between, a US type response at one end, and at the other, a UK type response. Importantly, in between the two extremes lie an infinite number of alternative tone choices that would be otherwise unavailable. MK III also has an all-new reverb voiced for guitar tones. Switch between ‘Dark’ room and ‘Light’ plate settings and deep-edit other parameters via our free Architect software. Until HT Venue, guitarists had to choose between an amp that delivered great clean tones, or great overdrives. Our mission for HT Venue was to use what we learned when designing the Artisan handwired boutique amps and the modern high gain Series One and combine the best clean and overdrives into a single valve amp; a valve amp that would give players classic reference tones in one unit – without compromise.