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hi there, I hope you can help me out here, I have the Blackstar HT - stage 60 guitar amp, and it`s fitted with 2 EL 34s and 2 ECC83s and 1 ECC82 one of my EL 34s has blown, so now i`m looking to purchse 2 EL34s and I have read it somewhere on the net about not replacing with the factory bought ones ...

I have the master up pretty high too (gigs\rehersals). I can dang near get some nice lowish gain JCM crunch from OD1. Really nice. I jump on an OD set to high volume\low gain for more modern crunch on the same channel. OD2 only gets used on a couple of songs, so I probably havn`t experimented enoug...

I tried the HT60 a couple of times & the HT100 at my local music store - I ended up buying the HT100 online which is on the way - everytime I tried the amp I liked it more - it has amazing clarity & I found both OD1 & OD2 to be very dynamic & clear + there's a lot of options to color the overall to...

I have my stage 60 about 3 weeks now & my impressions are pretty much the same as yours. The clean channel is one of the best of any amp I've owned. The two OD channels are good but I can't get exactly what I want out of them. I thought it was probably the speakers. I never changed speakers before ...

The sparkle drive is a pedal based on the 808 tube screamer but it adds a clean boost and the clean and dirty sounds can be blended together they sound great Brad Paisley uses one modded by Keeley Brent Mason uses one modded by someone else ..... but the stock one sounds like crap in front of the H...

Hey Matt I play Contemporary Christian Worship on the rocked out radical side. I build my own guitars typically strat and tele styles It was the sparkle drive pedal I am getting modded. The Channel 1 on the HT 60 sounded nasty boosted with the stock sparkle drive I also have piezos in my bridge i a...

I bought the stage 60 and absolutly love it!!! so many different settings and each has really remarkable character. It took a few hours to dial it in, but today I mik'd it up and played with the band and it was stunning to say the very least I love channel 1 cleans, either Twin sounding or AC30 sou...

What country are you in mate? I know Thomann in Germany are selling the HT60 for around £630, plus they do free shipping to the UK. Obviously try first. I also saw they had a B stock HT40 going for a steal, might still be there. The HT`s you tried might have sounded muddy because you had them at ve...

Today is the third day with this amp & I was starting to get a little frustrated with the sound. I figured I would start from scratch so I took the EQ out of the effects loop, put all knobs back to center & started trying it again. After a little while I started getting some very decent sounds out ...

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