Blackstar HT5 metal combo amp clean channel much weaker?

[espshredder]

Hi guys, I just picked up the 5 watt tube Blackstar Metal HT5.

I love the amp as a practice amp, I just noticed that the clean channel volume is not proportionate at all with the volume of the gain channel.

Sorry it's it's a newbie question, but I am not all that familiar with tube amps.

Basically, at 9 oclock on the distortion channel, it's VERYLOUD.

But in respect, on maybe just above 6 oclock on the clean channel, is very quiet still.

Is this normal?

[shimmilou]

Hi espshredder,

It was the same with mine, clean channel with much less volume than the gain channel. I already had the HT-5RH and the HT-5R 1x12 combo, which have plenty of gain for me, so I returned the Metal version. I think that the clean channel on both the regular and Metal versions are about the same volume as each other, but the gain channel on the Metal is just so much louder that it seems that the clean channel is weak by comparison.