Summer NAMM 2019: Blackstar Announces amPlug 2 FLY Headphone Amp

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New offering boasts three channels, effects and more.

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Summer NAMM 2019: Blackstar has announced the amPlug 2 FLY headphone amp for guitar and bass. The fully-analog circuit, based on the company’s amPlug 2 series, has been reworked for clearer and more present sound.

The amPlug 2 FLY for guitar boasts clean, crunch and lead channels and includes Blackstar’s patented ISF tone control as well as chorus, delay and reverb effects. A bass version features classic, modern and overdrive voices, as well as tone control and six rhythm loops.

The amPlug 2 FLY series is available for $44.99 each. 

(Image credit: courtesy of Blackstar)
Richard Bienstock
Richard Bienstock

Rich is the co-author of the best-selling Nöthin' But a Good Time: The Uncensored History of the '80s Hard Rock Explosion. He is also a recording and performing musician, and a former editor of Guitar World magazine and executive editor of Guitar Aficionado magazine. He has authored several additional books, among them Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, the companion to the documentary of the same name.