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Best guitar amps for recording 2025: five home studio companions that will help you achieve tonal greatness
By Daryl Robertson last updated
Our pick of the greatest home studio amps from Boss, Kemper, Hughes & Kettner, Blackstar and Positive Grid

Best Blackstar amps 2025: Everything from practice amps to studio quality gear
By Richard Blenkinsop published
From digital to tube; traditional to modern, we look at the best Blackstar guitar amps currently on offer

NAMM 2022: Blackstar unveils the CV10, a 10-watt version of Carmen Vandenberg's signature amplifier
By Jackson Maxwell published
Based around a 6L6 power tube, the CV10 features a 12" Celestion Seventy-80 speaker and built-in 'drive circuit

NAMM 2022: Take an in-depth tour of Blackstar's ultra-lightweight St. James valve guitar amp
By Jackson Maxwell published
Learn why Blackstar wants guitarists to think of the impressively-spec'd new model as a Formula 1 car of sorts

Watch Paul Riario unleash tube-tone gold with Blackstar’s new Dept. 10 Dual Drive and Dual Distortion valve pedals
By Guitar World Staff published
“The world’s most advanced valve pedals” offer up ECC83 triodes, over 200V of power, Cab Rig sim and more

Bruce Keir, co-founder and Technical Director of Blackstar Amplification, dies at 60
By Jackson Maxwell published
The technical innovator – who also worked at Marshall for a number of years – had been suffering from early-onset Alzheimer’s

Late Children of Bodom frontman Alexi Laiho’s studio and stage amps and pedals are up for auction
By Richard Bienstock published
Items include heavily used Marshall heads and cabinets, Blackstar amps and a fully loaded pedalboard

New Year New Gear: Tascam introduces new audio interfaces, FU-Tone brings fully-loaded guitars and Blackstar unveils the ID:Core V3 amp line
By Richard Bienstock published
Bring your playing to life in 2021 with this top-notch equipment
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