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Blackstar Fly 3 micro-amp - surprisingly good!


Skol303
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I’m no guitarist… but I have a guitar ([url="http://basschat.co.uk/topic/211966-just-bought-a-vintage-fake-now-refurbished/"]this one[/url]) and had some Dawsons vouchers burning a hole in a pocket, so decided to splurge on something I wouldn’t normally consider buying. Like a micro-amp!

My usual modus operandi is to DI my guitar into my DAW software, which I then use to apply FX, amp-sims, whatever. It’s great.

However, I fancied the idea of having a ‘real’ amp that I could use for noodling away from the computer - but didn’t want to spend much money. Our household was also in need of a portable hi-fi for taking into the garden on sunny days (!?) and for linking up to our family’s various hand-held gadgets (phones, iPad, etc).

So I ended up buying one of these - a [b]Blackstar Fly 3[/b] mini-amp:

[url="http://www.blackstaramps.com/products/fly-3/"]http://www.blackstar...products/fly-3/[/url]

First impressions - wow! It’s a piddly little thing - its footprint is about the size of a paperback book - but its little 3” / 3 Watt speaker makes a surprising amount of noise, and it’s [i]good[/i] noise too - nice coverage across the frequency range (with more low-end then I’d ever have expected) and a fairly decent built-in EQ and delay effect.

I’m quite stoked about it :)

I haven’t tried running a bass through it yet, but I’m guessing it would at least make a ‘usable’ practice amp for bass.

[i]So…[/i] if you’re in the market for a micro-amp then I’d heartily recommend this one. It seems to have just as much gusto as practice amps twice its size (or more); a remarkable feat of wizardry by the folks at Blackstar. Hats off to ‘em :hi:

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[quote name='Kiwi' timestamp='1439468163' post='2843079']And not a valve in sight...![/quote]

The official products specs do actually have a section that reads...

[i][size=5]Valves[/size][/i]
[i]Pre Amp Valves N/A[/i]
[i]Power Amp Valves N/A[/i]

...just to be absolutely clear! :D

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[quote name='MoonBassAlpha' timestamp='1458231663' post='3005836']
So, what happened when you put the bass through it? :)
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Sorry for the late reply - you could hear it, but the lowest notes were not very loud and/or ran into distortion very quickly. There is now a bass version available.

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