After unveiling the ID:X Flooring – a brand new floor-based digital amp modeller – Blackstar has provided up one thing for the apply amp fans with its new Beam Mini desktop amp.

Designed for electrical, bass and acoustic guitar gamers after portability and intuitive controls with out sacrificing tone, the Beam Mini packs in Blackstar’s superior digital modelling and highly effective DSP right into a small, moveable, acoustically tuned cab for the basic Blackstar sound wherever.

Loaded with two 60mm full-range drivers – in addition to two passive bass radiators and Blackstar’s Tremendous Extensive Stereo expertise – the Beam Mini is claimed to supply an “expansive, room-filling sound that belies its dimensions”.

Harnessing component-level modelling, Blackstar says the digital Beam Mini even gives up the dynamic really feel of tube amps, regardless of its tiny dimension.

It additionally options 12 amp fashions – six Blackstar designs and 6 Ampton recreations of basic amps – in addition to three bass amps, two acoustic voices, an acoustic simulator, and naturally, Blackstar’s patented ISF management, which primarily permits the person to mix between British and American-style voicings.

Intuitive operation is essential to the Beam Mini’s design, with a easy, giant SpeedDial and Mild Beam Show, providing “immediate visible suggestions” with out having to navigate menus. There may be, nevertheless, a Beam app, by way of which customers are given deeper modifying and inventive choices, in addition to a rising library of amps, cabs, mics and pedal fashions, and 1000’s of user- and artist-generated patches.

Beam Mini additionally options XpressFX, which permits the person to regulate the depth of a number of results concurrently with the only motion of the SpeedDial. It additionally sports activities a studio-quality mic enter for recording guitar and vocals collectively, in addition to Blackstar’s IR-driven CabRig expertise.

Portability isn’t simply served by its mild weight and kind issue; the rechargeable Beam Mini additionally options an IP66 dust-tight and weatherproof design, and gives over 18 hours of playtime on a single cost.

The Beam Mini is obtainable now priced at $299.99.

For more information, head to Blackstar.

Sam is the Affiliate Information Editor for Guitar.com and MusicTech. Completely immersed in music tradition for almost all of his life, Sam has performed guitar for 20 years, studied music expertise and manufacturing at college, and likewise written for the likes of Guitar World, Complete Guitar, Metallic Hammer and MusicRadar.