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Blackstar IDCORE10 Stereo Combo Amplifier, 10W

Size:10 Watts  |  style:Amplifier ID:CORE represents the culmination of more than seven years' technical Research and Development. These amps h...

Reviews by Features

Tone

(16 reviews)
Crunch

(9 reviews)
Play

(5 reviews)
Bright

(3 reviews)
Effect

(17 reviews)
Practice

(15 reviews)
State

(10 reviews)
Sound

(37 reviews)
Channel

(7 reviews)
Thing

(7 reviews)
Software

(6 reviews)

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Reviews around tone (5.00 of 5)

  • Like I said, "THIS IS THE PERFECT BEDROOM AMP!"It can get fairly loud on distortion, and IS loud enough clean that it could bother close neighbors or adjacent apartments, but the beauty is: When you turn it down it doesn't suck the tone away
  • I've never heard my guitar have such a bright clean tone
  • The tone is not perfect and digitalness of it is apparent to all from a valve amp
  • I think the various types of distortion are good and produce good tone
  • It does however have a nice suite of on board effects, some good software for editing the effects and good tone.
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Reviews around crunch (5.00 of 5)

  • The Core10 has 6 "voices", which are kind of like different amp models: Clean Warm, Clean Bright, Crunch, Super Crunch, OD1, and OD2.
  • In case you aren't familiar, the amp has two clean preamp modes (warm and bright); two crunch preamps ("crunch" and "super crunch"); and two overdrives ("OD1" and "OD2"
  • Crunch is bright with some tube-like breakup (similar to a Vox), and the three higher gain settings could be part Marshall, "Brown Sound", Soldano, depending on your opinion.
  • I'm glad this amp had good cleans, nice crunch, & good effects because all my pedals didn't sound good in front of it, except for the crybaby wah.
  • You can choose from a variety of sounds including: Clean Warm, Clean Bright, Crunch, Super Crunch, OD 1, & OD 2
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Reviews around play (5.00 of 5)

  • Run the clean channel and dial up the gain and your playing a Fender Twin, clean until you pick it hard, and your hitting a sweet overdrive.
  • It feels great and doesn't hinder your playing whatsoever
  • All too often small bedroom practice amps lack the feel, dynamics, reaction, and tonal fullness of a warm reactive tube amp, but this one makes playing fun and easy...at a low volume
  • and I am pretty picky, and have to say, this is one of the better amps I've played in this price range.

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Reviews around bright (5.00 of 5)

  • The Core10 has 6 "voices", which are kind of like different amp models: Clean Warm, Clean Bright, Crunch, Super Crunch, OD1, and OD2.
  • You can choose from a variety of sounds including: Clean Warm, Clean Bright, Crunch, Super Crunch, OD 1, & OD 2
  • Clean Bright is a Blackface

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Reviews around effect (4.64 of 5)

  • solid combo amp with more than enough effects and patches for the price
  • Each effect (reverb, delay, and modulation) has four settings, however there is nothing outside of the manual that has the listing.
  • 1) I wanted an inexpensive amp that would have good effects
  • For a digital modelling amp, this neat little unit has some great tones and effects
  • I use this for practice at home, effects really good, I would recommend this amp to anyone who wants a great amp for a very good price.
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Reviews around practice (4.59 of 5)

  • It does a great job volume wise practicing in your room up until about half way on the knob you get a reasonable sound level for a room, then after that it get's pretty loud
  • It is hand down the best practice amp I have ever owned
  • Great practice amp...just need to know output impedance of headphone jack.
  • If anyone is considering getting a cheap practice amp, I highly recommend this one.
  • I bough this Amp used for 50$ without doing any research, thinking it should make a decent practice amp
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Reviews around state (4.40 of 5)

  • Great!I have never had so much fun playing through a solid state amp in my
  • But the Core10 seems to avoid two key annoyances that plague most solid state amps with 8" or smaller speakers: (1) Unwanted rattling; and (2) Speaker breakup/distortion.
  • They would then hook that up to whatever crummy solid state amp they could
  • However, a true solid state without modeling is kind of hard to find.
  • However, a true solid state without modeling is kind of hard to find.
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Reviews around sound (4.35 of 5)

  • (Mine was a Crate GX10...yuck), and you'd have one complicated, relatively expensive, and still poor-sounding gear.
  • Great amp, lots of features, delivers great sound in compact space!
  • Even in the practicing by myself in the room this amp sounds terrible if you want to play it with a clean sound
  • Love the built in effects it has a great sound for a small practice amp
  • The limitations of a set of 3" speakers are obvious, but the sound very "full" without necessarily being deep.
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Reviews around channel (4.16 of 5)

  • Run the clean channel and dial up the gain and your playing a Fender Twin, clean until you pick it hard, and your hitting a sweet overdrive.
  • I put it on the Clean Warm channel and within minutes had a clean tone that I was so happy
  • I tried to make the thing louder by raising the gain while running the clean channels at near-full volume
  • You have three working effects channels (modulation, delay, and reverb) and all three can be used at the same time and they are very good.
  • Each of these channels sound very realistic and tube-like, as even a high gain setting on the clean channels will render some great overdriven tones
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Reviews around thing (4.16 of 5)

  • Only bad thing I can mention is the effects you set up manually will disappear when you turn the amp off and then back on.
  • Lastly, this little thing looks awesome and feels as if you are owning as kick *ss and expensive Marshall, Mesa, Roland, Ampeg or fender amp.
  • Each effect type has 4 subtypes (so with the modulator effects, for example, there's phaser, flanger, chorus, and tremolo), and all have 3 editable parameters on the amp itself, contained in the two knobs and a button – depth, blend, and speed (a tap-tempo button).A cool thing about the effects is that they're in a distinct signal chain (being
  • I cant say enough good things about Blackstar amps across the entire product line
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Reviews around software (4.03 of 5)

  • They know the software is faulty but they do nothing to fix that!!!
  • The software is free and available on their website for Mac & Windows
  • All the effects can be adjusted by the free downloadable software from Blackstar
  • It does however have a nice suite of on board effects, some good software for editing the effects and good tone.
  • You can create your own sounds with their free software, download them to the amp and share with the community
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More about Blackstar IDCORE10 Stereo Combo Amplifier, 10W

  • Size:10 Watts  |  style:Amplifier ID:CORE represents the culmination of more than seven years' technical Research and Development
  • These amps have an intuitive control set like a traditional amp, but have the versatility of programmability
  • The unique controls allow you, the guitarist, to custom design your own sound
  • The Voice control has six different settings - Clean Warm, Clean Bright, Crunch, Super Crunch, OD 1, OD 2
  • When used together with Black star's patented ISF control you can get the exact tone you're thinking of
  • The effects section delivers studio quality modulation, delay and reverb effects simultaneously that you can store with your sound.