Carmen Vandenberg CV30
CV30
Designed with Carmen Vandenberg
Carmen Vandenberg. One of the most exciting guitarists in the world. Her band, Bones UK, has been Grammy nominated and supported the likes of KORN and Rage Against the Machine. She also co-wrote the Jeff Beck album Loud Hailer. In 2019 Carmen visited Blackstar’s headquarters in the UK and worked closely with our engineers to create an amp designed for her blend of riff-heavy rock and roll and industrial blues tones.
Incredible 6L6 Valve Tone
The CV30’s unique 6L6 design carefully optimises the key power amplifier parameters resulting in outstanding dynamics normally associated with a USA 6L6 design, whilst adding the chime and shimmer of a classic British Class A amplifier.
Perfect Pedal Platform
Carmen is renowned for creating huge soundscapes with an array of different pedals. The CV30 has been meticulously designed to accommodate this and be the ideal canvass for pedals.
Sonically Classic
The CV30 combines the articulate tonal dynamics normally associated with a USA 6L6 design, with the beautiful chime and shimmer of a classic British Class A amplifier.
Patented Infinite Shape Feature
The patented ISF (Infinite Shape Feature) control is unique to Blackstar Amplification and represents a major step forward in tone shaping flexibility allowing the player to dial in a US type response all the way to its British counterpart.
Only 130 Units Worldwide
The CV30 is limited to 130 Amps available worldwide, each comes with a certificate hand-signed by Carmen.
Natural Sounding Digital Reverb
The CV30 features a completely natural sounding digital reverb, which is outstandingly musical on both clean and crunch tones. This exclusive Blackstar design responds beautifully to both the dynamic nature of clean sounds and the harmonically rich textures of crunch and high gain overdrive sounds. Some of the best studio reverb units in the world were used as references for developing the voicing.
The CV30 also has a Reverb Dark/Light switch that allows the overall reverb characteristics to be modified to suit different tastes and playing styles. In the Dark position the reverb is voiced to have a warm and mellow quality. When the Light position is selected the reverb has a brighter quality with more zing on the reverb tail.
Outstanding Dynamics
Carefully optimising the key power amp, the CV30 achieves outstanding dynamic range normally associated with a USA 6L6 design, all whilst adding the charm and character of a classic British Class A amplifier.
1x12” Celestion V-Type
Flaunting its 1×12” Celestion V-Type Speaker, the CV30 was designed closely between our own engineers and Carmen to perfectly encapsulate her blend of riff-heavy rock and industrial blues tones.
SKU
- Power: 30W
- Valves: ECC83 (2x), 6L6 (2x)
- Channels: 2
- Voices: American Clean, British Clean, Classic Overdrive, Modern Overdrive
- EQ: Channel 1 – Volume, Tone; Channel 2 – Gain, Bass, Middle, Treble, ISF
- Patented ISF: Yes (Channel 2 Only)
- Reverb: Yes
- Line Outputs: Emulated – ¼”
- Effects Loop: Yes
- Footswitchable: Yes (Included 2-Way Footswitch)
- Speaker: 1×12″ Celestion Seventy-80
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