Blackstar Fly 3-3-watt 1x3 inch Compact Mini Bass Amp w/ 2 Channels and Emulated Line Out - Black

I've tried a number of small battery powered amps, to include the Danelectro Sweet Honey, Fender Mini Twin, Orange Micro crush, Roland Micro Cube, among a couple others I can't recall. The Danelectro and Fender amps just sound horrible if you turn them up past whisper volume. I found the Micro Crush and Micro Cube to be way too loud given their intended use. I wanted a amp I could play quietly, not at whisper volumes, but quiet enough so as not to disturb other house occupants. Blackstar nailed it here! For being a little plastic battery powered amp, this little guy can produce awesome tone, clean or overdriven, at my target volumes! Truthfully, I think this amp is an excellent investment to literally guitarists at all skill levels. Experienced players would at the very least find this amp's tones satisfying, and it's extremely portable. Beginners would be able to start with an amp that can be played at reasonable volumes, isn't too simple or too complex to experiment with dialing in tones, and sorry if I sound arrogant, but I think this amp sounds leagues better than any of the amps you see packaged in electric guitar starter sets. This amp sounds so good, a fellow guitarist actually mistook this amp's tones for my Blackstar HT5-R's tones once! I'm sure he went and bought one too!

It has taken a little time to figure out how to get the best sound out of this little amp, the instructions are not that helpful. After I added the fly103 extension cabinet and figured out 1) it cannot handle active electronics, so set the pass in passive mode, and 2) the little "sub" knob adds tremendously to the bottom end of the amp, I found this thing to be surprisingly capable of putting out decent sound, especially for it's size. It's not a set-up for performance or playing with another instrument, but it is excellent as a practice amp when playing solo and trying not to annoy neighbors. I would suggest buying the package to include the extension cabinet and the AC converter. I've been playing it for a week 2 hours/day and haven't worn out the batteries yet, but could get expensive if you don't have the converter.

Bought this as a practice amp, since it had an audio input and headphone jack. Works perfect! Sounds great when using the speaker instead of headphones, too. Bought the power cable separately, so I wouldn’t have to mess with batteries, but it’s nice that I can go that way if I need to. Just love this thing! May buy the paired amp to make this a stereo pair later!

Tempted to give it 5 stars, but I'm going to leave the 5th star blank for the uselessness of some of the controls. Haven't used it in a while and batteries are dead so I can't check, but I'm pretty sure that all the compressor did was destroy the sound. It seems to have a lot of bells and whistles, but they're pretty useless. You can get a good sound out of it though and that's what matters. I should warn also that it's NOT incredibly loud. It's not really designed, IMO, for performance. It might hold up with some softly played acoustic guitars, but I bought it for travel practice. It works excellently for that. Had previously purchased some of those tiny $25 belt clip guitar amps, but they distort too quickly. This holds up a lot better and actually give you a tiny little bit of bass boom, but if you're expecting something to jam with - you're going to need something more powerful. And bigger. I later added the extension, and while it does make it louder, it's still not loud enough to get you past the practicing alone point. It's great as a tiny little travel thing. With both speakers I feel one might as well just buy a bigger more powerful amp.

After being satisfied with the Blackstar guitar amp, I decided to buy the Blackstar bass amp. It ended up meeting two of my needs: it was small, and I didn't have to rely on a direct power source. While I expected the sound quality to be less than advertised, certainly not to other reviewers standards as I have my own, I was a little disappointed at the level of sound distortion on the low end. It'll be useful for me to walk out in my backyard and be able to hear something while I noodle around for practice alone, but it's not the bass sound I want others to hear coming from me in a group.

I thought that putting eight AA batteries ( a total of 12 volts ) into this little box meant it was going to devour them pretty fast but it has surprisingly lasted several hours . I have left it on by accident for three hours a couple of times and it didn't kill it . Soundwise it is great to have because I can play bass along with songs and it will be heard. Might be suitable for busking though I have not tried that. One thing to note is that I plugged a mandolin into it and it did not work well for that but it is the bass model and for bass it does well

I've had this amp for three years of light use, and it still works as expected. The lows are very decent for such a tiny guy. It fits nicely on my bookshelf and I play with it sitting there on the shelf when I want to take a break from my desk. It has a DC in and 6 AAA batteries for power. It is not rechargeable, but my 6 AAA have lasted me well over 40 hrs of playtime with this amp.

I can't tell you how disappointed I am with this. Here's all the reasons it's going back immediately: -- cannot get a clean sound out of it. When Gain=0, there is no sound at all. Turning up gain at all results in distorted, fuzzy sound. The "OD" button just makes it even more fuzzy and distorted. -- volume is ridiculously low and weak. If you are trying to just have something audible without waking your roommate who's sleeping 5 feet away from you, this will work great. But then why aren't you just using headphones to begin with? -- the "EQ" control did nothing that I could detect, at all. -- same for the "COMP" controls. Frankly everything sounded compressed, all the time, no matter what I did with the controls. There was no subtlety about the sound, no nuances -- just fuzzy, flat and distorted. I've never twisted so many controls and not been able to detect any change whatsoever. -- Honestly, I was so disappointed, especially after reading so many positive reviews, I thought the batteries might be bad -- nope, used a battery tester on each AA and they were all 1.6v. I thought maybe I got a used or broken unit -- nope, I inspected the box and it had only the original packing tape, and the interior of the packing was pristine. I can see a parent buying this for their child who's just learning to play bass, and is very bad at playing bass, and you want to make SURE they are incapable of making a loud, terrible racket. In that case, this will definitely keep the volume down. That's about it.

Habe den Blackstar Fly Bass gekauft um unterwegs eine Alternative zu meinem Kopfhörerverstärker von VOX zu haben. Die zu erfüllenden Mindestvoraussetzung war ein Line In um MP3's während dem Üben mitlaufen zu lassen. Ein Kopfhörerausgang war wünschenswert aber kein Muss. Funktional und in Bezug zu den Möglichkeiten bietet der Fly Bass, im Vergleich mit anderen Geräten in der Größe ein überragendes Preis-Leistungsverhältnis. Das mir gelieferte Gerät hat allerdings deutliche Schwächen, wobei mir aktuell nicht klar ist ob diese beim Fly Bass generell nunmal so sind, oder ob ich einen Rückläufer erhalten habe, welcher technisch nicht einwandfrei ist. Auffällig war, dass die Originalverpackung mit einem 2. Klebeband verschlossen war und der, laut Rezessionen eines anderen Onlineshop, normalerweise vorhandene Trennstreifen zwischen den standardmäßig bereits eingelegten Batterien und den Kontakten fehlte. An dem mir gelieferten Gerät ist zu bemängeln, dass die beiden mittleren Regler eigentlich unbrauchbar sind. Da bei diesen, mit Ausnahme der 0-Stellung starkes Rauschen erzeugt wird und die Töne beim Spielen in der Lautstärke , . Der Gain-Regler kann zu max. einem drittel genutzt werden, darüber ist der Klang unbrauchbar. Der Klang insgesamt ist brauchbar und zum Üben ausreichend. Die Materialanmutung und Verarbeitung ist für ein Gerät mit der Ausstattung und in dieser Preisklasse sehr gut. Da ich es hier nicht gefunden hatte, habe ich mir das Netzteil bei einem großen Musikhaus dazubestellt. Ich werde das Gerät mit dem Netzteil, ohne Batterien über das Wochenende testen und am Montag entscheiden, ob ich es zurücksende oder mit den vorhandenen Defiziten behalten werde. Entsprechend der genannten Probleme gebe ich dem Fly Bass max. 3 Sterne. Nachtrag: Nachdem ich gestern 2 Stunden mit dem Fly Bass verbracht und dabei sämtliche Einstellungsvarianten, sowohl an Bass als auch Verstärker (Fender Jazzbass aus der American Elite- Serie + verschiedene Kabel) durchprobiert habe geht der Fly Bass morgen zurück. Der Klang ist zumindest bei meinem Gerät katastrophal. Rauschen, Kratzen und Scheppern ist nicht akzeptabel. Das Klangbild wäre bei Nichtvorhandensein der Störgeräusche in Ordnung. Bezogen auf das mir gelieferte Gerät korrigiere ich die Bewertung auf zwei Sterne nach unten. Zwei Sterne bleiben für die Ausstattung.

自宅マンションでのちょい弾き練習のための小さいアンプが欲しかったのですが、これだけ小さいとさすがにどうかなぁ、と悩んだものの試しに購入して大正解。10〜15Wぐらいの小型の（コンセントに挿して使う）アンプとで悩みましたが、（１）場所を取りすぎる、（２）10〜15Wと言えども音が大きすぎるので常に最小で使う事になりそう、（３）何より「ちょい弾き」のお手軽さが欲しく、いつでもすぐに使える場所に出しておけるのが欲しくて決めました。 音はと言うと、当たり前ですが、小型ですから普通のサイズのアンプのような音量も低音も出ません。しかし、ベース用だけのことはあって、想像していた以上にしっかり太さのある音は出ました。音量も申し分なし、3Wと言いつつ最大音量ではマンションでは使えません。必要十分でした。そして何よりも、小さくて「その辺においておける」からすぐに使えるお手軽さが良い。他の方が書かれている付属の乾電池の液漏れ問題ですが、今は電池は付属しません。（笑）最初からきちんとした電池を入れる、液漏れするような経年劣化が起きる前に交換すれば大丈夫です。（これはアンプ側の問題ではなく電池側の問題ですので。）

I bought jt it as a practice amp . It works ok but make sure you get the correct external power supply. I didn't and blew the circuit in the amp. It still woks buy only off the batteries.

Es un ampli sencillo, sólo 3 vatios de potencia, y con un sonido aceptable. La mayor ventaja de este amplificador es su tamaño ya que puedes llevarle a todas partes sin ningún problema, ya que también pesa muy poco. Cuenta con un canal de overdrive que puede venir bien según qué situaciones, una EQ con un sonido decente que tiene como extra un potenciometro de "Sub" para potenciar las frecuencias más graves. Lo que menos me convence es el compresor, que para mi gusto no suena muy bien y sus opciones son más bien limitadas. El ampli también cuenta con entrada auxiliar y salida de cascos, muy utiles para ensayar por ejemplo. En resumen, un amplificador más que recomendable ya que por su bajo precio tienes un amplificador para ensayar que puedes llevar a todas partes. En cuanto al envío fue fácil y rápido, sin ningún problema.

Wouldn't work in the Albert Hall but perfect for practicing and small environments like folk clubs. be realistic and don't expect too much and it won't annoy the neighbours but this is probably the best out there for its size - it's dinky. You'll need rechargeable batteries. I use it to boost an acoustic bass at folk sessions.