I’ve owned my Genz Benz Black Pearl 30 112 Combo Amp for quite a while now so this demo is well overdue but seeing as I had the excellent Audix CabGrabber in place holding an Audix i5 Microphone I thought what better time!
The Black Pearl is a single channel Class A tube amp loaded with 5 12AX7 preamp tubes, 4 EL84 power tubes and a tube rectifier. It has a tube boost which is footswitchable and has its own level control so this can almost be thought of as a lead channel. It has a Passive 3-Band EQ and Five-Position Voicing Circuitry so you can tailor the amp to a particular guitar. It has a 12″ Alnico Red Fang™ Speaker by Eminence which sounds great and is modelled on a classic Blueback Celestion speaker. It also has tube driven reverb which is definitely usable but not to everyone’s taste. It is the perfect amp for blues and rock, you can use this amp for heavy metal but it has more of a classic tone like Angus Young when cranked rather than a high gain amp.
You can see on my video yesterday on how to install the Audix CabGrabber and Audix i5 used for this demo. I plugged my Ibanez JS1000 directly into the amp using an Armor Gold cable and ran the output from the Audix i5 into a Tapco Firewire Audio Interface using a GigGear Microphone cable. Finally the Audio Interface connects to an iMac running Abelton Live and iMovie.
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