Blackstar Launches New JJN-20R Combo Amp

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Blackstar has launched its new JJN-20R combo amp.

A combo version of Jared James Nichols' signature head, the JJN-20R features two EL84 power amp tubes and an ECC83 in the preamp section.

In terms of controls, the JJN-20R features Clean and Bluespower channels with footswitchable voices, reverb, reducible power down to two watts, a USB audio and XLR D.I. out, and a Celestion G12T-75 speaker.

Looks-wise, the amp is built with a Jared James Nichols panel design and tan basketweave front, and is wrapped in racing green tolex.

"I have toured around the world, always with a Blackstar amp behind me," Nichols said in a press release. "I am so thrilled to be able to share my blues power tones with the world through my own signature guitar amp.” 

The Blackstar JJN-20R combo amp is available now for $729.99.

For more info on the amp, stop by blackstaramps.com

Jackson Maxwell
Associate Editor, GuitarWorld.com and GuitarPlayer.com

Jackson is an Associate Editor at GuitarWorld.com and GuitarPlayer.com. He’s been writing and editing stories about new gear, technique and guitar-driven music both old and new since 2014, and has also written extensively on the same topics for Guitar Player. Elsewhere, his album reviews and essays have appeared in Louder and Unrecorded. Though open to music of all kinds, his greatest love has always been indie, and everything that falls under its massive umbrella. To that end, you can find him on Twitter crowing about whatever great new guitar band you need to drop everything to hear right now.