Mini amp disguised as a Bluetooth speaker packs infinite tones

Blackstar has not only crammed a guitar amp into a little box the size of a Bluetooth speaker, but also packed it with high-tech features to get a vast array of tones out of it to practice any style of playing, anywhere they'll tolerate you.

The British outfit announced the Beam Mini back in January, with a bunch of familiar capabilities and a couple of standout features that separate this from other desktop amps. It's got a load of built-in amp models and configurable effects like you'd expect, but the big draw that's got a gear nerd like me excited is Neural Amp Modeler (NAM) compatibility.

NAM is a piece of open-source tech that lets anyone capture the characteristics of audio gear including amps, cabinets, and pedals, train a neural network with signals from that gear, and create a profile that you can dial in to record and perform...

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