The company was founded by a group of ex-Marshall employees, most notably Bruce Keir, who became technical Director at Blackstar, and former Chief Design Engineer at Marshall, Ian Robinson.

Blackstar is endorsed by major artists like Ozzy Osbourne,[4][5] Neal Schon, Opeth, and Richie Sambora[5] of Bon Jovi.

The Blackstar Series One range offers a patented 'ISF' (Infinite Shape Feature), which alters the saturation to sound either 'American' or 'British', or anywhere in between.

Following more than 3 years of intensive R&D and market research, Blackstar released this update to the award-winning HT Venue line, stating that these products 'take the range to a new level of sonic performance, whilst adding every major enhancement that guitarists have requested; resulting in a massively flexible feature set that is still intuitive and musician-friendly.'

These amps boast "extreme gain and tone", and are "Voiced for Metal- Hundreds of hours of technical development and focussed listening tests have resulted in the ultimate gigging metal head."

Along with the ISF and Emulated output, they also possess powerful digital preamps with 128 unique storage banks to store your settings.

Having ISF and EQ features in common with some of the pedals, the HT-5 also includes an emulated output to provide a valve sound for recording without the need for a microphone.

It is also available in head-cab format, with a matching 60 watt cabinet.The Fly 3 is a series of 3-watt compact amplifiers powered by batteries or an external supply.

Blackstar produces guitar pedals for boost, overdrive, distortion, distx, modulation, reverb, delay, dual and metal.