Blackstar Fly 3 Bass Guitar Portable Battery 3 Watt Powered Mini Amp MP3 Line In & Headphone Line Out

Probably one of the best little bass amps I’ve ever used. The two things I’ve taken away from using this amp that amazes me, are the sound quality and how long it lasts on 6 AA batteries. Honestly, the sound quality is amazing.. I have a fender rumble 100w .. it’s on par with that easily, it actually sounds like a bass should. I have another vox pathfinder amp, and you compare the sound quality with this little amp .. it’s so much better. The battery life is crazy, I still haven’t changed the batteries and I’ve literally been using it every week for hours on end .. it’s been about 4 months!!! Absolutely amazing. For the price, just buy it... it’s great for indoor us, and outdoor. My mate bought the guitar version and we’ve taken these outside and jammed, they’re definitely loud enough to busk too. Brilliant. Get one!!!!

Excellent product. I have big amps and small amps for guitars and bass and recently purchased two fly 3 amps for my electro acoustic guitar and mic. Using them with the little additional extension cabinate. Great sound unlike other belt clip on amps and mini amps I had in the past that very quickly lost any quality that they did have.I use these fly 3's for acoustic jams, with an sm58 mic into one of them just to project my singing a little more. Obviously not for gigs. The bass amp is great too and I mainly wanted this to give my fretless acoustic bass a tad more projection. Does the job. Wouldn't use it to turn up loud as the nature of the lower frequency it doesn't work so amazingly very loud.Recommended if using as I am, to slightly amplify acoustic jams etc but not gigs although may be great too for busking.Try it!

Good product...although dialling in a good tone initially took a while and some trial and error.I bought this for hotel room practice and for that it is perfect as I have to consider other hotel guests but unamplified bass is just too quiet .Where this comes into its own is when you play audio source and your bass into it .Using a half decent pair of over the ear headphones...the sound blends together nicely when you are laying bass over the songs you are playing over the top of.

Stonking little amp better than something twice the size and runs off batteries nice and lite , great sound,,

After reading many reviews here and across the internet, I thought this was the perfect solution for me - my main amplifiers aren't in the house and I needed something compact and not too loud in order to practice. Unfortunately, as soon as I plugged my bass in and started playing, the sound was terrible - lots of hissing and background noise accompanying every note I played. I initially thought that it was on the overdrive channel, but turns out this was the clean channel. Thinking it might be my bass, I tried with another 2 of my basses - same result. Maybe it's the cable? After trying with 3 other cables, I was still getting the same distorted, hissing sound in the background. Turning the gain down and keeping the volume at below 2 seemed to get rid of the hissing, but the actual sound of the amp was nearly inaudible. Product has since been returned to Amazon and I bit the bullet and brought my main practice amp back home. Would not recommend.

It's an outstanding little amp, perfect for home rehearsal.

I will divide this abbreviated review into two sections. Section one:1) HEADPHONES. I give a small star for onboard electronics while using headphones. Overdrive, tone, subwoofer, gain works. Compressor extremely hissy, chokey and unstable, and erratic. It may work for some as a headphone amp. However, it may not make sense to have such a bulky headphone amp that takes 6 1.5V batteries.2) THE SPEAKER. What the f**** is that??!! £60??!!! Blackstar, are you trying to knock off a thirty quid from us or so? Blackstar, you are undermining your reputation with this product. This is utter rubbish and can not compete with a guitar version in any respect.Another small star I add for the possibility of a quick return.Honestly, £30 it's the maximum I could cough up for that quasi amp.Returned.

I live in a flat with both upstairs and downstairs neighbours, where I often feel wary about using even my relatively small Ampeg practice amp. I rarely crank the volume knob past one.At the same time, there's something deeply unsatisfying about playing through headphones. So I was looking for something that struck a nice middle ground between the two.People have complained that you can't "feel" the bass from this thing. First of all, why would you be able to - it's three watts. Second of all, that's exactly what I wanted from it.I won't pretend that the tone is amazing - it's about as thin and trebly as you'd expect from an amp this size and the "clean" channel is pretty distorted even at very low volumes. But it's still impressive considering the amp's size and cost.But I've had a lot of fun with it, breaking the lockdown working from home monotony with lunchtime jams at my desk and recording some short Instagram stories with it.I might buy the power adapter in the future because I'm not made of money and six AAs a pop can be painful. But I do really like the fact that I can take it anywhere with no power leads.