Blackstar BEAM

Blackstar Amplification

About this app

BEAM — the most immersive, intuitive guitar experience for modern players. Whether you’re jamming at home, on the move, recording ideas, or just grabbing ten minutes of play time between everything else, BEAM gives you pro-level sound with complete creative freedom — wherever you are.

Head over to the companion BEAM app to find Official Artist Patches from the likes of Doug Aldrich (The Dead Daisies), Phil Collen (Def Leppard) and so many more.

You can join in the fun and share your own tones on the BEAM app Online Community, as well as download other creators’ patches from a vibrant global community of players just like you. You can even share your favourite patches with friends over message with just a simple tap.

Within the Music section of the BEAM app, you’ll find a host of backing tracks and video lessons to help you stay inspired and continue your learning journey. BEAM is a complete one-stop solution for guitar players today, whether you’re using BEAM SOLO or BEAM MINI.

Ratings and reviews

Loving it so far! However...a few quirks! For some reason, the Music tab (where you can find tracks to play along with and lesson videos from YouTube) is very finicky, and often does not load, or load fully. Keeps spinning and/or giving a message about not have internet, when I am clearly connected. Switching between Wi-Fi and LTE works sometimes, but not often. Not sure what the issue is, but downloaded on both the Samsung and Apple...same problem on both phones. Hope they figure out a fix soon

the blackstar beam solo and companion app are no joke amazing. I am very impressed with the UI, the ability to record right in the app, and the sounds are incredible especially the "in the room" part of cabrig. I play it every chance I get. I have experienced one issue though when recording via USB to my Google pixel 8 in the camera app with the external mic as the beam solo, I get random crackles in the recording. I reached out to blackstar on the issue but no solution yet.

Enjoying the app so far, but improvements needed. 1st, my wife and I bought a beam mini each, and it's annoying that there doesn't appear to be a way at present to rename the blackstar beam mini devices, so it makes it unclear which one we're connecting to. it appears on the UI that we should be able to update the device name and add our device serial numbers, however both fields are greyed out at present. 2nd, in the music section, the play along youtube music videos do not allow for landscape

What’s new

General Bug fixes