Blackstar St James 1×12 Lightweight Speaker Cabinet

£399.00

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If you are looking for New gear from Blackstar Amps. The Blackstar St James 1×12 Lightweight Speaker Cabinet is a great option. In stock, and ready to ship with fast, reliable delivery across the UK, Ireland, and Europe. For more details within Amps, additional Amp Cabinets options, full specifications, demos, images, videos, and secure online ordering, read on below.

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If you are looking for New gear from Blackstar Amps. The Blackstar St James 1×12 Lightweight Speaker Cabinet is a great option. In stock, and ready to ship with fast, reliable delivery across the UK, Ireland, and Europe. For more details within Amps, additional Amp Cabinets options, full specifications, demos, images, videos, and secure online ordering, read on below.

The Blackstar St James 1×12 Lightweight Cabinet is a game-changer for guitarists who demand power and portability without compromise. Delivering a robust 100 watts through a custom-designed 12″ Celestion G12Z Zephyr High Power speaker, this cabinet punches well above its weight. Crafted from innovative candlenut plywood, it offers exceptional strength while remaining remarkably light, making it ideal for gigging musicians, rehearsal spaces, or home use where space and weight are at a premium.

Designed in close collaboration with Celestion UK, the exclusive Zephyr High Power speaker blends a traditional ferrite magnet with a lightweight design, producing rich, dynamic tones that respond beautifully to your playing style. The St James 112 cabinet is perfectly suited to pair with pedalboard amps like Blackstar’s AMPED series or valve heads such as the St James 100, the world’s lightest 100W valve amplifier. Its open-back design enhances tonal clarity and projection, ensuring your sound cuts through every mix.

Whether you’re downsizing your rig or simply seeking a compact, manageable solution that doesn’t sacrifice sonic quality, the St James 1×12 offers the perfect balance of power, tone, and portability. Its stage-ready style is completed with an illuminating Blackstar logo, making it as visually striking as it is sonically impressive.

Custom Celestion Zephyr High Power Speaker

Exclusively designed for Blackstar, this 12″ speaker combines a traditional ferrite magnet with a lightweight build to deliver powerful, rich tones. It safely handles a full 100 watts, making it a rare feat for a cabinet of this size and ensuring your sound remains dynamic and full-bodied at any volume.

Candlenut Plywood Construction

Using candlenut plywood reduces the cabinet’s weight by around 40% compared to traditional birch plywood, without compromising strength. This material choice makes the St James 112 incredibly durable yet easy to transport, perfect for musicians on the move.

Compact and Lightweight Design

Weighing just 12.8 kg, this cabinet is remarkably easy to carry and manoeuvre. Its compact footprint fits seamlessly into smaller spaces, making it ideal for home studios, rehearsals, and gigs where portability is key.

Versatile Compatibility

Featuring a 16 Ohm input, the St James 112 is compatible with a wide range of amplifiers, from pedalboard amps to powerful valve heads. This versatility ensures it can adapt to various setups and playing styles with ease.

Specifications

Speaker

  • Type: Custom Celestion G12Z Zephyr High Power
  • Size: 12 inches
  • Power Handling: 100 Watts
  • Impedance: 16 Ohms

Cabinet

  • Construction: Candlenut Plywood
  • Design: Open-back
  • Weight: 12.8 kg
  • Dimensions: Compact and portable

Additional Features

  • Illuminating Blackstar St James logo
  • Designed for use with pedalboard amps and valve heads

Additional information

Weight 8.5 kg

About the manufacturer

Blackstar

Blackstar are known for making standout effects pedals and more. Founded with a passion for tone and innovation, their gear has shaped countless records and players’ sounds. Look out for their iconic designs and flagship models — they’ve earned a reputation for reliability and creativity.

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Amp Cabinets

A speaker cabinet is responsible for turning your amplifier’s power into the sound you actually hear, and it plays a huge role in the overall feel and character of your tone. Different cabinet sizes, speaker types, and configurations can affect everything from low-end punch to clarity and projection. Cabinets can be open-back or closed-back, single or multi-speaker, each offering a distinct response and spread in a room. Whether paired with a powerful amp head or a compact setup, the right speaker cabinet helps define how your guitar sits in a mix and how it feels to play.

Amps

Guitar amps cover everything needed to amplify, shape, and project your guitar sound, from small practice setups to full stage and studio rigs. In this category you’ll find combo amps, separate amp heads and speaker cabinets, covering valve, solid-state, and hybrid designs, each offering a different feel and response. You’ll also see modelling and digital amps, built-in effects, footswitches, attenuation solutions, replacement speakers, valves, and essential accessories to keep an amp performing at its best. Whether you’re chasing pristine cleans, classic crunch, or modern high-gain tones, guitar amps and related gear are all about finding the right balance of power, tone, and control for the way you play.

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1×12

1×12 refers to a speaker configuration with one 12-inch speaker, most commonly found in guitar amplifiers and speaker cabinets. It offers a balanced combination of clarity, low-end response, and projection, making it a versatile choice for both home use and live performance.

Compared to smaller speaker setups, a 1×12 delivers a fuller sound with more body, while remaining more compact and portable than larger multi-speaker cabinets. It is popular with players who want strong tone and punch without the weight and volume of a 2×12 or 4×12 setup.

Cabinet

A cabinet is a speaker enclosure designed to be used with a guitar amplifier head, playing a crucial role in how your tone sounds and feels. The size of the cabinet, the number of speakers, and the type of speakers used all affect projection, low-end response, and overall character, shaping everything from tight, focused tones to wide, room-filling sound.

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