Description
We have a short run of handwired Minimats available for quick dispatch at a special price. As close as we’re ever going to get to a Black Friday deal!
The Minimat portable valve guitar amplifier head with onboard attenuator. The original Minimat opened the door to a flood of low wattage heads, we wanted to turn our back on lunchbox amps and retain the Green Matamp style for this short run.
This batch of Minimats have been made in house in the same factory as the larger heads, featuring an all steel chassis enclosed in a head sleeve made to the same standard as the rest of the range. We’ve returned to our cosmetic roots and presented the amp in th classic Green Matamp livery.
Minimat is equipped with transformers made to our specification here in the UK, supplied by one of the same companies that we use in our other amplifiers.
As with many of our heads, we use JJ valves. A JJ ECC83 for the preamp stage and a JJ 6V6s for the output stage. Don’t be fooled by the modest 5w ouptut, this like all Matamps is measure clean power. The Minimat is capable of performing live, especially if mic’d up.
Around the back we have an output socket which features an attenuator allowing for crunchy overdriven tones at lower volumes, ideal for not upsetting the neighbours. There is also a pure tone output which is unattenuated for maximum volume and tone.
The final feature is a boost button that gives the option to go from a warm clean to a brighter overdriven tone. This adjusts both the preamp and poweramp configuration. Out and the amp runs with negative feedback and a lower gain preamp, this delivers a great range of cleaner to light overdrive sounds. With the button in the preamp gets a touch more gain while the negative feedback is removed letting the power amp overdrive earlier.
While Minimat is small in size, its 5 watt power output is anything but small, giving the legendary Matamp tone in a versatile amp that sounds great in the living room or live on stage.
We expect this short run to not hang around long. We will not be taking custom or backorders on this product.
