SOLD: Blackheart Little Ant 1/4W Valve head and cab

JookyChap · December 2013

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I bought this for the living room, but seem to just play my AC15 instead, so tis on it's way.

Lovely condition < 1W and controls so simple even I managed to master them..

£99 Delivered, PPG or Bank transfer preferred

MR Review

Here's the spec/blurb

The Killer Ant Half Stack is The follow up to Blackheart Engineering's Little Giant 5, the Killer Ant is the first attainable, boutique quality fractional tube amp. Featuring Class A, Single Ended circuitry, it delivers the complete, classic, touch responsive tube tone you need but at more manageable volumes for apartment dwellers and recording sessions.

Designed on a beer stained cocktail napkin, prototyped, built and tested in a one car garage in Austin, TX, and engineered to the same strict standards as the Little Giant 5, this "little head" delivers the tones, the smells and the attitude you want when sonic bliss is everything and volume needs to be kept at bay. The Killer Ant embraces 100% classic all tube circuitry but, instead of a high power tube output section, it boasts a clever, all tube power block pumping out a mere fraction of 1W. What you get is arena rock tone at bedroom levels. No more angry neighbors, whining wives or girlfriends (or both...just sayin').

Like its big bro, it features completely overbuilt component specs, from 1W resistors in the signal path to double sided PCB with 2 oz traces. Even its diminutive cabinet, just over palm sized, is built to take a beating with 15 ply (18mm) void-free wood covered expertly in durable black tolex. Final touches include distinctive white piping accents and a salt & pepper cloth covered front baffle. 4, 8 and 16-ohm extension speaker jacks allow you to hook the Ant into virtually any cab you like, including a 4 X 12. However, its counterpart, the Killer Cab, is designed to be its perfect soul mate.
Blackheart Products have been discontinued and are and end of line product. All Products are brand new but have been on display.

Specifications

Head <1 Watt RMS, Single-Ended, Class A » Outputs: 1 x 16 ohm jack, 1 x 8 ohm jack, 1 x 4 ohm jack » Preamp Tubes: 2 x 12AX7 » Solid State Rectifier » Volume (the rest of the tone is in your hands) » DC Power to filaments for super quiet operation » 15 ply, 18mm thick-void free plywood construction Cab 16 Ohms » 30 Watts power handling » 15 ply (18mm) thick, void-free plywood construction » 10" Blackheart Model 1016B by Eminence Speaker with British Voicing, optimized for closed back cabinet » 2 x 16 ohm parallel speaker jacks

Deadman · December 2013

My old little ant! You've cared well for it Jooks.

JookyChap · December 2013

Actually, just been playing it and I've changed my mind - So tis no longer up for grabs

I forgot I got it off you @Deadman....still sounds good

JookyChap · January 2014

And so, yet again, I've changed my mind all over again and it is back on the block...

JookyChap · January 2014

Badump

IanSavage · January 2014

Oooohhhh, want - have a bump! Don't suppose you need a 5-string bass do you?

JookyChap · January 2014

No, fraid not

Plus I'm on a Guitar-fast for 2014 so it's just a sale really.. *sigh*

JookyChap · February 2014

Blah

JookyChap · February 2014

ored bored bored, so Today only £99 Delivered

samzadgan · February 2014

i dont need it...but at £99 its really tempting! how does it handle pedals?

JookyChap · February 2014

I don't really use pedals very often, but my son has an old Boss Multi-fx and it works great with that, and a nice clean boost certainly does the trick

samzadgan · February 2014

ok...i'll check out the tube today for some demos...ill get back to you.

you don't want any trades do you? I have a Fatboost 3 and a couple of humbuckers i'm moving on.

JookyChap · February 2014

No, I'm trying to "de-clutter" and save my ears from aching, tbh.

samzadgan · February 2014

i've been Amp-Blocked by the missus!

she's ok with the "GAS = n + 1" on guitars and pedals, but not on amps...:(

Good luck with the sale mate

JookyChap · February 2014

No worries, I know the feeling well

JookyChap · February 2014

la di la di daaaa

JookyChap · February 2014

Que Cera Cera..etc.

DrBob · February 2014

Dearheart,

As an aside I want the Sly & The Family Stone version of Que Sera Sera played as my coffin's rolling into the big fire but that's by the by.

I appear to be a little short on bargaining tokens at the mo' as a consequence of the voracious rate of my recent pedal acquisition, and that being the case I don't suppose that either yourself or the burgeoning guitar talents of Jooky 2.0 would have use of either a Providence Sonic Drive or a Gig FX Frampton Megawah (quite possibly the most highly specc'ed Wah wah on the surface of the planet) in part ex for this little gem would you ?

JookyChap · February 2014

@DrBob - Ah, pedals aren't really my kettle of chips, in fact the only one I have at the moment is a Danelectro Wah which not only has lots of buttons I'll never use but has the advantage of looking like a '50s car complete with brake lights - I'm not sure Frampton could beat that. I'll ask the brat though as he is more into such bobbins than I.

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