Blackheart BH1H Killer Ant Guitar Amplifier Head (1 Watt)

The followup 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.

Technical Info

<1 Watt RMS, Single-Ended, Class A

Outputs: 1 x 16 ohm jack, 1 x 8 ohm jack, 1 x 4 ohm jack

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

If "simplicity is the ultimate sophistication," the Blackheart Killer Ant makes Martha Stuart look like a driveling boor. A single volume knob is all you get, and all you need to access a world of killer, 100% tube rock tones, from twang to molten distortion. The fraction-of-a-watt operation won't wake the neighbors. Now that's a good thing.