Matamp's new Minimat Range

[Empires]

Lifted from the Matamp forum

New Minimat Range.

Built to the same levels of construction found in our bigger amps the all new Minimats give high quality tone at sensible volume levels. Unlike some supposed UK brands all of our amps are 100% made in England our factory in the Yorkshie hills. Don't mistake them for Far Eastern toy amps.

The Minimats Are true professional amplifiers in small packages. There's no compromise on tone and quality like many other low powered valve amps. If you're looking for a practice rig that delivers serious tone look no further, there's a Minimat to suit. Serious tone in small packages.



Mini-Pro

The baby of the all new Minimat range is anything but tiny sounding. Featuring true point-to-point hardwired construction and carefully selected components. The Mini-Pro delivers an incredible tone and a surprising amount of punch from the single 6V6 class A output stage. The onboard attenuator lets you crank up and keep the volume down.

If your looking for a pure tone, capable of delivering full cleans or fruity crunch this is the amp to choose. The simple volume and tone layout let's you get on with playing. You don't have to spend hours dialing in a tone, just plug and play.

Mini-Pro loves pedals, the modest four watt output let's you drive it hard with your favourite overdrive boost pedals, or perhaps keep it clean and enjoy the warmth with a delay and some chorus. Whatever you want the purity of the Mini-Pro will let you hear your pedals' full potential.


Mini-Verb

At last the Minimat many have be waiting for. We've even surprised ourselves with this one - footswitchable reverb.

We took the Mini-Pro and added a more flexible EQ and left enough space for a full transformer driven valve reverb just like you find on bigger amps. The lush sound of a spring reverb driven in this way takes the Minimat tone to a new level.

This is the cleanest sounding of the new Minimat range. It still features the same class A output stage but gains an ECC83 to handle reverb duties. The tonal range is suprisingly broad for such a modest amp, clean blues, country and jazz tones are here and can be taken to the point of overdrive for a touch of grit.

There's a variable line out funtcion that allows you to hook up the Mini-Verb to a bigger amp or to a speaker emulator for recording. the built in load means you dint have to have a speaker connected fir silent recording.

You can even use the Mini-Verb as a stand alone valve reverb unit. By using the line out you can patch the Mini-Verb into your effects chain and get great vintage style reverb.

If your looking for a small amp that's not all about distortion, here it is.


Minimat 3G

The third incarnation of the groundbreaking Minimat. The Minimat was the first amp to offer big amp performance in a compact package, and the legacy continues.

The all rounder in the range lets you dial up a clean tone and then hit the footswitch to access a variable overdrive boost, all kept under control with the onboard attenauator.

Once again featuring the Class A 6V6 output stage paired with two ECC83 preamp valves you get all the warmth and punch you could want. If you're recording or playing at home it's possible the Minimat 3G could be the only amp you'll need.

With a little more clean headroom and a dollop of extra gain the 3G has significant other benefits over the previous Minimat 2. There's a variable line out together with an onboard dummy load so you can send the output of the amp to a bigger amp for gigging or to a speaker emulator for recording. The signal is taken from the output transformer so all of the tone if the amp is preserved.

The 3G is the versatile choice from the Minimat range.


Mini-Rock

Descended from the Little Rock via the special edition GT4, the Mini-Rock is the amp to choose if you love overdrive.

It doesn't really go clean, it starts dirty and gets filthy. Again it's a class A single 6V6 output stage but this time with all four triodes setup to achieve optimum distortion.

The voice switch found on big Matamps appears to keep the Mini-Rocks suprising low end under control. This combined with a footswitchable boost gives a massive range of overdrives that can be further tweaked with the two band EQ. Blues crunch through to full on Sabbath tones can be coaxed out of this little monster. Once again no one sound small amp here.

If you'd like a bit more filth in your life, get a Mini-Rock.

I think I might be tempted at some stage...

[benecol]

I read on their page the other day there was a new Minimat coming, not quite sure how big this news is... the first two versions they list are effectively the two options you get when you choose a Minimat anyhow - boost or reverb, effectively. The third version sounds like a slightly tweaked Minimat 2, but the fourth one is interesting: I was tempted to get a GT4 when I got my Minimat, and it's still the one from this lineup I find most tempting.If it had an attenuator, I'd be even more interested.