Product Overview
This is a great condition and great sounding Emery Sound Micro Baby 1 Watt Tube Combo Amp! This is your perfect recording amp to get that natural tube break up with low volume and FULL tone! Here's the spec from Emery Sound's Website!
Technology has brought full professional sound recording capabilities into the home of any motivated musician these days, but what good is all this sonic firepower if you are stuck recording cheesy low volume or direct guitar sounds?!
Most high quality tube amps are severely over powered for
high quality home recording and other low volume playing situations,
leaving one no choice but to 'fake it' one way or another.
Amp 'emulation' and other forms of fake, false tube sound are a JOKE!
The Microbaby is an ultra lo powered, tube rectified, class A guitar amp (~1 watt) that uses the same audio circuit and chassis as the acclaimed Superbaby, but with a scaled down power supply and output stage, to deliver a wide range of REAL electric guitar/amp tones at home recording/acoustic volume levels. It ships with a NOS 6X5GT rectifier and a NOS 6G6G pentode output tube. Both tubes, originally used in tube car radios, are working hard at full power when putting out 1 watt. I've got lots of beautiful '50s NOS of this type and they sound amazing! You can also set up the amp with a 6K6, 6Y6, 6V6, or an EL84 (w/ YellowJacket adapter) output tube for different flavors. No biasing is required to change the tubes.
Make no mistake, this amp produces a full bodied complex tone that belies its size!
A 6V6 reacts like a big bold tube when run at this power level,and an EL84 can out scorch a flame thrower when cranked!
Produces between 1 and 2 watts depending on the tube set up used.
rectifier tubes : 6X5, 6AX5, 5852, EZ35
output tubes : 6G6, 6Y6, 6K6, 6V6, EL33, 6EZ5, EL84/6BQ5/EL844 (w/YellowJacket adaptor)
preamp tubes : 12AX7, 12AT7, 12AV7, 12AU7, 12AY7, 5751 etc...
The Microbaby ships with a NOS US made 6X5 rectifier, a gorgeous 50's US 6G6G output tube,
and a selected current production 12AX7, ~ 1 watt outputFront Panel: INPUT jack,
VOICING switch, TONE control with bypass switch,
VOLUME control
Back panel:
POWER/STANDBY switch, speaker OUTPUT (4-16 ohms)
The three position VOICING switch configures the gain & dynamics of both the preamp and power amp stages. Each setting allows a full 'clean-to-scream' spectrum of tones, but with a different feel and gain structure.
Clean - low gain preamp with lots of sweet natural compression,
makes the amp more controlled throughout its range.
Loose - raw, juicy, versatile, and harmonically rich, the most touch responsive mode.
Boost - adds drive, punch, & pure raunch.
The VOLUME and TONE controls are quite interactive.Use both to create a wide range of gain structures and EQ curves. The TONE control is a purely subtractive, passive EQ. Consider the middle area to be the 'neutral' position. Turning to the left subtracts treble frequencies and gain, turning to the right subtracts bass frequencies and gain. To produce a wide open, less filtered tone,
you can bypass the TONE control entirely by clicking it fully CCW.The VOLUME control determines how hard your signal hits the output tube and ultimately how clean or dirty your sound is. The rest is up to you...
