Excellent condition Silktone Micronaut for sale (Serial Number #94 - Walnut Cab). This amp was purchased at the Chicago Music Exchange, and has seen use only in my apartment. These amps are 100% hand wired, and provide a fully analog signal pass to a recording interface that can be used without a speaker load. This means silent home recording, without the need for an 'active load' on the amp (I put the pedal in the photos for size comparison only).

From the Silktone website: It's an amp. It's a drive. It's a pre. It's a DI.It can do clean. It can do dirty.

​Micronaut is an incredibly musical and usable mini head. For tone shaping you'll find a tilt EQ tone control and a voice switch with two options. 'Mode I' is a cleaner, slightly scooped voice - very pretty & sweet with enough headroom to run a full pedalboard. 'Mode II' is the dirtier setting and changes the whole response of the amp. This is where the insane harmonic texturing comes out to play. You'll get increased touch sensitivity and an effortless transition from clean to dirty. It has the most complex distortion tones in our lineup ranging from light drive to shoegazy wild fuzz. It's so much fun here.

​​The really special part of this amp is it's unique line out. It's not taken from the preamp stage or resistively off the speaker tap like other amps - this one has a whole dedicated winding on the output transformer isolating it from the rest of the signal and it's own level control. The line out works together with an isolated reactive load whether a speaker is plugged in or not so you get the full power drive signal and response of the amp with all the natural EQ peaks and dips no matter what you plug it into (another amp, a pedal chain, a mixer, a DAW, etc)

One of our favorite uses is to run it in sort of a pseudo wet/dry stereo setup. Run your instrument into a cranked Micronaut feeding a dedicated 8 ohm speaker cab for 'dry' -- then take the line out and use it to drive a pedalboard full of modulation effects into another amp for 'wet'. It's crazy good.

Whether you're using it for DI as a perfect desktop pedal platform or to blast your favorite amp into huge power tube fuzz territory - it will be tons of fun.

Output: ~4W @ 8 Ohms
Tubes: 1 x 12AX7, 1 x EL84
​Transformers: Soursound
Controls: Gain, Tone, Voice switch, Line out volume (rear)
Dimensions: 9" x 7.75" x 6" @ 6.5 lbs

Listed5 days ago
ConditionExcellent (Used)
Excellent items are almost entirely free from blemishes and other visual defects and have been played or used with the utmost care.Learn more
Brand
Model
  • Micronaut 4-Watt Guitar Amp Head
Finish
  • Walnut
Categories
Year
  • 2003
Made In
  • United States
Number of Inputs
  • 1 Input
Electronics
  • Tube
Reverb
  • None
Power Tube Type
  • EL84
Number of Channels
  • 1 Channel
Impedance
  • 8 ohms
Output Power (Watts)
  • 4

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