Brendon Bass wrote on Fri, 03 August 2007 12:31 |
I have an old (1976) 100W Marshall MKII head that, needless to say, is way too loud for most of the situations I use it in. |
Bob Leonard wrote on Sat, 04 August 2007 15:27 |
The Marshall Power Brake is junk and the Weber is not to far behind it. The best attenuators made are from THD, or the Gibson branded THD Power Stealth. Your choice, they cost the same, but are light years ahead of anything else on the market and do the job perfectly. http://www.thdelectronics.com/products/hotplate.htm http://www.gibson.com/Products/Amplifiers/Gibson%20Amplifier s/Power%20Stealth/ |
Marsellus Fariss wrote on Sun, 05 August 2007 14:55 | ||
I completely disagree with you. I've had the THD Hotplate and I have the Webber Mini Mass and they sound pretty much the same. There's some slight variations but it's not night and day. I don't see spending over twice as much on the THD. Both will change your tone somewhat especially if you attenuate a great amount. The left hand side of the dial is pretty much uselsess from 12:00 counterclockwise to off. It adds a buzzing fizzy sound depending on what amp your using. I find attenuators to be very amp specific. |
Steve Hurt wrote on Mon, 06 August 2007 08:40 |
THD makes a good attenuator. Suggesting replacing a Marshall head with a Fender combo is like telling a Strat player to use a Les Paul, just not well thought out advice. The Fender and the Marshall do not do the same tones. A smaller marshall might work out if it;'s good one and not one of the solid state buzz boxes. As far as all current Fender products sucking, I guess we'll have to agree to disagree. I don't like the dirt channels on most of them but the clean channels are very usable on some of them. |
Bob Leonard wrote on Tue, 07 August 2007 02:29 |
But that doesn't mean the amp needs to be run with the power tubes saturated at 100 watts full output. |
David Buckley wrote on Mon, 06 August 2007 18:02 | ||
Yes, it does. There are 'master volume' amps that buzz at lower volumes, but there is little substitute for the full clip of a valve amp. Doesn't mean the speakers need to be in the same acoustic space as the band though; put them offstage (dressing room, beer celler) anywhere, and mic it up and bring it back through the mons. Or, you could do what I've done, which is admit that modern modeling boxes can get close enough to the classic tones to be usable (which means giving up 'perfection of tone'), and so much more convenient. This approach requires a mindset change on the part of the player though... |
Bob Leonard wrote on Wed, 08 August 2007 00:30 |
Have you ever actually heard a full stack running at 100 watts output? |