Lazy J10 with a Marshall Powerbrake

bloomer

Would a powerbrake give decent results with a Lazy j10? Which attenuators, reactive loads etc. work well with tweedy circuits? 

ICBM

It would probably be OK, but my experience is that resistive Airbrake-type ones work best with lower-powered tweed Fender-type circuits.

crunchman

I'd get Jesse to fit power scaling.  I've got it on my J20, and to my ears it's a big improvement on the Weber Minimass attenuator I had before.

Gassage

Well, I managed to set fire to a Dr Z Lite with a J40.....

ICBM

crunchman said:

I'd get Jesse to fit power scaling.  I've got it on my J20, and to my ears it's a big improvement on the Weber Minimass attenuator I had before.

I'm not a fan of either of them to be honest!

Gassage said:

Well, I managed to set fire to a Dr Z Lite with a J40.....

That's because the supposed 45W rating is extremely optimistic - at least if that means the rated power of the amp, rather than the actual electrical power. Looking at the resistors inside and the lack of any actual heatsinking - it relies purely on convection from the resistors themselves - I would say realistically about half that, ie 45W electrical power, or a cranked 25W amp.

russpm

bloomer said:

Would a powerbrake give decent results with a Lazy j10? Which attenuators, reactive loads etc. work well with tweedy circuits? 

The Fryette PS2 works brilliantly with my Lazy J 20. It doesn't impact on the tremolo like the VAC does when cranked.
 

skay

@bloomer Do you have a Lazy J10 that doesn't have the VAC built in? I thought they all come with that as standard spec?

Or are you enquiring about using an attenuator alongside the built-in VAC, as this has worked well for me using the master volume plus an attenuator on my AC30 to get decent home-level volume distortion from the amp, well, better than just using either of them by themselves anyway.

Lebarque

I found the Swart Night Light worked well with my Lazy J20. I've still got it somewhere if you want it.