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Any properly-designed amp is safe with a properly-designed attenuator, if it's safe with a speaker - simply because a properly-designed attenuator looks very much like a speaker, to the amp.
But I'm not sure I'd be happy with using a Brake Lite with a 35W amp. I know it's supposedly rated at 45W, but from seeing inside them I wouldn't really like to push it that hard. 45W of *electrical power* is probably closer to it - which means a fully-overdriven 25W amp could be about as much as really handles. Whether the 65% of maximum actually correlates to that much power, I don't know.
This all sounds a bit geeky but it does matter, because if you burn out the attenuator the amp then has no load.
I'm not familiar with the TAD but I see it's rated for 150W, so that should be safe.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Sometimes I run a single EL34. I also do not drive the amp too hard, ideally to just where it starts to break up when you dig in.
My main issue is trying to keep the volume down. I am thinking of investigating a Blues Cube.
If you can't get the volume low enough with it or the TAD (which does have a 'bedroom level' setting from reading the spec) then you can actually run both together, in either order - that might allow you to finely tune it a bit more without losing tone.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein