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"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
"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
How would you rate the Powerbrake? Was there much tone suck while using it?
The trick is not to just crank the amp right up - use both the attenuator and the amp’s master volume together. Set the attenuator to roughly the right volume first then dial the amp in for that volume, not the other way round.
On the Powerbrake, each click is a 3dB reduction, even though they're not marked. So just one click halves the effective power of the amp, two clicks is a quarter of the power etc. Even with a 100W amp, using it as if it's a 12W amp is only three clicks down.
"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
mkiii 50 watt head you mentioned above , I might ask him to borrow it so I can see what it’s like.
Whats a good speaker for it ??
"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
Do us all a favour and buy a small amp or modeller, or get an attenuator and live with the weight and hassle
If not Friedman DSmini or similar and 2x12 cab
If you’re only going to be happy with a Jcm800 sound, this might be ideal for you.
The 'taper' (which covers some aspects of the circuit gain as well as the actual pot taper itself) is responsible for a lot of the problems of amps being 'too loud'. No amp with a volume control is actually 'too loud', it's just that it can be difficult to set it precisely enough and at the same time as sounding good, since the way the pot interacts with the rest of the circuit can affect the tone.
The JCM900s actually avoid this to some extent because their master volumes are rather unusual, and work by controlling gain in a switchable IC stage, independent of the valve circuit. Unfortunately they negated some the benefit of this by using terrible quality pots with a very non-smooth resistance track. But you may still find them more controllable than the 800, even without using the 25W 'Low' power (triode) mode, which doesn't sound as good, in my opinion.
"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