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most wil have hear of the Fletcher Munson curve
Fletcher Munson Curve: A Must-Know for Audio Recording (ehomerecordingstudio.com)
There is a newer set of curves:
Equal-loudness contour - Wikipedia
Many will remember the "loudness" button on "hi-fi" amps in the 70s/80s
Basically, quieter settings on amps will sound lacking in bass and treble
This could be a good or a bad thing, but on a classic amp basically means you are getting a different sound to the one the amp became famous for
Some observations I have made:
My DC30 has a point at which a tiny nudge higher on the volume brings the amp alive. with the master volume down, the feel and DC30-ness seems to be lost as it gets to lower volumes, and that's the best master volume control on an amp I've tried
I have a large iso box containing mic'd up speakers, I used to run valve amps into it, you couldn't hear the speakers in the room. Monitoring those signals, I had to use multiband compression and EQ to make the amps sound alive, basically increasing the bass and treble in an adaptive way - see the chart above.
If you never play loud, you'll never miss the apparent EQ of the amp at "normal loud volume"