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Build your own Attenuator
Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 8:51 pm
by Mike
Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 9:20 pm
by euan
Hot.
Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 9:25 pm
by Doog
Awesome, one for the To Do list.
Posted: Mon Apr 16, 2007 10:58 pm
by paul_
i see. thanks very much!
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 7:17 am
by Mike
No problem guys, I'm thinking of giving it a go, experimenting with something like that and a small amp might yield good results.
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 8:35 am
by BobArsecake
UR OWN WOT?
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 8:42 am
by Mike
Drive Amplifier really hard to get good tonez = very very loud = angry neighbours + tinitus
Drive Amplifier really hard + attenuator to convert lots of the energy into heat = good tonez and OK volumez.
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 9:16 am
by Doog
Also a good way to rock out at home and save on the heating bill.
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 9:18 am
by Mike
Doog wrote:Also a good way to rock out at home and save on the heating bill.
Science.
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 9:33 am
by euan
Doog wrote:Also a good way to rock out at home and save on the heating bill.
The boy speaks the truth. Aren't there designs based around a lightbulb as well?
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 9:36 am
by Mike
I dunno.
Hot plate is similar to this (and fucking expensive considering it doesn't have switchable impedance. GAY!), the Powerbrake powers a fan when it gets hot too... all off the speaker output signal.
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 9:38 am
by Doog
Man, they should make big awesome neon signs that work as attenuators.
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 9:45 am
by Mike
Brilliant.
Halfway through the gig it warms up and
COCK WHORE
is emblazoned behind your head
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 11:11 am
by Thom
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 11:55 am
by Doog
Hahaha..
"All night long, people have been asking us about GIRLS! GIRLS! GIRLS! but we don't know that one, no matter how many dollar bills you've got."
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 1:26 pm
by zoinks
Isn't there a problem with attenuators where they are known to blow up your amp? If it wasnt for that i would build one in a heart beat.
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 1:40 pm
by Mike
zoinks wrote:Isn't there a problem with attenuators where they are known to blow up your amp? If it wasnt for that i would build one in a heart beat.
Not really.
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 2:03 pm
by foofoo982
Dammit, I wish I saw thought of doing that when I had my old amp. My old one channel head had such shitty tone at decent volumes
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Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 2:30 pm
by euan
zoinks wrote:Isn't there a problem with attenuators where they are known to blow up your amp? If it wasnt for that i would build one in a heart beat.
You are thinking of Variacs.
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2007 9:09 pm
by zoinks
Oh awesome! Now i have something to build over the summer.
