Craig Bennett
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I use my Two Notes Torpedo Reload on my 130 Watt Peavey. Works very well at any power I want to drive it (up to 150 W). I just turn the Two Notes way down and enjoy my amp.
+1 on the RockcrusherI've been pleased with the Rivera Rockcrusher. I'm also a user of the Suhr reactive load, which I use to feed my my amp into my Helix for IRs which I can monitor via headphones or my JBL LSR monitors. The Suhr piece is killer.
DO you want tell us why you think that?I hate to keep saying this, as some will disagree or say they work great... but any volume control in the effects loop is NOT the same thing as an attenuator.
DO you want tell us why you think that?
DO you want tell us why you think that?
Because it is a fact. Oh yeah, any volume control is an attenuator, but used in this context a guitar attenuator is a device that is placed AFTER the power amp section of the amp. A volume control on the effects loop just cuts the level of the signal going to the PI or output state, depending on where the loop is in the circuit. That's two completely different things.
People who use this to tame an amp often say/think that they are getting "cranked amp tone" at lower volumes, and they are not. They're getting cranked pre-amp tones with less power going to the power stage... With most amps, it's a disadvantage tonally. You're putting an unbuffered pot in the loop and cutting volume to the PI and power stage and changing the impedance of the signal coming into the effects return. Most amps sound BETTER if you just turn the master down. If the amp doesn't have a master, then this can allow you to crank the pre-amp a bit more and control volume, but it's still sort of a "hack" way to do it, IMO. And it is a joke in most cases compared to an actual attenuator or load/reamp device.Thank you. I thought that too that using volume pedal in FX loop places it before the master section. Hence, cranking the master volume may still not saturated the power tubes.
I’ll be curious to hear your impressions of it. I’m no longer in the market for one, but at that price, it better have more than bells and whistles!I recently saw BOSS WAZA tube expander which is supposed to be the best attenuator out there. I guess i will give it a shot.