Ok, one more MT15 thread for me, promise it's the last one
Anyway, loving the amp but as everyone says, it's too damn loud, in my case it's primarily because of the lousy volume taper.
With 3 small kids and no designated music room, I can barely find an hour to olay it at home every couple of days and even at the rehearsal, I barely hit the 9 o'clock until I got over the drummer. Extra question regarding this, it sounded fairly fuzzy and grainy for the first 20-30 minutes. Later it was great. Checked the bias, one tube was at 30.2 and the other 30.7
I lowered it a bit so both are now just under 30 mV, measuring 29.2 and 29.7. Never biased an amp before so I have no clue if this was even needed or if it would make a difference, but since it's so easy to do on this amo, thought I'd give it a try. Thoughts on this? Would the amp sound better quicker if volume was above 9 o'clock?
So for the mail question, I didn't find any content on the PA-100 attenuator here. It should be fairly similar to torpedo captor in regard it has a dummy load (4, 8 and 16 ohm) and has an xlr di for cab sim (I was always a pretty straightforward tube anp kinda guy, so have no idea what exactly this means).
I'd use the attenuator to be able to dummy load the head and connect it to the interface and play over the headphones at home through DAW. Maybe to record something every now and then. I'd maybe use it for rehearsals if I find the sound ti be better. Same goes for small gigs. Not having to take my box from home to rehearsal and back would also be a plus. It's 3 times cheaper than a captor, so for my use, I honestly don't wanna even consider paying more. Just wanna know if anyone has used it and if it was OK and if everything I wanna use it for is doable.
Alternative to this is a volume pot mod. I found a few threads contemplating this, but I cannot find any proven mods. Has there been any? I'm good with soldering (soldering my own cables and made a few pedals), but I'm not so good with theory behind it, so would need to know WHAT to do and then I'd know HOW to do it. I presume this would void the warranty, and since the amp is less than a week old, I'd seriosly consider if this would be worth doing.
That's all, it's a longer post but hopefully the results of it would make me 100% happy with the amp.
Cheers!
Anyway, loving the amp but as everyone says, it's too damn loud, in my case it's primarily because of the lousy volume taper.
With 3 small kids and no designated music room, I can barely find an hour to olay it at home every couple of days and even at the rehearsal, I barely hit the 9 o'clock until I got over the drummer. Extra question regarding this, it sounded fairly fuzzy and grainy for the first 20-30 minutes. Later it was great. Checked the bias, one tube was at 30.2 and the other 30.7
I lowered it a bit so both are now just under 30 mV, measuring 29.2 and 29.7. Never biased an amp before so I have no clue if this was even needed or if it would make a difference, but since it's so easy to do on this amo, thought I'd give it a try. Thoughts on this? Would the amp sound better quicker if volume was above 9 o'clock?
So for the mail question, I didn't find any content on the PA-100 attenuator here. It should be fairly similar to torpedo captor in regard it has a dummy load (4, 8 and 16 ohm) and has an xlr di for cab sim (I was always a pretty straightforward tube anp kinda guy, so have no idea what exactly this means).
I'd use the attenuator to be able to dummy load the head and connect it to the interface and play over the headphones at home through DAW. Maybe to record something every now and then. I'd maybe use it for rehearsals if I find the sound ti be better. Same goes for small gigs. Not having to take my box from home to rehearsal and back would also be a plus. It's 3 times cheaper than a captor, so for my use, I honestly don't wanna even consider paying more. Just wanna know if anyone has used it and if it was OK and if everything I wanna use it for is doable.
Alternative to this is a volume pot mod. I found a few threads contemplating this, but I cannot find any proven mods. Has there been any? I'm good with soldering (soldering my own cables and made a few pedals), but I'm not so good with theory behind it, so would need to know WHAT to do and then I'd know HOW to do it. I presume this would void the warranty, and since the amp is less than a week old, I'd seriosly consider if this would be worth doing.
That's all, it's a longer post but hopefully the results of it would make me 100% happy with the amp.
Cheers!
