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DIY Stompboxes => Building your own stompbox => Topic started by: marrstians on March 09, 2004, 02:28:56 AM

Title: guitar attenuator ?
Post by: marrstians on March 09, 2004, 02:28:56 AM
does anybody use these? do they choke the tone at all? is there a schem out there for one?
Title: guitar attenuator ?
Post by: Jun on March 09, 2004, 04:46:04 AM
do you mean amp attenuator?
Jun
Title: guitar attenuator ?
Post by: smoguzbenjamin on March 09, 2004, 06:26:39 AM
Use a pot with a cap across the outer lugs to preserve treble content. There's your attenuator!
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Post by: petemoore on March 09, 2004, 09:39:26 AM
That is a description of a 'standard' guitar volume conrtol?
Title: guitar attenuator ?
Post by: smoguzbenjamin on March 09, 2004, 09:48:08 AM
Yeah
Title: guitar attenuator ?
Post by: marrstians on March 09, 2004, 11:35:18 AM
yeah... i meant from the amp to the speaker...
Title: guitar attenuator ?
Post by: fretbuzz2003 on March 10, 2004, 06:35:37 PM
This site has some information on attenuators:

http://amps.zugster.net/articles/attenuation/index.html

I was going to build one but I ended up buying a killer amp that has one built in. It's a Carr Mercury and the variable attenuator will go from 8W to 2W to 1/2W to 1/10W (I get power tube distortion at bedroom volume!)
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Post by: petemoore on March 11, 2004, 01:01:20 AM
Weber VST looks pretty cool..
 I had a resistors box with a couple jacks and a rotory switch someone built for me long ago I used it to pretty good effect with a 1OOw SLP.
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