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My mates Dad is a bit of a guitar geek and an electronics/ham-radio whizz. He builds his own amps and such like and knocked up an attenuator for me.
I play in a room at home about 5m X 5m, Victory V40 and their own 1x12 creamback cab. The V40 has a high (40W) and a low setting (15W). You can also choose a single output valve in the power amp which brings it down to about 2W in the low power mode or 7W in "high".
The attenuator lets me explore the upper volume ranges and the tone / sustain it brings without the huge volume. It's wonderful. Cost £37 in parts and there's a bottle of whisky from one of my casks heading his way for his time. Cheap at twice the price.
I play in a room at home about 5m X 5m, Victory V40 and their own 1x12 creamback cab. The V40 has a high (40W) and a low setting (15W). You can also choose a single output valve in the power amp which brings it down to about 2W in the low power mode or 7W in "high".
The attenuator lets me explore the upper volume ranges and the tone / sustain it brings without the huge volume. It's wonderful. Cost £37 in parts and there's a bottle of whisky from one of my casks heading his way for his time. Cheap at twice the price.
Lefty said:
Bugger, why does thumbsnap sometimes rotate pictures?! FFS
Dunno, looks fine to me, though I've had a bottle of wine so maybe I'm rotated. 
I must look into an attenuator myself as although I have a 1 watt Marshall (works great at living room levels) I also use a 15 watt Vox head and I'm interested in the new Fender 7 and 15 watt heads due over here around mid March.
Epiphone Les Paul Slash AFD
And a peavey rage 108
A really great sound, can't believe how well the Les Paul plays! Only cheap but a real gem, looks lovely too.
Been after one for ages and this popped up gumtree for £90! Sold!
Payed £45 for the amp.. Bargain!
Such a great sound and the guitar and amp are both as good as new.
Happy me!
The fact it looks a little like a Gary Moore signature is also a bonus
Buff Mchugelarge said:
Epiphone Les Paul Slash AFD
And a peavey rage 108
A really great sound, can't believe how well the Les Paul plays! Only cheap but a real gem, looks lovely too.
Been after one for ages and this popped up gumtree for £90! Sold!
Payed £45 for the amp.. Bargain!
Such a great sound and the guitar and amp are both as good as new.
Happy me!
The fact it looks a little like a Gary Moore signature is also a bonus
A mate of mine has loaned me his 2016 SG for the weekend. Never played one before (aside from a 3 minute clumsy chord fest about a month after I started learning).
It's great! Not got any pics handy but it's one of these:
It's a comfortable, slick thing to play, lovely satin neck, very responsive controls.
It's great! Not got any pics handy but it's one of these:
It's a comfortable, slick thing to play, lovely satin neck, very responsive controls.
I hit the boxing day sales and picked this up:
Funky 100th Anniversary Case-
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Also my accoustic, which I bought early last year, but never got around to sticking on here-
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It's actually a very dark brown rather than black, which you can just about see here-
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2015 Gibson LP Classic and Yamaha APX1000
Funky 100th Anniversary Case-
DSC_0224DSC_0226Also my accoustic, which I bought early last year, but never got around to sticking on here-
DSC_0228It's actually a very dark brown rather than black, which you can just about see here-
DSC_02292015 Gibson LP Classic and Yamaha APX1000
OldSkoolRS said:
Dunno, looks fine to me, though I've had a bottle of wine so maybe I'm rotated.
I must look into an attenuator myself as although I have a 1 watt Marshall (works great at living room levels) I also use a 15 watt Vox head and I'm interested in the new Fender 7 and 15 watt heads due over here around mid March.
Why do you need an attenuator with a 7W amp? Do they not have master volume controls? Only amp I've ever found too loud in the house was my Marshall 1987X, and that was fixed by adding a PPIMV mod. Even the Fender Twin is just about manageable with a _very_ gentle approach to the volume control and the main power stage set to 25W.I must look into an attenuator myself as although I have a 1 watt Marshall (works great at living room levels) I also use a 15 watt Vox head and I'm interested in the new Fender 7 and 15 watt heads due over here around mid March.
That said, it's probably highly speaker sensitive too. I played electric last Friday in the end, using my old Marshall JTM30 with 2 10" speakers. It was turned up to about 4 whereas last time I played the same venue with my Laney Cub12 with a V30 I ran it on the <1W setting turned to about 5.
Lefty said:
I use an attenuator so that I can get the tone of the amp cranked up without the massive volume, even a 7W tube amp could produce a metric s
tload of noise...
Very true. My mate has just bought an Orange Dark Terror and it is bloody loud in 7w mode. tload of noise...Sadly my 60w Blackstar can't be turned down, think I will be replacing it soon!
The Nur said:
They could have chucked in some strings and a setup, surely?
It arrived with strings but they were a bit too rusty to play.
Stripped it down, cleaned it, polished the frets, oiled the board etc Pulled the pickups out to find it's got a DiMarzio PAF PRO in the neck and a DiMarzio Fred in the bridge. I expected the guitar to be stock so that was a nice surprise
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