NAD!! Gave the Katana the Chop!

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Re: NAD!! Gave the Katana the Chop!

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May as well go all Pete Thorn and get a Suhr reactive load, or the new Torpedo one that is going to be around $260 USD. Add your fav impulses and away you go. Works for Pete.

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dayl wrote:
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dayl wrote:
haha yeah. Looked into it a fair bit. The weber appears to do what I need it to. Will see.
It really depends on how much you're looking to attenuate - I had a weber and tbh it killed some of the tone once you started to attenuate more than a notch or two.
Yeah. Not trying to attenuate down to quiet 1-5w bedroom levels. Just need to tame it a bit.
I'd try pushing less air as well, 1x12 instead of a 4x12 would give you less volume. Or less efficient speakers.

All things being equal - to half the volume of a 100 watt amp, you're looking at a 10 watt amp - its a factor of 10. So the difference between 100 watt and 50 watt is 3/5ths of bugger all.
So, is that low alcohol or no alcohol at all? mmmm, no alcohol, do you want to try it? Noooooooooo.

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I had no idea it worked like that....I though 50 was half of 100 so half power. I feel dumb and uneducated.

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Aquila Rossa wrote:May as well go all Pete Thorn and get a Suhr reactive load, or the new Torpedo one that is going to be around $260 USD. Add your fav impulses and away you go. Works for Pete.
Yer that.
I run my Marshall through the Pangaea into a load. Sounds good to me and realistically is the only way I can now use my JCM or JMP.
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I have a Pangaea for sale if anyone is interested :mrgreen:
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From wht Ive read, the webers do pretty well for the price before the move to $1000+ Jobbies

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dayl wrote:I had no idea it worked like that....I though 50 was half of 100 so half power. I feel dumb and uneducated.
Nah bro you're right, it is half the power... but your ears lie to your brain

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Nah its more the implied 'half the power = half the volume' which is the untrue bit. It is half power. Just not half as loud :P

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jeremyb wrote:I have a Pangaea for sale if anyone is interested :mrgreen:
I've never owned anything to compare against, but can say it's very easy to use and sounds cool. Also, they are freakin small.

I'd buy it if I didn't have one already :D
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dayl wrote:I had no idea it worked like that....I though 50 was half of 100 so half power. I feel dumb and uneducated.
Audio is non linear and the human ear is very much so, your ears are designed to normalise volume levels
3db is half or double the power depending on whether your lowering or increasing,

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actually as far as I remember, hearing is very non-linear, hence its best to use log pots for volume. And why we perceive a 3db difference to be half or double the volume.
So, is that low alcohol or no alcohol at all? mmmm, no alcohol, do you want to try it? Noooooooooo.

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kwhelan wrote:
dayl wrote:I had no idea it worked like that....I though 50 was half of 100 so half power. I feel dumb and uneducated.
Audio is non linear and the human ear is very much so, your ears are designed to normalise volume levels
3db is half or double the power depending on whether your lowering or increasing,
Ear will attenuate sound too, or so it seems to me. it's something I noticed after living next to the Windsor to Detroit rail tunnel. Huge freight trains all hour sounded like rolling thunder at first, but after a while did not notice them so much. Once i realized my hearing was filtering the sound, I tried to concentrate on it to see if it would appear as loud as when i first moved in. Nope. Brain had decided it was a sound I was not going to hear loudly.

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yep its amazing what you can get used too, makes long mixing sessions hard to be compariitve ,your brain will listen for quiet sounds and amplify them up in a loud mix if you know they are there and are listening for them, ears can't be trusted especially when alcohol is involved
womens hearing is a lot stronger in high frequencies because of need to hear crying babies which is why when you walk into a pub they go off if the band is too loud, it actually is for their frequent response,

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Man... Im dumb.... so I finally got around to opening up the box for the channel switch pedal.... there was the power cord :lol: :lol: :lol:

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chur wrote:
Aquila Rossa wrote:May as well go all Pete Thorn and get a Suhr reactive load, or the new Torpedo one that is going to be around $260 USD. Add your fav impulses and away you go. Works for Pete.
Yer that.
I run my Marshall through the Pangaea into a load. Sounds good to me and realistically is the only way I can now use my JCM or JMP.
Have you tried running your amp into an Attenuator with a DI, re-amping the DI with another poweramp, and going into a speakerbox. I found that it worked a bit better for me doing this, rather than going into the Torpedo Live, and out to a FFFR Speaker.
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