NAD!! Gave the Katana the Chop!
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Re: NAD!! Gave the Katana the Chop!
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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Re: NAD!! Gave the Katana the Chop!
I'd try pushing less air as well, 1x12 instead of a 4x12 would give you less volume. Or less efficient speakers.dayl wrote:Yeah. Not trying to attenuate down to quiet 1-5w bedroom levels. Just need to tame it a bit.Bg wrote: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.dayl wrote:
haha yeah. Looked into it a fair bit. The weber appears to do what I need it to. Will see.
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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Yer that.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.
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
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Nah bro you're right, it is half the power... but your ears lie to your braindayl wrote: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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Re: NAD!! Gave the Katana the Chop!
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
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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.jeremyb wrote:I have a Pangaea for sale if anyone is interested
I'd buy it if I didn't have one already
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Audio is non linear and the human ear is very much so, your ears are designed to normalise volume levelsdayl wrote:I had no idea it worked like that....I though 50 was half of 100 so half power. I feel dumb and uneducated.
3db is half or double the power depending on whether your lowering or increasing,
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Re: NAD!! Gave the Katana the Chop!
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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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.kwhelan wrote:Audio is non linear and the human ear is very much so, your ears are designed to normalise volume levelsdayl wrote:I had no idea it worked like that....I though 50 was half of 100 so half power. I feel dumb and uneducated.
3db is half or double the power depending on whether your lowering or increasing,
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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,
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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Re: NAD!! Gave the Katana the Chop!
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.chur wrote:Yer that.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.
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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