Attenuator pedals?

[Adieu]

Re: Attenuator pedals?

If your master volume works well, not sure if you will notice a difference.

HUUUGE difference on amplifiers with hot, gain-ey preamp architectures where most of the tonal flavor comes from the pre... it practically works like a multiplier.

If your big head is set to master/postgain 1/10, you can now easily set it to to 1% or 2% volume by adjusting the thing in the FX loop to 1/10 or 2/10

 

[FuseG4]

Re: Attenuator pedals?

I use an eq pedal with volume cut sometimes cuz my supersonic 22 is non master in the clean channel, but it has an fx loop.
It lets me hit the preamp harder with pedal volume boost while keeping overall volume the same.

Sometimes use it with the burn channel for late night practice. The master volume is touchy and goes from 1=off to 2=too loud for midnight when people upstairs are sleeping.

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[BloodRose]

Re: Attenuator pedals?

That isnt uncommon. You would think that volume controls would have alittle more of a gradual taper. Seems like its nothing or blasting...

 

[Jacew]

Re: Attenuator pedals?

That isnt uncommon. You would think that volume controls would have alittle more of a gradual taper. Seems like its nothing or blasting...

Yep. I've started to suspect log taper for gain control is just failure in technical sense. Human hearing may be logarithmic, but why the heck it's then always so difficult to get them work decently.

Add resistor with linear taper and it's just much better feel: You really get it set half-way for half volume that way, which I've never managed to do with log taper.