Brownface Fenders?

[ratherdashing]

Re: Brownface Fenders?

a new speaker will do that flextone a world of good and an attenuator will do your volume a world of good in an apartment...Im in the same boat...and I need to get an attenuator!

Where would you even put the attenuator on the Flextone?

I agree on the speaker replacement though.

Have you considered a Pod XT and a decent set of monitors or headphones? That's what I use, and I get amazing tone at apartment volume.

 

[the guy who invented fire]

Re: Brownface Fenders?

Where would you even put the attenuator on the Flextone?
I agree on the speaker replacement though.
Have you considered a Pod XT and a decent set of monitors or headphones? That's what I use, and I get amazing tone at apartment volume.

if you wanted to put an attenuator on a Flextone you'd do it in the same place you would on any amp...but, I was talking about a new speaker for the Flextone and an attenuator for a tube amp...

 

[Lewguitar]

Re: Brownface Fenders?

I have a Weber Mass Attenuator. I plug the attenuator into the output for the speaker and then the speaker into the attenuator. I think that's how pretty much all attenuators work. The Weber sounds real good and natural to me as long as you're not cranking 40 or 50 watt amp up to 8 or 10 and then turning the attenuator way way down to next to nothing.

The Weber Mass is good at bringing down the volume of a loud tube amp to moderate club or practice volume levels...but they won't allow a cranked 50 or 100 watt Marshall Plexi to retain it's cranked tone but sound like a 2 watt amp. The tone will be very artificial and buzzy sounding.

To me it works best at bringing down a loud amp to a more manageable volume level...but not to an apartment volume level.

Lew

 

[TheProphet]

Re: Brownface Fenders?

You really don't need an attenuator for Line 6 amps as the engineering is designed to get the power tube sound at most levels (but I really suggest running the Plexi setting at half volume with the gain at 1/3).

I suggested the attenuator for the Fuchs due to the fact that I'm almost 100% sure I'll pick one up for live work. (I've always had a thing for the 6V6 amps that bridge the gap between Marshall and Fender tones). Fuchs apparently has an attenuator coming out later this year. It's either that or a Weber MASS as both are low-coloration attenuators

 

[Skarekrough]

Re: Brownface Fenders?

Personally, I'm starting to feel that for apartment levels a player might be happier with a modeling amp like one of the Line 6 Spiders. Seymour even uses one!

I couldn't agree with you more.

The smaller modeling amps are perfect for apartments for two reasons:

-Lowered output is factored into them. They're designed to specifically be used in smaller places and to NOT be loud AND sound as they're intended in that setting. Now, you may not like the tone of them, that's subjective. But for what the tone is intended to be it's a great amp for the function.

-At home players tend to "experiment" a little more. With all the features available on digital amps it means more available to them to mess around with. Now, whether you like them or think they're quality or not is subjective; it's nice to be have things just to toy with as a player.

 

[royd]

Re: Brownface Fenders?

Are there any manufacturers making Princeton clones these days then would be the operative question? (I've never really enjoyed the feel and sound of EL84 based amps)

Allen Amps does some brownface clones in a variety of sizes and features including the Princeton. I've had GAS for one of them for some time.