Clean channel breakup and loudness

gearaddict

So I was watching this: 

And at various points they crank the clean channel of the Orange TH100 to the point where they are getting a lovely crunch tone. I have a TH30 and there is no way I can crank that to the point of decent breakup without my brain melting and leaking out of my ears. It's LOUD. I tried attenuating it to half power and switching to 2 power tubes (instead of 4)...so quarter-ish power...still mental loud. I plugged my Award Session solo booster into the loop (volume pot in a footswitchable box, essentially) and turned that all the way down...still mental.

How the hell did they do that!?

...I need an attenuator.

PolarityMan

maybe theyre jsut playing really really loud?

Mark1960

By switching the output power to 7 watt, will this encourage it to break up at a lower volume?

olafgarten

gearaddict said:

So I was watching this: 

And at various points they crank the clean channel of the Orange TH100 to the point where they are getting a lovely crunch tone. I have a TH30 and there is no way I can crank that to the point of decent breakup without my brain melting and leaking out of my ears. It's LOUD. I tried attenuating it to half power and switching to 2 power tubes (instead of 4)...so quarter-ish power...still mental loud. I plugged my Award Session solo booster into the loop (volume pot in a footswitchable box, essentially) and turned that all the way down...still mental.

How the hell did they do that!?

...I need an attenuator.

You have to remember that you need 10 times the power for double the volume, so the TH100 really isn't that much louder than your TH30. 

It's only approximately 1.43 times louder. Still mental, but possible not as mental as you think. 

Quarter power on your amp is a similar ratio. 

skunkwerx

You can see Lee using ear plugs, but not Rob unless hes got some lodged in deep lol. Funny how things change!

These days Rob will protect his ears before Lee! Haha. 

ecc83

It is a continuing gripe of mine with ALL YT guitar amp shootouts that nobody ever, ever, EVER puts a sound level meter in shot! You can get a perfectly good one for under 20 quid!

Everything everybody does with sounds and OD quality is related, even TIED to absolute volume level. WTF does everyone ignore that?

Dave.

monquixote

ecc83 said:

It is a continuing gripe of mine with ALL YT guitar amp shootouts that nobody ever, ever, EVER puts a sound level meter in shot! You can get a perfectly good one for under 20 quid!

Everything everybody does with sounds and OD quality is related, even TIED to absolute volume level. WTF does everyone ignore that?

Dave.

TPS do

Modulus_Amps

standing next to/behind the cab will attenuate what they are hearing a lot too