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Don't be a pussy it'll stop getting louder when you hit 7, anyway.
Or just buy a uke.
I just don't think 100W amps with built in attenuators are going to cut it in the age of importing all our gas from Russia and green energy bullshit. Given the amount of crap Gibson has got over Rosewood and Ebony, I wouldn't think a large brand name manufacturer would stand a chance when this energy would be much more sustainable spent on air con and heating in winter to 23 degrees in MP's third mansions or private jet holidays or running diesel mobile water cannons, subsidized at the taxpayers expense.
These facts aside, even I think it is an incredibly bourgeois attitude to run a 50 or 100W amp in a bedroom attenuated. Either turn it up or get a second amp. But of your mum is paying the electric, or your place is well insulated and you are playing in winter to warm the house, I guess it doesn't matter as much.
I bet you wouldn't say that with an ac30. Oh no. And I'd you did you would be very very naughty as well as on your way to becoming deaf.
Simple power attenuators are not a complete answer.
As ICBM has said, they are in any case amplifier "sensitive". They do in all cases (almost!) merely turn a 50W amp into a 5 , 1 or 0.1W amp and much of the feel and dynamics of the original is lost.
Then, if you put a resistive attenuator inside a "classic" all valve 30 watt EL84 amp you up the existing heat dissipation from some 60W to well over 100 when you give it the beans. 30watters get hot enough as it is thanks!
There is of course a range of amplifiers from 45 to 200watts that have a very sophisticated power control system in them. Spam forbids! But they ain't cheap!
Dave.
Bloody valves are the problem right?
If modelling technology was any good I'd go down that route but I've never heard a decent simple of a real valve amp....
I bet you wouldn't say that with an ac30. Oh no. And I'd you did you would be very very naughty as well as on your way to becoming deaf.
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30W is 30W no?