Power Plug 6/12 Attenuator - * SALE *SAVE $20

Description: The Power Plug 6/12 Attenuator is the BEST attenuator on the planet for the money, made for amps up to 50 watts. Available in 4 ohm, 8 ohm or 16 ohm models! Make sure you tell us which impedance, when you order. Our attenuator lets you find the sweet spot on your amp without making your ears bleed! Usually a tube amp needs to run somewhere over 1/2 volume to get your power tubes to open up and give you the tone you've been looking for. Of course when you do, your volume is usually TOO LOUD for the gig! With the POWER PLUG, you get TWO levels of attenuation: -6db and -12db. You can use TWO Power Plugs in series and achieve up to -24db attenuation.   Our attenuator is a passive, resistive load with compensated impedance and EQ. All that means is we use resistors to bring down the volume and hold your selected impedance. We add capacitance to prevent treble loss, making the Power Plug extremely transparent. That means no loss of tone, even at full –12db attenuation and no batteries required. There are reviews on YouTube http://www.seymourduncan.com/forum/showthread.php?p=2532838#post2532838 Our Power Plug 100 just received Guitar Players Editors Pick Award (June 2014) giving us KUDOS for volume control without tone loss and NO CONCERNS were listed!   The response curve of the speakers at low volumes has more to do with perceived tonal changes than any fault of ANY attenuator. To help compensate for the speaker response at very low power levels we recommend using an EQ pedal when using the attenuator. You will find excellent tone at incredibly low volumes. Attenuator Uses: Turn your tube amp UP to drive your power tubes. This is where tube amps blossom and where players get in trouble. Use the attenuator to drop your overall volume to more tolerable levels. You can dial in your breakup, which may be too loud, then attenuate to lower the overall volume. So you can adjust your amp as usual and use the attenuator as an overall Master volume. Maybe you just love that little 25-watt speaker cab with your 50-watt head? Use the attenuator to reduce your wattage so you don’t blow that speaker. Maybe you own a vintage combo amp and don’t want to blow the original speaker(s). Use the attenuator! A word about potential damage to your amplifier! If your amp has been run “dimed” or nearly wide open for long periods of time, without damage, you should be fine! An attenuator won’t change that! When you run a tube amp hard there is always potential for problems, especially in vintage amps that weren’t really made to be cranked all the way up. So bear that in mind when you use attenuation. Besides, an amp doesn’t usually sound its best when fully cranked. Shoot for keeping it under 3/4 volume. Volume vs. Power – The Power Plug was not made to achieve “bedroom level” volume, although TWO connected in series will certainly get you there with –24db attenuation. But –12db of attenuation is significant, as I’ll try to explain. Doubling an amplifier’s power or reducing its power by half is a difference of 3dB. Decreasing a power level of 100 watts to 50 watts would be a -3dB reduction. Reducing 100 watts to 25 watts would be a -6dB reduction. While reducing the output power by half seems to be a lot, it might be hardly noticeable by ear. Decreasing the power by half (-3dB) does not lower human audio perception by half the loudness level. To hear a 50% drop in the audio loudness level, the power would have to be cut by 90% or -10dB. So a 100-watt amplifier would have to be reduced to 10 watts for your audio perception of a sound level to be cut in half. You might do an Internet search for an explanation called the Fletcher-Munson Curve, among others. Operation: The Power Plug lives between your amp and your speaker(s). Using SPEAKER CABLES (not guitar cables): Plug the amp into the jack marked IN, your speaker into the jack marked OUT. That’s it! No batteries required. -6db attenuation is achieved by engaging either switch. –12db by switching the other. Using a typical 50-watt amp for example: engaging 1 switch reduces volume to that of 12 watts. Engaging the second switch reduces it to 3 watts, which you will find is still pretty LOUD! But that’s why we recommend using TWO Power Plugs in series, to give you maximum control of your volume!   Not $500, not $300, not even $200! Retail is just $124.95. But buying direct from you can get your POWER PLUG for just $89.95! Buy TWO and we will give you $10.00 off the 2nd one and you'll save on shipping too! INTERNATIONAL Buyers must contact us for a Shipping Quote as the Ebay Freight calculator is often in error.

Price: 69.95 USD

Location: Conway, Arkansas

End Time: 2024-11-21T04:45:09.000Z

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