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Post subject: tube overdrive on clean channel with "smaller" vol
Posted: Thu May 06, 2010 10:38 am
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I hope my English is good enough, that you will understand my question. (I am living in North Germany) I am playing a Fender Telecaster over a Fender Hod Rode deluxe 40W Amp. I am searching for a possibility to drive the Amp with the tube clipping (or overdrive) in the clean channel with smaller volume.
My idea is to bring in a 16Ohm speaker instead of the 8Ohm (on board) speaker.

Will that help?
Has somebody a speaker favourite?
Other ideas?


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Post subject: Re: tube overdrive on clean channel with "smaller"
Posted: Thu May 06, 2010 11:41 am
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vsalzinger wrote:
I hope my English is good enough, that you will understand my question. (I am living in North Germany) I am playing a Fender Telecaster over a Fender Hod Rode deluxe 40W Amp. I am searching for a possibility to drive the Amp with the tube clipping (or overdrive) in the clean channel with smaller volume.
My idea is to bring in a 16Ohm speaker instead of the 8Ohm (on board) speaker.
Will that help?
Has somebody a speaker favourite?
Other ideas?

Never, ever do that, You never use a speaker with a different impedance rating than the amp. That's a good way to ruin your amp/speaker. A better option would be to use some sort of overdrive pedal or the like.


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Posted: Thu May 06, 2010 11:58 am
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The only way to get natural power tube distortion at lower volumes is to use an attenuator between the amp and speaker. Using a higher ohm speaker won't do it for you, it might give a different tone but not lower the volume considerably like an attenuator can. Besides it might damage your output transformer at some point. Never use a lesser ohm speaker.

Here are some popular attenuators:
http://www.thdelectronics.com/product_p ... plate.html
http://www.thevintagesound.com/store/we ... p-360.html
http://www.premierguitar.com/magazine/I ... uator.aspx

edit: or get a smaller wattage tube amp that you can crank up to distortion without going deaf. A 5 watt Champ or something similar would be perfect.

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Posted: Thu May 06, 2010 9:20 pm
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You can buy tubes(valves) that break up earlier. I had some JJ 6l6's (unknown designation) that broke up very early. You might research that.


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