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Post subject: Ways to get that sweet tube saturation at bedroom levels
Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 8:31 am
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Hello!

I am trying to get that sweet tube tone at bedroom levels, and I have been looking at the following options, let me know what you think about each and how it affects tone:

1) Getting low-W amp and cranking it up
2) Getting any amp with a Master Volume and cranking the master up and the volume down
3) Getting any amp and buying an attenuator

Originally, I was leaning towards the first option but after finding 1 W-ers are still louder than what I want I am considering the other two. Do you find that they work as well in regards to creating that sweet tube saturation?

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Post subject: Re: Ways to get that sweet tube saturation at bedroom levels
Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 8:57 am
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3) Is perhaps your best option if you want to hear the output tubes breaking up a bit. Attenuators aren't cheap though and you will stress the output tubes and transformer if you constantly run them into overdrive.

You forgot the very worst option though ...

4) use a digital FX processor

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Post subject: Re: Ways to get that sweet tube saturation at bedroom levels
Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 8:59 am
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Option #2 is your best bet.

But you fail to say what Amp you're running.

I found the Bugera V5 to be perfect for what you describe.

It also has an attenuator allowing 5W, 1W, 0.1W power settings, Tube goodness, and a headphone jack... a near-perfect Bedroom/Practice Amp... it just gets the job done.

At under $200 (I found mine for $129.99 on Special), it's hard to beat.

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Post subject: Re: Ways to get that sweet tube saturation at bedroom levels
Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 9:44 am
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Fender Mustang 4. What needs improvement in this video is the playing, not the amp's performance.

Or you might not like the tone I dialed in. But let me tell you, these amps let you keep whatever tone you want at whatever volume you want. You dial in gain (as a measure of "breakup") and put master volume at 3 and then the preset volume is very sensitive and goes from 5 to 0 very gradually...letting you keep whatever crunchy tone you have dialed in down to clock radio volumes. Took me a while to learn that. If you keep preset volume at 7 or so as many do, then the amp jumps from no sound from 0 to 1.9 on the master and then jumps to LOUD at 2. But the preset volume knob is less sensitive....so you can put master volume at 3 or even 4 or 5 and use preset volume to dial it down to exactly how loud you can get away with considering how tolerant your neighbors are. :wink:



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Post subject: Re: Ways to get that sweet tube saturation at bedroom levels
Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 9:57 am
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Lightnin MN wrote:
Option #2 is your best bet.

But you fail to say what Amp you're running.

I found the Brugera V5 to be perfect for what you describe.

It also has an attenuator allowing 5W, 1W, 0.1W power settings, Tube goodness, and a headphone jack... a near-perfect Bedroom/Practice Amp... it just gets the job done.

At under $200 (I found mine for $129.99 on Special), it's hard to beat.

cheers!


Seems like a steal for an all-tube amp with attenuation controls. I will definitely look into this.


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