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[blakkdog]

hi!!

i need to play at lower volume but keep the tubes cranked.....my amp si a peavey triple xxx 60 watts combo.......what do i need???

i´ve heard that if you remove a tube or something, the power gets to the half...is that thruth?? ...how can i do that???....can it be dangerous for my amp????

[Herb]

I wouldn't remove any tubes uless you know exactly what function each tube has and its position. Remove the wrong ones and you start cooking expensive transformers and various circuits. You can buy an attenuator, that will do the job, but will decrease your tube life because you are running them fully cranked all the time. The best - but not cheapest - solution is to buy a smaller amp that will give you the sound you want at a lower volume. For that, you need to talk to our moderator ~T~, he is the king of small boutique amps.
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Yer guitar pickin' friend,
Herb
"It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing!"
Doghouse Jazz

[fmalitz]

Do not bother with an attenuator. Get a guitar preamp--not a fuzz tone--or get an overdrive. Drive your input as hard as you need and you'll approximate the tone you'll get when driving the amp hard--not identical but very nice!
Magic Frank

[jamez]

Hi,
First post so hello all !
If your handy with a solder iron there is a very easy mod that you can add to quieten your amp natrually.
Is a Mosfet regulator attenuation "thing"... Sounds awesome.. Since discovering this little mod I have never looked back from creamy overdriven tones that lose hardly any tone when the volume is reduced..
The schematic for the mod is from here if your interested.
It works for Fixed bais amps as well as cathode bias, but the cathode bias is a snip to do.. (I think your amp is cathode bias)

Power sliding Tube Amplifiers
geocities.c o m ge0ne0

Oops first post no links

Just google "power sliding attenuation "

[jamez]

Here is that link to the Power Attenuator circuit -

http://www.geocities.com/ge0ne0/

I hope some may find it usefull.