Amazing demonstration. Future generations will be blessed by your single 1.5 second note.

Best place to crank a tube amp is in a library

i’d love to hear you play a riff with it

Effects loop is before the Power stage, so lowing the volume in that place kill ALL the gain in the Power tubes. Lol

Excellent demo. You covered all the bases here.

You need an attenuator. He plugs it in and you get a clean tone not a cranked one.

What kinda demo is this?!

You can do the exact same thing with a volume pedal in the loop…

Lion Tamers are going to be flying off shelves now! That was great!

I made one of those for my Fender M80 amp. It works great!!!!!!

I do the same thing with a GHS little black amp pedal You can also use an active volume pedal

I've got one for my Fender HRD. Works great! Highly recommended.

not the sound of a cranked amp. When an amp is cranked the pre amp and output vales are at full chat now if you take your thingy and plug it in to the effect loop all its doing is making the signal smaller from the pre amp and sending it to the power amp part of your circuit where the power out put valves are. So what your left with is a can of bees. Just go get a good attenuator, spend the money and be happy.

I bought one, shipped from the U.K., I love it, works with Peavey combo amps too, low volumes with plenty of overdriven tones, open it up and enjoy the tone

Nice! I used to do the same thing using a volume pedal in my effects loop.

I love to make opium❤😊

a better trick is to use a boss graphic eq not only do you get the volume control but also frequencies as well.

Seems like a useful device. Anything that adds an extra knob is always good. 😀

I just use a EB VP Jr in the effect loop, works the same.

That's dope, I didn't know that existed. I got into guitar and my father in law dropped it off. Blows my face back. I usually enjoy playing early Sunday mornings so usually I gotta use the spark Amp

Finally someone has made the most useful tool for guitarist , no more have to buy a 1000$ ox amp box

Have one on my hot rod. They’re so useful

i got one of these on my oeavey classic and its great for bedroom playing when i wamt a gnarly tone but i have neighbors

Noise gate?

I have one. It is not a power soak. The amp only sounds good if the power tubes, 6L6’s are driven hot. You can get a distortion sound from an overloaded preamp section but to really rock the power section must be driven. In fact the preamp doesn”t contribute much. Tom Scholtz drove his power output tubes and cut the volume just before the speaker cabinet. A 5 watt all tube amp into a sealed 12 inch cabinet (not open back) will knock your socks off and it will be fricken loud.

Amazing he added a volume pot behind the volume pot wow. If you look at the schematic it literally has a master volume right before.

J’ai le même atténuateur, acheté pour une bouchée de pain. Mon ampli est enfin accessible pour un volume décent pour mes oreilles ! 😎 Il est possible d’utiliser la Little black amp de JHS aussi 😉 Super démo !

It’s like ordering a burger with extra cheese just to scratch all the cheese from it before eating. You’re killing the signal that reaches the power amp and therefore the amount of the tube generated distortion that we all love🤷🏻‍♂️

Last night my guitar player playing his Les Paul through a 75 Bassman through a Randall with four 12s and it really started sounding good around five. But you can't hear yourself think. And I fucking love it. Crank that shit up. If it's too loud you're too old.

I use global volume on a Mooer GE200 in the loop of my 5150 but ive used Boss eq level cut too.

I have on for my Hotrod DeVille.

That's basically a master volume knob.

Jhs attenuator pedal works for any amp 30 quid

Wow man

Just use a volume pedal

That's neato, dude. Here, check this out…

Potentiometer and capacitor

Or any effect that has a volume control will do the same. Not really "cranked tube amp sound" as it is pretty much like a master volume. Just a signal dump to ground before the phase inverter. You get no power tube saturation, just box-full-of-bees preamp distortion.

I prefer the volume pedal in the fx loop method.

budget volume attenuator .....ever! It will eat up the tubes faster than normal but better cranked tube tone. So it's a even exchange.

no, you get a cranked pre-amp sound.. the signal going to the power tubes is still lower.. therefore the sweet power amp breakup you want isn't there.. and wont be without driving the poweramp.. then if you want it quieter.. you have to use an attenuator. you can take any pedal and chop the gain at the loop.. same thing.. yes it quieter.. no it's not allowing the amp to breathe.. snake oil for those who don't understand how their tube (or any) amp works..

bro is doing this in a library 💀

You can hear how that reduced the power amp response in this small demo, which means it isn't the sound of a cranked tube amp. The attenuation needs to happen after the power amp.

More reasonable volume? How bout lower the Master Volume to get the 'reasonable volume' dat u desire? I got Hughes & Kettner Metal Master tube pre-amp .. the master volume is at the rear

Will that work on a big tube amp? Let’s say like a Marshall 1987x or a JTM45? Would be a game changer for those amps.

I have an atentuator as well. But now i have the helix, so 😂 Everthing is built in including the atenuator.

Cool, does it short-circui? the power chain.

What song is that in the video?

An attenuator, then?

Its an attenuator. Need to hear it because some are better than others at transferring the initial sound. Otherwise, just throw a pillow over the amp.

But HOW DO I GET THE TONE WITHOUT IT BEING EARSPLITTINGLY LOUD?!?I have this or similar amp (Blues Deluxe reissue) and also use a passive attenuator in the loop, but it clearly hurts the tone of the amp even if it allows you to get saturation at lower volumes. Is the solution a $300+ additional box, a "power soak" you guys tall about, or a different tube amp that has lower overall output, or something else?

For years I have been plugging in a 110v cord direct and it rocks for about 3.1 seconds and then the amp is toast. I am thinking the voltage is a little high. Maybe cut it to 32v...🎉🎉🎉

How is this different from turning down your master volume ?

Can you use this on a hot rod deluxe?

Oh boy…

Volume pedal does the same thing, but you can control the volume while playing.

It will tame your effects but your not running anything but your volume pot. This will do nothing to the amp volume or preamp volume

I'm hard pressed to call that a cranked tube amp sound.

Tell me you bought the wrong amp without telling me you bought the wrong amp

Is there any point getting one for a solid state?

Theres finally gadgets for this? Opposite of this, i always run a single cable through the effects loop with nothing on it, its almost like running a tube screamer on the front end

Cranked pre amp gain*

It looks like it’s a lot cheaper than a Power Brake- but does it sound okay?

This is only for tube amps it's a power sponge basically like the peavy Windsors all of those tube amps front the small 25watt combo all the way to the big 100 watt head have one built in, it's so you can drive the master and preamp volumes on a tube amp and get that true tube amp breaking up distortion or crunchy sound with out blowing the windows out of the house and you can play very quietly with out losing any tone. Iike this I use this same one in the video on my tube amps that don't have a power sponge like my 100 watt special edition marshall vintage modern with full matching cabs I have two full size cans and this thing quiets it down nicely to where I can enjoy the pure raw sounds out of my vintage modern with out blowing out the windows of every house on the block at midnight on a Friday night while up drinking and jamming with my buddies at my house or even just to practice and get my pedel boards and everything setup correctly for my vintage modern for a show so that way I get to hear the actual tone with out blowing my ear drums out getting my guitar rig setup few days before a show and I even use it live to be able to get that raw cranked up marshall tone out of my vintage modern with out clipping the mic and pa system and over powering the whole band it actually has made my guitar setup sound alot better live cuse I don't have to use my ,100 watt boss katana MK2 at Venus that are smaller or indoors that would kill ppls ear drums or max out the decibel meter if I used my vintage modern so now I can use my marshall stack etc every gig now thanks to this little device. But they had to make one to be able to work in my marshall vintage modern and they will make one for any make or model tube amp at same price as one that doesn't have to be specially made they work amazing and great guys to work with and I got lucky that the one I got made for my marshall vintage modern I got it to work with any other tube amp I got by getting female to male guitar amp cables two of them so that way you can use it on any amp that has efx loop jack sockets to far apart for it to fit and you can have it easily accessible like that on stage if you need to turn up a little bit during a gig or live show

That's gonna blow up a lot of amps. People will put it in amps that don't work that way.

Would have been nice if you played before plugging that in then again afterwards

Check what out?

How does it work and why are some people pay 1000$ for big attenuators then?

Like an attenuator?

There's a sucker born every minute.

So it's an attenuator?

No you are not getting a cranked tube amp sound at a low volume. As you can obviously hear its killing the power tube saturation....might as well just turn the volume on the amp down

I have a Gibson Maestro tube Amp. It is a practice Amp they used at cotton music in Nashville and they gave it to me when I bought my electric guitar in about 1979 or 81. Can't remember exactly. At that time they were located in Hillsboro village. It has cigarette burns on top from laying them on there. Still sounds great.

I mean, that’s why God invented the master volume pot… would be useful on an amp without an MV like a reverb though. To give credit, maybe this blues deluxe doesn’t have a master. Mine does

I thought it was a jumper cable with a switch

Just turn down your amp or guitars’ volume, same thing.🔊

So basically an attenuator?

Does this just give you more headroom?

Or turn the gain down. Just saved you all whatever that costs 😂

Why would u want a *more reasonable volume".....................?

Wait until you hear about the volume pedals.

Or you could just turn your master volume.

Its kinda the same as If you use your Volume Poti...

That's just a volume box... I usé it since 1988....

Burns out valves

You must be a drummer. By, “a more reasonable volume,” I thought you meant louder.

Um, it IS an attenuator...

Does not understand gain staging.

It wouldnt fit any amps i hace. They should make one on a short cable

Turning down the gain gives the same effect.

It’s a pot connected to 2 plugs. What genius….

So you got rid of the Lion. Which we require in order to play Lion songs. DAMMIT JIM I'm NOT A LION TAMER I'm AN ENGINEER!!!

It's cheaper to download amp sims.

Wish buddy actually played some stuff to showcase the thing. Didn’t really hear anything of note to contrast and compare

Now if will had only heard the demo? WTF

The comments !! LOL

It's a resistor 🙄

Volume pedal?

or you can get an attenuator

Link?