you could get a Boss Waza Tube Amp Expander.
To be honest I haven't even hooked the Quilter up by itself to see what it is capable of and I don't have a separate speaker cabinet, but my long view would be to use the Rockcrusher's studio out to go into my computer for recording,
To be honest Doug I haven't even played with it yet, so I don't know that answer, my goal in putting it through the Rock Crusher would be to use the Studio out for recording, using the speaker would be just to check out live and may not need the attenuatorWhy use an attenuator with a solid state amp like a Quilter Micro Block? Can't you just lower the master volume?
I gotcha!To be honest Doug I haven't even played with it yet, so I don't know that answer, my goal in putting it through the Rock Crusher would be to use the Studio out for recording, using the speaker would be just to check out live and may not need the attenuator
I've never been a fan of attenuators because they squash the amplitude and dynamics of your output signal.
So if your not getting the sound of the amp why bother?
With software, an interface and a PC or Ipad you can replicate your amp sound and much for $500 or less.
If for whatever reason, you really wanted to use a tube amp, you could use some type of reactive load box and impulse response. This would give the load the amp needs and emulate your cabinet.
To get the time that you want you need to have the gain & volume set to: master @ Max & vol @75%. With those settings, it's WAY too loudWhy use an attenuator with a solid state amp like a Quilter Micro Block? Can't you just lower the master volume?
Got it!Get the quilter set the way you like the sound, then just adjust the attenuator dial for the room.
Ok, that's interesting. I didn't know the power amp stage of a solid state amp like this one would do very much to color the tone.To get the time that you want you need to have the gain & volume set to: master @ Max & vol @75%. With those settings, it's WAY too loud
Ok, that's interesting. I didn't know the power amp stage of a solid state amp like this one would do very much to color the tone.
Reducing amplitude is exactly the point! As for dynamics, how is an attenuator any different than a load bo8x in this regard? They both replace the speaker load with a load that does not generate sound. The attenuator partially, the load box completely. Seems like if an attenuator is bad, the load box is by definition worse.
IR’s are OK but still deeply flawed. A properly captured IR (basically 0% of commercially available options) can do a decent job with a single speaker cab, but an IR and FRFR can not possibly capture and reproduce a multi driver cab. Add in the need for quality playback, and the attenuator can be a cheaper and much better sounding solution.
That's an interesting solution.I recently acquired a Peavey Bandit (Red Stripe version w/Sheffield speaker) to try to use in place of my tube amps. It works great but is louder than anticipated and the t-dynamics don’t really reduce output volume as much as increasing tube like compression to the output signal. I decided to try a passive volume pedal between the preamp out and the power amp in which does the trick of controlling overall volume but I’m concerned as to weather the added impedance is a problem that might damage the amp. Any thoughts or experiences with this?
Got it!
Question though...........what's the difference between managing room volume on the Quilter vs adding the Attenuator?
Ok, that's interesting. I didn't know the power amp stage of a solid state amp like this one would do very much to color the tone.
So a plian ole solid-state amp wouldn't color it. But pretty sure that quilter is producing tube amp like sound which means it's using software and or firmware to modify it. So unless there is a master volume on the other side of the amp simulation it's going to affect the tone.Ok, that's interesting. I didn't know the power amp stage of a solid state amp like this one would do very much to color the tone.