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Re: Does the DSL 100 sound good at low volume?
It provides a very good sound at "home" volume (no apartment volume!). But even if, I bought an attenuator for my DSL 100 in order to get the full tone. I use a THD.
But I have to gently disagree with the saying that Master volume acts like an attenuator, complete different beast to me! Power tubes distortion is part of THA sound! And to have power tubes distortion, you need to crank the master volume up a bit, to the breaking point of the power tubes, which on a DSL 50 or 100... is pretty loud!
With Master volume down and gain up, you provide pre amp distortion! In order to have a "perfect" distortion tone, 4 elements have to align!
1) Pre amp tubes distortion (gain up)
2) Power tubs distortion (Master volume up)
3) Speaker distortion (cranked all the way)
4) The actual sound waves generated by massive decibels
In order to have the "perfect" tone, you have to have it all. With a master volume down you get #1, with an attenuator, you can get #2 whitout losing your hearing. Only by cranking the master volume up without the attenuator can you get 3 and 4.
If you want to have a "perfect" tone a low volume. Use a full tubes 5 watts amp (like epiphone Valve jr) and crank it up. I've settled to using an attenuator to approximate this perfect tone!
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DSL 100 head with a vintage 1936 cab
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