Anyone ever try a Weber Mini Mass??
I bought a Weber Mini Mass attenuator for my Bandmaster VM head and it arrived today. I hooked it up and played for about an hour.
Here are my impressions: It is definitely an effective attenuator and I'm not quite sure how it works considering there is no power supply, but I'll let the tech experts explain that.
The mini mass has a normal, 3db treble boost and a 6 db treble boost. With the "normal" setting, you can tell the attenuator sucks some tone. WIth the 3db boost on, it adds a pretty good amount of brightness, and I didn't even bother trying the 6db boost. I notice no difference to the bottom or mids being altered in any way. Overall, I would say that the mini mass really didn't alter the tone of the amp at all, with the bright boost engaged.
I did notice that with the volume and drive up to about 7 each, the amp sounded pretty sweet, as it should. Us home noodlers don't get to take the amp into power tube saturation much but allowing the volume to be kicked up on the amp with a nice attenuator did make the strings sing a bit more.
Pretty good product and a good solution for taming volume at the house.
Guitars: 2003 and 2004 American series strats, Squier Classic Vibe 50's Strat, Squier Deluxe Strat.
Amps: Line 6 Spider IV 120, Vox AD50VT 212, and Peavey Transtube Bandit 112.
Pedals: Digitech Bad Monkey.