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SPL Reducer - Tonehunter - Model 1160 - $300 (Tatum and Bell)
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You spent all that money getting the perfect tone out of your very expensive, but great sounding gear. BUT, you can’t turn the volume up high enough anywhere to cook the tubes and get that authentic sound you get when the amp is turned up to 11. I had a Marshall half stack I loved, but if I turned the volume to three (3) the windows rattled, the neighbors complained, bandmates complained and it pissed off venues (anywhere smaller than a concert stage).
The SPL Reducer reduces the power output of your guitar or bass amp - while maintaining the killer tone. You can still overdrive all kinds of amps, particularly tube amps.
SPL developed the Reducer in coordination with the amp specialists at Tonehunter in Cologne, Germany. You can tell!
How it works
Basically this lets your tubes got hot enough to sound right, but reduces the signal to the speakers. The speakers reproduce your great tone with the crunchy tube drive, but lower signal to the speakers means a lower volume, but of the crunchy hot tube driven tones.
You place the SPL Reducer between your amp head and speaker cab. Reducer converts the amp's electric power into heat - which it dissipates. Reducer is passive, reducing your volume with resistors, so it requires no additional power supply. Passive power reduction guarantees you accurate sound reproduction without affecting the frequency response curve, so your tone is preserved perfectly - just at a lower volume. For the amp output, Reducer gives you impedance settings of 4, 8, or 16 Ohms. For the first stages, reduction is stepped, but it can then be adjusted continuously thereafter.
SPL Reducer Power Soak Features at a Glance:
• Input Socket: 1/4" TS (mono jack)
• Impedance: 4, 8, or 16 Ohms switchable
• Max. input load
• @4 Ohms: 90W RMS/120W Peak
• @8 Ohms: 200W RMS/260W Peak
• @16 Ohms: 160W RMS/180W Peak
• Output Socket: 1/4" TS (Mono Jack)
• Dimensions
• Height: 68mm, 85mm with feet
• Depth: 190mm, 208mm with controls and sockets
• Width: 179mm
• Weight: 3.97 lbs.
All your great tone, but at a lower volume!
Reverb price guide suggested Estimated used value is between: $224-$339 depending on the condition, this this never left the studio and was only used a 1/2 dozen times. It's like new, with the instructions that came with it.