Sound Garage Tales

So you finally received your tube guitar amp, you spent a fortune for it, and you love its sweet tone and all, but. . . You live in a small apartment, with sonically transparent walls, and you want to have happy neighbors. Your dilemma was addressed actually by a lot of amp builders by building attenuators that act just like a speaker load and output just enough power to the speaker that you need. But there’s an easier and more effective way of taming your amp by using a Variable Voltage Regulator (VVR) that will let you turn your amp’s Volume to where you want it, but control the overall amp output to an optimal level.

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A fantastic and full of character local dealer I cherish a lot is Fat Tone Guitars, a music store located in Northbrook IL, got lucky enough to record a killer video demo of the Gabriel V18 1×12″ combo, that didn’t spend a week in the store before it was sold.

Steve Gerlach of Fat Tone Guitars flexes the muscles of the Ampeg Dan Armstrong AMD100 guitar and the Gabriel V18 1×12″ Combo.

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