Weber Mini MASS 25 Attenuator Demo

I demonstrate the capabilities of the Weber Mini MASS, playing a 1996 Fender American Standard Stratocaster through a Blackheart BH5H Little Giant Head into the Weber Mini MASS 25 and then to one 12" speaker of a Fender combo amp.

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• Weber
• Mini
• Mass
• Minimass
• MASS
• Attenuator
• Blackheart
• BH5H
• Little
• Giant
• Fender
• Stratocaster
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[usefulcoin]

What? Doesn't it have a 3/5 watt switch? Isn't that an built-in pentode/triode attenuator? Still confused :-)

BTW i just ordered a MiniMASS 50w because of your vid. Thanks!

[HotSEXJ]

No. A pentode / triode switch is not an attenuator. Pentode / triode operation cannot be adequately explained by me in 500 characters, but a quick Googling could provide you with hours - nay - years of reading about tube amplification concepts.

[usefulcoin]

doesn't this head already have an attenuator built in? I'm confused...

[HotSEXJ]

Don't be. The Blackheart BH5H does not have any sort of attenuator built in.

[alexmc69]

@RoyvanRikken - likewise I just bought a Brunetti Singleman 16 - it's switchable to 1W output but even that's too loud to turn up!

[brianendersmusic]

man if i lived in an apt, I would have to rent a place to crank it up, join a band, and just live with playing acoustic at home. I wouldn't be able to stand the volume restriction for playing guitar or just playing music through a stereo. I had some 15 watt amps and cranked them living in a duplex for a short amount of time and the neighbors came over said they couldn't even hear the volume on their tv



[BritaniaRuleAgain]

I bought an Orange Tiny Terror, at 15watts it's as loud as my 50watt amp.

I bought a book explaining this phenomena. In fact, on average, there is only a 3 decibel gain in volume upon doubling the wattage in an amp.

The more wattage you have in your amp, does necessarily not mean it will have more volume. The amount of gain an amp has, can greatly increase the rated power. Also, speaker efficiency is a huge variable in pertinence to volume levels.

[NickMercurio]

probably the only piece of guitar equipment used to make your guitar quieter. haha nice vid brah

[journeyquest1]

The mic is bad or that amp sounds like shit. Nothing like a Princeton reverb for practice.

[RoyvanRikken]

I think i'm in the same situation. Bought an Marshall Class 5. Turned out to be very loud. First i had the Mass 50 but i think that this one damps to much. Now I changed it for the Mass 25. But i'm still waiting for it. Curious how it sounds with this one.

[EarthSuburb]

Real nice demo.

I need an attenuator. I built a "dwarf short scale Strat copy" for my 10 y.o son, and gave him my little 30W amp, asking him not to play too loud. 1st thing he did: turn all knobs to 10, SO, I'm going to cut the balls of that AMP, before I pass my son through the mincing machine.

We don't live in an apartment anymore, we don't have trouble with neighbours. BUT, I have a good TIP. I put it in the next COMMENT ...

[EarthSuburb]

When I was living in an apartment, after talking to my neighbours, I found out that the most disturbing frequencies were the BASS ones. I follow the advices that a recording engineer once gave to me :

I cut a piece of plywood (sized like Amp base), made 4 holes (about 2" wide) in the corner, glued it on 1" thick hard foam, glued 4 tennis balls in the holes, and put the amp on top of THAT. That cut most every BASS frequencies that were transmitted to my neighbours through the building walls. COOL

[smoss469]

Cutting the Wattage should cut the output just a little but it's not going to let you dime the amp at speaking volumes.