Kerry Brown
Ambassador of the Great Northern Bar Jams
Picked one of these up today. This may be the best piece of gear I've bought. He claims it is different from other attenuators. He calls it a re-amplifier. It takes the signal from the amp and shows the amp a load. It then goes through a 30 watt SS amp to your speaker. I think the Fryette Power Station works the same way but with 6L6 tubes instead of transistors. Personally I think solid state is the better option. You want the re-amplification to be as clean as possible so it doesn't mess with the amp's natural tone. I've only had time for a very quick test but with my Mesa TA-30 I can crank the amp volume on full and go from barely hear it to way too loud with very little change in tone. This will be useful for practice but where I see it working better is I can setup my amp to where the tubes are working hard and sound good. Depending on the venue I can use the attenuator to adjust the volume. No more playing with volume, gain, and pedals looking for the tone at different venues. He did warn me I'll probably go through tubes quicker 
Ho is a very interesting character. He's an older Oriental gentleman. He has a little shop on Kingsway in Burnaby (Vancouver, Canada). It's full of old and new amps being worked on. It's messier than my office. No idea how old he is but he looks old to me and I'm 62. When I went there he wanted to know all about my amps, what music I played, and why I wanted an attenuator before he'd tell me anything about them. He has a 100 watt and a 50 watt model. Both have several options. He told me he'd make me the 50 watt model and I didn't need any options. He took my phone number and said it would be $300 (paid when it was done) and would take about three weeks. A week later he phoned me and said it was ready. When I went to pick it up, again, he wanted to know all about my amps, what type of music etc. Very pleasant and knowledgable guy. I'd heard a lot about his work. This was my first experience but so far I'm impressed. The device couldn't simpler. On/off switch, power light, volume control on the front. Amp in and speaker out on the back
Ho is a very interesting character. He's an older Oriental gentleman. He has a little shop on Kingsway in Burnaby (Vancouver, Canada). It's full of old and new amps being worked on. It's messier than my office. No idea how old he is but he looks old to me and I'm 62. When I went there he wanted to know all about my amps, what music I played, and why I wanted an attenuator before he'd tell me anything about them. He has a 100 watt and a 50 watt model. Both have several options. He told me he'd make me the 50 watt model and I didn't need any options. He took my phone number and said it would be $300 (paid when it was done) and would take about three weeks. A week later he phoned me and said it was ready. When I went to pick it up, again, he wanted to know all about my amps, what type of music etc. Very pleasant and knowledgable guy. I'd heard a lot about his work. This was my first experience but so far I'm impressed. The device couldn't simpler. On/off switch, power light, volume control on the front. Amp in and speaker out on the back
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