BootLegger Guitar Attenuator 2023 - White - Mr Farty Pants

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Bootlegger Guitar Attenuator ~ Heat Soak

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 This is a heavy duty 100 Watt Passive Attenuator (heat sink) built & engineered by my team Muse Inc. in South Korea. That’s not the Chinese toy you’ll find for sale elsewhere.

A 100-watt tube amplifier attenuator that enables you to crank your tube amp crunch and lower the volume from your speaker. By placing it between your tube amp’s speaker output and your speaker input, you can turn your amp to its max, while bringing the volume down by using our Bootlegger Fart Pants Attenuator. (Up to and including 100 watt input).

Versatility

Three out options, 1 XLR emulated mic output male out to a mixing board for live performance or DI recording. 2 1/4 TRS female out for speaker, 3 headset out 1/4 TRS.

Three speaker options 4 – 8 or 16 ohm to match your speaker or stack.

Reality

The XLR out includes a speaker emulation. Yes, this works, but in my opinion a great speaker and a Shure SM 57 microphone cannot be copied by a chip. Crank your tube amp head connected our attenuator between the head and speaker cabinet, then put a mic on the cabinet and go. If you want complete quiet, then use the XLR emulation mic output DI into a board or interface. Or use the headphone output for quiet playing.

This is a one trick pony, what it does very well is exactly what it’s designed to do. It disperses the heat from your amp into the Attenuator this process lowers the volume output without altering the tone. The unit will get warm do to the heat disbursement. This is why it’s important to use a heavier, bigger heat sink.

Alteration

You can also use our attenuator on a combo amp. You will need to disconnect the speaker and run two 1/4 TRS female input jacks. On from the amp speaker wire’s output and one into the speaker wires input.

You can spend less and you can spend more however you will not find a better Heat Sink Attenuation unit for your rig. And a bit of advice. Do not buy a smaller, lighter unit, it is also important that the unit, you are dealing with a lot of energy displacement. It is also very important the unit is well ventilated.

Specs

2 1/2 pounds

6 1/2” long

6” Wide

3 1/2” tall

Front Panel

Volume

Line Level Head Phone Out

Rear Panel

XLR output

TRS 1/4 out speaker

TRS 1/4 output headset

Of course our cool art from Garth Van Omen. Mr Fart Pants