The Black Keys Fan Lounge Forum

I dig dark creepy spooky stuff. The EQD Ghost Echo is right up my alley in terms of both looks and sound. I will have one - oh yes, I will.

I don't think I want to get rid of my Reel Echo to fund it though, simply because the Reel Echo can do more delay type stuff whereas the Ghost Echo is a reverb pedal with some slight delay capabilities (slapback echo). We'll see, I'm more of a reverb/slapback guy than I am a delay guy - but occasionally I like to do some psych freakout stuff with some delay on it...

new lovetone pedeal:

man those earthquaker pedals look mint! i like the ghost echo, hummingbird, hoof! oh shit!

damn you mirby and your good gear finds!

you sold yer TBK FUZZZ! what are you mental! haha must be a good pedal if it replaced that one!

that sounds like a cool setup japas, how do you split the signal though? I've not seen anything that does that? like a double adapter lead or some shit?

Holy fuck, I got the attenuator today and it fucking RULES. If you have a badass amp that you never get to crank because of volume restrictions... this is what you need. Dead serious. Amazing piece of gear for those of us that can't get loud whenever we want.

And for only $100. Unreal. The Weber stuff is real nice. The treble boost switch is definitely needed - using an attenuator kills off some of the highs but when I switch the treble switch to 3db it sounds perfect again. That switch has 3 settings - zero/unity, and then 3db boost or 6db boost. Oh and it has 4 ohm, 8 ohm or 16 ohm selector so you can use it with any/all of your amps.

Man I can't believe I never bought one of these things until now. For years I've been playing tube amps at whisper levels because of bitchy neighbors and just dealing with the mediocre tones. Everyone knows you have to crank up a tube amp to get the natural tube overdrive/fuzz going. This device lets me do it.

Plus when you play a cranked tube amp, it's super touch sensitive and dynamic so you can get cleans if you play soft or you can dig in hard and get the real dirty dirty.

I'll stop gushing now.

To be 100% honest the amp sounds slightly better when cranked without an attenuator but that's not an option for me so that doesn't really count. If I could crank my amp I wouldn't have to buy the Mini Mass.

Yeah there are two types that Weber sells. One type uses resistors to attenuate, and the other uses actual speaker motor and resistors. The speaker motor one is what I have. It doesn't really change the tone all that much from what I can tell. It definitely sounds fuckin rockin. This is so awesome. I can play my amp again!!!

Also, I have a Greenback reissue in there now because the stock speaker is old and thin and I didn't want to shred it but now that I can keep low volume, I'm going to put the stock speaker back in because it's much more broken-in and should sound more sensitive for the low volume stuff. The Greenback is too stiff right now and sounds good but not as good as it would if it was nice and loose.

Yes I have the 25 watt MiniMASS. You can get 50Watt as well. And you can go higher if you get a different model. They say to use one that is rated twice the power of your amp. Since my Musicmaster is rated at 12 watts RMS, I use a 25 watt attenuator. It didn't heat up or smell funny or anything. Worked like a charm.

I paid $15 extra for the balanced out option. My drummer requested that because he's in charge of recording and he said we might want it. I could have gotten a headphones jack for $25 more but I skipped it. I got an awesome free Ted Weber t-shirt too for ordering over $100.

What a great little device. I'm so happy to be able to play my amp properly. I wish I never sold my 65 Ampeg Gemini now.