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varakeef · April 18th, 2009, 01:31 PM

I've wondered the same with basically any amp, home stereo, PA amp. They all start to distort, some with very unpleasant and even destroying results. (Have you ever blown a diskant horn of a lil' PA system?)

So why the engineers even allow us to turn the volume knob over half way? Just place a block to that point. I wanna be controlled...

And to take it a bit further. What if amp makers in the fifties would have given a thought to this and such a hardware limiter would have been a norm in guitar amps as well? Grady Martin wouldn't have got the sound like in Train Kept a rollin', Link Wray wouldn't pierce his speakers to emulate that and no one wouldn't have given a though to make a fuzz box.

But the question of why it goes to twelve. That doesn't surprise me. But how anyone dared to make an amp that only goes to ten after that?

April 18th, 2009, 01:31 PM	#29 (permalink)
varakeef Tele-Holic Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Finland Posts: 546 50 Photos	I've wondered the same with basically any amp, home stereo, PA amp. They all start to distort, some with very unpleasant and even destroying results. (Have you ever blown a diskant horn of a lil' PA system?) So why the engineers even allow us to turn the volume knob over half way? Just place a block to that point. I wanna be controlled... And to take it a bit further. What if amp makers in the fifties would have given a thought to this and such a hardware limiter would have been a norm in guitar amps as well? Grady Martin wouldn't have got the sound like in Train Kept a rollin', Link Wray wouldn't pierce his speakers to emulate that and no one wouldn't have given a though to make a fuzz box. But the question of why it goes to twelve. That doesn't surprise me. But how anyone dared to make an amp that only goes to ten after that? __________________ If you remove the noisy stuff inside the piano it makes a great house for a dog.