Less Volume, All the Tone
The SPL Reducer does what its name implies, reducing the power output of your guitar or bass amp - while maintaining the killer tone you so meticulously crafted. This means you can overdrive all kinds of amps, particularly tube amps, without disturbing the neighbors or bludgeoning your bandmates and overwhelming the monitors onstage. As with the other SPL power soakers Transducer and Cabulator, the company developed the Reducer in coordination with the amp specialists at Tonehunter in Cologne, Germany. If you dig your tone but you're too darned loud, take it from Sweetwater - give the SPL Reducer a try.
How Reducer worksPlace the SPL Reducer between your amp head and speaker cab. Reducer converts the amp's electric power into heat - which it dissipates. Reducer is passive, reducing your volume with resistors, so it requires no additional power supply. Passive power reduction guarantees you accurate sound reproduction without affecting the frequency response curve, so your tone is preserved perfectly - just at a lower volume. For the amp output, Reducer gives you impedance settings of 4, 8, or 16 Ohms. For the first stages, reduction is stepped, but it can then be adjusted continuously thereafter.
SPL Reducer Power Soak Features at a Glance:- Input Socket: 1/4" TS (mono jack)
- Impedance: 4, 8, or 16 Ohms switchable
- Max. input load
- @4 Ohms: 90W RMS/120W Peak
- @8 Ohms: 200W RMS/260W Peak
- @16 Ohms: 160W RMS/180W Peak
- Output Socket: 1/4" TS (Mono Jack)
- Dimensions
- Height: 68mm, 85mm with feet
- Depth: 190mm, 208mm with controls and sockets
- Width: 179mm
- Weight: 3.97 lbs.
