Where's our guy masquerading as a woman???

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I find your use of the word 'predator' quite amusing. That implies someone or something powerful preying on a weak victim. Like, say a hawk predating on field mice. Are you the mouse in this metaphor?
Man, I saw a bald eagle on top of a carcass twenty feet from the road yesterday, blew my mind!
That bird was fucking awesome. It went to take off, kinda slowly, and its wingspan was easily larger than mine and I'm 6'2"
Eagle had to have been 3' tall if it wasn't 10"!
 
My complaint with Friedman amps I have owned.
I like an amp with character...

I was gonna mention Friedman as an example.
That's exactly the complaint they get.
It's NOT a rude and nasty take on the circuits.
 
As I said, that was something Mark Abrahamanian (Rockstah) built, and posted to the old MetroAmp forum.

:cool:
Yeah I read your original comment, should have mentioned I liked the pic...
Id take another Metro amp any day!
 
You are wrong.. mostly because you have no idea what you're talking about.

:p

Dude, it's a resistor. One impedance regardless of the frequency fed into it.
Reactive loads mimic a speaker where the impedance varies greatly depending on frequency.

This is the inside of the Tone King Ironman re-active load and attenuator.

ToneKing_IronMan_100_Inside_800x800.jpg



Impedance (resistance) curve of a Greenback.
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Varies dependent on frequency. That's why a static load like your resistor is a compromise.

A dummy load will keep your amp happy but it's gonna fuck with your tone royally.
That's why reactive loads have gotten so popular.

To clarify - the Suhr RL is just a reactive load.
It absorbs 100% of your amp's power and gives you a line level output.
The Ironman is a load with a line level out too, but also includes a multi-tap reactive attenuator.
 
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Dude, it's a resistor. One resistance regardless of the frequency fed into it.
Re-active loads re-act like a speaker where the impedance varies greatly depending on frequency.

To get the resistance to act like a speaker you need to use inductors and/or a transformer wired out of phase.
This is the inside of the Tone King Ironman re-active load and attenuator.


ToneKing_IronMan_100_Inside_800x800.jpg


A dummy load is will keep your amp happy but it's gonna fuck with your tone royally.
That's why re-active loads have gotten so popular.
Chuckles Von Cum Gulp-Electrical Engineer
 
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