Fitting a hot plate to a Randall RT50C combo?

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wilkinsi

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I can drive this amp in a large floorspace and it makes my Boss GT-10 sound as good as I want it to. But I'm permanantly restricted to using it in a room 3.5m/4.5m. By fitting a hotplate/attenuator, I'm hoping to cook the tubes just as much, only without deafening myself. Unlike my Marshall combo, there doesn't seem to be a visable speaker jack on the Randall to plug from amp to ATT/HP to speaker. Is it hidden somewhere behind that grill, or do I need to use the FX Loop instead?
 
manual says there's an extension output, is the speaker not plugged into the back of the amp, my RM100C has it doen that way.

By the way, the Hotplate sucked tone when I tried it, I tried 3 attenuators and bought the weber Mass Light, I can adjust it to pull the highs back in, never try to run the amp above 50% power though, not needed and will wear out your tubes really fast

http://taweber.powweb.com/weber/masslite.htm

oops, you have the RT not the RM, wow that manual sucks, no pictures or diagrams and no explanation of the back panel at all
but 2 pages on biasing
 
Its a hardwired thing and I'd leave that to a technician. I hadn't realised Attenuators/Hotplates kill off tone. I will just have to play the guitar outside the room or trade the amp for a less powerful one. I think 20w is the lowest a Randall does.
 
You can try one that turns the signal down in the effects loop, run it serial and turn the signal down, this would let you turn the master up to about 2 and adjust the preamp volume

Not ideal, but better than changing amps

something like this


http://www.ebay.com/itm/VOLUME-BOX-GUITAR-AMPLIFIER-ATTENUATOR-RANDALL-AMPS-/200621240804?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2eb5f531e4


If you decide to get a real attenuator down the road, this is the model I have (except 100) and i can adjust it so i don't lose very much tone at all
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Weber-MASS-LITE-50-Attenuator-Hot-Plate-Power-Soak-/160683003501?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2569740e6d
 
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