Hello,
I have a fender bassman silverface from the 70s which is incredibly loud. This is totally fine when playing live. However, it's not practical for use at home unless I put the volume at a hair past zero. With covid, playing live just isn't going to be happening any time soon so now seems like a good opportunity to actually look into this as I've been meaning to for a long time now.
I was wondering what my best option is for controlling the max output without modification and adding a master output or something like that. I'd like to be able to crank the volume to a decent level without it being ridiculously loud.
The obvious thing that comes to my mind is a Variac.
Has anyone had any experience with these and can you give you advice on what I should be looking for in terms of specs.
Are there other alternative devices that I should be looking into?
I'm in the UK btw, not sure if that matter much though.
Thanks