Has Anyone Built This Attenuator?

[fuzzymuff]

This attenuator look very easy to build.  Has anyone built it yet and how is it? 

[ghostsauce]

Nope, but I am in the middle of building this one which is pretty much the same idea. http://ghostsauce.net/random/attenuator.pdf

Apparently the T-pad attenuators do better sonically than the L-pads, but this is the one I went with anyway. We'll see how it goes, lol.

[fuzzymuff]

Hey thanks for that link.  Looking into that now.  I think putting heatsinks on those resistors would be a great idea?  I use to have a Tom Scholtz Power Soak back in the 80s and it would get hot and would smell like burning wire when used with 100 watt marshall heads.  They sounded pretty good, like that Boston kinda tone.

[ghostsauce]

The resistors referenced in the parts list of that pdf have heat syncs built into them. You just mount it on the wall of the chassis with some heat sync grease.. I read some info about similar models and apparently with a 100 watt tube amp it'll only get a little warm. Kinda skeptical about that, but we'll see. I can always add some ventilation holes as well, and I put some big rubber feet on it so it won't inherit much if any heat from the amp.