AudioStorm HotBox 125
The HotBox is a power attenuator, also sometimes called a power-soak or power-brake,
which absorbs a large proportion of the output power from your amplifier and converts it
into heat instead of volume. This allows you to capture the real overloaded vintage tones
of your heroes running their amps at eleven, but without deafening yourself.
Power levels
Your HotBox is rated for 125watts (HB125). This rating is the loudest amplifier you should
use with your HotBox. As long as your amplifier is well serviced then you can turn it up
to 11 and drive it as hard as you like, for as long as you like: The HotBox is built exactly
for this purpose. You can also always use a lower powered amplifier without issue.
Decibels, watts and human hearing
Human hearing is non-linear. This means that halving the watts does not half the volume.
Percentage markings on the HB125 are not actual reduction amounts but are instead
estimations of what each reduction ‘sounds like’ to a typical human ear.
How to use your HotBox
The
HB125
offers four reduction levels plus bypass.
The switches work in series, each one feeding into to the next.
When all switches are up (off) the unit is in bypass mode. In bypass mode you MUST
have a speaker connected to the HotBox or else your amp will not be connected to
anything and damage may occur.
Switching only the first (30%) switch on (down) will engage the first step of reduction and
your speaker will receive 30% of the amplifiers output power..
If the next (10%) switch is also turned on (down) then this will reduce your output to 10%.
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