Hello, everyone.
I have one of those newesque Fender EVH 5150III 50W heads and I'm really digging the sound with the loadbox I'm using. Now, I also want to get a variac. Not exactly for lowering volume but because I know you can fool around with the amp tone by lowering its voltage. I think it gets a neat sound by going around 10V lower than the specified voltage from the clips I've listened to. The problem is I don't know anything about electrical engineering or theory. There's loads of variacs on ebay and the cost range is from around 40€ to 500€. How do I know which one to get? Are they all the same? Why the huge cost difference? How safe is it for the amp? Oh, and I live in Europe so I need a different voltage from the US.
Any info is really appreciated, thanks.
PS. I did read all the old variac topics but I didn't really get any definite answers on how to go about this. I NEED to know.
I have one of those newesque Fender EVH 5150III 50W heads and I'm really digging the sound with the loadbox I'm using. Now, I also want to get a variac. Not exactly for lowering volume but because I know you can fool around with the amp tone by lowering its voltage. I think it gets a neat sound by going around 10V lower than the specified voltage from the clips I've listened to. The problem is I don't know anything about electrical engineering or theory. There's loads of variacs on ebay and the cost range is from around 40€ to 500€. How do I know which one to get? Are they all the same? Why the huge cost difference? How safe is it for the amp? Oh, and I live in Europe so I need a different voltage from the US.
Any info is really appreciated, thanks.
PS. I did read all the old variac topics but I didn't really get any definite answers on how to go about this. I NEED to know.