Paleo-Electronics Blog

You may recall that I ended this post : Mods to the working GA-5 with a problem.

The problem was that like a bonehead, I didn’t try to dry fit any of it together and once the T8 was in place, it was hitting the PT.

So I had to rip the damn thing out. Just as well. I went researching T8 prices and found that I had gotten a steal! I paid 15 bucks for an NOS Mallory T8 T-Pad Attenuator. I can’t find them for under $80. I didn’t know.. in fact, I had just lucked into the idea and bought the first one I found.

Since I wouldn’t be putting a it into every amp, I needed to build a separate box for it.

Here is the final (with the original box for show) :

The wiring is just the application guide drawing with jacks instead of Amp and Speaker :

And thats all she wrote.   Works great but as I play with it more I  definitely hear the loss of tone.