Lotus JohnH M2 Simple Attenuator 120 Watt
Over the years I have tried just about every attenuator made and tried my hand at a few original designs. They all exhibited the same problem, the more attenuation is added the more the tone suffers. Long story short, my search is over, I found the JohnH Simple Attenuator on the Marshall forum. The M2 has been a DIY project started in 2017 by John Hewitt (JohnH). I contacted John about my thoughts on producing these for sale as a finished unit or possibly a DIY kit. He thought it was a great idea and his help in getting this to completion has been amazing. We have a licensing agreement so hopefully he can make some money from this design he has been working on and supporting for over 6 years. Like the title suggests, operation is simple. Output from the amp goes to input on Lotus, output on Lotus to speaker. There are multiple outputs for different speaker configurations. Different levels of attenuation are available starting at -7db in 3.5db steps all the way down to -31.5dB via 3 swi