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** Autistic Parrots like Mike Rivers are incapable of imagining other's have
thoughts.

Intelligent posters read the question that's asked and don't reply
with someting that doesn't answer the question. Had the original
poster asked how he could make a 12 dB attenuator, your suggestion
(with a diagram or text explanation of how to connect resistors as a
voltage divider) would have been a (not necessarily the only) correct
solution.

However, he didn't ask how to make a 12 dB attenuator, he posted a
diagram of a circuit taken from the product's manual, which they
recommended for dropping the output level for the purpose of
connecting it to a guitar amplifier. Since the manual states that this
circuit provided 12 dB of attenuation, and being a curious person
wanting to reinforce his understanding of voltage dividers and dB
calculations, tried to verifiy the attenuation and recognized that he
didn't know how to account for all the components and get 12 dB.

I explained that. I answered his question. Hopefully he learned
something that he didn't know, and might be able to apply this
knowledge to something else.

You told him that if he chose to ignore the manufacturer's recommended
circuit and used yours, he could make something that would work in
this instance. You didn't answer his question, you answered a question
that you made up without stating it: "How do I make a 12 dB
attenuator?"

As I said, reading is FUNdamental. Read the question first. If you
choose to answer a different question, you at least own the poster the
explanation of why you're suggesting a different approach rather than
one that (barring publication errors) has apparently been tested by
the manufacturer.

But then, since you're a jerk, details are optional.

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I'm really Mike Rivers )
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you e-mail me and it bounces, use your secret decoder ring
and reach me he double-m-eleven-double-zero at yahoo