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The original "up to eleven" knobs in the 1984 film This Is Spinal Tap "Up to eleven", also phrased as "these go to eleven", is an idiom from popular culture, coined in the 1984 film This Is Spinal Tap, where guitarist Nigel Tufnel demonstrates a guitar amplifier whose volume knobs are marked from zero to eleven, instead of the usual zero to ten.
Nigel shows Marty his extensive guitar collection, as well as a custom-made amplifier that has volume knobs that go up to eleven; Nigel believes this makes the amplifier "one louder" than most other amplifiers, which have "ten" as the highest volume setting. Nigel's amplifier dials that have "eleven" as the highest volume setting.
The Griffin PowerMate was officially supported on Mac OS X, Windows XP and Vista.Griffin's software for Windows works under Windows 7 and 8 but crashes occasionally; for macOS, there is no official support past 10.12 ("Sierra", released in 2016), though their USB version and configuration software (PowerMate Manager) continues to work on later versions.
The knob is a potentiometer wired in as a variable resistor between the neck pickup and the neck pickup's volume knob. [8] Since it is only wired into the neck pickup side and not in the circuit of the bridge pickup, it only affects the volume of the neck pickup in both the neck and middle switch positions and has no effect in the bridge position.
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The most basic amps only have a few knobs, which typically control volume, bass, and treble. More expensive amps may have several knobs that control pre-amp volume (or gain), distortion or overdrive, volume, bass, mid and treble, and reverb. Some older amps (and their re-issued versions) have a knob that controls a vibrato or tremolo effect.
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