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Two Notes Torpedo Captor Reactive Loadbox DI and Attenuator - 8 Ohm

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Features

  • Speaker Simulat - 8 ohm
  • Direct Box
  • Load Box
  • Attenuat

Description

Attenuate Your Amp, Record Direct with Speaker Emulation, and More


Item Weight: 2.97 pounds


Product Dimensions: 9 x 7.7 x 5.2 inches


Item model number: Torpedo Captor 8 Ohms


Is Discontinued By Manufacturer: No


Date First Available: October 2, 2018


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  • Tons of features at great price
Got it used from Amazon Warehouse for $200 after tax shipped. Even at full price, this is a great tool in any guitarist's arsenal. I've had many attenuators in the past, including one reactive one [Rivera Rockcrusher]. Many of those on their own were more expensive than this unit, and only did attenuation. This does that feature well, though the fixed 20db reduction may not be useful for every situation. It is for me, as my amps are all 50 watts or lower. It reduces my Mesa Single Rectifier to a pretty usable volume. Still could be loud enough at full blast to annoy the neighbors, but it's much more usable in my apartment now. The attenuated tone sounds very true to the raw signal. The rest is excellent -- DI works great, included cab sim sounds better than many other boxes, and dry signal can be run into other cab sims so it's totally flexible. If you have a good tube amp, it's really worth it to try to find one of these used or buy it full price if you want, it's still a great value. My used one still worked to activate Two Notes Wall of Sound plugin, which I had some existing cabs for from another product. That gives you a lot of post-production power, and the flexibility this box adds for live and studio use is totally worth the cost. Couldn't be happier with it, except if it had multiple impedence settings, but 8 ohm is the sweet spot for my bigger amps that I use this with anyway. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 11, 2022 by Tarun C.

  • Excellent option
I was looking for an attenuator for tube amplifiers, also called Valve guitar amplifier. I didn't want to distort the output or change the tone, and the recommendations are that I should consider reactive attenuators and not only one resistive. In the search, I found this product from two notes as an excellent option. Although it incorporates many more tools, I only needed it to attenuate the output power. It is essential to consider that you need to have the same ohms of the amplifier with this device, the output does not require the speakers to be the same, but the attenuation is modified according to the ohms of the speakers. I handled several cabins and tested them; if the ohms are respected or equal, we obtained a reduction as the documentation promises. It attenuates in 20 dB; in this, it fulfils what it promises. I have not detected that it modifies in any form the tonality of the output; I made several recordings in the study, and comparing the two signals, no perceptible changes are detected more than the evident attenuation. Another positive point, as it works as a load box and does not require a speaker to be connected to the output, we can use it to make recordings in silence. An important point, this equipment only attenuates 20 dB, it is not variable, and handles up to a maximum of 100W; in my case, I use it in amplifiers ranging from 10W to 50W, with good results, of course with 50W, reaching 9 or 10, the attenuation is there but is not as noticeable as with the 20 to 30W range. I selected the 8 ohms because one of the amps has no selector or other output option, other than 8 ohms, it is a Fender blackface; the others like the Marshall's, Randall's Line 6 and Vox's have variable outputs that had the choice to handle 8-ohm cabs. With a 2x12 Marshall cab, we detected a change in the output, but I adjusted it with the amplifier's balance. We found the same note or tone without the Captor. As this cab has a mix of speakers, it generates a different output curve, which I adjusted by lowering the bass notes in the amplifier; the speakers are the Celestion Vintage and Heritage, both 12 inches with 8 ohms, 70 and 80 Watts. TWO NOTES has another product that attenuates variably. Still, it has a much higher cost, more than double the price, and we must admit that it has many more options; it attenuates variables 32 dB, 20dB and 0dB, but it targets a different set of needs. I give it five stars, plus I've been browsing its features. The cabinet simulations are a plus; it brings analogue cabinet emulations for guitar and Bass, which are default. You can also include 16 free Dyn IR cabinets through the wall of sound supplement, and it comes with a lifetime license of Torpedo Wall of Sound, but they go with a DAW plug-in with this; there are more than 400 variables. Which we've been testing, and it works very well. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 1, 2021 by Betto

  • Pretty good.
great attenuator, the wall of sound plugin is excellent (if you decide to pay for the full option) The cab sim that it comes with is pretty disappointing though.
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 30, 2022 by Bobby Jackson

  • Lifesaver for home recording
I'll talk about the cons upfront - one of my amps is a Fender Hot Rod Deluxe IV which is a 40 watt amp. When you turn an amp of that size up to about 5 (the Hot Rod Deluxe gets loud fast and 5 is right around the sweet spot even for live performances) you may start getting some unnatural distortion when using this as a load box for silent recording. I know that this is supposed to handle up to 50 watts but for some reason I get some distortion that is definitely not coming from the amp. I know because when using the amp without the Captor it's still relatively clean at that volume and any breakup you do get is the natural, nice sounding kind. This is not an issue with software or interface or anything like that. I've had the issue with over 20 IRs and two different interfaces. The solution to this is just to fiddle with the output on the Captor, the volume of the amp, and the knobs on your guitar and in your DAW. I can generally get this to go away and still maintain the desired volume level on my amp. Other than that this has been great for recording. I've only had slight, intermittent issues with my Hot Rod Deluxe and no problems whatsoever with my AC15 (you have to set the Ohms switch on the back to 8ohms or whatever matches your captor though). The sound that comes from the Captor when you record using it as a load box is the same sound you get when you play the amp out loud. The IR package that comes with it is nice though I wish that the amps available would just be what they are instead of rebranded versions of real amps that only hint at what they're supposed to be. I generally use my own IRs that are based off the amps I own and use a different IR loader to use them. Depending on how loud your amp is set you can hear what you're playing coming out of the captor at a low volume. It's not very loud at all but technically it's not silent. This generally only happens when playing with a lot of gain. I've been using this since my daughter was less than a year old in a room that shares a thin wall with her room and in over a year using it the Captor has never gotten loud enough to disturb anyone's sleep. Not even close. I only mention it so that anyone who reads this isn't surprised when they hear some faint sounds coming from the Captor. It sounds like a mechanical sound. Kind of like a fan and sometimes like a reverb spring is having music pumped through it. Bottom line is that you can get the exact tone of your amp while playing silently. It's awesome. You can power it using a 9v DC input but I prefer to use the phantom power from my audio interface over an XLR cable. Saves the amount of cords I have lying around. I know there are a few ways to get output on this (DI, loadbox for direct recording, or just as an attenuator to make your amp quieter while still getting the power tubes hot) but I only use it as a load box for direct recording. That said, the DI feature is actually great to have. No need for a separate DI box if you don't already have one like me. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 30, 2020 by Bill P.

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