![]() ![]() ![]() If you forget to plug your amp into a speaker, you’ll blow the output transformer (if you’re lucky).Ī load box like the Captor allows us to run a valve amp without plugging in a speaker cab.īuy the Captor that matches your amp’s required output impedance, and plug the amp’s speaker out into the Captor. Valve amplifiers need to be connected to a speaker cabinet, so that the signal generated by the output transformer has somewhere to flow to. Those of us playing and/or recording at home often want silent recording – the sound of our amp on 10 into our computers, but not coming out of a speaker cabinet at the same time. Priced at £199, the Captor is a game changer. For a dual-amp setup, you effectively had to budget for a third amp, and then spend that money on a pair of Torpedo units. That’s a lot of money to spend on a reactive load box for a single amp setup. It’s the first affordable reactive load box to hit the market, that I know of at any rate.īefore this, there was the Suhr Reactive Load (currently £399, twice the price of the Captor) – extra software required! – then the Torpedo range (starting from £560 for the Torpedo Reload and then the Torpedo Live at £680). If you want to use it for silent recording, you’ll need to run a plugin in your DAW on your computer. Unlike the Torpedo Live or Torpedo Studio, there’s no onboard computer to run impulse responses or power amp simulators. The Captor is a completely analogue device. The -20db fixed attenuation allows you to turn your amp up to get the power tubes cooking and have a (slightly) quieter volume level coming out of your speaker cabinet.As a reactive load box, the Two Notes Torpedo Captor allows you to run your amp without having to have a speaker plugged in at all.There are three different models available: in 4 ohms, 8 ohms (the one I have) and 16 ohms. The Two Notes Torpedo Captor is both a reactive load box and a fixed-level attenuator. (It was going to be a Christmas present, but Two Notes can’t make these things fast enough to keep up with demand!) And last week, I added a second one to my rig, to go with my ridiculously-overkill Synergy Amps dual-amp pedal platform setup. Back in January, my wife bought me an 8 ohm Two Notes Torpedo Captor as a birthday present. ![]()
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