Two Notes Reload - Manual (Page 23)

Connecting the Torpedo Reload
When you play your amplifier loud, you may hear some noise coming
out of the Torpedo Reload. This is perfectly normal and there is no rea-
son to worry. The sound is produced when power goes through the coil
of the reactive load embedded in the Torpedo Reload. The vibration is
related to what power comes out of the amplifier connected to the Tor-
pedo Reload and to the signal’s frequency content (i.e., notes played
are heard). Your amplifier may also produce similar noise, at the output
transformer’s stage. Such noise is usually not heard, simply because it
is normally covered by the sound coming from the loudspeaker.
The sound may be a little different depending on whether a Torpedo
Reload is placed between your amplifier and your cabinet or not. That
is normal, as the internal speaker impedance of the Torpedo Reload
will be slightly different from your cabinet’s. Most importantly, this slight
difference is constant and does not depend on the attenuation level.
4.3 Contour
The CONTOUR parameter will help you find the tone you are search-
ing for, at low volume. This filter changes the attenuated speaker out-
put, from more medium and vintage tones to more modern and mid-
scooped tones. Basically, when playing at low volume, you may want
to add that missing bass and treble, but we like to imagine a more
creative way of using the CONTOUR, by modifying the tonal charac-
teristics of your amplifier during a recording through traditional miking.
CONTOUR has no effect on the DI, REPLAY™ or Loadbox outputs.
5 Re-amplification using REPLAY™
Re-amplification techniques are commonly used nowadays, mainly to let the guitarist record a dry
guitar in one place and time, and then have that dry recording sent to one or many amplifiers by a
sound engineer who will take the time to find the right combination for the song. This way a guitar
player who is equipped with a good quality DI and a DAW can take the time to quietly record at
home without travelling to a studio, and eventually get a pro recording of a real amplifier. For more
information about re-amping techniques, please read this Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.
org/wiki/Re-amp .
With the Torpedo Reload, you can do both of those things: record the dry guitar with the DI, and
then use the REPLAY™ to send that guitar track back to an amplifier. We will here present first a silent
REPLAY™ (i.e., without actual cabinets plugged to the Torpedo Reload), and then the full setup for
recording 3 different tracks at the same time.
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