Two Notes Reload - Manual (Page 25)

Connecting the Torpedo Reload
2. Plug a microphone to your third preamplifier (channel 3 on the mixer, etc.), place the micro-
phone in front of the cabinet.
3. Connect the preamplifier to the Line channel input 3 on your audio interface.
4. Activate Track 3 for recording and eventually live monitoring to hear the result in the Master,
select channel 3 as an input.
5. Record!
When replaying with a high-gain amplifier, you may experience some
unwanted noises, at a level higher than what you were used to with a
guitar directly plugged into the amp. This is normal and mainly due
to the amp’s huge level of gain, whereas our setup here is more com-
plex and more sensitive to every source of noise in it. The different
ground lifts we add to the Torpedo Reload will help, but may not be
enough. We recommend having the different products (instrument,
Torpedo Reload, computer, amplifier) as far as possible from one an-
other, while keeping the unbalanced connections as short as possible.
A noise gate in the effects loop of the amplifier always helps a lot with
this kind of issue.
5.3 MATCH™
The unique MATCH™ function will compare the signal sent from the guitar with the signal coming
back from the audio interface. Use the REPLAY™ potentiometer to adjust the level of the track’s
signal.
1. We shall assume here that the silent REPLAY™ setup is opera-
tive. Activate the track-1 monitoring so the guitar’s dry sound will
come back to the audio interface into the REPLAY™ input. That
way the Torpedo Reload will be able to compare the guitar’s sig-
nal with the one sent by the audio interface.
2. Play the guitar so you see a LED on the MATCH™ panel light up.
Increase or decrease the value of the REPLAY™ potentiometer
until the OK green led lights up, and your level-matching is done!
MATCH™ works best if the latency of your digital audio interface is set
to a value inferior to 20 milliseconds.
5.4 MATCH™ without the original guitar
You cannot use the MATCH™ function because your are replaying tracks that were recorded at a
different time and place? Try to get some information about the guitar/bass that was used. Find a
guitar with similar pickups (single coils, humbuckers, active...) and use MATCH™ as if this were the
guitar used during the initial guitar recording, to find the REPLAY™ potentiometer’s correct value.
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