Owner manual

About the Torpedo Reload

4 The Torpedo Reload’s advanced functions

4.1 RE-ACT™

Attenuators are usually known for the negative impact they have on your tone in cases of heavy at-

tenuation, which is mainly due to the fact that the load presented to the ampliﬁer will vary depending

on the attenuation level. On the contrary, the Reactive-Active technology (RE-ACT™) presents your

ampliﬁer with a consistent speaker’s impedance no matter what level of attenuation you are at, thus

preserving the speciﬁc character of your ampliﬁer.

With a choice of 4, 8, or 16 Ohms, your ampliﬁer (up to 150W RMS, 200W peak) will actually see

real speaker impedance, and your tone will remain constant throughout the continuous attenuation

curve.

The attenuated outputs and the loadbox output can be used at the same time, so you can

simultaneously record the dry output from your ampliﬁer’s speaker output and perform a traditional

miking of your cabinet(s). You can plug or unplug the speaker cabinet anytime without worrying

about its impedance with regards to the ampliﬁer’s speaker output impedance, as the two are totally

independent.

Another issue with ampliﬁer attenuation has to do with how our ears perceive the sound. In effect,

the lower the volume of the sound is, the less we hear low and high frequencies. That is because

our hearing is way better at low volumes for the mid frequencies of the voice, for example. The

CONTOUR parameter can be seen as a loudness compensation effect, but it can also be used as a

creative effect. Turn the button to the left (Vintage) and you will get a rich, medium-centered tone

with a lot of presence. Turn CONTOUR to the right (Modern) and you will get more bass and treble, a

V-shaped tone to get those frequencies your ears cannot perceive at low volume. Or simply to get

that ultra-tight metal tone or ultra-warm clean tone you are looking for...

Please note that a minimal attenuation is applied to the input power ampliﬁer signal, whatever the

position of the SPEAKER potentiometer. There is no bypass mode in the Torpedo Reload, meaning the

sound will always be attenuated at the Torpedo Reload SPEAKER output. This attenuation is a function

of several parameters, read more about that in our Speciﬁcations section 7.2.4.

4.2 Hi-Z instrument DI

Plug your guitar or bass into the DI input and send that signal to your microphone preampliﬁer con-

nected to your recorder. If the DI signal is too strong for your preampliﬁer, you can connect the DI

output to a Line input, by using an XLR-XLR cable or XLR (female) to Jack 6.35mm (1/4”) TRS. At that

stage what you want is clarity and Two Notes preserves your guitar’s tone, as you will certainly want

to re-inject it into your amp through the REPLAY™.

This DI signal is also suitable to feed any kind of ampliﬁer-modeling software that can be followed

by the Torpedo Wall of Sound plug-in.

Please note that here is no hardwired splitter function in the Torpedo Reload. To feed at the

same time your DAW and an ampliﬁer, you will need to send back the signal from the DAW using the

REPLAY™ interface. Please read about the REPLAY™ function to discover this new and very effective

way to record your instrument.

4.3 REPLAY™

One of the most interesting options in studios nowadays: play the guitar one day, and mike the am-

pliﬁer (or many different amps) another. The Torpedo Reload is your re-amplifying device of choice.

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