Owner manual

About the Torpedo Reload

Torpedo Wall of Sound comes with a library of 24 cabinets and 8 microphones among the most

commonly used models in the world. You will achieve perfect virtual miking by choosing one cabinet

and one microphone, and ﬁne-tuning the position of the microphone in front of the cabinet.

6 Torpedo Wall of Sound , only a speaker simulation?

The Torpedo Wall of Sound is a software plug-in you can embed in your recording program. The plug-

in should be used on tracks containing guitar or bass signal recorded from a preampliﬁer (guitar, bass,

or any product with a line output) — or from a loadbox like the Torpedo Reload if you want to record

the signal coming from the speaker output of your amp.

The role of this plug-in is to replace the following elements of the traditional guitar or bass setup:

• the guitar/bass power ampliﬁer

• the speaker cabinet

• the microphone

• the microphone preampliﬁer

to provide a signal that is the closest possible to actual guitar/bass miking as achieved traditionally

in a professional studio environment.

The miking is achieved in 3 steps with the Torpedo Wall of Sound :

1. choose a power ampliﬁer (or switch it off if you are using a loadbox), a speaker cabinet and a

microphone (Ampliﬁer, speaker and microphone section),

2. place the microphone in the virtual studio (Miking window and parameters),

3. shape the signal (Low Cut, Eq, Exciter and Comp sections).

With each step, Two Notes Audio Engineering implements its know-how to bring you the most

advanced simulations on the market and ensure perfect realism both for the musician (playing sen-

sations) and for the listener (sound quality).

Note: the evaluation version of Torpedo Wall of Sound is limited to 8 microphones and 2 cabinets;

the Torpedo Wall of Sound Reload Edition offers 24 cabinets.

6.1 Tube Stage Output

The Torpedo Wall of Sound handles any kind of instrument track. When using a guitar/bass preampli-

ﬁer with other speaker emulators, the guitarist/bassist may miss the power ampliﬁer’s contribution to

the overall sonic texture. Many musicians get their sound from some particular use of that element

and the Torpedo Wall of Sound offers you the possibility to do the same.

Two Notes has developed an original tube stage modeling, which allows you to choose between

4 different tube models in Push-Pull or Single Ended conﬁgurations. You can push this tube stage like a

conventional ampliﬁer and look for that subtle yet particular distortion. If the Torpedo Wall of Sound is

used as a super-DI for keyboards, this feature that was originally developed for guitarists and bassists

can also be very interesting to warm-up the sound of a synthesizer, organ or a digital piano.

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