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Your cart is empty.Attenuate Your Amp, Record Direct with Speaker Emulation, and More Play your tube amplifier at neighbor-friendly volume levels, or play without a speaker cabinet at all, with the Two Notes Torpedo Captor reactive load box, direct box, attenuator and speaker simulator. Based on the acclaimed Torpedo Reload, the Torpedo Captor is your solution for attenuating your amp's volume as well as sending your tone direct to a PA or recording system. Suitable for amps up to 100 watts, the Torpedo Captor's -20dB attenuator allows for cranked-amp tones at lower volume levels. And built-in speaker simulation allows you to record the full sonic intensity of your amplifier direct to your DAW, without miking up a speaker cabinet.Get cranked-amp tones at reasonable volume levels Whether you want to keep stage volume down, or desire quieter recording sessions without sacrificing your amp's tone, the Two Notes Torpedo Captor is an outstanding solution. Put
Tarun C.
Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 2022
Got it used from Amazon Warehouse for $200 after tax shipped. Even at full price, this is a great tool in any guitarist's arsenal.I've had many attenuators in the past, including one reactive one [Rivera Rockcrusher]. Many of those on their own were more expensive than this unit, and only did attenuation. This does that feature well, though the fixed 20db reduction may not be useful for every situation. It is for me, as my amps are all 50 watts or lower. It reduces my Mesa Single Rectifier to a pretty usable volume. Still could be loud enough at full blast to annoy the neighbors, but it's much more usable in my apartment now. The attenuated tone sounds very true to the raw signal.The rest is excellent -- DI works great, included cab sim sounds better than many other boxes, and dry signal can be run into other cab sims so it's totally flexible.If you have a good tube amp, it's really worth it to try to find one of these used or buy it full price if you want, it's still a great value. My used one still worked to activate Two Notes Wall of Sound plugin, which I had some existing cabs for from another product. That gives you a lot of post-production power, and the flexibility this box adds for live and studio use is totally worth the cost.Couldn't be happier with it, except if it had multiple impedence settings, but 8 ohm is the sweet spot for my bigger amps that I use this with anyway.
Eric Griffith
Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2022
I've never tried a product like this (reactive load box) so I have nothing to compare the Captor with. I also didn't know what to expect. I've been entirely reliant on amp modelers in my home studio (Line 6 HX Stomp, Joyo amp sim pedals).What got me started thinking about this was my Quilter Aviator Cub solid state amp, with a line level out (as opposed to an output for external speaker cab). So I can just plug the Quilter right into my HX Stomp or other pedals for effects, and record direct. Sounds great!What surprised me when I started trying out the Captor load box was which amps sounded best through it. My favorite amp at home is my FSR Tweed covered Princeton Reverb with a 12" Jensen P12Q Alnico speaker in it. It just sounds so sweet, bouncy, and smooth in the room. My Vox AC10C1 VS with Celestion Junior V-Type speaker is just a different animal. It has lovely cleans and raw, snarly overdriven tones.While the Princeton Reverb is my favorite in the room, the AC10 sounds amazing through the Captor with headphones! The Princeton Reverb needs some fiddling and added EQ to sound it's best through the Captor. It's a little dull at first. It makes me wonder if the Vox is being held back by it's speaker.Anyway, being able to record these amps directly is really cool, and does sound great. More rich, organic, and natural compared to modeled amps. No regrets at all. More expensive options, some over $1,000, add a lot of features, but for the simple purpose I needed, the Captor works great!
Betto
Reviewed in the United States on November 1, 2021
I was looking for an attenuator for tube amplifiers, also called Valve guitar amplifier. I didn't want to distort the output or change the tone, and the recommendations are that I should consider reactive attenuators and not only one resistive.In the search, I found this product from two notes as an excellent option. Although it incorporates many more tools, I only needed it to attenuate the output power.It is essential to consider that you need to have the same ohms of the amplifier with this device, the output does not require the speakers to be the same, but the attenuation is modified according to the ohms of the speakers.I handled several cabins and tested them; if the ohms are respected or equal, we obtained a reduction as the documentation promises. It attenuates in 20 dB; in this, it fulfils what it promises.I have not detected that it modifies in any form the tonality of the output; I made several recordings in the study, and comparing the two signals, no perceptible changes are detected more than the evident attenuation.Another positive point, as it works as a load box and does not require a speaker to be connected to the output, we can use it to make recordings in silence.An important point, this equipment only attenuates 20 dB, it is not variable, and handles up to a maximum of 100W; in my case, I use it in amplifiers ranging from 10W to 50W, with good results, of course with 50W, reaching 9 or 10, the attenuation is there but is not as noticeable as with the 20 to 30W range. I selected the 8 ohms because one of the amps has no selector or other output option, other than 8 ohms, it is a Fender blackface; the others like the Marshall's, Randall's Line 6 and Vox's have variable outputs that had the choice to handle 8-ohm cabs.With a 2x12 Marshall cab, we detected a change in the output, but I adjusted it with the amplifier's balance. We found the same note or tone without the Captor. As this cab has a mix of speakers, it generates a different output curve, which I adjusted by lowering the bass notes in the amplifier; the speakers are the Celestion Vintage and Heritage, both 12 inches with 8 ohms, 70 and 80 Watts.TWO NOTES has another product that attenuates variably. Still, it has a much higher cost, more than double the price, and we must admit that it has many more options; it attenuates variables 32 dB, 20dB and 0dB, but it targets a different set of needs.I give it five stars, plus I've been browsing its features. The cabinet simulations are a plus; it brings analogue cabinet emulations for guitar and Bass, which are default. You can also include 16 free Dyn IR cabinets through the wall of sound supplement, and it comes with a lifetime license of Torpedo Wall of Sound, but they go with a DAW plug-in with this; there are more than 400 variables. Which we've been testing, and it works very well.
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