Nice knowledge. A little frightening to see how good you made the 9v amp sound, but also enlightening for those of us who really do want to use a tube amp and get the best sound for recording or pa without the headaches. Cool work.
Just a note when you blend cabinets and mic signals, make sure to align phases of the recorded audio to prevent unwanted frequency cancellations. You can do this with a plug-in, or zoom in and slide the captor tracks until they line up with the Mic'ed signal.
I've been using preamps & the Torpedo CAB for years. The versatility, quietness when necessary & not carrying 100s of lbs convinced me. I do miss the rumble from a 4x12 tho. 😁
Amazing tips and playing! I just got my captor x to use with my old tube amps. Bit done with my kemper tbh! It's a completely new world but I dialed up a couple of nice sounds in minutes using IRs and the two notes cabinet modelling.
I haven't been mic'ing amps since I got into using IRs. Since I record in apartments or shared living space I'm restricted on my options. Having said that, I don't miss it at all. Now the Two Notes allows for blended mics and the Captor X has a dry out, I pretty much have all the tools needed to achieve the same results.
ive been running stereo out and sending one side into my UAD Ocean Wave studio plugin. Creates this really wide, super real and dimensional sound. Honestly its closer to the sound I hear in my head when trying to capture an amp in a room than any mic setup Ive used at home. That second sound example you showed is really close to the results I achieved
Hi Jay, Thanks so much for giving these clean clear examples that allows us to hear how the amps/mics etc sound; so many of the examples on YT have distortion and other effects added and quite frankly for me, the sound of the captor gets lost or buried in the "mush" - Good examples and good playing my friend.
Might you do a video of how to do the midi cab switcher setup for noobs like myself? Thanks for the vid and these super cool ideas! Two notes should be happy with you because now I ready want one!
Great video, great playing, and great representation of what is possible. I have a Mark V 25 and a Line 6 Stomp, the cab clone in the Mark V is trash so Im considering a Torpedo Captor X.
Dude I love your channel, found out two days ago and been watching all your videos!! Why is youtube not suggesting these positive channels full of good content more often?!
Awesome! In one of your answers you said that in method one pedals go directly to cab m ( captor x I think). I tought the preamp pedals were in the amp return. Can you describe the routing setup for this? Thanks a lot
Jay I've seen this vid several times. I now have a CaptorX and have 1 question: For the 1st type "Multi Amp in a Box Pedal setup" where are you taking the recording line from? CaptorX XLR Left? Right? or Both? in Stereo? Is it different for the different types of setups 1. Multi Amp Pedal, 2, Cab Blending & 3.With Toys. Are you recording all of these Type with both Left & Right XLR Outs? Much appreciated!!!
hey, is it safe to run a guitar with just a pedal into the captor? i thought it listed that its dangerous to have a super low input signal without an amp. whats the signal chain exactly? thanks!
Hey there! At 4:25 I see you play through custom IRs. Can you please explain why there are two IRs there? Am I being correct assuming that it is like putting two mics near cabinet (or different cabinets, depending on particular IR)? For instance, if I choose the same IR for A and B, it is like exact same cabinet and mic mixed into one audio stream?
Nice video, as always... I am new in that IR stuff.. In studio or live Situations: do i have to make an equalizer setup or is that captor x an PLUG N PLAY thing?
Nice Video, thanks. Question: What was the cable configuration you used to run everything into the Captor (the real amp and the pedal amps) at the same time?
I was a little confused, you kept referring to the 'silver jen' setting as a BF/Deluxe setting. I have the Captor and I assumed the Silver Jen was a SilverFace Fender, no?
Thank you for this great video. This will be very helpfu! I just bought a Two Notes Torpedo because I could never get a real tube amp tone with my Helix Native plugin, but I have a question; I would like to run the amp into my Logic Pro DAW and through Helix so that I can use the great many Helix effects, but not its amps. Can you tell me how you are doing this? Do you just create a patch with no amp of cabs? Not sure how to approach this.
The Captor X may work the best. Send guitar to the Helix and then the Helix to the Amp. Connect Captor X to the Speaker out of your amp. Send the line out of the Captor X back to the Helix and you can even put some post effects from the Helix in there as well! Look up on some articles on the 4 Cable Method and hopefully that would get you on the right track! Good luck.
Hi Paul, I hope you can help me. I often follow you and I am an Italian guitarist from Venice. I'm writing to ask you for advice on Toneking Ironman II mini: I have a Fender Deluxe Reverb RI that I love but it's too loud and I can't get it to breakup at low volumes. I am considering getting an attenuator and I have seen the Toneking. I'm undecided: the Torpedo Captor X has many useful features but I'm afraid that the attenuation section is more limited and less qualitative than Toneking. What would you advise me? My goal is to be able to use the fender at vol 4/5 to make my drives work well, but the features of the torpedo could also be very useful. Obviously if you confirm that the torpedo is as good as an attenuator as much as the toneking, I will take the torpedo. Thanks, I hope you can help me.
To be honest, the Tone King is a better attenuator in terms of keeping the hi end response intact. Since you already have an attenuator. Why don't you check out the CAB M. You can use it in combination with your Tone King and have the best of both worlds :)
J - when you recorded this video where was sound coming from that you heard in room? Del Reverb speaker or powered monitors connected via your audio interface?
Dude. Everything has gone up in price. Blame trumps poor corona response. We could have been fully vaxed and back to normal by now. But biden has a lot of catching up to do.
Great video and tones but can you explain to a DI newbie what you are using to actually hear the Torpedo cab sims while you are playing? Are you using studio monitors? If you could explain your signal chin that would be great. Thanks!
If you wanted to use something like this without an amp (just preamp pedal), I recommend looking at the Torpedo CAB M. The Captor X works the best when working with a full guitar amp with a preamp and power amp.
Just got one but can't play my Deluxe Reverb and even worse my 57 Deluxe at higher volumes without red-light clipping on the Captor. The distortion on the 57 is a disappointment. I'm thinking the Captor is made for amps with a lot more headroom than I have in my two Fenders.
It definitely should handle those amps without any problem: I have pushed these things with my cranked 50 watters without it breaking a sweat. Maybe the clipping is maybe coming from your output and not your input. Try lowering the "OUT LEVEL" knob on the CAB X. If the red lighting goes away, then it is working fine with your amp and you are just pushing it too much volume out of the CAB-X If it is still red -lighting with the "OUT LEVEL" low and the "IN LEVEL" switched to low you may have a bad box. I'm sure the team at Two Notes can help you with that if that is the case, cause you should definitely not be clipping it with a Deluxe.
@@JayLeonardJ Thanks for your input, JLJ. I played around with the levels through my headphones and found that all was fine with Low Output engaged but I can't use the High Output setting at any level without the red light coming on. The thing is there is more clarity in the signal with the High engaged, and since my amps are relatively low wattage, I don't get why they clip so easily. I will write to TN.
How did you hook up the Bassman (that has a 4 Ohm speaker output) to the 8 Ohm Captor X? (As far as I know silverface Bassman amps have only 4 Ohm speaker outputs.)
For the "Multi Amp in a Box Pedal setup", did the revival drive and falcon go direct to the captor X? or both pedals go to the 65 deluxe amp first then use the cab sim/ ir of captor x? thanks a lot :)
@@davewalls2160 The "Speaker In" on the Captor X is expecting to see the output of a power amp. You couldn't directly plug a preamp pedal into the Captor X. You either need to run the preamp pedal into a standalone power amp and run that into the Captor X, or run the preamp pedal into the loop of an amp and take the amp's power amp output into the Captor X.
*ANYONE WHO ACTUALLY KNOWS.................... "If you run a LINE LEVEL SIGNAL, from a audio interface into the CAPTOR X, does the unit still provide a reactive-load + the IR. Or will it only provide the IR at that point, without tons of electricity shooting into it?*
For line level stuff, you definitely would be needing the Torpedo Cab M as the Captor X is specifically for guitar amp heads. I would reach out to Two Notes for your specific application. I'm sure they will help you get the right hardware you need for your tonal goals :)
Nice knowledge. A little frightening to see how good you made the 9v amp sound, but also enlightening for those of us who really do want to use a tube amp and get the best sound for recording or pa without the headaches. Cool work.
Love the Smokey in the Captor X. I will have to try that wiht my own Smokey here. Merci !
Just a note when you blend cabinets and mic signals, make sure to align phases of the recorded audio to prevent unwanted frequency cancellations. You can do this with a plug-in, or zoom in and slide the captor tracks until they line up with the Mic'ed signal.
I've been using preamps & the Torpedo CAB for years. The versatility, quietness when necessary & not carrying 100s of lbs convinced me.
I do miss the rumble from a 4x12 tho. 😁
Great playing as always - Need to by one (but I need before a Blues Jr.) | Thanks 🙌🏼
@9:10 It's awesome to see how different sound a real cab well miced vs IRs. Sooo interesting
Amazing tips and playing!
I just got my captor x to use with my old tube amps. Bit done with my kemper tbh! It's a completely new world but I dialed up a couple of nice sounds in minutes using IRs and the two notes cabinet modelling.
Don’t kid yourself Jay, you are a rock star 🙌
Excellent job
I gave this a thumbs up for the Television cover alone!
hands down this is the best gear purchase ive made
I haven't been mic'ing amps since I got into using IRs. Since I record in apartments or shared living space I'm restricted on my options. Having said that, I don't miss it at all. Now the Two Notes allows for blended mics and the Captor X has a dry out, I pretty much have all the tools needed to achieve the same results.
You get 5 stars just for that great rendition of Television's See No Evil (and using the song in the first place!)! :D
ive been running stereo out and sending one side into my UAD Ocean Wave studio plugin. Creates this really wide, super real and dimensional sound. Honestly its closer to the sound I hear in my head when trying to capture an amp in a room than any mic setup Ive used at home. That second sound example you showed is really close to the results I achieved
Hi Jay, Thanks so much for giving these clean clear examples that allows us to hear how the amps/mics etc sound; so many of the examples on YT have distortion and other effects added and quite frankly for me, the sound of the captor gets lost or buried in the "mush" - Good examples and good playing my friend.
I have no need for such a device...but all the tones you're getting are great...and your playing is killer as always.
Awesome playing. That captor x is certainly cool. Love the Tele too
Nice Westwood guitars
A Cubase guy.
I like you even more… Haha!
Thanks for the video J and you sold me on the Captor X. Especially for the price and features! WOW!!!
Best✌🏼
Love Cubase!!
Yeah, Television!
Great playing.
You crushed that cover
Thanks!
Might you do a video of how to do the midi cab switcher setup for noobs like myself? Thanks for the vid and these super cool ideas! Two notes should be happy with you because now I ready want one!
I’m in the drawer now looking for my Smokey amp. Rock n’ Roll.🎸😂🇦🇺👍
Great video, great playing, and great representation of what is possible. I have a Mark V 25 and a Line 6 Stomp, the cab clone in the Mark V is trash so Im considering a Torpedo Captor X.
Dude I love your channel, found out two days ago and been watching all your videos!! Why is youtube not suggesting these positive channels full of good content more often?!
Love your unique approach to all this great gear!
Outstanding video - thanks.
Awesome! In one of your answers you said that in method one pedals go directly to cab m ( captor x I think). I tought the preamp pedals were in the amp return. Can you describe the routing setup for this? Thanks a lot
Jay I've seen this vid several times. I now have a CaptorX and have 1 question: For the 1st type "Multi Amp in a Box Pedal setup" where are you taking the recording line from? CaptorX XLR Left? Right? or Both? in Stereo? Is it different for the different types of setups 1. Multi Amp Pedal, 2, Cab Blending & 3.With Toys. Are you recording all of these Type with both Left & Right XLR Outs? Much appreciated!!!
What a genius idea!
Well done. Great video!
hey, is it safe to run a guitar with just a pedal into the captor? i thought it listed that its dangerous to have a super low input signal without an amp. whats the signal chain exactly? thanks!
Just ..... wow... awesome !!!!!!!!
The only demo where a guy has mic'd up real cabs and done A/b tone tests and used the attenuator.
Dude , you're awesome!! sounds f good!!
Awesome
Hey there! At 4:25 I see you play through custom IRs. Can you please explain why there are two IRs there? Am I being correct assuming that it is like putting two mics near cabinet (or different cabinets, depending on particular IR)? For instance, if I choose the same IR for A and B, it is like exact same cabinet and mic mixed into one audio stream?
Yeah! I just wanted to blend the sounds of two different IRs to create a nice blend of frequencies that worked really nice for my rig :)
Great video!
Does the coolingsystem of this unit make noises like the older version?
Cheers!
Jun Naef not hearing it so far
It’s a lot quieter....
The fan spins up and can be audible, but it's not really an issue for most people
Nice video, as always...
I am new in that IR stuff..
In studio or live Situations: do i have to make an equalizer setup or is that captor x an PLUG N PLAY thing?
Nice Video, thanks. Question: What was the cable configuration you used to run everything into the Captor (the real amp and the pedal amps) at the same time?
I was a little confused, you kept referring to the 'silver jen' setting as a BF/Deluxe setting. I have the Captor and I assumed the Silver Jen was a SilverFace Fender, no?
what model is the red guitar in the thumbnail?
I’m curious if there is any delay/gap when switching cabinets via midi, say for live playing.
9:10 Awesome!
Good stuff 😎
I’ve got a captorx I used it for one session - now I use it as a door wedge.
It’s a pretty good door wedge. Good weight.
I’d take it off your hands, or door?
Sweet
If I can play that well and knew that much savvy ... 😎
Thank you for this great video. This will be very helpfu! I just bought a Two Notes Torpedo because I could never get a real tube amp tone with my Helix Native plugin, but I have a question; I would like to run the amp into my Logic Pro DAW and through Helix so that I can use the great many Helix effects, but not its amps. Can you tell me how you are doing this? Do you just create a patch with no amp of cabs? Not sure how to approach this.
The Captor X may work the best. Send guitar to the Helix and then the Helix to the Amp. Connect Captor X to the Speaker out of your amp. Send the line out of the Captor X back to the Helix and you can even put some post effects from the Helix in there as well! Look up on some articles on the 4 Cable Method and hopefully that would get you on the right track!
Good luck.
shoutout See No Evil
Yeah!
Ok, wait on the first set up - Was the Deluxe Reverb the only 'sound' that went through amp power section? Pedals went direct (DI) to interface?
In the first set up, the pedals were sent directly to the CAB M.
Hi Paul,
I hope you can help me.
I often follow you and I am an Italian guitarist from Venice.
I'm writing to ask you for advice on Toneking Ironman II mini: I have a Fender Deluxe Reverb RI that I love but it's too loud and I can't get it to breakup at low volumes. I am considering getting an attenuator and I have seen the Toneking. I'm undecided: the Torpedo Captor X has many useful features but I'm afraid that the attenuation section is more limited and less qualitative than Toneking. What would you advise me?
My goal is to be able to use the fender at vol 4/5 to make my drives work well, but the features of the torpedo could also be very useful.
Obviously if you confirm that the torpedo is as good as an attenuator as much as the toneking, I will take the torpedo. Thanks, I hope you can help me.
To be honest, the Tone King is a better attenuator in terms of keeping the hi end response intact. Since you already have an attenuator. Why don't you check out the CAB M. You can use it in combination with your Tone King and have the best of both worlds :)
What PA Speaker are you using? Can I plug the torpedo directly into a PA and travel just with the amp head and captorX? Thanks!
I believe this video is with the torpedo straight to the interface
First :-)... Very very nice video as usual :-)!
J - when you recorded this video where was sound coming from that you heard in room? Del Reverb speaker or powered monitors connected via your audio interface?
Except for the last example (where talk about blending the sound sources) what you hear is from the Captor X straight to the Interface.
WAS NOT EXPECTING TO HEAR TELEVISON. 😊
One of my favs :)
Awesome video! Just curious as to why the Captor X has gone up in price recently?
Dude. Everything has gone up in price. Blame trumps poor corona response. We could have been fully vaxed and back to normal by now. But biden has a lot of catching up to do.
@@Ottophil You're deluded. Trump Derangement syndrome.
Great video and tones but can you explain to a DI newbie what you are using to actually hear the Torpedo cab sims while you are playing? Are you using studio monitors? If you could explain your signal chin that would be great. Thanks!
Hi Thanks a lot ! Important question : you do without amp ? guitar/preamp/captor/line(or headphone) ? thanks a lot for your help
If you wanted to use something like this without an amp (just preamp pedal), I recommend looking at the Torpedo CAB M. The Captor X works the best when working with a full guitar amp with a preamp and power amp.
@@JayLeonardJ thanks a lot !
how can you use a préamp pédal straigth in it without a poweramp ?
Yes you can! There is even a power amp modeller in there as well 👍
Can you use the captor x to attenuate the volume of your amp into a cab? I know you don't need one but I'm curious
Yes, there is an attenuation settings in there!
Just got one but can't play my Deluxe Reverb and even worse my 57 Deluxe at higher volumes without red-light clipping on the Captor. The distortion on the 57 is a disappointment. I'm thinking the Captor is made for amps with a lot more headroom than I have in my two Fenders.
It definitely should handle those amps without any problem: I have pushed these things with my cranked 50 watters without it breaking a sweat. Maybe the clipping is maybe coming from your output and not your input. Try lowering the "OUT LEVEL" knob on the CAB X. If the red lighting goes away, then it is working fine with your amp and you are just pushing it too much volume out of the CAB-X
If it is still red -lighting with the "OUT LEVEL" low and the "IN LEVEL" switched to low you may have a bad box. I'm sure the team at Two Notes can help you with that if that is the case, cause you should definitely not be clipping it with a Deluxe.
@@JayLeonardJ Thanks for your input, JLJ. I played around with the levels through my headphones and found that all was fine with Low Output engaged but I can't use the High Output setting at any level without the red light coming on. The thing is there is more clarity in the signal with the High engaged, and since my amps are relatively low wattage, I don't get why they clip so easily. I will write to TN.
How did you hook up the Bassman (that has a 4 Ohm speaker output) to the 8 Ohm Captor X? (As far as I know silverface Bassman amps have only 4 Ohm speaker outputs.)
Hi Andrew, I didn't use a Bassman in this video. The 3 amps used was a 1965 Fender Deluxe, a Tone King Sky King, and a Smokey Pocket Amp.
@@JayLeonardJ Oh sorry, I wanted to write it to another Two Notes Captor x video that had a Bassman in it. Cheers :)
What IRs were you using for the Alnico Tweed example at about 4:10?
I used the P12R Tweed Deluxe IRs from Redwirez 👍
For the "Multi Amp in a Box Pedal setup", did the revival drive and falcon go direct to the captor X? or both pedals go to the 65 deluxe amp first then use the cab sim/ ir of captor x? thanks a lot :)
The pedals are going through the Deluxe then the sim
@@JayLeonardJ thanks man :)
Can the Amp in the box pedals connect to the speaker in Jack in place of an amp?
@@davewalls2160 The "Speaker In" on the Captor X is expecting to see the output of a power amp. You couldn't directly plug a preamp pedal into the Captor X. You either need to run the preamp pedal into a standalone power amp and run that into the Captor X, or run the preamp pedal into the loop of an amp and take the amp's power amp output into the Captor X.
im just here for the riffs
7:40 what chord progression is this
Noice!!!
*ANYONE WHO ACTUALLY KNOWS.................... "If you run a LINE LEVEL SIGNAL, from a audio interface into the CAPTOR X, does the unit still provide a reactive-load + the IR. Or will it only provide the IR at that point, without tons of electricity shooting into it?*
For line level stuff, you definitely would be needing the Torpedo Cab M as the Captor X is specifically for guitar amp heads. I would reach out to Two Notes for your specific application. I'm sure they will help you get the right hardware you need for your tonal goals :)
See No Evil!!
That bluesy Rockabilly riff at 6:57 was off the hook!!
See no evil!
I seeeeeeee no evil
television!!!
Smokies sounds the best of all yikes
Hahahaha