Two Notes Audio Engineering | Captor 16 Loadbox
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- Опубликовано: 26 авг 2024
- Two Notes Audio Engineering | Captor 16 Loadbox
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This is such a cool portable load box, and takes up to 100W at 16ohm!!!
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This is typical, I saved up ages to buy a two notes torpedo live, and the day I get it this thing comes out that's way cheaper and does practically the same thing and is more suited for my purpose.
Fuck me.
Refund it?
i dont think the wall of sound and built in cab sim sounds as good as torpedo live or studio, i just watched another video where the guy A and B'd them, studio sounded way better, you still have an awesome product, it doesnt make sense at all for two notes to totally undercut them selves by offering something at a 5th of the price of what their 1500$ product does .
Yeah dude. Return return return.
They announced it in January, so not really a surprise.
www.google.com/search?q=torpedo+captor+winter+namm+2017
Also heaps of other products similar to this, so if you wanted this why did you get the Torpedo Live, why not the Reload (which is like the ultimate version of this).
I was so excited to order one of these yesterday but couldn't find a single demo video online. Ended up ordering one anyway. All of a sudden my whole subscriber page is filled with demos haha!
Have you ever had something and you can't believe it's yours? That's how I feel about my Kraken. Seriously changed my life, I've only had it a week and I'm in love... Thank you Bea and Victory, so so much.
That's what I call perfect timing, Bea! I just wondered this morning, when I might find some demonstration of the Captor, since I'm considering buying one as soon as I get myself a Kraken. And as if you had heard my thoughts: BOOM! Video is up, haha :-D
Thanks for the great demonstration \m/
You are a gorgeous guitarist. In addition to having an excellent technique you also have what distinguishes a good guitarist from an excellent one, the heart. Even when you play the simplest chords or the quieter parts of a solo, your playing gets to the heart. Your video convinced me to buy the Captor to use it with my Statocaster, it seems a great product. Thank you
Two observations:
1) 1:38 The WoS plugin is *NOT* free (30-day free evaluation, and after that you have to buy at least one of their virtual cabs)
2) The speaker sim is *not* impulse-based, it's analog circuitry.
You are absolutely right, Captor comes with 16 virtual cabinets to use in WoS though.
Would you be able to choose which cabinets or is it a bundle?
The wall of sound was free with 16 cabs for me..did you register your captor on two-notes dot com
If I want to use WoS plugin, I must have interface between Captor and PC?
@@Adrianxmusic yes
This has just gave me the answer to live pub gigs. Can finally crank a valve amp without drowning the rest of the band and destroying pub goers ear drums. Cheers Bea
Bracken Channel now if there was only a loud box from drums and cymbals lol
The absolute best review of this product. I'm glad you understand the value of having clean and dirty tones in this kind of review because nobody else has clean tones in their reviews of this product. Thanks for what you do.
Man I always wanted to shred in a cathedral
Simsom Guppington i want to something in the cathedral too
Two Notes Products always are top notch, love them!
This was very informative, thank you. Just got one of these today and am super stoked to use it now! Great video, cheers!
I like that strat. This is not the first product of its kind. But I'm glad Two Notes finally got a small version out. I will be buying one.
Was hoping this thing did what it is supposed to do and still sound good. I'm sold. Thanks!
FINALLY a video on this thing. Never have I ever clicked on a video in my suggested feed so fast! I'm buying a Suhr Reactive Load next week, or maybe this. Let's see where I'm at come the end of this video.
Great review, thank you. Demonstrating the variety of tones available with the speaker plug-in (and playing things appropriate to all of them) was extremely helpful. Cheers!
I love this, but you saying it takes "up to" 100W means that I couldn't run my 120W 6505+ through it then ? That's my main mamma jamma. This vid was very well done man !
Good to hear ! Would suck to buy it and not be able to use it lol thanks man.
hi great video BUT old technology Tom Shultz of Boston did and sold this in 1980 ,a Rockman power soak but it was variable, not just -20 db. read and study about this man, a pure genius , from his cellar to platinum.
He was doing all what the pedal show, you tubers, Andertons ( with respect) etc are just now becoming aware after 35 years, a long time ago. The wheel is invented lol
Hey Bea, any chance you could do a tutorial video on how to do this lick (3:22) that you often do?? I'd be very grateful because I've been trying to do it for ages!! Incredible playing as usual :-)
the fast part is pretty straight forward. the pattern basically, pick a string. and a fret. so lets say, high E string 12th fret. so itd go 12, 11 hammer on 12 pull off to 11 and then pick 9th fret. or pull off. your choice. and thats the pattern. just move it around.
I was gonna start saving up for the live one since i didnt want to blast my amp in my household. im excited that i found out they sell a cheaper one!
Excellent demo and tones! Just picked one of these up and am still experimenting with WoS.
Just one correction, Bea - it's not a built-in impulse response, it's an analogue sim (basically a set of filters, like the Red Box).
digiscream but in this case, unlike the Redbox, it handles the load without a thru, right? On a Redbox you blow your amp head if you don't still have something thru to handle the load.
Kenny Martin not the point - red box has some variations this has guitar and bass. Red box doesn't have no-cab options. Love this and can't wait to get it
Actually, you've both spectacularly missed my point. An analogue cab sim - like this *has* and like the Redbox *is* - has absolutely nothing in common with an impulse response. An impulse response is not an analogue cab sim, and an analogue cab sim is not an impulse response. Bea says that the Captor has a built-in impulse response, which it doesn't - even Two Notes' own product page says that it's not.
That is correct: Captor is 100% analog, IR technology is digital. What's noticeable in Captor compared so some other amp DIs such as the famous Redbox is the ability to load your amp, in other way silent playing without the need for a cabinet.
Thanks, TwoNotesTV, and yes - I wasn't trying to imply that the Captor is equivalent to the Redbox at all. Just a factual correction for a slip of the tongue in the video which might mislead people :)
you have such a sweet soul.... it comes out in your softer playing
Awesome Bea! I've been waiting for this review eagerly awaiting mine to land in Australia!!
They should arrive very soon!
Always a pleasure catching your video demos, man 🤘
Definitely something I'm looking seriously at, been waiting for this since it was announced in January. But nobody so far seems to have addressed what the 20dB attenuator sounds like - some attenuators are great, some are dreadful. That's something that would be really useful to me, living in a small apartment. I currently use a Palmer, but it maxes out at 15dB, and that can still be too loud sometimes.
Nice video Rabea I was wondering about this one.
I know this was about the captor, but damn that Wall of Sound cab sim sounds pretty neat. Until I have the dough to get a Victory amp and that, let's see what this'll do with my Bias tones
Nice clean sound playing
Can you compare it with 2 notes torpedo live? Will you be able to record Toska EP with it?
I just bought one on Reverb. I live in a CBD apartment in Auckland, so can't use my amp without having people banging on the walls etc. I have a Laney IRT Studio for silent recording and jamming through Two Notes WOS in my DAW and then out of little studio monitors. It sounds good and using the built in boost with the amp overdriven yields a lead tone very much like my Suhr Riot pedal, but better. Down side is the amp is restricted to 1 watt instead of 15 watts when in silent mode. That means the clean channel has very little headroom and does not take boost well. I am hoping the Captor solves this because it will allow the amp to run at full power.
I am also hoping it sounds better than running the Le Pou Brit amp sim into WOS, because I do not like putting wear and tear on my amp just for noodling -- so the tone has to be that much better to justify doing it.
I have tried so many things for the volume problem. First was a Palmer Speaker sim. Then a Dr Z Air Brake. My 1959RR blew up, so I replaced it with an old mid 80s JCM800 1987 model. But I had sold the Airbrake and could not use it here. Then I tried modelling with a POD HD500X. I did not like the POD, so tried a a Tech 21 Fly Rig followed by more modelling using GuitarRig, but the Laney IRT Studio is better than them all for getting a realistic amp tone into DAW in silent mode, apart from that clean channel headroom issue.
Spending over $3K NZD for a Kemper or AxeFX is too rich for me, but all the money I spent trying to get a decent silent recording solution I could have had one I guess. I am pretty confident the Captor is going to work well with WOS and the Laney.
Next mission is to build some vintage amp clones from kits to run with it, but I best cut my teeth doing pedal builds first. I already have a few parts and a Trinity Amp turret board for a 18 watt vintage Marshall build. I'd quite like to have something like a Deluxe Reverb clone too and maybe even a Vox. A Captor can run any amp as long as the impedance matches (I got the 8 ohm version). I used to only like tones like my favourite Maiden, Priest, Sabbath, Ozzy records etc. But now I have grown the fv
Thank you, time traveler Joe Cocker.. Seriously, thanks Captor / Two Notes is awesome
Hey Bea,awesome review could you show a tutorial on how to connect an amp to the captor16 cause it would be an awesome option for home use.
Very impressive piece of kit. I almost wound up with a torpedo live. Had a freind at the local shop reccomend Rivera's Offering.. I prefer overkill on circuts and the eq that Paul Rivera designed but this thing is seriously legit. and waaay cheaper than my rock crusher recording.. sweet tones sir. . i might just get one of these cause man. that fits in my pedal bag !!!!
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Thanks for the video.
When I first heard about this thing, I was super excited. I thought it would use an IR live. But when I found it would be an analog sim, I got sad because I knew it would sound...exactly like an analog cab sim haha, and it does.
So, it's not for me. But for a load box, it's still a very good deal.
You could still use it with IRs by using the dry line out, or switching the cab sim off on the balanced XLR out.
can you use one of these as a reamp box?
if so, this product is perfect
Hey man can you do a full studio tour to see all your production gear?
Since the XLR is an output rather than a mic input per se’, how are you using phantom power to power it?
If you run your valve amp into that does the amp see 8 or 16 ohms so the amps transformers have the right load?
That WoS stuff sounds great, I'm sold, finally yay get to turn up my amp in my aprtment ha
2018 and I'm watching this. Great vid!!! You should demo this with the Origin Effects REVIVAL Drive and your Strat!!!
Hmmm. I might actually get one new, don't want to take a risk with these things being treated bad. I got a DI already, I could like setup my effect pedal board with a DI splitting in front and after the pedal board, that's kinda nice
I wish you would have spoken about the attenuation option in more detail. Is it a usable tool to tame a 100 watt head, that you want to turn up loud enough to get the power amp going, in a rock jam setting. Is it too much attenuation? Too little?
when running out of the TRS 1/4 out into an audio interface should you as instrument or line level input?
Nice Vertigo Zoom at 0:34 :D
Cool box great tone.. Do you have a cold if so I hope you feel better Bea.
Built in cab sim sounds fine for clean stuff but adding distortion to it makes it sound too harsh
ayeapprove agreed. With the WoS plugin though it’s pretty damn impressive sounding (well to me at least).
Keep in mind that these sort of analog speaker Sims are actually really good for live use as they cut really well in a mix and give your sound man a lot of flexibility to mix
Bea, nice video) Link to Captor 16 probably missing in the description)
2:00
Rabea: "...Sounds like..."
Me: Triggered
I hope someone like upgrades soon and sells one for like half price
They really need to make one of these for the bassists. 300 watts at 4 ohms (for SVT's)
To handle that much heat, you would need at least a 2U rack unit. We build them custom for some artists, including the band Meshuggah for the latest album.
Rabea!! when do we get to see those pickups in action??
8:41 I would to have a Power attenuation knob to adjust it from 0 to 100%. By doing so, it would be a like adding a "master volume" to any amp, and therefore be able to crank any 100W amp to a very low bedroom volume. I know there's a fixed -20db, but wouldn't be cool if we could adjust it from 0db to -∞ db? Even on stage, it would allow to keep a quiet stage even with a cranked amp :)
Even a 10 positions selector would be ok to have some kind of scale such -3db, -6db, -10db, -15db, -20db, -25db, -30db, -40db, -50db, -70db...
Then buy a torpedo reload
Actually, that's exactly what I dislike from Two Notes... They have multiple products from Torpedo Reload, Live, Studio, and Captor... but you can't just get a product that would cover what we need. They all lack of some features that the other might have. The Studio doesn't have the whole reamping level match system such the Reload. The reload doesn't have the whole onboard IR Cab, the Live doesn't have dual IR such the studio and reamping level match such the Reload, and so on and so on.
I know, they try to have multiple products to push consumer to buy multiple products. But to me, that's dumb. I would prefer a Torpedo Studio mk2 that would have both loadbox that can be adjust, a reamping system with level match, and a power input and dual IR Cab. Then it would be useful and could be connected to be use for all usages and I wouldn't need to buy multiple products I would need to connect/reconnect depending what I want to do. Because even if you buy a Torpedo Reload and a Torpedo Live/Studio, you won't be able to use both in the same time.
That's exactly why I think it's dumb... even thought I love what Two Notes do and think it's one of the best product that happens in the Guitar industry for the last decade. I'd just love them to come with a product that would be more mature and more "KISS" (Keep It Stupid Simple).
My 2¢
Hi Phil, it's definitely possible to use several units at the same time, as they all have a THRU output that lets you connect them in cascade. ;)
The reason why we don't have that all-in-one unit is very simple: very little people would put 3KUSD for that, and people already complain about some extra features they don't need, like "I don't want to have to pay for a DI or Reamp if I want a good attenuator (Reload)".
Of you think abut it from the common user point of view, it would actually be the opposite of a KISS product. ;)
Well... it depends what kind of KISS you considering. Personally, not having multiple units going back and forth with Thru signals and plug and unplug and replug stuff depending if I need a loadbox or a cab, or just an attenuator, or maybe both, etc... not using multiple audio I/O to keep the "two notes stuff" to my audio interface, or having to change my DAW template depending what I want, etc... it's what I mean by Keeping it "simple". Just having one product that "does it all", is what I think would be a "simple message".
Having a rig, I plug my guitar in and everything else stays in place and I have all options I want and need and it's "just working" (less time doing geek/tech stuff, more time doing music).
Or maybe, I just missed how we could easily make them work all together, and in that case, it would be worth to make some wiring diagrams and video on your website to help consumers on that part and explain the benefit of it (and in the mean time, help yourself to sell more products too, I'm just sayin')
But it would probably cost more and I can see how it could be a problem to make it in production. Personally, if I look at a Mesa 4x12 cab, a pair of mic (SM57, Shure KSM313) and some decent preamp... it will be easily $3k. So having a Torpedo Studio mk2 that would do the same and would include the features listed above... and would not only provide the sound of a Mesa 4x12 Cab, but then would allow me to have 150+ Cab with more mic, preamp, tubes and all features Two Notes have... yeah, that would be worth it.
Not cheap, that's for sure, but WORTH it and worth to invest in this kind of gear that would probably last a long time since I don't see us getting rid of "Cabs" anytime soon :)
But yeah, I don't think it's really how most people think lately and I'm probably just part of a very small percentage and probably "too niche" to make it happen. You're surely right about that and I can understand that... it's just too bad.
Note: It doesn't mean I think Two Notes products are bad, NOT AT ALL...
as already mentioned, I think this is one of the best thing that happen in the guitar industry the last decade (just like another French invention such the Keyztone pickups will be the next best thing for the next 10 years... I think). I already told it to Guillaume during a MusikMesse (hi to him btw).
So don't take this long comment as a "rant against Two Notes" because it is not. It's just that I care about it and try to make it better by just giving my 2¢ opinion. If I wouldn't care, I would just ignore it and wouldn't spend time to even comment or comment back to explain myself.
I have no doubt you surely understand it that way, but I prefer to mention it for other viewers to not mistake my comments and misinterpret them.
My 2¢
I'm interested to hear a comparison between the 8 ohm and 16 ohm with the same amp .
Does anybody else have issues where you get some distortion/clipping even when running a very clean sound on the amp? In general I find I need to crank the master volume quite a bit to get a strong enough tone. This is with the output in the Captor at around 12:00 but I’ve experimented with this. I’ve had the same issues with a Mesa Mark V 25 and a Peavey 6505mh
Looking into getting something like this, but do you have to use Wall of Sound to load IRs in your DAW? or could i use any IR loader in my DAW and just use this as a load box so i can run my amp into my interface?
Question: my amp is 8hm but my band mate uses a dual rectifier, should I buy the 16ohm one so we can use it both of us for recording our amps? Or should I pick the 8ohm one?
Just wow, sounds killer man .. I defo need this!! So did you have this plugged straight into your audio interface? Cheers
This may be a dumb question, but I'll throw it out there anyway. So I recently got a Mesa mark 5, but I typically play in an environment where cabinets are not welcome and wanting everything direct. I am very heavily looking at this torpedo captor as I tried the Mesa cab clone and it was absolute garbage. What I'm wondering is, if I use impulse responses, can I use this in tandem with a torpedo cab and load wall of sound settings and to the torpedo cab so that I have completely customize obal I ours and setups? And pretty much use the kept or as a loebach's only? Or will the captor take and store settings from wall of sound?
So the captor plus the WOS plugin(s) is pretty much a cheaper Torpedo Live?
So I can’t use this if all I have is a head, captor and interface?
I thought the direct in (xlr)..was for sending to foh mixer when using live, and the 1/4 for daw
Arch Karr There is a switch on the captor that has a guitar simulated output that can be used as a foh. Really versatile box.
Can you use the ir in real time? Like for monitoring? Or are you limited to applying the pluggin once the track is recorded?
Trying to figure out if I should grab this or the torpedo live? Mainly worried about latency using WoS with the captor, any advice?
Do I "HAVE TO" connect the Cab using this box, as long as the amp is under 100 watts?
What is that screen shot of in that hall? Plugin?
Great Video! I especially liked the plexi with the vintage 30 IR. How are you monitoring your playback and do you have any latency?
Hi, what speaker cable are using coming out of your "speaker out" on the head unit? It's huge! Like the size of a DELL server power cable. I've just been using a Mogami speaker cable. I'd love to hear the difference, if you wouldn't mind pointing me in the right direction of the cable you are using. Thanks in advance and keep up the great work! :-)
Hello, great overview... Wanted to ask tho... the line out that comes from the captor is the actual "line level signal" or is it "instrument level signal"
Is it a reactive or resitance load??? Proper love yer from I am "Naturlay Curly Chap" why did it take so long to get out?
So stoked!
Hey Bea. Trying to decide if I should grab the captor or save a little longer for the Torpedo live. Any recommendations?
Does suck tone when attenuating ?
+Rabea Massad; Excellent Demo again! Q? Any advantage in your opinion regarding different ohms?
I.e., 8 ohms being better at ‘x’ than
16 ohms.
Thank you so much I really need a box like this for silent recording my Vox amp. I have a question. I always record di tracks and then reamping them back to my Cubase with a radial reamp box. It’s always very hard to make a great sound out of this without disturbing my neighbors. So can I use the torpedo after the reamp box to capture the raw signal of my amp and then use the torpedo’s software to further tune the sound? Thank you 😊
Hey Rabea! Love the videos! Just a quick question. I have a Marshall DSL100H that has one 16 ohm output for one cab and two 8 ohm outputs for two cabs as well as a 1982 Marshall JCM800 2004 that is 8 ohms for a single cab or 4 ohms for two cabs. My question is could i use the captor 8 for use with both amps or would i have to get a captor 16 and a captor 8 in order to accomodate the different ohm ratings
Is this thing great for everyday playing with headphones an music backing track coming all from an audio interface ? My tube amp is just muddy as heck cause I can't crank it in an appartment and I can't find that attack on a rig sim like Bias (which is still really cool)
Hey Rabea. Thank you for great video! I am thinking of buying captor for my engl fireball 60 head, however I am concerned about latency. Would be there any noticeable latency during playing if I would use Wall of sounds in reaper for impulse responses? I don't want to use analog emulation which captor have and I worry that I would have to buy C.A.B. or Mooer Radar to be able to record and practice without latency. Thank you for your reply!
Hey bea what version of wall of sound do you use? Mine looks totally different then yours.
Hi Rabea please tell me (as im relatively new to the studio equipment) i have a Fender Super Champ X2, i have a small child and cannot play as much as i want during the day. Can the jack output of captor 8 work with normal guitar jack cable straight to guitar in of POD HD500x (to use reverbs&delays etc), and then to the computer with wall of sound? Or is this some "balanced" out and have to go straight in to audio interface with balanced inputs?
@3:19 this chord reminded me of Mark Holcomb sooooo much
which chord is that, please?
Roberto Alves I don't know, sorry
no problem, thanks!
Hey! What do you use for monitoring?
Rabea, what are the IRs you normally use? Are they stock IR's from the Torpedo or from another company?
but you don't have to power it ? or yep ? thanx ^^
hey can i turn the build in cab sim off, and plug the device into an amp modeller e.g axe fx , helix with a cab "block" set up ... and then from the modeller into my Interface?
Guitar > Tube Head > Two Notes Captor 100W Speaker IN Captor Lineout > Axe Fx preset without Ampsim > Output to my Audio Interface > DAW
Point is I dont want to use a Cabinet but still want to use a Tube Head and the Axe FX as an effectprocessor
Bro ...demo your new signature guitars......waiting....
Hey, nice review as always. but can anyone tell me if its possible to use it offline without any interface, say in between amp and my cab, to lower the volume while maintaining the tone? So i could gun the amp and get all the distortion without blowing my ears out?
-20 db option going to your cab
So no need of amo cabinets? We can directly from amo head to the interface through the captor?
nope. amp to captor to audio interface.
Is this a reactive load? I'm between this and the suhr reactive, I already have the two notes C.A.B so the feel of the cab sim/amp is most important for me, anyone chime on how this feels to play through ? Thanks
Yes, it's a reactive load. They're usually designed around the impedance curve of a V30 (since it's a good average response curve), but I have to caveat this with the fact that I haven't seen the Captor's curve to compare.
Hey Two Notes, I didn't find this on the website, does this feature the impedance curve that makes loads more "speaker like" ?
Yes, it is a reactive load that looks like a cabinet impedance curve.
Loaded up RUclips , and i have 6 vids that have a Captor 16 Loadbox lol
Same here but, after watching them all, this one was definitely the best.
agreed , this is why i clicked lol :)
Perfect test, man! 👍🏻 Curious to try it with my Mesa JP2C: have you tried yet, Rebea?
Just a FYI, we use a Mesa Mark V during development among other reference amplifiers.
Thanks for your reply!
Do you hear any hiss coming from this?
What's the. difference between the 4,8 & 16 Captors ?
Hi Tommy, 4, 8 and 16 have a different impedance. Your amp expect to be connected to either a 4, 8 or 16 ohms cabinet.
Is there a way on the Captor (or Torpedo) to load an IR Cab and then run it through a FRFR cab? If so, how close does it gets from the Cab that is emulated? I know for a recording with a mic setup, etc... it's really close and "good enough" (at least for me). But what about the "sound in the room" and "feel of the cab"?
It seems like it would be the next logical step. Instead of carrying different cabs, just carry a FRFR cabs that could reproduce the sound and feel of different cab by using IR Cab, activate/deactivate some internal filters and/or speakers to reproduce it as close as possible.
Any thoughts?
Hi Phil, any digital Torpedo can do that (Live and Studio, C.A.B. does not have the loadbox part).
Your "next step" is what we advertise for for the last 10 years. ^^
Captor is 100% analog, so you are stuck with the onboard analog speakersim, but with some extra money adding a Torpedo C.A.B. will do the trick.
Yeah, I just wonder the feel of a FRFR cab with IR... I never use it; As said, I have absolutely no doubt about an IR vs a recording setup with a mic, preamp, etc... I used it and compared it and I know IR Cabs close enough from a real cab (at least to my ears).
So I guess, my question is probably more about FRFR cab ability to mimic a specific Cab sound and feel... because in the end, the IR is still a "limited" capture of the cab sound (one or two mics in a very specific position with a specific preamp, etc...).
Why get the torpedo live over this? Does it have extra software or?
Cycloptic Aether The torpedo live has the wall of sound plugin built in and DI out has the cab emulation incorporated. This has a “dumb” analog speaker simulator that can’t be changed at all in a live scenario.
If my amp is switchable between 4, 8, and 16 ohms is there any difference in which version of this I may want to buy.
Did you ever find out? I have the same question.
@@grizz6505 if your amp can switch between 4, 8, and 16 ohms, defo get one that does 8 ohms cos most modern amps these days have 8ohms
Will this take the input of an original 5150 head. Its 120W. The cab is wired for 4 ohms. 4x12.
frankpaws you would have to buy the Captor 4 for 4 Ohms
I bought the Reload! ;)
I bought a two notes Reload. Problem solved.
Hi Rabea! Huge fan of you from Mexico. I was wondering, which one i should buy? I have a Peavey 6505+, it has different ohm settings on the back, should i go for the 16ohm or the 8ohm????? (Hope to see you in Mexico some day) /,,/
All will work, go for 8 Ohms which is the most "standard" impedance used among amplifiers. Just in case you may want to use another amp in the future.
Alex Djent hi alex - get the ohm version that your cabinet also is compatible with. That way u can connect thru as well as connect to record. For me 16ohm is good. I can crank amp to DAW and monitor thru 16ohm cabinet
Actually Marc, when hooking up a cabinet to the THRU output, the internal loadbox is bypassed. In other words, you can have whatever version of the Captor, you just need to make sure the amp output impedance matches the cabinet impedance. );
ok thats great. is it the same for the Attenuated output? so technically it is possible to record 3 simultaneous tracks in one hit - Miced Cabinet, dry DI and XLR either of 3 options.
yes, 3 at once, and you get to decide if you use a speaker sim or not on the XLR out. Remember that you need phantom power to use the XLR out which is active (Line out is passive).
So if my amp is switchable between 4/8/16ohms does it matter which impedance Captor I get? Is there any difference in sound running a given amp into 8 vs 16 ohms for example?
James Hooker you want the ohms of your amp and speaker to match
kez850 thanks, I get that. I mean if my amp is switchable between 4,8 and 16ohms which impedance can will sound best? Or will they all sound the same? ...assuming amp is switched to the same impedance as the cab
James Hooker they will all sound the same. Your amp manufacturer has just made it more convenient by being able to plug virtually any speaker/cab in and being able to match its ohms
kez850 thanks for clearing that up!!
8 and 16 ohms speaker does not allways sound the same, but I think it is primarily because of the specs of the speakers, not so much the specs of the output transformer,
so it will probably sound the same if you buy an 8 ohm or a 16 ohm Captor.