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- Page 1 Torpedo Reload Guitar Connectivity... Perfected! User’s Manual V 1.03- 06/03/2014...
- Page 3 OROSYS SAS cannot be held responsible for any damage, accidental or otherwise, that results from an inappropriate use of the Torpedo Reload. Please refer to the safety instructions included in this manual. The reproduction of any part of this document is strictly forbidden without the written authorization of OROSYS SAS.
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Page 5: Table Of Contents
Introducing the Torpedo Reload ........13... - Page 6 Torpedo Reload specifications ........45...
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Page 7: Foreword
Please verify that the voltage required by the device matches the voltage of your country. If it is does not or if you are unsure, do not connect the machine to the wall outlet, as this may result in damages Two Notes Audio Engineering Torpedo Reload... -
Page 8: Ground Connection
1.5 Conditions for safe use The Torpedo Reload must never be used near a heat source, near a flame, in the rain, in damp areas, near any liquid of any sort. When transporting the unit, care needs to be taken to avoid any shocks that could cause damage that would require the assistance of a qualified technician. -
Page 9: Contents Of The Package
• IEC : 2008 - CISPR 22 class B. 3 Contents of the package The shipped package contains: 1. One Torpedo Reload unit in a protecting sleeve, 2. One mains power cable, 3. One owner’s manual. The complete electronic version of this manual as well as the Torpedo Remote and BlendIR soft- ware programs are subject to updates. -
Page 10: Warranty
Please contact your authorized TWO NOTES AUDIO ENGINEERING dealer in order to obtain an RMA to return the complete product to the Authorized TWO NOTES AUDIO ENGINEERING Service Center closest to you, with proof of purchase, during the applicable warranty period. -
Page 11: Recommendation On The Proper Use Of A Loadbox With A Tube Amplifier
— otherwise overheating may cause damage, both to the loadbox and to the amplifier. The Torpedo Reload is a loadbox. This term indicates that the Torpedo Reload is a load which can electrically replace the speaker cabinet while dissipating (transforming into heat) the power coming out of the amplifier. -
Page 12: Which Output Volume For My Amplifier
• The Torpedo Reload embeds a fan, as there is quite a lot of power dissipated into heat inside the box. We selected a so called "silent fan", but as it is running fast, it is never entirely silent. This said, you can consider that, in normal use (hearing your guitar through monitors, or headphones), you can barely hear that fan. -
Page 13: About The Torpedo Reload
Recording your guitar or bass amplifier in silence has always been the purpose of the Torpedo products, but with the Torpedo Reload Two Notes has striven to gather together all of the major functions and products you may need in a recording room: •... -
Page 14: Front Panel
About the Torpedo Reload 2 Front panel Figure 3.1: Front panel of the Torpedo Reload ON/OFF switch Loadbox output level Air vent MATCH™ indicators Hi-Z Instrument input Speaker attenuator volume Signal indicators Heat warning REPLAY™ level Contour Load impedance indicators 3 Rear panel Figure 3.2: Rear panel of the Torpedo Reload... -
Page 15: The Torpedo Reload's Advanced Functions
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™. -
Page 16: Match
(i.e. no effect like modulation, compression, hysteresis...). It is particularly well suited for speaker miking simulation. The Torpedo Reload comes with a Torpedo Wall of Sound plugin license. Torpedo Wall of Sound offers a "virtual" alternative to traditional miking to achieve a degree of realism never experienced previously with simulators. -
Page 17: Torpedo Wall Of Sound, Only A Speaker Simulation
(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. -
Page 18: Post Fx Section
• 3rd-party Impulse Response (or IR) compliant, fast switch between the IR’s • Mix Two Notes cabinet files with any other IR files on the market • Try all the cabinets FOR FREE and buy the ones you like in the built-in "Boutique". -
Page 19: Connecting The Torpedo Reload
Part 4 Connecting the Torpedo Reload 1 Overview The Torpedo Reload offers a solution for silent and quality sound pick-up in many situations. The following illustrations show the most common situations the Torpedo Reload has been created for. Guitar/bass Torpedo Reload Rear... -
Page 20: Led Indicators
This first setup is what you will use when you want to connect your instrument to your sound card properly to do some recording and/or to feed an amp-modeler plugin. The Hi-Z (High Impedance) instrument input of the Torpedo Reload will handle your guitar or bass signal so you face no loss of dynamic or frequency: 1. -
Page 21: Power Attenuator And Load Box
Connecting the Torpedo Reload In any setup that involves a microphone preamplifier, it is important to set the correct gain on the preamplifier so the level of the recorded track is high enough. It is commonly recommended to set the gain on the preamplifier so the instrument’s signal will hit -16dB FS to -18dB FS (i.e., dB Full Scale, the value indicated on your sound card and sequencer input meter). -
Page 22: Connection
• Always match the value of the impedance on the Torpedo Reload (either 4, 8 or 16 Ohms) to your amplifier’s speaker-output impedance. • The Torpedo Reload will normally get warm during use, so you must not put it in a closed box or obstruct the air vents. -
Page 23: Contour
With the Torpedo Reload, you can do both of those things: record the dry guitar with the DI, and then use the REPLAY™ to send that guitar track back to an amplifier. We will here present first a silent REPLAY™... -
Page 24: Silent Replay
5.2 The full setup: DI + LOADBOX + miking In the previous setup we decided to achieve a silent REPLAY™, but you can perform some tradi- tional miking at the same time, with a controlled sound level thanks to the Torpedo Reload’s power attenuator. -
Page 25: Match
The different ground lifts we add to the Torpedo Reload will help, but may not be enough. We recommend having the different products (instrument, Torpedo Reload, computer, amplifier) as far as possible from one an-... -
Page 27: Setting Up Torpedo Wall Of Sound
Before installing the Torpedo Wall of Sound software, make sure you have uninstalled any previous version of the software to avoid any possible problems. 1. Download the version of Torpedo Wall of Sound you need from the Two Notes website using the link: http://www.two-notes.com/en/software/torpedo-wall-of-sound-3/#download. -
Page 28: Using Torpedo Wall Of Sound With A Software Or Hardware Amplifier Emulator
The best performance will be achieved with a perfect adaptation (impedance, level...) of your preamp or Torpedo Reload’s output signal to your audio interface. Your guitar or bass preamplifier may not deliver true line-level signals and may use either line, microphone, or "something in-between"... -
Page 29: Software And Cabinets Update
— if you buy new cabinets, for instance. Every time an update is available form the Two Notes website, the plug-in will show a window where you will have the choice to install the new software and cabinets or to do so later. -
Page 31: Using Torpedo Wall Of Sound
1 Torpedo Wall of Sound interface Presets Miking Compressor WoS section Main input gain Low cut Setup parameters Power amp parameters La Boutique (the store) Power amp, speaker and microphone selection Exciter Main output volume Two Notes Audio Engineering Torpedo Reload... -
Page 32: Routing Of Torpedo Wall Of Sound: Stereo And Mono To Stereo Track
With certain software sequencers such as Logic Audio™, you will be able to load the plug-in as a mono to stereo plug-in. That way, the mono input channel is sent to the plug-in’s two channels: Figure 6.2: On a mono to stereo track Two Notes Audio Engineering Torpedo Reload... -
Page 33: Routing Of The Torpedo Wall Of Sound: Mono Track
Those potentiometers control the input gain and the output vol- ume of the plug-in. It is absolutely critical that you avoid any sat- uration of the input or output signals or you may considerably re- duce audio quality. Two Notes Audio Engineering Torpedo Reload... -
Page 34: Presets
• SAVE: Click on the "SAVE" button to save the current preset. • COMPARE: The "COMPARE" button controls an evolved compari- son function developed by Two Notes Audio Engineering. Think about it as a temporary set of parameters, re-initialized after each startup of the unit. -
Page 35: Power Amp
You have 8 tube-stage configurations, 8 microphones and over 50 speaker cabinets available. You can try the Two Notes speaker cabinets available at will on the built-in store (“Bou- tique”), and then buy the ones you prefer. (Get discounted pricing options as you buy more cabinets at a time.) Find more information on http://www.two-notes.com/en/software/torpedo-wall-of-sound-3/. -
Page 36: Miking
"mid-scooped" or a "full" sound. Note that this pa- rameter is always active. The "OFF" position is not a 0 value, but a first shift-phase value between the first and the second virtual microphones. Two Notes Audio Engineering Torpedo Reload... -
Page 37: Exciter
• Freq: Control the center frequency of the exciter. For example, presence for guitar is usually found at 2 or 3 kHz. Air can be added by placing this frequency at 6 or 8 kHz. Two Notes Audio Engineering Torpedo Reload... -
Page 38: Comp
• INFOS: Gives access to "About", "Hotkeys", "User’s manual", "Check for up- dates" and "License info". • La Boutique: Launches the Two Notes online store. Read more about the Boutique in the "Want more cabs?" section. After the first installation of the Torpedo Wall of Sound, the default Presets folder is located in: •... -
Page 39: Wall Of Sound Section
To activate a channel for editing, simply click anywhere on the channel zone (the red zone shown on the figure above for channel 00). You can navigate through the channels by pressing the arrows of your computer’s keyboard. Two Notes Audio Engineering Torpedo Reload... -
Page 40: Want More Cabs
Torpedo Wall of Sound embeds the new Two Notes Boutique. This is an online store that gives you access to all of the Two Notes virtual cabinets, captured with a set of 8 microphones. Make sure you have a working Internet connection and click on La Boutique: On the bottom left you find all of the cabinet collections, which are simple filters: selecting a... -
Page 41: Hotkeys
SHIFT + V Paste to the selected channel SHIFT + change parame- Link, change the counterpart parameter on the second chan- CTRL + change parame- Fine control ALT + click on a parame- Set default value Two Notes Audio Engineering Torpedo Reload... -
Page 43: Specifications
Dynamic microphone Sennheiser™ MD421 Knightfall Condenser microphone Blue™ Dragonfly Condenser 87 Condenser microphone Neumann™ U87 Ribbon160 Ribbon microphone Beyerdynamic™ M160N Ribbon121 Ribbon microphone Royer™ R121 Bass 20 Dynamic microphonee Electrovoice™ RE20 Bass 5 Dynamic microphone Shure™ Beta52 Two Notes Audio Engineering Torpedo Reload... -
Page 44: List Of Wos Speaker Cabinets Provided With The Torpedo Reload
Fridge Ampeg® 8x10" Heaven Bot David Eden® 1x15" Marco Markbass® 2x10" All other Two Notes speaker cabinets are available for testing and purchasing via the Torpedo Wall of Sound plug-in. Please visit for more information. http://www.two-notes.com/en/hardware/torpedo-reload/ Two Notes Audio Engineering... -
Page 45: Torpedo Reload Specifications
Specifications 2 Torpedo Reload specifications 2.1 Internal circuit diagram 2.2 Audio connections You can connect the balanced outputs to a device embedding unbalanced I/Os. In that case, you should use either mono plugs or stereo ones by bridging the Ring and Sleeve. For example, if you wish to use an XLR-to-JACK cable on the Loadbox output, make sure that pin 1 and 3 of your XLR connector are bridged. -
Page 46: Possible Post-Attenuation Speaker Combinations
It is limited by the maximum output power rating of the solid state amplifier embedded in the Torpedo Reload (70 W RMS under 4 Ohms, 50W RMS under 8 Ohms and 25 W RMS under 16 Ohms). -
Page 47: Technical Data
Attenuation (speaker input to balanced loadbox output): 24.5 dB Maximum output level (balanced): 20.5 dBu Noise: under -98 dBu from 20 Hz to 20 kHz Frequency response @ -1dB: 5 Hz to 24 kHz Two Notes Audio Engineering Torpedo Reload... - Page 48 Input voltage: depending on your country of residence, from 100V to 230V, 50 to 60Hz Power: approx. 100 W Max Dimensions Width: 320 mm Depth: 178 mm, 200 mm including connectors and knobs Height: 89 mm Weight: 4.5 kg Two Notes Audio Engineering Torpedo Reload...
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Page 49: Technical Support
Should you encounter a problem with your Torpedo Reload or need help regarding any technical aspects, please note that Two Notes Audio Engineering has developed on-line services to provide you with fast and efficient technical support, the Two Notes Help Desk which you will find at this address: http://support.two-notes.com/... - Page 51 http://www.two-notes.com/...
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