Blog posts

December 12, 2024
Want to leave your amp at home?

Lugging around a heavy amp is not always fun, well, compared to playing it anyway!! In an ideal world, we would not have to lift anything heavy and be 100%...

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Torpedo C.A.B M+ is the perfect pedal-platform

Your pedalboard is a direct reflection of your musical journey over what can be many years. You have carefully (and quite possibly not very quietly) made an awesome collection of...

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Why does my recording sound different at different volumes?

Welcome to every recording engineers worst nightmare, welcome to what was first called the Fletcher-Munson curves, or is scientifically known as the equal loudness contour, these days called the ISO 226:2003 or...

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Sound is coming from inside my Torpedo, is that normal?

When you play your amplifier through a Torpedo product which embeds a reactive loadbox (Torpedo Captor X, Reload, Captor, Live or Studio), you may hear the sound of your instrument coming out of the box of the...

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Do you hear unwanted distortion with a Torpedo

When getting an unwanted distortion from your signal chain, the first thing to do is to figure out where it comes from. This can be tricky because most of the products...

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How to achieve a great clean tone with a Torpedo

Is your Torpedo not giving you the clean sound you want/expect? The clean channel of most amps does generate clipping (overdrive/distortion), even if it’s just a little bit. It’s there even if you don’t...

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What does RE-ACT™ mean in the Torpedo Reload?

Some attenuators are resistive, others are reactive, but most of them are passive. Passive means that the attenuator’s electronics does not require a power supply. Resistive means that the power out of...

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Why is my Torpedo Captor X LED flashing Red?

The Torpedo Captor X is equipped with a red LED to signal the following events or issues with your Torpedo Captor X: Clipping of the input or the output stages of the...

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Do I need to change the tube in LePreamp ?

The first part of this blog post covers when to change the vacuum tube in the Le Preamp Series preamplifiers. The vacuum tube is a sturdy device, but it does wear...

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