sysexguy":30pzqbcy said:You have it right, a swiss army knife for guys with amps, the Reload does a bunch of things. At NAMM, we're showing the attenuator aspect because that's the easiest to illustrate on the show floor but the box does so much more.....especially beneficial is the matching of a dry track from your DAW to the input of a tube amp....lots of companies claim to do this and Guillaume has done it right....any studio that does any guitar work will love this box and get one or more.
More to follow,
Andy
Rogue":18f8bip0 said:Whenever you get the chance, what method of reducing the speaker signal level to a line level are you using? Is it OPamp or transformer, or just resistive? Is it optimized to work with the Two Notes plugin anyway? And of course, the big question...how much?
Rogue":12vqf6b2 said:What exactly is this reamplifier brought up by tokyo tapes? I don't know how the UA works, so this is new to me.
Also about the line out for the amp signal to DAW, I've been having problems getting a good signal to the DAW. Either by Countryman DI and Alex Attenuator line out, the signal is just kind of thin. So I'm real curious about this output of the reload. Is it thinned out like other methods I've tried, or is it specially optimized for sending the "right" signal to the DAW?
And of course, it would be replacing my Alex, so the level of transparency under heavy attenuation is important to. So it goes from -6db to full load?
Looking forward to seeing more about it in the coming months. I'm hoping it is the "solution" I've been looking for.
How did I miss this?romain_gril":3pr9wwin said:Hi Rogue,
The Reload's reactive-active attenuator offers very low output impedance, so as to drive the speaker as truthfully as can be. The sound that it gets via the loadbox is the exact amplifier's tone without any alterations. On standard attenuators the tone is crushed both by the modifications of the impedance seen by the amp, and by the fact that the speaker is driven by some wrong impedance. With the Reload, the impedance is constant and identical to a speaker's.
The embedded amp, therefore, is optimized to bring the tone over without altering it, and the Line Out is of course perfect.
We have never had "thin" signal with either VB-101 or Torpedo Live, and basically this product is on a par with those.
You will get from -6dB to full load, yes.
So, it has it's own power amp in it that sends that signal to the cabinet? I guess that is a clean power amp? What is the wattage?
And if one decided to go with FRFR monitors, could you load your amp with the reload, send that signal to the TwoNotes CAB, then back to the reload for amplification of the cab sim?
Right, but I was just trying to clarify that there is a power amp in the reload that sends the signal to the cab? I've just never heard it being done this way until now. I didn't know the UA did it that way either.guillaume_pille":n3phbzrq said:Right now it is a 6dB attenuation (25W if you put a 100W signal), but this may change in the final design.
So, the answer is no? I was just wondering if there was a way to use the Reload and CAB for FRFR purpose with using the Reload as the power.guillaume_pille":n3phbzrq said:My head hurts.
The amplification on the Reload is driven by the signal you have at the speaker input, ie the one coming from the speaker output of your guitar amp.
The basic use of the reload is to be plugged to a guitar/bass cabinet, not to an FRFR monitor. NEVER plug the line out of any product to the speaker in of the Reload, you will fry your line out (because of the low impedance of the loadbox).
Right, but I was just trying to clarify that there is a power amp in the reload that sends the signal to the cab?
So, the answer is no? I was just wondering if there was a way to use the Reload and CAB for FRFR purpose with using the Reload as the power.
Would a Reload (or any other TN product for that) be able to take the load from an Ampeg SVT2 Pro bass amp? It's 300w RMS in 4 or 2 ohms. It'd be so sweet to be able to record at home with headphones!