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Please refer to your DAW’s manual to ﬁnd out if this option is provided.

4.7 A note on external eﬀects placement

The location of your eﬀects (pedals or multi-FX) is very important. You can follow the usual rules

concerning the eﬀects layout, with the ones that should be placed before a preamp (OD, fuzz,

compressor…), or in the amp loop (time-based eﬀects like chorus, delay, reverb…).

An interesting option with the Torpedo Studio is the possibility to place some eﬀects AFTER the

loadbox. This is what we call the “studio setup”: in a studio, most of the time, the time-based eﬀects

will be placed in auxiliary, meaning AFTER the miking, or directly in the DAW. This will lead to a

cleaner sound of said eﬀects, that will not be touched by any potential modiﬁcation like when they are

in an FX loop (distortion and compression from the power amp stage for example).

4.8 Dry recording and re-miking

Here is a particular conﬁguration that makes the most of the Torpedo Studio’s great ﬂexibility. When

recording, connecting the unit in this manner will allow you to rework a given recording after it has

been made. The purpose is to work on the miking when you have suﬃcient time to do it perfectly —

while mixing with all the other instruments, for example — and to multiply the tracks with various

miking settings if needed.

The reamping techniques (i.e., recording a guitar or bass through a DI and sending that signal into an

ampliﬁer) are well known. What we are going to talk about here is something we call “re-miking”.

This is done in two steps :

Dry recording the ampliﬁer (i.e., recording the sound of the ampliﬁer at the speaker output with1.

the Torpedo Studio but without a speaker simulation)

Using the Torpedo Studio as an external processing unit inside a digital or analog loop by using2.

the AES/EBU, the S/PDIF or the Line I/Os