![]() ![]() For me and I think many others, it is either not enough, or too much volume cut and the change of tone is just BAD. The load box side of the thing is just useless. Speaking of headphone sound, it is as good as everyone says it is, top-notch. The price tag is a bit hard to swallow for something that most people will use as a headphone device, and something to play with IR's through. The W.O.S is just something extra you can do if you do your own recording. If you buy the Captor X, it's because you NEED a load box so you can go cabless at your gigs. The " value-added " things like getting the Wall Of Sound with the captor X are kind of not real selling points. You can also buy a Line 6 HX Stomp for that money. You can buy a reasonable quality guitar amplifier for that much. All said and done, after taxes, this thing is $600 new. The two big downsides to the Captor X are the price, and the less than stellar load box. The Captor X is good enough to pull that off! My secondary goal was to be able to use it as a recording solution for my tube amps and to test my own amplifier designs through several guitar cabs to assess how it sounds. Ultimately my goal was to create a rig that needed no speaker cab, had enough effects in it to not need fancy ones in an effects loop, and possibly even be used as an IR loader with a small SS mini amp to have an entirely pedal platform setup. BUT and it's a BIG ONE, the Strymon still had its sound, that is just not right. Put it this way, I ran the Strymon Iridium ( with the Cab Sim IR's turned off ) into the Captor X, and the IR's in the Captor just sounded better, I also had effects, EQ, and other things I could play with. It was never right and based on how there is little or no talk, updates, or real buzz about it anymore, I see no reason to stay on board. Sorry Strymon, I am now selling my Iridium. It is leaps and bounds better than whatever Strymon was trying to pull off with their Iridium. ![]() The only true reason to buy this thing is for the purpose of using it as a direct feed to FOH for live sound, or as a silent recording solution. If they added some tone control features for it, there may be something there, but as it is, you can only rely on it to cut the volume of your amp so you can use it as in-room monitoring or to take the volume down a bit. I would say that the " reactive " circuitry of the box is essentially worthless. While I didn't mess with it much in the middle ( -20db ) setting, it too changes the sound enough to be noticeable. The Captor does not sound very good in its low setting through your actual guitar cab. The reactive load part of the load box side of things is pretty much useless for trying to crank your amp and enjoy the sound from it. The middle position is just about right to knock off enough level to open the amp up and get it working at a reasonable level, the low ( -38db ) position is pretty much off. I see what people mean when they say the 3 position speaker level control is an on-off switch. It was very hard to find a bad sound from the thing. The app is slightly clunky sometimes if you try and ask it to do things too fast, but fast enough and intuitive. Downloaded the app and again within 1 minute I was moving mics, changing cabs, and adjusting reverbs, twin-tracker, and enhancer settings. I played for nearly 30 min before it even dawned on me that I can use my phone to tweak things. I am most impressed with the fact that I didn't feel a need to tweak an EQ setting or parameter for the IR's, they all just sounded like a cab that was mic'd. ![]() I ran through the presets and they all sounded good although some were heavy on the reverb. F-N perfect!!!! Holy hell, it was such a relief to hear something that actually sounded good without fiddling a single knob. And the first sound I get from the thing. Within 1 minute, without even reading the quick guide, I was up and running with it. Right off the bat, it is really easy to understand and operate. The knobs feel a little cheap, but you really shouldn't need to mess with them much after you get your sounds dialed in there is also an app for that. The thing is pretty solid and built reasonably well. I should be able to get my $600 out of it I hope. After receiving it and the seriousness of the process to utilize the software and features, I am a little at ease knowing it is only a year old, so I am a semi-early adaptor, and that the software will still be around for at least a while. My biggest fears of it are the likely short period of time before the thing becomes unsupported, or it simply gives up the ghost before I get any real use or ROI from it. So I have been mulling around picking up a Two Notes Captor X for a while. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |