Two Notes OPUS - A Swiss Army Knife of Guitar Tones
The new Two notes OPUS Â is a full-on amp modelling rig for your recording setup. Watch Pete Thorn put the new OPUS to work in his home studio.
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Guillaume Pille was recording and gigging his way through university in Montpellier, France, and kept running into the same frustration: a great tube amp he couldn't actually crank without upsetting a whole building. He founded Two Notes Audio Engineering in 2008 to solve that problem properly, building load boxes and speaker-cabinet simulation technology that let a player run a real amp at studio-safe volume while still capturing its full tone. The Torpedo range, and the proprietary DynIR impulse-response technology behind it, became the product line most associated with the brand, used almost as much by studios and other amp manufacturers licensing the tech as by individual guitarists. New Torpedo hardware and GENOME software updates are what we cover most. Here's what we've written.
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Based inFrance
FounderGuillaume Pille
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- Load boxes
- Cabinet simulation
- Preamp pedals
- Software
Known for
- Torpedo Captor X
- Torpedo Reload
- ReVolt
- GENOME
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Who founded Two Notes?
Dr. Guillaume Pille, a musician who graduated from Montpellier University in 2005. The company describes the origin plainly: he had a great valve amp, an ENGL, that he could not open up or record properly, recognised that a great many players and engineers had the same problem, and turned down a postgraduate lectureship to solve it.
What is a Torpedo?
Two Notes' product family for taking a real amplifier's output and turning it into a recordable or PA-ready signal — load boxes, attenuators and cabinet simulation, with the Captor X the most widely used. The point is to use your own valve amp at a manageable volume without losing the power stage's contribution.
What is DynIR?
Two Notes' dynamic impulse response system. A conventional IR is a single static snapshot of a cabinet and microphone; DynIR captures a cabinet with multiple microphones and positions that can be changed after the fact, which is why the company treats it as a separate technology rather than an IR library.
What is GENOME?
Two Notes' software platform, available in desktop and iOS versions, that hosts its amp, cabinet and effects processing in one environment. It sits alongside the hardware rather than replacing it — Torpedo devices integrate with it.