Chords for Frank Marino demos the "Torpedo VB-101 Emulator"

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_ _ Hi, I'm Frank Marino from Mahogany Rush and I'd like to show you really something I think is a pretty cool piece of gear.
Some of you know that I build gear.
I do a lot with amplifiers and pedals and do my own stuff.
I'm [A#] pretty old school when it [A] comes to something sounding pure.
_ So for me to talk about a piece of gear, it's got to be pretty good.
_ What it is, it's a speaker emulator system.
I know there's a few of them on the market and I've tried quite a few actually.
It's not [G] every one that's ever come out.
This one really impressed me.
It's called a Torpedo.
I think it's made by Two Note.
[G#] It's a rack mounted device.
It's got a load resistor in it.
I think you can even get it [F#] without one. _ _
Basically it replaces the _ speaker and the microphone system.
So if you're recording _ like I am at home sometimes and you don't want to turn the Marshall loud,
you still want to get the effect of it and not lose something in the fact that it's an emulator. _ _
This thing does it pretty good.
So just to tell you, I'm going to shut this for a minute.
_ The experiment I'm going to show you that I set up here is done with_
_ I'm going to play through my Marshall, my 412 Marshall and show you what that sounds like.
Then I'm going to switch back and forth on the mixer over here and _ show you [G#] the difference.
I think you can hardly hear the difference to tell you the truth.
I'll play a little bit with it for some power chords and then I'll make it play from a track that I've got.
So the first thing we're doing is we've got a standard Marshall. _
[A] It's my trusty Superlead [G#] 100 that I've done a lot of records with.
Nothing fancy.
You can see that the controls aren't even dimed.
They're sort of at 7.
[G] Everything's kind of just over the middle. _
The speaker is a [G] standard 412 Marshall cabinet.
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I like to use a Sennheiser 935 vocal mic that I use not too far away from the cabinet. _
_ _ I'm going to play just some _
[D] chords here first of all.
This is just through the Marshall system. _
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_ _ _ _ [N] I'm going to move it for some leads.
I haven't got it on a _ [A#] Superlead sound.
I'm not using a lot of distortion right [A] now.
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[Em] _ [Am] So that's [B] a typical Marshall cabinet. _
[A] It's just vanilla.
[Bm] I'm going to switch over _ to the [C] Torpedo and play the same [Em] kind of stuff.
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Switch back again.
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One more time back to the Torpedo.
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_ _ _ _ [A] Now for this next thing, I'm going to put my guitar down and I'm going to switch over _ [A#m] to what I have on tape.
_ What I have is a blues that's from the DVD that we cut in Cleveland that's going to be out at some point.
_ What I'm going to do is I'm going to play the track and I'm going to switch back and forth _ beginning with the Marshall.
If you look at the screen, if you can see the screen, you'll notice that my mouse is going to go back and forth and solo one track or the other.
It's going to solo one track or the other like this.
It'll be really hard for you to hear the difference [A] between the amps.
I'll let it start with the Marshall and then I'll start switching back and forth.
Let me just do this here. _ _ _ _ _
Let me just say, [E] the way this is working is when I recorded the track, I made sure to record a direct feed guitar and so I'm re-amping that guitar.
I'm sure a lot of you do that, re-amp the guitar and bring it on back and put it through an amplifier.
[G#] I'll just start that again.
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_ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ As you can see, there's just virtually no difference.
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The cool thing about this thing is not only is that you could set it up to sound like the cabinet you're using.
Mind you, I didn't take the exact cabinets.
It's not like I took in the unit Marshall cabinet.
_ I worked with the cabinets they had and the mics they have inside and I just work with it.
_ You can really make it sound like your cabinet.
As you can see, you can just interchange these almost exactly.
If you're looking for a speaker emulation system that also does, you can even enhance it because it has a lot of post-production.
It has [E] a limiter, it has all kinds of post-production stuff that you can use that even make it sound better. _
It's something you might want to check out.
It's called a Torpedo. _ _
I'm using one for sure.
See you later. _ _ _ _
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