Man this product has been reviewed by so many people… but I think my angle is a little but different.

There something that it is very important to understand… you still need volume!

So… This is my second time of buying a captor X.

My first time was for home use and I didn’t really enjoy it much, I have rehearsal place at home so I can have loud amps… no real need for IRs or any of that. O prefer the sound of a cab speaker.

Now I bought it out of necessity…. I’m playing live more than before and one thing I found annoying is the lack of care and quality components from Sound Engineers, the captor x makes me the sound engineer’s best friend… I just hand him over an XLR and I have the sound I configured.

I don’t think that we spend enough time listening to the sound our crowd hears… I play in small venues (200/300 ppl) and usually what you do is just check your stage sound.. and then leave the rest to the Engineer, I believe this to be totally opposite to what we should do.

  1. The sound people hear is very different to what you get on stage.
  2. You have put a lot of effort into your band, hours and hours of rehearsals, thousands of dollars on equipment, and you leave the sonic experience to person you don’t know?

The captor X solves all of the above, I don’t even use the attenuation functionality… to be fair it’s pretty bad built as the steps are far too aggressive, 20db reduction is insane! To put it in perspective… a club band plays at 95/100db… so your amp needs to put out 120db! Which is an insane volume and will cause strain on your amp for sure.

I have the blessing of being the Angus in an AC/DC tribute band so I walk around the venue during sound check and I can assure you that the captor is your best friend, and… if you don’t know… the impedance of the captor does not matter if you don’t attenuate…. the attenuation circuit is bypassed when you flick the switch to “full”.