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Topic: headphone practice amp |
Rollin Schmidt
From:
Kansas, USA
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Posted 16 Mar 2012 3:59 pm |
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| Anyone using any of the headphone practice amps? Which is best for quality, sound etc.? |
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Niels Andrews
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Salinas, California, USA
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Posted 16 Mar 2012 5:02 pm
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| Garage Band with a good quality headset. Works great for Skype also. I have a girlfriend that likes to sleep and neighbors, so it works great for me. |
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John Roche
From:
England
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Posted 17 Mar 2012 3:02 am
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Podxt works very well, very clean and all the fxs you will ever need, I USB mine to my laptop and any music I play will come through the headphones as well as the steel, fxs don't effect the music only the steel
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John Gilman
From:
Jericho, VT USA
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Posted 17 Mar 2012 11:52 am
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Behringer Xenyx 802 $49 @ Musicians Friend. Inputs for your playback and seems quite friendly to the output of pedal chain. Haven't tried it with a raw pickup input. I suspect it would be a tone suck that way.
Of course YMMV as always |
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Bob Kagy
From:
Lafayette, CO USA
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Posted 21 Mar 2012 1:49 pm
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I just had an experience that might be useful.
I bought a Rockman Guitar Ace as a headphone amp. Nicely packaged, but it sounded awful with a tinny brittle distorted sound; could've been a bad one but I doubt it. Sent it back and checked the web for alternatives.
Found a small Peavey practice amp with a headphone jack, the Peavey Solo. Just 14.5 lbs. with an 8" speaker. Has passive bass, middle and treble, an overdrive circuit with separate volume and a CD/tape input jack and the headphone jack. Has the Peavey transtube circuits. Just received it and it checks out very well, I'm pleasantly surprised. No reverb but it has a nice fat tone with the bass up, middle down, and treble at about mid. The distortion circuit gives a fatter, very pleasant sound. I'm impressed with the little booger; it's a keeper and I have a Boss RV5 digital reverb that adds the missing link. Wouldn't be good for a small gig BTW, but great for practice and the portability factor
Value? Same price as the Rockman, just $80 with free shipping from Musicians Friend.
All this just my opinion. FWIW I play a GFI Ultra D10 (the C6th neck sounds good too on the PV Solo), HiltonVP, GeoL cables/plugs, BJS bar, Jagwire strings. Have NV112, Webb 614-E. |
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