Using a headphone amp at practice

Rog · Post by **Rog** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 6:57 am

I've misplaced my little headphone practice amp, so I bought an old WRC Fender Stereo Pak on the weekend.

My question is: could one use summat like this for a feed to the PA at practice (rough & ready) to save carting a guitar amp around? Its not like a POD, but I thought it could act as a preamp in a similar manner.

Note, my band practices tend to be infrequent and I've always taken full gear and ended up playing too loudly, so I thought this might help in that department. It hasn't arrived yet, hence my question (otherwise I'd have set up my PA and tried it out).

ash · Post by **ash** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 7:17 am

I say yes.

You'd need to try it to determine if the levels and tone were acceptable though.

Rog · Post by **Rog** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 7:23 am

Thanks, mate. Tone is not a problem as it's just for practice and I don't worry about tone for that, as long as its not all treble. I though the level required to drive headphones would be more than enough to drive a PA input?

ash · Post by **ash** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 3:05 pm

Rog wrote: I though the level required to drive headphones would be more than enough to drive a PA input?

Yeah, it would be. Plug into the lower impedance input if you have the choice. I use the headphone out on my Zoom amp modeller becasue the line out is too wimpy.

Gelato · Post by **Gelato** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 3:09 pm

ash wrote:Yeah, it would be. Plug into the lower impedance input if you have the choice. I use the headphone out on my Zoom amp modeller becasue the line out is too wimpy.

My Zoom has amp simulation in the headphone jack, but not in the line out. The line out sounds horrible

ash · Post by **ash** » Wed Jan 24, 2007 4:40 pm

My Zoom has amp simulation in the headphone jack, but not in the line out. The line out sounds horrible

Hmmm, interesting. The line-out sounded arse into the computer. Headphone jack sounds great....

What Zoom is yours? Mine is a GM200.

Gelato · Post by **Gelato** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 7:56 am

ash wrote:
My Zoom has amp simulation in the headphone jack, but not in the line out. The line out sounds horrible
Hmmm, interesting. The line-out sounded arse into the computer. Headphone jack sounds great....

What Zoom is yours? Mine is a GM200.

It's a 9150 (which I got new in 1995

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bc_rich_ · Post by **bc_rich_** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 8:18 am

just anuther... sortof related post... could u use a pod or some similar digital thing thru a home sterio system?

ash · Post by **ash** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 12:44 pm

Yes, but not too loud. You want to make sure the only distortion is coming from the POD and not the stereo or its speakers.

darkness · Post by **darkness** » Thu Jan 25, 2007 2:03 pm

exactly. I've run the pod into my pc and hi fi speakers. You've got to watch the output levels of the pod depending what speakers you are using.