As a teenager, I plugged my Silvertone solid body into the tone arm of a record player by rapping small gauge wire around the 1/4 inch jack of my guitar cable and running the wires to the pins of the phono cartridge. It worked even though the the record player's circuitry was never designed for the output of an electric guitar and the manufacturer would have advised against it.
Plugging in a preamplfied signal into a high gain circuit increases the liklihood of clipping, introduces more noise and may adversely affect tone. Still, some pickup systems may happen to sound good through a particular mic input anyway.
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