Headphone Amp for Pedalboard?
 

I want something to sound reasonably like an amp/cab combo through headphones so that I can practice silently with the rig I use on stage. I am currently using a Vox Amplug but it is noisy and not really making the most of quite a nice rig (currently Wampler Tumnus>King of Tone>Analogman Mini Chorus)

I don't really want to buy an amp just to use the headphone out. A pedal sized thing would be perfect, especially if I can input some backing tracks from an iPad to play along with.

Cheers

...and it's cheap!
 

This tool will do any and everything (...including headphone amplification).



Oh yeah, it eats batteries so you'll need the mains adaptor.

it was either musician's friend or guitar center who had a headphone amp as their daily deal. you may want to check them out as well as your local CL.

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I have a little Behringer unit that I use it was like $30 or so. AC adapter included. Has XLR in/thru, mic level and 1/4" in and control. Will accept 1/4 and/or 1/8" and works in stereo or mono.
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I’d check out the quilter micro block - has headphones/aux and is pedal sized. It can drive a speaker caninet if needed. Sounds great.

There's many preamps that will do that. My latest bookmarks are the Laney Ironheart IRT Pulse and Two Notes' Le Clean and Le Crunch pedals with tubes.

Maybe a cheap Behringer 6:2 mixer? You would get a powerful headphone amp and the ability to mix a stereo aux input with your guitar sounds.

The Zoom G1on multi-effects pedal has a great headphone amp built in, plus you get drums and even a 30 second looper for around $60.

Thanks for all your replies. I'd like to keep it analogue if I can. The Laney unit looks interesting and the Le Clean unit looks awesome, but maybe a sledgehammer to crack a nut.

I have a little mixer that I'll try, but the cab emulator and tube preamp are mighty tempting

Some years ago, I traveled overseas for work. Like you, I needed something I could practice with silently.

I took a Boss ME-25 guitar effects board. It has a headphone jack and ran off battery or 9v DC. Gave me all kinds of modeling and effects. I really enjoyed it.

You can use this, or another model or something from another manufacturer. There’s lots to choose from.

Well, this morning, my 7-year-old and I jammed together silently through my Roland AC33. I plugged my pedal board out into the guitar channel and Ben put his TD4K drum kit through the mic channel. We split the headphone out with one of those cheap 1-2 splitters and had volume to spare in the cans. Guitar sounded surprisingly good, even without a cab sim.

The only thing I noticed was that when he dug in, the guitar volume attenuated. Not sure why, maybe the mixer would be a good way to go for a more permanent set up.

The Yamaha AG03 is available for a good price locally - it would give us the ability to record our session too.

This was the first time Ben had played amped up with another instrument. He had that big beaming smile that I remember having on my first experience making electric musical noise. I guess he's hooked now ;-)