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03-31-2014, 03:17 AM
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Wanting to play electric Quietly.
Hello folks.
As you may see I'm mainly an acoustic player. I've got about 20 hours under my belt of actual play time on an electric compared to many years of acoustic playing. I live i a share accomodation and I know when i play music just soloy from my computer speakers there is alot of bass and obviously my other tenants can hear and feel that. I know that if i use an amp it would be 10x worse. I have 2 amps a Line 6 spider and a Marshall practice stack amp both 15watts. I'm clueless at amps so would need more guided advice. I've used headphones before with the line 6 but thought they sounded horrible. is this a common case? Any advice and reccomendations would be appreciated.
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03-31-2014, 03:33 AM
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Does the Line 6 have "speaker emulation" in the headphone output?
Unfortunately, I don't have recent experience with playing through a headphone. Way back, I remember thinking that some sort of room ambience effect might have helped with the horrible sound I was getting. I should really visit a shop with my own headphones, and try some of the available tiny amps. A Vox amPlug would be handy if it sounds OK. The Joe Satriani model apparently has "playable overdrive" and some sort of a Delay effect, which sounds like a good combination to me - in theory.
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03-31-2014, 03:56 AM
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The problem with headphones is that they usually reproduce everything very accurately and directly, unlike a speaker that is in a room.
Have you tried adjusting whatever tone controls or EQ that you have, for the headphones? I think the Line 6 also has some room reverb and chorus effects that might get you some "ambience" that playing through a room would have.
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03-31-2014, 04:54 AM
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If you don't like headphones, maybe a belt clip mounted amp that runs off a 9 volt battery would work for you. My usual late night rig is a Mustang I through headphones.
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03-31-2014, 05:06 AM
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Get a Line6 POD. Their output sounds like an amp through headphones or out the outputs.
Bob
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03-31-2014, 01:14 PM
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Quote:
Find them on Craigslist and Ebay all day long,.. pretty inexpensive.
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03-31-2014, 04:37 PM
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Headphones aren't very satisfying at all. I just turn my little L-padded (to less than 1w) Epi VJ down very low. This is still a compromise, because the speaker has no character at that volume, but not too bad for clean or amplfying stomp boxes.
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03-31-2014, 06:35 PM
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And then there is the Yamaha THR-10
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03-31-2014, 07:40 PM
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Vox Amplug, $40.00:
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