Headphone amplifier (slience practice)

[mrekoj]

Hi everyone,

I wish to practice during late night but i fear that police might knock my door .... therefore i'm considering headphone amps ... anyone pls kindly give me some recommendations?

i search for headphone amps and found some good review of this equipment HA-1A Headphone Practice Amplifier

however i saw this in city music, which seem to be more portable, plug in without cables, is it good?
VOX amPlug - Headphone Guitar Amplifiers

thanks in advance for any advice or recommendation

 

[metalella_eh]

i personally owns a Vox amPlug (metal).. it's great but the small thing does have it's limitations i must say (soundwise). i got it because it's small and portable.. quote from sub 'the closest you can get to an analog sound'. thus i get it for silent practice.

but i have a thing that i felt it's really a pain in the a**.

i use earphones rather than headphone, so the earpiece keeps dropping off my ear cause i only use one side of the earphone.. if you use both side, and you are practicing with a metronome or on a playback, you may not hear the metronome or playback properly, thus defeating the purpose of practice..wonder what would be the effect if you use a headphone and all sounds are muffled off..

really feel like getting the wireless headphone offered by creative.

 

[Everdying]

the Vox AmPlug has a aux-in.
so obviously, if your playback or metronome has a headphone out/line out, you just route that into the Amplug's aux-in.

 

[bedokkids]

Hi everyone,

I wish to practice during late night but i fear that police might knock my door .... therefore i'm considering headphone amps ... anyone pls kindly give me some recommendations?

i search for headphone amps and found some good review of this equipment HA-1A Headphone Practice Amplifier

however i saw this in city music, which seem to be more portable, plug in without cables, is it good?
VOX amPlug - Headphone Guitar Amplifiers

thanks in advance for any advice or recommendation

Hello..mrekoj,

i have a set of the ampplug( metal rulez) . and yup it's the closest thing to analog sound as mentioned by metalla eh.. but wait a min! there's more options out in the market.. see this..

1. IGTR..
not long in the market. i saw it from guitar world mag. did a serach. and sound pretty impressive. of cos it's not analog.

iGTR. Personal guitar processor. Wherever you are.

2. V2 amp

 

[subversion]

Hi everyone,however i saw this in city music, which seem to be more portable, plug in without cables, is it good?
VOX amPlug - Headphone Guitar Amplifiers

thanks in advance for any advice or recommendation

there's an AmPlug (Metal) review in the reviews section, maybe you can infer.

my silent practice set-ups:

1. PocketPOD (recommended)

2. Korg PX4D

 

[bedokkids]

Sub,

Cool man.. but the POD don accept batt powered input right?

 

[subversion]

i don't get you- do you mean to ask if the pocketPOD is battery powered? i've been bringing along my PP everywhere...

 

[bedokkids]

i don't get you- do you mean to ask if the pocketPOD is battery powered? i've been bringing along my PP everywhere...

cool but it's sound very "digital" right? i have spider cab 112. oh man. it's sound nice first time... further on. i find it's a drag

 

[subversion]

through headphones, the sterility of any digital tone is unavoidable. no matter how good your headphones are. however, i have another secret weapon here:

 

[mrekoj]

wooo.. i dont know there's so many choices in the market ...
anyway i just bought a amplug Ac30 yesterday (after reading subversion's review), so far so good but seem to have some buzzing sound ...
maybe it's my earphone.

anyway, thanks for all the suggestion
keep them coming in so everyone will be benefited

 

[subversion]

buzzing: the earphones are too small to accomodate the AmPLUG's output, so naturally, it would distort.

 

[mrekoj]

buzzing: the earphones are too small to accomodate the AmPLUG's output, so naturally, it would distort.

i see... thanks

any possible solution for this ??

 

[subversion]

try bigger headphones, DJ ones.

or refer to post #9...

 

[mrekoj]

try bigger headphones, DJ ones.

or refer to post #9...

k k thanks

 

[billthegeek]

My personal headphone setup:

guitar ---> zoom G2 (with cabinet settings or else there will be excessive high output) ---(using cable adapter)---> headphone

 

[msiyz]

I heard Guitar77 of Peninsula is bringing in the iGTR.. can someone let me know whether its good after trying it out?

 

[guitar141]

Does it fit any kind of headphone? Like the ones i plug into my comp's speaker?