Guitar practise Headphone advice

Icarusfire

Icarusfire

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Hi,

I practise electric guitar at home with my headphones and using Boss micro BR 80 amp modeling device and its effects.

It works ok but when I when I use a looper/delay to harmonize my solos or record a short riff and want to play solo over it, it just sounds like a big horrible "Sh*t". When I play clean while overdubbing I can live with it, but when 2 distortion guitars played one over another I lose the actual notes, that just sounds trash. I think signals are clipped

I am guessing this is because of my cheap headphones(30$ Sennheiser) But I am not sure I can fix this problem buy simply going to shop and buy randomly an expensive headphone. Any recomendations brand/model wise or specification wise?

I am not after a "good" sound from headphones for one guitar, problem is only when overdubbing 2 distortion guitars the sound get mushed/mud..and all i hear is a mixed trash which has even no musicality at all.


Thanks
 
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Re: Guitar practise Headphone advice

I think part of the problem is that you're used to listening to recordings of bigger amps pushing air and being driven. When you take that out of the equation and just go pretty much direct to your headphones you're in for a big letdown if you want a full, rich, distorted tone. Maybe some modeling software like Guitar Rig or Amplitube and a computer interface would be the way to go instead. You'll definitely get better guitar tones out of it and put through the phones they may sound far better to you. I'm sure others will chime in but this is just my two cents. Good luck!
 
Re: Guitar practise Headphone advice

Jay 77 said:
I think part of the problem is that you're used to listening to recordings of bigger amps pushing air and being driven. When you take that out of the equation and just go pretty much direct to your headphones you're in for a big letdown if you want a full, rich, distorted tone. Maybe some modeling software like Guitar Rig or Amplitube and a computer interface would be the way to go instead. You'll definitely get better guitar tones out of it and put through the phones they may sound far better to you. I'm sure others will chime in but this is just my two cents. Good luck!
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thank you. I am not after a "good" sound from headphones, only when overdubbing 2 distortion guitars the sounds get mushed/mud..and all i hear is a mixed trash which has even no musicality at all
 
Re: Guitar practise Headphone advice

its probably the distortion. is it the amps distortion? i would doubt its the headphones. even cheap headphones tend not to be all that bad, and sennheisers are pretty good, imo.

maybe try using less effects on the amp (or completely clean tone) and get an outboard effects unit, or distortion pedal.

does the amp sound good when you have all the effects on and use a looper, but with the amps speaker?
 
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