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Re: Mini practice tube amps for metal?
I've had a good number of headphone arrangements over the years. They have varied in sound quality and convenience. Most noteworthy:
1.) Line 6 Pocket POD. Overall good sound, flexible, can connect to a PC for editing, can clip to a guitar strap, runs on batteries or a DC input. Volume jumps between presets; helps to run the output through an analog volume control, or to set the volume of each preset pretty low.
2.) Vox ToneLab. It's a desktop modeler that's not software upgradable, but it has a good basic group of models and sounds terrific.
3.) Korg AX10G. It's a little bit cheesy in build quality, and it's limited in what it can do, but it's remarkable how much of the tonal quality of the Vox it has.
4.) Line 6 TonePort Gx. This is the legacy model with the black-and-red color scheme. You can find them used cheap. It has to connect via USB to a computer running Line 6 modeling software. It has a guitar input, a headphone out, and a volume knob. Everything else is on the computer. Extensive library of models. Nice interface. Good sound.
5.) What on Earth? The best guitar sound I've ever gotten with headphones came from the following Rube Goldberg solution:
Fender Performer 650 combo amp.
Speaker out, speaker disabled, into an 8-ohm power load box.
Parallel out to:
Hughes & Kettner Red Box 5 speaker emulator.
Mackie 402VLZ4 mixer
Headphones to taste
I've had a good number of headphone arrangements over the years. They have varied in sound quality and convenience. Most noteworthy:
1.) Line 6 Pocket POD. Overall good sound, flexible, can connect to a PC for editing, can clip to a guitar strap, runs on batteries or a DC input. Volume jumps between presets; helps to run the output through an analog volume control, or to set the volume of each preset pretty low.
2.) Vox ToneLab. It's a desktop modeler that's not software upgradable, but it has a good basic group of models and sounds terrific.
3.) Korg AX10G. It's a little bit cheesy in build quality, and it's limited in what it can do, but it's remarkable how much of the tonal quality of the Vox it has.
4.) Line 6 TonePort Gx. This is the legacy model with the black-and-red color scheme. You can find them used cheap. It has to connect via USB to a computer running Line 6 modeling software. It has a guitar input, a headphone out, and a volume knob. Everything else is on the computer. Extensive library of models. Nice interface. Good sound.
5.) What on Earth? The best guitar sound I've ever gotten with headphones came from the following Rube Goldberg solution:
Fender Performer 650 combo amp.
Speaker out, speaker disabled, into an 8-ohm power load box.
Parallel out to:
Hughes & Kettner Red Box 5 speaker emulator.
Mackie 402VLZ4 mixer
Headphones to taste
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