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Sonny Jenkins


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Texas Masonic Retirement Center,,,Arlington Tx
Post  Posted 18 Jul 2016 8:01 am    
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Is there a way to use ear phones for privacy practice from a NV 400 (kill the sound from the internal speaker)?
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Jonathan Cullifer

 

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Gallatin, TN
Post  Posted 18 Jul 2016 1:27 pm    
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Presumably, if you could disconnect the speaker safely (I don't know) or plug a dummy jack into the Power Amp In jack, you could run the preamp out into a headphone amp.
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Mike Brown

 

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Meridian, Mississippi USA
Post  Posted 18 Jul 2016 1:46 pm     Nashville 400
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Jonathan's suggestions are correct.
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Sonny Jenkins


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Texas Masonic Retirement Center,,,Arlington Tx
Post  Posted 18 Jul 2016 3:14 pm    
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The dummy jack in pwr amp and headphones in pre amp didn't work. I guess a switch of some kind could be added to interrupt the speaker but then I guess that would be too many watts or ohms or whatever going to the phones????
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Peter Harris

 

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Post  Posted 19 Jul 2016 3:53 am    
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You could always just plug the guitar straight into a headphone amp...... Confused
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Dave Stroud

 

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Post  Posted 19 Jul 2016 4:37 am    
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I use a USB interface for this. Or even an inexpensive tascam recorder would work. You could go preamp out to the recorder or interface or just direct in. If you want to practice with the actual sound of your amp but want to keep it down, you could mic it in a small isolation box using an interface, then plug in headphones to the interface.
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Jack Stoner


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Kansas City, MO
Post  Posted 19 Jul 2016 6:11 am    
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You can get an inexpensive headphone amp, plug it into the preamp out. Plug a guitar cord (one end) into the Power Amp in to cut it off.

Here is a $25 unit on Sweetwater
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Patrick Huey


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Nacogdoches, Texas, USA
Post  Posted 15 Aug 2016 8:40 pm     Re: Ear Phones in NV 400
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Sonny Jenkins wrote:
Is there a way to use ear phones for privacy practice from a NV 400 (kill the sound from the internal speaker)?

I do this. Run my steel to the amp like normal then run a cable from pre amp out jack in the back to a small 4 channel Yamaha mini mixer, plug headphones into the mini mixer. Disconnect the molex connectors to speaker in back, or, what I did was hook up a simple on/off toggle switch to the speaker wires. Works great and sounds like you're playing through a Nash 400 not a Tascam or digitally modeled amp. Mini mixer was about $35
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Sonny Jenkins


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Texas Masonic Retirement Center,,,Arlington Tx
Post  Posted 16 Aug 2016 6:49 am    
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Hey Pat,,thanks for the info,,and the PM. I have a Radio Shack mixer that I can use. Thanks to everyone for the responses!!!
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Steven Paris

 

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Los Angeles
Post  Posted 16 Aug 2016 6:39 pm    
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If your headphones are ≥ 300 Ω, you could substitute an NJM4556AD opamp in place of U4. That opamp will drive the headphones connected to the "PreAmp Out" to a reasonable level. Then, of course, put the "dummy" plug into J6 (Pwr Amp In) to mute the power amp/speaker.
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