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Topic: Need gadget for earphone practice |
Steve Benzian
From:
Burlingame, CA USA
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Posted 22 Sep 2002 1:01 pm |
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What could I use to go from guitar pickup to earphones. I saw something about Pocket Rocket a couple years ago. Something battery operated would be best. I want to use it with the practice board I got from Mike Cass which has a built in pickup.
Would the Korg Pandora work? |
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Steve Benzian
From:
Burlingame, CA USA
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Posted 22 Sep 2002 1:16 pm
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| Headphone amp appears to be what I need....any to be recommended? |
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Chuck McGill
From:
An hour from Memphis and 2 from Nashville, R.I.P.
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Posted 22 Sep 2002 1:59 pm
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Why not just get an In ear monitor and use it
live also? I have great sucess with the Sennheiser IEM set up. They cost more than just a headphone amp but are much more versital. For Headphone practice any Boss multipedal(GT6)is great for both applications
plus you get a nice selection of Effects. Hope this is some help. |
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jim milewski
From:
stowe, vermont
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Posted 22 Sep 2002 6:27 pm
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| I have one of the first generation pandora's I like it, the newer ones have some nice features, but haven't heard one, probably real nice, be surprised if they weren't |
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David Weaver
From:
Aurora, CO USA
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Posted 22 Sep 2002 7:58 pm
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I have a Pandora PX 3 and I like it a lot. I use it almost every day for practicing at home. Guitar to vol pedal to Pandora to earphones. I also use a little CD player which the Pandora will accept with an input port. A cheap CD player will do...just use the earphones out to the Pandora input.
It has a built in metronome and an almost unusable tuner. You can adjust the "effects" so that you get a nice sound and you can program a selection of your own presets. I've used it for a couple of years - trouble free. |
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Bobby Lee
From:
Cloverdale, California, USA
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Posted 22 Sep 2002 8:43 pm
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The Korg Pandora is sort of expensive, but it has a lot of bells and whistles. I have one, and I use it whenever I don't want to disturb the natives.
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Steve Stallings
From:
Houston/Cypress, Texas
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Posted 23 Sep 2002 6:44 am
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| I'm using a Johnson J Station with good results. It is very inexpensive at $149 and is a lot of fun to mess with. |
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Ken Fox
From:
Nashville GA USA
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Posted 23 Sep 2002 6:57 am
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| If you want the "cat's meow", try a Transtubefex with Newman settings. It has the stereo effects, stereo output and CD input. Not cheap, but awesome. You can even use it as your main preamp and that way you are practicing with what you are really going to be using in a live situation! |
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Bob Kagy
From:
Lafayette, CO USA
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Posted 23 Sep 2002 9:45 am
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Steve,
I'd stay away from the Pocket Rocket. My experience was that I couldn't get a sound from it that I could tolerate for over 2 minutes.
It was an obstacle to practicing 
I'm currently using the earphone output from a small Peavey practice amp, which works very well. |
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Steve Stallings
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Houston/Cypress, Texas
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Posted 23 Sep 2002 12:28 pm
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| BTW... The J station does not have a line in for cd. |
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jim milewski
From:
stowe, vermont
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Posted 23 Sep 2002 1:13 pm
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| Ken, have you tried the ST (stereo effect) in the chain with headphones, a beautiful effect, at addresses U43 and U44 called STEREO 1 and STEREO 2, |
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erik
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Posted 23 Sep 2002 4:12 pm
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| I can recommend the Boss TM-7 Guitar Monitor. It won't sound great but it has many great practice features like, a center canceler, stereo RCA line ins, stereo phono jacks outputs, stereo phono jacks returns, mini headphone jack, phono jack istrument input, volume blending of instrument with inputs, runs on batteries or adapter. I'm using more often now for listening to music online. They are no longer made but show up on eBay from time to time. Don't pay more than $50 tops. |
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Ken Fox
From:
Nashville GA USA
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Posted 23 Sep 2002 6:21 pm
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| Jim, I'll give that a try! I have another one coming this week that I will be putting up for sale! I have a Tubefex, version 2.0 with the PFC-10 controller. I wish it had the headphone jack! I had a Transtubefex in a few weeks ago and was pretty amazed at the headphone output and cabinet simulator, it was like being in a studio! |
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Steve Benzian
From:
Burlingame, CA USA
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Posted 24 Sep 2002 12:39 pm
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| Anyone tried the headphone amp that Bobbe Seymour has for sale for $35? |
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