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I am a beginner struggling my way through some online guitar lessons. how ever it would be very helpful if I could use headphones as this would extend my practice time.
what I need is to connect my amp and my computer into the same set of headphones so I can hear both at the same time.
my amp is a vox mv50 that only has one input for the guitar and my laptop one has one headphone socket that can be used as a mike input or headphone output.
what do I need to set this up
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Either just a mixer itself that you'd connect both the computer and guitar amp output to or you could get an audio interface for the computer that connects via usb and would allow the guitar amp output to be connected too. The latter has the advantage of being able to record your playing to listen back, even in the future if you don't want to yet.
Thanks for the quick reply. I guess I am looking for a low cost option if possible
You should find straight away that the audio from the laptop will go through it by default and when you plug the guitar amp output in to it, that will come through at the same time.
Then you can even start recording the guitar part (while listening to the backing track if you like, that won't be recorded along with the guitar part unless you want it to).
If you have any problems after reading the manual etc., post back.
I'm talking basics here, I've never looked at these but it sounds useful! Do you take a cable from the back of the amp (I have a combo) to the mixer then you can hear the laptop and the amp in the headphones at the same time? Is there a latency issue at all with any of it?
So any signs you play on the laptop, music, YouTube etc., goes through the interface and to the speakers connected to it or headphones.
You can plug in the amp's line out straight in to the interface and that will also come out the same speakers/headphones at the same time. No latency at all.
You then also have the option of recording the guitar input if you get the appropriate software. If you record the guitar while listening to a backing track you can record just the guitar (and play it back without the backing track).
Unless your using a valve amp plus Oxbox or Boss tube expander for thousands of pounds why not go with a nice desktop solution like Yamaha or line6 above.
Ive been super complicated in the past trying to get my amp running silent through headphones (before oxbox type devices) eg amp > hot plate attenuator line out > H&k redbox for cab sim > interface > headphones. It sounded significantly worse than helix stomp > headphones!
I've personally never had any success just joining cables together like that without a mixer.
i have a katana 50
so I go computer ear out to aux in on amp , then amp out to headphones . Or amp out to studio monitors and plug phones into monitors as it saves me furtling around under the desk
If not, have you successfully done this?
I ask because I remember trying a few times over the years to connect two signals simply by joining the wires and don't think it's ever worked.