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  • July 19, 2018 at 2:22 pm #85399
    cohen.lee
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    I have a small combo amp that sounds great cranked up to 11, but my neighbors aren’t thrilled by my late night jam sessions. The amp has a headphones out jack, so I’m wondering if I can keep the amp cranked and then run Amp Headphones Out > Signal Pad > Headphones to cut the volume which would otherwise blow out the speakers in my cans.

    Thoughts?

    I was going to buy a hotplate, but it’s a combo and the speaker is hardwired. The above solution seems the best way to keep my tone and not piss off the neighbors without having to alter the amp.

    Lee

    July 19, 2018 at 6:36 pm #124114
    gvelasco
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    …I’m wondering if I can keep the amp cranked and then run Amp Headphones Out > Signal Pad > Headphones to cut the volume which would otherwise blow out the speakers in my cans.

    Hm. That’s a bit tricky. At first blush I wouldn’t think that would work. The Signal Pad is designed to work with instrument level signals. The headphone out is actually a powered output, but the power is low (milliwatts) and designed to push higher impedance speakers – the headphones @ 50 – 100 ohms.

    Power soaks that take the speaker level powered output and drop it down to lower power levels or even line levels, have to incorporate heat sinks in addition to resistance to get rid of all that extra power which is converted into heat.

    With the headphone out of your amp, you’re dealing with so little power that the heat probably won’t be a problem, but I don’t know if the resistors would have the right values, and then if it would sound good.

    I think you might be better off using a headphone amp, like the EHX Headphone Amp.

    Headphone OUt -> EHX Headphone Amp -> Headphones

    July 19, 2018 at 6:40 pm #124115
    cohen.lee
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    I actually got a reply from EH on this directly. They said I can do it, but it will be a mono signal to only one side of the headphones. I’ve instead got someone making me a custom volume control that will do stereo.

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