Silent solution for guitar and bass practice?

Silent solution for guitar and bass practice?

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Fastra

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4,277 posts

210 months

Thursday 14th July 2016
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Just joined a band playing bass and I’m looking for a relatively cheap and simple solution to how me and the guitarist can practice at my house in SILENCE.

At the moment I’m using a Boss ME-20B multi effects pedal that lets me run a line-in (from a laptop/tablet), plug the bass in and run out to headphones so I can play along to songs from the laptop.
So it’s something similar to this but with 2 inputs for a guitar and a bass that we can then both listen to via headphones whilst playing along to songs - the band's got a huge mixing desk and I don't want to messing about carting that about if I can help it.

I suppose it’s some sort of mixer that I can plug in a headphone splitter but also handle a line-in for music.

I’m quite new to this lark…!

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chemistry

2,162 posts

110 months

dojo

741 posts

136 months

Friday 15th July 2016
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Almost any small desk would do... You would just need to buy/build a cable that took the 2x mono out and combined them into a female headphone Jack.

Alto and Mackie have desks for about £40... Then the convertor lead shouldn't cost more than £5

Fastra

Original Poster:

4,277 posts

210 months

Friday 15th July 2016
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Cheers guys, appreciate the replies.

That jam hub is ideal except for price.
I'll look into that desk though.

Fastra

Original Poster:

4,277 posts

210 months

Friday 15th July 2016
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http://www.gear4music.com/PA-DJ-and-Lighting/Alto-...

I'll ring them about this, I suppose for the laptop input I just need to get a male min Jack to male 7mm.

dojo

741 posts

136 months

Tuesday 19th July 2016
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I'd input the laptoo via the RCA's