Using decent headphones for guitar practice?
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I have recently started playing my guitars again, using a Roland Micro Cube amp.
Because I don't want to disturb the neighbours, I have connected my Sennheiser Momentum headphones, but I have noticed quite a loud static noise coming through them when I play very high gain (but low overall master volume). This does not happen on the same settings when I tested the sound actually coming out of the amp's speaker. It is fine on clean tones and lighter gain overdrive both through the headphones and amp speaker.
Is this likely to damage the headphones? If so, I'll just pick up a cheap pair to use for this purpose.
Because I don't want to disturb the neighbours, I have connected my Sennheiser Momentum headphones, but I have noticed quite a loud static noise coming through them when I play very high gain (but low overall master volume). This does not happen on the same settings when I tested the sound actually coming out of the amp's speaker. It is fine on clean tones and lighter gain overdrive both through the headphones and amp speaker.
Is this likely to damage the headphones? If so, I'll just pick up a cheap pair to use for this purpose.
Ive stated using headphones, rather good as through my crappy KUSTOM 10 watt solid state, the sound is really compressed and tinny, really helps focus your technique through high gain, despite sounding pretty crap...
Perhaps try different head phones, it might just be the headphone output on the amp, the blackstars are meant to have a really good headphone out put if you felt like a change!
Perhaps try different head phones, it might just be the headphone output on the amp, the blackstars are meant to have a really good headphone out put if you felt like a change!
Fantuzzi said:
Ive stated using headphones, rather good as through my crappy KUSTOM 10 watt solid state, the sound is really compressed and tinny, really helps focus your technique through high gain, despite sounding pretty crap...
Perhaps try different head phones, it might just be the headphone output on the amp, the blackstars are meant to have a really good headphone out put if you felt like a change!
Thanks. I have only just bought the Roland, and I really don't have the room for a proper amp! Love the look of some of the Blackstar stuff , though.Perhaps try different head phones, it might just be the headphone output on the amp, the blackstars are meant to have a really good headphone out put if you felt like a change!
I now think it also has something to do with the guitar. The one I was using has got the EMG 81/85 active pickups, but when I swapped to my SG Standard the static type noise was not nearly as loud on the highest gain setting.
Probably a combination of using full gain on those pick-ups. Just strange it is not noticeable when playing through the amp speaker.
kingston12 said:
Fantuzzi said:
Ive stated using headphones, rather good as through my crappy KUSTOM 10 watt solid state, the sound is really compressed and tinny, really helps focus your technique through high gain, despite sounding pretty crap...
Perhaps try different head phones, it might just be the headphone output on the amp, the blackstars are meant to have a really good headphone out put if you felt like a change!
Thanks. I have only just bought the Roland, and I really don't have the room for a proper amp! Love the look of some of the Blackstar stuff , though.Perhaps try different head phones, it might just be the headphone output on the amp, the blackstars are meant to have a really good headphone out put if you felt like a change!
I now think it also has something to do with the guitar. The one I was using has got the EMG 81/85 active pickups, but when I swapped to my SG Standard the static type noise was not nearly as loud on the highest gain setting.
Probably a combination of using full gain on those pick-ups. Just strange it is not noticeable when playing through the amp speaker.
The blackstar range goes from 1watt! Im planning on getting one of the 1 watt ht1 combos, I used to have a ht5 mini stack but even that was too loud/ big for my tiny house!
The sound difference between the speaker and output is quite dramatic in my amp, the sound is far more compressed, so its great for thinking your a pro with 8 finger tapping, but in my crappy amp the treble is far higher than with the speaker, to the point where my rather metallic sounding Boss metal zone isn't really worth putting through the output as it sounds too crap!
Its been quite good with speakers, really can focus your practising more so than with speakers - plus you look like Paul Gilbert which is a bonus.
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