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Post subject: Vibro Champ/ Super Champ external speaker jack question
Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 9:00 am
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Hey all:

I'm looking for a nice little tube amp as a graduation gift for my son, who built an electric guitar as a Senior Culminating Project (totally designed, spec'd, and built by him with my help!) The Vibro Champ and Super Champ looks great, but for one issue I have.... no headphone inputs. I'm an old rocker myself so I know the value of cranking up and wailing away, but I don't want a nice gift to turn into a point of family contention, and at the very least I want to be able to yell down the basement stairs: "USE THE HEADPHONES!"

I checked in the store to see if plugging the line out into an external feed would disable the main, or if the master volume would operate independently of the line out level, but no on both counts. (I was thinking it would be easy enough to plug into our computer recording stuff and use phones through that.)

So I looked again at the users' manuals from Fender and see what I missed in the store - that there is a speaker jack on the rear panel, with the speaker plugged in.

Techie question: Can I use either of these amps with the line out and just unplug the speaker? Or will that do something NOT GOOD to the amp load, cranked up with no speaker to feed into? If it's not damaging, this would effectively be a headphone solution.


Thanks in advance,
Carlos


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Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 1:23 pm
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I wouldn't suggest doing that personally.

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Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 6:27 pm
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Vox AD30VT. A simulated tube output section with a 12AX7. 11 effects and 11 amp sims. Plugging line out will disable main speaker. 30 watts. Love Fender amps but that sounds like what you need. I'm an owner of that amp for practice, and a tube Fender for live playing.


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Posted: Fri May 22, 2009 7:07 am
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rjake:

Thanks - great suggestion. Went and checked out this amp and brought it home. If it passes the Son test we'll keep it. I was pretty impressed by the versatility. Back in high school in the 60's I had a Dual Showman. All the bands scoffed at Vox. I never thought I'd consider Vox, but there's a lot of sound and features there for a basement practice amp.

Carlos

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Vox AD30VT. A simulated tube output section with a 12AX7. 11 effects and 11 amp sims. Plugging line out will disable main speaker. 30 watts. Love Fender amps but that sounds like what you need. I'm an owner of that amp for practice, and a tube Fender for live playing.


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