Does it take a special type of headphones for use with a guitar amplifier. I have tried several sets of headphones with my VOX AD50VT. They all work but the volume is very low! I am not looking to blow my eardrums out but I would like to be able to crank it up a little!

My cheap Bugera 5 watt valve puts out plenty of volume to the headphone jack. I would suspect your headphones, do they work fine on another unit?

I bought a set at Radio Shack that were inexpensive ($30), but they work real well. Each side has a volume control so you don't kill yourself if you crank it up to get a good crunch. I am planning on an extension cable for them because the 6' they come with isn't quite long enough unless you're sitting very close to the amp.

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I don't mean to hijack the thread but instead of posting new, can you plug headphones into the external speaker cabinet jack?

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I don't really know... but he shouldn't have to do that. His amp comes with a ready to go headphone jack. I wonder how 50 watts into a set of headphones would sound?

I'm not so sure that would be a good idea for either the headphones OR the amp. The headphones are setup to use a stereo output jack while speaker output would generally be mono as far as I know.

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VT Blackstrat:

If I hook the headphones up to my iMac, I get really loud volume. With the VOX AD50VT, even with everything cranked, I get a low volume. I am beginning to think that it is the type of amplifier (VOX support was absolutely no help). Maybe it was a waste of $400+. I knew I should have bought the Blues JR instead!

The Idea of a headphone jack, is to cut off the main speaker, and ll contols of the amp are heard through the headphones. Just a dumb question but did you turn the volume up on the amp?

Bill

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I sure Did! I cranked the volume, gain, and master on the amp and the volume on the guitar. Heck I even considered cleaning the wax out of my ears. Oh and that is not a dumb question. I was kind of hoping that it was just something simple that was causing it. I know it is just a little thing, but it is driving me batty!

Well... If other phones dont work, maybe somrthing shorted on the plug it's self? If new I guess, take it backfor replacment...

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Pretty simple and I think you answered your own question. If it's not the headphones, it's got to be the amp. If it's under warranty return it. If it's not, have a tech look it over. Could be something simple internally... bad jack possibly.

Maybe the ¼" adapter?

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Thanks.. It is out of warranty so I think I will have it looked at soon. Like I said it is only a little thing but it is so aggravating.

No. This will work as long as the amp isn't over 50 watts.

Thanks. I tried that and it worked - sort of. I got one pair of wired headphones to have great volume ( only from one side of the headphones). The wired ones still had the same low volume - both sides. Tried it with both a mono and a stereo 1/4" adapter with the same results.

My practice amps have headphone jacks and they work fine--one is a G-Dec Jr.
On the Jr the headphone jack and line out are the same jack.

On my Traynor TBM-10 (Bass practice amp) the headphone jack & line out jack are separate--so I could use line out to a PA and still use the amp as a monitor.

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There is no reason why you should noy be getting enough volume. I am thinking you may have a problem with the input socket on the amp. I used to have a little crate fx15 that I loved for practice and it had a headphone input that would crank but also a gain button that would give you enough juice to play as low as you wanted without sounding wimpy and was only like $90.