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Post subject: Work Around for Headphone Jack
Posted: Wed Jul 21, 2010 12:47 pm
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I have been playing around with the line out jacks and some headsets and have come up with something that works for me. With the comments by some of the users that have had their amp to go down because of the use of the 1/8 headphone jack on the front of the amp, I do not want to have a problem. Fender will not allow the addition of a Jack(cutting wire and soldering in jack) into the speaker wire without voiding the warranty on the amp. I am not going to do anything that will void my warranty. Fender states that if a problem occurs they will fix or replace the amp. I do not want to be without my amp or have to restore my settings.

I got a Y adapter (2 mono males(TS) and a female Stereo(TRSF) and plugged the two males into the line out jacks on the back of the amp. I found this setting that works for me: Line Level 10; Line Out "ALL"; and Speaker "ALL) {these settings are in the Utility Mode -Page 8 of Advanced Users Guide". I plugged in a set of stereo headphones (I used a 1/4 stereo to 1/8 stereo converter because of the plug on my headset}.

In order for this to work you need to dial in a setting of 1 on the amp volume knob(this shuts down the amp speaker). You can leave your headset plugged in all the time. When you want the amp to play using the speaker move the volume knob to what ever setting you want. To go to headset move the volume knob to 1.

I have a Yamaha headset and the volume and quality is not the greatest. I plugged in a Bose Headset and it was much better. An amplilfied headset would really make this set up work well. Better yet, an amplified wireless headset!

If you have a Mono headset, you can just plug it into one of the line outs on the back of the amp OR get an adapter tip that will convert your stereo headset to a 1/4 inch Mono plug and stick it into one of the line out jacks. I assume that if the song is in stereo that using only one of the the line outs will cut out part of your audio-that is why I elected to use the Y adapter. In my experiment with a mono song, both jacks delivered the same audio.


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Posted: Thu Jul 22, 2010 9:21 am
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Update:

The bose headphones had a slight amount of amplification and that is why they were working better.

I replaced the stereo Y adapter with a Mono Y adapter and ran the output into an old Kawai Pocket Band. The old Pocket Band was something you could clip on your belt and plug in your guitar, use a headset and play your Guitar-it also has some tracks and drum effects in it which I do not use- this unit is no longer made) This device has amplification with a volume control. It has a 1/4 inch mono input and a 1/8 stereo output. This setup is working really well. I am using the Yamaha headphones, and I can not turn up the volume all the way because it is too loud. There are a lot of the tiny individual amps that work this way out in the market.

I leave the headphone plugged in all the time. Turning the volume knob to 1 shuts off the amp speaker and I put on the headphones. When I want to play the amp speaker I just turn up the volume and take off the headphones.


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