Amp sound

Hi everyone

New player, sorry for the non-descriptive title, wasn't really sure what to call this one. I don't know much about how musical sound is generated, just know I enjoy listening to it! Hope you can advise...

My playing to date has been limited to plugging into a old, small 10w practice amp my friend kindly threw in when I bought my Squier P from him. Like loads of others I'm sure, I then found the song I wanted to learn on Youtube and played along. I'm having a great time.

Due to a recent change in personal circs, I no longer have access to Youtube, and I need to keep the noise levels low. I have headphones that I've occasionally used to date when needing to be quiet.

My music generally is from an Ipod Nano with both a wired and bluetooth connection to the headphones, and that's now my only current source of being able to listen to music.

Getting to the point. The other night I plugged my headphones into the amp to have an unaccompanied bass guitar practice, and wondered what would happen if, at the same time, I also switched on the Ipod and bluetoothed it to the headphones. The result was I could hear both the guitar and my music, but the Ipod was very quiet and completely tinny, no depth at all, sometimes couldn't hear major parts of the song. But I could hear the guitar quite well.

The amp needs replacing, it's old, single input, and often loses its connection. It was just a kind gift to get me started, and has been much appreciated.

Looking at other amps I see many have two input ports, to give an example I've just seen a Fender Rumble 30 on Ebay like that. So I'm wondering, if I hardwired the Ipod into one Input port as the source of the music, my bass into the other and then had the headphones coming out of the "headphone" port, am I going to be able to hear both input sources clearly and fully? Or am I down the wrong track completely?

Thanks everyone, stay safe

Steve

 

Thank you both for your help.

Dirty, this was the one I saw. I'm not dogmatic it has to be this one, just seemed to illustrate the question. But thank you for the note about the Aux port, didn't understand the significance of that one before.

So I guess the two actual Input ports are both for guitar? In the unlikely event of me ever finding someone who'd put up with playing with me!

Polish, thanks for this. I was in America in January, $99 is about £80 I think? Yes good deal if so.


Cheers

Steve
Fender Rumble 30 Tilt back Combo Bass Amp | eBay

 

Hi folks

Sorry to rake this back up.

I've seen an advert from someone local to me, so it's making it attractive for ease of collection. It's a Hartke B30, which I'm sure is all I'll need in terms of home practicing.

It has two inputs for passive and active - fine, mine's a passive, I get that. Then there's the standard headphone output, also fine, and a final port called Line out.

The only Line out I know happens in rugby.

I've read the Hartke site specifications and I'm no nearer understanding what it does. Can anyone confirm if the Line Out port will be suitable to accept my iPod as another input source, and that I'll be able to hear both that and the bass through the headphones?

Thanks

Steve