Lots of practice amps

[ajota_di]

Would it be possible/okay to go from your bass to a headphone splitter, to another headphone splitter to another (and so on) into a bunch of practice amps? My drummer has a ton of little amps and I've got a billion splitters... Would it be loud enough to be heard? and what would occur?
This idea came to me in a dream... I thought it would look really cool.. like, a ton of practice amps hooked up and stacked on top of each other? Awesome. I'd love to try, but I'll be gone for a while... well, that and my drummer doesn't want to let me steal his amps
Thanks!
-AJ

 

[TortillaChip520]

My friend tried to do that with 2 practice amps, but it didn't work. Maybe he didn't do it right, idk. The signal going through all those connections would start to die as it went farther down, though.

 

[ajota_di]

Ah... true... you could put it through a headphone amp... I've got a samsun headphone amp that'd probably work with, actually!

 

[sleepytime]

Silly idea. Forget about it.

 

[vinxbass]

^
+1

 

[Calaverasgrande]

I used to be in aband that tried out a guitarist with 8 practice amps DUCT TAPED together. It was loud enough. It sounded awful.

 

[waleross]

http://www.jamhub.com/

 

[TortillaChip520]

http://www.jamhub.com/

how much is that?

 

[SamanthaCay]

That is quite strange that you would mention that this came to you in a dream, cause I totally had a dream where before setting up for a gig this other bass player was showing me his rig which consisted of a ton of little mini marshalls. There must have been 100 or so. He was going on about how it got him the sound he liked although I have no idea what it sounded like as the dream phased out after that. Did you by a chance have the exact same dream? Cause that would be really strange. So anyways I would go ahead and not recommend doing that because as it turns out once you get past 88 amps you open up a worm hole and everyone knows that worm holes are very very bad. Don’t do it! I lost my dog in one of those things, in other words if you like distortion go for it!

 

[babebambi]

hey, if it doesn't cost you money, try it out!!

but I am pretty sure you would run into phase response issues

 

[TortillaChip520]

but I am pretty sure you would run into phase response issues

I'm pretty sure if his plan is to jury rig a bunch of practice amps together, phase issues is the least of his worries

(Not getting electrocuted is probably the first...)

 

[KeithAlanK]

Back in the '70s I recall seeing Cheap Trick play a few times with what looked like stacks of small combo amps on both sides of the stage.
The trick is giving each amp a good signal from the instrument, and this is more technically advanced than using a bunch of headphone splitters.

It can be done, but not on the cheap.

 

[ajota_di]

Okay, im going to do it. I'm actually going to do it with a guitar at first... Sorry . But I've got about, erm... 6? And I figure with a 4 output headphone amp, a splitter... I can get it to work. When I get back home (spring break ftw) I'll test it. I'll keep y'all postid and record the child about to be born