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Pocket Preamps?

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Spanky

Apr 20, 2004
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Denver CO, New Orleans LA
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#1
I'm a steady working musician, but I've always been a "plug-n-play" kind of bassist. I'm also an apartment dweller, and it seems my upstairs neighbor doesnt appreciate my humble 350 watt rig when Im trying to rehearse to a CD or write new material. Ive heard there are some headphone preamps for guitar/basses that a CD player can be routed throuh as well. So here's my question: Does anyone know of something like this, that wont cost me the price of a whole new rig? I still want to add a Korg tuner to my rack, as well as a wireless, so I need to save all the cash I can! :help:
Thanks in advance!
Peace!
Spanky
 
#2
I don't know if the new little Korg amp modelers have an aux input.

I believe that the Behringer Bass Vamp does (at least the Vamp 2 guitar verson does).

You could buy a small Behringer mixer for about $40 (on up) that you could plug both bass and CD player into and use the headphone jack.

There have to be some small combo bass amps that have both CD inputs and a headphone jack.

Lots of choices for low bux...
 
#5
True, this is quite a bit more than you wanted to spend, but you have to consider all the features of this unit. It has built in tuner, ability to change pitch of a CD without altering tempo, repeating loop to work out a certain phrase or lick, lots of effects etc. IMHO a very good investment that can last you years. Lastly, the thing sound great to boot!!
 
#6
The bass pocket rock-it works great.
Guitar center has them for $40 or $50
buckaroos. Plug rocket into bass. Plug
the supplied folding headphones and your
cd player into the rocket. Small and light
great for quiet practicing. C Tech pocket
rock-it.
 
#10
I use a Korg pandora PX3 for quiet rehearsal at home. It has a aux in for cd (mini-jack), tuner, effects, drumbox and 16 seconds of sampling for phrase training.

great little box!

I also use a Roland MiniCube at home when I don't want to use headphones. The minicube is mostly used for guitar, but it works with bass as well, but i guress I shouldn't crank the volume to high when using bass.
 
#13
B String said:
The bass pocket rock-it works great.
Guitar center has them for $40 or $50
buckaroos. Plug rocket into bass. Plug
the supplied folding headphones and your
cd player into the rocket. Small and light
great for quiet practicing. C Tech pocket
rock-it.
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I called G/C today and the idiot working in guitars transferred me to the idiot in accessories who transferred me to the unsuspecting pro audio department who sent me back to the idiot in accessories. He kept rattling on all these items for $149, 129, 99, Couldnt find the Pocket Rock-it in the computer....finally found something out on the floor for 79$ and then couldnt tell me if you could actually put a CD player in it! :spit: Im calling some other stores tomorrow.
 
#17
B String said:
The bass pocket rock-it works great.
Guitar center has them for $40 or $50
buckaroos. Plug rocket into bass. Plug
the supplied folding headphones and your
cd player into the rocket. Small and light
great for quiet practicing. C Tech pocket
rock-it.
Click to expand...

I've had two of those things. They sounded good, but I had some gripes. I didn't like the plug-straight-into-the-bass bit, it was an unpleasantly tight fit on some of my basses because of that. The first one I had for about a year and a half and it just died, the second one literally fell apart after a month. No abuse in either case, never got em wet, only dropped the first one once and it kept working-- they each just died one day. :bawl:

I'm getting something else this time around. :spit:
 
#19
Well, I got mine yesterday and it sounds even better than I had hoped. I do alot of rehearsing straight from our CDs and I get handed alot of session material that way as well, and with this little gadget I sound like Im playing with the band! Haha...And my neighbors wont get anymore free previews! :spit: Of course, I wont hear them anymore either :D .......Thanks for all the input!
 
#20
B String said:
Lurker...
I can appreciate your experience with the pocket
rock-it. Mine has held up for about seven years.
No abuse, but lots of hard use. Sorry yours didn't
work out.
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Yeah, it was all the more disappointing because I bought the thing because of all the good reviews from people I knew.... I dunno if I just got two bum ones in a row or what, but I'm just not gonna chance it on another one.
 

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