Small and simple device for home-practice

[pfschim]

The new Fender Mustang Micro sounds promising.
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Threads like this always remind me with mixed emotions of the 700,- Rockman, I bought in 1988...

ROCKMAN BASS Tom Scholz Bass Headphone Amp & Stereo Headset Effects Originals 80's

I still have my Rockman. Nice little device.

 

[pfschim]

Use it as audio source to play along - so either phone or laptop.



Thing is, I do not want to install a whole setup when I want to play along for 15-20 minutes. I want to plug sometthing in my bass, put headphones on and maybe put a cable between laptop/phone and that magic device to have somethingto play along to. But that's it. I found solutions using little mixers, but mostly they need additional power supply, or do not provide headphone output, or this, or that... the iRig2 solution didn't work for me, neither.

hmm, I'm not vested in your approach at all, but based on what you said originally, I'm not sure why the iRig would not work.
it's quite small
has a 1/4" bass input
has headphone out
you can just plug in and play, or you can load music files (from iPhone, iPad, laptop etc) to play along with it
iRig software runs on most small devices ... iPhone, iPad, Android tablet, laptop either Mac or Windows (not sure about Linux)
sound quality is very decent
easy set-up. once you set up the software, it takes just a minute to plug everything in and go
pretty affordable as far as these things go

just curious about why it would not work for you ?

 

[Lowendchamp]

Ashdown makes a headphone amp that matches your description

 

[vbchaos]

hmm, I'm not vested in your approach at all, but based on what you said originally, I'm not sure why the iRig would not work.
it's quite small
has a 1/4" bass input
has headphone out
you can just plug in and play, or you can load music files (from iPhone, iPad, laptop etc) to play along with it
iRig software runs on most small devices ... iPhone, iPad, Android tablet, laptop either Mac or Windows (not sure about Linux)
sound quality is very decent
easy set-up. once you set up the software, it takes just a minute to plug everything in and go
pretty affordable as far as these things go

just curious about why it would not work for you ?

Because it needs a bloody app on a phone to function, which is stupid in itself. And the app is horrible in about every aspect, which is even more horrible

 

[vbchaos]

The Zoom B1-on ticks all the boxes except small.

Headphone out
Aux in
Battery or USB power
Cheap

Plus it has a tuner and almost every effect you could wish for.

I have occasionally used the B1X-on for solo practice

good idea, but it is overkill for what I want to do.

 

[vbchaos]

Ashdown makes a headphone amp that matches your description

Which one are you referring to? I can only find the box that make a headphone signal from speaker outputs

 

[vbchaos]

VGH Bass - Vox Amps

Perfect, almost.. should have bluetooth input, but hey.. can't have everything


That Fender Micro is, alas, not available around here until January '22