Vox amPlug Bass

I bought one of those too and oh my god I love it. I can practice anywhere, anytime, including work (I've only been playing bass for two months).

I haven't tried interfacing it to my laptop but at a guess I think you'd have to go into your laptop from the Vox headphone jack instead of the aux? The aux is where I plug in my phone for music playback into the Vox.

I suppose that poses a problem with hearing what you're playing unless you can get it from the laptop somehow and without too much delay. Maybe it can be split between headphones and laptop?

 

This sounds like you connected your laptop to the aux in socket, which would explain why you got no signal.

I've tried recording while splitting my output between headphones and my computer (using a mini jack splitter). The only problems are that your sound card might overload before you reach enough volume to monitor your playing thru headphones, and that if you use a backing track/song, it will get recorded too. I got around this by editing backing tracks in Audacity - if you set it to mono and change the balance, you'll be able to isolate your bass from the recording.

That's nowhere near proffessional, but neither is my bass playing.

 

Let us know if you fix it and how. I'm going through something similar.

 

You may be recording from the built-in mic on the laptop instead of the mic jack. I do this all the time with Skype. I haven't used Reaper but there should be someway to select which interface you're recording from. If there isn't then do it through the audio settings in the Windows Control Panel.

 

If you press the 'on/off' button (don't hold it just press it) the amp will cycle through different sound profiles, I think there are three to choose from. That might eliminate the buzzing you hear. The different profiles offer things which are beyond my knowledge as a beginning bassist, I just choose the one that gives me the cleanest tone in my headphones.