Can I use a headphone amp as a Guitar preamp?

[Unclewai]

Can I do this?
electric guitar---> cmoy ----> integrated amp ----> speakers?

 

[stereth]

Shouldn't be a problem. Try it out. I don't know if you'll notice any difference in sound, but nothing should blow up.

 

[mbriant]

It might work, but I doubt a guitar's output is the same as a stereo components line out and I doubt the cmoy's headphone in jack put out the same signal as a true guitar pre-amp...but then again, you can vary that with the volume control. Also, home amps and especially home speakers are not robust enough to handle an electric guitar at anything but a very, very, very low volume. You can very easily blow your speakers.

Try it out if you'd like, but keep the guitar, cmoy, and amp volumes way down.

 

[D-EJ915]

It won't work for 1 reason. A guitar is unpowered, you need a powered input from the Pre-AMP to get the guitar to make any sound.

 

[tjkurita]

If you want to use your guitar through your home speakered set-up, I recommend you use a processor like a Line 6 POD or something similar. These often have audio outputs and h/p outputs that you can select and the levels are perfect for your purposes. If you are going from your h/p outputs, you should follow the rule of pcdps without lineout when hooking up to your Cmoy. That is, keep the volume around 3-5 on the processor/pcdp and use your cmoy to amp the signal.

A guitar processor generally has a lot of extra features and effects also, so you can have a very streamlined thing.