Heya
Using Q4G’s recommended shopping list, how would one play through an amp?
Run a line from the Scarlett straight to the amp?
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What amp do you have? Does it also have “line-in” or FX-Return?
Generally, it should work - question is how good it will sound. Keep in mind though that many amps are optimized towards playing guitar through it and their speaker has a frequency range / response that is tailored to sound good for guitar in particular (and not for other things). For example if you have a typical 1x12 or 2x12 amp, it’s likely in that category.
If you have a line-in, try that first. Then a FX-Return. The guitar input may give you the most colored sound as it’s meant for high-impedance guitar input, not for line-in.
Then there are also modeler based amps which have “full range” speakers and simulate the guitar speaker response (so you can change it). With those, playing other audio input in should work better. You should not expect your amp to go very low in frequency, as guitars usually don’t play there. I personally even got rid of my guitar amp entirely (not playing much anyway) and just use a full-range monitor box + a Multi-FX or audio interface. For mobile use, I found a battery powered Bluetooth speaker with low aux-in latency (!). This is most flexible as you can play anything into it.
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I’m not sure what it has - it is pretty basic.
That said, I do know that it is a keyboard amp, so I’m hoping that will be better for drums.
My main concern is how to get sound into it — mikro m3 > laptop > scarlett > amp?
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I’ve run the headphone out from my audio interface into the aux in on a basic speaker and it works reasonably well.
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yes, that’s how you would wire it up. If it’s a keyboard amp, it should work well enough as they are built to be full-range.
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