Pedals into headphones, what to use?

[JonnyAngle]

How dare you, sir.

Vaporwave isn't necessarily an insult

[mathias]

V A P O R W A V E

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTfa-9aCTYg[/youtube]

[Kacey Y]

Isn't a product that's being advertised, but not actually available to purchase, the definition of vaporware? If I told someone all the OEM parts to design and build a production car to their specs, they just need to design the finished product, prototype, refine the design and start manufacturing it...that would be vaporware right?

I'm sure there's a ton of things you could make with a Raspberry Pi and/or Arduino or something like that, but if plans or a product based on it doesn't actually exist, not that helpful right now.

[mathias]

Yeah. Or more generally, it is used in software where there's no product yet but the salespeople are already selling it and promising features that may or may not make it into the finished product.

[Invisible Man]

But you can use it as a headphone amp. Therefore...it delivers!

[Invisible Man]

How dare you, sir.

Vaporwave isn't necessarily an insult

And I'm not remotely insulted. But should I be? What are you insinuating? Hm?

[Kacey Y]

And I'm not remotely insulted. But should I be? What are you insinuating? Hm?

I feel totally comfortable saying it was definitely something along these lines...

[rustywire]

If I were looking for a headphones amp/platform I would buy the v2 Effectrode Blackbird without hesitation.
Had a first run v1 4+ years ago but wasn't using it to potential, so it was moved along to a new home. Since then the v2 introduced a 600ohm balanced transformer out (replacing the speaker sim out) which is what I wanted from the original in the first place. Everything I owned at the time sounded good going into the Blackbird (samplers & synths too) but the Blackbird sounded less than stellar when I connected a power amp to the aux/speaker sim out.

[aen]

That OBNE headphone amp looks like what I could be after.

So I'm pretty sure that's not gonna do the trick for anyone who uses distortion and isn't going for that ultra harsh industrial sound. "headphone amps" generally mean "makes shit loud enough to drive headphones, sounds nothing like an amp."

My first suggestion would be the first generation POD from Line 6. Newer ones are alright, too, but my best experiences were with the 1st gen. Don't get hung up on "oh the distortion sounds like shit" Use a clean amp model, and get dirt from your pedals.
FUN FACT when Dwarfcarft was a strictly (literally) underground operation all circuits were breadboarded, prototyped, and tested with a 1st gen POD. So that's Squaresnakes, The Great Destroyer, Shiva, and Eau Claire Thunder, at least.

I've got a Line6 Pocket Pod Express, they're discontinued now but come up cheap on eBay.

Certainly not the worst option. I used one of these at a gear show for a couple days. As long as nobody fucked with it you could get a decent amp sim and keep rollin rollin rollin rollin (yeeeeah)

[halfwaytobedlam]

No one has experience with the Digitech Cabdryvr? I use headphones and I use the cabsim off a digitech death metal into a mixer. It pairs well with my fuzz factory but is pretty dark. With the price of the OBNE amp you might as well get a cheap mixer and run (((stereo))) delays. the dm was bought new in 2013 (for noise rock purposes), the cabsim on my older digiverb sounds like shit