Looking for Solution. Need quiet or silent rig. (new baby)

[GAS KING]

Well....my behemoth 100w loud ass tube amps and 4x12 cabs are mostly useless with a baby in the house.

I'm looking for something I can plug into with headphones that sounds decent.

I'd like to be able to hear myself and jam along to songs.

Would also like a clean and dirt tone or something that will take pedals well.

Are we talking some sort of multi-effect with emulation?
Some sort of DAW or software?
Mini-head with headphone out?

Thoughts?

[calfzilla]

The Peavey mini heads have headphones out. I never used it, but the amp itself (valve king version) sounded pretty good and took pedals well.

[GAS KING]

The Peavey mini heads have headphones out. I never used it, but the amp itself (valve king version) sounded pretty good and took pedals well.

You can run them without a speaker load?

EDIT: I see that it does. Has pretty much everything.
plus being a variable 20w tube amp.

[calfzilla]

Yup! Might even be able to get away playing it without headphones on the 1W setting.

[spacelordmother]

I have heard really good things about those Yamaha THR10 series amps. A couple people here said that the clean setting takes pedals well. Even has an aux in for jamming along with your phone.

[jrmy]

I have heard really good things about those Yamaha THR10 series amps. A couple people here said that the clean setting takes pedals well. Even has an aux in for jamming along with your phone.

Yeah, I haven't tried them yet, but have heard the same, including from some pedalhead friends in music retail...

[GAS KING]

I had always written those little things off.......sounds pretty good!
I like the portability of it. I can set up anywhere. Either in my space with pedalboard or on the couch or jam for the kid.

https://youtu.be/gE6V3QqGppA

(the guitar player's eye contact with the host is strange)

For $300....better sound good. The gain tones even sound good......usually those sound the most digital smear-y and overly crispy/fizzy.
Noise issues have been fixed too. nice.

[More_Divebombs]

Yamaha THR10 is my #1 piece of gear. The standard one anyway. There's a couple of different ones, one that is total all metal tones, and one that is clean twangy tones, I don't know how good they are.

The standard one does a bit of everything and every channel sounds good. Also has channels for bass, electro-acoustic and a flat channel with no speaker emulation for synths and whatnot, which I use for my synths and drum machines, sounds great. Clean channel handles FX well, and the crunch channel can take all kinds of fuzz and dirt and also sounds great.

Doubles up as an interface too. I do a great deal of super quiet/silent recording with it. Had mine about 7 years, got it when it first came out, and if it broke down now, I'd instantly go buy another.

[GAS KING]

How about Kemper Profiler? lol

THR is popular!

Yamaha THR, Fender Mustang, Vox various or Adio, Peavey Minis or Vypyr and Line 6 Amplifi 30 are all in the same price range.

Not sure about the sound quality but the Line 6 Amplifi gives you a full featured rig controlled via app.
Which is kind of cool....but might lead to a bunch of diddling around with settings.

$0-$300 max limit.

I just need to be able to play, practice and jam along to songs. Recording may come eventually.
It can be solely for home use. Portability around the house is nice.
A tabletop multi-FX would be fine too. I don't really need an amp or speaker.
I have studio monitors if I wanted to play without headphones with the modeler OR my regular amps.

Haven't played guitar in about 2 years......so I'm a little rusty.
After all the tone chasing I've done in my life this feels very regressive. lol What's the best n00b modeling amp with FX? ha.

[megamaeng]

I'm kinda in the same boat except that <1% of the time I need to play out live and with backing track ability. That <1% seems to be dictating my setup tho. I recently picked up the fortin nameless amp plugin and liking it enough that I think I'll try out the laptop route. I already have a laptop and interface and ableton suite and max for live is like the ultimate pedalboard for me. so i don't really have to buy anything. Plus when I play out I can just automate the effects so I can get really drunk before a show and not worry haha.

sort of like what this guy is doing. I've done it in the past with an axe fx and a cymatics multitrack playback machine with midi but sold all that stuff off because i needed money for diapers. you know how it is

[youtube]http://youtu.be/dDKZDjdFGYA[/youtube]

[odontophobia]

Use whatever head you want, man. Can be had used for $150, probably. Think that's what I paid for mine. Cab simulation on it so I've been happy with the sound. Want to try it live, too, and see if I can blend it DI/mic'd if I ever playing in a venue where it's necessary.

[Bassist_Diver]

Orange Tiny Terror?

[JonnyAngle]

I put my whole board into a Broughton hp/lp filter into an ehx headphone amp. Sounds great!

[weebles]

Subscribed.

I'm in the exact same boat. I've heard the THR suggested a lot. Heard the OBNE headphone amp is good for #ambienttones but not so good for anything else. I have actually played a Neunaber Iconoclast and thought it was great, but it was through a buddy's set-up, so don't know if it would transfer. Been considering the Tiny Terror..... Possibility overload.

[odontophobia]

OBNE Headphone Amp was bad with fuzz/distortion. I just couldn't coax anything that felt like it had any sort of amp-like response. Tin can full of bees type stuff.

Have been very impressed with Mesa's F-100 headphone output -- which is what lead me to the Cab Clone when I got rid of the F-100.