4 ways to connect your guitar to your home stereo (see outline below)

[@benwright6330]

..woke up this morning ...and the sun was gone ..turned on some music ..to start my day..

[@thisisbobross2122]

Wow! Thanks a million for the help, the pass-through going direct from the headphone jack to the RCA is genius!

[@CarolynDestruction]

Fun fact: black metal musician Varg Vikernes of Burzum used his brothers stereo for his album Filosofem instead of of a regular amp. The album is his masterpiece.

[@xPyrielx]

Didn't expected random Burzum trivia here. I'm suprisingly pleased.

[@CarolynDestruction]

@@xPyrielx you’re welcome ❤

[@StarcleBlaze]

Been thinking of doing that for something

[@CarolynDestruction]

@@StarcleBlaze Yea same. I just released my final black metal ep. I'm now working on alternative rock, noise rock, acoustic, and lofi music

[@Husholdninger]

Perfect! I need this for my caravan. Going to be the best rehearsal room in history of music. x)

[@whatyoumakeofit6635]

I use to st my stuff up like u did here back in mid 90's. I always thiught sounded good. Especially stereo effects. Your last set up was a great idea. Mixing the balalnce on teo input. Really cool idea

[@Nostrebor59]

Very useful and you can take it to the next stage. As l only play at home these days, l ditched my Blues deluxe and pedals some years ago and revamped my system Key Components : 1) Reaper DAW ( or equivalent) 2) Mooer GE300 Lite ( or equivalent 3) Line 6 UX2 Audio Interface ( or equivalent) 4) Hi Fi Power Amp ( Mine is Arcam Alhpa 7 ) 5 ( Stereo Speskers ( Non active - Mine are ancient Boss 6" with woofer and tweeter ) Optional Extras 1) Line 6 G10 ( Wireless Receiver ( or equivalent ) 2) Boss RC 3 Looper ( or equivalent) Set Up 1) G10 into GE300 2) GE300 into UX2 ( Via RC3 - Mono single cable only ) 3) UX2 into PC ( l use Windows ) 4) Configure Reaper to recognise UX2 as Device 5) Connect Analog L & R from UX2 to Aux in on Power Amp 6) Connect speakers out ( L & R ) from Amp to speakers Outcome / Use 1) Power up all ( Mooer UX2 Amp & PC & open Reaper ) takes seconds....... 2) Wirelessly connect Guitar to Mooer via G10 Guitar plug 3) Create new blank track in Reaper. ( I rarely close Reaper so it opens with blank track already there 4) You are ready to go ! Yoo will be amazed at the sound quality. No it's not like a tube amp but you are using your modeller with IRs and for home use any slight colouration is of no consequence. You can either import BackingcTracks from any downloaded on your PC , or, simply open YT and play them. If your PC is set up to recognise UX2 for Audio , tracks will play through the system and you can play along with all sounds coming out of both speakers. I use the single mono from the Mooer so l can use the Looper pedal so once l create a loop , l then can switch to a diffetentboatch and layer up / solo as required. Sitting in front of this set up , you can vary the volumes either overall with Resper or individually with the output on the Mooer and the volume on the RC3. Playing abilities aside , friends/ family who have heard thus set up in the room havd genuinely thought they were listening to a record - until l stopped playing over the tracks. Sat in front of a PC screen , you can also fully integrate with any YT lessons which are of course also coming out of both speakers Cost ? This us a suggestion for those with a modeller. Amo and speakers you can pick up fir fiddly. Get a cheap Interface and you are done. Enjoy your own concert. It is simply brilliant

[@LouisBurkhardt]

Well done, showing the simple to the more complicated setup.

[@ksandbergfl9609]

@@LouisBurkhardt thanks for noticing

[@ariqisrockin231]

Damn, Tony Hawk plays some solid guitar

[@jimcamp2423]

Another way without having to use several adapters for the left & right channels, the stereo unit should allow for several modes, stereo mode, wide/surround stereo mode and another called Mono (like what an AM radio band/tuner outputs). weaker FM tuner signals can be strengthened in Mono mode.

[@kabdu68]

Yeah that was my first thought, too

[@losteroni]

Thanks for this . Instead of using a Y splitter coming out of the guitar you can also use an RCA splitter at the end of the cable going into the stereo/amp .

[@TimpBizkit]

You'd need a dual mono RCA or the guitar signal will only come through 1 jack.

[@ilovetolaugh2]

you ARE the MAN! now, can u make a short and easy “ How to solder wire”?

[@johnbraucher1499]

That Johnson millennium is SICK!! Always wanted one when I was young, and now that I realize how old I am now and how sought after they are now I want one even MORE. Lol

[@ksandbergfl9609]

Johnson Millenium's are great-sounding amps. And unlike other modeling amps, the knobs and buttons make perfect sense, which makes the amp extremely user-friendly. It's heavy as a tank, though

[@willing4sth]

Great video! This is full of DIY spirit i cant even hold it! Nice work sir

[@ksandbergfl9609]

thanks. An old hifi stereo makes a perfectly good solid-state guitar amp head.... it's not rocket science or voodoo, just simple "play what you have"

[@gwugluud]

That's very "outside the box", lol. That's clever, that you've taken gear of that sort and adapted it into being a guitar amp. I enjoyed seeing this. That Onkyo was high end hi fi gear back in the day. I mean, new, it was nearly a grand, if I am thinking of the same Onkyo hi fi amp which I think this was. Can't argue with the sound.

[@ac158]

You're an absolute genius I just wish I could figure out how to do that, I got to JBL old-school towers and 1000 watt receiver and I want to find out how to play my damn guitar through it.

[@almostgone33]

That's thinking outside the box....nice video

[@hifijohn]

Ive used a tape deck as the input.It has to have a mic input, set the deck to record/pause and use its output into the aux or cd input of your amp.

[@marksardar4557]

Thanks, been trying to do this for a while. After viewing I realised I was not selecting the cd channel after connecting. Decided to use a splitter cable at the amp end.

[@markhall3323]

I use a standard lead with a STEREO 1/4” jack into my guitar and stereo RCAs into the amp this gives (identical) guitar sound on both channels no splitters etc required. I find the output of the guitar is a bit low without any kind of pre-amp the amp volume has to be turned up very high.

[@ksandbergfl9609]

Yes, plugging the guitar directly into the stereo (without a pedal or preamp) would require you to crank up the stereo volume pretty high, just to hear it. The RCA jacks on the stereo are "Line In" - they expect signals with a voltage of +/- 1v. The signal coming from your guitar pickup is 0.1v-0.5v, depending on what kind of pickup you have. The output of a pedal can drive Line In inputs just fine. Another concern is the tone --- guitar pickups and RCA (Line IN) inputs have different "impedance".... if you plug an electric guitar directly into a stereo's RCA jack, you will lose a lot of treble (it will sound kind of "dead"). You will have much, much better results if you plug your guitar into a pedal first, then plug the pedal into the RCA jacks....

[@markhall3323]

@@ksandbergfl9609 Thank you for that it was very helpful I appreciate it

[@David-cm4ok]

I'm not sure I follow, where does your guitar connect to the amp? Are you using two rca cables?

[@motiv311]

I love that johnson amp you got in the background there

[@ksandbergfl9609]

That's a Johnson Marquis JM120. It's a 120W stereo modeling amp with 2x12's. It was Digitech's answer to the popular Line6 modeling amps that came out in 1999-2001. I still use mine, weekly, at my gig at church. It sounds great.. and the best part is - no programming... tap a switch to pick the amp model you want, turn some knobs... tap the Save button... done!

[@The1TechGuru]

I had to check what year this video was posted after you said RadioShack...

[@ksandbergfl9609]

I am 53 and shopped at Radio Shack for decades. I have all kinds of stuff in my bins from Radio Shack

[@jonnystiztv]

R.i.P radioshack. You will be remembered!

[@user-xs9hy5dn5n]

@@ksandbergfl9609 whaaaat, you sound like a 20 year old, (it's meant as a compliment:)

[@StarvingMorlock]

Here in Mexico we still having a few Radio Shack, I think the owners of the franchise didn't want to give up.

[@simoncossettini9680]

Nice video thanks for the info - but why not take standard guitar lead and split it to rca left and right at the amp end? then plug it into back - maybe if you had guitar lead extension with or female guitar connect use that to make a short adapter that you can add to your kit if you want to play at party or friends house.

[@earllovejoy6369]

You got me at 7:05... nice work my friend...

[@ksandbergfl9609]

Earl Lovejoy hahah, thanks

[@agesonjohanesburg2915]

Yea neat but im out at the word solder.

[@fedechiossone9932]

Hi, great video!! A lot of people told me that if i just connect my guitar directly to the Hometheatre (sony) i could burn this one, or some of the speakers, does anyone know if this is true? or theres no way thats gonna happen?

[@ksandbergfl9609]

You can burn out the "Phono In" circuit of the stereo... the voltage from a turntable needle is very small, much smaller than the voltage from a guitar pickup.. so DON'T plug your guitar into the Phono In! But plugging your guitar into the "Line In" or "CD/Aux In" will not hurt the stereo. Turning up your stereo VERY LOUD may damage cheap speakers, but that's not because the guitar was plugged into it.

[@Johnny-WaIker]

Get a graphic equalizer and mixer and you're pretty much have a good practice setup at home.

[@rockinron3215]

I used to play thru the tape deck part of my stereo. I would put the tape on record and pause. The VU knobs low would be clean and turned up would have distortion.

[@ksandbergfl9609]

Yes, I did that once too. My mom had a huge old console stereo, as big as a couch. I plugged the guitar into a portable cassette player, then ran the headphone out into the Aux In of the stereo. As you said, the cassette circuitry would distort, in a kind of cool way.

[@rockinron3215]

@@ksandbergfl9609 that's cool. The things we can do when we put our mind to it.

[@ksandbergfl9609]

they say necessity is the mother of invention.... to which I would add -- being a cheap-ass is the mother of necessity ;-)

[@ilovetolaugh2]

You are the man thank you very much and I wish you just made a video on how to soldering?

[@ksandbergfl9609]

I solder as well as I play guitar.... which "isn't very"

[@nuckinfuts5481]

I do something very similar with a Carver 275 but I like to use 12AU7 preamp tubes in place of the 12AT7’s. This combo makes for a very low THD amp and that’s the perfect storm as I use some pretty noisy, high gain pedals in front of it (like the BOSS Metal Zone and Metal Core). I drive a Mesa OS 4x12 Rectifier cab from one output and two Marshall JCM800 B cabs on the other output (the Marshall cabs are run in parallel as they are each filled with 16Ω speakers which are wired in series/parallel). The use of an A/B/Y switch in front of the amp works great or it can be used as a stereo wet/dry rig or some other combo. The only issue I find but it hasn’t been a problem is that you cannot get the output sections to work out of phase with each other when you want to use two different delays simultaneously into the different inputs. I guess I’d need two amps to accomplish that but I’m good for now.

[@ksandbergfl9609]

Nuckin' Futs Your rig sounds AWESOME. Have you ever tried, while running in stereo, using a 5-10ms delay on one side??? It sounds friggin HUGE.

[@johnkmatsch]

I did this in the 70's with my parents stereo. You know, the kind that looked like furniture? Used a toggle switch to redirect the turntable output to an old guitar 1/4" plug. The speakers got kinda garbled after a while. Good times.

[@americanstreet8704]

bodhrani jam yeah a record player console

[@chrisoman2195]

bodhrani jam it's because those speakers were not designed for high output guitar tones

[@travismiller9027]

Holy crap dude I didn't even search for this, I'm trying to do the same thing and I have the exact receiver!! Bass player though so I'm running a powered Sony sub, which you can also plug right into with amazing sound. Need phones for at night when I can't rattle the entire building lol. Good ol vid! Rad Shack 👍🎸✌️🤙

[@johnbraucher1499]

Buy two rockit monitor speakers, an audio interface, a laptop, amplitube or something similar, and you will have something even better than a real amp for the most part. If you can find some sounds that don't sound digital, it is amazing. I've found a few. I already have a laptop, so all I actually invested in was the interface ($50) and two rockit monitors, ($99 set) and it literally can sound better than my DEIZEL VH4 with very little tweaking. Always make sure to find quality plugins.

[@HellenKillerProject]

Get a RCA Y adapter with 4" lead on it and use one guitar chord .... They have them that are stereo in mono out or stereo in stereo out ... I love playing with sound and I am always chasing sound ... Using reel to reels .. I have a crazy setup for the size of my room and always experiment .. It doesn't take a lot of cash to make good sound .. I have a Jackson guitar I bought for 35.00 ... I have a fender princeton, 65, a fender m80 head, a peavey butcher(think 12ax7s and 4 6l6 in stereo and weighs like a car.. , line 6 spider 3 30, line 6 LB150, a very unknown acoustic amp that was almost free ... zoom g7 ut1 hybrid pedal .. rp 50, rp 90, full drum kit and 4 basses with 6 other guitars mostly along the strat line except for the coolest thin-line acoustic electric that was 65.00 in a pawn shop but I picked it up and never let it go ... I picked up four huge cabinets with I think 18" basses in them with three mids and a horn, old school for almost free ... I plan on finding a decent high powered PA or stereo to run them as with a pedal running an amp that has it's own "color" starts making programming everything a nightmare especially dealing in stereo ... I aloso have a 1/4" to usb that I can hook to a laptop. to run linux and rakkarack .. that has what have to be the deepest effects for the guitar or bass and it runs with the line 6 floorboard/midi pedal .... free too .. i am way tired and rambling ... great stuff ..

[@95Sn95]

Why not use a 1 to 2 RCA splitter into the CD ports?

[@ksandbergfl9609]

because it's more fun to plug into the front of the stereo to make it look/act like a guitar amp. ;-)

[@dannyflac]

You’re actually so rad lol

[@jofast1344]

Great video man

[@brodiebryant5164]

Just use a split rca. Single female receiving from guitar with a double male on the other to plug in stero

[@Ailurophile900]

What’s wrong with people Throwing good buddies that served them well. I love my stuff Would rather let someone keep giving them love

[@jiggersotoole7823]

I know! It's unbelievable the good things people throw in the trash. Crazy.

[@74dartman13]

Wow! That's a cool idea! I got an older Harman Kardon (massive beast) for dirt cheap at a yard sale. It's an awesome amp! I think I'm gonna give that a try. Appreciate you makin the video. Great idea!👍😀🎸🎶

[@masonyu5794]

Cant wait to hook my electric violin mix it with Baba ORiley of the Who into an Onkyo, distortion amp. I would play the Who via CD player and then mix my improv on top.

[@adamcunningham9947]

Very useful video thanks

[@bsodmike]

Hi!! Did you play that last riff on an electric guitar? I'm new and just got my first acoustic. Thanks!

[@NordenEngineering]

After linking the inputs as you have shown can you join the amplifier speaker outputs together to power one speaker

[@ksandbergfl9609]

@@NordenEngineering no, each speaker output from the stereo should only go to one speaker… linking outputs together will burn out the power amp circuit

[@bennydo7630]

Thanks for your video. Great.

[@ksandbergfl9609]

glad you liked it. I posted it because I had done a search myself, and the available videos on KZbin, at the time... all kinda sucked. There might be better videos than mine, out there now, I haven't looked

[@markg7963]

Almost want to give you a thumbs down for not finishing that Boston rip 🥲. Was sounding amazing! Nice video thanks! My only question is are you using “active” pickups on your guitar? I know nothing about guitars, I’m trying to help my son get going with his.

[@honeybling5228]

Very interesting.what if i use a multi effects processor will it work as good as real power amplifier

[@ksandbergfl9609]

Yes! Some would argue that it will sound BETTER than a guitar amp, because (generally) high-end HiFi units have better-quality sound specifications than guitar amps... Playing a modeling preamp (like an Eleven Rack, etc) thru a HiFi, using instrument speakers, will blow you away at how good it sounds.

[@ShadovvV]

Quesition.. Would there be differences in sound depending on what stereo is used? Meaning, would there be any noticeable sounding highs, lows, coldness, warmth, etc. ? I've also seen this done with cassette tape player head wires being used, but I've never tried it. Just wondering if there are differences in sound, like say if a noise reduction switch on a cassette player was flipped, would it actually alter the signal in say a 'warmer' way ?

[@ksandbergfl9609]

Think of your guitar as an "aux in". Whatever controls your stereo has, when "aux in" is selected, will affect your guitar signal too.A general rule of thumb is that if you plug the guitar straight into a stereo, there will be a little less treble than when plugged into a guitar amp (you'll have to boost the treble on the stereo to make it sound "the same" as thru a guitar amp). This is due to impedance differences between guitar outputs and outputs from say, a cassette player. But this is easily overcome if you use pedals/stomp boxes, because the outputs of these are almost always "line level" which is the same that the stereo input is expecting.

[@ShadovvV]

Right.. but do you think different stereos sound different? I'm assuming they do because of circuit differences, so I guess something like noise reduction would soften the tone a bit. Thing is though, doesn't the impedance mismatch also make for a muddier sounding guitar ?

[@ksandbergfl9609]

All guitar amplifiers sound different too, due to circuit differences ;-) You can also make the exact same amp sound different by putting it up off the floor on a chair, or putting it close to a wall versus standing alone in the middle of a room. In my case, I consider the differences "negligible" between playing my Les Paul clean thru my Onkyo stereo versus clean thru any of my guitar amps.. it could be because I'm deaf due to 40+ years of playing rock guitar. But it just doesn't make that much difference to me."Muddiness" can be due to a combination of things, including the type of pickups, thickness/gauge of strings, setup of guitar, input impedance of the amplifier... If it sounds good to your ears, play it.

[@pete3198]

Yes, all amps will sound different to some degree by nature. I've been running an Onkyo home theatre amps which I just recently blew, so I swapped it out for a spare Sony home theatre amp I had lying around. Even though the setup is identical (same speakers, no changes in EQ, etc) the sound output from my speakers has changed significantly. The same would be true when connecting a guitar. The guitar is essentially just supplying an input signal to the amp - no different to what you would get from an xbox, a PC, an iPod, etc. The amp just takes that, processes/amplifies it, and send it out to whatever speakers you have connected up to it. The only ting I would maybe want to know is what input impedance you are getting, but in all honesty it might not even matter that much. Usually the main factor for an amplifier is the output impedance (i.e. the impedance of the speaker it is driving) - most hifi amps are 8ohm stable, some are 6 ohm stable. A very small number of hifi amps are 4ohm stable. If you drive speakers with an impedance any lower than that you run the risk of damaging your amplifier. But then I would just use the same speakers that I would use for listening to music off my PC / CD Player anyway - simply use an alternate input for when I want to use guitar. Now as for HOW MUCH difference you would hear from one amp to the next - that ultimately depends on the quality of the amp. Going from a cheap $50 no-brand amp off the store of your local electronics shop might well leave you with a singificantly different sound then you would get if you were to buy a nice $2,000 stereo amp - since a cheaper amp can be as much as +/- 3dB variation (sometimes even more) across the audible 20hz - 20khz bandwidth, leading to somewhat of a "natural EQ". On the other hand a really nice quality hifi amp will often be as tight as +/- 0.3dB from 20hz - 20khz, so this would give you a much more natural sound. Assuming natural sound is what you want, that is. Either way, I doubt changing one hifi amp for another would likely make nearly as much auidble difference as changing pickups on your guitar, or using a different speaker. Changing the speaker absolutely WOULD make a big difference to the sound. One big advantage I see to this approch is that for $200 you likely wouldn't get an off trhe shelf amp with anything more than maybe 3" - 4" speaker drivers. However if you use your hifi ampliifer instead you could easily custom build a speaker enclosure using something like a pair of 10" or 12" Peerless 10" SLS woofers (which cost around $60 apiece) and you could have a much bigger and more authoritative sound for similar money. What you're losing, of course, is all of the effect knobs that you'd normally get from a dedicated guitar amp. But I'm sure you could emulate many of those in software or alternatively use pedals or some other method.

[@ksandbergfl9609]

Good post! In my case, my out-of-pocket was close to $0 -- my neighbor was throwing out the Onkyo... and I built my 4x8" cabinet out of spare parts I had laying around. You are right -- with a nice effects unit, you don't need all the knobs of a guitar amp. Some will make the argument that studio-quality effects units sound BETTER thru a high-end stereo with studio-quality specs than a guitar amp. The biggest effect on your sound, as you say, will be the quality of the speakers and the design of the speaker cabinet.

[@magicchessreplays8203]

I always think of this. Like, since i'm using external guitar effect, i'll never really use the pre installed effect on a guitar amp. So why not build my own amp

[@spyware1100]

Buy a multieffect and connect the headphone out of the unit to one aux input of the home theather. Or use your computer to emulate amps by software and connect the speaker out of the computer to the aux in of the home theather. Plugging the guitar directly is just wrong in many ways. 1. The impedance will mismach. Some home theathers have phono in, which is closer to the guitar's impedance , but still not the same. 2. Home theather speakers are "wide-range", guitar speakers are not. They shape the sound of a guitar, so sound will be bad with home theather speakers alone. 3. Guitar needs a proper preamp (or a software simulation for that). Home theaters are designed for amplifying cd quality music, not instruments. Again, sound will be bad. It also will lack in volume because of impedance mismatch and who knows what other things. You can see in the video, you put volume almost half way and it's not too loud. Put a CD at that level to the home theather, it will be much much louder. HT's aren't designed for guitars.

[@ksandbergfl9609]

Connecting a electric guitar directly into a stereo does indeed suffer from an impedance mismatch, as you note. The impedance mismatch will cause a little bit of volume loss (as you note), but the more noticeable thing is that there will be a loss of treble at the high end. But, it isn't "wrong" and it won't break anything if you do it. I don't consider the sound "bad", just missing some high-end/treble.And not sure you watched the video - but I do indeed demonstrate using a preamp effects unit to feed the stereo. I use the Line out of the preamp, which is the same impedance as the Line In of the stereo.

[@whatyoumakeofit6635]

Should just drill hole mount 1/4 female jack on front of receiver. Solder wires from jack to contacts for cd rca input jacks, on the inside of receiver. Then itll be a pretty no monkeying around. And still have headphone jack for late night jam seesion.

[@chrisoman2195]

Bryan Keith you got it bro

[@ravenkf142]

Hi I was wondering I have a 1/4 inch mic socket on my hifi , could I use mic socket as well thanks in advance 👍

[@patrickkoh1056]

Haha, i wanted to try on my home system and found this...i guess a lot have thought about this and tried this. seems logical.

[@bradleyjohnson8780]

I like this a lot, only thing is that idk if it's cheaper to build my own cab or buy one for this. Any thoughts?

[@mattiavukcevic3900]

super helpful thanks man

[@bluenergy2009]

Nice idea low Budget amp thanks and thumbs up 👍

[@ksandbergfl9609]

hahaha, thanks. it actually works pretty good, especially with a stereo preamp.

[@Xakslied]

This is a good video

[@theguitarangels]

Does this work for semi acoustic

[@baihas8214]

What do I do if I wanna use virtual pedals. Should I connect 1/4 to Rca for the guitar and rca to 3.5mm does it work?

[@se7encureton]

Fist thing that comes to mind is bananas

[@thedustykeratometer8570]

Great ideas!

[@nateandjim]

How many watts your old stereo amplifier?

[@roncarter2188]

You can as well buy a quarter inch output plug that goes to your guitar and a RCA already split left and right RCA plug all one piece. Called a y connector!

[@gord1911a1]

Thank you, works great =)

[@moej.priest6861]

Thank you

[@marcelobelloni8754]

And what happen if I conect my pc to the home stereo and play my guitar through an audio interface directly to my pc using plugins? Can i damage the home stereo or something?

[@de-soldierman]

nice vid

[@jofast1344]

Hell fukn yeah iam hooking up mine now Time to jam out !!!

[@nedstar7378]

The most easy way, connecting the amp inputs left and right internal.

[@FiendishSpirit]

good job

[@chestermartin9991]

Can i plug the guitar jack directly to the amp?

[@mateicipraru4460]

No, it ll burn

[@kcleach9312]

i did this same thing about 10 years ago. it does work your way but you got to watch the volume. but i found it works better and safer is run your output of the distortion pedal or headphone jack and run that wire threw a old tape deck that way you can turn up your pedal and guitar volumes and u dont have to worry about overloading the amp!!! i also had it run threw my desk top computer

[@ksandbergfl9609]

In case you haven't seem it yet, I uploaded a new video of the finished amp and cabinet... m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/eqTbnYd4n8iZgJY

[@RADTRIP]

If I connect my guitar to a stereo with a RCA split left and right ( y connector) will it work?

[@kcleach9312]

as long as you run your cord from the headphone jack of your distortion pedal into the aux or cd,tape,video in on the back of the stereo it will work

[@SleepingLionsProductions]

This is what i do with my Pyle Power amp. 120 watts per side class D and is probably equvalent to an Orange Pedal Baby

[@Bu0f]

Can I use a violin like this to?

[@ksandbergfl9609]

I'm not sure how I would plug an electric guitar into a violin... ;-)

[@joetheman74]

Could have just cut the traces. Should have tried the stereos Phono pre-amp to see what kind of sound you would get. Certainly louder but not sure how the RIAA eq would effect the sound. An external eq through the tape monitor could help too. I would have left the headphone jack intact though so you could still play through phones late at night. Having a cord is no big deal or if it really bugs you you could drill and mount a jack on the unit somewhere.

[@ksandbergfl9609]

Phono In does not work. Phono In is far too sensitive (it expects signal levels on the order of millivolts, from the vibration of a little tiny needle on a record player). Plugging a guitar (with signal levels in the range of 0.1-0.7 volts) into Phono In overloads the circuit and it sounds like ear-rape. I did consider cutting traces and doing a more "professional" looking job, but running the wire from the headphone jack, thru the back, to the CD Input was a "10 second solution" that seemed to work just fine... so I left it.

[@williejenkins9681]

@@ksandbergfl9609 he said ear rape! 😂😂 Not gonna lie broman, I have a man crush on ya. Kindered spirits hahsha

[@Jenvión]

How would one connect the stereo to the cab?

[@InTheSh8]

Depends on your cab reallly! If you have one speaker only, you will only be able to run either L or R input. 2x12 and 4x12 cabs are often capable of stereo and you would need a stereo jack.

[@lance4930]

hey what if I plug a distortion pedal does sound of a speaker became distorted?

[@lance4930]

any ans?

[@ksandbergfl9609]

A hifi stereo head will gladly accept the output of any effects pedal. Plug any pedal you want into it. If you have a "modeling preamp" like a Line6 POD, Johnson J-Station, or Behringer V-Amp... these will actually sound BETTER being played thru a hifi stereo with really good speakers, than if you play them thru a guitar amp.

[@jomariangeles2497]

How about if i connect my jazz bass ? And then im use a 15' of speaker ?

[@henrikr5623]

This question is a bit unrelated to the topic, but here it goes: when I connect headphones into phones (output) and play music, my music plays through speakers and the headphones at the same time. I'm wondering how i can mute either of them, (not both)

[@UMANGPLAYS]

Mine has a mircophone slot that fits the guitar cable so I can connect it directly to the home stereo. I have to be in the Game mode and i can play the guitar.

[@jmcoffeeartist2204]

Which mode?? I have also but i dont know which mode of home theater

[@UMANGPLAYS]

@@jmcoffeeartist2204 well mine has different buttons for CD, Tape, Radio and "Game" which is for microphones and all outputs, so if connect my cable and turn on Game mode it works.

[@jmcoffeeartist2204]

Thankyou.. 🔥🔥

[@sanketsarkar]

If I pump up guitar volume are there any chances that I might blow up my AMP?

[@ksandbergfl9609]

No, the signal coming from a guitar and/or effects preamp will not blow out the Aux In of your amp. On the flip side, if you crank up your amp, there is a good chance you'll blow your speakers, unless you play thru guitar/instrument speakers.

[@sanketsarkar]

@@ksandbergfl9609 Alright, so the key is to keep the vol low from Amp. Thanks so much man!

[@TimpBizkit]

Depends what impedance your speakers are. 2 ohms might be a bit low but 4 or 8 ohms is fine for most amps. I mean also guitar speakers are fairly sensitive so a 50 or 100 watt amp should be pretty deafening.

[@darrellmiddleton6615]

Would this work with a small aux cable with an adapter to fit the guitars output jack instead of the other way around ?

[@noxvi4753]

Can i plug the guitar into the phone jack at the front of the receiver? I have an identical one to yours.

[@ksandbergfl9609]

you have to modify the phone jack to route the signal to the back of the unit, like to the CD In.. I show it in my video.

[@2visiondigital]

Hmmmm, I thought instrument level (guitar signal ) and line level ( receiver inputs ) were different. In theory the guitar should not be very loud, like plugging a phono into a line level jack. I thought you would need a preamp. Guess I need to try it to find out.

[@ksandbergfl9609]

"guitar level" kinda depends on the pickups you have, it can vary a lot, but even weak pickups put out far more signal than a phone needle... the average humbucker guitar pickup puts out 0.5v or so which is plenty for the Line In. A bigger consideration is the input impedance - Line In versus guitar amp inputs are very different... plugging a guitar straight into a Line In can result in noticeable loss of treble. However, if you plug the guitar into a preamp/effects first and run the effects into the Line In - there should be no issues.

[@anthonyesporlas9913]

Hi My Home Stereo sysyem does not have CD in. Only Aux in RCA with a Red And White color code at the back of my Home Stereo System . Will it work if im going to use the Y Adapter to Play my Electric Guitar ?

[@ksandbergfl9609]

yes, you can use the Aux In

[@maximeregimbald-bouffard9739]

Its not necessary To have cd in.you just need à aux in and bingo you have all you need To connect your connecter

[@axebeard7677]

That’s pretty sweet

[@RADTRIP]

If I connect my electric guitar to my home stereo will my Bose speaker cabinet blow out? I'm so scared Edit: will a Looper work if i connect it to the home stereo?

[@ksandbergfl9609]

as long as you connect the output of your guitar or pedal to the "Aux In" or "CD In" of your stereo, you should be fine.

[@UMANGPLAYS]

Works for me.

[@ImotekhtheStormlord-tx2it]

im thinkin of buying one and recording gutiar

[@tedgrant2]

Good, but I have a guitar amp 100w Marshall but no cab to test it. So I want to use my 8 ohm speakers from my HiFi to test the amp, just to see if it's alive. Any advice ?

[@TimpBizkit]

You can splice a speaker cable or solder two leads to a mono 1/4" speaker out jack, and connect them to the input terminals on the speaker. If you have 100 watt amp it's probably best to keep the volume low especially if your speakers are low power handling.

[@rickfeith6372]

Yea...be REAL careful, as guitar tube amps SHRED hifi speakers. Do yourself a favor and get a real guitar cab with real Celestion speakers, maybe V-30s, Greenback, Creamback, G12T75 or similar. I like Vintage 30s and Greenies with Marshall heads, as do lots of others. Hifi speakers sound like ass with guitar amps, they are full range flat response (sort of) speakers, where guitar speakers are basically 12" mid frequency drivers that soak up and roll off non guitar bands.

[@generalleigh7387]

Honestly man, does that rig have a direct to the board kind tone? Or does it have just enough brownstone to play out with it loud and fat and believable?

[@ksandbergfl9609]

The Onkyo hi-fi head does not color the sound much, on its own. If you want to use a hi-fi head as a guitar power amp, you will get better results if your preamp is a "modeling" preamp. The rig in my video sounds "OK" but it does lean towards a "direct to the board" kind of tone... it's basically a bunch of effects pedals plugged into a stereo.

[@generalleigh7387]

@@ksandbergfl9609 I was really wondering what the difference was between say a stereo power amp rackmount versus the guts in say your average onkyo power amp circuit.

[@ksandbergfl9609]

If you're asking if a hifi head could replace (or be used instead of) a traditional solid-state stereo guitar amp -- the answer is YES. This Onkyo in my video has four 50W power outputs... 200W total... I have used this rig in my video for live performances with my band, with no problems.

[@generalleigh7387]

@@ksandbergfl9609 Thanks. That just convinced me to build me an amp. Prefab amplifier boards are dirt cheap.

[@ksandbergfl9609]

@@generalleigh7387 Oh you're a DIY'er? That will work fine. I have a DIY stereo rackmount myself... I once bought a Marshall 8008 at a thrift store, only to learn that it had a burned out main board in it. So I found a cheap ($15) 2x20W audio circuit board and stuck it in the Marshall 8008 chassis... I used an old laptop charger as the 12v power supply.... it works great! I'm very pleased with it.

[@conzector0171]

Is it the same with bass?

[@c.e.f4916]

will this work to hook your guitar to a surround sound?

[@ksandbergfl9609]

as long as your system has "Line In" or "Aux In" jacks, yes, it should work OK.

[@chosuke02]

I bought a big ass speaker, and it is loud. Another cool feature is that it has a jack made exclusively for a guitar. It sounds really good but I cant adjust the tone knobs on the guitar. Can I use pedals with it to get more tones?

[@chosuke02]

Cause I thought to myself why buy an expensive amp when you can buy a big ass speaker and use pedals.

[@xboys_archive]

chøke well the tone knobs are just to make it sound more muddy or more clear pedals can make a whole host of other sounds

[@sharrell64sh]

Thanks man....just thanks!

[@ksandbergfl9609]

In case you haven't seem it yet, I uploaded a new video of the finished amp and cabinet... m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/eqTbnYd4n8iZgJY

[@subha517]

is there any kind of latency!!!

[@airgliderz]

None at all. Tried using wifi, now that has bothersome latency. Zero latency if connected to stereo input

[@petrepetre5311]

Hello sir, jf i connect my guitar through an adapter to CD on the stereo, its safe right?

[@pratapghanghas7785]

What are the song's names that you're playing on your guitar..???? Plzzz tell me bro

[@archana8005]

Pratap Ghanghas the first one is more than a feeling by boston

[@xboys_archive]

sxdncss 10/10 profile pic

[@claytonmoechnig6067]

Sounds better than a cheap amp and probably 1/2 the cost of you get the receiver cheap or free

[@ddrreeii_]

what is the song you played sir?

[@emcee8067]

Boston- more than a feeling. Great song!

[@gwugluud]

Oh, if it has a CD in/out, it's not an Onkyo from the 70s, so I did mistake your amp for an older one by that same dev. Lol

[@RADTRIP]

Is there a way to connect a laptop and audio interface to the home stereo/speaker?

[@danyalexsf]

Probably you already figured it out, but just connect the line level outputs of your interface to the line in of the power amp.

[@baihas8214]

danyalexsf what do mean, should you get a 1/4 to rca for the guitar and rca to 3.5mm for the pc would to that work, and you connect the four plugs of rca and one 1/4 for the guitar and the other two for the pc via 3.5 mm, because I wanna use virtual pedals and I don't know if it will work a reply would be greatly appreciated

[@bluerock5351]

Great idea!!! Not a pristine sound but useful as an extra channel. Thanks for posting video.

[@ksandbergfl9609]

Yes with a Hifi stereo as an amp head, you'll have the best results using a modeling preamp like a Line 6, a Jstation, a VAMP, or an Eleven Rack.... as opposed to traditional guitar stomp boxes like I am using in my demo. Thanks for watching!

[@bluerock5351]

I have a Line 6, & zoom G3 modelling pedal that I use for backing tracks & the drum beats, which seam to sound particularly nice, to my ears at least. The guitar sounds much better through a guitar amp and now I can use my distortion effects without affecting distortion on the drums. It only cost me a 1/4' plug V2 plug adapter $5.90 and a two prong cable plugged straight into the accessory port of the stereo. K SandbergFL thanks again mate.