Amy Smith

Hey guys, desperately in need of some advice as I don't know much about this so please bear with me. Long and short of it is, I live in a flat/apartment and like to practise at night so need a way of practising where I can hear an amplified sound in some headphones. I have a small basic practise amp, sounds good when playing through the cab but I tried plugging headphones into the 6.35mm headphone hole on the amp and it sounds horrendous. (I don't have headphones with a 6.35mm jack so used an adapter with some normal everyday headphones. I have no idea if the problem is the adapter, the headphones being too basic, or the headphones input/system on the amp. Not keen to buy some expensive headphones and then find that it still sounds bad.) I've been down a massive wormhole trying to figure out how I can use my current amp to practise with headphones, and have established that another method may be better. In the process I came across the mini headphone amps, 'amPlugs', from VOX/Blackstar and the like, which seem good as I wouldn't need to go through my regular amp. However I'm not keen on the fact that they're battery powered as I'd get through a fortune in batteries. No idea if a mains powered version of something like this exists. I've read some things about using an audio interface to plug in both the bass and a pair of regular headphones. I have no idea what I'd be looking to buy though. Basically, I don't have hundreds to spend and I'd ideally like a mains-powered solution, where I can use either normal headphones that I already own or a pair that don't cost too much. Does that solution exist? What method should I use and what category of product should I be looking to buy? Thanks so much. Sincerely, a helpless noob