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Hi,

Currently when practising with headphones I've settled on using my Zoom B3, and it sounds great for that. The trouble is that it doesn't have an aux in for when I want to play along to a music source like an mp3 player (I know I can use it with a laptop over usb, but that's a bit of a pain with my cronky old laptop).

Anyone got any good ideas / recommendations on something like a simple mixer that will allow me to mix the headphone output from the B3 with the headphone output from my mp3 player? Ideally something that's not a lot of messing around to set up for a quick practice, or costs the earth. Cheep and cheerful, really.

H.

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i use a little mixer like this and then a headphone to 2 1/4" jack cable (which can be bought from maplins) to run any device i want into it

[url="https://www.studiospares.com/Studio-Gear/Mixers-Analogue/ALTO-Zephyr-ZMX52-Mixer_305020.htm?ne=AQAAAAMAAAAEBEFsdG8="]https://www.studiosp...AMAAAAEBEFsdG8=[/url]

i also then take this to use to run my in ears on gigs too

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I've got an Amplug and it would be ideal, but it lives in a drawer. With my passive Epi T-bird I have to have its volume up to max, and gain half way up just to get any volume out of it. And then it just sounds clipped and farty. Really awful. Not sure what the tone dial is supposed to do, either. No appreciable change with it.
Having read around a few forum posts, it sounds common. People have really variable experiences with them. Random quality, perhaps?

I must admit the B1on doesn't look much more expensive than a mixer and does it all. It just feels odd buying it when I already have the B3. :D

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[quote name='xzodar' timestamp='1425245532' post='2705574']
Would using a headphone splitter (Y cable) with headphones in one side and MP3 player in the other work?
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something like this

[url="http://www.boots.com/en/Belkin-RockStar-Multi-Headphone-Splitter_1517193/?cm_mmc=pla-_-google-_-PLAs-_-Boots+Shopping+-+Category+-+Electrical+Beauty"]http://www.boots.com/en/Belkin-RockStar-Multi-Headphone-Splitter_1517193/?cm_mmc=pla-_-google-_-PLAs-_-Boots+Shopping+-+Category+-+Electrical+Beauty[/url]

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[quote name='xzodar' timestamp='1425245532' post='2705574']
Would using a headphone splitter (Y cable) with headphones in one side and MP3 player in the other work?
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It would probably work, but is it safe? I'm not an electrical engineer, so maybe someone could comment? Does it risk damage to either the mp3 player or the B3 if you splice two supplies like that on ports that are only expecting to send a signal out and don't have common grounds, etc? I assume (yeah, I know, stupid) that a proper mixer would take care of all that in the circuit.

H.

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