Splitters - 2 into 1 wont go

[fdavidso]

Hi all,

Last night, I tried to plug a cd player and my bass in the input socket of my mighty Roland Micro cube via a two female mono 1/4" to male mono 1/4" "splitter" (combiner, really). It did not work! Guitar works, cd player works, guitar plus cd lead but not plugged into player worked. But guitar plus plugged in cd muted the guitar. I tried this with both an active bass and a passive bass. Any ideas? This is a bit of a spanner in the works of my plan to buy a "proper" amp (one without dedicated cd input).


Cheers

[JDH]

Doesn't this amp have an auxiliary stereo in (3.5mm jack) on the back panel?

Regards

JDH

[geoffbyrne]

Little mixer.

G.

[fdavidso]

[quote name='JDH' post='921299' date='Aug 11 2010, 09:17 AM']Doesn't this amp have an auxiliary stereo in (3.5mm jack) on the back panel?

Regards

JDH[/quote]

Hi
YEs it does, but I was conducting an experiment. in view of my next amp which may not have aux in.

[fdavidso]

[quote name='geoffbyrne' post='921314' date='Aug 11 2010, 09:37 AM']Little mixer.

G.[/quote]

Oh you tease... come on, what's a mixer and are they xxx pounds?

Cheers

[fdavidso]

[quote name='fdavidso' post='921326' date='Aug 11 2010, 10:05 AM']Oh you tease... come on, what's a mixer and are they xxx pounds?

Cheers[/quote]

Ah ha - this kind of thing?

[url="http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=36158#helpfaq"]http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=36158#helpfaq[/url]

[Happy Jack]

That looks like a pretty poor piece of kit IMO.

You'd be much better off getting something like [url="http://www.dolphinmusic.co.uk/product/8546-behringer-xenyx-502.html"]http://www.dolphinmusic.co.uk/product/8546...-xenyx-502.html[/url] or perhaps a slightly bigger jobbie bought second-hand.

Behringer get a very bad press, but for this sort of stuff they're absolutely fine and unbeatable on price. Most of their little mixers are reverse-engineered copies of Alesis kit.

[fdavidso]

[quote name='Happy Jack' post='921347' date='Aug 11 2010, 10:28 AM']That looks like a pretty poor piece of kit IMO.

You'd be much better off getting something like [url="http://www.dolphinmusic.co.uk/product/8546-behringer-xenyx-502.html"]http://www.dolphinmusic.co.uk/product/8546...-xenyx-502.html[/url] or perhaps a slightly bigger jobbie bought second-hand.

Behringer get a very bad press, but for this sort of stuff they're absolutely fine and unbeatable on price. Most of their little mixers are reverse-engineered copies of Alesis kit.[/quote]

Ok, this looks serious! I have no experience of these things - do you reckon it can do the following:

1) take cd input and guitar input and feed this into an amplifier to get sound out of the speaker,
2) take cd input and guitar input and feed this into an amplifier and get the output sent back to the mixer from which headphones could be driven?


Thanks for your time.

[JDH]

You can do both without a mixer. There's an auxiliary in (iPod/CD or other source) and a record/headphones out. I would expect the record/headphone out to mute the speakers.

Check out the user manual...

Cheers

JDH

[Happy Jack]

[quote name='fdavidso' post='921435' date='Aug 11 2010, 11:33 AM']Ok, this looks serious! I have no experience of these things - do you reckon it can do the following:

1) take cd input and guitar input and feed this into an amplifier to get sound out of the speaker,
2) take cd input and guitar input and feed this into an amplifier and get the output sent back to the mixer from which headphones could be driven?


Thanks for your time.[/quote]

If JDH's answer doesn't work for you, then:

1) Yes, there's a red/white stereo input to take a CD/iPod/whatever feed, but plugging a 1/4" guitar lead in won't give you anything worth having - use a DI box OR any pedal with a DI output OR the XLR output from your amp or any pedal etc.

Take a long, hard look at the kit you've already accumulated and you'll usually find you already own most of the solution!

2) Why would you do this? Mixers invariably have a Headphones Out socket, usually with its own Level control.

If in doubt, go onto the Behringer website and download the Manual for this particular Mixer. It won't take you long to work out what's what.