It was me. You can use the HA with headphones but you will need two things: First, the output of the HA is high impedance and headphones are low impedance devices - you need an impedance matching transformer. 2nd the HA is a line/mic level device, it isn't an amplifier. You need a headphone amplifier.
@Greg Ah-oh... this is more complicated than I imagined... I searched the forum, but couldn't find anything, except for "Bb" mentioning using headphones with his Harp Attack.
I have a Shure impedance transformer, but not sure about the connectors... I know nothing about "headphone amplifiers".
Any suggestions on a good headphone amplifer to use, and how it all hooks together ?
Using headphones with the Harp Attack to practice quietly would be great and fun to play around with.
I run mine (which is part of my pedal board) through a small mixing board. Headphones out of the board. It lets me play along with backing tracks and stuff without disturbing the rest of the house too much. Works well. -Bob
I will have to stop at the local Radio Shack and see if they have a Boostaroo in stock.
So my Shure Line Matching Transformer (Model # A95UF) should work with this setup ?
I have screw on male 1/4" adpter (to plug in the output of the HA), and an XLR female w/ 1/4" male adapter... and I guess I will need some adapters to go into the 1/8" male Boostaroo cable... that's a motherload of adapters that'll be sticking out of the HA !
Yep - I made mine. But the guts is nothing more than the same transformer you would find in any "impedance matching transformer" made for musicians to put a low-Z source like an SM57 into a high Z load like an amp, or to put a high-Z source like a JT30 into a low-Z load like a PA.
Set it up with the high-Z leads on the HarpAttack side and the low-Z leads going out to the headphone amp. ---------- /Greg
