khawkins75 1 Posted May 24, 2018 Hi, I'm trying to setup my guitar to run through my desktop monitors. I tried running the amp direct out into the speakers, and it works, but the sound isn't very good. It seems muffled and distorted, even at lower volumes. Is this a known issue, or is there a setting to change? Also, if this isn't a good setup option, what would you recommend to use? I looked at getting an HD500X, then run that into the speakers, skipping the amp all together, but figured I'd try with what I have first. Thanks! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
psarkissian 359 Posted May 25, 2018 Impedance mis-match. Instrument Level signal going out into a Line Level signal input device. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
khawkins75 1 Posted May 25, 2018 Thanks. That's what I thought might be the issue. Would I have this same problem running an HD500X into powered speakers? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
psarkissian 359 Posted May 25, 2018 Yes. Need some pre-amp as a buffer amp in between. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
fflbrgst 1,852 Posted May 29, 2018 The Line Out/headphone out from a Spider 4 75 is not instrument level. khawkins75 - what speakers did you hook up? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jak_E_lee 10 Posted June 13, 2018 Get one of these.I did this on a spider 3.Hook it up to the speaker leads and then glue it inside the cab.I now have thes speaker running in my spider 3 and a DI feed to a desk Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
fflbrgst 1,852 Posted June 13, 2018 The solution above ^^ is taking the powered speaker output and paralleling it to more devices. Note that this could affect the amp's output circuit (running a parallel circuit will reduce the impedance seen by the amp circuit). It's also sending a powered signal to whatever device is being used - this could blow out components in an audio interface or computer's audio input. Not sure why the OP wants to hook up desktop speakers directly to the DI - the amp's built-in speaker will give the best tone. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jak_E_lee 10 Posted June 16, 2018 On 6/13/2018 at 8:04 AM, jak_E_lee said: Get one of these.I did this on a spider 3.Hook it up to the speaker leads and then glue it inside the cab.I now have thes speaker running in my spider 3 and a DI feed to a desk This device can be screwed down so its an extremley low unpowered feed into a desk. I been using it on a spider 3 with no adverse affect and its a more true tonal pattern to using the headphone out. Also have my spider 3 altered at the phones port with a flick switch so i can either have the amp speaker on or off which is what I previously used...until I got this converter....streets ahead of the headphone port as a DI,just keep the converter set at minumum Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
