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From: lisper@yale.UUCP (Bjorn Lisper)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics,rec.music.synth
Subject: Re: guitar audio signals
Message-ID: <22670@yale-celray.yale.UUCP>
Date: 8 Feb 88 02:27:42 GMT
References: <502@m10ux.UUCP>
Reply-To: lisper@yale-celray.UUCP (Bjorn Lisper)
Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept, New Haven CT
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In article <502@m10ux.UUCP> rgr@m10ux.UUCP (Duke Robillard) writes:
>
>Here's a question for a novice electronics and novice music type:
>
>Do turntables put out the same  audio signal as electric guitars?
>what about really old turntables (I think they're called ceramic,
>as opposed to electronic), the kind that need a preamp?  Can I
>hurt anything by pluggin a guitar into a home stereo amp?

Plug your guitar into "AUX" at your amp. I've been doing this with various
keyboards when I've been playing with them at home and it works just fine,
so I guess a guitar would be no problem either. You will perhaps need a
connector adapter since your amp might not have teleplug jacks. Do not use
the turntable inputs. Not that I think you can destroy anything but this
input has a special preamplifier that compensates for the kind of frequency
response a turntable pickup has. This will destroy, if not your amp, the
sound of your guitar.

And yes, switch your amp to mono (most stereo amps have a switch for that).
Then you will get the sound in both channels. Some stereo amps doesn't like
when they have a full signal in one channel and none in the other.

Good luck!   Bjorn Lisper