My questions and assumptions.

[fuzzyhair]

Okay I own a crate amp that has the red and white audio jacks in the front. From what i understand this is meant to playback music while you play or whatever you want to do. so...
1) Is it safe to run a line from my laptop into my amp?
2) Could I possibly use it as a monitor instead of buying monitors. Im guessing since its a guitar amp it shouldn't be made to sound all pretty and the eq should be pretty flat.
3) Could this possibly ruin my amp? I don't see how it could considering its made for it, but just a question incase im missing something.
Thanks!

[10571z]

1. yes
2. studio monitors no probably not the best idea.... but live monitor also not the best idea but u can try
3. no it wont reck ur amp.

this is my knowlegde i might be wrong but there not gunna put them in if it wrecks it..

[fuzzyhair]

1. yes
2. studio monitors no probably not the best idea.... but live monitor also not the best idea but u can try
3. no it wont reck ur amp.

this is my knowlegde i might be wrong but there not gunna put them in if it wrecks it..okay so say if i was to record a backing track on my computer and then send that through my amp and record a solo over it, everything would be okay?

[TheJarve]

1. yes, its fine, so long as you use the red and white plugs
2. it wouldn't work as studio monitors, speakers on guitar amps colour the sound to give it a proper guitar noise. as a studio monitor it would be very inefficient and make your songs sound.... different. not sure about live monitors
3. plugging something into the red and white plugs and attaching your guitar in the standard in would be absolutely fine. however, not a good long term option, as the two signals do interfere with one another

[fuzzyhair]

okay but for doing backing tracks and stuff like that it should be okay. Thats good. okay thanks.

[airborne50caliber]

Okay I own a crate amp that has the red and white audio jacks in the front. From what i understand this is meant to playback music while you play or whatever you want to do. so...
1) Is it safe to run a line from my laptop into my amp?
2) Could I possibly use it as a monitor instead of buying monitors. Im guessing since its a guitar amp it shouldn't be made to sound all pretty and the eq should be pretty flat.
3) Could this possibly ruin my amp? I don't see how it could considering its made for it, but just a question incase im missing something.
Thanks!

Hokay head up. Your RCA plugs are made to play along to a CD.. they should be calibrated for line level and therefore the answer to 1 and 3 is that it should be perfectly fine and should not ruin your amp.

But people.. guitar amps as monitors! (2) Words of a madman! Guitar speakers are inneficient as hell and the eq graph is steep enough to kill the average BMXer (So NOT flat). They have virtually no real highs and are very exaggerated in the mids.. this is all to make your guitar sound better, but run a whole mix through that stuff and :smash:!!! Also, the clean modes on some amps don't stop the rectification action completely, so you run the risk of getting compression, distortion and other meanies. Additionally, unless the amp has 2 speakers, the stereo signal you are feeding it will be summed to mono before playing back. You start to get the idea why you don't want to be listening to your mix on this stuff.

[fuzzyhair]

Hokay head up. Your RCA plugs are made to play along to a CD.. they should be calibrated for line level and therefore the answer to 1 and 3 is that it should be perfectly fine and should not ruin your amp.

But people.. guitar amps as monitors! (2) Words of a madman! Guitar speakers are inneficient as hell and the eq graph is steep enough to kill the average BMXer (So NOT flat). They have virtually no real highs and are very exaggerated in the mids.. this is all to make your guitar sound better, but run a whole mix through that stuff and :smash:!!! Also, the clean modes on some amps don't stop the rectification action completely, so you run the risk of getting compression, distortion and other meanies. Additionally, unless the amp has 2 speakers, the stereo signal you are feeding it will be summed to mono before playing back. You start to get the idea why you don't want to be listening to your mix on this stuff.
okie dokie!

[TheJarve]

listen to that guy, he's a tech :D