I think this might be the only video on KZfaq on this subject. Slightly hard to find. It's been years, but finally I setup my "Mesa/Boogie 50/50 power amp" and my "Mesa 2x12". No more apartment life for me.

That demo riff is dope! Very melodic and heavy.

Just learned about and tried NAM and it is awesome! But still it’s a bit weird to play guitar through a pair of monitor speakers because it doesn’t sound like amps

Really cool how well that works! Baby Bomb will come in handy with your HXStomp too. Thanks for the shoutout too :)

For those asking if it works in live situation : I just come back from a technical rehearsal day with my band and was plugged like this, I'll try to be precise. The other guitarist plays with a Orange Th30 head and a fender 2x12 cab. I was plugged in my Focusrite 2i2 -> FX Loop return of my Jet City 100H head -> 2x12 cab I use Neural DSP plugins (some of the best ones today). I usually use my EHX 44 Magnum (power amp pedal) for this technique but this way I'm able to use my amp head as a backup if my pc shuts down (but it is not a great amp at all). My Jet City head have only one 12AX7 valve for the loop, it may be important to know for the test. At a very low level it's kind of cool but a bit unnatural, like very compressed. That's not the sound of an amp, but the amp of, lets say, an mp3 file through my cab. Our sound guy spent the day trying to go through my presets and eq-ing to reduce the super harshness of my sound. Our guitarist had to finally play very low, so did the rest of the band. The fact is that I'm totally crushed under my bandmates sound, even after non stop eq-ing. Not a lot of air even with my cab... After concidering bying a better power amp pedal (like a Seymour Duncan Power amp), I begin to think to go back to a simple real (and good!) valve head. Because we play a kind of post hardcore/heavy shoegaze sound (Deftones/Nothing), I m asking you : Is it worth to always buy a better interface, better computer, better power amp... and not really know if it's gonna sound gold because nobody really does it ? Let's be honest : the reason we want to do this is because it enables to play all these damn good quality and unafordable amps (like Neural DSP simulates) without spending a lot. At the end of the day I will spend more than in a good quality high gain head and I can still encounter many eq/volume/definition problemes I dont knpw about yet. If you had other experiences, good or bad, please write ;)

Thank you SO much. My and my buddy were like, I wonder if we can connect our laptop/plugin to a speaker cab. And viola! Found your video!

sweet!! gotta try it when i get myself an Audio Interface :D

Thanks mate, just need the pedal for my neural setup 😁👍

Great Video!!! That is something I always wanted to know.

so say you have a real amp, but you want to use the amp sims through it just to have different sounds available... would I just go guitar > interface >effects loop send > amp speaker output > speaker cabinet?

Excellent! Thank you!

For audio interfaces with a L/R output, should I run it into a 1/4 inch adapter and then run it into my poweramp?

Well, it's usually like this in live situations. A- The state already has an amp + a cab, I'd just plug the audio out into the fx-loop in. B- The place doesn't have an amp and 99% of the times in this case they don't have a guitar cab. But they have a speaker system of some sort, I'd just use IR's and then plug it directly as line in. Other than that I don't really see why I'd want to do something like this for practicing since with IR's any sort of home speakers can sound the way your guitar speaker does except for free unless it's absolutely the worst. But anyways cool tip. Thanks I guess.

Thank you. I’m just starting. Where is the Mac in that chain?

Thanks for the video, its very nice! I am trying to do this myself, one of my concerns is how high should the output volume be from the computer, should it be maxed out ?

Thanks for the video. Dont u need a reamp before the power amp pedal?

Hey, Gary. Thanks for the video. A few years ago, I laughed at amp sims and swore I'd never use them. Then I ate my words after my friend turned me on to Guitar Rig. It's all I use in my recordings now. I'd like to hook up a live setup like this. My only outputs on my PreSonus are IL and 2R. Don't I need to run those into 2 separate inputs in the power amp? (Really want my old power amp, the Peavey 120/120 with 6L6 tubes)!

Would a scarlett solo work for this? it has a L and R line output in the back

what cable should i use? instrument cable or speaker cable for audio interface output and poweramp output?

I'd like to know if the amp sim would work with a combo amplifier.

Great video, all that I am concered about is the cable coming out of audio interface into the poweramp. I guess that you should use a TRS cable, that carries a balanced line level signal (that it supposed to go to you monitors), but the power amp si expecting to recieve a simple TS instrument cable that carries an unbalanced instrument level signal. Wouldn't that cause any problems? Or it doesn't matter which cable you use?

Can I use this without an actual guitar power amp? I have a power amp that isn’t a guitar pedal. But it works as a power amp for speakers and stuff. Could that still work?

For live situation, I really care about latency, how much would you spend on a laptop ? How do you reduce it to minimum ? Thank you :)

Thanks for the video, I have a question though.....For example I have an orange pedal baby, which is a power amp i use with my GT 1000. The input of the orange power amp expects an instrument cable, but the output of a soundcard expects a TRS cable for monitors.....So there is a problem here, really. How come you plug an instrument cabçe to a soundcard interface, or an audio trs cable to the input of a poweramp? It s not the same thing....There should be something wrong here.....Excuse my non enlightment on the subject. Thank you ;)

Hi, it's a good set up but these power amp pedals like the Mooer are 30watt transistor (like a home transistor amp). Maybe I'm missing something but it seams weak for gigging with a full band (and real tube amps). Does the size of the cab changes something in the volume ?

Wait a minute. I'm a bit confused with the instruction at 3:48. So are you saying that the signal chain is: guitar>audio interface input>interface output to power amp input>power amp output back INTO audio interface>second audio interface output to speaker cab? Just want to be clear so I don't blow my speakers.

What happens when you run the amp sim out the interface, through a reamp box, and in the front of your tube amp, i.e. it's preamp section?

Is the baby bomb loud enough thru a 4x12 cab to play over a heavy hitting drummer? I’ve got to shrink the size of my rig now because our practice spot is way farther away now…and if I can use these amp sims with their effects and such I won’t have to lug all my gear to practice. I’ll buy WHATEVER I need to still get my sound there without lugging my rig and the 1600 watt pa just to play over our drummer.

Awesome.....nice job, Thanks !

So, the output on the audio interface has the signal from the amp sim? Wouldn't it just be a "dry" signal?

Would this work with a BOSS TM-7 guitar monitor since it has an onboard amp sim ?

Nice video! Exactly what I wanted to know; because I am fed up on playing through headphones :). Is the poweramp needed to get enough volume from your guitarspeaker?

This would work with any sim, like pod farm2.5 ?

Wow beautifully done! Would you say playing through the speaker gives it a bigger sound than just using amp sims in your daw?

Shouldn’t you also use a reamp box?

I tried this setup many times, but I can't make it sound and feel like a real guitar amp. Every time it just sounds very flabby and muffled, with no definition and no attack. My cab sim is disabled, there is no clipping, but it still sounds very cheap... It feels like playing a guitar on a neck pickup with a tone knob set to 0. I can make it somewhat usable by enabling overdrive in the plugin and cutting some flabbiness with a eq, but it still sounds quite bad. I am using scarlett focusrite solo 3rd gen and a solid custom made 212 v30 cab. My joyo zombie amp, or boss katana head sounds 100 times better than any Neural DSP sim going into my cab... I really wanna make it sound good, but maybe impedance is the problem?

Can you use like a mesa 2:90 or different tube power amps?

Hypothetically, could I run a cable on the headphones jack from my laptop into the auxiliary input on my amp designed for music playback through the speaker, and ALSO use the guitar's input from an actual guitar. The amp is a Laney LX15, and the interface is a Guitarport. I understand that latency COULD be an issue.

What power amp u using?

Why no reamp box?

do I need a reamp box before the power amp? to get the signal from balanced to unbalanced ??

Could I use a powered pa head on top of my guitar amp cab or do I need a power amp ? Also lets say I wanted to run to font of house aka to a mixer then to pa speakers id assume this would work but, with the sim cab's on ? Any help with this would be amazing so thanks!

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Where you from dawg? unique accent

does it feel like an amp?

i tried this with the Focusrite Scarlet 2i2 into the Nu-X Solid Studio. It works but i'm having trouble with the volume being incredibly low, and i can't seem to find a way to turn up the volume?

oh yeah, been playing all those years without an audio device...

studio one is just disaster of a DAW xD

To hell with any apple product