If you have a "line-in" input on your laptop, I have three suggestions: Zoom's multi-FX pedals are a cost-effective option. If you use something like this, you probably need an amp simulation pedal to make the guitar sound musical. It also has a headphone socket for private practice.
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I have an Alesis portable PA amp with mic, instrument and phono inputs each on a separate gain control. If "pocket" isn't a feature you want, you could look at using a PA amp with multiple inputs. This is more expensive, but more flexible, and adds opportunities such as recording. There are also similar devices designed to be used with computers, phones and tablets, in which effects are emulated by the computer. You could also use other pedals and plug this device into the output of the last pedal in the chain and you could connect the headphone signal to the aux-in of any amplifier, to practice without headphones. You would connect an MP3 player (or whatever) into the 3.5mm aux-in, and headphones into the headphone socket. With these one, you would plug the large input jack into your guitar.
Here's some photos of some - one cheap, the other more upmarket. There are quite a lot of products available which take guitar signal and an aux signal, and combine them into a headphone. My Roland Cube mini has it, but plenty of other brands do it too.
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UPDATE : This is now a really mainstream thing, with tons of small amps on the market having a line-in socket alongside the instrument socket so you can plug in a phone and get it as a backing track. Though usually when people use Garage Band it's with a non-amplified guitar signal. Or you could use a line in to plug your amp in to your computer, and use a simple DAW (Garage Band or similar is fine) to distribute the signal that way. It's nice to be able to both hear the backing track and also keep your focus on your own sound, and I do think it can be hard to get this balance in a simple, easy-to-use practice solution.Īs an alternative, you could use a small mixer (or a program such as Garageband) to distribute the signal to your headphones. You can also experiment for instance by panning the backing track 70% left and panning your guitar 70% right. There are some disadvantages to this approach but it has been fairly convenient and produces a reasonably good result. Then just play a backing track on the laptop, and listen with headphones. What I would suggest is to use an Apogee Jam to plug the guitar into the laptop, where it can then use Amplitube to model the sound of a guitar.
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