I ran a quarter inch from my headphone jack to my audio input? I think I wanna try it out but bad things could happen… Anyone have any clues? Is it safe? Could I be injured in the process?
Doing this will give you an unamplified microphone. It wouldn’t do anything.
I’d think you’d get a feedback loop which would continue gaining strength until it destroyed your speakers. I probably would avoid it.
Why an unamplified microphone? Isn’t there signal coming from the headphone jack being repeated by the audio input?
I don’t have a LP yet so I am not positive of what happens at the audio input.
I’ve heard that running the headphone input back into the audio is a trick some used to thicken up the sound on a Minimoog.
I’ve never tried it on my LP, but I don’t really see what harm it might do.
Has anyone actually tried it?
Total ionic reversal.
I just tried it.
With the output volume below half it thins out the low end. As I turned up the output volume I got feedback - the unpleasant kind like when you point a microphone at a monitor speaker.
Not really a useful thing to do.
Bryan
I think he thought you were going to plug the cable from a pair of headphones into the external audio in jack, not the output from the headphone jack on the LP.