EQD Easy Listening headphone amp

AntonHunter

https://www.earthquakerdevices.com/easy-listening

If this sounds good (demos do, but y'know), this could be ideal for headphone practice or throwing into a gig bag for emergencies. I tend to agree with Jamie Stillman's ears, most of his pedals are voiced to my tastes.

£115 from GuitarGuitar. 

Keyroh

Dawn, was hoping I might see a stereo input here

stevrossthepipe

Got one on the way will give it a go this weekend. This really tickles my simplicity bone. If it can handle my fuzzes and has some headroom and enough output I'm happy I can just stick it on my mini board as a headphone amp or even as an amp simulator for quick demos.

Had a few different options over the years. 
Hx stomp sounded amazing but the options drove me to distraction. Right got a reverb going into   2 phasers in parallel going into a ring mod going into a mesaboogie rectifier and a fender tweed in wet dry now  it's 1am in the morning and I'm all sweaty. 

I used the headphone out in the quilter alot as well. Never seems to be much headroom and somedays I liked it others sounded awful.

I hate going into an interface and using the amps on a computer so much.

My partner has a vox pathfinder that is really fun sounding but the headphone out is god awful with drive.

LionAquaLooper

So it's a '65 Deluxe amp sim with no EQ and just an Output knob that costs £115? 
Joyo American Sound for £30 will do the same and more.  And can run on 9V battery.  That's just one example but there are other such cheap alternatives out there.    

fretmeister

I'd get a set of used Boss Waza air instead I think. A little more expensive but far more capable.

The transmitter can be plugged into the end of your pedal board too.

AntonHunter

LionAquaLooper said:

So it's a '65 Deluxe amp sim with no EQ and just an Output knob that costs £115? 
Joyo American Sound for £30 will do the same and more.  And can run on 9V battery.  That's just one example but there are other such cheap alternatives out there.    

Joyo one can't drive headphones though, which is a shame...

fretmeister said:

I'd get a set of used Boss Waza air instead I think. A little more expensive but far more capable.

The transmitter can be plugged into the end of your pedal board too.

...and the Waza air won't function as a back-up amp sim for gigs.


(I'm talking myself into it, in case you can't tell)

AntonHunter

stevrossthepipe said:

Got one on the way will give it a go this weekend. This really tickles my simplicity bone. If it can handle my fuzzes and has some headroom and enough output I'm happy I can just stick it on my mini board as a headphone amp or even as an amp simulator for quick demos.

Had a few different options over the years. 
Hx stomp sounded amazing but the options drove me to distraction. Right got a reverb going into   2 phasers in parallel going into a ring mod going into a mesaboogie rectifier and a fender tweed in wet dry now  it's 1am in the morning and I'm all sweaty. 

I used the headphone out in the quilter alot as well. Never seems to be much headroom and somedays I liked it others sounded awful.

I had going into an interface and using the amps on a computer so much.

My partner has a vox pathfinder that is really fun sounding but the headphone out is god awful with drive.

Please report back when you've got it! I use the Quilter Superblock too, so be keen to hear your thoughts on how it compares.

LionAquaLooper

AntonHunter said:

LionAquaLooper said:

So it's a '65 Deluxe amp sim with no EQ and just an Output knob that costs £115? 
Joyo American Sound for £30 will do the same and more.  And can run on 9V battery.  That's just one example but there are other such cheap alternatives out there.    

Joyo one can't drive headphones though, which is a shame...

fretmeister said:

I'd get a set of used Boss Waza air instead I think. A little more expensive but far more capable.

The transmitter can be plugged into the end of your pedal board too.

...and the Waza air won't function as a back-up amp sim for gigs.


(I'm talking myself into it, in case you can't tell)

"Drive headphones"? How do you mean? As in push the headphones to break up? 

AntonHunter

No, like the Joyo isn't designed for headphones. It's mono output for starters, but it's designed to go into a separate amp or DI. I don't know the impendance details etc, but I'd imagine it's different for pedal outputs than headphone outputs.

Edit: I was today years old when I discovered that plugging headphones into the output of a guitar pedal actually works, kinda. The American Sound is pretty quiet when clean, and of course only in the left ear. But potentially with different impedance headphones, and the right mono to stereo adapter, you could make it work? I stand corrected @LionAquaLooper!  (it's also 3 times the size of the new EQD thing, but, yeah!)

stevrossthepipe

Hi @AntonHunter ,

Apologies been ill and kid mayhem. 
Overall brilliant been perfect for what I wanted. Just squeeze it in to a board for having a little rip at night.

I like supporting certain companies and EQD are struggling abit atm and are rad.  Although there are cheaper pedals for this the options vs cost doesn't bother me. The lack of  knob distraction is amazing.

Headroom is  excellent I can send fuzz and delay  into it all day long doesnt distort and is super small. Better than the quilter.Not too scooped and not that trebley which  is good as a pedal platform as that's what it's is. 
Is ungodly loud through my monitor headphones it like 5mms from zero is loud enough. That's the only odd thing but perhaps different head phones would depending on the rating.

Can recommend!  

stevrossthepipe

Hi @AntonHunter ,

Apologies been ill and kid mayhem. 
Overall brilliant been perfect for what I wanted. Just squeeze it in to a board for having a little rip at night.

I like supporting certain companies and EQD are struggling abit atm and are rad.  Although there are cheaper pedals for this the options vs cost doesn't bother me. The lack of  knob distraction is amazing.

Headroom is  excellent I can send fuzz and delay  into it all day long doesnt distort and is super small. Better than the quilter.Not too scooped and not that trebley which  is good as a pedal platform as that's what it's is. 
Is ungodly loud through my monitor headphones it like 5mms from zero to loud enough although you can get it low just takes a bit of care. That's the only odd thing but perhaps different head phones would depending on the rating.

Can recommend!  

AntonHunter

Thanks for write up @stevrossthepipe!

What headphones are you using out of interest...