Guitar amp straight to mixer?

[rockabilly1955]

Can somebody tell me if this is safe? I have a small fender amp. I plug my guitar into the amp and then plug my amp directly into my mixer which automatically shuts off the amp speaker and my sound comes out the monitor speakers connected to my mixer. I do this because i love the fender reverb on the amp and wanna keep that sound through the monitors. Will this damage my mixer's channel input?

[Druw]

does the amp have a speaker out?

[rockabilly1955]

Yes. That's where i connect it to my mixer's line input. It sounds good but i don't wanna damage my mixer if it ain't safe

[mx_mx]

Im pretty sure you shouldn't be using the speaker out

[Track Rat]

What output from the guitar amp do you use? It sounds like a headphone output since you say it kills the guitar amp's speaker when you plug it in. If so, that's damn near line level and won't be a problem to the mixer.

[rockabilly1955]

yes..........it's listed as a headphones/speaker output. and i run that into my mixer line input

[GreenDank]

you can use the speaker or headphones out if you have a nice DI box like Behringer's Ultra G. It also takes away all the crappy-ness with its speaker simulation.

I've found that it is an essential piece of equipment:

http://www.behringer.com/GI100/index.cfm?lang=ENG

[rockabilly1955]

what exactly is the DI box for? the sound that comes out from my amp straight to the mixer is pretty satisfactory, coming out the monitors. All i'm worried about is that it would burn out the mixer input channel? if it does not burn out the mixer, then i'm good and will continue using it this way

[ggunn]

Originally Posted by rockabilly1955

what exactly is the DI box for? the sound that comes out from my amp straight to the mixer is pretty satisfactory, coming out the monitors. All i'm worried about is that it would burn out the mixer input channel? if it does not burn out the mixer, then i'm good and will continue using it this way

A DI box has several uses. One is to convert a high impedance signal to a low impedance signal if one needs to send the signal over a long cable; over long distances, low impedance lines lose less signal and pick up less noise. Another is to convert a high impedance signal to a low impedance signal for input into a device which only has low impedance inputs.

A DI box is not needed to run a line level output to a line level input, which is basically what you are doing when you feed a headphone out to a line in. If you do not hear any distortion, you are not burning anything up.

[Outlaws]

I used to run headphone level signals into a mixer all the time with my little Marshall MS-2. No damage was ever done.

[rockabilly1955]

sounds good guys.........thanks for the info!!