My questions and assumptions.

[fuzzyhair]

Okay I own a crate amp that has the red and white audio jacks in the front. From what i understand this is meant to playback music while you play or whatever you want to do. so...
1) Is it safe to run a line from my laptop into my amp?
2) Could I possibly use it as a monitor instead of buying monitors. Im guessing since its a guitar amp it shouldn't be made to sound all pretty and the eq should be pretty flat.
3) Could this possibly ruin my amp? I don't see how it could considering its made for it, but just a question incase im missing something.
Thanks!

 

[sixways]

It can't ruin your amp...but it'll damn sure ruin your mix. Guitar amps aren't made for monitoring. I've ran guitar rig out of my PC and into a Marshall amp and it sounded terrible with everything on the amp flat.

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[fuzzyhair]

It can't ruin your amp...but it'll damn sure ruin your mix. Guitar amps aren't made for monitoring. I've ran guitar rig out of my PC and into a Marshall amp and it sounded terrible with everything on the amp flat.

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but it sounded fine... It doesnt use the amps settings to equalize the sound. It just plays it through. So that would mean its coming straight out of Kristal, out of my soundcard, into the amp. So whats the problem? Im gonna record a coupld of tracks tommorow and see if it sounds bad or not.

 

[jimmiebananas]

I've got hardly any equipment, a Boss BR-864 recorder, an SM58, some guitars and a shitty voice. When I first started recording (not long ago at all) I would use my crate guitar amp for monitoring, after seeing the difference between what I heard through the amp and what the mix actually sounded like once it was on my computer, I realized you can't use a guitar amp as a monitor. Especially considering it's only on speaker so any kind of panning or space in the mix doesn't come through at all. Now I just use headphones (many people say not to do this, but I don't have the money for monitors right now) plugged into the headphone jack on the recorder.

The only differences between what I was doing and what you're doing is that I had my amp wired from the RCA line outs on the recorder to an adapter that changed it to a 1/4" plug that went into the input jack on the amp.

Either way, I'd say use monitors if you can, headphones (good ones) if you can't, pretty much anything besides the amp. To answer your question though, I can't see a reason why it would damage the amp. But I certainly agree with the above post that it will ruin your mix.