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How to Use a Studio Monitor as a Guitar Amplifier

Using a studio monitor is a simple and cost-efficient way to play your electric guitar without investing in an expensive amp. Tone junkies may scoff. However, there is no shame in using the equipment that you have to achieve your means, especially if the sound quality received is often comparable to, if not better, than most $400 amplifiers on the market.

Things You'll Need

  • Studio monitors
  • Speaker wire
  • Studio monitor amp
  • 1/4-inch mono cable
  • Electric guitar
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Instructions

    • 1

      Connect your studio monitors to your amplifier using speaker wire.

    • 2

      Plug your 1/4 inch mono cable into the "input" port behind your monitor amp. Guitar amps function in mono.

    • 3

      Set the monitor amp output settings to "mono." There are switches behind the amp for this.

    • 4

      Plug the other end of the 1/4-inch mono cable into your guitar and turn down the guitar volume.

    • 5

      Turn on the studio monitor amplifier.

    • 6

      Play your guitar.

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