Best way to plug a guitar into eurorack?

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Best way to plug a guitar into eurorack?

<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>I've got an electric bass guitar. I’ve got a small eurorack (and a Minibrute 2 semimodular). I would like to be able to feed the signal from the guitar into the eurorack, filter it etc. There seem to be a few ways to do this but I don’t know which one to go with.</p> <p>My options I think:</p> <p>- Doepfer A119<br/> Pros: Cheap; the Envelope/Gate features seem really convenient; has a symmetrical audio in (I think this is for live-concert-quality pro gear and I don’t need this??)<br/> Cons: The [Doepfer A119 page itself](<a href="http://www.doepfer.de/a119.htm">http://www.doepfer.de/a119.htm</a>) sorta warns you about its sound quality: &quot;The built-in preamp is not &quot;high-end&quot; and shows - depending upon the position of the gain control - a reduction of higher frequencies in the frequency response&quot;. I do not know whether this is a problem especially with a bass.</p> <p>- Industrial music electronics Black Locust<br/> Pros: Four channels; I could use it for guitar input AND for pedal IO(!) AND I think?? I could use it to convert modular signal out, to something I can record or play on a normal speaker?<br/> Cons: Kinda expensive, 16HP/physically big</p> <p>- DIY it somehow???<br/> It feels like all you should need to do is add gain to boost the signal up to the neighborhood of 5V, so I feel like I ought to be able to just run the 3.3V headphone out from my normal guitar amp into a modular input. When I tried this however it did not seem to work (no audio at all).</p> <p>Does anyone have any OPINIONS about this? Can anyone speak to the audio quality of either the A119 or the Black Locust? Can I plug normal headphones into the Black Locust to get a headphone monitor from my eurorack?</p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/mcc111"> /u/mcc111 </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/modular/comments/dslll1/best_way_to_plug_a_guitar_into_eurorack/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/modular/comments/dslll1/best_way_to_plug_a_guitar_into_eurorack/">[comments]</a></span>