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I'd like to practice/jam with an RC-2 and a VB-99, the thing is i want to do this with the minimal of additional gear. Is there a way to do this without involving an additional amplifer for the RC-2 output, so that i can just jam with headphones?

Failing that is there a tidy usb beat/wave/looper device that can plug into the vb-99 to provide this extra functionality? The alternative would be a software/PC route which i shouldn't need to take for incidental practicing.

Why this facility wasn't built into the vb-99, i don't know. I guess anyone spending that much on gear shouldn't need to practice.

Really stuck on this one...

Not sure how to approach it.
The VB-99 takes a signal and is modelled and what comes out of the out sockets is a signal generated by a computer. A very specialist bit of kit.
The RC-2 is a conventional guitar pedal.

I don't know how you use your RC-2 to practice & jam to.
Nether did Roland when they designed the VB-99..

A small mixer might be next on your shopping list. This would allow you to connect your devices, plus a few others, drum machines, mp3 players to play along to.

Hi, Ordinarily it would simply be a case of routing the vb99 out, into the RC-2. The RC-2 output requires a load of at least 1000 Ohms, which is incompatible with the average Headphone. What i'm really after is a way to trick the RC-2 into believing my headpone is a Amplifier with an impedence rating in excess of 1k omns. Ideally this would be a small hack, a cable with a few componants wired in.

In an ideal world, there would be a small portable device exclusive to the VB-99, which you'd connect via the USB port to allow the functionality of a Looper/beatbox/metranome/recorder, but wasn't called a PC.