Headphone amp for dorm use

[suryabeep]

Hello everyone,

I will heading off to college soon and as such will be unable to use my nice 50W Mesa for night-time practice. I am planning to build a headphone amp pedal so that I can continue to practice; so far I have got this:

3 channel mixer (Aux L+R, Guitar In) --> mxr headphone amp (schematic from http://www.generalguitargadgets.com/effects-projects/boosters/headphone-amp/) --> headphones.

I will be running an OCD into this headphone amp pedal so I don't think I'll need a preamp stage in the headphone amp. I am also constrained to using a 1590B enclosure so I'm trying to keep the parts count as low as possible. I play mainly jazz/funk stuff if that helps.

I have been doing some reading and it seems that I should also add a cab sim in between the mixer and the power amp. I was thinking of this one: https://www.diystompboxes.com/smfforum/index.php?topic=70445.0

My main questions are:
1) Are there any other simple yet decent sounding cab sims out there?
2) Am I doing this signal chain right?
3) Instead of the MXR headphone amp, should I instead use this one? http://www.generalguitargadgets.com/wp-content/uploads/headphone.gif

[deadastronaut]

the 'astro sim' is a cab sim, with headphone out....

can be made with XLR, line out and headphone out..(1590bb)

or if you exclude the xlr ,line out, , it can fit into a 1590b.


https://www.diystompboxes.com/smfforum/index.php?topic=121846.msg1147053#msg1147053

[Ripthorn]

I recently built a little headphone practice amp in a 1590G enclosure. Those are tight little enclosures, smaller than a 1590B, so I didn't have a bunch of room. However, I managed to just squeeze in an electra, simple cabsim (http://effectslayouts.blogspot.com/2017/08/simple-cabsim.html), and ruby with bassman mods and headphone out into it. It was a squeeze, but it works well, with the electra being the one part that I dislike, but I really wanted onboard distortion/overdrive. So yes, you want a cabsim before your power amp. I might even have a layout for it on perfboard kicking around somewhere, if you care.