Element (Routing guitar to computer headphones)

[bj-snake]

Hi,

my use case is the following
playing guitar to backing tracks from youtube or MP3.

Setup:
software chain with NAM and some plugins routed with a soundcard(arturia minifuse)
Guitar plugged into LINE 1 of soundcard.
However!!my headphones i previously used with the soundcard is not working and instead of buying new i was thinking of trying to route everything guitar+backing tracks to my bluetooth headphones i normally use that are connected to my computer(yea i know latency is an issue but i can always try and plug them in with a wire if that is a problem, and they are USB so no i can't plug them into the sound card obviously)

Audio from the computer obviously just works straight to the headphones if i plug them in but i can't get the guitar sound outputted to the computer headphones. how to do this? seems like this would be very simple but i just can't wrap my head around this, honestly feel kinda dumb here. i have also tried routing in REAPER with different setups but still no guitar sound in the computer headphone!

I suspect that the loopback left and right on the ASIO minifuse input and output driver are supposed to be connected somewhere but idk how.

Picture of the current routing

[mfisher31]

Typically with a loopback you'd 1 route the signal to loopback outputs in Element. Then in some other application, the one sending to your headphones, would use the loopback input to receive from Element. Doing it this way probably will result in unwanted latency though.

[bj-snake]

Thanks for the reply i got it to work in REAPER now. Tbh i think i had a faulty guitar cable that glitched in/out when i were moving about lol and thats why i couldn't get the guitar signal before. I just used the WASAPI driver in REAPER instead of ASIO and simply used the headphones as output. You were right on the latency as well, even when i use the headphones with USB cable :( guess its time for new headphones then

[mfisher31]

Excellent. A new set of headphones won't make Bluetooth any faster though. Regular headphones with a good, shielded, extension cable might work better.

[bj-snake]

absolutely, i think i will just buy a new pair of AKG702 and plug them into the USB sound card, i had the old ones for 10 years before they died so guess its time for new ones!