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Hi Bill,
The first thing you would want to do is check the ports on your Fender amp. Does it have a USB port? If so, it would be as simple as connecting to your computer via USB cable. That’s what I do with my Spark amp. You would need to have a DAW software on your computer to be able to record and process the sound coming from your amp.
If it doesn’t have a USB port it may have a 1/8″ AUX output and you may try that. Most of the computers have both USB ports and 1/8″ (headphone) ports.
Some new generation amps (such as Spark) can also connect via Bluetooth to your computer where no cable is necessary to play the backing tracks. So get to know your Fender amp, read the manual if available, and start from there 🙂
🎸JoLa
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I tried that for a while after I first joined AM. Then I learned that it’s better not to send your backing track to your guitar amp, because guitar amps are designed to make a guitar sound good, not an entire band. So most guitar players send their backing tracks from their computer to a set of studio monitors, often 5″ or 6″ RKR Rokits. And the best way to connect studio monitors is to buy a Scarlett 2i2 audio interface. Then it connects to your computer by USB, and the monitors connect to it with standard 1/4″ audio cables. That kind of system also has the advantage that you can listen to Youtube music videos by your favorite guitarists through your high quality monitors, instead of your computer speakers.
Sunjamr Steve
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I used to play backing tracks through my Mustang. The aux input does not “color” the sound, as a guitar amp usually would (as Sunjamr said). You can connect the 1/8″ headphone output from your computer to the 1/8″ aux input. I only did this if I was going to listen with headphones plugged into the Mustang. Otherwise, I just played the backing track on the computer speakers.
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The thing I read is that if you have a typical backing track going through your guitar amp, then the speaker cone is otherwise occupied busily creating all those different tones and frequencies….many of which are outside the relatively narrow frequency range of the amp. The idea, so they say, is to keep your guitar amp’s speaker cone(s) free from extraneous sound, so that the guitar comes through as a more pure sound. It makes sense, but the question is, could any of us ordinary mortals tell the difference? Apparently some people can, as evidenced by these comments on the UltimateGuitar forum:
https://www.ultimate-guitar.com/forum/showthread.php?t=2034341
Sunjamr Steve
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