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November 29, 2018 at 1:13 pm #117704
How do I go about connecting backing tracks (downloaded mp3 files) to my amp to play a long when I practise?
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November 29, 2018 at 2:03 pm #117709
I’m pretty sure there are a number of members here that utilise a DAW and will explain how they go about it.
It’s not necessarily smart but, Here’s how I do it…..without a DAW
When I’m learning a lesson for the first time, I use my PC and the sound is transmitted through two monitor speakers using video/soundslice etc.
If I then want to practice the lesson against the backing track, I play it through my amp. I download the MP3 file in my PC, convert it to a WAV format and finally drop the file onto a Boss RC3 Pedal. I then control the start/stop backing track with the pedal leaving both hands free for playing.Richard
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November 29, 2018 at 2:27 pm #117710
Hi Tomas. There are many ways to do it, and the cost to do it varies. It also depends on your technical expertise. Let us know what kind of equipment you have, and how skilled you are with computers, software, etc. Do you have an iPad, a PC, a MacBook? If you have an iPad, do you know how to get music loaded onto it? And does your guitar amp have an AUX or MP3 input?
FYI, I started off with just buying a reasonably good set of computer speakers and playing the jamtracks on them. Then I moved to playing them through my guitar amp’s AUX input using my iPad. Now I’m back to playing them on good quality studio monitors using my MacBook or iPad. I could never convert the jamtracks to WAV files and load them onto a looper pedal as Richard does, because I use over 100 different jamtracks for my practice. For me, it’s much faster and easier to just play them from a computer or iPad. Plus it’s easy to make a seamless loop of each jamtrack, so it can just play on and on forever.
Recording uses a different setup vs practice. When you want to do that, just ask the question again on the forum.
Sunjamr Steve
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November 29, 2018 at 5:21 pm #117720
Put the backing track into your phone, connect your phone to the CD in socket and you are good to go, this works with your tablet or laptop too, headphone socket to CD input, playback level is controlled through your phone/tablet/laptop players sound controls..hope this helps.
..Billy..
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November 29, 2018 at 7:41 pm #117724
do have an aux input on your amp? (a 3.5mm jack input)
plug in your play back device and let her rip.. I plug my PC headphone out to this..
Don't practice till you get it right, practice till you can't get it wrong.
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November 29, 2018 at 8:08 pm #117725
I found the easiest way is to record the jam track with a analog connection between the headphone out on my laptop onto my JamMan Solo XT looper. It has 200 internal memory locations (up to 35 minutes) and can add an SD card for up to 16 hours if I need more. I write down the number of the storage location on my tab sheet for the lesson. Works great. I can easily control with my foot as well as change the playback speed if I need to slow things down or want to try at a faster speed.
-Doug
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November 30, 2018 at 1:46 pm #117742
Thank you all for most valuable information. This will certainly help me a lot. Now I will evaluate and see what would suit me the best.
Thank you,
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November 30, 2018 at 6:38 pm #117760
My fender mustang gt has Bluetooth that I stream to from my phone, very easy.
My boss katana map has a aux in connection that I have to connect a audio cable to from my phones earphone jack.
I also like to use the irig connected to my iPad and play along with the backing track using tonebridge or bias fx.
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