Project I am trying to figure out???

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I don't know if I am in the right place for this but it would be mixing to me. I play the steel guitar and I am wanting to play live in some local church's. I need to use some type of CD player to run through my amp. I don't know if a portable CD player would work or not. The CD's would be just for background music while I play with it. One of the problems I could see happening would be the intro for the song but I would not know when to start and at what tempo to be with the song when it starts it's music. Any suggestions would be very helpful since I don't know that much about recording or mixing. Do I need a mixer before the amp from both the player and guitar or none at all.
Thanks if anyone can help or advise on this.
Richard
 
You may need a mixer, If your amp has two inputs you may be able to rig something, I'm not entirely sure. Another way is to get a FX pedal that has an MP3 in, which would connect to the the headphone jack of any portable device.

If you need a count in for some of these songs your only alternative will be to add one. So the basic steps would be to import the mp3 into some recording software like Reaper or audacity. Add a track and record some sort of count in and export it back to an mp3. This may be a lot more than you're willing to do because there's a fairly steep learning curve to home recording software. You may also need some sort of recording interface or other piece of hardware that allows you to record.
 
TetraFish said:
You may need a mixer, If your amp has two inputs you may be able to rig something, I'm not entirely sure. Another way is to get a FX pedal that has an MP3 in, which would connect to the the headphone jack of any portable device.

If you need a count in for some of these songs your only alternative will be to add one. So the basic steps would be to import the mp3 into some recording software like Reaper or audacity. Add a track and record some sort of count in and export it back to an mp3. This may be a lot more than you're willing to do because there's a fairly steep learning curve to home recording software. You may also need some sort of recording interface or other piece of hardware that allows you to record.
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Thanks Tetrafish
I do have Reaper but haven't used it much. There is a lot to this program that is very confusing to me. I have never recorded anything with it yet. I think this would work with what I have in mind. I know there are others that do this type of playing but have never talked to anyone about it. I am assuming that a mp3 player will work ok to do this. The amp I will be using has multi inputs plus the 2 inputs from a cd player. I'll try this this week and see if this is an easy way to go. Thanks for the info.
Richard
 
goforit65 said:
I don't know if I am in the right place for this but it would be mixing to me. I play the steel guitar and I am wanting to play live in some local church's. I need to use some type of CD player to run through my amp. I don't know if a portable CD player would work or not. The CD's would be just for background music while I play with it.
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If you mean an instrument amp then the backing tracks will probably sound pretty awful through it. I think you'd be better served by a pair of powered speakers for the CD, and just use your amp for your steel.

goforit65 said:
One of the problems I could see happening would be the intro for the song but I would not know when to start and at what tempo to be with the song when it starts it's music.
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You need backing tracks with click or count off at the top. You could add click/count in a DAW. Put the song in the DAW and record yourself counting time to it, then edit the count down to two measures, then slide it up so the second measure of the count lines up with the first measure of the song, then edit out the second measure of count.
 
bouldersoundguy said:
If you mean an instrument amp then the backing tracks will probably sound pretty awful through it. I think you'd be better served by a pair of powered speakers for the CD, and just use your amp for your steel.



You need backing tracks with click or count off at the top. You could add click/count in a DAW. Put the song in the DAW and record yourself counting time to it, then edit the count down to two measures, then slide it up so the second measure of the count lines up with the first measure of the song, then edit out the second measure of count.
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Hey Bouldersoundguy
That is some good advice. I'll look into the speakers. We have a good pawn shop near here and they carrry a lot of speakers, amps, and instruments. I can't put a lot of money in this idea but will surely check it out. Some CD's I have listened to do have an intro before the singing starts. I can get the CD's with just the music and work around this also with their intro.
Thanks ALOT
Richard
 
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