How do you all jam along to backing tracks with your rig?

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Looking to get some advice on how best to setup my rig to jam along to backing tracks / songs outside of an amp and a separate speaker playing the backing track. Curious to see what people's setups are. I have an Axe FXIII with studio monitors but curious to see how everyone does it with their amps / digital monitors etc..

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Jesse
 
Now I just have my little Boss Katana next to me and just play YouTube or downloaded MP3 backing tracks through my computer, which uses my Scarlett 2i2 interface to send the signal to my cheap studio monitors. A couple years ago or so, I'd be able to get them loud enough, cleanly, to even compete with my tube amps, though usually run through my Rockcrusher to tame the volume a little. It's a simple setup, but it works for just noodling around in the house.
 
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Just play over YouTube tracks, or convert them to wav and put them in the daw
 
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Lots of ways but my favorite is use AirPods with a pair of headphones over that. Headphones not plugged in they are for quieting the roar of your cranked guitar amp. Play the music you’re playing to thru the AirPods.

It’s a bit elaborate and loud but it’s my favorite as far as fun factor.
 
I run my interface out to a Peavey Classic 50/50 ...... from there into some PA monitors .... all my computer's sound runs into this ...
 
Most of the time I just play through my little Yamaha amp while the track is playing from my pc


Surely the AxeFx3 would have some sort of line in you could send tracks thru
 
Depends on the situation, but it's a computer and Itunes through a combo computer speakers and studio monitors or if I'm upstairs, I just play music through my soundbar and jam to that. I also have WAZA airs that I can jam to music with.
I keep calling these guys to come over and jam
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They must be really busy cause they never call back :dunno:
 
Krk rockit 8’s for my backing tracks… my rig for the tasty tonez… once I get the volumes matched it’s great. Stl amphub works great for everything coming from headphones or monitors also….
 
usually just play the backing tracks on the computer and use the nearfield studio monitors. I have a pair of powered PA cabs I use with modelers / ISP Theta for guitar

if I want to get louder, I run the computer audio out to a powered PA with subs...when I use a guitar and tube amp, or my keyboards - which go through a different powered PA with subs
 
99% of the time I do that kind of thing it is just my kemper and YouTube backing tracks coming through my KRK VXT8s. Only because my laptop is cooked so I don’t want to run IRs and use an amp.

Occasionally I’ll go out to the lounge room when family are out and play an amp through 2x12 or 4x12 while tracks play at max volume from Yamaha HS8s. But even then at max volume the amp is so much louder.

Really need to get some PA speakers out in the garage or something so I can crank my amps more often.
 
FM9T into a NUX core loop into a small Mackie mixer, output of computer into that same mixer. Out of mixer into a pair of QSC CP8's.

In my garage, TV or CD or Computer into a bigger mixer into a pair of QSC CP12's. I pick the tube amp of choice and match the volume as needed...
 
I don’t use my rig when playing along woth tunes….guitar into Blackstar Polar 2 into Tonex software which comes out my Mackie HR824’s. Computer plays tunes using the Apogee Element into Yamaha HS5’s. Good enough for me…
 
jbru91 said:
Looking to get some advice on how best to setup my rig to jam along to backing tracks / songs outside of an amp and a separate speaker playing the backing track. Curious to see what people's setups are. I have an Axe FXIII with studio monitors but curious to see how everyone does it with their amps / digital monitors etc..

Cheers,
Jesse
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Laptop audio into USB port of AxeIII into headphones or monitors.
 
Mackie thump-go paired to my phone or laptop, turn it up loud enough to keep up with my amp.
 
I've used an old pair of computer monitors to play along with tracks.
I now have a Motu interface I plug into, using headphones and Logic.
Logic gives me effects, not just a dry tone.

My buddy last night just left me his IR-X to plug into Motu, then I wont need Logic.
Haven't tried it yet though...

Wanna try the IR-X thru my PowerStation too while I have it.
 
I make my own with Superior drummer and Just play them through an MP3 player into the aux input of an amp or a PA speaker.
 
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