Playing guitar along with your favorite band?

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How do you guys play guitar along with your favorite band?
10 years ago I would play along with a CD in a $150 CD player...
I currently have nothing to use and would like to purchase something to do this.

Any ideas?
 
How about the computer you typed your post on, with iTunes installed? :confused:
 
I use amplitube. Works great for me, since I keep my entire music library on my computer, and amplitube has a built in phrase trainer, slow-downer, and pitch adjuster.
 
rlord1974":1w69zqj4 said:
How about the computer you typed your post on, with iTunes installed? :confused:
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hmmm, I have a mac air speakers don't really turn up very high.
 
I guess I am out of the loop and don't know the ways of modern audio :doh:
This is why I am asking for help
 
I have a decent sound system in the same room I keep my guitars. I still play along with CDs.
 
Valtyr":jh7tbiab said:
I have a decent sound system in the same room I keep my guitars. I still play along with CDs.
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I am considering going to best buy and scoop something up that I can play CD's too.
Would be nice to hook up my laptop up to one as well.
 
Can you hook your Mac up to your TV and use it to amplify iTunes?.....might just cost you a cable!
 
rlord1974":2e77rk4y said:
Can you hook your Mac up to your TV and use it to amplify iTunes?.....might just cost you a cable!
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My tv can play cd's in the dvd player...the flat screen tv doesn't have enough balls ether...
I am playing my guitar using a Diezel VH4 so flat screen tv and mac air are not gonna fly.
 
12 pack of my favorite whistle wetter, guitar, CD, CD player with skip options, and patience.
 
My buddy had a cool Denon cd deck for this. It was pretty fancy back in the day-could change the pitch of the songs for different tunings. I'm sure you could do that with an app on itunes. Buy some decent speakers for your macbook and you're in!
 
glassjaw7":2ohtjht2 said:
Buy some decent speakers for your macbook and you're in!
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Yup. I just hook up my studio monitors to my iPad or MacBook earphone jack and jam away with iTunes or Anytune Pro HQ. I actually find rewinding/forwarding easier on Anytune plus I can slow it down or alter pitch finely with great sound quality.
 
My computer and my POD is connected to a little mixer that my earphones is plugged in to, so that I can jam along to my favorite tunes.

:)
 
jonl":28belnw4 said:
How do you guys play guitar along with your favorite band?
10 years ago I would play along with a CD in a $150 CD player...
I currently have nothing to use and would like to purchase something to do this.

Any ideas?
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Playing guitar along with my favourite bands is what got me into playing the guitar in the first place.
I used to sit there air-guitaring but reading the music sheet to "see what notes to play" so I would be in time with the music. I quickly realised it looked silly so got an actual guitar to play while listening. Then it all went on from there.

I just play along either with CDs, tape, music files playing from the computer, a video, my smartphone. I have a mixing desk and PA speakers too but just plug the computer or .mp3 player into that for playback. Easy.
 
I have a guitarport UX2 hooked up to my pc that has KRK RP5 monitors hooked up to it. I plug my guitar in the UX2, pull up whatever tune that I feel like jamming to and play along with it on windows media player after matching the volumes.. pretty simple..
 
racerevlon":h6ptc9p0 said:
Most modern practice amps have an MP3 input jack...
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I had a spider III from my old apartment, plugging into it with mp3 or my mac air worked, but it sounds like total ass!
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I will look into buying speakers for my Mac air today.
 
I use my computer with I tunes as well. I have a two way 1/8" splitter out. One line to my in ear headphones. the trick is not to shove them in your ear so much that you can't hear your amp. set amp level where you want it and likewise the computer volume and adjust your earphones to get the right mix. the other line out I send to my practice amp which has an aux input. you can also do a headphones/monitor speaker combination. so your getting sound from the headphones and some bleed in with the speakers along with your amp. just use a long cord so you don't get pissed because your tied to one little spot.
 
i use my ipod or my droid phone through an old sony 200 watt stereo...i use a headphone jack that splits to rca y (left and right) and put it in the inputs on the back that are for MD/auxillary...and it sounds just fine.

i also hung my speakers on the ceiliing aiming down at my head from above my amps...and it makes a HUGE difference...
the stereo also has a sub line out for sending to a powered sub, and i just use the sub on like 10% for a touch of bass added back in what the speakers lose on the ceiling.
 
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