Hi there!

Dad wants to connect his guitar amp (with AUX IN) a Graphic Equalizer he has found on E Bay a CD Player and CD Recorder together...
... let me explain, he wants to play a track using the player wire this up to the graphic equlaizer *take out* parts of the track, do his guitar bit over the top and then record his masterpeice onto the CD recorder.
Can this be done? Connecting a player, recorder, graphic equlaizer and using his Guitar amp with the AUX IN as an amp ?

If so, how?

Cheers
Alex

It would be a lot easier to do via a PC - though he may not have one !!

Plying the CD through the EQ and into the AUX IN of the guitar amp is simple.

The AUX IN is often called CD IN, or PLAY-ALONG, and is for just this purpose on practice amps.

Going out from the amp to a recording device is easy if it has a pre-amp out.

If it hasn't, then it gets more complicated.


I'd love to know what he's going to 'take out' only using EQ.
Is this a bass guitar by any chance???

Tim.C

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I'd love to know what he's going to 'take out' only using EQ.
Is this a bass guitar by any chance???
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If he *fiddles* around on the Graphic Equalizer
he has spotted this one on EBay
then he can take out vocals of a song, right? And then he can play over the top of it, the end result is him playing with the track in the background, on a CDR(W).
He has a Fender Stratocaster (sp) Electric guitar

Alex
Last edited by technology guy : 18-08-2004 at 23:18

I still say going to a pc is sooooooooooooo much easier.

There's loads of software that will remove vocals, (by removing mid and high freq centred audio* - which is usually vocal). I think Nero CD writing software will do it (though don't quote me on that - I'm not at my PC at the moment, so can't check)

I would be very surprised if you could remove vocals with just EQ, and leave anything worth listening to.
(Although I admit I haven't tried it with EQ with that many bands)


Tim.C



* By centered audio I mean something virtualy mono at the centre of the sound stage. You can remove this by subtracting the left channel from the right channel, which only leaves the difference - ie anything which is off centre. This is the bassis of Hafler psuedo-quadraphonic - the trick we all used to use before proper surround sound.
(and before anyone gets too pedantic - the above is a big simplification )