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Ditto the above. I did not need my Creative Mp3+ any more and gave it to a friend who was using the front headphone jack. I think those still kick around. Dead simple. Plug it in and it works with any operating system I had from xp to Win7. Had 2 rca's out and 2 in and a digital audio jack. No pops no problems. My friend now thinks I'm a genius. Wow. My current setup is the Bose usb Tone thing ma bob. Same idea, WAY more money.
John Conley
Musica est vita
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In fact, my question can be summurized to the following : "why the sound delivered on a stage amplifier is different of the one i get directly from the speackers i have on my PC"?
Perhaps my question looks a little bit stupid but, the feeling i get from my PC at home (via my ordinary powered speakers) is very good while the one i get on a stage amplifier is very banal ... Some ideas ?
Thank you in advance for your comments,
Merci
Daniel
It's because the music you play through your PC speakers is compressed, normalized and limited. No peaks. Stage speakers have to be able to handle peaks caused by you or other live musicians clanging a guitar string, feedback, the keyboard player forgetting his volume pedal is on full and hits a big two handed piano chord that takes his head off before he can back off the pedal, the singer drops the mic onto the stage, stuff like that. Any one of those will blow up your PC speakers or even big home stereo speakers in a nano second. The problem is most low cost PA speakers that can handle those peaks sound like crap. To get good sound on stage you have to use professional quality speakers as in JBL, Bose, Mackie etc. Those are expensive and there's no way around that unless you're doing small low volume coffee shop type gigs with no live drums and maybe one other player not going through the PA. For a gig like that the best PC speaker setups can work quite well like the big Logitec's or that big new Altec system. Those still cost $500-700 though but if you're singing through it and get bad feedback one time, you could still blow up the tweeters because comsumer home theater type PC speakers are not designed for a split second high frequency peak that's 300 times the regular output. A good PA speaker like a JBL Eon or a QSC can handle that. And, even the best PA speakers are not going to sound as smooth and warm as your good home stereo setup because that's basically impossible with a system that can handle live stage work. I have heard some really good live PA setups but you're talking big bucks and a qualified soundman running it.
Bob
Biab/RB latest build, Win 11 Pro, Ryzen 5 5600 G, 512 Gig SSD, 16 Gigs Ram, Steinberg UR22 MkII, Roland Sonic Cell, Kurzweil PC3, Hammond SK1, Korg PA3XPro, Garritan JABB, Hypercanvas, Sampletank 3, more.
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I'm a newbie here but not entirely new to BIAB. I'll admit the last version I used before buying 2011 ran on Windows 3.2. I don't play gigs very often anymore, but I do hit the occasional open mic night and I can see BIAB coming along for the ride. One thing about open mic is you never know who is available to join in and play a few tunes with you, so having the ability to mute tracks at will is going to be really handy. As far as what would I pack to take with me on a gig? I loaded BIAB on a Windows 7 Tablet PC and put that on the music holder on my Yamaha keyboard folded in tablet mode. For sound card and mixing I have several options. Being a drummer I learned to only carry what was really necessary for a gig so my preference is my Behringer X1622USB mixer. One USB connection and you have a great sound card with plenty of room for 4 microphones/instruments and 4 stereo ins. It's really cheap too. Most times that's really all I need except to pick out what amp(s) to take. I have used this setup minus BIAB and keyboard for DJ/Karaoke gigs and it works well. The negative to it is there is no way that I can find to adjust the computer volume with the mixer, so you need to do that on the PC. For amps I have a Vestax 1000 that is about the size of a lunch box, a Fender Passport 250 and a B52 Matrix 1000 (think apartment sized refrigerator). Deciding which to take is all about the venue size, crowd and what they have to offer. The best all-around amp is the Fender Passport. It packs nicely and is powerful enough for most places I play at. If the venue has a sound system I don't bother with the amp and just make sure I have long enough cables from my mixer to theirs. There's loads more if you are really interested. I don't want my first post here to be a 14 pages of me babbling. 
Rick
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