Originally Posted By: 90 dB
Marty,

You might consider rendering your backing tracks to MP3 and playing them back on a laptop, connected to a small mixer. Then you can mix everything from the stage.


Regards,

Bob



That...^^^^^..... is the best answer so far on how to do live performance gigs. I would opt instead to use WAVES as opposed to MP3 on a laptop plugged into your live system. They have better fidelity and if the system is a good one, that difference can certainly show up.

In a live situation, you certainly want to limit the number of possible things that could crash a song in the middle ....and using some premixed waves played from a computer really simplifies the process. Selecting the next song is simply a matter of clicking on the song.

Always remember Murphy's Law when performing. If something can go wrong, it will.

I do relatively few live gigs these days but when I do, it's either straight up acoustic/vocal or with the use of a CD backing track. Even if it's just one song..... it's on a stable medium such as CD or a wave file and not running in a DAW or some other multi-channel player.

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