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Guitarist hooking into DJ Mixer
Brides 2 friends are doing the first dance next week: 1 singing, one playing the guitar. I've been asked if I have a spare mic, and can the guitarist plug into my system. I've said yes (I must be getting soft in my old age).
Question:- As I've never plugged any instruments directly into my mixer (Denon x500) - is there anything I should be aware of? Anyone ever experienced an issues with musicians equipment ran through a DJ mixer? It'll be connected via a 1/4 jack to phono.
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Ezekiel 25:17
Originally Posted by
Shaun
Brides 2 friends are doing the first dance next week: 1 singing, one playing the guitar. I've been asked if I have a spare mic, and can the guitarist plug into my system. I've said yes (I must be getting soft in my old age).
Question:- As I've never plugged any instruments directly into my mixer (Denon x500) - is there anything I should be aware of? Anyone ever experienced an issues with musicians equipment ran through a DJ mixer? It'll be connected via a 1/4 jack to phono.
Do you know if it’s an electric or electro-acoustic guitar?
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Guitar output level is similar to a microphone so a mic input will be fine.
I sometimes used to play along on guitar to tracks on my disco if the genre was rock or pop.
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You can do it, but it'd be better to have a small PA mixer for such an event. Which is why I got myself one. My controller needs an external mixer anyway, and I was looking at decent 'DJ' mixers & baulking at the prices of them & thought hey, why not just get a PA mixer instead? Sorted.
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Originally Posted by
juski
You can do it, but it'd be better to have a small PA mixer for such an event. Which is why I got myself one. My controller needs an external mixer anyway, and I was looking at decent 'DJ' mixers & baulking at the prices of them & thought hey, why not just get a PA mixer instead? Sorted.
Same here, whilst I didn't strictly need the pa mixer it allows me to use 4 decks on controller (yes I use all 4 every night). I get a fair few "can I plug into" types so ideal for that.
The only word of warning I'd say with musicians is regarding their ability to bring suitable cables, make sure they know the inputs and you know what connections they have... Sounds simple but on too many occasions I've had professional acts turn up with incorrect cables despite being told the hardware they'd plug into! Not so long ago I had an act trying to plug a headphone jack into my rca inputs. They didn't even know what RCA was .. But they were very good at signing!
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Originally Posted by
ckpr2
Guitar output level is similar to a microphone so a mic input will be fine.
I sometimes used to play along on guitar to tracks on my disco if the genre was rock or pop.
Errr... It may not be ok and it may won't work (depending if it's an electric guitar or an electro-acoustic guitar). You need to find out a bit more about what the guy is bringing.
Electric guitar pickups are high impedance so you either need a mixer with a high impedance input (or a setting to switch an input to high impedance) or you need a DI box in front of your mixer. Electro-acoustic guitars are usually acoustic guitars with a mic (and sometimes a pre-amp) glued to the chassis (so they behave like a Mic).
I did a gig a few months back with a singer and an acoustic guitarist. However, the guitarist came with a digital effects box, a laptop and his own pre-amp and mixer so he gave me a line level signal. The singer came with her own Mic and a little box that provided backing tracks, FX for her voice and showed the words for her line by line as she sang! I was in Tech toy heaven at that gig...
Julian
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I'd prefer for a small band/performer to plug into my PA just because it means a lot less clutter. Often though that will mean putting my own speakers in front of them to stop feedback issues (because how many of them bring decent mics with them? Ha!).
As for cabling issues - I carry enough adapters & short adapter tails to cope with most scenarios.
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