Backing Tracks

ToneMatch Mixers

Template:T4S/T9S

Please see: T4S with Backing Tracks

OR

T8S with Backing Tracks

T1 ToneMatch Audio Engine

Analog Connections

Details about the Stereo to Mono Adapter Connection: Stereo Mini (headphone or line-out source) to two Mono ¼ inch

Plug this into your MP3 Player/computer/minidisk/iPod (headphone or line out jack)

• (black end to MP3 Player) and
• coloured ends to
  • PS1 Power Stand (Classic) / Model I Channels 1 and 2 OR Channels 3 and 4 OR
  • T1 ToneMatch^® Audio Engine Channel 4/5

Source: Hosa CMP159

If you cannot locate a cable like the one above, you can accomplish the same thing with the combined cable and adaptors below.

and attach each coloured end to one of these,

then connect to any of the ¼ inch inputs for L1 Model I or L1 Classic Channels 1/2/3/4. If you are using a T1 ToneMatch Audio Engine then you can use Channels 1,2,3 or 4/5.

If you are using the this kind of source as backing tracks, you will probably run these two connections to L1 Model I or L1 Classic Channels 3 and 4. In this case you will need to control volume and tone control from the sound source. You will not have much control through the L1 .

If you are using a T1 ToneMatch Audio Engine you will probably use Channel 4/5.

For details about the settings on the T1 ToneMatch^® Audio Engine see:

T1 ToneMatch® Audio Engine / Gain Staging / Prerecorded music on Channel 4/5

iPad or iPod

If you connect your iPad or iPhone to a T1 ToneMatch^® Audio Engine or T4S ToneMatch mixer channels 1, 2, 3 (or T8S ToneMatch mixer channels 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8) using a cable like this

You will hear only the LEFT side of the stereo signal. To hear both LEFT and RIGHT sides of the stereo signal, you must change the signal to MONO.

Set your iPad or iPhone to Mono

Launch the Settings app on your iPad or iPhone.

1. Tap General.
2. Tap Accessibility.
3. In the Hearing section, turn Mono Audio On

Now both sides of the stereo output will have a mono signal (both Left and Right channels combined).

You can use a cable like this.

You can connect the stereo output to a mono unbalanced input like T1 ToneMatch Audio Engine channels 1,2,3.

This does not apply to T1 ToneMatch^® Audio Engine channel 4/5. The channel 4/5 inputs are balanced mono and not compatible with a stereo signal that has been mixed down to mono from the iPad or iPhone

Connecting via USB

Please see: T1 ToneMatch® Audio Engine / USB

L1 Compact

Use a cable like this from your sound source (iPod, Computer, CD / DVD player) to Compact Channel 2.

Sources for this kind of cable

iPod iPad Tablet

or if your cable has RCA (phono) jacks you can use this connection below.

Other Devices using RCA (phono) jacks

Sources for this kind of cable

Backing Tracks and a Guitar

Use a cable like this from your backing track source (iPod, Computer, CD / DVD player)

Click picture for details

or if your cable has RCA (phono) jacks you can use a cable like this.

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L1 Model I or L1 Classic

Try Presets 57 and 58 for your prerecorded music / backing tracks.

T1 ToneMatch Audio Engine Presets

There are two T1 ToneMatch Audio Engine Presets specifically Prerecorded Music or more generally, backing tracks.

Category: DJ/Playback

Preset: Low Volume Music

This is optimized for low volume music. The low bass and treble are boosted to better match the physics/psychoacoustics of our own auditory system.

For prerecorded music at low level, for DJs and for break music at the gig. Sort of like the Fletcher-Munson (Tony Sarno calls it the “Herman Munster”) curve; bass and treble boost, just the right amount if you’re playing at 85 dB or so. Source: Presets 2.0Cliff-at-Bose

Category: DJ/Playback

Preset: High Volume Music

This is optimized for higher volume music. Some of the bass is boosted and some of the upper mids are reduced to have a more natural sound at these higher volumes.

Source: Preset 58

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